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- Career services at the Office Of Graduate Education—The goal of career services through the Office Of Graduate Education is to develop and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships with employers from various sectors, and provide them with the highly qualified and talented IPPS students and alumni. For career counseling and other workshops, please contact Carly Einstein or visit the Office Of Graduate Education' career website.
- Alumni connections—Want to see where our students are today? Check out our list of former students and their current jobs.
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One of the teenagers accused of throwing concrete blocks at patrons of a Galveston, Texas gay bar had his 20-year sentence reduced and accepted a 5-year plea bargain. The reason behind reducing the sentence for the March 2009 attack?
Because 19-year-old Alejandro Sam Gray is dyslexic, reports KHOU.
Gray, 19, originally was sentenced March 26 to 20 years in prison on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He and two others were accused of hurling concrete rocks at patrons of Robert's Lafitte Bar, 2501 Ave. Q, because the patrons were gay. Gray initially pleaded guilty before 212th District Judge Susan Criss and refused prosecutors' offer of five years in jail because he sought deferred adjudication. Criss, however, gave Gray a 20-year sentence.
Through defense attorney Mark Stevens, Gray sought and Criss granted a new trial on grounds he suffered from dyslexia. Stevens argued Gray was severely limited in both his ability to read court documents and to understand the situation of his initial plea with another attorney. Criss said his sentence would have been reversed on appeal. Gray pleaded guilty Friday to the March 1, 2009, assault of Marc Bosaw. A second count involving another patron was dismissed, prosecutor Jon Hall said.
Gray was 17 when he was involved in the March 1, 2009, assault at Robert's Lafitte bar. He and two other men were accused of throwing concrete blocks at two patrons. One man was hit in the head with and needed 12 stitches, reports The Galveston Daily News. Another teen, Lawrence Henry Lewis plead guilty and also received five years. However: Lawrneil Henry Lewis was acquitted of the same charges despite brother Lawrence Lewis testifying for the prosecution.
Gray will be eligible for parole in 2½ years.
Being dyslexic and/or illiterate didn't stop him from hurling concrete and random strangers, right?

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The Beatles Live At The Washington Coliseum, 1964
1964: The Beatles sweep through the great US cities, drawing tens of thousands to airports for the merest glimpse.
They play for no more than half an hour per concert. A Hard Days Night has guaranteed them star status in the cinema and they laughed their way through Help! in Technicolour. Paul dreams that he has written Yesterday - and has. They are the first band to play a baseball stadium, Shea in New York, breaking records for crowd fever, numbers and good cheer. Oh, and they go to Buckingham Palace to receive medals from the Queen and, by now, more or less accept it as their due. They are, however, as happy and polite as can be.
'Wherever they went, they brought Beatlemania with them. They couldn't help it; it was a form of real love. George would say many years later that the world used them as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on the Beatles, but there is a parallel theory that it was time for the world to go that sort of mad - get down a bit, loosen up, and like Uncle John in Long Tall Sally, have some fun tonight. The crowd scenes are awesome and, in retrospect awful. How did no-one get killed?...
Press and fans greet The Beatles as they arrive by train in Washington
George photographs Ringo on the train from Washington DC to New York
17 November 2010
The Beatles played their legendary first American concert at the Washington Coliseum on February 11, 1964.
"Live At The Washington Coliseum, 1964" - the concert film - is available for download in its entirety with the digital Beatles Stereo Box Set on iTunes. The box set contains all 13 remastered studio albums with iTunes LPs, Past Masters, and the complete set of Beatles mini-documentaries.


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by Lou Mancinelli
More than 300 youngsters from three different states formed 37 teams –10 kids to a team – to participate in the 2010 For Inspiration of Science and Technology (FIRST) LEGO League (FLL) Body Forward Challenge regional tournament. The event, designed to inspire younger students to get excited about science and technology, teamwork and learning through a robotics competition, took place last Saturday in the gymnasium at Chestnut Hill Academy.
Since late September, students between 9 and 14 years old have been participating in robotics clubs after school to program an autonomous robot to perform specific tasks related to this year's biomedical theme.
Students used the LEGO Mindstorms robot set and software, an interactive program that enables young students to experience electronics and programming on a simple fun level, to program their robots. The fruits of their labors were tested during the competition at the regional tournament Saturday on a biomedical themed playing field.
"It's about helping kids see the value in 21'st century learning, like going out and exploring and using technology to our benefit, not just for convenience," said event coordinator Robert Ervin, who has taught bioengineering at CHA for 22 years.
During the competition, robots completed tasks according to student programming. The robot, which looks similar to a remote-control Transformer toy with a Game Boy attached to it (though it is not controlled by a remote) was directed from its "base" in the corner of the rectangular playing field, which is a bit larger than a ping-pong table.
Students manipulated their robots around the field to complete tasks like connecting a fractured LEGO-bone (by nudging it in one direction using the body of the robot) and attaching a LEGO cast. Teams earned points upon successful completion of tasks, and were penalized for actions such as having to pick up the robot when it is not in its home base in order to adjust the robot to perform a different task.
Students rushed through the programs saved on the robot's computer during the short session. In addition to the competition, students were required to produce a research project that explores a problem related to the human body. Students investigated innovative ways today's scientists and engineers are working to fix the problems.
The competition and completion of the project stressed the core values of the challenge: teamwork, leadership and competing at a high level, according to Ervin. CHA's Vulcan Robotics team completed a project about diabetes.
"Part of my job is to push bioengineering down, which means, bringing it to younger students at an earlier age," Ervin said.
"They've been practicing for weeks," said Theresa Gillars who was supporting her daughter's Central and Southern New Jersey Girl Scouts team. "It's been exciting and there's been so much anticipation at home."
Students use the Mindstorm software "the same way you download music to an iPod," said Aakanksha Sharma, a seventh-grade member of the Springside School LEGO Lions team. "First we would build the challenges, while other students worked on the programming."
Instead of dragging a song or album to an iPod icon, students use the online Mindstorm system by dragging commands – like "move forward three steps" or "left two steps" – to a blank screen that begins to fill as students prescribe a sequence of movements that serve as the programming guide for the robot's course of action, Sharma explained.
"We've been practicing and getting ready for a long time," Sharma said. "You have to be careful not to make mistakes. Sometimes you think you have it right but you don't and you have to go back and fix it."
At the competition, teams faced off against one another in two-and-a-half-minute rounds in which they attempted to perform as many tasks as possible. Precise movements with consideration for direction and timing to complete the tasks had been recalibrated and tweaked during the weeks leading up to the event. Between rounds, practice bays were constructed to allow students to make adjustments.
Each round began with each team's robot racing from its corner base towards the center of the rectangular playing field. In the middle of the field was a LEGO bridge with one brace on each team's side. The objective was for each team's robots to grab a black brace set on top of the bridge and return it to its base.
Sometimes students realized they could not complete the task at hand. Other times, a simple restart of the prescribed movement was all that was needed to complete the task, but time was lost repeating actions.
"Part of what we do is on-time delivery," said the announcer over the loud speaker, as time was running out and students were rushing to reattempt tasks or earn more points.
"I just wanted to see how robotics worked," said Ramneet Sawhney an eighth-grade member of the West Hampton Middle School team from Burlington County.
"There were a lot of tasks that were hard to do but we just worked on it and did it," said CHA fifth-grader Charlie Randall, who said his team worked about an hour a week since beginning the project.
The top nine teams from Saturday's event will compete against the top nine teams from four other regional tournaments conducted throughout December and after the holiday break, according to event coordinator Ervin.
Those winners will go on to a national tournament. The high school at CHA has competed in the FIRST Robotics Competition since 2003, a similar competition for high schoolers. According to its website, FIRST, the governing board of the competitions introduces younger children to the world of science and technology and features real-world challenges to be solved by research, critical thinking, construction, teamwork, and imagination.
"I'm very impressed how young minds are getting together and using technology to create something, as opposed to just touching and playing video games," said Lamont Kelley, of Southwest Philadelphia, who was there to support his son's team.
"It was mentally challenging," said Springside seventh-grader Amelia Marcantonio-Fields. "It's not something you just do. You have to think about it what you are going to do first and think about it from the robot's perspective, not how you would do it."
For more information about the First LEGO League, visit firstlegoleague.org. An in-depth look at CHA's robotics club program and its progress during the weeks leading up to and after the tournament can be found online at CHA's school website chestnuthillacademy.org, by clicking on the "Activities, Trips and Services" icon at the top of the page.


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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Rutgers cornerback Logan Ryan will skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft.
The junior made the announcement Monday at a campus news conference.
Ryan was a two-time all-Big East selection and is the fifth Rutgers player since 2008 to leave school early and enter the NFL draft, joining Ray Rice, Kenny Britt, Anthony Davis and Mohamed Sanu.
Ryan finished second on the Scarlet Knights with 94 tackles this season and was a semifinalists for the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the top defensive back in the nation. He is the only player this season with at least 90 tackles, four interceptions and 18 passes defended.


