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- Nicola Sturgeon 'sorry' over Scottish exam results
- Eat out to help out: More than 10.5 million meals claimed in first week
- Coronavirus: Contact tracers to be reduced by 6,000 in England
- Coronavirus: PM understands 'anxiety' over exam grading
- Met Police: 'Knee-on-neck' PC subject of assault investigation
- Nile Wilson: British gymnasts are treated like 'pieces of meat'
- Gay conversion therapy: 'It made me feel broken'
- Queen guitarist Brian May thanks fire crews for saving home from wildfire
- Aberdaron paddleboard rescue: Boy thanks RNLI
- McDonald's sues ex-boss Easterbrook over alleged sexual relationships
- Boy guilty over Oxford Street 'coronavirus attack'
- Anglesey boat death: Family of Jane Walker from Staffordshire 'deeply shocked'
- Coronavirus: Thousands of contact tracers let go and exam result apology
- Coronavirus: Has Covid-19 made more people want to be their own boss?
- Coronavirus: How to stay cool in a face mask as hot UK weather forecast
- How will I get my A-level, GCSE or BTEC exam results this year?
- Virus cases 'may be levelling off' in England, figures suggest
- Coronavirus: Nurse who ignored pain has leg amputated
- Coronavirus: NHS England scales back private sector deal
- Coronavirus: What are the UK travel quarantine rules?
- Coronavirus: What am I allowed to do in the hot weather this weekend?
- Police racism inquiries in the UK: Do they change how things work?
- 'It will break my heart to have to walk away'
- Poole amputee soldier makes history on Matterhorn summit
- Coronavirus: Parents 'petrifying' choice on lockdown heart op
- 'An afternoon tea turned into our surprise wedding'
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- Norfolk lockdown band links up with James Bond composer and other 'stars'
- Why are migrants crossing the English Channel?
- Hot weather: How to sleep in the heat
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- Police officer run over by thieves backs 'Andrew's Law'
- Coronavirus: How lifeguarding has changed for the RNLI
- Keith Mason and fiancée go viral after inspirational posts
- Black Lives Matter: Campaign for black businesses has been 'extraordinary'
- Coronavirus: Winchester teenager films lockdown documentary
- UK immigration: At sea with migrants crossing the Channel
- Greatstone beach party: Kent Police says four officers were injured
- Scottish exam results: What are the options for fixing the system?
- Coronavirus: Face coverings now compulsory for NI shoppers
- Wales thunderstorms bring power cuts and flash flooding
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I wanted to showcase that these Christmas themed stamps don't have to just be used for the holidays....and I happened to pair them with "Season of Thanks". That is one of the things that I really love about WPlus9 stamps...you can often mix and match them to create exactly what you are looking for!
I created my card for quite a few challenges today. I used Mojo Monday sketch #209 to help with the card design. By adding a pumpkin to the card, it fits Stampin' Sisters in Christ #109- Fruits challenge. I used the fall/pumpkin themed inspiration photos from Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger: Treat Yourself, The Shabby Tea Room #82, Stamptacular Sunday challenge #132, Cupcake Inspiration challenge #130, and Our Craft Lounge #85. It also fits the Autumn/Changing of Season themes for Totally PaperCrafts challenge #86 and The Stamping Boutique challenge #16. Here is what I created!
Stamps: WPlus9 (Fair Isle, Christmas Wishes & Season of Thanks sets)
- Dawn Woleslagle
- Elise Durenberger
- Cristina Kowalczyk
- Jinny Newlin
- Kerrianne Gwin
- Lea Lawson
- Savitri Wilder
- Jean Martin
Until later,
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MICHAEL SMUIN: 1938-2007 / Prolific dance director had showy career
Choreographer Michael Smuin, a major force in the San Francisco dance world and one of the region's most prominent and audacious showmen, died of an apparent heart attack Monday morning after collapsing while teaching a Smuin Ballet company class.
Attempts by his dancers and paramedics to revive him at his troupe's upper Market Street studio were unsuccessful. Smuin, 68, was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital.
"The shock is foremost," said Smuin Ballet dancer Shannon Hurlburt. "He was in such a fantastic mood yesterday." The silver-haired Smuin had a heart attack in 1992 but seemingly had been in good health in recent years.
Known for the vibrant, expressive and brassy work he created for his own company, for various regional companies, on Broadway and in Hollywood, Smuin was co-artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet from 1973 to 1985. He danced with that company from 1953 to 1961 and later with the American Ballet Theatre, where he was both a principal dancer and choreographer.
Smuin won a Tony Award on Broadway in 1988 for his choreography of "Anything Goes" and was nominated for a Tony in 1981 for "Sophisticated Ladies." He received an Emmy Award in 1984 for "Great Performances: Dance in America." He choreographed pieces for Dance Theatre of Harlem, Milwaukee Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Washington Ballet. His film choreography credits include "Rumble Fish," "The Cotton Club" and "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
Smuin's range was voluminous, with both successes and failure writ on a large and often overtly showy scale. For his eponymous Smuin Ballet, he set dances to music by Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, the Beatles, Haydn and Brahms.
"Michael Smuin sends people out of the theater humming tunes and filled with images of pretty young women and handsome young men spinning and leaping up a storm," Jennifer Dunning wrote in the New York Times last year. The choreographer's buoyant annual "Christmas Ballet" is a particular audience favorite in the Bay Area.
Smuin's 1977 production of "Romeo and Juliet" for San Francisco Ballet helped raise the company's national and international profile. The production aired on PBS' "Dance in America" the following year. "He made San Francisco Ballet a company to take seriously," said dance critic Allan Ulrich, who covered Smuin's work for the San Francisco Examiner and later for The Chronicle.
Despite various setbacks, including a traumatic break with San Francisco Ballet when his contract was not renewed in 1985, a failed production of "Shogun: The Musical" that he directed and choreographed on Broadway in 1990 and critical misgivings about his work, Smuin remained vital and productive. In the 13 years he ran Smuin Ballet, he choreographed more than 40 pieces. He was at work on a new season, which will open as scheduled in May, when he died.
"Michael was an American who danced and worked in an expressly American idiom," said Dennis Nahat, artistic and executive director of Ballet San Jose and a colleague with Smuin at American Ballet Theatre. "He was always trying to do different things or copy someone else and do it better. He had a great sense of humor and a never-say-die attitude. Nothing ever stopped him or slowed him down."
"Michael brought new audiences to ballet because of his pure entertainment value," said Ronn Guidi, founder of Oakland Ballet. "People had their different reactions, but people came. I'm so grateful Michael devoted his life to dance. We'll miss his energy, his toughness and his love of the art."
"San Francisco Ballet is saddened by the sudden passing of Michael Smuin," said Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson in a statement. "The company would like to acknowledge the important role Michael played in San Francisco Ballet's history, not only as a co-director, but as a dancer and choreographer. Michael was also an important figure in the Bay Area dance community and beyond for many years, and he will be missed."
Smuin was born on Oct. 13, 1938, in Missoula, Mont. His mother was a Mormon, he told The Chronicle in 2001. His father worked as a Safeway butcher. Michael studied tap dancing as a child and caught the dance fever for good when his mother took him to see the touring Ballet Russe at the University of Montana. He attended Missoula's Hellgate High, where he lettered in boxing in his freshman year. At age 14, he moved to Salt Lake City on a dance scholarship at the University of Utah. San Francisco Ballet director Lew Christensen recruited him in 1953, when Smuin was 15. He eventually received his high school degree from Galileo High in San Francisco.
After dancing with San Francisco Ballet for eight years, Smuin married a fellow company member, Paula Tracy. The couple moved to New York in 1961. Smuin was cast in a Broadway musical, "Little Me," directed by Bob Fosse, in 1962. Smuin and Tracy mounted a night-club dance act, which they toured around the country and overseas. First Smuin and then Tracy joined American Ballet Theatre in 1965. Smuin choreographed "Pulcinella Variations," "The Catherine Wheel" and other pieces for ABT before the couple returned to San Francisco. They divorced in 2000.
Smuin spent 12 years as a choreographer and co-director of the San Francisco Ballet, a period that coincided with his work on "Sophisticated Ladies" on Broadway and various film projects. His tenure with San Francisco Ballet was artistically controversial and his departure stormy.
