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My kids were off from school this entire week because of a little known Jewish holiday called Shavuot, which roughly translates into "a three-day weekend isn't enough; let's just take off the whole week before Memorial Day instead." Which is great if you're an old rabbi, but less great if you're a working mom. I resigned myself to the fact that I would get nothing done this week, and then I scheduled the hell out of my kids. On Wednesday, I even got my husband to take off from work and go to Disneyland with us and two other families from my daughter's preschool class. One of the perks of living in Southern California is that you can go to Disneyland whenever you feel like it, although I have to say, it may be called the happiest place on earth, but I never saw a more miserable bunch of parents in my life. Everywhere I turned, moms were snapping at their kids, dads were screaming, and grandparents were developing new wrinkles as I watched. But barring meltdowns at both lunch and dinner (Harper: I don't liiiike this macarooooniiiiii. It's yuuuucky. Davis: I no want penne! I gonna' throw it down!), we had a lot of fun. It was Davis' first time, and there's really nothing better than watching a Disneyland virgin go through It's A Small World. His little mouth was hanging open, and he was silent through the whole thing, taking it in, trying to understand what the hell was going on. When it was over, I was starting to think that maybe he hadn't really gotten it, but then, just as we were getting off the boat, he flashed me a huge smile and said, I wanna go again, mama. And it is that moment when – for all of its overpriced merchandising tie-ins, for all of the forty-minute lines for two-minute rides, and for all of the jockeying to find the princesses at their designated times and places just so that your daughter can then become shy and not want to say hello to Jasmine after you just waited for half an hour to meet her – you realize that Disneyland really is a magical place when you have little kids.
But on to bigger and better things: now that I need a vacation from my kids' school vacation, in a stroke of sheer luck/coincidence/genius-if-only-I'd-realized-what-I-was-doing-at-the-time, Michael and I just happen to be going to Mexico next week for our first kid-free vacation in three years. Yes, you read that correctly, three years. When I planned this little get away, I had absolutely no idea that school would be closed the whole week prior, and even if I had known, it would not have occurred to me that I might require significant time away from my children, which – after four days of playdates and park outings and various other activities, not to mention twelve straight hours at Disneyland – I do. It's so close that I can taste it; there's even a part of me that doesn't want next week to come, just because then it will be over, and I think that just imagining how delicious those four days are going to be might be nearly as much fun as actually being there. But who are we kidding, I want next week to come, and when it does, I plan to sit on my ass and do absolutely nothing except sleep and eat and read and have sex with my husband without a baby monitor on in the background. I mean, really, does it get more delicious than that??? But then I get the reality check, which is that those four days are going to have to last me a really long time, because once we get back, there's only two weeks until my kids are off for the whole summer. [Insert big sigh here].


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Spanish hair salons have turned into BYOi (that's Bring Your Own iPod) operations after hairdressers in Barcelona and across Catalonia have refused to pay a monthly fee for playing music, the Guardian UK reports.
The Spanish Society of Authors (SGAE) charges salons six to twelve euro a month as a sort of tax on behalf of musicians to play their songs. SGAE spokesman Antonio Rojas told the Guardian, "The fees are not designed to damage [salons'] business. It is very difficult to maintain culture if we do not pay those who create it."
But the barbers think the tax is unbelievable.
"Hairdressers don't make money off the music, they just try to make sure there is as welcoming an atmosphere as if they were inviting the clients into our own homes," said Josep Maria Figuera, of the Catalan Hair and Beauty Federation.
Figuera and others have asked clients to provide their own music to protest the tax.


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Joint IED Defeat Organization has chosen three lightweight throwable robots to be tested in combat in Afghanistan before possible production. These include the iRobot's 110 FirstLook robot, MacroUSA's Armadillo V2 Micro Unmanned Ground Vehicle, and QinetiQ North America's Dragon Runner.
Lt. Col. Dave Thompson, of the Marine Corps is the project manager with the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office. He said that these robots can provide dismounted troops that extra bit of stand-off distance. He added that they were all looking at similar systems. RS JPO was trying to do some coordination between all of these organizations and see if they could look at the systems that are out there, look at the requirements, and start to posture ourselves for the sustainment and the maintenance of these systems in the long term.
Mathew Way, program integrator for Mitigate and Neutralize, JIEDDO said that they were in the process of responding to a joint urgent operational needs statement for an ultra-light recon robot capability to support dismounted operations in Afghanistan. What they were going to try to do is give a sampling of every type of system down range across different regions of Afghanistan. More than likely there will be more than one system needed to answer this JUONS, he added.
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This week was kinda crapola, just felt weak and nasty for no reason. Well part of it could be that lifting class I took which left me sore for 3 days!!!! Went over a week without running. Finally got a run in today. I kept telling myself that even if I was not gonna run outside than I better run on a dreadmill. That lit a fire under me cuz I ran 3 miles today, just had to start in the middle of the trail instead of the icey neighborhoods. The air was thin and I forgot my music at home. I was thinking of going back home and getting it but no I just went and did it. Excuses excuses excuses, I am not giving in to u sometimes your meant to listen to your heavy breathing. I hit a WERQ class last night too. I was pretty weak and blah for that as well. Intense classes falling at the end of a long work week is never a great idea. But I stayed and I did my dardest and that's all you got to give somedays. I usually see exercise as all or nothing but I gotta stop looking at it that way. Some is better than none, you are never letting yourself down if u get yourself to the gym or get yourself out on that trail. It's all a win win.
I think it's just that fear in me of getting set back and losing my tolerance to run or dance or whatever. How hard it is to start all over again and get past that hard period of "Why the hell am I doing this? This sucks!". For running that periods takes awhile and sometimes it sneaks back on us even after yrs of being avid runners.
Still working on eating better again. My coworker gave me this sandwich yesterday she couldn't eat cuz it was chicken salad instead of tuna. I had every intent of taking it home and leaving it for Scott. But no I devoured it in the car. I wasn't even hungry and I was going to my WERQ class in like 30 minutes. I can't have food in my presence without devouring it. Even a gross deli sandwich lol Scott probably wondered why I insisted on salad for dinner when he really wanted to order a pizza last night. Stupid, should have told him to get a meat lovers, I wont have touched that.
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I worked out this morning for the first time in a month and had the same feeling- when will it get easier. Then I remembered how good it feels to be sore from your workout! Sadistic? Yes! But in the best of ways :)
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Some weeks are like that. And yes, getting some of the exercise in and some of the eating right is better than none of it!
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On February 28, 2013, Groupon announced that it had ousted CEO Andrew Mason.
Groupon had faced another dismal showing in the fourth quarter of 2012; one more in a series of poor showings.
CEOs come and go, and when Mason and company failed to hit respectable numbers, it was no surprise that the rumors circulating about his departure came to fruition. Yet, amidst the hype of a new skipper at the helm came something particularly refreshing from a man at the top—direct, candid, honest, accountability.
Upon departure, the now-unemployed CEO issued a company memo to all employees. The memo, posted below, emphasizes a point that many leaders have yet to embrace—that of personal accountability.
I'm particularly interested in what this will do to levels of employee engagement at Groupon. While faced with challenging circumstances (let's face it, for the past year Groupon has been circling the drain), in falling on his sword, Mason offers hope and direction.
Read on and let us know what you think about Mason's company candor.
(This is for Groupon employees, but I'm posting it publicly since it will leak anyway.)
People of Groupon,
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding – I was fired today. If you're wondering why… you haven't been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that's hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable.
You are doing amazing things at Groupon, and you deserve the outside world to give you a second chance. I'm getting in the way of that. A fresh CEO earns you that chance. The board is aligned behind the strategy we've shared over the last few months, and I've never seen you working together more effectively as a global company – it's time to give Groupon a relief valve from the public noise.
For those who are concerned about me, please don't be – I love Groupon, and I'm terribly proud of what we've created. I'm OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through. I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to take the company this far with all of you. I'll now take some time to decompress (FYI I'm looking for a good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40, if anyone has a suggestion), and then maybe I'll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive.
If there's one piece of wisdom that this simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you: have the courage to start with the customer. My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers. This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness – don't waste the opportunity!
