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Tennessee coach Rick Barnes isn't ready to proclaim Jordan Bone a rising star in SEC basketball, but he sure saw promising signs from his freshman point guard last Saturday night in Nashville.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration's internal projections called for strong enrollment in the states in the first year of new health insurance markets, according to unpublished estimates obtained by The Associated Press. Whether those expectations will bear out is unclear.
Urban Land Institute Memphis is partnering with Crosstown Arts, the Memphis Regional Design Center, Livable Memphis, American Institute of Architects Memphis, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis-Memphis Branch and Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s Innovation Delivery Team to host Sustainable Urban Retail in Memphis: Contemporary Principles and Practices on Thursday, April 12, at Christian Brother University's Buckman Hall.
Leading urban retail consultant Robert Gibbs is hosting a workshop for Downtown businesses Friday, April 13, at 8 a.m. at 456 Tennessee St. It's designed to give retailers and restaurants practical information they can use to increase shopper traffic and sales.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trying to make up lost time, President Barack Obama plunged back into the search for money for his re-election campaign Wednesday with a coast-to-coast series of parties marking his 50th birthday after he was forced to cancel fundraisers because of the debt-ceiling crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has canceled or postponed a series of fundraisers as negotiations continue over the nation's debt limit.
Obama postponed fundraisers in California and Washington state in recent weeks, along with an event at the New York home of film mogul Harvey Weinstein. On Monday, Obama skipped two Washington fundraisers to continue discussions over the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the government's borrowing limit. Vice President Joe Biden was attending one of the Democratic National Committee events. The other event was canceled.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says a proposal that gives states an opportunity to collect more unemployment insurance taxes from businesses in 2014 will force states to "rationalize" what jobless assistance they offer and how they pay for it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, in another move to smooth frayed ties with corporate America, ordered a far-reaching review of federal regulations Tuesday with the goal of weeding out rules that hurt job growth and creation. Republicans and business groups welcomed the step but suggested he do even more.
HONOLULU (AP) – Among the first announcements President Barack Obama will make upon returning from his Hawaiian vacation is his choice for top economic adviser, a decision that could signal a new direction for the administration as it struggles to jumpstart the economy and wrestle down unemployment.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican-leaning states will pick up a half dozen House seats thanks to the 2010 census, which found the nation's population growing more slowly than in past decades but still shifting to the South and West.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Displaying a new style of compromising, President Barack Obama invited Democrats and Republicans alike to the White House on Friday for the signing of a massive tax package that frayed his relations with liberals, caused him to abandon a pledge not to extend tax cuts to the rich and heralded a new balance of power in the capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats voted Thursday to reject President Barack Obama's tax deal with Republicans in its current form, but it was unclear how significantly the package might need to be changed.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A possible compromise on extending Bush-era tax cuts for rich and poor alike – at least for a while – is in the works after the Republican triumph in midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says federal agencies are investigating allegations of widespread errors in foreclosure documents.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says in a statement that an interagency task force on financial fraud has launched an investigation into the foreclosure process. He also says the Federal Housing Administration, a federal agency that guarantees mortgages, is investigating, too.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says President Barack Obama will not sign a bill that would allow foreclosure and other documents to be accepted among multiple states.
Consumer advocates and state officials had argued the legislation would make it difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosure documents prepared in other states.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama named Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren a special adviser Friday and tasked her with setting up a new agency to look out for consumers in their dealings with banks, mortgage companies and other financial institutions.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama exhorted Congress on Monday to make passage of a long-languishing small business aid package its first order of business when it returns next month from its summer break.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Christina Romer, one of President Barack Obama's most pivotal economic advisers, is resigning, a change that comes as the White House struggles to show signs of clear economic gains to a hurting nation.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – One hundred days after the rig explosion that set off the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, the oil giant behind it is hoping to move beyond the losses, the gaffes and the live video that ran for weeks of the busted well coughing up massive amounts of crude every second.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The American picked to lead oil giant BP as it struggles to restore its finances and oil spill-stained reputation pledged Tuesday that his company will remain committed to the Gulf of Mexico region even after the blown-out well is sealed.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Despite setbacks on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he still supports the need for broad climate legislation and pledged to keep pushing for it. The White House expressed fresh hope the Senate and House might strike a deal on a sweeping energy plan this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal checks could begin flowing again as early as next week to millions of jobless people who lost up to seven weeks of unemployment benefits in a congressional standoff.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took aim at Republican lawmakers Monday, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington politics by blocking extended unemployment benefits for millions of out of work Americans.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget Tuesday, charging him with putting the nation on a fiscally responsible path.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget director says he is stepping down next month, positioning him to be the first high-profile member of President Barack Obama's team to depart the administration.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is praising a federal judge's decision to lift the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chastened by heavy criticism from lawmakers, a grim-faced BP chief executive Tony Hayward said Thursday he was "deeply sorry" for his company's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Laying the groundwork for an evening speech to the nation, President Barack Obama walked a pristine stretch of sand on Florida's shoreline Tuesday and pledged to "fight back with everything we've got" against the spreading oil lurking offshore.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds." She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee said Monday that the U.S. government's fraud lawsuit against Goldman Sachs should dissuade Republicans from attempting to block financial regulations pending before the Senate.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a new government report showing the most jobs created in nearly three years. "We are beginning to turn the corner," he told workers at a plant that received government stimulus money.
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than a year after Lehman Brothers' collapse set off a financial panic, U.S. Senate negotiators are laboring to seal a deal over a consumer protection dispute holding up broad legislation to establish new rules for Wall Street.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Republicans see a chance for political gain in President Barack Obama's televised health care summit next week, even though the president will be running the show.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Spelling out painful priorities, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Monday to quickly approve a huge new shot of spending for recession relief and job creation, part of a record $3.8 trillion budget that would boost the deficit beyond any in the nation's history while only slowly beginning to put Americans back to work.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Support for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second four-year term mounted Monday as the White House appeared to stanch opposition that had roiled the financial markets.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wall Street executives said Wednesday they underestimated the severity of the 2008 financial crisis and apologized for risky behavior and poor decisions. They also defended their bonus and compensation practices to a skeptical commission investigating what caused the collapse.
NEW YORK (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. began crafting his argument Tuesday for a potential bid to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, reinventing himself as an independent thinker battling "Washington insiders."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Targeting an industry whose political deafness has vexed his administration, President Barack Obama is weighing a levy aimed at recovering tax dollars from government-rescued financial institutions.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health.
TOKYO (AP) - The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama.
White House counsel Greg Craig, who's leaving in early January, has been the subject of repeated questions about his future since late summer. Centered on talk that Obama's promise to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison by January had gone awry under Craig's leadership, the questions were settled Friday when the White House announced Craig's departure.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday brought out the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake – a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Going before groups of autoworkers and union members, President Barack Obama is trying Tuesday to assure blue-collar audiences that the economy is coming back – and that his administration deserves credit for saving some of their jobs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is going to Wall Street on the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse to outline financial changes to avert a future crisis like the one that sent the global economy into a tailspin.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill a day ahead of President Barack Obama's health care speech wasted no time Tuesday showing just how hard his selling job will be.
In a fresh sign of divisions in the president's own party, a key House Democratic moderate said he can no longer support legislation that includes a new public insurance plan to compete with private industry.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government's wildly popular "cash for clunkers" program, offering $4,500 rebates to customers who trade in gas guzzling vehicles, is likely to end Friday if the Senate does not approve $2 billion more for it, the White House says.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted overwhelmingly Friday to rush $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program, heeding calls from consumers eager to keep taking advantage of thousands of dollars in trade-in incentives.
