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LOS ANGELES (AP) — There was no hair-pulling between Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj on the season debut of "American Idol," although some viewers may have been reduced to it.
The pop divas exchanged insults worthy of middle schoolers, fellow freshman judge Keith Urban looked trapped between them, and there was a whiff of make-believe Wednesday about the show's touted feud.
"We can have accessories. I didn't know that was allowed. That's all I'm gonna say," Carey commented archly about Minaj's flashy, drum major-style hat.
The rapper took offense.
"Why'd you have to reference my hat?" Minaj said, with Carey then accusing Minaj of rudeness to her during an earlier elevator meeting.
Mercifully, a contestant arrived to break up the bickering and remind us that we tuned in to a talent show, not an episode of "Real Housewives of American Idol."
When the action resumed, Minaj demonstrated a magnificent talent for eye-rolling and upped the ante with a muttered insult.
"If she called me something that begins with a 'b' and ends with an 'itch,' I rebuke it," Carey declared.
Whether the clash is real or not, Minaj's scrappiness came off as far more entertaining than Carey's demure, even queenly manner. Carey is getting a truly royal paycheck: $18 million, to Minaj's $12 million.
The award for least self-absorbed judge goes to genial country singer Urban. Continued...
The two-hour episode opened by showcasing last year's winner, Phillip Phillips, and those alumni with established careers, including Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson.
Then host Ryan Seacrest brought "American Idol" back down to earth and to its new judges.
"Our legacy continues as a new era begins," he said, reciting the panelists' resumes, including record sales, Grammys won and, in Carey's case, vocal range (five octaves, "the definition of diva," Seacrest said).
Cue the parade of good, bad and touching performances and biographies, with contestants facing serious challenges once again an "Idol" hallmark.
The judges, including veteran Randy Jackson, hardened their hearts and rejected a young man who had lost a leg to cancer but melted for a teenage girl whose family fosters children with medical concerns and another singer with partial hearing loss.
Forty-one people survived the New York auditions to sing another day in the Hollywood rounds, with the action moving to Chicago on Thursday's episode.
"I feel like we jell well in a weird, crazy way," Minaj declared optimistically of the panel near the episode's conclusion.
Fox certainly hopes so. Last season, "Idol" lost its status as the most-watched TV program for the first time since 2003, eclipsed by NBC's "Sunday Night Football," and pegged its lowest-rated season since it debuted in summer 2002.
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Here is a look behind the scenes from this past Tuesday's paddle session at Jaws. Follow Ian and Shane from the airport to Ian's house. Watch as they set their boards up and study the Jaws lineup and incoming swell. Enjoy...
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- AnonymousMarch 23, 2011 at 5:55 AM
Killer video--thx for sharing!!
The last previous backwards vid was sick, too!!
Good Luck this wknd--hope the kids have a blast!! Wish I could be there, but will be in spirit = )
NYC - AnonymousMarch 23, 2011 at 3:29 PM
holy sweet tits< thought gator hunting was crazy< lots of love from north carolina
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 24, 2011 at 3:20 AM
Amazing video...I love to see guys ditching the tow ropes and paddling in on those monsters. What's the last song on the video?
ReplyDelete - Ron in San ClementeMarch 24, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Yeah, that's the only complaint I have. You're not crediting the music, and you're making some great choices. What was on this vid?
Making the take-off on that first wave was freaking crazy.

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One of the largest organized residency programs of Israeli artists ever to launch in the U.S., the Schusterman Visiting Artist Program began in fall 2008 and offers unprecedented opportunities for Americans to experience Israeli culture. The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation supports the Schusterman Visiting Artists Program to provide Israeli artists from various disciplines with time spent in North America. These residencies last for two to four months and take place at some of the nation's most esteemed universities, museums, and other cultural organizations. The program has a special focus on fostering high levels of interaction between the artists and the local communities where they are based.
Current Roster: Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Among the artists coming this year are two esteemed writers: Gail Hareven and Sami Berdugo. Hareven is an established novelist whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker. She will be hosted by Mt. Holyoke College in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Hampshire College. Hareven recently completed a project translating Shakespeare's sonnets into Hebrew with Dr. Avi Hasner, a distinguished physician and deputy director at an Israeli hospital.
Sami Berdugo
A young writer and popular creative writing teacher, Berdugo has received much critical attention for his work, "which consistently breaks new poetic paths, thus challenging contemporary Israeli literature," according to Hebrew literature specialist Dr. Hanna Soker-Schwager. Already the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Prime Minister's Prize (2005), the Neumann Prize (2007) at Bar Ilan University and, most recently, the Ramat Gan Prize (2011) for his new book, "That Is To Say," Berdugo is one of the exciting voices of North African descent now emerging in Israel. He will be teaching at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, for the spring semester.
