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Ugh, I need time to watch TV. I really do. My heart lies with Battlestar Galactica, Lost, 30 Rock, The Soup and The Office. Eventually (by which I mean in the next few years), I plan to catch up on Friday Night Lights, The Riches, Mad Men, Damages and The Wire. And there are more shows after that, too.
However, in between catching glimpses of The Dog Whisperer, Degrassi, and Groomer Has It at the gym, I haven't had the chance to discover anything new.
And yet, after seeing a clip of Your Mama Don't Dance on The Soup, I wasn't entirely convinced that the show was not a joke. Naturally, I DVR'd the remaining season and was horrified/delighted to learn that the show is, in fact, real. It's a cheesy, low-budget basic cable ripoff of an already cheesy, low-budget big network smash, Dancing With The Stars (and Mama's host, Ian Ziering, comes directly off a stint on Stars, not coincidentally).
I have long worshiped the cultural practice of Mom Dancing. There really is nothing better than attending a formal event and witnessing hordes of middle-aged women in floral blouses and beige slacks take to the floor to awkwardly shuffle, twist and turn through every volume of Jock Jams. Heck, it doesn't matter if it's The Bee Gees or The Black Eyed Peas - if there's a rhythmic pattern a Mom can defy with unsynchronized arm gestures and blind confidence, she's on it like white on rice.
My favorite team, Jesse and Rebecca (the former specializing in "street moves," the latter specializing in "watching Jesse").
As if that weren't enough, Mama also includes downright silliness in its Father-Daughter competitors. Although there are plenty of vaguely sexual interludes, this clip of Noel and Doug is so earnest that its weirdness is almost sweet. Almost (the faux fauxhawks are a bit much).
While many would argue that The Moment Of Truth has redefined the lowest common denominator in television programming, I think that Your Mama Don't Dance ups the ante. It's one thing for Steve Gutenberg to flaunt his D-list status by reminding the public that he exists, dancing skills be damned. But it's something else entirely when ordinary Americans, whose children dream of appearing in the national tour of Mamma Mia, agree to be dragged onto national TV to physically demolish a karaoke version of "Grease Is The Word."
P.S. How could I not love a show whose role of top judge is filled by the unflappable Ben Vereen (I say "unflappable" because anyone who voluntarily appears on television in a collarless tweed and isn't a Muppet is not someone you want to meet in a dark alley)? His nods to Bob Fosse and usage of the word "musicality" when describing the clunky footwork of the contestants are brilliant, and if he doesn't get to publicly dust off those white evening gloves from Pippin during the show's finale, I might just be forced to blow up Lifetime HQ.
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Minor League Hockey
Jul 9th
Posted by Pheebs888 in Hobby News
By Mason Hermann aka Antropov14
Usually everyone who follows hockey has a favorite NHL team and worships it to some degree or another, whether it be watching the games, or naming your pets after your favorite players. Though NHL is seen as the face of hockey, it always intrigues me how loyally people follow minor leagues and hometown teams. I know that there is nothing better than stopping in somewhere for a hockey game and observing the sense of 'secluded' community that exists, and that one die-hard fan that sits in the nosebleeds and hollers at the top of his lungs More >
The ITG Cross Canada Tour Hits Players Choice Collectibles in Kelowna
Jun 24th
Posted by RGM81 in Hobby Articles
By RGM81 aka Richard McAdam
On Saturday, June 22nd, Players Choice Collectibles in beautiful Kelowna, British Columbia, hosted their second ITG Cross Canada Tour event. Having previously had a very successful event in 2010, owners Dean Draginda and Jason Wobshall were excited to deliver the goods again to collectors in the Okanagan.
As with all other stops on the Cross Canada Tour, the main highlight of the day would be the series of specially-produced 1/1 memorabilia cards that feature the store's logo on the front and back of the cards. Collectors who purchased a box of 2012-13 Between The Pipes would be More >
My View of the Current State of Trading and a Possible Solution
Jun 1st
By Scott Kozlowski aka Scottkoz
It has been quite a bit of time since I last penned an article for Sports Card Forum. A lot has changed for me during the last year. My family moved into our dream home north of Niagara Falls, NY. It has a ton to offer, outdoor concerts during the summer months galore, festivals, country living and one of the best school districts in Western New York, just in time for Olivia to start kindergarten in the fall. It did come with a price.
That price was having to own 2 houses for nearly 8 months. This More >
More Than Just a Piece of Cardboard
May 31st
By Ethan Shippen aka TheBoxBreaker
Dear readers,
As fellow card collectors, I'm sure you guys have been in the same situation that I'm in regularly. People asking: "Why do you want to pay that much money for a card? It's just a piece of cardboard." I shake my head and laugh at those people, and even my best friends don't understand why I collect hockey cards. I'm not surprised, though. Living in a small, non-hockey crazy country like Denmark isn't exactly a hotbed for hockey like Toronto or Montreal, but it's becoming a top 3 sport here. So why are people – who More >
How to Collect on a Budget
May 13th
By Ryan Kalmoe aka SWOWannabe
If you're at all like me and the vast majority of collectors, the only zeros in your checking account balance is what it shows after you've paid your bills for the month. It can be a very difficult to manage your finances, especially with a family. Every expert will agree, however, that the age-old adage "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" holds true in every regard – if at all possible we should have some sort of entertainment budget each month. The problem is that because it's more fun to buy More >
The Lost Art of Communication
Apr 4th
By Sean Ruml aka Srman77
In this day and age where we have all forms of ways to communicate with one another, it seems that we have lost the art of communication. There is no better example of this then in buying / selling, or trading sports cards. I myself admit that I've caught myself in doing what I have gotten irritated by others for doing. Whether it was ignoring a message, or just never getting back to someone. That being said it's time for a change so that we don't lose the art of communication. I see it happen quite More >


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Notably, a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Designer Gill Harvey collection is inspired by the Art Deco Era with beautiful 1920s & 30s beaded soft unstructured gowns.
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Steelers running back LeGarrette Blount left the field before the end of the team's 27-24 win over the Titans on Monday night, reportedly upset over his lack of playing time.
Pittsburgh Steelers running back LeGarrette Blount left the field before the end of the team's 27-24 win over the Tennessee Titans on Monday night, according to Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Bouchette reports Blount was apparently upset over his lack of carries in the game.
Blount did not get one carry as the majority of the snaps went to Le'Veon Bell, who had 33 carries for a career-high 204 yards. The Steelers had 36 rushing attempts in the game, with the other three carries going to quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
Blount signed a two-year, $3.85 million contract with Pittsburgh in the offseason after spending one season with the New England Patriots.
• FARRAR: Steelers go old-school, beat Titans with run game
Blount is the team's second-leading rusher with 266 yards on 65 carries but has carried the ball 10 times or more in a game only once this season. He also has six receptions for 36 yards in limited playing time.
Just months into his tenure with the team, Blount was arrested, along with Bell, for misdemeanor marijuana possession after being stopped on the way to meet the team at the airport before a preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Blount did not miss playing time or games, and Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said the two would receive their punishment internally.
• Seahawks C Max Unger out 3-4 weeks with knee, ankle injuries
The Steelers carry three running backs on the roster. Rookie Dri Archer, who has only eight carries this season, is the other back on roster.
Pittsburgh (7-4) has next week off before returning to action against the New Orleans Saints on Nov. 30.
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A review of William De Lange's account of the life of Miyamoto Musashi.
