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IJAMSVILLE — Annette Breiling wanted to teach from the time she was a child. Now, at 72, retired after founding two Quaker schools, she can look back on a life of accomplishments in education.
Breiling's positive experience with Quaker education at George School in Pennsylvania sold her on the curriculum, which emphasizes academic rigor, she said, and prods students to reflect on their role in the world and how they might improve it.
Breiling attended a Quaker college. As a parent, she sent her three daughters to Friends schools. The words Quaker and Friends are used interchangeably, she said.
Quaker schools focus on nurturing mind, body and spirit, Breiling said, whereas public schools are limited to the mind and body.
Friends schools use the acronym SPICES for simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of the environment and the human body. The schools focus on monthly spiritual themes; students and staff reflect on these and other values, while being respectful of many religious traditions, Breiling said.
Breiling worked 12 years for Montgomery County Public Schools — as a teacher, testing and gifted and talented coordinator, elementary reading specialist, educational diagnostician and parent involvement specialist.
Breiling's mother raised her with Quaker values. After her mother died of cancer in the mid-1980s, Breiling was going through her belongings when she found a note in a book, quoting William Penn, "Death cannot kill what never dies."
"I felt that her spirit lived on with me," Breiling said, "and I felt called to try to continue to keep these values alive for other children."
In 1985, Breiling opened Friends Elementary School, dedicated to the memory of her mother, in a church building in Montgomery County.
The school soon outgrew its quarters, and after six years, the church wanted its space back.
FES merged with Sandy Spring Friends School in 1993, and Breiling worked as the associate head for planning for two years.
A month after the merger, Breiling's father died and left her a sizable inheritance.
"I did not want the money for myself," she said. "I wanted it used to make the world a better place."
A committee was formed to create Friends Meeting School in Ijamsville, which is dedicated to her father's memory. The school first opened in Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church.
"We had 13 students ranging from 4 years old to sixth grade on our opening day in 1997," Breiling said. "They were our 'lucky 13.'"
The school now serves more than 100 students from pre-K through grade 12. This year, it will graduate its first senior class.
Karen McKinney enrolled her twin kindergartners at FMS because of the school's reputation, she said, and its guiding principles of seeking and speaking truth and love.
"The school has a kind, loving environment, and if kids are upset with each other, they sit at a table and talk it out, and that's great," McKinney said.
"One of my greatest satisfactions," Breiling said, "is hearing stories of young people who feel their experience at one of my schools has had a positive impact on them."
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(Using T3D 3.9) - I did a search for issues on github but only found one which seems unrelated to this problem from Duion https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D/pull/1691.
I noticed guiObjectView appears broken.
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The World Conservation Union (IUCN) organized the 4th Asia Regional Conservation Forum in early September in Kathmandu, Nepal. Held every four years, it provides a platform to discuss innovative conservation approaches, share regional experiences, and build partnership for future action in Asia.
This year's forum has generated meaningful dialogue on critical conservation and development issues in Asia as well as their possible solutions. The main topic of debate was the impact of emerging socio-economic trends on the environment in Asia.
Among the highlights of the conference was the presentation of the proposed IUCN Asia Inter-Sessional Programme for the next quadrennial (2009-2012) and strategies for addressing key regional issues such as climate change, energy, and environmental security. Discussion on the Programme will feed into the next IUCN World Conservation Congress which is scheduled for October 2008 in Barcelona, Spain.
This 4th Regional Conservation Forum was co-hosted by the Government of Nepal and the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation. The Prime Minister of Nepal attended the inaugural session as the Chief Guest.
Four hundred representatives from IUCN's member, commission, secretariat, and council in Asia attended the conference along with its major stakeholders, including representatives from the donor community and private sector. The IUCN Viet Nam delegation contributed actively at all sessions and activities of the forum and presented four papers.
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Michael G. Maher, 78, resident of Pocono Pines, died April 24, 2013.
Dr. Maher obtained a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M, a Master of Science and MBA from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of New Mexico.
In retirement, he was a member of the Lake Naomi Bowling Club, "The Pirates," Knights of Columbus and Lions Club. He also was very active in the Lake Naomi Community Center.
He was proud that all of his children were able to attend colleges of their choice, including Jesuit universities across the country. In keeping with his love for Jesuit education, Dr. Maher's remains were donated to Georgetown University Medical School.
Surviving family include JoAnne Lucey Maher, his wife of 55 years; his children: Ryan of Scranton, Maureen Gray of Clarks Green, Colleen Maher (Joseph Riga) of Narberth, Shannon Morgan (Jerry) of Albuquerque, N.M., Sean (Leela) of Menomonee Falls, Wis. and R. Patrick of Albuquerque, N.M.; and nine grandchildren.
A memorial Mass will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, April 29, at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church, 5112 Pocono Crest, Pocono Pines. His son, the Rev. Ryan Maher, and the Rev. John Boyle, pastor, will celebrate the Mass. A buffet reception will follow.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent to St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church, 5112 Pocono Crest, Pocono Pines, PA 18350.
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Michael G. Maher, 78, resident of Pocono Pines, died April 24, 2013.


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Before joining the school in 2009, Donovan was a litigation partner in the Philadelphia office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. While at Morgan Lewis, he was the firm's pro bono chair from 2003-08, was heavily involved in recruiting and participated in running three summer associate programs. Donovan's practice focused on complex tort litigation, including class actions and national serial litigation. He also was involved in complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy litigation and intellectual property litigation.
Donovan clerked for U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in the Northern District of Ohio. He joined Morgan Lewis following his clerkship and was elevated to the partnership in 2000.
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Joan Learned
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Joan Learned passed away peacefully on March 14, 2012 with her daughter, son and friends by her side.
Joan was predeceased by her mother, Dorothy Beckett; brother, Richard Beckett and nephew Jon Conway and is survived by her daughter, Debra Learned; son, Douglas Learned; granddaughter, Emily Meehan; sister Susan Beckett; brother Kenneth Beckett; along with numerous nieces and nephews.
Although Joan resided in Maine for most of the past 15 years, she lived the majority of her life in Warwick, graduating from Warwick Veterans Memorial High School in 1957, then was part of the first graduating class from the RI School of Practical Nursing in 1958. From there, Joan went on to New Hampshire School of Nursing and became a registered nurse in 1962.
For over 40 years Joan was a respected nurse, trainer, case manager, mentor and friend to countless patients and co-workers throughout New England. Joan had a thirst for knowledge and growth and, as a result, received countless professional certifications in addition to RN and certified social worker.
Joan loved sports. When Joan was not on the field playing or coaching, she was enthusiastically supporting area teams. She also loved gardening and cooking. She was happiest when she could combine the two and create incredible meals for friends and family using ingredients from her garden. Joan was a strong, determined, proud woman who always made an impression and touched countless lives, even those of strangers, with her generosity and caring.
For friends and family in Rhode Island, there will be an informal gathering with brunch to honor Joan and share memories March 31 at 11 a.m. at Chelo's Waterfront, 1 Masthead Dr., Warwick.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Camp Sunshine, Casco, Maine (www.campsunshine.org) or Camp Capella, Holden, Maine (www.campcapella.org).