"I was devastated when it happened," he once said. After freelancing on everything from circuses to television commercials, Smuin founded his own company in 1994.
Smuin's work might have had its detractors, but his company of 16 was devoted to him. "He was always open to the dancers finding their own voices," said company member Hurlburt. "He gave you the opportunity to take risks and go beyond yourself." Board president Patti Hume called Smuin a "genius who was always thinking how to do this better. We were a family." Hume said the dancers wanted to resume rehearsing right away.
"He absolutely loved what he did," said Amy Seiwert, a Smuin Ballet dancer for the past eight years. "It's been a very intense morning, but I think it's very beautiful that we were all there with him at the end." Seiwert recalled something Smuin said to her once and that she often repeated back to him. " 'If I only did the things I was supposed to do,' " Smuin told her, " 'I would never do anything.' "
Smuin is survived by a son, Shane Smuin; brothers Douglas Smuin and Stephen Smuin; and his ex-wife, Paula Tracy. Plans for a memorial are pending.
Career highlights
Career highlights of dancer and choreographer Michael Smuin, who died Monday:
-- Principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, 1969-1973
-- Co-artistic director of San Francisco Ballet, 1973-1985
-- Resident choreographer of American Ballet Theatre, 1992
-- Founder and artistic director of Smuin Ballet since 1994
-- Also: Choreographer for dance companies including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Washington Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet
-- Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner for best choreographer for "Anything Goes" in 1988
-- Nominated for Tony Award for choreography and best direction of a musical for "Sophisticated Ladies" in 1981
-- Also: Choreographed the tango in 1992 revival of "Private Lives," choreographed the 1990 musical "Shogun."
TV and movies
-- Emmy Award winner for choreography for S.F. Ballet's "A Song for Dead Warriors" on "Great Performances: Dance in America" in 1984.
-- Emmy Award nominee for choreography for S.F. Ballet's "The Tempest" on "Great Performances: Dance in America" in 1981.
-- Also: Choreographer for movies including "A Walk in the Clouds" (1995), "The Fantasticks" (1994), "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (1993), "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), "The Cotton Club" (1984)
Sources: Chronicle archives, New York Times, Wikipedia, www.ibdb.com, www.imdb.com


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How to Help Your Kids Make a Top-Secret Time Capsule for Their Future Selves
Do your kids ever wonder what they'll be like when they grow up?
Are they obsessed with time travel (or at least intrigued by the idea)?
Do their jaws drop open when you tell them what life was like when you were a kid?
Until someone invents a time machine that works, today's adventure is the next-best thing to time travel. But hang onto your seat: This adventure won't be over until your child has his birthday—10 years from now. (Trust me, it'll be worth the wait!)
In this article I'll show you how to help your kids create a top-secret time capsule that their future selves will treasure for a lifetime.
Why Make a Time Capsule?
Time capsules are a fantastic way to take a slice of the present and preserve it for the future.
Today's adventure offers an opportunity for your kids to reach out to their future selves. What might your 10-year-old daughter say to her 20-year-old self? What special memories will that 20-year-old girl uncover when she opens the birthday time capsule from her younger self?
Make a time capsule and find out.
I buried a time capsule once. Have you? When I was 12, my twin sister and I buried one on our farm.


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Make a pincushion
I was asked to make a pincushion for my Aunt. Her favourite colours are black and white so that gave me my starting block. I think choosing fabric, is sometimes the hardest bit. I knew how I wanted it to look, so I winged it from there.
This is a rough guide to how it was made. It really is a simple design tho, let me know if you try this.
What you'll need
½ metre (roughly) Ribbon
1 or 2 Buttons
2-3 Different Patterned Fabric (I used quilting cotton)
3.5″ square of Felt (any colour, but try not to be too contrasting if you can see it through the fabric)
Coordinating Sewing thread
Toy stuffing
Quilting Square (optional, but easier)
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He doesn't know where he's been and he doesn't know where he's going.
He has no name.
He doesn't know his birth date.
He has no home and no job.
He's been called a vagrant, a bum and John Doe.
He wishes he knew more to counter those accusations, but he can't remember anything.
He calls himself a "real live nobody."
So, he chose a name for himself - Benjaman Kyle - and he is attempting to start a new life. But without an identity, he has learned that's really hard to do.
"I try not to think too much about it because I find it really frustrating," Kyle said.
The only life he knows started shortly before 7 a.m. Aug. 31, 2004, when a former Burger King manager found Kyle lying next to a Dumpster behind the restaurant on U.S. 17 in Richmond Hill, according to a police report.
Kyle was naked and unresponsive. He was sunburned and covered in bites from fire ants, according to paramedics' reports.
The fast-food manager called police, who labeled the man with no name a "bum" and sent him off in an ambulance, the report stated.
Paramedics took Kyle to St. Joseph's Hospital.
Officers found no clothes, wallet or anything to identify the man. Police told Kyle they found no signs of a crime, but Kyle believes he was mugged.
According to the paramedics' reports, three depressions showed on the right side of Kyle's head, which could have come from blows delivered with a blunt object. The report also indicated Kyle was unconscious but breathing when he was found, and that he was sweaty. Prolonged exposure to the sun had left him blinded.
Paramedics also noted signs of possible neurological problems.
'BK Unknown'
Two weeks later, Kyle was transferred to Memorial Health University Medical Center. He was semiconscious, records show.
At that time, he could tell doctors he was thirsty, that his back hurt and that he couldn't see. But he could not tell them the one thing they wanted to hear: who he was.
"When I looked in the mirror, I could not believe how gray my hair was and how old I was," Kyle said. "There's a bunch of years missing, and I don't know what happened."
During his hospitalization, doctors, nurses and police officers offered their own names for him: Burger King Doe, BK Unknown and other variations on the burger establishment's name.
Doctors assumed the amnesia was temporary and a result of stress. They had no idea it would still be a problem three years later.
During the past three years, Kyle has gone in and out of different hospitals, long-term care facilities and shelters.
In November 2004, he was taken to the J.C. Lewis Health Center, where his story became legendary, he said. Nurses and other patients would quiz him in an attempt to ignite a memory.
They never succeeded, he said.
While at J.C. Lewis, Kyle's physical injuries healed. The fire-ant bites went away, and his back grew stronger. His blindness, which doctors diagnosed as bad cataracts, was repaired by donated surgery.
Kyle achieved such good health that he started to work at the medical center. He did building maintenance, changed beds and helped with patients.
He worked for a year and a half as a residence manager, but he was never paid, Kyle said.
The Rev. Micheal Elliott, president of Union Mission Inc., said Kyle's recompense was free shelter, free food and free medical assistance.
"Because we couldn't establish his identity, I could only pay him illegally without a Social Security number," Elliott said. "We found ourselves in a moral dilemma. We took care of this guy for more than a year, but we can't break the law. So Benjaman got frustrated and left, against our wishes."
Vague flashbacks
On May 31, Kyle grew weary of not earning a paycheck and left J.C. Lewis - the only home he had known, he said.
Since then, Kyle has moved back and forth among the homes of friends. Most of them are nurses and people he met at J.C. Lewis.
He works whatever odd jobs he can find for under-the-table cash to buy food and clothing.
Twice he has returned to the Burger King where he was found.
"I thought seeing the place would help. It didn't," he said. "I don't remember how I ended up in Richmond Hill or how long I was lying there."
He also has talked to operators at most of the motels and restaurants in the area, but no one has found an abandoned car or any records that the man was there.
During the past three years, vague flashbacks have popped into his head, Kyle said.
For some reason, the name Benjaman - "with the A, not the I" - has logged into his mind. He's not sure if that is his name or the name of a family member, but he likes the name, he said.
He decided to use the last name of Kyle because that would make his initials BK - just like the short version of Burger King.
"I got tired of the jokes about Burger King," he said.
Doctors estimate Kyle is in his late 50s or early 60s, so he has adopted a 1948 birth date.
Kyle said he remembers living in Indiana and Colorado, but he doesn't know when or where. He has no memories of Richmond Hill or any other place in the South.
He believes he has three brothers, but he can't picture them or remember their names.
"It's like I have a 20-year gap," he said. "I just don't remember."
Kyle can read and write and has the intelligence of an adult.
He believes he might have worked in a nice restaurant, because he has a lot of knowledge about kitchen equipment and restaurant design.