I will miss you terribly.
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Hubert Jongen: I Immediately Saw the FSP as a New Possibility
"For a long time I have been interested in 'free state' projects – from the time I spoke with Mike Oliver in Las Vegas about the MINERVA project! Since then there were many others, but most of them disappeared.
"Then I found out about the Free State Project. I immediately saw this as a new possibility, using existing legal procedures.
"I became immediately enthusiastic when my friend André Lichtschlag (publisher of the excellent German libertarian magazine eigentümlich frei) proposed starting a similar project within the European Union. Soon we formed a small group, the European Freestate Project.
"So I hope that there soon will be two Free States from which libertarians can choose, one in the USA and one in Europe!"
Hubert Jongen is Chairman of Libertarian International and of Libertarisch Centrun Netherlands.
Libertarian Party of New Jersey Supports the FSP
At its July 2003 General Meeting/picnic, the Libertarian Party of New Jersey passed a motion endorsing the FSP by a majority vote. It read:
"The New Jersey Libertarian Party endorses the Free State Project."
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Craig Benson Welcomes the FSP
From Volume I, Issue 4, July 2003 of The Quill: "Come on up; we'd love to have you!" Craig Benson is a businessman and Adjunct Lecturer at Babson College. He served as Governor of New Hampshire from 2003 to 2005.
Sunni Maravillosa: The FSP Is Focused on Accomplishing Greater Freedom
"I remember hearing about the Free State Project back when Jason Sorens was recruiting feedback for the idea. Having heard of plenty of other 'let's form our own group' schemes, I smiled, nodded, and pushed the delete key, and expected to hear maybe one or two more things about the project at most. I'm delighted to say that I was wrong...I've been to a number of libertarian-oriented conferences, and read about many more. I know how argumentative and emotionally invested in being right some individuals can be. One of the first, and ongoing, surprises of the Grand Western Conference was how pleasant everyone I spoke to was. Nothing seemed to be about ego; the presentations and private conversations alike seemed focused on accomplishing the goal of greater freedom."
Sunni Maravillosa writes about personal freedom. Her blog is Sunni and the Conspirators.
Claire Wolfe: The FSP Gives Me Optimism
"If I were to describe in one word what I brought home from the Grand Western Conference of the Free State Project 'optimism' would be it … [And] I'm a born pessimist and a made cynic. I simply don't do optimism."
Claire Wolfe is a libertarian author and self-described "professional troublemaker."
Libertarian Party of Wyoming Supports the FSP
On May 17, 2003, with FSP treasurer Debra Ricketts attending, the Wyoming Libertarian Party endorsed the Free State Project.
"The Wyoming Libertarian Party endorses the Free State Project."
The Wyoming LP also invites FSP members to attend its meetings, especially the July 12 Annual "Enjoy Your Second Amendment Rights While You Got 'em" Shooting Party.
Gary Marbut: The FSP Will Help Make Its Home State Freer
"The Grand Western Conference was a tremendous experience. If the FSP picks Montana, we should welcome these freedom-loving people with open arms. They will help us make Montana more free than it already is."
Gary Marbut is President of the Montana Shooting Sports Association. Original article.
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Libertarian Party of Montana Supports the Concept of the FSP
In Montana, on a 6-0 vote, the state LP's executive committee voted to endorse the concept of the Free State Project (FSP). The vote took place on May 25, just after the state LP hosted the FSP-themed Grand Western Conference.
Libertarian Party of Alaska Unanimously Endorses the FSP
At the April 2003 Alaska Libertarian Party State Convention in Juneau Alaska one of the topics on the agenda was the Free State Project. Some felt that Alaska was clearly the best choice because of its low population and existing strong libertarian leanings. A motion to formally endorse the Free State Project was seconded and unanimously passed.


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Is Olympus Viewfinder VF-2 compatible with the E-PM2?
I have recently purchased an E-PM2 which I am very happy with.
I am considering adding a viewfinder to it. The choice seems to be between the Olympus VF-2 and VF-3. I know where I can purchase a mint second hand VF-2 for the same price as a new VF-3. I have two questions:
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This is my second "painted by first graders" build. There's a lot more color than the last one. So I painted the rack blue and went with blue bar tape. I don't know if that works or not. Thoughts? Suggestions?
Ideally, I'd swap the black stem and black bars for silver with a proper quill stem - a Nitto Technomic would work best for me as I could get the height up where I need it. (this is a fixed commuter).
But I like the convenience of the threadless adapter system. It's been trouble free, and I have a wide choice of stems in my garage and others are easy to find.
However, I don't like the black stem where every other component on the bike is silver. I'm wondering, though, if I swapped out the silver seatpost for a black one (which I have) would that balance everything out so I could keep the black stem and bars?
Finally, wheels. I got the velocity aero's for cheap. I'm not totally in love with them. The braking surface mainly, especially in the rain.
I have a black Alex fixed gear wheel that works fine. It's on another bike right now. But I don't have a matching front that's black, so I'd have to get one. Would that help balance things out if I still had some black components on the bike?
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Arvind Kejriwal, a civil society activist whose Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had stunned mainstream political parties in the recent assembly elections in Delhi, will form the Delhi govt later this week with the support of Congress, which had ruled the national capital for 15 years in a row before its rout.
45-year-old Arvind Kejriwal, a former Indian Revenue Service officer, met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung today and handed over him a letter staking claim to form government after his party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) met earlier and decided to take the plunge.
A Magsaysay award winner, a one-time RTI activist and a close associate of Anna Hazare during his campaign for a Janlokpal Bill, Arvind Kejriwal will be sworn-in in a public ceremony in the Ramlila Maidan, the venue of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement two years ago.
He said he would table a confidence motion in the assembly and "let's see what happens". This will be the capital's first minority government.
The date and timing of the swearing-in ceremony would be decided once President Pranab Mukherjee gives his decision, Jung told Arvind Kejriwal when he met him.
Born in Haryana and a resident of Kausambi in nearby Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, the IIT-Kharagpur graduate in Mechanical Engineering, defeated incumbent Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit in New Delhi by a huge margin of over 25,000 votes.
The Lt Governor told Kejriwal that he would send the proposal of government making to the President for his decision.
Later, Arvind Kejriwal said his government would implement all the promises made in the party manifesto. Electricity, water, enactment of Janlokpal and ending VIP culture.
"Our 18-point charter will form the guiding light of our governance. We didn't ask for support. If parties don't us, we are ready to face elections again," he said.
Significantly, his party leader Prashant Bhushan said they were not taking over power because it will last or it must last a term in office but because people want them to implement the promises.
After the two-hour-long meeting of the PAC at AAP office in Kausambi nearby Ghaziabad district, Arvind Kejriwal said AAP has decided to give a letter to the Lt Governor expressing its readiness to form the government.
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I would like to be able to use Apache on this machine for serving other sites and applications, and although I can use mod_proxy to work with plain authentication by setting Zimbra to run on another port and using ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, I can't work out how to do it with the zimbraMailMode in mixed.
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The Abilene Bombers defeated the San Angelo Bandits in their third and final meeting of the regular season.
After leading 24-18 at halftime, the Bomber defense shut out the Bandit defense in the third quarter allowing Abilene to pull away for the 48-24 victory at the Taylor County Coliseum.
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Winston J. (Sy) Simonsen, 84, of Fredericksburg, died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013.
Funeral services were held Friday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church with the Reverends Casey Zesch, Travis Meier, Elliot Pancoast and Richard Wagner officiating.
Marjorie Ottmers was the organist; Bill Smallwood, trumpeter; Tyler Simonsen and Kathleen Rae, the vocalists and Brent Carr, guitarist.
Interment followed at Greenwood Cemetery.
Arrangements were under the direction of Fredericksburg Funeral Home where visitation was held Thursday evening, Nov. 7.
Simonsen was born Jan. 30, 1929, in Kimballton, Iowa, the son of Arthur Simonsen and Margaret Jersild Simonsen. His family moved to Texas when he was three years old.
After graduating from Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, he enrolled at the University of Texas, and while there, joined the United States Air Force.
