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Library Faculty Assembly Home Archives Documents Officers Assembly Committees Career Development Libraries Budget Nominating Strategic Planning Special & Joint Committees Faculty Committees Faculty Senators Sabbatical SPEP Tenure & Promotion Other Governance Committees UF Faculty Senate University Libraries Committee Future of the Libraries Committee myUFL login required Library Catalog Databases Site Map SearchFaculty Governance at the University of Florida LibrariesMinutes August 16, 2011, 2:00pmSmathers 1A Current LFA President Naomi Young presiding;Dan Reboussin, Immediate Past President, present at podium. Current LFA President Naomi Young presiding; Dan Reboussin, Immediate Past President, present at podium. Announcements: Missy Clapp will be the LFA Secretary starting September. David Hickey agreed to record the minutes for this August 16 meeting. Chairs Report: Naomi Young attended the campus Senate Steering Committee meeting: evaluating the RCM process, the impact of this years budget and graduate education were topics discussed. LFA attendees were urged to attend, or watch the live stream of, the August Senate meeting in which President Machen delivers his State of the University address. The Senate website is being overhauled, so viewers are cautioned that the streaming video may not be working as well as it should. David Schweider is the new Political Science Selector in Library West. Administrative Update (Judy Russell): The late-breaking situation regarding the potential closing of the separate AFA and Music Libraries was described in detail. The College of Fine Arts has a significant space problem, and the first CFA faculty meeting of the year taking place today will be focused on this issue. Smathers Libraries will work closely with all appropriate groups to do whatever is necessary to ease the situation. The understanding is that to free up space for AFA and Music collections in the H&SS Library, low-use items will have to be moved off-site, including print journals and the third floor reference collection. The ongoing JSTOR analysis will be critical. Questions: Q. How long will CFA be given to address this space deficiency? A. The CFA Dean will need to develop a plan to respond to in the need for additional space. Q. How [should one] respond to faculty in Music who will wonder where their materials will be going? A. I believe we can make space in Library West: low-use print materials have always been a target for moving off-site, but lots of planning needs to be done. Q. The spaces occupied by AFA and Music have always been charged to Smathers Libraries, so when the materials are moved, these spaces and associated charges will go off our books and back to CFA? Also, AFA Library differs from H&SS in that the materials are generally higher-cost, and processing is higher for these materials. A. Smathers Libraries will get the funding to do what needs to be done. Also, Ann Lindell and Robena are expected to identify the possible low-use materials in AFA and Music respectively, so that these items can be moved to storage. Market Equity (ME) Plan: Brian Keith distributed the Faculty Market Equity Plan of August 16, 2011 report to those present ( please see accompanying document ). Laurie Taylor moved that this Market Equity proposal be accepted. All in the room approved it. Judy will meet with the Provost this week, with preparation of the storage facility high on the list. A projected shortfall in the materials budget has been sent to the Provost, reflecting how the library cannot operate adequately on flat budgets. She will also be discussing library fees with the powers that be.
LFA Committees: Jane Ann Carey discussed this years Travel Committee procedures. She urged everyone to submit travel money requests as soon as possible. There are two occasions where approvals will be made, once in fall and once in spring. New Business: Naomi will be Chair of the Infrastructure Council this year. Through this and her presence in the Faculty Senate, she will be able to monitor shared faculty governance in such concerns as the AFA/Music space quandary. Naomi will be able to keep Scott Nygren, this years Senate President, aware of developments in the process. Brian reminded everyone of the Library Convocation on Thursday Aug. 18 from 2 to 4 PM. The Budget Reports from June 30, 2011 will be posted on the LFA website, to ensure full transparency in these issues. Adjournment: The assembly ended at 3:25 PM Staff Web | Staff Directory | Library Hours | RSS | About the Staff Site | Privacy Policy Send suggestions and comments to Amy Buhler 2004 2011 University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. All rights reserved. Terms of Use for Electronic Resources and Copyright Information Last updated September 14, 2011 ab


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Paper Labels is a design project uniting BaileyWorks (Portsmouth NH), Bodega (Boston MA) and Independent Fabrication (Somerville MA) – three local DIY crews leading respective fields. BaileyWorks hand-crafts durable and elegant courier bags; Bodega is an innovator in retail/design; and Independent Fabrication creates bespoke bicycles with the meticulous care of artisans.
The Paper Labels project takes form in three concept bikes, four courier bags and three t-shirts. The color scheme and iconography of Paper Labels was derived from Bodega's archive of discontinued vintage spraypaint. Krylon Aqua Turquoise #2008, Krylon O.D. Khaki #2301, and Krylon Metallic Blue #1903 serve as the foundation for the bike's color schemes. Selected in part for their cult following and timeless appeal, these colors serve as the basis of this design project.
Showcasing enduring craftsmanship, this project tells the story of a time when things were made locally and built to last – a time before bikes became fashion and products were built to break.
Baileyworks, Bodega and Independent Fabrication will unveil the project Friday, February 12th, 7pm at FourthWall Gallery (132 Brookline Ave. Boston MA). Items from this project can be purchased at www.bdgastore.com and www.ifbikes.com. Bikes are limited to 15 each and are individually numbered.
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They had not won a season opener in 20 years. Notre Dame hadn't lost one since 1986.
The Irish had outscored Northwestern 111-34 in three meetings from 1992 to '94. They entered ranked ninth. Their quarterback, Ron Powlus,...