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Train Rennes → Montpellier
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Rennes, the gateway to Brittany
Rennes is the capital of Brittany region in France. The city of Rennes can be reached by the high speed TGV from Paris in 2 short hours. Rennes is the perfect base to visit other towns of Brittany, namely the Mont Saint-Michel and Saint-Malo. The city of Rennes is a dynamic city with over 50,000 students. The city has a rich architectural heritage, convivial restaurants and quality shops. When in Rennes, check street posters to track down a fest-noz – a time-honoured ball where generations meet to dance to traditional music and to drink and snack on authentic French delicacies. Take a night out to enjoy one of these rather than a nightclub and you'll experience the real Rennes. Learn more about Rennes
Montpellier, a vibrant city
Montpellier, a pioneer of ecological urbanism Montpellier is one of the most important cities of France in terms of population. It is located in southern France, in the very heart of the Languedoc-Roussillon region and about 12 kilometres away from the Mediterranean Sea. Montpellier is a fast expanding city, and it is one of best places to experience the art de vivre of the southern region of France. This makes Montpellier an ideal holiday destination as well as a renowned student city. Montpellier is a pilot city for ecological urbanism in France. Discover its wide pedestrian area and blue decorated tramways. You'll be amazed to learn that its trams are designed by artists including Garouste, Bonetti and Christian Lacroix. Montpellier can also be visited by using the bike along the brand new bike path that follows the Lez River. The bike is also great to visit vineyards or to go to the beach. Learn more about Montpellier


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LET'S say life has arisen somewhere in the universe and that it has been very successful – so successful that it has ventured out into space. Let's also say that we know nothing about it, and that this birth and maturation all happened so long ago that there has been time long enough for the beings to travel throughout the vast known universe. And finally, assume that these beings want to hang out in the galaxies (for the cuisine, or any other reason) while remaining hidden to us.
Given our current understanding of the physics of information, there's likely a universal limit to the amount of computational power in a given amount of matter – you can only cram so much information and processing mechanism into your CPU/grey matter. So, assuming this limit is reached, the only way for an enterprising entity to add more intellectual capability is to add more mass. Ergo, our hypothetical superintelligent spacefaring lifeforms are likely to be fairly massive. But all this mass presents a problem – we stipulated that these beings want to keep us in the dark as to their existence, and no matter how clever you may be at concealing your matter (i.e. by 'cloaking' or via some other camouflage), gravitational lensing will give you away.
So what's an alien to do? Well, one way to avoid the gravitational lensing effects would be to become less dense. Light rays would then deflect less, and an extended body could remain undetectable as long as the constituent mass has no apparent absorption or emission of light. (This argument also holds for a being of pure energy, as per Einstein's relativity it would also produce a gravitational field.)
But there's one clue that even the most superintelligent of superintelligent life would find difficult to conceal – their large scale effect on the dynamics of galactic material. If these beings became really massive (in summation on the scale of many multiples of stars) they would produce large gravitational effects that would alter the paths of the other (visible) objects in the galaxies they inhabit, effects that are inexplicable in the absence of the extra mass. It may be possible to counteract these effects through compensatory motion, but the energy cost would be so enormous as to be unsustainable. The large scale qualities of the galaxies themselves would tell the tale of their inhabitants presence.
In review, here's our list of qualities for hidden supermassive superintelligence that like to live in galaxies:
• Undetectable
• Diffuse
• Result in galaxies with strange behavior
Interestingly, these are all qualities of "dark matter", the invisible stuff that comprises 84% of the matter in the universe and was first detected indirectly by observations of galactic rotation rates.


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Work Up at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Yesterday, the photography show "Here and Now" officially went up. And it looks GOOD. It's on display at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery on the University of Minnesota campus. The opening reception this is Friday from 6-8:30 pm, but unfortunately, I won't be able to make it. So I snapped a few photos of my work at the Nash when I stopped by yesterday:
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The Absolute Shoulder Strap has a unique, patented, internal control-stretch system that's a lifesaver when carrying a heavy bag. It's the ideal strap for those who carry hefty loads or simply want the most comfortable strap available. The Absolute Shoulder Strap combines a nonslip, ergonomically curved pad — made of soft, durable neoprene — with comfortable stretch backing to make bags feel 50% lighter and 100% more comfortable.
The Absolute Shoulder Strap is available in two version: with snaphooks and without snaphooks.
The Absolute Shoulder Strap with snaphooks:
We go the extra mile and add heavy-duty, all-metal snaphooks. Made in U.S.A. to our specifications, our snaphooks are double-plated with a matte black finish to keep them sharp looking for years. The Absolute Shoulder Strap with Snaphooks is designed to work with any bags (ours or otherwise) that have D-rings or equivalent hardware. TOM BIHN bags that accept the Absolute Strap with snaphooks include the Aeronaut, Tri-Star, Western Flyer, Co-Pilot, Empire Builder, Zephyr, Ristretto for iPad,Ristretto for 11″ MacBook Air, Ristretto for 13″ MacBook Pro/Air, Horizontal Brain Cell, Vertical Brain Cell, Checkpoint Flyer, Camera I-O and Cadet.
The Absolute Shoulder Strap without snaphooks:
This version comes without snaphooks because it's designed to work with our bags that have toothed slides to accept webbing (as opposed to D-rings that accept snaphooks). TOM BIHN bags that accept the Absolute Strap without snaphooks include the ID, Ego, Super Ego, and Large Cafe Bag. On the pages for those bags, the Absolute Strap is offered as an upgrade from the included Standard Strap. (The Standard Shoulder Strap has a .25″ / 6 mm texturized rubber pad, high quality U.S. nylon webbing, and heavy-duty plastic snaphooks.) Note that, when the Absolute Shoulder Strap is selected as an upgrade from the Standard Shoulder Strap to the above-mentioned bags, the attaching hardware of the Absolute Shoulder Strap (snaphooks and slides) are not required and are not included.
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Adobe Dreamweaver CC - Level 2 BeginnersLoanNew
The skills and knowledge acquired in Adobe Dreamweaver CC - Level 2 are sufficient to be able to work with various advanced aspects of Dreamweaver CC including working with the Creative Cloud, CSS inheritance and specificity, responsive web design, Photoshop integration and much more.
Anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of Adobe Dreamweaver CC
- Completion of Adobe Dreamweaver CC - Level 1 or equivalent prior knowledge
- The course assumes some knowledge of the software. Also, it would be beneficial to have a general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system environment.
The Adobe Account
- The Adobe Website
- Signing In To Your Adobe Account
- The Creative Profile Home Page
- Managing Your Adobe Account
- Adobe Creative Cloud Application Manager
- Working With Apps
- Understanding Library Assets
- Understanding Typekit
- Add Fonts From Typekit
- Understanding Behance
Creating CSS Styles
- Understanding Selector Types
- Setting CSS Code Colour Preferences
- Creating A New CSS File
- Managing Fonts
- Creating Rules With The CSS Designer Panel
- Creating Rules
- Creating Class Rules
- Applying Class Rules
- Creating Class Rules Using Live View
- Setting CSS Styles Preferences
- Editing A Rule
- Using The Code Navigator
- Duplicating And Deleting Styles
Structuring Text With HTML
- Structuring Headings
- Applying Simple Formatting To Text
- Creating A List
- Formatting Lists
- Adding Comments
Controlling Text With CSS
- Understanding Units Of Measurement
- Declaring Multiple Font Families
- Managing Font Sizing
- Managing Font Weight And Style
- Managing Line Height
- Understanding The Box Model
- Managing Vertical Spacing With Margins
- Managing Spacing With Padding
- Transforming Text
- Investigating How Styles Cascade
- Investigating Area-Specific Styling
Formatting Images With CSS
- Understanding The Image Properties Inspector
- Adjusting Image Margins
- Adjusting Image Padding And Borders
- Applying Multiple Classes
- Applying A Background Image
Working With Media
- Types Of Media Files
- Inserting Media
- Inserting Audio
- Modifying A Media Object
Working Collaboratively
- Uploading A File To The Creative Cloud
- Creating A Folder In The Creative Cloud
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- Understanding Extracting In Dreamweaver
- Understanding Creative Cloud Extract
- Uploading PSD Files To Creative Cloud
- Opening A PSD File In The Extract Panel
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- Understanding Code Hinting
- Extracting From PSD Files
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Responsive Web Design
- Understanding Responsive Web Design
- Understanding Bootstrap
- Create A Simple Fluid Grid Layout
- Inserting Content Into Fluid Grid Layout
- Understanding Media Queries
- Adding A Media Query
Introduction To jQuery UI
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- Understanding Selectors
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Economy Warming with the Weather
Though the risk of a spike in energy prices looms, there's mounting evidence that this time, economic recovery is for real.
The economy has been heating up as much as the weather lately, but is it only another false spring?
We don't think so. Unlike 2010 and 2011, when early economic gains withered on the vine, this year's green shoots will bear fruit.
We'll forgive you if you harbor some doubts. In 2010, after the worst and longest recession since the 1930s, the economy grew at nearly a 4% rate through June, and it looked as if a self-sustaining recovery had begun. But growth slowed sharply in the second half of the year, and businesses shelved expansion plans. Similarly, in the spring of 2011, strong job numbers made it seem as if the economy was back on track. In February, March and April, employers added more than 200,000 jobs in each month, the first time that had happened since 2006. Then employment gains plunged, and the economic growth hit the brakes. U.S. gross domestic product ended up an anemic 1.7% for the year.
This year, there's more evidence of sustained recovery.
Consumers are starting to spend more. Cars and trucks are flying off dealer lots, at the fastest pace since before the recession. February's sales, at an annualized rate of 15 million autos, will ease off in the coming months, but sales this year may be close to 14 million, up from less than 11 million in 2009 and 13 million last year.
Retail sales are also strong. After a solid holiday season, retailers report that sales are still growing, up 1.1% in February, normally a time when consumers are hanging around the house waiting for the thaw. Warm weather helped get them out to stores, and they did more than window shop. Overall retail sales in February were 6.3% higher than a year earlier. Sales were up even more at chain stores -- 6.7%.
Unseasonable weather may not continue, but surging consumer confidence indicates that the acceleration in spending will. The Conference Board's confidence index is up 30 points since October, to a reading of 70.1. That's the largest increase over a four-month span in more than 30 years. Consumers are also signaling their confidence by borrowing more. Revolving debt -- student and auto loans, credit cards, etc. -- is rising.
Meanwhile, the benefits to employers of cost cutting are fading. Productivity -- the output per worker -- surged in the Great Recession and its immediate aftermath, as employers slashed payrolls to stay competitive. In 2010, productivity increased by 4%, above the long-run average of about 2% a year. But growth stopped cold in 2011, actually falling for part of the year and ending the year up a mere 0.4%.
Normally, low productivity growth is bad news because it holds down wages. But in an economy with 8 million people actively looking for work, it's good news. We expect productivity gains to continue to languish in 2012, forcing businesses that want to expand to hire workers. That, in turn, should spur economic growth.
It's also encouraging that job growth is becoming more consistent. Based on the lower level of new claims for unemployment insurance this month, it is likely that March will be another month of job gains north of 200,000. One of the most discouraging things about the recovery since the Great Recession has been the stop-and-start nature of economic growth and job creation. Though GDP gains in the first half of 2012 won't be spectacular -- an annual rate of only about 2% -- more-consistent net job creation will reinforce consumer confidence.
There are even signs of improvement in housing, still the biggest drag on the economy. The inventory of unsold homes is dropping -- at last count, to the equivalent of about six months of sales at the current pace of closings. The combination of mild weather, low mortgage interest rates and the prospect of those rates turning around once the economy picks up some steam is luring more traffic into open houses. At the same time, real estate brokers say sellers have gotten more realistic about sales prices, finally accepting that the bubble prices of a few years back are gone. Unfortunately, with millions of foreclosures still in the pipeline, the modest improvement we expect in housing prices by the end of the year won't do much to nurture growth.
Finally, some clouds on the horizon look less threatening. Europe's debt crisis will calm down, now that holders of Greek bonds have agreed to write off most of their investments. A repeat of last year's fiscal brinkmanship in Washington isn't likely. The posturing angered voters, and members of Congress won't want to play chicken again before facing voters in November.
One major thundercloud remains: The prospect of a sharp spike in oil prices if Israel attacks Iran to thwart its pursuit of nuclear weapons. An attack would drive gasoline over $5 a gallon and raise the average cost of filling up for each U.S. household by $1,000 a year. Such a shock would lower the growth in U.S. GDP next year from around 2% to 1%, leaving the economy one adverse event away from a recession. Although the chances for an attack in the coming weeks are lower since Israel agreed to another round of diplomacy, the risk can't be ignored.


