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Denarau Island
Denarau Island
Attached to the mainland by a short causeway, Denarau is the place to be pampered. Less than 10km from Nadi, Denarau boasts nine large resorts, stunning beaches and an 18-hole championship golf course. Luxury suites, sparkling swimming pools, world-class cuisine, shopping and adventure options – Denarau has it all.
Denarau's resorts offer accommodation ranging from hotel rooms to luxury villas and five-star suites. For the business-minded, there are conference facilities and wifi; spas and swimming pools for those who want to take it easy, and many fabulous family-friendly options.
Restaurants, cafes and bars across eight resorts offer excellent indoor and outdoor dining options, with specialty cuisines, fine dining and, in some cases, the full silver service experience.
With so many fantastic options, Denarau is the perfect location for your honeymoon, wedding, or the ultimate luxury holiday.
The great facilities at Denarau make it the natural home for a wide range of sporting, corporate and entertainment events. International golf tournaments are held at the world-class championship course, while Port Denarau hosts the annual Fiji International Jazz and Blues Festival, and each year the South Pacific Food and Wine Festival takes place across multiple resorts.
From Denarau you can easily access a huge selection of activities, from wildlife adventures to scenic tours; village visits to day cruises. Get your adrenaline pumping on a zip line, jump out of a plane, or get wet at the giant water park.
Getting to Denarau Island
Denarau is just a short drive from Nadi International Airport, where you can hire a local taxi or rental car. Many resorts also offer complimentary airport transfers.
Port Denarau is the main on-water transport hub to access the nearby Mamanuca and Yasawa Island groups, with ferry services and cruises departing daily.
Dining in Denarau Island
The resorts at Denarau offer many excellent dining options, but for something different, jump on the Bula Bus and head to the Marina. Choose from international cuisine, steakhouses, seafood or sushi all served by the sea with spectacular sunsets.Dining in Denarau Island


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(FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga.)—Emmanuel College welcomes Rev. John Hedgepeth as the commencement speaker at the 2011 graduation ceremony at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 7, in the John W. Swails Center.
"John Hedgepeth is a genuine leader and an inspiring visionary," says EC President Michael Stewart. "As an alumnus of Emmanuel, we are proud of his accomplishments and for the mark he has made during his lifetime. He is a true friend of Emmanuel College and a wonderful example of a leader worth following."
Pastor Hedgepeth has served as pastor of Northwood Temple Church in Fayetteville, N.C., for 42 years of his 48 years in full-time ministry. During that time, Northwood Temple has grown from 100 members to more than 4,000 and has hundreds of local and international ministries, including schools, churches, and medical and optical teams in foreign countries.
A 1961 graduate from Emmanuel, Pastor Hedgepeth holds a B.S. in English and History from East Carolina University as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Campbell University. He and his lovely wife Fay have three children and six grandchildren.
Founded in 1919, Emmanuel College is a four-year, Christ-centered liberal arts institution accredited by SACS. This growing college strives to prepare students to become Christlike disciples who integrate faith, learning and living for effective careers, scholarship and service.

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Afternoon all,
Apologies if this has been asked before. Anyone know where the 'here we go' sample on 'San Francisco' comes from? In Alain Patrick's review http://www.discogs.com/808-State-exel/master/27737 he mentions that the sample also appears in 'Pacific symphony' by Transformer 2. But according to this page http://www.discogs.com/Transformer-2-Pa ... ter/158557, that track wasn't released until 1992 – which means either that T2 sampled from the same source as used on 'San Francisco', or that they took the sample from 'San Francisco' itself.
On 'San Francisco', the sample sounds as if it's been pitched-up a little, making it harder to identify.
Any ideas?
Greetings, CtheB
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Re: San Francisco 'here we go' sample
Pacific Symphony is one of the many many tracks that were inspired by 808 State. I think T2 were referencing 808 State with the sample.
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It's also in an Armando track: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/trax-c ... d290111417
I'm guessing Queen Latifah, MC Lite or someone like that
I'm guessing Queen Latifah, MC Lite or someone like that
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I turn 30 tomorrow. It feels funny to say this. For the past month or so, I've been trying to shrug it off whenever someone mentions what a milestone birthday it's going to be. "Oh, um, it's just a number..." I say. "I'm sure it's not going to feel much different than 29." And it's partly true. I'm pretty certain I'm not going to wake up tomorrow with a head of gray hair, 25 extra pounds, and a sudden urge to shake my fist at all the young'uns playing music loudly in my neighborhood.