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Republican Congressman Phil Roe is taking up what he feels was President Barack Obama's offer to sit down and evaluate the administration's health care proposal.
SABINAL, Texas (AP) – Under the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan, needy communities were supposed to be first in line for money to rebuild highways and jump start the economy.
It hasn't worked out that way.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A defiant President Barack Obama sought Monday to revive his faltering plan to overhaul health care, delivering a full-throated promise to get comprehensive legislation and summoning lawmakers crucial to his effort to the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to regain momentum on a core issue of Barack Obama's presidency, House Democrats on Friday unveiled legislation they said would cover virtually all the nearly 50 million uninsured Americans.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees but stopping short of a guarantee of full health insurance, a White House official said.
The U.S. economy contracted at a worse-than-expected 6.1 percent pace in the first quarter this year as sharp cutbacks by businesses and the biggest drop in U.S. exports in 40 years overwhelmed a rebound in consumer spending.
NEW YORK (AP) - With one day left to go before its deadline, Chrysler LLC's chief executive said Wednesday that the automaker is making progress toward meeting the government's restructuring requirements.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's extraordinary auto industry intervention is assertive and coldly pragmatic, with a dose of caution and a sentimental nod to the automobile's place in the American psyche.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Talking tougher by the hour, livid Democrats confronted beleaguered insurance giant AIG with an ultimatum Tuesday: Give back $165 million in post-bailout bonuses or watch Congress tax it away with emergency legislation.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to lay off more than 2,400 employees at five plants in Illinois, Indiana and Georgia as the heavy equipment maker continues to cut costs amid the global economic downturn.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government on Tuesday sought to quell concerns that the administration is moving toward nationalization of the country's ailing financial system, but said it would provide additional support to banks that do not have an adequate buffer to survive in an even worse economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Handing the new administration a big win, the House Friday passed President Barack Obama's $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy.
The bill was passed 246-183 with no Republican help. It now goes to the Senate where a vote was possible late Friday to meet a deadline of passing the plan before a recess begins next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as the deepening recession forced consumers and businesses to throttle back spending.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama could sign a bill providing government-sponsored health care to roughly 4 million uninsured children as soon as next week.
Obama released a statement Friday, the day after the Senate approved the bill 66-32, calling the vote, in his words, "a down payment on my commitment to ensure that every American has access to quality, affordable health care."
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama declared the U.S. economy was "bad and getting worse" Monday as he began crisis talks with congressional leaders on emergency action. He predicted lawmakers would approve hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and tax cuts within two weeks of his taking office.
CHICAGO (AP) – Barack Obama planned his first public appearance since his presidential victory for Friday – a meeting with economic advisers to discuss the nation's financial woes that Americans listed as their top concern on Election Day.
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This stereoscope picture of the Turners Fall Dam and Canal was taken just before it was entirely rebuilt in 1869. The dam was built at the site of a waterfall on the Connecticut River and generated water power for the factories on both sides of the river. The canal had originally been built in 1798 to circumvent the waterfall. It functioned until 1856 - the railroad network had long since supplanted it - but its channel still existed, and the stone piers for the dam offered a good viewing point for spectators looking at the river. The canal was rebuilt in 1869 by a group led by John Alvah Crocker. Its channeled water was used for power by a number of new factories on the east bank of the Connecticut River across from Greenfield. These factories would become the heart of a new town, Turners Falls.
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Senior forward Eddie Ard and freshman guard Josh Slater and freshman center Adnan Hodzic have earned postseason honors from the Atlantic Sun Conference coaches and sports information directors.
Ard, from LaPlace, La., was named All-Atlantic Sun Second Team.
Slater, from Nashville; and Hodzic, from Sarajevo, Bosnia, were named to the A-Sun All-Freshman Team.
Ard has been one of the top players for the Bisons during his career. He has surpassed the 1,500-mark in scoring. This season he has led the Bisons with 15.2 points per game. He scored a career-high 35 points against Campbell on January 3, 2008. This was the second year in a row he has been named to the A-Sun Second Team.
Both Slater and Hodzic have been strong in the last half of the season.
Slater, playing the point, has scored 16 or more points in five of his last six games. He has led the Bisons in rebounding in three of his last four games.
Hodzic has started the last 13 games in a row and has made 14 starts this season. He has averaged in double figures in scoring in his last six games.


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The history of glass making before the Industrial revolution can be separated in two stages: in the first, which began in the 3rd millennium BC and ended in the period from 100 to 50 BC, craftsmen discovered how to transform raw materials into glass and how to make vessels and other objects either with moulds or by forming a molten glass around a removable core. Both techniques were labour-intensive and were seldom made in big quantities. In the second stage, beginning in the 1st century AD in the Syro-Palestinian region, glass workers found that molten glass could be formed by inflation and manipulation with tools. Glass blowing enabled them to make quickly a wide range of shapes, thus widening its market. However, after the 2nd century AD, glass is generally found in a more confined area. The change appears to have taken place under the Flavian Emperors (69-96 AD), an era that in many ways represents a watershed in the history of glass making. It is from this time onwards that glassblowing in the East and the West developed along independent lines, the only exception being fine tableware decorated with special techniques, which was probably due to the still unifying factor of the Roman Imperial administration.
Yet, the most prolific period in the history of glass in the Eastern Mediterranean was during the late Roman Empire, when Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, Asia Minor and the north Pontic region all had flourishing glass industries. With the increased demand for glass, regionalism became the dominant factor in the production of glass vessels. Marked regional differences existed not only between the glass made in Syria, Jordan and Palestine, but even between different parts of Palestine (inland vs coast; Galilee and Phoenicia vs Judea). The glass industries of these regions experienced a prolonged period of growth, and the late Roman and early Byzantine period were by far the most important not only in terms of absolute output but also in terms of typologies used. Only during this period, glass was finally used by different strata of societies, sometimes even replacing pottery for certain functions.
The Palestinian glass industry flourished from the 4th to the early 5th century, following the rule of the Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305), when the region enjoyed a time of relative peace in spite of economic instability. When Constantine the Great finally emerged as sole ruler in 324, Palestine benefited from the fact that he targeted Jerusalem and the Holy Land as main recipients for his reconstruction program. Exempted from personal taxation by an Imperial edict in 337, a large number of skilled craftsmen profited greatly from the economic boom.Login to view price


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The continuing evolution of Texas' place in the Big 12 will have far-reaching ramifications — including the most powerful conference in college football.
A source told Sporting News on Wednesday that both Texas A&M and Oklahoma are so concerned about rival Texas gaining a recruiting advantage with the newly formed Longhorn Network, the two institutions could turn to the SEC if the problems can't be figured out. The core issue: The Longhorn Network will televise live high school football games in the state of Texas, an obvious recruiting advantage for Texas. (Ed. note: The Big 12 announced later Wednesday that those plans had been put on hold.)
SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Wednesday that he will "continue to do what is in the best interest of the SEC."
"It is my job to make sure the SEC is the premier league," Slive said. "For me to exclude any action that would preclude that from happening would be inappropriate."
Texas A&M and Oklahoma were both in talks with the SEC last summer when Texas was contemplating a move to the Pac-10. The Big 12 eventually made it work in the 11th hour, in part because of heavyweight Texas' deal to pursue its own television network outside of the league coffers.
Now that the network will include televising high school games in the state of Texas, the dynamics of the Big 12 (and the SEC) could still change. Slive said that he is "comfortable" with the current 12-team SEC, and that it would take a "paradigm shift" for the SEC to expand.
Texas A&M and Oklahoma looking for a new home would be that kind of shift. Moreover, Slive said the SEC's television deals with CBS and ESPN have clauses that allow them to renegotiate if the conference structure changes.
