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brwi wrote:Lt. Dish wrote:I really don't see Bryz being bought out this year.
I'm in the crowd that thinks it's extremely likely they buy him out. Bryz is not an elite goaltender and is also a headcase by even goaltender standards. Flyers would probably rather throw a cheap contract at Timmay Thomas and go ahead and ditch The Bryz, who has a bad contract on a team that is going to need some serious cap relief.
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- Alice Marie Johnson, 63, has spent more than two decades behind bars and was not eligible for parole
- "BEST NEWS EVER!!!!" Kim Kardashian West tweeted. She championed Johnson's case after seeing a video about her on Twitter
- President Trump has seemed drawn to causes advocated by conservatives, celebrities or those who once appeared on his former reality show
Hours after she was released from prison on a commuted sentence, Alice Marie Johnson was joyous and thankful for President Donald Trump's clemency and the intervention from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West that brought Johnson's case to his attention.
In an interview on the "Today" show, Johnson called her commuted life sentence a miracle: "I know that only God could have touched Kim Kardashian's heart like that."
Kardashian West had championed Johnson's case after seeing a video about the 63-year-old grandmother by the digital news company Mic. The celebrity went to the White House in May to meet with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a senior adviser, and the president as well. A week later, Johnson was freed.
"We have connected," Johnson said of Kardashian West. "She said that she felt something when she saw and heard my story and I'm just so thankful for it. I can't explain it. It's a miracle."
Trump tweeted Thursday: "Good luck to Alice Johnson. Have a wonderful life!"
Kardashian West called Johnson's release the "BEST NEWS EVER!!!!" on Wednesday and said in a statement that she hopes to continue working with organizations that push for clemency for deserving prisoners.
"I'm so grateful to President Trump, Jared Kushner and to everyone who has showed compassion and contributed countless hours to this important moment for Ms. Alice Marie Johnson," Kardashian West said. "Her pardon and forthcoming release is inspirational and gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance."
Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation involving more than a dozen people. The 1994 indictment describes dozens of deliveries and drug transactions, many involving Johnson.
She was sentenced to life in prison in 1997. Appeals court judges and the Supreme Court rejected her appeals. Court records show she had a motion pending for a reduction in her sentence, but federal prosecutors were opposed, saying in a court filing that the sentence is in accord with federal guidelines, based on the large quantity of drugs involved.
A criminal justice advocacy site, CAN-DO, and one of Johnson's lawyers said a request for clemency was rejected when Barack Obama was president. The reasons are unclear.
The White House said Johnson took responsibility for her behavior and has been a model prisoner.
Video footage showed Johnson run ecstatically toward her family Wednesday night after she was freed from federal prison in Aliceville, Alabama.
"I'm just so thankful, I feel like my life is starting over again. This is a beautiful day," Johnson told reporters at the time, thanking the president and revealing that it was Kardashian West who told her over the phone that she'd be released.
Johnson's conviction will remain on her record after her sentence was commuted.
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Commuting her sentence was Trump's latest act of clemency in recent weeks. He recently pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted of a campaign finance violation, and granted a posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson's name more than 100 years after what many saw as a racially charged conviction.
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer Gregg Treinish founded Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, a nonprofit organization connecting outdoor adventurers with scientists in need of data from the field. He also organizes his own expeditions, contributing to research on wildlife-human interaction, fragmented habitats, and threatened species.
Every day at Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation we are making connections between the adventure and scientific communities. The partnerships we develop between adventure athletes and scientific researchers are varied – no two are ever quite the same. However, one thing is common throughout all of them: a passion for adventure and a desire to protect and preserve the world around us.
I started ASC because I wanted to make more of my own adventures. Our greatest successes come when we can get our adventurers involved in a project and it truly enhances their experience. Recently, two ASC adventurers, Clint Valentine and Rob Debruyn, completed a month-long, human powered tour of Colorado bagging peaks and climbing iconic rock routes all the while collecting valuable data for conservation efforts in the Rocky Mountain West. Clint describes his experience:
"Rob DeBruyn and I have finally completed our month-long tour of the Colorado Rockies. We pitted ourselves against some of the finest rock routes on the Continental Divide and have experienced the camaraderie of wild cyclists and climbers (of which we are both). We spent every sunset, dark night, and sunrise in beautiful and vivid landscapes and spent our days under the hot sun and took refuge under the shade of pinyon pines. Our touring bikes were heavier than ever; our bags were filled taught with metal bits and nylon rope. In my handlebar bag, home to my most needed possessions, were my camera, glacier glasses, compass, and waterproof journal – for thoughts and to record data for ASC.
Rob and Clint are ambitious college students at Northeastern University in Boston and avid climbers, cyclists and outdoorsmen. Not new to the world of adventure travel Clint and Rob set out to spend more than a month this past summer cycling over 600 miles around Colorado from climb to climb and included over 40,000 feet of climbing on heavily loaded touring bikes. Though they could have just driven from crag to crag Clint describes their decision to rely on human power:
"We chose to tour uninhibited, on bicycles, with our equipment in tow. We met a community of adventure enthusiasts that have further connected us to the sport we love. Our involvement with Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation was an important link between the sport we love and the environment that needs protecting and analysis for research. For one month Rob & I forewent thoughts of school and employment; for one month we cycled, climbed, and collected data."
Clint was no stranger to field research, studying biology and environmental science and having participated in a geologic study in Iceland. Ever since his trip to Iceland, he has been eager to be involved in more research efforts, and to leverage his love of climbing and cycling into valuable opportunities for data collection. ASC provided him the opportunity to fuse his passions and to make a valuable contribution to conservation research. Clint says, "What inspires me as an adventurer and scientist is the same – a fervor and curiosity for embedding myself within nature."
Clint and Rob participated in multiple ASC projects during their expedition by collecting wildlife, roadkill and pika observations. Data for each of these projects are fed directly to researchers who use the information to make effective management and conservation decisions. For Clint and Rob, the experience of participating in citizen science was fulfilling and added a new dimension to their adventure.
"Our traditional ascent of Mt. Evans was crowded – not by other climbers but by marmots, mountain goats, and pika. Rob and I started scrambling to the base of the wall early in the morning, and by noon we were near the false summit. We were surrounded by the cries of rodents below and the amiable glances of white goats on perches too shabby for a rock climber. We rested on a ledge, hundreds of feet above jumbled broken blocks. While Rob powered on his smartphone to input our observations, I regretted my lightweight decision to not pack a zoom lens for my camera. Like camouflaged Where's Waldos, my distantly-photographed rodents were comical and could hardly pass for scientific evidence."
Clint continues:
"We had fun searching for pika. The rodents were skittish, small, and loud. We mostly found them by accidentally wandering into their territory and listening for loud, halting squeaks. Rob and I pulled ourselves to the discernible top where a single pika stood watching. The false summit of Mt. Evans, a formidable obstruction to which we were inextricably stuck, gave way to an expanse of peaks and valleys. The glare of the sun smeared and faded the horizon from rich detail to an intoxicating immense of blue. I looked down again, and the pika must have run off. I thought about the cracked and weathered rock visible for miles… this pika was long gone."
If you have a passion for adventure and a love of the wild world around you, you can make more of your adventure too, just like Clint and Rob. Join the ASC team and get involved with a project today. Visit our website to connect with us: www.adventureandscience.org. Keep up with ASC on our blog, Facebook and Twitter and by joining our mailing list.
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The Meagre Tarmac is the latest work of fiction by veteran story writer, novelist, and essayist Clark Blaise. Blaise has been publishing stories since the early 1970s, beginning with A North American Education (1973), which was followed by nine other collections, several of them having place names—Southern Stories (2000), Pittsburgh Stories (2001), Montreal Stories (2003). The Meagre Tarmac is a place name too, though it might not seem so at first. It alludes to the landing strips at airports—those long, thin layers of asphalt that cannot be inhabited, but nonetheless are where a number of Blaise's characters in this book secretly feel they live, or indeed resemble: embodiments of promise, dedicated to fast motion and uprooting, stretched between here and there, prone to shimmering mirages.
The title of Blaise's third collection, Resident Alien (1986), is also pertinent, for it describes how Blaise himself has felt all his life. Both of his parents were Canadian. His mother was a Protestant from Winnipeg, upstanding and tight-lipped and a great reader. His father was a handsome and charming bon vivant from Quebec—a classic traveling salesman, complete with the dubious philandering and imbibing habits such salesmen display in the jokes made about them.
