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Well, congratulations are in order. Fox has officially announced the return of Erin Andrews to the network responsible for her first break in 2000 when she worked at Fox Sports Florida.
Andrews will host FOX's new prime time college football pregame show and will make significant contributions to the network's NFL and MLB coverage, along with other sports properties, as part of a multiyear deal announced by FOX on Sunday.
Andrews will debut on the Fox college football pregame show on September 1, when USC host Hawaii at the LA Coliseum. Eric Shanks of FOX Sports Media Group also noted that Andrews will anchor the Fox college football studio coverage.
Going from ESPN's college football coverage to Fox's is decidedly a step down (even though she is hosting), so it will be interesting to see what Shanks means when he says he expects her to be a "big contributor to our MLB and NFL coverage as well as other major events."
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FT. MYERS, Fla. (Nov. 12, 2012) – ETSU men's soccer senior Franck Doumbe (Silver Spring, Md.) and junior Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) were named to the Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team on Sunday afternoon following FGCU's win over Mercer in the final, 1-0
Doumbe netted ETSU's goal in the 74th minute of the semifinals, putting ETSU ahead, 1-0, at the time. The score was the third of Doumbe's season the fifth of his career. Fubara helped land the Buccaneers in the semifinals, scoring in the fifth minute of Wednesday's quarterfinal against Jacksonville to lift ETSU to victory, 1-0. The goal was Fubara's second of the season, and seventh of his three-year career.
Fubara's all-tournament selection is his second. In 2010, Fubara was named A-Sun Tournament MVP.
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Almost 18,000 packed the North Coast course for the first round matches and those crowds are expected to grow as the event reaches a climax on Sunday.
Daniel Im leads after the first round on eight-under par. Defending champion Rory McIlroy finished on level par.


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Written greetings have existed since ancient times. The Chinese exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year and the Egyptians communicated their greetings on papyrus scrolls. However, it was not until the early 14th century that handmade paper greeting cards started to be exchanged between individuals in Europe. At this time the Germans developed the use of woodcuts for the printing of their cards.
By the 1850s greeting cards had transformed from expensive, handmade and hand delivered to be a more affordable and thus common form of communication due to technical advances in printing which involved mechanisation. These advances resulted in new trends such as Christmas cards. The first recorded Christmas Card was published in London in 1843. Then in the 1860's companies such as Marcus Ward & Co, Charles Bennett and Goodall began the mass production of greeting cards. These companies employed well known artists such as Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway as card designers and illustrators. The development of color lithography in 1930 propelled the manufactured greeting card industry forward to the industry we know today.
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Kate Greenaway (often spelt incorrectly as Kate Greenway) was an English artist and illustrator/writer of children's book, cards, calendars and much more. Her subjects mainly consisted of children, young girls, flowers and landscapes. She was the daughter of John Greenaway a well-known draughtsman and engraver on wood.
Kate completed a course at Heatherleys life classes and the Slade School in South Kensington. It was soon after completing these studies in 1868 that she started to exhibit watercolor drawings at the Dudley Gallery in London. By 1877 her drawings at Dudley Gallery were selling for 54 pounds.
In 1868 she also started to design greeting cards for Marcus Ward. Over the years many of these were also used for calendar and book illustrations. During the period from 1868 to 1878 some of the cards were registered at Stationers' Hall but not in her name. The first recorded design at Stationers' Hall in her name was in 1879. By this stage she had also been working for other publishers such as Goodall.
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Inside Erin Morgenstern's head is a lush, fantastic world, one with bonfires and candles, ice sculptures and clocks, moonlight on snow, fortunetellers and contortionists, velvet gowns and disappearing umbrellas.
This world appeared to her fully formed, she says, while she was laboring on a manuscript that was going nowhere. "I had been writing this vague, Edward Gorey-inspired thing that had men in fur coats being mysterious, and that's essentially all that was going on, for pages and pages and pages," she said. "I needed to do something different, and so I sent the characters to the circus."
When she did, "It just appeared in my head, this traveling carnival idea." But seeing it and writing it down are two very different things, and it took her five more years to get the circus onto paper -- to make it, as she says, "book-shaped." In the end, it was not just book-shaped, it was a book -- a best-selling book.
"The Night Circus," which tick-tocks between the 1890s and the early 1900s and between Europe and the United States, is the story of Celia and Marco, two magicians who are forced into a lifelong competition and end up falling in love.
Now out in paperback, it has been an enormous success, reaching the bestseller lists of the New York Times (where it stayed for seven weeks), USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly. It was translated into more than 30 languages and won the 2011 Alex Award from the American Library Association, which honors a book for adults that crosses over to a young-adult audience. The Washington Post compared it to Steven Millhauser's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Martin Dressler"; other critics called it enchanting and spellbinding, fantastically imagined, exquisite and dreamlike.
But, oh, it was agony to write. For years, Morgenstern had only a few, thinly sketched characters. She had no plot. All she had was this vivid, mysterious world.
A deep love of fantasy
Morgenstern, 34, grew up in Marshfield, Mass., the daughter of an elementary school teacher and an accountant. Her sister was nearly six years younger, and young Erin spent a lot of time alone, wandering the woods behind the house ("horror movie-looking woods," she said), daydreaming and reading. Her favorite books were romantic fantasies -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder's "The Velvet Room" and "The Egypt Game," and Beatrice Gormley's "Mail-Order Wings," about a girl who sees an ad in a comic book for a pair of wings, buys them and flies away.
"That was the kind of thing that really captured my imagination: almost fantasy, but real-world," Morgenstern said.
She was not a writer, early on; in high school, when she wasn't watching lush Merchant-Ivory period dramas on DVD, she was busy with the theater: "It's like playing dress-up, but doing it in public."
All of this eventually made its way into "The Night Circus" -- the real-world fantasy, the exquisiteness of period films, the black-and-white color scheme (with a dash of red) of a play she produced at school.
At Smith College, where she majored in theater, she took two semesters of lighting design. "For class, I kept a lighting journal, observations about light in everyday life and how it affects mood." Those lessons stayed with her, and illumination in "The Night Circus," is always dramatic: candles, bonfires, the moon.
A novel in a month?
After college, Morgenstern drifted. She got married (she is now divorced), moved to Salem, Mass., worked a series of "very generic office jobs," spent her time painting and writing, finishing nothing.
It was NaNoWriMo that got her going. National Novel Writers Month is an annual Internet-based project in which participants attempt to write a novel during the month of November; to earn a badge (the only reward), they must write 50,000 words in 30 days.
"It was great for me," Morgenstern said. "I had done a little bit of play-writing in college, but I didn't really finish anything.
"National Novel Writing Month was a great tool for me. I'd write that page and still hate it, and then I'd have to write another."
Writing "The Night Circus" took much longer than a month. When the next November rolled around, she was still working on it, and the November after that, as well. "I had that thing where places and entire worlds appeared in my head, and I was trying to figure out how to make it story-shaped."
Eventually, she sent her big sprawling manuscript to agents, "and then I got lots of rejections because, of course, it had no plot."
In 2009, she took part in NanNoWriMo again, but this time she worked on an entirely different book. "The Night Circus" -- still unfocused, unplotted and untitled -- had been stuffed into a drawer.
"And then I pulled it back out in January and spent the winter and spring of 2010 rewriting the entire thing," she said. "That's when the competition [between magicians Celia and Marco] was added. I had kind of thought that the real appeal was the circus and the atmosphere because that was what I was most comfortable doing. I didn't think character or plot was my strong suit."