In other words, adding two teams wouldn't mean the SEC is dividing the current revenue pie. It would mean, more than anything, completely restructured deals that would likely dwarf the $2 billion-plus the SEC receives from current CBS and ESPN deals.


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Eventually I kept noticing it popping up enough to look into the story online a bit. I scoured the wiki for a bit (because I sometimes do that rather than devote too much time to reading a series i'm only curious about. It has its downsides.). All that stuck with me after I left was the Eclipse and the World Transformation
...you basically spoiled 2 of the biggest highlights of the series for yourself.
It didn't affect my reading too much at all. When I watched the adapted Golden Age, I already knew Griffith would eventually sacrifice everyone (read. Guts), but I had no idea what the context would be, or how the event would actually play out. Which is essentially the exact same position any manga reader would be in by the time they finish Black Swordsman.And my knowledge of the World Transformation was literally "Griffith floods the world with magical stuff". Do you think I had any idea about Ganishka, Skullknight, Zodd, the Kushan war and the events that led to Femto incarnating and leading Midland's army? For a while I even though the WT and the Eclipse were the same event, or at least happened much sooner to each other than they eventually did.
Maybe those were the biggest highlights for you. But I still distinctly remember my first read through's highlights turned out to be the quieter moments like Guts' goodbye to Jill, meeting Rickert and Godo again, Guts reuniting with Casca in the heretic cave as well as the Hill of Swords, and the battle against Grunbeld.
Around this time, summer 1999, I also discovered Black Sun Over Midland, the only Berserk fan community in existence
Around this time, summer 1999, I also discovered Black Sun Over Midland, the only Berserk fan community in existence (which I've kept alive here: http://bsom.skullknight.net), a community that eventually transferred over to here, after the admin there stopped updating regularly. And well, here we are.
Berserk was reccomended under the category great monster designs on an image on 4chan


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Who Shot Roger Rabbit
It's difficult to believe that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is now 25 years old. And if you weren't around when the movie first wowed audiences in theaters, it's even more difficult to comprehend its significance to special effects. Animation and live action were brought together before by Disney, but Roger Rabbit took it to a whole new level. Just like the first time you saw Star Wars and Jurassic Park, you knew you were watching a major game changer in terms of filmmaking technology, but the technology never got in the way of the storytelling.
Throughout Robert Zemeckis's career he's brought parallel worlds together. He had previously put fictional characters around The Beatles coming to America in his directing debut, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and he zapped Marty McFly back and forth in time in Back to the Future, so bringing together the real world and and the world of animation was a task totally up his alley. That is, if he could secure the job.
Roger Rabbit was first set up at Disney in 1981, when Robert Zemeckis was still trying to make a name for himself as a filmmaker. He had already directed the 1978 feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand for Universal, which did no business, as well as co-writing, with Bob Gale and John Milius, the Steven Spielberg disaster flick 1941. Following 1941, Zemeckis helmed the comedy Used Cars (also co-written with Gale) which was much beloved by fans, and had some of the highest test scores in Columbia's history, but it was still a financial flop.
Disney executive Tom Wilhite, who was also a major driving force behind the special effects-ladden Tron, wanted Zemeckis to direct Roger Rabbit, but Michael Eisner wasn't a fan of his work. Eisner eventually changed his mind after seeing Back to the Future, but Zemeckis was initially disappointed that he was working with Disney because he felt the Warner Brothers characters were much more interesting to work with. Still, Zemeckis was able to bring Warner Brothers cartoons into the film, which was quite a feat to pull off for a Disney production.
As recalled in the Eisner-centric book Keys to the Kingdom, Zemeckis insisted that the animation in Roger Rabbit used every frame, a very time consuming, and expensive, proposition. Legendary animator Richard Williams was brought on to direct the animation sequences (another drama-filled Hollywood story we've written about before). A minute of animation reportedly took a team of twenty people to bring to life. This was clearly not going to be a cheap movie, which drove the terminally stingy Disney crazy at the overruns.
As the budget climbed past the original $29 million to $40 million, Eisner cornered executive producer Steven Spielberg and yelled, "You promised me I would never see a four!" In fact, the budget went over $50 million, and according to one report, Roger Rabbit may have cost as much as $70 million by the end of its production. That rising cost can largely be attributed to the technical ambitions the film.
Dean Cundey was the cinematographer on Roger Rabbit, and he has shot many movies that broke new ground throughout his career. Cundey shot Halloween's masterful opening steadicam segment, and he was also the DP on John Carpenter's The Thing, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, and Apollo 13, to name a few. One can only imagine how difficult it had to be to reinvent the wheel so many times, but as Cundey told me, "I've always enjoyed doing things that haven't been done before, and taking something to a new level as far as technology or technique. Roger Rabbit was really a major new step."
One of the biggest challenges of shooting Roger Rabbit was Zemeckis wanted to move the camera a lot, which was a big no-no when it came to combining live action and animation. As Cundey recalls, "We had been given rules by Disney: 'You can't move the camera. Shoot wide shots so you can movie the animation around inside. Light the set very evenly.' And we said, 'We're going to violate those rules because we want to do something different.'"
To get the quality that the director demanded, Cundey chose to shoot Roger Rabbit with VistaVision. VistaVision was a cinema format created by Paramount in the '50s in which 35mm film had higher resolution and finer grain, and used in epics like The Ten Commandments. VistaVision was designed to rival the curved widescreen of Cinerama, but Paramount discontinued it after seven years of use. Still, VistaVision would continue to be used throughout the years, especially for FX shots, and it is also considered the catalyst for the 80mm IMAX.
As Cundey explains, "VistaVision shot regular 35mm film, but it ran through the camera sideways so you ended up with a frame that was twice the size. It was wider, but the negative was larger. What that meant was you got better quality, especially when you started compositing shots, because in those days compositing wasn't done at the computer, it was done on an optical printer."
The problem was there were no existing cameras that could shoot in VistaVision. Paramount had built a few in the 50s, but they had already been dismantled, and it was an obsolete filming system that was by then only used for optical FX. "ILM used the VistaVision system, but it was for isolated shots in a movie, never for an entire film," Cundey continues.
The solution was building a VistaVision camera that could actually shoot dialog. "ILM actually built the camera," Cundey says. "I would go up and consult with them, and give them suggestions for features we needed."
But creating the cameras was just the beginning; using them properly was another hurdle to tackle. With the VistaVision camera, "You couldn't look through the camera and see the shots as easily," Cundey recalls. "It was very awkward.
"Composing shots by the camera operator is done by reflex," Cundey continues. "You look at the frame, and what you see in the frame tells you where to place the subject, how to move the camera, how fast to move it, etc. Well this was a film where most of the time the lead character wasn't in the frame. So my operator, Ray Stella, always had to imagine, or any of the other animated characters in the frame, then automatically recompose the frame to allow for that. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been room in the frame to put in the animated character later."
But as we know now, the gambles Zemeckis took paid off, big time. Roger Rabbit was a huge hit, grossing $156 million in the US, and $329 million internationally, a huge box office take for the time. (Adjusted for inflation this would be nearly $300 million domestic, and over $600 million foreign today.) It also won two Academy Awards, for Best Film Editing and Best Visual Effects.
Basking in its success, Zemeckis would go on to direct Back to the Future II the next year. And just around the corner from Roger Rabbit, Cundey would shoot another major game changer with Steven Spielberg and Jurassic Park.
"The goal is to always provide the audience with something they haven't seen before, and to somehow embellish what we've already done."