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My name is Lee Steele and I offer hands on Ceramic & Historical Pottery Workshops during which your clients will have the opportunity to experience and explore the medium of clay.
I have over 10 years experience as a ceramic artist and have run my own studio, organised and undertaken workshops for children and adults and have taught a short course at York College of Further & Higher Education.
Historical Pottery Workshops
I am an active historical re-enactor with many years' experience of demonstrating and running Dark Age pottery workshops both in the UK and Norway.
Your clients will have the opportunity to learn traditional hand building techniques used during the Dark Ages to produce their own pot. They will then be able to decorate their pot using authentic replica tools and take the finished unfired item away with them.
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A NEW national coastal tourism academy will create 165 jobs for Bournemouth and more than 2,000 nationwide.
Communities secretary Eric Pickles yesterday announced that the "virtual" academy would receive £2million from the Coastal Communities Fund; the largest grant in the first round of successful bids by seaside towns.
He told the Daily Echo how he hoped some of Bournemouth's "magic" would rub off on other coastal towns with Europe's first coastal tourism academy providing businesses with much-needed access to education and professional training.
Once established, the academy will be rolled out nationally and offered to other resorts through virtual training alongside face-to-face interaction.
Designed and delivered by Bournemouth University 's internationally acclaimed School of Tourism, in collaboration with Bournemouth council and local tourism businesses, the academy will be university-based.
Tourism director Mark Smith said it would focus on customer care, provide easy access to tourism data and would include setting up the UK's first coastal activity park at Boscombe beach.
He added: "Because it is a virtual academy there is no building work involved and we are ready to go.
"Extra funding will come from the council and tourism trade. The academy will enable us to share our secrets with other resorts."
Dr Keith Wilkes, Dean of School of Tourism at Bournemouth University , said the academy would benefit local and national coastal destinations as well as international resorts.
Announcing that Bournemouth council's funding bid had been a success, Mr Pickles said it would ensure that the town "continues to be at the cutting edge".
He added: "We are hoping to use Bournemouth as a catalyst and that a little bit of your magic will rub off on the rest of the country."
Bournemouth council leader John Beesley told Mr Pickles: "Your investment is going to make a very significant difference.
"Jobs and economic regeneration are crucial; coastal towns have so much more to offer than traditional attractions."
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood said: "This is a wonderful vote of confidence in our wonderful seaside resort."


