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Really, does the Little Black Dress ever go away? By its very nature, the LBD is a fashion and style constant, but the level at which it piques our what-we-want-to-wear-tonight interest does wax and wane. Fortunately, like the Madonna of the fashion staples, just when you think the Little Black Dress is beyond reinventing, new and fresh details thrust it back squarely into the adoring gotta-have-it spotlight.
Lately, we've seen oodles of noteworthy LBDs on celebs (like the retro brocade number on adorable Anne Hathaway, pictured here) and runways alike, featuring oh-so-modern bold shoulders, illusion, texture and asymmetrical lines. So if spring and summer boho florals are starting to make you queasier than all this ridiculous heat, consider these affordable options for a return to le cool LBD chic-ness.
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Gritty Flyers halt losing skid, best Bruins
Philadelphia, PA – Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 33 shots and the Philadelphia Flyers put the brakes on a four-game skid with a 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Saturday at Wells Fargo Center.
Mike Knuble, Matt Read and Ruslan Fedotenko each scored once to help the Flyers remain within striking distance of the final playoff berth.
"It was a huge two points for us," Read remarked. "Hopefully from here we can just play with confidence like we did tonight, keep on the same tracks and keep going."
Nathan Horton scored the lone Boston goal, while Tuukka Rask allowed two goals on 21 shots for the Bruins, who have lost two straight and three of their last four.
"I think we were working hard but just couldn't buy a goal and maybe gripping our sticks a little too much," Horton admitted. "Once they got the lead they were playing back. Like I said, we had our chances though."
Boston racked up 12 shots in each of the first two frames, but the Bruins were unable to break through Bryzgalov until the opening stages of the final frame.
Horton started the play by skating into the Philadelphia zone and sliding a cross-ice feed to the right point for Dennis Seidenberg. The Boston defenseman then fired a slapper that was knocked down in front and the loose puck ended up on the stick of Horton, who fired it home from in close to make it 2-1 at the five-minute mark.
Bryzgalov was able to keep the Bruins off the board from there and after Rask left the net in favor of an extra attacker, Fedotenko buried an empty-netter with 58.4 seconds left to account for the final margin.
The Flyers opened the scoring late in the first period after Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara was whistled for hooking at 13:50.
On the ensuing man advantage, Knuble camped out in front -- where the Boston blueliner would have been patrolling -- before one-timing Brayden Schenn's centering feed past Rask to make it 1-0 at the 15:19 mark.
The Flyers doubled their edge early in the second when Jakub Voracek skated into the zone and slid a cross-ice pass to the left circle for Read, who rifled a one-timer past Rask for a 2-0 advantage just 3:18 in.
Game Notes
Boston had won four straight in the series and hadn't lost in regulation in Philadelphia since March 10, 2007 ... Philadelphia defenseman Oliver Lauridsen, recalled from Adirondack of the AHL on Friday, made his NHL debut and posted one shot in 17:12 of ice time ... Fedotenko notched his first goal in 28 games, since his only other tally this season on Jan. 26 ... Boston went 0-for-2 on the power play, while Philadelphia finished 1-for-1.


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PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H (AP) — Authorities say at least three people have been injured in an 800-foot avalanche on New Hampshire's Mount Washington.
WMUR-TV reports that rescuers from the U.S. Forest Service have located three people who were hurt Thursday evening. They include 26-year-old retired Marine Sgt. Keith Zeier, who lost his leg and suffered a severe brain injury in Iraq in 2006. He was climbing Mount Washington to raise funds and awareness for families of Special Operations forces killed and wounded in action.
Two other hikers also were injured. The three have been taken to a local hospital for treatment. Zeier's family told WMUR his injuries were not life-threatening. The condition of the others wasn't immediately known.
Gorham EMS Director Chad Miller says the avalanche happened at about 5 p.m.


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As many users pointed out in forums, the new release is mostly a rewrite of the Gnome desktop environment to the GTK+ 2.0.x API. The new version of the popular C-based API brings some nice new features, like doublebuffering, smooth resizing (with medium success I might add, when compared to MacOSX and BeOS 6-Dano's algorithms/techniques), a nice-looking tree view, native support for anti-alias fonts and more. Gnome 1.x applications are not compatible with the new library, so in order to take advantage of these new features, the application will need to be massively updated to the new GTK+ API. Possibly this is the reason why there are not many Gnome applications yet ported to the new framework, neither the Gnome itself includes many applications or preference panels as it used to. For example, the memu panel, merely includes 3 options. Same goes for the other setting panels (when available), they lack the flexibility and number of options found in the previous version of Gnome.
The Gnome menu panel now resembles a bit of MacOS. It sits on the top of the desktop, and no matter what I tried, I can't change its position. The window list can be found on the bottom of the screen. So, you get two gnome panels, one on the top and one on the bottom. I found this default configuration, bone-headed, at best. The panel on top only includes an 'Applications' and 'Actions' menu, then you get a huge unused space and then, at the right most side, you get the clock, and a menu which is equivelant to a chooser/finder as found on MacOS. It was a matter of time, before I deleted my bottom window list and embedded it on the main panel, to use all this unused space (note: I use a 1280x1024 resolution).
Among the obvious configuration options missing is a prefs panel to configure your screensavers, or a single place to get all your system panels. They are scattered either on subdirectories on Nautilus 'Start Here' page, or on 'Applications' sub-menus. Also, by having settings scattered to different panels it does not make it very clear where you could find some options. For example, you get two different panels 'Desktop Theme' and 'Theme' under the Desktop Preferences submenu, and then you get a 'Desktop Theme Editor' option on your System Tools. Now, which is which and what each one does? Good question.
I am sorry if I sounded harsh about the 'bonehead' word earlier, but this is 2x boneheaded. Every UI designer will laugh at this default setup of menus and even for the panels themselves, for not being able to configure themselves in one place in a clear manner, but having other theme panels for icons, other theme panels for GTK+ and other themes for the window manager etc. scattered throughout the memus, without giving a clear indication which one is which. And then, you get the Meta-Themes panel, which is supposedly here to fix this problem, by providing a service that can configure all these themes at once, but it loses itself among the other 'theme' panel offerings. The idea is good, but the way it is being presented, it is a UI disaster (same goes for KDE's zillion theme panels as well, but at least they are under the same 'umbrella' in the Control Center).
The new Gnome 2 environment starts up much-much faster than Gnome 1.4 used to! It loads on my dual Celeron 533 in about 2-3 seconds, and this is indeed a major improvement. However, the speed ends there. Overall, Gnome 2 feels slower (and I compiled it with -03 and -march=i686 using gcc 3.1.1-CVS on my Mandrake Cooker). On Gnome 1.x if you needed some speed, you were just telling Nautilus to not draw the desktop and everything was fine. But if I turn off this option on the new Gnome, there are no icons drawing on the desktop anymore and I have no desktop context menu. I quite like the Nautilus drawing option, and I believe it was sensible for the Gnome project to pick Nautilus for the job, but some optimizations wouldn't hurt.
And speaking about Nautilus, I am very pleased to see it coming of age. I can clearly see some BeOS-like elements into it, and of course this is of no surprise, as one of the Eazel developers that worked on it, was Pavel Cisler who also designed BeOS' Tracker, and who today works at Apple on Finder.