Of all Japanese swordsmen, Miyamoto Musashi is the best known, and his life story has been told in one form or another any number of times, both in print and on the screen. Many of these retellings have been coloured by Yoshikawa Eiji's fictional account, a blend of fact, creative interpretation and fiction, which continues to exert its influence, and this is despite the years that have passed and the increased availability of documentary evidence of various aspects of Musashi's life.
Much more of this is available in Japanese than in English, although in the past ten years or so, there have been a couple of notable works in English which sought to dig deeper into his life, and although both of these took some trouble to use historical sources, the Yoshikawa story was floating there as a shadow in the background – a kind of template from which to begin.
Perhaps this is not surprising as the story is so well-known, and Yoshikawa himself researched the subject quite deeply… of course, as a novelist, he was more interested in the story than in strict historical accuracy, but in tying together the available accounts, favouring those that fitted his story while ignoring those that didn't, he created a work that has become common background knowledge and a starting point for almost everyone in the field.
A new biography, Miyamoto Musashi, A Life in Arms by William de Lange, comes at Musashi's life from a different perspective. Based directly on historical documents, it gives us us quite a different picture of Musashi's life. De Lange has already published two volumes giving translations of two of the principal source documents on Musashi's life,(reviews here and here) but this is something different. Drawing on these, as well as numerous other sources, he builds up a new version of the swordsman's story, enlarging here, filling in there, and covering much ground that will be totally new for many.
In any work of this kind, much must be left to the judgement and imagination of the writer, and de Lange handles the details and conflicting storylines drawn from these sources with assurance, weaving them together to form a narrative that is both fresh yet also faintly familiar. Parts of the story do, indeed, form some part of the familiar tale – Musashi's visit to Kyoto and the duels with the Yoshioka family, the visit to the spear wielding monks of Hozoin and the duel with Sasaki Kojiro – but it adds detail to these and fleshes out Musashi's time after this in far greater detail than most accounts – I found the information on his time in the Akashi/Himeji region and his relationship with various small lords of the area particularly interesting, showing the degree of fame and influence he had obtained at a reasonably young age, and also lending ammunition to the opinion that he was fighting on the side of the Tokugawa forces both in 1600 and 1615 (although more direct evidence of this is also presented) as all these daimyo were firmly in the Tokugawa camp.
The story that emerges is, in many ways, more nuanced than previous tellings. We see Musashi as a man in some demand, a swordsman who has built a reputation, partly through his service on the battlefield and the connections he made in military campaigns, but who remains determined to retain his independence. Building on his connections, including his father, with whom he stayed close until the latter's death, he became well-known and sought after, teaching and providing a variety of other services in the military line, including looking after the heir to Lord Ogasawara during the Shimabara campaign. He was well respected, that much is certain, and mixed with the high and mighty, but like a well-respected academic who refuses tenure, he never entered permanent service.
It is the part of the biographer to offer his/her own views and insights into the motivations of his subject, although it is understood that these are, to some extent, interpretation, not fact. In this case, de Lange was working from documents that provided little or no direct indication of Musashi's inner life, and so he has had to apply his own interpretation more liberally than would be necessary for many other subjects. Some of these are quite insightful and provide a fresh and interesting take on the subject. He deals in some depth with Musashi's relationship with his father, and speculates that Musashi's refusal to become a feudal vassal owes much to the effect this state had on his father, who was ordered to execute one of his own students for a minor lapse in protocol. The subsequent sense of shame and guilt, he suggests, overshadowed the rest of his life, and engendered in Musashi a determination not to make himself beholden to any such authority himself.
At other times, although perhaps necessary for the sake of the narrative, the mixture of facts drawn from historical documents and feelings placed in the mind of the protagonist can be a little jarring, and momentarily calls into question the line between the two. Those familiar with the author's previous books will be aware that there are plenty of contradictions between these (and other, later) accounts, and although the author has generally steered a good course between them, in this account he chooses those which suit the narrative, rather than arguing the case for his choice; if you are familiar with some of these other possibilities, their omission can, at times, seem rather glaring, but what the book sacrifices in terms of completeness, it gains in clarity. This is a minor point, however, and the well-referenced text generally clarifies the sources of most of the information.
Given the choice to rely so heavily on historical accounts. it is not surprising that the book sometimes feels a little sparse, despite its 159 pages of text and another 95 of back matter – it is not the author's place to embroider the evidence too heavily – but that is a small price to pay for a book that lays out this hard-to-come-by information so clearly. It is certainly a valuable book, and one that has grown on me with subsequent readings. True, there are one or two places where I would question the author's interpretation, but that does not lessen it's value, and I would whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone with more than a passing interest in the area.


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Those are some of the cutest cookies I have ever seen!!! I love them! Your remodel looks really good, too! I love the mouldings around the windows. :)
I love the house cookies! They are so cute! And the trim around the windows is gorgeous!
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Cute cookies! They look yummy too!
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wonderful cookies! great home! i came over from "share your cup Thursday." have a great week. xo
They look very yummy and funny, too.
You are really an artist! The most beautiful cookies I've ever seen.They look so yummy!!
Your rooms look great and the window... gorgeous!
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How cute are those cookies, Priscilla--I swear you could open your own cookie business!! And I'm so glad things are getting back to normal at your house--love the wall color so much :)
Glad I found you via Sunny Simple Life! Decorated cookies always catch my eye...very nice!
Such adorable cookies!
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I love the house cookies idea. I will have to remember that when my son purchases a home!
The house cookies are so cute. They look like they would take as much time as building a house. lol! Love your paint. It looks similar to mine. I showed some of the basement on a post today. Your trim is gorgeous. I am going for a farmhouse look so I went just plain with 8" baseboards. Loving it so far! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
Those cookies look yummy and what a lot you made!
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brock davis is an artist based in minneapolis. he's an all rounder creative mind working on various projects both serious concept and absurd humorous artworks - from drawing, writing, graphic design and also music.
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@morenica: and you should too do the meme :)
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I've built an illustrated list of where you can find great information on library marketing. I've gathered books, websites, reports, tools, and blogs that I believe offer insight and how-to help. And I've wrapped it all up into a nice PowerPoint that full of live links, to save you time and money.
I've not seen a list like this anywhere else. (If you know of others, please share in the Comments!) While it is far from exhaustive, it offers 70 resources, which of course all have links to many more.
If you're just starting to explore marketing, this will be a treasure trove for you. If you're looking to answer a specific question or to find data that will help you make a point or beef up a presentation, you're in luck. And even if you're an expert marketer, I'll bet that you'll find a few gems here that you hadn't known about.
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BRASHER FALLS -- The Quad Town Senior Citizens Club is hosting Pedro card parties at the LBSH dining room on March 14 and 28 at 7 p.m.
It is open to the general public and admission is $1.
The club asks attendees bring a snack to pass.
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DANIELSVILLE - Danny Franklin Phillips, 68, passed away on Monday, January 29, 2018, at his residence.
Mr. Phillips was born in Danielsville on July 1, 1949, the son of the late Steward Phillips and Lucille Fabris Phillips. He was a mechanical engineer having retired from Fiber Visions, attended Zidon Baptist Church, and was a past member of the Royston Bass Club, the Madison County Bass Masters, and the Booger Hill Bass Club. Mr. Phillips was also a United States Army Veteran having served during the Vietnam War. During his service in the Army, he received the National Defense Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Survivors include his wife, Carol Reese Phillips; son and daughter-in-law, Justin and Paige Phillips, Carlton; daughter, Jennifer Phillips, Danielsville; grandchildren, Jace Franklin Phillips and Ella Reese Phillips; brother and sister-in-law, Alan and Jeanna Phillips, Danielsville; sisters and brother-in-law, Linda and James Mason, Royston, and Claudia Phillips, Knoxville, Tenn.