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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Godson's Folly
The road was created by a fellow named Godson, who wanted to provide a convenient route for customers to get to his hotel in the town below.
At great expense, Mr. Godson hired a team to dig with hand tools through the solid rock. The expense proved too great for Godson, who went bankrupt. Ever since, Chapel Street has been known as "Godson's Folly."
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- KMB said...
- August 10, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Libby Fife said...
I really enjoy these travel sketches-I get to travel too:)
I am curious to know how long it takes you to complete this type of sketch given the size and the guess that you painted it on site.
- August 10, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- James Gurney said...
Thanks, KMB.
Libby, yes, this was done on a narrow sidewalk below the rock-cut walls. I had to lean to the side when big trucks went by.
The sketch is in watercolor in a Moleskine 6 x 8 inch watercolor book. I used mainly ultramarine and raw sienna. It took about an hour and a half.
- August 10, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- Mary Bullock said...
You have really caught the effect of bright sunlight reflecting off the buildings. Wonderful!
- August 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Erik said...
Very inspiring. I'm curious as to what steps you use, is there any "inactive" time when you wait for the washes to dry? I have an ambition to learn watercolor painting, but I often mess up my plein air attempts because I'm too impatient (and because I spend to much time thinking about hue and not enough on value, but that's another issue).
Also, how did you find out the entertaining story about the street?
- August 10, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- Steve said...
I love your travel watercolors, too. The dark shadows under the cars give the feeling of strong light. You get such a sense of distance and depth into such a small space. Inspiring.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- Jon Hrubesch said...
I can imagine being on that street on what looks to be a wonderful sunny afternoon. You are such a master of capturing the light and atmosphere of a location in your paintings. Thanks for all that you do on this blog, it has been an endless source of inspiration.
- August 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Steve said...
After another look, I see those shadows under the three cars are three different values, dark, medium, and light for near, middle, and far. It's those little but powerful details that put distance into the painting.
- August 10, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- goat89 said...
Love this sort of 'quickies. Thx Mr Gurney!
- August 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM
- JG O'Donoghue said...
cool my parents are from Bantry, been there many times and yet never heard this story, cheers and a lovely little watercolor too, ill have to try that down there someday
- August 10, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Jean Spitzer said...
Wonderful sketch and story. Sounds like making the watercolor was dangerous, too.
- August 10, 2010 at 10:07 PM
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It was the worst riding 4x4 I've ever driven or even ridden in. It felt like I was constantly bouncing off the headliner and floor. It's no wonder the seats in these vehicles are always thrashed. How could they not be, with 200-plus pounds of human meat sack bouncing around inside like a pinball? I wish I could tell you I was making fun of someone else's rig. Unfortunately, this rough-riding '85 M1008 is mine. I didn't actually notice how poorly it rode for several months, since all of my drive-time had been on-road. I mean I knew it rode stiff, but not back-breakingly unusual or anything. As with any new-to-me used 4x4, I was too busy chasing down gremlins to actually take it in the dirt.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out the finicky-shifting TH400 automatic transmission. After locating and repairing a few small issues with no success, I finally broke down and took it to a transmission shop. I felt at least a little vindicated when it took the tranny guy a few hours to figure out what wasn't working right. Eventually, I got my truck back, now with a properly shifting transmission, and went for a spin off-road with a buddy. It only took a small bump or two before my butt collapsed the springs in the seat and I bottomed out, only to find myself rebounding and launching skyward toward the roof like a rocket ship. Fortunately, the seatbelt kept me from actually crushing my skull on the unpadded headliner made of steel. My passenger wasn't so lucky. He didn't hit his head or anything, but his seatbelt kept ratcheting tighter and tighter like a Boa constrictor trying to collapse his lungs and break his pelvis in two. I'm sure that the 1¼-ton suspension and tires aired to 80 psi didn't help this situation.
I wish I could tell you I was making fun of someone else's rig.
I got to thinking about how irritated and out of control I would be if I were trying to flee a nasty firefight in this military truck, although I'm pretty sure that M1008s were considered support vehicles and not used in actual combat. I'd like to believe our modern-day soldiers are transporting themselves in something that rides better than a wheelbarrow with a cast iron tire on a cobblestone road.
Anyway, I've been tweaking my project truck as time permits. The original bed was hammered and didn't allow much ground or tire clearance. The M102A3 trailer bed conversion I have been working on is just about done. The fuel line fittings that I needed to move the fuel tank recently came in the mail. You'll be able to read all about this project and how I goofed in an upcoming issue, so I won't spoil the surprise here.
When my truck is eventually in a somewhat complete off-roadable state, I sure hope it rides better than it does now. I'm pretty sure that any modification aside from welding the axles directly to the frame would be an improvement.


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New 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Prequel Mini-sode Features Hot Lizard Action
December 25 grows closer and closer, and while to some that means all the usual Christmas riff-raff, or even the release of 'Django Unchained,' 'Doctor Who' fans know it as the release of the yearly Christmas Special! This year's "The Snowmen" will feature 'The Hobbit' star Ian McKellen voicing the titular creatures, while the Doctor gains a new companion, buy why wait when we've got an all-new prequel mini-sode right here? Who's ready to watch as "Vastra Investigates?"
We may have to wait until Christmas itself to see the 'Doctor Who' special "The Snowmen" in full, but we needn't wait that long for the return of fan-favorite characters Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), Commander Strax (Dan Starkey) and Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart)! The threesome are back with yet another mini-sode "Vastra Investigates," further teasing the dark developments that will see the Doctor return to save the day, even through his grief over the Ponds.
In addition to introducing Jenna-Louise Coleman as the Doctor's new companion Clara, "The Snowmen" also features Richard E. Grant and Tom Ward as villains, while 'The Hobbit' star Ian McKellen voices the titular Snowmen. Check out The BBC's official summary:
Christmas Eve 1892 and the falling snow is the stuff of fairy-tales. When the fairy-tale becomes a nightmare and a chilling menace threatens Earth, an unorthodox young governess, Clara, calls on the Doctor for help. But the Doctor is in mourning, reclusive and determined not to engage in the problems of the universe. As old friends return, will the Doctor really abandon humankind or will he fight to save the world – and Christmas – from the icy clutches of this mysterious menace.
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The sea of light
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The Sea of Light is a wise, beautiful, and very American story of three women and their desire to excel and win - and heal one another - in the highly charged world of athletic competition. Angelita is the hurricane that brings down a plane carrying a team of star-quality swimmers, groomed from childhood to compete at the international level. Babe Delgado is a young Cuban-American woman, presumed dead, who is rescued from the crash. Fifty-one hours in the Atlantic have left her scarred in body and spirit, afraid to compete again. Brenna Allen is a tough, driven swim coach at a small university, grieving for a lover lost to cancer. She finds solace in building her own winning team, driving her overworked captain, Ellie Marks, ever harder. Ellie is a child of holocaust survivors, struggling to own herself and her sexuality as hard as she's working to win. Brenna recruits Babe, promising to help her rebuild her damaged body, strength, and will. The Sea of Light is a story of wins, losses, and passions in a world where destiny and magic interfere with victory, where families are forced to reconcile with private hurts and false dreams, and where a redemptive, healing love between women - erotic and overwhelmingly intimate - stands in stark contrast to the expectations of the world. A sensitive, powerful tale of self-discovery, sexual identity, and violent emotions unleashed by sudden disaster, this novel is sure to command attention and acclaim.