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Malaria claims approximately 1-million lives per year, the majority of which are children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. The deadliest manifestation of malaria is cerebral malaria (CM), the clinical definition of which includes Plasmodium parasite infection and coma, in the absence of other causes of coma [2]. The pathophysiology is incompletely understood, but consistent post-mortem findings are sequestered parasitized red blood cells (pRBCs) in the cerebral vasculature, microthrombi, and blood brain barrier dysfunction [reviewed by 3 and 4]. It is believed that this combination of cellular pathology leads to a reduction in cerebral blood flow, decreased oxygen delivery, and subsequent cellular dysfunction. This pathology is clearly reflected in the retinopathy correlated with CM [5]. Malaria also involves RBC lysis, releasing hemoglobin into the plasma. A reduction in nitric oxide (NO) has consistently been demonstrated in both animal models and human cohorts of severe malaria, and has been correlated with an increase in plasma hemoglobin, reflecting the NO-scavenging property of plasma hemoglobin. Animal and human data have demonstrated a correlation between this reduction in NO, increased plasma hemoglobin, markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, and the severity of disease [6 -7, and reviewed by 8]. In response, providing supplemental NO by way of an NO-donor [9] or inhaled NO [10] have led to improved clinical outcomes, reduction in inflammation, and quiescence of endothelial activation in animal CM models. This evidence has catalyzed the development of clinical trials in the use of inhaled NO as an adjuvant therapy in CM in Africa.
Drs. Warren Zapol and Ryan Carroll of the Anesthesiology Center for Critical Care Research and are currently leading a phase II clinical trial in the safety and efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide as an adjunctive treatment for pediatric patients with cerebral malaria in Uganda (ClinicalTrial.gov: NCT01388842). This is an open-label placebo-controlled trial being carried out at the Pediatric Ward at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology, with the help of Medicins Sans Frontiere's research arm, Epicentre. The study has recruited over 50% of the targeted 92 patients and future assessments include inflammatory and endothelial markers of disease (IL-1, -6, -10, TNF-alpha, angiopoietin-1 and -2, etc.), nitrogen/NO metabolite (NOx) levels, as well as mortality and morbidity. The team is also assessing the feasibility of non-invasive means of measuring NO bioavailability and perfusion.
When not in the field, Dr. Carroll is assessing the role of NO and iron metabolism in experimental models of CM and severe malaria-related anemia (SMA), respectively. The experimental model of CM involves Plasmodium berghei ANKA (PbA) and C57Bl6 mice, wherein infected mice die of CNS-related complications within 5 – 10 days of inoculation. The mice are assessed clinically by the Rapid Murine Coma and Behavior Scale (RMCBS) [11] and brains are assessed for microhemorrhages and glial injury. The SMA model involves PbA infected balb/c mice, wherein subjects live 2 – 3 weeks and develop extremely high parasitemia levels (60-80%) and severe anemia. The role of iron metabolism, hepcidin, and inflammatory markers are being assessed in this model.
1. World Health Organization. World malaria report. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2010.2. Taylor TE, Fu WJ, Carr RA, Whitten RO, Mueller JG, et al. Differentiating the pathologies of cerebral malaria by postmortem parasite count. Nat Med 2004; 10(2): 143 – 145.3. Medana IM and Turner GDH. Cerebral malaria and the blood-brain barrier. Int J for Para 2006; 36: 555 – 568. 4. Milner DA. Rethinking cerebral malaria pathology. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2010 Oct;23(5):456-63. 5. Beare NA, Lewallen S, Taylor TE, Molyneux ME. Redefining cerebral malaria by including malaria retinopathy. Future Microbiol. 2011; 6(3): 349 – 355. 6. Yeo TW, Lampah DA, Gitwati R, Tjitra E, Kenengalem E, et al., Impaired nitric oxide bioavailability and L-arginine-reversible endothelial dysfunction in adults with falciparum malaria. JEM 2007; 204(11); 2693 – 2704.7. Lovegrove FE, Tangpukdee N, Opoka RO, Lafferty EI, Rajwans N, et al. (2009) Serum angiopoietin-1 and -2 levels discriminate cerebral malaria from uncomplicated malaria and predict clinical outcome in African children. PLoS One 4: e4912.8. Hawkes M, Opoka RO, Namasopo S, Miller C, Conroy AL, et al. Nitric oxide for the adjunctive treatment of severe malaria: hypothesis and rationale. Med Hypotheses. 2011; 77(3): 437 – 444.9. Gramaglia I, Sobolewski P, Meays D, Contreras R, Nolan JP et al. Low nitric oxide bioavailability contributes to the genesis of experimental cerebral malaria. Nat Med. 2006; 12(12): 1417 – 1422. 10. Serghides L, Kim H, Z Lu, Kain DC, Miller C. et al. Inhaled nitric oxide reduces endothelial activation and parasite accumulatin in the brain, and enhances survival in experimental cerebral malaria. PLoS One. 2011; 6(11):e27714.11. Ryan W. Carroll, Wainwright MS, Kim K-Y, Kidambi T, Gómez ND, et al. A rapid murine coma and behavior scale for quantitative assessment of murine cerebral malaria. PLoS ONE. 2010; 5(10): e13124
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Russia has spent $12 billion on building stadiums, airports and roads in 11 cities for the Fifa World Cup, but it may be just as big a challenge to get people to smile and be welcoming to the thousands of fans jetting in from around the globe.
In the run-up to the tournament, thousands of volunteers and public transportation employees have been trained to smile, to be polite and to say key phrases in English.
Several organisations such as Russian Railways, Fifa and the Moscow Metro are conducting special training sessions to teach their staff to be polite and helpful to foreign visitors and to smile more.
Russian saying: Only fools smile without a reason
Russians do not smile at strangers as Westerners do. They are renowned for not giving the warmest of welcomes, especially to strangers. They only smile when "there is a reason to smile". They even have a saying – "only fools smile without a reason".
Under normal circumstances in Russia, smiling at a stranger in public can land you in trouble, Russian film director Yulia Melamed learned. She was once stopped by a policeman and asked for her ID because she smiled at him.
"It is strange for a person to walk on the street and smile," Yulia said. "It looked alien and suspicious. In fact, if you start smiling at strangers on the streets it will make them uncomfortable. They will get confused and will not smile in return."
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Charles M. Darnell
Charles M. Darnell, 94, of Borger died Friday August 19, 2011, at his home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at Calvary Baptist Church with Jeff Hutchison, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Resthaven Garden at Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.Charles was born Jan. 18, 1917, at Haskell, Texas, to Edward Franklin and Maggie Virginia Darnell. He worked as an iron worker for 30 years. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and was a Borger resident for 69 years. He married Neudy Erle Crisp Nov. 2, 1939, at Rising Star, Texas. She preceded him in death in 1971. He then married Audry Yarbrough Ratliff March 12, 1976, at Borger and she passed away in 2009. He was also preceded in death by daughters Nita Beth Coyner 2001 and Katherine Ryan in 2006 and his parents. He loved to read his Bible and spend time with family.He is survived by a son Gayland Darnell of Borger, daughters, Mary Virginia Havron of Borger and Cleta Joy Darnell of Borger; seven stepchildren, 19 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, and many great-great grandchildren.To send condolences, sign the online guestbook at www.mintonchatwell.com.


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Agencies that used TV planning to deliver great results for their clients in 2012 can enter their work in one of six categories and the overall Grand Prix will receive a 52-inch internet-connected TV for their agency.
The categories are:
- Best use of TV in an integrated campaign
- Best ongoing use of TV
- Best newcomer to TV
- Best use of sponsorship or content
- Best use of TV innovation
- Best use of TV for response
In addition to the six awards, categories agencies can enter work into, there are also a further two awards (Best low-budget use of TV, and the Grand Prix) which will be chosen by the judges.
The winner for Best low budget use of TV will be chosen from entries that indicate their campaign cost less than £500,000 in total, and the Grand Prix will be chosen from the winners of the six main entry categories.
For more detail about the awards and criteria, and for advice about how to put together a winning entry, go to the Thinkbox website.
Entries have to be in by 15 March. The judging will take place on 7 May and the winners will be unveiled at the Thinkbox TV Planning Awards on Thursday 27 June.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 6, 2012) – The ETSU volleyball program will open its spring schedule at home on Saturday inside Brooks Gym.
The Bucs will host Milligan, Lincoln Memorial and Lees McRae in the first spring event on the ETSU schedule. ETSU will play Milligan at 9:30 a.m. before closing out the day against Lees McRae at 1:00 p.m.