The other 2012-2013 Schusterman Visiting Artists are:
- Experimental composer and sound artist Amnon Wolman, who will be an artist in residence at Harvard University this fall. Wolman has been involved in a broad range of artistic endeavors all over the world, and his catalogue of compositions includes works involving computer-generated and processed sounds, symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces, film scores, and music for theater and dance.
- Documentary filmmaker Duki Dror will be the University of California, Santa Cruz, for the winter quarter. His most recent work, "Incessant Visions" (2011), about famed architect Erich Mendelsohn, has been screened at dozens of film festivals around the world. In 2010, PBS screened a series of three of Dror's earlier works, including "Journey of Vaan Nguyen" (2005) about Vietnamese refugees in Israel and "Fantasia" (2001) about his family's emigration from Iraq to Israel.
- Highly regarded in the World Music scene, percussionist Zohar Fresco is considered the world's master of the frame drum. This winter he will be in residence at Florida State University in Tallahassee, which has the third-largest music program in U.S. higher education. At the end of his stay, he will be a leading performer at the school's annual Rainbow Concert.
- Musicians Michael and Shimrit Greilsammer will be at Carleton University in Ottawa this winter. A violinist and singer-songwriter, Michael Greilshammer blends Irish, reggae and rock music. His first album, "Je me reveille" ("Waking Up"), was released by a major French label, and his second album is a collaboration with his wife, Shimrit, a vocalist. Greilshammer has been a supporting act for international artists including Macy Gray and Ziggy Marley.
- Next spring, Guy Meirson will be teaching screenwriting at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He wrote the script for "Rock the Casbah," which was recently nominated for several Ophir Awards, Israel's version of the Oscars, including Best Picture. He has been a writer for two other feature films and two Israeli television series, among other projects.
- Choreographer Dana Ruttenberg will be in residence for the spring semester at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She had her own company, based in New York, from 2000-2003, when she created works that were showcased at venues such as Joyce Soho, White Wave and the Toronto Fringe Festival. Since returning to Israel in 2003, Ruttenberg has been choreographing for a number of groups, including the Batsheva Dance Ensemble, the IntimaDance Festival and Curtains Up. Her work has been performed in Hungary, Italy, Russia, Senegal and the U.S., among other countries.
- One of Israel's leading young choreographers Idan Sharabi was commissioned to create new works in Israel, Denmark and Switzerland during the last two years, and in the past year, his works were performed in seven countries. A graduate of Juilliard, Sharabi was awarded the school's Zeraspe Award for Best Choreography in 2006. He was formerly a dancer with the renowned Batsheva Dance Company and the Nederlands Dans Theater. Sharabi will be teaching at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine during the spring quarter.
The goal of the new program is to engage American audiences with Israeli artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and choreographers. The program also provides professional development experiences and cultural exposure for Israeli artists outside their home country. Since the program's inception, 42 artists have been in residence in 35 North American cities to promote deeper connections to Israeli culture and complement, for example, the more standard touring company performances and single readings by authors already underway across the U.S.
"We want to enable Americans to experience, in depth, the vibrant and creative face of Israel that is embodied in its artists, many of whom are doing some of the most exciting and innovative work anywhere in the world today," said Lynn Schusterman, chairperson of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the Schusterman Foundation-Israel. "Right now, Israel is enjoying an unprecedented degree of success in several cultural realms, including film, music and choreography. Its visual artists also are showing in major museums outside Israel and achieving a degree of international recognition previously unknown. The artist-in-residence format offers a unique opportunity to import some of this remarkable talent during this particularly fertile period in the cultural history of Israel," said Schusterman.
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Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
Among the 10 artists coming this year is Joshua Sobol, whose plays have been produced at theaters around the world, including in the U.S., Israel, England, Norway, Austria and Japan. Renowned for his play Ghetto, which has been produced in more than 25 countries, he is also the author of Cut Throat Dog, published last year in the United States (Melville House). Sobol will be artist-in-residence at the University of Washington in spring 2012.
Also in spring 2012, two artists will be in residence on University of California campuses. Emmanuel Witzthum, violist, composer and artistic director of The Lab, Center for Contemporary Performing Arts, in Jerusalem, will be hosted by the University of California Berkeley's renowned Department of Music. Yair Dalal, composer, violinist, oud player and singer and an important figure on the world music scene, will be at UC Santa Barbara to teach and perform his music, which draws on Iraqi, Jewish Arabic and other traditions.
The Schusterman Visiting Artist cohort for 2011-12 also includes:
Poet, writer, critic and musician, Shimon Adaf, who will be artist in residence at the University of Vermont this fall. Amos Oz calls him "one of the most interesting and original voices in contemporary Israeli literature."
Sahar Azimi, whose choreography has been presented in Israel and Europe and who has danced with some of Israel's most highly regarded companies, including Noa Dar, Emanuel Gat and Barak Marshall. Azimi will be teaching in the highly regarded Department of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in spring, 2012.