She resubmitted the book, and this time all of the agents who had rejected her the first time clamored to sign her. She chose one, and began work on his suggested revisions.
"I sent it back again at the end of the summer, and I was getting good at this whole revising thing," she said. "I was all excited to get more notes. And he said, 'Great job. I'm going to find you a publisher.'
"All I could think about was getting the story right. I'd worked so long trying to get it to the point where it was a story! I'd forgotten the purpose was to get it published." In the end, her book sold in a bidding war for a six-figure advance.
Life-changing success
On Halloween 2010, Morgenstern was milling around Salem when she struck up a conversation with a woman. "She was a psychic on her smoke break, and she was like, 'What do you do?' and I said, 'I'm a writer and I just sold my first book,' and she said, 'It's going to be big. It's going to be really big. It's going to be a movie. And it's going to have gorgeous cinematography.'"
The book's immediate and overwhelming success was a huge, unsettling surprise. Film rights were, indeed, optioned. Book tours went on and on, all over the United States, in England, in Canada. She was mobbed for interviews. Now when she wants a free day, she alerts her publicist.
"I don't know if it's changed me, but it's changed everything around me," she said. "It's a big adjustment. I keep waiting for things to calm down. So far, it isn't happening."
In November, Morgenstern is moving from Boston to New York City to be near her sister. She plans to hole up over the winter and work on her second novel, a sort of film-noir-flavored detective novel.
This time, she is not watching Merchant-Ivory movies and reading fantasy. She's watching 1940s films, reading Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, and "drinking a lot of classic cocktails, because it's book research."
She is confident that this second book won't be as hard to write as the first one.
"I know the characters. I have the world in my head. It's just a matter of getting it story-shaped."
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I just didn't want to leave the house. It took me roughly eight hours to get home from weekend trip to New York (involving two canceled flights, six hours of delays, and two airlines), and I returned home tired and beaten. I had no idea what food I had at home, or whether any of it was still fresh. But I knew I wasn't going to set one foot out the front door. It was time to improvise.
I made Rick Bayless's chipotle chicken salad tacos by mixing vinaigrette with leftover meat I scrapped off the backbones of chickens I used to make stock. Sounds perfectly delicious, right? Sure, I was stretching to create something tasty without going to the store, but it does work. Bayless's original recipe balanced things with red skinned potatoes and avocado, and those would have worked nicely. Since I had neither, I used some nice sour cream. This would probably taste even better cold, but I didn't waste any time trying to find out.
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- 3 tablespoons cider vinegar
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- 2 canned chipotle chiles en adobo, finely chopped
- 1/4 red onion, diced
- 6 ounces cooked, shredded chicken
- 2 cups romaine lettuce, chopped
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- Canola oil
Toss the chicken in a small pan and turn the heat to medium. If the chicken is mostly white meat than add a little oil. Lightly brown the chicken while you get the dressing mixed.
Combine the cider vinegar, oregano, chipotles, and red onion. Season with salt.
When the chicken has lightly browned, pour in the vinegar mixture. Stir until combined.
Heat a large pan over high heat. Cook the tortillas for a few seconds on each side to soften them.
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I'm a storyteller and a lifestyle photographer. My catch phrase is "the art of storytelling". I prefer to photograph in the outdoors, using all natural light. My images are mostly unposed, light, artistic, unusual, earthy, natural, organic, real, genuine. I love light bouncing off the hair of my subject. I'm 40 but don't act or look it. Currently, i do all kinds of photography - weddings, seniors, families, maternity, newborn. But what I really want to focus on right now are my weddings and seniors in high school. My clients love me because I'm a real person, not stuffy or unapproachable. I'm instantly a friend and I get even the stiffest of people to be comfortable with me very quickly. I love earth tones with a few splashes of very bright color. I love shooting in locations that no one would think about. Junkyards, dirty alleys, fields of agriculture, broken down barns and buildings. I love wildflowers and blue skies with amazing cloud formations. I'm a mom to 3 amazing kids. Being a mom and a woman makes me a better photographer because I FEEL strongly. My emotions run deep and my love for real life is even deeper. Reality is very important to me, I want to document life. My website is http://www.mistydameron.com. The new website I'm working on is http://www.mistydameronphotography.…itsite.com - we're waiting for the new logo to brand before going live.
I'm trying to position myself as an upscale photographer in my area. My clients mostly range between 20 and 50, with the majority of them being in their 20s and 30s. But my largest target audience is women in their 20s and 30s. I would like to appeal to an intelligent, educated, saavy woman. Probably mostly working moms, or higher income brides. I would like to work with people who are similar to me, not stuffy, but down to earth and one that can afford me! Since I'm appealing to brides as well as older mom's who want family portraits done, I need to appeal to both circles.
I need Misty Dameron Photography to be in the main logo. My main color for my site is a chocolate brown (two that I like are 2F1C02 and 4D2F1C) and I'd like to keep that still as my main color. As far as the other colors, I'm open to ideas. I've thought about turquoise or baby blue, maybe burnt orange, maybe taupe, not pink. I like simple, but still want it to be very recognizable.
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Notice too how most of the article is about jobs and the economy, not crime.
Notably, Mr. Cuomo spared several large prisons in the northernmost section of the state, where lawmakers had warned of possible economic ruin if the prisons were closed, and he did not shut down any maximum-security prisons, which have no surplus of beds.
Over all, the closings will allow the prison system, which currently houses about 56,000 inmates, to shed about 3,800 of its 64,000 beds.
The governor's office said closing the seven prisons, which together operate at about 70 percent capacity, and moving the inmates to other facilities would save $184 million over the next two years.


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"Absolutely unmissable . . . [A] big-hearted, brilliantly written and superbly realized intergenerational tale of a father and son."—Financial Times
"Engrossing . . . Irving's sentences and paragraphs are assembled with the skill and attention to detail of a master craftsman creating a dazzling piece of jewelry from hundreds of tiny, bright stones."—Houston Chronicle
"There's plenty of evidence in Irving's agility as a writer in Last Night in Twisted River. . . . some of the comic moments are among the most memorable that Irving has written."—New York Times
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He tried several experiments - all without success. He just couldn't get it right. His failures became the talk of the town and the story goes that after he had failed for the 500th time, a journalist interviewed him and asked him, "Mr. Edison, how does it feel to have failed 500 times? Why don't you just give up?"
"No, no, young lady," replied Edison. "I haven't failed 500 times. I have just discovered 500 ways it won't work. I am so much closer now to finding a way that will work!"
And sure enough, in 1879, Edison invented the filament light bulb, an invention that changed the world. By the time he died, the 'man-who-failed-500-times' had 1024 patents to his credit, and had founded the iconic General Electric company. But Edison's real contribution to mankind went beyond all this. He showed us the power of perseverance, the virtue of learning from your failures, and the magic of never giving up.
To succeed, one must learn to embrace failure, and not be scared by it. Failure holds valuable lessons for us - if only we are willing to learn. Thomas J Watson, the founder-chairman of IBM offers valuable advice: "If you want to succeed, double your rate of failure." Don't dwell on your failures. Don't play the blame game. Don't doubt your ability. Learn from your mistakes. Re-focus on your goals. And keep going.
