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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." ― Charles William Eliot
A month ago I was in Bangalore looking for a couple of books. I stumbled across a second hand bookshop called ' Goobes Book Republic' on Church St Inn. It is a wonderful place – an Aladdin's Den of books in a basement shop. I was mooching and trying to restrain myself from buying too many books when I overheard the wise owner (pictured) trying to persuade a boy with his mum to start reading an Enid Blyton book. The boy was doubtful – so the owner cut a deal – he could have the first book as a free loan and if he enjoyed it he had to come back within a week and tell the owner why. The boy left the shop skipping with enthusiasm. I was smitten with this book shop and the mission the owner had to get the children reading.
This year – because of my tertianship (like a renewal year) I have had the space and time to read more. It has been a great joy rediscovering novels and books. I now feel at least half an hour quietly reading in some corner or other has become indispensable. It struck me that reading is an important contrast to the immediacy of the digital age. Films, TV, The Internet seem to have become faster – hyperstimulating – a succession of rapidly changing images – and the danger is that there is no 'breathing space' or more importantly space left for your imagination to engage with what you are consuming. With a book I find myself putting it to one side, thinking about something, mulling something else over. It is refreshing and can increase your sense of well being tremendously. Along with this rediscovered passion I have found wonderful resources on the internet such as Goodreads, The Browser and BookCrossing. In fact you can see my goodreads widgets to the left of this blog.
Here in Manvi – literacy rates are very low in the villages. So as well as attempting to convince a first-generation how important schooling is, we are also trying to do so in the English Language. For the poorest children from the remotest villages, they stay on site in hostels. That means we get an extra few hours in the evening with them. At the moment that is 'dead time' i.e. after a day in class the children sit with their books open but not really doing any productive work. So I am suggesting that we buy sets of comic books to improve their English. Good learning can also be fun and entertaining. So now, during the holiday, whilst the hostel is relatively empty, we are trialing a few different types of comics to see which type are the most engaging and hold the attention of both girls and boys. Fingers crossed this could get the children into the habit of reading for enjoyment, thus expanding their worlds. A true gift if you come from a family who have been illiterate for generations.


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Student Astronomer Reaches for Exploded Stars
News story originally written on July 22, 2002
Student astronomer Harish Khandrika of La Jolla, California has done some amazing research! This high school student has been working with Dr. Richard Rothschild of the University of California, San Diego to learn more about exploded stars called supernovae.
For his project, Harish studied a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A. He looked at gamma rays emitted by radioactive titanium from Cassiopeia A with the help of data collected by a NASA spacecraft called RXTE.
Harishs conclusion is that the supernova produced a huge amount of radioactive titanium, about 40 times the mass of Earth. He presented this project and won many awards at the San Diego Science Fair and the Intel International Science and Technology Fair.
You may wonder how a kid on Earth got started making discoveries about supernovae. Im very passionate about studying the universe, said Harish, who spent last summer searching for people who could help him follow his interest. I knocked on the doors of scientists at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) at the University of California, San Diego, to ask if anyone would be kind enough to let me work in his or her laboratory, describes Harish. Harish found Dr. Richard Rothschild who suggested he look at data from the RXTE and his research project was born!
Congratulations to Harish on his excellent research! We know he is not the only student astronomer out there. Are you a student astronomer too? Tell us about a research project you have done and we will tell you how to highlight it in our Student Projects page.


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Motion Planning for Doors and Manipulation
Ben Cohen of University of Pennsylvania has returned to the GRASP Lab after his summer internship here at Willow Garage. At Penn, Ben researches search-based methods for path planning for robotic manipulators. During his time here, he worked on two motion planners: one for door opening and one for manipulation. When compared to the door planner used in Milestone 2, the new door planner uses SBPL (Search-Based Planning Library) to give the PR2 two new capabilities. First, it allows the robot to not only push doors open, but also pull. Second, the door planner allows the robot to open doors, regardless of hinge position -- left or right side of the door. These two novel capabilities allow for robust, more universal door opening.
Additionally, Ben's work on a manipulation planner involved integrating SBPL into the move_arm ROS package, which integrates a variety of motion planners. Ben tested the SBPL planner on the PR2's arms, and added the supporting software needed to perform collision checking. With collision checking in place, SBPL can more readily handle cluttered, complex environments.
Here are Ben's end-of-summer presentation slides discussing his planning work (Download PDF from ROS.org):
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Legendary South African triathlete Conrad Stotlz, known fondly as the Caveman due to his large stature and rough and rugged ways, knows well how to dominate a triathalon.
He's a four time XTERRA Triathlon World Champion and a three time ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion and mountain biking is his strongest discipline.
In this video he shares his tips to transition from swimming to mountain biking. The Caveman shows us how to do it like a pro.
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CHEMICAL UPDATE: Turfgrass Herbicides
The chemical industry is ever-changing and new products are introduced every year, so our Chemical Updates offer a practical tool. This month's Update covers turfgrass herbicides.
The updates are in table format because this is the most practical way to take you from problem (the pest you're trying to control) to the solution (the chemical that will control the pest).
- Chemical names
We list chemicals by active ingredient because many are available in numerous brands. To see the selection of brands that use a given active ingredient, see "Herbicide sources," on page 45.
- Chemical characteristics
This section indicates whether a chemical is a pre- or post-emergent, and selective or non-selective.
Next to this section, you'll find whether the chemical is also labeled for ornamental use.
You'll then see whether a chemical is applied in granular or spray form (or both) so you can find products that fit your preferred method of application.
- Plant tolerances
This section indicates which turfgrasses are labeled as tolerant to chemicals. It includes all the major turfgrass species.
- Weeds controlled
This section comprises the bulk of the Herbicide Update. Divided into two parts — grassy weeds and broadleaf weeds — this portion of the Update provides a complete listing of chemical options for nearly all significant turfgrass weeds. Simply find the weed in the list that runs across the top of the page and then follow that column down to see which chemicals can be used against the weed.
- Suppliers and contact information
Finally, you'll see a listing of brands and suppliers for all the chemicals listed in the Update.
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You'll notice a few listings in red type. This indicates active ingredients or combinations of active ingredients that are new to the turf and ornamental market.
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In a few weeks, Wynonna Judd will head to the dance floor with professional dancer Tony Dovolani, and she's ready to tango. "I've been through an emotional rollercoaster over the last year," she said in a press release. Her husband Cactus Moser lost his leg in a motorcycle accident last summer. "I focused on being a wife and a nurse for the last seven months, and now I'm doing something for myself." She said joining the cast of Dancing With the Stars is risky and a way of stepping out of her comfort zone while "doing something that a lot of people tell me is crazy." The grueling dance rehearsals and nonstop workouts usually end up getting contestants in the best shape of their lives. On Good Morning America, Wynonna joked, "I'm trying to get back to my original weight of 8 pounds and 6 ounces." She said her favorite dance is the tango. "It is incredibly romantic and passion-filled," she said. "It is one of my favorite dances to watch."


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"Deadley" Headley Bennett, OD (born circa 1931, Kingston, Jamaica – died August 21, 2016), was a Jamaican saxophonist who performed on hundreds of recordings since the 1950's. He performed with many bands, such as: Lynn Taitt Band, The Jetts, The Mighty Vikings, The Revolutionaries, Creation Rebel or The Sheiks. He was an active session musician recording for numerous artists including: Bob Marley, The Abyssinians, Alton Ellis and Prince Far I to name a few. In the liner notes of LP's and CD's he is often referred to as Headley ''Deadly'' Bennett. Bennett attended the famed Alpha Boys School in Kingston.
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One of two women injured in a two-car collision on Chatham Parkway Tuesday has died from her injuries.