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Even if you're not going to the Consumer Electronics Show, running Tuesday through Friday in Las Vegas, you can still test drive one of the world's newest gadgets this week.
With the right kind of smartphone you can find what's hot at certain hotels and even find out when a big jackpot last hit on a particular slot machine.
The new product, called TecTile, will be unveiled Tuesday (today) at various Caesars Entertainment resorts on and near the Strip. The manufacturer, Samsung Mobile, is installing 4,500 programmable stickers throughout the various properties as a way to make information easier to access.
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USC composers gather together from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Fridays in the School of Music building, room 210, for Composition Seminar. The seminar features presentations on a wide variety of composition-related topics by guest composers, our composition faculty and student composers. In addition to reading sessions, group composition lessons and open discussions on current topics, this forum features regular visits by conductors, musicologists, performers and theorists.
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June-quarter sales and earnings at beverage giant Coca-Cola (KO – Free Coca-Cola Stock Report) were a bit lacking. The company indicated that results fell below its expectations, as progress was hampered by weak economic conditions across much of the globe and unusually poor weather. On the top line, revenues slipped 3% from the prior-year period, to $12.75 billion, versus our estimate of a 1% increase. Profits managed to edge forward 3%, to $0.63 a share, but we had set our sights $0.02 higher. In response, we are trimming $750 million from our full-year revenue outlook, which now stands at $48.25 billion, essentially flat with 2012. We are, however, maintaining our earnings estimate of $2.15, which would represent a year over year increase of 9%.
On the positive side, Coke again managed to increase its share of the global nonalcoholic, ready-to-drink beverage market during the June period. The company didn't have much to show for it, though, as volumes inched ahead 1% year over year, compared with a 4% gain in the first quarter. From a growth perspective, Coke continues to have the most success in emerging markets. Volumes in the Eurasia/Africa business were up 9%, while it also registered big gains in a number of Pacific-region markets, including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand. The progress in that part of the world, however, was tempered by lackluster results out of India (up 1%), Japan (up 1%), and China (flat). Meanwhile, challenging conditions continue to persist in the developed markets of Europe and North America, as reflected in volume declines of 4% and 1%, respectively.
Coke stock was a strong performer early in 2013, but support has cooled off a bit of late. Prior to the recent earnings release, the share price was up 15% year-to-date, while most of the leading equity benchmarks were showing gains in the high teens. The latest results seemed to fall a bit flat with investors, as the stock was bid down modestly on the news. Overall, though, this equity still appears to be worthy of consideration for conservative investors. These shares carry our Top rank (1) for Safety, while also offering an above-average dividend yield. Notably, the payout was raised 12% earlier this year, and the company should have little trouble extending its track record for annual increases in the 3 to 5 years ahead. At the current valuation, these high-quality shares offer good risk-adjusted total return potential to 2016-2018.
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Bob Hope led the pack of popular performers who entertained the troops during World War II. John Wayne and other actors fought the war in feature films, and other Hollywood favorites tirelessly toured the country on war bond drives. In fact, beloved actress Carole Lombard died in early 1942 in a plane crash returning from a war bond drive.
But there were numerous established stars, directors, producers and workers in other branches of the film industry who put their careers on hold to serve the country during WWII.
In honor of Memorial Day, here's a look at some of the superstars who put themselves in harm's way during the war.
PHOTOS: A trio of actresses who entertained troops in WWII
James Stewart
Prewar: With his lanky, boy-next-door charm, Stewart was one of MGM's top young leading men. Besides winning an Oscar for 1940's "The Philadelphia Story," he also starred in the 1938 best picture winner, "You Can't Take It With You," and earned an Oscar nomination for 1939's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
Joining up: Stewart, then 32, was one of the men whose number was called in early 1941 in the first peacetime draft. However, he was turned down for service because he was 5 pounds underweight. But Stewart wanted to serve his country, so he fattened up, enlisted in the Army Air Corps and passed the physical, becoming the first Hollywood star to join the military before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
War record: After being assigned as a flight instructor for nearly two years stateside, Stewart was stationed in England, where he piloted bombing missions including raids on Germany. His numerous honors included the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. A colonel by war's end, Stewart remained with the U.S. Air Force Reserves and was promoted to brigadier general in 1959. He retired from the Air Force in 1968.
Clark Gable
Prewar: One of the biggest stars in Hollywood, Gable had won the lead actor Oscar for 1934's "It Happened One Night," a nomination for 1935's "Mutiny on the Bounty" and another nomination for his most famous role as Rhett Butler in 1939's "Gone With the Wind."
Joining up: Married to Lombard at the time of her death, the 41-year-old Gable joined the Army Air Forces in August 1942, as a private.
War record: Trained as a photographer and aerial gunner, he was assigned to England to make a movie to recruit air gunners. He saw combat during bombing missions and nearly lost his life when enemy flak just missed hitting him the head. He received an Air Medal and a Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Gable, who returned to the U.S. in late 1943, became a major in May 1944. By then, he was too old for combat duty, so he requested and received a discharge the following month. Capt. Ronald Reagan signed his discharge papers. (A side note: Adolf Hitler considered Gable his favorite actor and offered a substantial reward for his safe capture.)
Prewar: 20th Century Fox's top matinee idol starred in such films as 1936's "Lloyds of London" 1939's and "Jesse James."
Joining up: After completing the war film "Crash Dive," the 28-year-old Power enlisted in the Marine Corps as a private in August 1942 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant the following summer and a first lieutenant in 1944.
War record: As a transport pilot, he participated in the air supply into and evacuation of the wounded from Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He received the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze stars and the World War II Victory Medal.
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The Sword and The Stoned
As Kenny Powers in Eastbound & Down, Danny McBride created probably the funniest pro-sports mess outside of Tiger Woods's meltdown. Now he's in Your Highness, a stoner comedy set in the Middle Ages. We kid you not
When you talk to people involved in the making of Your Highness, they insist that it's not a spoof. That what they've done is introduce the wild-card element of McBride into a super-faithful homage to enthrallingly crappy '80s sword-and-sorcery flicks like Krull and Dragonslayer. It's a ridiculous movie, the cinematic equivalent of an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual with boobies and spurting wieners graffitied in the margins. But it's a ridiculous movie made with great care and a cast that features not one but two 2011 Academy Award nominees (James Franco, in a giant codpiece, and Natalie Portman, really going for it in ye olde thong bikini). And it's actually coming out, like real movies do.
And no one involved with Your Highness can talk about all this without giggling a little bit, at the improbability of it all.
Its lead actor and co-writer is no exception. McBride's in a dive bar in New York on a Monday afternoon, just him and a couple of serious bar-goyles clamped to stools and a bartender facilitating their midday buzz. When we walked in a minute ago, George Thorogood and the Destroyers were power-chooglin' through "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" on the jukebox. Aside from maybe "Bad to the Bone," it was almost too perfectly hack-soundtrackish a song to walk into a bar to, and McBride and I were both sort of embarrassed, like maybe we should have tried our entrance again when something less on-the-nose was playing.
It was too Kenny Powers, is the thing. Kenny, the former big-league pitcher turned major-league train wreck McBride plays on Eastbound & Down, the instant-classic HBO tragicomedy he co-created with writer-director Jody Hill and writer-actor Ben Best, would roll with it. Kenny would strut across this bar, insult everybody in it, and start and lose three pool-cue fights before George & Co. finished the last chorus. But Kenny's a study in swaggering, mullet-brained self-delusion, and McBride is McBride—an accomplished actor and screenwriter, one of the smartest men in dumb comedy, 34, newly married, able to reference both the Hitchcock-Truffaut interviews and Revenge of the Nerds II in casual conversation.
So it's weird, walking in on this song, the way walking into a room with Tom Cruise where "Old Time Rock & Roll" is playing would be weird. Slinking to the back, we obtain one table, two stools, and two beers. For a second, when McBride holds up his pint and says "This is lunch" by way of a toast, you can almost see whatever small part of him is Kenny Powers warming up his pitchin' arm—but only for a second.
And then he's explaining Your Highness, as best he can. How it all started as a joke. How he and his old film-school buddy David Gordon Green—who cast McBride in All the Real Girls back in 2002, directed him years later in Pineapple Express, and occupied that chair again on Your Highness—used to play this movie-nerd game years ago, where Green would throw out a title and McBride would start pitching him back "fuckin' retarded ideas for movies."
Green would say something like Face of Danger, and they'd come up with "some weird story about Steve Danger, who's a plastic surgeon and he solves mysteries." _Your Highness _was one of those. Green said it; McBride said, "What if I was in the Middle Ages fighting dragons and getting stoned all the time?"
Neither of them thought about it again until years later, when The Foot Fist Way—a tiny movie about a blowhard Tae Kwon Do instructor that McBride starred in and co-wrote with Best and Hill, who went into credit card debt to finance production—became a sensation, and people in the position to put up money for things started asking McBride what he wanted to do next.
"If someone was going to give me an opportunity to stand in front of a movie, I didn't want it to be some lame romantic comedy," McBride says. So he and Green started talking about making something that might totally fail but would, at least, be unlike anything else out there. They started talking about actually making Your Highness.
"We were like, 'Let's make the movie that we would have died to see when we were 13 years old,'" McBride says.
Which, in a roundabout way, was how McBride ended up on a set in Northern Ireland, acting opposite a man dressed as an extremely well-hung Minotaur.
"An actual Minotaur," McBride says, "with a big ol' dick hanging between his legs!"
I'm loath to spoil this, but midway through the movie the Minotaur and its man-bull-hood are separated, and there's a split-second gag involving the Minotaur dick and a maiden played by Zooey Deschanel, and even though the year is still young, I'm ready to say you won't see anything funnier or more horrifying in a movie in 2011.
McBride knows that scenes like this—movies like this—draw a line in the sand between people who like this sort of thing and people who don't, and that there's a ceiling on the potential audience for proudly vulgar tributes to moribund film genres, movies that zero in on what we'll politely call a specialized audience's filthy-minded tastes instead of striving for multiquadrant palatability.
"I don't want to speak for David," McBride says, "but there are people making successful movies that appeal to everyone, and
we just don't see a place for ourselves in that pantheon."
He laughs. The jukebox plays Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak."
"I've been in movies that were made to appeal to everyone, and sometimes they appealed to no one," McBride says, presumably making tactful reference to his role in Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost, a $100 million Flopasaurus rex. "It's just more interesting to us to make the fuckin' weird, crazy movies that maybe some people go see."
Only that audience that loves Minotaur penis.
"If you don't like the Minotaur dick, you're not gonna like our movie, and we're okay with that."
