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"The Book of Mormon" has to be the most subversive Broadway musical in history.
All those other supposedly radical shows, the ones with nudity or such tough subjects as mental illness, just can't hold a candle to this insanely brilliant concoction about peppy, preachy young men from the Church of Latter-day Saints.
The mucho-Tony-Award-grabbing "Mormon," now at the Kennedy Center and due to hit the Hippodrome next season, comes from the creative team of Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, who also helped unleash "South Park" on an unsuspecting world.
What they have achieved here is the seemingly impossible — an old-fashioned musical, with a structure that Irving Berlin or Rodgers and Hammerstein would recognize. (They would begrudgingly admire some of the catchy music, too.)
The opening song does what great opening numbers always did in the good old days. Production numbers are big and fun, just like they are supposed to be. (Casey Nicholaw, who shares co-direction credit with Parker, devised the very witty and kinetic choreography.)
But then there's the little matter of the script, which might make even Larry Flynt blush. This show crosses so many lines that you end up forgetting there ever were any lines.
And yet, somehow, those smiling missionaries in their short-sleeved white shirts and black ties just draw you in and practically force you to laugh at AIDS, cancer, female circumcision, pedophilia, warlording, maggots in a particularly uncomfortable part of the male anatomy, and, of course, the Mormon religion.
It's all so disarmingly nutty. By the time a bouncy song about cursing God comes along in the first act, you are either firmly in the show's grip or fleeing for the exit.
Not that fleeing ever seems to be a problem. "Mormon," which premiered in 2011, is still a hot ticket on Broadway, just as it has been on every stop of its first national tour. (On opening day of ticket sales at the Kennedy Center in February, the center's whole computer system crashed.)
The beauty of "Mormon" is that it manages to stay one step ahead of itself. The plot, centering around a couple of mismatched missionaries sent to Uganda, keeps the audience off-balance, bouncing from silliness to sentiment and back again; punching up the parody and profanity one second, only to reinforce some good old American value the next.
There really is a touch of heart at the core of the story, and when it peers through, it can be remarkably affecting.
It happens when Elder Cunningham (Christopher John O'Neill), the chunky, clunky missionary with a most tentative grasp on Mormon doctrine, thinks he has finally found a best friend in the quintessentially Mormonistic Elder Price (Mark Evans). It happens again when that friendship shatters and then is repaired.
And it happens when the Ugandans, besieged by every possible calamity and smothered by poverty, reveal just how wise they are. (The show's treatment of the African characters and issues is especially edgy and dangerous.)
When it comes to the topic raised by the show's title, well, the Angel Moroni would not be amused, but it's hard to keep a straight face seeing the deconstruction of Mormon history that goes on here. The re-creations, with appearances by Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and even Jesus, are especially hilarious.
The satiric shots could just as easily be directed at any religion, needless to say, which is the point, really. Everybody's got some explaining to do. (Oddly enough, the old issue of Mormon polygamy doesn't get a barb in the musical.)
Some things work better than others. A running gag about texting in the Ugandan village falls flat. The very "South Park"-y "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" sequence wears out its welcome. But these prove minor matters.
The touring production hardly makes for an intimate experience in the cavernous Kennedy Center Opera House, but it's first-rate all the way. The cast and sets (Scott Pask) are on a par with what I encountered on Broadway.
Evans does a winning job, in acting and singing, as Elder Price, the guy who dreams of such a lovely place for proselytizing, and has quite a time adjusting to what Heavenly Father has apparently deemed a more fitting trial for him.
O'Neill, nimble-footed and loaded with great facial expressions, is a terrific foil as Cunningham. He brings down the house with "Man Up," the outrageous Act 1 finale that puts a fresh spin on the question, "What would Jesus do?" And Samantha Marie Ware is a gem as Nabulungi, who yearns to leave her forlorn village for a magical city in Utah.
It may be hard to believe, given that it so often suggests an Up with People troupe on heavy drugs, but "The Book of Mormon" is enough to restore one's faith in musical theater.
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Fromm is playing for an Athletes in Action team called the Fairbanks Fire in the Alaska Baseball League. His team is based in Fairbanks where it shares a field with the Alaska Goldpanners.
"It is really pretty neat when you start a game at 8 p.m. this time," Fromm said. "You can play a game all the way through and never really have to turn on the lights.
"The sun never sets but it just kind of gets dim. By 2 a.m. the sun is back up again. It makes it tough to sleep, but it is fun to play baseball in it."
In Fairbanks there is one day that has 24 hours of daylight. That is the date of the league's annual "Midnight Sun" game. The Goldpanners played a military team this year.
"You have to close all the blinds and do what you have to do to get to sleep," Fromm said. "You will get up at 10 a.m. and feel like it is 4 p.m. at home because of the sun."
Summer is short in Alaska and there really is no fall. With the days of summer dwindling, Fromm is seeing some changes in the length of time the sun shines.
"They call summer `65 and no humidity'," Fromm said. "We are just starting to use the lights around 9:30. We don't really have to use them, but it is kind of like dusk and it makes it hard to see the baseball."
Fromm sometimes feels more like he is an extra on Animal Planet than a baseball player. He has seen more than his share of wildlife that past couple of months.
"There are moose on the side of the road," Fromm said. "I freaked out the first time I saw a moose. We went to Denali National Park to see grizzly bears, but didn't see one.
"We got to see the red salmon run. I didn't realize how big the salmon are."
The Alaska Baseball League is one of the premier wooden bats leagues in the country. Major League stars ranging from Mark McGwire to Barry Bonds to Randy Johnson have spent time in the league. Fromm says that there is a wall in every team's stadium dedicated to the Major League players who spent time with a respective team.
"It is a great league," Fromm said. "We are playing against a lot of the big name guys and players from the powerhouses that you see on TV," Fromm said. "We are getting a chance to not only bond with those guys but to play against them and hopefully beat them.
"It is about winning and losing. But it is more about just developing. We play a tough schedule. You have to come out every day and bring your best stuff."
Fromm is 0-2 with one save and a 4.30 earned run average. He has made 10 appearances, nine in relief. In 14.2 innings he has allowed 18 hits and 12 runs, seven earned. He has walked nine and struck out 13.
Due to an injury that occurred during his time with the Bisons he was delayed in finding a team for the summer.
"I injured by elbow during the school season," Fromm said. " I decided I was going to take summer classes and rest my elbow. "But my elbow started feeling good enough for me to play summer ball. By the time that happened it was too late for me to play in any good leagues.
"By the grace of God the Alaska League called me. The Athletes in Action team had some injuries and needed a couple of pitchers."
On June 12 he made the move to Alaska. Fromm, a resident of Cleveland, Tenn., admits that the adjustment took some time.
"It was a blessing," Fromm said. "It felt surreal the first couple of weeks. It all happened in about five days."
Fromm, a right-hander, has enjoyed the level of play, the wildlife experiences and the abundance of fresh food that is readily available on a daily basis.
One thing Fromm won't miss is the travel. The teams go from town-to-town on charter buses, but it is a step down from what he has experienced in his travels with the Bisons under coach Jeff Forehand.
