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'Macabre Vignettes III: Snow' opens tonight. Here are the details:
What: Journey through a dark, snowy forest where larger-than-life raven and spider marionettes hand you paper flowers, where beautiful fairies flitter and dancers divert you with their sparkling movement. This theatrical installation of dance, puppetry and sculpture comes from Voci Dance and Tamara Marke-Lares, whose design sketch for one of the tableaux is pictured at left. Also on view around the performance space: Animal-like sculptural costumes inspired by fables and galleries of odd dolls, bizarre etchings and curiosities — with everything immersed in theatrical snow.
When: 8 p.m. today, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday
Where: Urban ReThink, 625 E. Central Blvd., Orlando
Tickets: $20, cash at the door
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Born in New York City on 6 February 1941, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bernard Rogers. Following composition lessons in Stockholm with Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Albert studied with Joseph Castaldo at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (BM 1962); in 1963 he worked with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania.
Stephen Albert won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his symphony RiverRun, and from 1985 to 1988 served as composer-in-residence with the Seattle Symphony. He received commissions from the Chicago, National, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Seattle symphonies, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Library of Congress. Among his other awards and honors were two MacDowell Colony fellowships, a Huntington Hartford Fellowship, two Guggenheim fellowships, two Rome Prizes, and grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Alice M. Ditson Foundation.
From 1988 to the time of his death, he was professor of composition at the Juilliard School of Music. He had also taught in the Lima, Ohio public schools (under a Ford Foundation grant as composer-in-residence), and at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (1968-70), Stanford University (1970-71), and Smith College (1974-76).
The works of James Joyce provided Albert with a potent creative stimulus; Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses served as springboards for his symphony RiverRun, Treestone, Flower of the Mountain, and Sun's Heat. His last works included the Cello Concerto, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony for Yo-Yo Ma (and recorded by them on the Sony Classical label) and Wind Canticle, a clarinet concerto for David Shifrin and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Symphony No. 2 for the New York Philharmonic, completed in short score at the time of his death, received its premiere in November 1994. Recordings of Albert's music are available on the Nonesuch, Delos, New World, CRI, and Smithsonian Collection labels.
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EPIC Celebration Summer Reading Program
Early Registration Begins May 28
This summer, the Crystal Lake Public Library is celebrating 100 years of service to the community with an EPIC Celebration Summer Reading Program and special event for all ages. This year, in addition to receiving multiple prizes and giveaways, participants in the Library's Summer Reading Program will earn tickets to the "EPIC Celebration" the Library's birthday party for all ages, on August 24. Participants can use "EPIC Celebration," tickets for activities such as carnival games, minigolf, a photo booth, slide, obstacle course, inflatable rock wall and more. The EPIC Celebration will also feature special guest Rob Elgas, Crystal Lake Strikers, Clef Hangers Barbershop Quartet, a juggler, balloon artist and other entertainers.
Stop by the Library beginning May 28 to register for the EPIC Celebration Summer Reading Program.
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The motherboard is the heart of any good system and since the focus of this build is on portability, the micro ATX form factor was a must. Since performance is equally important here, Intel's X58 chipset was the obvious choice. There are only a handful of micro ATX X58 motherboards out there and they're made by ASUS, DFI, MSI, and EVGA. While all of these manufacturers are pretty reputable in their own right, I chose to go with EVGA's 121-BL-E756-TR X58 Micro as the basis of this build due to their renowned customer support, quality, the success of their other X58 offerings, and frankly, it just looks damn good with its red and black color scheme. Thanks to EVGA for supplying the review board.
Probably an equally important consideration in a micro ATX build is the case. Thermaltake was gracious enough to send their Lanbox Lite to use for this build and the name alone indicates this case was designed for portable performance. The version they sent has the optional side windowsa nice touch of show for the LAN party scene.
If you're reading this, chances are you know that the Core i7 920 is the chip to get these days. It overclocks well and is at a good price point for performance. There's really no need to go with Intel's more expensive processors, because the 920 can usually clock to the same speeds without too much effort anyways. One challenge of the i7s is that they can tend to get a bit hot, though; a problem which is compounded when space is an issue. With that in mind, I made sure to get the most recent D0 stepping, which requires less voltage than its C0 counterpart. For those of you who don't know, you can identify D0 chips by the S-Spec number on the box: SLBEJ.


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Toronto, July 20, 2012 -- TLN Telelatino, Canada's leading multilingual specialty TV network, announced highlights of its English language shows for the coming TV season today. The lineup features a cross-cultural collection of drama, films, lifestyle shows and specials that radiate a passion for "Living life with Latin Gusto!"
"We take great pride in producing and curating a collection of shows that showcase the cross-cultural diversity that Canadians embrace" said TLN Telelatino President Aldo DiFelice. "We are also proud to now offer TLN viewers an enhanced viewing experience with our recently launched TLN HD channel."
Comedy-Drama Series: 60 mins
Airs: Monday to Friday 6pm and 9pm
In its own uniquely stylised and highly entertaining way, for four seasons Ugly Betty challenged and embraced issues of beauty, ethnicity and sexual mores.
Airs: Nightly 10pm
Mucho Movies continues nightly at 10 pm, featuring first run titles, Che (Benicio del Toro, Julia Ormond, Rodrigo Santoro), Agora (Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella), The Air I Breathe (Andy Garcia) and The Girl in the Park (Alessandro Nivola, Sigourney Weaver).
Drama Series: 60 mins
Airs: Nightly following Mucho Movies
The Sopranos, a final toast to 86 unforgettable original episodes of a modern TV masterpiece, running nightly after midnight. Winner of eighteen Emmys and six Golden Globe Awards! Episode 1 starts Monday September 3, 2012.
Bilingual Drama: 60 mins
RPM Miami is a groundbreaking new, bilingual drama series about speed, corruption, danger and passionate love. Cast with today's hottest and sexiest new actors, it will teach you to both roll your "Rs" and spin your tires!
Bilingual Drama: 60 mins
An Australian produced mini-series about a clever and sassy female police detective from Melbourne whose family apparently wants her dead.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
A lifestyle series that captures the trials and tribulations of a new generation of young chef/owners in today's restaurant industry. The series features Craig Harding as he commits all he has to opening his own restaurant in the up and coming Dundas West area of Toronto. Follow Craig's journey as he blazes his own trail in pursuit of his dream. Watch him try to create that special place that connects with an entire city. Craig has to succeed, or he loses it all and everything is on the line.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
The stakes are raised as young chef Rob Rossi bets everything he has that his plans for a Bavarian style restaurant will translate into success in Toronto's hugely competitive dining scene. The runner up on Top Chef Canada will gamble on a massive space with an ambitious concept. But he's confident that his talent and vision will win the city over with Bestellen, a casual, energetic, neighbourhood eatery serving simple and honest, flavour forward food inspired by artisans and local farmers.
Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
This series explores international vineyards, wineries and colourful personalities, including visits to France, Australia, Portugal and Italy. Each segment takes you on an intoxicating journey across the country where there is lots of wine, history, folklore and cuisine to discover.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 60 mins
From pasta to polenta, prosciutto to panna cotta, Italy is crammed full of mouth-watering food. Top chef Gary Rhodes, joined by two apprentices, takes an amazing trip along the length of the country, rooting out the very best dishes from the forgotten corners of Italy.
A cookery show, travelogue and love affair with Italy all rolled into one.
Travel/Lifestyle Series: 60 mins
Venetian architect Francesco da Mosto celebrates the art and beauty of Italy - its cathedrals, churches, palaces, opera houses, paintings, sculpture and music. It is a story of the Italy we all know and love, enhanced by a look at the secret side of the country that only an insider can show us. Da Mosto reveals the full glories of Renaissance Italy and the country's astonishing cultural diversity.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 60 mins
In this beautifully filmed food and drink series, the kings of Italian cuisine Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to Italy together to remember their own pasts and discover how the culinary capital of the world is changing the way it cooks and eats.The series is distinctly personal, drawing upon Antonio and Gennaro's upbringing in Italy through their memories and anecdotes whilst reflecting their sometimes fractious, often hilarious relationship.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Lidia's Italy in America brings viewers on a road trip into the heart of Italian‐American cooking. Join Lidia as she crosses the US to talk with fishermen, chefs, farmers, butchers, families and entrepreneurs to learn more about the rich and diverse development of Italian‐American culture.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 10am
Restaurant entrepreneurs Johnny and Damian bring their Texas sized appetites, hospitality and egos to the kitchen and create magical Italian classics as only two perpetually cheerful Italian-American food lovers can. Think of the BBC's famous female duo "Two Fat Ladies"….then imagine they are not ladies, they have Texas drawls instead of English accents and they'd never choose to serve a meatloaf over a frittata! Johnny and Damian share all the cooking secrets of their large Italian families with a double dose of pure Texas fun.
Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 11am
Pioneering Spanish Chef José Andrés was recently featured on CBS' 60 Minutes where he took Anderson Cooper's taste buds on a savory tour of his culinary laboratory featuring his avant-garde cooking technique, molecular gastronomy. In this 26 episode culinary television tour de force, Chef Andrés takes viewers on a tour of Spain, both a cultural and culinary experience hosted by Spain's most influential unofficial ambassador to the world.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 12pm
Repeatedly honored over 2 decades with the most distinguished culinary and cultural awards, chef-restaurateur, cookbook author and television personality Rick Bayless has done more than any other culinary star to introduce Americans to authentic Mexican cuisine and to change the image of Mexican food in America. Travel with Rick and discover the real and varied flavours of Mexico, from the street food of Mexico City to the glorious eateries of Guadalajara.
Food/Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Sundays starting 2pm and 5pm
Pack your bags because you're going to Italy... Lidia's Italy. Renowned chef Lidia Bastianich returns to TLN for another season! In the latest episodes Lidia travels to the beautiful regions of Calabria, Sardegna, Molise, Abruzzo, Basilicata and Le Marche getting inspiration for her delicious recipes.
Reality Series: 60 mins
Airs: Saturdays starting 6pm
Weekend evenings are for Fashionistas. Experience the glamour of fashion, Jersey style. Combining unmistakable style and no-nonsense attitude, this reality series follows the drama of the Scali's, a New Jersey family who runs one of the Garden State's most sought-after destinations for extravagant women's formal wear Diane & Co.
Reality Series: 60 mins
A bride knows what she wants for her wedding — the dress, the flowers, even the icing on the cake! But with only a few weeks before the big day, celebrity event planner David Tutera shows up and changes everything transforming the fate of the party from less than ordinary to beyond extraordinary in the hit series My Fair Wedding.
Special: 60 mins
Operatic pop group, Il Divo, perform their hits at an intimate concert in the beautiful surroundings of the London Coliseum.
Special: 60 mins
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli teams up with Canadian producer David Foster for a very special Christmas collection with some unique special guests.
An Italian Christmas Eve. A Mexican-American Christmas Day. A Chinese New Year. A Passover Seder. Four holidays, four very different tables and traditions. Join celebrity chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich as she travels across America in a celebration of culture through food in the new special, Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday Tables and Traditions.
Featuring Mario Cantone
Special: 60 mins
The special explores diverse cultural heritages as seen through the lens of its wedding ceremonies and the special foods and traditions associated with them. "Weddings are really telling of a culture, and they are all beautifully different," says Lidia, who marries her passion for food with her love of family in the special. "Each ceremony is a celebration of family, continuity and new life."
Special: 60 mins
Lush scenery and mouth-watering ingredients create a visually stunning feast. Antonio Carluccio travels to Italy to cook the recipes of renaissance cook Bartolomeo Scappi, the man who invented Italian cuisine.
Special: 60 mins
A special portrait of the iconic Venetian "gondolier". Picture the beauty that is Venice and the image of the gondolieris not far behind. The most romantic city on Earth and the thrill of the moonlit boat ride are inexorably intertwined.
Hosted by: Turkey
Airs: June 21 – July 13
TLN Telelatino is Canada's multilingual language broadcaster of all major FIFA international tournaments through to the 2014 World Cup Brazil. Watch the future stars of the World Cup and catch all the passion as the world's top soccer nations battle for the title.
Hosted by: Brazil
Airs: June 15 – June 30
The 8 heavy weight nations of the world, including already qualified Italy, Spain, Brazil and Mexico, compete in a 16 match elimination tournament as a pre-2014 teaser to FIFA's World Cup. Catch the world's most popular sporting event as TLN Telelatino is Canada's multilingual language broadcaster of all FIFA tournaments until 2014.
Comedy-Drama Series: 60 mins
Airs: Monday to Friday 6pm and 9pm
In its own uniquely stylised and highly entertaining way, for four seasons Ugly Betty challenged and embraced issues of beauty, ethnicity and sexual mores.
Comedy Series: 30 mins
Airs: Weekdays 9am, 9:30am, 4pm and 4:30pm
After a successful launch on TLN, the hit family sitcom George Lopez is back for another season. Follow all six seasons of the hilarious antics of a working-class father and his working class friends, starring popular Mexican-American standup comedian George Lopez.
Airs: Weekdays 2pm
LIVE primetime direct link to Italy's leading newscast. Stay connected with European and World affairs offering viewers headlines and the latest breaking news as it happens. Enjoy full access to all the latest updates on current events, politics, complete sports highlights, weather and entertainment.
Airs: Weekdays 12pm
5 hours a week of Radio Italia LIVE programming.
Italian Films: 120 mins
Airs: Thursdays & Fridays 7pm
Alongside favourite classics such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Vittorio DeSica's Sciuscia, TLN's "Cinema Italiano" presents an expanded line up of the best acclaimed contemporary feature films including Matteo Garrone's Golden Globe nominee Gomorrah and Nanni Moretti's award winning movie Quiet Chaos.
Italian Soap Opera: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 1pm
Tempesta D'Amore (Storm of Love) is the most widely-seen telenovela in Europe. Since 2005 it is one of the ten most successful and valuable drama series in Europe. Along with shows like CSI: Miami, House and The Mentalist, Storm of Love ranked number 8, making it the only non-Hollywood production in the Top Ten.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Airs: Mondays 7pm
The drama tells the story of I Cesaroni, an extended family composed of two divorcees, Julius and Lucy, who find each other and rediscover true love. Watch the adventures unfold as they move to Rome and start their life together with his three children and her two daughters.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Airs: Tuesdays starting 7pm
Canadian breakout hit comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie is about a small Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy. The series takes an unabashedly funny look at the congregation of a rural mosque and their attempt to live in harmony.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Airs: Tuesdays 8pm
Rookie Blue is a workplace drama about 5 rookie cops plunged into big city policing, a world where even the smallest mistake can have life-or-death consequences.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Airs: Wednesdays starting 7pm
In 1598, the first Italian explorer reached North America and the country now known as Canada. His name was Giovanni Caboto, or to the English, John Cabot. Little did he know, four hundred years later, Canada was to become home to almost 2 million people of Italian descent. From cuisine, to sports, arts, construction and culture; Italian Canadians have transformed their new home. This is La Nostra Storia.
Italian Series: 30 mins
A uniquely Canadian, multilingual approach to examining the passion that Canadians of Euro-Latino descent have brought to soccer in Canada. Including the personal experiences of a man's love for the beautiful game.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Explores the impact Italian culture has had on home building and design in Canada. Looks at the multiple influences that shape design concepts affecting how we build dwellings and live in them, including a perfect cold cellar (cantina) for homemade wine.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Have you ever been to an Italian wedding in Canada? The seven-course meal, the 400 guests, the endless food and pomp! Explores how Canadians of Italian descent meet the challenges and contradictions of maintaining family traditions.
Italian Series: 30 mins
A follow up to the TLN original documentary Raccontami Ancora, this new series expands upon the scope of the original production with more characters, stories and insight into the unrelenting joys and challenges of Italian immigrant experiences in Montreal.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Take a historical and cultural trip through one of the most beautiful yet lesser known regions of Italy. Journey to the birthplace or saints and heroes and have your senses overwhelmed by glorious scenery, fragrant lands, magnificent cuisine and rhythmic tarantella music.
Italian Mini Series: 60 mins
Airs: Mondays 8pm
The Kennedys, an eight episode miniseries, uses public events as a background to tell the intimate story of this iconic family. The series is about epic achievements and private failures, love, resentment, betrayal and most of all family loyalty.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Marco Tancredi, an ex Special Forces soldier, retires from service after a very serious accident and finds himself in a dangerous world where truth and lies are often intertwined. Tancredi has no option but to fight against the enemies within the Italian Secret Service.