Saadia Zambrano, 43, a soldier at Fort Stewart, died Thursday in Memorial University Medical Center, Julian Miller, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman, said Friday.
Just after 2 p.m. Tuesday, West Chatham Precinct officers and the metro Major Accident Investigations Team were dispatched to Chatham Parkway for an accident. After an initial investigation it was determined the driver of a black Nissan was traveling northbound on Chatham Parkway in the right lane when she came across the southbound lanes striking a red Subaru that was traveling southbound in the right lane.
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Mortgage Rates Highest in a Year: When It's Not a Good Idea to Refinance
While mortgage rates are on the rise, that doesn't mean you should refinance.
May 30, 2013 -- intro: With fixed mortgage rates the highest in a year, homeowners may have missed the boat on the record-low mortgage rates of the last year, but there's no need to panic if you're still considering refinancing, said Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist with Freddie Mac.
"Even if rates are up half a percentage point, they are still unbelievably low," Nothaft said.
Rates are rising, says the Mortgage Bankers Association, "in response to stronger economic data and an increasing chance that the [Federal Reserve] may soon begin to taper their asset purchases." The Fed for more than a year has been buying bonds to drive down interest rates and spur the economy.
As mortgage rates rise, it's still hard to believe there were double digit 30-year mortgage rates through much of the 1980s, including 18.63 percent in Oct. 9, 1981. The lowest 30-year fixed-rate was 3.31 percent on Nov. 21, 2012.
Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.81 percent during the week that ended May 30, up nearly half a percentage point since the beginning of May when it averaged 3.35 percent. Last week, it averaged 3.59 percent and last year at this time it averaged 3.75 percent.
The 15-year rate averaged 2.98 percent, up from 2.77 percent the previous week and 2.97 percent a year ago.
Meanwhile, home prices rose the most since 2006, according to housing data released by S&P/Case-Shiller this week.
Nothaft said he had expected mortgage rates to move higher starting in the middle of this year or second half of 2013.
"I think the low rates that we had seen over the last year -- I think that will be history," he said.
He said he expects fixed mortgage rates to "hover" around 4 percent for the year. In 2014, he expects rates to be above 4 percent.
"They bounce around every single day. It's possible there will be a day this year they hit 4 percent. But on average, I think they'll hover around where they are," he said.
A drop of one percentage point used to be the rule of thumb in determining if a homeowner should refinance their mortgage, but Erin Lantz, director of Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, said the rules have changed.
"In today's low rate environment, what you want to think about are monthly potential savings," Lantz said, including the costs to refinance and how long are you planning to stay in the home.
Zillow has a refinancing breakeven calculator on its website and released a redesigned version of its mobile app on Thursday that shows government-backed refinance programs for underwater borrowers.
When asked if he had advice for homeowners considering refinancing their homes, Nothaft said if refinancing is financially attractive to homeowners now, they should submit an application to do so.
"If you're on the fence and considering refinancing, I don't think there's reason for you to wait further," he said.
Nothaft said consumers must calculate how they would feel if experts like him are wrong and rates do indeed go up half a percentage point.
"It's very difficult to outguess the unknown future. If it's attractive today, don't put it off, get it done now," he said.
Freddie Mac cautions that average fees and points reflect the total upfront cost of obtaining a mortgage, plus borrowers may pay closing costs not reflected in their survey.
The Federal Reserve offers homeowners tips about when it is not a good idea to refinance.
These include:
quicklist: title: You've had your mortgage for a long time. text: "By refinancing late in your mortgage, you will restart the amortization process, and most of your monthly payment will be credited to paying interest again and not to building equity," the Fed says.
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Paying a prepayment penalty, which some lenders charge if you pay your mortgage loan early, will increase the time it will take to break even, when you account for the costs of refinancing and the monthly savings you expect to gain.
quicklist: title: You plan to move from your home in the next year or two. text: The monthly savings gained from lower monthly payments may not exceed the costs of refinancing.


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Last week Salvation made its series debut on CBS. This Wednesday, July 19th, the series is back for the second chapter of season one when the episode "Another Trip Around The Sun" airs at 9 p.m. EST. Salvation tells the story of a team of government officials working with MIT grad student Liam Cole [Charlie Rowe] and tech-billionaire Darius Tanz [Santiago Cabrera] to stop a giant asteroid from colliding with earth.
One of those team members is press secretary for the Pentagon, Grace Barrows, played by Jennifer Finnigan. CBS Local's Matt Weiss spoke with Finnigan about her cast mates, portraying Grace and snagging an autograph from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
MW: Hey, Jennifer. How's it going?
JF: Hey Matt. I'm good, how are you?
MW: Good, good! First off I want to say congrats on the show with episode two coming out this week. One of the first things that caught my attention when I heard about the show and saw the previews was this really impressive cast you guys have pulled together. What's it been like working with such a talented group?
JF: It's really been the best. The scripts alone are extremely strong, well written, sharp, and smart. Then when you add this terrific cast, it just elevates everything. There's not one person that I don't like working with. I've been lucky enough to work with the three leading men quite often and I just enjoy my chemistry with each of them.
I feel like everybody on the show is so perfect for their character, for their part, and they just bring so much skill to it. As an actor, you always want to work with people who up your game, and every one of these cast members ups my game.
MW: Speaking of a talented group that you got to work with, you even had Neil deGrasse Tyson on set. That must have been pretty cool as well, right?
JF: I was such a nerd about it. I wasn't on set that day, I was going to go even not working, but I had an appointment, I think a doctor's appointment that I couldn't miss. So I begged [Executive Producers] Liz [Kruger] and Craig [Shapiro] to get me his autograph [laughs]. So yeah, he autographed my script.
MW: Oh, that's awesome! At least there was a happy ending to that story.
JF: Well, if we get more seasons, I hope he gets to come on every season.
MW: Yeah, put that in your contract. You have to be on set with him at least one day.
JF: [Laughs] Exactly.
MW: So your character is Pentagon press secretary Grace Barrows, what was it about her and that role that really attracted you to the project?
JF: I've always been attracted to strong roles portraying intelligent women, powerful women. I loved her warmth as well and her humanity. I've always just thought of her as the grounding force of the show. In a sense, we've all dubbed her the 'moral compass' of the show. I like that she is very much liked at her job as well by the press, she respects them, she is relatable.
I think she has a very good heart, she's a very good mother, she's brave and she's a badass. When she is faced with big decisions and important decisions she rises to the occasion. I am attracted to people who have a fearlessness and a bravery about them, and I think she does.
MW: One thing that I've noticed, there are so many story lines and potential threads that can come out of Grace's character. Obviously you've got her work with the Pentagon and trying to save the world, but then there's the side stories with her daughter and her love life. I'm really excited to see where she goes because I feel like there's a lot to her that will hopefully come out during the season.
JF: I agree. What I really loved was getting feedback from live tweeting or on Instagram from people who watch the show and who really connected with the character right off the bat. That just made me so happy, I just felt so proud, because that was exactly how I felt about her when I read the part. I just immediately connected to her. And you're right, she has multiple story lines in a sense. She threads through every episode in a professional sense and a personal sense seamlessly. We really get to know her and who she is beyond just being a press secretary or beyond being this person who is brought into the fold to "save the world."
We get to know who she is as a mom, we get to know who she is as a daughter, we get to know who she is as a woman, we see her in love. She is very multifaceted as a character and especially on network TV we don't necessarily get that. I think there are so many procedural shows that don't offer character development and for an actor, that's all you hope for.
So, that's one of the things that Liz [Kruger] and Craig [Shapiro] and the writers have done so beautifully, is not just further the story, it's not just a plot-driven show, it's really been about developing character. So, I'm with you, I can't wait to see how Grace develops over the… well, I'm almost done this season! God willing, we get another. There are just so many avenues to go down.