Eran Kolirin, the writer and director of The Band's Visit, a feature film that won several awards at the 2007 Cannes Festival. Kolirin, who has also worked in television, including on the Israeli version of the American series "In Treatment," will spend the spring semester teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Choreographer Uri Shafir, who has danced with several leading Israeli companies, including the Batsheva Ensemble, as well as with Dana Ruttenberg and Barak Marshall, will teach next spring in the very active Department of Theater and Dance at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Record producer and music arranger for some of Israel's leading recording artists, Assaf Talmudi, is also the co-founder of Oy Division, a band specializing in researching and reconstructing Eastern European Jewish folk music, which released its debut album in 2010 and has toured worldwide. Talmudi is nearing completion of a Ph.D. in the Music Department at Bar Ilan University based on interdisciplinary research in the fields of evolutionary musicology, artificial intelligence and complex systems. He will be in residence this fall at McGill University in Montreal.
Sharon Ya'ari, a photographer who will be honored in September with a solo show at the Kunsthaus Baselland in Switzerland and has had one-person shows at the Tel Aviv Museum, the Herzliya (Israel) Museum and the Lisson Gallery in London, among others, will be artist-in-residence at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., this fall.
Dani Menkin, a filmmaker whose students at Syracuse University will work with him when he shoots his next feature film on location in Syracuse this fall. Menkin will also be a presenter and judge at the Syracuse International Film Festival.
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011
Among the 14 artists in residence last year were filmmakers Dana Goren and Yael Hersonski, the winners of the Best Documentary award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Goren was in residence this fall at JFilm: The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum, teaching at various schools throughout the city and also engaged the community by making a film with local residents. Hersonski, whose Holocaust documentary A Film Unfinished has received enormous attention, including a rave review in the New York Times and several international awards, was hosted by Tufts University in the spring.
Photographer Assaf Evron and visual and performance artist Nelly Agassi were hosted in the fall by the Weinstein JCC in Richmond, Virginia. The residency culminated in an exhibition of their work.
Performance and installation artist and musician Ohad Fishof and dancer and choreographer Noa Zuk were in residence at Ohio State University's distinguished dance department in the fall.
Choreographers and dancers Yossi Berg and Oded Graf were in residence last winter at the Chutzpah Festival, an international performing arts festival held each year in Vancouver, British Columbia, where they performed and created a new work. Writer Assaf Gavron was at Chapman University in Orange, California, last spring. Gavron's most recent novel, Almost Dead, was published a year ago by HarperCollins. Musician Amir Gwirtzman was an artist-in-residence last spring at The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Gwirtzman took his 20 instruments on the road to perform in dozens of cities and states served by the Institute.
Visual artist Tamar Harpaz was in residence last spring at SPACES, an artist-run alternative space in Cleveland, Ohio. Harpaz, who works with optics, created an installation in the SPACES gallery and engaged audiences through gallery talks, master classes and other teaching opportunities. One of Israel's leading cinematographers, Yoav Kosh, was in residence at Colby College in Lewiston, Maine. He also appeared at other colleges and universities in Maine and worked closely with the Maine Jewish Festival.
Pablo Utin, one of Israel's leading film scholars and critics and the author of The New Israeli Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers, was hosted last fall by the Motion Pictures Department at the School of Communication at the University of Miami, the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami, along with the UM Hillel.
Fall 2009 – Spring 2010
Seven artists participated in spring 2010. AXUM (Judah [Gilor Yehuda] and Tedross [Reuben Aragai]) was hosted by the Emory Hillel. AXUM adds its unique Middle Eastern and Ethiopian sounds to Israeli hip-hop and reggae. Choreographer Idan Cohen, whose recent Swan Lake has been a smash in Israel and Europe, was hosted by the Amherst and Smith College Hillels and the Five College Dance Department (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMass Amherst).
Alex Epstein, one of Israel's rising stars in the literary world, was at the University of Denver. Documentary filmmakers Dan and Noit Geva were in residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore; Dan also taught a class on Israeli film at Johns Hopkins University. Under the sponsorship of the Institute for Southern Jewish Life, which is based in Jackson, Mississippi,
Amir Gwirtzman, a veritable Pied Piper, took his 20 instruments on the road to perform in 20 communities across the southeast.
In the fall of 2009, seven more artists participated in the program. Author (and founder and proprietor of the Jerusalem literary café "Tmol Shilshom") David Ehrlich was hosted by Portland State University (Oregon). Etty Ben-Zaken, a vocalist and specialist in Sephardic music, and her husband, composer Eitan Steinberg, were in Houston, Texas, where they lectured and performed at the JCC, Rice University, University of Houston and other venues in the area. Elyassaf Kowner was in the San Francisco area (Peninsula JCC, Foster City). Kowner, an interdisciplinary artist working in video, photography and music, engaged with the community to create new works and screen and exhibit his own work.