Funeral services will be held in the Pruitt Funeral Home Chapel at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, with Dr. James Phillips and Dr. Wayne Phillips officiating. Interment will follow in the Danielsville Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at Pruitt Funeral Home from 6 until 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening. The family is at the home.
Pallbearers will be Tony Phillips, Harry Daniels, Wiley Phillips, Stuart Mason, Rodney Mitchell and Dwain; and honorary pallbearer, Mike Dudley.
Online condolences may be made to the family by visiting www.pruittfhroyston.com.
Pruitt Funeral Home, Royston, is in charge of arrangements.
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Layered Stories / New Textile art by Tracy Watson and Joke Buursma
I'll Meet You There / Sinead O'Connell
20th May – 24th June
Layered Stories / New Textile art by Tracy Watson and Joke Buursma
Both textile artists working in the medium of quilt making, Tracy Watson and Joke Buursma live and work in Clare and Waterford respectively. Between them their work represents the finest of its kind, with each artist using their medium to stretch the limits and boundaries of textiles through the use of myriad techniques and processes, from Japanese Shibori to painting on fabric with oil sticks.
Though often historically denigrated as a 'female craft', in recent decades the art form has been reclaimed by women artists, whether as a form of Arte Util ('useful art') or a means of elevating craft to high art. The embracing of such skills has seen quilting used by feminist artists such as Judy Chicago ('The Dinner Party', 1974-79) and Tracey Emin. While Watson and Buursma's work bridges the personal and political, it is unequivocally beautiful.
I'll Meet You There / Sinead O'Connell
Sinead O'Connell brings new ceramic works to The Courthouse, where she exhibited frequently in the past. The title her new 'mini' exhibition comes from a Sufi quote she came across many years ago:
'Between right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there'
She explains, "Sometimes it says garden but I settled on field because it relates perfectly to growing up and living in Ireland. In using the house as a strong image I also explore the age of the building itself. This house, our house, held people, stories happening many times over before my family moved in. The house itself is a being. It's bright, it's dark, it's cold and damp, it's warm and cosy. It was too small and then when the children left, too big. This house and its constant need for care came to me to represent my family, my parents and their need for care.
To watch a family member see their mortality is a hard thing. The relationship changes dramatically for one and subtly for the other. Restraint, regrets, remorse, frustration and pity are kept hidden to co-exist. This series of works are a way of viewing my family story. Also the history there that predates my part in this family. There's no real need to know or understand the actions taken. Going back through the family history I have had to realise there is no proper 'right' and 'wrong' but there is this field and that is where we are."
Events and workshops on Opening Day:
12 -1pm 'Painting with Paintstiks' – workshop with Joke Buursma
Learn how to use a new medium for making marks on textiles. Paintstiks are unique as they are made from an oil and wax mixture which gives a smooth slightly greasy medium to work with. They can be applied to fabric and paper. Joke will demonstrate some methods of applying paintstiks to fabric, for example by stencilling, using masking tape, rubbing, etc. Depending on the effect you are after you can apply paintstik before and/or after quilting.
1.15-2pm 'The Art of Hand-Stitch Quilting' – demonstration with Tracy Watson
Tracy Watson illustrates just one of the many techniques employed by the quilter in this short demonstration. Those attending are welcome to bring along any works-in-progress to work alongside Tracy.
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Our services are available to you for free throughout your lifetime.
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When you wake up with a bad hair day you can always throw it into a ponytail or wear a hat, but it's a different situation when you wake up with a swollen face. Makeup just doesn't cut it. Facial swelling, or edema, has several causes. Water bloating, dental work and allergies can all lead to a swollen face. Luckily, there are actions you can take to reduce swelling and keep your face looking its best.
Drink plenty of water to keep your body hydrated. When you don't get enough water, your body tends to store the little it does have, leading to bloating.
Avoid excess salt in your diet. Eating salt causes your body to store water, which can make your face to appear bloated.
Rinse your face with cool water and apply a cold compress. Cold compresses restrict the blood flow to your face, diminishing any swelling.
Apply egg whites to your face as a mask to reduce swelling. Wait until the whites are completely dry on your skin before washing them off.
Keep your face elevated while lying down. Use several pillows to keep your head raised higher than normal, keeping the blood from pooling in your face.
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Chicago Catastrophic Injury Lawyer
Any injury can be serious if left untreated. However, most injuries may be overcome with proper care, treatment and attention and normal life routines can begin again soon. Catastrophic injuries are different. These types of injuries cause unbearable pain and suffering, and also, have long term effects. Catastrophic injuries seriously compromise the ability to work, care for family, or enjoy favorite activities. If a catastrophic injury has impacted your life, contact a Chicago catastrophic injury lawyer.
Only with proper legal representation, is it possible to hold the offending party fully responsible for the injury caused by their negligence and to pursue aggressively a financial fair settlement. A personal injury lawyer can take the critical steps to protect the rights of the injured party and also, gather all the facts and evidence to thoroughly present the claim to the responsible party. So, don't wait to contact us today.
A financial settlement cannot reverse all the effects of a serious injury. However, it can help the financial demands associated with proper treatment and recovery from the injury. En Español.
Ideally, the settlement award will cover the cost of medical care, the wages and compensation that have been lost, and the quality of life that can never be returned as well as the pain and suffering endured. The scope of the loss can be significant, and the settlement should reflect that.
A Chicago catastrophic injury attorney can help to calculate an amount that is fair and, also, pursue a settlement according to Illinois law.
Types of Injuries
Defining catastrophic injuries can be a challenge, even for professionals who understand personal injury. A few examples of catastrophic injuries:
It is important to note that this list is far from complete. A catastrophic injury lawyer in Chicago will determine how to properly define an injury.
Common Causes
In the broadest sense, any accident caused by the negligence of another which leads to catastrophic injury covered under the law. However, it helps to understand some of the most common causes of these types of injuries:
- Motor vehicle accidents, especially those caused by large trucks
- Medical malpractice on the part of a doctor, nurse, or also, pharmacist
- Workplace accidents caused by an unsafe work environment
- Slip and falls
- Defective and dangerous products
- Bad medicines and also medical devices
How An Attorney Can Help
In Illinois, an injured party must file a lawsuit claiming a personal injury within two years after the accident. Hurt by the negligent actions of another? The first call should be to a Chicago catastrophic injury lawyer. So, contact our firm for an immediate consultation and also to get the justice you deserve.


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Three-year-olds are too big to take naps! You say I need a nap 'cause I get grouchy and whiny in the afternoon. But that does not mean that I need a nap. It means I need to watch a movie or play on the computer. I know! I need to play on the iPad or the Wii right now.
Actually, I think I just need cookies and ice cream! I am sure that would make things better.
Just because I fall asleep in the van whenever we go somewhere in the afternoon does not mean that I need a nap.... it just means that riding in the van is boring.
(When this kid falls asleep in the van, he is dead to the world. You can open and close doors, talk to him... whatever. He won't wake up! I have carried him into the house and he will sleep through it all. This wouldn't be a problem, except he wakes up grouchy. Ahh the joys of motherhood.)


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One of the foremost doo-wop groups of the late 1950s and early '60s, Little Anthony & the
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"Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop," and "So Much," all of which combined lead singer
Anthony Gourdine's distinctive falsetto vocals with the group's sophisticated harmony backing.
best-of pairs these early hits with Gourdine's second incarnation of the Imperials, which performs
a haunting version of "Going Out of My Head," as well as the romantic "I Miss You So."
