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Sec. 3, 23 Stat. 258 (31 U.S.C. 1026); 5 U.S.C. 301, 500, 551-559; and Reorganization Plan No. 26 of 1950, 15 FR 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, as amended.
This part contains rules governing the recognition of attorneys, certified public accountants, enrolled practitioners, and other persons representing clients before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Conference and practice requrements of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, including requirements for powers of attorney are set forth in:
(a) 26 CFR part 601, subpart E (or those regulations as recodified in 27 CFR part 71 subsequent to the effective date of these regulations, 31 CFR part 8) with respect to all representations before the Bureau except those concerning license or permit proceedings;
(b) 27 CFR part 200 with respect to proceedings concerning permits issued under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act or the Internal Revenue Code;
(c) 27 CFR 47.44 with respect to proceedings concerning licenses issued under the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778);
(d) 27 CFR part 178, subpart E, with respect to proceedings concerning licenses issued under the Gun Control Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. Chapter 44); and
(e) 27 CFR part 181, subpart E, with respect to proceedings concerning licenses or permits issued under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (18 U.S.C. Chapter 40).
The secretary reserves the power to issue special orders as he or she may deem proper in any cases within the scope of this part.
As used in this part, terms shall have the meaning given in this section. Words in the plural shall include the singular, and vice versa. The terms
(1) Minimum criteria required of an enrolled practioner will consist of: 5 years employment with the Treasury Department in a responsible position which would familiarize the person with applicable laws and regulations; or 5 years employment in a regulated industry in a responsible position which would familiarize the person with applicable laws and regulations; or possession of a law degree; or other significant experience such as the prior respresentation of persons before the Internal Revenue Service or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
(2) An enrolled paractioner may demonstrate technical knowledge in one or more of the several areas of laws and regulations administered by the Bureau (alcohol, tobacco firearms, or explosives matters).
(a) The Director, in denying an application for enrollment, shall inform the applicant as to the reasons. The applicant may, within 30 days after receipt of the notice of denial, file a written appeal together with reasons in support thereof, with the Director of Practice. The Director of Practice shall render a decision on the appeal as soon as practicable.
(b) An applicant may, within 30 days after receipt of the decision of the Director of Practice in sustaining a denial of enrollment, appeal the decision to the Secretary.
The Director shall issue an enrollment card to each practitioner who is enrolled to practice before the Bureau. Each enrollment card is valid for a period of 5 years as long as the holder remains enrolled and in good standing before the Bureau. Unless advised to the contrary by the Director, any officer or employee of the Bureau may consider the holder of an unexpired enrollment card to be authorized to practice before the Bureau in the subject area or areas indicated upon the card (alcohol, tobacco, firearms, or explosives matters).
The Director shall maintain, for public inspection, a register of all persons enrolled to practice before the Bureau and the subject areas in which each person is enrolled to practice, a register of all persons disbarred or suspended from practice, and a register of all persons whose applications for enrollment before the Bureau have been denied.
(1) An individual may represent another individual who is his or her regular full-time employer, may represent a partnership of which he or she is a member or a regular full-time employee, of may represent without compensation a member of his or her immediate family.
(2) Corporations (including parent corporations, subsidiaries or affiliated corporations), trusts, estates, associations, or organized groups may be represented by bona fide officers or regular full-time employees.
(3) Trusts, receiverships, guardianships, or estates may be represented by their trustees, receivers, guardians, administrators, executors, or their regular full-time employees.
(4) Any government unit, agency, or authority may be represented by an officer or regular employee in the course of his or her official duties.
(5) Unenrolled persons may participate in rulemaking as provided in 5 U.S.C. 553.
No attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner may unreasonably delay the prompt disposition of any matter before the Bureau.
Each attorney, certified public accountant, and enrolled practitioner shall exercise due diligence in:
(a) Preparing or assisting in the preparation of, approving, and filing returns, documents, affidavits, and other papers relating to Bureau matters;
(b) Determining the correctness of any representations made by him or her to the Bureau; and
(c) Determining the correctness of any information which he or she imparts to a client with reference to any matter administered by the Bureau.
Each attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner who knows that a client has not complied with applicable law, or has made an error in or omission from any document, affidavit, or other paper which the law requires the client to execute, shall advise the client promptly of the fact of such noncompliance, error, or omission.
No attorney, certified public accountant or enrolled practitioner shall, in practice before the Bureau, knowingly and directly or indirectly:
(a) Employ or accept assistance from any person who is under disbarment or
(b) Accept employment as associate, correspondent, or subagent from, or share fees with, any such person;
(c) Accept assistance in a specific matter from any person who participated personally and substantially in the matter as an employee of the Treasury Department.
No partner of an officer or employee of the executive branch of the U.S. Government, of any independent agency of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, may represent anyone in any matter administered by the Bureau in which the Government employee participates or has participated personally and substantially as a Government employee, or which is the subject of that employee's official responsibility.
No attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner may, with respect to any matter administered by the Bureau, take acknowledgements, administer oaths, certify papers, or perform any official act in connection with matters in which he or she is employed as counsel, attorney, or practioner, or in which he or she may be in any way interested before the Bureau.
No attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner may charge an unconscionable fee for representing a client in any matter before the Bureau.
No attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner may represent conflicting interests in practice before the Bureau, except by express consent of all directly interested parties after full disclosure has been made.
(2) No attorney, certified public accountant or enrolled practitioner shall make, directly or indirectly, an uninvited solicitation of employment, in matters related to the Bureau. Solicitation includes, but is not limited to, in-person contacts, telephone communications, and personal mailings directed to the specific circumstances unique to the recipient. This restriction does not apply to: (i) Seeking new business from an existing or former client in a related matter; (ii) solicitation by mailings, the contents of which are designed for the general public; or (iii) non-coercive in-person solicitation by those eligible to practice before the Bureau while acting as an employee, member, or officer of an exempt organization listed in sections 501(c) (3) or (4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C.).
(i) The name, address, telephone number, and office hours of the practitioner or firm.
(ii) The names of individuals associated with the firm.
(iii) A factual description of the services offered.
(iv) Acceptable credit cards and other credit arrangements.
(v) Foreign language ability.
(vi) Membership in pertinent, professional organizations.
(vii) Pertinent professional licenses.
(viii) A statement that an individual's or firm's practice is limited to certain areas.
(ix) In the case of an enrolled practitioner, the phrase "enrolled to practice before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms."
(x) Other facts relevant to the selection of a practitioner in matters related to the Bureau which are not prohibited by these regulations.
(2) Attorneys, certified public accountants and enrolled practitioners may use, to the extent they are consistent with the regulations in this section, customary biographical insertions in approved law lists and reputable professional journals and directories, as well as professional cards, letterheads and announcements:
(i) Fixed fees for specific routine services.
(ii) Hourly rates.
(iii) Range of fees for particular services.
(iv) Fee charged for an initial consultation.
(2) Attorneys, certified public accountants and enrolled practitioners may also publish the availability of a written schedule of fees.