He became a fighter pilot in the Korean War where his plane went down and he spent six months in a Chinese POW camp. He was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service.
After being released from the POW camp, Simosen returned to Texas and married Nelda Harms on Oct. 24, 1953.
The Simonsens eventually settled in Houston, where he worked for Southern Pacific Railroad while earning his BBA from the University of Houston.
After graduating, he went to work for Brown and Root, working his way up to general bridge superintendent.
In 1965, he started Simonsen Construction Company.
During his years in highway and heavy construction, he worked on everything from portions of the Houston Ship Channel to a forge plant in Mexico.
In 1990, he closed Simonsen Construction and he and his wife semi-retired to Fredericksburg.
A lifelong Lutheran, Simonsen was active at Trinity Lutheran in Houston and then Bethany Lutheran, often leading Bible studies.
In addition to his wife, Simonsen is survived by four daughters, two sons and spouses, including Linda Simonsen Davis of Fredericksburg; Stephen and Jill Simonsen, Montgomery; Lesli and Brent Carr, Fort Worth; Sally and Al Retzloff, Argyle; Dr. Gregory Simonsen of Dallas, and Deanna and Case Fischer of Fredericksburg.
He is also survived by 14 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a brother and sister-in-law, Jay and Joan Simonsen of Rosharon.
Simonsen was preceded in death by his parents as well as a sister, Jean Ferguson.
Memorials may be made to Bethany Lutheran Church, Wounded Warriors at Nebo, or to the charity of choice.
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Villa v Fulham: In-form Agbonlahor "at the top of his game"
Paul Lambert believes Villa have a player "at the top of his game" in striker Gabby Agbonlahor.
Agbonlahor goes in to Saturday's clash against Fulham on the brink of breaking Dwight Yorke's club record of 60 Premier League goals.
The 26-year-old endured a lean spell in front of goal in the second half of last season and in the first half of the current campaign.
But he has been back to his best recently with five goals in his last eight games.
Lambert reckons Agbonlahor is relishing his current role in a four-pronged Villa attack.
"There's no doubt he's at the top of his game," said the manager.
"His goalscoring at the minute has been excellent and I know he's equalled Dwight Yorke's goal tally.
"Given time he'll surpass it because he's playing really, really well. I think he enjoys that role where he's playing."
Lambert insists there are still few players in the top flight who could outrun Agbonlahor.
The Erdington-born ace has always been known for his devastating pace and Lambert says "you need to be the Road Runner to catch him".
"I've not seen anybody out run him," he said.
"I haven't seen anybody beat him in a race. He's only mid-20s.
"He's a strong, powerful boy as well. His strength is very good. When he gets going and gets motoring he is definitely a handful.
"He'll make mistakes like everybody else, but his form since I've been here has been really high.
"You won't catch him. When he goes on a run I think you need to be the Road Runner to catch him with the speed that he's got.
"When he's on a run there's not many people can catch him.
"When you have a player with pace coming at you and he keeps coming at you then you know you could be in for a hard time.
"The first time I saw it for us was up at Newcastle when he came on as a sub after his knee injury and he ran through the middle of the pitch in the second half."
Lambert also believes Agbonlahor's special affinity with Villa is an important quality.
He hopes the academy graduate will go on to become a one-club man like AC Milan legend Paolo Maldini and Manchester United's Ryan Giggs.
"It's a unique thing that, a guy staying at a club for that length of time," the boss added.
"I don't know who was the last one to do that - Maldini maybe at Milan, Stevie Gerrard at Liverpool, Ryan Giggs at Manchester United.
"There's not who many stay at a football club for the length of time that those guys have.
"Gabby's only in his mid-twenties so he's still got a lot of football left in him and a lot of time to try to do well.
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If they have a regular postal mailing address, send them a hard copy cease and desist letter by registered mail. If the matter is serious enough to warrant a court action, you could sue for an injunction in a court that has jurisdiction over the company. I would think that they would be afraid of a negative reference from your company and remove your name voluntarily.
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Thank you for your feedback.
However, is this applicable to United Arab Emirates law? Can you please explain futher on how I can take this further because whenever googling my company/brand name - their company is appearing on search results too as the developer of the site when I already fired them and hired a different developer. I even changed the domain name but they seem to want to associate themselves with the brand considering I have lost a lot of money for a fault of hiring them in the beginning.
Isn't it companies should ask permission from clients before service provider can use the client company or brand name on their literature or list it on their client list on website?
Thanks & regards,
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If you receive a qualifying benefit you can get free meals and milk for your child. Once in full-time education they will get either a free two-course meal or items of an equivalent value if there is a cash cafeteria service at lunchtime.
For information on how to apply for free school meals and milk please visit the free school meals page.
Unfortunately, parents and carers can no longer claim any money towards the cost of school clothing and footwear for children transferring from primary to secondary education at the age of 11, unless the customer feels that there are exceptional circumstances.
Examples of situations that may be classed as exceptional are emergency home situations such as fire and flood and where a parent or carer has left the family home due to domestic violence.
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The County Council are the Trustees of the Granby Educational Foundation, which was established in 1955 and derives from the sale of the Old Granby School and School House. This produces a small amount of income which may be distributed to children in financial need, who live in Granby, for the benefit of their education. Applications may be made at any time of the year.
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It's not quite the stuff of legends as the "Arrested Development" movie, but Adrian Grenier and company have been fielding questions about a theoretical "Entourage" feature ever since it was announced the HBO series was coming to an end in 2010.
The idea of a film based on the showbiz industry comedy-drama has slowly got less theoretical and more likely over the intervening years, with it being reported last September that "Entourage" creator Doug Ellin had finished up a screenplay for the project that would pick up six months after the series left off, and Warner Bros. gave it the greenlight several months later.
In June of this year, the "Entourage" movie was one of the 31 projects approved to receive California tax credits, and last week the Hollywood Reporter claimed the film was only being held back by a disagreement over pay, with the other "boys" holding out for deals equal to the one given to Jeremy Piven, who plays agent Ari Gold and perhaps used powers inherited from the character when he managed to negotiate for backend compensation.
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Here are two terrific books
Australian Business LawHe has another book titield "Understanding Company Law" by P. Lipton, A. Herzberg and M. Welsh, (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 16th ed. 2012).Both books are good. The first is more basic. The second is more advamced
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The author of both books, Paul Latimer, is an associate professor at Monash University. The first book is available on Amazon USA site as used from 2008
ok that sounds good, in terms of contract law,patent law and franchise law, are they all covered in the books?
I used the first one in a comparative common law class where we looked at UK, Australia and New Zealand laws.
Not as a full overview
these are all distinct areas of law and you would need to get a book for each one. Certainly for patent law and franchise law
contract law is covered by both
ok so in terms of getting books for patent and franchise law, which ones would be good to go for?
for patent law
for franchise but this book is not for attorneys more for business people
are you a law student?
not exactly, I'm in the process of starting my own business this year developing a device similar to an NAS server, but with a lot of added features to personalise the local data storage experience.
i wanted to have a look at the franchise law in particular because i have a friend who is suing his franchisor along with 20 other franchisees at the moment due to an increase in franchise fees so i thought it would be good to get a good grasp on that side of things for future reference
Then the book I referenced should work. It will give you a good overall view of the regulations
i have a bit of a photographic memory so i wanted to see how i could go with acquiring a good knowledge base on Australian business law in the next 12 months whilst in the process of commercialising my product.
ok, any other books you would recommend?
Wow. I'm jealous. Another book that I have come across but not studies with is "Corporations Law in Australia" see here: http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862873148
These books will give you a good grasp of the law.
ok, looks like i've got some good reading to do over the next couple of months here, really appreciate your time.
Please rate me positively. Good luck!
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The Year They Burned the Books
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What a horrible cover. It's not just that that made me think this book was written in the 80s. I dunno, it seems.. dated somehow, though I can't quite put my finger on it. I _think_ it's just stylistically. It wasn't a quick and easy YA type of read. Too much politics and blow-by-blow this-is-how-it-really-happens and not enough character and plot? I dunno.