MW: So episode two comes out on Wednesday, what can we expect from Grace and overall in this next episode?
JF: Episode two is one of my favorite episodes of the season, in some ways I like it better than the pilot. In the pilot we had to set up the story so a lot of the pilot is plot-driven. For two, we start to see some character development. Grace is pushed to her limit in every way and she really comes through. She's always been a rule follower and Harris [Edwards] also works for the government and so they've always been connected in the sense of, okay follow the rules, and they are by the book in terms of their job.
But there is something about Darius [Tanz] that breaks the mold and that pushes her. It's a very interesting relationship that they have. In this particular episode we see it develop and I loved seeing Grace pushed beyond her limitations. I think the audience will love it too.
MW: Well, I will definitely be one of those audience members this Wednesday.
JF: Cool, good! I'm really excited for Wednesday's episode.
MW: Well thank you for the time Jennifer, it's been lovely talking to you, have a great day and good luck the rest of the way!
JF: Thanks so much, take care!
Episode two of Salvation, titled "Another Trip Around The Sun," airs Wednesday, July 19th at 9 p.m. EST. Check your local listings for more information.


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It's more important than ever for Congress to continue Senator Lautenberg's legacy.
(PRWEB) September 09, 2013
Women in the U.S. and around the world lost an unwavering champion back in June. Today, the United Nations Foundation and Planned Parenthood Federation of America are honoring the life and legacy of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg with the third annual International Family Planning Hero Award.
The myriad victories from his 30 years in Congress include fighting to maintain funding for UNFPA, which provides health care and services to women in 150 countries; helping repeal the Global Gag Rule, which barred NGOs receiving U.S. financial aid from using separately obtained non-U.S. funds to educate foreign audiences about the need for safe and legal abortion services; fighting to pass the Affordable Care Act, which gives millions of women in the U.S. access to birth control with no co-pay; and advocating for partnerships with USAID, UNFPA, Every Woman Every Child, Family Planning 2020, and other organizations that work to inform U.S. policymakers about the need for family planning services around the globe.
It's more important than ever for Congress to continue Senator Lautenberg's legacy. Reproductive health has become an increasingly political issue, and women, families and communities are suffering as a result. Worldwide, there are still more than 220 million women who want access to family planning but can't get it. Research has shown that meeting this unmet need would cut maternal mortality by 1/3 and infant mortality by up to 20%.
Those are impressive results – and increasing U.S. funding for international family planning and reproductive health programs would help turn them from numerical predictions into tangible realities. Such a funding increase would also generate savings in other development programs: every $1 invested in family planning services saves, on average, $2.64 in education, $0.25 in immunization, $1.02 in water and sanitation, and $1.68 in maternal health.
As we honor Senator Lautenberg today, let's also celebrate his outspoken commitment to helping women get the family planning and reproductive health services they need and want. Let us all speak up and tell today's Congress that providing access to voluntary family planning isn't just the right thing to do: it's the smart thing to do.
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Although Martin Luther never visited Mühlhausen, the town played an important role for him and the Reformation as the centre of the radical reform movement led by Thomas Müntzer.
Unlike Luther, Müntzer wanted to reform not only the church but also secular powers and was not afraid of using violence to this end. As the priest at St. Mary's Church in Mühlhausen, he became an agitator and leader of the peasants. The movement came to a bloody end at the Battle of Bad Frankenhausen in 1525. In that same year, Müntzer was executed outside the gates of Mühlhausen.
Now a memorial to Thomas Müntzer, St. Mary's Church hosts exhibitions and cultural events to commemorate the life and work of the reformer and leader of the peasant's revolt.
Mühlhausen, the Thuringian town known for its gates and churches, lies between Hainich National Park and the Eichsfeld region and is famous for its rich history. The historical old quarter and the town wall with towers, which you can walk along, give the town its unmistakeable charm. Volkenroda Abbey and the Vogtei Dorla open-air museum with its mysterious prehistoric sacrificial site are nearby and well worth visiting.
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Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray faced a tough choice. Should he sign a living-wage bill that would make him the darling of progressives and unions in the nation's capital, or should he veto it and cling to the opportunities for job creation in DC? The answer may well surprise readers:
District Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed legislation Thursday that would force the city's largest retailers to pay a super-minimum wage to their workers, ending two months of uncertainty over the controversial bill's fate and setting up a decisive override vote at the D.C. Council as early as Tuesday.
The debate over the bill, the Large Retailer Accountability Act, has polarized local leaders while garnering national attention and putting focus on the low wages many retail chains pay their workers.
Although the council denied it, the LRAA was squarely aimed at Walmart, long a target of both progressives and unions for their low labor compensation. The retailer had planned to open six stores in DC, and have committed funds to three of them already. The LRAA would have raised the minimum wage in DC from $8.25 an hour (a dollar more than the national rate) to $12.50 in combined wages and benefits, a 50% increase and a huge increase for existing large-footprint businesses as well as new ones.
Well, most new businesses, anyway. The LRAA included a big exemption for one particular class of employers:
The bill would require retailers with corporate sales of $1 billion or more and operating District stores of at least 75,000 square feet to pay their employees a "living wage" — no less than $12.50 an hour in combined wages and benefits. The proposal includes an exception for employers who collectively bargain with their employees, and existing employers have four years to come into compliance under the law.
This was the big payoff to the unions, and the slap at Walmart, which resists unionization. Thanks to this codicil, the grocery stores with which Walmart's new stores would have to compete would not have to incur this increase in labor costs. Either Walmart would have to facilitate unionization in its stores, or jack up prices to cover the labor costs — a rather bald payoff to Big Labor by the council.
Left unexplained, of course, is why (a) a "living-wage" requirement is only imposed on large retailers, (b) union workers don't deserve a "living wage," and (c) the council didn't just raise the minimum wage. Gray made that point in his veto:
In the letter, Gray said the bill was "not a true living-wage bill, because it would raise the minimum wage only for a small fraction of the District's workforce." He added the bill is a "job-killer," citing threats from Wal-Mart and other retailers that they will not locate to the city if the bill becomes law.
"If I were to sign this bill into law, it would do nothing but hinder our ability to create jobs, drive away retailers, and set us back on the path to prosperity for all," he said.
The council can still override the veto, but that will take nine votes. The LRAA only got eight votes in its passage last month, and the Washington Post notes that no members have publicly declared that their votes could change either way.
Walmart's Steven Restivo, senior director of communications in the retailer's Public Affairs & Government Relations office, released a celebratory statement provided to Hot Air and other members of the media:
Mayor Gray has chosen jobs, economic development and common sense over special interests – and that's good news for D.C. residents.
Now that this discriminatory legislation is behind us, we will move forward on our first stores in our nation's capital.
We look forward to finishing the work we started in the city almost three years ago: a plan to bring more jobs, shopping options and fresh food choices to Washington, D.C. residents.
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I have been watching WWE for a really long time and one guy always says "Can you dig that Sucka?" What does "sucka" mean :D ? I do not think that it is a bad word.
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A 'sucker' is a gullible fool, but sometimes it's also used as just a generic insult.


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Photo Flash: First Look at Walnut Street Theatre's VINCENT IN BRIXTON
Walnut Street Theatre's 2012-2013 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with Nicholas Wright's artful, award-winning play, VINCENT IN BRIXTON. Directed by Kate Galvin, the production opens tomorrow, February 21st and continues through March 10th in the Walnut's Independence Studio on 3. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Inspired by actual events, a young Vincent Van Gogh arrives in Brixton, England as an art dealer. He falls in love-at-first-sight with a beautiful young woman. Her mother has a room for rent, which Vincent gladly accepts. His journey of self-discovery begins as he finds genuine inspiration from his landlady, her daughter and a fellow boarder, a struggling artist who sees beauty in everyday objects. This house is full of secrets and as Van Gogh begins to see things in new ways, his destructive nature takes hold and a brilliant artist emerges.
