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Many believe that truth lies in simplicity, that a thing is fully itself when reduced to its most basic. Particle physicists, string theorists, linguists, mathematicians, philosophers, even conceptual artists. Some demand empirical replicability—in order to confirm a discovery, the Large Hadron Collider needs 600 million collisions every second for two years. Some are more theoretical, epistemological, or aesthetic. Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy, Chomsky's transformational grammar, Kant's categorical imperative, Freud's The Ego and the Id. But they all share the sentiment that ultimate truth exists in something like a singularity, and that through this truth, we can answer the bigger question of why? A smaller question is: how could you apply this logic to a person? How could you distill an individual to his or her elemental essence? One answer: very illegally.
But say that person is Nicholas Hoult, the 24-year-old actor, who this spring revisits his role as Hank McCoy, alias Beast, inX-Men: Days of Future Past. In that case, it's completely socially acceptable (and arguably ritualistic), as analyzing an oeuvre is one of the most fascinating means to appreciate art, to say nothing of picking apart celebrities. And before you assume there couldn't be enough data on such a young man, Hoult has been acting since he was three, and has amassed a significant body of work. And it seems that there is indeed a core sentiment or fundamental force clearly evident in his twenty-plus-year career. If you were to summarize the work of Nicholas Hoult in one word, it would be "transformative." Hoult is constantly transforming, both before the eyes of the audience and within the very characters he plays. And whether you're inclined to argue it universalistic or merely coincidental, it is nevertheless consistently evident in the facts. So let's look at them:
Hoult starred in his first major film at the age of 12, opposite Hugh Grant in the adaptation of Nick Hornby's About A Boy, playing Marcus, the troubled son of a suicidal mother (Toni Collette). Grant's character befriends the boy and attempts to draw him out of his introversion to engage in youth culture and develop an identity of his own. Hoult received rave reviews and awards for the Oscar-nominated film.
The next time Hoult caught the attention of the masses was for the U.K. hit series Skins. The precocious kid audiences had known was completely gone. Skins debuted in 2007, the year Hoult would turn 18, and he became a full-blown heartthrob. But the real transformation that pertains to Skins was one within his character. The show, featuring an ensemble cast that also includes later-breakout Dev Patel, is largely centered around Hoult's character, Tony Stonem, a sort of extreme take on the high-school popular guy archetype: a smug, polysexual, sociopathic narcissist who gets off on his own innate intellect and finds manipulation the ultimate form of entertainment. But, in the first season's finale, his character entirely transforms after being hit by a bus and suffering a subdural hematoma. The second season, Hoult has to build his character from the ground up, a sort of Regarding Henry path of a sweet moron who must regain his faculties and then overcome the existential crisis of having lost his former identity while reconciling his past with his future selves. And Hoult pulls it off brilliantly, somehow maintaining the inexplicable core of his character throughout.
The film role that followed Skins was not merely another transformation for Hoult, but for the filmmaker as well. A Single Manis fashion designer Tom Ford's first foray into directing and screenwriting, and his adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel is a beautiful portrait of aesthetics and loneliness in 1960s Los Angeles. Hoult plays the handsome student attempting to transcend boundaries and become something more intimate to his depressed college professor, George, played by Colin Firth, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Hoult himself was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA.
After A Single Man, Hoult went from Southern California in '62 to the world of ancient Greek Mythology in Clash of the Titans, playing Eusebios, one of the finest soldiers in the Army of Argos, who accompanies Perseus on his quest and is ultimately turned to stone by Medusa. In last year's underrated Warm Bodies, Hoult played a zombie mid-transformation, his body and behaviors like that of the undead, but his mind still clinging to human sentiments of love and anti-cannibalism.
But it's between those two roles that Hoult made his most literal transformation. In 2011's X-Men reboot, X-Men: First Class, he took on the role of a young Hank McCoy, a mutant blessed with hyperintellegence. Through experiments stemming from his own insecurity about the physical aspects of his mutation, he accidentally magnifies them, becoming the beautiful, blue Beast. Hoult would spend hours upon hours in the makeup chair to transform into the furry, animalistic character, and it's a role he reprises this Spring in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Director Bryan Singer describes the film—which follows Hugh Jackman's Wolverine as he travels back in time via his own consciousness—as an "inbetwequel" of the previous X-Men films and of First Class, on which Singer was a producer and story writer. Meaning that Future Past fuses characters past and present, combining the last film's stellar cast (Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Lawrence, with whom Hoult is romantically involved) with Patrik Stewart, Sir Ian McKellan, and Jackman. The two franchise casts form an X-Men super group, which is likely to continue with the next X-Men: Apocalypse, also helmed by Singer. (Fun fact: Beast is one of the few mutants to be a member of both the X-Men and The Avengers so who knows where that could lead). Here, the talented, transformative Hoult speaks with Singer about being, believing, and what the future holds.
BRYAN SINGER To begin, I originally knew your work from Skins and A Single Man. Initially you were not available for the roll of Beast [in X-Men: First Class, which Singer produced]. You were going to do Mad Max and, fortunately for us, that got pushed and you were able to play the role. I only remember the decision that [director] Matthew Vaughn and I made to cast you, but I don't know how that came to you on your end.