"A lot of the films I've worked on have benefitted from a previous film," says Cundey. "I've often taken the experiences, techniques, and technology I do in one film, and apply it to the next film on a new level. Jurassic Park was definitely an example of that. I was taking the same kind of thought process that came out of shooting Roger Rabbit, but I was using another completely untried technique, which was photo-realistic computer generated characters."
"One of the things I really enjoy about this industry is the fact that we're always doing something new. The goal is to always provide the audience with something they haven't seen before, and to somehow embellish what we've already done. So often what we do is like an untried research and development experiment. You get used to flying by the seat of your pants through a lot of these new techniques, and you learn as you go. Just about the time you've got it mastered, which is by the end of the film. You start another one. Somebody else comes up with an idea, and now you're off and running."


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Steve Alford says he won't pay $1 million buyout to New Mexico after leaving to take UCLA job
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A University of New Mexico official says former Lobos basketball coach Steve Alford is willing to pay a $200,000 buyout for leaving the Albuquerque school to take a job at UCLA but he won't pay the $1 million payment that New Mexico wants.
According to the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/14L4Aaj ), an email written by a university lawyer says Alford is offering to comply with terms of his previous contract with New Mexico.
Alford on March 18 signed a term sheet agreeing to a new 10-year contract with New Mexico that included a $1 million buyout. It was to take effect April 1, two days Alford announced his resignation.
New Mexico contends it's owed the $1 million buyout because the previous contract required a 30-day notice of termination.


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provident marketing needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 85 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
We are in need of a new logo for a professional services / consulting firm - professional, polished - more information in brief
Note- new company name is Provident - we need change/logo from current name "Connell"
We are changing our company name - from Connell to
"Provident Spend Management".
We are in need of a logo that demonstrates professionalism, clean, crisp new look for this small consulting firm - we help companies with their supply chain projects.
PLEASE reference the current site we have - ConnellSpendManagement.com - we are keeping the website, just swapping out the logo -
The website will give you a feel for our color scheme - overall look that we need to sustain.
- Swapping out the current Logo to the new logo - NOTE: please DO NOT make the look the as the current logo
- You can make the "Provident" prominent - and the "Spend Management" in smaller type -
- Looking for something that emits professionalism
- clean crisp look to follow along with our website's look
- serif or sans-serif are fine
- Black, Blues and colors that would complement the website (please reference)
- nothing cutesy
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The growth of mobility is unprecedented. Nearly 80 percent of the world's population now has access to a mobile phone, and new devices are helping enable many more applications and services.
At the same time, cloud has become the new way of delivering—and charging for—IT services and functionality. Technology services and apps are increasingly being delivered and paid for on demand from remote data centers, accessible through the cloud of interconnected networks that constitute the Internet.
So many applications and services can now be accessed through simple browsers and delivered through the cloud. Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) wanted to know what happens when the hot technology trends—"mobility" and "cloud"— collide. So IBSG surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. mobile users to understand their current and future needs, and learn how they prefer to pay for mobile cloud services. The findings help operators understand the size of the opportunity, develop strategies for success, and differentiate their offerings.
For details about this paper and other interesting, provocative papers, go to the Service Provider Thought Leadership page of the IBSG web site.
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Yale (5-3) outshot CCSU 16-8 and Blue Devil goalkeeper Nikola Deiter totaled five saves on the game. Central was led by junior Allison Kelley who posted four shots.
After 32 minutes of even play, Yale senior Kristen Forester put the ball into the net from five yards out on a cross from junior Juliann Jeffrey putting Yale up 1-0. Central senior Cara Cavallari posted a shot following the goal in attempt to even the score, but it resulted in a save by Bulldog goalkeeper Rachel Ames.
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This sounds like a practical and workable approach. I've done something similar in switching to a vegetarian diet.Paññāsikhara wrote: I'm not sure about the usual Theravada POV, but knowing that you have connections with other traditions, I can say that in Chinese Buddhism, there is very early canonical support and therefore the actual practice of choosing whatever of the five one wishes to uphold. If it is taking precepts as a group, one simply does not recite that particular precept that one is not taking; or if by oneself, well just take whatever precepts one feels one can take.
Ultimately, precepts are more about one's own intentions. We needn't take them as either a "five or nothing" approach. One could skillfully make a particular adaption for one's own situation. There are also canonical bases for this, too, so it is not exactly something new.
For instance, one could begin the training in the first four precepts, and for the fifth maybe try something like: "Uphold the training precept of refraining from alcoholic and intoxicating substances from Sunday to Thursday"; and thus give yourself the weekend. This is good practice, gradually building up on one's ability to refrain. Or even cut it down to only Saturday as allowable for oneself. One may thus find that one has to skip on some social engagements, but participate in others. As time goes on, one may find that when the weekend or Saturday comes, one simply isn't interested in a drink at all. Gradually one moves into a full restraint mode, or close. At this point, one may make the resolution to "refrain from alcohol and intoxicants" completely.
Or, take the precept to refrain completely for a period of time, eg. one year, one month, or whatever. I remember as a Uni student - and I studied Engineering, which is notorious for crazy alcoholic behavior - myself and friends would sometimes take a break, and refrain for a while. One friend did it for a bet, he was rather an alcoholic undergrad, and even one month without drinking was a stretch! I did this a couple of times, for a couple of months each. Some time later, reflecting on this, I noticed that I was just as happy during that time of abstinence, and this helped make the decision to refrain completely.
Didn't realize engineering students could be such hard partiers! At my school, they were better known for bringing calculators along when going out to dinner. Settling the bill often took as long as the dinner itself.
Makes sense.This is a bit like the standard precept of refraining from sexual misconduct, then going to the eight fast-day precepts, and aiming for full restraint. In fact, some traditions do have a lay five precept option whereby the third precept is celibacy, even restraint with one's own partner / spouse. This may be particularly good for older couples, who wish to refrain married and happy in a strong relationship, but give more time to their Dhamma practice. (A bit like many societies wherein retirement is a time to turn more towards religious practice.)
Many marriages fail in the later years when sexual attraction fades or disappears. Focusing on dhamma practice could provide a happier alternative to the quest for eternal youth.


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Senior Joe Johnson singled home Montana Timmons with the game-winning run in a 5-4 extra inning contest at Denison on Saturday. The Little Giants pounded Denison 13-5 in game one for a series sweep of the Big Red.
The wins take Wabash from fifth place in the North Coast Athletic Conference standings at the start of the day to third, vaulting past Denison and Wittenberg. The Little Giants are now 18-20 overall and vault to 9-5 in NCAC games. Wabash will close out its regular season on Monday with two games in Xenia, Ohio against Kenyon College. The games were originally scheduled for Friday afternoon, but rain forced a postponement to Sunday. Poor weather once again forced a change, moving the games to a neutral site midway between both schools.
Wabash scored four runs in the second inning to take a 4-1 lead over Denison in game two. Johnson (right) started the scoring by reaching base on a two-single. Robby Hechinger and Chris Deig each followed with singles, scoring Johnson to tie the game at 1-1. An error on a ground ball by John Pennington loaded the bases. John Holm brought two runs home with a single through the right side. Timmons followed with a double off the left field wall to bring Pennington home with the fourth run of the inning.
The Big Red cut the lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the second before the game would advance to the top of the sixth inning. With a steady rain falling, the infield tarps came out to force a one-hour, 40-minute rain delay.
Wabash was six outs away from completing the sweep in regulation, but Denison rallied for a run in the sixth and one more in the seventh to tie the contest at 4-4. Timmons led off the eighth inning with a single through the left side of the infield. Tanner Coggins' sacrifice bunt moved Timmons to second. A walk to PJ Tyson and a fielder's choice by David Seibel put runners on the corners with two outs. Johnson drilled the first pitch through the left side to score Timmons with the eventual game-winning run.