"The charter buses aren't as nice as the ones we use at Lipscomb, but they get you from point A to point B," Fromm said. "One time we were going down to southern Alaska which was a 12-hour drive and our bus broke down on top of a mountain in the last hour of the drive.
"It was pretty interesting. There was no cell phone service. It looked like the setting for a bad horror movie. There was no civilization. We didn't know what to do."
As part of Athletes in Action the players participate on an almost daily basis. Pitching Coach Chris Beck and head coach Bobby Randall lead a team devotional at a local church or other building a few hours before going to the ballpark.
"We call it discipleship," Fromm said. "We talk about sharing the Gospel. We share our experiences in our Alaska.
"I wouldn't call it preaching. It is more personal than that. We all give our testimonies. It is a neat brotherhood. I have only spent a month-and-a-half with these guys but I will keep up with them for the rest of my life."
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The very strange story of how a Harvard professor's arrest made national news has been made one iota stranger today. President Obama has pledged to bring together the two aggrieved parties -- Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley -- for a little talky-talk at the White House. The chat is supposed to take place over beers.
You do not have to be a terrible cynic or a wacko conspiracy nut to see how this whole to-do might have been cooked up by the beer industry.
Consider: virtually every consumer choice the president makes becomes national news and a major product placement opportunity. He gets a Portuguese water dog, everybody wants a Portuguese water dog. He gets a hamburger with Dijon mustard, everybody wants a hamburger with Dijon mustard (those who don't despise him for wanting fancy Dijon mustard, that is). Now that he's having the professor and the cop over for beers, does he honestly think that America won't be watching to see what kind of beer they're drinking?
The White House has revealed what beer will be served at the much-anticipated meeting later this week: Bud for the president and Blue Moon for Crowley. It's unclear if Gates drinks.
Oh, Gates does indeed drink! He drinks that elitist Red Stripe beer that looks like it comes out of an old-fashioned medicine bottle.
He said he's partial to Red Stripe and Beck's. He may not get his pick, as they are foreign beers, which are not stocked at the White House, under a tradition dating to the Johnson administration.
So who will benefit from this racially transcendent get-together at the White House, besides the three men involved? Budweiser, Blue Moon, and whichever manufacturer of American swill gets the nod from Professor Gates.
There's an old saying in business and in politics -- follow the money. If you want to know who's behind a particular news item or government action, look no further than whoever stands to benefit the most financially. And in this case, the money leads straight back to a fermentation vat in St. Louis.
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That time, while pregnant with Sage, I took David on a surprise trip to Vegas for his 40th birthday. Three years almost to the day, we were on our way to Vegas again.
We were both pretty amped about it. Then Sawyer came down with an awful cold and was up all Friday night. We thought, for about half a second, about staying home.
But this trip was too important. This time, it was for my friend W's wedding. There was no way I was going to miss it.
Even though it was in Vegas. Cause the thing is, I DETEST that place. The cigarette smoke alone is enough to choke a herd of cattle. ANd that's just in one small casino. I'm not into gambling, and my drinking, staying-up-all-night partying life is long gone.
But I heart my friend, and we were excited for her and for us to
We drove and stopped at the outlet malls along the way. My first store? Gymboree! I couldn't help myself. I mean, a Gymboree Outlet shop! You girls know what I'm talking about!
I did manage to stop in Banana Republic and found an adorable casual dress. For $35! And yet, I found myself having to completely justify spending money on something not 1) for the kids or 2) not a necessity.
We finally arrived in Vegas with an hour to spare. My friend C loaned me her cool curling iron that makes spiral curls. So I whipped that baby out and did my hair. David LOVED it and W kept complimenting me on it, so I'm going to grab one on eBay.
I had to get there early for pictures. W had asked a bunch of us to wear black, and then gave out Tiffany-blue pashminas. The effect was gorgeous!I'm third from the left in both pictures, which are tough to see but at least you get the idea. Isn't W GORGEOUS?
David took some of just me and W but somehow our camera erased them. Grrrr...
I was incredibly thrilled to meet W's birth mom (who is at the end on the far right), P. It was a bit disconcerting to speak to her, as W looks just like her. They even make the same facial expressions, which is so amazing since W was given up for adoption at birth and they didn't meet again for 24 years. And this weekend, P got to watch her daughter get married. I can't even begin to imagine her emotions.
David and I thought about our kids a lot. Of course. We missed them and talked to them on the phone quite a bit. He and I laughed discussing how Sage does a crazy dance that is a carbon copy of her brother's silly, finger-pointing, booty-shaking moves.
I was thinking how lucky we are that we have two children who are so full of personality and are so much fun to be around.
Then we arrived home.
And the whining was in full force. As was the not listening to Mommy, bickering with your sibling, and generally being little jerks. Did I also mention Sage's faucet of a nose?
Talk about a buzz-kill.
We couldn't WAIT to get them to bed. Which is sad, because we missed them so much. Apparently we just missed the cute stuff. What's also sad is that my tension level was immediately ratcheted up, and David and I fell into our sniper mode with each other - something that was absent in Vegas.
David has also caught whatever virus the kids have.
Not the best welcome home.