RUMBLE! THE BEST OF LINK WRAY contains 20 tracks recorded between 1958 and 1976 including one
live track. This anthology includes an 11-page booklet with historic black and white photographs,
a discography and recording information as well as liner notes containing
both biographical and track annotations.
Probably the most high-profile of all the available Link Wray compilations, Rhino's
1993 anthology RUMBLE: THE BEST OF LINK WRAY is also likely the best available single-disc
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sound kind of, well, wimpy when heard after the more sonically aggressive--if often much
less imaginative--guitarists who followed. This is not the case with Link Wray; although his
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This is the first comprehensive compilation to feature all 18 of Jimmie Rodgers' chart hits.
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In the past decade the humanitarian system has had to respond to natural disasters and complex emergencies of increasing severity. In 2005, as an attempt to increase coordination amongst humanitarian actors and improve coherence in humanitarian response, the United Nations implemented a coordination mechanism called the Cluster Approach. The aim of this paper is to present common challenges of the Cluster Approach raised since its implementation and to provide lessons learned, based on the findings of a meta-analysis of 18 existing case studies, evaluations, and literature. The paper assesses progress the Cluster Approach has made toward meeting its intended goals, exposing different stakeholder perspectives and aggregating findings from various clusters and country contexts.
Blurring of Lines in Complex Emergencies: Consequences for the Humanitarian Community
The last two decades have witnessed an increasing blurring of mandates and agendas between humanitarian actors, foreign troops and donor states. Many observers point out that this trend is spiking violence against aid workers and provoking loss of access to humanitarian agencies in several complex emergencies. This study is an effort to quantify its actual impact in humanitarian operations.
Although strongly agency-specific, available data suggests that the blurring of lines is indeed a key driver of both violent incidents and lack of access in Afghanistan. However, in other contexts such as Somalia and Sudan, its impact may not be so evident; in these two countries, the blur also seems determinant in hindering access, whereas it has less explanatory power interpreting trends on security incidents faced by aid workers. Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan account for half of the total number of violent cases hitting humanitarians worldwide.
Sphere and sustainability: A matter of time
The Sphere standards have been devised to ensure that people affected by disasters will receive an adequate level of assistance; these standards are used across the world and apply both to natural and complex emergencies. The latter tend to be lasting events that often create a displacement of the population and it is argued that in such situations, where prolonged assistance is required, the Sphere standards may be counterproductive. By using examples of water supply interventions, it is highlighted that in some circumstances the Sphere standards for water quality may only be achieved with systems too complex for the displaced population to operate and maintain on their own. The case of two war-affected areas of Eastern Chad are presented to illustrate the importance of the temporal aspects of the Sphere standards in complex emergencies, and raises important questions regarding the long-term sustainability of adopting such standards for displaced populations.
The magnitude of many recent complex emergencies has compelled UNHCR to consider the issue of conflict prevention. Such emergencies pose important questions about how to protect human life and human rights in crisis situations. Human rights abuses and violent conflict are the main reasons why people flee. Grappling with these problems can draw outsiders into areas traditionally seen as internal affairs. Countries in crisis want to preserve their sovereignty. Yet sovereignty should not be a shield, hiding abuses that might lead to major movements of people. Increasingly, international organizations, national governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and local leaders are working together creatively to address the abuses that can lead to refugee outflows and internal displacements.
Complex emergencies require the international community to respond quickly and efficiently with a variety of services. Experience has demonstrated that effective emergency response depends on coordination between nongovernmental organizations, governments, and international organizations. The increasing burden in recent years has prompted international organizations and states to reconsider how best to use the considerable capacity of the NGO community.
NGOs play an increasingly important role in humanitarian assistance and protection activities. In complex emergencies, national governments find it more and more difficult to provide, by themselves, the range of relief needed. Many situations present not only logistical difficulties, but political barriers to action. Nongovernmental organizations can, and do, help to fill the gap, playing a wide range of roles from early warning of human rights abuses to education and training for long-term self-sufficiency.
Norway provides an instructive example of one way to manage highly effective cooperation between government and the national NGO community. When I assumed my functions as High Commissioner, I identified emergency preparedness and response as one of the principal pillars of my office. Within this context, UNHCR and Norway entered into a new and closer relationship, through an emergency staff standby arrangement managed by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Through this arrangement, my office has been able to witness very directly the important and cooperative relationship between governments, international organizations, and NGOs.
Such creative arrangements are one of the tools that UNHCR can use to accomplish its key task of protecting people in peril. This report highlights the challenges posed by complex emergencies and suggests some ways in which the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations can be better safeguarded.
Normalising the Crisis in Africa
The critique of conventional relief strategies in complex political emergencies well developed (Duffield, 1994; Macrae & Zwi, 1994). This critique, however, has not been accompanied by an analysis of the effectiveness of development aid on conflict management and reduction. Having participated over the past 18 months in a number of reviews, evaluations and studies for UN agencies and NGOs in Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and Uganda, for me, the need for this is clear. What I want to do in this paper is to dissect what Joanna Macrae (1988) has called the 'developmentalist attack' on humanitarian principles by looking at developmental approaches to humanitarian relief which have gained currency in aid policy and in aid practice. The paper seeks to highlight two things:
- the shortcomings in applying developmental relief models and strategies in complex political emergencies;
- and the negative impact that such developmental approaches to relief can have on the rights, welfare and livelihoods of populations in distress.
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O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. Psalm 139:1 (NLT)
I once spent what seemed like days writing the same words over and over. I wrote these words in big letters, I wrote them in small, I wrote them in journals. I scribbled these words in pencil and painted them in scarlet red and wrote them on my heart:
"God, you know when I can't get up and when I spring out of bed; you recognise my thoughts from among millions. Nothing about me is strange to you God. You could start my sentences you know me so well…there is nowhere I can go to get away from you God, nowhere I can crawl that you could not find me and follow me into…You created me, stitch by stitch, moulded my arms and legs and liver and placed jewels in my eyes…all the days you have given to me were planned before I drew a breath."*
I knew only one thing at the time. Even today there are times when I know nothing else. I do not understand it. I cannot easily explain it. The one thing I knew then, that I still know now, is that when I am stumbling through my life (and when you're finding your way through yours) Jesus is with us and he likes me and you very much. I do not know how he happens to be there, and I do not know how he finds us, all I know is that he is there.
Do you believe that Jesus is with you even in the darkest times of your life? Does this change the way you live?
*(Paraphrase of Psalm 139 my own)
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Frances Grace Restivo of Browns Mills passed away suddenly on Friday, March 29, 2013 at her residence. She was 69.
Frances was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and had been a longtime resident of Browns Mills.
She was a member of the St. Ann's Catholic Church in Browns Mills. Frances worked as an auditor for Phillips Lighting in Somerset, where she retired after 30 plus years.
She enjoyed, reading, knitting and gardening; but her biggest love was her family. Frances was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend who will be deeply missed by all. Frances devoted her life and time to her family.