(3) Attorneys, certified public accountants and enrolled practitioners shall be bound to charge the hourly rate, the fixed fee for specific routine services, the range of fees for particular services, or the fee for an initial consultation published for a reasonable period of time, but no less than thirty days from the last publication of such hourly rate or fees.
Nothing in the regulations in this part may be construed as authorizing persons not members of the bar to practice law.
The Secretary, after due notice and opportunity for hearing, may suspend or disbar from practice before the Bureau any attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner shown to be incompetent, disreputable or who refuses to comply with the rules and regulations in this part or who shall, with intent to defraud, in any manner willfully and knowingly deceive, mislead, or threaten any client or prospective client, by word, circular, letter, or by advertisement.
Disreputable conduct for which an attorney, certified public accountant, or enrolled practitioner may be disbarred or suspended from practice before the Bureau includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Conviction of any criminal offense under the revenue laws of the United States; under any other law of the United States which the Bureau enforces pursuant to Treasury Department Order No. 221 (37 FR 11696) effective July 1, 1972; or for any offense involving dishonesty or breach of trust.
(b) Giving false or misleading information, or participating in any way in the giving of false or misleading information, to the Bureau or any officer or employee thereof, or to any tribunal authorized to pass upon matters administered by the Bureau in connection with any matter pending or likely to be pending before them, knowing the information to be false or misleading. Facts or other matters contained in testimony, Federal tax returns, financial statements, applications for enrollment, affidavits, declarations, or any other document or statement, written or oral, are included in the term "information".
(c) Solicitation of employment as prohibited under § 8.41, the use of false or misleading representations with intent to deceive a client or a prospective client in order to procure employment, or intimating that the practitioner is able improperly to obtain special consideration or action from the Bureau or an officer or employee thereof.
(d) Willfully failing to make a Federal tax return in violation of the revenue laws of the United States, or evading, attempting to evade, or participating in any way in evading or attempting to evade any Federal tax or payment thereof; knowingly counseling or suggesting to a client or prospective client an illegal plan to evade Federal taxes or payment thereof, or concealing assets of himself or herself, or of another in order to evade Federal taxes or payment thereof.
(e) Misappropriation of, or failure properly and promptly to remit funds received from a client for the purpose of payment of taxes or other obligations due the United States.
(f) Directly or indirectly attempting to influence, or offering or agreeing to attempt to influence, the official action of any officer or employee of the Bureau by the use of threats, false accusations, duress or coercion, by the
(g) Disbarment or suspension from practice as an attorney or certified public accountant by any duly constituted authority of any State, possession, Commonwealth, the District of Columbia, or by any Federal court of record.
(h) Disbarment or suspension from practice as an attorney, certified public accountant, or other person admitted to practice before the Internal Revenue Service.
(i) Knowingly aiding and abetting another person to practice before the Bureau during a period of suspension, disbarment, or ineligibility of the other person. Maintaining a partnership for the practice of law, accountancy, or other related professional service with a person who is under disbarment from practice before the Bureau or the Intenal Revenue Service is presumed to be a violation of this provision.
(j) Contemptuous conduct in connection with practice before the Bureau, including the use of abusive language, making false accusations and statements knowing them to be false, or circulating or publishing malicious or libelous matter.
(k) Willful violatin of any of the regulations contained in this part.
If it appears that the respondent in his or her answer, falsely and in bad faith, denies a material allegation of fact in the complaint or states that the respondent has no knowledge sufficient to form a belief, when he or she in fact possesses that information, or if it appears that the respondent has knowingly introduced false testimony during proceedings for his or her disbarment or suspension, the Director of Practice may file supplemental charges against the respondent. These supplemental charges may be tried with other charges in the case, provided the respondent is given due notice and is afforded an opportunity to prepare to a defense to them.
In the case of a variance between the allegations in a pleading, the Administrative Law Judge may order or authorize amendment of the pleading to conform to the evidence. The party who would otherwise be prejudiced by the amendment will be given reasonable opportunty to meet the allegation of the pleading as amended, and the Administrative Law Judge shall make findings on an issue presented by the pleadings as so amended.
Motions and requests may be filed with the Director of Practice or with the Administrative Law Judge.
A respondent or proposed respondent may appear in person or be represented by counsel or other representative who need not be enrolled to practice before the Bureau. The Director of Practice may be represented by an Attorney or other employee of the Treasury Department.
(1) Administer oaths and affirmation;
(2) Make rulings upon motions and requests; these rulings may not be appealed prior to the close of the hearing except at the discretion of the Administrative Law Judge in extraordinary circumstances;
(3) Rule upon offers of proof, receive relevant evidence, and examine witnesses;
(4) Take or authorize to the taking of depositions;
(5) Determine the time and place of hearing and regulate its course and conduct;
(6) Hold or provide for the holding of conferences to settle or simplify the issues by consent of the parties;
(7) Receive and consider oral or written arguments on facts or law;
(8) Make initial decisions;
(9) Adopt rules of procedure and modify them from time to time as occasion requires for the orderly disposition of proceedings; and
(10) Perform acts and take measures as necessary to promote the efficient conduct of any proceeding.
Depositions for use at a hearing may, with the written approval of the Administrative Law Judge, be taken by either the Director of Practice or the respondent or their authorized representatives. Depositions may be taken upon oral or written questioning, upon not less than 10 days' written notice to the other party before any officer authorized to administer an oath for general purposes or before an officer or employee of the Bureau authorized to administer an oath pursuant to 27 CFR 70.35. The written notice will state the names of the witnesses and the time and place where the depositions are to be taken. The requirement of 10 days' notice may be waived by the parties in writing, and depositions may then be taken from the persons and at the times and places mutually agreed to by the parties. When a deposition is taken upon written questioning, any cross-examination will be upon written questioning. Copies of the written questioning will be served upon the other party with the notice, and copies of any written cross-interrogation will be mailed or delivered to the opposing party at least 5 days before the date of taking the depositions, unless the parties mutually agree otherwise. A party on whose behalf a deposition is taken must file it with the Administrative Law Judge and serve one copy upon the opposing party. Expenses in the reproduction of depositions will be borne by the party at whose instance the deposition is taken.
In cases in which the hearing is stenographically reported by a Government contract reporter, copies of the transcript may be obtained from the reporter at rates not to exceed the maximum rates fixed by contract between the Government and the reporter. If the hearing is stenographically reported by a regular employee of the Bureau, a copy of the hearing will be supplied to the respondent either without charge or upon the payment of a reasonable fee. Copies of exhibits introduced at the hearing or at the taking of depositions will be supplied to the parties upon the payment of a reasonable fee.
Except in cases when the respondent has failed to answer the complaint or when a party has failed to appear at the hearing, the Administrative Law Judge, prior to making his or her decision, shall afford the parties a reasonable opportunity to submit proposed findings and conclusions and their supporting reasons.