Italian Series: 60 mins
In Naples, florist Carlo Gambardella and biologist Valentina Trevisol meet one day by chance. Everything changes when Carlo and Valentina meet at the seaside and a strange case of mistaken identity puts Gaetano Gambardella in prison instead of Mafioso boss Tano Bambardella.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Gabriel Antinori is a young priest and theology professor who meets an attractive psychologist and their collaboration creates a special chemistry. Together they discover new perspectives to explain the mysteries they encounter.
Italian Series: 60 mins
His dearest friends snatched his future from him; and now, with a new face and a new identity, he is back … and he´s out for revenge. Adventure, mystery, love and revenge are the main themes of the new series.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Two very different families from completely opposite backgrounds find themselves opening restaurants directly opposite one another in a street in the centre of Milan. Food can bring us together as well as tear us apart; this story sees both. It is about facing challenges in haute cuisine, through pranks, dirty tricks, laughs, surprises and misunderstandings.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Who killed Luca Monforte? Aurora is a modern-day heroine who fights for her freedom and her independence against all those who have plotted against her and imprisoned her. In the background lies an old feud between rival families, conspiracies, secrets, unspeakable sins and brothers competing for the love of one woman.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Host Maria De Filippi returns in one of Italy's longtime beloved reality-talk shows.
Italian Series: 60 mins
Features some of the country's most notable and hottest up-and-coming comedians.
Italian Series: 30 mins
Take an unprecedented journey through Italy. Soar high above the magnificent peaks of the Alps, to the rural fields of Tuscany, to the breathtaking coastal regions of Umbria and Basilicata, to the romantic canals of Venice, to the historical streets of ancient Rome. Bear witness to an inexhaustible reign of castles, fortresses and places of worship. Magnifica Italia is a true mosaic of cultures, nature and art revealing three millennia of history.
Lifestyle Series: 30 mins
Airs: Weekdays 11am
Italian Canadian cooking heartthrob David Rocco returns to TLN. David Rocco's Dolce Vita is part cooking show, part cultural expose . Inspired by 'cucina povera' or 'peasant cuisine' that is at the heart of Italian cooking, David makes dishes using simple ingredients. The show is a guide to all things Italian and how food is the starting point that brings friends and family together.
Spanish Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 5pm
Marisa, a strong and hard working young mother, moves to New York City to fulfill her dreams of creating a good life for herself and her son, Lalo. In New York City, she begins working at an upscale hotel, as a maid, and soon falls in love with one of the wealthy guests of the hotel, Cristobal Parker. However, fate and foil work against Marisa, and she must constantly face hardships and struggles.
Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 8pm
At the height of his boxing career Salvador find himself the victim of a ruthless plot that has him suspended from the sport for ten years. Struggling to find another source of income he relunctantly takes a job as a paid escort and discovers he has an uncanny ability to sense what his clients want and need. Now a champion both in the ring and in the bedroom, can he win the heart of the only woman he truly loves?
Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Weekdays 9pm
A story of three families, the Aceves, the Negretes and the Nájeras, who in the midst of creating "El Talismán" – a prosperous ranch in California – end up creating a cursed ranch filled with hatred, rivalry and destruction.
Telenovela: 60 mins
Airs: Monday - Thursday 10pm
The story of ten friends, all members of a dangerous drug cartel; whose ambition for power and money drive them to turn on each other. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed telenovela El Cartel de los Sapos, El Cartel 2 returns with more secrets, new drug lords, more "rats" and total chaos!
Telenovela: 60 mins
The López women are beautiful, intelligent, kind and hardworking, but when it comes to romance they are cursed, condemned to eternal heartache. When Yamilet López, the youngest woman in the family, decides she's fed up with loneliness and goes out determined to find a husband, her mother and grandmother become worried that she'll be a victim of the "Love Curse".
Telenovela: 60 mins
The most ambitious Colombian production to date, this series based on facts and real life testimonies follows the life of evil genius, Pablo Escobar - from his humble beginnings as the son of a school teacher in a small town near Medellín, through to drug-dealing his way to becoming one of the richest and most feared men in the world.
Spanish Series: 30 mins
Airs: Weekdays 6am and 7:30am
Stay connected with the latest news and current affairs from the Latin World daily with Noticiero Univision.
Airs: Sundays 5pm
Hosts Teresa Rodríguez y María Elena Salinas keep you current and informed as they take an in-depth look at today's most controversial stories.
Airs: Weekdays 5pm LIVE
Brings you news from United States and from around the world. Plus enjoy Primer Impacto's entertainment segments with the latest on movies, gossip, weather, and current affairs, all in Spanish.
Airs: Weekdays 11pm LIVE
A spin-off of the original Primer Impacto series featuring harder hitting news segments.
Airs: Sundays beginning at 8pm
Blockbuster hits continue to heat up Sunday evenings with popular titles including Loco por Mary (Cameron Diaz), Wallstreet (Charlie Sheen), Amor Ciego (Gwyneth Paltrow).
Cinelatino brings to Canada a 24 hour, 100% all Spanish channel offering the widest selection of current blockbuster hits and critically-acclaimed movie titles.
Mini-Series: 60 mins
The Kennedys, an eight episode miniseries, uses public events as a background to tell the intimate story of this iconic family. The series is about epic achievements and private failures, love, resentment, betrayal and most of all family loyalty.
Airs: Saturdays 8pm
With over 50 years of continuous programming, Sábado Gigante has become the longest running Spanish language TV show worldwide. A fan favourite, the variety show hosted by TV personality Don Franciso has been uniting musicians, comedians, celebrities and persons of interest with in studio and at home audiences for half a century.
Airs: Saturdays 5pm
Raúl de Molina and Lili Estefan, also known as El Gordo y La Flaca, host Latin America's most popular gossip show, keeping you entertained and well informed with the latest celebrity news.
Airs: Weekends 2pm
Canada's hit television series based on popular children's books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux takes viewers into Caillou's world and allows them to embark on exciting adventures to learn new things and have fun.
Airs: Daily 3:30pm
A superhero in her own mind, Mona's got a nose for sniffing out the strange and the supernatural, and enough charisma to bring everybody along for the ride.
Airs: Nightly 9pm
Uniquely combining live action with comic book style animation, Los Misterios del Oráculo (Dark Oracle) follows the lives of 15 year old twins Cally and Lance Stone. Watch as they discover a comic book based on their alter egos and are plunged into a world of uncertainty where their every existence is at stake!
Airs: Weekends 7pm
Tune in and watch great movies the entire family can enjoy together. Featuring titles such as Kayla, a story about 12 years old Sam and his beloved dog Kayla who embark on an unforgettable adventure.
Airs: Weeknights 7pm
Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Prince Edward Island, Emily of New Moon is a brilliantly acted series which brings to life the endearing story of this heroine of classic Canadian literature.
Airs: Weeknights 8pm
Follow the adventures of a teenage detective who can't resist getting involved when there's a mystery to solve. As an intern at the neighborhood police department, Shelby follows the buzz on local criminal activities while trying to keep up with homework and chores.
Airs: Weekdays 6:30am & 12pm
A wildlife series that teaches young viewers about animals and empowers them to explore the world around them. Hosts, the Kratt Brothers along with lovely animal pal Zoboo, leap, run, dig and take mudbaths with the more than 500 animals that visit Animal Junction.
Music Special: 180 mins
December 31, 2012 - LIVE
Ring in the New Year Latino style with "¡Feliz 2013!". Master of ceremonies and renowned TV personality Don Francisco leads audiences in celebrating Hispanic-America's #1 New Year's fiesta with a star studded concert featuring celebrity guests and live remote broadcasts from urban centers around the globe.
Music Special: 180 mins
Airs: February 2013 - LIVE
The record-breaking Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards is the longest-running Latin music awards show in Spanish-language television history paying homage to the many genres and the hottest names on the Latin music scene.
Exclusive Canadian Broadcast
Music Special: 180 mins
Airs: April 2013 – LIVE
Join TLN in celebrating the achievements of Latin America's sizzling stars with the exclusive Canadian broadcast of the 2013 Billboard Latin Music Awards. Past winners include Ricky Martin and Shakira.