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Hi, Emanuele! Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote at September 26, 2007: >Another thing that is not quite clear in my mind right now is this: >are the sets of triplets describing the class and property hierarchies >of an ontology normally stored seamlessly alongside the data that >is classified and characterized by those classes and properties? With OWL, for which an RDF mapping exists, this is technically possible without a problem. And when you, for instance, use JENA [1], a well known RDF framework for Java, you generally /work/ with ontology based knowledge bases in such a way (at least in principle). With JENA, you typically build a view to your knowledge base in the following way: 1) Create a so called "Model", which is empty at the beginning 2) Read into this Model the RDF statements representing the axioms of your OWL ontology 3) Read into this Model the RDF statements of your knowledge base A "Model" in Jena represents an RDF graph, i.e. a set of RDF triples. Now, as long as you use a pure "Model", this only gives you a view to the combined set of RDF triples, which come from both your OWL ontology and your knowledge base. But if you instead use an "OntModel" (which stands for "Ontology Model"), you get an extended view to your RDF graph: Suddenly, you have additional API functionality to access all your OWL classes and properties, and the (explicit) sub-relationships between them (and many other ontology specific features). The magic behind this is that the OntModel internally separates out all those triple subsets within the combind RDF graph, which are RDF mappings for OWL axioms. So this is the situation (or at least a possible and perfectly working situation), when you /work/ with knowledge data. This does not, however, mean that you should also /store/ ontological and assertional data together in the same RDF graph. I think, in most cases it will be a better strategy to have them separately stored. Then, you can easily reuse the ontology for different knowledge bases, and combine them /on the fly/, whenever you want to work with them. Cheers, Michael [1] http://jena.sourceforge.net/ (JENA project page) -- Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe Abtl. Information Process Engineering (IPE) Tel : +49-721-9654-726 Fax : +49-721-9654-727 Email: email@example.com Web : http://www.fzi.de/ipe/eng/mitarbeiter.php?id=555 FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Az: 14-0563.1 Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe Vorstand: Rüdiger Dillmann, Michael Flor, Jivka Ovtcharova, Rudi Studer Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther LeßnerkrausReceived on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 17:37:45 UTC
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He will be put in the Piggy Bank for future needs. :-) ** -- VTVOICE 02/09/2018 01:18AM
Will Quincy Patterson compete at qb this year? ** -- HokieRoy1976 02/08/2018 07:38AM
Talentwise could see him sneaking into -- Tombo 02/08/2018 9:44PM
Quincy Petterson WILL BE the starting Qb for the Hokies,................... -- jonnyhawk 02/08/2018 5:15PM
Bush WILL be the starter in 2017 ** -- Baltimore Hokie 02/11/2018 2:02PM
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You picked the wrong month and the wrong year!!! Not gonna be October of -- Hokeedokee 02/08/2018 7:48PM
What about Hendon Hooker? Does he have a shot? ** -- Hoakie82 02/08/2018 7:21PM
Is Seth Greenberg was posting here, he'd say you're certifiably insane! ** -- NokieHokie 02/08/2018 5:40PM
Nope. We have to temper our expectations for QP..... -- hokieinoregon 02/08/2018 11:09AM
I suppose technically yes, he will compete at QB. -- IV_Hokie12 02/08/2018 10:41AM
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Nope. He's a very raw prospect. -- Will Stewart 02/08/2018 10:12AM
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Yep ... and watch his 2018 Blue-Grey AA game on Youtube. ** -- VTVOICE 02/09/2018 01:45AM
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He's very inaccurate at this point. ** -- Last Full Measure 02/08/2018 12:26PM
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He also wants to major in Engineering. A redshirt year will -- two91hokies 02/08/2018 11:16AM
He will redshirt and get acclimated to being an engineering student. -- YardBird 02/08/2018 09:49AM
Most Eng Students could use a redshirt year; OK when I was there 40+ yrs -- hokie_world 02/08/2018 10:49AM
You know people say that all the time... -- hokiehunter07 02/08/2018 4:14PM
I can remember going pretty much straight from -- 81_Hokie 02/08/2018 12:10PM
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He ain't come here to play school -- JoesterVT 02/08/2018 10:48AM
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Drafting ** -- 81_Hokie 02/08/2018 10:10AM
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That Sliderule 101 will get after you... (What they actually learn inside) -- UTPr0sim 02/08/2018 10:17AM
In August we'll hear about how he almost beat out JJ ** -- hokeyhokie 02/08/2018 09:33AM
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I think we'll be hearing that about Hooker, not QP. ** -- Freddyburg Hokie 02/08/2018 10:35AM
I wouldn't be so quick to assume Hooker rather than Willis ** -- marcbvtgm 02/08/2018 3:48PM
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Highly doubt it, we have a good starter and two others capable of starting ** -- Hokiekid1 02/08/2018 08:37AM
He will compete as he redshirts. ** -- Twelfth Man 02/08/2018 08:09AM
No doubt! ** -- Bburg Mac 02/08/2018 07:59AM
Huge doubt. ** -- NokieHokie 02/08/2018 08:03AM
We'll see. ** -- Bburg Mac 02/09/2018 01:08AM
Yeah, I'd say almost no real chance. ** -- reestuart 02/08/2018 08:26AM
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Todd Allen gets the first interview with Lance Stahlberg, the new owner of longstanding indy comics distributor Cold Cut Distribution and learns about where the company is headed.
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So you want to work in comics? Todd runs down a list of currently available positions at some of the industry's top publishers. If you've got tech or sales skills, there's a job for you.
Todd Allen takes a long look at the performance of publishers in 2007 who aren't DC, Marvel, Image or Dark Horse -- which back of the catalog publisher had the biggest hit in 2007? Who led in graphic novels? Who should be watched closely in 2008? Read on.
Where's there potential for huge growth in graphic novel sales? Libraries. Todd takes a look at the possibilities, plus the troubles with advertising, more secrets from the Platinum vaults (i.e. SEC filings) and Spidey demographics considered.
Todd sits down with intellectual property attorney Darren S. Cahr (AKA Super Lawyer) to discuss the legalities of downloads and torrents, what's really legal and illegal, and why cease & desist letters are necessary.
Issue #15
Todd Allen takes a look at a number of the recent digital moves in the comics world, from BitTorrenting, to Marvel's DCU and an interview with Webcomics creator Tim Broderick about his comic, "Odd Jobs."
Everyone's going digital suddenly and Todd examines the latest from Marvel, as well as some of the common mistakes Web comicers are making in bringing their comics online.
Todd takes a look at the recent ComicSpace/Web Comics Nation merger and talks with both founders as well as their new financial backers, plus rumors of a Wizard World Chicago move to come.
Todd Allen takes a look at the first line-up of creators that are a part of Zuda Comics, DC's new online comics initiative. What's the background on these creators and have we seen them in publication before? Todd has the answers.
Ever since Diamond Distributors announced they'll require all comics publishers to require bar codes on all their comics, a small storm has erupted. Todd talks with Chicago Comics' Eric Thornton about the many benefits to both stores and publishers of a point of sale system.
Todd digs deeper into Platinum's SEC filings and finds all sorts of goodies, like what it costs to get in the Previews catalog. Plus, thoughts on the Zuda contracts.
Platinum Studios is planning an initial public offering of stock and Todd takes a look at their Securities & Exchange Commission filing. What surprises did he discover? What clues as to their future plans did he learn about? Read on to find out.
Internet flamewar magnet Kevin Smith gets weird complaints about his charity DVD with Stan & Joey; plus, two small publishers and their alternate takes on distribution.
For what's widely regarded as a superheroes-only show, web-based cartoonists are starting to turn up at Wizard World Chicago. Todd spoke to a number in attendance at this year's show to see how Web comics creators are faring financially. Plus the latest chapter in Zuda Comics confusion.
You know that CBR loves taking photos of them, but did you know convention models are big business? Todd checks out that world and tells you what you need to know if you're an exhibitor and are thinking about hiring models for your booth.
A Web 2.0 comics project emerges at an MBA incubator, how to do an actual reading before a comics signing, and when did the press release go out?
Issue #4
Todd Allen takes a long look at one of this week's biggest story, that of Zuda Comics. What should aspiring Web comics creators consider? What are the benefits? What can Todd extrapolate from the news thus far? Todd lays it all out for you.
Issue #3
Todd Allen sits down with outgoing Broken Frontier journalist and web comics creator T Campbell to discuss the business of online comics creation and journalism.
Todd Allen returns with word of DC's new Online Editor and what some of their online plans might include, plus job openings in and around the industry.
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CBR is proud to welcome Todd Allen to the site with the first of his bi-weekly column COMIC BOOK PUBLISHING FOLLIES, where he'll take a look at what's new on the business side of comics. Want to work in comics? Don't answer so fast. Plus, digital downloads and shifting sales channels.


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Although every chaupai and doha (couplets) of Hanuman Chalisa is miraculous, but there are some Chaupaiyan that show the effect very soon.
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मन क्रम बचन ध्यान जो लावै ||
Hanuman extricates those from all adversities who remember him (or contemplate upon him) in their heart, by their actions and by their words.