But I'm actually kind of excited to be exiting my 20s. Sure, there's always that feeling of "well, there goes another year...", compounded with "well, there goes another decade" for this particular birthday. But the later part of my 20s were pretty challenging, particularly the last year, and I'm happy to have moved beyond that.
I have quite a bit to be excited for. My book comes out this December. I have a new blog I'm eager to work more on. I'm collaborating with good friends on an exciting food-related venture. I have a brand new passport with blank pages just waiting to be stamped, as well as two old passports with reminders of all the places I've been.
More reasons your 30s might be better than your 20s:
- You have a better idea of what you want out of life and how to get it.
- You have an apartment you're actually proud of.
- You don't have to apologize for being tired at 10pm and wanting hit the hay.
- You've learned to not sweat the small stuff.
- You're older, wiser, and thus naturally more interesting to talk to.
- You can pull off a dinner party with grace (more or less).
- Your clothes from high school and college are now vintage.
- You can remember the awkward years and laugh about them.
- You've been there and lived to tell the tale.
I starting making mai tais at home while researching tiki culture for my cookbook. You see, tiki culture and Chinese food have quite a history together. In the 1940s and 1950s, restaurants like Trader Vic's and Don the Beachcomber brought Chinese food to a bigger, mainstream dining audience by serving it with tiki drinks in a fun, festive environment. You could have eggrolls, spareribs, chow mein, and more with your mai tais, Singapore Slings, Scorpions, and other tropical-themed cocktails. And so I had an excuse to recipe-test mai tais again and again for tiki parties.
The original Mai Tai was actually a simple and well-balanced cocktail, in contrast to all the overly sugary and unnaturally colored drinks you see today. Victor Bergeron, the founder of Trader Vic's, is widely acknowledged as the drink's creator. As the story goes, he whipped up the drink one evening at his bar for friends visiting from Tahiti, one of whom praised it as "Maita'i roa a'e!", Tahitian for "Very Good!", which is how the drink got its name.
The Mai Tai I make for parties was inspired by the Trader's recipe. As far as tiki drinks go, it has few ingredients, perfect for making a well-balanced tropical cocktail without spending a lot to stock your home bar. Orgeat, an almond syrup with a little rose water or orange flower water, may be a little tricky to find, but is available in many gourmet grocery stores and shops specializing in Italian-American groceries. You can also substitute regular almond syrup.
It's a fairly sophisticated drink, or as sophisticated as a cocktail sometimes served in coconuts and tiki mugs can be. I like to think if you can still enjoy a mai tai in your 30s, you're doing perfectly fine. And that your next decade is going to be a good one.
Mai Tai
Makes 1 drink
- 1 ounce dark rum (or 1 ounce dark rum and 1 ounce gold rum)
- 1 ounce lime juice
- ½ ounce Orange Curaçao
- ½ ounce orgeat, or substitute regular almond syrup
- ½ ounce simple syrup
- Pineapple wedge or paper umbrella for garnish (I like to snack while I sip this, so I throw a few extra wedges in the glass)
- Fill a shaker with ice. Add the rum, lime juice, Orange Curaçao, orgeat, and simple syrup. Shake well and strain into a glass over ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge(s) or umbrella.
More cocktails for celebrating:
- Hibiscus Mojito
- Thai Basil Sangria
- Vodka-Thyme Lemonade
- Rosemary Salty Dog Cocktail from Brooklyn Atlas
- Bee's Knees Cocktail from Brooklyn Atlas


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(NEW YORK) -- More than one million people visit tanning salons in the United States every day.
Many of those that do use tanning salons are teenage girls. According to an article in the journal Pediatrics, 35 to 40 percent of white adolescent girls use indoor tanning devices. The article points out that artificial tanning increases the risks of skin cancer. The increased risk includes risk of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, and a common cancer among adolescents and young adults.
The average U.S. city has more tanning salons than Starbucks or McDonald's locations.
The rate of melanoma in women age 15 to 39 more than doubled between 1973 and 2004, according to the article. According to the authors, 25 percent of melanoma diagnoses may be attributable to tanning beds. The article also urges pediatricians to discuss the dangers of the life-threatening practice with families.