Very often, we do all the hard work and when we don't see the desired results, we turn around and walk away - even though we may have been just one step away from success. The problem is, we seldom realize we are just one step away from achieving our goals. In the highway of life, there are no milestones telling us that success is one kilometer ahead. Jacob Riis, a photographer-cum-journalist summed it up well when he said, "When nothing seems to work, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."
The option of turning away and starting a new journey is careers360_cmsting, because in our minds, it takes away the stigma of failure. When you are not doing well in your job, what seems like the easiest thing to do? Quit, and find another one! When you are banging away at the stone and it doesn't crack, what do you do? Take a shot at another stone. And another. Result? Lots of effort and zero results.
Look at little babies learning to walk. They try and take a few steps, they stumble and fall. Then they stand up and try again. And bang, they fall again. They don't feel embarrassed. They just get up and try again, until, bingo, they can walk! Think about it. If little children were like us grown-ups and gave up after a few failed atcareers360_cmsts, we would all have never learnt to walk!
And yet as adults, we forget that lesson. We are scared to take the first steps, because we are scared we might fail. And the first time we taste failure, we give up. A group of school children once asked Sir Winston Churchill what he thought was the secret of success. Churchill's response? Just seven words. "Never give up. Never, never give up!"
That old truism about winners and quitters still holds good. Winners never quit. And quitters never win.
Time then, to adopt the Edison mindset. Fail often, but never lose sight of your goals. Sooner or later, there is bound to be light.


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When Speech Debelle released The Mercury Music Prize-Winning Album Speech Therapy (that's the official title now, right?), she sounded, on every track, like she was singing for survival. Not in an X Factor pllleaase-love-me kind of singing for survival. But actually trying to survive. And singing (well, rapping) because that was the way to do it. When I heard she'd won that prize, I remember, I cried a little bit. I'm not 100 per cent sure why. It felt important. Maybe it was just because I can't stand La Roux.
But then… nothing really happened. Rumours were bandied around about her falling out with Big Dada, then falling back in with them. It all felt a bit ungracious and a bit anti-climactic. Too much faffin'. Not enough rappin'. On Freedom of Speech, Miss Debelle still sounds like she's rapping for survival. With 'Studio Back Pack Rap', the album starts promisingly, as she spits at her naysayers, picking the hipsters apart from the stitches of their hi-tops to the plug-ins on their MacBook Pro. From there on in, Freedom of Speech ebbs and flows in waves; some spectacular moments and some tracks that could be filler, they could be growers – only time will determine that.
'Blaze Up A Fire' constitutes one of the peaks. Featuring Roots Manuva and Realism, the track was written prior to last year's riots but is all the more eloquent in its aftermath. The track hangs on Manuva's lines: "heat the heathens… these streets are paved with thievery / false prophets, false hope, false believery." Speech and Roots work well together on record; both skilled proponents of the same breed of laconic rage; anger that doesn't fight, doesn't raise its fist but gets its voice heard nonetheless.
In keeping with her debut release, Freedom of Speech doesn't just do social commentary; much of the album is deeply personal and picks at open wounds. A lover that won't leave their ex alone, a father that never showed his face and a whole host of vicious bloggers trying to disrupt her destiny. Disappointingly, though she occasionally slips into lyrical cliché to get her point across and somehow the emotion gets in the way of the craft. When she gets it right, it's powerful, when it goes wrong it feels like she's just taped a page from her diary onto a Garage Band track. As she says in 'Angel Wings', though "I'm still learning / I'm still trying / and I ain't afraid of flying." Sure, it's another cliché but it's a case in point. And the best thing about Freedom of Speech is that Speech Debelle isn't trying to be anything or anyone other than Speech Debelle, making the music she wants to make, acknowledging her faults and limitations but never apologising for them.
As a work of art, it's sometimes sketchy, always pleasant and gentle, often uplifting, skilled and technically confident. As a statement, it's a bold one, without screaming. What seems clear is that Speech Debelle sees music as a process, not a race and Freedom of Speech is a process worth getting involved in.
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National Signing Day: 5-star Rashaan Evans commits to Alabama over Auburn
It wouldn't be National Signing Day without a little Auburn-Alabama drama.
The two rivals that gave us college football's game of season in 2013, also gave us one of the most interesting recruiting battles.
And on Wednesday at his high school — Auburn High School — 5-star linebacker Rashaan Evans, whose father played running back at Auburn in the early 80s, decided he would leave his hometown and play for its biggest rival, Alabama. He has signed his letter of intent, too.
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In fact, Auburn apparently was prepared for him to become a Tiger.
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— Andrew Bone (@AndrewJBone) February 5, 2014
The page was quickly taken done — schools do prepare pages for potential commitments, but the Evans page was made live for a small window and that sort of hiccup rarely goes unnoticed on the Internet.
Regardless, the decision was not an easy one.
Evans visited Auburn numerous times over the past year, but the Crimson Tide were also high on his list from Day 1. Evans also considered UCLA.
His recruitment made headlines this past weekend when Gus Malzahn and members of the Auburn coaching staff attended the 80th birthday party of Evans' grandfather. But they weren't the only coaches on the guest list. Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart and some of the Tide coaches were also in attendance.
Scouting Report:
What stands out: Explosiveness
What needs development: Pass Coverage
What happens next: Evans will excite early on coverage teams while he learns the playbooks
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8.7 Coupled Model: Phenomena
The atmosphere-ocean coupled system shows various modes of variability that range widely from intra-seasonal to inter-decadal time-scales (see Chapters 2 and 7). Since the SAR, considerable progress has been achieved in characterising the decadal to inter-decadal variability of the ocean-atmosphere system (Latif, 1998; Navarra, 1999). Successful evaluation of models over a wide range of phenomena increases our confidence.8.7.1 El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
ENSO is a phenomenon resulting from large-scale air-sea inter-actions (see Chapter 7, Section 7.6.5). ENSO modelling has advanced considerably since the SAR (e.g., Yukimoto et al., 1996; Kimoto and Shen, 1997; Knutson et al., 1997; Timmermann et al., 1998). Some models now use enhanced horizontal resolution in the tropics to better resolve equatorial ocean dynamics. Models show SST variability in the tropical Pacific, which has some similarity to observed ENSO as is shown in upper panels of Figure 8.21. However, some aspects of ENSO are still not well captured by present day coupled models (Delecluse et al., 1998). Latif et al. (1999) analysed the SST climatology and interannual variability simulated by twenty four models in the equatorial Pacific. When compared with observations, the models have flaws in reproducing the annual cycle. About half of the models are characterised by too weak interannual variability in the eastern equatorial Pacific, while models generally have larger variability in the central equatorial Pacific (Table 8.2). It was found that the majority of the models show the observed ENSO-monsoon relationship, that is, a weak Indian summer monsoon tends to be associated with El Niño.
Seasonal forecasting with coupled global models has just begun (Barnston et al., 1999; McPhaden, 1999), although few of the models discussed in Chapter 9 are used. While forecast skill of coupled global models is still lower than statistical models (Landsea and Knaff, 2000), coupled global models have better skill than simple models. The 1997 to 1998 El Niño event (Trenberth, 1998b) is a good test of coupled model forecast systems. Figure 8.22 plots the SST anomaly during the 1997 to 1998 El Niño for predictions made with various initial conditions by prediction systems at ECMWF (Stockdale et al., 1998), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) (Ishii et al., 1998), NCEP (Barnston et al., 1999) and for the hindcast made at the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC) (Wang et al., 2000). Those comprehensive models predicted unusually warm tropical Pacific SST for 1997, albeit with underestimation of the strength of the event and the warming speed. A similar conclusion is reached with other global climate models (Oberhuber et al., 1998; Zhou et al., 1998). Unusually strong Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO, see Section 8.7.4) and westerly wind bursts may have affected not only the timing but also the amplitude of the 1997 to 1998 El Niño (McPhaden, 1999; Moore and Kleeman, 1999), and, in this respect, models may fail to forecast the onset of an El Niño in some circumstances. However, these results suggest an improved ability of coupled models to forecast El Niño if sufficient data to initialise the model are available from a good ocean data assimilation system.