The unlikely conjunction of this badly suited pair produced Blaise himself. He was born in 1940, in Fargo, North Dakota—a suitable portmanteau birthplace name for someone who would spend so much of his life covering long distances. He grew up partly in the southern United States, where he sometimes felt at home and sometimes did not. Then he was shuffled here and there by his parents, ever on the run from the financial and personal debris created by his optimistic though feckless dad. These embarrassing but fascinating situations were later recreated by Blaise in various stories, and in his memoir, I Had a Father (1992).
It would be almost impossible for such an upbringing to result in a person with a firm sense of a place-linked identity and an aversion to the packing and unpacking of suitcases. Much of Blaise's work has circled around questions that were a little ahead of their time when he first began investigating them, but now seem highly contemporary: Who am I? Where am I? Where do I belong? Does nationality count for anything? Am I a part of all that I have met? What airport is this anyway? A couple of other Blaise titles act as compass needles here: The Border as Fiction (1990) and If I Were Me (1997).
During his frazzled childhood Blaise attended approximately twenty-five schools, which would certainly lead to quick-wittedness and a finely honed ability to spot and classify accents and social quirks and differences. His adolescence was spent in Pittsburgh, where he was bedeviled not only by high intelligence, but by what was at first called "double jointedness" but…
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text: Even as a boy, Marc Abrahams had a calling: to collect funny, unexpected and generally weird examples of science. Now he's the editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, the world's preeminent journal of strange scientific findings and sponsor of the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes. Recipients have studied such phenomena as contagious yawning in turtles, sword-swallowing's side effects and the results of cracking knuckles in one hand but not the other for 50 years. This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research "Everything I'm doing now, I was doing one way or another when I was 10, though not in such an organized way," Abrahams said. "I started cutting things out of newspapers and science magazines -- the odd little things, not what appeared on the front page, that struck me as being funny. I don't know why I did that, but it never really stopped." Abrahams also writes a weekly column on oddball research for British newspaper The Guardian, and this summer his vast trove of weirdness was gathered in This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research. The research described veers between the silly and obvious, both of which Abrahams embraces. What seems obvious is often wrong, or so self-evident that it obscures a deeper truth. What seems silly may later prove important. "The question that's interesting to me is, 'What did they hope to learn?'" he said. On the following pages, Wired talks to Abrahams about some of his favorite science. Above: The Weight of One Pound "Which weighs more: a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?" is a familiar riddle, intended to trick the hasty listener -- yet when put to the test, it turns out that a pound of lead really does feel like it weighs more. Weight, or at least its perception, isn't just a function of mass and gravity, but ergonomics too. "This is all about things that make people laugh, and then think," Abrahams said of his book. "The big thing about everything in there is that there's something unexpected about it. And that's the history of science and technology. The way science is usually taught is as a list of breakthroughs that changed the world -- but none of those things would have been called a breakthrough if it hadn't seemed really unexpected, and maybe even crazy." Images: 1) Marcel Oosterwijk/Flickr 2) storebukkebruse/FlickrYawning Tortoises You've likely noticed how yawning is contagious, a simple but puzzling phenomenon also identified in other primate species and seemingly linked to social bonding and perhaps empathy, though nobody really knows. But are yawns contagious in tortoises? Biologists from Austria's University of Vienna showed that they're not. When a tortoise yawns, it yawns alone. That may seem trivial at first, but if tortoises are representative of other reptiles, then the finding suggests that contagious yawning has evolved uniquely in mammals. If so, then why? "A question, once you start to ask it, can get more and more interesting," Abrahams said. "On the face of it, you might just toss it off in conversation. But if you pay attention to it, it can lead you to lots of other questions." Image: Ricardo Castro Santos/FlickrThinking While Masturbating A study of decision-making while masturbating might sound like troll bait for people who think the government spends too much money on science. Yet when prurience and preconception are set aside, as they were by the authors of this Journal of Behavioral Decision Making study, the essential question is intriguing: Just how does sexual arousal change the way people think -- and not just in some fuzzy, everyone-knows-that sort of way, but in quantifiable detail? To find out, psychologists devised an ingenious experimental setup by which young men could simultaneously answer questions and measure arousal while otherwise engaged. ("The keypad and the program that administered the questions were designed to be operated easily using only the non-dominant hand," explained the researchers.) The results were striking. In the heat of the moment, 65 percent of study participants considered women's shoes erotic, compared to 42 percent when unaroused. Some 14 percent could imagine having sex with another man, up from 8 percent; likewise, the number who considered the smell of cigarette smoke arousing rose from 13 percent to 22 percent, and 16 percent "could imagine getting sexually excited by contact with an animal," up from 6 percent. "Can you count on their decision-making getting very different than under other circumstances? Yes, you can," said Abrahams. Images: 1) Svenstorm/Flickr 2) Schematic of experimental setup with "a non-representative cartoon image." (Ariely et al./Behavioral Decision Making)Untied Shoelaces and National Character National and regional characters are elusive entities. Intuitively we know they're real, but they're difficult to define in any rigorous way. Austrian sociologist Norbert Elias stumbled, as it were, on a simple but insightful methodology for doing so: While visiting a Spanish fishing town in 1965, he learned from laughing children that the laces of his left shoe were untied. He repeated this accidental experiment in towns across Europe, comparing local responses to his dishevelment. These varied from contempt in Germany to concern in England and indifference in France. "He did this mostly for his amusement. Now it's there for people to wonder about. Is this important?" Abrahams said. Image: Fey Ilya/FlickrChocolate-Bunny Houses Every Easter, millions of people eat hollow chocolate bunny rabbits. Fragile as the bunnies are, they almost always emerge intact from their boxes, even when shipped across a continent from grandma's house. It's quite extraordinary, really, and it's no accident: A few people have spent a lot of time thinking about how to keep those bunnies unbroken. Among them are packaging designers Gerald Greenway and Raul Enrique Garcia Via, whose 1977 treatise "Designing and testing an improved packaging for large hollow chocolate bunnies" is a minor classic. "The first time I wrote about this, there were a bunch of comments from readers -- 'What a waste of space! This is stupid!' To me it's just the opposite. This is a little thing that's indicative of just how much thought and effort and care goes into so many things that affect us every day," Abrahams said. Image: Figure 7 from "Designing and testing an improved packaging for large hollow chocolate bunnies." (Gerald Greenway and Raul Enrique Garcia Via/TAPPI Journal)Racial Preferences for Cheese Color Have you ever wondered whether people of certain backgrounds prefer cheeses of a certain color? Probably not, but Beth Scanlon did, and in 1985 she presented white and yellow American cheese to 155 black, white and Hispanic individuals in a Connecticut supermarket. What she found -- read it for yourself -- was rather less interesting than the fact she looked at all. "What's interesting to me, beyond the fact someone did it, is wondering, 'Why?'" said Abrahams. "What could she possibly hoped to have learned from this? I don't know. It always leaves me wondering, and she doesn't say, which in a way I admire. She's just saying, 'It's there.'" Image: Ming Xia/FlickrThe Perfect Glug-Glug In "On the Glug-Glug of Ideal Bottles," French physicists Christophe Clanet and Geoffrey Searby developed mathematical descriptions of how liquid pours from a container, a subject that merited no fewer than 12 pages of dense equations and visualizations in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. "I'm not claiming any of the stuff I'm writing about is important -- nor am I saying it's not," Abrahams said. Image: Jesse757/FlickrThe Tasting of the Shrew Most people would only consider eating a whole shrew, hair and skeleton and all, on a dare, and probably for money. Anthropologists Brian Crandall and Peter Stahl at Binghamton University did it out of curiosity. Their interest, however, was not in how a shrew tasted, but in what would be dissolved during digestion -- a matter of considerable importance to biologists and paleontologists who infer details about life history and dietary practices from the remains of meals. To satisfy this intellectual craving, either Crandall or Stahl -- the paper doesn't specify -- sliced a shrew into several pieces, taking care not to harm a single bone, swallowed them without chewing, and over the next several days measured what passed out his digestive tract's other end. "They had expected that some of the tiny bones might end up getting digested, but the larger bones would all pass through intact and complete. They were wrong," Abrahams said. "If you start to make conclusions based on what bones are missing or damaged, you're probably going to be very wrong." Image: Digestive damage to shrew bones. (Crandall et al./Journal of Archaeological Science)Hair Length in the United States A very narrow question, writ very large: Such was the task set by consultants Clarence and Marjorie Gene Robbins, who wanted to quantify trends in hair length among everyone in America. As residents of Southern Florida, they had in nearby theme parks -- Epcot, MGM and Universal Studios, Disney's Magic Kingdom -- access to a visiting cross-section of Americans, and between May and January of 2001 collected some 24,300 observations of individual hair length. They concluded that 13 percent of U.S. adults had shoulder-length or longer hair, with 0.017 percent having hair that reached to their buttocks. "That's another one that I admire in large part because I still don't understand what they hoped to gain from it," Abrahams said. "But they went to so much trouble, did so much work, so carefully, over so long a time, that I have to at least imagine they had something specific in mind." Image: Oliver/FlickrLife, Death and Soccer Researchers have shown that emotional disturbance, including watching one's favorite team lose an important game, can increase one's chance of heart attack. The opposite also seems to be true: On the day that France won the World Cup in 1998, reports of heart attacks dropped dramatically. Images: 1) Moazzam Brohi/Flickr 2) Number of heart attack deaths in men (above) and women (below) during 10 days in July 1998, including the day on which France played Brazil in the World Cup final. (Berthier and Boulay/Heart)


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If you were fortunate enough to have seen The Letters at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, you will understand what I mean about how one work of art informs another, in this case, Pinter's The Birthday Party. In both plays, the palpable, overwhelming feeling of menacing doom is inescapable. What do the two plays have in common?