Next weekend, the Bucs will travel to the Middle Tennessee State Spring Tournament in Murfreesboro. ETSU will face off against Tennessee State (9:30 a.m.), Tennessee Tech (11:00 a.m.), Middle Tennessee State (2:30 p.m.) and Austin Peay (4:00 p.m.). All matches at the MTSU event will be played at Alumni Memorial Gym.
Saturday, April 7 – Brooks Gym
ETSU vs. Milligan (9:30 a.m.)
ETSU vs. Lees McRae (1:00 p.m.)
Saturday, April 14 – Murfreesboro, Tenn.
ETSU vs. Tennessee State (9:30 a.m.)
ETSU vs. Tennessee Tech (11:00 a.m.)
MTSU vs. ETSU (2:30 p.m.)
Austin Peay vs. ETSU (4:00 p.m.)
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We read about people who make hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but for most of us, it's difficult to even imagine such wealth.
I'm not much for reality shows on television, but when I saw an advertisement for Southern Charm, a show set in Charleston, I thought I'd take a look.
Everyone who's sick of winter, raise your hands.
I have a friend who says he's stopped asking people how they're feeling.
If you've always harbored a desire to be an Olympic athlete but you have a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time, I have two words for you:
Many people who live in the South -- right here in Kershaw County -- think they're experts at driving in snow and ice, despite the fact that they virtually never have to do it.
It's been more than 25 years since it occurred, so finally I can tell you a secret:
** Pete Seeger, who died recently at 94, had a profound influence on the American musical scene; the folksinger-songwriter was a catalyst for the folk music revival of the 1960s and he penned some of the great songs of that genre, including If I Had A Hammer, Where Have All The Flowers Gone and Turn, Turn, Turn. He also helped champion social change and was a consistent anti-war voice. Few people in the music world accomplished as much as he did, and he will be missed.
A few years ago I used this Friday space to talk to you about Merle Haggard, one of the two country music stars I had ever wanted to see in concert.
Kershaw County received a significant snowfall Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, an event that doesn't happen very often. It gave local kids an opportunity they relished -- playing outside under conditions they don't normally see. And to the relief of adults, most roads in the county cleared quickly on Wednesday despite temperatures that didn't rise above freezing, coupled with a cloud cover that never dissipated.
In France, where adultery on the part of public officials is often met with a wink and a nod, President Francoise Hollande is under fire after the revelation of his long-term affair with an actress.
• First beer, now bourbon.
* My friend Waylon Fortenberry of Chesterfield County tells me his 3-year-old grandson went into the bathroom, and his mom was concerned he'd been in there for quite awhile, so she went in to check on him.
Sometimes random Christmas gifts turn into delicious surprises.
If you're like thousands of other people in Kershaw County, you got a Christmas present Wednesday that you don't fully know how to work. Chances are good it was some sort of electronic device -- a new smartphone, iPod, video game or some other miracle of modern technology.
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Being born in Britain might explain my bias, but I find myself asking again whether we have overlooked the important leadership role of royalty in providing help from the top for bottom-up startup communities. I recently spoke with the Prince of Wales at St. James Palace in London and while he is from a different generation, I heard a man with his heart and mind fully in step with today's unemployed youth and the path they must beat to create their own future as entrepreneurs.
I visited England earlier this month to participate in the Youth Business International (YBI) Global Summit—hosted by one of the Prince's charities. As I am prone to do, I offered an optimistic message to the young and unemployed, namely that compared to 20 years ago it is in fact getting better for entrepreneurs. This meant delivering a slightly less encouraging message to those of us supporting them, specifically that there are ample support programs for unemployed youth—we just need to be smarter about what these efforts do and how they do it. We need to therefore measure more effectively in order to spend our time and energy on those educational interventions with the most impact.
YBI knows this. Naturally with the Royal Prince at the helm, they are very well run. Not only was the summit excellent but I left very impressed with the sheer scale of how YBI has grown over the years that I have been associated with them, helping not just organizations across the country but around the world. They understand investing only in approaches that work.
For example, YBI is leading Europe's efforts to evaluate program performance in entrepreneurship training, business development support and access to finance. YBI and its partners have charged the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) with conducting a review of a broad range of sector evidence from around the world in order to produce a youth entrepreneurship program framework. Such cross-continent collaboration can lead to better designed and better implemented programs around the world.
One of their other major achievements of interest to me has been at home where their leadership in galvanizing Britain in part by running Global Entrepreneurship Week UK (GEW UK) has been evident. Whether throughout Britain's high schools and universities or simply its cities and companies, GEW UK has set a gold standard for other nations to follow, attracting platinum private sector brands such as Barclays Bank. YBI's work is also well known beyond GEW and unfolding with partners like Accenture.
The impact this Prince's charity is having on the ground is very visible in terms of cultural capital for startups.
As Professor Michael Hay, from London Business School recently told news sources, Britain has traditionally lagged behind other countries in the number of young entrepreneurs. In fact, only 5% of 16 to 30-year-olds in the UK are currently self-employed). However, young people's attitudes to self-employment there are visibly changing. Hay was referring to new poll data from the Prince's Trust's Enterprise Programme indicating that 30% of people aged 16 to 30 believed they would be self-employed in the future. One in four (25%) said they expected to be their own boss within the next five years.
What I find exciting when I visit London these days is how the city is so focused on helping these younger nascent entrepreneurs think big. Just look at the Oxygen Accelerator, a startup bootcamp that just moved to London to take up residence in Google's Campus London co-working space. Or look at the efforts of the big tech giants like Amazon and Facebook who are both building out their operations in the city.
London's city government is also eager and keen to be a smart enabler in this story. Mayor Boris Johnson has a global vision for the city's value proposition to entrepreneurs. This month, the mayor proposed a new "London visa" to attract talent from around the world. Under his proposal, City Hall would be given a yearly allocation of 100 of the government's 1,000 existing "exceptional talent" visas – designed for world-class scientists, artists and performers. Mayor Johnson has clearly looked at the experiments conducted in Chile through Start-Up Chile and does not want immigration bureaucracy to stand in the way of his city nurturing the next Mark Zuckerberg just because he or she was born outside the UK.
Of course as I have noted before, enabling Britain's entrepreneurship buzz is not limited to the mayor's office. The latest developments since I last wrote about this include the government's new Start-Up Loans to provide budding entrepreneurs between the ages of 18-30 with a range of support, including access to a business mentor and capital. To administer the program's lending pot and to provide guidance and direction, the government created an entirely new body—the Start-Up Loans Company—chaired by respected British entrepreneur James Caan.
At the recent announcement of the £30 million boost to Start-Up Loans with Prime Minister David Cameron, Caan said, "It is only with this renewed focus on youth entrepreneurship, that we will create more jobs and wealth and see the economy flourish once again."
Of course, the Prince of Wales and his charities are not responsible for all the great startup energy and excitement in London. But as I discovered in Girona last June, if the world's entrepreneurial talent is going to come from a smart and motivated—yet currently unemployed generation—finding leaders like Princes and Princesses who are beyond the reach of daily politics might just be the potion we need to give tomorrow's entrepreneurs the confidence, courage and appreciation of how history is likely to view them.


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CRESTVIEW � Faces from the past gaze from a crisp, high-definition computer monitor�s wide screen, a seeming incongruity given the photo's origin.
CRESTVIEW � Faces from the past gaze from a crisp, high-definition computer monitor�s wide screen, a seeming incongruity given the photo's origin.
However, after countless hours by late Baker Block Museum volunteer JC Connor, about 90 percent of the museum's photo collection has been digitized.
Connor, who died May 21, left behind a legacy for the North Okaloosa Historical Association, which runs the museum and its historic and genealogical research library, museum director Ann Spann said.