McBride had never thought about becoming an actor, but he can't remember ever wanting to do anything but make movies. As a kid growing up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, he'd shoot VHS films with his friends, mostly about things blowing up. When it came time to look at colleges, he looked only at film schools. He had his eye on NYU, and then, when he was a senior in high school, a buddy who'd just graduated from there came back talking about all the debt he'd racked up. So McBride enrolled in the newly established film program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, because he knew he could aord it. It ended up changing his life.
When he arrived as a freshman, in 1995, McBride's dorm-hallway neighbor on one side was Jody Hill, and his neighbor on the other side was David Green.
They bonded; they'd raise hell, get drunk, light the hall on fire. But they'd also take advantage of the fact that the program was brand-new and nobody really batted an eye when they'd say, So, yeah, we're gonna need to borrow the grip truck and the dolly and these cameras for the weekend, for a project. Sometimes they'd just spend two days filming themselves partying at somebody's house. But occasionally, acts of legitimate filmmaking were committed. Everybody remembers how good McBride's short films were. "They're like great '80s comedy movies," Green says. "One was about a bunch of kid superheroes, and another one was a night-in-the-life love story. They were all highly ambitious, sophisticated movies that would be impossible to pull o at a film-school level, but somehow he motivated everybody to help him. His stu would raise the roof at the end-of-the-year screenings."
The core of McBride and Green and Hill's operation is still made up of guys they know from back then. Green has used the same director of photography, Tim Orr, and the same sound mir, Chris Gebert, both School of the Arts guys, on all his movies; Zene Baker, also from that circle, edited a bunch of Green's films and also cut Hill's Observe and Report. That's the best thing about all this, McBride says. They all used to live on five bucks a week, making their stupid film-school movies and eating burritos, and now they're actually getting paid to do what they used to do for nothing.
But that didn't happen right away. McBride had to move to Los Angeles and do the kinds of things you do when you're fresh out of film school. He waited tables and worked alongside Jody Hill as a P.A. on the _American Gladiators-_style wrestling show Battle Dome, where his duties included the nightly vacuuming of the Battle Dome. He'd just found a job shooting motion-control sequences for the History Channel when he got a call from David Gordon Green.
The actor who was supposed to play Paul Schneider's townie best friend, Bust-Ass, in Green's second movie, All the Real Girls, had dropped out of the role just days before they were supposed to start; Green wanted to know if McBride could take over the role. McBride hesitated for a minute—he had a nine-to-five, with benefits—but he didn't want to leave his buddy hanging, so he quit and went and played Bust-Ass.
"He was nervous," Green says, "so we got him really drunk. And it was just a mess. Me and him were drinking rum and driving around listening to Britney Spears—I was trying to get weird shit out of him and then film it. It didn't work. So the next day we just said, 'Let's try it sober,' and it was great."
About half the part was written and the other half was improvised. When Bust-Ass is talking about playing the lap steel, that's scripted; when Bust-Ass is soliloquizing about pancakes, that's all McBride. It's a testament to McBride's ease in front of the camera that you can never tell which is which.
He went back to L.A. after that. He sold a screenplay. Had a little walking-around money but was doing nothing but walking around, so when Jody Hill decided to quit his job (he was a story editor on Real World/Road Rules Challenge)to make a movie in North Carolina and asked McBride if he wanted to play the lead, McBride took the leap, even though he was worried he'd ruin it.
Instead, as Fred Simmons, a strip-mall dojo-studio proprietor and self-proclaimed "King of the Demo," McBride drew on his three years of parks-and-rec karate-class experience and his memories of the clueless adult authority figures he'd grown up around—the way they'd expound on things they knew nothing about; these mentor types who always seemed like they could use more mentoring and guidance than anybody else in the room—and created a character who's a clear Kenny Powers precursor, all compensatory bluster and tragicomic self-delusion wrapped in a fourth-degree black belt.
They shot Foot Fist in seventeen days, for under a hundred grand, with a cast of locals and a crew of School of the Arts students working for internship credit; completed a shitty rough cut, which they sent to Sundance, figuring they'd heard the last of it; and then went back to their lives, a little burned-out on the whole thing. Then Sundance called and said they were in, at which time they scrambled for three weeks, around the clock—Ben Best and his band, Pyramid, wrote and recorded a score in seven days—to get an unshitty cut finished in time for the festival. It screened at midnight, and they figured that was it. Instead, _Foot Fist _got passed around, became a calling card the way that early South Park short, the one where Jesus fights Santa, became a calling card. Suddenly it seemed everybody had seen it, which was weird, and they'd liked it, which was weirder, and two weeks after Sundance, McBride had an agent at CAA and was flying in from Virginia to L.A. to do the courtship-ritual tap dance with movie ecutives by day while crashing with friends at night.
Foot Fist got him invited to the set of Knocked Up to hang out with Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen (which led to the Apatow-Rogen gang recognizing the Green-Hill-McBride team as kindred spirits, and to David Gordon Green directing Rogen and McBride in Pineapple Express). It got him in a meeting with Will Ferrell and his writing partner, Adam McKay, which led to Ferrell and McKay securing a theatrical release for Foot Fist. Which led to Hill and McBride talking to their new benefactors about a show they wanted to do about a washed-up baseball pitcher, to be told in a finite number of short seasons, the way British sitcoms like the original Office did it. Which led to Hill and McBride and Ferrell and McKay pitching Eastbound & Down to HBO the Monday after Talladega Nights grossed $47 million in its opening weekend, which meant, as McBride puts it, that "we could have sneezed and those guys could have said we were funny and they'd have picked the show up."
None of this was planned. The whole time they were making Foot Fist, they were all totally okay with the idea that their movie would, if they were lucky, end up being the kind of thing stoned kids would watch in the doobie-fugged privacy of their dorm rooms. They all had movies like that, their let's-get-lit-and-watch-this movies. They'd get lit and watch Dumb and Dumber, Animal House, Caddyshack, the whole John Hughes oeuvre, with the kind of critical eye good film students are supposed to bring to, like, Bergman or whomever. They started to think, even back then, about how these comedies worked as movies, and to figure out how even proudly and deliberately dumb movies like these could have a voice and a point of view.
"They all have that, like, Cassavetes and Robert Altman influence," James Franco says, "but they also have all those '80s influences, like_ Tango & Cash_ or Conan the Barbarian. Their blending of the high and low is really unique in the film world right now." You can see that mix of tones and styles, Franco points out, in Your Highness: "You have, like, CG-rendered creatures, and then you'll have a puppet."
"We love Monty Python and the Holy Grail," McBride says, "and how they approached not having the budget of a big movie. But David's whole idea [for Your Highness] was that the joke would be that it's not low-budget. We wanted to make it look as much like Harry Potter or Clash of the Titans as we possibly could, because that would make the joke that much better. Monty Python did the low-budget version, and they killed it. You don't want to step on territory that other people have done amazingly. It's like, where's our place on the dance floor?"
McBride's film-school movies, Hill says, were always strong on story. McBride says he's a fan of mythologist Joseph Campbell's ideas about archetypes and the hero's journey, all that philosophical DNA that became a Hollywood-blockbuster template after George Lucas's Campbell-informed Star Wars movies made a quadrillion dollars. "I love all that shit," McBride says.
Your Highness is basically a classic Campbell-structure story in which McBride, as Thadeous, ventures forth, as Campbell says, "into a region of supernatural wonder; fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won; the hero comes back with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man."
But from a storytelling perspective the finest piece of work that McBride's had a hand in so far is Eastbound & Down, whose second season, written and best consumed as a single 200-minute work even though it aired in twenty-eight-minute sitcom-style installments, was secretly the best movie of 2010. The best comedy and the best Western—the season opener featured Kenny, having fled North Carolina for Mexico in shame after losing a shot at a big-league comeback, watching Pale Rider while jerking o to a yearbook photo of the high school sweetheart he left behind, and McBride says movies like The Wild Bunch, in which old gunfighters go south of the border to die, were a major reference point for the season. It's a comedy steeped in the free-bird fatalism of the finest southern rock—from Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant wailing Lord, I can't change to every Drive-By Truckers song about men pursuing their own doom. (As Kenny would put it: "Surrender is death, and death is for pussies.")
Honestly, even if McBride never connects as a movie star, he'll still be a giant of modern comedy, thanks to Powers. Like a lot of recent history's greatest TV protagonists—Don Draper and Tony Soprano most obviously—Kenny is a monster on paper. Racist, misogynist, prone to ego-driven self-sabotage. And like Jon Hamm and James Gandolfini—seriously, this is the weight class this show's in, so if you've stayed away because "HBO sports comedy" just makes you think Arli$$, catch up already—McBride is good enough in the role to make us root for this idiot anyway, to hope he achieves a redemption he probably doesn't deserve.
"There's an incredible amount of honesty to that character and to the way he plays it," says Jason Reitman, who cast McBride as George Clooney's future brother-in-law in Up in the Air. "He manages to not judge his characters, to treat the dialogue—as ridiculous as it is—with realism and make it funny. Also, he reminds us of ourselves. Danny is able to pinpoint the things that embarrass us, the things that we have shame for, the anger that we hold on to so tightly."
"We're getting away with shit that we would never get away with in a movie," McBride says. "With a TV show, you can kind of dip and dive and explore things."
McBride says he and Hill gave themselves some time o to "get Kenny out of our heads," but they're ready to start writing a third and final season of Eastbound soon, which will be about Kenny, now dealing with the responsibilities of fatherhood, setting up in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Having grown up in the South, McBride says, "It's just a fuckin' shit-show down there—one bar after another. For a guy like Kenny, it's just fucking paradise. It's gonna be a place where he can really be himself."
Kiss sings "Love Gun" on the jukebox. Over by the pool table, a sloshed construction worker struggles to put his coat on. He moves his arms like he's fending o an invisible vampire bat. McBride grins, says, "That dude is awesome," maybe filing the moment away for future reference.
I ask what else he's got going on. He mentions a movie he and Jody Hill wrote a year after The Foot Fist Way, based on the 1997 robbery of a bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. "These rednecks robbed Loomis Fargo for over $17 million," McBride says. "And they would have gotten away with it, except they stayed in the town they were living in. They literally moved from trailers into the richest neighborhoods in town, lived like kings, bought their wives tit jobs. Jody wants to make it like a southern Godfather."
McBride would be in that. Most of the other projects he's excited about—including the ones he and Hill and Green are working on—aren't acting vehicles for him. There's a documentary about bare-knuckle boxing that they want to turn into a TV show; there's this collective of filmmakers from Australia who have an idea for a series about a hit man, which they're trying to set up at HBO. Beyond that, McBride has things he's writing, things he wants to write, things he wants to direct—the kinds of things he wanted to do all along, before acting got in the way.
"Honestly, at the end of the day, I fuckin' love writing the most, out of all of it," McBride says. "Whatever goes on, I know I can come back to my fuckin' desk and put down some jokes and write something, and that honestly keeps me so content that if I never were to get another acting job again, I wouldn't be heartbroken."
He's always written on the side while working another job, he points out—it's just that now the day job is movie actor rather than, say, night desk manager at the Burbank Holiday Inn.
Really? I ask. If everything else fell away, that's the one thing you'd choose to keep?
"Totally," McBride says. "Get rid of all the fuckin' flu. Keep it street. Just me and my word processor."