She is survived by her three children, Janet Mara, Torrens Miller and Frank Restivo; three grandchildren, Jennifer Mara, James Mara and Joshua Mara; three great-grandchildren, Lexi Mara, Gianna Rumph and Isaiah Rumph; her 100 year old mother, Josephine Caranci; two sisters, Dianna Leaman and Marie Miele; and three nieces, Jody Delia, Donna Miele and Lisa Maurer.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Noon, Tuesday, April 2 at the St. Ann's Catholic Church, Trenton Road, Browns Mills. Relatives and friends may visit with the family Tuesday morning from 9:15 to 11:15 a.m. at the Lee Funeral Home, 317 High St., Mount Holly. Interment will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Hainesport and will be private.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Frances to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundations, www.themmrf.org. Ed Kaelin III
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Amble Town councillors have objected to a suggestion of installing tasteful Christmas lights on the war memorial clock tower in the town square.
The request has come from the Amble's Christmas lights committee.
The group wants to extend the displays around the town square.
As part of this, the committee has suggested adding a sensitive display to the war memorial clock tower, along the lines of a poppy or a dove, which the group said was in keeping with Remembrance for the war memorial.
Town council clerk Elaine Brown said she had contacted English Heritage and the War Memorials Trust about the issue.
The groups said that they didn't recommend it and listed building consent would be needed.
While members welcomed the committee's plans to extend the lights, they felt it wasn't right to decorate the memorial clock tower.
Coun Jeff Watson said he was dead against it, while Coun Lewis added: "I don't think it is appropriate. It is a listed building."
Mayor Coun Craig Weir added: "It would be nice to know what their ideas are, other than the clock tower."


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A snapshot overview of schools in Bahrain that are considered (although not necessarily chosen) by English-speaking expat parents.
If there is no ribbon, pending or otherwise, it means we are aware of the school but have elected not to review it at this time. This could be for a number of reasons, but we continually update information and add or remove reviews as deemed appropriate.
Schools selected for full GSGI review are noted with next to their names.
* By full blown GSGI review, we mean the school write-ups that are completely selected, researched, visited and written by our own editors.
St Christopher's School
PO Box 32052
Isa Town
Tel: + 973 1759 8600 (infant and junior); +973 1778 8101 (senior)
Fax: +973 1759 8604 (infant and junior); +973 1778 8120 (senior)
Web: www.st-chris.net
National Curriculum for England, GCSEs, IGCSEs, A levels, IB Diploma; ages 3-18; co-ed; independent non-profit day school.
A large, well run and resourced British style school offering the National Curriculum for England and the IB Diploma alongside A levels. Students are drawn from over 70 nationalities, but 42 per cent are British, as are the majority of teachers. The school is spread over two campuses (senior in Isa Town and junior in Saar) about 20 minutes apart; the impressive junior campus was purpose built only a few years ago. Music is a particular strength and sport, art and drama are well catered for. Strong academics coupled with good facilities make this a popular school with consequent demand for places, particularly in the younger year groups.
The British School of Bahrain
PO Box 30733
Tel: +973 1761 0920 (senior and junior); 1761 3330 (infants)
Fax: +973 1761 0371 (senior and junior); 1761 3230 (infants)
Web: www.britishschoolbahrain.com
National Curriculum for England, GCSEs, A levels; ages 3-18; co-ed; independent privately owned day school.
The BSB follows the National Curriculum for England and despite its name is open to all nationalities; 65 countries are currently represented. Following rapid expansion in recent years, the school moved to a purpose built single campus in Hamala in the north west of Bahrain in 2009. Although the campus is divided into infant, junior and senior sections, some of the sports and other facilities are shared and interaction between older and younger pupils is encouraged as part of the 'one school' ethos. BSB has a reputation for being friendly and inclusive with an active parent body and is a good choice for those seeking a British style education in an international and nurturing environment.
Nadeen School
PO Box 26367
Tel: +973 1772 8886
Fax: +973 1772 8886
Web: www.nadeenschool.info/
National Curriculum for England supplemented by schemes from Australian and New Zealand curricula; ages 2-11; co-ed; independent privately owned day school.
A small, friendly and caring primary school situated in the central district of Adliya and housed in several converted villas surrounded by gardens and covered play areas. The school does not have any on-site sports so uses the facilities at the adjacent British Club. There is a special education unit for those with English as a second language, making it a popular choice with non-native English speaking families. The nursery and infant sections have a good reputation but limited on site facilities mean parents of older children sometimes prefer to move them on to one of the larger schools for their final years of primary schooling.
Bahrain School
PO Box 934
Tel: +973 1772 7828
Fax: +973 1772 8583
Web: http://www.ibo.org/en/school/000205
US curriculum and IB Diploma; ages 5-18; co-ed; US Department of Defense Education Activity School with some boarding facilities.
This elementary and high school was originally established to support the families at the US naval station in Juffair, in the east of Bahrain. The campus is spacious and well secured campus and the school offers the American Diploma and Advanced Placement courses as well as the IB Diploma. While the largest student group is from the US (around 40 per cent of students) and military, the remaining 60 per cent are from a range of other countries. The school lost a large number of pupils in the mid 2000's following a decision to send all military dependents home. The decision was reversed in 2009 and school numbers have increased since then. Boarding facilities are offered from Grades 8 to 12 and are primarily used by students whose parents work for Aramco in Saudi Arabia. It also has ESL and gifted student programmes. The school is well supported by an active parent body and is currently the only choice in Bahrain for those seeking a US curriculum school through to Grade 12.
Riffa Views International School
PO Box 3050
Tel: +973 1656 5000
Fax: +973 1791 0392
Web: www.rvis.edu.bh
US curriculum; ages 4-14; co-ed; independent non-profit day school.
RVIS opened in 2008 as an alternative US curriculum school to the Bahrain School. RVIS's bright, light and well equipped premises were purpose built and are situated in the Riffa Views Signatory Estate, a housing complex and golf course near Riffa. The school currently only provides schooling from kindergarten to Grade 8, but an additional grade will be added each year as the student population progresses through the school. As well as the US curriculum, the school intends to offer the IB Diploma is applying to be an IB World School. Classes are mixed at elementary level and then separated by gender from Grade 6 onwards. As well as Americans and other expats, the school also has a large local contingent and offers an extensive Arabic programme for native speakers as well as daily Arabic classes for non-native speakers.
British Preparatory School
Rahim Villas
Entrance 300
Saar Avenue
Tel: +973 1779 2010
Fax: +973 1779 3010
Web: www.britishprepbahrain.com
National Curriculum for England; ages 18 months-7 years; 120 pupils; co-ed; independent privately owned day school.
The British Preparatory School opened in 2008 and is owned and run by the former head of St Christopher's Infant School. It has 120 pupils and is situated in two converted villas in Saar, a popular residential area in the west of Bahrain. Teachers and assistants are British qualified. The school has a mix of nationalities and is experienced in teaching ESL programmes. As well as outdoor play areas, there is a library, an all purpose hall and a music specialist. It is popular with expat families who prefer their children to attend a smaller, more intimate nursery and infant school.
International School of Choueifat
PO Box 50559
Amwaj Island
Tel: +973 1603 3333
Fax: +973 1603 3330
Web: https://iscchoueifat.sabis.net/
SABIS School Network adapted or school developed curriculum; ages 3-11; 1200+ students; co-ed.
Purpose built on Amwaj Island, a popular beachside housing development on reclaimed land in the north east of Bahrain, the school has over 1200 students from a range of nationalities. It uses the SABIS® Educational System, a comprehensive kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum adapted where necessary to suit local needs. According to the school, the curriculum is a mix of the best of the UK and US education systems with a focus on English, maths, sciences and world languages. The school has a bilingual English/Arabic programme or English/French for international students. Western expats seem wary of the school either because they are unfamiliar with the SABIS® system or because they are worried about transferability to other schools outside the SABIS® network.