He spends most of his days searching the Internet. He surfs missing-person Web sites, hoping to find his picture. He looks at photographs of Indiana and Colorado, trying to stir up more images in his head.
'Square one'
While not remembering his past is hard enough, it's not having a way to work for a future that is even more difficult, he said.
Without an identity, Kyle cannot get a Social Security number. That prohibits him from getting a job, applying for government assistance or getting more medical care.
"If I could just get a job and start over," he said. "Then, I could work on the rest of it."
Georgia Legal Services was trying to help him obtain a Social Security number, but they hit a wall when Memorial Health wanted $800 to obtain copies of his medical records, said U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga.
Kyle said things started to turn around a bit last month after a friend wrote to Kingston for help.
"We're just thinking there is some family out there who may have written him off like he's dead," Kingston said. "We get lots of oddball cases that come through our office, but we've never had one like this."
Richmond Hill police recently issued a report describing Kyle's injuries, which they have labeled as a miscellaneous incident. It's not known if there has been any response from anywhere. Richmond Hill Police Chief Billy Reynolds did not return two telephone calls Friday.
But even though a police report was issued, it's still not enough for the Social Security Administration.
"You can't get a replacement Social Security number by walking in there and saying you have amnesia. He does not know his name, his Social Security number or where he was born. He has no picture ID," said Trish DePriest, Kingston's district case manager. "That's why we are at square one."
Searching for a family
At Kingston's request, the FBI took Kyle's fingerprints and forwarded them to the National Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia. There, technicians ran the prints through their national databases, which include convicted criminals, crime scene evidence and anyone who ever served in U.S. armed forces, said William Kirkconnell, supervisory senior resident agent for the FBI in Savannah.
"There was nothing on file," Kirkconnell said. "It's an unfortunate story that was relayed to us. It's sad. If the FBI can help reunite this guy with his family, that would be a terrific thing."
They also took photographs and checked to make sure Kyle was not in the federal Witness Protection Program, Kingston said.
"It's like he appeared here from another planet," DePriest said.
The congressman's office is trying to get the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta to provide psychiatric help for the man, including hypnosis.
"It's a very interesting mystery, but it's also very sad when you consider there has to be some family out there somewhere," Kingston said.
Kyle said he tries not to think about a family or what he might be missing out on.
He worries he might never find out - or, if he does, he might not like the person he was, he said.
Kyle considers himself a walking missing person's poster: The more people see him, the more chances he has that someone might know him.
"I have nothing from my old life," he said. "I just hope someone recognizes me."


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In a work such as Martha Rosler's 1993 video How Do We Know What Home Looks Like?, the decayed and contested architecture of Modernism appears both outdated and up-for-grabs: a fading Utopian inheritance that barely hangs on to its (then routinely disparaged) potential for collective aspiration. Rosler's intimate exploration of Le Cobusier's Unité d'Habitation at Firminy-Vert, in south-central France, showed a dilapidated building that had been in part redecorated by its tenants (as per conservative clichés about the impersonality of high-rise living) with aspirantly bourgeois wallpapers and private souvenirs, but still retained a sense of embattled technological community, typified by the radio station installed on its roof. It was, however, among artists who referred, directly or obliquely, to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc that the theme of ruin flourished in the 1990s and beyond. Tacita Dean's film Sound Mirrors (1999) broods over the remains of British prewar acoustic early-warning technology that seemed to presage the silos and satellite dishes of the Cold War, while later Berlin-based films such as Fernsehturm (Television Tower, 2001) and Palast (Palace, 2004) more readily reflect on the ageing or half-demolished architecture of the East. That strand of explicitly Ballardian ruin lust has continued, too, in certain works by Jane and Louise Wilson - notably, their treatment of Victor Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion in the postwar town of Peterlee, UK, in A Free and Anonymous Monument (2003), and their own return to the Atlantic Wall in Sealander (2006) - and in the ambitious project of the Center for Land Use Interpretation to document (among many other types of landscape) the defunct sites and artefacts left behind by the US nuclear weapons and space programmes in the second ...
Required Reading
Rapture Heap v2.0 - Back 2 Reality (2010) - Eilis McDonald
Eilis McDonald's Rapture Heap is a multi-phased project that centres around the occupation of one of Dublin's many empty retail spaces. The first installment of the project saw McDonald curate an exhibition that highlighted the artists that influence her and brought to Ireland some of today's most prominent internet based artists (http://www.raptureheap.com/v1). "Back to Reality" is the second installment of the series. Here McDonald delivers a body of work that is a result of her 6 month residency in the retail space. Commissioned under the Per Cent for Art Scheme for Dublin City Council's Liberty Corner, the residency period afforded the artist time and space to explore the wealth of diverse activity in the surrounding area - from the various cultural institutions, such as the LAB and DanceHouse, to the Buddhist Centre, €2 shops, financial institutions, beauty salons and 24-hour internet cafés. With this particular urban spectrum serving as her backdrop, McDonald searches for the sublime and ethereal by seeking out the spiritual and subliminal. McDonald recontextualises the discarded artefacts of the local domesticity found in charity shops and fuses them with video assemblages that include a transient public contacted through advertising and classifieds in the CityAds Weekly newspaper. "Back to Reality"; the research phase of the Rapture Heap project brings together a number of varied strands of interests and motivations. The projects future online presence provides access to a broad national and international public and an opportunity to relate to a wider demographic, while the installation provides a visceral, immersive physical environment. "Back to Reality" presents a story-thus-far in preparation for the 3rd installment of the Rapture Heap Project.
Yes No Party (2009) - Samara Golden
Live video installation constructed out of altered found objects, lazer prints from ebay and blogs, mirrors, wood, and foamcore. This piece includes a video camera that broadcasts live images to a monitor at its base. A viewer observing the sculpture is captured by the video camera, and then is able to see an altered version of themselves (via a video mixer) on the monitor.
Triple Canopy: The Medium Is Tedium on Rhizome's Vimeo
If you weren't able to attend February's New Silent Series event, Triple Canopy: The Medium Is Tedium, the videos are now available online via Rhizome's Vimeo account. Check it out!
Thanks to Matt Gaffney for putting these clips up.
Still born (2010) - Rosa Menkman
Required Reading
Media archaeology is an approach to media studies that has emerged over the last two decades. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Kittler, but also diverges from all of these theorists to form a unique set of tools and practices. Media archaeology is not a school of thought or a specific technique, but is as an emerging attitude and cluster of tactics in contemporary media theory that is characterized by a desire to uncover and circulate repressed or neglected media approaches and technologies. Its handful of proponents -- including Siegfried Zielinski, Wolfgang Ernst, Thomas Elsaesser, and Erkki Huhtamo -- are primarily interested in mobilizing histories and devices that have been sidelined during the construction of totalizing histories of popular forms of communication, including the histories of film, television, and new media. The lost traces of media technologies are deemed important topics to be excavated and studied; "dead" media technologies and idiosyncratic developments reveal important themes, structures, and links in the history of communication that would normally be occluded by more obvious narratives. This includes tracing irregular developments and unconventional genealogies of present-day communication technologies, believing that the most interesting developments often happen in the neglected margins of histories or artifacts.
In 2007, Jussi Parikka published Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (Peter Lang Publishing, New York). In Digital Contagions, Parikka provides an insightful articulation of media archaeology as a research methodology, which he implements to construct a clear cultural history of computer viruses. Parikka inverts the assumption that computer viruses -- which are semi-autonomous and self-replicating pieces of computer code -- are contrary to contemporary digital culture, instead arguing that computer viruses define the social and material landscape of computer mediated communication. Although computer viruses are often considered as a disease and breakdown within the ecology ...
TV Medley
Doctor Who? Cops? House Music? Yes - all of these seemingly disparate things will come together under the same roof in a screening organized by artist Paul Slocum at Light Industry in Brooklyn on Tuesday, April 6th at 7:30pm. The program will begin with a fan restoration of a lost episode of Doctor Who, "The Tenth Planet," followed by a premiere of Slocum's new work Cops with House Music, which sets an episode of Cops to a house mix. While "The Tenth Planet" exists as a strange artifact of fan culture, where Doctor Who buffs re-enact the script through a montage of captured television footage and stills from the show, Cops with House Music is a reflection on two genres emergent from the late 80s -- reality TV and house music -- which continue to prevail in popular culture today.