To know more about Guru Maa's teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to http://www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji's darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.
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TBS's "Cougar Town" Opens Doors to More Than 1.3 Million Adults 18-49
TBS's Cougar Town scored solid deliveries among the network's target demos last night, drawing more than 1.3 million adults 18-49 and 613,000 adults 18-34 in Live + Same Day. The season opener also welcomed a total of 2.2 million viewers as it launched in its new network home.
Cougar Town - which stars Courteney Cox, Brian Van Holt, Christa Miller, Ian Gomez, Josh Hopkins, Busy Philipps and Dan Byrd - airs Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), exclusively on TBS. The series follows a family of friends who keep things funny as they support each other through the challenges and pitfalls of life - with a little dysfunction and a whole lot of wine.
Cougar Town was co-created by executive producer Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Spin City) and consulting producer Kevin Biegel (Scrubs). Showrunner Ric Swartzlander, Courteney Cox and David Arquette also serve as executive producers. Cougar Town comes to TBS from ABC Studios.
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I know I'm probably missing something obvious, as when I tried code similar to this earlier, it didn't work.
Also, in case you're wondering why I need to create objects like this, I'm trying to add support to my game engine for loading objects from external Java files (to allow more possibilities for custom levels).


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Who was the star of Friday's concert at Boettcher Concert Hall? No, not headliner Olga Kern.
Rather, conductor Peter Oundjian and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra musicians themselves stole the show in a crisp, brisk and well-shaped performance of Mikhail Glinka's overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla," based on Alexander Pushkin's epic fairy tale, and Dmitri Shostakovich's colossal Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103.
More than an hour long, this was our orchestra's first performance of the four-movement symphony composed to memorialize the Russian revolution that was born on "Bloody Sunday" in 1905 when a peaceful protest sparked a massacre at the hands of Tsar Nicolas II.


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Ricky Gervais Gossip
Ricky Gervais gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Dear Gossips,
The Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar opened up a new door yesterday and spat out Louis CK. Exactly five weeks ago yesterday, The New York Times broke open the story about Harvey Weinstein. Read Full Intro
Smutty Social Media, November 9, 2016
Instagram was very quiet last night – not much room for selfies when they world is crumbling. Your tiny house is kind of low priority right now Harry. wednesday is gonna be big on #HarryTV! the multi-talented @rickygervais joins me and, yes, i spend a night in #harrystinyhouse! Full Story
Chris Rock plays it close
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There have been reports that Chris Rock is under a lot of pressure to maybe not host the Oscars this year because of the lack of diversity in the nominations. There are other reports that there's no way he's not hosting and that he's working on a scathing monologue. Which is what Ricky Gervais wants him to do. Full Story
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I thought the Globes were uneven but I do like it when Ricky calls us "whiney c-nts." I love when Amy Schumer posts texts from Colin Quinn. Do you follow him on Twitter? The NYT did an entire story on his brand of outrage manipulation Full Story
David Bowie
David Bowie's birthday was on Friday which is also when he released his final album, Blackstar. But isn't that the most elegant exit? A video for the song Lazarus is now available with the opening lyrics, "Look up here, I'm in heaven". According to those close to him, this is how he planned it for his fans, for the world, how he wanted to say goodbye. Full Story
Ricky's 4th Globes
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The last time Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes, Harvey Weinstein joked afterwards (maybe, who can be sure, really?) that he would have him killed. But last night, it was Harvey who was throwing his head back in a close-up, laughing at this joke: "One Hollywood publication said that me hosting would mean that some film star would stay away for fear of being made fun of. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is starting to announce its presenters list for the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. The first names released yesterday were Olivia Wilde and … Mel Gibson. The host of this year's Globes is, once again, Ricky Gervais. Read Full Intro
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The biggest movie star in the world is coming to The Social next week. On Tuesday. You should take the day off work. Because there may never be a more famous name on our show. Who? Miss Piggy. OBVIOUSLY. Oh My God, Piggy is coming. It's because she's promoting the new movie, Muppets Most Wanted. Full Story
Jerry Seinfeld: Still seeking nothing
God, how much do we miss Seinfeld? There's not been another show on TV like it since. The problem with television shows, especially comedies where you have a goal to make people laugh—because once you find the key to making people laugh, it's hard not to keep using it—is that eventually, you're just doing the same thing over and over. Full Story
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I don't understand Ricky Gervais's decision making. He took so much heat last year (and it was awesome) for givin'er on Hollywood and (some of) the hypocrites in that room. He was vindicated when they asked him back. I mean, that's pretty much an invitation to swing your big mean dick around the third time around. Full Story
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When I watch the Oscars, I really care about who wins. Like, not just to see the dress up on stage, but to know which performance or film was chosen by the Academy. At the Oscars, the results matter. And why do you watch the Golden Globes? Don't say the results. Globe results are totally irrelevant. Even a Glee fan will tell you that. Full Story


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Tell us it can't be done, and we'll tell you that you simply haven't thought about it hard enough. Today, on Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR we proudly present, "Making it Work."
Amazing stories from real people who simply would NOT take "no" for an answer.
What are the Songs from Snap 406 "Making It Work"?
Jason Leopold moved to LA to marry his girlfriend, kicked a cocaine addiction and began a career in journalism. But sobriety wasn't the simple fix he was expecting it to be.
Jason is lead investigative reporter for truthout.org and the author of News Junkie.
This version is just a short excerpt of Jason's amazing life story, which includes lots of glam metal and runs-ins with the mafia. Take a listen to the whole story at Love + Radio.
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What if an older white male started chasing young Asian females? Is that right? Is that racist?
Debbie Lum sets out to make a documentary exposing the loathsome "Yellow Fever" phenomenon. She began filming Steven, a 60-year old white man, and Sandy, a 30-year old woman from China.) But when Steven and Sandy need a translator, Debbie uncomfortably finds herself on the other side of the camera.
To see the story unfold with your own eyes, check out Debbie's documentary, Seeking Asian Female. It's truly fascinating, and it premieres on PBS' Independent Lens on May 6, 2013 at 10pm ET.
She also has a fantastic web project discussing sex and race at Theyreallsobeautiful.com. Check it out.
For more locations and dates, go to SeekingAsianFemale.com.
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Stones Throw Hip Hop artist Homeboy Sandman remembers when he first decided to take his music full time. When the rhymes don't cover the rent, the New York emcee finds himself deep in the red and facing eviction.
Homeboy Sandman's new album, "First of A Living Breed," is out now on Stones Throw Records. It was listed as one of the top 50 albums of 2012 by NPR. Check it out!
Also, be on the look out for his writing for The Huffington Post.
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Hoenig for FDIC
On July 8th, Sheila Bair will step down as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). While I believe she's gotten a lot wrong (such as not preparing the fund for the coming crisis), she has been about the only voice among senior bank regulators for actually ending too-big-to-fail. With her departure, we might lose that one voice. Later this year, Kansas City Fed President Tom Hoenig is also scheduled to leave his current position.
Hoenig has actually gone beyond Bair in trying to address too-big-to-fail, having called for the largest banks to be broken up. While I don't believe that should be our first approach, having an advocate for both the taxpayer and the overall economy at the helm of the FDIC could make a significant difference.