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Day started
slowly, after Steve and Snort were already through two big pastures
and into the birth of the hills. Sure was pretty, too, he noticed.
Kinda pink and made everything glow.
He noticed it wasn't winter anymore. He was wearing a
long-sleeved shirt, but not a jacket, and it wasn't cold. No snow on
the ground. But there was snow last night. This was strange, so he
reached up to scratch his chin and think about it. It was a skin-scratcher,
no doubt about it. But that just made things more mysterious because
Steve didn't touch his gray beard when he scratched. He had
mysteriously become clean-shaven.
And something was different about Snort. Any cowboy can tell his
own horse in the pitch dark, just by the way he feels when he walks
or trots. And this wasn't Snort. He reined the horse into the early
morning light to look at his head. Why ... it's Jimmy! But that
can't be. Jimmy was his horse in the early days of roping in rodeos.
He'd buried Jimmy 40 years ago.
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But there he was. Steve reached forward to pat Jimmy on the neck,
and he realized he didn't have the pains in his back or shoulders
anymore, either.
Well, he reined Jimmy to a stop and looked around. They were
going up the mountain, but it wasn't the same mountain with the
cabin. It was the mountain behind the home place back in Montana.
And the light came up gradually, and Steve sat and smiled and
didn't know what was happening, and didn't care. This might be ...
No. Of course not.
Then he woke up, groaned and pulled on his boots. Time for
breakfast. But somehow he had to smile, too. You know, that wasn't a
bad deal. Not a bad deal at all.
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"A group of warriors confront that which stands between them and the power to save their people in this rotoscoped animated fantasy short created by Morgan Galen King's Gorgonaut studios. Starring Jon Tomlinson, and featuring music by Strand of Oaks, Ice Dragon, and Jonn Ollsin"
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Short Film: Exordium
Labels: animation, short film, video
Quick Pic: Snow Moai
Photo by Shawn Huckaby
Labels: quick pic
Posters: Space Invaders
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Labels: posters, space invaders, video games
Posters: Marvel Characters
"Wolverine" by Jake Parker
Posters: Video Game Nostalgia
Video Game Posters by Luis Amaro
Labels: legend of zelda, pac-man, posters, space invaders, video games
Posters: Gol Hah Dov
"Dragonborn Gol Hah Dov" by Portland-based illustrator Mark Molchan
Limited edition prints available for purchase from the Bethesda Store. US$40
Illustration: Star Warhols
"Star Warhols" by Amsterdam-based Chung Kong
Labels: Illustration, star wars
Illustration: Bug Wars
"Bug Wars" by Keith Krebbs
Labels: Illustration, insects, star wars
Link Round-Up: December 31, 2013
"Go Boldly" by Burbank-based illustrator Drake Brodahl
Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$35
How copyright law gave us Star Wars, on account of how George Lucas was such a fan boy.
The Original Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Model Turns 49
Recovering The Classics is a beautiful crowdsourced collection of original covers for the greatest works of fiction in the public domain. It's a collaboration between DailyLit, the Harvard Bookstore and the Creative Action Network.
Saber each family moment together: George Takei's Star Wars-themed Christmas tree.
Tatsuo Horiuchi came to art late in his life, and with an unusual tool. At age 60, he was inspired by graphs he saw, and started using Microsoft Excel to make art in the style of traditional Japanese scenes. See more on Spoon & Tamago and Bored Panda.
Labels: link round-up, prints, round-up, star trek
Monday, December 30, 2013
Video: Apple HQ in Minecraft
Labels: architecture, minecraft, video
Video: Minecraft Sword Chalk Art
Chalk artist Chris CarlsonArt takes on Minecraft's iconic diamond sword!
Labels: chalk art, minecraft, time lapse, video
Video: Minecraft Disney Castle
"I always admired the sheer beauty of the Disney Castle and so I decided to build it inside Minecraft. I ended up putting so much effort into it that I had to share it with others and what better way to do that then make a parody of the latest (2013) intro. It turned out to be my YouTube animation debut."
Quick Pic: One Ring Dining Set
The One Ring Dining Set
Source: Cheezburger
Labels: furniture, lord of the rings, quick pic
Quick Pic: Chewbacca Longboard
Sweets: White Chocolate R2-D2
White Chocolate R2-D2 by Pastry Chef Fernando Arreola at The Fairmont San Jose
This droid is on display at The Fairmont San Jose for the Star Wars Exposition sponsored by the Tech Museum. It is composed of 150 pound of chocolate.
Metalwork: Hobo Nickels
Hobo Nickels by Barcelona-based artist Paolo Curcio ("mrthe")
"One aspect of Curcio's process that's really amazing is his ability to use coins made from multiple layers of metal (referred to as clad coins) which he then strategically reveals to create colored flourishes and background patterns."Visit Paolo Curcio's website to view many more examples of his fascinating numismatic artwork. To purchase a piece for yourself, check out Ebay.
Crafts: Skyrim Shoes
Someone has been busy leveling their smithing skills. These incredibly detailed Skyrim shoes were hand painted by Crispy Walters.
Crafts: Hobbit Scarf
This There and Back Again Story Scarf retells the story The Hobbit in something like a combination of map and pictograms. It looks like the level map of an old Nintendo side-scroller.
Labels: crafts, embroidery, lord of the rings, maps
Crafts: Thror's Map Embroidery
Thror's Map Embroidery by Sarah (The Dalek's Teahouse)
"It's done at last! This map took me around 55 hours over the course of 2 months, and it's just under 14" x 11". The pictures aren't the best, since they were taken with my iPod and the map is resting on an uneven surface. I'll attempt to take some better ones once it's framed, and I'm sure the folks at Desert Bus will do a much better job of photographing it when it reaches them.
Speaking of which, I made this project for Desert Bus for Hope, which raises money for Child's Play every November. It's an extremely entertaining event, and has many, many awesome auctions and prizes donated by both crafters and companies. If you are a geek, I can guarantee you will find something you love there.
Anyway, that's my spiel for today. I'm proud of this piece, I'm proud of where it's going, and I'll be sad to let it go. I hope you all like it!"
Labels: crafts, embroidery, lord of the rings, maps
Posters: Akira
"I've always have been a fan of Katsuhiro Otomo's creativity. His elaborate characters and profund interpretation of society, often reflects a familiar impression about the philosophy of relationships.
The 1988 movie adaptation of Otomo's story depicted a cyber-punk japan in the year 2019 ( only 5 years from now...) and had an incredible influence upon me- a city boy from the Bronx-ready to embark on pursuing a curriculum of art at Pratt Instiute. It's with the utmost respect, that I pay tribute to him and his story of AKIRA with this vector tribute - and I now share it with you."
Labels: posters
Posters: Cult Movies Stained Glass
Labels: movie posters, posters, stained glass
Posters: Video Game Designs
Video Game Poster Designs by Dylan West
Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$18
Labels: posters, prints, video games
Posters: Essential Portal
The Essential Portal Poster Collection by Dylan West
Available for purchase from Etsy. US$18
Labels: portal, posters, prints, video games
Concept Art: Star Wars Episode III
Star Wars Episode III Matte Paintings by Yanick Dusseault
Labels: concept art, movies, star wars
Concept Art: 47 Ronin
47 Ronin Concept Art by Andrew Leung
Labels: concept art, movies
Fresh Take: Knighting of Link
Available for purchase from Society6. US$16 / $37
Based on the 1901 Pre-Raphaelite painting "The Accolade" by Edmund Blair Leighton.
Labels: fresh take, Illustration, legend of zelda, paintings
Fresh Take: Sherlock: Animated Series
"Sherlock: Animated Series" by Angela Taratuta
What it might look like if Don Bluth produced a version of Sherlock.
What it might look like if Don Bluth produced a version of Sherlock.
"I started a project taking random screencaps from the BBC show Sherlock (A Scandal in Belgravia episode) and redrawing them to look as if they were from a real animated series. This got an overwhelming response on Tumblr, so I thought I'd post it here too. I plan on drawing more screencaps from other episodes. And possibly animating mini scenes. I don't know, we'll see."
Labels: animation, fresh take, Illustration, television
Comic Round-Up: December 30, 2013
"The Alan Moore Poker Game:The Killing Bluff" by J.K. Woodward
Prints available for purchase from the artist's website. US$15
Prints available for purchase from the artist's website. US$15
Interview: Jonathan Hickman and Tom Brevoort talk about Avengers #24.NOW, which kicks off the All-New Marvel NOW initiative.
Interview: Paste Magazine devotes its first comics-related cover story to an in-depth interview with Saga creators Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
News: Image Comics Partners With Dropbox for Digital Storefront Changes
Labels: comic book round-up, comics, round-up
Link Round-Up: December 30, 2013
"Cosmos 2013" by RedXen
Interview: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer: an audience with geek royalty
Build your own life-sized StarGate with this tutorial from Instructables.
Paola Bennet wrote a song entitled "Heal" as a farewell hymn to Matt Smith's 11th Doctor.
Sophisticated Star Wars Fans Dress in TIE Fighter Argyle
What if HP Lovecraft wrote "hot singles in your area" spam? The horror.