Lycee Francais MLF de Bahrein
Building 43
Avenue 8
Block 225
Tel: +973 1732 3770
Fax: +973 1733 6492
Web: http://lfbah.webnode.fr/
French National Curriculum; ages 2-18; co-ed; independent private non-profit day school.
A purpose built school on Muharraq island in the east of Bahrain close to the airport. Teachers are either recruited locally or from France. At present, teaching in the lycee section is by distance learning (CNED); all other years are taught on site and are endorsed by the French Ministry of Education. The school has bright, airy classrooms, an all purpose hall and a canteen. It is obviously popular with French speaking expats, although a range of other nationalities attend, as well as local Bahrainis who want their children schooled in French.


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This must be a mistake. A clunky little car has just arrived to pick me up for the six-hour drive through Rajasthan. There's no guide, just a driver in his 60s, who, in a singsong Indian accent and a smile as wide as his cheeks, says, "Welcome. We go now. Long drive. My name, Swarm."
Puzzled, I climb into the car. "It's a six-hour drive, right?" I ask.
"Oh no – eight hours, maybe longer," he replies.
Eight hours? This will undoubtedly be the worst day of my trip.
Swarm starts the motor, then turns to me and grins. "In India," he says, "to drive, you need three things: good horn, good brakes, and good patience."
We head toward the main road – of course, here, the main road means anything larger than a path. Swarm drives at a snail's pace. Even the cows are passing us. As we drive along, he begins to point out things. "Hospital," he says. "School. Hindi women. Buffalo. More Hindi women. Goats. Camel."
As the scenery turns into barren fields, I take a nap. When I wake, it feels as though we're going at least 90 miles per hour, and there's a truck headed right at us.
"Swarm!" I scream, "Look out!"
The truck whizzes by.
Swarm grins through the rearview mirror. "Go to sleep," he says.
But now I can't sleep. I am thinking about the group of men I saw squatting on the sidewalk in Old Delhi with paintbrushes and buckets beside them. I told my guide that day how sad it made me feel to see all these people waiting for work.
This was the same day I bought a tanzanite ring, something I had always wanted to buy but that had always been too expensive for my budget. Here, it was affordable.
When we had left the small jewelry shop and walked through the crowded streets, I felt guilty about buying the ring when all these people around me had nothing. I told the guide that I was thinking about returning it.
"You are helping someone who cut the precious stone," he had said. "It takes two years to make a ring, so you are helping an economy where people are not very rich."
"Do you want to take a photo?" Swarm asks.
In front of us, we see a group of men slamming pickaxes into rocks. Women dressed in neon-colored saris load the heavy rocks into buckets, hoist them on top of their heads, and carry them to a large pile. Swarm stops the car. I jump out, and begin to snap some pictures.
"I'll take a picture of you and them," Swarm offers.
At first, I'm uncomfortable about posing. I feel like a spoiled tourist standing next to the women who are doing this grueling work, but they smile, and motion over to me.
Then, the woman next to me hands me her bucket filled with rocks. It must weigh 30 or 40 pounds, and I can't lift it. The woman laughs, and helps me hoist it – briefly – onto my head. I can't imagine how they carry this weight all day long.
Back in the car we pass a man with a tin container strapped to his bicycle.
"That's a milkman," Swarm says.
As we continue on our journey, Swarm opens up. "All trouble in India," he says. "School is problem. Road is problem. Family is problem. All is problem."
But it's not a problem for me. Especially when we pull up to a little shack just off the road. Four teenage girls rush out and greet Swarm warmly.
"Meet my family," he says. "Take some photos. These are my four sisters, father, and baby."
Then, he points toward the home, where an old woman sits. "This is my mama."
I wave to her, and she smiles. I snap some shots and show them the digital photos.
They don't speak English, but they laugh hysterically at the photos, and shake my hand eagerly. We don't speak the same language, but we have formed an immediate bond.
To me, this is the real India. It's not made up of fancy resorts, temples with endless deities, or the glittering palaces and restored forts. For me, India is full of people, like Swarm's family, who live in the middle of nowhere, have little money, and yet, have just offered me lunch.
Long after I return home, I'll forget the names of the people I met, but I'll remember the openness and warmth of the Indian people like this family and the women with the buckets of rocks. And I'll especially remember drivers like Swarm, who have taught me so much about their country.
What I thought would be the worst day of my trip turned out to be the best.


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My... er... friend Whingy is always a great source of material for this blog. I think I'll turn her into a fictional anti-heroine and write a novel about her.
Keen readers (if there are any) will know that La Whinge takes offence at the slightest thing. At something you may have said. At something you didn't say when you were supposed to. At you not providing enough sympathy for her current woes. She reserves her most scathing fury for people she considers to be rude.
Which doesn't stop Whingy being rude herself. I'm so used to it now I have to hold back giggles in her presence when she blows her top. Receiving rudeness by email means I can both swear at her and laugh out loud and she won't know.
Take this story. My husband G has been away on a business trip. I had invited the Whingies to dinner on Saturday night, thinking he'd be back by then. They accepted (Miracle! We live 40 minutes' drive from their place and that's usually too far for them to bother to travel just to see us, and they have a standing commitment most Saturday nights with a ballroom dancing class). However, his itinerary changed and he was coming back on the Sunday. I emailed Whingy and told her it would be just me and the animals for Saturday night dinner but we'd all still love to have them over and catch up.
The reply came back with the message that they would make it another time as they could do more household and gardening chores with the spare time on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Well! Rude or what!? I had to laugh. It was such a typical response. Obviously I wasn't enough of a drawcard. After swearing a bit too and calling her a rude cow, I typed a little reply saying simply that I understood perfectly. My tongue was in my cheek quite snugly; I understood perfectly that she was a rude bitch and that my company alone clearly wasn't competition for household chores.
A couple of days ago I was chatting to D, a mutual friend who has known the Whingies a bit longer than I have, and told him about the dinner invitation and her change of mind.
"You mean she was going to come when G was there, but said no when she found out he was away? That's strange," said D. "She doesn't like G. I thought she'd be more inclined to come if he wasn't there."
I was stunned. "What do you mean she doesn't like him?"
"Well, remember last time you were all here at my place?" (That was many months ago as D lives even further from the Whingies than we do, and it's all too hard for the Whingies to drive over and see him.) "She wasn't talking to him. She'd blackballed him. He must have said something wrong to her at some time."
I hadn't noticed and said so.
"Ah, but you don't notice these things, do you?" said D a little archly. He's right. I'm no great student of human nature and behaviour. This means I make many gaffes and accidentally rub people up the wrong way.
We've seen the Whingies a few times since then though and I'm sure Whingy has spoken to G over dinner. At least I think I'm sure. For all I know he's still blackballed.
Last night I told G he'd been blackballed and he roared with laughter, almost spilling his beer. "I had no idea!"
"Nor did I!" I giggled.
I suspect the Whingies have the shits with us anyway, as we've had some lovely social occasions out our way earlier this year and haven't included them. Given that they don't want to bother driving out to our place too often, I'm sure they wouldn't want to drag themselves an extra hour to go to the things we've gone to.
One of those was a Tango night, which included dinner and rudimentary Tango lessons. G and I were actually guests at another friend's table, so I had a good excuse not to invite the Whingies to come with us.