Given that Section 2 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act requires the FDIC to have a bipartisan board, President Obama is faced with the choice of either appointing a non-Democrat or asking Vice-Chair Marty Gruenberg to leave. While I have no idea as to Hoenig's politics, he'd likely be able to pass that test.
Hoenig has also been willing to publicly challenge Bernanke on a number of issues. Given the narrow group-think among regulators that contributed to the crisis, having a loud, credible, independent voice among bank regulators is solely needed. Hoenig again fits that bill. His appointment would also offer Obama a chance to show that he is not completely beholden to the Geithner "never seen a bailout I didn't like" worldview.
Perhaps with Hoenig at the helm, we can actually begin a debate about reducing the moral hazard created by the Federal Reserve. While Bair was all too willing to see both insurance coverage and regulatory powers of the FDIC expanded, Hoenig strikes me as open-minded to the very real excess bank risk-taking that is encouraged by the existence of the FDIC.


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DAVIDSON, N.C. -- John Peterson and Andrew Svoboda shared the third-round lead Saturday in the Chiquita Classic, the second tournament in the four-event Web.com Tour Finals series.
The bulk of the field is made up of players in the top 75 on the Web.com Tour money list and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup standings. The top 25 on the Web.com money list are assured PGA Tour cards, while the other players are fighting for 25 additional cards through earnings in the four-event series.
Svoboda has already wrapped up a PGA Tour card by finishing 25th on the Web.com money list. Peterson was 30th on the Web.com money list.
Peterson had five back-nine birdies to shoot 5-under 67 and match Svoboda at 10-under 206 at River Run.
"I just stayed out there, and my caddie told me just to stay patient," Peterson, the 2011 NCAA champion at LSU, said. "I don't usually do a good job of that, but I did it today and it came around for me on the back.
"I was hitting good shots on the front and a bunch were in that 10- to 12-foot range. I kept hitting it close and finally hit it close enough where it was hard to miss. I can make it from 3 feet, I just couldn't make it from 10 feet today."
Svoboda birdied the final two holes for a 69. The former St. John's player won the Web.com Tour's Price Cutter Charity Championship last month.
"Anywhere around the lead is nice," Svoboda said. "It was really nice to finish with those two birdies."
He made a 20-foot putt on the par-3 17th hole and an 18-footer after laying up on the par-5 18th.
"It was between a 3-wood and a hybrid for me," Svoboda said. "I had 240 to the hole and hitting a 3-wood off a downhill lie just wasn't good for me. I wasn't sure I could get that one up in the air off that lie."
Two-time PGA Tour winner Troy Matteson, Peter Malnati and Greg Owen were a stroke back. Matteson shot 67, Malnati 69, and Owen 71.
"On this course you'd rather be ahead," Matteson said. "This is not one where you can shoot 9- or 10-under and catch back up. This is kind of a 'steady Eddie' course. It's just very difficult to shoot a low number."
Ricky Barnes was 7 under along with Brendon Todd, Ben Martin, Vaughn Taylor, Hudson Swafford and Will MacKenzie. Todd had a 68, Barnes and Martin shot 69, Taylor had a 70, Swafford a 71, and MacKenzie a 72.


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Junxure, the CRM software maker for advisors cofounded by noted wealth manager Greg Friedman, announced Wednesday that it will now support advisor users of Junxure—both new and existing ones—with broader and potentially deeper consulting services that focus on implementation and adoption of the technology. Junxure has revised its website to reflect that new focus as well.
In an interview with AdvisorOne on Thursday, Friedman (left) characterized the move as both evolutionary for Junxure, but also "revolutionary, in that we're the only one out there who marries the technology with the consulting."
Friedman, who is Junxure's president, said that while the firm had for a number of years done some consulting work with users post sale of the CRM software, "what people really need is best practices: how to implement it." Many advisors, he said, "don't know what their processes are," so Junxure has made a "strategic, full-blown decision to enhance and promote the consulting and training," with the goal of ensuring that "every purchase, every partner with Junxure will have meaningful results and success."
Friedman said advisor practice management studies backed up by his own experience as CEO of an advisor technology company, as a principal in a successful wealth management firm (Private Ocean, based in San Rafael, Calif.) and anecdotally through conversations with his fellow advisors consistently show that "it's the implementation and adoption where advisors fall down."
The best practices advice for Junxure users, he said, could address areas "from new accounts to your planning process to how you create your workflows, all from an administrative view."
New users of Junxure will "choose a bundle" of training that runs the gamut from more of a "do-it-yourself" level that includes access to Web-based how-to videos, to webinars with a live trainer and five to 10 users, through one-on-one consulting via the Web to onsite consulting by the day or hour with plenty of preliminary work done ahead of time, "so they can spend a day where they're focused on their specific issues."
The consultants, who are scattered across the country geographically, have a minimum of seven years experience up to 20 years in using technology tools in wealth management practices. They will include Junxure's director of consulting and training, Erin Kincholow.
Just this month, Elizabeth Jetton, the advisor and former FPA president, joined Junxure's consulting group. Jetton, who Friedman called a "great ideas person," will consult with customers and help Junxure develop its training packages.
While there are four consultants now, said Friedman, Junxure is already interviewing a number of other candidates to add to the team, all with similar levels of experience in how technology can help advisory firms cope with and foster growth and improve efficiencies in operations and customer service.
Junxure has more than 9,000 users nationwide.
Earlier this year, Junxure announced it would make a Web-based version of its CRM software available on the cloud in 2012.


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Now that Danica Patrick's up to speed on things like multiplayer and power-ups, she has the credibility to hold our attention through this tutorial on Blur's basics. Or maybe it's just the winks, shoulder-shimmys and lip gloss. Definitely lip gloss.
Blur's due out, like, pretty damn soon. Or May 25, whichever is sooner.


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Does one verse make a superstar?
Getting to No. 1 in the US is no mean feat, but Hamilton-born and raised pop star Kimbra has done it, becoming the first Kiwi woman to reach No 1 in the US charts, featuring on the track Somebody That I Used To Know by Australian artist Gotye.
She sings just six lines, but it seems those six lines have helped to create a phenomenon.
After it featured on Glee and Saturday Night Live, it sold 542,000 downloads in one week - the fourth-highest number of downloads for a song since digital sales were first tracked in 2003.
The song has been No 1 in nine countries and the video, which sees the 22-year-old wearing nothing more than some tasteful body paint, has had more than 139 million hits online.
They're staggering statistics, but it's raised a few questions here at TimeOut.
Is it really a song that either NZ or Kimbra can claim as their own? Can we really say that "Kimbra has reached No 1 in the US"?
Undoubtedly her contribution helps make the song fly. Its success is interwoven with Kimbra's talent, and has helped her profile, and her career.
But ... it's not actually her song. Although these days with everyone "featuring" on everyone else's tracks, that does become a blurry line. Maybe we should forget about the technicalities and just embrace it.