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Like all the hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center aims to be the best of the best. A closer look suggests the hospital is achieving that lofty goal partly by taking shrewdly calculated technology risks.
A centerpiece of BIDMC's IT-based innovation is a new medical informatics platform called Clinical Query. To appreciate its value, you need to understand the current healthcare environment.
With the push to reform medical care in the U.S., providers are expected to improve quality while reducing costs. And clinicians are under pressure to focus not only on the care of the individual patients sitting in front of them, but also the larger population with the same disease or condition--so-called population health management. That mandate will require much more sophisticated data analytics tools.
Enter Clinical Query. John Halamka, BIDMC's ball-of-fire CIO, refers to it as a clinical trials/clinical research business intelligence system. It's a search engine married to a huge database of patient records that lets hospital employees test hypotheses about what causes a disease, for instance, or test which drug, diet, or lifestyle variables may reduce the risk of developing one.
The repository contains 200 million data points on 2.2 million patients, including medications taken, diagnoses, and lab values. The query tool is capable of navigating 20,000 medical concepts through the use of Boolean expressions. All the data has been mapped to standard medical language codes. Diagnoses, for instance, have been mapped to ICD-9; medications to RxNorm codes; lab data to Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC).
So with the help of Clinical Query, a clinician or researcher might search the records to find out how many patients with breast cancer also take ACE inhibitors, a class of drug used to treat high blood pressure. If the results reveal a strong correlation between the drug and the malignancy, the hospital could do a deeper analysis and set up a formal research project to investigate the link. The ultimate goal is to discover a new medical intervention that would improve the survival of the entire population of breast cancer patients.
Not only would Clinical Query do the legwork to detect a link between breast cancer and ACE inhibitors, but it would also take a research hypothesis to the next stage, what Halamka calls the "drink" stage after the initial "sip" of data.
"Suppose I actually want to take the data on the 66,000 patients I just identified in my search and enroll them in a clinical trial," Halamka explains. "Once the institutional review board gives approval for that, we can take this query and automatically write letters to the primary care physicians to enroll these patients in the trial." It's a huge time saver.
Access to Clinical Query, as well as to the other clinical apps in the BIDMC system, is simplicity itself. A single sign-on protocol gives physicians access to 146 clinical apps--including an order entry app, a performance manager governing safety and quality, an emergency department dashboard, PeopleSoft ERP, and thousands of professional journals--as well as the 2 million-plus patient records. Other employees and students get a set of sign-on rights depending on their role in the organization.
The internally developed software under the Clinical Query hood is based on an open source system known as Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside. And because the platform pulls data from multiple clinical and administrative applications, the hospital's IT team had to normalize the data with the use of the aforementioned vocabularies, LOINC, ICD-9, and RxNorm.
"What's unique about Clinical Query is that it's completely self-service," Halamka says. "I didn't have to go out and hire an analyst. I didn't have to get special permission to get access or approval from our [institutional review board] to use it."
Clinical Query is only one part of BIDMC's BI anatomy. Expert analysts at the hospital also do more sophisticated mining, looking at raw patient data and, in some cases, evaluating the quality of data that feeds Clinical Query and other apps. The hospital's IT team has reached out beyond its 2 million patients to look at community-wide data sources to find ways to manage the health of larger patient populations.
BIDMC runs one of 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations recently started nationwide, taking commercial electronic health records software in doctors' offices, such as eClinicalWorks, GE Centricity, and more specialized programs, and writing specifications "to download data elements to a common community repository to do population analytics," Halamka says. Once again, the goal is better, cheaper patient care--what policymakers now call accountable care.
Halamka is also a driving force behind creating a state-funded, privately managed, cloud-based health information exchange in Massachusetts. The HIE is contracting with 16 EHR vendors to service doctors across the state via a massive interconnected network, due to go live in October.


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Though the Civil War began the movement to extend equality to African Americans, the promises of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments provide easier to accomplish in theory rather than in practice. The promising start towards racial equality soon faltered during the tensions of Reconstruction and laws were soon enacted across the country which enforced segregation of the races and the second-class status of African Americans.
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Being a college athlete is a big deal. There are only about 400,000 NCAA student athletes out of nearly 8,000,000 college students across the country.
I just read a very interesting press release http://bit.ly/c7SRyv posted on the website of the National Federation of State High School Associations titled "High School Sports Participation Tops 7.6 Million, Sets Record." Think about this: 55.1% of high school students participated in athletics last year – more than 1 in 2 students had a coach, had to juggle academics and athletics and had to learn what it was like to lose.
What struck me, though, is that when you look at these raw numbers still fewer than 5% of these student athletes participate in college sports in one of the three NCAA (www.ncaa.com) divisions. Even if you assume that half of them participate in two sports and one quarter of them participate in three sports that percentage only goes up to 8%.
Not every student athlete wants to compete at the BCS Division I level. Many of them know they need to concentrate on their studies to get them into graduate school or into the workforce. Athletics, to them, is a way to round out their college experience. My son is a Division I student athlete who gets no money to compete in the pool – his scholarship money (full tuition) comes from academic sources.
Parents, as you help your high school student athlete look for colleges, keep mid-major schools on their radar. They have the greatest percentage opportunity to combine academics and athletics for a fantastic college experience.
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A snapshot of an early Friday morning: A scantily clad police officer came towards me up the stairs, while a woman with bright purple hair and a matching shirt zoomed by on her bike. A man in a pirate hat passed me walking his dog, while an elderly gent dressed like robin hood told me that the sheriff look suited me. I returned the compliment.
No, this was not a bizarre dream that I had last night, but rather a snapshot of Purim in Jerusalem. It was incredible to see the city transformed for what amounted to over a week of celebrations (despite Purim itself only being observed for one day). Many people, myself included, took advantage of both regular Purim and Shushan Purim (which happens a day later in walled or formerly walled cities), traveling to Tel Aviv for one day and returning to Jerusalem for the other. In trying to describe the scene to a friend, I suggested that the feeling in the air was akin to the good cheer, friendliness, and generosity of the December holiday season in the US, combined with a less dark version of the Halloween goofiness and energy that is pervasive on the streets of NYC every year.
I spent much of Purim alternating between taking in the scene and enjoying the time with friends.Wednesday night (Purim for almost everyone outside of Jerusalem) I went to Tel Aviv to help out a friend; he was involved in a small Masorti community that was looking for people to come in and read the megillah. I went with a few friends and we had a great time- it felt like a true Israeli Purim experience. Many of the attendees would self-identify as secular or something close to it, but it seems like everyone dresses up and celebrates this holiday in full force.