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AJackson County Circuit judge has denied the Rogue Valley Manor board's request for a temporary restraining order that the board said was necessary for it to continue its efforts to separate from Pacific Retirement Services.
A lawyer for the board said he expects the board members involved in the action against PRS to be terminated from their positions in a PRS board meeting scheduled for today.
"PRS will now fire the Manor board, or at least the seven members of the board who authorized the lawsuit," said Thomas McDermott, a Portland attorney representing the Manor board.
The board members of the Medford retirement facility sought the restraining order to forestall what they said would be the imminent removal of dissenting Manor board members by the PRS board and the firing of the Manor's executive director, Kevin McLoughlin. They said if that occurred, any effort to separate from PRS would be stopped in its tracks.
Judge Philip Arnold ruled against the Manor board's request Thursday, saying the Manor's own bylaws establish PRS as having full authority to remove Manor board members and that there was no basis for the court to step in to protect McLoughlin's job.
The Manor board had taken the action as a precursor to its efforts to be separated from PRS control. The two boards of the Manor and PRS have been locked in a dispute for months over control of the Manor, which has more than 960 residents. The Manor board created PRS in 1991 to provide management services, but in doing so essentially created its own parent organization. Now the board wants to reclaim autonomy over the Manor's operations.
PRS operates 10 major retirement communities in five states, along with a variety of other housing facilities and miscellaneous operations, including two golf courses and a hotel in Medford. Manor residents and board members have said in taking on the array of other projects, PRS strayed from the mission established in 1955 with the founding of the Manor.
But Arnold quoted the Manor's own articles of incorporation and bylaws in denying the request for the temporary restraining order, noting that the wording specifically gives PRS the authority to remove any member of the Manor board.
"The language ... is plain and the meaning is clear," Arnold wrote.
Arnold said approving the temporary restraining order "would require the court to re-write the parties' governing documents and create a right for the Manor that does not exist."
Brian McLemore, chief executive officer of PRS, said in an email sent Thursday that PRS would work with residents to repair the rift.
"This has been a difficult experience for both organizations," McLemore wrote. "We realize there is work that needs to begin immediately, with Manor Resident Leadership as we move forward with rebuilding our relationship. The PRS Board will be meeting tomorrow (Friday) to address the issue before them."
In response to questions emailed to him, McLemore wrote, "We will have further comments tomorrow (Friday) once the PRS Board has a chance to meet."
McDermott, the Manor board's lawyer, said the board uprising is expected to be quelled for good in today's PRS meeting, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the PRS headquarters in Medford.
"We expect a new board to be appointed by PRS that will be loyal to PRS and will vote to dismiss the lawsuit," McDermott said.
Manor board members and residents say they are being charged exorbitant fees by PRS and would like to have more control over the facility's operations. McDermott has previously said that the $3,500 per unit management fee charged by PRS is about $2,000 more than is typically charged for such services. He said Thursday those fees bring in "at least $1 million more (than cost) every year so they (PRS) can go support other projects."
Manor board members say that when PRS was established it was agreed that management fees would be charged to the Manor "at cost" — in other words, with no profit attached.
McDermott said the expected removal of the current board members means the Manor board will have no real authority and that the power for all major decisions will lie solely with the PRS board.
"The Rogue Valley Manor board now will be no different than some of the residents' committees," he said. "PRS will give them lip service, but if they really want to change anything, good luck."
McLoughlin, the Manor's executive director, was placed on paid leave on Aug. 10 just before the dispute became public. Manor residents and members of the board said PRS officials believe McLoughlin had provided the Manor board with confidential information on PRS discussions or plans. They also said that was not the case.
McDermott said if PRS goes through with the dismissals, it is unlikely to be the end of the debate.
"PRS can get rid of the board and get rid of the executive director, who is highly respected and beloved by the residents," he said. "But they still have to deal with the residents, who are pretty revved up ... and are not going to take this lying down."
The Rogue Valley Manor provides "life care" retirement services that include housing, meals, activities and medical services. Residents pay a large up-front fee to move into the facility, which provides housing options ranging from free-standing housing to apartments, nursing facilities and an Alzheimer's care unit.
Bob Hunter is editor of the Mail Tribune. Reach him at 541-776-4460 or email@example.com.
Judge's ruling quells Manor revolt
AJackson County Circuit judge has denied the Rogue Valley Manor board's request for a temporary restraining order that the board said was necessary for it to continue its efforts to separate from Pacific Retirement Services.