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App Design Strategies
All great apps begin with a great idea, but that doesn't mean that the path from idea to successful iOS app is an easy one. This chapter describes some strategies you can use to refine your idea, review your design options, and converge on an app that people will appreciate.
Create an App Definition Statement
An app definition statement is a concise, concrete declaration of an app's main purpose and its intended audience.
Create an app definition statement early in your development effort to help you turn an idea and a list of features into a coherent product that people want to own. Throughout development, use the definition statement to decide if potential features and behaviors make sense. Take the following steps to create a solid app definition statement.
1. List All the Features You Think Users Might Like
Go ahead and brainstorm here. At this point, you're trying to capture all the tasks related to your main product idea. Don't worry if your list is long; you'll narrow it down later.
For example, imagine that your initial idea is to develop an app that helps people shop for groceries. As you think about this activity, you come up with a list of related tasks (potential features) that users might be interested in, such as:
Creating lists
Getting recipes
Comparing prices
Locating stores
Annotating recipes
Getting and using coupons
Viewing cooking demos
Exploring different cuisines
Finding ingredient substitutions
2. Determine Who Your Users Are
Apart from the likelihood that your users are mobile and that they expect beautiful graphics, simple interactions, and high performance, what distinguishes them? In the context of the app you're planning, what is most important to your users? Using the grocery-shopping example, you might ask whether your users:
Usually cook at home or prefer ready-made meals
Are committed coupon-users or think that coupons aren't worth the effort
Enjoy hunting for speciality ingredients or seldom venture beyond the basics
Follow recipes strictly or use recipes as inspiration
Buy small amounts frequently or buy in bulk infrequently
Want to keep several in-progress lists for different purposes or just want to remember a few things to buy on the way home
Insist on specific brands or make do with the most convenient alternatives
Tend to buy a similar set of items on each shopping trip or buy items listed in a recipe
After musing on these questions, imagine that you decide on three characteristics that best describe your target audience: Love to experiment with recipes, are often in a hurry, and are thrifty (if it doesn't take too much effort).
3. Filter the Feature List Through the Audience Definition
If, after deciding on a few audience characteristics, you end up with just a few features, you're on the right track: Great iOS apps have a laser focus on the task users want to accomplish.
For example, consider the large number of possible features for the grocery-shopping app you listed in Step 1. Even though these are all useful features, it's not likely that every feature would be equally useful to every user. More importantly, it's not likely that every feature would be equally appreciated by the audience you defined in Step 2.
When you examine your feature list in the context of your target audience, you conclude that your app should focus on three main features: Creating lists, getting and using coupons, and getting recipes.
Now you can craft your app definition statement, concretely summarizing what the app does and for whom. A good app definition statement for this grocery-shopping app might be:
"A shopping list creation tool for thrifty people who love to cook."
4. Don't Stop There
Use your app definition statement throughout the development process to determine the suitability of features, controls, and terminology. For example:
As you consider whether to add a new feature, ask yourself whether it is essential to the main purpose of your app and to your target audience. If it isn't, set it aside; it might form the basis of a different app. For example, you've decided that your users are interested in adventurous cooking, so emphasizing boxed cake mixes and ready-made meals would probably not be appreciated.
As you consider the look and behavior of the UI, ask yourself whether your users appreciate a simple, streamlined style or a more overtly thematic style. Be guided by what people might expect to accomplish with your app, such as the ability to accomplish a serious task, to get a quick answer, to delve into comprehensive content, or to be entertained. For example, although your grocery list app needs to be easy to understand and quick to use, your audience is likely to appreciate a themed UI that includes beautiful pictures of ingredients and meals.
As you consider the terminology to use, strive to match your audience's expertise with the subject. For example, even though your audience might not be made up of expert chefs, you're fairly confident that they appreciate seeing the proper terms for ingredients and techniques.
Design the App for the Device
You know what your app does and who its audience is; now you need to make sure that your app looks and feels like it was designed expressly for an iOS device. This is crucial because people have high expectations for the apps they choose to install on their devices. If your app feels like it was designed for a different device, or for the web, people are less likely to value it.
Embrace iOS UI Paradigms
iOS users are accustomed to the appearance and behavior of the built-in apps, so they tend to expect similar experiences in the apps they download. You don't want to mimic every detail of the built-in apps but it's helpful to understand the design patterns they follow. Start by understanding the characteristics that distinguish iOS devices and the apps that run on them (you can read about these in "Platform Characteristics"). Then, keep the following things in mind:
Controls should look tappable. iOS controls, such as buttons, pickers, and sliders, have contours and gradients that invite touches.
App structure should be clean and easy to navigate. iOS provides the navigation bar for drilling down through hierarchical content, and the tab bar for displaying different peer groups of content or functionality.
User feedback should be subtle, but clear. iOS apps often use precise, fluid animations to show the results of user actions. iOS apps can also use the activity indicator and the progress view to show status, and the alert to give users warnings or other critical information.
You can learn about the usage guidelines that govern these elements in "iOS UI Element Usage Guidelines." As you begin designing the overall user experience of your app, be sure you understand the guidelines described in "User Experience Guidelines."
Ensure that Universal Apps Run Well on Both iPhone and iPad
If you're planning to develop an app that runs on iPhone and iPad, you need to adapt your design to each device. Here is some guidance to help you do this:
Mold the UI of each app version to the device it runs on. Most individual UI elements are available on both devices, but overall the layout differs dramatically.
Adapt art to the screen size. Users tend to expect more high-fidelity artwork in iPad apps than they do in iPhone apps. Merely scaling up an iPhone app to fill the iPad screen is not recommended.
Preserve the primary functionality of your app, regardless of the device it runs on. Even though one version might offer a more in-depth or interactive presentation of the task than the other, it's important to avoid making users feel that they're choosing between two entirely different apps.
Go beyond the default. Unmodified iPhone apps run in a compatibility mode on iPad by default. Although this mode allows people to use an iPhone app on iPad, it does not give them the device-specific experience they want.
Reconsider Web-Based Designs
If you're coming from the web, you need to make sure that you give people an iOS app experience, not a web experience. Remember, people can visit your website on their iOS devices using Safari on iOS.
Here are some strategies that can help web developers create an iOS app:
Focus your app. Websites often greet visitors with a large number of tasks and options from which they can choose, but this type of experience does not translate well to iOS apps. iOS users expect an app to do what it advertises, and they want to see useful content immediately.
Make sure your app lets people do something. People might enjoy viewing marketing content in the websites they visit, but they expect to accomplish something in an app.
Design for touch. Don't try to replicate web UI design paradigms in your iOS app. Instead, get familiar with the UI elements and patterns of iOS and use them to showcase your content. Web elements you'll need to re-examine include menus, interactions initiated by hovering, and links.
Let people scroll. Most websites take care to display the most important information in the top half of the page where it is seen first ("above the fold"), because people sometimes leave a page when they don't find what they're looking for near the top. But on iOS devices, scrolling is an easy, expected part of the experience. If you reduce font size or squeeze controls to fit your content into the space of a single device screen, you're likely to end up with unreadable content and an unusable layout.
Relocate the homepage icon. Websites often display an icon that links to the homepage at the top of every webpage. iOS apps don't include homepages, so this behavior is unnecessary. In addition, iOS apps allow people to tap the status bar to quickly scroll back to the top of a long list. If you center a tappable home icon at the top of the screen, it's very difficult for users to tap the status bar instead.
Tailor Customization to the Task
The best iOS apps balance UI customization with clarity of purpose and ease of use. To achieve this balance in your app, be sure to consider customization early in the design process. Because concerns about branding, originality, and marketability often influence customization decisions, it can be challenging to stay focused on how customization impacts the user experience.
Using the iOS SDK, you can customize the UI of your app as much or as little as you choose. Because there are no practical limits to the amount of customization that you can do, you need to determine how customization might affect the task your app enables. As you consider the tasks in your app, think about how often users perform them and under what circumstances.