In both plays we are seeing victims of oppressive organizations—Communism? Fanatical religious organizations? Organized crime?—who now are trapped and terrified. And we are seeing these characters in a carefully orchestrated way. Because the stage sits "alley-style" between two banks of seats, so each side of the audience gets only their side of the story. If I were to see the play again and sat on the opposite side, would I have a different opinion of what "happened?"
Although this seems like it should be a simple, straightforward tale—it's just a birthday party, after all—after a while everyone seems to be at least a hypocrite, delusional or a flat-out liar. It is so clearly unclear. As Artistic Director Martha Lavey expresses it,
"I think the extraordinary accomplishment in Mr. Pinter's work is his mastery of language which is so precise and, at the same time, ambiguous and unlikely. We are constantly being asked to interpret the truth and be aware of how language both defines and obscures the real."
Each of the actors inhabits their roles. Every one of them. Otherwise The Birthday Party would have been forgettable. There's no simplistic plot or predictable outcome—ha! The Birthday Party stays with you like a brain worm.
This great ensemble cast pulled this off:
Ian Barford's Stanley is creepy, and pitiful but seems to have a dark, ugly secret: this no sympathetic character or is he?
Francis Guinan's Goldberg is slimy and unscrupulous despite his transparent polish—watch him wallow in his proper three-piece suit.
Marc Grapey's McCann seems like that haunted, pursued pervert you read about yesterday. One opinion is that he's a de-frocked priest. What side of the stage was that person sitting on?
Moira Harris's Meg is sweet but manipulative or is she?
John Mahoney's Petey just might know more than he lets on. Is he an informant? Does he have something to hide, too?
Sophia Sinise's Lulu couldn't possibly be that naive. Or could she?
The theme for Steppenwolf's 2012-13 season is "The Reckoning…what happens when the past comes knocking." Think it's a good fit?
Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member Austin Pendleton directs The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter in the Upstairs Theatre, newly reconfigured by scenic designer Walt Spangler who, by moving the stage to the center of the theater, allows the audience to feel engaged (complicit?) in the action/plot/conspiracy/…
The production team including Rachel Anne Healy (costume design), Keith Parham (lighting design) and Josh Schmidt (sound design and original music) created an indelible sense of place despite its ambiguous simplicity.
The Birthday Party runs until April 28 in Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre
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Sign-interpreted performance: March 31 at 7:30pm
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Steppenwolf has the distinction of being the only theater to receive the National Medal of Arts, in addition to numerous other prestigious honors including an Illinois Arts Legend Award and nine Tony Awards. Martha Lavey is the Artistic Director and David Hawkanson is the Executive Director. Nora Daley is Chair of Steppenwolf's Board of Trustees. For additional information, visit steppenwolf.org, facebook.com/steppenwolftheatre and twitter.com/steppenwolfthtr.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - 3.773,70,00 Turkish Liras / month Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in 3.773,70,00 Turkish Liras / month Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Turkey View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Sirens of CyprusJoined: 21 Mar 2007Posts: 255 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject: 3.773,70,00 Turkish Liras / month I have been offered this amount, but insurance and other legal deductions will be taken out. There seems to be a typo. What is that supposed to be in dollars, and how much are they going to deduct? I'm guessing what they meant was 3,773 Lira and change, which would be about $2000. Back to top billy orrJoined: 15 Jul 2009Posts: 229 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:51 am Post subject: 3,773 looks like a net salary for a university instructor, if that is gross before tax and sgk stoppages, then it would end up about 2000TL, so more like a language school salary. It is very unusual for employers in Turkey to quote a gross salary. Are you sure they didn't mean some other kinds of stoppage, not tax and sgk? Back to top Sirens of CyprusJoined: 21 Mar 2007Posts: 255 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:39 am Post subject: It's a state university. Exact quote: a. The monthly gross contract salary to be paid to the Foreign Staff Member will be 3.773,70,00 Turkish Liras. The contract salary will be paid at the end of the month. The insurance premiums that are deducted according to the Social Security and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510 as well as other legal deductions will be subtracted from this amount. Back to top billy orrJoined: 15 Jul 2009Posts: 229 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject: Of course, I should have thought of that one. I used to work for a state university, my gross was 5500 and net was 2900. I don't know for sure, but your amount may end up between 2000 and 2200 net. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Turkey All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Fiction A to Z
April 2018
Recent Releases
Jesse Ball
What it's about:
widowed father of young man with Down syndrome is dying -- and must figure out how to provide for his son after his death.
Why you might like it:
Consider this a non-traditional road novel; the unnamed narrator takes a long-postponed cross-country trip with his son, paid for by his role as census-taker for a mysterious governmental agency.
What reviewers say:
"strange and wonderful" (
); "an understated feat" (
The Washington Post
Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
Sue Halpern
What it's about:
A trio of oddballs finds a home of sorts in the Carnegie library of a declining industrial town in New Hampshire.
Why you might like it:
Authentic characters, unexpected and evolving relationships, and multiple narrators keep the story moving forward.
For fans of:
other book-oriented novels with quirky characters, like Felicity Hayes-McCoy's
The Library at the Edge of the World
or Rebecca Makkai's
The Borrower
Speak No Evil
Uzodinma Iweala
What it's about:
Star athlete Niru is bound for the Ivy League...until his loving but traditional Nigerian parents discover that he's gay. The repercussions are violent and far-reaching.
Why you should read it:
Cross-generational misunderstandings, as well as cross-cultural complications, are sensitively portrayed. Niru is a complex young man trying to come to terms with being a young gay black man.
Is it for you?
Readers who prefer happy endings will want to look elsewhere.
Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao
otherless Poornima and penniless Savitha, whose deep friendship sustains them in their rural Indian town.
What it's about:
by acts of cruelty and abuse, the two young women must navigate the world alone, each searching for the other.
Why you might like it:
Narrated in the girls' alternating voices, this debut novel offers a vivid portrayal of contemporary India, as well as a devastating exploration of gender inequalities and human trafficking.
The Arctic & the Antarctic
Good Morning, Midnight
Lily Brooks-Dalton
astronomer Augustine, seemingly stranded at the top of the world, and astronaut Sully, whose voyage to Jupiter is coming to an end.
What happens:
Both unable to contact anyone else on Earth (are they all dead? Have radio transmitters been silenced?), the two scientists must come to terms with their future in a dark and silent world.
Why you might like it:
This leisurely paced, unusual take on a post-apocalyptic novel is quietly moving.
The Sunlit Night
Rebecca Dinerstein
Did you know?
The sun never sets if you're above the Arctic Circle in summer, as both 21-year-old Frances and 17-year-old Yasha learn when they arrive in remote Lofoten, Norway. She's there to take up residency in an artists' colony; he's there to bury his father.
Why you might like it:
With a cast of quirky supporting characters, poetic language, and vivid descriptions of the harsh and melancholy landscape, this not-quite-romance offers an intriguing portrait of family, uncertainty, and loss.
I Am Radar
Reif Larsen
What it is:
a sprawling novel that involves a black boy named Radar born inexplicably to white parents and a secretive group of physicist puppeteers who stage experimental performances in the world's war zones.
You might also like:
evin Wilson's
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, another character-centered tale with performance artists in starring roles.
Where does the Arctic come in?