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Media and entertainment companies doing business in China can expect double-digit growth in the world's most populous nation but must be prepared to overcome a number of regulatory and piracy issues, according to a report released Wednesday.
The "Spotlight on China" study, prepared by Ernst & Young, was released to coincide with the accounting firm's media and entertainment conference in Shanghai.
The report estimates that China's media and entertainment industry will grow at a 17% annual rate between 2010 and 2015, significantly faster than the country's economy overall.
Part of that surge is driven by theatrical box office revenues. China recently surpassed Japan as the world's No. 2 movie market and Ernst & Young says China will move past the United States to claim the top spot by 2020.


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CityDotCom needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 65 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
City.com provides users with a web based application for searching, reviewing and rating local businesses. The company has developed an extensive database of business listings, secured partnerships with leading publishers of local events and classifieds data, as well as having created and aggregated unique hyper-local blog content.
Our target audience is local residents. We want to come up with a banner ad that encourages users to find, rate, and most importantly review businesses in their neighborhoods, in an effort to help other local residents find places and services they may like in their locality.
Please create an engaging 300x250 banner ad to be placed on our homepage, http://www.city.com/, where the current 300x250 Google Adsense banner now resides.
The banner should achieve the following:
* Encourage users to interact with City.com
* Encourage users to write reviews about their favorite local businesses
* Encourage users to "Like" and rate local businesses
* Inform users that they can leave ratings and reviews about businesses in their neighborhoods
* Inform users they can find local businesses on City.com
Please explore http://www.city.com/ and prepare a banner to encourage users to explore our features, and to review businesses around them.


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Fire Restoration Update
Rotating Outages
Rotating Outages and Emergencies
What is a Rotating Outage?
Did your AC stop working?
How can I find my Rotating Outage Group Number?
You can find your Rotating Outage Group Number in one of these ways:
- You can log in to My Account and follow our step-by-step guide.
- If you get a paper bill each month, you can find your Rotating Outage Group printed on the front.
- You can call us at 1-800-611-1911.
- You can search neighborhood Rotating Outage maps.
A, M, R, S, X - These groups are subject to rotating outages.
N001, EXEMPT, No Group ID listed on bill - These groups are not subject to rotating outages.
Group numbers are subject to change to protect the grid integrity and ensure public safety. These changes will not occur during a Rotating Outage event.
Essential Use Customers
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has determined that certain customers who provide essential public health, safety, and security services should normally be exempt from Rotating Outages. To apply as an Essential Use customer, call us at 1-800-990-7788.
On rare occasions, Essential Use customers may experience a Rotating Outage. We will take all possible measures to quickly restore power. Please call us at 1-800-990-7788 immediately.
Currently no Rotating Outages are scheduled.
View Previous Rotating Outages
See the status of previous rotating outages called and which groups were affected.
You can also view:
- A list of the communities and neighborhoods included in that group.
- Maps showing the affected areas within those communities.
For more than 15 years we have maintained a 99.98% Service Reliability rating for our customers (Check the CPUC's Electric Service Reliability Annual Reports). Predicting electricity demands and generation availability is at best an approximation. The Cal-ISO's forecasts and system status change quickly, causing our real-time electric grid management plan to change also. We make every effort to keep information posted on this Web site accurate.


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Before & After: Spray Painted Chevron Carpet
When my husband and I moved into our "chouse" (or church house) this past summer we came to the conclusion that there were just some things we'd have to live with for awhile until we'd have the time/money/energy to tackle them. We've been making steady progress, but I just couldn't get past the idea of having an aisle down the middle of my house. It felt more church and less house and so something had to be done (even if just for my own peace of mind). Enter — fabric spray paint.
Now I'd been sitting on a few cans of fabric spray paint for a few months and hadn't quite found the right project to test it out on. In theory it's sold to completely change the color of an entire sofa or large furniture piece, but I just didn't think that would yield the best results (sounds patchy at best), so I'd been holding back and I'm glad I had.
A few weeks before Christmas, during a time where I should have been doing more productive things like cooking dinner or wrapping gifts for a rapidly approaching family get together, I decided to paint the carpet aisle or runner that divides our "living room" (for all intents and purposes).
The sun was setting (why do all the good projects get started so late in the evening?) as I armed myself with a few supplies and a bit of courage and set to work. Our sofa (which is rather large and pictured in full back in this post from our previous warehouse space) would hopefully break the look up and the goal was that after painting, I would have an entryway of sorts and then a lounge area. The carpet is super old, obviously faded and stained from the previous owner. It wasn't a pretty site, but that was all about to change. Ready? Go!
We let things dry overnight and they were crisp and clean in the morning. Although it doesn't exactly change up the base color carpet that's this old-maroon-gross-worn-down-icky shade of red, it does give me some separation of space and thus anchors the furniture a little better. I ended up using 2½ cans of paint and spent a few hours tackling the project. Time well spent until my husband and I can decide how we're going to fill the aisle in the near future!
Would I do it again? In a heart beat!
Would I use it on a carpet I found on Craigslist? Absolutely!
Could I use a stencil next time? Sure could, just make sure it has a sticky back. The spray paint is very forceful and would blow up a simple piece of paper or vellum.
Would this cover a stain or spot I can't get out? Most likely if it's a dark color so get creative! Free hand or use tape to help guide you.
Was it scary? Were you nervous? Yup, but you only live once right — just call me the wild child!
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Appeals Court Asked To Review Little Falls Shooting Case
LITTLE FALLS (AP) — The attorney for a Minnesota homeowner accused of fatally shooting two teens breaking into his house is asking an appeals court to intervene in the case.
Byron Smith's lawyer is asking the state Court of Appeals to review a Morrison County judge's decision to not dismiss a first-degree murder indictment against Smith.
Defense attorney Steven Meshbesher also will ask Judge Douglas Anderson on Friday to put the case against Smith on hold until the appeals court decides whether to get involved.
Smith, 65, is accused of killing Nicholas Brady and Haile Kifer after they broke into his house north of Little Falls on Thanksgiving Day 2012.
Smith's attorneys had argued that prosecutors made mistakes in presenting their case to the grand jury.


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Christopher Kerr was born in 1813 in Charlotte County, Virginia. He died about 1858 in Shelby County, Kentucky.
Christopher married Rachel Sharp during 1833 in Virginia. Rachel was born in 1813 in Virginia. She died in 1856 in Shelby County, Kentucky.
They had the following children:
Andrew M. Kerr was born in 1836 in Virginia. He died on 9 Sep 1890 in Kentucky.
Susan J. Kerr was born during 1839 in Charlotte County, Virginia. She died on 22 Apr 1901 in Kentucky.
Barbara Irene Kerr was born about 1839 in Kentucky. She died on 3 Oct 1931 in Lewis County, Missouri.
Isaac Kerr was born in 1843 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He died in 1911 in Kentucky.
Lucy Kerr was born in 1843 in Shelby County, Kentucky. She died in 1920 in Jefferson County, Indiana.
Martin C. Kerr was born in 1846 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He died in 1883 in Kentucky.
David B. Kerr was born in 1850 in Kentucky. He died in 1851 in Shelby County, Kentucky.
Joshua Walden Kerr was born circa 1853 in Kentucky. He died circa 1853 in Kentucky.