In summary, the higher resolution coupled climate models employed since the SAR are better able to simulate El Niño-like SST variability in the tropical Pacific. However, there still remain common model errors such as weaker amplitude of SST anomalies and westward shift of the variability maximum compared to the observations. Current models can predict major El Niño events with some accuracy, suggesting that, as the resolution increases and the model physics improves, El Niño simulation will also improve.8.7.2 Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
The leading mode in the Pacific with decadal time-scale is usually called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO, see Chapter 2, Section 2.6.3). Unlike the well-documented interannual mode (ENSO), the decadal pattern does not have a distinctive equatorial maximum. Several coupled climate models are able to reproduce a pattern of this decadal variability broadly similar to the observed pattern (Latif and Barnett, 1996; Robertson, 1996; Yukimoto et al., 1996, 2000; Knutson and Manabe, 1998; Yu et al., 2000a). These modelling groups have proposed different mechanisms to explain the observed Pacific decadal variability based on analysis of large samples of simulated decadal variability in their coupled models. An example is shown in Figure 8.21b, where larger SST variability in the North Pacific than in the equatorial region is captured (Yukimoto, 1999). While the geographical location of the mid-latitude poles and the amplitude ratio between the tropical and mid-latitude poles vary slightly from one model to another, pattern correlation between the observed and model leading decadal EOFs are quite high.
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BREAST HEALTH TIP:Smoking increases the risk of breast cancer. Even inhaling second hand smoke can increase the risk by 60% or more. So if you smoke, please do everything you can to quit. Don't be bashful about requesting that those around you not smoke. You don't want inhale their dangerous second hand smoke—and let them know!
Tobacco: Smoking and Breast Cancer
No one would argue with the fact that smoking is not good for your health. It's an extremely dangerous and costly habit. According to statistics released in 2004 by the American Heart Association, smoking related illnesses kill an average of 442,398 Americans and cost the nation $157 billion each year.
For years we have known that smoking is linked to cancers of the bladder, esophagus, larynx, lung, mouth, and throat; to chronic lung disease, such as bronchitis and emphysema; and to chronic heart disease and cardiovascular diseases, including strokes, high blood pressure, and poor circulation. A new report released by the Surgeon General in May 2004 reveals that smoking also causes a rash of other diseases: acute myeloid leukemia, abdominal aortic aneurysms, cataracts, periodontitis, pneumonia, and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas, and stomach.
There's also evidence that smoking may cause colorectal cancers, liver cancer, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction. This report said that smokers die an average of thirteen to fourteen years earlier than nonsmokers. It states that smoking-related diseases have killed 12 million Americans in the last forty years, continue to kill about 440,000 each year, and cost the nation $75 billion annually to treat these diseases.
For years, it was unclear whether smoking increased the risk of breast cancer or not. Some studies found that it was difficult to separate the risk associated with cigarette smoking from the risk associated with alcohol consumption, because most smokers also drink alcohol, and alcohol is a significant risk factor for breast cancer. But now, researchers have concluded from several well-designed studies that there is a clear and significant association between cigarette smoking and breast cancer.
Smoking during the teenage years is particularly dangerous in terms of breast cancer risk. A study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) found that women who smoked cigarettes during their adolescence had a 50 percent increased risk of breast cancer. This may be because female breast cells generally don't mature until the first pregnancy (immature breast cells are more susceptible to damage from toxins).
But smoking can be dangerous at any age. A German study published in 2002 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that women who smoked had a 50 percent increased risk of breast cancer. The risk for ex-smokers kept going down the longer that they abstained from smoking. But no matter how long it had been since they smoked, their risk was still 20 percent higher than nonsmokers.
These researchers also found that secondhand smoke increased the risk of breast cancer. They documented that women who inhaled passive smoke were 60 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than those who weren't exposed to it. The highest risk was in smokers who also inhaled passive smoke.
Another study published in The Lancet in 2002 found that very specific categories of smokers have a particularly high risk. For instance, an unusually high risk of breast cancer was found in women who had been pregnant and who had started smoking as teenagers within five years of starting their period. Women who had never had a baby and who smoked twenty cigarettes a day or more for more than twenty years also had a significantly increased risk.
One of the reasons smoking increases the risk of breast cancer is that cigarette smoke contains carcinogens. A study from Albert Einstein University published in 2002 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention identified the specific carcinogens in cigarette smoke: polycyclic hydrocarbons, aromatic amines, and N-nitrosamines.
This group of heterocyclic amines is similar to those found in grilled red meat. Certain carcinogens, including these, don't become carcinogens until they are activated by enzymes—predominantly phase 1 liver enzymes—in your body. Breast tissue, like the liver, contains enzymes that can activate the carcinogens found in red meat and cigarette smoke.
All these carcinogens can induce mammary tumors, and they have all been found in the breast tissue and breast milk of women who smoke. Researchers have also found the changes in DNA and genetic mutations that are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in the breast cells of women who smoke.
If you smoke cigarettes and have tried to quit, you know how hard it can be to break this habit. Of all the addictions you can have, cigarette smoking is one of the hardest to give up. Research shows that the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) is extremely successful in breaking the addictive cycle and helping people to quit for good. In fact, of all the programs there are to help you stop smoking, the practice of TM is the most successful. People who practice this simple stress-reducing technique spontaneously quit smoking because they find their desire for cigarettes naturally decreases. Harvard-trained researchers David O'Connell, Ph.D., and Skip Alexander, Ph.D., wrote an excellent book, Self Recovery: Treating Addictions using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Ayurveda, that reports on all the research showing the impressive success that this mental technique has in overcoming addictions.
This information is used with permission by Christine Horner, MD www.drchristinehorner.com


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Cosmetics improve quality of life? Study says so…
The new study, published in peer-reviewed Archives of Dermatology (JAMA Network - USA), was developed with Data Mining International to confirm that cosmetic products and good physical appearance significantly improve Quality of Life (QOL).
"The positive impact of cosmetics on self-esteem and well-being has been well-known since the Antique period, but this is the first time we are able to scientifically measure this impact on the key dimensions of Quality of Life," says Dr Ariel Beresniak, CEO of Data Mining International.
"This new instrument will allow numerous comparative research according to populations, products and situations".
The 'BeautyQol' tool has been tested on 3231 subjects confirming the validity and reliability of the measure in 13 countries in the world representing 16 languages: France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Russia, USA, Brazil, Japan, India (Hindi and Indian English) China and South Africa (Zulu, Sotho and South-African English).
It provides one overall QOL score, as well as five sub-scores according to five key dimensions of QOL: Social life, Self-confidence, Mood, Energy and Attractiveness.
By measuring how much cosmetic products improve QOL, BeautyQol allows to evaluate how much they also improve general health, according to the World Health Organization definition of health: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
Bright future
Pilot application studies have been carried out to assess the impact in QOL of pigmentary disorders, camouflage products, oily skins, hair colour, and nmake up.