Labels: link round-up, paintings, round-up, space
Friday, December 27, 2013
Sweets: Bag End Cake
"Well, I think this turned out well!? It's my fantasy cake I think. I'd love to have one for me, hehe.
Conor loves the Dwarfs Song in The Hobbit, both the one that Thorin sings and the end titles by Neil Finn. They are his sleepy songs. So I thought a hobbit cake would be appropriate.
I started with one large cake and two smaller cakes, with a 10oz/10oz/12oz mixture for the cake for ease of sculpting. Crafted the shape, applied buttercream and then icing and decoration. Gandalf, the door and windows are fimo, for mementos. Gandalf is a foil frame with fimo outer."
Sweets: Bag End Cake
Bag End Cake by the Amazing Cake Company
Sweets: Hobbit Hole Cake
The Pink Cake Box has done it again! This time, they've captured all the cozy hominess of Bilbo's Bagend in an elegant little cake designed to please the aesthetic tastes of a five year-old without sacrificing the magic that was Peter Jackson's vision. Love it.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that meant comfort." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
DIY: Middle Earth Map
Make your own with this tutorial from Instructables.
"This year for Christmas I decided to create a present for my wife. We are both nerds and the release of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" put into motion a project I had wanted to do for a while but had put on a back burner due to school. My wife has always voiced a desire to have a large map on the wall of our office. Initally I thought to make a duplicate of the map that is used in the film but I thought it wouldn't be large enough so I instead decided to make a huge map of Middle Earth for the office. I liked the idea of a map but I wanted to make it look a little more unique and aged than just a simple map. So I set out to make an aged map of Middle Earth and wanted to take you along on for this unexpected journey."
Labels: diy, lord of the rings, papercraft, tutorial
DIY: Thrors' Map
Make your own with this tutorial from Instructables.
"Some of us like books, especially the maps in them. I really like "The Hobbit" and I thought I should make Thror's map. I couldn't find a suitable map to print, all of them were black or white or weren't the same map as the one in the book. I made a printable map, that was like the one in the book. Here it is: http://i.imgur.com/3TGWD82.png Print it with a laserjet printer and off we go."
Labels: diy, lord of the rings, papercraft, tutorial
Papercraft: Hobbit Owl Bookmarks
Available for purchase from Etsy. US$4
Labels: lord of the rings, merchandise, papercraft
Jewelry: Hobbit Door
Hobbit Door Jewelery by NocturnalPurple
Available for purchase from Etsy.
Available for purchase from Etsy.
Labels: jewelry, lord of the rings, merchandise
Merchandise: Thorin's Map Candle Holder
Thorin's Map Candle Holder by Genevieve Joyner
Available for purchase from Etsy.
Labels: lord of the rings, maps, merchandise
Crafts: Lord of the Rings Amigurumi
The entire Fellowship adorably captured in yarn!
Crafts: Gandalf Amigurumi
Crafts: Legolas and Gimli Amigurumi
Crafts: Handmade Dwarf Pipe
Labels: crafts, lord of the rings, woodwork
Concept Art: Bag End
"Loosely based on Bilbo's house in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the scene consists of 100% Hand-Painted Textures using no photo overlays. The textures are Diffuse only with Spec on certain props (No Normal Maps). The final scene was assembled in UDK."
Labels: concept art, lord of the rings
Artist: Otis Frampton
"The Hobbit" Tolkien illustrations by Otis Frampton
Labels: artist, Illustration, lord of the rings
Artist: Chris Rahn
"On the Doorstep" by Chris Rahn
Labels: Illustration, lord of the rings
Link Round-Up: December 27, 2013
Funcom Holiday Card 2010
Source: Kotaku
Source: Kotaku
10 to Watch in 2014: Comic Book Creators
The 10 Most Important RELAUNCHES in Comic Book History, as chosen by Newsarama
Elysium Concept Art: Elysium was one of the best-looking sci-fi movies of 2013. This exclusive concept art helps show how Blomkamp created his vision…
Here's how Top Cow makes comics: Story still reigns supreme
The Most Amazing Images NASA Took of Earth From Space This Year
What's So Great About Marvel Comics Right Now? TNA's Christopher Daniels is a Marvel fanboy. Can he convince one of IGN's DC fanboys to buy some new books?
Labels: Christmas, link round-up, lovecraft, round-up
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Link Round-Up: December 26, 2013
Promotional xmas card for Graphic Classics
The 8 Best Video Game Scripts of All Time
10 Comic Book DEATHS That (Mostly) Still Matter, according to Newsarama.com.
Alan Moore and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Bleeding Cool picked the ten worst comic book costumes of 2013.
David Briggs' The Dimensions of Colour, a comprehensive online explanation of traditional (what you've probably been taught) and modern colour theory, and its applications to visual art. Invaluable for artists and non-artists alike. (The answer: probably some kind of brown. Yes, your kindergarten teachers fed you lies.)
Doctor Who Collector Series Watches
10 Comic Book DEATHS That (Mostly) Still Matter, according to Newsarama.com.
Alan Moore and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Bleeding Cool picked the ten worst comic book costumes of 2013.
David Briggs' The Dimensions of Colour, a comprehensive online explanation of traditional (what you've probably been taught) and modern colour theory, and its applications to visual art. Invaluable for artists and non-artists alike. (The answer: probably some kind of brown. Yes, your kindergarten teachers fed you lies.)
Doctor Who Collector Series Watches
Labels: Christmas, horror, link round-up, lovecraft, round-up
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Ads: Apple Holiday TV Ad
A teenage boy surprises his family with a thoughtful holiday gift, in an Apple ad designed to suggest that it's okay to always have a mobile device in your face.
Lego Creation: Santa Mech
"Santa Mech" by Mark Anderson
Lego Creation: Santa Mosaic
Humor: How to Explain a TV Show
Labels: humor, minecraft, video games, web comic
Crafts: R2-D2 Tree Skirt
Make your own with this tutorial from Team Fighting Mongoose!
"For about $8.00, this epic tree skirt was born. I purchased a yard of 72″ grey felt and another of blue (the ribbon and other accents I had in my arsenal), although my lack of measurements found that a yard was not quite wide enough for the skirt to be one piece, I was able to pattern it into three pieces with the same end result. In hindsight, I probably would not have needed the full amount of blue felt, but again, I had no pattern, plan, or measurements in mind when shopping; only a vision and a wealth of Google R2D2 image results to service as a rough guideline.
After a few hours of trial and error, the finished result turned out amazing. I am notorious for over-estimating my crafting abilities and not being able to realize fully my designs, but this is a project that I am extremely proud of. I'm just sad that the tree can't be up all year round."
Link Round-Up: December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas Halo Style
Source: PickyWallpapers
7 Famous Museums Handcrafted Out of Gingerbread
The 12 Days of Doctor Who from Dorkly
ArchDaily presents Architectural History of the Christmas Tree
The Force is Strong with these Christmas ornaments
A gallery of 10 Great Geek Christmas Ornaments from Neatorama
PopSugar points the ways to some Ornaments to Geek Out Your Tree
The 12 Days of Doctor Who from Dorkly
ArchDaily presents Architectural History of the Christmas Tree
The Force is Strong with these Christmas ornaments
A gallery of 10 Great Geek Christmas Ornaments from Neatorama
PopSugar points the ways to some Ornaments to Geek Out Your Tree
Labels: Christmas, Illustration, link round-up, round-up, video games
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Link Round-Up: December 24, 2013
Plants vs. Zombies Christmas
Source: PopCap.com
The Marvel Universe Is Way Better When Ghost Rider Is a Hamster
Mighty Mega offers a look at the Incredible Concept Art For The Hobbit
The Most Beautiful Space Stations in the Universe
Top 10 Comic Book Events of 2013
Labels: Christmas, Illustration, link round-up, round-up, video games, zombies
Monday, December 23, 2013
Photography: Snowflakes Microscopy
Snowflakes Microphotography by Alexey Kljatov
Labels: photography
Short Film: Decor Amore
Here's a short holiday film about a nutcracker who finds true love during the Christmas season.
Labels: animation, Christmas, romance, short film, video
DIY: Zero Christmas Ornament
Make this Zero ornament for your tree using this
1. Downloadable the template from the Spoonful Blog.
2. Print the ornament on regular white paper or cardstock and cut out the pieces.
3. Starting with one half of Zero, fold the bottom piece up and the ear down, then use glue or double-sided tape to secure the pieces to the back side of Zero's body so the design is two-sided. Repeat this step with Zero's other half.
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Eliakim Strong
Born: September 26, 1688, Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts
Died: January 24, 1744/45, Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut
He was my 7th great-grandfather
Old Durham Cemetery. Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut
Photos taken Oct. 1999
Many stones were in poor condition when I was there, so I imagine you can't even see them now. Fortunately, for this cemetery there are two excellent sources to use for reference.
1. The Charles R. Hale Collection for Durham, Old Cemetery. Pg. 15. Eliakim Strong died Jan. 24, 1744, age 56.
2. Durham, CT Epitaphs, 1949, Salem: Higginson Book Co., Reprint 1997. Pg. 56. "Mr. Eliakim Strong died Jan. 24, 1744/5 aged 56 years."