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Below is an excerpt of a recent report that underscores the performance that can be obtained with IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale, an in-memory grid, and how distributed object caching is essential for elastic scalability. Read the Full Report: Scalable Caching in a Java Enterprise Environment with WebSphere eXtreme Scale. "The paradox of completing transactions faster with bigger and bigger data sets has been solved. IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme Scale V7 and IBM System x® hardware shattered the performance barrier that limited application scalability by introducing a linearly scalable high performance in-line cache to the database system. With this breakthrough new technology from IBM, developers can rapidly build a seamless, flexible in-memory data grid that scales out as their application scales unlocking them from being limited by the performance of the database. This article reports a benchmark where a synchronous in-line eXtreme Scale database cache improved client performance by 365% over direct database access. This had a peak throughput of over 2.46 million transactions per minute. Furthermore, CPU consumption on the database system was reduced by 75%, enabling other critical applications to use the newly freed database capacity to improve their performance as well. This new benchmark (called Fantasy Sports XS) simulates a world-wide, sports website where users create and manage a fantasy sports team and update personal preferences and options. An application of this scale and size presents significant challenge for administrators and developers because there is a need to scale in response to client demand increases. Utilizing WebSphere eXtreme Scale in these cases eliminates the concern of scaling the underlying database infrastructure as the eXtreme Scale grid scales in unison with the application independently of the database. Three unique benchmark configurations were used to firmly prove out these conclusions. First, a traditional OLTP topology is utilized where the application uses JPA persistence APIs to directly access a traditional database. Secondly, an eXtreme Scale grid is added, without any changes to the application because the same JPA persistence APIs are used. Finally, the advanced eXtreme Scale asynchronous write-behind technology is used to illustrate the benefits afforded by this type of optimization." Learn more about WebSphere eXtreme Scale: WebSphere eXtreme Scale V7.0 Online Information Center IBM Redbook: User's Guide to WebSphere eXtreme Scale Get Started with WebSphere eXtreme Scale: Download Free Trial of WebSphere eXtreme Scale Use WebSphere eXtreme Scale on Amazon EC2 WebSphere eXtreme Scale V7.0 AMI Get Started Guide Explore with Blogs, Communities, Papers and more: WebSphere eXtreme Scale Wiki WebSphere eXtreme Scale Forum WebSphere eXtreme Scale You Tube Channel WebSphere eXtreme Transactions Processing (XTP) Developer Community
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Molly Crabapple says in her newsletter:
Wednesday, I'm returning to Boston to host a glorious, dark carnival themed Dr. Sketchy's with live music and the gorgeous ladies of Brown Girls' Burlesque. Will you be there?
On Wednesday, November 18, I'll be hosting an extra special Dr. Sketchy's in conjunction with MassArt's Eventworks program. In addition to the usual drinking, drawing and debauchery, you get to…
* Hear the amazing live monster music of Mr. Reusch
* Sketch the beauties of Brown Girls Burlesque, Miss Southern Comfort and Dame Cuchifrita
* Listen to the sounds of the glorious Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band
*Win prizes from Baby Tattoo Books and Squishables
* Get a signed copy of my first graphic novel, Scarlett Takes Manhattan
Dr. Sketchy's does Eventworks takes place on…
Wendsday, November 18
7:30-10:30 @
The Pozen Center @ MassArt
FREE for MassArt students with ID
$5 for general public
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Serving the World Through Self-Awareness
The following post was written by Liz Beres, a NYC-based dancer, yoga teacher certified by The Perri Institute for Mind and Body, and dance teacher. Liz currently teaches yoga privately and at various gyms throughout the NYC metro area, and holds a regular Tuesday morning class at Steps on Broadway. She is continually intrigued by and appreciative of the … Continue reading


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Billing itself as "the worlds [sic] first piece of online conceptual video game art" (sorry, Jodi!), the Naked Game presents a simple in-browser version of Pong designed to play itself endlessly. Below the game itself, Scottish designer Stewart Hogarth has placed images of lines of code that can be toggled off and on, tweaking the play in real-time: the ball's movement can be limited to the x-axis, or one paddle can become motionless, for example. A simple, almost elegant premise: what's more confusing here is how seriously we're supposed to take Hogarth's claims that he intends "to further explore the degree to which video games can be considered 'Art', by using the constituent parts of a well known gaming experience to explore themes of freedom, restriction, and frailty," which reads suspiciously like a poker-faced imitation of artist's-statement-speak. More likely, Hogarth- the self-proclaimed "bedroom-based homebrew game developer" behind a series of arcade-style casual games- intends to poke fun at the perennial discussions of games-as-art that surge through indie gaming boards on a regular basis. While puncturing art-talk pompousness is always welcome, the joke underscores an unfortunate division between the nascent world of independent gaming- currently entering a boom potentially congruent to that of independent film in the 60s or American independent music in the 90s- and the parallel realm of new media art. The question remains of why such a chasm exists- what social codes, so to speak, keep us from generating and maintaining our own back-and-forth of meaningful conversation. - Ed Halter
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The sale of Unit 4 in the 11-story, 86-unit Water Club II tower for $1.25 million was one of three more than $1 million sales that highlighted the 10 realty transactions recorded on the keys during the third week of August.
Elizabeth and John Coughlin, of Topsfield, Mass., bought the unit from Gronwall Properties Inc., of Mississauga, Ontario. The three-bedroom, four-bath condominium at 1281 Gulf of Mexico Drive has 3,054 square feet of living area and was constructed in 1999.
Investors in Gronwall Properties bought the new condo for $895,000 in February 2000.
Bay Isles
The week's second-largest transaction was the $1,175,000 that Tessa Robinson, of Clarence, N.Y., paid to Jean Mondrala, of Chicago, for her 4,460-square-foot residence at 520 Harbour Cove Circle in Unit One of Bay Isles.
The three-bedroom, four-bath home with a swimming pool was constructed in 1988.
Orchid Beach Club
The largest individual sale of the week was at the twin-tower, 11-story, 54-unit Orchid Beach Residences on Lido Beach at 2050 Ben Franklin Drive, where Maria Longhi, of Tampa, sold her Unit B-903 to Mullen Florida Real Estate LLC, of New York City, for $1,525,000.
The three-bedroom, three-bath condo has 2,936 square feet of living area and was completed in 2005.
Longhi bought the condominium new for $1.79 million in April 2006.
Lido Beach
A post-World War II canal-front home, built in 1947 at 517 S. Polk Drive in Lido Beach, was sold for $795,000 by Vasco Costa Jr. to James Jurick and Karen Wehner, of Sarasota. The three-bedroom, three-bath home has 2,089 square feet of living space and a 60-foot seawall on the canal. The property occupies a .29-acre lot.
Costa bought the property for $285,000 in August 1992.
Islander Club
There was one sale at the 12-story, 140-unit Islander Club at 2295 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Lisa and John Ring, from Alexandria, Va., bought Apartment PH 4-S from S. Arthur Neufeld, of New York City, for $470,000.
Neufeld bought the condo for $159,000 in June 1987. The Islander Club was built in 1970. The two-bedroom, two-bath condo has 1,235 square feet of living area.
Beachplace III
Patricia and Martin Fuller, of Overland Park, Kan., sold their Unit 103 in Building 10 of Beachplace III to Paul and Alexandra Gaughan, from Woodford Green, England, for $390,000. The two-bedroom, two-bath condo at 1065 Gulf of Mexico Drive was constructed in 1981 and has 1,503 square feet of living area.
The condo last sold for $490,000 in September 2003.
Fairway Bay
There was another sale recorded at the 288-unit Arvida-built Fairway Bay along Sarasota Bay on Harbourside Drive. Patricia and Frank Sulzman, from Islip, N.Y., bought Unit 232 in Building M–2 from Danielle and Zev Gurion, of Akron, Ohio, for $355,000.
The condo at 1932 Harbourside Drive with two bedrooms, two baths and 1,192 square feet of living area was built in 1982. The Gurions paid $362,000 for the apartment in July 2004.
Harbour Links
David Novack surrendered his interest via a quit-claim deed in the condominium Unit 2017 in Building D at Harbour Links to Emily Sue Gilchrist, of the same address, for $100,000. The condo last sold for $469,000 in September 2003. The two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath unit, built in 1989, has 2,212 square feet of air-conditioned living area.