NICHOLAS HOULT I was down in Australia starting prep on Mad Max and they told us it wasn't going to shoot that year, so I called my agent and said I needed a job. The next day I read for X-Men: First Class. Strangely, the direction I got from Matthew for that was to try one version of the scene doing an impression of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy, which I was actually quite adept at doing because I'd wasted most of my youth away doing impressions of Stewie. That same night, I got a phone call saying "Jump on a plane, they want you to go back and screen test." The next day Jen [Jennifer Lawrence] and I screen-tested together with Lauren Shuler Donner [producer] and Matthew Vaughn, and I remember being very annoyed because I had to get straight back on a plane to Australia and I didn't think I had gotten the job.
BRYAN Well, I knew you had the job because we had already made the decision. Can you give people a little background on how you got your start? One's beginnings can translate later into how one deals with things.
NICK The first thing I did, I was three years old. It was a play called The Caucasian Chalk Circle, but I really have no memory of that apart from doing a photo shoot for a day and being given juice and biscuits afterward. I got an agent when I was five, which is not something my parents planned. So I ended up doing a lot of British television shows between the ages of five and eleven. That's when the Weitz brothers were casting About a Boy, and I went in for a few auditions for that and then they picked me. So that was my lucky break. How did you enjoy shooting this last X-Men?
BRYAN This last X-Men was the most enjoyable experience I've had making a movie and I'm not just saying that because this is a conversation with one of our cast members. It was the fact that the cast seemed to actually be enjoying themselves. I don't know if that's a function of the environment, the story, or just the simple fact that no one person is carrying the whole movie.
NICK I agree with you. I felt a lot more pressure when we were shooting Jack the Giant Slayer [also directed by Singer] than I had ever felt on another job, just because [as a film's lead] you're suddenly trying—in an odd way—to do more, but it's not your job as an actor to try and do more. You're there to make it real. But in an ensemble you feel quite safe, particularly with this cast where we could mess around and have fun. I've been meaning to ask about time displacement, which seems to be such a central element of this film.
BRYAN Time displacement means, in terms of the film, Wolverine [Hugh Jackman] of the future travels back in time, into the mind of his younger self, and while he is traveling, he is the observer. I was on the phone yesterday for an hour with James Cameron discussing a lot of this same stuff. There are theories in quantum physics, such as Schrödinger's Cat, which dictate that all observable matter behaves differently when observed—by the very act of being observed. So if, for instance, you were not seeing an event, there are questions as to whether the event occurred yet since it was not observed. It goes back to If a tree falls in the woods did it make a sound if no one was there to hear it? So there's a theory that two things can happen simultaneously until the observer witnesses it. Wolverine's future consciousness exists in the past, so until he wakes up in the future, the future doesn't set itself, it remains the way it was. Because he is the observer, the moment he sees the new future, the future takes hold. When the future and the past coexist, that's called the super-position. So when Wolverine wakes up, he ultimately collapses the super-position. That's the quantum physics terminology for what's happening in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
NICK I think that makes sense. My smaller brain understands what's going on there. There is kind of a liquid state with all the time-traveling until it's certain which time he is going to be in fully. In the future, will time travel become possible, or is it physically impossible?
BRYAN In our lifetime, no. In the distant, distant future, I think before time travel we'll have time perception. I think at some point humans, as their brains advance and as they commingle with technology, will begin to start perceiving time differently. Perhaps the first stage will be suspended animation, you know, going to sleep for long periods of time and waking up 100 or 500 years from now. In order to discuss time travel, you really have to tap into the concept of multiverses and Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, which articulate, among other things, that the closer you are to a gravitational force, the slower time moves relative to individuals existing far from a gravitational force. In other words, if you're way out in space, away from our sun, time will move faster for you than if you were resting on Earth, near our sun. That's people on Earth aging faster relative to someone travelling in space at great speed. But that's not time travel, that's time relativity. The harder thing to grasp is the idea of what gravity is. Everyone thinks gravity is like magnets, but no, gravity is an impression, it's mass making an impression in space and time.
NICK You're very up on technology and science in general, so would you say that's what you believe in more than any religion or philosophy?
BRYAN I think so, generally speaking. But I leave myself open to things spiritual, because I believe there are so many things unknown. It is a miracle that we exist, that we have intelligence. It is such a miracle that we have Jupiter in our orbit to absorb all of the asteroids that could have destroyed the Earth, that we had just the right amount of carbon, just the right amount of heat, just the right amount of volcanoes and water. It's a miracle that we have our consciousness and we can make art and music.
NICK I remember in The Short History of Everything, the Bill Bryson book, he wrote down the chances of all the molecules lining up as they did and the number went on for pages. It wasn't even a number that one could contemplate. So it is a miracle in that sense.
BRYAN It's great to have someone like Bryson explain things in layman's terms so we can digest it. Christianity used to only be preached in Latin, so packs of people didn't even know what was being said. Did you have a religious upbringing?
NICK [I was raised] Christian, and I was even a choirboy for a couple years. I've never felt particularly religious though. I just try to be good. The sad thing is that a lot of the time, when you look at what's wrong with the world, it's people who believe their own religion so vehemently that they think everyone else's god is wrong. It causes a lot of conflict, unfortunately.
BRYAN Yeah, the concept of us versus them instead of just "us."
NICK I'm not saying anything against religion, it can be wonderful for many people and provide support when you need that spiritual element to pick you up in times of trouble.