Radar meets the puppeteers in northern Norway, above the Arctic Circle.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
What it's about:
Eighth-grader Bee Branch has been promised a trip to Antarctica by her parents, tech guru Elgin Branch and architect Bernadette Fox. Until Bernadette -- whose creative genius is outstripped only by her social anxiety and agoraphobia -- disappears.
Why you might like it:
compilation of emails, faxes, official documents, and letters forms the basis of this delightful, charming, witty novel.
South Pole Station
Ashley Shelby
floundering but talented painter Cooper Gosling, who gets to spend a year at an artists' colony in Antarctica, where she is drawn into the complex social and political dynamics of the isolated station.
Why you might like it:
This humorous, inventive debut novel combines science, art, and the politics of climate change -- with plenty of quirky characters to drum up complications.
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The Terranauts
Sun at Midnight
Rosie Thomas
What it is:
a story of self-discovery in a beautiful but unforgiving environment.
geologist Alice Peel, who seeks change after ending a relationship. And James Rooker, a man trying to outrun his past.
Read it for:
the claustrophobic nature of a small research station, the developing relationship between Alice and James, and above all, the descriptions of Antarctica.
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Another pretty good year for us! Complete with a slew of playtesting (I'm posting this in the middle of the 7/7/07 meetup), these maps have now been examined thoroughly for proper scoring. As usual, the top 7 winners (those who scored 55 or more) will be compiled and posted into Victory Dance IV. Major congratulations go to Windbreaker for clinching a very narrow victory with the first-ever perfect score!
01st [70]: Windbreaker [Newcomer]
02nd [68]: Treellama [1st in VD2; 2nd in VD3]
03rd [67]: Kinetic Turtle [Newcomer]
04th [62]: Drictelt [Newcomer]
05th [59]: Irons [2nd in VD2; 3rd in VD3]
06th [58]: King Kidtofu [6th in VD2]
07th [55]: Epstein [4th in VD2]
08th [49]: The Thug [Newcomer]
09th [48]: Shadowbreaker [7th in VD2; 4th in VD3]
10th [47]: Scrumie [Newcomer]
11th [34]: Nameless [Newcomer]
Map Name: The King of Infinite Space
Author: Windbreaker
Flow: 25/25
Balance: 20/20
Looks: 10/10
Fun: 10/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: This is a great map! Everything seemed to work pretty much perfectly here, from the architectural tricks to the layout of the map and the weapon selection. Really, I've played this map a few times, and I have never encountered a single problem with it.
Map Name: Werefrog
Author: treellama
Flow: 24/25
Balance: 20/20
Looks: 09/10
Fun: 10/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: Another fantastic treellama map. He does a great job with the sewage textureset, but the lighting is only passable. It doesn't exactly seal the deal. The sounds are also distinctly lacking by the sewage pits. The lifts are hard to find -- who expects them to be light panels? Other than that, this sprawling behemoth of a map worked exceedingly well and was a blast to play.
Map Name: Red Sauce on Pasta
Author: Kinetic Turtle
Flow: 22/25
Balance: 20/20
Looks: 10/10
Fun: 10/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: This sprawling, multi-story map is probably Kinetic Turtle's best work architecturally, and is just awesome to look at overall. The style is cohesive from the top of the map to the very bottom. The weapon choices are fantastic and the game we had was a blast. So where were points lost? There's no "main space" on this map, which really hurts it because it is so complex. While there are several points where flow does converge, there's no big battleground and you just have to hope you come across people. You can also get kind of trapped in a lava pit -- it looks like you should be able to get out in more places than you actually can. No big deal, though (you still can get out). Very, very good stuff.
Map Name: Shelob 15000
Author: Drictelt
Flow: 22/25
Balance: 18/20
Looks: 08/10
Fun: 09/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: This map was compact, but it was damn nice to look at. The lighting was particularly spectacular. On top of that, it actually flowed almost perfectly; the major issue with flow was twofold. Too many pillars and walls blocked shots and made navigating kind of difficult, and there were more than a handful of places that should have been lifts that weren't. Balance was primarily hurt by the top floor being distinctly more valuable than the bottom, but the majority of spawns were on the bottom (or so it seemed, anyway). A great map for a pretty fun duel.
Map Name: Chester
Author: irons
Flow: 24/25
Balance: 16/20
Looks: 06/10
Fun: 08/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: Irons did a pretty good job visually with the Pfhor textureset, though the cramped space and steep stairs don't help much with the flow (a trait not executed well here). The gimmicky method of getting the Rocket Launcher was extremely annoying, but vital in a 4-player game (our test group). While rockets probably wouldn't be a big issue in a duel, 4p was comfortable on this map, and the SPNKR held too much control then. Otherwise, it was a pretty interesting idea that worked out rather well.
Map Name: Show and Tell
Author: King Kidtofu
Flow: 18/25
Balance: 18/20
Looks: 09/10
Fun: 09/10
Originality: 4/5
Summary: The big feeling I get with this map is that it's just a cluster of rooms, which didn't really help at all with navigation or flow. The weapon selection was awkward; pretty good overall, but it was every gun except for the SPNKR, and that got annoying having such a broad arsenal when only two guns were good anyway. Scenery impeded on flow. An originality point was lost because it was, as I said, a ton of rooms with no real cohesion among them. Bad execution. Each of them looked great, but he failed to seal the deal.
Map Name: Residue Theorem
Author: epstein
Flow: 22/25
Balance: 17/20
Looks: 05/10
Fun: 06/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: This behemoth of a map was pretty solid. The main detraction I have for it is that it was hideously ugly; the lighting was solid, but the texturing was extremely bad. Other than that, the only problem I had with it is that ammo is not always clumped with a gun -- i.e. there are SMGs paired with Shotgun Shells. Flow points were lost for a couple minor issues, most notably some lifts being hard to find, but it wasn't a supreme issue.\
Map Name: Deserted Lobby
Author: The Thug
Flow: 18/25
Balance: 14/20
Looks: 06/10
Fun: 06/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: The flow on this level, for the most part, is alright, except there are so many little things that add up against it that it brings it down considerably; most notably in this regard is that it's low-gravity. Given the very low ceilings, this leads to a lot of headbanger stairs and plenty of floating. There's a decent amount of ammo for four people (the size of our group), but 4 was not enough people for the map and the ammo was scattered all around the map. The lighting and texturing was extremely inconsistent; in some rooms it was painful to view, but in others it was actually very pleasing. A good idea ruined by piles of little things.
Map Name: The Afterparty
Author: Shadowbreaker
Flow: 21/25
Balance: 10/20
Looks: 09/10
Fun: 03/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: This map would have looked even better and would have flowed well if it wasn't so goddamned dark! Low ceilings also ruined flow and made aiming difficult and a lot less fun. Balance (and fun) were completely ruined by a devastating tag-team combination of a staggering lack of ammo, very few guns (much like Jjaro Juice), and a 1x recharger out of the way of combat. The map was difficult to maneuver around, but that's not necessarily a bad thing; coupled with the lack of stuff, it really didn't help though.
Map Name: Jjaro Juice
Author: Scrumie (El Twixxo)
Flow: 21/25
Balance: 07/20
Looks: 08/10
Fun: 04/10
Originality: 5/5
Summary: This map actually looked pretty damn good at first, but there are some very bizarre visual glitches ("clipping") that bring it down a bit. The architecture is also pretty high-quality. The only problem is that the map is extremely small and cramped, so even with a small group (4 was too many) we were constantly crowded. The major issue is the horrendous weapon imbalance. There's basically one of each weapon on the map -- that is, one SPNKR, one TOZT, and one of each of the crap weapons. This led to some serious problems with one person having huge control over the map and really ruined the game for me.
Map Name: Arena 51
Author: Nameless
Flow: 21/25
Balance: 10/20
Looks: 00/10
Fun: 01/10
Originality: 2/5
Summary: This bland arena map really only gets any points at all for flow because it's an arena, and it's exceedingly hard to mess that up. However, multiple untextured sides, practically no ammo at all (including horrendous respawn rates), and just a stupid layout to begin with bring this map down to the pits.


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Jasmin Vardimon Returns to Israel with "Yesterday"
Video: Jasmin Vardimon's Yesterday
Jasmin Vardimon started her promising dance career right here in Israel, performing with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company while venturing into choreography. In 1995, she won the "On the Way to London" competition for young choreographers, which was sponsored by the Suzanne Dellal Center and the British Council – and shortly afterwards, she found herself headed to Europe and, indeed, on the way to London. There, in 1997, she burst onto the British dance scene with her company, originally titled Zbang and now known as the Jasmin Vardimon Company (JVC).