"This research will allow a growing body of evidence about the value of cosmetic products," adds co-author of the study, Yolaine de Linares, director of Social and Innovation Prospective Research at L'Oréal.
De Linares says that BeautyQol is expected to become a gold standard in perceived effectiveness assessment, once it has been adapted to more countries in order to better assess cultural differences in the use of cosmetic products.


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|Smaller, cheaper iPhone Mini to be released this year?
Date: 5th January 2013
Could 2013 be the year that Apple relents and realises that not everyone has £500 to throw down on a smartphone if they don't want or can't get a contract? Maybe. Some analysts are saying it will be this year, some say it will be next year, but the general feeling is that soon, Apple will be forced to release a cut price version of the iPhone to compete with Samsung, who have released the Samsung Galaxy 3 Mini.
The thing is, I have a problem with this rumour. It's one thing for Apple to do a U turn on less than 10" tablets. With Chinese 7" tablets not being as terrible as they once were, then Samsung, Amazon and Google releasing 7" tablets, with the last two being cheap and very good tablets, Apple were forced to reply or be left out of the tablet game. And the iPad Mini wasn't really a budget iPad either. The price scaled along with the screen size.
The problem for Apple is this - their unofficial motto has been "Good things cost good money". If you can't afford an Apple, you can't have an Apple. This has always been a core belief for them. Just because the economy sucks right now, that doesn't mean they're going to give up on that. They have their core fans who will always be there to get the latest and greatest iWhatever. They don't just know that, they rely on it.
For Apple to release something just to appeal to those who can't afford an iPhone would send one signal to Samsung - we're desperate.
Spotify stopping it's download service in Europe. They had a download service?
Date: 4th January 2013
This is really interesting to me. I knew that Spotify had a download service, but why would I use it when I can use the offline mode? I use Spotify listen to music online, or at least I used to until I discovered Grooveshark which in my mind has a far better UI, and is cheaper.
But it strikes me as strange that they are stopping the service? I mean surely they're going to make some, maybe just a little, but some money from it. And surely it can't cost them more to deploy it than they're making from it.
Although, really, meh, this isn't an option I use, and I don't know many people who do use Spotify anymore. I have a horrible feeling that this is the beginning of a decline for a company which started so brightly, but may now be fading away.
Microsoft do a new deal with Department of Defense to bring Windows 8 to 75% of employees
Date: 4th January 2013
This is a bad thing in my mind. The US Department of Defense has signed a new licensing deal with Microsoft to bring Windows 8, Office 2013 and Sharepoint 2013 to 75% of their employees. And you know what? This isn't even part of my "Linux is awesome!" rant or mindset.
It's a security thing. We know Microsoft products suffer from security issues. Hell, there was even an Internet Explorer 8 zero day exploit discovered recently. This after all the trouble with IE6. It's made all the more ridiculous considering the NSA release a hardened version of Linux specifically designed with security in mind. Why the US Government, especially defense and security sectors, would choose Windows over a security hardened version of Linux is just beyond me.
But hey, I am sure when there are security breaches directly resulting from this deal, the DoD will remember that the NSA actually kinda know what they're doing when it comes to security...
Court rejects claim that Amazon App Store and Apple App Store could be confused
Date: 2nd January 2013
I love this. Finally, a victory for common sense. A court has said that there is no way a user would expect the Amazon App Store to be able to be confused with the Apple App Store - namely because the Amazon App Store runs on Android devices and Kindles, and the Apple App Store runs on iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch etc.
The bigger question for me is, how the hell did this get to court? I mean seriously, how did this not get thrown out immediately? You would have to be a moron to believe that the Apple and Amazon App Stores could in any way be similar! What next? Are Apple going to sue Opera for having an App Store which detects the OS and allows you to install apps based on that? Because that could be confusing for the morons Apple believe buy their stuff...
But that is the interesting facet of this entire case. Apple try really hard to tell everyone that their customers are smart, slick, rich and intelligent. Although apparently they can't tell the difference between these?
Smart, slick, rich intelligent people can't tell the difference between a blue icon and an orange icon? Especially when one says Amazon on it? Where I come from, that doesn't make someone smart or intelligent. It makes them an idiot. Make up your mind Apple, which demographic are you selling to?
Ubuntu for mobile launches today. Yawn.
Date: 2nd January 2013
Those who know me well know that I am a massive advocate of Open Source technology and Linux. But you know what? I really cannot get excited about Ubuntu Mobile. For those who might get excited, the 60 second trailer is here:
To me, it looks like they took the best ideas from Android (no surprise there, it's based on the latest Android Kernel) but with all the horror that is Unity. Now, I really do not care what Canonical and Shuttleworth say - the plain fact is that Unity has always been developed for touchscreens. It makes sense for touchscreens, just not for a desktop. But what is the point of Ubuntu Mobile? To have Linux in my pocket/on my phone? I have that! It's called Android! We do not need a Linux phone like Tizen or Ubuntu Mobile - we've got Android which uses the Linux Kernel.
Also, without carrier deals or hardware deals, this is just another software release. A software company releasing an OS image, whatever hardware it is designed for, isn't groundbreaking news. It's not even a "new product" as Canonical keeps insisting. It's what you do. A phone, an actual, physical device I could buy today - that would be groundbreaking and a new product. This isn't.
Oh, and as for Canonical's staff - you might want to learn how to make social media posts sound less corporate and more personal. It's one of the things I really detest about Canonical. They get their staff to promote their stuff, but there are quite clearly guidelines which they're told to follow, because you never really feel they're the person's personal opinions. More like a sanitised version of their opinions.
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"a book about death : life"
Original NYC Exhibition
project by Matthew Rose
"A Book About Death : Life"
Curated by Ann Stoddard
"A Book About Death : Life"
An international art exhibition of original artworks expressing feelings about death and a celebration of life.
Exhibition dates:
January 20 - February 25, 2011
A work in progress, like life and death.
Entries date : There is no end.
Reception : February 17, 5- 7 p.m.
About the Exhibit
located in the Harper Center for the Arts at
Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina
The exhibit at large includes three exhibits within the gallery:
Exhibit I
A Book About Death: Life includes the original
A Book About Death plus new submissions.
A Book About Death exhibit originated at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in NYC in September 2009.
This exhibit, ABAD, was conceived by artist Matthew Rose,which included nearly 500 pages of original designs by international artists on the subject of death .
Since the 2009 debut, the ABAD project has taken a on a remarkable life. It continues to travel the world , appearing in museums and galleries across the US, Brazil, Belgium, Croatia, Sarajevo, Italy and the United Kingdom. An unbound ABAD (Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery 2009) book is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, MoMA Wales and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library.
Exhibit II
Selected Works by Ray Johnson: Ray Johnson, the pioneering American collage artist, who created the original and unpaginated A Book About Death. Works on loan from the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center.
Exhibit III
Wailing Wall: In memory and celebration of the lives of two PC students lost in the Fall semester, Sarah and Lea.
CALL FOR ENTRIES for A Book About Death: Life
Submit one 4"x 6" artwork in any media on the theme of death/life via snail mail and a 4"x6" 150 dpi jpg of your image for posting on blog. Please include the words "A BOOK ABOUT DEATH" on the front and your name and your e-mail address/website URL on the back. The work may be sent in an envelope for protection or mailed as a postcard.
Artist is responsible for cost of postage/mailing.