BRYAN Well, here's the thing: in [next year's] sequel, Apocalypse, one thing I want to deal with is the notion of religion and the notion of what would happen if a mutant was born 2,000 years ago? In ancient times, what would a person think of a mutant, what would the mutant think of themselves? Would that mutant be called a god? Would it think it's a god? And would it be right to think so, in the context of that culture and that world? Those are some of the aspects I'm playing with in the sequel. When we get to lunch, I'll gladly pitch to you, we'll talk through it. But in an alternate universe where you aren't an actor, what do you think you would want to do for a living?
NICK It's difficult to say, because I've been involved in acting since I was so young that I haven't ever really thought about doing anything else. The great thing about acting is that when you are prepping for a film like Days of Future Past you learn so much about science and time travel and all these things, and if I'm going off to play an ancient warrior, I learn about that historical time and how to use their weapons and what it was like to live like them. I learn a lot through that process, so that's why it's such a great job for me.
BRYAN What are you feeling when you're portraying a specific role? How do you embody another person?
NICK It's tricky, because there's no set approach to it with me. I've never really been taught a certain method or found one that I could stick with. It's about being as prepared as possible, but also being flexible when you show up and someone says to do something different or says, "That's not working, stand over there and do this and try that." There can be times that you're so involved in the character that you are completely in that zone and the cameras and everyone around you don't exist and it's just you and the other character you're in the scene with. That's a really great feeling. Even if the audience watching can't see a difference between that take and a take where you're distracted or something went wrong, it feels different. But sometimes it's purely logistics.
BRYAN The best advice I've gotten is to get myself a hobby. I haven't been able to find one that I have taken seriously yet, but do you have one? Like, I know, for instance, Michael Fassbinder [who plays the young Magneto] has a fascination with sports and with racing and it's a true interest. Is there something that takes you completely away?
NICK One thing I really like is to get on a motorbike. It's something that you have to be very focused on and it clears your mind. It feels very free. When you're on the bike, no one is around telling you what to do, and that's something about an actor's life that you have a lot of, you know, you have to be at this place at this time and so on. So there's kind of a freedom that goes along with being on a bike. I used to play a lot of racquetball, but now just whatever sport is around. I like to stay active and the rest of the time, pretty much, is just heavy, heavy drinking.
BRYAN I just had an epiphany. Two other actors I've worked with, Tom Cruise and Hugh Laurie, are both motorcyclists, and I just realized it's not a coincidence: Tom always said that when he's on a motorcycle he wears a helmet, and a helmet hides your face, so it's one of the rare times he can just tool around without security or protection in complete anonymity. So, on [the topic of] personal stuff, you and Jennifer Lawrence met on X-Men First
Class, correct?
NICK Yes, during our screen test.
BRYAN Then you guys got together, then broke up, and now you're together again. How has that been, working with someone that you're seeing romantically?
NICK It's fun because in this business you are away from one another for long periods of time, so when you're on set together it's a brilliant thing, because you actually get to spend time together. Especially with this film, I got to spend time with her, but also the rest of the cast who I've worked with, on the previous film, so it was kind of like going back to school after the break and seeing all your old mates again. Which is a great thing. It doesn't really affect the acting though.
BRYAN Over a very short period of time she's become quite famous with the Academy Awards and The Hunger Gamesand everything. Has that been interesting? Has she changed since attaining this particular level of fame?
NICK The privacy thing obviously changes, but the rest pretty much stays the same. You can probably relate better, with you winning your first Oscar at 24 years of age.
BRYAN No, it was with The Usual Suspects and I was 27 or 28, but I was a filmmaker, behind the scenes, and there isn't the same attention projected onto you as when you're a star. What I learned was that no one ever feels like they're established. It humanized the industry for me, meeting with established actors and directors through that.
NICK It's like that thing whereby you don't believe your own hype. Enjoy the good times, but don't get swept away with it. And I think that's something she's capable of doing, and that's what makes her special, but yeah, it is very odd, and I am just kind of a bystander in many ways. It is well-deserved for her. I haven't really seen any change in her.
BRYAN I asked James McAvoy something and I'll ask you too. You know he can be very emotional, and in X-Men: Days of Future Past he has very emotional moments. So one night we were out at dinner and I asked him, "What do you think of when you're crying?" The layman always assumes that you're calling up some tragedy in your past or some very, very sad thought. But he said it was mostly, 99 percent of the time, that the character is sad and he allows himself to be sad for the character. When you do an emotional scene, are you calling upon something from your personal life or do you live it through that character?
NICK It's living through the character, but drawing from your own experience. The only time I can think back to doing that at the moment is, I remember shooting a scene in an episode of Skins, where my character was a jerk. He messed up and he was very lonely and upset with himself and it was kind of one of those things where in my head I had to think of a time when I felt similar, but at the same time I was thinking as the character in that world, in that position. So it's kind of a mix of both.
BRYAN I wish I had that talent to access the moment. When I try to say lines, it's a total disaster. My first short film starred Ethan Hawke and I've never forgotten something he told me. He said, "Actors equal production value," meaning you can blow up a bridge or a Death Star or a city, but nothing beats a close-up of the right actor in the right scene living that moment through. It's just mesmerizing. That's why we always look toward the most skilled actors to play these larger-than-life characters. What do you think of these comic-book movies now?
NICK I think the reason people relate to them is that they tell the story of the outsider. With X-Men, Xavier and Charles have both approached the same problem and it's interesting to see how each of them deals with it. The genre deals with morality and how to go from being an outsider to becoming part of something, and that is something everyone can relate to. Obviously they're also popular because they're entertaining and there's a hero. The other day I was watching a video on YouTube of a dad putting on a batman mask and becoming his alter-ego, Batdad, around the house. And it was hilarious. People love a way to express themselves, and it's a way for anyone to become a hero, even if they don't have superpowers.