As soon as practicable after the conclusion of a hearing and the receipt of any proposed findings and conclusions timely submitted by the parties, the
Within 30 days from the date of the Administrative Law Judge's decision, either party may appeal to the Secretary. The appeal will be filed with the Director of Practice in duplicate and will include exceptions to the decision of the Administrative Law Judge and supporting reasons for those exceptions. If the Director of Practice files the appeal, he or she shall transmit a copy of it to the respondent. Within 30 days after receipt of an appeal or copy thereof, the other party may file a reply brief in duplicate with the Director of Practice. If the Director of Practice files the reply brief, he or she shall transmit a copy of it to the respondent. Upon the filing of an appeal and a reply brief, if any, the Director of Practice shall transmit the entire record to the Secretary.
On appeal from or review of the intial decision of the Administrative Law Judge, the Secretary shall make the agency decision. In making this decision, the Secretary shall review the record or those portions of the records as may be cited by the parties in order to limit the issues. The Director of Prasctice shall transmit a copy of the Secretary's decision to the respondent.
The Director of Practice may entertain a petition for reinstatement from any person disbarred from practice before the Bureau after the expiration of 5 years following disbarment. The director of Practice may not grant reinstatement unless he or she is satisfied that the petitioner is not likely to conduct himself or herself contrary to the regulations in this part, and that granting reinstatement would not be contrary to the public interest.


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By Robin Schmahl
Cheese prices have been on the rebound since mid-January making things look a little more positive. Cheese buyers have been more aggressive following discussions of a significant dairy herd buyout this year that could eliminate upwards of 300,000 cows and the simple fact that cheese prices were not likely to go much lower.
This buying activity on the Chicago Mercantile Exchanged has been confined to just a few firms who decided to build some inventory. This has been challenging as credit is tight and firms are unwilling to purchase too much ahead due to the overall slow demand. The rising cheese price is a welcomed sight to farmers. This will assure that cheese will not be sold to the CCC under the price support program.
The rising cheese prices also indicate that February may be the lowest month for milk prices. The current Class III futures contracts are showing higher prices as the year progresses providing some hope for milk prices as the year progresses.
The butter price has not seen buyer aggressiveness like the cheese market. The price has only ranged 4 cents since the beginning of the year from $1.09-$1.13/lb. Even though price has been above the support price of $1.05, this did not keep product from moving to the CCC under the support price program. So far this year there has been 4,120,822 lb. of butter purchased by the CCC. All of this butter has come from the West.
Nonfat dry milk is another story. Some continues to be purchased by the CCC on a daily basis. There has been 169,998,399 lb. since the Oct.1, 2008. This will limit upside price potential once the supply tightens and price begins to increase. This will be offered back on the market unless it is absorbed through another marketing channel.
The USDA is not quite so optimistic. The latest World Supply and Demand report showed the USDA lowering their estimate for 2009 dairy prices. Cheese price was lowered to a range of $1.18-$1.25/lb., a decrease of 8 cents. We are currently near the top end of this price range.
The Class III price for 2009 is estimated to range from $9.70-$10.40, a decrease of $0.95/cwt. from the January estimate. The Class IV price was lowered an average of $0.70 to the range of $9.35-$10.15 and the all-milk price was reduced $0.90 per cwt to the range of $10.95-$11.65. The estimated total milk production for the year was lowered 1.4 billion pounds. to 189.1 billion lb.. This would be a reduction of 600 million lb. of milk from 2008 and would be the first year-over-year decline since 2001.
Cooperatives Working Together indicates that members have approved the program for another two years at the present check-off rate of 10 cents/ cwt. Two changes were made to the program. One is that farmers who liquidate their herds under the program will not be able to get back into milk production for one year.
The other change is that those who have taken part in one of the earlier reduction programs can take part in another one. There were likely not many who have sold their herds earlier and are now back milking cows. However, for those who have, they can take advantage of the opportunity to do it again. CWT also indicated that they never have solicited any funding from the government, and any herd reduction will be done by the cash generated through the program or loans.
Upcoming reports to watch for are the January Milk Production report on February 19; the Livestock Slaughter report on February 20; the March Advanced Class I price on February 20; The January Cold Storage report on February 20; the February federal order class prices on February 27; and the February Agricultural prices on February 27.
--Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their Web site at www.agdairy.com.
The thoughts expressed and the data from which they are drawn are believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed. Any opinions expressed are subject to change without notice. There is risk of loss in trading and may not be suitable for everyone. Those acting on this information are responsible for their own actions.
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Bontrager Self-Sealing RXL Tube (700c, Presta Valve)
Protect yourself from flats with Bontrager's Self-Sealing tubes that instantly seal small hole punctures. And, a 0.6mm wall thickness keeps these tubes on a diet.
Schrader valves are identical to those found on car tires. These valves are generally used on hybrid and children's bikes. Presta valves, which are found on most road and off-road bikes, are longer and thinner and feature a threaded tip, which must be opened to inflate (turn counterclockwise).


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Public Service Department
Richard Sabaugh
Public Service Director
Gus Ghanam
Deputy Public Service Director
One City Square, Suite 320
Warren, MI 48093
Construction Update August 2019
Click here for the letter to all City of Warren property owners regarding the Draft City-wide Storm Water Management Plan.
The Department of Public Service is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the activities of the following divisions:
- Building- (586) 574-4504 - Permits, inspections, zoning, city certifications and certificate of occupancy.
- Department of Public Works- (586) 759-9270 - Year-round road maintenance, city signage, storm sewers, vehicle maintenance for all city vehicles.
- Engineering- (586) 759-9300 - Construction and maintenance of roads, sidewalks and inspections of all projects.
- Property Maintenance- (586) 574-4662 - Addresses issues relating to weeds, grass over 6", debris, unmaintained property and issues relating to street lights.
- Rental- (586) 574-4561 - Inspections of rental properties and registering of rentals
- Sanitation- (586) 775-1400 - Garbage pick-up, yard waste pick-up, curbside recycling, and operation of the drop-off center.
- Water- (586) 759-9200 - Construction, maintenance of water and sewer lines and appurtenances.
- Waste Water Treatment Plant- (586) 264-2530 - Treatment of all wastes delivered to plant and establishment of storm water management plan which meets government controls.
The Department of Public Service is responsible for coordinating the blight sweeps with the divisions involved. Also, the Public Service Department is responsible for the Nuisance Abatement Program, in which hearings are held regarding vacant, dilapidated or unsafe structures. The issues are resolved either by rehabilitation or by demolition.
If an issue can not be resolved first directly through the proper division, then please call the Public Service Department at (586) 574-4604 for assistance.
For non working street lights, please call (586) 574-4662.
For snow removal, please refer to the Department of Public Works or Property Maintenance Division web page.
For rubbish/compost pick up questions, please refer to Sanitation's web page or call (586) 775-1400.


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When the card fills up I just put it away in a little box. All my original recordings are in there. It's comforting to know that they are all there safe in case my computer crashes, is stolen, or whatever…
As has been said around here a lot of times don't buy discounted cards on ebay or Amazon. Make sure you buy retail packaged from some place like Staples, Best Buy or somewhere that is buying direct from the manufacturer...
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. /// If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.- Gustav Mahler
Its looking like I have a faulty M10. It takes two or three tries to get any card to load. There must be some damage inside that slot. This could be why its switching to internal memory while recording. I remember at a fest last year another taper tried to load the card backwards. Anyone have Sony repair info? Or maybe I should just get another 70D. Edit: Looks like the LA service is the one for audio?