Bird Key
Elaine and Paul Jessop, from Kinross, Scotland, purchased the Bird Key home at 531 Spoonbill Drive from Gail Zawacki, of Weston, Conn., for $650,000. The three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath residence with a swimming pool was constructed in 1967 and has 2,203 square feet of living area. The home last sold for $882,000 in October
St. Armands Key
Lynn and Michael McDonald, 611 Owl Way, Bird Key, as joint tenants, sold an empty lot on Boulevard of Presidents (Lot 12 in Block 4 of the St. Armands Division of John Ringling Estates) to John Fleming and Richard Orth, both of Sarasota, for $300,000.
The lot last sold during the zenith of the real-estate boom for $582,000.
Robert Hoffman
One of the keys' leading developers, Robert Hoffman, died Aug. 15, at the age of 82. Together with partner Jack Shire, he built the two tallest buildings on Longboat Key — the twin 15-story Sea Gate Club and Islands West, in addition to the nearby 12-story Islander Club and the St. Armands Towers on Lido
In the Aug. 27 issue, the real-estate transaction between John and Pamela Buff and Secundido and JoAnn Sifuentes was incorrect. The transaction should have stated the Buffs sold their three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 762 St. Judes Drive N., not their home at 611 St. Judes Drive. The Buffs purchased the home at 762 St. Judes Drive N. for $325,000 in August 2003.
Kent Chetlain is a veteran Florida journalist and historian, a former Manatee County commissioner and a holder of a Florida real-estate license. He has chronicled real-estate activity in this area since 1957.
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Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black will write and direct an adaptation of "3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man," about a man who never stops growing.
Black, who won an Academy Award for his "Milk" script, and whose directorial debut, "What's Wrong With Virginia," comes out later this fall, would will be taking on both duties concurrently for this first time, according to Heat Vision.
Publisher's Weekly describes Matt Kindt's
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(A) modern fable, exploring the life of the giant man, Craig Pressgang, through the experiences of three women—his mother, wife and daughter. The promotional material claims that Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America... Born during WWII, Pressgang's life serves as metaphor for the American mood over the past 60 years, from the flush optimism of the 1950s to the confusion about the country's place in the world as the 21st century dawns.
In February, Dark Horse Comics released an 8-page addition to the story called "Giant Man in The Philippines," about Pressgang's visit to Vietnam at the behest of President Johnson. Having read only that brief section of the story, it seems pretty clear that Pressgang is a stand-in for America at (quite literally) at large.
Much of the political backstory to "3" will no doubt be easy enough for Black to get a handle on, as he wrote the script for the biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1935 to 1972, that Clint Eastwood is directing. Sadly, word is that Blacks's screenplay for "Hoover" pays little attention to the man's much-rumored cross-dressing.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush announced Thursday that Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns will resign his post. Johanns is expected to seek an open seat in the U.S. Senate from his home state of Nebraska.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, left, appears with President Bush at the White House on Thursday.
"Mike came by the White House here a couple of days ago and he asked for my advice," Bush said. "During the discussion, he told me that he was interested in continuing to serve America, just in a different role."
Johanns made no announcement about what that role might be.
But a Republican source said Johanns, who was Nebraska's governor for six years before coming to Washington, has told friends he will run next year for the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by fellow Republican, Sen. Chuck Hagel, who said this month that he won't seek re-election to a third term.
Hagel said Wednesday that he had spoken with Johanns the day before and encouraged him to run for the seat. Hagel would not confirm Johanns' candidacy but said the agriculture secretary would make an announcement soon.
"If it's Mike's decision and Nebraska's choice, he would make an outstanding member of the United States Senate," Bush said. "There is no doubt in my mind."
Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner will be acting agriculture secretary, Bush said.
Bush called Johanns an outstanding member of his Cabinet and thanked him for serving his country.
"He is not only a decent person and an honest person, but he's a person who can get some things done," Bush said in brief remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
"The decision to leave this post has not been an easy one," Johanns said, speaking beside Bush. "I grew up with farmers and ranchers as my childhood heroes and my mentors. Representing them in Washington has been a great privilege."
Hagel's retirement has created an opening for Democrats as the two parties struggle for control of the closely divided Senate. Despite Nebraska's generally strong Republican leanings, Democrats have won nine out of the last 11 Senate elections in the Cornhusker State.
The popular Johanns, who was re-elected in 2002 with 69 percent of the vote, is considered a strong contender to keep the seat in GOP hands. However, he will face a primary battle against a field that includes state Attorney General Jon Bruning and Hal Daub, a former congressman and Omaha mayor.
On the Democratic side of the ballot, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, who retired in 2001 and is president of the New School in New York, has said he is considering a Senate comeback.
Hagel's encouragement of Johanns' candidacy will put an interesting twist on the race against Bruning, who announced this year that he would challenge Hagel if the senator ran for re-election. Bruning had criticized Hagel for his strong opposition to the Iraq war and support for an immigration bill unpopular with some in the GOP base.
Johanns, 57, a former mayor of Lincoln, was first elected governor in 1998. He resigned after Bush picked him to head the Agriculture Department in a Cabinet reshuffle following the president's 2004 re-election.
With the Senate divided 51-49 in favor of Democrats, Republicans need a net gain of two seats to take outright control in 2008. However, the GOP must defend 22 seats, compared with 12 for the Democrats.
Complicating Republican hopes are the departures of Hagel and three other Republican incumbents in Idaho, Colorado and Virginia. While Idaho hasn't elected a Democratic senator in more than 30 years, the seats in Colorado and Virginia are expected to be highly competitive.
In addition, two Republican incumbents -- Sens. John Sununu of New Hampshire and Norm Coleman of Minnesota -- are facing fierce battles next year in states where the Iraq war has sapped GOP popularity. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Dana Bash, John King and Suzanne Malveaux contributed to this report.
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DJ Mark Ronson and model Josephine de la Baume tied the knot this weekend in style.
The musician and producer, who was good friends with the late Amy Winehouse and produced her Grammy-winning "Back To Black" album, paid tribute to a friend and muse.
The newly married couple toasted Winehouse during the celebration, Us Weekly said.
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The event was held in the ultra-luxe Aix de Proence, France, near the model's hometown in the South of France. Included in the guest list was freshly married model Kate Moss and singer Lily Allen.
Ronson, 35, and De La Baume, 26, met in March 2009 and were engaged this February, planning a plush wedding in a little less than six months.
The fashionable couple didn't disappoint style-wise, either. Ronson sported a candy-striped suit and Ray Bans, while the lovely bride wore a custom Zac Posen frock.
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Beauty in the Beast
by Christine Danse
Published March 5, 2012 by Carina Press
The travellers are glad to oblige. Their host, Rolph, is especially captivated by Tara's story of an orphaned girl raised by the Fae in the world of the spirits. Equally intrigued by Rolph, and aware of an electric pull between them, Tara encourages him to share a story of his own. When Rolph weaves a tale of a man who is doomed by his own folly to turn into a wolf at the full moon, Tara suspects there is more than a grain of truth in his words.
When the veil between the mortal and spiritual worlds is parted, and danger threatens, will Tara make the ultimate sacrifice to save Rolph?
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Lindenwood University's team of American Humanics students, faculty and staff recently received the Excellence in Student Recruitment Award at the American Humanics Management Institute in San Diego, CA.
The award is given to the collegiate American Humanics program with the highest number of students receiving certification in the previous academic year.
More than 500 students from 57 colleges and universities participated in the AHI nonprofit management education conference. The purpose of the management institute is to expose junior and senior students to experiences they will encounter as nonprofit professionals.
Lindenwood University was represented by Sheryl Guffey, campus executive director; and the following student participants: Stephanie Carey, Paul Lee, Lisa Long, Hubert Roszkiewicz, Robert Roszkiewicz, Shannon Spath, Kristen Spencer, Andromeda Williams, Andrea Woolsey, Jessica Rhodes and Samantha Tillotson.


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BrikWars battles are fought across the entire spectrum of imaginable environments. If it can be built, or even half-assed represented with a tablecloth thrown over some books, it's fair game. All that matters is that minifigures get to beat the snot out of one another in the coolest setting possible.