BRYAN With comic-book films, X-Men in particular, there is an identification with the desire to embrace your normal self but at the same time celebrate your special self. It's a mixture of who you are to some people, who you are to yourself, and then who you aspire to be. Your job also has three facets to it. You're Nicholas Hoult the person, Nicholas Hoult the actor, and now Nicholas Hoult the celebrity. How much do you worry about the way people perceive the character you're playing versus the way people perceive celebrity Nick Hoult?
NICK Well, to be clear, the most important is the personal life and then the acting. The celebrity life sort of takes care of itself, I don't really worry about it. I suppose it would be stupid to say it's irrelevant, because that's sort of part of what being an actor is, but there's also that part of me that doesn't want anyone to know anything about my personal life, because then they won't be thinking about the characters, they'll be thinking, Oh, that's him, I know this or that about his life. It's the same with everybody I guess, you don't want to take your job home. You want to do your best job and be proud of your work, but you want a life outside of it. The film side of things can tend to be pretty all-consuming, particularly when you're working for 12 hours a day with the same people, hanging out with them for months on end nonstop. It goes back to what I said earlier. You need your own life experiences to base the character on when you're acting, so you do need time away from film sets and the film world. I do anyway.


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At the Noble Quilter in Elk River, Minnesota, a well-stocked refrigerator and shelves filled with fabric team up to fuel quilters.
Passion Place
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Front row, from left: Karla Milless, Angie Roberts (owner), Robbin Roberts, Lorraine Thompson, and Lori Olson; back row: Cathy Johnson, Joan Rohloff, Margie McNichols, Adrianne Chmel, Pamela Johnson, Fredericka Schuur, Rose Welter, Debra Oscarson, Rachael Hunt, Lori Barnier, Deb Goodrich, and Rita Kroening.Related Links
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The shop's classroom is a haven for area residents. Instructors include local well-known quilt and fabric designers.Related Links
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Shop owner Angie Roberts designed a rich turquoise and brown quilt, Perfect Palette, for Quilt Sampler® Spring/Summer 2013 magazine.Related Links
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Whether you�re personalizing a new home or revitalizing an old room, the start of spring is when newly imagined spaces become do-it-yourself realities.
Spring cleaning doesn�t have to mean getting rid of everything in the garage. Familiar pieces showcased in a special way can be a conversation starter. Love cycling, but have an old bicycle that you don�t ride anymore? Consider using its components to construct a unique piece of furniture to showcase your passion for the sport.
Peter Debelak, co-owner of Soulcraft Woodshop and Gallery, a membership-based community woodworking workshop in Cleveland, did just that. He used a construction adhesive designed specifically for bonding porous to non-porous mixed materials, such as metal to wood or ceramic to drywall, to create a rotating wine rack made out of a bicycle wheel, as well as a shelf and coat rack constructed from a repurposed bicycle crank-set and handlebars. �More and more we�re seeing people personalize their home decor by transforming fascinating objects they love into home accessories and furnishings,� said Debelak.
In another on-trend style for spring, vintage and contemporary design elements come together to create rustic contemporary looks. �Reclaimed materials will heavily influence DIYers, and contrasting shiny and rustic materials in projects will definitely be trending in 2014,� said KariAnne Wood, designer, blogger and owner of Thistlewood Farms. Metal, wood, glass, ceramic - all of these key materials play essential roles in making your home the center of attention. Mixing two, or even all, of these together will give you an edge in creating a unique space. Consider gluing pieces of metal and wood together to construct an industrial-style coffee table.
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To make your home stand out from the others that are for sale this spring, differentiate from the neighbors. Consider options that will make your home more memorable such as landscaping, or high-grade windows, but be sure they complement the home and appeal to a wide range of buyers.
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Be creative to enhance your storage solutions. Hang an old door horizontally and attach metal hooks to make an instant mudroom by your entryway. Wire baskets glued to wood shelves become a great home for keys, shoes and outdoor accessories. No time to build anything? Not to worry. Simply hang a shoe rack on the back of a door, and you have a perfect set of compartments to hold supplies in any room.
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Recycled wooden pallets and cable spools are trending now as DIYers turn them into coffee tables, desks and wall art. For a quick and simple patio transformation, spray paint large, wooden cable spools and use them as outdoor tables. Take it a step further by using ProBond Advanced to add a bold, ceramic tile mosaic without any grout, caulk or building required.
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During spring, plants are putting all their energy and resources into growing up and out, and if you cut them back (or mow, or pull) repeatedly, you will thwart their growth by exhausting them, according to YardMap. Try to pull, cut, or mow at the base of the plants (where they emerge from the ground, including vines). Hand pulling works best when the soil is moist, so try this activity after a good rain and you might even be able to pull the root system out.
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Lynda Fine's black Labrador-rotweiler mix, Nala, has an abundance of energy, and a walk around their Westgold Meadows neighborhood usually isn't enough to wear Nala out.
Fine sees a lot of neighbors walking their dogs, and she's also noticed a chunk of land attached to the Sgt. Timothy M. Mossbrucker Memorial Park that doesn't appear to be used for anything.
Fine wants to turn it into an off-leash dog park.
"I think it can happen," Fine said. "I really do."