He borrowed Crestview High School, Laurel Hill School and Baker School yearbooks and scanned their pages into the archive, she said.
Photographing pages from the Crestview Public Library�s bound copies of old Okaloosa News Journal newspapers was particularly necessary as time was taking their essence.
"They're crumbling," Spann said. "They're so brittle they're just going to crumble apart. We need to preserve them as fast as we can."
Connor worked on the project on his own time over the last several years, around his full-time job as the Okaloosa County School District�s chief information officer.
"We jokingly referred to JC as the 'picture king' because he loved old photos," Spann said.
Scanning through archived images, Spann pauses at a senior class photo from the 1944 "Bulldogger" yearbook. It is mostly girls.
"All the guys are gone to fight World War II," Spann said. "There were just two dudes in the whole class."
While some people in the pictures have been identified, many have not been, Spann said. When local historians come to help put names to faces, they begin reminiscing about the old days, she said.
Claudia Patten, who co-authored "Crestview: The Forkland," and Colleen Polly recently pored over scores of digitized photos.
"They'd pull up a picture of the class of 1940 and by golly, they'd know everybody in it," Spann said. "Then they'd start telling stories. Every picture has a story."
The historical society has not decided how to make the photos available to the public, or whether a searchable online archive would be created, Spann said.
"It's definitely a work in progress," she said. "There's a lot of stuff we have to sort and identify. The museum is really grateful for all the hours JC put into this and we're dedicated to continuing the project."
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes at 850-682-6524 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Rockwell/Leyendecker Lecture Wrap-Up
But since most of us can't always attend these excellent events, at least the Internet make it possible to get a taste of them! Joyce K. Schiller, Ph.D., the curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies sent a note today summing up Dr. Jennifer Greenhill's Sunday lecture.
Joyce wrote, "Jennifer Greenhill's lecture on Sunday was terrific. The material was well-researched and the push-pull, give and take between the two artists was stimulating. With careful comparisons, it was easy to see Dr. Greenhill's premise: Leyendecker's style was rooted in its compositional elements and more decorative in nature;"
"Rockwell's was focused on telling a recognizable story for the broad American audience."
"Leyendecker's approach was clearly more in tune with the early Saturday Evening Post..."
"... and Rockwell's focused on the more contemporary American public. We had an enthusiastic audience so all in all it was an enjoyable day."
Joyce continues, "I hope that Dr. Greenhill will use the lecture presented at Norman Rockwell Museum as the foundation of a published article or even a future book on American illustration art, which is what we hope will evolve from the work done for and under the auspices of the Rockwell Center."
She concludes, "Dr. Greenhill's lecture is just the first of a yearly three-part series. These will be comprised of a lecture by a new young scholar; a lecture by a contemporary illustrator; and a lecture by an illustration blogger. Through this series, the Rockwell Center hopes to appeal to and address issues of interest to a broad sweep of people interested in and dedicated to American illustration art."
Check out The Rockwell Center and see what's happening in the field of American illustration art.
* Many thanks to Bill Wray for providing the Leyendecker scans in today's post!
The Rockwell scans in today's post are courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum:
"Freedom from Fear," Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN (S569)
"Family Tree," Norman Rockwell, 1959 Oil on canvas, 46" x 42" Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, October 24, 1959 Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust, NRACT.1973.7 ©1959 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
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Just saw the family tree piece at the Tacoma Art Museum. Gorgeous piece, especially the pirate and ship portion. :)ReplyDelete
Of course the "Family Tree" painting references another one of Rockwell's illustration heroes: Howard Pyle.ReplyDelete
Thanks again for writing about the lecture, Leif. I hope to post some video clips of the talk online soon. We also hope that more of your readers get to check out our traveling exhibitions "American Chronicles," and "Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera"- the latter just ended it's run at Brooklyn, and will be opening at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY in June.
Kind regards,
Jeremy Clowe
Norman Rockwell Museum
This is marvelous, thank you so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
That's awesome, thanks for the info.ReplyDelete
Please don't forget that Rockwell also paintedReplyDelete
'The Problem We All Live With'and'Southern Justice'for Look magazine,the astronaut paintings,a Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper album cover(which has a nice impressionistic painting style,rather then his usual tighter style),and his proposed UN mural painting with the people of the world side by side,which is perhaps a sentiment you can agree with.Sentimental doesn't always translate into dishonest or clueless.
Rockwell wasn't completely oblivious to world events and change,and some of his paintings were a sincere effort to address them(I'm not implying that he was a rock music fan though).
I think most of his paintings had an empathy for the less powerful,namely older people, children, and working people,instead of high society and the wealthy,which Leyendecker excelled at.
They're both great illustrators,they just had different interests.


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Cosmic (Hardcover)
Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again--only this time he's 239,000 miles from home.
Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions and Framed, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups.
Praise For…
...A hilarious and heartfelt examination of "dadliness" in all its forms...A can't-miss offering from an author whose latest novel may be his best yet.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[Frank Cottrell Boyce] has created a riveting, affecting, sometimes snortingly funny "what-if" scenario...Liam's musings on what it takes to be a good, responsible father are dryly comical but also charmingly earnest. A high-levity zero-gravity romp.
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A story of human possibility with a lot of adventure, or an adventure with full credit given to human possibility? Either way, it's a fantastic, funny, and moving novel....Celebrates not only the spirit of exploration but the human connectedness that allows it to flower.
-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
Readers will appreciate the sharp, realistic, and very funny dialogue.
-School Library Journal (starred review)
In his latest extravagantly imaginative and marvelously good-natured novel, [Frank Cottrell Boyce has] written one that is bound to win readers' hearts...This is not only a story about big lads, but also about dads and dadliness!
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This superb humorous and inventive "cosmic" adventure celebrated space travel, friendships, and dads.
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"Stunningly original…the concept is immediately booktalkable and the telling is riveting; a book of such wealth—of any kind—is valuable indeed." — The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review of Millions
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With echoes of Roald Dahl . . . the novel ends with an elegant punch line, and a touching endorsement of filial love.
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Cottrell Boyce has a gift for suspending disbelief, for laugh-out-loud comedy. "Cosmic" is Liam's favorite term of approval. It applies to this book.
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His third novel, and his best yet. Hugely funny and utterly gripping.
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It's fitting that It's a Wonderful Life went from beloved Christmas staple to full-blown American institution during the Reagan years, when the cozily reactionary proclivities of Frank Capra's movie seemed most in synch with the ostentatious conservatism of the times. Yet it was also during the 1980s that the film received its most caustic analysis, in the form of a Saturday Night Live sketch which imagined the classic's "lost ending." When the people of Bedford Falls ditch singing "Auld Lang Syne" and become a torch-carrying lynch mob howling for Mr. Potter's blood ("You made two mistakes, you double-crossed and you left me alive," Dana Carvey's George Bailey snarls), it's not just great snark, but also a rich glimpse at the vicious darkness that has always dwelled under the film's benign textures.
Without overlooking its lapses into populist bathos, it's necessary to rescue It's a Wonderful Life from its spot at the centerpiece of untouchable American "classics." As with The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind (surely some kind of troika of sacred screen monsters), uncritical reverence both inflates the film's magnitude and robs it of its most interesting elements. Despite the fin de siècle gentility given its small-town setting, this is decisively a postwar work, never more visible than in the balance of hope and despair achieved by James Stewart as George Bailey. This was his first role in five years since enlisting in the Air Force, and Capra introduces his character with a freeze-frame that all but summarizes the actor's gawky persona, yet the rest of the picture gradually introduces the underlying anxiety—the subtle hysteria of a homespun performer who's seen horrors—that Anthony Mann would later bring to the fore in his great cycle of '50s westerns.