For the subject matter, I feel I should give it a 4, but for the reading experience it gave me, I just couldn't. So 3 it is.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0374386676, Hardcover)High school condom distribution and a hotly contested sex education curriculum set a small New England town's blood boiling and books burning in The Year They Burned the Books, an issue-driven novel by Nancy Garden. Jamie Crawford is the senior editor of the "Telegraph," her high school's newspaper, but the publication of her editorial in favor of the school's new policy to distribute condoms happens to coincide with the election of a new, highly conservative school board member. As a result, Jamie suddenly finds her editorial voice gagged. Soon the school's health books have been removed from the classrooms for "review," a conservative parents' group stages a library book burning, and Jamie's beloved teacher is forced to resign as the newspaper's faculty advisor. Jamie's personal life also becomes more complicated as she tries to deal with her physical attraction to Tessa, a new girl at school. Then, on top of it all, Jamie and her best friend Terry (who is openly gay) are the victims of an attack by a group of conservative students and Jamie has to decide if she can handle the consequences of coming out.
Teens love controversies, especially those involving young people, and there is scarcely a hot topic here that Garden doesn't touch. Yet in spite of the scene-stealing issues, Garden's timeless message that hardship shapes character is illustrated well in Jamie's transition from a "maybe," (as in "maybe gay, maybe straight")to a "probably" by novel's end. An excellent choice for use in high school discussions about censorship and free speech. (Ages 13 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert
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Notre Dame, Ind.- Racing for the second-consecutive weekend the Northern Illinois women's cross country team wrapped action at the 55th Notre Dame Invitational in Notre Dame, Ind. with a 16th-place finish. The Huskies faced tough competition from Mid-American Conference foes Ball State, Buffalo and Western Michigan at the Notre Dame Golf Course on Friday afternoon.
Recording a personal record at the invite, sophomore Courtney Oldenburg saw the Huskies top finish of the afternoon when she raced to a time of 18:29. Her performance ties the second-fastest five-kilometer time in NIU school history and bests her 2009 5k record of 18:38. Oldenburg time ties teammate Sunsea Shaw's second-place record time (18:29) that was set in 2007.
Lindsay DeReadt finished second for the Huskies with a time of 19:14, a mark that places her 69th overall at the invitational. Seniors Sunsea Shaw and Breanna Brevitt finished third and fourth for NIU, respectively. Shaw crossed the finish line in a time of 19:58, while Brevitt finished the race in a time of 20:14. Rounding out the top-five competitors for NIU was Nora Ferguson, who finished just four second behind Brevitt in a time of 20:18.
"We didn't run as well as I would have liked," said NIU assistant cross country coach Mark McConeghey. "I would have liked to see the girls compete a little better, but we trained hard on Wednesday, and I think the girls were a little tired at the competition today."
The Huskies caught a glimpse of their Mid-American Conference competition of Friday when the Huskies competed against Ball State, Western Michigan and Buffalo at today's invite. Western Michigan saw the best MAC finish, claiming fifth place, while Ball State place 10th and Buffalo finished 12th.
"Racing against Ball State, WMU and Buffalo, was very good because it helped us see where we stand," McConeghey said. "We know we need to step up our performances in order to fare well at the MAC championships. I think today benefitted us because we learned from the race and that will help us in the rest of the season."
The Huskies will return to action on Oct. 16 when they compete at the Tori Neubauer Invitational in West Salem, Wis. The invitational will be the Huskies final regular-season competition before heading to the MAC Championships on Oct. 30 in Kalamazoo, Mich.


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After posting an impressive $41 million opening 3-day weekend, the Kevin Hart comedy Ride Along, carried its surge into Monday, drawing huge crowds on its way to setting, not only a new January box office record, but also a Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend record, earning a total of $48 million over the 4 days, beating out previous record holder, 2008's Cloverfield, for the top spot (that movie earned $46.1 million over the same holiday weekend 6 years ago).
Co-starring Ice Cube, and directed by Tim Story, it appears that the comedy had broad audience appeal, given its opening weekend tally, with 2 stars who have strong brands that gelled together nicely.
Polling showed that Ride Along's audience was 50% African American, 30% Hispanic, and 12% Caucasian, all primarily over the age of 25, with 57% being female.
Box office prognosticators predict that the film will earn over $100 million by the end of its theatrical run, given its "A" CinemaScore, which would put director Tim Story in club with very, very few members: black filmmakers who directed "black films" that grossed over $100 million. Most recently, Lee Daniels did it with The Butler.I'm not quite ready to crown Tim Story and Ride Along just yet; Whether the film will have legs going into successive weekends, remains to be seen. Strong word of mouth is absolutely crucial for it to maintain its momentum.
January typically isn't a month when studios release their expected blockbusters, but more seem to be starting to realize the advantage that the lack of competition during the month presents. The timing proved to be super for Universal, who released Ride Along, which, keep in mind, the studio picked up in turnaround from New Line last year.
It makes for back-to-back number 1 openers for director Tim Story and producer Will Packer, who directed and produced (respectively) 2012's box office smash Think Like a Man, which also took the number 1 spot during its opening weekend, earning over $33 million, en route to a near-$100 million global box office, and which, by the way, also co-starred starred Kevin Hart.
"We knew the tracking was strong, but we didn't see it going this high, especially with women," said Universal's Nikki Rocco, adding, "Maybe it's Kevin Hart?"
Hart's certainly been on a roll; His 2013 concert movie Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, was a smash (relative to budget) for distributor Lionsgate/Codeblack.
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Sarwan happy to be back in West Indies team for upcoming tour
Castries, St Lucia – Ramnaresh Sarwan is eagerly looking forward to his return to the West Indies for the upcoming limited-overs tour of Australia. The experienced middle-order batsman was named in the 15-man squad announced by the West Indies Cricket Board's Selection Panel on Tuesday.
The team will be led by Darren Sammy with Dwayne Bravo as vice captain. The World T20 Champions will play five One-Day Internationals and a T20 International from February 1 to 13.
"I'm happy to be back in the team. Obviously I've been out for a while, but it feels really good to be back representing the West Indies. I am really looking forward to this tour and I'm confident things will go well for us in Australia," he said.
The 32-year-old Sarwan is a former West Indies captain. He last played a One-Day International in June 2011 and his ODI career statistics show 173 matches with 5,644 runs at an average of 43.41 runs per innings.
"As a team we like the ball when it comes onto the bat so we should enjoy the conditions in Australia. I have played there a few times and we have other experienced members of the team who have played there as well. The team has been playing some good cricket recently so I will just fit in. I am an experienced player at the international level and will look to play my part and make a contribution in any way I'm called upon," added the Windies Number 53.
"I am hitting the ball pretty well. It's a matter of me trying to get myself in and settle down and look to get big scores for the team. I want to get scores and help the team to win matches."
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The Seymour Racing Club has a wonderful conference/ function centre and is a great place to hold your next wedding, birthday party, engagement party, conference/seminar or celebration of life.
The Racing Club Conference and Function centre offers a picturesque venue in a beautiful garden setting, complete with first class facilities to ensure your day is a memorable one. With one of three rooms to choose from and many catering menu's, we have something for everyone.
Click on the links below to find out what we can offer you.
Weddings at Seymour Racing Club
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Conferences at Seymour Racing Club
Track Information
The Seymour Racing Club course proper is 1800m in circumference and is made up of rye grass. One of Seymour's biggest attributes is its 1300m chute which has a straight run to the home turn. The course also has a 1600m and a 2200m chute. Seymour also boasts excellent training facilities, with three training tracks as well as access to the course proper. The training tracks consist of two sand tracks, one for fast and one for slow work, and a synthetic track for galloping. The Club also has a newly installed 50m equine swimming pool.
The Seymour Racing Club will undergo a large refurbishment after the 2015 Seymour Cup. This refurbishment will see the track extended a further five metres, taking it to 23 metres wide. The Club will cease to race until the 2016 Seymour Cup. To download the Seymour Racecourse Masterplan, please click here.
Trainers & Owners
The Seymour Racing Club is home to some 40 trainers who train anywhere between one to thirty horses. Currently the Club sees more than 100 horses trained each morning, Seymour hopes to increase this number.