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Flysurfer News:
Max - Youngster with great talent
Max is 6 years old and a very talented kiter and wakeboarder. His father Valentin told us how he teaches kiteboarding to his son. Furthermore he gives some tips to other parents how to encourage getting their kids into the sport.
"Max started out with wakeboarding and he was already quite comfortable with the board when he started with the kite. Like this they can forget about the board and focus on kite handling.
The Flysurfer Viron is a very forgiving kite and it took only 10-15 minutes of beach and body dragging sessions to bring him to the point where he got on the board and then quickly went further and further. We chose to follow Max with a boat in the deep water to make him feel secure and give him a lift upwind when needed. Tips for other parents: invest plenty of patience for the first steps and make it playful for the kid(s) with no pressure! They may start with just a few minutes of kite handling first and then try again another time. Get the special kids sizes for both wakeboarding and kiting. It makes a big difference! It appears kids can pick up wakeboarding from 3 or 4 years already, about the same age they can start to ski and swim. Once they can comprehend procedures like quick release they can start to play with a kite under supervision.
We used a Viron 6m DLX for Max who weighs 30kg for winds from 14-18 knots. The board is a 115cm EPIC kids board."


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March 22, 2013
Florida, NY
Sr. Mary P. Meyler, SC, 79, died in Guatemala on March 22, 2013 in the 62nd year of her religious life.
Memorial Visitation will be held from 9 to 10:45 a.m., Monday, April 1st, Assembly Room of Mt. St. Vincent Convent, Bronx, NY, followed by Mass of Christian Burial, Mt. St. Vincent, Main Chapel at 11am. Burial will be at Mt. St. Vincent.
Sr. Mary taught in Staten Island, New York City, White Plains, New Rochelle, the Bronx, Florida, and Yonkers, New York before going on mission to Guatemala in 1997.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Ann and John; brother, James; sister, Nancy; brother-in-law, Eugene McGovern; and nieces, Patricia Rose and Jeanne McGovern. Survivors include her brothers, Frank and Jack; her sisters, Catherine and Rose; nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
Arrangements by Whalen & Ball Funeral Home, 168 Park Ave. Yonkers, NY 10703, 914-965-5488, www.whalenandballfh.com.


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Tighter industrial emission laws have gradually cut the amount of sulfur released into the atmosphere in recent years, and combined with a growing trend for non-sulfur based fertilizers, is causing sulfur deficiency in many crops planted in lighter, sandier soils in the Southeast.
Sufur deficiencies began showing up sporadically across the Southeast early this year in corn.
Though often confused with nitrogen deficiency, lack of sulfur in the soil causes more pronounced yellowing of young corn leaves, primarily because sulfur doesn't translocate in the corn plant as readily as does nitrogen.
Other symptoms of sulfur deficiency include delayed maturity, stunting of plants and interveinal chlorosis.
Sulfur deficiency is most likely to occur on sandy soils, on soils with low organic matter or on cold, wet soils — all of which are very common any year in the Southeast, but especially so this year in the Upper Southeast.
Most growers in the Southeast are well aware of the need for nitrogen fertilizers in non-legume crops, but few are aware that without sulfur nitrogen is of little value.
Both nitrogen and sulfur are building blocks for for protein. A shortage of either N or S results in shortages of chlorophyll rubisco — the enzyme that converts carbon dioxide to sugar and nitrate reductase, which converts plant nitrate into ammonium.
Yield losses from sulfur deficiency, especially in corn, can be catastrophic, if the problem isn't addressed quickly.
Research has shown that for each day sulfur is deficient, past the first 21 days after corn emerges from the soil, there is a loss of 1-2 bushels per day.
If sulfur is deficient when corn is in the silking stage, yields could be reduced by as much as 75 percent.
From 1985 until 2005 changes in sulfur emission management, primarily due to the Federal Clean Air Act, have significantly reduced the amount of sulfur released into the atmosphere. While a good thing for the environment in general, these stricter laws have created some severe shortages of sulfur for farmers already struggling to grow crops on marginal lands.
National statistics
By 2011 over half the states in the U.S. had reported some level of sulfur defiency.
A study on corn by Iowa State University showed increased corn yields 82 percent of the time, when sulfur was applied to the soils. If this is true in the heavier soils of the Midwest, with high levels or organic matter, it is likely to create a greater response on lighter soils more common in the Southeast.
Though sulfur deficiency isn't typically associated with cotton, recent studies at the University of Tennessee indicate it may be a factor in reduced yields in fields with low sulfur and/or heavy hardpans that make it difficult for sulfur to move through the soil.
Several factors that influence cotton yield were negatively impacted by low sulfur in the University of Tennessee study. Sulfur deficiency reduced seed cotton weight per boll and per plant, averaged over the 3 years.
Sulfur deficient plants usually produced fewer bolls per plant,with a greater proportion of bolls at first-position fruiting sites. Sulfur deficiency also reduced locules per boll on a 3-year average in the tests conducted by Xinhua Yin and Chris Main at the University of Tennessee.
In corn, North Carolina State University Soil Scientist Carl Crozier has studied the impact of sulfur deficiency on corn for a number of years.
He saysin addition to restricted amounts of sulfur available from the atmosphere, several weather-related and biological factors have resulted in the increasing number of cases where sulfur is being diagnosed as deficient or limiting in young corn plants in North Carolina.
First, extended periods of frequent and intense rainfall events cause rapid leaching of sulfur from the soil. Since sulfur is a mobile nutrient and is water soluble, this sulfur in the upper soil profile (top 2- 4 inches) has been leached into the lower rooting zone.
Sulfur will typically accumulate in the subsoil horizon at a depth where clay content increases, which may be within 6 inches, but could be 18 or more inches below the surface in many of the sandy Coastal Plain soils.
Producers should study soil profiles from their fields to see if crop roots are likely to reach this zone. The reduction in sulfur emissions brought about by the clean air act means these same rainfall events are not replacing the sulfur leached, Crozier explains.
The second key factor is the size of the root system.
Following germination, the radicle emerges from the corn seed and is the primary root system for the first two weeks after emergence. However, as the corn plant develops the radicle deteriorates and is replaced by seminal roots coming off of the first node of the corn plant.
These seminal roots are initially very shallow (one half inch or less) and then grow deeper over time. Therefore, during the period when the plant switches from the radicle to the seminal root the lack of nutrients in the upper 2- 4 inches becomes a severe problem.
Several factors involved
Other factors contributing to the frequency of sulfur deficiency symptoms are the increasing use of no-till or minimum-till practices that increase surface residue, the lack of tillage that mixes shallow soil layers with nutrients deeper in the soil profile, and marginal to low soil pH.
The increasing surface residue and reduced-tillage means soil temperatures are cooler in the shallow seed zone resulting in slower root growth during the switch between the radicle and seminal root systems and cooler temperatures reduce the efficiency at which roots take up nutrients.
The lack of soil mixing means the differential in sulfur concentrations between the shallow and deeper soil profile becomes greater over time with less sulfur in the surface layer and more in the deeper profile.
Therefore, while the soil test may show adequate or high levels of sulfur, the upper 2-4 inch layer may have much lower concentrations.
Low soil pH results in less available sulfur (as well as other needed plant nutrients), stunting of needed root development, and generally enhances the deficiency symptoms relative to fields with adequate pH levels, Crozier says.
It's likely that sulfur emission standards are likely to get even tighter in the future, making atmospheric sulfur even harder to come by. For growers there are short and long-term options for correcting sulfur deficiencies Crozier says.
For growers who document sulfur deficiency damage on a crop, some sulfur should be applied.
How much to apply and in what form varies greatly, depending on the severity of the problem and myriad farm production practice differences. The point is, if there is damage to the crop, sulfur needs to be applied, Crozier adds.
In some cases soil tests may show adequate sulfur, but plant damage still occurs. Crozier says even though the soil index shows adequate sulfur, in some cases the plant is not able to develop enough root volume to reach the deeper sulfur concentrations.
Long-term solutions should be based around yearly soil samples and fertilizing to achieve proper sulfur index levels.
"On low CEC, sandy soils it is becoming apparent that yearly soil tests are needed to help monitor rapidly changing nutrient conditions associated with leaching of soluble nutrients," Crozier says.
In situations where the grower is using no-till practices it is a good idea to have a soil test done on the top 2-4 inch layer separately from the 8-inch core sample. This way a shallow deficiency can be found and corrected.
Growers who leave more surface residue, who plant early in the season when soil temperatures are cooler, or who have extremely sandy soils should consider adding sulfur in their pop-up fertilizer in a 2 X 2 band or at least applying some sulfur pre-plant, he adds.