I don't think either card is counterfeit. They were bought from B&H. Both cards are to old at this point to return.
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Welcome to Tomah Health's eNursery. Here, babies born at the Women's Birthing Center have their photo posted for family and friends to enjoy.
Parents have signed a consent form in order for the photo to be displayed.
PLEASE NOTE: Visiting hours are 10:00 am to 8:00 pm with Quiet Time encouraged for all OB patients and their infants from 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm.
(Quiet Time is designated for family bonding, rest, and patient education. Visitors are also asked to check in at the OB desk with a staff member, prior to going into a patient's room.)
For more information about the birthing options available at Tomah Health, please go to the Women's Health Services page.
Weight: 6 lbs. 13 oz.
Length: 20 in.
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|West Madison Senior Center Lunches
Event Type: ADULT - SENIORS
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 4/30/2019
Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Nutritious meals are offered to those 60 and older. The suggested minimum contribution is $4.00 per meal but participants are encouraged to pay what they can afford. If you are under age 60 and do not meet the nutrition program eligibility guidelines, you are required to pay the total cost of your meal which is $10.23. Transportation is available by a $1.00 donation round trip. The meal is served at noon and participants must arrive on time. Meal and bus reservations or cancellations should be made by noon the preceding business day by calling 238-7368 ext. 8Library: Meadowridge Library
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Inventors and tinkerers have always been around, but until recently most "makers" toiled away in secluded basements and garages, fashioning their creations from homemade materials. All that's changed now. With new desktop design and manufacturing tools, affordable and accessible building materials, and the power of the Internet to rally funders and get the word out, even the Girl Scout down the street and the retired hobbyist across town can now launch a company and sell products that were once the strict domain of corporate titans and old-school factories.
The maker movement may well be the next industrial revolution. If nothing else, it's leveling the playing field and putting a novel spin on innovation. The following are some of the dreamers and builders who are leading the DIY charge.
1. Limor Fried: Adafruit Industries
Known for her pink hair and lip ring, Limor Fried, an MIT engineer and lifelong electronics tinkerer, founded Adafruit in 2005 to help other inventors track down parts for their DIY projects. Her 15,000-square-foot factory in New York City makes and sells open-source electronic hardware kits, a good portion of them designed by Fried herself. Plus, it offers third-party products approved by Adafruit. Popular sellers include the MintyBoost Kit, a portable device charger encased in an Altoids tin. The website also offers forums and video tutorials (including how to make a DIY bike stereo and a wireless music veto button for Spotify). On Wednesday nights there's even a live "Ask an Engineer" video chat for pressing questions and a chance to trade ideas with other makers.
2. Dale Dougherty: Maker Media
This trailblazing champion of makers, innovators and DIYers everywhere launched Make Magazine in 2005, followed by Maker Faires the next year. The idea was to bring solitary crafters, designers and hobbyists together. Dougherty's magazine is now the go-to maker bible, and last year nearly 100 Maker Faire events (festivals for geeks of all ages to showcase and share their innovative gadgets and designs) sprouted up around the globe. Even the White House plans to jump on the Maker Faire bandwagon later this year. Next up for Dougherty: the Maker Education Initiative, aimed at inspiring the next generation of makers by engaging more kids in creative projects that boost problem-solving, design and technology skills.
3. Nathan Seidle: SparkFun Electronics
Founded in 2003 when Seidle was a college junior majoring in electrical engineering, SparkFun is the e-tailer he wishes had been online then. Seidle envisioned a place where anyone could get parts to build their DIY electronics projects. Products would be presented with clear photos offering multiple views, plenty of data and online tutorials. Today, the $20 million Boulder, Colorado, parts wholesaler offers just that to makers around the world, as well as classes and workshops. Everything sold — from breakout boards to LCDs to sound detectors — is open source and designed to empower experienced and newbie makers alike to create and have fun.
4. Sylvia Todd: Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show
Making isn't just for twenty- and thirty-something wunderkinds and middle-aged mad scientists. Kids are getting in on the act, too, and 12-year-old Sylvia Todd is taking the lead. After attending a few Maker Faires with her dad, this real-life wunderkind got him to start videotaping her making things in a white lab coat at home. She was only 8, but Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show (a DIY web series) took off. Before long, Make Magazine asked the spunky pre-teen to create some episodes for its site, and the TEDx invites started rolling in. To date, the show – with its wide-ranging episodes on "everything cool and worth making" (think paper rockets, an LOL (Lots of LEDs) shield kit, and squishy circuits) – has received over 1.5 million views.
5. Zach Kaplan: Inventables
Zach Kaplan co-founded Inventables in 2002 to give product developers (mainly at big companies) the materials and technologies they needed for research and design. But then the digital manufacturing revolution happened, and suddenly anyone could invent and produce products on their desktops. Trouble was these mom-and-pop startups couldn't buy smaller quantities of the same materials the big guys bought. Kaplan quickly saw the light. Today, anyone with a product dream and a credit card can access Inventables' vast inventory of cork, styrene, laser cutters, super-strength adhesives and resins for purchase in any size or amount.
6. Chris Anderson: 3D Robotics
No list of pioneering makers would be complete without Chris Anderson, former editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of influential books, including "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution." He's long argued that 3-D printing, open-source design, and online marketing platforms are allowing a vast army of inventors and basement tinkerers to unleash their creations via desktop manufacturing to compete with the big guys. But Anderson, a father of five, is also walking his talk. In 2009, he co-founded 3D Robotics, a maker of small inexpensive camera-equipped UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) — better known as personal drones — for use in agriculture, mapping, construction and just for fun. He first developed them at his dining room table with the help of his young son. Not long ago he quit his day job and is now living the maker dream he helped define.
7. Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler & Charles Adler: Kickstarter
Ever wish you had the big bucks to fund your favorite indie filmmakers, artists, musicians, game designers, and tech wizards, but your bank account says no? Have your own project or product that's dying on the vine for lack of cash? When this trio launched Kickstarter in 2009, they knew they had a promising idea that would let a few ordinary folks pool their funds (even just $10 or $25 a piece) to bring life to creative projects dreamed up by other ordinary folks. Since then crowdfunding has exploded beyond their wildest imaginings. To date, 6.1 million Kickstarter members have contributed over $1 billion (yes, billion) to some 60,000 creative endeavors that might otherwise have remain unrealized — everything from 6 Academy Award-nominated films to a tiny personal orbiting spacecraft.
8. Mark Hatch & Jim Newton: TechShop
If anyone embodies the spirit of the maker movement, it's these guys. Jim Newton holds several design patents and was a science adviser for Discovery Channel's MythBusters. Mark Hatch is author of "The Maker Movement Manifesto." But their greatest gift to makerdom may well be TechShops — "part fabrication and prototyping studio, part hackerspace and part learning center." For a monthly or annual membership fee, hobbyists, entrepreneurs and inventors now have a meetup space to fiddle around in, learn new maker skills, and share ideas with others of their kind. TechShops offer state-of-the-art tools like laser cutters and high-end design software, classes, on-site retail stores, and plenty of geeky camaraderie. There are currently eight open for business with more in the works.