ALL submitted work will become part of a permanent
ABAD : Life archive as part of the Presbyterian College Art Collection. Your submission/entry will not be returned.
You must submit both a physical work and a virtual one to be part of the project. Every submitted piece will be posted to this exhibition blog.
Submissions will continue to be accepted.
Mail 4" x 6" artwork/card to:
Ann Stoddard
College Curator
Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery
Harper Center for the Arts
Presbyterian College
503 South Broad Street
Clinton, South Carolina 29325
Submit the 4x6 150 dpi jpg of your image with your name and e-mail and/or web URL to: email@example.com
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that the Eastern Cougar (a.k.a. puma, mountain lion, catamount, red tiger, or "ghost cat") is officially extinct — i.e., there have been no wild breeding populations of the species since, probably, the 1930s. Officials blame continuing, numerous mountain lion sightings in the eastern states on mistaken identity (either another animal entirely or a migrating Western Cougar), or on big cats escaped from captivity — though they may have trouble convincing many locals of that!
This sad news does provide an opportunity to highlight some of Hugh Morton's striking photos of cougars in the wildlife habitats at Grandfather Mountain.
I'm not entirely sure when the first cougars came to Grandfather (circa late 1970s-early 1980s), or of the impetus for creating a habitat for them — perhaps some of the staff at Grandfather can shed light on that story? But I believe the image below to be one of those inaugural cougars, named Terra and Rajah, possibly upon arrival at the Mountain (judging from the ropes and the unhappy attitude). (Of these two, only Terra, shown in the photo at the top of this post, was an Eastern Cougar — Rajah was Western).
Mr. Morton was obviously taken with the animal's extreme elegance and athleticism. He tried repeatedly to capture that perfect "cougar leap" image. I'm particularly fond of the shot below (taken in 1982 of the cougar named Judy).
Two cougars, Nakita and Aspen, currently live at Grandfather (though the website doesn't say whether either or both of them are Eastern Cougars). At least, through captivity programs like Grandfather's, we can take comfort that not all of these incredible animals will become "ghosts."


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In DLP, as in security, one size doesn't fit all. Just because you can't implement a control everywhere in your network doesn't mean it can't add protection in those areas where it makes sense. Maybe restricting USB use globally can't work, but restricting it in the HR department can. For these solutions, I say don't let perfect stand in the way of good enough (or even better). Evaluate whether a quick win can provide added security today and implement it where it will work. This can provide some stopgap protection even as you search for a better solution that can:
- Cover all (or a larger percentage) of the network
- Cover the nodes not protected by some other control
I like to analogize this to the use of a bulletproof vest. Police wear bulletproof vests when on patrol. In fact, policy makers (supervisors, chiefs, etc.) usually force them to be worn. They force their use even though it is well known that they don't cover the entire body. Not only that, but the don't even cover all of the critical areas (groin, head, etc.). To make matters worse, for the areas they do cover, some large caliber and specialty bullets cut right through them! And yet, we would question the judgement of a police chief who said "because this solution isn't perfect and doesn't protect our officers from all potential bullet hits, we refuse to invest the time and money to implement it." Why do we treat our network security controls any differently?


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TIFF 2015: Jerzy Skolimowski; Tsai Ming-liang
I've long heard good things about Jerzy Skolimowski; particularly esteemed are the four features he made in the 1960s, including Le Départ. I've seen only Deep End (1970) – which is stunning: enough to warrant a look at his entire filmography – and The Shout (1978; strange, recommended). The little-known but valuable essay collection Second Wave (1970), edited by Ian Cameron, contains an essay on Skolimowski (by Michael Walker) that first sparked my interest in his work.
I felt that his new film, 11 Minutes, deserved better than the cool critical reception it received at the festival. Two strands of cinema meet here. The first is the multi-character "network narrative": a kind of film that has historically possessed a tendency toward middlebrow preciosity or inflatedness (not just in Iñárritu's Babel or 21 Grams but also in its prototypes by vastly better filmmakers like Kieslowski [Three Colors: Blue]). The second strand here turns out to be the antidote to the first: the satirical thriller, a form favored by masters such as Hitchcock, De Palma, Chabrol and Verhoeven (I have a special weakness for this kind of cinema). Skolimowski's sardonic humor is the overlay, the governing sensibility that pulls these two strains together. The ending of Christian Petzold's Phoenix has been much praised, but 11 Minutes has a finish that is almost as exhilarating and unexpected. Skolimowski has said that he began by dreaming the final image ("frame-by-frame"), then reverse-designed the film from that image. "Is there a stranger, more provocative late-career renaissance in recent memory?" asks Fernando Croce in one of the few sympathetic reviews of the film from the festival.
Here are a couple of interesting things we learn about the director from recent interviews, such as the one he did with Danny Kasman at MUBI Notebook: he's not a cinephile – and watches less than 10 films a year; he made a self-admittedly "bad movie" (30 Door Key, 1991), then quit cinema to paint for the next 17 years; and he still sees himself first and foremost as a painter.
He draws this contrast between filmmaking and painting:
Painting is zen. Filming is chaos […] I'm a different person when I paint. I'm alone, I listen to music, I have plenty of time, I'm not in a hurry. Every movement is important, sometimes it takes a long time, sometimes it's spontaneous. In a film, I'm one of those with a huge group of people just behind my back and I feel it ...
Since I began attending TIFF in 1999, I've been fortunate to see Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng on multiple occasions at Q&As. This period has also coincided with my getting to know and love Tsai's work. Especially because he likes to return to similar characters, themes, motifs and locales in his films, his audience experiences a growing familiarity with the Tsai universe with each new work. But this has also resulted (at least for me) in a growing curiosity about Tsai's own, personal universe – something he doesn't talk too much about in interviews.
Because of this, Afternoon holds immediate interest for Tsai fans – and for few others. It records a conversation between Tsai and Lee, runs 2 hours and 20 minutes, and contains just 4 shots, all from the same camera position. The setting is a dilapidated rooftop room; two big windows behind them contain a gorgeous view of the greenery outside.
We learn lots of personal details about Tsai and Lee's life. They are close friends who've bought a house together in the country (it is also the movie's setting). Tsai is a constant worrier and a bit of a control freak. He likes to advise, be maternal, micromanage – however benignly or gently. They often share a hotel room (for example, when they travel to film festivals); and an utter everyday familiarity with each other (for example, being unclothed in each other's presence).
As Ignatiy Vishnevetsky points out, Tsai takes this opportunity to ask Lee questions that he's been wanting to for a long time, such as: "'Will you cry when I die?,' 'Do you ever hate me?,' 'My sexual orientation: Has it ever bothered you?,' 'How do you like my cooking?')". Tsai discloses that he likes to frequent gay saunas because they "give me a sense of belonging … even if nothing happens inside, my feeling of restlessness subsides." Lee says that he frequently accompanies Tsai to these saunas and waits outside, ready to call the police if he doesn't come out after a while.
Their friendship is very touching. Michael Sicinski calls the film "a rare and lovely cinematic expression of gratitude" in which Tsai attempts to thank Lee for everything he has brought to his life and films. Tsai praises Lee's acting: "You may be the strangest actor ever: no one is sure if you are acting or not acting." He declares that good acting means "don't express anything; just deal with the situation." He confesses the reason why he makes films: "People need something to help them … we need things to help us understand life … it could be scriptures or it could be cinema."