Chris Widup came on in relief in the eighth, hitting the first batter to put the tying run aboard. Two consecutive ground outs by the next two batters ended in force plays at second, bringing Tim Duxbury to the plate for the Big Red (16-20, 8-7 NCAC). Widup finished with a strikeout to earn his first career save.
Andrew Swart (left) earned the victory — his second of the day after pitching a complete game, seven-inning win in game one. The junior righthander worked one inning, allowing a run on one hit and one walk with a wild pitch and a strikeout. Brian Van Duyn pitched well over five innings prior to the lengthy rain delay, allowing only two runs on four hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Luke Zinsmaster pitched the sixth inning, giving up one run on three hits with a strikeout.
Swart worked all seven innings in the first game, scattering 10 hits. He allowed four earned runs with two walks and six strikeouts. His only real trouble came in the bottom of the sixth inning when Kyle Clemmonson hit a two-run home run.
Deig, Timmons, and Coggins each finished with three hits in game one for Wabash. Hechinger joined Timmons and Coggins with each collecting three RBI in the contest.


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He's threatening to kill himself, and I don't know what to do. …"
Don Lipstein heard those words from his daughter-in-law on the phone as he left work on March 15, 2011. They didn't ring true.
Joshua, Lipstein's son, was finishing his Navy career in Norfolk, Va. His wife lived in Texas where they planned soon to start a new life. Don Lipstein worked in Pennsylvania. Maybe his daughter-in-law wasn't reading the situation right, Lipstein thought. He called his son.
Joshua had endured hardships. After spending two tours in Iraq where his Navy Riverine Squadron patrolled rivers, Joshua planned on making the military his career. But the discovery of a brain tumor led to a 22-hour surgery and permanent hearing loss in his right ear. No longer medically cleared for regular missions, Joshua spent his shifts monitoring security cameras. An addiction to pain killers led to a stint in rehab where he met a heroin addict who soon got Joshua hooked. Then Joshua's mother died of cancer. Still Lipstein had a hard time believing his son could be suicidal.
Those doubts vanished when he heard the pain in his son's voice. Joshua was crying. Joshua never cried.
"Dad, I'm so sorry," Joshua repeated over the phone. "I love you."
"If we can get you off the drugs your life will look so much better," Lipstein pleaded. He tried to think of ways he could keep his son on the line and call 911 at the same time.
"Do you have a gun with you?" he asked.
"Can you do me a favor and take the bullets out?"
"I can't do that, dad."
Joshua did give his current location. Maybe that meant he wanted help, Lipstein hoped. Then his son's voice grew strong. "Dad. I've got to go. I love you." The line went dead.
Lipstein felt his heart rip out of his body. He called 911 and spoke to Joshua's best friend, but help arrived too late. Joshua died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 23.
AFTER NEARLY 12 YEARS of sustained military conflict overseas, the American casualties of war extend to the home front. A record 349 active-duty soldiers killed themselves last year, exceeding the number of combat deaths for the year in Afghanistan. The problem extends beyond current troops: A veteran commits suicide every 65 minutes, for a rate of 22 each day, according to a new study.
Soldiers return home still coping with old traumas only to face fresh anxieties as they leave the military and try to build new lives in a tough economy. The suicide numbers are rising despite the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration spending millions and introducing hundreds of suicide awareness programs. A culture that stigmatizes mental illness leads to many suffering in silence, not wanting to be seen as the weak link in their unit and fearful that counseling could stunt their careers. Yet the trauma of war is real.
Roadside bombs hit Marine Tom Bagosy's convoy five times during a deployment to Iraq in late 2006. He manned a gun from his vehicle's roof, his body exposed. He told his wife, Katie, how a sniper bullet once came so close he could feel it passing by his head. Katie worried, but at least he talked. The more grim Tom's missions became, the more Katie heard from him.
At a military briefing for spouses, Katie spoke up, saying she already knew her husband would need help when he returned. Other wives looked at her like she was crazy. You don't know that yet, they said. Give the guys down time when they return. Be patient.
Depending on the survey, anywhere from 2 to 14 percent of all troops develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The number of veterans receiving mental health treatments has risen from 927,052 in 2006 to 1.2 million in 2012. That figure will likely continue to rise: The full manifestations of untreated PTSD often peak about a decade after the inciting incident.
For Katie Bagosy, the man she married died in Iraq. The person who returned in his place was distant, irritable, and impatient. He drank, played video games, and awoke from nightmares not knowing where he was. "He wasn't anybody I would have chosen to marry," Katie said. "But I made my vow, and I kept hoping he would get better."
A year after he returned, Tom turned to Katie and said, "I think I am going to be one of those people who will have PTSD for the rest of my life." Still he wanted to join the Marines' special operations forces. Medications and mental treatment would be barriers to getting a coveted invite to the Special Operations Command training. But in the summer of 2009, Bagosy shipped out to Afghanistan, a newly minted special forces Marine. This time he wouldn't talk to his wife about his missions. She braced for what he would be like when he returned.
The Pentagon and the Veterans Administration are investing $100 million to study suicides. To fight the stigma against mental illness, the Army began embedding behavioral specialists within units so soldiers have easy access to mental heath experts they can get to know. The Air Force is putting mental health professionals in the same clinics as primary care physicians. That way, its military personnel may not know what type of doctors their colleagues are seeing.
The Army has increased its mental health professional staff by 35 percent while the VA has a goal of hiring 1,600 new mental health providers by the end of June. (A January report showed that about 950 veterans receiving VA care attempted suicide each month between 2008 and 2010. Another VA study found that 30 percent of high-risk mental heath cases did not receive the promised follow-up visits.) The agencies bolstered the capacity of crisis hotlines such as Vets4Warriors and its collection of suicide prevention programs with acronyms like the Marines' RACE (Recognize, Ask, Care, Escort).
They've thrown so many programs and initiatives at the problem that the Pentagon's Defense Suicide Prevention Office, which opened in 2011, found 900 suicide fighting activities across all departments. This fall the office will finish its inventory and promises to streamline suicide prevention. Meanwhile, military families are confused about where to turn for help.
Soon after his second deployment ended, Tom Bagosy began having suicidal thoughts. Katie and Tom once fought in the kitchen over a gun. He won the struggle and drove off in his truck only to return later that night acting calm. The next day the family drove to the White House for the annual Easter Egg roll. As Tom battled suicidal thoughts, he argued with his doctors over treatment. He told Katie that he felt like nobody listened to him. When he caught Katie trying to hide his ammunition, he shrugged it off: "I have ammo all over," he said. "So don't even try."
On Mother's Day in 2010, Tom told Katie he had done what he was supposed to do by bringing his two children into the world and serving his country: "It's time for me to step back and let some other man take over my family."
The next day, Tom appeared calm and drove to Camp Lejeune, N.C. Katie called Tom' base psychologist. Officials decided to put Tom in a treatment facility. Tom seemed cooperative while waiting for an escort to take him to the hospital. But those watching him let their guard down, and Tom bolted out the door. A group of Marines chased after him. Tom reached into his truck and pulled out a gun. He pointed it at them. As they backed off, Tom drove away. A few minutes later, with Military Police in pursuit, Tom stopped his black Sierra GMC truck in the middle of the road and shot himself with a pistol. He was 25.
"I don't think he wanted to die," Katie said. "He didn't want to feel the pain. I probably wasn't thinking the way I should have been thinking. It was a very intense, emotional time. To me it is still the war that killed him."