For example, imagine an app that enables phone calls. Now imagine that instead of a keypad, the app displays a beautiful, realistic rotary dial. The dial is meticulously rendered, so users both appreciate its quality and instantly know how to use it. The dial behaves realistically, so users delight in making the dialing gesture and hearing the distinctive sounds. But for users who often need to call numbers that are not in Contacts, initial appreciation of the experience soon gives way to frustration, because using a rotary dial is much less efficient than using a keypad. In an app that is designed to help people make phone calls, this beautiful custom UI is a hindrance.
On the other hand, consider the BubbleLevel sample app, which displays a realistic rendition of a carpenter's level. People know how to use the physical tool so they instantly know how to use the app. The app could have displayed its information without the rendition of the bubble vial, but this would have made the app less intuitive and harder to use. In this case, the custom UI not only shows people how to use the app, it also makes the task easier to accomplish.
As you consider how customization might enhance or detract from the task your app enables, keep these guidelines in mind.
Always have a reason for customization. Ideally, UI customization facilitates the task people want to perform and enhances their experience. As much as possible, you need to let your app's task drive your customization decisions. For example:
If your app enables a productive task that involves the manipulation of a lot of detailed data, people are likely to appreciate an understated, mostly standard UI and streamlined navigation.
If your app helps people view content, they generally don't appreciate a UI that competes with it.
If your app is a game or provides an immersive, story-driven experience, people expect to enter a unique world filled with rich, beautiful graphics and innovative interactions.
As much as possible, avoid increasing the user's cognitive burden. Users are familiar with the appearance and behavior of the standard UI elements, so they don't have to stop and think about how to use them. When faced with elements that do not look or behave at all like standard ones, users lose the advantage of their prior experience. Unless your unique elements make performing the task easier, users might dislike being forced to learn new procedures that don't transfer to any other apps.
Be internally consistent. The more custom your UI is, the more important it is for the appearance and behavior of your custom elements to be consistent within your app. If users take the time to learn how to use the unfamiliar controls you create, they expect to be able to rely on that knowledge throughout your app.
Always defer to the content. Because the standard elements are so familiar, they don't compete with the content for people's attention. As you customize your UI, take care to ensure that it does not overshadow the content people care about. For example, if your app allows people to watch videos, you might choose to design custom playback controls. But whether you use custom or standard playback controls is less important than whether the controls fade out after the user begins watching the video and reappear with a tap.
Think twice before you redesign a standard control. If you plan on doing more than customizing a standard control, make sure your redesigned control provides as much information as the standard one. For example, if you create a button that doesn't have the rounded, dimensional appearance people associate with buttons, people might not realize that it's tappable. Or, if you create a switch control that does not indicate the presence of the opposite value, people might not realize that it's a two-state control.
Be sure to thoroughly user-test custom UI elements. During testing, closely observe users to see if they can predict what your elements do and if they can interact with them easily. If, for example, you create a control that has a hit target smaller than 44 x 44 points, people will have trouble activating it. Or, if you create a view that responds differently to a tap than it does to a swipe, be sure the functionality the view provides is worth the extra care people have to take when interacting with it.
Prototype and Iterate
Before you invest significant engineering resources into the implementation of your design, it's a really good idea to create prototypes for user testing. Even if you can get only a few colleagues to test the prototypes, you'll benefit from their fresh perspectives on your app's functionality and user experience.
In the very early stages of your design you can use paper prototypes or wireframes to lay out the main views and controls, and to map the flow among screens. Although you can get some useful feedback from testing wireframes, their sparseness can mislead testers. This is because it's difficult for people to imagine how the experience of an app will change when wireframes are filled in with real content.
You'll get more valuable feedback if you can put together a fleshed-out prototype that runs on a device. When people can interact with your prototype on a device, they're more likely to uncover places where your app doesn't function as they expect, or where the user experience is too complex.
The easiest way to create a credible prototype is to use a storyboard-based Xcode template to build a basic app, and populate it with some appropriate placeholder content. (A storyboard file captures the entire UI of your app, including the transitions among different screens.) Then, install the prototype on a device so that your testers can have as realistic an experience as possible.
You don't need to supply a large amount of content or enable every control in your prototype app, but you do need to provide enough context to suggest a realistic experience. Aim for a balance between the typical user experience and the more unusual edge cases. For example, if it's likely that your app will handle long lists of items, you should avoid creating a prototype that displays only one or two list items. And for testing user interactions, as long as testers can tap an area of the screen to advance to the next logical view or to perform the main task, they'll be able to provide constructive feedback.
When you base your prototype on an Xcode app template, you get lots of functionality for free and it's relatively easy to make design adjustments in response to feedback. With a short turnaround time, you should be able to test several iterations of your prototype before you solidify your design and commit resources to its implementation. To get started learning about Xcode, see Xcode User Guide.
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Taken from the briefing FERC: Policing the Physical Energy Markets recorded January, 2013. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) became an enforcement agency in 2005 when Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act, which authorized the agency, inter alia, to impose million-dollar a day penalties and police against manipulation of the physical electric energy and natural gas markets. FERC implemented this authority by ...
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AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, FERC-- Policing the Physical Energy Markets. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the Course Handbook tab in the ...
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Copa Airlines is about to announce the launch of three new services from Panama City to Las Vegas, Curacao and Liberia, in Costa Rica.
The new routes will commence in June 2012 with the Panama City to Las Vegas planned for three times a week; Panama City to Curacao planned to operate for times each week; Panama City to Liberia to fly twice weekly. The launch is subject to final Government approval
Copa Airlines already operates six services from the Panama City, Hub of the America's to US destinations including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, New York and Washington, plus a further 53 international and domestic airports throughout North and South America.
Copa Holdings, S.A., through its Copa Airlines and Copa Airlines Colombia operating subsidiaries, is a leading Latin American provider of passenger and cargo service. Copa Airlines currently offers more than 280 daily scheduled flights to 63 destinations in 29 countries in North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean through its Hub of the Americas based in Panama City, Panama.
Copa Airlines is pleased to announce three new destinations starting in December 2011, they are: Chicago O'Hare International Airport; Cucuta, Colombia; and Asunción in Paraguay. These new cities are in addition to the services which are launched this month to Toronto, Canada; Porto Alegre and Brasilia, Brazil; and Nassau in the Bahamas.
"Copa Airlines is one of the most successful and fastest-growing airlines worldwide. We have a long record of steady and profitable growth, having established our position as a leader in Latin American aviation by providing the best connectivity in the region, and superior operational performance and customer service," says Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines and its parent Copa Holdings. "Our success has benefitted Latin America, promoting business and stimulating tourism, creating jobs in Panama and throughout the region."
Copa Airlines will fly its new daily service beginning December 2011 from Tocumen International Airport in Panama City to Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The new four-times-weekly service from, Panama to Cucuta, Colombia's Camilo Dazo Airport; and four-times-weekly service from Panama to Asunción, Paraguay's Silvio Pettirossi Airport will both also start in December 2011.
COPA Airlines Colombia is launching new flights from both Bogota and Cartagena to the Venezuelan capital Caracas, The new services will start on June 14th 2011 and will supplement the current four times weekly flights beth Caracas and Medellin.
Copa Colombia will operate 13 flights per week to Caracas from Bogota and two from Cartagena. The route will be flown by brazilian built Embraer 190 aircraft.
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Jay-Z has extended his run of concerts at the Barclays Center, the new home of the Brooklyn Nets. Originally set to play three shows this fall at the arena, Jay is now slated for eight concerts in total, between September 28 and October 6.
Muse has revealed the tracklisting for their forthcoming album, The 2nd Law, which is due on September 18. The record contains a total of 13 tracks, including the recent single, "Survival." Other song titles include "Supremacy," "Madness" and "Panic Station." Frontman Matt Bellamy has previously said that The 2nd Law will be "very diverse."
Silversun Pickups have announced their first round of headlining tour dates behind their new album Neck Of The Woods. After primarily playing festival dates this summer, the Silverlake rockers will kick off their new leg of dates in Calgary, Alberta on September 1, with shows announced up to September 20 in Minneapolis. Silversun Pickups will also be a part of the Voodoo Experience festival in New Orleans in late October.