Photographer Roi Kuper, who has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Tate Modern in London, was at the University of New Mexico and the University of New Mexico Art Museum. He also exhibited his work in Albuquerque.
Documentary filmmaker Ram Loevy, recipient of the Israel Prize, the highest award given in Israel for achievements in art, science and the humanities, taught at Duke University. While in Durham, Loevy lectured at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, among other venues.Renana Raz, a choreographer, taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and offered master classes at several other area universities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area as well.
Fall 2008 – Spring 2009
The first artists-in-residence, in the fall of 2008, were performance artist Anat Pick, film historian Yael Munk, and curator and art historian Gideon Ofrat. Pick was the first-ever artist-in-residence at The International Dada Archives at the University of Iowa and was co-hosted by the University of Iowa Hillel in Iowa City. Pick is involved with innovative language-oriented performances or "sound texts" and has performed her voice works in contemporary music festivals around the world. Munk, whose residency took place at the Jewish Community Center of Chicago, is an authority on Israeli film. Ofrat, who became artist-in-residence at the Koffler Centre of the Arts in Toronto, is the author of 100 Years of Art in Israel, which was published in 1998 and is considered the standard text on the subject.
David Polonsky, artist-in-residence at the Brown RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) Hillel in spring 2009, developed the aesthetic approach, created the artwork for the animation and supervised the artistic aspects of the award-winning animated feature film Waltz with Bashir. Ronen Sabbo was an artist-in-residence at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Sabbo, a musician, DJ and music producer, performed regularly in San Francisco clubs, at Jewish community events in San Francisco and Los Angeles and created artistic collaborative opportunities within the Jewish community and the Bay Area arts and music community-at-large.
Are you interested in serving as an institutional host? Are you an Israeli artist interested in becoming an artist-in-residence?
Please contact:
Marge Goldwater, Schusterman Visiting Artist Program
The Foundation for Jewish Culture provides fiscal sponsorship for the program.
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The three protesters, including a sixteen-year-old boy, died in Awamiyah on Wednesday when the regime forces opened fire on demonstrators.
The latest deaths bring to fifteen the number of protesters killed since anti-regime demonstrations broke out in the Eastern Province last year.
Since February 2011, protesters have held numerous demonstrations in Saudi Arabia, mainly in Qatif and Awamiyah in the Eastern Province, to call for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination against Shias.
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A: I interwove Aztec myths in this novel to help create that mystical sense needed for the final scene at the sanctuaries. It is also an important cue to set the tone of the power of storytelling as a means of transferring information from one generation to the other. Abuela told stories to her daughter, Mariposa, and her granddaughter, Luz, not only to soothe the child, but to teach moral lessons and the Mexican culture. This particular myth was chosen because I wanted to ask the story question, "Will you bring light to the world?" This lies deep in the heart of Luz's journey as she brings light and change to so many people. Her name, Luz, was chosen because it means light.
Q. Your novels are known for being set against a backdrop of an important environmental issue. Why butterflies this time?
A: I'd wanted to write a novel set against butterflies for years. Who doesn't love butterflies? As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly—the only insect—that migrates like a bird or a whale! Every fall this brave, fragile creature travels thousands of miles across the country, joining millions of others, to reach their overwintering grounds in
Q. You do extensive interviews and hands-on research as part of your writing process for each book. What experiences seemed to be the most powerful and pivotal to your story development for this book?
A: Certainly the most remarkable experience was my journey to the monarch overwintering sanctuaries in
Later, I raised monarchs from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. Caterpillars are eating machines. That's all they do, eat and poop. (It is called frass). It was only in observing the caterpillar's brave journey to become the chrysalis that I fully appreciated the power of metamorphosis. The lowly caterpillar faces the darkness to completely transform. It twists and writhes as it changes to chrysalis. It begged the question "What is courage" in my novel. When a butterfly was due to emerge, I got up at dawn and waited and watched. Blink and you'll miss it! I never tired of it. Never will. I learned patience and consistency as the theme of transformation became paramount in the novel.
Q: Can you talk about Mariposa? In the novel, this character was going through the most powerful and painful transformation. Many of the characters in The Butterfly's Daughter go through a metamorphosis, or change, as well.
A: While raising monarchs, Mariposa came alive in mind—I realized she wasn't dead! It was a complete surprise to me, but also very exciting. It gave me a whole new dimension for the novel. Mariposa was like the butterfly she was named after—beautiful but flighty. Her driving force was drugs (similar to the caterpillar's eating) and it led her to ruin. By the time the story takes place, she's a recovering addict. Her phone call home was the instigating incident. Mariposa's journey to forgiveness involves a transformation that is ongoing at the story's end. To say she is changed would have been unrealistic for a recovering addict. It is her daily struggle and conviction that is inspiring.