But can we still claim Kimbra as a Kiwi? It took a move to Australia for her to establish a music career, and I bet there are plenty of Australians out there who would start a pavlova/Phar Lap/Crowded House-style debate about her.
Well, let them debate I reckon, because it was Hamilton that bred her, and had her singing the national anthem at international rugby games.
And you know what? We should make a fuss about this milestone because, though pop culture mostly filters down to us from the US and Britain, this is one of those rare occasions when NZ can sincerely scoff "we knew that song, and Kimbra, were a big deal before everyone else did".
TimeOut had her on the cover last August even. And she won New Zealand's Critics Choice Award in October.
Strangely enough I also remember watching the video for Somebody when Gotye first posted it in July. Only 14 people had "viewed" it at the time, and it was yet to be released to radio.
But being a sappy romantic, it instantly floored me. The burning, yearning, duet channelled scorned heartbreak, and made me hit replay multiple times. So this may sound smug, but I wasn't surprised when it was soon No 1.
The odd thing is, having released her own accomplished debut Vows in Australia and NZ last August, while she sells out tours and sold more than 560,000 copies across the ditch, she's yet to really make a deep impact at home.
Perhaps it's because she's only played here a handful of times - and in some odd places too, like a shoe show at Fashion Week and at Ellerslie Racecourse during the Auckland Cup - and so hasn't yet had the opportunity to truly impress Kiwis with her powerful lungs and striking charisma?
Whatever the reason, though this success and connection to a Billboard No 1 will earn new fans, I am betting her few deft brushstrokes on Somebody is but a very handy primer to what's shaping up as a big canvas kind of career.
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The Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner who survived being shot in the head by the Taleban has spoken of being given a "second life" in her first public statement and of setting up a fund to help "every girl, every child, to be educated".
Malala Yousafzai, 15, who was attacked in Pakistan by Taleban gunmen after campaigning for girls' rights, underwent surgery on her skull and ear at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the weekend.
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SCI FI Wire had an exclusive interview with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers behind next month's Zombieland flick (which looks great!) and they spoke about that other big project they've been working on: the script for the Venom solo film.
The last we heard on the Venom project from the writers was from back in April when they couldn't comment on whether or not this incarnation of Venom would be the same as/related to the wasted version we saw in the highly disappointing Spider-Man 3.
In the interview, Reese and Wernick take questions on the status of the project and when the film could be in production.
So, What's the latest on their scripts?
"We've written two drafts of Venom, and the studio has it, and they're pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward,"
As for when the film going move into actual production, the writers said they weren't sure and re-iterated that they've submitted their latest two drafts.
With Spider-Man 4 moving into production early next year for a summer, 2011 opening, fans are curious as to when we might expect this film - Could it come before or around the game time? Could the movies cross-over?
"We can't really talk about that, unfortunately... Basically, the studio and Marvel and the Arads are taking our drafts and going beyond and figuring out what's the next step."
What we do know about the future Spider-Man movies are that Sony hired James Vanderbilt to pen scripts for Spider-Man 5 and 6. The interesting part about the news was that the scripts would act as a franchise reboot should Raimi and his cast not return for more after Spider-Man 4.
I'm not sure I expect to see Tobey Maguire want to do another after this. He seemingly wasn't too interested in coming back for this fourth installment and the same can be said about co-star Kirsten Dunst.
Either way, Sony is sick of waiting so long between installments in their prized film franchise and with Tobey Maguire not seemingly interested in more installments and Sam Raimi's rediculously busy schedule, I could see them pulling the trigger on the reboot idea.


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Highlights of the August 2010 Edition of the Fab Databases
Equipment spending for frontend fabs is expected to grow by 133% by the end of 2010
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The latest edition of SEMI's World Fab Forecast report reveals good times ahead for the equipment and materials industry, with an increase in activities in all areas. Equipment spending for Front End fabs is expected to grow by 133% by the end of 2010, and about 18% for 2011. Worldwide installed capacity (without Discretes) is expected to grow by 7% in 2010 and 8% in 2011. Also, fab construction spending will increase by 125% in 2010 and 22% in 2011.
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Since our last publication (May 2010 edition):
- Updated status on 174 facilities
- Added 21 facilities: added new fab; added existing fab
- Recorded 15 facilities were closed or cancelled.
- Spending on fab construction projects in 2010 is expected to increase by about 125% to $4.5B and in 2011 by 22% to $5.5B.
Twenty two facilities (including MEMS, LEDs and R&Ds) are expected to begin construction in 2010: 13 are for LED fabs, 4 are for Foundries, 2 are for Memory and one for System LSI.
Spending on equipping facilities (including MEMS, LEDs and R&Ds) is expected to increase by about 133% to $33.9B in 2010 and by about 18% to $39.8B in 2011.
- LED fabs have a relatively small amount of spending, about $1.4B, though they show the largest growth rate in 2010 (Year-over-Year) with 188%
In 2010, 22 facilities are expected to begin operation, half are LED, 6 for Foundries, 3 Analog and 2 Logic (none for Memory).
In 2011, 28 facilities are expected to begin operations including 13 for LED, 5 for Foundries and 4 for Memory.
- Installed capacity (without Discretes) is expected to recover and grow by about 7% to 14.4M wafers per month and by about 8% or 15.8M wafers per month in 2011
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Reading is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas. Like all language, it is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader's prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and language community which is culturally and socially situated. The reading process requires continuous practices, development, and refinement.
- I read my eyes out and can't read half enough…. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
- John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (December 28, 1794); Adams papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
- God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.
- Anselm of Canterbury, as reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 123.
- Others such as these met him in the outer mountain and thought to mock him because he had not learned letters. And Antony said to them, 'What do you say? Which is first, mind or letters? And which is the cause of which— mind of letters or letters of mind.' And when they answered mind is first and the inventor of letters, Antony said, 'Whoever, therefore, has a sound mind has not need of letters.'
- Athanasius of Alexandria § 73, as quoted in in Life of Anthony of Egypt Readings in World Christian History (2013), pp. 131-144
- People who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.
- David Baldacci, The Last Mile (2016), Ch. 73.
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
- The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of 'Fahrenheit 451'", interview by Misha Berson, in The Seattle Times (12 March 1993); later quoted in Reader's Digest and The Times Book of Quotations. The 1993 Seattle Times is the earliest verified source located. All other citations come later and either provide a direct reference to the Seattle Times' (chiefly: Reader's Digest, credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93.
- Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
- As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw", interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000).
- Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
- Jorge Luis Borges Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935), Preface.
- Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
- Ben Carson, Think Big (p. 22).
- Libros lege. Quae legeris memento. Liberos erudi.
- Read books. Remember what you read. Instruct your children.
- Dicta Catonis advice to his son, Loeb Classical Library vol. 434, p. 595.
- Read books. Remember what you read. Instruct your children.
- Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
- The thing I like about reading is that it puts you in charge. You can stop and start, you can reread something, and you can imagine what the characters and places look alike. When you read, you're participant in the story. When you're watching television, you're not.
- Micheal Dorris, Sees Behind Trees (1996), author's note.
- Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
- Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard (fiction). p. 19, paperback version. Spoken by Mrs. Lesser.