VINCENT IN BRIXTON premiered in London at The Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in 2002. The American premiere came in 2003 when it was presented by Lincoln Center Theater at John Golden Theatre. The play was nominated for the 2003 Tony Award for Best Play and won the Olivier Award for Best Play that same year. It was also televised on BBC4 Television in 2003.
VINCENT IN BRIXTON was written by British playwright Nicholas Wright. Wright began his career in theatre as a child actor training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He was the first director of the Theatre Upstairs at London's Royal Court Theatre, where he later became joint artistic director with Robert Kidd. He joined The National Theatre as Literary Manager in 1984 and was an Associate Director until 1998. He then became a full-time playwright, with numerous works including The Reporter, The Last Duchess and his newest work, Traveling Light, which premiered in 2012.
At the helm of the production is Director Kate Galvin. Galvin returns after last season's hit production of Proof, which toured nationally after its run at the Walnut. She has directed for the 11th Hour Theatre Company and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and was assistant director for The Philadelphia Story; O Captain, My Captain: Whitman's Lincoln and The Prince at the Walnut.
The cast of VINCENT IN BRIXTON incudes Brian Cowden as Vincent Van Gogh, Liz Filios as Anna Van Gogh, John Jarboe as Sam Plowman and Mary Martello as Ursula Loyer. A University of the Arts alum, Cowden returns to the Walnut having played Oliver Nash in world premiere of The Eclectic Society. Filios was last seen in Aspects of Love and Joarboe was last seen in Love Story at the Walnut. Martello recently performed as Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man. Audiences will also remember this award-winning actress from Walnut productions of Oliver!, LES MISERABLES and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Philadelphia-based actor Clare Mahoney will make her Walnut debut as Eugenie Loyer.
Painting the portrait of Van Gogh's life before he developed as an artist is the creative team lead by Set and Lighting Designer Thom Weaver. Weaver will immerse the audience in the story from the moment they enter the kitchen at 87 Hackford Road. Costume Designer Lauren Perigard will provide lovely visions in period costumes, with the award-winning Sound Designer Daniel Perelstein and Composer Christopher Colucci creating original music to flow throughout the production.
Tickets are $30 - $40 and are now available at 215-574-3550 or 215-336-1234. Tickets are also available at WalnutStreetTheatre.org or Ticketmaster.com.Photo Credit: Mark Garvin
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Snap o' the Day: Beer bong at DMB
A Dave Matthews Band fan in the John Paul Jones Arena parking lot speedily downs a pre-concert beverage Saturday, courtesy of a beer bong.
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Mom would be proud! I'm sure the guy wished you got his face. What a hero!
um, jennyo, that's in the parking lot. dakota, get a grip. deep breaths.
Kudos on encouraging the binge drinking.
Truly an example for us all to follow...
UVA is making a big mistake with how they are handling alcohol sales at JPJ. It's one thing to sell alcohol in a confined area but to allow patrons to take aluminum bottles back to their seats is asking for trouble. Evidently, whoever made this decision has never been to an event where these bottles were used to express patrons unhappiness with an event.
Sure, punish everyone for the stupid behavior of a few.
Where are the vodka shots?
So there are beer sales at JPJ Arena then? Ill be there for Phish this weekend. At alot of universities arenas & pavillions & whatnot, there are usually no alcohol sales (ie. UIC Pavillion).
I tell ya , somebody remind my of the PRESTIGE UVA used to hold .
Hello MOM , all is well , I can hit the beer bong on on campus and be a hero in the local rag , if you wish you can grab a beautiful young woman right off the street and have your way with her . It's not like UVA can make that go away FAST . We got the fox guarding the henhouse . All is good in the EMPIRE !
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Football fans driving toward Autzen Stadium this fall will see a medieval-style stone wall running along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard until it meets a six-story, obsidianlike outcropping that is the new University of Oregon Football Operations Center.
As fans drive along � depending on the light � they�ll see the dark new building eclipsing the giant yellow �O� on Autzen Stadium that for years has branded the sports complex.
�Architects don�t leave a lot of things to chance. They probably were very cognizant of the fact that (the O) would get obscured,� said Randy Nishimura, a Eugene architect and devoted Ducks fan.
�It�s Darth Vaderish Death Star. It�s this ominous or intimidating dark empire that Oregon has created.�
What is the image-conscious Phil Knight � the Nike co-founder whose money is behind all the work � his architect Gene Sandoval and the UO football program trying to project with the expanded and revamped complex that construction crews are pushing to complete as the football season approaches?
Dominance? Impenetrability?
And how does that fit the winningest football program in the Pac-12 since 2010? Those questions will come to the fore this summer as the buildings near completion � in time for the Aug. 31 season opener against Nicholls State.
The change to the Autzen complex is radical.
�It�s going to be very similar to the federal courthouse,� UO architecture professor Michael Fifield said, referring to the metal-clad structure that opened on the edge of downtown Eugene in 2006. �It�s going to be something people are going to talk about.�
Architects cartainly are talking about it.
The basalt wall along MLK Boulevard is one of the most striking elements. It�s 3 feet thick and made up of stacks of columnar basalt. On the west end it�s 6� feet tall, stepping up to a dozen feet high at the east.
There�s not a chink anywhere for the public to glimpse the practice fields that lie behind it.
The �long, massive black basalt wall leads the eye towards the �ber-geometry of the building, as it appears to be an obsidian outcropping resting on the bedrock foundation of the football program,� Eugene architect Paul Dustrud said.
The new operations center consists of two buildings � joined with a double-decker sky bridge � and they appear to be made of black, shiny rectangular blocks. Their black glass is a throwback to the �70s and �80s.
�It was a fad or a trend back then to have a sleek and uniform appearance,� Nishimura said. Today it�s �almost a video game mentality.
�Oregon has become known as a program that�s intimidating and sleek.�
The designers created a cohesive motif, Dustrud said, by painting the adjacent Moshofsky and Casanova centers black; until recently, they were light-colored and adorned with green O�s. Last week, workmen in cherry pickers hung black metal grilles � all fashioned with tiny O�s � all over the blackened buildings.
�A little elitist�
While eye-catching to people driving or walking by, there remains a hush of secrecy over the complex. Athletic Department officials decline to say anything about the new buildings going up around their ears.
Phil Knight�s Phit Too company leased the site from the university for the duration of construction, and he has pledged to donate the buildings to the UO when construction is done. Just how much Knight is spending on the work is unclear, although a figure of $68 million often is quoted.
�There will be a media availability when the football operations building opens in early August,� spokesman Andy McNamara said.
The coaches� offices in the new building are four stories high. Sandoval has said that he was thinking of a �cloister� concept.
Under former head coach Chip Kelly, practices were closed; he disclosed little about player injuries and often was reluctant to talk to reporters. Players say they must get department approval before saying anything to the news media.
The new construction seems to reflect and intensify that black-ops approach.
From the sidewalk in front of the �teaching box� building, black glass obscures the view inside, except for the flicker of a winged O across an enormous video screen inside.
Coach Mark Helfrich will be stationed in the master sky suite, six stories up, with a commanding view of the Autzen complex.
�It does feel like it�s a little elitist,� said Will Dixon, architect and president of the American Institute of Architects of Southwestern Oregon. �It�s like if you are in the club, then you can get to the nice rooms up there.�
It reminds Brian Libby, an architecture blogger and author of �The University of Oregon Football Vault,� of the design of Nike�s headquarters in Beaverton. There, a berm obscures the public�s view of the company�s �beautiful architecture,� Libby said.