Indeed, Stewart's George is something of a cowboy, or at least a wanderer. He dreams of leaving home and traveling the world, and in the early scenes he's full of piss and vinegar. Inexorably, the picture proceeds to tame the roamer in him, draining out his youthful vigor through a series of domesticating events. When George's father dies, it falls to him to rescue the family's savings and loan association from being swallowed by desiccated plutocrat Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), Bedford Falls's own Mr. Burns. The hero's settling down is a rigid standby of classical American cinema, but what's striking in It's a Wonderful Life is how ambiguously the movement toward the stability of family life is rendered. Few scenes have expressed the suppressions and compromises upon which domesticity is erected as beautifully as the close-up of George, anguished in a mix of regret and acceptance, admitting his place by the side of childhood sweetheart Mary (Donna Reed). George's subsequent achievements as a family man and community representative are scarcely negligible, yet his resentment never quite dissipates, it merely stays welled in him until something, like Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) misplacing the company deposit, causes it to spill over.
How can a movie so full of pain and frustration be venerated as simply, glowingly jolly? Mainly adduced from Dickens, Capra's structure is also reminiscent of Bible stories, with George, like several of Capra's other protagonists, undergoing what Andrew Sarris described as a "melodramatic parable of near crucifixion." It's no coincidence that H.B. Warner, Cecil B. DeMille's original Jesus, has a prominent role in the large cast, but George's faith-testing pileup of misfortunes brings him closer to Job than to Christ: Distraught at a bar, his prayers are answered by a sock to the jaw. He has been heard, however, and divine help comes as "second class" angel Clarence (Henry Travers) literally drops from above to save him from the edge of the abyss. The appearance of a cloying angel in the midst of so much desolation is an element that, like Spielberg's final movement in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, can either make or break a film. Yet Clarence is essential here to usher in the film's great shadow sequence, a Dantean descent in which George is given a vision of how things would have been if he had never existed. Bedford Falls becomes Pottersville, crime and sleaze run bare-assed, the people he loved are either dead or wicked—a world fit for a Christmas postcard is suddenly full of tropes from horror and film noir.
It's typical of the film's populism that the loss of a single person is portrayed as a cosmic imbalance, enough to turn an idyll into an inferno. Although Bedford Falls and Pottersville are offered as the safely separated yin and yang of a community, both are equally believable as views of a society where order is suddenly revealed as precarious at best, just as George and Mr. Potter have more in common than it first appears. "You once called me a warped, frustrated old man…Now, you're a warped, frustrated young man," the ogre tells the hero, and the film can't refute him. After such troubling discoveries, the famous climactic affirmation comes off like an escape hatch: It's a wonderful life, the message goes, and be content with it because it can always get worse. Still, there's no denying the last passage's cathartic power, charged by Stewart's tremendous depth of feeling. It's Stewart's emotional force that dries up the material's potential schmaltz, modulating from the romantic who offers to lasso the moon for his beloved to the disgruntled wreck who later asks her, "Why did we have to have so many children?" Capra views the two facets with the same intensity, and films accordingly. Maybe it takes a filmmaker so fascinated with the American Dream to see how close it can be to a nightmare.


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Spring Splash
Everyone wanted to launch Saturday, recalls Joe DiCenzo of Pleasure Marina in Oakland Beach, even the owner of Twisted Thoughts, a 55-footer that made it into the slings with an easy foot to spare on either side as she was lowered into the water. Here, Joe works the travel lift while his brother, Anthony, ensures he's on target, and an attentive spectator takes in the scene from a nearby truck. Predictably, being Mother's Day, Sunday was a quiet day at the yard. (Warwick Beacon photos)
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Continent Eight necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Makers Mark - Celebrating Australian Creativity
We need your design transformation skills! The basics:
- Sells and celebrates creative Australian jewellery to the world.
- The website is taking a new direction.
- More than a redesign, this will be a new concept.
- The website wants more focus on its artists.
The site will be moving in the direction of Threadless.com, where artist are rewarded / rated by the visitors for their creativity and design.
The new Makers Mark website will bring its visitors the lastest, most creative, and best Australian designer jewellery and giftware at the best price online.
We are emphasing this is a new business model for a new generation of the brand.
**UPDATE** .ai logo attached down the bottom.
The emphasis here is that we are starting fresh.
The audience who will be visiting the site:
* Range from 18-80.
* Are also a younger generation who have to disposable income for purchasing top class jewellery online.
* Visitors who are paying for an Australian piece of designer jewellery / gift backed by a brand name associated with creativity, subtly and class.
1. Please only submit your front page design. If we like it, we will ask you to submit more pages.
2. The focus of this site is moving towards a platform for bringing buyers and Australian artists together. This means that we want to encourage artists to "submit their pieces" to the site as well (and primarily) encouraging visitors to buy from the site.
3. Edits to the current main menu:
- Remove 'Collections'.
- After the menu item 'Artists', add another menu item called 'What's New'. Maybe experiment with making this menu item stand out a little more than the rest. The submenu items will be:
* Latest pieces
* Artist Spotlight
* Top Rated
* Best Sellers
* Our Pick of the Week
3. Please place the artist's pieces first. The peices need to be centre of the attention, not the page design. HOWEVER, the design needs to support the creativity and class of the artist's peices. First thing you look at is the artist piece, then the design.
4. The new business model will focus on performance, creativity and recognition. In other words there will be focus on more dynamic areas of the website, e.g.:
- Favourite Designs/Best selling Artists/Piece of the Week.. etc.
- Add dynamic features that you may think are cool.
5. We want visitors returning regularly.
6. Our new logo (http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/online-jewellery-business-logo-redesign-59970 ).
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FRONTPAGE DESIGN. If we like this design, we will ask you to submit more designs.
**UPDATE** Only 4 pages required **UPDATE**
The four pages that need redesigning:
1. http://www.makermark.com.au
2. http://www.makersmark.com.au/jewell…art-brooch [example product page]
3. http://www.makersmark.com.au/my-shopping-bag [checkout page]
4. http://www.makersmark.com.au/artists
Requirements for the frontpage:
1. We want the product front and centre.
2. Please include links to areas of the website:
- Latest Pieces
- Top Rated
- Best Sellers
- Our Pick of the Week
- Submit your design (different to above links, this is for artists who want to display work on the website).
3. Please include a design for the mega menus / drop downs too. We want to see some creativity with a modern web mega menu.
4. Please place some subtle reference of a new business model / direction.
5. Do not include the picture on the current page in the bottom right hand corner.
-> Attached is a screen shot of what links remain in the bottom menu called 'bottom-menu-links.jpg'. Please redesign this accordingly.
6. We are including more social media. We are adding the ability to sign in with facebook as well as like our facebook page on the frontpage. We also want to include our twitter link and --maybe-- twittier feed.
We want a mix of the clean and elegant style class, mixed with the new web style of user interaction:
For example the clean style of:
http://au.tiffany.com/ - We like the minimalism here, this site places the product first and foremost. Though, we think its a little boring. We want a little bit more creativity.
http://www.harrywinston.com/ - We like how they have remained minimal while adding a little bit of creativity. Though we think the menu is a little distracting.
With a mix of the more dynamic look:
http://www.threadless.com/ - Conceptually we included this example as this is the direction we are taking the site. We want the site to appeal to artists wanting to list their designs as much as visitors wanting to buy them.
http://www.idahoan.com/ - We love the creativity of this site. HOWEVER, note where you look first when you open the page. Is is at the food? Saying that, food is not their product, its the sauce.
http://www.madsencycles.com/ - Again, the style, class and creativity offer here is very good. But maybe too much text on the frontpage?
http://www.actionenvelope.com/ - Love the mega menu, simple, yet stylish. We want more spice in our menus.


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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday defended his "I like to fire people" remark against criticism from GOP rivals as he and his family faced a crush of reporters, supporters and detractors on New Hampshire's primary day.
"I was talking about as you know insurance companies," Romney said as he fought through the crowd with his wife, Ann, and son Craig. "We all like to get rid of our insurance companies."