Madonna will drop a new video for "Turn Up the Radio" on Monday. The summery track, produced by Martin Solveig, is the third single off Madge's MDNA album. She shot the clip in Florence, Italy earlier this summer. Mötley Crüe will be offering up 24 hours of free "Sex" with their first new original song in almost four years on Monday, July 16 via their website: www.motley.com. "What better way to give back to our loyal fans who have been with us for over three decades than free 'Sex?'" said Nikki Sixx. "We can't wait to play the new song every night on The Tour this summer." Mötley Crüe will be launching The Tour, their co-headlining jaunt with KISS, on July 20 in Bristow, VA. The more than 40-city North American trek marks the first time Mötley Crüe and KISS are sharing the same stage since 1982. Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie are hitting the road together this fall, co-headlining the Twins of Evil tour. Kicking off September 28 when both Zombie and Manson co-headline the first day of the Desert Uprising Festival in Phoenix, the tour will wrap in Dallas on Halloween. J Devil, the DJ alter ego of KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis, will be the supporting act. "Why did the most obvious tour take so long to happen? Who knows? Who cares? It's happening now," stated Zombie. "If good taste is the chief enemy of great art, then we should be able to fill the Louvre with this f**king tour." Manson added, "I have sympathy for the Whore of Babylon that gave birth to these twins of evil, and this abomination of a tour. There is no babysitter, and there is no repairing her womb."B.o.B. will play a MySpace Secret Show at New York's Highline Ballroom on Sunday, July 22. Free tickets will be given away at the Highline Ballroom during regular box office hours starting today at 11 a.m. EST on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.Beanie Sigel will be the first artist to release music on the newly revived Ruffhouse Records. Sigel's upcoming album, This Time, will be released August 28 to launch a new distribution deal between Ruffhouse and EMI Label Services. The first single, "The Reunion," shipped to radio this week.
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text: Here's the very first look in the Weinstein Company at Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's drama in regards to a slave who's freed with a fugitive hunter and tries to return to his wife. In the way are a handful of bad, bad people, together with a plantation owner who exploits female slaves for prostitution and male slaves for battle to the dying matches. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Kerry Washington star.


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Quinn Orders Joliet Youth Center to Close
The city will lose more than 200 jobs because of the governor's decision; state Rep. Larry Walsh vows to keep fighting.
Joliet will lose 230 state jobs at the end of October with Gov. Pat Quinn final decision Wednesday to close the Illinois Youth Center-Joliet on McDonough Road and six other state prison facilities.
Despite that pronouncement, state Rep. Larry Walsh Jr. (D-Joliet) told the Joliet Herald-News that he will continue to press the governor to change his mind.
"I'm going to try," he said. "I'm not giving up yet. We've got until Oct. 31."
To read the complete Herald-News story, click here.
Infamous Steve
9:34 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Pretty bad up have to put in a link for the herald's story and cant finish your own. Quinn doesn't care about the little guy, why else would he give himself a raise of 3% then tax everyone else to death and take people's jobs away. Welcome to Illinois....land of the over taxed and home of the broke.
Lynn Davis-Livesay
9:11 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Its a shame that when this all came down, at the time House Rep. Jack McGuire did nothing to save these jobs and the IYC. Learn more at http://savejolietiyc.blogspot.com ...
Infamous Steve
9:42 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
Does that really surprise you about Jack mcgiure? He has not even been able to be reached for comments on issues over the past few years. But hey now that he retired him and his wife are fixing up thier vacant house in Shorewood....He must of got a fat retirement package.


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The 64 million dollar question that every patient wants to know is… "How much will this cost me?" When people buy something, it has to be good quality, but affordable, and with no surprise costs. This is why DCs have to be clear about the cost of care up-front to ensure happy and compliant patients.
These days patients know that care is going to cost money, they just don't know how much. Creating an accurate estimate of how much care will cost and then helping to make that cost affordable is an absolute necessity in making sure your practice survives. Can your practice survive if each patient waits to come in until they can afford the visit? Or can you professionally communicate and plan payment options so they can stick with your treatment schedule and get the care they need?
Now more than ever, running an efficient, compliant and profitable practice is a constant challenge. Insurance companies are paying less and less and patients are required to pay more and more. Given today's tough economic times these factors can put a huge financial strain on your practice and your patients.
Unfortunately, treating patients isn't the only thing you have to worry about. You are running a business, and making sure that you get new patients is critical. Since attracting a new patient costs far more than keeping an existing one happy, how are you maximizing every opportunity to convert that potential patient into a new one?
I am really interested to see how you are converting potential patients into new ones. I look forward to your feedback.


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District Announcements
Hamilton School Announcements Summer Book Club Summer Book ClubThe Glen Rock Community School is now registering for the Summer Book Club for boys and girls entering grades 3, 4 and 5 in the fall. This program is a great way for students at all reading levels to develop and share a love of reading!Click here for more information. Hamilton students selected for honor band Musical notesFive students from the Glen Rock School District were selected for the Second Annual All-North Jersey Elementary Honor Band on May 4. (Front row, from left) Hamilton School fifth graders Maya Doyle (clarinet), Jessica Malo (flute), Robert Kim (trumpet) and Glen Rock Middle School sixth grader Shivani Parulekar (trumpet), along with (back row, center) sixth grader Anand Shetler (trumpet) are congratulated by their band directors John Diomede (left) and Jeffery Kurland (right). Jenna Sasson, another Hamilton student, served as an alternate clarinetist and sixth grader Charlotte Arehart was selected as an alternate oboist. These students were among 270 musicians selected from a pool of 450 fifth and sixth graders who were nominated by their instructors.
The students were divided into three bands, one fifth grade band (The Red Band) and two sixth grade bands (The Blue and Green Bands). They received their music three weeks prior to the event and worked with their band directors to prepare the music. Students attended a morning rehearsal on May 4, followed by lunch and another rehearsal before performing for an audience of almost 700 at South Orange Middle School. All nominating directors were present at the festival to assist with rehearsals, lunch and other logistical tasks.
On a related note, 15 students from Hamilton School participated in a cover design contest for the music education magazine Music K-8. Hamilton art teacher Kim Menke and music teacher John Diomede assisted the students with submitting their entries. Fifth grader Jenna Sasson's design was selected as a finalist and fourth grader Yejin Suh's piece received honorable mention.
Kindergarten Orientation Click here for more info. CHANGES TO CROSSING GUARD POSTS: IMPORTANT UPDATE The Glen Rock Board of Education has been notified by the Office of the Mayor of Glen Rock that the two crossing guard posts previously discontinued will be reinstated with limited hours effective Monday May 20, 2013.
Crossing guard coverage for the intersections of Maple at Waldron and Ackerman at Harding will be available from 8-8:45 a.m. and 3:15-3:50 p.m. effective Monday, May 20. Residents should take note that there will be no coverage at these intersections during school lunch periods.
The new posts previously announced will continue as originally scheduled:
Rock and Berkeley has been added only from 7:15-8:45 a.m.
Rock at Main in the Central Business District has been added only from 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Rock at Hamilton has been added only from 3-3:50 p.m.
Questions should be referred to the Glen Rock Police Department.
Congratulations to Hamiltons Teacher of the Year: Laura Ciabattoni! Science Club Click here for more info. 2013-2014 District Calendar Click here for calendar. Glen Rock Public Library Activities Report Card Brochure Click here for brochure. Annual Integrated Pest Management Notice Please be advised that students are not allowed to ride scooters to school, motorized or razor. Thank you. Reminder: Dogs are not allowed on school property at any time. Thank you for your cooperation. |
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Build a Powerful Platform with Triple-Net REITs
One asset class that provides the least risk and least management responsibilities is the single-tenant net-leased category, often referred to as the "triple-net sector." Unlike other asset types, the triple-net investor can sleep well at night knowing this low-risk alternative offers a margin of safety unlike any other.
Triple-net properties offer a well-balanced investment alternative whereby the underlying asset value is supported by three primary components. Somewhat like the three legs to a stool, these components enable the investor to achieve less volatility and increased stability.
This first component, or leg to the stool, is credit. Many triple-net tenants lease prototypical facilities in order to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
For example, the top-dollar store chains like Dollar General(DG) and Family Dollar(FDO) are located on primary intersections with traffic adequate for the tenant's business model. Many triple-net tenants utilize lease structures in order to leverage the company's balance sheet with minimum corporate cash invested.
The tenant's balance sheet and credit rating are an important component to the sleep-well-at-night strategy. However, there are two other important legs to the investment stool. In order to balance the asset choice, the investor should also consider the underlying lease structures.