9. Ben Kaufman: Quirky
It was just a matter of time before someone created crowdsourcing for the maker set. Call it Quirky — a "social product development" company that solicits invention ideas from regular folks (thousands are submitted each week), lets other regular folks help decide which ones will become reality (at free-form Thursday night "evaluations"), then works to design, manufacture and market those products with ongoing input from members. Ben Kaufman launched Quirky in 2009. Since then, over 800,000 members and the Quirky team have voted on and brought some 300 products to market — everything from kitchen gadgets to garden tools to smart home devices. Products are sold at big-box retailers like Target and Staples, as well as on the Quirky site. Best of all, those who contribute to a product's development get a cut of the profits.
10. Ayah Bdeir: LittleBits
A graduate of the MIT Media Lab, Ayah Bdeir is a leading promoter of open-source hardware as a way to inspire anyone with an invention bug. And she means anyone — even non-engineers and the technologically challenged. Her answer is littleBits, a 3-year-old company that produces open-source electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets ("the pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks of the 21st century"). Akin to LEGO components, each bit has a particular function, such as light, sound, motors, and sensors. With them, toddlers and adult tinkerers alike can hatch complex creations instantly (everything from light-up party jackets to sound-activated toy robots) without extensive electronics knowledge. Bdeir's littleBits kits have won numerous awards and even reside in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
11. Peter Weijmarshausen: Shapeways
Since 2007, Peter Weijmarshausen's company, Shapeways, has brought to life over 1 million 3-D printed products designed by ordinary makers. Anyone with an idea for a toy, gadget, jewelry or home accessory can upload a 3-D model to Shapeways, choose from over 30 materials (from plastic and steel to gold and sandstone), and have a real-life version (printed by the company's high-end 3-D printers) in their hands within a couple of weeks—all for a reasonable price. Shapeways facilities, which Weijmarshausen envisions as factories of the future, ship products anywhere in the world. The website also allows makers to buy and sell creations.
12. Bre Pettis: MakerBot
With a background in puppetry, including a stint with Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London, and a few years under his belt teaching art to Seattle middle-schoolers, Bre Pettis might seem an unlikely candidate to helm a groundbreaking 3-D printer manufacturer. Did we mention he also plays clawhammer banjo in his spare time? But behind the scenes, Pettis has always been a denizen of the maker underworld, co-founding a hacker collective in Brooklyn where he first built his own 3-D printer because he couldn't afford to buy one and starting a popular DIY podcast for Make Magazine. Today his company MakerBot, founded in 2009, is bringing 3-D printing to desktops everywhere, giving engineering pros and basement inventors alike the chance to build sophisticated models affordably and whenever inspiration strikes.
13. Emile Petrone: Tindie
After a favorable response to his question on Reddit about starting an easy-to-use and inexpensive e-commerce site for "indie innovators," Emile Petrone started Tindie. That was two years ago, and his site (often dubbed "Etsy for electronics") is thriving with over 10,000 orders, 2,000 products listed, and over 75,000 visitors a month. Sellers can set up shop and list their small-batch, niche wares for free to test the waters (items range from soil moisture sensors to a solder paste press). As the middleman, Tindie takes 5 percent of each sale, plus credit card fees — the lowest rate out there, says Petrone.
14. Neil Gershenfeld: Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT
Neil Gershenfeld may well be the granddaddy of the maker movement. Back in 2001, he started a class called "How to Make (Almost) Anything" to teach his research students at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) how to operate high-tech equipment that made and measured things. To his surprise, demand for the class skyrocketed. Turns out a lot of non-engineering students wanted to learn how to make stuff too — and so did the public. Since then, Gershenfeld's "fab labs" have spread across the planet, aimed at anyone with a hankering to create. A global network of makers, from rural India to Boston's inner city, now have access to laser cutters, numerically controlled milling machines, wood routers, and programming tools that allow them to make their dream products come true.
Related stories on MNN:
- 7 inventors killed by their inventions: Tragic irony
- NASA asking 'Makers' to help combat asteroid threat
- 8 brilliant, everyday things invented by kids


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I agree on not having a system with too many limitations. I like how SR implemented magic into the dark future setting. I still think it can be pulled off including the old normal fantasy races into a future world, which is what I did with Chaos their true names are simply alien though. The eldrynn (elves) come from another planet and they were the first alien race encountered by humans. I love to mix that genre of fantasy and sci-fi where people walk around with blades and cloaks still, yet they have a warhog blaster rifle strapped to their back.
I think it is really up to the storyteller or game master to pull off that dark mood to a game though. The books backstory and artwork can set the visual inspiration of a dreary and gothic ambiance. Then the GM can really establish that atmosphere with the use of music and their dialogue. So I can still see elves and dwarves and all that in a dark setting, as long as you do not think of all elves as happy tree-huggers. I never have.
I think classes in systems are not always necessary, but I use them as a job, it defines what type of training your character grew up in. Then certain abilities are allowed to be gained by certain classes for the first 12 levels of play. After which you are free to begin forming your own character style however you wish, choosing your own abilities from certain tiers. When I made Chaos I was always more af a fan of dark fantasy, but I felt that there were too many games out there that were fantasy. I mean what has D&D not covered already? Of course this was 12 years ago, so there are plenty of sci-fi games out now.
Alpha Omega is a very good looking book and when I found out that they have races that appear like demons and angels I cringed at some of the similarities. The writing and the artwork of my book was all created by me for the first addition. Now that I have gotten it out there I have picked up many very talented artists and other writers that would love to help for the second edition, so I am looking forward and very excited about second edition. For the first one I wanted the dark, mysterious, spray paint, ad street punk type of appeal to the look. Now that I have more talented artists I am going for the complete dark and gothic look, full color, and all mature content.
The module Pray for Dawn has a taste of the new look which is good. Gore, nudity, harsh language, drugs, it's just really dark and insane but I figured that was the crowd I wanted to appeal to and why not? This world is sick and twisted, I might as well have a game that is going to include all these horrifying enemies that you actually get to blow away. Sorry I got iff topic and went on a rant about these things but yea, I like Shadow run. I always thought it would be cooler if you could go to other worlds. So thats what I did.
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The main ingredients are low quality grains. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food. It is also commonly associated with allergy problems. Oats, as a whole grain, is good quality but oat flour (in dog food, commonly a byproduct of human food production) is a grain fragment we consider primarily filler. The hulls of rice are also filler.
The sole meat product in the food, third on the ingredient list, is byproducts. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice. Quality issues aside, this product contains very little meat which is itself a concern in a food designed for canines. There is a named meat product, herring meal, 8th on the ingredient list. This is too far down to make any significant contribution to the meat content of the food. We find no sign on the manufacturer's website of a guarantee that only ethoxyquin-free protein ingredients are used in this food (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative, commonly added to fish ingredients, and that is banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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"Harry Potter and the Morning-After Regrets"?
In a new interview with GQ magazine, "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe reveals that he has quit drinking after trying, unsuccessfully, to party responsibly.