Romney's campaign was also defending the White House hopeful from his GOP foes' continued attacks on his business record at venture capital investment company Bain Capital.
Taken together, the assault has left Romney's team tense going into a night they hoped would be a celebration of an overwhelming victory that would contribute to the perception that the former Massachusetts governor would inevitably become the Republican nominee.
Instead, when Romney reached out to hold a supporter's baby daughter, the shouts were angry. "Are you going to fire the baby?" someone yelled over the din.
Others shouted, "We want Mitt!"
Romney's staffers tried to guide him through the crush of reporters shouting questions at him and had to shove people out of the way to open the door of Romney's SUV. His daughter-in-law was left behind in the crowd, and Romney moved a meeting with volunteers to a different, unannounced location.
He had no other public events planned until Tuesday evening.
Romney has led in opinion polls here for months — in recent days by 20 percentage points or more. He's been pushing for an overwhelming victory as he looks to South Carolina, a state where the conservative GOP base was uncomfortable with him in 2008, and strives to wrap up the nomination fight as quickly as possible.
His campaign aides had been most concerned about complacency among supporters, and they launched an intensive get-out-the-vote effort over the weekend, backed by hundreds of volunteers and hundreds of thousands of phone calls.
Romney and his rivals are in many ways already looking to the first-in-the-South contest a little more than a week from now. Gingrich allies are spending millions to run ads attacking Romney's time heading Bain Capital.
And rival Rick Perry, in South Carolina on Tuesday, said companies like Bain are "vultures" that "swoop in and eat the carcass" of struggling companies.


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Deutorocanonical Scripture or Apocrypha
The word Deuterocanonical comes from the Greek words Deutero and canona meaning second to law. The word Apocrypha comes from the Greek word ἀπόκρυφα, meaning hidden. According to Orthodox teaching they may be read for personal edification but are not authoritative for doctrine. They are included in the Orthodox Bible because they were included in the Septuagint which was in use at the time of Jesus.
The Books of the Apocrypha
- Tobit
- Judith
- Esther(Greek)
- The Wisdom of Solomon
- Sirach
- Baruch
- The Letter of Jeremiah
- Azariah and the three Jews
- Susanna
- Bel and the Dragon
- 1 Maccabees
- 2 Maccabees
- 1 Esdras
- The Prayer of Manasseh
- Psalm 151
- 3 Maccabees
- 2 Esdras
- 4 Maccabees
The Apocrypha in Roman Catholicism and Protestants
In an Orthodox Bible which has the Apocrypha there are 49 books in its Old Testament. Roman Catholics only accept 7 Deuterocanonical books, so their Old Testament has a total of 46 books. Protestants do not accept the Apocrypha so in their Old Tstament they only have 39 books. All 3 accept the same 27 books of the New Testament.


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I mentioned on Shiv'a Asar b'Tamuz that I had a friend who was feeling literally rejected by the people around her, simply because they would not smile at her, nor respond to her greeting of "Shabbat shalom."
Since then, I have heard other stories that cause me much pain, from around Israel and outside Israel.
- A young newlywed I know tells me she will never become religious. "I went to an Orthodox shul a few times, to try to learn about Judaism. I had stopped wearing pants; but I couldn't get used to the idea of covering my hair. I asked the way to the women's section. A man in a big black velvet yarmulke looked at my hair, and said 'You're probably the type who is more comfortable sitting next to her husband in shul.'" Clearly, he judged her by what was not on her head, just as I find myself judging him by what was on his.
- A rabbi gives a shiur on a controversial subject. Only a handful of people bother to show up. As they are all Anglos, and one elderly woman has trouble understanding Hebrew, the rabbi chooses to break his usual pattern, and give the lesson in English. Fifteen minutes into his lecture, a native Israeli (who is fluent in both languages, and who also disagrees with the rabbi's stand on the issue under discussion), walks in, and demands that the shiur be given in Hebrew, since we're all in Israel.
- A boy asks a philosophical question in class; and his rebbi -- followed by the students -- laughs at him. The boy resolves never again to ask another question, because his questions are stupid. It takes him years to develop self-confidence. He still lacks confidence in the Torah educational system -- because of one moment and one rabbi.
There are many more stories like these; but my objective in writing them here is not to tell titillating tales about my people's failings. The stories are meant to shake us up, to shake me up! To remind us to listen to ourselves, to look at ourselves.
Do I get so wrapped up in my own thoughts and worries, or in a call on a cell phone, that I fail to notice the Jew passing by long enough to smile?
Do I decide that someone is "less Jewish" because of how she is dressed? Is she somehow less worthy of dan l'chaf zechut, or at least of me guarding my tongue, than someone who has mastered wearing "the uniform"?
Do I sometimes forget that I represent Torah, and must think before I speak, lest I cause a Jew to think badly of people who "know more Torah"?
Do I show rabbis the respect that they are due? Am I careful to criticize an opinion with respect, and never the person?
Do I remember to look around me at all of the people in the room, and think of what their needs might be? Or do I only concentrate on my own needs?
Do I remember to make bridges between Jews? Or do I carelessly, flippantly, put stones in the walls between us?
Do I encourage people to speak? Or do I spend too much time filling the airwaves with my own words?
Do I pursue truth? Or do I only spout platitudes or verses that others have stated before me, without thoughtful analysis?
Do I listen to the searching question of a child or a ba'al tshuva or a friend with my whole self, or only with my ears, waiting for an opportunity to show them how much more I know than they (chas v'shalom)?
The world is in a terrible crisis right now. We are all lost, alone, frightened, desperately needful of acceptance from each other.
I cannot say that by smiling at every random Jew I meet on the street I will save the lives of my friends who are suffering life-threatening illnesses, or that the answer will come from listening patiently or doing a kindness or living in Israel (for anyone who thinks that is the answer) or doing more mitzvot more diligently (for anyone who thinks G-d is mad at us for lacking attentiveness to His laws).
But Torah and our Sages -- both ancient and modern -- stress the need for kindness to each other. We cannot know the mind of G-d. I have a hard time relating to G-d as a King, or as something fear-inspiring. (I'm working on it...) But I can begin to relate to G-d Our Father, from my standpoint as a parent.
When my children are mean to one another, it enrages me. I come as close as possible to "losing it," when they are hurtful to each other.
But when my children are kind to each other, when they "cover" for each other or help each other -- I can forgive them any slight against me.
I think Hashem must be like this toward us. While we must certainly do His mitzvot to the very best of our ability, while it is a shandeh if we ignore His gift of this holy and amazing Land, I cannot help but think that wherever we are in the world, treating each other much, much better than we do now might cause Him to change how nature and nations are treating us.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of fasting for the Churban. I'm tired of watching the world crumbling around me. Most of all, I'm tired of saying goodbye to friends, and fearing more goodbyes.
I'm going to smile more, listen more closely, think about the wisdom of my words before I say them. Please help me.
|Stella's Sunrise (taken on an early walk with my friend)
I have found that it's easier to daven with kavana for people when I know them. Please feel free to get to know my friend Tzuriya Kochevet bat Sara in this lovely interview, posted at her husband Yarden's blog Crossing the Yarden. I think you will love her as much as I do. And that can only help your davening, and help to save the world.
Shiv'a Asar b'Tamuz: the 17th of Tamuz: a fast day commemorating the Destruction of the Temple
Shiur: lesson (esp. in Torah studies)
Dan l'chaf zechut: the commandment to judge favorably
Ba'al tshuva: individual becoming more religious
Chas v'shalom: Heaven forbid
Mitzvot: commandments, good deeds
Shandeh: a shame [Yiddish]
Churban: destruction of the Holy Temple in 586 BCE


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MSNBC: 24 Hours of Network Business As Usual
by L. Brent Bozell III
October 1, 1998
The fledgling cable network MSNBC has made itself into the
24-hour Monica Scandal News Broadcasting Company. You can just hear the
liberals: so much obsession with Bill Clinton's wretched affairs proves the
fallacy of a liberal bias in the news media, does it not?