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Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha is prepared and ready for a move to the Premier League in the January transfer window. The 20-year-old England international is reportedly attracting interest from Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham and believes the time is right to test himself at the highest level.
"I'm not a teenager any more," Zaha told the Mail on Sunday.
"I've played more than 100 first-team games and this year is crucial to develop my football career. I want to establish myself in the Premier League and in international football.
"I've played a lot in the Championship so having that new challenge in the Premier League, where everyone wants to be, would be great.
"To be honest, if I had the chance in January and Palace agreed, it's something I'd want to go for.
"Some of my friends, who play in the Premier League, joke around and ask me what is taking me so long. I just tell them I will be there at some stage.
"I've done a lot of learning in the Championship. Now I'm ready for the Premier League."
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Web 101: Site Essentials
Five pillars of an outstanding chiropractic website.
By Naren Arulrajah
According to a recent national Pew Internet Survey, 72 percent of American Internet users say they accessed a website to look for health information of some kind within the past year.1 It takes more than just a nice-looking website to be accessed by a lot of people who get real answers to what they were looking for and visit the website again in the future.
It also takes special website development and marketing skills to ensure that most of those site visitors are actually localized target audience of the chiropractic practice. To begin with, an effective chiropractic website must be founded on five important pillars that constitute the backbone of the website.
1. Innovative Website Design
It is fairly easy to create a standard website design that nearly everyone else is already using. Ready web design templates can help create a website quickly and inexpensively. However, if the goal is to create a website that stands out in an overcrowded Internet space, it needs an original, innovative and user-friendly website design.
Internet users are spoiled for choices and will quickly move on to other sites if the web design fails to deliver everything they are looking for in an efficient and likeable manner. Website navigability should be seamless and intuitive, to encourage the reader to explore maximum areas of the site and spend maximum time on it. Navigation buttons, links and menu items should be placed right to make the overall experience comfortable and pleasing for the reader.
Google officially recommends that webmasters use responsive web designs that make website viewing equally effective on a laptop, tablet or mobile phone.2 The design allows the website to adapt naturally to the display screen, irrespective of the size of the screen. Ethan Marcotte was the first one to propound the theory of responsive web designs that include elements which will position themselves based on the breadth of the browser screen. With an explosion of the usage of mobile devices for Internet viewing, responsive web designs have become more important than ever.
A chiropractic website does not have to be overly colorful, stylish or flamboyant, but it does not have to dull and unattractive, either. If the visual appeal of the website can impress the target reader within the first few seconds, half the job is done. A professional-looking website will reflect positively on the image of the chiropractor and create a favorable first impression. The choice of background color schemes, fonts, headlines, images, videos, graphics, icons and the professional quality of primary content will play a subtle role in determining how a new visitor views the practice and forms an opinion about it.
Ambiguity in visual texture and overcrowding the pages can confuse the figure and background relationships of various page elements. A typical problem with crowded elements is the 1+1=3 effect, which causes visual chaos. Two of the key Gestalt principles in page layout are uniform connectivity and proximity. Groups of content are clearly marked on a well-organized web page so the reader can identify the content of their choice in a single glance. The content patterns must be predictable across the web pages to provide optimal visual experience to the reader.
3. Original and Relevant Content
All style and no substance will not work for a chiropractic website. The primary audience of such a website will be potential patients who are looking for useful information that addresses their queries, doubts and concerns adequately in a reader-friendly language. Google and other search engines are increasingly inclined toward promoting websites that are strong on content and satisfy the search queries of their users in the most effective manner.
The content must be updated periodically to ensure readers receive something new each time they visit, and gain the confidence that they will receive the very latest and accurate information at the website. According to TMG Custom Media figures, 90 percent of readers prefer custom content, and 78 percent believe that businesses offering custom content are genuinely interested in creating relationships with their readers.3
4. Functional Efficiency
The chiropractic website must be impeccably functional and usable for site visitors. Every web page must download properly, and have clean and unbroken links. The site should ideally have a clear site map that helps both the readers and the search-engine crawlers to navigate easily. Contact forms, images, videos and PDF files should download correctly and smoothly. Simplicity should be preferred over flashy content, such as animation, that takes time to download.
Economic layout, minimal scrolling on each page, and logical menus and navigation are important to provide an excellent visitor experience. The website should be compatible with multiple browsers and a mobile version must be included. A well-managed web page will at the first glance define the functional areas of the page, so the reader can determine what is relevant and what is peripheral. Website content must be structured in such a way that related page elements can be grouped logically for maximum functional efficiency.
Even the best website with the most brilliant content will be ineffective if it fails to reach out to its target audience and remains buried obscurely in endless Internet space. Search engine optimization or SEO is the most crucial pillar of a successful chiropractic website. It begins with an appropriate choice of localized keywords that help the search engines to identify the website when local people are searching for relevant information. Natural and organic link-building continues to be a critical part of creating a search engine-optimized website.
An "eye-tracking" study conducted by UserCentric.com revealed new insights about searcher behavior. Between 70 percent and 80 percent of participants in the study ignored the paid ads on the web page while using Google or Bing search, and looked only at the organic search results for their specific queries.4 This fact underscores the towering significance of SEO over paid online advertising.
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FAMILIES have expressed their concern over the potential closure of the Stansfeld Outdoor Education Centre in Headington.
More than 500 people from across Oxford have signed a petition asking owners Birmingham City Council – which has put up a misspelt sign at the centre's entrance – to keep its outdoor learning centre open.
It is considering selling off the land to help with the £340m budget cuts it needs to make over the next two years. A decision on the centre's future is set to be made by the authority next Monday.
There are fears the land could be sold for a housing development.
Stansfeld Outdoor Education Centre was created by the Rev Canon John Stansfeld, a parish priest, doctor and philanthropist Vicar of St Ebbe's from 1912 to 1926, he used the money he had been saving for a trip to the Holy Land to buy 20 acres of land off Quarry Road to give the children from the 'St Ebbe's slums' a chance of camping in the countryside at the weekend. He dontated the land to Birmingham in 1933.
Andy Spooner, from Cummings Close, has fond memories of visiting the centre from Sutton Coldfield as a school pupil.
The deputy head of Windmill Primary School, who is originally from the West Midlands, developed his passion for geography while on trips to Stansfeld.
Mr Spooner said: "I went to the centre in 1989 and remember having a fantastic time. It was experiences like that made me pursue geography and take a degree."
The teacher recently took his three year-old son Finley to the centre for the first time. He said: "I had the opportunity to take Finley for his first session. It was marvellous and we had a wonderful time there."
Mr Spooner expressed his concern that the centre may close, and said: "To lose that centre would be an absolute shame. It would be really upsetting."
Pupils from Windmill Primary School in Margaret Road regularly visit the centre on Tuesdays for activity sessions. Mr Spooner hopes the centre will remain a part of the community, alongside his wife Rebekka and younger son Jonah.
Risinghurst and Sandhills Parish council chairman Barbara Naylor's two granddaughters Kacie, seven and Ezri, 10 have both used the centre for school and guiding trips.
Mrs Naylor said: "It is an absolutely invaluable asset for young people. It is a lovely centre if it used to its full capacity.
"I do have some sympathy for Birmingham City Council, but on the other hand, young people need these places for outdoor activities. "Stansfeld is a safe place and the girls go quite often with their school to do activities there."
The activities centre, which offers kids residential courses, includes a five-a-side football pitch and adventure playground.
County councillor for Headington and Quarry Roz Smith is leading the campaign to keep the threatened centre open.
Ms Smith said: "The big fear for us is that it could be sold off for housing development.
"It is understandable that Birmingham wants to be looking at funding. But this is a small area and the whole community can use it. That's really what my petition is about."