Researchers also suggested spray tanning as a potential alternative which does not include the same health risks as tanning beds.
President Obama's health care overhaul implemented a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning in 2010. Several states and medical organizations have moved to ban minors from tanning in tanning salons.
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South-African Dutch Reformed leader, author of devotional writings
Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.
He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).
Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.
Works by Andrew Murray
Revealing and challenging, Absolute Surrender is a wonderful devotional. Based around a series of sermons by Andrew Murray, Absolute Surrender extols the need for "absolute surrender" to God. Murray provides concrete steps for bringing about such surrender in one's life. He also describes both the fruit of surrendering, e.g. true experience of the Holy Spirit in one's life, and the different "stages" one goes through on the "path to Christian liberty." Thus, anyone not fully experiencing Christian liberty can profit from reading this book, either in a group Bible study or simply in personal study. Full of insight, Absolute Surrender is a timeless devotional that will aid every believer in surrendering to Christ.
If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for millennia. In his book, The Deeper Christian Life, Andrew Murray helps us come to grips with those nagging insecurities in our Christian walk. A shallow relationship with God leads us down a road of doubt and insecurities. Can I be forgiven? How can I forgive? Murray tells us that we can go deeper in our relationship with God, and with that deeper relationship comes growing confidence and joy in the gospel. That joy springs from the knowledge of God's grace in forgiving us, and enables us to extend that grace to others in our lives.
Murray suggests that his devotional, The Lord's Table, is not meant to replace scripture, but rather to strengthen believers' appreciation of God's word. Murray's meditations provide a thoughtful guide for believers who desire to develop a deeper understanding of the Lord's Holy Supper. The devotional covers the week before, during, and after the Supper, and each entry is labeled with the day of the week so that readers can manage devotions with ease. Murray first explains how believers can prepare to receive God's blessing during the weeks before the Supper. Murray further encourages believers to be filled with God's love, repent of sinful deeds, and meditate on his grace. During the day of Holy Communion, we are called to pour out our hearts to Christ as he strengthens us through his body and blood, which quenches our thirst and feeds our souls. In the days after communion, Murray tenderly urges us to dwell on the redeeming power of sanctification. Murray's text is an excellent resource for those who desire to grow in their faith through Communion.
Derived from a series of addresses delivered by the author in 1895, Andrew Murray's compilation of 13 meditations provides the biblical interpretation to encourage Christians throughout different stages of their spiritual walk. As a South African Dutch Reformed leader and pioneering missionary, Murray's ecumenical acumen is evident in his detailed pieces, which are both reflective and enlightening. Murray's devotional is loosely organized into three sections. The first section, in which Murray emphasizes a transition from what he calls the "Carnal" into the "Spiritual," focuses on the importance of self-sacrifice. The second section highlights the importance of prayer and the Christian's responsibility in preparation for the Kingdom. The final section encourages Christians to revel in the rewards of a faithful walk with the Lord: blessings of the spirit, peace in God's grace, and the ultimate comfort in Christ's redemption. In this eye-opening devotional, Murray helps Christians find assurance in the knowledge that God is "all in all."
The New Life aids Christians in their examination of the scripture and offers valuable information to believers who want to overcome sin and live the Christian life. While Murray's book is specifically designed for young converts, the text is useful to all Christians. Murray's chapters cover a variety of different topics that Christians, particularly those new to the faith, will find remarkably helpful. Murray discusses how Christians should approach the tasks of missionary work, prayer, confession, and baptism. The text also provides practical guidance regarding money, self-denial, discretion, and the temptations of worldly evil. New Life is a personal devotional, but it is also a resourceful tool for large congregations, small groups, and prayer meetings. The text is simply and easy to understand, and while each individual entry is rather short, Murray supplies substantial scriptural reference for further exploration.
Andrew Murray's passion for the spiritual well being of Christians shines through in his School of Obedience. Murray is well-known as a powerful and engaging writer, and School of Obedience is no exception. In it, Murray takes traditional Christian ideas about obedience, and recasts them to show believers the true power and importance of those ideas. He emphasizes, in particular, how obedience to God is obedience to a Personal Being, our Creator and Sustainer. He also calls believers to obedience each day and every day. With less than ten chapters, School of Obedience, is a short essay on the nature of obedience, but one that anyone can profit from reading.