The next evening, I went to hear the megillah at a large synagogue with attendees of all ages and an impressive array of costumes, followed by a party hosted by friends who live at the corner of Esther HaMalka and Mordechai HaYehudi streets. (How can someone who lives at the intersection of the streets named after the two heroes of the Purim story not have a party??) Later that night, I took in the scene at Machaneh Yehuda shuk, which was transformed into a giant dance party, looking very different from the market where I had bought groceries earlier that day. The next day, after a fun, more intimate megillah reading with a community I frequent for Shabbat services, and a festive brunch with classmate and friend Mia, I ventured towards the neighborhood of Nachlaot for a seudah (festive meal) hosted by another friend. I was greeted by a a wave of color, music, and celebration. The "hippy" Jews of Jerusalem had taken to the streets, squeezing every last ounce of celebration out of the final few hours of the holiday. It was truly an incredible scene. Needless to say, the Shabbat that began that night was probably the quietest that Jerusalem has ever seen as everyone tried to recover.
Most of the costumes that I saw over Purim were simply fun and silly, but others certainly reflected current events and phenomena in the country. I saw a young woman dressed up as Purim story character Queen Vashti, and on her cape were bumper stickers that I've seen around protesting the silencing of women's voices that is happening due to the influence of some sectors of the Haredi community. Another man was dressed up as "Tag Mechir" (Price tag), having spray painted himself with these words, reflecting the series of recent acts of vandalism by Jewish extremists in mosques, a monastery, a bilingual school, and other places representing different religious practices and experiences.
I for my part, was fresh out of ideas, but at the last minute found a cheap sheriff hat for sale in the shuk, and figured I could put together a western-themed costume. The result wasn't half bad!
Unfortunately, when Purim ended, it was back to reality for me. I just started a new semester of school a few weeks ago, and am still settling into my classes. This semester's lineup is shaping up to be about as good as last semester's, perhaps even better. I am sticking with the same Talmud teacher, this time with harder material, though I'm learning Halacha (a strange assortment of the laws of Passover, Kashrut, and mourning) with a new teacher. I'm still taking Hebrew, and am finding it to be a great place to take linguistic risks without fear of making a mistake. I enjoyed my Midrash teacher so much that I'm learning with her again, this time in a course on how the rabbis engaged with dreams and dream interpretation in text. I'm taking a course on the development of faith and religion (from Israelite culture to Judaism) in the Bible, and a class on the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. My current schedule leaves me with many gaps during the day and nearly all of Tuesday free to get out and enjoy the beautiful Israeli springtime.
On the side, I'm still taking the Rabbinical Students Seminar through the Hartman Institute. Another, wonderful, extracurricular this semester is an Israeli literature class that I'm taking with the owner of cafe/bookstore Tmol Shilshom, a gathering place for many of the great minds of Israeli literature to sit, write, and share their work. It's been pretty amazing to sit around tables in coffee shops discussing their short stories, memoirs, and poetry, especially with someone who himself is an insider in that world.
I have much more to report on, but perhaps I'll save that for the next post. Next time, I'll share what I've been doing with my no-class Tuesdays (affectionately known as "Tiyul [trip] Tuesdays"), what Passover preparation looks like, and anything else exciting that comes up.
It's a strange time of year for me right now. Purim to me always seems like that turning point in the year after which everything starts to fly by. It's so easy to mark time: Passover is a month after Purim (I am already deeply entrenched in preparations), followed by seven weeks of counting the Omer to the holiday of Shavuot, and I'm leaving Israel a week later. It's hard to feel like I just started my semester, yet to start preparing to go home as well. Throw in increasingly beautiful weather, and a carpe diem attitude, and I should have a very interesting/intense/eventful/exciting couple of months.


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In 1874, a young artist returned from exile to his Japanese hometown of Edo to find it had a new name, new gas lighting, non-traditional brick buildings, steamships and trains, and was headed full blast in modernization.
So, Kobayashi Kiyochika set about showing the rapid change in his society in a set of 93 woodblock prints, many of which are now on display in a new exhibition, "Kiyochika: Master of the Night," at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington through July 27.
"Kiyochika is a man who plays with light. He identifies sources of light whether they are man-made or reflections" in his prints, said James Ulak, senior curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
In1868, "a corrupt Shogunal government, 250 years in power, was finally displaced by a group of reform leaders from Western Japan," Ulak said. "The structure we know from movies and novels of samurai and lords, their estates and domains, all crashes between 1868 and 1874. All these structures are eliminated, a constitutional monarchy is established, the city Edo has its name changed to Tokyo," or "Eastern Capital."
The prints show a Japan opening up to the world's influences. An innocuous print of people viewing a show with colored fireworks shows Western influence _ before then, all fireworks were white. A train headed out of town to Takanawa Ushimachi has an American-style smokestack that didn't exist in Japan at the time. Kiyochika apparently cribbed it off a Currier and Ives print. The new gas lamps allowed the city's dwellers to enjoy events held at night.
The Sackler exhibit is broken up topically. There is a section on fires, bridges and others.
For example, in "Bricktown," a print shows a new Ginza. "After a fire in 1871, the leaders contracted with Western architects and rebuilt what would be called the Ginza with a whole row of brick buildings on either side, two or three stories," says Ulak. "They were these great symbols of the 'new.'"
One of the tall semi-transparent scrims that separate the different sections of the exhibit has a photograph of the brick buildings.
The Sackler exhibit includes a table map of Tokyo dotted with numbers. Small numbered reproductions of the prints line the edges of the map. Visitors can match print number to map number to see the now-modern city through Kiyochika's eyes.
A great fire swept through Tokyo in 1881, starting in Kanda Matsueda-cho. Kiyochika's studio burned, ending the production of the prints at No. 93 instead of the more auspicious 100. He went back to a more traditional style of Japanese art. The exhibit has an example of his later work next to one from the great master, Hiroshige, which shows the similarities.
"He's given up the adventure, the starkness, the existentialism, and he wants to go back, or his clients want him to go back or his publisher wants to go back to the comfort zone, turning back from the edge," said Ulak.
Kiyochika faded from the art scene only to reappear briefly during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. He died in 1915.
____KIYOCHIKA: MASTER OF THE NIGHTArthur M. Sackler GalleryWashington, D.C.March 29-July 27


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Sorum started things off with a Feb. 13 post on his Twitter page that defended Houston as well as fellow recent music casualties Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson.
"These were sensitive artists in the public eye," Sorum wrote. "You wouldn't understand their pressure unless you were in their shoes. Not everyone can handle pain in the real world. Pressure mounted with fear is the most scary feeling ever."
Sorum goes on to say that when he experienced similar feelings, he turned to drugs. "Luckily, I got help and people helped me. Let's love one another and help one another."
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Udall's wind tax credit ignores national debt
Credit: The Durango Herald | January 10, 2013 | durangoherald.com ~~
I recently received an email newsletter from Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., touting his work on the wind energy Production Tax Credit extension.
At least Udall's fellow Democrat and Colorado senator had the sense to figure out that the "cliff" bill will not address the debt and spending problem of our federal government. In fact, Udall's extension does nothing but adds to the spending problem and worsens the debt.
Wind energy may be clean, except for the environmental damage (birds and land damage), but is an immature technology that cannot pay for itself now or in the foreseeable future. Wind energy will not be viable until there is an economic way to store and transmit the electricity it produces.
Udall should do a little research and see why Europeans are shutting down wind and solar farms.
Regarding employment, wind energy, except when being built, is not a big source of employment.