�When you�re standing outside, you know there are beautiful buildings there, but you feel like it�s turning its back to the community.
�The Football Operations Center can be beautiful and very environmentally impressive,� Libby said. �I hope it won�t seem like a castle that�s telling its neighbors across the street or down the street to keep their distance.�
�Some pimpin� facilities�
The new center targets many audiences, including talented football prospects who come to visit the UO before deciding where they will attend college.
And who better knows the taste of teenage males than Nike?
�Recruits will see the ambition that building communicates,� Libby said. �This is a complex that aspires to demonstrate that Oregon is at the top of the top when it comes to football programs and their facilities.�
�It�s strange to think of building a multimillion-dollar building like this so 17-year-olds will be impressed. But at the same time, if you�re going to compete at the high levels of college football, this is the arms race that you sign up for.�
Check YouTube to see how football players like the Knight-built facilities, and especially the video titled �The University of Oregon Has Some Pimpin� Facilities.� (Beware, however, of the rap sound track that features language some might find objectionable.)
Dustrud likes the look.
�Some people may say that it is too imposing. But I would say that on the scale of the work � in relation to the rest of the facilities and stadium � it is inspiring and not particularly out of scale, especially when the new forest flanking the northern slope of Autzen is installed,� he said.
Part of Knight�s plan is indeed to build a forest on that slope, called Zen North. The forest will feature hundreds of trees.
Workmen have finished pouring three broad new stairways, on the east, north and west sides of Autzen Stadium. Brooks are set to babble over moss-covered stones along the stairs.
Building an empire
Libby, who counts the Star Wars movies among his favorites, said the design of the football center might signal a change in narrative for the Ducks. In the movies, Luke Skywalker was a fighter in the rebellion against the repressive empire.
�I always think of Oregon as the rebels, the underdogs,� said Libby, watcher of games at Autzen since childhood. �Coming on the heels of so much success under coach Kelly, this building does give us reason to ask: Are we the rebels anymore? Or are we becoming the empire?�
The Ducks and their fans have long sported an aggressive streak.
The new soccer-lacrosse stadium next to Autzen features black garbage cans. On the top is a logo that features a big green Duck tossing a small, dead or unconscious orange Beaver into a trash can.
The ring around the logo says �Trash. Garbage. Beavers.�
Football fans turn up at Autzen Stadium wearing black �Sons of Oregon� sweat shirts, a take on the popular cable television series about a violent motorcycle gang. The logo features the Duck as the grim reaper, complete with scythe.
As interpreted by some national observers, the Oregon Ducks are going from underdogs to excess.
Oregon players �enjoy every imaginable creature comfort, technological advance and fashion indulgence,� ESPN said.
�Nobody needs a 130,000-square-foot football operations center; that is more than 1,500 square feet per scholarship player,� Sports Illustrated wrote. �But you better believe that recruits will love it.�
As part of the current upgrade, the football Ducks have for the first time a full-size, outdoor synthetic practice field.
With little fanfare, other Duck athletic teams have gained two new buildings on the Autzen perimeter.
One was the PK Player Development Center, an indoor artificial turf field practice area and outdoor batting cages for baseball. The women�s soccer and lacrosse teams got a 1,000-seat stadium named for Randy and Susie Pap� and paid for by Phil and Penny Knight.
The 12,000-square-foot structure features maple lockers for each player, and a team room with 55-inch flat screen televisions and leather easy chairs for every athlete.
A larger-than-life rendering of Puddles, the Duck Mascot, graces the team room�s wall. In one of its pupils, subtle images of Phil and Penny Knight are reflected.
�The ring is the thing�
Fans are waiting to see what Knight does next for the Ducks. Do the new, expansive, forested corridors of egress from the north side of Autzen Stadium presage the long-anticipated major expansion, adding up to 12,000 seats to the 54,000-capacity stadium (now 60,000 counting standing room)?
Will the softball team get a facility to match its national standing? Will there be an indoor track? What else will fit at the 72-acre Autzen area?
�There�s actually a lot of open space over there,� Fifield said.
Knight is rich enough and powerful enough to get it done.
Last year, he persuaded Gov. John Kitzhaber to call the Legislature into special session to pass a measure financially benefiting Nike. He�s chairman of a company that has $25 billion a year in sales. His own wealth tops $14 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
The Knights� largesse has helped make several Duck programs into perennial national title contenders, Nishimura said.
�His whole goal, probably, is to set Oregon up so it�s bigger than any one person. It�s one of the blue bloods of the college football world � like an Alabama or a Michigan or Ohio State.�
More traditional Duck fans, less enamored with Nike, might set their qualms aside, just as they did when the UO turned the Ducks� green-and-yellow uniforms into varying shades of gray and black.
�The blackness of the Ducks, be it their uniforms or now in their buildings, is going a little bit too much in the intimidating direction for me,� Libby said.
�I�d rather see a transparent building and green-and-yellow uniforms. But if you ask me what I want most of all, it�s a national championship.
�The ring is the thing.�


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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Forget brains: Athletes get better jobs
Here's some career advice. Stop obsessing about how smart you are. Instead, get some exercise and you'll perform better at work– athletes do better in the workplace than non-athletes. This advice is true in a wide range of scenarios– across age groups, job descriptions, and types of exercise.
Athletes make more money because their self-confidence and competitive nature make them choose jobs that pay more money, according to author James Shulman. ``This happens in every group of athletes from the liberal arts colleges to big-time sports," he says. "It's not affected or skewed by a few people winning million-dollar NFL contracts or anything like that."
Another reason athletes make more money is that they fit in better in today's workplace, which values emotional intelligence over academic intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ``soft skills" that enable smooth running interpersonal relationships at work– such as the ability to read people's nonverbal cues and the ability to manage oneself within a team.
These skills are not taught in a classroom; however, someone with athletic experience is likely to have picked them up. ``Sports teach workplace values like teamwork, shared commitment, decision-making under pressure, and leadership," says Jennifer Crispen, a professor at Sweet Briart.
Also, playing sports helps people succeed because it teaches skills such as ``time management, mental toughness, and focus," says David Czesniuk, manager at Northeastern's Center for the Study of Sport in Society.
This is especially true for women. ``Eighty-one percent of women executives played organized team sports growing up," says Crispen. These women attribute their success, in part, to the fact that they learned the values that playing sports teaches.
Elite colleges are aware of this connection, which explains why it's easier for athletes to get into the Ivy League. And employers know that athletes have an advantage in the workplace, so HR managers like to see candidates with athletic experience.
For athletes, this is great news. Non-athletes should stop complaining about the unfair advantage, and instead take steps to appropriate some of the advantages of being an athlete. Here are some ideas for getting started:
If you're in school, join a team and approach it with dedication, because that's an integral part of your education. The career benefits of being an athlete are not necessarily related to talent; they have to do with focus and commitment. So get some.
If you're out of school, there are still opportunities to join teams that cater to adult beginners. But if you can't image doing that, at least go to the gym. It's no coincidence that two thirds of female business executives and 75 percent of all chief executives exercise regularly, Crispen says. While you do not gain team-oriented benefits from individual exercise, you do cultivate business essentials such as self-discipline, goal setting, and self-confidence.