I wanted each of the women (the "goddesses") to transform as a result of this journey. Luz went from a child without roots or dreams to woman with family and possibilities; Margaret from someone locked up and "beige" to open minded and colorful; and Ophelia from an abused, insecure pregnant woman to a fierce, committed mother. It's easy to understand why the butterfly is a powerful symbol of transformation in many religions and cultures around the world.
Q. The Mexican culture comes alive in this novel as young Luz seeks her roots in
A: Once I decided that the major theme of the novel would be based on the monarch's journey across borders to
Q. Luz Avila learns how to tag butterflies when she meets Billy McCall at a cluster of trees where monarchs were roosting for the night. How did you learn about the details of tagging?
A: We tag butterflies each fall as they migrate to
Q. Many of your novels have been based on Southern landscape and culture. What compelled you to take a break from the norm and write about the Mexican culture and the
A: I didn't take a break. Rather, when I set the stage for a novel I have to determine how to best bring my readers to the story world. For The Butterfly's Daughter, I wanted to mirror the monarch butterfly's migration—it had to be a road trip! So I began in the north,
Q. There are several conversations about the symbolism of monarchs and the afterlife, and a few characters experience the comforting presence of a deceased loved one during a monarch sighting. Have you had your own similar experience?
A: Yes! I was amazed to discover how many people shared that they'd had a personal connection with a butterfly after a loved one died. Perhaps at the funeral, or later when they thought of the person, a butterfly appeared. My father- in -law passed away during the writing of this book. My son and I ceremoniously released three butterflies I had raised in his honor. Two flew promptly away, as they all want to do. But one butterfly lingered for a long time, alighting on my arm and my son for a long time. He seemed reluctant to leave. I was astonished. It was just as I'd described it in my novel! I released many butterflies that summer but this was the only time one lingered so long. It was memorable and poignant. I believe we have connections with nature that we simply do not understand.
Q. On page 226, the character Stacie says to Luz and Margaret, "You might not know where you're going, but in the end, you get to where you're supposed to be." Did you know where you were going with The Butterfly's Daughter from the very beginning?
A: I have to share with you where that quote came from. I'm part of a group of women who all share the same birthday! We call ourselves The GEMs because we're all Gemini's. During one birthday while I was writing the book, we shared stories of road trips taken. Some were hilarious! Susan told me about a wild and colorful woman who shouted out the above quote and when I heard it I knew I had to use it. I loved it so much I based my character Stacie on this real woman. Often when writing a novel, the author can't make up anything as good as the truth.
As for whether I knew where I was going with the book from the start, the answer is no. I knew butterflies would be the backdrop for the story. I had a lot of possibilities, but it wasn't until I fully understood the majesty of the monarch's migration, and visited the monarch sanctuaries and witnessed the magic there, that I committed to the monarch. Writing a novel is much like Stacie's advice. We might have a lot of ideas, characters, and themes in the beginning of a novel, but it's a crazy journey and in the end you get to where you're supposed to be.
Q. Mariposa and Sam have a conversation about the genetic memory of monarchs, and it is compared to the mother-daughter connection of Mariposa and Luz. What personally intrigues you about the concept?
A: Consider the monarch. Unlike the bird or whale who makes the round trip migration, for the monarch it is the 4th generation monarch that returns! Isn't that incredible? Science is discovering how much information is transferred genetically. On a personal level, don't we all love to look at our children and say, "Claire has Nana's nose." Or we note how one family is good in science, or music. Imagine if you didn't know your family that shared DNA, wouldn't you be curious? The basic cell mitosis, known as the mother-daughter cell, was a perfect analogy for Luz's journey.
Q. As an author with a conservationist's heart, what do you hope readers take away from The Butterfly's Daughter?
A: Simply put, the monarchs are in trouble. In 2009 winter storms devastated
the population, some 50-70 %. Most people don't understand how critical the milkweed plant is to the monarchs' survival. The milkweed is the monarch host plant, which means it is the only plant the female monarch will lay her eggs on, and it is the sole food the caterpillars eat. Milkweed used to thrive in the
I hope my readers will all plant milkweed and nectar flowers in their back yards and flower boxes. AND DO NOT SPRAY INSECTICIDES! Not everyone can rescue sea turtles or birds of prey. But everyone can make a difference with the butterflies!
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Jay Karas, a Western Springs resident, finished 21st in his third Mid-American Junior Golf Tour event of the spring. | Brian O'Mahoney~for Sun-Times Media
Updated: July 8, 2012 8:29AM
Jay Karas has had a few rounds in the 80s this spring, but the Nazareth junior hopes Sunday's 3-over-par 74 can turn into a confidence-builder for the rest of this summer.
The summer golf action will really heat up after school is completed this week. More players will come out for more tournaments and the focus will become greater once high school players don't have final exams and other school commitments to worry about.
Karas, a Western Springs resident, finished 21st in his third Mid-American Junior Golf Tour event of the spring. It was also his highest finish of the season for any tournament after Karas carded an 85 Saturday in the first round of the Windmill Open at Mill Creek Golf Club in Geneva.