Seymour Racing Club owners' facilities have recently seen a large refurbishment. On racedays owners and trainers can take advantage of the new roomy owners room, watching the race day action on screen while relaxing in comfort.
All owners upon production of their owners card will receive free admission to the course on all weekday race meetings. Only owners with a horse engaged to race will receive the same privileges at weekend meetings (including Seymour Cup).
Terms & Conditions of Entry
Entry Conditions:
It is a condition of entry that no prohibited Goods are brought on to the racecourse premises. The following items are considered Prohibited Goods:
Specifcally, patrons are advised that the Seymour Racing Club does not allow for outside caterers to supply food and/or beverages unless they are an approved sub-contractor of the Club.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages may be brought on course for the purpose of personal consumption in outdoor areas only. BYO food and beverages may not be consumed in the Grandstands or functions rooms.. Due to Liquor Licensing requirements, alcohol may not be brought onto or taken off the premises at anytime.
Please also not that it is a condition of entry to the racecourse premises that all bags and other carriers (such as drink coolers) are allowed to be searched for prohibited goods by the club's authorised representatives. The Club has the right to conduct metal detector searches for any prohibited goods. If found the Clubs authorised representatives will not allow prohibited goods to be brought on to the racecourse premises and may also prohibit entry to the racecourse premises of any person found to be in possession of prohibited goods.
Patrons refusing to be searched by the Clubs' authorised representatives or who are in possession of prohibited goods will be refused entry and/or removed from the racecourse.
The Club also reserves the right to refuse entry and to remove any person that:
Dress Standards apply to all areas of the Seymour Racecourse. People wearing attire (including costumes or fancy dress) that could be considered offensive, lewd, derogatory, unsafe or could reasonably be expected to give rise to indecent exposure may be refused entry or removed from the course. Footwear must be worn at all times.
A person may take images of activities at the racecourse for personal use but must not make available any images for comercial exploitation, sale or distribution in any manner unless accredited by the Club or Racing Victoria. Where the Club or the Stewards reasonably suspect that images are being taken for non-personal use, the person taking the images will be liable to immediate removal from the racecourse.
A person found breaching the Conditions of Entry is not entitled to a refund or any money paid for admission to the racecourse. These measures are in the interest of patrons safety and enjoyment, and the protection of the Intellectual Property of the Club and racing Industry.
The co-operation of the public in assisting with these measures is greatly appreciated.
By order of the Chief Executive Penny Reeve.
Club Records
Distance Records
1000m 56.75 WILD ONE
1100m 1:02.59 CINO
1200m 1:08.30 GUNS FOR HIRE
1300m 1:14.90 RISING SUPREME
1400m 1:22.67 BIN DANCIN'
1600m 1:33.50 ZAPARRI
2000m 2:02.40 RECKLESS DRAW
2200m 2:15.00 RESIDENT
Seymour Cup Winners
Year Winner Weight Jockey Trainer
2014 Bel Thor 54.5 T. Berry W. Hunter
2013 Sysmo (FR) 54.0 N. Hall T. McEvoy
2012 Callanish (NZ) 57.5 D. Smith M. Price
2011 Tiakinui (NZ 53 J. Winks M. Enright
2010 Our Lukas (NZ) 57.5 D. Nikolic R. Heathcote
2009 Mandela (NZ) 59 M. Zahra R. Yuill
2008 Aztec Smytzer 53 M. Pegus B. Cozamanis
2007 Correct Amoondo 55.5 N. Rawiller R.Douglas
2006 Thin And Crispy 54 J. Benbow P. Moody
2005 Life's A Bounty 53.5 L. Currie D. O'Sullivan
2004 Stamen 56 S. King B. Moorhouse
2003 Storm Attack 57.5 C. Newitt R. Smerdon
2002 Dane River 54 D. Nikolic B. Mayfield-Smith
2001 Elkabayo 54 P. Mertons M. Price
2000 Panoramic Lad 54.5 S. Hyland P. Hyland
1999 Typhoon Barney 52.5 J. Cassidy R. Cameron
1998 Final Tempo 55 RodGriffiths D. Bourne
1997 Reeperbahn 53.5 G. Childs R. Symons
and Shistad 51 C. Williams R. McDonald
1996 Video Fan 56 D. Brereton Mrs H. Gilligan
1995 Toil 55.5 D. Gauci J.J. Houlahan
1994 Spring Theme 56.5 RodGriffiths Robbie Griffiths
1993 State Taj 56 G. Hall J.L. Riley
1991 Purple Curse 55.5 G. Childs K.M. Sweeney
1990 Zaparri 51 D. Oliver S. McKinnon
1989 Cosign 53.5 G. Willetts C.A.Alderson
1988 Water Boatman 55 M. Clarke C.S. Hayes
1987 Celtic Heir 53.5 G. Murphy T.J. Hughes
1986 Dark Intruder 53.5 P. Hyland J.J. Moloney
1985 Tripsacum 54.5 R. Heffernan J.P. Gaffney
1984 Poachinellar 53 M. Clarke M. Bannon
1983 Able Archale 54 S. Aitken W.H. Walter
1982 My Verdi 51 B. Clements K.T. Myers
1981 Dealer's Luck 56 M. Baker I.D. Hay
1980 Rontagen 52 W. Treloar C.A.Balfour
1979 Going Around 51 G. McLeish J. Roberts
1978 Arwon 52 R. Heffernan G.M. Hanlon
1977 Massuk 49 A. Trevena J.J. Houlahan
1976 Grand Scale 54 J. Letts M.L. Willmott
1976 Pressman 54 S. Aitken B.J. Ralph
1975 TudorPeak 56 P. Hyland J.V. Burns
1974 Golden Tally 52 P. Hyland A.R. White
1973 Red Hope 56.5 G. Duryea A.F. Honeychurch
1972 Darling Beware 7 13 H. White T.L. Millard
1971 Royal Blend 8 9 P. Hyland N.F. Kelly
1969 Clipper Boy 8 6 H. White E. Ewert
1968 Delatite Boy 8 0 L. Hope A.O.Pilgrim
Two Cups run in 1976. 1992 Cup postponed to March 1993.
Committee Members
The Seymour Racing Club currently has nine committee members:
President - Steve Clifton
Vice President - Gerard O'Sullivan
Treasurer - Peter Barry
Ben Davey
Phil Campbell
John Clarke
Brian Schrapel
Chris Martin
Brad Bishop
Commencing immediately after the 2015 Seymour Cup, the course proper will undergo a complete reconstruction and widening. This will mean that we will not be racing for approximately 12 months. We anticipate that our first race meeting on the new track will be the Seymour Cup meeting in October 2016. Due to there being no race meetings between November 2015 and September 2016 membership will be offered for a period of 2 years rather than the normal annual period, at the annual cost of $100 or $550 (corporate).
Download the Memb ership Application/Renewal Form Here
Corporate Membership
Corporate Membership with the Seymour Racing Club gives you the benefit of belonging to one of Victoria's most vibrant race clubs, while enjoying its outstanding facilities with some of your most valued clients. Race days conducted by the Club provide a unique atmosphere and much excitement, qualities favourable for corporate entertainment.
Corporate members of the Seymour Racing Club will be rewarded with the following benefits:
General Membership with the Seymour Racing Club is an affordable way to enjoy all of the season's quality racing action.
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|There is a bus that runs from Seymour Station to the Seymour Racing Club. This bus coincides with the midmorning train that arrives from Melbourne. Please contact Seymour Coaches (57921181) for exact times.
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|Seymour is situated on the banks of the Goulburn River and offers attractions ranging from military and railway sites to parks, art galleries and wineries. The town is also a service centre for the nearby Puckapunyal army training grounds. In the 1940s Seymour's Royal Hotel, then called Moody's Hotel, came to prominence with its depiction in artist Russell Drysdale's painting The Cricketers.
Activities and attractions
See historic carriages, steam and diesel locomotives at the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre, Victoria's leading rail heritage preservation centre
Enjoy the newly constructed multi-purpose walking trail along the Goulburn River
Visit the Old Post Office and courthouse, where local and Australian artworks are on display
Explore the many parks around the town, including the Lighthorse Memorial Park, Bushland Park, New Crossing Place Park and Goulburn Park, which offer walking tracks with interpretive boards, barbecue and picnic facilities and fishing opportunities
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Students may substitute up to 6 units of relevant upper-division coursework from other departments, with permission of the Linguistics advisor.