I knew they would sneer at the Tango night as being for beginners and being amateurish, not to mention making fun of G's and my attempts to have a dance ourselves, whereas they, of course, are Experts and have been learning the Tango for about 18 months. I haven't seen them dance the Tango, but my experience of watching them do other dances is that their faces are masks of concentration, not a smile to be seen, and La Whinge constantly nags Mr Whinge about forgetting the steps. Surely dancing is supposed to be fun, and joyful?
Anyhow I told La Whinge about the Tango night after the event and explained that we had been someone else's guests, and she asked about the dancing itself.
I gave her a good description of the night, and her nose went up.
"Oh, that's Argentinian Tango," she said snobbily, dismissing the passion and fire of the original Tango and its earthy origins around the docksides and ladies of the night with a wave of her hand. "They do that weird thing where they wave their legs about. WE do Ballroom Tango."
Give me Argentinian Tango any day in that case. I'm even considering taking lessons myself and G is rather keen too. We'll probably be blackballed by the Whingies again but I suspect I won't notice.


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Facebook Sept. 14 launched a Subscribe button, a tool that aims to poke through the social network's sharing walls by letting users pick what they see from people in the News Feed, even if they are not friends with them.
Facebook was built seven years ago with the construct that users cannot "friend" or connect with other users unless those users confirm their friend requests and agree to share information with them. While some have criticized this synchronous, two-way sharing as too limiting, other, more private people believe this is a good thing.
The Subscribe button offers users a compromise. In addition to letting user choose what they see from peoples' News Feeds, users may "follow" users they don't know. It's fair to compare the tool--many have--to Twitter's popular Follow button, which is the gateway to social interaction on that microblog.
Facebook has started prompting users to subscribe to the accounts of Facebook employees. Users will see the "people to subscribe to" prompt under the "upcoming events" section to the right of their News Feed. However, users will also find the Subscribe button on the right of the News Feed of all users whose profiles are public.
eWEEK, for example, clicked on the profile of Facebook engineer Lars Rasmussen, the former Google product manager renowned for building Google Maps and the failed Google Wave.
Once we clicked the Subscribe button to follow Rasmussen we were able to choose to follow all of his updates, most updates (which is the default setting) and just important updates.
Subscribe is even more granular; users can choose to see any combination of "status updates," "life events," "photos and videos" or "games." Or, users may retain the default setting, which is to follow all of a user's information sharing on the network.
Users may also click the option to unsubscribe to cease following a user's account. Also, users may opt to broadcast their updates to people who aren't their friends by opting in to receive a Subscribe button on their profile. Users who subscribe to those who add the button will see the user's public posts.
To opt in, navigate to the subscriptions page and click to allow subscribers. Users may also choose to let others comment on their posts and receive notifications when someone follows them. By navigating to the Subscribers section on their profiles, users may edit their settings and even opt out of the Subscribe tool.
Subscribe joined the new Smart Lists feature, which auto-populates friends lists, of Facebook's Friend Lists as two new information-sharing tools that sport a great degree of granularity.
These tools won't lure more users to Facebook, which is the biggest online social network with 750 million-plus users, but it should keep them from going to Google+ for more fine-grained sharing tools.


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Whale Shark
Scientific Name: Rhincodon typus
Whale Shark Description
The Whale Shark is very unusual and quite different from the other species that are out there. They have often been mistaken for a whale due to their characteristics. They have also been mistaken for the Great White Shark due to their gray coloring and white underneath like they have. Their coloring also offers yellow spots and even some stripes. These patterns are very different on each one of them.
This is one of the least threatening types of sharks out there but it is also the largest. When one is full grown it can end up being 40 feet in length. They can also be tipping the scales at about 47,000 pound so you aren't going to be missing one of them if you see it. Most people never see them though so if you get the opportunity to do so take it.
Interesting Links
- Facts about Sharks
Information and facts about sharks. Sharks are one of the most amazing creatures in the earth. They have lived in the ocean for more than 450 million years and they have survived succesfully during this time.
- Dolphin Facts
Dolphin Facts and Information, feeding, habitat, distribution, reproduction, anatomy and more. Facts about the Bottlenose Dolphins, the Amazon Pink Dolphin, the Spinner Dolphin and the Common Dolphins among others as well as the conservation efforts
- Information about Whales
Facts about Whales, Blue Whales, Beluga Whales, Humpback Whales. Whale Information, Anatomy, Habitat, Reproduction and Whale Conservation
Whale Shark Anatomy
The Whale Shark has two each of the dorsal fins and the pectoral fins. This helps them to stay balanced in the water. They are one of the only species of fish that can't move through the water to swim with their tail only. Instead they have to move the entire large body from one side to the other. This makes them slower and even takes away from the graceful moves of many sharks. However, their bodies allow them to be able to do what they can in spite of their enormous size.
They have skin that is thicker than any other shark, at about four inches when they are full grown. What is very interesting is that they have larger bodies than other sharks but a smaller head than most. It is somewhat comical but this does help them to be able to move as they need to. Their head features a mouth that takes up most of it, being close to 4 feet wide. This is because they have a complex filtering system that allows them to take in food.
Like all sharks, the Whale Shark has as many as 3,000 teeth in its mouth. They can have as many as 350 rows of them. As they need a front tooth to be replaced these rows will move to put one in place for the life span of the shark. Another unique thing about them is that they have three ridges that run across the sides of their bodies.
Whale Shark Evolution
While we have information to suggest that the Whale Shark has been around for the past 60 million years, there is still plenty that we don't know about what all took place. Their filtering system is likely to be the biggest element of evolution for them. Only three species of sharks have this type of feeding system.
While we do have plenty of great information about sharks and their history, it is hard to specify it to just the Whale Shark. More in depth research needs to be done to help decipher the information that does pertain to this specific species of shark.
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Walrus Facts and Information. Feeding, habitat, distribution, reproduction, anatomy and more. Also, the conservation efforts made to preserve Walruses and how humans have interacted with Walruses.
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Manta Ray Information, Habitat, Feeding, Anatomy, Evolution, Predators, Distribution
Whale Shark Behavior
This is one type of shark that you don't have to worry about out there. I know that many people do because it is so large. Yet they aren't going to be able to consume a person even if they wanted to due to that filtering system. If you get the chance to see one up close then you can just enjoy that feeling and know that you are safe. They are curious creatures but they have never shown aggression towards humans.
The Whale Sharks spend almost their entire lives on their own. They move around for feeding but have a perimeter that they follow. They can be territorial when it comes to their feeding locations. Sometimes two of these animals will pass each other out there looking for food but it isn't common that they will end up even acknowledging each other. These sharks can live up to 100 years but they generally have an average life span of about 70 years.
Whale Shark Habitat/Distribution
You will find the Whale Shark living in areas where the weather is very warm. They love the tropical waters. They are known to live out there in the areas of Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, and Tanzania. Some reports have indicated they may now be in the Mediterranean Sea as well. It is possible that they could live there but researchers haven't been able to confirm it yet.
They do tend to remain close to the surface of the water. They need to be in their natural environment to thrive. Many of them that have been placed in captivity have died as they don't do well with the stress .It is also extremely difficult and expensive to care for such a large species of shark.
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Pollution Facts and Information. Effects of Pollution in the Environment
Whale Shark Diet/Feeding Habits
It can take many hours every single day for the Whale Shark to get its fill of food. They move very slowly in the water each day and their filtering systems take in plankton, fish, and squid. The water is then removed from their bodies, and this can be thousands of gallons every day. It is a very interesting process and you may be able to see some videos of it online if you are interested.
Whale Shark Reproduction
There is plenty we still don't know when it comes to the reproduction of the Whale Sharks. We do know that they don't take part in that process until they are about 30 years of age. This is a concern with their low numbers as it makes it increasingly difficult to get their population to increase.