"I became so reliant on [alcohol] to enjoy stuff," says the 21 year-old star. "There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me."
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Toning down didn't work, so the young actor decided to cut out booze altogether.
"As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time — that doesn't work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully," he says.
Radcliffe isn't the only Potter star to openly discuss their struggles with drinking - Rupert Grint once claimed in an interview that he "really overdid it once" and "woke up in a graveyard."
"I really overdid it once when I woke up in a graveyard," said Grint. "I'd been at my mate's house, we'd been asleep, then there was alcohol involved and we went out. A graveyard really isn't the nicest place to wake up!"
Radcliffe, who has played the boy wizard since he was 11 years old, claims that cutting out the party lifestyle has helped him focus on a career post-Potter.
The final installment of the Harry Potter series - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2" opens July 15th.
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Training is a beneficial option to propel your career in the right direction no matter what you're looking to learn. Whether you just finished high school and can't see yourself attending uni, a stay-at-home parent who is looking to jump back into work after time off or an employee looking to upskill in your current job, training is the perfect platform for you.
Here at ARC Training, our training courses cover a range of industries that are the pinnacle of the Australian workforce. Whether you're interested in a course in business, community services, transport and logistics, manufacturing, hospitality or retail, we've got something to suit numerous career pathways.
Community services is Australia's largest and fastest growing industry. This crucial workforce is projected to have the strongest employment growth over any other industry, supported by the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and the nation's ageing population. Community services positions recorded the strongest growth of all occupations over the past five years, rising by 21.4% or 234,300 new jobs!
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Over the past five years, employment in transport and logistics has increased strongly and is expected to grow by 6.5% until May 2022. Nearly one third of this workforce holds a Certificate III or higher vocational qualification due to the technicalities involved in this type of work. As there is a strong need for learning to use heavy vehicles and technical machinery, this is an industry that would benefit from more skilled workers. If you're interested in training courses for transport and logistics, consider entering a career with constant high demand, good work prospects and steady employment growth.
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Due to Australia's vast landscape, the country has ample space for warehousing and other industrial buildings. Hence, Australia's manufacturing sector employs a significant number of people every year. Manufacturing workers perform a variety of skilled tasks, applying their specialist industry knowledge to a variety of well-paying roles. Over the past five years, around 110,700 new jobs were created in manufacturing and this sector accounts for 7% of total employment. If you're good with hands-on work and are interested in process manufacturing or competitive systems and practices, consider doing a training course in this economically strong industry.
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Retail is Australia's second largest employing industry. It's safe to say that we can't get enough of our consumer goods – and the industry is forever expanding. Due to population growth in Australia, experts claim that the retail sector is expected to sustain employment rises in the supermarket and grocery store categories. Over the past five years, employment has increased by almost 7% with the number of online and offline retailers continuing to grow. This crucial goods and services sector has plenty of opportunities for young people to enter the labour market, and is accessible to many depending on what they are after career-wise. Whether you want to start at the bottom of the retail ladder and work your way up or find work-life balance with flexible hours and shifts, getting training for this industry is sure to give you access to thousands of career possibilities.
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Metastatic breast cancer - 'it's like getting all four tires flattened'
Lori Sumako was your perfect, stage 1 breast cancer patient.
She followed all of her doctor's orders. She endured the surgery and chemotherapy without (too many) complaints. She and husband Rick Mitchell gave thanks for each year that she was cancer-free.
Five years later, Sumako, a labor and delivery nurse, was told she was cured. A year after that, she started to believe it.
After all that good news, Sumako was doing some housework one morning when she felt a pain in her midsection. In the next week, she learned her breast cancer had spread, or metastasized, to her liver.
It was a rude introduction to a new world, one inhabited by roughly 155,000 American women and men. At present, there is no cure for metastatic breast disease, and the best outcome is a long remission.
Says Mitchell, "We're hoping this becomes like diabetes or multiple sclerosis, chronic but treatable. But we're not there yet."
Shirley Mertz, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, compares the disease to AIDS in the 1980s, when the diagnosis was essentially a death sentence. Today, she points out, AIDS patients can manage their disease and live long lives.
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With metastatic breast cancer, the median survival rate is only two to three years, Mertz said. "Nearly 40,000 women and men die every year, and that number hasn't changed in two decades."
Part of the problem, Mertz said, is that only 5 percent to 8 percent of total funding for breast cancer research goes to metastatic disease.
"We need cures for breast cancer - that is the message," Mertz said. "A lot of women today think, 'Well, if I get breast cancer it will be just a bump in road. I'll get treatment, it will be ugly, then I'll celebrate as a survivor.' But, for a person with metastatic disease, it's like getting all four tires flattened. She'll never be out of treatment."
Sumako, Mitchell and Mertz would like to see more attention paid to helping those with late-stage cancer.
For now, they're doing what they can, which includes helping with the seventh annual Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference in Houston Friday-Sunday.
Mertz, who lives in the Chicago area, says the conference is designed to inform patients, and the speakers will be experts from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
"They won't dumb it down," Mertz said.
Also, there will be time for the conference attendees to get to know one another.
"We're all fighting this incurable but treatable disease," Mertz said. "It's truly amazing to develop relationships and realize we're not alone."
Mertz, who describes herself as an outlier, has successfully fought her metastatic cancer for 10 years. Sumako hopes she'll be able to celebrate that milestone, too.
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Sumako received her second cancer diagnosis in October 2007, when her doctor suggested she simply enjoy what time she had left. Instead, she decided to find a new oncologist.
She and Mitchell wandered into a breast cancer conference a few days later, and Sumako spotted a man wearing a suit and a stethoscope. Yes, he was an oncologist, and he told her exactly what she needed to hear.
"I don't believe in palliative care," Dr. Khaled Jabboury said to her. "The goal is complete remission."
As Sumako and Jabboury talked, Mitchell interviewed radiation oncologist Dr. Karl King. The two physicians became the leaders of Sumako's cancer-fighting team.
First came chemotherapy, a cocktail of six drugs. One had to be discontinued because of painful side effects. But the others worked so well that her small tumors disappeared. That left one, which was blasted into nothingness by radio-frequency ablation. Then came four months of radiation.
For the past five years, Sumako has had regular intravenous treatments of Herceptin, a drug that has stopped her cancer from reproducing.
"Targeted therapies have revolutionized the treatment of certain types of metastatic breast cancer," she said.
A few years ago, Sumako was skiing Mount Hood with her daughter, Chelsea, when she whipped out her cellphone, dialed Jabboury's number and asked the office staff, "Can you tell him, 'Thank you so much'? "
Still hopeful
Sumako and Mitchell don't really want to talk about the tears they've shed. Instead, they are funny, rueful, admiring of each other despite the uncertainty that comes with her diagnosis.
Mitchell, a writer and arts consultant, is proud that Sumako worked, with only occasional breaks, through her illness. It was important - her employer, the Woman's Hospital of Texas, provides the family's health insurance.
Sumako is grateful that Mitchell has handled all the bills, taken her to countless appointments and ignored the things she said when she was feeling her worst.