Language Requirement
Sixteen units or equivalent are required. Four semesters (or their equivalent) of a language other than English, with either: (a) two semesters of an Indo-European language plus two semesters of a non-Indo-European language or (b) four semesters of any one language. Students with prior language experience can pass language requirement by examination or other evidence.
This minor consists of a minimum of 21 units, with at least one course selected from each of five categories. Although not required for the minor, foreign language courses are recommended. Students should be aware that some courses have prerequisites, including language proficiency.
Courses which are counted for a major may not also be counted for a minor, but students who have taken a course from any category as a part of their major may substitute an elective with approval of the Department Chair.
Select at least one course from each category:
Electives to a program total of 21 units selected from:
Any course listed above; CHLS 341; LING 423, 426; PHIL 484; SPAN 427; Special Topics on linguistics subjects offered through participating departments. These topics are shown on an approved list available in the participating departments.
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To really understand former Huskies player Tony Wroten, you have to start with a look at his family and his sprawling athletic heritage. Wroten could be a first-round pick in the NBA draft.
The parents of Seattle's latest NBA export are sitting in their dining room, laughing about genes. Tony and Shirley Wroten didn't expect their son to wear them so well.
"It's off the charts," his father exclaims, shaking his head.
Tony Wroten Jr., a basketball star, takes his track-star mother's speed, his football-star father's 6-foot-5 size and power and his own special court vision to create a rare mix of agile traits. On Thursday, during the NBA draft, the child they call "Tone" should fulfill his lifelong dream because, even though he's just 19 and still raw, he is a perfect pick for a league hooked on potential: A tall, athletic point guard who drives to the basket at will, plays aggressively and possesses elite passing ability.
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He has a few distinct flaws, too, and even more critics. To be so gifted, Tone is a polarizing, budding star. But the ability to handle that is also in his blood. Spend time getting to know this family, and you realize that its rich, sprawling athletic heritage has been built despite hardship, disappointment and addiction.
This is a family tree that could have, maybe should have, been chopped down long ago. Instead, it seems to get stronger with each generation.
Dad played tight end at Washington and had a brief NFL career. Mom was a hurdler at Washington before transferring to Arizona State. Aunt Joyce Walker is a women's hoops legend. Cousin Nate Robinson is an NBA player who has averaged 11.2 points per game in seven seasons. Cousin Jimmie Haywood is a former Franklin High School and Oregon State basketball player.
Nice genes, for sure.
"My son, it's like he's taken something from all of us," said Tony Wroten Sr., known as "Big Tony" to the family. "He has the size and still the quickness. Speed, athleticism, size, height — the numbers are off the charts."
So are the expectations, the burden of being a high-profile athlete since middle school. And so are the potential pitfalls if Tone can't maintain the humility and focus to improve his jump shot, cut down on turnovers and grow into his immense talent.
There's plenty of reason to think he will. It's because Tone — the Next Wroten — inherited a valuable family intangible, too.
Family struggles
The challenge isn't living up to his family's legend. It's making sense of its despair.
The Wroten/Walker/Robinson tree is local athletic royalty. But somebody stole its silver spoon.
No one has had it easy. Shirley, Tone's mother, was the ninth of Warren and Christine Walker's 10 children. Shirley had her first child, Latasha Walker, at age 15 and had to deal with the stigma of teen pregnancy.
"I heard so much negative stuff — that I was another statistic, a teenage parent who wasn't going to be able to provide for her child," Shirley said. "It motivated me to do better in school and in track. I wasn't going to let that deter me."
In 1983, Shirley enjoyed an incredible senior season at Garfield High School. She won state titles in the 100-meter hurdles, the 200 and anchored the Bulldogs' record-setting 400 and 1,600 relay teams. She rewrote the record books, graduated from high school, earned a scholarship at Washington and eliminated the notion that she would be part of an unflattering statistic.
But after a good start to her college career, her interest in track waned. After her sophomore year, she transferred from Washington to Arizona State, following coach Clyde Duncan. She never fully rediscovered the joy, though.
"I didn't like track in college," said Shirley, who was more focused on earning her degree in criminal justice. She received it in 1988. "The fun was taken from it for me."
Big Tony can remember the play that changed his career forever. It was 1980 at Hazen High School in Renton. The play call was "26 Power," and the tailback prepared for another downhill run. He planted and cut — and went straight down. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Back then, such an injury was catastrophic.
Big Tony had to wear a full-length cast. His leg atrophied. He lost significant range of motion. A fierce competitor, Big Tony worked his way back, played tight end for the Huskies from 1981-84 and even grinded out a brief NFL career. But his knee was never the same.
That's why he was so concerned two years ago when his son, as a junior, tore his ACL playing football. It was "a nightmare in slow motion," Big Tony said. Big Tony can remember his wife calling with the diagnosis and banging his fists against the steering wheel, repeating, "No! No! No!"
Tone missed his junior basketball season, but he healed just fine. If only Big Tony could have benefited from modern medicine.
"It changed me as an athlete," said Big Tony, who was also a standout prep basketball power forward and ran track. "It was frustrating. There were guys that I felt like weren't as good as me, but once I got hurt, I never was not hurt. I didn't feel like I had a fair shot physically. To this day, I still live with this knee pain."
These are the Wrotens, real and vulnerable.
No one has had it easy. Joyce Walker has been open about her long battle with alcohol and drug addiction. Nate Robinson, whose father, Jacque, played at Washington and in the NFL, lost a brother to sudden infant death syndrome. He also fought against the perception that, at 5 feet 9, he was too short to be a professional athlete. And as a child, Haywood bounced from home to home and was raised by various family members, including his aunt, Shirley.
Within these struggles, the family hopes Tone can find strength. He can soak in the wisdom each person can provide. There are cautionary tales about fame and lessons about the fragility of a life in athletics.
"From all our experiences, it trickles down to him and because he knows what we went through, it makes him stronger," Haywood said.
Said Tone: "I'm fortunate to have an athletic family that knows everything I need to know. When things aren't going right, they've probably been through it, so I go to them. I'm blessed I can come to them like that."
Early expectations
Like so many in the family, Nate Robinson thought his little cousin would be a football player. Football remains Tone's first love. But by the time he became a teenager, it was obvious that basketball would be his sport.
"Oh, man, when he was young, he was really good at football," Robinson said. "And then he started growing. And one night, I looked up, and he was taller than all of his cousins. And he was hitting people in the face with no-look passes all the time. That's when I knew basketball was his calling."
In middle school, Tone earned status as the nation's top player in his class. It's a mythical, unfair and borderline fraudulent ranking. It guarantees a teenager will receive an unhealthy level of pressure, hype and scrutiny. Tone embraced it, but at that age, what kid's arms are big enough to grab onto a responsibility that huge?
In a sense, Tone was too good too soon to be appreciated. He didn't remain the best player in his class. Anthony Davis, the inevitable No. 1 pick in this NBA draft, earned that distinction after growing seven inches in a year.
Tone didn't fall off or get beat out. He improved his game and matured, but that early ranking was a burden when it came to his perception. His brash and emotional on-court persona went from being described as flair or swagger to being considered selfish. His flaws started getting more publicity than his strengths. And off-court controversies, such as the residency debacle that caused him to be temporarily ruled ineligible at Garfield in 2008, were depicted as character flaws.
All of a sudden, the former best eighth grader in the nation was supposedly a bad guy.
The Wrotens remain scarred by the criticism. They've learned to ignore it better, but it's still there.
"People make too many of the wrong assumptions about my son," Big Tony said.
Could Tony Wroten Jr. be less emotional on the court? Sure. Could he stop pursuing the flashy play so much? Absolutely. Does he need to mature? Like every 19-year-old. But perhaps his critics should leave the conversation at that and refrain from the use of negative and loaded words.