Wow. The senator garnered more than 9,000 petition signatures. That seems a rather small number to cost us so much money when the federal government is more than $16 trillion in debt.
I would like Udall to be forthcoming about all the aspects, plus and minus, of the projects he flogs. That is the job we, Colorado and U.S. voters, expect of a U.S. senator and all elected officials.
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Is Fragmentation Breaking the Android Dev's Will?
Mar 22, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Developers are losing interest in creating apps for Android because of the continued fragmentation of the operating system, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC between January and February.
Its results show that interest in Android phone app development fell by nearly five percentage points over the past quarter to about 79 percent. Interest in Android tablets fell just over 2 percent to about 66 percent.
Meanwhile, iOS remains the leading platform for devs, with 89 percent of respondents to the survey saying they were very interested in developing for the iPhone and 88 percent wanting to create apps for the iPad.
The survey covered devs using Appcelerator's Titanium mobile app development platform in shops of five or more people. It had about 2,200 respondents.
"Fragmentation is a major issue for Android, and so is commerce friction," said Simon Khalaf, president and CEO of Flurry Analytics. "Developers are shying away from [the OS] because of these two [factors]."
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Google's own figures show that many different versions of Android are current being used. Google statistics regarding the number of active devices accessing Google Play over two weeks ending March 5 found that 62 percent ran Gingerbread, or Android 2.3. Another roughly 25 percent ran Froyo, or Android 2.2. Eclair, or Android 2.1, was used by 6.6 percent of the devices.
Other devices ran Android 1.5 or Cupcake; Android 1.6, or Donut; Honeycomb, which constitutes the Android 3 series; and Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of the OS.
What About Ice Cream Sandwich?
Google is well aware critics use of the term fragmentation to describe its OS. In January, it released the Android Design style guide for Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) in an attempt to codify design principles for the OS.
However, the relatively slow take-up of ICS and the existing huge installed base of devices running older versions of Android make fragmentation a continuing thorn in the Internet giant's side.
A study conducted recently by online ad network and data analytics firm Chitika on tens of millions of impressions across its network found that only 1.12 percent of Android devices were running ICS; most of the rest ran Gingerbread.
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"It's not just that Ice Cream Sandwich is new; it's also the fact that very few of the tablets currently available actually support [it]," Mike King, Appcelerator's principal mobile strategist, told LinuxInsider. "There are many devices still on sale at Best Buy and other retail outlets that only run [Android] 2.2."
Android 2.2 is also known as "Froyo."
Further, Android Design won't solve the fragmentation problem "because there are many devices that cannot run ICS," King said.
Another factor contributing to Android's fragmentation is that device vendors can choose which feature sets to expose because of differences in screen size, processor power and other capabilities, King pointed out. "Additionally, things like Google Wallet and secure access may or may not be available on all devices."
ICS is "only one step in the right direction," King suggested. Google needs to mitigate the hardware fragmentation and provide more consistency for developers in terms of marketplace and monetization as well if it wants to lure back devs, he said.
Google did not respond to our request for comment for this story.
Cui Bono?
Although iOS remains the leading target for devs and HTML 5 is gaining strength, devs fleeing Android are not necessarily gravitating toward either of these two, Appcelerator's King stated.
"We didn't see additional growth in iOS interest, and it's not towards HTML 5, so perhaps [the movement is] just away from Android," he speculated. Appcelerator believes that a move away from Android could benefit Windows Phone 7 and floundering BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
However, Flurry Analytics' Khalaf believes iOS and Amazon, with its Kindle Fire, will benefit from the developers fleeing Android.
"Amazon has solved fragmentation and doing commerce for Android and is attracting developers, and Apple doesn't suffer from that [fragmentation] issue," Khalaf said.


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Should cotton producers add conservation to their list of concerns, though, with prices low and trade issues becoming increasingly important?
National Cotton Council Chairman Kenneth Hood believes conservation should receive a stronger focus among cotton producers for no other reason than the fact that the new farm law provides assistance for producers who have been practicing resource stewardship all along.
Bruce Knight, chief of the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), said it's important for cotton farmers to not let their conservation ethic diminish due to a weakened cotton economy.
"Fortunately, under the 2002 farm law we have an improved safety net to address farmers' economic needs as well as an improved safety net to provide for conservation needs," he said.
He said farmers already have a natural stewardship ethic, but there are other reasons why conservation is important to farming's future. Environmental laws are becoming more stringent and water supply shortages are hurting many areas of the country. Some farmers even could benefit from a secondary source of income from hunting leases on conservation program lands.
One of the most significant changes in the new conservation title is in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), which provides technical and financial assistance for eligible farmers and ranchers to address soil, water and related natural resource concerns on their lands.
Knight said expanding payment limits per contract under EQIP to $450,000 and with no limit on the number of contracts ensures there is adequate capacity to provide assistance for irrigation and water saving measures and systems that are commensurate with today's commercial-sized agricultural operations.
Other assistance can be provided for: 1) soil erosion technical assistance; 2) pest management; and 3) wildlife habitat enhancement.
All farmers will be able to apply for EQIP regardless of where they are located, but NRCS wants decisions and practices under EQIP to be based on locally led priorities of each conservation community, whether for wind erosion control in West Texas or air quality in California.
"No longer will you have farmers in a given state not have the access to the full range of conservation programs because they happen to be outside a Geographic Priority Area," Knight said. "Regardless of physical locations, farmers will be able to go in, work with their NRCS representative and their conservation districts to put together the best possible conservation plan, one that meets the needs of the farmer, landowner and the area in general."
Since 1996, about $62.5 million has been spent on the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP). The new title provides a greater than 10-fold increase for WHIP, which provides for such measures as vegetation planting, planting food plots and constructing wildlife watering facilities. Some of these measures overlap with EQIP practices – a plus for getting a project completed.
The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) and the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) also could prove valuable to farmers. Those who have unproductive wet areas can get paid for easements for part or all of the cost of restoring historic wetlands and providing high quality waterfowl habitat under WRP and CRP.
"The Wetlands Reserve Program, which is used a great deal along the Mississippi River, has provided important nesting and resting habitat for many of the migratory waterfowl," Knight said. "And the buffer strip initiative utilizing CRP in a targeted manner is helping a great deal with improving quail habitat in the Southeast."
A ground-breaking program is the Conservation Security Program (CSP) for which rules will not be finalized until early 2003. The CSP is aimed at maintaining existing and encouraging new stewardship practices on cropland, pastureland, rangeland and incidental forestland. The three-tiered program will provide cost-share and bonus payments to farmers who have historically practiced good stewardship on their working land. CSP also will provide incentives to growers who want to increase their conservation practices.
"Our challenge is to design that program so that it works for all of agriculture and all across the nation," Knight said.
That includes small and large farmers.
John Edwards and his son grow 3,200 acres of cotton in Leachville, Ark., where he employs a range of conservation practices from planting winter cover crops to reduce wind erosion to using surge valves when irrigating with pipe.
Edwards hopes there will be money available for funding these and other practices ranging from land leveling/re-leveling to underground pipe installation. The latter, he says, is a much more energy efficient water delivery method and easier on the environment as farmers don't have to be concerned with disposing of great amounts of "poly" pipe.