It is sad to hear that in recent years, Tsai has been ill because of persistent side effects from blood pressure medications. He now seeks natural remedies for his ailments. Even though he appears to be an extraordinarily disciplined and industrious person, he drolly characterizes all his films as "ruins." He discloses that he has one brother – who doesn't like his films. He jokes that he received an Oxford University Press book on "slow cinema" in the mail the day before, but can't read it because of his poor facility with English.
Towards the end of the film they stop talking, and simply share each other's silent company. But the camera doesn't stop recording. Taking charge of each situation, as he is apparently impelled to do, Tsai says: "Let's wait for the light to disappear" – and so we do (along with Lee and the crew behind the camera) …
-- Adrian Martin and I have begun rolling out LOLA 6. We now do one issue a year, and the theme of this one is "Distances". In her latest post, Catherine Grant very generously rounds up the issue -- along with new issues of MOVIE, in[Transition], Film-Philosophy, Senses of Cinema, and more.
-- David Hudson has a post at Fandor on his "Highlights of 2015": a huge thank-you to him for his kind words about The New Cinephilia. Also at Fandor: the most anticipated films of 2016.
-- I wrote a piece at the Criterion Collection website on Buffalo film culture and recent screenings of the Apu Trilogy here in town.
-- A collection of best-films-of-the-year lists at Desistfilm that includes Nicole Brenez, Cristina Álvarez López, Adrian Martin, and many others.
-- At Toronto Film Review, David Davidson similarly collects many end-of-year lists of films.
-- Catherine Grant's roundup of "Favourite Film and Media Studies Gifts of 2015 Galore!" Also: a podcast interview with Catherine at The Cinematologists.
-- Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell on "the best films of 1925".
-- At MUBI Notebook: "Fantasy Double Features of 2015".
-- Katie Kilkenny at The Atlantic: "Why Are So Few Film Critics Female?"
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Global Discoveries on DVD" column in the latest issue of Cinema Scope.
-- Collections of tributes at Keyframe Daily: RIP, Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond.
-- Leo Goldsmith on Manuel Mozos' film João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved. Also: Miguel Gomes on Mozos ("Ghosts and Phantoms").
-- Violet Lucca on black independent film-making in New York over the years.
-- The scholar Aaron Gerow maintains a Japanese film website called Tangemania.
-- "The Male Gaze in Retrospect": a collection of pieces commemorating the 40th anniversary of Laura Mulvey's classic essay, at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
-- Los Angeles-based critic Jordan Cronk has founded a new microcinema named Acropolis. It will focus on experimental cinema and undistributed films.
-- Kevin B. Lee: "77 Video Essays (and 30 Standouts) of 2015".
-- Babette Mangolte on Chantal Akerman at Artforum.
-- There's a new issue of the journal Cinema Comparat(ive) Cinema, and it's devoted to Portuguese cinema.
-- Filmmaker Paul Harrill's post, "Freeware, Shareware, and Cheap Mac Software for Filmmakers".
-- Adam Curtis' films are available to see here. (Via Jonathan Thomas.)
-- I'm looking forward to spending a weekend in Rochester in the spring, attending The Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman Museum.


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The Women's EHT is expanding from 4 to 6 teams with Switzerland and Czech Republic joining Finland, Sweden, Russia and Germany. Each team will play 2 out of 3 tournaments between August and December. The overall ranking will then determine seedings for a final tournament in February played with all 6 teams. The two exempt teams during the first three international breaks play either a three-game series between each other or another tournament such as the 4 Nations Cup. This new format is planned to last until the 2023/24 season.
1st International break, 23-25 August 2018:
4 Nation Tournament in Hodonin, Czech Republic: Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden.
3 Game series* in Germany: Germany, Switzerland (not counting toward overall ranking)
2nd International break, 7-11 November 2018:
International Chablais Hockey Trophy in Monthey, Switzerland: Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Switzerland.
4 Nations Cup in Saskatoon, Canada: Canada, Finland, Sweden, USA (not counting toward overall ranking)
3rd International break, 13-15 December 2018:
4 Nation Tournament in Vierumäki, Finland: Finland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland.
3 Game series* in Czech Republic: Czech Republic, Russia (not counting toward overall ranking)
4th International break, 7-10 February 2019:
6 Nation Tournament in Dmitrov, Russia: Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland
*The Swiss NA website lists a 3 Nation Tournament on 4-7 October instead of this series. (https://www.sihf.ch/de/national-team...national-team/)


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Michael Bishop
Hall Of Fame Citation
It seemed unlikely that Mike Bishop would ever wind up at Washington College, much less in its Hall of Fame. A native of Liverpool, England, Mike endured numerous hardships as a youth and was living in the United States on a work visa, several years removed from high school, when he enrolled at Harford Community College.
After a year at Harford, then-Shoremen soccer coach Tom Bowman helped bring Mike to Washington College in 1988, where he was an absolute revelation on the soccer pitch. In all three of Mike's seasons with the Shoremen, he served as a team captain, led the team in scoring, was named his team's Most Valuable Player, and earned All-Middle Atlantic Conference honors. After his final season, in 1990, Mike was named the MAC's Most Valuable Player.
In just three seasons, Mike totaled 34 goals and 13 assists. In 1998, Mike scored 12 of his team's 26 goals on the season. The following year, he tallied 15 goals, and in 1990, he accounted for more than half of the Shoremen's goals, scoring seven of the team's 13. Leading the team in scoring in 1990 was one of Mike's most impressive feats as injuries to teammates forced him to play sweeper for most of the season.
Following his senior season, Mike was selected to play in the Maryland Senior Bowl, which featured the top players from every school in the state—Divisions I, II and III. Mike was named the Most Valuable Player of that game.
On campus, Mike, who enjoyed high-school success in a host of sports, also played for the College's club rugby team. When Mike received his bachelor's degree in psychology, he became the first in his family to graduate from college.
Mike has enjoyed a successful career in the retail industry and currently serves as a Regional Manager of Executive Recruitment for Kohl's.
Washington College considers it an honor and privilege to induct Michael C. Bishop into its Athletic Hall of Fame on this tenth day of October, 2009.


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Thought and Memory©
It was twilight. Hugin and Munin as usual perched on the broad shoulders of Odin to recite the day's events. The raven that represented Thought said: "What I said to you in the strictest confidence should remain so, within your godhead. Not even Memory has the right to hear it."
Odin laughed and said: "I know. This is just what Memory told me. He also insisted that you had no right to hear what news he passed on in strictest confidence."
When Memory was confronted with stealing his thunder Munin flapped his wings and said: "Your thunder! I merely spoke my mind."
*There is nothing new under the sun.


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PHOTO : Christmas Eve finery
In the meantime, I thought I'd share a last minute idea for a New Years Day Brunch... as I'm searching my own files planning our menu for tomorrow morning.
As I re-posted last week, one of my all time favorite things to do is to make "homemade" cinnamon rolls from frozen bread dough. We had friends over for brunch this week and, in addition to the classic cinnamon rolls, also made Pecan Cinnamon Rolls. With just one extra step, you can create these sticky, pecan glazed cinnamon rolls.
Pecan Cinnamon Rolls
from frozen Bread Dough
6-8 rolls
1 loaf of frozen bread dough, thawed (it comes 3 to a bag)
3 tablespoons of butter, softened
1/2 cup of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of cinnamon
1/4 cup of sugar
Pecan Schmear :
4 tablespoons of butter, softened
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt1 cup of pecans
Thaw the loaf of frozen bread dough in the refrigerator or on the counter (there are directions for thawing on the bag). Allow the thaw dough to rise for 1-2 hours in a warm area covered with a damp cloth. Roll the dough out into a rectangle onto a floured surface. Spread softened butter on the rolled out dough.