Who is this kid? He's the still-developing son of two college graduates who have already developed a plan for their son to continue his college education even though he left Washington after his freshman year. He's a homebody who trusts few and follows no one. Tone is loyal to his closest childhood friends, and outside of them, it's near impossible to enter his circle.
"How he plays the game, when he's being competitive and trying to beat you, is not how he is off the court," Shirley said. "Don't perceive him like that. That hurts because they don't know him."
Shirley's first cousin is Nate Robinson's mother, Renee Busch. They're like sisters. Because Busch went through the draft process seven years ago with her son, she has been a confidant as Tone has traveled the country auditioning for teams.
"It's a blessing to be there for her," Busch said. "It's like I'm living it all over again."
NBA career goals
Tone has visited about 12 teams in hopes of strengthening his draft position. He could go anywhere from the middle of the first round to early in the second. The family is preparing for every scenario. The primary message: Regardless of where Tone gets drafted, this is only the beginning. The draft is not the victory. A long career is the goal.
Robinson is enjoying that longevity. Now, Tone must become a professional with staying power, too.
"Whatever happens, we'll be fine," Big Tony said. "It doesn't matter if he gets drafted No. 5 or 55. I always tell him, 'Do what you can control. Work hard. Bust your ass.' That's how you make it."
And there's one more important piece of advice: Lean on family. He has a good support group.
"They're common, everyday people who have great athletic genes," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said. "And they are a riot. They all have an unbelievable sense of humor. They're all comedians. I mean, the whole group, you can sit around and laugh with them all day."
Back in the dining room, Shirley and Big Tony are joined by the girls, Latasha and younger sister, Teonna. Latasha is talking about what a great little brother Tone is. Teonna is joking about what a pest of an older brother he can be. Latasha gets the last word.
"I tell my brother, 'He's my motivation,' " she said. "I look up to him, even though he's younger than me."
The Next Wroten is turning pro.
May he be even better than the last.
Jerry Brewer: 206-464-2277 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Looking for strategic digital opportunities for Newcastle Gateshead Cultural Venues
Updated: 2 March 2010
I have been tweeting about a series of workshops I have been running for a group of arts and cultural organisations. This is part of a much bigger collaboration between 11 organisations including the Baltic Mill, the Sage Gateshead, Live Theatre, Northern Stage, the Tyneside Cinema, the Theatre Royal, Way Good, Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, 7Stories and Dance City. The bigger project is being lead by Clare Cooper of Missions Models Money and is looking at all aspects of collaboration between the partners.
My goals for these workshops has been to get senior people from each organisation to share their questions about digital, map the vast digital landscape from their perspectives and look for light-weight opportunities for collaboration.
I will be writing and presenting a report for the group but I thought in the spirit of keeping the conversations open I would summarise some of my thoughts and findings so far. This may also spark some ideas in other similar organisations and if so I'd love to hear from you so that we can feed these reactions into our on-going conversation. I am not, of course, going to reveal confidential information about any of the partners although I was excited to discover that every one of them is doing some things very well.
Is digital really going to help our organisation?
I can identify a number of common worries that will be familiar to many organisations and not just in the cultural sector:
- It is hard to know how to keep up to date
- How to select from the bewildering array of opportunities
- Digital is hard to buy because want and need are poorly defined
- Building a business case for many digital projects is often difficult
- It is easy to make mistakes and back the wrong horse, technology or social channel
- Scalability is a concern; what if this is a big success, how will we cope?
- Separating public and private personalities is very tricky both for organisations and for their staff
- Making money is harder than it looks
What do we mean by digital anyway?
Our discussion of what constitutes digital demonstrated clearly the widely differing perspectives from which the landscape can be viewed: digital as the product of a cultural process (a DVD or installation), digital as a means to an end (using online to allow artists to collaborate), digital for marketing and communication (effective uses of the web or social networks), for operational improvement (reducing printing costs) and for audience engagement (user generated content or discussion). In defining opportunities for collaboration it is useful perhaps to separate these dimensions.
It is easy to take a technological perspective and I spent some time with each group discussing mobile, social platforms, ticketing, ecommerce, iPad, tracking, analytics, streaming and changes in behaviour such as crowdsourcing, piracy and paying for content.
What are some of the opportunities for collaboration?
This was the heart of our workshop and together we produced an impressive list of activities and guidelines that appear worth exploring further.
Here are a few of them:
- Share the employment of a blogger, journalist or content writer
- Agree on standards for publishing and exchanging data such as events
- Share workshops on key topics such as SEO, PPC and analytics
- Divide up some of the small projects between the partners and let them report back to the whole group. This would reduce the sense of there being too many things to try
- Make sure that lessons from both successful and unsuccessful experiments are shared
- Develop shared social networking guidelines through shared staff workshops
- Help each other identify u201cwhite labelu201d services that can be used to experiment with some additional ideas such as retail, t-shirts and print on demand
- Help each other's web visibility through partner pages on websites
- Agree to promote each other more often in email, social media and offline
- Swap time and expertise between the organisations or allow staff to work together on a particular experiment
- Help each other to further develop their digital strategies by discussing common key performance indicators
- Create a series of integrated themed days involving multiple partners online
- Run some pre-procurement workshops to help create better requests for tender
Yesterday's (1 March) presentation focussed on these collaborative actions that can be taken by the group and was well received.
I presented a lightweight digital strategy that every one of them could use as a template for their future experiments:
- Define possible digital outcomes for their organisation and assign each a value
- Bring their digital presence in all channels up to a minimum standard
- Focus on developing unique content (and/or service) including rich media
- Take specific actions to build their digital (channel) audiences
- Track and monitor the value they are creating according to the metrics defined at the start
- Define a series of experiments (collaboratively with other partners in the group)
- Share success and failure within this group as well as time and skills
- Make sure that internal staff are fully involved at all stages
- Rinse and repeat (as necessary)
This has been a very enjoyable piece of work for a remarkable group of creative people. I am looking forward to following the actions they take with interest.


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Thing is I haven't seen a picture of it but I trust the guy since he has a good reputation as a bicycle enthusiast/dealer.
Is this a fair price? Or should I look elsewhere?
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Next week marks the winter finale for "American Horror Story: Coven," which means that the creative team behind the series will undoubtedly be throwing everything into an episode that will largely be defined by outrageous twists and jaw-dropping cliffhangers. (The show will resume two weeks later for the final four episodes of the season.) For that very reason alone, it was nice that this week's episode, "The Sacred Taking" (written by series co-creator Ryan Murphy and directed by MVP Alfonso Gomez-Rejon), was more of a slow burn episode, one in which we were allowed to simply luxuriate in the awesomeness of these amazing women. A week after Thanksgiving, we have to give thanks to these ladies.
Unlike most episodes, this week started in the here and now, with an amazing, whirligig crane shot that followed Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) visiting some kind of homeless community under one of New Orleans' hulking concrete overpasses. She begins to get harassed by a bum, and she starts using her human voodoo powers, until Madison (Emma Roberts) and Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) show up. They want her back in the coven, but she's staying put with the voodoo queens of Cornrow City. Queenie then murders the bum, something that her fellow witches can't believe, since the man was by all accounts an innocent victim. Not so says Queenie. He's a rapist. "Marie Laveau needs a dark heart," Queenie explains while rooting around in the bum's chest cavity. "Voodoo, witchcraft—this town ain't big enough for the two of us. War is coming. And you're gonna lose." Eep!
Back at the school (by the way, when was the last time anyone was taught anything? Or went to class? When are they going to learn about potions?), Fiona (Jessica Lange) is bemoaning her sickness. We see her throwing up, and tossing in her bed. The feeling, she explains is "as if I had been dipped in the river Styx." We then transition to a postcoital sequence with her in bed with the Axeman. "I'll stay alive, just to spite them," she purrs.
And, as if the show was sensing that it was running low on fucked up mother/son relationships after Mare Winningham jerked off her undead son, we're treated to something that might be even worse: the super-Christian next door neighbor Joan (Patti LuPone) is administering a chemical enema to her son Luke (Alexander Dreymon). "Run clean from the inside out," she says, as the camera mercifully pulls back. Gross.