SOME NON-PROFIT GROUPS are trying to help family members after suicides. The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) provides free peer-based emotional support groups, seminars, and retreats for adults and a "Good Grief Camp" for children. This Memorial Day weekend more than 1,000 survivors in different stages of grief will come to the nation's capital for the TAPS' annual conference.
The attendees will include Don Lipstein. The first three months after his son died, Lipstein felt frozen. He'd wake up, breathe, and, at day's end, not recall much of anything he had done. But at TAPS events he found people who had experienced the same loss. They felt safe enough to laugh together one minute and cry the next. "People don't look at you like you are crazy," Lipstein said.
Determined to honor his son by finding something positive out of the tragedy, Lipstein became a peer mentor coordinator for TAPS. He matches those newly mourning a military suicide with those who lost a loved one and are farther along in their grieving journey. "Two years out from Joshua's death I can say that I am able to put my story behind me and focus on other people's stories," Lipstein said. "The pain doesn't go away, but it does become a little bit easier to deal with."
Some groups are also joining the battle, determined to ensure that the spiritual element of healing isn't ignored. Inside the military, Army chaplains set a goal of having 50,000 soldiers and family members attend "Strong Bonds" marriage retreats over the final three months of 2012. With the National Guard responsible for more than 50 percent of those who fought in recent wars, the Oregon National Guard is part of a pilot program, "Partners in Care." It matches area faith-based organizations with Guard and reserve units.
Outside the Pentagon, Military Ministry, a division of Cru (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ) commissioned the biblically based Combat Trauma Healing Manual and a companion workbook for wives called When War Comes Home. "You can't read through the Psalms of David without realizing that he was a sufferer of post-traumatic stress and cried out many times for God's healing and support," said Jeff Oster, Military Ministry's executive director.
The organization also partnered with the American Association of Christian Counselors to produce a 30-hour training video for professional counselors on how to deal with PTSD using a Christ-centered approach.
But scores of hurting veterans are leaving the military and returning to their small hometowns, many in rural areas far from military bases and the nonprofits catering to soldiers. "What we need is lots and lots of churches that will take the plight of military families to heart," said Chris Adsit, the lead author of Military Ministry's two workbooks. "The good shepherd leaves the 99 sheep and searches for the one lost sheep."
FIVE MONTHS INTO HIS 2004 DEPLOYMENT to Iraq, Josh Renschler, 21, stood on top of his vehicle when a mortar round hit a perimeter fence, hurling a four-foot long steel picket towards him. Renschler woke up three days later at a hospital in Germany. He spent two months in a military hospital in California recovering from head and back injuries. All he wanted to do was get back to his unit in Iraq. Instead he underwent more medical treatment at his home base in Fort Lewis, Wash. He struggled with seizures, migraines and numbness in his legs. When his old unit came back, he avoided them. Soon the unit redeployed to Iraq without him. Renschler became obsessed with watching news reports about the war.
One night in May 2007, Renschler recognized faces on his television screen. Six members of his old squad had been killed when an explosive device tore though their vehicle. The next morning Renschler put on his uniform and went to his unit's rear detachment. They assigned him to escort the bodies to their final resting places. He followed his old battle buddies to funerals from Washington to Mississippi. Seeing the families grieve, Renschler felt guilty for not being in the vehicle with the rest of his squad. Six months later he left the army.
Renschler took a job at an island prison in Washington. It became a breeding ground for his anger and hate. Fights gave him such an adrenaline rush that he sometimes provoked the inmates. After breaking up a large melee about a year into his job, Renschler couldn't calm down. When he slumped into a chair, his coworkers thought he was having a heart attack. Hospital doctors told him he had suffered a panic attack. Renschler lost his job.
Renschler and his family started attending Northwest Community Church in Lakewood, Wash. He went, but he didn't understand how God could allow horrible things he had witnessed to happen. Matt Vanderfeltz, a church member and retired lieutenant colonel, latched onto Renschler. He wouldn't take no for an answer when he invited Renschler to coffee or a meal. Unemployed, Renschler had no excuse when Vanderfeltz asked him to a men's retreat. When Renschler began to talk about the issues he was having, Vanderfeltz promised to walk alongside Renschler to help him find the best solution. Without Renschler asking for help, members of the church began showing up at his doorstep with a car full of groceries. Unsigned cards with $200 in Safeway gift cards would arrive in the mail.
Renschler started going to a VA outpatient-counseling program, where he saw Vietnam veterans who had been coming for 30 years but were still broken. Renschler told Vanderfeltz that he didn't want to end up like that. Vanderfeltz found a copy of the Military Ministry workbook. But Renschler, not much of a reader, hid it away.
With Renschler still jobless, the banks started to foreclose on his home and repossess his truck. He faced his third back surgery. Lying in bed one afternoon in the middle of 2008, with severe back pain and a migraine headache, Renschler looked up on the top of a shelf and saw his gun. He visualized putting it to his head and pulling the trigger and thought about the relief he'd feel when it was over. He pictured the bullet escaping the barrel and going through his head. He sat up.
Suddenly he saw an image of his wife finding him dead. He imagined her having to tell their children. The pain that he would cause them seemed greater than any physical pain he had endured. He decided at that point that it wasn't a good solution, but he had to figure out something else fast. He was not in a good place. He remembered the workbook. When he opened it to the first step he saw in bold print: "Where Was God?" It was the same question he had been asking himself. He read through the book, learning about the spiritual component to his battles.
By the end of 2008 Renschler was sharing the gospel with others. He went back to the VA counseling session and gave his workbook to one of the older veterans. With his church, he started a retreat for soldiers called Operation New Normal. It led to weekly meetings where attendees could fight the trauma they felt together.
"I can relate to the brokenness inside of people," Renschler said. "I have something I can give them, and that is the fact that this isn't how it has to be forever. There is the hope that comes from believing that God has a plan, and no matter how we screw it up, He can make good out of the evil that we experience in our lives."
Adsit, the workbook's author, prays that more churches reach out to veterans: "Frankly if we are going to rely on the VA and the Department of Defense it's a very difficult, and I would even have to say hopeless, situation. Not because the VA and DOD aren't doing everything they can, but because they simply must cut out the most important element, and that is God."
Renschler has spent the past year in full-time ministry as an area director for Men of Valor, a new faith-based military charity. He's witnessed to numerous soldiers who have attempted suicide, seeing their lives renewed by the gospel: "You don't have to be a psychologist to help a soldier."


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I wrote an intemperate post last night after district meeting. It was venting and not constructive, so I have taken it down. It was also unfair as my DS did give us an challenging sermon in the Wesleyan tradition.
I do believe we need to reform in significant ways our systems of meetings. But that post was little more than a screed.
Forgive me my trespasses.


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A UCLA fan gets the crap beat out of him at halftime of the Bruins' game against California at Berkeley. Now the best part of this comes around the 1:45 mark when the person filming the video yells to the Bruin fan, "You're going on YouTube!" Thanks to Zach of The Big Picture and U Dub Dish for finding this gem.
Update: The video, which was taken down, is back up! And Bruins Nation, which has a different angle, says the guy who stands up is not a UCLA fan. Rather he's a Cal fan. Go figure.
Update II: Video has been taken down a second time. Below is the video from another angle, first found by Bruins Nation.