"Sometimes I wake up with hot tears - I want my future back. I want that little cabin at the foot of Mount Hood. I want to make plans," Sumako said. "As time goes on, I start thinking, maybe I can."


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This is the first time I have ever heard race announcers call for divine intervention, and not because someone is already injured. It's because one driver was so hilariously, ridiculously, terrifyingly bad.
You know how the first time you try playing Forza 5 or Gran Turismo and you're absolutely terrible, just really awful, but in a fun way, and that's okay, because it's just a video game? Russian businessman Vadim Kogay decided to do just that, except in real life.
This is what happens when a 45-year old man decides that he wants to try some racing, and instead of turning up at a local autocross event in a Subaru, he goes and buys a Ferrari 458 GT3 and enters it into the next race at Monza.
He's like someone's kid brother who decided to join the game as Player Two, and then commenced an avalanche of suck all over everything.
He barrels through corners, sending himself off without another car in sight, tries to race hard against random drivers who just happen to actually be lapping him, and stomps all over curbs like it's his job. Drivers behind him desperately flash their headlights, not so much as to say "let me pass," as it is to say "please, don't hit me, let me live."
"What is he doing?" the announcers lament.
I really have no idea.
On the one hand, I can respect going out there and giving it your all on a racetrack. I can respect seeing your heroes hit the tarmac, and thinking, "wow, I want to be just like them."
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I just re-activated the league on Yahoo. If you were in the league last year, you should have received an email invitation.
I just entered a date for the keeper deadline and live draft in order to create the league. Once the league is full, we can determine a day/time as a group.
Remember, all players kept for this year will be +$3 of their 2012 value. Any free agents not drafted last year and picked up during the season will have a value of $3 if kept.
I will give everyone a week or so to re-join the league. After that point we can open up un-owned teams for new owners.
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Playhouse presents three actor 'Hound of the Baskervilles'
Necessity literally has become the mother of invention for theater artists in recent years.
Because of funding cuts, and smaller audiences, the days of multi-set, large-cast plays are just about over, but in their place are increasingly clever, intimate shows in which a few actors play a multitude of roles.
Part of the fun for audiences in seeing "The Mystery of Irma Vep" or "The 39 Steps" is in the higher energy levels demanded of actors who change characters frequently, right in front of our eyes.
The new show at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford -- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" -- features three brave, highly skilled actors playing everyone in the classic Sherlock Holmes tale by Arthur Conan Doyle.
"This is a quick-change bonanza," director Tom Ridgely said before a rehearsal recently, adding that the actor who plays Holmes -- Rich Hollman -- will also be seen playing all of the female roles in the show.
"Luckily, this is one (Arthur Conan Doyle) novel where Holmes goes missing in the middle of the story, so that actor gets a good chance to play other people," he added.
Playhouse on Park is already one of the most intimate professional theaters in Connecticut, with no audience member more than a few rows from the stage.
"The actors palpably connect with everyone in the house (anyway), so I think this is going to be a lot of fun," Ridgely said.
As a co-founder of his own company in Manhattan -- Waterwell -- Ridgely is more aware than most directors of the money crunch in this theatrical era, but he believes financial and physical restraints can spur artists to be more creative.
"It's so hard to produce something big these days, unless it's `August: Osage County,' " the director said of the large-cast Steppenwolf Theatre production that took Broadway by storm after the the play moved from its nonprofit Chicago home.
The quick-change magic of "Baskervilles" gives audiences a sense of the work of actors and directors and designers that is generally hidden from view, Ridgely said.
"I think it can be delightful to see it all right before your eyes," Ridgely said of the audience being made more aware of the suspension of disbelief that is necessary for any play. "We're not doing everything for you. The audience might have to work a little harder, but that's part of the fun."
Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road, West Hartford. Through Sunday, Dec. 22. $42.50-$15. 860-523-5900, www.playhouseonpark.org.
`Magda' in Westport
Lynn Cohen is known by fans of the "Sex & the City" TV series (and films) as Cynthia Nixon's Old World housekeeper Magda, but the veteran New York actress has a long list of stage and film credits that include electrifying work in Steven Spielberg's "Munich" as Golda Meier.
Cohen will take part in the Script in Hand reading of "Crossing Delancey" at the Westport Country Playhouse on Monday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m.
Cohen is playing Bubbie, the New York City matchmaker who pairs a modern Manhattan woman with a Lower East Side pickle vendor.
The same story was told in a much-loved 1988
Joan Micklin Silver film that paired Amy Irving with Peter Reigert.
The role of the young pickle merchant will be played in Westport by Ari Brand, the terrific young actor who starred in a 2012 production of "My Name is Asher Lev" at Long Wharf Theatre that moved into Manhattan for a long run off-Broadway.
Isabel, the New Yorker who at first scoffs at the idea of using a matchmaker, is being played by Dana Steingold.
Steingold is a Westport Playhouse veteran of two earlier Script in Hand readings and the venue's production of "Into the Woods."
Tickets for the staged reading are $15. Call 203-227-4177 or visit www.westportplayhouse.org.
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Paula Deen's extortionist signs plea agreement
Thomas George Paculis, 62, had previously pleaded not guilty
CNN Staff | 8/6/2013, 12:23 p.m.
CNN A Georgia man accused of trying to extort Paula Deen by threatening to divulge "true and damning" information about the embattled celebrity chef has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, court documents show.
Thomas George Paculis, 62, had previously pleaded not guilty.
Paculis sought $250,000 from Deen in exchange for not divulging the information to the media. No other details on the agreement were immediately available.
Deen has been scrambling since admitting, in a deposition related to a lawsuit brought by a former employee, that she's used the n-word in the past.
Former employee Lisa Jackson alleged that Deen and her brother Bubba Hier committed numerous acts of violence, discrimination and racism that resulted in the end of her five years of employment at The Lady and Sons, and Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, two Savannah, Georgia, restaurants run by Deen and her family.
Savannah is where Deen built her business and brand into what many consider the folksy face of Southern cooking.
In the media firestorm that followed, Deen lost lucrative endorsements and her Food Network cooking show, while the publication of her eagerly anticipated cookbook was canceled.
According to a criminal complaint, Paculis interjected himself on June 24, five days after the details of Deen's deposition became public.
On that day, he sent an e-mail to Deen's lawyer, vowing that he was "about to go public" with information about the chef's use of the n-word at The Lady and Sons, according to a copy of the e-mail cited in the complaint.
"The statements are true and damning enough that the case for Jackson will be won on it's merit alone," Paculis wrote, according to the FBI. "As always ... there is a price for such confirmation.
"You can contact me here if you feel it is necessary," he said, referring to his e-mail address, the criminal complaint states. "Or I can go public and we will see what happens then."
CNN's Vivian Kuo, Alan Duke and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.
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SFX Magazine ran a competition last year for fans to redesign the Daleks "and were deluged with retooled pepperpots." Says the magazine's official website, "We're not above recycling an old idea that worked, so we've decided to do the same for the returning villains of Who season two: the Cybermen. What do you reckon the silver giants from Telos should look like when they stride across our screens once more? We reckon you'll want to bin the moon boots and cricket gloves, but how far would you go? Should they have fleshy bits showing? Must they retain those ear-like helmet handles? Where do you stand on the whole "shiny chrome or matt effect?" question?" Instructions on how to submit a design are at the website.