Andrew Murray's True Vine is a thirty-one day devotional focusing on Christ's Parable of the Vine and the Branches in John 15. The devotional for each day, though short, elaborates and expounds upon John 15, providing spiritual insight along the way. Murray repeats important themes--like abiding in Christ--throughout the different days. Noticing how they develop and grow with each successive read, countless small groups and individuals have found Murray's keen spiritual teachings fruitful. An excellent devotional, True Vine is recommended for daily spiritual nourishment.
In this enlightening treatise, Andrew Murray explores the difference between two covenants--the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Murray's discussion of covenants is instructive, describing the nature of a covenant, the difference between the two covenants, and the transition between them. His ultimate goal, however, is to show "what exactly the blessings are that God has covenanted to bestow upon us." And here Murray's spiritual insight and ability for profound teaching shines through. His "humble attempt" to instruct the believer can have a renewing and transformative effect. Two Covenants is thus a prerequisite for anyone trying to better understand either biblical covenants or one's own personal sanctification.
In Waiting On God!, Andrew Murray introduces Christians to the concept that we need more of God. We need to "train our people in their worship and to wait on God." Murray divides this instruction into 31 chapters, which are ideal for daily devotions for any given month. With each of his mediations, Murray provides accompanying scriptural passages. Like much of Murray's work, Waiting On God!is a book of depth, producing new and important insights every time one reads it.Waiting On God! and the sequel, Working For God are outstanding devotionals from Andrew Murray that will uplift and challenge the believer who wishes to draw closer to God in both devotion and service. Although these daily lessons are relatively short, they are packed with spiritual insight. This public electronic version is based on images of the original publication, undated except for the date (3rd March 1894) by the author at the end of the Preface.
The power of intercessory prayer is a great gift from God. God listens to those he loves, and works all things for their good. Murray, in his classic work With Christ in the School of Prayer, calls the church to exercise that powerful gift. Murray skillfully describes the role of the Holy Spirit within the church and exhorts Christians to use the blessings God has given us. This book is a guide to living a life as a temple of the Holy Spirit.
In Working for God, Andrew Murray calls Christians to be instruments of God. Murray divides this call into thirty-one chapters which are ideal for daily devotions during any given month. With each of his meditations, Murray provides accompanying scriptural passages. Like much of Murray's work, Working for God is a book of depth, producing new and important insights every time one reads it. Its themes are clear (e.g. waiting on God, preparing oneself as an instrument of God) but are never overwhelming or repetitive. Overall, Working for God is another outsanding devotional from Andrew Murray.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Gayatri Devi fades away... so does beauty....
The world will never know what the legendary beauty Gayatri Devi felt when she saw herself in the mirror – sixty years ago, when she had the world swooning at her feet…. and a few months ago, when she still had the world swooning at… at…. the memory. Gayatri Devi spent her adult life frozen in a single frame – that one defining image which was imprinted in our imagination. Like a lot of Living Legends, she too may have been tragically trapped in a construct she could never ever shed - " The Most Beautiful Woman in the World." This label became her claim to fame – regardless of what else she may have achieved in her rich and varied public life. Gayatri Devi was the Ultimate Maharani – the lady who personified 'Royalty'. It was her special burden. Maybe it was also her secret joke. Every chhota-mota 'princess', whether from 'Kadkanagar' or some other rival 'State', strenuously tried to imitate the elegance of Gayatri Devi's trademark chiffon sarees combined with a string of pearls. But nobody matched up. Nobody!
It must have been pretty tiring for her to live up to people's expectations of her – but if the whole Beauty Talk bored her to tears, she didn't reveal it, choosing to laugh it off, instead. The people of Jaipur adored her - most of them, at any rate. Given the complex politics of the Pink City, Gayatri Devi negotiated her way past those deadly landmines with admirable dexterity. She had her enemies, within and outside her family. But unlike other warring Royals, she handled her life with supreme dignity and grace. Palace politics were cleverly contained, her personal griefs (several!) rarely revealed, and her private misgivings, shared with but a few close confidantes.