The second important component is the lease term. Most triple-net leases are for between 10 and 25 years. As a comparison, hotels typically lease by the day, mini-storage by the month and apartments by the year. With a long-term lease in hand, triple-net investors spend considerably less time managing and marketing than owners of other asset classes.
The third leg to the stool is rental increases. Most triple-net properties have rental increases during the base-lease term, while many of the other asset classes have rental increases that are determined by current market conditions.


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I have taken internal courses, relevant to my roles, which included anti-money laundering training, introduction to fund services, compliance training, intoduction to fund accounting and team leader training.
The specialist certificate in investment fund services would be beneficial and is a course I would consider taking as it is well recognised within the industry.
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A sound tar-and-feathering is in my immediate future.
When an idiot gets too much attention for his idiocy, he becomes famous. He then believes himself a genius.
I've got several friends who are openly gay. They have been the entire time I've known them. All are in long-term monogamous relationships. Their being gay has no effect on our friendship and never will, nor has it had any effect on my eating dry chicken sandwiches.
Simply put, I like my friends and don't like dry chicken.
What they do is between them and God; in fact, what any of us do is between us and God, not between us and those who think they speak for God.
All this controversy over a dry chicken sandwich seems a little stupid to me. I don't care much for chicken and care less for a restaurant that decided that I can have chicken or chicken or – of course if I don't like chicken – I can always have chicken.
Eat more what?
What's more, not being open on Sundays is a little outdated and has little to do with who gets into the Kingdom. Maybe someone wants a dry chicken sandwich after church. Am I wrong or do Christians eat on Sundays?
In fact, all over the country many church members have one thing in common. After church, they gather to have dinner and talk about their church experience as well as everybody else in the church. Oh, sorry, was that a secret? What would all those people do if every restaurant made this highly significant social decision for them?
If you own a store and you don't sell diet Coke, then you don't care enough to have my business.
If you own a restaurant and sell only one thing, like hot dogs or dry chicken sandwiches, you don't need my business, you already have enough, and besides I can buy a dry chicken sandwich on every corner.
We Christians are no different than everyone else; we are influenced by the idiocy of others.
If you need proof, look at the last two decades of presidential campaigns.
As further proof look at a preacher who rose to fame in the 1950s with small-minded messages against homosexuals and abortions. He sermonized against pretty much anything anyone enjoys. He spent two decades on the pulpit condemning everyone and everything, spewing hate as he thumped the bible.
While sex between unmarried members of his church was forbidden, he was having sex with multiple women and men among his congregation and fathered many children inside the church.
He was also arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover male police officer in Los Angeles. Finally, he convinced 909 people to kill each other or themselves.
That person was Jim Jones.
I will never understand this kind of blind idiocy, but it continues on smaller scales throughout our country. I ain't drinking Kool Aid, and no one is telling me what I can or can't eat on Sunday or who I can or can't love or marry.
Most people operate from a place of fear. They have the strongest reactions about subjects they don't understand or are scared of.
Most people get their small mindedness from the people who they grew up with or those who continue to influence them. You can see their eyes glaze over as they spout bull that has been spoon fed to them.
What they say has nothing to do with their own thoughts or opinions. They misquote facts and use wrong words in an attempt to sound informed and intelligent.
I don't eat dry chicken sandwiches or drink Kool Aid doled out with sermons.
I wonder if the people who own this company ever eat out on Sundays.
What do they believe about those who must work on Sundays, to feed their children? I'm just askin.
I wonder if they've ever heard the verse: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24).
I'm just sayin!
How about let's wait and let God decide who gets in
How about we give Him a little credit and believe He is compassionate and does not make such decisions based on the prejudices of man.
It's what I've always chosen to believe, and when I arrive at my eventual resting place, I'll drink any Kool Aid He offers.
God gave men and women free will. Why can't we leave it at that?
Mark S. Hankins
2:11 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
If a mob were stoning a homosexual, Jesus would get in the way of the rocks. Think about that one for a moment: if it was just shoes, would any of us even get in the way of the shoes? Let's remember why he did that. The woman was an adulteress. What did Jesus preach against quite often? Adultery. Jesus made a clear distinction between people and their wrongs.
The Bible says to do some nasty things to people who are doing homosexual acts. It also says that for most every wrong and crime, two witnesses are needed. Sounds pretty much like "don't ask/don't tell." Indeed, what was the problem with Sodom and Gomorrah? Not homosexuality itself ... those cities had become so corrupt that you had to turn your kids over to the pedophiles once you entered the gates. The ancient world had rules about hospitality, and that just wasn't hospitable behavior.
Dan Cathy said some things that gave the mainstream press license to trumpet what had been his company's low-key contributions to groups that don't agree with opening secular, state-defined marriage to homosexuals. His comments weren't the smartest thing he ever did. If I were considering becoming a Chick-Fil-A franchisee I would think twice, not because he came up smelling like roses this time, but because I have no idea what happens next.
Finally, this country once had blue laws. Publix remained closed on Sunday long after they had to. It's a choice, and even Jesus said do work on Sunday only as necessary. Rest is needed.
Lori McCandrew
5:14 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
If I'm not wrong Dan Cathy is 91 and that pretty much entitles him to his own public opinion. From what I understand the restaurant has always closed on Sundays due to his firm beliefs. I'm sure over the years the man has lost millions in revenue but I appauld him in wanting Sunday as family day for his staff. How this ever got blown out of proportion is beyond me. Either go there or don't, who cares if you are straight or gay. I personally go because I like their food, and yes I've craved it on a Sunday and they've been closed. That's life, there a bigger issue here to debate folks.
Kia Flowers
4:10 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
I agree wholeheartedly Lori!
His belief and values have been stated for a long time. Sometimes I feel like people are big cry babies.
Bob Tankel
7:14 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Publix also used to be closed Sundays, besides isn't the Sabbath Saturday? Like John Stewart said, we must be collectively crazy as a country if this is how we protest and counter protest. There are a 100 reasons for people to be protesting, whether Tea Party or Occupy (do a Venn diagram and see how much they overlap despite the powers that be who so desperately want them to be against each other)....


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Rather than lecture you on biological individuality, I'll share a few real answers from members (some names have been changed).
Audelle: I've been a near vegetarian for almost a year and a half and my insulin dosage is down to 1/3 of what it had been (and even less on my really good days!)
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Violet: My blood pressure dropped from 150/80 to 126/68 within 6 weeks of joining Suppers. My doctor was as happy about it as I was. My weight is just starting to budge. Renee is my muse and my role model: Get healthy first, then lose weight, not the other way around."
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We timed it, it takes 7. 5 minutes to put this together and the stove does the rest of the work.
Assemble your ingredients:
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vegetarian broth
hot sauce
salt, if permitted
Rinse the lentils and cover with an inch of water. Add a tablespoon of vegetarian soup base. Bring to a simmer and cook until nearly soft, about 40 minutes (or 4! in a pressure cooker). Add water as necessary.
Slice the greens thin, we used lacinato kale.
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Twenty8Twelve's A/W 2011 lookbook is stunningly composed and nicely finished with the perfect beauty for autumn: berry-stained lips. With a combination of holiday season party-ready dresses (printed silky pieces or black dresses with sheer sleeves, bonus: they all look good with black tights) and wearable every day pieces with just enough edge to set the wearer apart. Smaller details like fingerless grey loves and the clever belting of an anorak are being filed away in my mental inspiration folder for cooler months...now I'm almost looking forward to some fall weather.
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
9 comments:
- platformshoesandwintercoat said...
First dress is my ideal party dress.
- September 4, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- girl&bird said...
oh, gorgeous! especially the lips.
Annah xx
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- MITICA ILLUSTRATIONS said...
Love the first dress!
- September 4, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- lory said...
I like the first dress!
- September 4, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Fashion Inciter said...
I really like these garments! Very much my style, great post!
- September 4, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- amberly said...
Her deep side part (and yes, the lips) are fall inspiration for sure!!
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oh i must have that lip color
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I like all the outfits. It's good to see that Sienna & Savannah Miller are doing such a good job with their brand.