- Just as we say "listening and hearing," "looking and seeing," so we ought to have two expressions to distinguish active reading from passive.
- Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937) p. 47.
- Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of it is always something new.
- Vilhelm Ekelund, Second Light, p. 14.
- If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality.
- Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality.
- The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants.
- Federico Fellini, in I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (2003), "Younger Generation"
- I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensaton of being in close contact with what I was reading. [...] But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
- E. M. Forster, Selected Letters: Letter 419, to William Plomer, 12 December 1957.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them. I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
Every now and again it becomes fashionable among some adults to point at a subset of children's books, a genre, perhaps, or an author, and to declare them bad books, books that children should be stopped from reading...It's tosh. It's snobbery and it's foolishness. There are no bad authors for children, that children like and want to read and seek out, because every child is different. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories. A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn't hackneyed and worn out to them. This is the first time the child has encountered it. Do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is a route to other books you may prefer. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian "improving" literature. You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.
- Neil Gaiman (October 15, 2013). Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. the guardian.com. Retrieved on April 8, 2014.
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384.; as cited in Hans Kohn. (1961) The Idea Of Nationalism: A Study In Its Origins And Background. p. 313
- Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
- John of Salisbury Policraticus Bk. 7, ch. 10; John Dickinson (trans.) The Statesman's Book of John of Salisbury ([1927] 1963). [1]
- I will read anything rather than work.
- Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957), Introduction.
- Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part I.
- Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter XIII.
- Seria cum possim, quod delectantia malim
Scribere, tu causa es lector.
- Thou art the cause, O reader, of my dwelling on lighter topics, when I would rather handle serious ones.
- Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), V. 16. 1.
- A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one.
- George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five (2011)
- His classical reading is great: he can quote
Horace, Juvenal, Ovid and Martial by rote.
He has read Metaphysics * * * Spinoza and Kant
And Theology too: I have heard him descant
Upon Basil and Jerome. Antiquities, art,
He is fond of. He knows the old masters by heart,
And his taste is refined.
- Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Canto II, Part IV.
- Who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
(And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?)
Uncertain and unsettled still remains,
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself,
Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys
And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge,
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
- John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book IV, line 322.
- The Musalman General, who had already made his name a terror by repeated plundering expeditions in Bihar, seized the capital by a daring stroke... Great quantities of plunder were obtained, and the slaughter of the 'shaven headed Brahmans', that is to say the Buddhist monks, was so thoroughly completed, that when the victor sought for someone capable of explaining the contents of the books in the libraries of the monasteries, not a living man could be found who was able to read them.
- Minhaj-i-Siraj, Tabakat-i-Nasiri, cited by Vincent Smith and quoted from B. R. Ambedkar, "The decline and fall of Buddhism," Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol. III, Government of Maharashtra. 1987, p. 232-233, quoting Vincent Smith
- We read to know that we are not alone.
- William Nicholson, Shadowlands (1993).
- Reading in general is one of my methods of recuperation; consequently it is a part of that which enables me to escape from myself, to wander in strange sciences and strange souls of that, about which I am no longer in earnest. Indeed, reading allows me to recover from my earnestness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
- I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says 'I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,' I feel I have succeeded.
- Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her seventy-eighth book, as cited in: James Charlton. The Writer's quotation book. 1985. p. 34 p. 66
- When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
- Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1938-12-03
- You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Thinking for Oneself," Parerga und Paralipomena, Vol. 2, § 260
- Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Thinking for Oneself," Parerga und Paralipomena, Vol. 2, § 260
- Reading is thinking with some one else's head instead of one's own. But to think for oneself is to endeavour to develop a coherent whole, a system, even if it is not a strictly complete one. Nothing is more harmful than, by dint of continual reading, to strengthen the current of other people's thoughts. These thoughts, springing from different minds, belonging to different systems, bearing different colours, never flow together of themselves into a unity of thought, knowledge, insight, or conviction, but rather cram the head with a Babylonian confusion of tongues; consequently the mind becomes overcharged with them and is deprived of all clear insight and disorganised. This condition of things may often be discerned in many men of learning, and it makes them inferior in sound understanding, correct judgment, and practical tact to many illiterate men, who, by the aid of experience, conversation, and a little reading, have acquired a little knowledge from without, and made it always subordinate to and incorporated it with their own thoughts.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, "Thinking for Oneself," H. Dirks, trans.
- People who spend their whole life traveling abroad end up having plenty of places where they can find hospitality but no real friendships. The same must needs be the case with people who never set about acquiring an intimate acquaintanceship with any one great writer, but skip from one to another, paying flying visits to them all.
- Seneca, Letter 2 (Robin Campbell trans.)
- He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts.
- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 2, line 26.
- It is the greatest achievement of my life. Yes, I have used that word: a great achievement. My learning to read was an achievement. Nobody knows that but me.
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), ISBN 978-1-4072-3376-5, p. 43
- "What is it exactly that you do with a book?"
"You read it."
"Oh," she said. And then, "What does read mean?"
I nodded. Then I began turning the pages of the book I was holding and said, "Some of these markings here represent sounds. And the sounds make words. You look at the marks and sounds come into your mind and, after you practice long enough, they begin to sound like hearing a person talking. Talking—but silently."
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), p. 56
- Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy.
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), p. 92
- Bob seems to know almost everything; but he doesn't know when or why people stopped reading. "Most people are too lazy," he said. "They only want distractions."
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), p. 114
- I must get inside that library! I must have books again. If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living.
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), p. 134
- The woman beside me hesitated a moment, and then said softly, "This man is different, Mary. He's a Reader."
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), p. 209
- I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird (1980), p. 248
- Studious let me sit,
And hold high converse with the mighty Dead.
- James Thomson, The Seasons, Winter (1726), line 431.
- Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it.
- Tzvetan Todorov in Reading as Construction, as translated from French by Marilyn A. August.
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 656-58.
- Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
- Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 147.
- Reading maketh a full man.
- Francis Bacon, Of Studies.
- Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
- Book of Common Prayer, collect for the Second Sunday in Advent.
- In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Caxtoniana, Hints on Mental Culture.
- If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
- Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Goethe's Helena.
- We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
- Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Goethe's Helena.
- The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
- William Cowper, Retirement, line 715.
- But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a lustre he that runs may read.
- William Cowper, Tirocinium, line 77.
- The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
- Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Chapter XXII.
- I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Books.
- My early and invincible love of reading, * * * I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
- Edward Gibbon, Memoirs.
- The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography, Book XVIII, Truth and Beauty.
- Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewöhnt,
Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.
- What they're accustomed to is no great matter,
But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Vorspiel auf dem Theater, line 13. Bayard Taylor's translation.
- What they're accustomed to is no great matter,
- In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Letter LXXV.
- The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Letter LXXXIII.
- Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
- Habakkuk, II. 2. Ut percurrat qui legerit eum. (That he that readeth it may run over it). Rendering in the Vulgate.
- The foolish read to escape reality; the wise surrender to it.
- Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus.
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
- Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer, No. 137.
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1763).
- What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
- Samuel Johnson, The Idler, No. 74.
- It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
- Johannes Kepler, In Martyrs of Science, p. 197.