I had met Gayatri Devi a few times over the years, and found her unbelievably down to earth, far from aloof and disarmingly 'real'. Most people were awestruck, even dumbstruck in her presence. If she noticed their discomfort, she instantly reached out and put them at ease without patronizing anybody. She showed her true class and impeccable upbringing dealing with 'her people' – simple villagers who continued to flock to their Rajmata, confident she'd help them if she could. Her smokey, throaty voice added to the allure and mystique still further. Talking to her, it was easy to tell she was a woman who had LIVED. A woman who had experienced life in all its complexities. This Cinderella story was not without its warts.In her book, " A Princess Remembers," she had recalled with rare poignancy and candour that at the end of the day, even the World's Most Beautiful Woman places her head on a pillow…. and silently weeps. Today, we mourn the death of Eternal Beauty. May her soul rest in peace.
The flight from Bhuvaneshwar had barely touched down when the phone calls started. Gayatri Devi had slipped away.... and with her an entire era had also ended. Two days earlier, another legendary beauty, Leela Naidu, had died a lonely death in her Colaba flat. Sometimes, only a cliche says it best - they don't make them like that anymore.
As was expected, my whirlwind trip to Orissa went by in a flash and a blur of lovely memories. What does an award -winning writer do on a loooong flight?? Two guesses. Both will be wrong! Amitav Ghosh spent most of his time swatting flies! It must have been acutely frustrating for him, since he was also trying to write ( no laptop, yellow writing pads, fountain pen, much scratching, chopping , changing - I was openly spying!!). But when the Indian Airlines plane landed at Raipur (hopping flight), we picked up monster flies which swarmed the cabin and buzzed over Amitav's tousled, silver grey crop of hair. Poor guy battled the menace through the next hour, before finally giving up.
I wasn't sure I was ready to listen to a local guide taking Arundhati and moi through the 'meaning' of those explicit and highly erotic Konarak sculptures. But the person turned out to be a really discreet gentleman, who rushed us past the more kinky ones and concentrated on the harmless dance panels. Earlier, we had watched the angry sea outside our bay windows. The Mayfair Hotel is right on the beach at Puri, and very interestingly designed using local material.
Our darshan at the Jagannath Mandir took place late at night. It was a hair-raisingly sublime experience. Especially the time spent in the Mahalakshmi temple just after the bhog ceremony. I feel so very blessed....
21 comments:
- Roshni said...
Seems u had a nice time at Orissa ...the Puri sea beach is so soothing and relaxing!
the fly story was funny...it indeed was!
- July 30, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Balvinder Singh said...
Bhell Come Back.
- July 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM
- The abstract scientist said...
I just read the Rajmata Gayatri Devi news. Yes indeed, it is an end to a great era.
- July 30, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Ritwik said...
It is indeed sad to her about Maharani Gayatri Devi. I have been meaning to write to you about how much I enjoy your blog and reading your views on social isus. I would love to read your views on the lack of good writers in India. Take a look at Indian films. I want to read what you think of the whole aspect of remaking and copying movie ideas and storylines from Hollywood and regional films.
- July 30, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- *Aham* said...
Gayatri Devi has some kind of earthiness in her and still, she seems like a dream. Her eyes and that poignant look is so very royal.
Her loss would be felt profoundly.
Leela Naidu.. i am sure many dont know who she is. Cinema for most is Bebo and Kat and Deeps... and I dont see as many people fond of yester cinema these days... baring a few...
Now though there is this new and very promising trend.... of film makers that's coming in.. many still believe that formula bhandarkar is what is meaningful cinema.
Leela was another royal beauty. her Indo-French hybrid looks her foreign roots. How strange, both these ladies - Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu featured in the list of most beautiful ladies in the world... and both died together.
- July 30, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- Another Kiran In NYC said...
I am sorry for the world's loss of anyone... Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu included. Everyone has a dubious contribution to the enticing madness that makes up the "duniya".
I am sure Gayatri Devi did some good in her own extremely remote, and anachronistically "royal" way... MGD school and a jail stint in opposition to Gandhi Memsaab Sr during the emergency. I suppose we must genuflect to that royal magnanimity. I am on my skinned knees already!
However truly I cannot share the admiration for anything more than her beauty. I have watched a few rarely shown (I think they are just archived now) BBC TV interviews of her in her heyday up until the late 70's and I was really quite appalled at the extremely patronizing and completely out of touch with reality attitudes presented as her public facade.