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These are the only two pieces by Fritz Willis I've come across in my collection of Collier's magazines... but I wouldn't mind finding more! Without really knowing anything about the artist I was pleased to discover he's well represented on the Internet. For those who want to learn a little about Willis, this bio at The Pin-Up Files is fairly comprehensive. What isn't mentioned there but which I find very interesting is this tidbit I found in Walt Reed's Illustrator in America: as a neophyte commercial artist, Willis worked in Hollywood with Joe De Mers - often on the same drawings - at Warner Bros. Studios. The two men continued to partner on pin-up assignments for Esquire magazine before going their separate ways.
Actually, if you can tear your eyes away from his lovely ladies for a moment, its worth noting how much personality Willis invests in his male characters. I'm reminded a little of some of Albert Dorne's work when I look at Willis' slightly cartoony approach to the men in this second piece. And the two bathing beauties are hardly wooden-faced mannequins. Willis was clearly skilled at projecting attitude with body language and subtlety of expression.
These images can be seen at full size in my new Fritz Willis Flickr set.


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Canada uses the metric system. This means that signs do not specify kilometres per hour (km/h) -- it is assumed. A kilometre is about 0.6 of a mile, so 100 km/h is about 60 miles per hour.
You can drive 30 km/h (20 miles per hour)in school and playground zones, which are near most park.
You can drive 50 km/h on most city streets, and 70 - 80 km/h (about 50 mph) on most in-town highways. On the major Highways (/Transportation-Canada #1) you can drive 100 km/h.
Some other rules in New Brunswick
Licences. A valid driver's license from any country (or an International Driver's License ) is good in New Brunswick for three months. The driver of your motor vehicle must be at least 16 years of age, though car rental operations may impose a higher age minimum (typically 21.
Ownership. If you are driving into New Brunswick or importing a vehicle, you must have its registration documents. If you are driving a borrowed car you must have a signed letter of permission from the owner. If you're driving a rented car, have your rental contract.
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Radar Detectors. It is not legal to use or transport radar detection devices in New Brunswick. Radar detectors are legal in some other provinces, notably Alberta.
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Earlier I had written a few posts about John Przybylski, son of Andrew and Frances Rochowiak. See here and here.
What fascinates me about this man is why did he change his name? Family lore has it he was involved in running liquor from Canada. I do not know whether this is true. However, Ken Burns' series on PBS this week, "Prohibition," certainly got me thinking. The Detroit "Purple Gang" was quite active in Toledo. While we have no connection for John to the Purple Gang, his name change and exit from Toledo coincides with the organized crime and violence that stemmed from Prohibition.
A couple of good reads to introduce us to what and who composed the "Purple Gang" is Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang by Paul R. Kavieff and Unholy Toledo by Harry R. Illman.
When Prohibition was in effect, it was pretty easy for bootleggers to use the narrow waterways of the Detroit River, St. Clair Shores, and also Lake Erie to transport liquor from Canada. One theory existed that it was quite easy to do so as a recreational fisherman or during winter when one could cross the frozen Detroit River into Windsor with little problem. Usually, the booze went to Chicago where Al Capone sold it under the "Log Cabin" label but market demand was strong too in Toledo. The Purple Gang seemed to be in direct competition with Capone–in essence, trying to tell Capone to keep his hands off of the eastern Michigan market. Toledo seemed to be strategically located as a stopover and hideout for gangsters.
A United Press article located in The Southeast Missourian on March 24, 1936 summarizes the situation:
I don't think we'll ever find a documented reason for John's movements and name change. I don't know if he were ever involved in bootlegging. But history does provides some interesting insight and this situation certainly does give credence to the family lore. My guess would be John Przybylski was not a violent person and the name change was due in part to avoid the violence and from being sought out. Rather because liquor was a commonly consumed without shame or guilt in Polish Catholic families (it is not a "sin" according to the Catholic Church and vodka is a cultural drink for Poles), a theory could be that John likely was seeking sources for personal consumption or possibly playing the role of transport for a while. He certainly was living in Detroit at the time, the 1920 census places him there. But by 1927, we find evidence of him living in Miami.
Prohibition was in effect in the US for 13 years–1920 to 1933. It produced an empire built on crime and violence and created unique and colorful characters in our history such as Carrie Nation. (An interesting observation: A slogan used during Carrie Nation's tirades was: "All nations welcomed except Carrie.")
A basis used to justify Prohibition was "immorality"–to combat drunkness and poverty. Instead, it created a monster composed of violence and crime. Reading about the Purple Gang certainly opened my mind–these gangs at first were primarily composed of immigrants who were combating severe poverty and discrimination.