- I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
- Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
- He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
- Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raimond Sebond.
- And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
- Walter Scott, The Monastery, Chapter XII.
- Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.
- John Sheffield (Duke of Buckinghamshire), An Essay on Poetry, line 323.
- He that runs may read.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Flower, Stanza 5.
- Learn to read slow; all other graces
Will follow in their proper places.
- William Walker, Art of Reading.


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"The Normal Heart," Larry Kramer's largely autobiographical play about the rise of HIV and AIDS, has been turned into an HBO movie airing Sunday, starring Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch and Jonathan Groff.
When the now 78-year-old Kramer first presented the play off-Broadway in April 1985, much of the country still didn't understand the enormity of the emergency. Though in the previous two decades gays and lesbians had become a more visible presence in society, a large segment of Americans were still anti-gay, many vocally.
The public was first alerted to the epidemic in 1981. Two years later, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan wrote, "The poor homosexuals. They have declared war against nature, and nature is exacting an awful retribution."
In 1985, Buchanan would become President Ronald Reagan's director of communications. That was also the year it was announced that actor Rock Hudson, a friend of the president's, had AIDS. Hudson would die that October, but it wasn't until June 1987 that Reagan would issue an executive order creating the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic.
"The Normal Heart" was one of the first works of art to address the crisis. It details the struggle of a group of artists and activists who were facing the disease firsthand and were determined to do something about it.
The play deals "with a moment that's so desperate and mysterious," observes Roberts. "We as a humanity failed each other in that time, and that's always a great reminder to do better."
The Oscar-winning actress plays Dr. Emma Brookner, a wheelchair-bound physician and polio survivor who is one of the first to recognize the outbreak of what some at the time called "the gay cancer." Emma, like most of the characters, was modeled after a real person Kramer knew. Roberts was approached for the role by Ryan Murphy, who had directed her in "Eat, Pray, Love" and is behind "Glee" and "American Horror Story."
The actress says she had been asked before to play Emma — "The Normal Heart" has had a long, tortuous route to the screen — but turned it down because "of my inability to fully understand who this character was. And when Ryan asked me to play this character I said 'No,' but I didn't think he heard me."
Roberts then watched a documentary on polio. "It unlocked the door to who this woman is to me and where her ferocious, relentless pursuit of correctness comes from, and that's when Ryan received what he always gets, which is the answer he wants."
Murphy actively pursued the play for years and bought the rights in 2010. He then worked on the script with Kramer for three years. "I believe that we sort of broke it out. I would say that there's probably 40 to 45 percent new material in the movie," he says, pointing to the early part of the film, which was shot on Fire Island in New York, the scene of many gay parties.
"The Normal Heart" was revived on Broadway in 2011 and, among others, starred Parsons, the Emmy-winning actor from CBS' "The Big Bang Theory." As he does in the movie, he played Tommy Boatwright, a gay-rights activist. Parsons, 41, who like Murphy and co-star Bomer is openly gay, says he remembers how frightening the reports of the epidemic were when he was a kid.
"So doing the play, especially because it was the first time I was introduced to the material, I found to be a real education for me," Parsons says. "But what's funny is the more you delve into this, as much as it's very specific to the topic of the AIDS crisis, the humanity that overreaches all of it is what really hurts your heart at the end of it. You know, it feels like something horrible that has happened before in different ways, and it feels like — humans being humans — it may happen again."
The actor adds that when he began acting in the mid-'90s it was an "especially difficult time in the epidemic, and that was my first sort of direct contact in losing friends. So this story, for me, was always kind of the genesis of my understanding of what the disease was."
In the film Bomer plays Felix Turner, a newspaper reporter who becomes the lover of the Jewish-American writer and gay activist Ned Weeks (Ruffalo), who is at the center of the story. Felix eventually contracts the virus, which ravages his body.
"Thankfully, we got to do this film for HBO with Ryan, and they allowed us to shut down for a period of time in order to make some of those physical changes," says Bomer, who lost 40 pounds during filming. "Obviously it's a huge piece of the character. I remember talking to Larry, and I didn't want to dig up a lot of old wounds or anything, but the main thing he said to me was, 'There was the Felix before he got sick and the Felix after he got sick,' and so that was an important part of the story for us to get to tell."
While there is a growing acceptance of the gay community today, Murphy points out that the HIV and AIDS epidemic hasn't gone away. A recent story in the New Republic noted "Though the death rate from AIDS has greatly diminished since its highest point in the mid-'90s, it remains drastically higher in the U.S. than in the rest of the developed world."
While the play ends in 1984, Murphy says, "It feels very modern to me right now with gay marriage in the news and people fighting to be loved for who they are and to be accepted for who they are. I feel like it's still very applicable to the way we're living today."


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Uff-da by New Glaris...a small little operation in southern Wisconsin...
"Here is a Bock brewed to appease the Gods of Winter. Hearty and full-bodied this is a "Big" bier. Brewed in the Reinheitsgebot tradition, our Bock comes by its mahogany hue naturally. You can expect this bier to be complex and smooth with deep chocolate and coffee undertones, complementing the rich bouquet. No matter if you choose to enjoy our Bock before, during or after dinner, remember to serve at about 48°F. Because like many good things in life... the warmer Bock is, the sweeter it gets."
Style: Bock . Flavor :Smooth deep chocolate and coffee undertones
Alcohol: 6.75% alcohol by volume


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Lela Rose Spring 2013 | Pictures
Lela Rose Spring 2013
Lela Rose Spring 2013
Perfectly girlie and just a little glam, Lela Rose even gave camo print a pretty makeover for Spring '13. Drawing inspiration from the contrasts in artist Jim Hodges's work, Rose worked her own juxtapositions (a recurring Spring theme) on the runway, delivering a set of polished separates with cooler, casual references throughout — not just in her feminine reimagining of camo print, but in easy silhouettes, like moto vests and shorts suits. From there, the collection gave way to more ladylike fare, showcasing Rose's expertise in crafting ladylike little dresses with cinched waists and pretty details. This time, she also delivered a new iteration of floral print — working the pattern like a frame onto dresses and matching tops and trousers, before the collection closed with a parade of embellished cocktail dresses, one more lovely than the next.
- Trends: Abstract camo-inspired prints, florals, peplum, summery tweed, shorts suits, silver embellishment, and one-shoulder dresses.
- Colors: Lavender and soft gray, citrus hues, black, white, and silver.
- Key Piece: The tweedy moto vest and shorts set; for evening, the black-strapped white and silver dress with a full skirt.
- Accessories: Ankle-strap heels.
- Who Should Wear It: The 20something crowd looking for a feminine, polished day-to-night wardrobe.


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Power unit
Redesigned KA compact power unit is designed for intermittent service. It delivers operating pressures to 10,000 psi and combines a pump, electric motor, and tank in one unit, offering minimal use of space and mobility. It offers reservoir capacities to 2 gal and is available with singleand 3-phase motors, in singleor dual-stage pump versions, and can work with an array of valves (directly mountable) and accessories.
HAWE Hydraulics, (704) 509-1599, www.hawehydraulics.com