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New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- The UPA government, staging a comeback through economic reforms after months of being on the back foot, got another boost after the Supreme Court said that auction was not the only method allowed in allocating natural resources. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has been rocked by criticism that it handed out telecom spectrum and coal fields at an alleged loss of Rs. 3.6 lakh crore to private players instead of finding the highest bidders through an auction process, an act opposition parties said reeked of corruption.
A five-judge bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice S H Kapadia, in response to a query from the President, said that common good was the touchstone for any policy ruling, and that if that objective were met, any means adopted was in accordance with the Constitution.
"In our opinion, auction, despite being a more preferable method of alienation/allotment of natural resources, cannot be held to be a constitutional requirement," said the bench, emphasising that it could test the legality of allotment methods and strike down a decision in the case of any arbitrariness.
The government has always held that revenue maximisation cannot be the sole consideration while allocating natural resources. In the case of telecom spectrum - a controversy that sent former telecom minister A Raja to jail - the government's position was that an auction would have made call rates too expensive for poor people. In the case of coal allocations, a similar argument was made with respect to power, steel and cement prices.
This means that the government could use other options like first-come first-served, lottery and screening committees to allot resources, as long as the process is transparent and clearly spelt out.
"Today, it is clear that what we did was right, therefore, it is a relief ... it is comforting. Now our stand has been vindicated," said law minister Salman Khurshid.
BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad stuck to the party's guns, saying that the judgement could not be used to validate the position of the government, which, he said, had itself chosen to go for competitive bidding for coal blocks but "delayed it deliberately".
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One of Taipei's great pleasures is its night markets, which satisfy diners, shopaholics and the plain curious into the early hours of the morning. They range in size from a few stalls to major locations covering several blocks. Among the key sites are Huaxi Street (or "Snake Alley"), the huge range of food stalls at Tunghua, and a rare opportunity to find second-hand items at Jaoho.
If you only visit one you should probably make it Shilin, a huge, teeming site which offers a king-sized compilation of traditional night market delights. Shanghai fried buns, which come in vegetarian and carnivore varieties, are one of the biggest culinary hits here. There's also a bewildering array of shops selling clothes and accessories. It's particularly busy on weekends.
Taipei's night markets are scattered throughout the city. They generally start up after sunset and the latest go until about 3am, with most starting to wind down around 1am.
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Our guide was excellent! Very informative and helpful. At the Lung Shan budhist temple, he helped us go through the ritual explaining each step and in fact, translated the Kuan Yin oracle.
I didn't feel rushed at all especialy while walking through the night market. I was even able to try the delicacies.
He was also very informative in Taipei 101.
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Yes, it usually doesn't take that long. Same thing for patches and DLC.
As often happens with Xseed releases , and it was always likely with a FP dungeon crawler, I finally cracked and got this at full price. I've only just finished the first titan but Darius was an amazing battle at level 20.
The first couple of tries were rather pitiless slaughter, but just calmly tapping down the feet with physicals and frost while tossing medicine/pills, followed by going berserk on the middle arms with bursts and link skills, left me in almost manageable combat with the head and top arms. Finally, with pretty much 0 mp left on all characters and no healing or mp items remaining, Fang delivers the finishing blow. Phew! Well, that was a decent boss fig-
"Darius attacks! Hell Cannon" The cheating BACONBACONBACONBACONBACONBACONBACON!. The girls die. It's not like they were going to achieve much with 0 mp but going from thinking the battle is over to two dead characters in a couple of seconds is a bit demoralising. At that point, I literally had nothing left except Fang and Hector's attack command and prayer. Hector finished him with like 30 hp remaining.
Not bad for a first boss.
(My only gripe with the game is something many players have mentioned: the fact that judgement battles are not a skill based affair. I have nothing against the concept, but you should be able to win reliably against superior odds if you play well, which isn't the case as far as I can see. It's just a series of straightforward beef gates.)
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I had a similar experience with Titan Darius. Sadly to say, from this point on the bosses are not even close to the same level of challenge. Early on in the game you are short on money, synthesis recipes aren't open to you and materials are lacking. (Not to mention even gold to buy gathering tools.) If you're doing all the quests along the way all the bosses from now on can be beaten through using attack and the random heal. As a word of advice, beeline for the level 2 and 3 bursts early. Having a level 2 burst on my second play through turned the Darius fight from ridiculous into 'I just took down all 5 parts with Hector and Fang's Level 2 bursts'.
Alas, Fuepepe, I must reluctantly concur after finishing chapter 2. My party wasn't particularly logical (I didn't have a decent healer as Tiana was still about 2-3 levels away from the relevant skills) and I'd literally made it to the final tortoise floor for the first time with about half mp remaining. I figured I'd just "take a look" for the heck of it. 3 minutes, some physical attacks and a few heals later and we were on our way back to town!
I'm pleased that my thought to go for the level 2 bursts ASAP was correct though. I assumed generally that random encounters aren't much of an issue when level appropriate (but fun when they aren't) and that therefore a situational nuke button is much more useful than a global increase in throughput. I'm still enjoying this though and I'm sure it will be plenty challenging enough if I keep showing up badly prepared.


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If any additional proof was necessary the once high-flying retail industry leader Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD) was a fan favorite, today's your day. As the stock hovers around $64 a share and change – a nearly 20% pop for the day – one is left to wonder why. The surface reasoning is pretty clear – according to CFO Rob Schriesheim Q1 should handily beat analyst expectations in a number of areas, and now the company has planned a spin-off of the Outlet and Hometown assets into a separate entity, primarily to raise cash -- in this instance an estimated $400 to $500 million of it.
One area expected to beat estimates in Q1 is inventory management, a key measure that speaks directly to operational efficiencies and was woefully inadequate in Q4 of 2011. According to Mr. Schriesheim having a better grasp on inventory was a major improvement over last quarter. If it turns out to be the case – and there's no reason to think it won't – that is certainly a step in the right direction. Following closely on the heels of the operational improvements were the same store sales figures – at least domestically – for both Sears and Kmart stores. Canada continues to disappoint, but today's all about warm and fuzzy, so we'll ignore the 6%+ drop in sales up North.
Same store figures here in the States dropped a mere 1% for Sears – compared to just over 5% in the same period last year – and Kmart sales results remained flat, declining 1.6% in Q1 just as in 2011. Clearly these are big steps in the right direction, but worthy of this type of run-up? Things are getting out of control here and if you're in need of further proof how's this – year-to-date Sears stock has more than doubled in price – taking into account today's run-up. And odder still is you can bet when the company announces earnings later in the month – not to mention Wednesday's shareholder meeting when Chairman Eddie Lampert takes the stage – the run-up may not be done.
In addition to the aforementioned not-as-bad-as-expected sales figures for Q1, what really got the Sears ball rolling this year was the announcement the company planned to close over a hundred stores and sell a number of assets, and the quarterly numbers will reflect that in a big way. A large part of the expected gains in earnings from operations in Q1 – Sears has suggested as much as $195 million on the top end – will be the result of a $235 million asset sales gain. Even backing that out, the quarter will be an improvement, but does it really warrant this kind of excitement? The spin-off is really just more of the same, selling assets -- in this case to the public -- to fund operations.
Along the fire sale lines, now the scuttlebutt is Sears is also shopping their Lands End division in an effort to raise much needed cash. Investors are clearly hoping a leaner, meaner Sears will be the first step to its return to greatness. But as Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Target (NYSE: TGT) and even Macy's (NYSE: M) continue generating same store sales increases that are through the roof, a Sears comeback to anything close to what it was is way down the road. And while the cash generated from store closures, asset sales and the new company will prop the company up in the near term, it's 2013 investors should really be focused on – well, long-term investors that is. As Gary Balter, an analyst with Credit Suisse put, "while these (Q1 2012) results are a nice recovery from the fourth quarter, they still do not point to the cash flow trends necessary to finance the business without selling additional assets."
Until Sears is able to show real sales growth in its core business and generate enough cash flow to sustain itself, it's a solid investment option for daytraders and short-term, momentum players. But for those betting on a Sears turnaround and a subsequent return to glory, make yourself comfortable because it's going to be along, bumpy ride.
The investment opinions included are just that, opinions. Investing involves risk, as you well know, so consider your decisions wisely. Tim holds no position in the securities mentioned in this article.


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