By all accounts, Vardimon has achieved an extraordinary level of success. She was an Associate Artist at The Place in 1998 and a Yorkshire Dance Partner from 1999-2005, and she is currently an Artistic Associate at Sadler's Wells. Over the course of her career, she has received awards for her artistry in both Israel and England, and she has also created works for a variety of dance companies internationally.
While Vardimon's company hasn't toured to Israel until now, the buzz about her choreography was loud enough to reach my ears from England. And after talking to her partner, dramaturge, and set designer Guy Bar-Amotz a few weeks ago, I'm even more excited than ever to finally see Vardimon's Yesterday when it opens at the Herzliya Performing Arts Center tonight. Yesterday runs through Friday in Herzliya and will then travel to Haifa and Jerusalem so that audiences around the country can catch a glimpse of Vardimon's greatness.
For more on what makes Vardimon's work so uniquely striking, read my preview below, which was first published in the Jerusalem Post as "Mixing art, dance and life." You can also check out my full interview with Guy Bar-Amotz here on Dance In Israel.
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Mixing Art, Dance, and Life
"I think the real art is the one that mixes all [the disciplines]," declares Guy Bar-Amotz. This belief – and a singular talent for fusing art forms – has made the England-based Bar-Amotz a prominent figure in Israeli and international art circles. Bar-Amotz is best known for innovative sound installations, and he has also experimented with dance performances in museums. His current project, which is scheduled for a solo show in Tel Aviv at Rothschild 69 next year, centers on three talking robots who follow a theatrical script written by Bar-Amotz.
But on this trip to Israel, Bar-Amotz is not exhibiting his own work. Instead, he's here as the associate director and dramaturge for the Jasmin Vardimon Company, which is bringing the dance production Yesterday to Herzliya, Jerusalem, and Haifa.
Jasmin Vardimon's Yesterday. Photo by Alastair Muir.
Bar-Amotz and Vardimon have been collaborating for well over a decade, since he was a student at Bezalel and she was an emerging choreographer here in Israel. Moving abroad in the mid-1990s, Bar-Amotz studied for his Masters of Fine Art and Vardimon established her company in England in 1997. As Vardimon honed her highly physical and deeply psychological style, she became one of the leading choreographers in England, and with Bar-Amotz by her side, she has developed one of the most visually striking, cutting-edge aesthetics in the world.
Asked about the nature of their collaboration, Bar-Amotz laughs, "Basically, we live together, so it's naturally a mixture of everything, life mixed with art!" Sometimes, he notes, "Jasmin is working with me, advising me or doing some movement sequences or choreography for performances that I'm doing inside my own installation." But when it comes to their work for the company, Bar-Amotz says it is Vardimon who comes with the vision. "My role is basically to do the artistic advising and to do the sets and to think about things that I don't know how to do," he remarks.
As a dramaturge, Bar-Amotz brings his background in the fine arts to his discussions with Vardimon and other designers involved in each project. His finely trained critical eye comes in handy for observing rehearsals and offering constructive feedback that pushes the work to the next level. "I see myself as the first audience," Bar-Amotz explains. "We think when you're making art – and this is also with my own practice – I don't want to see the viewer as less than me. I treat them as if they are me and above . . . So I'm the viewer, basically, for Jasmin. And we're doing the work for someone like me and better than me."
While Bar-Amotz's constant dialogue with Vardimon may help shape her choreography, it is his extraordinary set designs that are most clearly visible in her productions. "With the set," he clarifies, "I'm trying to build a system, a technological and conceptual systematic arrangement, that's not like making a decoration for the stage. It's more like a tool; it's more like a machine that the choreographer can use."
Jasmin Vardimon's Yesterday. Photo by Alastair Muir.
In Yesterday, Vardimon uses Bar-Amotz's inventive machine to stunning effect. A backdrop shredded into vertical strips allows dancers to enter and exit the space and also doubles as a screen for real-time projections of the dancers, captured by cameras placed strategically onstage.
Live media and previously filmed footage abound in Yesterday, which was premiered for the company's tenth anniversary and contains excerpts from several works in Vardimon's rich repertory. Both the existing movement and video art have been creatively remixed, and the result, Bar-Amotz asserts, is that Yesterday "is really becoming a new piece."
Since this is the company's first tour to Israel, all of the recombined material in Yesterday will be brand-new to Israeli audiences. And while Bar-Amotz notes that Vardimon's work is quite different from most Israeli dance, he thinks local crowds will love it. "[When] we tour in Germany and France, we can't leave the stage," he marvels. "I'm sure it will be the same with Israel."


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Sentai Filmworks Licenses K-ON! Season 2
HOUSTON, February 20, 2012— Sentai Filmworks is delighted to announce the licensing of K-ON! Season 2, the continuing exploits of the Light Music Club of Sakuragaoka Girl's High. The creative staff from K-ON! returns for another 26 episodes plus an OVA of a rocking good time, featuring character designs by Yukiko Horiguchi (Lucky Star) and music by Hajime Hyakkoku (Ichigo 100%). On top of their proven performance, Sentai Filmworks' release will feature an electric dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
For two full years, Yui, Mio, Ritsu and Tsumugi have worked together to keep Sakuragaoka Girl's High School's struggling Light Music Club alive, and along the way they've begun to build a reputation as real rock musicians, especially since the previous year's addition of underclassman rhythm guitarist Azusa!! But as a new school year begins, there are new and scary challenges ahead. With four fifths of the club graduating at the end of the year, replacement members have to be recruited. There are college exams to prepare for. There are colleges to choose. And there are friends to prepare to say goodbye to. But no matter what happens, they'll have their faculty adviser and secret former Death Metal guitar/vocalist Sawako Yamada there to help them in her own unusual way, especially since she's now their homeroom teacher as well!! And most of all, they'll have each other. Because the group of amateur musicians who barely knew each other has become much more than just a band, and by the time this school year is over, they're going to achieve something so amazing it requires multiple exclamation marks!! Get ready to be blown away as the girls from K-ON! rock on!!
K-ON! Season 2 will be available on DVD & BD later this year.
About Sentai Filmworks:
Sentai Filmworks is one of the fastest-growing anime companies in North America, producing hit series like High School of the Dead, Towanoquon, Samurai Girls, Guin Saga, Needless and Angel Beats as well as high profile theatrical films such as Grave of the Fireflies and Appleseed. Sentai Filmworks' programs can be found on home video distributed by Ingram Entertainment, Baker & Taylor, Section23Films, The Right Stuf and other good and fine distributors. Digital product offerings may be found at iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Zune Marketplace, Anime Network, Playstation Network, Android Market and YouTube.


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Different town, similar event.
Different town, different people.
So it was that Brian Dawkins attended the "Fan Fair" that his new team, the Denver Broncos, puts on in the off-season. The Eagles Youth Partnership holds a fan-oriented event during training camp. This year, in a bit of a change of concept, the Eagles will hold something they're calling "Flight Night" at Lincoln Financial Field on August 2 at 7 pm. It is an evening that will include a full team practice, fireworks, interactive games, cheerleaders and the like.
Anyway, Dawkins went to Denver's event over the weekend. The Denver Post asked him to compare Philadelphia fans to Denver fans, based upon this experience.
Here is what he saw:
"The Philly fans are a lot more aggressive," Dawkins said. "They're a lot louder as far as giving their opinions. The Denver fans are a little laid-back and I understand that. It's a different place. This is a beautiful place with the mountains. Philly is hustle and bustle."
Dawkins added that he knows the Denver region is crazy for the Bronocs, that "they're ready for some football."
But it isn't going to be the same. You know he knows it, too.


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IT IS often said that a dog is man's best friend, but for many people with disabilities or medical conditions the bond they have with their animals is even stronger.
Dogs can be trained to help the blind or deaf, people with physical disabilities or those with health conditions such as diabetes or cancer.
In some cases they can literally be life-savers, but the companionship role they play can be equally important.
Eleven-year-old Steven Courtney, from Ambrosden, near Bicester, has had his life transformed by his medical assistance cocker spaniel Molly.
The Gosford Hill School pupil was diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of three, and needs to constantly ensure his blood sugar levels do not fall too low.
Mum Serena, 41, said: "Steven does not have symptoms when the level is changing; quite a few children don't have this.
"Molly is our warning system. The only other way to test is by pricking his finger to get a blood sample.
"Before we had her I was doing it through the night.
"When he was first diagnosed he heard things which were said about his condition at the hospital and he was very concerned about it.
"He would be up testing five times within the first 40 minutes of going to bed."
Four years ago Molly joined the Courtney family, when she was just a family pet, not an assistance dog.