At the witch house everyone is wondering where the staff is, since Zoe murdered Spalding (Denis O'Hare) and Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates) has been taken hostage by Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett). There are a number of jokes to that effect in this episode and they're all pretty funny. This time Zoe goes to answer the door, only to be greeted by Misty. She tells Zoe that, "I tried to disappear into nature, but I have been found." We're then treated to flashback involving an earth-covered Myrtle Snow (Francis Conroy): "There's a man with a gun circling the shack." Apparently Hank (Josh Hamilton) or the organization Hank is working for (a shadowy group Ryan Murphy has referred to as The Corporation) assaulted Misty's magic shack. So she fled to the school, along with Myrtle, who is hiding out in the school's all-purpose greenhouse/armory. There's a great moment when Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) touches Misty and sees her getting burned at the stake, but an even more shocking announcement comes next, when Myrtle suggests that Misty is the next Supreme.
There's some boring nonsense with Kyle, which is proof positive that this character is kind of dead weight, even after last episode's whacked-out threesome. Now the two young witches are bickering about him, with Zoe longing for physical contact with someone she won't accidentally murder and Madison looking to feel anything after her resurrection.
Downstairs the coven has convened. Cordelia explains that being the Supreme is "not a gift—it's a burden." And then Myrtle explains The Sacred Taking, a ritual that involves the old Supreme taking her own life for the good of the coven. The actual ritual is kind of hazily described but it was visualized in amazing, old-time-y black-and-white, and segues to Madison trying to "push" Fiona to kill herself, complete with the young witch dancing around in one of Fiona's old dresses… to "Season of the Witch," no less. "You will die the same way you live your life: alone and disappointed by everyone," Madison says, tossing her a bottle of pills.
One of the most powerful moments of the episode is contained in this sequence, too, as Fiona has a vision of the Axeman leaving her on her deathbed, disgusted by her deteriorating health and the smells that infest the room. Nan (Jamie Brewer), meanwhile, goes next door to rescue Luke (she's tipped off by his psychic screams). Fiona tells Myrtle: "Don't let them store me in the basement with that disgraced Russian witch." Not sure who she's referring to here but maybe we'll find out? She takes the pills. She lies down. Myrtle steals her jewelry. "Wake up," Spalding says.
When we return from the commercial break, a newly ghostly Spalding says: "You're making a martyr of yourself. I won't permit it." After he helps her vomit up her pills, and informs her that young Zoe murdered him, Fiona turns cold blooded: "I'll avenge your murder. Right after I avenge my own."
Over at Cornrow City, Delphine is locked up. Queenie comes and visits her. "All they ever do is bleed me." Queenie and, amazingly, the audience, start to feel bad for her imprisonment. "What'd I ever do to deserve this betrayal? You put me in here, you can get me out," Delphine pleads. After Delphine begs Marie to put her back in the ground (again citing Obama), and mocks her since she can never really die, Marie shoots back, "The mistake you make is from a lack of imagination." Then Marie cuts her hand off.
Next door to the witch house, the Corporation's witch hunters gun down Joan and Luke in front of Nan, presumably. Apparently the witches don't hear the gunfire because Misty is squirming in her seat as they talk about what it's like to become the Supreme. When Fiona makes her regal return, she asks to see "this gifted little swamp witch everyone's been talking about." When the camera pans down to where Misty had been sitting, she's gone. Misty has joined the active crime scene alongside actual law enforcement officials. When she tries to revive Joan, though, something goes wrong and she falls to the floor. The witches realize that someone is hunting them.
Of course, bloodshed is no match for a teenage love triangle, so we finally get Kyle (Evan Peters) speaking! Alone with Zoe, he says, "I want you." To which she replies: "I want you too." The camera pans over to see Madison crying. Downstairs, Fiona says that she is actually proud of Cordelia for trying to stage a coup. It's a lovely little scene and evocative of the episode as a whole: unafraid to plumb emotional depths and allow the action to pause, if only for a moment. Cordelia is resolute: she's not going to let this coven be town apart, my internal or external forces. The bullets that riddled Joan and Luke's bodies (whether or not they're dead remains to be seen) were "blessed," indicating "witch hunters." "We need you now, Fiona. More than ever," Cordelia says. An easy bond seems to have been formed.
There's then another knock at the door, which in "American Horror Story" land is never a good thing. Cue another joke about how the house's staff has all vanished. Fiona goes to answer the door (her head scarf is fabulous). There's a plain cardboard box there. She picks it up and brings it into the dining room. She places it on the table and opens it up: it's Delphine's severed head. "Help me," she croaks. It's a pretty great gag and one that packs a certain amount of gross out punch, but Murphy is so eager to show the world how clever and sick he is that he let the cover of Entertainment Weekly ruin this ending on its front cover a few weeks ago.
Overall, though, it's hard to fault the episode for an ending we had already seen coming (at least for those of us who still get Entertainment Weekly). As an episode it was a solid hour, mostly for the fine performances and ornate direction by Gomez-Rejon, whose work continues to be unparalleled. It's nice that the show let us breathe before the nonstop insanity that begins next week with the Tim Minear-penned "Head." This might have been a smaller episode, but it doesn't mean it isn't any less powerful. [A]


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It can be tricky to find a dessert to finish off an Asian meal. Fresh exotic fruit is the ideal choice, but sometimes we want a little decadent touch. This delicious syrup is heavenly, my students go gaga over it. Make extra and keep in a clean screw top jar in the fridge for 2 weeks. Heat up and serve with vanilla ice cream - delish! The ish factor are the aromatic spices and lime juice used in the syrup.
- 1 mango, peeled and cubed
- 1 pineapple, peeled and cubed
- 2 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
- 1 punnet strawberries, hulled and halved
- 1 tin lychees, drained
- 2 star fruit, sliced
- 500 ml greek yoghurt to serve
- 2 tblsp finely chopped mint, to serve
- aromatic syrup:
- 350 g caster sugar
- 300 ml fresh orange juice
- juice of 2 limes
- 1 vanilla pod
- 2 star anise
- 1 inch of ginger, peeled and sliced
- 2 cardamom pods, bruised
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- Boil all the syrup ingredients together until thick and syrupy, be careful not to boil over.
- Allow to infuse for 10 minutes.
- Pour warm syrup over the fruit and serve with Greek yoghurt and fresh mint.
Recipe from Rozanne Stevens' cookbook, Delish , available in all good book stores.
More by Rozanne Stevens:
- Monica's Berry Baileys Meringue Roulade
- Monica's Magic Molten Chocolate Pudding
- Norman's Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Lively Salsa


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John M. Gudknecht Jr., Groome church member
John M. Gudknecht Jr., passed away Friday, May 17, 2013, at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes. He was the husband of the late Elizabeth H. (Beck) Gudknecht.
Born Sept. 5, 1921, in Kenmore, Ohio, a son of the late Ruth S. Rice and John M. Gudknecht Sr., he retired as chief of maintenance at North Montgomery Co. Vocational Technical School. Mr. Gudknecht and his wife had previously owned and operated Gudknecht's Grocery Store in Telford, Pa. for 12 years. While living in Telford, Mr. Gudknecht twice served as mayor and spent time on Telford Borough Council over two decades. He was an active member and officer of Perkasie Kennel Club.
While living in York, Mr. Gudknecht was a member of Pine Grove U.M. Church and while living in Delaware attended Groome U.M. Church in Lewes. He enjoyed woodworking and tending to his yard. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.
Mr. Gudknecht is survived by a son, John M. Gudknecht III and wife Ann of Rehoboth Beach; a grandson, John M. Gudknecht IV and wife Amy of Wrightsville, Pa.; and a brother, Robert E. and wife Ann Gudknecht of Cape May Courthouse, N.J. He was preceded in death by a brother, Charles "Chick" Gudknecht.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, at Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, 250 Chestnut Hill Road, York, with the Rev. Kathy Seitz-Bortner officiating. Full military rites will be provided by York County Veterans Honor Guard. Family and friends will meet at the entrance of the cemetery at 12:45 p.m. Heffner Funeral Chapel & Crematory, Inc., 1551 Kenneth Road, York, is in charge of arrangements.