A Jefferson County sheriff's deputy pepper-sprayed two Denver police detectives posing as protesters Aug. 25 during a protest at the Democratic National Convention — an action the American Civil Liberties Union said exacerbated an already tense situation in which more than 100 people were ultimately arrested.
Deputy Brian Shousse pepper-sprayed the detectives after they faked an attack on a Denver police commander, a ruse that was said to be necessary so the detectives could avoid having their undercover status compromised.
Hattie O'Brien and her husband, Brendan, wanted their kids' birthday parties to be a bit different.
"We wanted our kids to learn to serve others," Hattie said at her home Nov. 6. So for the last few birthdays, the couple have asked their children to pick a theme, and then the parents found a way to make giving a central part of the theme.
Last year, when Hattie's twin daughters, Evie and Lena, turned 11, they baked muffins and cookies and made cards to take to a local nursing home.
Now it's their son James' turn.
Fewer teachers, less new technology and a virtual freeze on new construction and remodeling are in store for Jeffco schools in the wake of the failure of ballot issues 3A and 3B on Nov. 4.
The companion bond and mill-levy issues were defeated by narrow 3 percent margins, indicating how deeply the county was divided. It was a stark reversal compared to 2004, in which similar school measures passed with 60 percent of the vote.
The distinct sound of a bugle pierced the crisp, sunny morning Nov. 11, when Stony Creek Elementary hosted its annual Veterans Day celebration.
John De Le Garza, the school's principal, an Army veteran and a member of the American GI Forum, invited a few members from his group. The men, dressed in black uniforms with black berets, performed a flag-raising ceremony while one played the bugle. The students and families looked on, and a group of Boy Scouts led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance.
There will be only one new Jefferson County commissioner, and she won't have to move far in January.
Faye Griffin, Jeffco's Republican treasurer, won a close race in District 1 against term-limited state Sen. Sue Windels, an Arvada Democrat.
Griffin beat Windels by almost 4 percent, or about 10,100 votes, according to Jeffco elections data.
A popular tae kwon do instructor will be invited to return to teaching at the Buchanan Rec Center if he can prove that he can be a good contractor as well as an outstanding teacher.
"I don't think I have ever heard anyone call into question his teaching abilities. Teaching is his primary job, but not his only job," said rec district board member Peter Eggers.
Despite a concerted campaign by school supporters, Jeffco public schools' ballot issues 3A and 3B went down to defeat on Nov. 4 in the final unofficial tally reported Wednesday.
Ballot Issue 3A, a mill-levy increase, lost with 141,570 votes, or 49 percent, against, compared with 131,378 votes, or 45 percent, in favor.
Ballot Issue 3B, a bond issue, lost with 136,957 votes, or 47 percent, against, compared with 127,741 votes, or 44 percent, in favor.
Want to make some homemade soap? A kit was selling for $3. Need to expand your movie library? DVDs were going for a dollar each. Do a lot of your friends have birthdays in November? Greeting cards were 10 cents a pop.
And those were just a few of the thousands of items for sale at the Jeffco Action Center's 64th Beautiful Junk Sale at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
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Viva visits a secret location in Auckland where precious gems and gold ingots are transformed into beautiful jewellery.
The facade of the building is nondescript. It could easily pass as another inner-city office or a run-of-the-mill warehouse. Inside, however, lies a family-owned jewellery workshop that's been in business for more than 50 years, and a treasure trove of jewels and precious metals in various states.
It's also the building where Karen Walker's coveted fine jewellery collection - recently elevated to new heights of luxe with the addition of the "Diamond" range - is crafted.
On entering, it's instantly clear this is a very special place.
There's a room with a catchment floor which each day is carefully cleaned to collect the many thousands of dollars worth of gold dust and filings that cover every surface like glitter.
There's a room packed floor to ceiling with tiny hand-labelled cardboard boxes which contain the moulds for every piece they've ever created.
There's a room where a row of blue coat-wearing craftspeople polish rings to a high lustre, and a room where blazing blowtorches melt down and mould precious metals.
Finally, there's a room for fine work and finishings, where a waterfall of Karen Walker chains wait to be strung with pendants, a cluster of the designer's signature silver acorn caps rest on a wooden bench awaiting their acorns, and a pair of white gold pansy rings are ready for the delicate placement of pavé diamonds, which rest dazzlingly beside them in a shallow dish.
It is these diamonds I'm here to look at, as they belong to the newly released Karen Walker Diamond collection.
"We've been asked for engagement pieces for years," Walker tells me. "So we decided to create a diamond range that would allow people to celebrate and mark anything from engagements to anniversaries to special treats."
There are close to 30 individual ring styles in the collection, made up of three separate stories.
"The Solitaires have a classic engagement ring starting point, but with our twist," explains Walker. Working across three principal diamond cuts - brilliant, pear and princess - each features chic signature daisy cutouts that allow light to penetrate the sparkling stones, which come in a variety of carats and sizes.
In a nod to the most recent fine jewellery additions, the Diamond Botanicals celebrate posies of wild wax flowers, cradling diamonds at their centres, and "are more of a style piece that can be worn every day. They're pretty, delicate and will look good with jeans and a sweater, or an evening gown," Walker says. "The Pansy story consists of the 'look at me' pieces, but again, in true KW style, we like the idea of contrasting these very eye-catching pieces - the largest triple pansy ring has more than 300 diamonds in the setting - against denim and a T-shirt, right through to cocktail or evening."