Sunday's round was a 180 one day later as Karas birdied the par-4 third and the par-3 16th. Karas had three bogeys and one double bogey at the 337-yard, par-4 No. 7. His 74 was his lowest score of the season thus far.
"I just wanted to go out and post a good number; get a chance to finish in the top 20 and score around par," Karas said. "My short game saved me today."
Saturday's 85 wasn't his highest round of the spring, but it was close. Karas shot an 87 in his second round of the spring in the MAJGT's Sanctuary Open April 21-22 in New Lenox. He finished tied for 39th in that event. He improved by firing 75-81—156 for 31st at the Windy City Open April 28-29 at Green Garden in Frankfort. Karas has yet to score a point on the MAJGT this spring, but will play in the Championship at Geneva National in Wisconsin June 12-14 and the Illinois State Classic in Normal in July.
Karas' biggest tournament of the month is the Illinois State Junior Amateur, beginning June 26 at Makray Memorial Golf Club in Barrington.
But Karas considered the Windmill Open pretty important. There were 67 boys players and the tournament was won by recent St. Ignatius graduate Shamus Fitzpatrick of Hinsdale.
"This is my first big one, I'd say," Karas said. "I look forward to playing in a couple of good tournaments to help me play in college."
Karas was Nazareth's second-leading scorer in last year's Class 2A state meet, where the Roadrunners finished fifth as a team. Karas tied for 45th among individuals.
It should be an important summer for Nazareth, which only lost one senior (Riley Gallagher) to graduation from last year's six state qualifiers. The projected returnees are Joe Mara, Karas, Bob Lively, Dan Saladino and Andrew Dobis. No other team from the state meet's top five have that many returnees. Defending state champion Belleville Althoff lost only two seniors to graduation.
In addition to MAJGT events, Karas will play in Illinois Junior Golf Association tournaments this summer as well.
At the Windmill Open, Western Springs resident Matthew Walsh tied for 29th, In the girls tournament, LT sophomore Ciara Rattana finished 11th and Jamie Blechschmidt, an LT junior, took 16th. LT sophomore Jameson Mitchell was 19th.


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Hi, I saw a specialty site on the internet,just google fireplace mantles. They look pricey but nice, however there are other choices depending on how rustic you want. I built a cabin years ago and the place I went for stair planks and a bar top and a mantle was a saw mill. When logs come in they saw them to your thickness, I got 2" slabs with the "skip peel" edge still on. I asked them to plane them top and bottom but leave the raw edge on one side, that edge is the outside of the log after it goes through the mill. Some time they throw that plank away but they really turn out nice with lots of sanding and lots of coats of spar varnish on them. And the little bits of bark stays on when there is lots of varnish. Second hand furniture stores and auction houses also have great finds. I once found a bed head board that had lots of carving and made a shelf out of it. Post pictures when your done, we'd love to see it. |
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it is productive to test the things that you are interested in (and especially be willing to test them in ways other than your 'normal' workload so that you can try and find ways that they break), but you also need to be willing to test alternatives proposed by kernel folks and be able to document (not just state) why what's being proposed is better.
it's especially not useful to show up from the blue strongly advocating the acceptance of any one feature and be completely silent on everything else
reiserfs4, Con's CFS, devfs, and wakelocks haven't had any lack of people pushing to get them accepted. In fact, they are all cases where the advocates went beyond being a benefit and many of them got to the point where their voices actually hurt the feature.
repeated demands to get feature X added to the kernel don't work
repeated statements that it's being shipped with distro X and therefor it should be merged don't work
continued statements that 'it works for me so it should be merged' don't work.
except for the outright demands, experience from people using a particular patch is helpful, and examples of it working well for people are useful data points, but they are not enough because there is always the potential that it's not going to work for other people or other situations. The more comprehensive the testing is the more useful the report is (i.e. desktop use only is not very helpful, especially after the first dozen or so people speak up and say it helps them)
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Posted Jun 24, 2010 2:02 UTC (Thu) by NicDumZ (guest, #65935) [Link]
Lobbying a community never does good. It's annoying and just adds unnecessary noise that makes me feel like running away from the topic. If you're unhappy with the development process, get involved, gain more importance by providing insightful reviews, and alternatives to patches that you dislike, and then people will listen.
But jumping in with "+1 I could use that" or "the review process here is awfuly broken"-type of comments is just not going to help
Posted Jun 24, 2010 3:35 UTC (Thu) by vladimir (guest, #14172) [Link]
Why should this be true? After all, it's gotten heavily tested on a variety of workloads, etc., etc.