"Very little (conservation) money has been going to row crops in our area," said Edwards, whose family was named Arkansas Farm Family of the Year in 2000 by the Arkansas Press Association in part because of the farm stewardship on their operation in the northeast part of the state. "I hope more money will be available and we can qualify for some of these practices."
Then there's Max Carter, "the father of no-till" in Georgia as he is known. Carter, who grows about 300 acres of cotton in Douglas, Ga., has been engaged in conservation tillage for 27 years, and has given numerous presentations on the subject.
Like Edwards, he believes farmers should get conservation program funding for planting cover crops and maybe even carbon sequestration – a potential environmental benefit of conservation tillage systems that could slow global warming. Researchers also are looking at using sequestered carbon as a carrier for nitrogen and as a soil amendment, preventing harmful runoff of farm chemicals.
Bo Bannister, Carter's district conservationist in south central Georgia, said there has been significant adoption of no-till and reduced till systems by cotton growers in his district and interest is growing. He believes the CSP program will accelerate farmers' adoption, a step he believes is necessary as agriculture moves to "sustainable" mode.
"If we can get growers into some of this, we think its natural they will stay there," Bannister said.
Courtland, Ala., cotton producer Larkin Martin believes firmly in being a good steward of the land. She urges farmers to "get up to speed" on the changes to existing conservation programs and pay attention to the CSP regulations being developed.
"Conservation likely will gain more priority in the years ahead," said Martin, who is a member of the Cotton Council's Conservation Working Group. "There has been a great deal of emphasis outside of agriculture on conservation and pushing more dollars into these kind of titles and less into traditional row crop commodity payments."
Hood, who also is a member of the working group, is delighted that the CSP is "taking into account the practices that many farmers already are doing." He's optimistic that his work with variable rate technology will qualify because it reduces the overall amount of pesticides, fertilizer and other crop inputs applied on the land.
He also likes the fact that he will be able to develop and submit a conservation plan when "he has the time and can afford to do it."
Hood, who has been engaged in land forming practices for erosion control and water quality preservation on his Gunnison, Miss., farm for many years, said he is looking forward to getting help on maintenance of such structures as overfall pipe and planting of additional filter strips to help improve the quality of runoff water from his farm. He sees that as a must in order for his farm not to be labeled as a non-point pollution source and to meet EPA's total maximum daily load requirements for water runoff.
Ben Noble, Cotton Council senior government relations representative in Washington, said the Council's working group will continue dialogue with NRCS throughout the Title II implementation process. The focus will be on the changes that were made and how they can benefit U.S. cotton producers.
"We already have met with NRCS officials and talked about the CSP implementation," Noble said. "We discussed such specifics as defining a farm and about how the farmers who already are doing environmentally beneficial projects can be rewarded."
More information on the new conservation title, including a section-by-section description, fact sheets on the various conservation programs and a comparison to the 1996 farm law's conservation title, can be found on the web sites listed below. At the last site (www.nrcs.usda.gov) also can be found a new electronic version of the NRCS Field Office Technical Guides (FOTG). The guides previously were only available in handbooks. For more information, go to: http:// www.usda.gov/farmbill/conservation_fb.html
T. Cotton Nelson is manager, public relations for the National Cotton Council of America, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. e-mail: email@example.com.


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tonyadam brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 135 Designs von 45 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Inside Story Dating is a blog that contains advice, tips, news, stories, and so much more focused around dating! We need a logo to show off the "Inside Story" to dating!
Inside Story Dating
We want a logo designed that shows off the "inside story" concept and aspects to dating. The whole concept is that we have all the tips and advice you need to be successful at dating, we have stories to keep you entertained, etc. It's almost like a magazine solely focused on dating, but its a Blog.
Also, once the winner is chosen, I might have minor tweeks that need to be made based on how it fits into the wordpress theme, etc. I would want formats for the websites, the wordpress themes, a favicon, and a print version that I could use on printed items.
Blog Name: Inside Story Dating
Tag Line:"The Inside Story to dating, from real people!"
Desired Style: Simple, Clean, Modern, Creative but not cluttered or overdone.
- Central Design Focus: "Inside Story" to dating...(just as mentioned above in the description
- Name of the site: Inside Story Dating
- Very clean, crisp, classy look that is simplistic and not cluttered.
- The logo should fit the brand as it was described above. Target audience is anywhere from 18-45. Should be fun yet classy and professional yet playful
- Need Print and Web formats
- Main focus colors should be blue and maybe some greens. But, also open to other colors that are "fresh" or "refreshing"...it should use colors that feel light and not heavy.
- Need resizable vector format
- Need version with and without tagline
- Too many icons/graphics/etc.
- Not too male focused, it should be a balanced male/female and unisex design
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Getting Started With Exporting: Training and Educational Resources to Help You Take the First Steps
Getting Started With Exporting: Training and Educational Resources to Help You Take the First Steps
With two-thirds of the world's purchasing power in foreign countries, exporting represents a big opportunity to tap in to new markets, expand your customer base, and grow your business.
However, getting started with exporting can sometimes feel like a complex maze of regulations, policies, and other barriers. To help small businesses understand how to overcome these barriers and prepare to sell internationally, the federal government has several free training and educational resources that enable entrepreneurs to chart the path to exporting success.
- The Small Business Administration provides a wide range of online and in-person training related to exporting. The Introduction to Exporting course helps determine if exporting makes strategic sense for your business and whether you are ready to take the next steps. The Export Business Planner is a free, customizable document that enables you to work through the critical processes of export planning.
- Through its network of trade finance specialists located in 19 U.S. Export Assistance Centers (USEAC) throughout the country, the SBA provides training and counseling on trade financing and U.S. government export financing programs to both lenders and small businesses. USEACs are a valuable resource for small business exporters, combining the international marketing expertise of Commercial Service staff with the trade financing expertise of SBA (and in some cities, the Export-Import Bank) staff in one location. Find an Export Assistance Center near you.
- Free and low-cost training and counseling on exporting is also available through the Small Business Administration's District Offices, Small Business Development Centers and Women's Business Centers. Find local training and counseling resources in your area.
- BusinessUSA has a full set of free tools to help you explore exporting, including a step-by-step wizard that determines how prepared you are and finds customized resources for your specific needs. Another wizard helps you find resources on how to finance exporting that will enable you to expand your business. The site's Exporting 101 section is a comprehensive overview of how to sell overseas and includes market research tools, consulting support and other information that enables you to learn about exporting. In addition, you can locate free training and other exporting events in your area.
For more on exporting, including information on Small Business Administration export loan programs and other financial assistance, go to sba.gov/exporting.
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Nokia is taking pre-orders online for the Lumia 920, Lumia 820 and Lumia 620 in Egypt. Announcing that there's only a limited number of units available, the manufacturer is providing consumers the opportunity to get in quick and snatch one of the Windows Phones before they go. The devices have proven to be popular in other markets, which the company is planning to look closely at in Egypt.
Unfortunately no prices are provided, but multiple colours are available, which can be selected along with the desired Lumia. For the Lumia 820 and 920, consumers have the choice of yellow, white, black and red. For the Lumia 620, there's a slightly different line-up: black, white, cyan and green. It's good to see the company firing up the machine in Egypt.