Well, no. Obviously, a channel in complete obedience to the
White House would be a 24-hour change-the-subject channel, showing Clinton
meeting with world leaders and kissing small children who pledge not to smoke.
Surely you can't say that about MSNBC.
But anyone who watches MSNBC quickly learns that while the
subject may not be the liberals' favorite, old-style liberal network business
as usual is the norm. It's not what they report, but how they report it.
Several months ago, MSNBC star Keith Olbermann gave a
guilt-ridden commencement speech at Cornell University, telling graduates how
he felt like vomiting after covering the Monica story every night. But his
hallowed sense of journalistic ethics certainly didn't suffer when comparing
Ken Starr to an infamous Nazi. On August 18, he asked Chicago Tribune
Washington Bureau Chief James Warren: "Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent
breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it
finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr reminded me of facially all
this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the
President of the United States, who, however flawed the apology was, came out
and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy, and everything
but the kitchen sink - would not there be some sort of comparison to a
persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?"
After a wave of viewer outrage, Olbermann apologized for his
comparison of persecutors: "To those people who were offended I sincerely
and humbly apologize. I meant only what I said. Facially, the two men look
vaguely alike. But I am primarily of German descent, so I carry with me an
inherited shame and guilt about this. So despite the innocence of the intent
of my remark there, I should have been much more sensitive about invoking that
name in this context and for having not been so, I am very sorry." But
ever the smart-aleck, Olbermann couldn't help burying his "humble"
apology in insincerity: "Still ahead for us tonight: Did Olbermann's
apology go far enough? We'll have the latest poll numbers on that."
Every night, Olbermann declares his personal disgust that
this annoying presidential-perjury thing is still going on, and he decries it
all as an overpoliticized spectacle. On September 17, he asked Washington Post
columnist E. J. Dionne: "The phrase Chris Black just used...'partisan
wilding.' What a wonderful description of this. Had politics as a whole ever
been lower in this country, at least since the McCarthy era ended?"
Of course, the "partisan wilding" doesn't apply
when Olbermann compares Starr to a Nazi. Or when Olbermann remarks after a
wire service reported Gingrich called Clinton a "misogynist" -
"Can the Speaker of the House claim any moral high ground when today he
says the President is a man who hates women but he himself divorced his first
wife while she was undergoing treatments for cancer?"
All this media love for bipartisanship would be touching if
they ever practiced it in their journalism.
Or try MSNBC's "The News With Brian Williams."
Williams, Tom Brokaw's heir apparent, began a recent show: "These are
days of almost McCarthyistic charges and countercharges in the nation's
capital. With a President vowing to stay and fight, and others nakedly
embarking on a campaign to get him, the President's poll numbers are
softening, the party lines are hardening."
Now tell me, is this not precisely the kind of language
being used by David Kendall, James Carville, and the rest of the Clinton
attack machine?
Even in the middle of the afternoon, you get a heaping
helping of pro-Clinton damage control from the folks at MSNBC. Afternoon host
Edie Magnus complained just before the release of the Clinton testimony
videotape: "The Republicans of course are coming out and saying this was
serious, bipartisan, collegial, cooperative, respectful conversation, and the
Democrats are coming out and saying 'They rammed it down our throats.' There
was never any discussion. This is a rush to judgment purely to embarrass this
President. My question at the get-go is already it smells. It's the weightiest
thing they do, to remove a President from office, and already it smells."
(Some question.)
In a nutshell, MSNBC is just another TV network placing its
politically correct thumb down hard on the scale in favor of Bill Clinton,
even as he staggers and bleeds. The 89-percent pro-Clinton press might hate
MSNBC's focus, but they can't help but like its Clinton-excusing,
Republican-bashing message.
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New documentaries about 9/11, 7/7 and who's representing the "conspiracy theorists"? A holocaust denying, Neo-Nazi crop circle fanatic!
Having taken its rightful place alongside Popular Mechanics and The History Channel as one of the 21st century's most plentiful peddlers of yellow journalism with their first 9/11 hit piece last year, "Auntie Beeb" is set to have another crack at the whip on July 6th when it airs a documentary about the collapse of WTC Building 7, the 47-storey skyscraper that imploded into its own footprint on 9/11 without being hit by a plane, called The Third Tower.


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A man who pleaded guilty to stabbing Washington Redskins kick returner/wide receiver Brandon Banks and a friend during a fight outside a nightclub in February 2011 will spend three months in jail.
Jason Shorter was sentenced Monday in Superior Court in Washington, D.C. He will also serve three additional months as a result of an incident during which he was pulled over for speeding in May 2011 and charged with carrying a pistol without a license and other charges.
The 25-year-old Shorter acknowledged fighting with Banks and a friend outside The Park, a nightclub on 14th Street in downtown Washington. During the scuffle, he stabbed both men with a pocket knife.
The knife nicked Banks's lung, creating a "pneumothorax condition," according to his agent.
Pneumothorax is a collapsed lung — a buildup of air in the space around the lungs that puts pressure on the lung so it can't expand as much as usual.
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Secaucus-based Trinity Places Holdings Inc. announced Thursday it has named Michael Messinger president and chief executive officer. The company also announced an invesment of more than $13 million from Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund.
According to the announcement, Messinger was most recently executive vice president and director of investment management at Forest City Ratner Companies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Forest City Enterprises, where he served for more than 18 years. Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund completed its strategic investment in Trinity through a direct purchase of 3,369,444 previously authorized but unissued common shares of Trinity.
TAREX now owns 17% of the Company and will also be given the right to appoint one member of Trinity's board of directors in connection with this investment. TAREX is managed by Third Avenue Management LLC. Houlihan Lokey acted as sole placement agent for the offering, Trinity said in a statement.


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Lean and flavorful
A Top SIrloin Steak is known for it's lean beef makeup. That means there is not an abundance of fat on the steak and the resulting flavor will be bold and beefy one. The Top Sirloin grills quite quickly and makes for a grillers favorite.
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Our passion to bring you mouthwatering steaks shows in every bite of our gourmet beef sirloin steaks. Aged a minimum of 28 days, these savory Angus beef sirloins offer you an easy way to satisfy any steak enthusiast's appetite. This flavor packed steak is ideal for broiling, pan searing and grilling. See a comparison of Top Sirloin vs. Ribeye to learn a little more about our cuts!
Top Sirloin Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 6oz Calories 366 Calories from Fat 216 Total Fat 24.3g Sodium 84mg Protein 33.9g
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If your steak is frozen, we recommend thawing it in a pan, thawing in a pan helps catch any drippings that may occur, under refrigeration for 24 hours.
Season with our signature steak seasoning.
When turning your steak, be sure to use tongs and not a fork. A fork will puncture the steak and allow for the juices to escape the steak.
Allow your steak to rest for half of the cooking time. This allows for the juices to flow back into the center of the steak.
Steak Cooking Tips
1. Plan ahead. Know the cut of steak you are cooking. A steak is more flavorful and tender if not overcooked.
2. Preheat your grill or broiler to high. Charcoal coals should be ashen grey and red-hot. When cooking on top of the range, the cast iron skillet or grill pan should be hot, but not smoking.
3. Season your steak with salt & pepper or a blended mix to taste.
4. Lightly oil your cooking surface.
5. Sear the steaks on first side using the times listed on the Steak-Cooking Chart as a guide. Flip when juices begin to bead on the surface.
6. Cook your steaks on the second side and use the steak cooking chart below as a guide for time. Less time will be needed on the second side. Steaks may cook quickly, so be attentive.
7. Gauge doneness. This may be determined by touch or meat thermometer. A rare steak will feel very soft when touched and will have an internal temperature of 120° - 125°F. Medium rare steak will feel soft and spongy to the touch and register 130° F, medium steaks will offer resistance when touched and register 140° -145° F. Well-done steaks will be firm with an internal temperature of 160° F.