But when Steven and his mum took her to dog training classes they realised she might be able to help her master.
Mrs Courtney said: "A lady came to talk from Medical Detection Dogs and she asked Steven if Molly realised when he was low.
"She said to me we should watch Molly carefully because she may know and we could maybe apply to train her as a medical assistance dog."
At first Mrs Courtney and her husband Paul, 43, were sceptical but they began to notice that when Steven's levels were low Molly would get very excitable and jump on him.
They applied to have Molly trained and were successful, making her a fully qualified assistance dog.
While wearing her red medical assistance dog jacket she is able to go anywhere, just like a guide dog.
On one occasion she saved Steven a trip to the hospital, at the very least, and possibly saved his life.
Mrs Courtney said: "When she was young he had a seizure in the night and she started barking and alerted me because I was asleep and checking him every two hours.
"One and a half hours after my last check she woke me up barking.
"She is warning us a lot earlier now, but that time she saved him a big hospital trip at the very least."
Molly's sense of smell means she is able to detect minute changes in blood sugar levels. When they rise or fall outside the normal range she is trained to get help and fetch medical equipment.
Mrs Courtney said: "She fetches his blood glucose meter and brings it to him. When friends or relatives are around she loves showing it off to them.
"They have a very close bond – it was always quite special even before she was trained.
"People would say they were very close and very sweet together but when she was trained that really cemented it."
The companionship provided by a dog is also important to guide dog user Gavin Hageman, from Witney, below with his guide dog Richie.
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Mr Hageman suffered a hemorrhagic stroke in September 2008 which caused him right-sided hemianopia, meaning he has no left-side vision in both eyes.
He said: "I find it difficult to see anything that moves; busy town centres are difficult for me.
"I tried to make a trip into Oxford after I tentatively learned to walk with a stick and it was awful. I bumped into so many people."
Mr Hageman decided to apply for a guide dog and was given one called Peter.
Peter walked too fast and Mr Hageman found it challenging to walk with him so he was replaced by his current guide dog, retriever-labrador cross Richie.
Mr Hageman, 51, said: "He gives me stability and balance, he shows to other people that I'm blind, he helps me move about and he gives me company as well.
"Disabled people are quite vulnerable and he barks if someone knocks on the door.
"He's not aggressive, though he would probably lick them to death. He is a good fun chap."
Guide dogs are trained before being handed over to their new owner, but there is still a learning curve for both parties.
Mr Hageman said: "The owner has to learn about the dog and how to walk with them.
"Imagine you are driving your car and you have a five-year-old child next to you and you let them take over the steering.
"Trusting a dog to take over is a big step. All my life I have had my own hands on the steering wheel and now I have handed it over to a dog.
"Richie is a very calm, steady walker and he is very important to me. My condition gives me difficulties multi-tasking so having him in control is important."
- To find out more or to apply for a medical detection dog, visit medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk
Medical assistance dogs are trained to help people with complex health conditions by identifying the odour changes associated with life-threatening medical events. Many people do not have warning signs before such events occur. Diabetes is one of the common conditions the dogs are trained to detect, with their sense of smell indicating when blood sugar levels rise or fall outside their normal range. But the dogs can also be used by people with Addisonian crisis, which causes severe pain, convulsions and unconsciousness, and narcolepsy, a malfunction of the sleep regulating system which causes sleep attacks and paralysis. The dogs wear a red coat and are legally entitled to join their owners in restaurants, shops, public transport and other public places.
TRAINING a guide dog is an expensive and time-consuming process. It takes about 20 months and £50,000 to train one puppy, according to the Guide Dogs charity.
For the first six weeks of a guide dog's life they are with their mother and siblings and spend most of their time playing, exploring and sleeping.
At the six-week mark they go for health checks and immunisation at the National Breeding Centre, near Leamington Spa.
From six weeks to four months they move to a puppy walker's home, where they learn basic commands such as learning to sit and how to walk on a lead.
They then move on to learning how to negotiate stairs, busy shopping areas and various means of transport.
Once the dog reaches 14 months it will move to guide dog training school, where a professional trainer will teach it how to deal with kerbs and avoid obstacles.
Finally, between 20 and 22 months the dog will qualify as a fully trained guide dog and will be matched with a person suffering from sight loss.
Cocker spaniels are renowned for their sense of smell and so make excellent medical assistance dogs, while labradors, golden retrievers and German shepherds are the most common pure-breed guide dogs.
Denise MacRae, of Over Norton, below with some puppies, has been breeding guide dogs for four years, and her breeding bitch Odelle has now retired after giving birth to her fourth litter.
- Picture: OX69368 Jon Lewis
Odelle has brought 45 puppies into the world, all of which have gone on to become guide dogs.
Mrs MacRae said: "Four years ago I saw an advert in the paper looking for brood bitch holders. We had always wanted a dog and it seemed like a good scheme.
"Odelle is owned by Guide Dogs while she is breeding and then she becomes our dog.
"Her last litter was born last month and they'll be handed over to Guide Dogs soon.
"We always get a photo when they become guide dogs. One of our pups is up in Scotland at the moment tackling mountains with his owner."
Guide Dogs provides money to pay for medical bills and food while a breeding bitch is with a host family. Mrs MacRae said she is pleased to have been able to help breed guide dogs for four years but Odelle will now get a much-deserved rest.
She said: "She is a very patient, loving dog with a very calm disposition, she looks after her pups and is a loving mum."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – What began as a call about an assault in a car on the Westside on Friday morning became an investigation into the manufacture of methamphetamines, the partial evacuation of a hotel and five arrests.
A witness called police to report an assault in progress in a vehicle on Normandy Boulevard about 11 a.m. The witness followed the car until police caught up with it on Romona Boulevard, west of Lane Avenue.
After a traffic stop, the car pulled forward near the parking lot of a hotel. Police say there were five people in the car, some of whom the officer recognized from a previous encounter. He also smelled a foul odor he thought could be illegal drugs, then saw weapons in the car.
The officer called for backup and narcotics investigators, and all five people were evacuated on a charge of armed conspiracy to manufacture or distribute methamphetamines. Their names were not released at the scene.
The JSO bomb squad and Jacksonville Fire-Rescue Hazmat team were called to check out the car and a room (pictured, right) at the nearby Executive Inn, where some or all of the suspects had been staying. Adjoining rooms were evacuated Friday afternoon as a precaution, as the manufacture of meth can be highly volatile.
Part of Ramona Boulevard was closed in the area much of the afternoon. It reopened just after 6 p.m.


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While filming Stanley Kubrick's legendary war movie Full Metal Jacket, actor Matthew Modine documented the whole process with a borrowed medium-format camera and a richly detailed diary. To mark the 25th anniversary of the film, he has released a Kickstarter-funded iPad app that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Kubrick classic. (If you've never seen the movie, please stop what you're doing and go watch it.)
As Private James T. "Joker" Davis, Modine was the star of the film, and he's the star of Full Metal Jacket Diary, too, offering his first-person perspective on working with Kubrick, and alongside actors such as Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin. He supplements his written diary entries, which run from 1984 to 1986, with more than 400 photos mostly shot by himself and fellow actors and crew.
The result is an immersive fan experience made even more so by about four hours of Modine reading his diary aloud, complete with sound effects, music, and impersonations. Users get to see set shots that look like actual war photos, a few of Modine's family photos, and candid shots of Kubrick on the job, as well as details about asbestos and other environmental hazards at shooting locations (the whole thing was filmed in England), and the methods employed by both director and actors to make one of the greatest war movies of all time.
"We wanted to create something that Stanley Kubrick would hold in his hands and be proud of," Modine told Wired in describing the app. "I think we did that."
On launch, the app shows off four rows of old photos sprawled across the iPad's screen. Tap any photo and it switches to a new shot. A swipe in from the left side of the screen brings up the app's menu, which guides you to different sections of the app, including each of the diary's five chapters: Private Life, Vietnam, Boot Camp, On Leave, and Boot Camp Redux.
Modine says he never had any plans to turn his diary into a book, let alone what it's become. He had kept diaries of previous shoots, and when Kubrick saw him doing it, he encouraged the actor to keep it up.
"Stanley would sometimes ask me to share what I had written in my diary on set," Modine said. "And because he forced me to have an audience for the diary, something I didn't anticipate before, it made me a better writer because I suddenly started writing knowing that people might someday hear it."