In fact, exercise in the morning notably improves workplace performance that very day, according to research from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Research has shown that good-looking people make more money than ugly people. Before you hem and haw about beauty being in the eye of the beholder, just go to the gym. You know good-looking when you see it, and you know ugly when you see it, and a body that's been exposed to regular exercise at the gym is probably not ugly. You might not get that whole 14 percent of extra pay, but your career is going to benefit one way or another if you exercise regularly. #


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IWA-MS June 4, 2005 "Whatever It Takes" - Plymouth, IN - 2 DISC SET
1. Chandler McClure vs Mike Wallace
2. Eddie Kingston vs Arik Cannon
3. Brad Bradley & Trik Davis vs Vito & Sal Thomaselli
4. Delirious vs Brandon Thomaselli
5. Matt Sydal vs Josh Abercrombie
6. Chris Hero vs Danny Daniels
7. Claudio Castagnoli vs Billy Gunn
IWA Mid-South DVD June 11, 2005 "Something To Prove" - Philadelphia, PA - 3 DISC SET
1. IWA Mid-South Documentary
2. Delirious vs. Josh Abercrombie
3. CM Punk vs. Homicide
4. MsChif vs. Allison Danger vs. Mickie Knuckles
5. Tracy Smothers vs. Claudio Castagnoli with Jade Chung
6. Tables Match - Eric Priest & Chad Austin vs. Davey Andrews & Shane Hagadorn vs. Eddie Kingston & BJ Whitmer vs. Ryan Boz & Trik Davis vs. B-Boy & Brandon Thomaselli vs. Sal & Vito Thomaselli
7. Bad Breed (Ian & Axl Rotten) & Nate Webb vs. Toby Klein, Mad Man Pondo & JC Bailey
8. Gauntlet Match featuring Arik Cannon, Danny Daniels, Chris Hero & Jimmy Jacobs
9. Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher (wow, must see match)
10. Bonus Match 8/1/03 - Necro Butcher vs. Toby Klein
11. Bonus Match 5/4/02 - Ian Rotten vs. Chris Hero
IWA Mid-South DVD "Its Clobberin Time" June 17, 2005 Midlothian, IL
1. Mark Wolf vs Chandler McClure
2. The Iron Saints (Vito & Sal Thomaselli) vs Trik Davis & Ryan Boz
3. Brad Bradley vs Eric Priest
4. "Spyder" Nate Webb vs Marek Brave
5. Delirious vs Tyler Black
6. Mickie Knuckles vs Rain
7. Alex Shelley vs Arik Cannon
8. Josh Abercrombie vs Brandon Thomaselli
9. Jimmy Jacobs vs Danny Daniels
10. CM Punk vs Jerry Lynn
IWA Mid-South DVD "A New Beginning" June 18, 2005 Hammond, IN -
1. Mark Wolf vs CJ Otis
2. Danny Daniels vs Trik Davis
3. No DQ Match: Rain vs Mickie Knuckles
4. Brad Bradley vs Eddie Venom
5. 2 out of 3 falls: Matt Sydal vs Josh Abercrombie
6. Eric Priest vs Chandler McClure
7. Ryan Boz & Trik Davis vs Eric Priest & Chandler McClure
8. Marek Brave vs "Spyder" Nate Webb
9. Sal & Vito Thomaselli vs Brandon Thomaselli & Tyler Black
10. Arik Cannon vs Chad Collyer
11. Sabu vs Ian Rotten
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The Value of Creating a Customer-Centric Social Media Strategy
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This is why I want you to read this…
I have good news and bad news for you when it comes to your Social Media Strategy:
The Bad News – Social Media, in general, doesn't function very well as a marketing and sales channel.
The Good News – Social Media is a great way to make things happen indirectly.
The problem that many companies have with their Social Media efforts is that they are trying to turn these personal communication tools into marketing channels, instead of understanding and accepting how their customers actually use these tools.
The companies that typically understand how their customers use these tools and craft their Social Media strategy accordingly, tend to have better results.
Source: The Value of Creating a Customer-Centric Social Media Strategy | MackCollier.com – Social Media Training and Consulting
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Journalism volunteers needed in Bolivia
Back in June a Projects Abroad teaching volunteer, Scott Liddle, began a small newspaper with his students from the Linguistics Department at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon while on placement in Cochabamba. The newspaper he designed, the Cocha-Banner, was a mixture of short stories, poetry, letters and reviews. What began as a University project has now turned into an ongoing monthly publication run by volunteers and staff from Projects Abroad.
The Director of Projects Abroad - Bolivia, Daniela Viljoen told us: 'What makes The Cocha-Banner special is that it is not only written by native English speakers, but also by local Cochabambinos, who are eager to publish some of their own work. It is the only cultural and informative paper of its kind in Bolivia passed around cafés, pubs, restaurants and schools.written entirely in English!
As a volunteer working on our Journalism Project, you will be involved in many different aspects of print journalism such as advertising, writing and editing articles, distribution, promoting, designing layout and much more. Projects Abroad volunteers will also have the opportunity to work alongside local reporters at Los Tiempos, the biggest newspaper in Cochabamba. This provides every volunteer with a unique experience of freelance reporting.
Volunteers interested in photography and design, are also welcome to join our project.


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There's a big fight over a new study comparing public and private sector compensation in California. That fight is part of a larger battle over whether pension benefits are too generous for public workers here.
What struck me is what lessons the study had for the private sector in California. In particular, the study found far greater inequality in the private sector than in the public sector in the state, even when controlling for different kinds of jobs. Low-level and service workers were paid less in the private sector than they are for comparable work in the public sector in California. And highly-skilled and education workers -- those on the top end -- are paid far more in the private sector than the public sector.
This begs the question: what lessons could the private sector learn from the public sector about salaries? Because these findings on the private sector show evidence of two serious problems. The first is that working families in the private sector aren't making enough to make ends meet. The second is that pay at the highest levels of the private sector rises without any connection to performance or value creation for shareholders in private companies. The public sector seems to have solved some of these problems.
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Of course, public and private are by their nature different animals, but a study like this should be the start of a big conversation about compensation across the board, instead of a narrow one about public pension benefits.


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JobbeschreibungCzech speaking Account Manager wanted for a big player in the promotional goods sector here in Dundalk, Ireland. We're looking for a near native Czech speaker with excellent English to join the team and improve relationships with clients in the Czech Market.
This is a Monday-Friday sales position where you can expect to earn €24,000 gross per year and be paid on a weekly basis along with up to €300 - €400 gross per week on a commission basis.
Your Tasks:
- You will be working on improving the company and client relationships via hands-on account management.
- You will be dealing with existing clients (hot and cold) ensuring that issues and queries are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Through account management, you will be able to take advantage of both up-selling and cross-selling – ensuring that you hit your revenue targets on a weekly/monthly and yearly basis.
Our Client:
Work for a big player in the selling of promotional goods sector – serving over 20 countries in the B2B sector, this is a truly international company where you can grow your sales career. Work in an exciting and diverse multicultural environment here in Dundalk, Ireland today!
Main Requirements:
You will need the following in order to qualify for this job:
- Near native Czech
- Good level of English
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- Previous Telesales and/or inside sales experience (6-12 months)
- Highly motivated
- Customer Focussed
- Skilled negotiator
- Working hours will be Monday-Friday
Where is the job located?
Dundalk – Ireland – Dundalk is a town in County Louth – right in the middle of 2 great cities in Ireland (Dublin & Belfast). Dundalk has all you could need – you will never be bored with the Marshes shopping centre, horse and greyhound racing events and outdoor activities like Carlingford adventure centre. Don't forget there is a beach near too.
Interview & Salary:
Firstly, there will be a phone screening and an online assessment. If you are successful you will be invited for an in-depth interview with the sales manager where you will take part in a role-play scenario to see how you get on with your sales skills.
Salary: You can earn €24,000 gross per annum (you will be paid weekly) and you can expect to earn between €300 - €400 gross per week in commission.
There is a relocation package on offer for those who need it. The company will reimburse your flights up to €150 and pay for 4 nights' accommodation.
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Whether snorted, eaten, injected or smoked, cocaine is potentially deadly and no one can predict a fatal dose. Here are some perils of long-term, unresolved cocaine addiction and even short-term abuse in some cases.