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Jan. 4, 2012 Guest Backgrounder
1. Guest: Bianca Eugene www.theloveconnection2.blogspot.com
Guest summary:
Bianca L. Eugene was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied journalism at Wayne State University. She has written for several publications including The Southfield Observer and Eccentric and Wayne State University's student newspaper, The South End.
At Last, is her first work of fiction. She is in the process of completing her second novel, the sequel to At Last, Here and Now due for release Spring 2012.
Becoming a published author is her dream come true. She hopes to touch and inspire readers with her words and characters.
Bianca resides in a suburb of Detroit with her husband.
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When the search of love leads to the discovery of oneself……
Keisha Morgan is caught in a whirlwind. Between raising a child on her own, maintaining a relationship with her daughter's father and trying to focus on her career she is dangerously burning the candle at both ends. Without notice, tragedy strikes. A lover from her past returns with promises of a new beginning. But will promises be enough to secure a happy ending?
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About the book World Orphan Presents: Children of the Residue:
Children of the Residue is a fiction based on actual people used to capture the tragedy of broken homes effects on whole communities. The broken home is stimulated from failed relationships, drugs and economic disparity. In turn the children of the home seek love and strength in all the wrong places. Through their travels they learn contempt for the world.
This read is a sharp blade journeying through the forgotten pockets of America's ghetto. Set in the 1990s of Detroit's west side, the reader will learn the effects of the crack epidemic from both sides of the fence. The fictional adolescents in this novel are only mirror glimpses into today's adults. This novel illustrates the subtle decay of morals, transformation of values and ill imprisoned thought processes that made us what we are.
Corzell is a child nurtured by abandonment, rape and hate. Corzell's naturally good heart becomes poisoned by the conditions of the ghetto norms and society's iron handed justice. Power in Corzell's mind is perversely realized when he successfully pulls his first breaking and entering. Corzell graduates to dope dealing, drug trafficking and armed robbery.
Book 2 illustrates how young men, especially, evolve from being junior high boyfriends to high school predators (players). This piece shows the vulnerability and insensitivity in women that many men overlook in their immaturity. Book 2 demonstrates how the high school hallways for education become arenas of conquest.
While Antwaun Bishop learns his art of manipulation and seduction from his big shot lawyer father, Sharon Stuard's home is off balance and marred in tragedy. These two children find one another and compliment their loneliness. Neither of them ever reach an understanding of the feeling they believe is love.
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I am making a makro for an excel file and having some problem calling the function in a dll file. My dll file is located in the same directory as my excel file. I am using the below statement.
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I can use the function if I specify the complete path to the dll. However I understand that if I keep the dll file with the excel file then I can use "Des.dll" instead of using a complete path to the file like "C:\New Folder\Des.dll"
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My, you're patient sorts, dearest DiS faithful. We ran part two of our run down of DiS's favourite/most inspirational/bestesteva albums almost two weeks ago, and yet you're still champing at the bit to find out who has, and more importantly who hasn't, made it into the top twenty of Our 66. Well, the time has come to quit your champing: we're here, this is the penultimate countdown.
Just t'other day we ran our pick of the records that so narrowly missed the cut for Our 66 – click here if you're yet to read that Idlewild and Animal Collective won't feature below. As you can see from the quality of the albums that were ultimately omitted, reaching the point where a concrete top twenty was in place required the spilling of no little sweat; blood, too, may have seeped from our pores as we deliberated over the long-players that mean the most to us, that touch us there. You know where: that place that's tickled and tingled only ever so rarely, by the music of mere mortals who dare to tear the fabric of time with compositions that will never, ever go out of style. Their significance won't wane, and while not every album listed below is a massive-selling affair, each and every selection has made the top twenty because we can't live without it.
These are records that inform and influence our behaviour day in, day out; they are records that comprise substantial foundations for the towering, out-of-control being that DrownedinSound.com is becoming. These are albums that each and every DiS reader, be you a regular, message-boarder or complete first-timer, should bend an ear toward; these are albums that excel in too many areas for such brief read-them-below blurbs to do anything like justice to. But maybe that's the point to this: we don't want to tell you why you should love these albums, we just want you to hear what we hear and come to your own conclusions. We want to share our most precious loves, our obsessions, with you. So DiScuss our choices, please.
The top six will be revealed next week, once we've properly formulated a plan of how to best present them to you: simple summarisations simply won't do for the records we're keeping back. They're the bioelectric lifeblood that courses through DiS's digital veins. This, we've said before though, way back in Part 1. So enough with the introduction: read on and enjoy…
Part 1 of Our 66 is here, Part 2 here, Writers Choice here, and 20 That Missed The Cut here. Remember, you can submit your own reviews of any of the below albums – just click where it says 'review' or 'listing'. You can also add the albums to your online collection by following that simple instruction and clicking where indicated.
Words: Colin Roberts (CR), Raziq Rauf (RR), Mike Diver (MD), Sean Adams (SA)
Explosions In The Sky
How Strange, Innocence (DiS listing)
(Temporary Residence/Bella Union – released 2005)
Imagine swimming, in a drunk-dream, into a whirlpool only for a whale to toss you from the water while you're desperately trying to swim down into the geyser-ing fountain shooting from its blowhole. If you can picture yourself coming up for air and opening your eyes and gliding through deep space with nothing but stars for company, then maybe you can imagine what this sounds like. It's maybe the most uplifting, close-your-eyes-and-float-away record of the last six years. Any uninitiated readers with a penchant for Sigur Rós are advised to obtain this immediately. SA
Cat Power
You Are Free (DiS review)
(Matador – released 2003)
Chan (pronounced Sean) Marshall isn't your average girl with a guitar. She doesn't want to be your friend, least of all your hero; she simply wants to help herself and the rest of the world feel and deal with the ache of modern life. For all the pain which was poured into this, her best album to date, there's a sense that she had a renewed hope in the world whilst also finding her voice, and then some. Despite the fact she could be singing anything with that amaretto-soaked breathy-husk and your average indie fan (read also: indie boy) would go weak at the knees, it's her lyrics – rich in playful metaphors and stories which can break 'n' heal your heart - that make this album one of the best of the last six years. You Are Free puts Chan at the forefront of the singers and songwriters of our generation, and also sets her apart as one of the inspirational female icons in contemporary music. SA
My Morning Jacket
Z (DiS review)
(BMG – released 2005)
Wig out! Massive chorus! Heart-wrenching quiet bit! Massive crescendo! Hair bigger than Cedric & Omar! All of these things make up Z: not only My Morning Jacket's most accomplished work thus far, but also an astounding achievement overall. Doused in stadium reverb, but with the kind of intimacy you'd expect from a solo acoustic record, Z is quite simply a MASSIVE album, the scope of which is only actually outstripped by the eventual execution. From the bass rumble of the opener 'Wordless Chorus', through fields of delay and joy, the album would plot a glorious bar graph, all the way until 'Dondante' hits the breathiest of quiet depths, before erupting in one of the most evocative musical mushrooms you can imagine. Skyward-facing introversion coupled with a penchant for soloing and accomplished musicality ensures Z a rightful place in Our 66. CR
The Ugly Organ (DiS listing)
(Saddle Creek – released 2003)
Like an instrumental revelation, The Ugly Organ comprised Cursive's evolution from respectable (and certainly likeable) hardcore kids to widely revered and adored songsmiths and musicians. Lyrically angry, musically untouchable and texturally thick as hell, The Ugly Organ introduced the cello as a viable instrument in rock n' roll. Tim Kasher's pained vocal inflections and wry outlook upon life exaggerated what could have been a musically-engrossing LP that lacked integrity into a fully-loaded package that still surprises at every twist and turn. Personally, it never ceases to amaze me, and I live in hope that in years to come it will be looked back upon as the classic I consider it to be. CR
Kid A (DiS review)
(EMI – released 2000)
There was an unholy level of expectation building prior to the release of this, piling atop a band that had not only become an outfit seminal to a generation of indie kids, but who had also expanded beyond national treasure status to become a worldwide success. After 1997's OK Computer, Radiohead had become the new pretenders to the crown that Nirvana had vacated - they hated it just as bloody much as their predecessors. Resenting their worldwide smash hit of 'Creep' and stepping away from the formula that'd informed their previous three albums so brilliantly, Radiohead did everything they could to create a brand new, totally unrecognisable masterpiece. After receiving mixed reviews it seemed as though they had succeeded in stumping the critics at first, but over time this has become yet another classic in the band's canon of work. RR
The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg
Everyone's In Love And Flowers Pick Themselves
(DiS review)
(Undergroove – released 2003)
Any album that can simultaneously strike fear and joy into the soul of the listener is one to behold, and the sole (almost) Long-player from Worcester's greatest-ever band is guilty of this pleasure and so much more besides. From the penetrative death swell of 'Slap the Cubo-Futurist' to the blissful instrumental meanderings of 'Jack and Oscar Have a Fight', this is a record so pure in its arrangements and yet so blindingly adventurous that it leaves the work of many other guitar bands floundering in its wake. Sadly disbanded, The Murder Of… live on in this writer's heart as one of the most important bands of the personal growing-up process, musically not physically – it acted as a perfect stepping stone to things harder, more electronic and more 'out there'. CR
Saul Williams
Saul Williams (DiS review)
(Wichita – released 2005)
Hip-hop has rarely meant much to me during my lifetime – too young to be swept up and away by the politick of Public Enemy and too old, beyond my fresh face, to be swung by any of that gangsta braggadocio, I was an indie-rocker through and through, raised on a steady diet of the products of angry punks dissatisfied with their lots. They weren't bigging anyone up or shouting anyone down – they were laying their arses on the line for a necessary dose of reality. Saul Williams was the first album to have an impact upon me on a deeply personal level that wasn't exclusively driven by riffs and solos. This is the life so real you daren't even dream it set to rough beats and boisterous sirens, the voice that shines through the fog one that simply won't be silenced by convention or cliché. This is hip-hop that strides beyond hip-hop, beyond the expected and the tried-and-tested; this is hip-hop like I'd never heard it before. And I've never stopped listening to it, and learning from it, since. MD
Four Tet
Rounds (DiS review)
(Domino – released 2003)
Or: how to make exclusively instrumental music that lasts for a neat forty-five interesting – nay, heart-stoppingly arresting and inspiring – in one easy lesson. Rounds may not possess a human voice, but within its staccato beats and flurries of cymbal rushes, its grandiose orchestral swoops and microscopic click-click symphonies, lies every organ that you or I call our own. Press an ear close to a cone during Rounds and you'll feel a breath, constant and unfaltering, on your cheek; hold two fingers to the cable that connects stereo to speaker and a pulse is easily detectable, regular and reassuringly human. Kieran Hebden managed with Rounds something that he'd failed to wholly realise with its preceding long-play brethren: a true connection between man and machine was achieved, and ever since he's been struggling – if we're being absolutely fair – to produce material that is so instantaneously engaging and emotionally affecting. Still, even if no future Four Tet albums successfully merge biological brainwaves with electric pulses and crackles, we'll always have this: Rounds is a timeless masterpiece that simply can't be categorised conventionally and refuses to lessen in brilliance with endless repeat plays. MD
The Icarus Line
Mono (DiS listing)
(Sweet Nothing – released 2001)
I've no memory of what it was I had all bottled up inside o' me prior to hearing this, but once I returned from a weekly shopping trip to the local town I called 'almost home' in my early 20s and slipped this little unassuming beauty into my stereo, it fucking exploded across my bedroom like a wonderful rainbow of middle-finger fuck-yous and acerbic, barely-discernable lyrics about who-cares-what. A plain compact disc and no song titles on the record's sleeve gave little away: Mono kept its many trump cards well hidden 'til it was absolutely necessary to release them, violently and spectacularly. The first twelve seconds of 'Love Is Happiness' – the first twelve seconds of the record, full stop – acted like a fist-in-the-face wake up: forget all the posers and the half-hearted in-it-for-the-moneys, as this had The Real Deal stamped all over its jaws like little before or after it. This was the breaking of a humungous punk-rock wave, the crushing devastation that followed just part of the essential purification process. After Mono, no 'punk' band could ever call themselves such without fucking substantial evidence. Mono makes me want to fight a policeman whenever I hear it – it's the aural equivalent of Popeye's spinach ingestion, and keeps me on edge from start to finish. Steer clear if black eyes aren't your thing. MD
Turn On The Bright Lights (DiS review)
(Matador – released 2002)
The 'what's the best Interpol album' debate raged long and hard at DiS: this, or the Tim Burton-ish otherworldly and UFO-esque Antics? Their debut – this – proved that the four-piece were the coolest, bravest and most innovative new band in New York at a time when the city's kids, and those across the ocean, were squeaking feverishly about retro-rock bands, many of which are notably absent from this list. Interpol went against the jangle-rock grain when they introduced this searchlight-in-a-catacomb indie-pop record to the world. For every rigid Joy Division-ism there's an epic dancefloor pleaser - 'PDA' for one! And for every milligram of head-pumping joy, there's a perfectly-balanced expansive post-rock flavoured nod to the life-death line, where mortality becomes a bleak streak of big black sunglasses across the face of our high-rise, low self-esteem, anticipation-driven, accelerated realities. Put succinctly: a must own. SA
Ryan Adams
Heartbreaker (DiS listing)
(Lost Highway – released 2000)
There aren't words, expressions or movements that I could use to sum up what Heartbreaker means to me. An album that upon a cursory listen could be summarised-cum-dismissed as a solid alt-country effort and nothing more, Heartbreaker's layers upon layers of song craft slowly reveal themselves as Ryan's soul is laid bare on the table, his heart jumping off his sleeve and into your conscience. Personally, I am incapable of thinking of a better album from the last six years, an album that can do all of this to me and still be an album that is listenable at the dinner table with the family and equally perfect for a drunken sing-along with friends. Ryan's solo career began with this masterwork: it's hard to imagine him bettering it –though he's come damned close – and in my mind this album is his passport to 'legendary' status. The greatest songwriter of our generation? No question, personally. CR
Bright Eyes
Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
(DiS review)
(Wichita – released 2002)
There are few musicians active during DiS's lifetime as important as Conor Oberst. Like most of us, he's tired and weary of the ways of the modern world, yet tirelessly he attempts to make sense of the myths and the madness. Within Lifted... there's the sense Conor put down his punk-cock acoustic handbook, quit his moaning and decided to aurally encapsulate a sidestepped world within which he wished we bathed and lived. Some might call it a coming of age, some just that it represents the end of his growing pains. Gone was the often close-to-embarrassing student poetry; in came gigantic statements, luscious usage of metaphors and arrangements built for much bigger things. One of the many addictive extras was the wonder with which this was assembled as a body of work - it ebbs with production suss, with moments of changing rooms and dementia. You can throw as many Neil Young/Bob Dylan comments-cum-references at Conor as you like and raise a bar based in an old world, but the times have changed and this is the howl of now. It's the result of a truly godless, science-spirited, civil-less global society of superstars and nihilistic escapism never previously seen nor lived through. If folk told stories and punk broke the capitalist status quo then this was the first truly heart-broken expression against futuristic poverty on a globally visible scale. SA
And You Will Us By The Trail Of Dead
Madonna (DiS listing)
(Domino – released 2000)
Here's a dare for you, try it at home whydon'tcha: pluck this record from whatever rack it rests upon while silent, place it neatly inside your CD player/onto your record deck, and remain perfectly still for the duration of first track proper 'Mistakes And Regrets'. Can't be done, seriously – don't think I've not tried, 'cause I wouldn't have challenged you to execute such a command if I hadn't already failed to achieve a statuesque state myself. Each and every time I play this album, my body simply spasms itself into a sweaty heap; I wind up crumpled in a position that even a Moscow State Circus contortionist would require three years' training to pull off on a regular basis, with no memory of how I got there nor any particular inclination to remedy the intense ache such a situation spreads from toe-tip to split end. Somewhere about the ten minutes from home mark I recall being subjected to the substantial uppercut that is 'Perfect Teenhood', but I think I passed out totally around the eightieth "fuck you". Successfully stay still during that first song, though, and I'll buy you lunch. Really. Once I manage to unwind my arm from around my lower colon, anyway. MD
The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow (DiS review)
(Sub Pop – released 2004)
Few bands can lay claim to anywhere near as much CD player hi-jacking time over these past six years than The Shins, be said player's owner a founder of DrownedinSound.com or the female lead in the film Garden State. Choosing between The Shins' albums to date is a tough enough call, but we've opted for the saccharine sunshine and hook-filled bird of prey-like melodies of this, the quartet's second long-play offering. There are many reasons why this record became an obsession to many, but for me it's mostly James Mercer's lyrics that keep me coming back: they're some of the most metaphorically humbling, gently sentimental, profoundly human and downright beautiful words anyone has ever written. It is a great modern tragedy that the Albuquerque-spawned and Oregon-based outfit are not the biggest band in the world today, but things could be worse: any self-respecting fan of music that doesn't eventually discover and become smitten with this knowingly dumb-grin joy of a record surely knows the true feeling of tragedy. Chutes Too Narrow is an absolute triumph of an album. SA
The final part of Our 66 will run next week; in the meantime, DiScuss…