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- 2 Plates
- 3 Planets
- 4 Urban Classes
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"NEEDS BASEPLATES" - Pesgores
Baseplates are plates that are thinner than normal that can serve as bases for Brikreations or other stuff.
Pesgores insists that all creations need baseplates to be cool, especially battlefields, but no one really cares.
Baseplates come in several varieties of sizes: 32 x 48, 32 x 32, and 48 x 48 are just some of them. Some 32 x 32 and 32 x 48 baseplates have patterns like roads, rivers, and some have raised sections. These last kind are called raised baseplates.
That's how Humans see them anyway.
In truth, Minifigs see baseplates as the fundament upon which all is built and all is destroyed. Many plates surf the Beige Carpet, that strange subatomic support system, while some seem like broken shards of the all-unifying Astral Plate. Regardless of their origins, they float about and crash into one another with stunning rapidity (given the general emptiness of space, for example). From these collisions spring into existence a dizzying array of ABS parts and pieces that mold to the studs of the parts of the baseplates that survive. To the Humans, it's like someone dumped a giant toybox into zero-gee. To the Minifigs, its like the Big Bang over and over again. These parts and pieces find their way onto larger plates that have gathered in calm or smaller plates yet to have been disrupted. Some parts have developed sentience in this chaotic void. They create Heroes and Gods to guide them on the dual path of creation and destruction. And they murder each other for funsies.
The following are kinds of Plates in the BrikVerse.
Boilerplates are the regular sized, no funny business baseplates that compose the vast majority of Plates in the BrikVerse. They float aimlessly but are charged like powderkegs ready to blow at a moment's notice. The slightest touch could set one off like a star. What's more, they haven't got anything on them except rooted studs, so exploration of lone boilerplates is a rare venture.
Communityplates are plates that have survived fusion with each other and form much larger collections of plates. Sometimes, actual spacebases, gasstations, and small villages are built here. Communityplates are a great place for scavengers to go looking for artifakts.
Battleplates are the name given to large collections of baseplates that are separated from the regular dimensions of the brikverse. Battleplates are not physically connected to one another, but are traveled to and from by way of portal technology, magik, and other means. They are known for being the host of great and prolonged wars, strife and triumph.
Planets are really just super polished Baseplates. Everything that's built on them by Factions and Forces is, of course magnificent but the planet itself is really just a collection of baseplates that have evolved together over a vast period of time. The following are some examples of Planets in the BrikVerse.
A BrikWorld is, very simply, a naturally occurring planet belonging to the BrikVerse. Usually, these planets are spawned from the universe itself but are on rarest occasion dumped into the BrikVerse from another universe during some MultiVersal event. A planet thus displaced only becomes a BrikWorld in the truest sense when the universal Legitimitium has taken root and converted the majority of the planet to studs and briks.
A FringeWorld is a planet that resides in "fringe" space, that is, a planet in the most remote regions of space, at the edges of galaxies or sectors. FringeWorlds are often highly isolated by vast distances or strange celestial phenomena, from one another and from the rest of the universe. They don't see much use on the main intergalaktik stage but serve as excellent vacation spots, secret laboratories and training centers, and invasion platforms. Many, however, are completely unknown to any but the natives.
A HomeWorld, sometimes called a MotherPlanet or some similar variation, is the central birthing place or staging area for a given culture or faction. HomeWorlds are often vast and resourceful, filled with all the goodies a faction needs to wage war on other planets and systems. In most cases, unless special measures are taken, those resources become thinner the farther out a faction ranges away from their HomeWorld. This, in combination with reality twisting Koincidence, has lead to the general intergalaktik territorial power structure, perhaps best exemplified in the Galaxia Nehellenium, seen in the BrikVerse.
A HubPlanet is a world littered with generally geo-stationary portals and gateways, natural or minifig made. These portals might lead to others of like kind on the same planet, they might lead to StarDoors halfway across the universe, or they might even lead to alternate dimensions. These worlds serve as the hub, or central point, for these portal networks and are often used militarily for their sheer tactical versatility.
An IcePlanet is a world thrown into a perpetual glacial epoch. The entire planet is covered in snow and ice and wintry storms rage across its surface. Only the most badass minifigs can survive in such environs, as IcePlanets are places where nothing grows and everything dies. Easily the most well known of IcePlanets in the BrikVerse are the IceWorlds of the Krysto Region, home to the profoundly hardcore IceWorlders and the original source of the BrikVerse's favored element, Orange Transparent.
WaterWorlds are planets with little to no above sea level landmass. They are blanketed in oceans and often populated with an incredible array of sea life. Non aquatic minifigs who live on these planets sometimes devise a means, often magikal or teknologikal, to survive beneath the waves but most commonly construct massive floating cities or platforms on which to live. WaterWorlds often change the dynamics of battle and teknology completely and are therefore notoriously difficult to conquer for all but the best equipped and tactikal minds.
Urban Classes
Urban Classes represent areas of developed civilization. These are often composed of a concentrated populace living among the various Structures used as terrain in warfare.
A village is a small community, often one of many scattered throughout an otherwise rural area. Villages are mostly residential and do not contain many of the fancier structures seen in larger settlements. Minifigs from these places can be some of the most dangerous and savage enemies to encounter, owing to their backward ways and fierce territoriality concentrated into a mob mentality.
Towns are quaint little settlements that have moved somewhat beyond backwater savagery and hunger for more sophisticated violence. They often fall short of the mark as they don't have quite the resources they'd like to pretend they do. Towns are often half-assed and clumsy, their ham-handed attempts at trying to look important even stymied by their own infighting and backbiting. Towns are rarely taken seriously.
Cities are where most of the real work gets done. They're large enough to have access to a wide assortment of structures and other resources and they have a sizable populace ready and trained for some serious violence. While cities have a solid polish, they lack the true power necessary to effect much change beyond their own domain.
Metropolises are the capital cities of large regions. It is here that most seats of power reside before coming to the country, kingdom, or empire level of power. A metropolis not only has access to all the structures and resources it can devise or take from somewhere else, it has multiple redundancies as well. Metropolises engage in gross decadence, indulging in every flavor of the same treat. Citizens of these grand cities often take everything around them for granted and have more StarFucks in which to do battle with bitchy barristas than a person could shake Poo on a Stick at.
Rural Classes
Rural Classes represent areas of scattered and little to no civilization. They are the wide open spaces that host the harshest environs and the biggest ground battles.
Wastelands are desolate stretches of scorched earth with very little or no plant and animal life. They are filled with the hollowed-out, cracked, and faded remains of broken briks and the bleached or irradiated bones of the creatures who once dwelled there strewn about in torn up rubble piles and covering the vast expanse of jagged, colorless landscape from vantage to horizon. Briks do not build in Wastelands. Minifigs who try to construct find that even two briks stacked together will quickly crumble into ash.
Countrysides are large rolling fields and wide open plains that play home to deceptively gentle looking or small creatures as well as fierce stalking predators. Most of the largest battles in full scale wars are fought here, massively swollen armies smashing together in the most deadly and uncomplicated examples of destruction and chaos.
Farmland is rich and bountiful, producing lustrous briks, animals, and vegetation. The lands are worked by fiercely territorial minifigs and remain as some of the purest concentrations of construktion energy in the BrikVerse. Many urban minifigs do not realize just how much of their resources are imported from farms. While farms are occupied and contain traces of civilization, most of the area is devoted to development.
Woodland is an overly generic term meant to signify any land blanketed in large scale plant life. Woods, forests, jungles, and even coral beds can all fit within this Rural Class of Battlescape. Woodlands are dangerous places with severely hampered lines of sight, twisted and cramped quarters, and deep, dark, hidden recesses. Many dangerous beasties are drawn to these places, or are born there, making them even more difficult to traverse and do battle in. However, for civilizations and individuals willing to brave and conquer these dangers, Woodlands hold many resources and treasures, from construktion materials to all manner of delicious poisons.
Large elevations in a planet's surface gives rise to some very distinct and interesting battlegrounds and locations. Warrens, tunnels, and mines worm their way through the earth, cradling precious minerals and birthing horrible monsters from the deep dark. The outer skin of these gargantuan terrain features forms a natural barrier, its craggy heights difficult to scale and traverse, its danger magnified by the possibility of falling, cold-blasted temperatures, and lack of air, as well as the sturdy, powerful creatures that call it home.