The photos also came about by chance. Before heading off to London to begin filming, Modine borrowed an old medium-format Rolliflex camera from a friend who had noted that Kubrick himself was a photographer. Kubrick encouraged Modine to take photos on location. The film was shot at the decommissioned Beckton Gas Works, near London, and on a former British Army base in Cambridgeshire, England. The vintage cool of Modine's photos — candid shots, portraits, and scenes from the shoot, in both color and black and white — seem all the more powerful in this age of cookie-cutter Instagram and Hipstamatic approximations. These look like they were shot on film because, well, they were.
In the app, photos take up about two-thirds of the screen. To the right of each image is a rolling column of chronological entries from Modine's diary. As you swipe through the text, the images change to correspond to the diary content. And each photo has an "info" button that allows you to order a print or share it on Twitter. You can also tag them as favorites, which can be accessed from the app's menu so you can return to them quickly.
The content swings from funny to fascinating as Modine recalls the intense pressure they were all under. In one entry, he describes landing the Pvt. Joker role and buying his first house, which he later struggles to pay for. In another he recalls arguing over a pancake breakfast with Val Kilmer, who feels Modine is stealing roles he could have had. Modine also describes fighting with Kubrick over whether the actor could leave to attend the birth of his first child and then, later, having Kubrick criticize him for naming his son Boman.
Modine said putting the diary app together, with photos and a voiceover that did require some acting skill, was at times an emotional return to one of the most important periods in his life.
"It was weird to go back and sort of experience that again because I am a different person than the person that wrote that diary years ago," he said. "But, at the same time, one of the things I really love about the diary is that it was told in the voice of a young actor who went off to work with a genius director and it captures all the naïveté that went along with it."
This isn't the first time Modine has released his diary. In 2005, he published the text and many of the photos from this app in Full Metal Jacket Diary, a metal-encased book of which just 20,000 copies were made. He and a film producer friend, Adam Rackoff, saw the opportunity to add new content and turn the book into a more immersive experience for the iPad. A little more than a year ago, the duo took to Kickstarter looking for enough funding to make the app more than a simple scanned PDF of the print product.
What Modine and Rackoff produced is a $15 app that's about as close to a behind-the-scenes documentary as you can get without actual video.
Modine, in fact thinks that the book on the iPad has transformed into something the print book could never be. "We call it an Appumentary," he said. "There's never quite been anything like this before and I think these sorts of apps could change the way movies are promoted and the way fans connect with the movies they love."


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Tim Downes was fragile, but tough. His lacrosse career, which included four years at Dartmouth, was marred by a broken thumb, elbow, toe and ribs. Despite playing without an athletics scholarship amid the academic burdens of an Ivy League school, Downes never quit.
"I'd have a really good year, and then I'd have a broken bone year," he said. "But sports were always such a big part of my life."
More than two decades later, that hasn't changed. Now athletics director at Emory, Downes has devoted a career to serving student-athletes like him, who play for no scholarship and hold no illusions of playing professionally; who give countless hours to their sport while immersed in difficult coursework; and whose rewards for their efforts might be only quiet satisfaction and a few fractures.
Rather than work in the lucrative finance world after college, Downes returned to Dartmouth to coach lacrosse. He continued coaching while attending law school at Washington and Lee, though friends warned that doing both simultaneously was foolhardy. His coaching background and law degree positioned him for an athletics administration career.
So what has made him most proud during his seven-year tenure at Emory? Given his studious background, it's no surprise: Twenty-four Emory student-athletes have been awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships under his watch, though he certainly doesn't mind the seven national championship banners that have also been hung in his time.
"I love being at a place where you have a president, where you have people in academics who don't apologize for wanting to win championships," he said.
Downes recently spent several years serving in NCAA governance. His terms on the Division III Championships Committee and Division III Management Council came to an end at January's NCAA Convention.
Also at an end are the seven trips a year he made to NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. He brought his family on his final trip.
"They really thought I had another family in Indianapolis," he quipped. "I had to dispel that."


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For the past few years I started wondering if it makes sense to learn advanced techniques in some fields of IT, or is it better to be just good at everything, and use the simplest code possible everywhere.
I will use C++ as a language for comparisons, since I'm a C++ developer.
As a C++ developer you can write truly interesting code, ranging from code that looks like C with simple functions all around, to template meta-programming stuff, sometimes intermixed with pure abstract classes.
I've started noticing that I'm leaning towards the later lately.
The problem is, that with larger solutions programmers are rarely working alone, and most likely skills don't overlap that much either. So some parts of code I write might be confusing to other team members, and the other way around.
I might like STL and templates, while other people might prefer pure abstract classes everywhere, others will rely on dynamic_casting, or code generated by VC wizards. While some just enjoy everything written in a very simple, C like manner.
This also backfires with the fact that people who haven't worked with, say, with virtual classes, might not even know why the new class they've derived is broken because of simple missing virtual destructor. So the code you write paves a way toward memory leak if some other people decide to reuse your code later on.
Do you have experience working in environments with multiple developers with different skill-sets? Do you try to find a common dominator in your environments? Does using the skill-sets of every person even works in larger projects?


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The agency charged with overseeing federal buildings said Monday it will begin reviewing sites for a new FBI headquarters, formally launching a competition that has quietly pitted Maryland against its neighbors for more than a year.
State and local officials have been working behind the scenes for months to lure the FBI to Prince George's County if the agency leaves its 38-year-old headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, in downtown Washington.
More than 11,000 people would work at the new facility. Its economic impact would rival that of the Social Security Administration, which has its headquarters in Woodlawn.
In a formal solicitation, the General Services Administration — the landlord of the federal government — said it is seeking a site that can accommodate 2.1 million square feet of office space in Virginia, Maryland or Washington.
To help offset costs, the GSA has proposed granting development rights to the Hoover building site — prime real estate in Washington — as part of its payment for a new headquarters.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's current home has been plagued with problems, including a crumbling facade that has threatened pedestrians with falling debris. A 2009 study found the building needs $80.5 million in upgrades.
FBI officials also note the agency's workforce is scattered over 22 annex buildings. A Government Accountability Office audit last year found that the lack of consolidation created security challenges for an agency charged with handling sensitive information.
The six-page solicitation does not lock the government into building a new headquarters. It is intended only to gauge interest from developers and local governments. But in Maryland, state and local economic development officials already have been noting that Prince George's County has sites available.
"We're doing everything we can to make sure that Maryland has a competitive offering or offerings," said Jayson Knott, director of the Office of Business Development at the state's Department of Business and Economic Development.
A joint statement from four Democratic members of Maryland's congressional delegation — including Reps. Steny Hoyer and Donna F. Edwards — argued that it is "clear Prince George's County is the right choice for the new headquarters."
"We will be working closely together to advocate for bringing this project, and the new economic opportunities that will accompany it, to Prince George's County," the statement read.
But Virginia officials also have pushed hard for the project. Democratic Rep. Jim Moran, a former mayor of Alexandria who now represents Northern Virginia, noted the agency already has a campus in Quantico.
State and local economic development officials in Maryland started lining up potential properties long before the GSA made its request public. Additionally, Sen. Ben Cardin moved a resolution through the Senate last year that set broad parameters for the location. The House of Representative has yet to act on that resolution.
Local leaders have been sharpening their pitch. Aides to Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III have said that 25 percent of the region's federal employees live in the county, but it is home to only 4 percent of the government's office space.
In addition to Social Security, Maryland is home to the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the National Security Agency and several other civilian and military agencies. Prince George's County lost a bid to lure about 3,000 Department of Health and Human Services workers away from neighboring Montgomery County last year.


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Server:Dragonblight US
This article is an information page for the Dragonblight realm (server)
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The information and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.
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- Server Type: Normal
- Opened: December 31, 2004
- Timezone: PST
- Ahn'Qiraj Gates: Open
- Characters: 30,000
- Population: High
- Alliance to Horde Ratio: 1.1:1
- Activity Raio: 1.7:1
- Progression: High
- Open for Transfer: Yes
- Official WoW Dragonblight Forum
- [~ttp://www.wowprogress.com/pve/us/dragonblight Dragonblight WowProgess Link]
- Dragonblight WoWJutsu Link
- Dragonblight Server census
Server Stats
- Dragonblight is a PvE Pacific Coast server, which opened on a few weeks before New Year's Eve of 2004, as one of the original servers opened on game release.
- The latency is stable for many, only fluctuating at server hiccups (which are currently uncommon), or if there is a large 40 man raid on a city.
- Overall, it is one of the more stable servers out there. It is only taken down for normal maintenance and hardly seems to need downtime for critical repairs, even though it is an old server.