- Necrosis in nasal tissue. Snorted cocaine causes constriction of blood vessels; too much constriction means that tissue is being deprived of oxygen, which can lead to cell death.
- Seizure.
- Arrhythmia, heart attack and stroke. Cocaine puts an enormous burden on your cardiovascular system, dramatically elevating a user's heart rate. Even recovered addicts face a likelihood of heart attack seven times higher than the average person. Risk of heart attack is substantially more elevated in the hours after taking a dose of cocaine.
- Respiratory failure.
- Kidney damage failure.
- Serious infection or contraction of HIV/AIDS from contaminated needles.
- Circulatory embolism from insoluble elements cutting the injected cocaine.
Cocaine is seen by many especially wannabe high flyers – as a hip, glamorous drug but true addicts are not burdened by those delusions, as they desperately focused on how to score their next fix.
Here are some ways to recognize cocaine addiction.
Constantly runny nose. Snorting cocaine can lead to rhinitis, a fancy term for the inflammation of the nasal membranes. Consequently, people who snort cocaine often have an uncontrollably runny nose. In addition to runniness, addicts often suffer nosebleeds or even a loss of their sense of smell.
Pronounced fluctuations in mood and energy levels. When high on cocaine, an addict experiences a rush characterized by hyperactive tendencies, euphoria (as mentioned above), fidgetiness and elevated heart rate. Cocaine highs produce these effects in varying length and amplitude, depending upon how the cocaine is ingested.
But cocaine abuse physically alters the brain's ability to register pleasure by any other means than gradually escalating doses of the drug. Inevitably, the high gives way to an equally powerful low, characterized by irritability, lethargy and depression.
Sleeping problems. Cocaine addiction can lead to insomnia or oversleeping.
Paranoia and psychosis. Chronic abuse of cocaine can cause the user to become paranoid and anxiety-ridden or even spiral into hallucination and psychotic episodes.
Sexual clues. Cocaine users often report heightened libido, but cocaine abuse can also cause erectile dysfunction and impotence.
Grinding teeth. There's even a term for compulsive tooth grinding – "bruxism." This nervous tendency is a common consequence of smoking cocaine.
Short breath. Someone who smokes crack may suffer from shortness of breath due to lung damage from the smoke. No matter how it is ingested, cocaine raises your heart rate enough that, to keep enough oxygen pumping through the veins, a person often feels shortness of breath.
Hot and cold flashes. Cocaine abuse compromises our ability to regulate body temperature.
Weight loss. Cocaine acts as an appetite suppressant, to such an extent that some addicts ultimately suffer from malnutrition.
Needle tracks. A cocaine addict who injects the drug intravenously typically has a track of needle pricks visible on the forearm. Addicts often resort to wearing long-sleeved shirts even on ridiculously hot days in their efforts to hide the evidence of their cocaine addiction.
These observable characteristics do not necessarily indicate addiction to cocaine, but where several of the observations can be made, cocaine addiction is a distinct possibility. Successful treatment is an individualised process, but the first step is identifying the problem and encouraging the addict to find help.
Mr Monkey wonders if bloggers recognise any of the above signs, in thier local councillor perhaps?


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So you want a trillion dollar platinum coin? Ok: here are some facts:
- Platinum has traditionally been the most valuable precious metal for one simple reason: it is rare.
- It is so rare, that all the platinum ever mined could fit into a 25 cubic foot box.
- The weight of that box comes out to just over 16 tons: this is how much platinum has been mined since the start of time.
- A coin valued at $1 trillion and made out of platinum would, at today's price of $1557/ounce, weigh in at 642.3 million ounces.
- 642.3 million ounces is also roughly 18 thousand tons, or about 1100 times more than all the platinum mined.
In other words, putting a coin that is worth $1 trillion in perspective to all the platinum ever mined, would look something like this:
Now, putting the sheer legal idiocy of the proposal aside, and CNBC's John Carney has written a good article about why it is indeed, legal idiocy, the simple reality is that for this retarded idea to work, there has to be some justifiability, or even remote credibility of the "legal tender" backing the value. Sadly as the chart above shows, there can't possibly be such justifiability.
Or can there?
Remember, as we said, the chart above is indicative of reality at today's prices. So if the Treasury plans on literally coming up with ridiculous laws, what is there to prevent it from merely coining a one ounce, or half an ounce, or one gram Platinum coin and assigning it the value of $1 trillion.
Sure it can. There is a problem with that, however: it is called currency devaluation and is also what FDR did with executive order 6102 when he confiscated America's gold - he basically devalued the US Dollar by well over half overnight (which, for all those curious, is the endgame in the current depression also, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it).
In other words, when one strips away with all the rhetoric, all the advocates of this insidiously stupid idea which gets a new life every time there is a debt ceiling crisis, are doing, is arguing for a massive devaluation of the dollar: because for the trillion dollar coin idea to be even remotely plausible, the price of Platinum, and by implication the entire precious metals complex, would have to go up by a factor of some 1,100.
It also means the value of the paper US currency would have to go down by 1,100.
Which, by the way, is precisely what all those who wish for the Fed to continue funding America's unprecedented spending binge, which can never be satisfied by taxes alone, are hoping for.
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As everyone knows, opening this weekend is director Gary Ross' The Hunger Games. Based on Suzanne Collins novel and produced by Nina Jacobson, the film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Wes Bentley , Alexander Ludwig, Isabelle Fuhrman and Amandla Stenberg. For more on the film, here's three clips and six minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, as well as all our previous coverage.
During the recent Los Angeles press junket, I landed an exclusive interview with director Gary Ross, who did an awesome job on the movie. Since he's been doing so much press recently, I tried to ask new questions like what's his favorite movie, director and actor, why he chose to shoot the movie with a lot of close-ups, the studio's reaction to that decision, deleted scenes, editing, sequences that were difficult to cut, the sequel Catching Fire, and a lot more. Hit the jump to either read or listen to the interview.
As usual, I'm offering two ways to get the interview: you can either click here for the audio, or the full transcript is below. The Hunger Games opens this weekend and it's definitely worth your time.
Steve: Do you have a favorite movie, actor and director?
Gary Ross: God, a favorite? No. I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched. Obviously I love The Godfather movies, I think they're phenomenal.
Even the third?
Ross: No (laughs). I really don't like the third. I meant the first two. I love A Bicycle Thief. I love almost all of Stanley Kubrick, there's almost no Stanley Kubrick I don't love. I love Lolita, I love Dr. Strangelove. I love A Clockwork Orange, obviously. I even like a lot of Barry Lyndon (laughs). And early stuff, like The Killing and Paths of Glory.
He's on another level.
Ross: It's ridiculous. Look, he made the best comedy ever, he may have made one of the best science fiction movies ever, he made the best horror movie ever. I couldn't watch the end of The Shining. I went through half The Shining for years before I could finish, because I'm a writer and as soon as he starts writing "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," I had to turn it off. It's almost like Picasso in that he mastered so many different genres.
It's also because he spent a lot of time in between each project, really fine-tuning each thing.
Ross: Yeah exactly, he took his time and patience and he had a crew of like 18 people. They were very handmade movies these were not large behemoths that he did; they were very thoughtful and his editing process was long. He's kind of without peer really. If I was gonna settle on a director, probably Kubrick.
What's interesting is, you shot this movie with a lot of close-ups. You chose an aesthetic and went with it. What was the motivation for that aesthetic and did you sort of tell the studio, 'I'm planning on shooting it this way?' or were they surprised when they saw the dailies?