Without waving a laal jhanda complete with hammer and sickle, I can safely say those words coming from her own mouth, completely underlined the blood sucking, serf raping, responsibility shirking exploitive landlords/royals mentality of those the wily British made rich and ever more "royal" for thier administrative purposes.
Her son's and her patronizing and misjudged attitudes of noblesse oblige in those interviews really made my stomach churn. Where she could have done good in an Independent India... a sustained stint for a long period even if in the opposition and truly representing "her(?)" people was abandoned before it came to full fruitition. Such dillitanteism! With her influence she could have done so very much for the women of Rajasthan and social prejiduices against them but did not.
I will mourn for a very beautiful woman who wore chiffon and pearls well.
Puri sounds wonderful! Pictures?
- July 30, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- mauve said...
Thank you for the wonderful piece Mam.
And I would like to join you in wishing that the beautiful one rests in peace and love that one is sure she missed since long.
Rest in peace, love and relief
HH Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi.
- July 30, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- milind said...
Two stunning beauties passed away back to back. May both rest in peace.
I maintain again, the way you write is simple and interesting,just love it. We are still looking forward to your posts and pics on Europe tour.
- July 30, 2009 at 5:01 PM
- ek-ladki-anjaani-si said...
Another K... All I have to say is, you had to meet her. You had to be in her presence! She was the Queen of the people. I met and spoke to her several times at my time in MGD. She was just like Shobha said, they don't make them like her any more :-D For the rest of my personal comments... read the comment I left on FB for you LOL ;-) Have a great trip... see you in India.
Puri... now there we agree on! Shobha, I need some too!
Aham... here we come baby, both me and AKNYC. You will need to pick one.. wink wink!
- July 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- narendra shenoy said...
Another K - You speak for me! I had the same feeling when I saw the palace of the Gwalior Royals, with rows and rows of their scions sucking up to the British. Disgusting.
SHe was really stylish though. And sometimes, even the life of a princess can be sad.
- July 30, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Amit414@IT-BHU said...
Gayatri Devi's demise is end of beautiful and great era. Really her compassionte behaviour and down to earth nature has made her earthly beauty to celestial one....
- July 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Anil Kumar said...
Bloody hell...I heard her name once but didn't know that she is so dear to some of the older folks. After death everyone talks how great she was. Just read today that she was the third wife. That could well be the reason that she was not such a public figure.
- July 30, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- Noel said...
Maharani Gayatri Devi was truly the epitome of Indian beauty.
she proved her efficiency after registering largest victory margin in 1962 loksabha elections-approved by guiness book of world records
- July 31, 2009 at 2:01 AM
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- July 31, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- kala said...
Another Kiran represents a more realistic view of Gayatri Devi. Really, she did not go beyond. If one do not use one's education and background properly and in the right direction, all that remains will be an empty beautiful shell. As for beauty and gracefulness, I rather prefer the friendliness and earthiness of the very antithesis Jassi. Beauty has some coldness and somehow it lacks genuine warmth. What is so special about her crying or other bodily functions? She is as mortal as anybody and her privileged circumstances added all that glitz and glamour. 90 is an age where death is more close than life and the much admired Gayatri died long back. Her body completed the ordeal 2 days back. Am I sounding too cynical and cold? We have too many VIPs making all the others inconsequential.
- July 31, 2009 at 8:51 AM
- Heeral (Nairobi) said...
Hello, fasninating gayatri devi lived. she was exquisite but cant help feel that despite the richness of her life she died lonely.
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- July 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM
I tend to agree with Another Kiran. Gayatri Devi was an icon(saw her b/w pics while smoking cigarette), a genuine beauty who lived a charmed life. All this is fine but it was quite personal and explicit. On an implicit level there's not a lot documented nor detailed regarding her involvement with broader issues like education, poverty, deprivation, health etc. Sure there are accounts of her association with certain NGO's and women's issues, but that I guess any royalty will be obliged to do to remain in the frame in post independent India.
- July 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- cmpershad said...
Although it is said that a thing of beauty is joy for ever but no body can stop the decaying process. A thing that blooms has to decay and that is the nature of nature!May the souls of Gayatri Devi and Leela Naidu rest in peace.
- July 31, 2009 at 3:31 PM
- krish said...
Indeed vry sad to hea abt Rajmata..............its been a bad year first MJ thn Rajmata.......R.I.P Rajmata gyatri devi.
yr flight was scary..........dread such an experience....