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Muud.io is a new iPhone app that plays music to suit your mood. That's right, let Muud.io know what kind of mood you're in and it'll automatically build a playlist to match it. If you like a little more control, you can save and edit your favorite playlist to fit your exact needs.
Making great mixes shouldn't be a chore. Whether you're out-and-about, or relaxing at home, you want the right music and you want it now.
Muud.io automatically builds playlists to suit any mood, at the touch of a button.
Simply pick a mood, and Muud.io will build a playlist for you, using the music that you love.
- Community-recommended playlists, based on a mood of your choice.
- Automatic rating of song moods via the Muud.io community.
- Manually rate song moods according to your own personal preference.
- Save and edit your favourite playlists to get them just right.
- Let your friends know what you're listening to via Twitter and Facebook.
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Film Review: Monsters UniversityRookie monsters try to prove they have what it takes to scare kids in Pixar's latest offering.
The bright, sparkly Monsters University will instantly win over younger viewers, and provide Pixar with a huge boost in ancillary income through toys and knick-knacks. Consistently pleasant and entertaining, it's also a bit too easy. Customers who remember the studio's earlier efforts may be less impressed by a movie so calculated and predictable.
A prequel to 2001's Monsters, Inc., the movie explains how the green, one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and the gigantic, blue-and-pink James "Sulley" Sullivan (John Goodman) train to become "Scarers," whose interactions with youngsters produce crucial energy. A short prologue makes attending Monsters University an all-consuming goal for Mike. Sulley, a legacy student, takes a more blasé attitude toward classes.
Mike sticks to textbooks while Sulley parties with the "Roar Omega Roar" fraternity, but both students face expulsion after fighting in front of the fearsome Dean Hardscrabble (Helen Mirren). Their only chance to continue in the Scarers program is to win the "Scare Games" against RΩR and other fraternities.
To compete, Mike and Sulley enlist the help of the outcast "Ooozma Kappa" frat, whose members include the two-headed Terry/Terri Perry (Dave Foley and Sean Hayes), former salesman Don Carlton (Joel Murray), New Age holdover Art (Charlie Day), and the boyish Squishy (Peter Sohn). Turning them into a unit will require both Mike and Sulley to face up to their hopes and flaws as monsters.
Monsters University is filled with life lessons that are doled out like medicine after comic bits. "We could be a great team—we just need to work together" is typical. Pixar screenplays weren't always so obvious, or so single-minded. Parents who used to savor the narrative quirks and nods to Boomer nostalgia in other Pixar titles won't find nearly as much to occupy them here. Instead, Monsters University plays out like a standard college comedy, a cleaned-up Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell vehicle.
Pixar's glory days may be behind it, but the studio still knows how to turn out a feature. The animation here is far more complex than in Monsters, Inc. Almost every scene teems with movement and spectacle, and many of the supporting monsters are delightful. The slapstick is quick and satisfying, Randy Newman's music charming, and the voice actors uniformly outstanding. Billy Crystal and John Goodman share an easy familiarity that adds warmth to their scenes together.
3D effects are minimal, and the movie's color palette is sweet enough to cause toothaches, but on the whole Monsters University is expertly animated. The Blue Umbrella, a seven-minute cartoon, opens for the feature. Written and directed by Saschka Unseld, the dialogue-free short uses photorealistic backgrounds to capture an urban rainstorm. Delicate and moving, it proves that Pixar can still turn out memorable work.


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Hi-Fructose reviews Future Colors of America running now at Fecal Face Dot Gallery. excerpt: The Future Colors of America, the trifecta consisting of Albert Reyes (who now lives in LA), Matt Furie, and Aiyana Udesen, have created their own illustrative voice, a worldview who's origins are seemingly found uniquely in San Francisco (Jay Howell, Ferris Plock, and Porous Walker spring to mind as well), that is expressed with a DIY sensibility, illustrative aesthetic, and fuck-all attitude who's charmingly hilarious pop commentary is indicative of something we don't feel comfortable defining, but goddammit, we like it. -read the full review.
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Chemistry ShowsActivity by Peter Hollamby | added on Nov 02, 2011 | International
Sponsor(s): Cardiff University, Royal Society of Chemistry, hosts in the UK and abroad
Uncover some of the secrets of chemical reactions – especially those of a spectacular kind! Exciting shows that promises to blow the lid of Chemistry's possibly dusty image.
"Flash, Bang, Wallop"
with Plenty of Colour
Uncover some of the secrets of chemical reactions – especially those of a spectacular kind! An exciting show that promises
to blow the lid of Chemistry's possibly dusty image.
Chemistry is a fascinating subject and although the emphasis in the chemistry show will be on showcasing the more spectacular reactions which involve, heat, light (colour) and sound. The underlying message will be to consider what drives chemical reactions and how important it is to understand the energy involved and the speed of reactions if we are to contribute support to some of the key problems faced by modern society. Chemists have key roles to play in everyone's future.
"It's a Gas"
Close-up and personal. Meet a range of gases in an exciting and entertaining context. Learn something about the chemistry of combustion processes and a little about fireworks.
Chemistry is fun and exciting. The emphasis in this chemistry show will be introducing
the subject to youngsters in years 5,6 and 7 and helping to integrate primary
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In 1938, Vic Edelbrock, Sr. bought his first project car... a 1932 Ford roadster. This car was a turning point in Edelbrock history. It was Vic Sr.'s entry into the world of "hot rods" and it inspired the design and manufacture of the first Edelbrock manifold.
Today the Edelbrock Corporation has more than 600 employees and, since October 1994, has been a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (symbol: EDEL). Five locations, four in Torrance and the Foundry in San Jacinto, California, make up the Corporate facilities for a total of over 400,000 square feet.
The main offices include: engineering and testing; manufacturing; sales; tech support; warehouse; print shop; advertising and accounting. Less than a mile away, two locations house the Exhaust and Suspension Divisions. All Edelbrock exhaust systems and performance mufflers are designed and manufactured there with mandrel-tube benders, a laser cutter and robotic welders. Next door, Edelbrock shock absorbers are designed and manufactured using custom built equipment and state-of-the-art testing facilities. The Edelbrock Aluminum Foundry and QwikSilver division, where they manufacture carburetors for Harleys(R), dual-purpose and off-road motorcycles, are located in San Jacinto. The sand-cast foundry has been called "the most state-of-the-art foundry west of the Mississippi".
In October 1999, Edelbrock moved their warehouse into a new Distribution Center. All shipping and receiving operations were relocated to provide room for the expansion of their cylinder head, water pump and manifold manufacturing area at the main facility. Vic's Garage is located in the Distribution Center and houses the Company's collection of street rods and classic cars, as well as their extensive collection of historic photos and archives. Tours are available.
For more information about Edelbrock and their line of high-performance parts, visit Edelbrock Performance Products


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May 1, 2011
Evan Groninger took second place and Sam Glowinski finished fifth at the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference Multi-Event Championship Meet held Saturday and Sunday at Oberlin College.