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A word of advice,, I've been to Chumphon a couple of times and in reality the wind is poor. The normal pattern in high season would see about 3 windy days followed by 5 or 6 windless days. Last time I was there (peak season), we sat around for days on end with no wind. I met a pair of Germans who'd been there 15 days and been on the water just once. I think its too big a risk for a 2 week break, especially as its a long, long trip from Bangkok. Maybe different if you're going for a couple of months and prepared to wait it out. You also have to hope that when the wind does blow, it doesnt coincide with high tide as this reduces the beach to nothing and makes launching and landing very tricky and sometimes impossible.
The other big drawback is the SANDFLIES. The beach is full of them and they are evil and merciless. When you first arrive you wonder why no-one is sunbathing on the beach but after about 20 minutes of being eaten alive you soon pack up and sit inside. This is a great shame as it means that non-kiting partners wont enjoy it so much. If you're thinking of spending those endless, windless days lazing on the beach, think again.
And if all that isnt enough... last year there was a gang of thieves targetting the tourists and a lot of stuff was stolen from rooms. People lost money, credit cards, laptops, passports etc. Some people were left in a deep mess with no money or passports.
The beach at Chumphon (Tung Wae Len) is a quiet place with little nightlife so dont expect there to be much going on. Nice if you want to relax but too quiet for some.
When the wind does blow, it a good spot, but the negatives outweigh the positives for me and there are better options in Asia with much better wind stats, better nightlife and no sandflies! Its an awful long way to go to sit around waiting for the wind to come while you get eaten alive.


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The Most Musical Time Of The Year
With the end of 2011 in sight, the holiday hustle and bustle is reaching a fever pitch as millions scurry for last-minute gifts and preparations for family holiday gatherings. Shoppers are finding deeper pockets this year, too, as holiday shopping is projected to reach a record $469.1 billion this season, according to figures from the National Retail Federation.
In the midst of the mania, musicians throughout the United States are helping to make the season bright with sounds that appeal to any and all — from jazz lovers and country music loyalists to those who prefer the sounds of a symphony or were born to rock (for a good cause).
Fans of classical music have had, and still have, plenty of chances to enjoy holiday symphony performances in metropolitan areas nationwide. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco kicked off the season on Nov. 30 with The Best Time of Year: A Christmas Special with the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Randall Craig Fleischer and featuring the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and San Francisco Symphony. On Dec. 13–15 GRAMMY winners Peabo Bryson and Jennifer Holliday entertained hallgoers with Colors Of Christmas, a festive evening consisting of pop hits and Christmas favorites. This weekend, guests can choose from performances of Handel's "Messiah" on Dec. 17–18 or a mariachi-style celebration with a concert by Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernàndez on Dec. 18.
Over in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 31 the National Symphony Orchestra will end the year with New Year's Eve at the Kennedy Center, a concert conducted by Murry Sidlin featuring music from composers such as Rossini, Bernstein, Copland, and Tchaikovsky, among others.
The fun in the nation's capital started with the 89th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting held in President's Park on Dec. 1. Artists on hand to perform were OneRepublic, whose 54th GRAMMY-nominated Ryan Tedder sang "Christmas Without You," Nickelodeon heartthrobs Big Time Rush, country singer Rodney Atkins, British singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding, Kermit the Frog, and soul songstress Marsha Ambrosius, whose hit R&B track "Far Away" has earned her two nominations for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. The ceremony is available to view on demand.
While her Muppets partner in crime Kermit appeared in Washington, D.C., Miss Piggy made a special appearance on "CMA Country Christmas" in Nashville on Dec. 1. Bridgestone Arena got steamy when Miss Piggy and 20-time GRAMMY winner Vince Gill performed a sultry duet of "Baby It's Cold Outside." The concert also featured GRAMMY-winning guitarists Brad Paisley and Brian Setzer performing "Sleigh Ride," while fellow GRAMMY winner Faith Hill and 54th GRAMMY nominee Martina McBride dazzled the audience with holiday favorites. "CMA Country Christmas" will be re-broadcast on Dec. 17.
After the big shindig in Washington, D.C., Big Time Rush made their way to Los Angeles for the annual KIIS-FM Jingle Ball on Dec. 3. Headlining a roster of pop and R&B acts was the GRAMMY-winning Fame Monster, Lady Gaga. A three-time 54th GRAMMY nominee, Gaga rocked the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live with a set including "Born This Way," "White Christmas" and "Marry The Night."
Nokia Theatre L.A. Live will play host to another holiday event, Stevie Wonder's 16th annual House Full of Toys Benefit Concert, on Dec. 17. Hosted by comedian Steve Harvey, special guests will include 54th GRAMMY nominee Drake, Justin Bieber and Michael McDonald, among others.
Earlier this month in Los Angeles, California State University, Long Beach's KKJZ-FM held its annual Jingle Jazz concert Dec. 4 at the El Rey Theatre. The event featured performances from the John Egizi Quartet with Barbara Morrison, Luis Conte Ensemble and the Kurt Elling Quartet. Elling, a former Recording Academy Vice Chair, is up for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Gate for the 54th GRAMMY Awards.
Veteran rocker Alice Cooper will host his 11th annual Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding on Dec. 17 at the Comerica Theatre in Phoenix. The event will bring musicians, dancers and comedians together for a night of festive entertainment in support of Cooper's Solid Rock nonprofit foundation to help at-risk youth in Arizona. This year's "super band" will include guitarist Orianthi, Judas Priest's Rob Halford and Korn's Brian "Head" Welch, among others. Proceeds from the event will be contributed to the Rock, Solid Rock's new teen center scheduled to open in spring 2012.
"It is humbling to have all these incredible musicians and entertainers donate their time to help us make the Rock a reality for at-risk youth," says Cooper. "We've been taking our music and dance programs into the streets for years and soon the kids will be able to come to us in a safe, nurturing environment."
In full swing since late November, Kenny Rogers' 30th annual Christmas & Hits tour is scheduled to wrap Dec. 23 at the NYCB Theater in Westbury, N.Y. A heartfelt tradition among his fans, the show welcomes local choirs and children selected in each city of the tour to sing traditional and original holiday songs with the three-time GRAMMY winner.
"It's a sweet little show, very family oriented, which is what it's all about," Rogers told Reuters.
Of course, this is just a sampling of holiday-themed music events. Check your local area for events near you.
(Judy Asman is a Southern California-based freelance writer.)


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But he was certainly someone generally who supported the rights of unions, supported the rights of immigrants. You know, it was due to Joseph Pulitzer that we even have the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. You know, the French had built this statue. The U.S. Congress was supposed to allocate money to build the base for this statute and refused to do it. And there was no place to put the statue.And Joseph Pulitzer decided this was no good. And so he led a campaign in the pages of the World to raise money to build the base of the Statue of Liberty. And from the pennies and the nickels and the times sent in to him by the immigrant readers of the World they, in a very short matter of time, raised the money to build the statue. And the fact that the Statue of Liberty was out there was really a symbol of the burgeoning power, not just of immigrants but of the press.


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