- There is a large sized population (more Alliance than Horde), however there is rarely a queue to log into the server since the free transfers were offered recently.
- The BG queues are almost always instant to about five minutes long (depending on the day and BG). Arena queues are instant to a few minutes wait time.
- Many of the players are either transfers or have been around since the early creation of the server, so the level 80 population is very high. Anyone running around as a low level is more than likely an alt.
The Great Dragonblight is a graveyard of the mighty Dragons, and is located in the southern regions of Northrend, which lies north of Kalimdor and The Eastern Kingdoms in Azeroth. It is a vast wasteland where even the snow and ice seem drained. Most of the Dragonblight is a single enormous valley. And it's filled with bodies of dragons. Ailing and old dragons, from every dragonflight, from all over the world, come here to die. The ground is littered with dragons of all colors. Black and red and green and blue and bronze, they all lie here together, all their differences set aside in death. The mightiest creatures in the world, laid low by age and illness and attack. The land has never recovered, and never will. It weeps for its lost children, and remains barren in their memory.
It is the location of the level 80 dungeon Naxxramas, after it was moved from the Eastern Plaguelands in WoTLK.
Information about the Great Dragonblight can be found here.
Up-to-date guild information and recruitment threads for Dragonblight can be found in the realm forums.
Current guild ranking information can be viewed here.
Great Dragonblight Events
- Dragonblight PVP Tournament: A video of this event, courtesy of IronLionZion, can be seen here.
- Popular video game show Cheat on G4 filmed a show dedicated to the Burning Crusade, shortly after release of the expansion. The episode was filmed on Dragonblight, as names of guilds such as Exigence, Prodigy, and UNITED among others, appeared above character names in the episode. This video can be seen here.
Miscellaneous Antics
- The denizens of Dragonblight have been known to occasionally copy and paste a block of text known simply as "The Rev Quote." This usually happens while attempting to explain something to another player whom they feel is beneath them somehow, or perhaps is acting out of line. The original use of this block of text dates back to the Pre-BC days of Dragonblight's WoW Forums. The infamous block of text is as follows:
"You see, Rev was at a level where ZG/AQ20 or MC experienced players would have had alot of trouble keeping up with them. Gear is a factor, but so is skill, raid experience, etc. There are not that many people who can readily jump into a AQ40 or Naxx guild and take care of business. Finding a guild is more than just about raiding, it's also a kind of family, group of friends, and people you enjoy the game with. Any good guild, casual or raiding, are careful about who they take and any GL will tell you that attitude is the most important. You might wanna check yours before you continue apping elsewhere."
- "/pembar" is a phrase known by most players on. Dragonblight. The term is named after a Horde player Pembar, a member of The OCK, and means something close to the phrase: "Post a screenshot, or it isn't true." It. is used quite frequently on the Dragonblight forums when one player, for example, accuses another of being a loot ninja but forgets to post a screen capture as proof. Other players will take offense to such an evidence-less post and write the word "/pembar".
- The Trade channel has been known to overflow with chains of posts using the word "Murloc" as substitution for nouns within pop culture references, most notably movie. titles. Chuck Norris Facts[1] are abundant, as well as a recent influx of typing the word "Anal" followed by a linked spell or character ability, ie Anal [Fireball][2]. Performing any of these memes usually initiates a domino effect followed by minutes, if not hours of this behavior, enough to where Blizzard has reached a point of repremanding random players for participating in such actions.
- Back in the early days of the game, an infamous Alliance Paladin named Mauriac was known for creating cliques within whichever guild he currently inhabited, and getting uncomfortably close to any and all females within the guild for nefarious purposes. He went so far as to post pictures far too inappropriate for any forum on a guild website, which migrated to the realm forums, much to the delight of Dragonblight's troll population. He would steal from guild banks and disappear without a trace, but eventually fell off the radar when a guild he was in fell apart and reformed without him during an AQ40 raid.
- Fast forward a year or so, and a Horde Paladin named Alleyra appears, generally being competent but rude, which were characteristics of Mauriac (See Above). It is later found to be the one and only Mauriac himself, after several investigations of actual repute were done. In fact, they revealed through corresponding with a journalist in Alleyra's part of the world that he was supposed to fund prizes for a breast cancer charity in real life, but instead took the money he was paid for the charity and ran without delivering on his end of the bargain, letting his partner take the fall. Any and all posts on the realm forums regarding the matter were deleted within minutes, but the unofficial realm forums at www.dramablight.com were alight with glee at this new development. The top Horde guild on the server, The OCK, who currently harboured Alleyra, stayed mum on the subject for some time, until they finally showed their true colours in this thread: http://dramablight.com/showthread.php?8013-PUBLIC-ALLEYRA-THREAD . Needless to say, about a month after the thread stopped receiving reply after reply, several OCK members faction transferred and joined top end Alliance guilds. Though nothing is certain since they've been more quiet than the post Holocaust Gestapo, it is rumoured that these players left because Alleyra used what clout he had to weasel his way into getting the guild Shadowmourne. Hooray for class acts.
Player Memorials
Dragonblight is no stranger to having lost players through the years. Memorial services have happened on server as a way to send off friends and guild mates from Azeroth one last time.
- Malevolent: Undead warlock, member of Last Hope pre-BC (R.I.P. 2005)
- A long time fan, and avid participant in the old world PvP pushes between Tarren Mill and Southshore in the Hillsbrad Foothills region, his memorial service was attended by a large amount of the server by both Horde and Alliance. His toon was brought by his fiance to the broken watchtower alongside the road between the two towns, and logged out there. To this day, many old timers still refer to this location as "Mal's Tower" due to this.
- Machello: Undead priest, member of Anarchy pre-BC (R.I.P. 2006)
- Hampurse: Undead priest, member of Unified pre-BC (R.I.P. 2006)
- A memorial was held outside the Zeppelin towers in front of the Undercity. His guild-mates, and many other members of the horde all showed up wearing Tuxedos to send him off with style.
- Endall: Undead rogue, member of Visions of Anarchy / | Game Over |, Vanilla and BC (R.I.P. 2008)
- A long time Dragonblight resident, and avid PvP fan, a memorial service was planned to honor his status as a "PvP God". Simultaneous raids were formed, and Ventrilo servers were overloaded, filling almost eight 40-man teams that split off and went into Ironforge, Darnassus and Stormwind to send Endall off in massive World PvP.


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The Asterisk in Tools
This week I've been blogging about how searching for the asterisk symbol in a Bible window will either display all verses or search for every word. But what about in a Tool window?
You don't search Accordance tools by words and verses, but by the various fields of content each tool contains (Titles, Content, Scripture, etc.). Entering an asterisk in the search entry box, regardless of which field is selected, will always display the entire contents of the tool. This is analogous to the asterisk in a Bible window when Verses is selected.
There may be times, however, when you actually want to search for every word in a particular search field. If the asterisk by itself always displays the entire text without actually searching for every word, how would you search for every word in a field? An easy way to do it is to search for a question mark followed by an asterisk, like this: ?*. The question mark is a wildcard symbol which represents any single character, and the asterisk is a wildcard symbol which represents any combination of characters. Entering the two together in a tool window makes it clear that you want to find and highlight every word in the currently selected field.
Why would you want to highlight every word in a given field? Here's one useful example. Let's say you've taken advantage of our current dictionary sale (which ends next week) to pick up the Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible. One of the selling points of this five-volume reference is its many high-quality photographs and illustrations. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to search for all those images so you can quickly scroll through them, just to get an idea of the kinds of illustrations you now have access to?
To do this, open the ZEB and select Captions in the field pop-up menu. Now enter ?* and hit return. Accordance will search for every word in the captions field, effectively finding every image. You can then use the Mark buttons to jump from image to image.
Now, here's the cool trick. Select Paragraphs from the Show pop-up menu to see only those paragraphs of the ZEB which contain a search hit. This effectively hides everything but the images and their captions, enabling you to scroll through the entire tool to see the kinds of images it contains. Set the image size to Large (by choosing Set Tool Display from the Display menu), and you'll get a result which looks like this:
Try doing that with the print edition!
Archived Comments
so what did i do wrong... was looking for a picture of the temple... did a search for temple in the graphic search... nothing... but i knew there was at least one in the ESV study bible... had to scroll through all the captions...
David Lang
Unfortunately, the captions for images in the ESV Study Bible are currently in the Titles field rather than a separate Captions field. We're looking at changing that in a future update to the ESV Study Bible to make finding images easier.
Mark Nigro
Accordance never ceases to amaze me with its ability to access any and all information at lightning speed and with such ease.


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