Once the mating has taken place the females will have eggs inside of her body. After several months those eggs will open up and she will have live young inside of her. As she is swimming through the water she will give birth to them. The mother will continue moving along and so these young have to care for themselves. They instinctively know how to swim and how to search for food though.
Whale Shark Predators
Many people assume that the Whale Shark doesn't have any predators due to their size. However, they have been victims of the Blue Marlin and the Blue Shark out there. Their biggest problem though is humans and likely always will be. There are many hunters out there with a desire to kill one of these very large creatures for the thrill of being able to hunt something so magnificent.
Commercial fishing entities have a huge problem with the Whale Shark. They have found their yield is less when these sharks are in the area. By killing them they are able to get more fish from the water, and that means more money in their pocket. Due to the waters where they live, they often run into humans being there in large boats. Many Whale Sharks are killed due to being struck in the head by a powerful boat.
In some areas of the world they are hunted as a source of food and to help villagers to make supplies. However, they don't hunt them excessively as one of them can feed and entire village for a very long time. Today these sharks are vulnerable to extinction which is why efforts are in place now to try to prevent that from occurring.


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|Historical (Tokugawa) Japanese neighborhood
He continues, "The opportunity is there if we recognize that during recent generations, institutions have often taken over functions once performed by local communities, neighbors, and their collective groups and associations. Medicine has claimed our health. Police have claimed our safety. Schools have claimed the raising of our children. Social services have claimed the provision of care. And corporations have claimed that everything we need can be bought."
|My (sprawling) neighborhood
Returning the McKnight's article, here are the "Seven functions that only effectively organized neighborhoods can provide":
- Health. "Our neighborhoods are the primary source of our health." It is well known that longevity and many ailments are improved by strong social support networks, and neighborhoods can and should provide those networks.
Neighborhood in Bungamati, Nepal
- Safety. Safety is a local issue, and two of its major determinants are the number of neighbors one knows by name and the extent to which people are present and interacting in the public space near home. McKnight is drawing on both Jane Jacobs (her stress on "eyes on the street") and Robert Sampson (whose relevant concept is "collective efficacy"), two of the top experts on urban neighborhoods. See Jacobs (1961) and Sampson (2012).
- Environment and resources. Vibrant neighborhoods contribute to resource conservation in many ways.
- A resilient economy. Most businesses begin locally, and neighbors are the most reliable source of jobs and information about jobs. Local economic activity contributes to successful neighborhoods, and active neighborhoods stimulate local economies.
- Local food. The local food movement is just one manifestation of the positive association between neighborhoods and the production and distribution of food.
- Socialization and raising children. McKnight invokes the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child" and encourages the involvement of neighbors in the collective raising and training of children.
- Care-giving. "Our institutions can offer only service, not care. We cannot purchase care." True care is what neighbors and community members provide for one another, not what paid professional dispense from distant locations.
|Modern and premodern neighborhoods
Jacobs, Jane (1961) The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, New York.
McKnight, John (2013) Neighborhood Necessities: Seven Functions that Only Effectively Organized Neighborhoods Can Provide. National Civic Review 102(3):22-24.
McKnight, John and Peter Block (2010) The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods. Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco.
Sampson, Robert J. (2012) Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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On Rudolf Virchow´s initiative, a fourth municipal hospital was erected in northern Berlin - in the district Wedding - between 1898 and 1906. The Rudolf Virchow Hospital was the last to be built in the so-called pavilion style. The building costs reached 19.1 million imperial marks. Fifty-seven individual buildings with 2,000 beds were distributed over an area of 270,000 m2. It was possible for 700 physicians, nurses and other employees to live on the grounds. Read more
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Public parking on the campus is very limited and reserved for those persons who are bringing a patient directly to a clinical appointment. The first 59 minutes on the campus is free and every hour afterwards costs 2 euro. Disabled parking is available on the campus on Mittelallee.
Ample parking is available in the public parking garage at Seestraße 5. The garage is always open and and costs 1 euro for every full/partial hour or maximum 10 euro per calendar day. The first 29 minutes are free.
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Hey! Remember the new Ventriloquist from Batgirl, Shuana? Well, it's time for her origin story! As Gotham is in chaos, and powerless (see Forever Evil #1) a group of scared citizens find the power on at a local theatre, and decide to take refuge inside. Backstage in the theatre, Shuana is giving an interview to a hanged reporter, talking about her past.
Shuana was born next to her twin brother, who she described as a very plain, unremarkable boy, but Shuana is sort of insane, and she's got it backwards, she was the plain and unremarkable, often going unnoticed by people who thought the world of her brother, so you can tell, Shuana is going to be very trustworthy in this interview... except not really.
As Shuana goes on about her past, the Gotham citizens find their way inside the theatre, with a feast set up for them. After they eat, they make their way to the stage, and sit down, as their promised a show.
Back to the origin story, turns out Shuana has telekinesis, because why not, and one day she makes a kind who is teasing her jump out in the middle of traffic and die. With her new found powers, Shuana figures they're a way to get to the top! One day, she and her brother, who had signed a recording contract, were playing on the swings one day, when she made him start to swing higher and higher, only to have the chain snap, causing him to fly off, break his neck and die. Great sister. Then we see the stuff we saw in Batgirl with the clown, the party, and Shuana getting her dummy who she names after her brother.
Back in Gotham, some local thugs hear about the power being on at the theatre, along with there being food and women, so they go to do what thugs do, and that's start trouble, by ramming a car into the front entrance. With the thugs ruining her show, Shuana decides to have Ferdie go all Chucky on them, and start picking them off one by one. The last thug even finds all of Ferdie's love letters to Batgirl, and for some reason stops to read them while his life is in danger.
When Ferdie gets back to Shuana he finds that she's taken measures to not be interrupted by hecklers again, as the food she fed to all the people before? It was poisoned. They dead!
The Good:
It's got that level of weird creepiness that Gail Simone often produces. That's always entertaining.
The Bad:
This origin just makes me dislike Shuana, from top to bottom. A good villain should be evil, obviously, but have an element to them that I don't want to say redeems them, but gives them qualities that add depth to their character. Shuana on the other hand, you just sort of find out she's a deranged brat with telekinesis, for some reason. Her story just rubbed me the wrong way, and made her pretty unlikeable for me.
Thought the art was pretty plain, as well.
The Bottom Line:
It was an okay issue. If you were super into this new Ventriloquist with the Batgirl issues, you'll probably find this issue enjoyable, but if not, you're not missing anything here. Shuana's origin is in line with that particular creepy villain vibe we often get from Gail Simone, and while I usually find that particular vibe enjoyable, this time I found the character to fall a bit flat, and not achieve any level of likability for my personal taste in villains.


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Step Up For Atlanta: The Living Transit Fund And A Path To A New Atlanta Way
Atlanta has long struggled to provide sustainable infrastructure and transit options to all residents, businesses and commuters, particularly its most vulnerable communities on the west and south sides of the city. Historically, underinvestment in public transportation has left communities cut off from centers of commerce, employment, entertainment and recreation – essentially requiring reliance on single-occupant vehicles to function throughout the city and region. Civic and business leaders alike have known this for decades, but the problem persists: even as the metro Atlanta region is projected to grow by 2.5 million residents by 2040, infrastructure investment remains low. Atlantans continue to suffer some of the longest average commute times in the country, with a significant income burden and environmental impact.
Read the full story on Saporta Report.