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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Back from Japan and depressed Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Back from Japan and depressed Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message denzJoined: 15 Jan 2003Location: soapland. alternatively - the school of rock! Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject: yesh well on my first fukuoka run, i was at the beach at midnight. not a soul/sole/seoul in sight - perfect night - cool & calm. anyways, this green rubber ball washes up on the shore. i pick it up and enblazoned on it in navy marker is a huge "D". now, i imagine that one day i will end up living there. read the signs denz Back to top ZyzyferJoined: 29 Jan 2003Location: who, what, where, when, why, how? Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:50 am Post subject: Sorry denz, that was my friend D marking his territory. Back to top denzJoined: 15 Jan 2003Location: soapland. alternatively - the school of rock! Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 1:07 am Post subject: easy mistake. denz Back to top CthulhuJoined: 02 Feb 2003 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 1:43 am Post subject: The Busan slagging is understandable, but there's one more thing to keep in mind (as in any city). Busan is no great shakes, but where you live in Busan makes all the difference in the world... Fukuoka is nice, though. Back to top chigtiymerdekhJoined: 02 Jun 2003Location: Johannesburg Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 3:44 am Post subject: Denz ..it 's spelt e-z Back to top denzJoined: 15 Jan 2003Location: soapland. alternatively - the school of rock! Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:31 am Post subject: chigtiymerdekh wrote: Denz ..it 's spelt e-z nogal! denz Back to top bucheon bumJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:35 am Post subject: Duncan McCocinue wrote: Oh God.....they've got to Derrick. I bet he's sitting at home right now in his "Be the Reds" shirt spanking to the notion of becoming the only white guy in the inner circle of Korean invaders as they take over the world. Kind of like the Irish lawyer in the Godfather who managed to hang with the "family." Korea has made very impressive progress over the past fifty years and has already established itself as an economic force. As for Korea becomming the future world power, I'd put my money on China in a second over this place. Stop eating so much gimchi, it's getting to ya. Someone's a genius. He was being sarcastic there Duncan. Back to top chigtiymerdekhJoined: 02 Jun 2003Location: Johannesburg Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject: denz ..it 's spelt 'deacher' Back to top chigtiymerdekhJoined: 02 Jun 2003Location: Johannesburg Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:00 pm Post subject: Duncan is a genius it seems ..dont need no bum to teach him the sarcasm. Duncan , whoever you are , you're 'sargtastic' ...keep it up old chap or I will be so bored reading the other stuff. Back to top The Great Wall of WhinerJoined: 24 Jan 2003Location: Middle Land Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject: Run Forrest Run Wrote: Quote: Oh, and you have better chances of getting laid in Japan. Yea...so I noticed.... Today's Ramble is sponsered by the Letter W... ...And by the number 1 JAPAN GWoW: So when is your curfew? JapGirl: I do not have curfew. GWoW: And you're how old? JapGirl: 17 GWoW: Even though we only just met, can I cook dinner for you at my place? JapGirl: Yes!!!! Yes, so much yes!!!!!!!! GWoW: Do you want to have sex? JapGirl: Give me some time. GWoW: How long? JapGirl: How long it takes to walk to your house? GWoW: Hmm...10 minutes JapGirl: Give me 11 minutes GWoW: So, that is a yes? JapGirl: I'm too shy to say yes, so I'll just nod, ok? GWoW: Fine by me![saliva all over mouth] KOREA GWoW: So when is your curfew? KorGirl: 8 PM GWoW: And you're how old? KorGirl: 33 GWoW: Hmm..how about coffee? KorGirl: O.K. but not anywhere near my house in case someone I know sees me with a white guy and my family finds out and I get disgraced, beaten, tarred, and feathered. GWoW: So, sex is out of the question? KorGirl: Give me some time GWoW: How long? KorGirl: Maybe 4 years. GWoW: Sure. No problem. I'm just going to go to the..er...washroom. Then PC Bang. Then the er,library. Back in a bit... PART TWO OF THE SERIES: JAPAN: [scene: Tokyo Subway] JapBusMan: Herro sir. Prease arrow me to intloduce myself. I am Japanese Business Man. GWoW: Hajjimaste. Watashi wa eigo sensai des. Watashi wa Canadajin des. JapBusMan: Jozzu! Anata no Nippongo wa!! GWoW: Eii. Watashi no Nippongo wa yoku nai. JapBusMan: You lie. Haha! GWoW: Haha JapBusMan: Can you please help me kudesai? GWoW: Maybe. What can I help you with? JapBusMan: I wish about learn about Engrish. You come with me for one hour I give to you 4000 Yen. GWoW: Sure! Let's me teach you "Ka-Ching!" like the sound of a cash register opening.... KOREA [Scene: Seoul Subway] KorBusMan: Hello!!! GWoW: Um, anyeong. KorBusMan: Where you plum? GWoW: Canada. KorBusMan: Ho-kayyy! Belly good! Canada belly good! GWoW: Thank-you KorBusMan: I am plum Kolea!!!! GWoW: ...you don't say... KorBusMan: Yesuh I say!!! You me flendsuh!! GWoW: ..we are?? KorBusMan: Yesuh! You give to me handuh pone numbah!! GWoW: Na neun handuh pone obbseoyo KorBusMan: Pleasuh say in enguhlishi!! Ho-Kay!! GWoW: Neon malhaetneundeh nan ni chingu imnikka? KorBusMan: No kolean!! Only engulishi!! GWoW: Nan Hangukmaleul gongbu haeyo. Nan haksaeng imnida. KorBusMan: No! No! No! Enlishi!!!! GWoW: Museun munjeh ya?! KorBusMan: I no like you speak Kolean! GWoW: Ho-kayy! I speakuh in Englishi. KorBusMan: HO-KAY!! GWoW: Bye bye!!! [walks away] Back to top Arthur FonzerelliJoined: 22 Jan 2003Location: Suwon Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Weekend in Japan - back in Korea and depressed! andrew wrote: I just went to Fukuoka for the weekend - it was my first time out of Korea since arriving in January. For the first time in those five months, I didn't have to deal with staring, spit everywhere I walk, garbage all over the place, etc. I didn't even encounter many smokers. Best of all, not one person made a comment that I was "fat". The streets and alleyways seemed to be swept broom-clean. Elderly Japanese seemed so friendly compared to the rudeness I have seen in many of the adjummas in Korea. Basically, I felt respected as a person. As soon as I arrived back in Busan for my bus trip home, I encountered the same old things again - every one of them in the first hour. Now I feel depressed and wish I were teaching in Japan or back home. Has anyone else experienced this feeling and how do you deal with it? I hope to visit Japan again next month if I can. Thanks! Why put up with the torture of working in Korea? Take the next plane out to Japan... Why work here if you don't want to??? Back to top William BeckersonGuest Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 9:03 pm Post subject: Whiner! You've mastered the art of "Funny cuz it's true" Back to top chi-chiJoined: 15 Jan 2003 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:10 am Post subject: mods you may deleteLast edited by chi-chi on Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:28 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top William BeckersonGuest Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:06 am Post subject: Chi-Chi: I cant speak for Whiner, but I got a Korean woman and the fact that I'm over 30 keeping me locked down to this nation of shady businesses and freaky waegooks. Back to top HardyandTinyJoined: 03 Jun 2003 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:55 am Post subject: Re: Weekend in Japan - back in Korea and depressed! [quote="] Why put up with the torture of working in Korea? Take the next plane out to Japan... Why work here if you don't want to???[/quote] My Korean girlfriend is growing back her big ol' protruding incisors. You just have to ask and be honest and it ain't so bad here. 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NORTH DARTMOUTH — Inmate No. 174594, formerly No. 81 in your Patriots program, exercises alone in an 8-foot-by-12-foot padlocked cage in the courtyard of the Bristol County House of Correction.
For one hour a day, Aaron Hernandez gets to breathe fresh air and maybe get some sunshine amidst the chain-link fencing, roof, and razor wire. He does sit-ups, knee bends, and push-ups on the concrete floor, according to prison authorities.