Ross: Well it's also very handheld. There's also a lot of vérité in it; that was really intentional. I'm trying to capture what was visceral in the books, which is your first-person present tense narrative, and that's gonna require a certain amount of subjectivity. In order to be in Katniss' point of view and in her shoes—what being in a character's point of view is, is restricting the information that the audience has to what that character has, and not being writer omniscient. I'm not cutting from place-to-place, I'm moving in this serpentine, destabilized path as Katniss wanders through this world. That's not only true in the shooting style, it's also true in the editing style. My editors are Stephen Mirrione who cut Babel and Biutiful and Juliette Welfling who cut The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and all the Jacques Audiard films, The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet and stuff like that. This was a very conscious decision to create a very subjective style because the books are so subjective, they're first-person and they're urgent and you see the world as she sees the world, so that was the reason for it.
As far as the studio's concerned, I made a little short film with some references in the beginning when I got the gig, and I was very clear what I was gonna do. Part of it was to get the job, but the other thing was if I was gonna get the job, I wanted them to know what this movie was going to be. I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the Hunger Games. Especially with this premise, it had to feel very, very real and it had to feel urgent, so it was a true use of the word vérité, it had to feel true.
I would imagine that this is going to be a big hit and fans are gonna really love this thing. Have you signed on officially for the next film?
Ross: I am attached to the next film and I'm intending to do it, I haven't had a chance to think about it yet. So many people ask me adaptation questions or 'Who's gonna play so-and-so?' I literally finished this movie Tuesday at midnight, I finished color timing, and then I went into the junket a day later, so it's not like I've had a chance to think about Catching Fire but yeah it's my intention to do the next one. They've asked me to do so.
I know you're not thinking about the next one yet, but do you envision the next one being a similar aesthetic?
Ross: I think that there may be some aesthetic departures from what I did here, but I don't wanna talk about them yet not because I'm being evasive, but just because they're so half-baked I wouldn't be doing myself justice in the process if I talked about them prematurely, but I think there may be some differences, yeah.
I definitely wanna ask you about deleted scenes, did you lose a lot of stuff?
Ross: No, there weren't many scenes that I shot that were cut. There were some things from the book that I wanted to put in that I couldn't, like the Avox subplot, where they came from, things like that. There weren't many scenes [that I cut], there were a few scenes, but I don't kind of believe in the whole 'Director's Cut' thing, because this is the director's cut, the thing I'm doing. There isn't another version of the movie that I would've done, this is my version of the movie that I really intended to do. I think there'll be a lot of cool supplemental materials on the DVD, but I don't think I'll be putting in other scenes that got dropped.
When you get this gig, and you sign on, a lot of people are like Twilight/The Hunger Games, did you call anyone involve with Twilight and say 'What am I about to get myself into?'
Ross: (laughs) No, no. When I came on, the book had only sold only like a million or two million copies, so it hadn't become the behemoth it is today. I think it's great that this many people relate to it, I mean I did too. I think we've done a very original yet faithful adaptation of the book. I don't feel weird about it; I mean I feel glad about it. I made the movie I wanted to make.
A lot of directors I speak with talk about one sequence they thought was going to be really hard and then they got it done super quick, and then the sequence they figure is gonna be super easy and they work on it in the editing room for nine months? Did you experience any of that?
Ross: Totally. Some things that I thought were going to be really, really difficult I had prepped so much for that they fell in so nicely, like the Tracker Jacker sequence or even The Reaping. They're so unimaginably difficult with the number of axes you're shooting and what the storytelling is, like The Reaping is eight pages and you need to cover it so specifically. The Tracker Jacker scene is basically vertically configured over 80 feet in a tree and we're really in the trees and Jen's really climbing the tree with harnesses on, and the crew's hanging out of trees and scaffolding and stuff like that, so they were very, very daunting in the run-up to them, in the prep, but they actually fell in very easy—and the fire sequence—'cause we were ready for them.
Other stuff, it's always like a three-page dialogue scene where you just kind of get in there, and I don't remember anything in particular, but none of this was actually that hard. We were so prepped, it wasn't like I ever got in the weeds and felt buried on any particular day. Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. But to be actually honest with you, this thing was a blast to shoot and it wasn't bad. It was very difficult physically, but I felt pretty clear. I mean I had a great time doing it, I really did. I didn't ever feel in the weeds, and I have felt in the weeds before, and I didn't on this one.
For more Hunger Games interviews from the recent Los Angeles press junket:
Jennifer Lawrence Talks The Hunger Games, the Mall Tour, Director Gary Ross, and More
Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth Talk The Hunger Games, the Sequels, and More
Producer Nina Jacobson Talks The Hunger Games, Sequels, the Violence, and More
Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz and Wes Bentley Interview The Hunger Games
Donald Sutherland The Hunger Games Interview
Alexander Ludwig, Isabelle Fuhrman and Amandla Stenberg Interview The Hunger Games


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Solar Engineer Vincent Nnanna is the pioneer solar cooker advocate in Benin Republic. He has conducted a series of workshops teaching youth and educational institutions how to make their own solar cookers. He has conducted workshops with selected science students of the Nigerian International Schools, Cotonou in conjunction with students of Laurel International Schools with facilities provided by the Chinese Cultural Centre, Cotonou. He has worked with Canadian Youths (sans frontiers) to do a successful workshop at Bohicon near Cotonou with Ed Carswel. He has also held some solar-talk shop with members of the English Language club at the American Cultural Centre, Cotonou. His most recent outing was a workshop at Vogan, some 60 kilometers from Lome, the Togolese capital. The workshop was hosted by Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement in collaboration with the Ministries of Health, Energy and Environment of the republic of Togo. Vincent has built over 350 solar boxes, CooKits and parabolic ovens for distribution to the public.
News and recent developmentsEdit
- August 2011: Vincent holds another solar cooker training session with students of IFEMBA INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY, Ohafia in Abia State Nigeria. Pictures show the happy members of SAGE Club displaying the cookit they produced with local materials. Another picture shows some of the students enjoying some tea and coffee with biscuits prepared with their own cook-kits.
- April 2011: Solar Cooker Ambassador Vincent NNANNA based in the Republic of Benin moved to Abia State Nigeria and collaborated with the Zonal Education Board Abia North to conduct solar Cooker workshops in secondary schools within the area. This week, the tour will continue to schools in Isuikwuato and Bende Local Government Areas. Pictures and videos will soon follow. The response has been tremendous as students share with great enthusiasm. The Sunshine Song is spreading like wildfire. Vincent NNANNA has been conducting solar cooker workshops around the West coast of Africa since 1998.
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- July 2004: Solar Cooker Review
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Fourth spacewalk to repair solar array
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are preparing for a spacewalk to repair one of the Station's solar arrays. The fourth spacewalk of the STS-120 mission is scheduled to take place on Saturday.
Two tears – one around 80-cm length and a second smaller one – appeared in one of the P6 solar arrays during deployment on Tuesday. The array is currently providing power, but to ensure that it receives no further damage, it needs to be fully extended. Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Douglas Wheelock will conduct the spacewalk.
During the spacewalk Parazynski will stand on the end of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, the Shuttle's robotic arm extension, attached to the Station's robotic arm to access a damaged solar array.
Douglas Wheelock will provide guidance to the arm operators, Daniel Tani and Stephanie Wilson, while they manoeuvre Parazynski into position. ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will coordinate activities from inside the Space Station, acting as Intra Vehicular (IV) astronaut.
The Station and Shuttle crews are now busy preparing for the spacewalk; this includes studying procedures and crafting tools for use during the spacewalk. A backup EVA on Sunday is possible if the repair is not successful or incomplete.
A fifth spacewalk originally planned to take place during the STS-120 mission has now been postponed until after Space Shuttle Discovery has departed.
An assessment is underway to determine if there is any potential impact to the launch date of Columbus, currently targeted for 6 December.