Orissa is indeed beautiful.........
- August 3, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Sidhusaaheb said...
It was quite amazing how the Rajmata chose to age gracefully, rather than resort to surgery or even hair-dye.
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Strathairn Plays Alpha Team Leader Dr. Leigh Rosen in 90-Minute Pilot Directed by Lost's Jack Bender
New York, New York - July 6, 2010 - Syfy has inked critically lauded actor David Strathairn to star in the action-adventure pilot Alphas from writers Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk) and Michael Karnow, it was announced today by Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, Syfy and Co-Head of Content for Universal Cable Productions, which is the studio for the project. Strathairn won rave reviews and received Best Actor Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and Academy Award nominations for his portrayal of Edward R. Murrow in the film Good Night, and Good Luck. Alphas is executive produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun for BermanBraun Television and will be directed by Jack Bender (director and executive producer of Lost). Gene Stein is also executive producer. It is slated to commence production next month in Toronto.
Alphas follows a team of ordinary citizens who possess extraordinary and unusual mental skills. Using physical feats and uniquely advanced mental abilities, this unlikely team takes the law into their own hands and uncovers what the CIA, FBI and Pentagon have not been able or willing to solve. These gifted individuals must balance their quirky personalities and disparate backgrounds with their not always visible powers as they work to solve crimes, stop the ticking time bomb and catch the enemy.
Strathairn plays the unconventional, eccentric Alphas team leader Dr. Leigh Rosen. Though he comes across as somewhat of an absent-minded professor at times, he is also a cunning and manipulative power-player willing to bend the rules in pursuit of his objectives and in support of his Team.
"We're honored to have an actor of David's versatility, caliber and renown join Alphas," said Stern. "With his incredible range of work in theatre, feature films and television, he is the perfect choice to play the complex and nuanced Dr. Rosen."
David Strathairn's other notable film roles include his portrayals of the title character in Harrison's Flowers (2000); the wisecracking blind techie in Sneakers (1992); Joe St. George in Dolores Claiborne (1995); Theseus, Duke of Athens, in the 1999 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream; and corrupt baseball player Eddie Cicotte in Eight Men Out (1988).
Strathairn is often regarded as a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in Twisted as Ashley Judd's psychiatrist; in The River Wild as Meryl Streep's husband; as Tom Cruise's jailbird brother in The Firm; and as Kim Basinger's pimp in L.A. Confidential.
He has worked frequently with his Williams College classmate and director John Sayles, beginning with his film debut in Return of the Secaucus 7, and including the films Passion Fish, Matewan, Limbo and City of Hope, for which Strathairn won the Independent Spirit Award. Alongside Sayles, he played one of the Men in Black in the 1983 film The Brother from Another Planet.
Other notable television and film roles include The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; The Miracle Worker; Paradise, The Sopranos, and Miami Vice.
Among Strathairn's recent films are: We Are...Marshall, Hereafter, Steel Toes, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and No God, No Master. In 2009, Strathairn performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".
Strathairn is represented by ICM and managed by Madeline Ryan of Ryan Entertainment.
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BermanBraun is an independent media company whose three divisions � television, feature film and digital media � create and exploit entertainment content and advertising solutions throughout the world. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company, founded by principals Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun in January 2007, has separate strategic global alliances with NBC and Microsoft to create and distribute creative content across all platforms. In February 2009, BermanBraun launched WONDERWALL � the primary celebrity destination on the MSN Network, ranking ahead of TMZ.com and People.com in traffic, with number one user engagement in the celebrity news space. In April 2010, partners BermanBraun, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (HFM U.S.) and MSN launched GLO, a lifestyle destination site. BermanBraun is currently producing THE CAPE for NBC's 2010/2011 television season. They are also producing DECODED for the History Channel for Fall 2010. BermanBraun also produces SWORDS for The Discovery Channel and IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM? on MTV.
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As I write this, it's August 9 and BP appears to have finally stopped the oil leakage from the Deepwater Horizon well.
It came almost three months after BP's drill platform exploded, killed 11 of it workers and created one of the biggest man-caused environmental disasters in this nation's history.
Or was it? Now some scientists are saying the leak was not nearly as catastrophic as some have insisted. Others say it's too early to make predictions, one way or the other. Frankly, I don't know what to think, but I find it hard to believe that much oil just disappeared or evaporated.