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Because this year, everything is FINE, really, but my birthday sent me stark, staring mad.
First, on the day, there was the uncontrollable crying jag that started in the morning and lasted until early evening. Proper, groundless woe. Existential keening. Ugly, in the street wailing. This even though - and slightly because - I had very kindly been given a spa day. Which was lovely, truly, and such a kind, thoughtful present. But I felt ugly and vulnerable and ashamed of my new bizarrely stained front tooth and my foul toe claws and my various facial wounds that I have been picking at like a teenager (which is an excellent new nervous habit I have developed over my thirty eight year, so go me). I was definitely not feeling up to explaining the wig thing. I both felt, and felt I must look, like this:
(I've thrown it out now. The decomposition was sort of intriguing to watch, but when it started seeping I regretfully drew the line)
In the end, of course, it was basically lovely. The masseuse was Russian and stoic and quite kind and understated. She barely spoke. I only cried a few times. There was even a moment of massage comedy, when she selected the background music: rather than the usual unearthly new age whale wailing, pan pipes or plainsong, it was a frenetic techno backing track, over which a male voice would occasionally whisper "sex vibe". Perfect!
In the evening despite much more loveliness - cake, blinis, prosecco, a card of my face composed of thousands of pictures of animals courtesy of L, the first episode of the rubbish French version of the Great British Bake Off, featuring a delightfully incompetent Belgian grandmother - there was the return of some of my absolutely top quality anxiety. The triple A grade anxiety, where I lie in bed and my brain searches with the implacable efficiency of a Google algorithm for every shred of bad behaviour, outstanding accounting anomalies, health worries, work tracas, every argument, grievance and failure I've ever been party to. Then it parades them in front of me, like a never-ending slideshow of my own crapness until I am bathed in sweat and existing in a parallel state where I have bodies piled so high they are fracturing the tiles on my patio and a European arrest warrant out for me and not even the dog will deign to chew my corpse. Then I picked at my face until it bled in 73 places again.
The day after I was irrationally angry at nothing and no one (except possibly myself). I walked the dog in the forest extremely swiftly, round and round like a whirling dervish until he ran away and hid behind a tree and refused to come out. I spent two hours agonising about whether to drive somewhere and finally decided not to. I walked home from where I went in the heavy rain, in unsuitable shoes, because I couldn't galvanise myself to do anything more sensible and when I got in, I broke some blameless inanimate objects. I broke things! I don't normally do that kind of thing, because when you do, you just feel silly and have to clean up the bits afterwards. So I cleaned the bits up, feeling not silly, but completely psychotic. Finally, to top off the day in style, I started vomiting violently.
What the fuck.
I feel a bit better now. The sickness has subsided. I no longer want to rip things apart with my tiny dinosaur arms and stamp on them. There has been no crying today. It was like some kind of disturbing birthday exorcism type event but during, I honestly thought I was going mad and it was quite frightening. I mean, I know lots of people don't like birthdays, but I really, really do and what's left in miserable November if I don't enjoy my birthday? My friends talked me down from my ledge of dread. "You probably miss your mum" said F. "You should just embrace the end of year suckiness" said M. "If the worst thing you can say is you were sort of bitchy and then needed an injection of ketamine, well it sounds to me like one of my Saturday nights at university", a particularly wise man commented, comfortingly. Then sent me a picture of me with unicorns and rainbows superimposed rakishly on it. My friends always know the right things to say and do.
Resolutions for my thirty ninth year, both huge and tiny:
1. Be braver.
2. Stop picking my face until it bleeds.
3. Try not to define happiness/success/fulfillment so narrowly that I do not enjoy my really lovely life.
4. Earn enough (somehow - fraud? Blackmail? Jewel theft?) to cover 2012 tax bill.
5. Buy more nail clippers.
6. Do at least one of the following: join a choir, ride a horse more regularly, get unsightly stain removed from my front tooth.
How do you deal with birthdays?


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Google is talking to major retailers like Macy's, the Gap, and OfficeMax to offer customers one-day shipping when they buy products after finding them through Google searches.
It sounds a lot like Amazon Prime, Amazon's $79-per-year service that offers fast shipping and other benefits.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the service, and confirmed that Macy's had been approached by Google to participate.
The next-day shipping will apparently be combined with Google Product Search, which today lets users find products and compare them across different e-commerce sites to get the lowest price. When people buy a product from one of the sites after finding it on Google Product Search, they'll get an offer for one day shipping for a low fee, the Journal says.
Google won't be running an e-commerce site or stocking products in warehouses like Amazon does, but will instead create a system that figures out which retail partner's stores are nearest to a customer and have the product in stock. Then it would team up with UPS and local couriers for delivery.
Still, e-commerce fulfillment is a pretty big step removed from Google's core mission of organizing the world's information. Lack of focus has been a problem for the company, and CEO Larry Page has killed a lot of non-core products this year.
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As an 83-year-old practicing Catholic, I'm voting for Question 6, the Civil Marriage Protection Act, in November. I urge my fellow Catholics to do the same.
We should be acknowledging in everyone — including my gay son — the inherent dignity and fairness due them as human beings. As a cradle Catholic, my parents and my church taught me to treat everyone as I wanted to be treated. I have tried to live according to this teaching.
The Catholic education and spiritual formation of my young adult life was carried over into volunteer work in our parish church once I was married. Having interacted with our church members for 44 years as a Catechist, a Minister to the Home Bound, a Scripture Study Leader, an Extraordinary Minister at Mass, etc., I am convinced they strive to live the Golden Rule also.
Richard, my husband of 34 years, and I raised our three children Catholic. We wouldn't have it any other way. Family was always paramount to us. Our children knew they were loved, and as they reached adulthood, they each were happily married.
It was only my middle son, and his partner of 17 years, Mario, who could not legally marry. Both of the families however became very close, having gone through a stroke and long sickness, and the death of Mario's mother and father in the same year.
Both my head and my heart tell me that each child in our family should enjoy the same opportunity to be married. It is only right to treat everyone fairly and equally in the public square. I cannot understand how my gay son getting married to the person he loves can do harm to anyone else's marriage.
I do understand that, for many people, to come to a point where they can say they support marriage for gay couples will be a journey. And there are many lay Catholics on this journey now. In fact, a majority of Catholics in pews across the country support marriage equality. But we all come to this issue at our own pace, and that's fine.
What we're debating here in Maryland is whether committed gay and lesbian couples can get a civil marriage license at the courthouse. What churches decide to do — which marriages they decide to perform or not — is up to them. And that's how it should be. Just as the Catholic Church can refuse to marry a Protestant or Jewish couple, the law makes it clear they can refuse to marry a gay couple, too.
I can assure you, my late husband and I would not have wanted anyone tell us we could not get married. It's the Golden Rule again: We should treat others as we wish to be treated. I hope Catholics in this great state vote their conscience on election day and support Question 6.
Erma Durkin, Glen Arm