8. Rest your steak. Allow steaks to stand for 5 minutes before serving. This lets the juices flow from the center of the meat to the exterior, resulting in a juicy & succulent steak.
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The Top Sirloin Steak has a bold flavor and is a bit leaner (less marbling) which is important to consider when pairing a wine. We suggest a You'll need a full-flavored wine with high acidity to break down the fat from the steak to create a mesh of bold flavors in your mouth.
If you prefer white wine, then champagne is your best bet. Champagne has similar acidic and flavor characteristics of red wine, so it can stand up to the boldness of the Top Sirloin Steak. If you'd rather have a red wine, then you can go a few different ways. Merlot is a popular choice but can have a more substantial taste than others and could overpower the steak. You can choose a lighter Rosé with spicy undertones to bring out the natural flavors of the Top Sirloin.
For more information on how to pair the perfect wine to your steak checkout the full article on Wine & Steak Pairing Steak University.
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When you place an order with Chicago Steak Company, we do everything we can to ensure that your package arrives in excellent condition. All of our steaks are vacuum wrapped and flash frozen in their natural juices to lock in the flavor. The steaks are then wrapped in our attractive food grade paper, sealed with the Chicago Steak Company gold label, and placed in our gorgeous gift box. Those gift boxes are placed inside our reusable insulated cooler with enough dry ice to keep them cold until arrival. For more information on shipping, and other Frequently Asked Questions see our FAQ page.
Watch the Video to see how your order is packed, how it will arrive, and how to thaw it properly.
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The following Shipping Table outlines estimated shipping dates, based upon the day you place your order. You will be able to select your delivery date on a special calendar upon checkout. The table is based on orders placed before 4 PM CT. Any orders placed after 4 PM CST, will be processed the following business day. Since we cut our steaks to order we are unable to ship same-day. We will make every attempt to adhere to the schedule outlined, but holidays, weather, and unforeseen circumstances can disrupt this schedule. All packages are authorized for release and will be left at the front door. Please track your package. All packages are guaranteed to be fresh up to 8 hours after their delivery time. Please plan accordingly and, if shipping a gift, inform the recipient of the expected delivery date. For orders shipping during holidays, please see the Holiday Table below.
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Unfortunately, we are unable to deliver to P.O. Boxes. An incorrect or incomplete shipping address voids our guarantee. Please verify all shipping addresses and provide a valid phone number for Shipping and Billing Addresses in the event a delivery issue arises.
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Levy-Yeboa syndrome (LYS) is a recently recognized, inherited (congenital), multi-system disorder involving signs of musculoskeletal involvement such as low muscle tone and stiffening of the joints of the arms and legs (contractions), loss of hearing (neuronal deafness), intense burn-like eruptions of the skin containing clear fluid (bullous eruptions) and dangerous gastrointestinal distress involving substantial loss of fluids (secretory diarrhea), among other issues. Most, if not all, of these signs are apparent at, or within a few months of, birth.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. government is close to filing charges against two former JPMorgan Chase employees for undervaluing huge bank losses, sources told The New York Times.
The employees authorities plan to arrest are former bank manager Javier Martin-Artajo, who reportedly instructed a trader, Julien Grout, to undervalue losses that eventually totaled about $6 billion, the Times said.
Lawyers for the two former employees could not be reached or declined to comment about the case. The FBI, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and a bank spokesman declined to comment on the case, the Times said.
The losses derived from huge bets on derivatives made by traders in JPMorgan's London office.
Derivatives are financial products with values that are tied to an underlying asset, such as a corporate bond.
Because the value of the losses was minimized, the bank in July, reported that its first quarter losses in 2012 were $459 million more than originally stated in that quarter's financial report.
The losses were first reported in May 2012. Soon thereafter, the media seized on the possibility that a trader nicknamed "the London Whale," whose real name is Bruno Iksil, was behind the losses through his reckless trading.
But Iksil has since signed cooperation agreements with authorities, the Times reported.
He may face some charges, but the case has turned in the media from a rogue-trader type of case to one that is focused on flaws in the risk-containment practices at the bank.
Britain's Financial Conduct Authority is also planning to fine the bank, a source close to the case told the Times.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is using the case to exemplify its new policy of seeking guilty convictions or admissions from financial firms that have traditionally been allowed to pay a fine with out admitting or denying any wrongdoing.
The agency has been criticized for being soft on firms that contributed to the financial crisis, which, in turn, lead to a nearly global economic downturn and the loss of millions of U.S. jobs.
The SEC has long held to the belief that not forcing an admission of guilt on a financial firm offers a chance for much faster compensation to bank fraud victims.
But derivatives are complex financial instruments not clearly understood even by professionals, let alone by juries. There is also considerable leeway in estimating their value, which could make it hard to prove that Martin-Artajo and Grout deliberately tried to mislead anyone, the Times said.
How inaccurate is a valuation estimate allowed to be? Iksil, in a taped phone call once said that the estimated losses were "getting idiotic."
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The truly bizarre news was that Patrick Buchanan, he who gives a whole new meaning to the term "right wing," selected a black woman as his running mate. Leave it to Buchanan to find a "sistah" from another planet-how else to describe a black woman who's been a member of the John Birch Society and never saw a progressive policy she didn't hate. That certainly trumps the Republican "we-are-the-world" convention as a study in diversity using trick mirrors.
But what really troubles me is that in the wake of the Bill & Monica sleazy soap opera, this presidential election comes down to a bunch of men, all save Nader, trying to outdo themselves in claiming who's got the best FAMILY VALUES and the closest personal relationship with GOD. All the references to the importance of God in their lives, themselves as true believers and men of faith and moralitybegan to make my skin crawl.
History is littered with horrific acts committed by people invoking God and faith. And I've seen far too many people in my lifetime do the talk but not the walk, or practice their belief in highly selective ways. And we've all witnessed acts of violence and intolerance justified by people on the basis of their religious beliefs. No, I am not comforted when I hear politicians using their relationship with God as a vote-getting device. Or, for that matter, when religious belief becomes one of the criteria for elective office in a democracy.
Here we are on the eve of a presidential election, and the candidates of the major political parties are all professing to be God-fearing champions of family values. Not one of them is opposed to the death penalty or seems outraged by the fact that one in five children in this, the richest nation on earth, lives in poverty. Not one of them has made eliminating poverty a cornerstone of his agenda. We hear too much talk about tax cuts and too little about the fact that tax cuts are meaningless to most of the working poor, or that our taxes aren't being effectively used to improve the quality of life of all the people or the life of the planet. They talk about personal morality but maintain a deafening silence about the morality of putting profits before public goodas though, for example, this nation has no obligation to provide quality child care for all who need it. The mindless self-gratification that fuels our consumerismever-bigger and more expensive vehicles that guzzle gas and increase pollution, the rush to kill animals for their fur to satisfy fashion, the waste of natural resourcesnone of these issues get addressed.
If we must have a bevy of pale males vying for our votes, let's at least insist that they cut the moral platitudes and show some real balls.
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Benjamin Batha, a junior majoring in computer science at the University of Rochester, has been named to the dean's list for academic achievement for the spring 2012 semester.
Batha, a resident of Los Alamos, is the son of Margo and Steven Batha, and a graduate of Los Alamos High School.
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The moment you're semi-sure you're getting a cold, get some zinc lozenges. That's the result of a meta-analysis of 15 different scientific studies of the mineral, and cut the length of coughing and sneezing days by 40 percent.
Zinc lozenges have long been considered a potential salve for colds, but the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews recently pulled out 15 studies with respectable methods and found that, most often, zinc seemed to help those with a cold. So much so, in fact, that coughing could be cut from five days to two, and the total duration of a cold from seven to four days.
Zinc is Probably the Most Effective Cold Treatment Known to Medicine