Hernandez, charged in the first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd, is not just in prison, but confined to a "special management unit." He is kept away from other inmates because of his high profile. He started off in the medical unit, where doctors evaluated his mental health and the gang intelligence unit inspected his numerous tattoos for affiliations that could spark jailhouse violence.
Hernandez has denied any gang allegiance, but he is still not ready to mix with the jail's general population, according to Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson.
"We have to be very careful," said Hodgson, adding that inmates could attack Hernandez "to raise their stature."
For 21 hours per day, Hernandez is locked in a 7-foot-by-10-foot single cell. There is no air conditioning, no television, no coffee, and no weight room.
"This is not the Ritz," said Hodgson.
According to the no-nonsense sheriff, Hernandez has been a model prisoner. "He's been nothing but perfect," said Hodgson. "I met with him when he first came in to lay the rules out. I said, 'Here's the deal. You won't be treated any better or worse or get any special privileges here. If you have any issues or problems, tell command.' He was very polite and very respectful. He didn't seem nervous, he seemed very comfortable."
Hodgson recently conducted a tour of the jail, excluding the double-tiered unit where Hernandez is kept along with seven other inmates. By interviewing other correction officers and inmates, it was possible to piece together Hernandez's new daily life in jail.
When the thick cellblock doors clang shut, the sound is more jarring than the muskets fired after every Patriots score at Gillette Stadium.
"Every Sunday he went into a stadium where thousands of people cheered him and revered him,'' said Hodgson. "In an instant he walks through our door, gets a new uniform, a longer number, and nobody's cheering for him."
Here, adoring fans are hard to come by. It's clear from the comments of his fellow inmates, many in their early 20s, that there isn't a lot of sympathy for Hernandez.
"He's a punk," says one young inmate wearing the tan uniform of the convicted. "He's a bum," says another. "I don't care about him,'' says a third inmate. "I'm worried about myself."
Hodgson has warned staff not to ask for autographs, take pictures, or go out of their way to engage Hernandez.
The luxuries of Hernandez's $1.3 million home have been replaced by an austere cell. Standard issue is a metal double bunk bed with an inch-thick mattress that is more like a workout mat. He is also issued a pillow, sheet, and blanket.
It is unlikely his 6-foot-1-inch frame fits without his feet touching the bed frame. There's a metal toilet-sink combination — the toilet seat does not lift — and a tiny metal desk with an attached metal stool inside.
Morning jolt
Hernandez's day begins at 6 a.m. when a slot in the door is opened and his breakfast tray arrives.
"He'll get an egg — one egg, and a portion of grits,'' said Hodgson. "He'd likely get a small muffin square and a choice between milk or juice. We actually serve Tang now to cut costs. But believe it or not, it actually has a higher nutritional value than orange juice and it's cheaper.''
When Hernandez initially arrived, he asked about quenching his thirst. Officers pointed to the sink.
Hernandez has to clean his cell by 8, when officers inspect it for "proper decorum."
"He has to make his bed, clean up, and make sure everything is neat," said Hodgson. The bed must remain made all day.
Nothing is allowed on the walls. His window is divided into three narrow sections and faces the barbed-wire fencing and the woods. He has got a so-called mirror on the wall that is made of plastic. He addresses his jailers as "sir."
"His cell is in perfect decorum," said Hodgson. "He keeps a very neat cell."
Hernandez is allowed to read up to two books at a time and write letters. There are no video cameras in his cell. The lights are turned off each night at 11.
"I know he likes to read," says Hodgson. "We sent him down a copy of 'Tuesdays With Morrie.' I recommended he read it."
The former Patriot is allowed to leave his cell three times per day, for an hour each time. In the morning, he can make collect calls and take a hot shower in a narrow stall.
Hernandez can also stretch his legs and walk 30 yards in the unit.
Seven other inmates can see him through the thick window in the metal cell door and possibly communicate with him, but he is not allowed to stop and converse with them. Sometimes he waves.
His uniform is now dark green, the color of pretrial prisoners. They look like New York Jets colors.
"Yeah, pretty close, but no white, all green," said Hodgson. His pricy Pumas are gone, as is his lucrative endorsement contract. He now wears standard-issue prison tennis shoes.
In the afternoon, he gets out for an hour and is again allowed to make collect calls. At 5 p.m., he gets his exercise hour in one of three cages, though Hodgson refuses to call them that. "It's a pen, all chain linked around with a chain-linked top," he says.
Hernandez exercises alone under the supervision of a prison officer who sits in a small booth during inclement weather. "It's strictly for fresh air and sit-ups and push-ups," said Hodgson. "In his unit only one inmate can be out at a time. So he's not intermingling with people face to face."
Close quarters
The American Civil Liberties Union has complained that Hernandez is locked in a cell "the size of a parking spot." Some have described his status as "solitary confinement," and call it akin to torture.
Hodgson dismisses such talk. "In solitary confinement you don't get an hour of visits, you don't get access to the commissary, you don't get three hours out of your cell.''
Hodgson says he is responsible for Hernandez's safety and the safety of the other inmates.
Besides attorney visits, Hernandez is allowed one hour a week visitation from a list of five people he submits in advance so background checks can be completed.
Hodgson declined to say whether Hernandez's fiancée or any former teammates have come to visit him.
Hodgson has met with Hernandez twice. Once on arrival and again after he was denied bail. "He said, 'I'm fine,' '' said Hodgson. "He's basically adapting."
He said Hernandez told him how the untimely death of his father, a former football player at Connecticut who died because of complications from a hernia operation in 2006, left him devastated.
The sheriff acknowledged Hernandez "presents well." But said it gets him no special privileges here.
Hernandez has never complained about his treatment and has eaten all his meals. He has made only one special request, asking for more protein in his diet. That request was denied, according to Bernie Sullivan, a Bristol County spokesman.
Lunch on a recent day was a cheese burrito, served with two slices of bread and rice. A typical supper is a beef burger, rice and beans, green beans, fruit, fortified juice, and water.
Hernandez's $40 million contract buys him next to nothing here. The maximum allowed in his commissary account is $80 a week to buy an assortment of dried soups, breakfast bars, and assorted toiletries in limited quantities.
Quiet times
The media circus is gone now, and so are the fans — although four women from Texas recently volunteered to send Hernandez money.
But here, dollars can't buy you space or freedom.
"He came from a 7,100-square-foot home and he's living in a cell that's probably smaller than most of the bathrooms in his house,'' said Hodgson.
Hernandez goes from the playbook of coach Bill Belichick to the rulebook of the Bristol County sheriff, who says he has been called Attila the Hun by liberals. Hodgson has been on the job since 1997 to the delight of taxpayers who don't want pampered prisoners.
Hodgson is controversial. In 1999, he started a voluntary unpaid chain gang work unit and received a fax from China condemning it as a human rights violation. The irony makes him smile.
Sheriff Hodgson sees a silver lining in all the media attention. "I actually see media coverage as an opportunity for something good to come out of a bad situation,'' he said. "Young kids particularly get to see what life is like for someone who has celebrity status. This is probably one of the greatest advertisements as to why you don't ever want to come to jail. He had everything going for him."
Ironically, Hernandez has one member of the Patriot family that supports him.
Mac Bledsoe, the father of Patriot Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Bledsoe, is a Bristol County auxiliary sheriff. His "Parenting With Dignity" program has been presented in the jail for the last 15 years.
Hernandez, 23, has an infant daughter, Avielle Janelle, born last November. If asked, Bledsoe would love to help mentor Hernandez.
"I'm just never ready to convict somebody by what I read in the papers," Bledsoe said in a telephone interview. "He is innocent until proven guilty."Stan Grossfeld can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.