Posted Jun 24, 2010 7:41 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
in no way is it a definitive statement in any case. Every distro applies some patches that are inappropriate in and for the long term at some point, so just because they shipped it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
As an example of this, look at AppArmor. It's being shipped with Ubuntu, but the developers aren't leaning on that constantly, they are improving the code in response to complaints and getting closer to being merged. The fact that it is being shipped with ubuntu is one line in their multi-hundred line patch summary (in other words, it's not being ignored, but they aren't posting daily or even weekly asking for it to be applied because Ubuntu ships it).
Posted Jun 24, 2010 7:12 UTC (Thu) by mingo (subscriber, #31122) [Link]
Especially if a piece of out-of-tree code is included in a big Linux distribution then upstream maintainers do not ignore it. There's reasons why distributions get big, out of the pool of literally hundreds of baby distributions - and technical incompetence is certainly not amongst those reasons.
So upstream kernel maintainers definitely must not ignore cases where a distribution chooses to include a big chunk of out-of-tree code. Distribution developers are often closer to users/customers and feel the pain of user suffering more directly than upstream maintainers.
So distribution developers asking for upstream inclusion is very much material. (And if upstream is being stupid then the requests should be repeated ;-) Many of our best features were first test-driven in distributions.
On the other hand, non-developer users of those distributions asking for inclusion, especially if they lack the technical expertise to make the case for upstream inclusion (and i suspect this was the main case you meant) is certainly counter-productive.
Posted Jun 24, 2010 8:32 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
"it works for me" can be a useful posting, especially if a patch hasn't had much coverage, or you have an unusual workload/machine to test it on, but there is a huge difference between "it works for me" and "it works for me so that means that you should merge it". one "it doesn't work for me" will out shout a thousand "it works for me" posts
people 'lobbying' for something tend to not provide the testing that is so useful.
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Moreover, such "complete features" often do much more than is really necessary to address the particular problem their submitters had in mind when they started to work on them. In many cases this "extra stuff" makes them objectionable. In some other cases they attempt to address many different problems with one, supposedly universal, feature which confuses things. It also often happens that the feature submitters are not willing to drop anything or redesign, because of the amount of work it took them to develop their code, so the objections cause the entire feature to be rejected eventually.
Now, if you do something that people are not going to react well to and you give them good technical reasons to object to it, you shouldn't be surprised too much when it fails in the end, should you?
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This week's awards, Dec. 14 - 18
Mrs. Robinson award: Michelle for not even noticing that Ben had a crush on her until he kissed her.
Psychic texting award: Kevin. He sent Molly a text saying he couldn't get away and nanoseconds later we see him coming out the door with his hands full of luggage.
Sent to Coventry award: Carla. "I knew Tony was a killer. Ooops, did I forget to say?"
Coward award: Gold Star: Kevin had Molly alone in the garage and in the motel and still bottled out of telling her about going to Paris for the weekend. It's all about getting your leg over. Nothing else matters. Pratt.
Silver Star: Carla for running away and not going to the police in the first place or the second place and letting Tony manipulate her.
The way to a man's heart is through his curiosity gene: Gold Star: Tina for luring Norris into taking Graeme's window cleaning round so he can be nosy.
Guilty as Charged M'Lud: Kirk... He's such a terrible liar! (the football and the window)
Put down "Win" of the week: Hayley really laid one on Carla. With a few quiet words she directed Carla to her husband when Carla asked for her to be her friend.
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Graeme "These Breeches are the work of Satan!"
Michelle to Carla "The first face my nephew saw was his father's murderer. That's what you've got to live with"
Tina to Norris "God Forbid a young lad's livelihood should get in the way of your social life."
Norris "They've gone for the dysfunctional family angle. Not short of material"
Steve to Dev "She needs to see a pathetic shell of a man, not a lover-man and lose the foliage"
Michelle about Carla "She thinks of no one but herself" (pot? kettle?)
Sally to Kevin "It's our little secret. It's like we're having an affair!" (*gulp*)
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Meant to ask that the Websters' flight was at 10.00. Molly and Kevin arranged to meet at 9.00 at the garage but while she was waiting she saw Kev et familie were leaving for the airport, now I dont know how long it would take to get to the airport, but you would have to check in two hours before, so I think the timing was a bit out directors!!
- 20 December 2009 12:52
- Tvor said...
Considering it takes about 25 minutes to get to the airport from Salford at 4 a.m. when there's no traffic at all, i'm pretty sure it takes a good 10 minutes more at 9 p.m. But as picky as i can be, i try not to think about the instantaneous travel abilities of cabs on telly!
- 20 December 2009 14:09
- Yoork said...
Michelle annoyed me in her last scenes. She's really just been annoying me overall since she broke off with Steve. Meh. Who's more useless, her or Dev? Or her son?
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Well, after reading this forum I predict for 2050:
USA will be the "United Socialist Republics of America"
EU will the the "Great Caliphate of Europe and North Africa"
China will own the entire Pacific
Japan will have blown itself up with the help of some weird gen-manipulated lizard in schoolgirl uniform
Russia will be the "Holy Russian Empire" led by God-Emperor Putin
Israel and "teh Juice" will still be blamed for every unfortunate thing that happens worldwide
Therefor, Crysis post is null and void.