Sprinkle sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon over the dough. Roll up the dough into a log. Slice into 2-inch thick rolls.
Create the schmear by creaming together 4 tablespoons of butter, salt and 1/2 cup of brown sugar. Scoop the mixture into the bottom of a round pie dish or baking pan.
Put pecans on top of the schmear mixture.
Place the rolls, spiral side up in the baking pan.
Cover with a warm damp towel and allow to rise 2-4 hours (or overnight) in a warm area. When the rolls have doubled in size, bake them at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes until they begin to brown. Let them cool for 5 minutes, then invert them onto a plate or serving platter.


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Rarely does the average person see the same exhibition at multiple venues, except for the truly dedicated art lovers out there. When an exhibition travels, the design plans change due to the evident fact that all museums aren't created equal; each institution has their unique space, which can allow for a different visitor experience. In the case of In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women in Mexico and the United States, the show traveled to three different countries: it made its debut early last year at LACMA, traveled on to the Musée National des Beaux-arts in Québec last summer, and completed its final leg of the tour last month at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.
With an art movement as complex and varied as surrealism, there are many approaches to take when displaying the objects. With the exhibition now closed, we can take a look at how each of three venues displayed the subjects of women surrealist artists to the public in their respective countries.
For the Los Angeles venue, LACMA exhibition designer Victoria Behner was given different examples of surrealist exhibitions, particularly Marcel Duchamp's First Papers of Surrealism in 1942, and also Maya Deren's film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), which featured the filmmaker's experiment with the elements of string.
According to Behner, her vision for the exhibition space was "basically the walls and rope [to] work together as a system. The regular architecture (enfilade) is the woman, the shards/slanted walls her issues, and the rope her reparation. That's why the slanted walls are dark; they're meant to be violent slashes or gashes. The rope is suturing everything back together."
In regards to the design plan for the Musée National des Beaux-arts, the museum was challenged to present the content of the exhibition in three separate gallery spaces. Taking note from the design of the In Wonderland catalogue (see a promotional video here), the use of the red was mimicked, using the flow of the cursive on the text cover to tie the three galleries together, this trail effectively becoming a "white rabbit" for the visitors to follow into the In Wonderland exhibition (note even the security tape reminding visitors to watch their step is red).
In the final venue of In Wonderland, the Museo de Arte Moderno took a more whimsical approach with their exhibition space, playing with angular disproportionate shapes along with their curved gallery. Featuring checkerboard panels extending up and across the ceiling, this game-board motif touched upon of the show's themes of games, where artists experimented in their surrealist makings (chess or drawing exquisite corpses are just a couple of examples).
Now that we've seen different examples of exhibition design, how does the process go from concept to an actual installation? Stay tuned for more . . .
Devi Noor, Curatorial Administrator, American Art


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Carl Lemke
One local football coach has decided to hang up the whistle and put away the playbook after 46 years of coaching and five state championships at the high school level.
There are two local high school basketball teams that will look to their upperclassmen to help stay relevant throughout the year and for a shot at the state tournament.
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From left, Julia Fixsen, Rowan Morgan, Trevor Redmond and Angel Vo.
Lucas Ailport
sports intern
Austin Smestad and Cassidy Smestad are siblings who both graduated from Mounds View High School. They were multi-sport athletes in high school and picked out a single sport to pursue in college.
The Titterud sisters in action — Alex above and Laurisa below. Both are Mounds View High School graduates who recently completed their collegiate track careers at University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Alex Titterud
Although they graduated from high school a year apart, Alex and Laurisa Titterud recently closed out their collegiate athletic careers at the same event.
The Irondale High School girls track and field team that qualified for state in the 4x400-meter relay in 2015 finished in the bottom half of the standings in the prelims and did not advance to the finals.
The Roseville Area High School track and field teams have one meet remaining on its 2016 schedule. That would be the state meet.
Jake Kubiatowicz entered the state track and field meet as the No. 2 seed in the discus and it appeared he had some work to do to overcome the top seed. It turned out that Kubiatowicz got the heavy lifting done early.
Sam Adeniyl
Of its eight state entries, Concordia Academy's track and field teams amassed five all-state honors.
Sam Adeniyi
Roseville Area High School saw its contingent of athletes at the state track and field meet amass four all-state performances at the event held June 10-11 at Hamline University in St. Paul.
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Sea Train will rock the Thompson Community Center Saturday, May 5. The BYOB dance will run from 8 p.m. to midnight, and the snack bar will be open at the center, 51 South Union Road/Route 131.
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A new paper co-written by the chief economist of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission calls into question the turbocharged arms race behind the controversial practice of high-frequency trading.
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Tax Administration Jamaica(TAJ) was established on April 1, 2011 by the Revenue Administration (Amendment) Act 2011, consolidating activities of the former Inland Revenue Department (IRD), Taxpayer Audit and Assessment Department (TAAD) and Tax Administration Services Department (TASD). TAJ became a Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authority (SARA), effective November 3, 2014 and is now operating under a new governance structure and has a Management Board. The Chairman is Mrs. Gina Phillips Black.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 210 diseños de 62 diseñadores freelance.
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(November 2012)
What is on our "worry" list?
- The winner of the presidential election has been determined, so we can stop worrying on this issue. (Financially speaking, did the election really matter?) A few politicians will come and go, but not much will change in our economy. Government will spend more than it can afford and will bail out more banks and the politically connected. Worrying will not help, but anticipating consequences will help. Read We Have Been Warned.
- The Fiscal Cliff. Politicians will do nothing until they are forced by circumstances to address the consequences of their past actions. There is no need to worry about this problem; it is not changing. Read We Have Been Warned! – Part 2.
- The budget deficit and the trade deficit. See the previous bullet in this list.
- Unemployment. Yes, this worries me. Real people need work, and our economy is not doing well at creating jobs. Do you see any plan, anywhere?
- War and peace in the Middle East and North Africa. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be… Their problems are not going away anytime soon, so there is no need to worry. But planning for your gasoline price doubling during the next four years is sensible.
- Who will be voted off that dancing show? Okay, just kidding.
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by GE Christenson – aka Deviant Investor
What can we do about all our worries? Very little! Based on past actions of government and The Federal Reserve, we can anticipate:
- Massive government deficits – spending rapidly increases while revenues stagnate, just as has occurred over the past four years.
- Money printing – liquidity injections – bond monetization – QE4-Ever from The Fed. Given the current conditions, continued "printing" seems not only inevitable but necessary to prevent a financial implosion. Inflate or die!
- Increasing consumer prices for food, energy, health care, taxes, and much more. Our standard of living will decrease.
- Volatile stock, bond, commodity, and precious metals markets. Look for commodities and precious metals to continue their 10 – 20% per year increases, but with more volatility.
- And more of the same.
- Read We Have Been Warned! – Part 3.
Don't worry, be happy, and PREPARE for the inevitable money "printing" and resulting inflation! Anyone reading this article probably can't fix 99.9% of the above, so buy gold, buy silver, avoid leverage, get out of debt, and watch the spectacle. It is certain to get more exciting, complex, and interesting.
Are you PREPARING for the "New Normal"? Are you buying gold and silver?
GE Christenson
aka Deviant Investor
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