There is an air of intense concentration in this thriving workshop, as all around us the talented staff focus on their individual and precise skills.
"There are still a few others [jewellery workshops] like this, but probably not of the same size," the managing director John tells me. The company has been in its current digs for about 45 years, and I suspect some of the original tools and machinery remain. As do the staff. Dave, the factory manager, who's kind enough to show me what $46,000 worth of white gold looks like pre and post-melting, tells me he's been with the company for many years.
John came into the family business after his father, who still works here, and both of John's sons have also joined the team, one "on the bench" as a jeweller and second-in-charge to Dave, the other in IT, sales and marketing.
As well as creating all Karen Walker's fine jewellery, the company supplies jewellers across the country and beyond. They're also busy crafting intricate sword, axe and key pendants and solid sterling silver rings for the cinematic release of The Hobbit, having held the licence to manufacture Lord of the Rings jewellery since the release of the first film back in 2001. And according to John, "it is still very, very popular. The One Ring and the Evenstar pendant are the top sellers."
Though some of the jewellery is outsourced for manufacture - in other New Zealand locations as well as China and Europe depending on demand - the One Ring, and a variety of Karen Walker's collections, are always produced locally.
I ask John to talk me through the processes that go into creating each of these exquisite pieces. "The original pattern is hand-crafted from Karen's drawings.
"From there we individually manufacture each piece, working from the jewellers' benches to the setters who secure the stones, to the polishers who add lustre to the product.
"The items are then quality-controlled up to a high standard before leaving the factory. Each ring can go through up to seven people, depending on the design."
"All the rings in the Karen Walker Diamond collection are available in yellow or white gold, palladium or platinum, with platinum being the most expensive of the metals due to its relative scarcity. Because of its hardness it's also the most difficult to work with."
Of her luminous new range, Walker says, "Obviously I like them all, but the ones I'm wearing most right now are the triple pansy pavé and the small Botanicals."
Her favourite cut is the princess, and yellow gold is her favourite metal, "but if it's next to diamonds, white gold".
And of the diamonds themselves, "It's the perfection of it that's fascinating."


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Arcadia have taken off from their former home within the South East Corner of the site and landed next to The Other Stage just in time for 2013's Festival! With mind boggling acrobatics, world class DJs and gigantic laser blasting, flame-throwing sculptures, this show is now out in the open and is one late night Glastonbury experience not to be missed!
The Arcadia Spectacular show proves to be extremely popular, so be sure to get there nice and early to grab the best spots situated within the flaming lampposts.
Here's the line-up!
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What was Uconn's record against us in Big East play anyway? I feel like they beat us almost every time we've played.
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As reported by the New York Daily News earlier this week, Brooklyn police officers were able to arrest an entire burglary gang called the Brower Boys by simply befriending the burglars on Facebook. Working in Crown Heights, Officer Michael Rodrigues sent friend requests to several members of the burglary crew and simply monitored status updates to piece together information about recent and upcoming heists. In one instance, a gang member posted "It's break-in day on the avenue" on Facebook, thus allowing Rodrigues to monitor his actions during the day. The police had been aware of the gang's activity for approximately one year, but was able to track the gang members to each burglary location after the Facebook post and film them in the act before arresting them.
The gang was made up of approximately fourteen teenagers ranging in ages from 13 to 19 and had focused on stealing electronics from empty apartments in order to sell the illegally-obtained goods to stores within the city. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes indicated that the criminal behavior had escalated to violence recently with the sexual assault of a woman during a home invasion earlier this year. The entire crew faces a 102-count indictment for robbery and burglary as well as other more serious charges.
According to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the Brower Boys continued to use Facebook to organize criminal action even after becoming aware of other gangs in Brooklyn that were indicted during January 2012 when police used their posts on Twitter and Facebook as evidence against them. Instead, they joked about becoming targets of the police and continued to discuss how they would divide up cash received from the sale of stolen electronics. At least one member of the gang attempted to dissuade others from posting information about each theft on Facebook, but the others simply laughed at him.


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World of Warcraft turns seven on November 23, 2011! It's been a truly incredible seven years, and we'd like to thank you all for joining us for yet another fantastic year. To celebrate, players who log into the game between November 20 and December 3 will earn a feat of strength added to their Achievements and a "Celebration Package" item. Using your item will get the celebrations rolling by shooting off fireworks*, applying a (visual only) tabard to your character, and granting a 7% bonus to experience and reputation gains while active.
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Chris Brown Gets 131 More Days in Jail
Chris Brown was sentenced to another 131 days in jail on Friday after admitting in court that he violated his probation. In October, the R&B singer confessed to getting in a physical altercation with a man outside a hotel in Washington D.C. The trial for the Breezy's D.C. assault case begins in June.
Brown has been serving jail time since mid-March after he was kicked out of a court-ordered treatment facility for violating "internal rules." He had been at the facility for four months.
The judge presiding over Brown's hearing on Friday sentenced Brown to one year in jail, but gave him credit for eight months of the time he's served as well as credit for good behavior while in jail. Once released from jail, Brown will still have to complete the remainder of his 1,000 hours of community service sentence.
There's a good chance, however, that Brown might be released before his 131 days are up. TMZ reports that offenders who are sentenced to one year in L.A. county have on average been released after 240 days, which Brown is nearly shy of at this point.
Brown was under probation for his 2009 assault case against Rihanna where he attacked her right before the Grammy Awards.