Polar regions are similar in many respects to wastelands, in that they are vast, often boring, stretches of nothing much. Polar regions do host many forms of life, however, and are frozen as opposed to ashen. Great secrets are often buried deep in the ice, where only the hardiest adventurers and most badass warriors can uncover them. This is appropriate as these glacial conditions tend to produce some of the most badass minifigs in the BrikVerse. Polar regions are not ideal for most battles as warriors and equipment cannot often withstand the environs. The Polar expanse is also difficult to traverse and sometimes requires special equipment in order to do so.
Aquatic regions are only slightly less used in battle than ground based terrain as they require special equipment and vehicles for normal minifigs to engage. Luckily, the BrikVerse is full of ocean dwelling creatures, sunken cities, and kickass naval warships. Where there is a will, there is a way, and sending an opponents bloody bits sinking into the briny deep fits easily in the top five of any minifig's list of things that are Ossum.


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"Share It Maybe" is a Sesame Street music video starring Cookie Monster that premiered on YouTube on July 10, 2012, taking its inspiration from a tweet posted on the official Sesame Street Twitter on June 18 which had been retweeted nearly 9,000 times as of the date the video debuted.
In a parody of Carly Rae Jepsen's hit song "Call Me Maybe," Cookie sings about asking people to share their cookies with him as he follows a bowl of cookies around the Sesame Workshop offices. The video features appearances by many Sesame Workshop staff members.
The video references the official music video by featuring a clip of it shown on one staffer's computer screen. Several scenes also spoof the viral video of Jepsen, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots performing the song on classroom instruments backstage on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.


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- Applicants for the old age pension (Qld) 1908-1909
- Croydon Hospital (Qld) admission registers 1888-1925
- Brisbane Hospital (Qld) patient records for part of 1887, 1900, 1901 and 1902
The hospital records usually give details similar to those on a (very informative) Queensland death certificate, plus ship of arrival, place of residence, marital status, father's present residence, and sometimes other information that is very useful for family history. Details provided by a patient at the time of admission are usually more accurate than those on a death certificate.
During the early years of the Croydon gold rush, 70% of patients admitted to the local hospital were born in Britain or Ireland, and about 15% were born in Australia's southern states, especially the Victorian gold-fields.
The old age pension records give information about people who received the pension and also those who were rejected. These registers give the place of residence of many people who were not on electoral rolls, including some who were not British subjects, not naturalised and thus not eligible to vote.
My Web site lists (on separate pages) the names from these three indexes. You may find it more convenient to search or scroll through all 16,200 names in a combined alphabetical list.
If you use FindMyPast to get exact source references, you can personally inspect the original documents at the Archives, or order a copy.
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Increasingly bitter District 6 race ends with Saturday runoff
The political fight set in motion by the October death of longtime District 6 state Sen. Mario Gallegos is headed for its final round Saturday as voters cast ballots in a runoff between former Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia and state Rep. Carol Alvarado.
The top vote-getters in a six-way January special election, both women are liberal Democrats who share many views. In the first election, Garcia got 45.4 percent of the vote compared to Alvarado's 41.6 percent.
Early voting in the district, which includes Houston's East End, as well as parts of Pasadena, Galena Park and Baytown, ended Tuesday.
Despite the campaign furor - each has pummeled the other in attack ads - observers said Saturday's election may be a sleeper. Only 5.65 percent of the district's eligible voters turned out for the January election.
"There seems to be little excitement outside of those who are political junkies," said Renee Cross, associate director of the University of Houston's Hobby Center for Public Policy. "Relatively speaking, Houston is doing pretty well economically, and people don't pay as much attention to politics when things are going well."
Both candidates have touted endorsements. Gallegos' family said the late lawmaker favored Alvarado to succeed him. Alvarado, 45, also collected endorsements from former Houston Mayor Bill White, the Houston Professional Firefighters and R.W. Bray, a Republican who placed third in January's special election. Garcia, 62, drew support from the Harris County AFL-CIO, the Texas branch of the American Federation of Teachers and Joaquin Martinez, a Democrat in the January election who claimed 2.5 percent of the vote.
"Substantively," said Rice University political science professor Robert Stein, "the two candidates, with minor exceptions, are in lockstep … Carol is a new-breed Latina. Sylvia is old school."
Gallegos elected in 1995
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District 6 race short but costly
The Senate District 6 race has been heavily financed by the two biggest donors in Texas: Houston homebuilder Bob Perry and Houston plaintiff's lawyer Steve Mostyn.
The latest reports to the Texas Ethics Commission show that, since Jan. 19, Perry, who typically has financed Republican candidates and the tort reform effort in Texas, donated $5,000 to Alvarado.
The political action committee he founded, Texans for Lawsuit Reform, donated another $259,000 during the same time period. In addition, lobbyist Mike Toomey, who works for Perry, donated $1,000 and homebuilder David Weekley, also a TLR supporter, donated $5,000 to the District 145 representative.
Garcia reported receiving $356,750 from Mostyn or his law firm, while receiving another $117,319.26 from the Texas Organizing Project, a group funded mostly by Mostyn.
Since the January election, Garcia has raised $662,686 and spent $641,435. Alvarado has raised $581,969 and spent $463,495.68
Both candidates have topped the $1 million mark in campaign spending: Alvarado's total campaign expenditures from July 2012 through the last report indicate she has spent $1.2 million; Garcia has spent $1.1 million.
– Patricia Kilday Hart
Whoever wins Saturday, Stein said, likely will have a lock on District 6 for a long time.
Mario Gallegos, a retired Magnolia Park-born firefighter, held the job from 1995 until his death from complications related to a liver transplant at age 61.
Garcia served as Houston's presiding municipal court judge and city controller before being elected to the Harris County Commissioners Court, where she served from 2002 to 2010. Holding a degree in social work from Texas Woman's University and a law degree from Texas Southern, she was the first Hispanic to serve on the county's governing board.
Alvarado, who holds bachelor and master of business administration degrees from UH, has served as state legislator from Houston's District 145 since 2008. She was a member of Houston City Council from 2002 to 2007.
Health care, education
Garcia identified health care as her top priority if elected to the Senate, and cited the creation of seven in-school medical clinics and a Pasadena pediatric health care center as signal achievements of her years in county government.
"For me," she said, "it's all about health care. The bottom line is that if you don't have healthy children, they won't learn in school."
If elected, she said, she would "work to convince" Gov. Rick Perry to reverse his rejection of a Medicaid program expansion that, beginning in 2014, would extend coverage to 1.5 million people and about 300,000 pregnant women, children and poor parents.
"There's a big return on the investment," Garcia said. "That's just a no-brainer."
Alvarado said education is among her top priorities, noting that she has introduced a bill to extend career and technology education from high schools to seventh and eight grades. She also has supported a freeze on tuitions charged by state universities.
Alvarado said her years as a state representative have better prepared her to function in the Senate, where she is prepared to cultivate political relationships "on both sides."
Alvarado's endorsement of bipartisanship has drawn support from Bray, the African-American Republican who challenged her in January's election, and from state Sen. Larry Taylor, a Friendswood Republican, who "block-walked" on her behalf last weekend.
"Rep. Alvarado is an effective leader in the Legislature, and will represent the true interests of her state Senate seat," Taylor said in an email.
GOP: Both 'very liberal'
Harris County Republican Party Chairman Jared Woodfill disagreed, dismissing both candidates as "very liberal voices" who would promote the "Obama strategy."
Woodfill's opprobrium was mild compared to the venom the candidates reserved for one another.
"I hate to say that's politics," said Cross, alluding to attack ads that have appeared in recent weeks. "From what I can see, the Garcia campaign came out with negative ads before the special elections. Now, Alvarado is countering before the runoff. It is nasty. I guess that's not surprising."
Claims, counterclaims
In a recent direct-mail advertisement, Alvarado asserts of Garcia: "If it doesn't fill her pockets, she's not concerned."
The ad contends Garcia voted herself a "taxpayer-funded raise" while on Commissioner's Court. Garcia said the raise was part of an across-the-board wage adjustment for all county employees.
She countered that Alvarado was negligent in supervising her staff, which received more than $130,000 in improper bonuses, while she was mayor pro tem in the mid-2000s. Alvarado responded, "I think we know the story. Those individuals were found guilty. I was not the target of that investigation."