That's 38 years from now (shyt I'll be 80)
by then...
by then...
....which world do you live in?
India has a labor force of nearly 500 million (as compared to 70 million for Bangladesh).This number would increase to nearly around 700 million by 2020.India is very cheap when compared to most developing countries.Maybe in cloth manufacturing Bangladesh is doing better than India but not in general case.
India and Bangladesh are in completely different league.
A small calculation. To bring these 700 Mill. people up to a annual salary of 50000 €/$ (I use it here because the Rupie is not familiar to me) you need to add every single year around 921 billion worth of salaries.
That is quite difficult to achieve. Also an ever growing cheap lobour force is contradictive to a high GDP/c.
Show me one country with low wages and a high GDP/c. Sure you can employ the PPP model if it suits you. But that is only a relative model. Advanced technologies and services have their price and this price will ever increase the more people reach certain levels of wealth.
Hence no wonder that on this crystal ball prediction mainly less populous countries are mentioned.
I was reading on http://sdelanounas.ru/ about the manufacturing data, it was set at 2012. If I find it, I will post it. But maybe you are right. I was just thinking if it ever came to that point. That said, with robotics, it could make manufacturing cheaper in long run as well as keeping quality up. But that is for a different topic (also the fact that Germany can capitalize on their manufacturing more since more German products are on the market, very rare to find Russian products unless it is in Eastern Europe).
Edit: You know what? I might be thinking of Industrialization in general and not manufacturing itself. So that may make more sense.
You are forgetting that Russia, like Canada, has the key of the natural resources. Brazil of course does, but Russia has the chance of being the Energy power, and that in itself, is what countries like India, China and USA are forever in need of. Mixed in with their (slowly) growing manufacturing industry, can be huge for them. At least they have the security, country like Nigeria in your list? Not even close. They may have the resources and the high population, but majority are poor and they have a lot more problems (probably more than countries like India).
An irony there is that the Asian Tigers making the top four are countries with some of the poorest natural resource, territorial and demographic conditions for prolonged economic expansion.
Well I'd still prefer to live in a very wealthy economy than in a big but relatively poor economy.
The PRC is only doing it thanks to massive export driven economy, fudging the numbers, dumping, extreme incoming trade restrictions, stealing technology, and intimidation
And even then, they're running out of steam. An economy can never have that continuous fantastic growth rate forever.
China is not a model to emulate. Tariffs, perhaps. But not mroe than that.
In short, India has to figure out some other strategy, or out the windshield it goes like China will.
**** sucks, but what can ya do, eh? :P
when i saw the first posts in this thread this morning, i knew that by now it will be all about india again...


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NSI and BOBS sign Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Cooperation
29th, May 2012
The Namibian Standards Institution (NSI), representing Namibia, and the Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS), representing Botswana, on 25 April 2012 signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Cooperation which will see closer cooperation between the two Standards Bureaus in terms of the development and promotion of standardization and conformity assessment activities in the two countries.
The signatories to the agreement, Riundja Ali Kaakunga (Othy), CEO of the NSI, and Masego Morobela, MD of BOBS, indicated their delight at the signing of the memorandum, considering that both institutions share a common interest in contributing to the socio-economic development of their respective countries through the promotion of trade and industry. Furthermore bearing in mind the importance of standardization and conformity assessment in the promotion of trade, the MoU aims to reduce and eliminate technical barriers to trade between Namibia and Botswana.
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- Promoting harmonization and application of uniform rules and procedures for the formulation of national standards;
- Ensuring the control of the quality products traded between the two countries;
- Recognizing the certification mark schemes and marks of conformity of both countries to enhance trade, provided that the standards are equivalent and conformity assessment procedures are consistent with international requirements;
- Exchanging of information on technical regulations and implementation of import inspection and market surveillance programmes; and
- Pursuing joint training programmes, and to take advantage of each other's training facilities.
The keynote address was delivered by Banny K. Molosiwa, the Permanent Secretary of the Botswana Ministry of Trade and Industry who stated that: "The two institutions represent the most important component of our development agenda in that in order for us to successfully industrialise our economies we need to ensure that we produce high quality goods that can stand the test of competition in the international playing field." She continued to say that, given the relative size of both countries, the socio-economic similarities and climatic conditions, it is vital for the two republics to strengthen the relationship at every opportunity, as such a relationship will lead to the overcoming of economic challenges and the pursuing of areas of common interest in order to realise the goals of both Botswana and Namibia.
This was reiterated by the Riundja A. Kaakunga (Othy): "Both the NSI and BOBS realise that they have economic and business interests to protect and this MoU is a practical demonstration of the two NSBs' desire to confirm their established relationship of co-operation and to promote continual links in the furtherance of that relationship."
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