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If public health experts were given only one measure to gauge the health of a community, infant mortality would be it.
If public health experts were given only one measure to gauge the health of a community, infant mortality would be it.
In that case, Franklin County is sorely in need of a visit to the doctor.
The number of babies in the county who die before their first birthday -- 9 of every 1,000 -- has long appalled advocates of healthy starts for mothers and babies.
In European countries, that rate is generally 4 or less, according to 2006 numbers from the World Health Organization. The national goal in the United States for 2010 is 4.5 per 1,000.
Yesterday, the Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies convened the people who are closest to the issue -- mostly health-care and social-service workers -- at the Gateway Health and Wellness Center on the Near East Side.
Along with Columbus Public Health, the council shared a first-of-its-kind analysis of prenatal-care capacity that showed many women get substandard advice and little attention in the months before giving birth, lowering the chances that their infants will survive and thrive.
Among the findings:
� Franklin County is falling far short of a national goal that a woman wait no more than five days for her first prenatal-care visit. As of last spring, women in the county were waiting almost 20 days. Less than a third of women in public clinics get care in their first trimester.
� Last year, women seeking obstetrical care at public health-care providers missed more than a quarter of their appointments, an issue that frustrates providers and highlights barriers to good prenatal care, including transportation struggles and showing up for appointments late or unprepared.
� The capacity to care for pregnant women in the public health setting has dropped sharply. In 2003, there was room for 1,516 appointments a month. Last year, the capacity was 1,069 appointments.
� Black babies are much more likely to die in the first year: Their rate is 16.3 deaths per 1,000. In comparison, the rate for white babies was 6.4 per 1,000 in 2006.
At the same time, birth numbers are increasing in Franklin County, creating a bleak outlook for reversing the troubling trends, said Carolyn Slack, director of the health department's maternal and child health division.
"We have to face up to the fact that we can do better," said Dr. Robert Crane, a family medicine specialist at Ohio State University Medical Center.
"We need to talk about how we get to a more ideal world where pregnancy is given the respect it deserves."
The struggles remain despite efforts to reduce infant-mortality rates, including a project called the Pregnancy Care Connection. The effort began in 2002 and aims to help all women who are uninsured and Medicaid-eligible find prenatal care.
The connection schedules about 75 initial obstetric appointments per week.
It is a model effort, but clearly not enough, said Health Commissioner Dr. Teresa C. Long.
City Councilwoman Charleta B. Tavares called on the group to be more vocal and demand the city and state dollars it thinks Franklin County's women and babies deserve.
Angela Sausser Short, executive director of the Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies, said: "We're hoping that the community leaders will start taking action and invest in taking care of pregnant women."
To schedule an appointment through the Pregnancy Care Connection, call 614-227-9866. For more information, go to www.healthymothersandbabies.org.


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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new category of grants that will offer up to $1 million for the implementation of major traveling exhibitions that present significant topics in the humanities. Under the current guidelines for implementation grants to museums and historical organizations, all other awards for public programming are limited to $400,000.
"NEH hopes to encourage our nation's cultural institutions to 'think big' in offering major exhibitions in multiple venues," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole in making the announcement. "By supporting compelling presentations of significant topics in history, art history, archaeology, and other humanities disciplines, the Chairman's Special Awards will help these exhibitions reach the largest possible audiences."
Grants made through the Chairman's Special Award will support large-scale traveling, exhibitions of national visibility that have exceptional potential for attracting large numbers of visitors. Museums and historical organizations applying for a Chairman's Special Award should propose exhibitions that show unusual promise in terms of disseminating important ideas in the humanities in ways that would be broadly appealing to the public. Proposals should also include a strong companion Web site or other creative digital component that significantly enhances the humanities content of the project or broadens its dissemination to audiences.
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Oh, I've been around, just not blogging for a few days.
I've been working on my Mom's Red Photo Album, I'm trying to do at least 2 pages/day. Gotta pace myself, don't want to hit the wall, you know!
Last week I also got a RAOGK request for a cemetery photo here in Tarrant County, TX. It's the first request I've gotten in a long time, actually.
So this morning I went to the cemetery in a nearby town and got the photos and sent them out. I also found a second RAOGK request waiting for me in my gmail inbox, this one for neighboring Hill County. When it rains, it pours! I'll be headed down there on Wednesday. Not enough time today, as it's about a 2-hr round trip.
That's about it. It's Ragweed Season in Texas and my allergies are driving me nuts, so I really haven't gotten much done lately.


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Analysts: Absent strong U.S. policy on Mideast, nations compete for influence
Some of America's closest Middle East allies, viewing U.S. policy as adrift, are competing for influence in the region's trouble spots, producing discord that might get in the way of stable outcomes and take decades to put right, experts in the region say.
Analysts blame the Obama administration, which they say still doesn't have a strategy to deal with the aftershocks of the 2011 Arab Spring – in particular the war in Syria and Egypt's latest political upheaval. Instead, the U.S. aim appears to be to "contain" the crises and manage them at the margins, they say.
"We are in a situation where the United States doesn't want to lead. It has quite an effect on the region," said Salman Shaikh of the Brookings Institution in Doha, Qatar. In its place, regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar are devising their own policies, but without coordination and often with different aims, he said.