The Little Giants tallied a total of 12 points that will go toward next weekend's NCAC Outdoor Track and Field Championship meet. Wabash won its first NCAC Indoor Track and Field Championship earlier this year.
Groninger tallied a total of 5,405 points in the decathlon, while Glowinski scored a total of 4,490 points. Groninger opened with a 736-point effort in the 100-meter dash, winning the event with a time of 11.58. He added another 719 points to his total with a finishing time of 16.12 for the best individual performance in the 110-meter hurdles. Groninger added another first place finish in the javelin throw with a mark of 55.15 meters (180 feet, 11 inches) to score a total of 665 points.
Glowinski grabbed the top spot in the pole vault, clearing 3.94 meters (12 feet, 11 inches) to score 601 points.


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By Russ Britt
The expenses involved subsidizing health coverage for lower-income households under Obamacare won't be as pricey as expected, and the overall net effect of the Affordable Care Act will be to reduce deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday.
In a follow-up report to its February report, the CBO said it expects coverage provisions of Obamacare to cost $36 billion for fiscal 2014, $5 billion less than previously expected. For the years 2015 to 2024, the CBO said it expects the program to cost a cumulative $1.383 trillion, $104 billion less than expected.
The 2014 costs revolve mostly around providing subsidies for health coverage through public insurance exchanges. In later years, there will be additional costs in expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program and tax credits for small employers.
CBO officials stressed in this report that while it takes into account $456 billion in offsetting tax collections resulting from Obamacare's implementation, there are other revenue-producing aspects of the program it did not include in this report. CBO says it estimated in July 2012 that, overall, Obamacare would reduce deficits.
The latest estimates differ from the February findings because, the CBO says, they were able to take into account the agency's economic forecasts that were published after the earlier Obamacare report. These new estimates also include the effects of exchange premiums and pricing plans, revised estimates on the number of early retirees that have their own employment-based coverage under Obamacare, and take into account new ACA regulations put in place in recent months.
The CBO, along with the Joint Committee on Taxation, estimate that the percentage of the non-elderly population with health insurance will rise to 84% this year from 80%. That number will climb to roughly 89% by 2016, the agencies say.
That translates to 19 million more insured in 2015, 25 million in 2016 and 26 million in 2017 through 2024.
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|System: Wii
|Dev: Next Level
|Pub: Ubisoft
|Release: November 16, 2010
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p
|Blood, Language, Violence
by Robert VerBruggen
Resident Evil. Dead Space. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon.
If this were a game of TriBond and you had to identify what the three have in common, the correct answer would be, "video-game franchises that forced Wii owners to settle for rail shooters while their friends got to play 3-D action games on next-generation consoles." The most recent of these, Ghost Recon, does some interesting things with the genre, but in the end, it's too monotonous and repetitive to be worth your time.
Like Dead Space: Extraction, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon has been promoted as a "guided experience" that pushes the boundaries of the rail shooter. That label fits this game better than it fit Extraction, but it's still a bit of a stretch. At any given moment during the game, you're most likely to be hiding behind cover and pressing a button to lean out and shoot, just as you do in classic rail shooters such as Time Crisis.
True, Ghost Recon gives you a little bit of freedom to move. You often have several pieces of cover to choose from, and you decide when to move on, rather than being pushed forward when the camera moves on its own. You can even shoot while moving between pieces of cover, or slide to avoid getting hit. If you're playing co-op, you can even split up your team to divide the enemies' fire. (If you play alone, the AI controls your teammate.) Nonetheless, for each position, it's just a matter of mowing down a few enemies and then moving to the next one.
That wouldn't be so bad if the developers had livened up this formula with interesting foes and levels and a great story, but no such luck. There are too few enemy types, and nearly all are exactly what you'd expect (basic soldiers that shoot you, guys with riot shields, guys with bazookas). Perhaps the most novel enemies are the engineers, who send explosive drones after you while they hide behind cover, but they're irritating to fight. The level design, meanwhile, pretty much just pushes you along a path with pieces of cover strewn about, with enemies triggering at various intervals. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether your game saved correctly. ("Wait, didn't I go through this part before?") And the less said about the story, the better -- some Russian ultranationalists are trying to invade Europe, you're trying to stop them, the end.
The presentation doesn't help matters. Pretty much every screen looks the same. This game is all weak textures, bland colors, and (mostly) bleak urban/industrial environments. Even the cutscenes fail to impress visually; they wouldn't have stood out even a console generation ago. The music is a mixed bag, with a few decent action-movie-style tracks, but also a cheesy instrumental that reminded us of arcade games from fifteen or twenty years ago. (Perhaps that was intended, but it's still awful.) The voice acting isn't too bad, but many dialogue clips ("Reloading!") are repeated far too often. Thanks to the weak sound effects, most of the weapons feel like BB guns.
To be fair, the developers did try to mix things up a bit in some levels, but unfortunately, these efforts fall right on their faces. There are a few shooting-from-a-vehicle sequences, but they merely entail aiming around and pulling the trigger. It's mildly entertaining, but it's hardly the kind of thing that will make a rail shooter feel fresh to a modern gamer.


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The Triple-S Invitational is the international free ride "world championships" of kiteboarding, held every year in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 2010 marks the 5th year of the Triple-S Invitational, scheduled for June 5th to 11th 2010. After four extremely successful Triple-S events, this has become a highly anticipated event on the pro kiteboarding calendar.
Mark your calendars now with excellent spectating, event parties and award ceremonies open to the public, you cannot miss any of the Surf, Slicks and Sliders action. This year, spectators will be able to catch all the Triple-S action from Watermen's Retreat. Information on booking your stay at Watermen's.
The Triple-S will feature the top pro kiteboarders in the world riding and competing in a unique freeride format that allows them to push the sport further than ever before. A total of 24 athletes will be scheduled to participate in the 2010 Triple-S Invitational.
This years break down is as follows: 21 athletes will be receiving invitations, with 7 alternates in place. This year 3 spots will be allotted to wild card invitations, these will be given to the best 3 rider videos received by April 1st.
Invited Riders:
Aaron Hadlow
Andre Phillip
Billy Parker
Brandon Scheid
Bruna Kajiya
Clarissa Hempel
Davey Blair
Dylan Thompson
Greg Norman
Ian Alldredge
Jake Kelsick
Jason Slezak
Joby Cook
Jon Modica
Kevin Langeree
Laura "Lulu" Vroman
Petter Johnsen
Ruben Lenten
Sam Bell
Sam Medysky
Susi Mai
Damien Leroy
Denver Coon
Josh Mulcoy
Madison Van Heurck
Mauricio Abreu
Reo Stevens
Shannon Best
Athletes receiving invitations to compete in the Triple-S Invitational are chosen by an event management committee. All invitations are sent by January 1, 2010. RSVP is expected by March 1, 2010, at which time alternates will take the place of any athlete who has not contacted event management and committed to the event.
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Please submit your wild card video via youtube or vimeo by April 1, 2010.
Wild Card selections will be made on April 15, 2010. The Triple-S management committee will make their selections taking into consideration submitted videos. Videos will be judged solely on the quality of riding. Editing and effects will not be taken into consideration. Athlete lists are subject to change at any time. The final list of athletes will be announced April 2010.


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