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Asked to give a description for what Illinois football fans should expect from first-year Illini coach Tim Beckman, Ohio State's Urban Meyer needed only one word. "Toughness,'' said Meyer.
CHAMPAIGN -- Asked to give a description for what Illinois football fans should expect from first-year Illini coach Tim Beckman, Ohio State's Urban Meyer needed only one word.
"Toughness,'' said Meyer.As a Bowling Green assistant under Meyer who served as a defensive coordinator and assistant head coach, Beckman still had nothing on his father, Dave, a former college and NFL assistant coach. Just ask Meyer.
"His dad is out of his mind,'' Meyer said last week during the Big Ten Conference media days in Chicago.During the first practice at Bowling Green back in 1998, Meyer and Beckman were young coaches trying to climb the ladder. They couldn't keep up with Beckman's old man.
"It was a physical, out-of-control practice,'' Meyer said.While watching film for the practice the following day, Meyer was trying to understand who was taking up space in the backfield during an inside drill that often serves as a barometer on toughness.
"On the first play, there was a guy standing not too far from me,'' Meyer said. "The second play, he got a little closer (to the action). All of a sudden, this guy is right up near the quarterback."The film isn't that good. I'm asking, 'Who the hell is that?' ''
Then the answer came from the back of the room."Coach, that's my dad,'' Beckman admitted.
So the Illini should know what to expect when things get more serious next week. According to a tentative schedule, the Illini report to camp Sunday and begin practice in Rantoul on Monday."Players have a tendency to take on their coach's personality,'' Meyer said. "I witnessed it. He was our defensive coordinator. Our defense played like Tim. He's a tough, passionate guy.''
But Beckman has nothing on his father."He's just like his dad,'' Meyer said. "Except I call his dad the real coach Beck.''
FOOTBALL: When Beckman sent eight assistants to Penn State for a recruiting trip last week regarding any Nittany Lions who wanted to transfer, he didn't make the flight. Yet Beckman was forced to defend himself despite not breaking any NCAA rules during the Big Ten media days.There's a debate raging whether the Illini looked like a vulture picking at the corpse or if this was just a competitive process. Penn State running back Silas Redd is considering USC, according to reports, and quarterback Rob Bolden has been linked with a transfer to LSU.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said he was concerned about damaged working relationships between Penn State and other league members -- other coaches admitted to taking calls, checking out the Penn State roster. Nevertheless, Delany didn't communicate any concerns to his coaches until Thursday -- three days after the NCAA announced sanctions for Penn State and one day after Illinois' recruiting swing."This isn't a healthy place for us to be,'' said Delany, who told schools to keep Penn State informed. "I wanted it to happen from athletic director to athletic director, not compliance director to compliance director.''
IN OTHER NEWS: Illinois basketball coach John Groce is looking for guards and a power forward in the class of 2013, and one name to remember is Demetrius Henry. The 6-foot-9, 210-pounder from Brandon (Fla.) Faith Baptist Christian has scholarship offers from Illinois, South Florida, Rutgers, Cincinnati, Clemson, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Memphis and Miami. ... In three PGA tour events as a sponsor's exemption and one stop on Web.com Tour (formerly Nationwide Tour), two-time Big Ten champ Luke Guthrie earned $369,000. ... Illinois senior Michael Buchanan was named to the preseason watch list for the Hendricks award that goes to the nation's top defensive end. Last season, Illinois' Whitney Mercilus earned the award after leading the nation with 16 sacks. Buchanan had 7.5 sacks and 13.5 tackles for a loss a year ago.John Supinie can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @firstname.lastname@example.com.


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There is no doubt that for several years, there has been a battle being waged for the minds of the young people of this nation with regard to the matter of origins. Will they accept the atheistic General Theory of Evolution or believe in the Creation account as detailed in Genesis chapter one? Or will they compromise between the two? Or just try to ignore the debate and stick their head in the sand? The side that each person chooses to take in the debate could have long-lasting ramifications for them and the next generation. The atheistic choice will send them to hell, and affect the lives of all whom they influence along the way. The approach of compromise leads to an interpretation of the Bible which pits it against itself and has the potential of watering down a person's view of a host of biblical doctrines—all ultimately boiling down to a lack of faith in "God said." The apathetic, ostrich-like approach boils down to a person sitting on the sideline while the forces of Satan flood society uncontested. And yet Jesus said, "You shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (John 8:32).
In light of ongoing debate over teaching the General Theory of Evolution in various public school systems, which we have been documenting for several years (e.g., Warren, 2011; Brooks, 2011; Deweese and Brooks, 2009), some have rightly asked what Christians can do to combat the forces of pseudoscience in this critical area. This question has compelled us to give a few suggestions to that end.
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have other ideas that would be effective in combatting atheism and macroevolution (contact our offices at 334-272-8558 or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com). As always, thank you for your interest in and support of Apologetics Press.
Brooks, Will (2011), "Does Evolution Belong in Biomedical Curricula?" Reason & Revelation, 31[3]:18-20, March, Apologetics Press, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=3796.
Deweese, Joe and Will Brooks (2009), "A Response to the 21st Century Science Coalition Standards of Science Education," Reason & Revelation, 29[6]:41-47, February, Apologetics Press, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apPubPage.aspx?pub=1&issue=610.
Warren, Jim (2011), "Hart Schools Chief: Evolution is Viewed as Fact in State Test," Kentucky.Com: State, http://www.kentucky.com/2011/12/12/1992514/kentuckys-plan-for-biology-tests.html.


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I am wondering what is the best way to remote backup the server in another location?
I'm guessing I have two options, FTP and Amazon S3.
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I don't want to spend too much money on this... I just want to be able to restore the DB at the least in case something is lost.
The MySQL database is 800mb – what I'm not understanding is the total amount of space I need for the backup. If I backup daily for a week it would be 800x7 but then I get confused when a few people told me about "incremental backups"?
What about a script or is it just plain ol' rsync?
Anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated.


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