"The Gulf states and the Turks thought they would own the Syrian problem in the early period of the uprising," said Emile Hokayem, a Bahrain-based analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who's just written a book about the Syrian war. "Then they realized the limits of their power and begged for U.S. leadership, figuring the U.S. could harmonize the various approaches toward Syria and de-conflict them." But the United States wants only to manage the Middle East crises "at the margins," he said. Both men spoke in telephone interviews.
The discord is on display in both Syria and Egypt. Saudi Arabia recently upstaged Qatar and helped force a shakeup in the leadership of the internationally recognized Syrian Opposition Coalition, displacing the power of delegates from the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood by adding liberal secular Syrians. The coalition was created last year at the behest of the United States to become a government in exile, prepared to step in should President Bashar Assad fall. But the U.S. has provided no funds to the group – State Department officials have told McClatchy they think the coalition is too unstable to be counted on to spend the money wisely – and senior members of the coalition say the United States gives widely inconsistent advice and doesn't follow through on its pledges of support.
Saudi Arabia is trying to step in with arms and funds to make up for the lack of U.S. military and civilian aid. But the oil-rich kingdom isn't able to deliver all the necessary arms at a time rebel forces have sustained major setbacks at the hands of forces loyal to Assad, aided by arms deliveries, training and financial aid from Russia, Iran and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
The Saudis have promised the aid, to be sent via Gen. Salim Idriss, the commander of the rebels' Supreme Military Council, with the intention that no weapons or ammunition go to the al Qaida-affiliated rebel groups that have proved to be the most effective anti-Assad force. "But they have a problem with delivering," said Shaikh, the director of the Brookings Doha Center, an initiative of the Washington-based nonpartisan think tank.
And it's still a question whether Qatar will defer to the Saudis or go its own way, as it has in the past, including allowing military supplies to flow to al Qaida-affiliated groups that the United States has designated as international terrorist organizations.
Qatar has a new ruler, after Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani handed over power last month to his son Sheik Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, and it's undergoing a review of the effectiveness of its enormous foreign-policy investment over the past decade, which included taking a major role in the NATO-led intervention in Libya in 2011.
The Saudis and the Qataris have pursued distinctly different approaches to the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and Egypt; the Saudis fear the Brotherhood as a pan-Arab movement determined to undermine the region's monarchies, whereas Qatar sees the Brotherhood more opportunistically as a force that will bring results, Hokayem said.
The clearest example may be in Egypt. The Saudis refused to send financial support to the government of former President Mohammed Morsi, who rose to prominence through the Brotherhood. But Qatar committed $8 billion in aid and material support, and Turkey, governed by the Justice and Development Party, the Turkish equivalent of the Brotherhood, pledged $2 billion.
Days after the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi early this month, the Saudis stepped in with $5 billion in various forms of aid for the military-backed interim government, and the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait added another $7 billion.
The Persian Gulf countries can provide "some legitimacy, some regional cover" to the military for overthrowing Morsi, "but they don't have the strategic vision, the expertise . . . the democratic vision that would lead to an inclusive political scene in Egypt," Hokayem said, "preferring one side over the other."
"In their competition and their machinations, the regional players are making a mess of it," Shaikh said. "They should have come together with a series of actions to stabilize the country. But we're not in that situation. The simple fact is that the Emiratis, the Kuwaitis . . . jumped on the chance to do one over on the guys that the Turks and the Qataris were supporting."
Since Morsi was toppled July 3, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his senior aides have called almost daily for Morsi's reinstatement, leading Egypt's new rulers to issue a diplomatic protest.
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Turkey and the United Arab Emirates and Turkey "are huge," Hokayem said.
Shaikh predicted that the competition "in the end of the day will come back to haunt them," for an unstable Egypt "is not good for any of them."
But the country that's suffering the most from what Shaikh calls a policy "that is adrift" is Syria, where the country's civil war has claimed more than 100,000 lives on both sides. A leading figure in the opposition coalition's new Saudi-backed civilian leadership says the U.S. has "a policy of vagueness."
In principle, the United States backs the coalition, said Fayez Sara, a writer and journalist who's now a member of the coalition's political committee. However, he said, "until now, no money has been received from the U.S."
When the U.S. offers advice, "it is inconsistent," he said in an interview.
"In the morning, they say, 'Unite.' In the afternoon, it's 'Fight terror groups.' In the evening, they say, 'Work for a political settlement with the regime.' "
He said there was a contradiction in the U.S. message, which declared on one hand that "Assad must go" and on the other demands of Assad's opponents that "You have to arrive at some sort of agreement with him." Sara says that when he points this out to U.S. officials, he receives different responses. Some say, "You're right," and others "just walk away," he said.
The Americans have, "for now, abandoned the Syrian situation to its fate," he said. "They will not take on the political or moral responsibility. They may come back to it. But it will be much more difficult when they do."
Hokayem, whose book, "Syria's Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant," describes the 2011 uprising as coming as a complete surprise to outside observers, said the Obama administration had defined its policies in the region in terms of avoiding another Iraq. But Syria "has already overtaken Iraq" in terms of its humanitarian, regional and strategic significance, he said. "Syria is going to be the defining issue of the decade" in the region, he said, and the Obama administration may soon get the "worst of both worlds."
"We're going to see an Assad surviving in a weakened fashion, more dependent on Iran and Hezbollah, with no strategic gain," Hokayem said. There will be "a range of radical groups, whose identity we don't know, which will be very difficult to contain."
Shaikh agreed. "I don't think we've got a grip on this," he said. "The legacy of that is quite, quite devastating in the future."


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