Both candidates have topped the $1 million mark in campaign spending, with Alvarado's expenditures from July 2012 to the latest reports to the Texas Ethics Commission reaching $1.2 million. Garcia has spent $1.1 million.


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SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR - The first funerals for passengers on board a missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be held this weekend, relatives said on Friday, as a Malaysian official urged relatives of those presumed dead to "face reality" and leave support centres.
Despite the most intensive air, sea and underwater search in commercial aviation history, no trace of Flight MH370 has been found since it vanished on a scheduled service from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.
Almost eight weeks later, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has said it will close assistance centres it has set up in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur for the families of the 239 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777-200ER jet.
Many of the bereaved are Chinese.
On Friday, Malaysia's deputy foreign minister said it was time for relatives to be "realistic".
"We have been waiting to come up with a statement and all of us, be it the family members or the whole world, is actually looking for the answer," Hamzah Zainudin told a news conference.
The airline, he said, had been looking after and supporting family members in Beijing for 55 days.
"And that's the reason its about time for us to actually accept the reality that the family members should go back and wait for the answer in their hometowns."
Families, Malaysian officials said, would be told of developments in the search and those who qualified would receive prompt compensation.
Some families in Beijing have left for home, but others were resisting.
"Do you think I will leave? How many things do we need to do if we go back home? What will life be like after returning home?" said Wang Bao'an, the father of a passenger.
"Our life has been ruined by this. We are not able to face our relatives if we go back."
Another relative, Zhang Yongli, said: "Malaysia Airlines has promised that they would not ask families to leave the Lido Hotel until they figured out what had happened and had found the plane. But now they go back on their words."
Families of other passengers were moving on.
Family and friends of Rod and Mary Burrows, two of six Australians on board the flight, will hold a memorial service in Brisbane on Sunday, according to a statement on behalf of the family released by police.
The family, it said, sought "privacy and request their solitude be respected during this difficult time".
The announcement was issued a day after Malaysia released its most comprehensive account yet of what happened to Flight MH370, detailing the route the plane probably took as it veered off course and the confusion that followed.
The report showed four hours elapsed between the first sign that the plane had failed to report in and the decision to mount a search.
Maps showing the aircraft's probable flight path suggest the plane turned back from the South China Sea and flew across the Malaysian Peninsula. Investigators believe it then turned south and headed for the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean.
The preliminary report, however, left many questions unanswered, including whether the aircraft was deliberately diverted after communications were disabled.
Malaysia's defence minister said an independent panel would look into the delay in ordering a search and rescue operation.
"We created the independent body with experts from around the world," Hishammuddin Hussein, who doubles as acting transport minister, told the Kuala Lumpur news conference.
"There were things that Malaysia has done well and there were things we could have done better. If that's something the panel says, we won't be reluctant to take the relevant action."
Using groundbreaking analysis of satellite data, experts have narrowed down the search area where the plane is presumed to have crashed to a large arc of the Indian Ocean some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) northwest of the west Australian city of Perth.
But after weeks of scouring millions of square kilometres without finding any sign of debris, Australian authorities have called off the air and surface search.
Australia and Malaysia now plan to contract commercial companies to undertake a sonar search of 60,000 sq km (24,000 sq mile) of seabed that could take eight months or more at a cost of about A$60 million (S$69.66 million).


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In Reply to: Traffic Ticket posted by Thomas L. Price on November 07, 1997 at 11:28:18:
: A close friend, who has posted on this forum,
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: So I decided to take my years of legal knowledge
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: Over the many years as a magistrate, I have found "for the
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Your just getting out of the water from kiteboarding with your kite in the air. The launch area is a bit sketchy, muddy and there is not much room with many obstacles. It's blowing 22 ktn side onshore and you plan on landing the kite with assistance(your friendly assistant is waiting to grab the kite from you), but as you are walking more inland, a larger dog comes running up to you and around you in circles barking(your not sure if he is friendly or not). At this point what is thee most important thing to do?
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B. Ignore the loud dog running around you and focus on keeping full control of the kite.
C. Get completely distracted from the dog, crash your kite on the ground and in doing so, you yourself fall to the ground. Then go blame the owner for creating a hazard.
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Big Ben avoided criminal charges stemming from an accusation of sexual assault, but the Pittsburgh Steeler's quarterback might still be in big trouble.
While team brass and NFL officials considered Ben Roethlisberger's football fate, authorities released statements showing the Super Bowl winning quarterback acted like a buffoon at the very least on the night he was accused of sexually assaulting a Georgia college student.
What effect will those unflattering revelations have on Roethlisberger's future in the NFL?
- Mike Florio of Sporting News thinks the Steelers, a franchise known for its winning tradition as much as its insistence on player integrity, might actually trade away the talented but troubled QB. "Last week's Santonio Holmes fire sale, which arose when the Steelers called around the league in an effort to find an immediate trade partner, occurred when the team initiated the process. This time around, the Steelers will sit back and see whether anyone makes an offer between now and the draft, which launches a week from today."
- Sports Illustrated's NFL insider, Peter King, noted that the quarterback was never formally charged with any crime but "make no mistake -- he's done plenty wrong...it's beyond bad judgment." "The Steelers, rightfully, are ashamed," King writes and should suspend their star for two games "without pay. Or, better yet, with the pay donated to Pittsburgh-area women's shelters."
- Sean Pendergast writing for the Hair Balls blog seems to urge no punishment for Roethlisberger despite the evidence that the "evening in Milledgeville, GA had an unsavory feel to them to be sure." "If [NFL Commissioner] Goodell suspends Roethlisberger even just for one game, he's essentially suspending him for stupidity, and for being a wanna-be frat boy at age 28," Pendergast writes. "What Goodell would be saying is either (a) he doesn't believe Ben's denials on the assault charges, or more likely (b) 'I'm Roger Goodell, I'll suspend you if I want to suspend you.'"
- Jay Mariotti, of FanHouse, insists that Goodell suspend Roethlisberger four games to set an example. "If Goodell has the latitude under the league's personal conduct policy to suspend a player because he has undermined the NFL's image, then Roethlisberger should sit at least four games this season. Perhaps then, once and for all, it will plant a permanent seed that a player -- especially one with a high profile -- has a responsibility not to act like a goon who randomly would pick up a college woman and meet up with her by the commode," he writes.


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Appearing on television in November, former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser and current public relations executive, Mark Penn, suggested that President Obama needs a moment "similar" to the tragic terrorist attack on the Oklahoma City federal building, in order to "reconnect" with voters.
He didn't even seem to flinch in making the comment.
Via Free Republic:
Penn is currently president and CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a multi-national public relations firm. He also served in 2008 as chief strategist for then-Senator Hillary Clinton's run for the White House. Before that, Penn advised former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his third run for the UK leadership post, and served clients such as AT&T, Texaco, Ford, Merck, Verizon, BP, McDonald's and Microsoft.


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Fielder gets intentional record
OAKLAND -- Prince Fielder was walked intentionally again on Sunday for the eighth time this month. He is the first American League player to be intentionally walked that many times in April.
"I don't know … I guess it's part of the job," Fielder said.
All eight intentional walks came on the last homestand. That means they all came while Adrian Beltre has been on the disabled list with a strained left quad muscle. Beltre is expected to come off the disabled list on Friday.
When Beltre was active, he batted cleanup behind Fielder. Since he has been gone, Fielder has hit fourth with Kevin Kouzmanoff hitting behind him. Kouzmanoff, hitting .366 going into Monday's game, has been hot but not enough to keep teams from walking Fielder.
"With Beltre in the lineup, they have to pick their poison," manager Ron Washington said. "With Fielder or Kouzmanoff, I'd throw to Kouz. But if I have to choose between Fielder and Beltre, I'd think a little bit."
Fielder went into Monday's game hitting .188 with two home runs, six RBIs and a .333 slugging percentage. But that hasn't deterred teams from pitching around him.
"Everybody knows Prince has not been Prince lately," Washington said. "But they know Prince can be Prince and with one swing of the bat, he can change the whole ballgame."
Fielder is unlikely to get the Major League record for intentional walks for April. Barry Bonds had 18 in 2004. Bonds holds the Major League record for any month as he was walked intentionally 23 times in June and September of 2004.