Still, a perusal of news stories by the major media would suggest the crisis was over and that once again, life was good on the Gulf coast.
One AP story noted the return of tourists to beaches and tourist resorts, praised the marked reduction in visible damage from the oil and even described the surface oil still out there as a "colorful sheen" on the water.
Hey! Maybe this oil spill isn't so bad after all. Heck, it even creates a 'colorful sheen!'"
Still Americans are angry and they aim the lion's share of their wrath at BP. The Obama administration has finally been held accountable by many Americans as well, though only reluctantly by some.
But it's BP that catches most of the blame and rightly so. Their history of putting profit before safety and environmental responsibility is well-documented and irrefutable. Even other oil company giants hold BP in contempt. Now their greed and shortsightedness will make them pay dearly.
But who is the company? When we talk about oil company greed, what and who are we really talking about?
Two years ago, when the price of gasoline approached five dollars a gallon and oil companies were experiencing record profits, we Americans were livid. Their greed was shocking and shameful. And indeed nothing infuriates me more than the extraordinary salaries the CEOs and other officers of these mega-corporations rake in. It is immoral.
Ultimately, however, most corporate profits don't go into the pockets of their senior officers.
Corporations are owned by their shareholders. The men and women who run these companies believe their first responsibility is to them. It is a sign of the times that corporate leaders feel very little loyalty to their own workers – to the thousands of employees who, by their hard work and sweat, help make the company profitable to begin with.
But who are the shareholders? Are they predominantly the 'rich weasels' we'd like to believe they are?
Last year economist Robert J. Shapiro tried to find out. Shapiro served in the Clinton administration as undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs and was a key economic adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry in their presidential campaigns.
He is also a co-founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, a "think tank" affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council.
His findings are interesting. Shapiro discovered the following:
• Almost 43 percent of oil and natural gas company shares are owned by mutual funds and asset management companies that have mutual funds. Mutual funds manage accounts for 55 million U.S. households with a median income of $68,700.
• Twenty seven percent of shares are owned by other institutional investors like pension funds. In 2004, more than 2,600 pension funds run by federal, state and local governments held almost $64 billion in shares of U.S. oil and natural gas companies.
These funds represent the major retirement security for the nation's current and retired soldiers, teachers, and police and fire personnel at every level of government.
• Fourteen percent of shares are held in IRA and other personal retirement accounts.
• Forty five million U.S. households have IRA and other personal retirement accounts, with an average account value of just over $22,000.
In other words, whether we knew it or not, many of us had a vested interest in and greatly benefitted from oil company profits, while we simultaneously cursed them for their excesses.
If you're a school teacher, a city employee, a cop, or if you maintain a small IRA mutual fund, most likely, at least some of your retirement income comes from oil company profits.
Last month, as BP stocks plummeted, UK citizens were in panic mode as they watched their retirement income collapse. Same story, different country.
In the end, pointing fingers at the oil companies and holding them entirely responsible for all these disasters is disingenuous and dishonest if we don't acknowledge our own complicity.
First, as long as we create the demand and as long as we exhibit an insatiable desire to live the excessive consumptive lifestyle we believe is an entitlement, oil companies will keep looking for the product.
Second, as long as we invest in these companies and expect a great return on our investment, we can hardly complain about the cost of gas or condemn their actions.
As Shapiro points out, these guys are working for us. When you complain, whether you want to admit it or not, you're biting the hand that feeds you.
This is the complicity that no "progressive" wants to acknowledge. Until we do, our credibility is laughable.
(Jim Stiles is publisher of the "Canyon Country Zephyr -- Planet Earth Edition" now exclusively online. He is also the author of "Brave New West." Both can be found at www.canyoncountryzephyr.com. Stiles lives in San Juan County and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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These instructions outline how to contribute to the Juno aggregation build for the common repository. The instructions are very similar to the instructions for Indigo. There are the following, relatively small changes:
- the recommended or required version of b3 aggregator is different (this will likely require two instances of Eclipse installed, each with their own workspace -- one for 'indigo' and one for 'juno'.
- the main aggregation model file was renamed to a more generic term, "simrel.b3aggr"
- the normal rename of any cvs projects, test packages or urls ... they will now have 'juno' in place of 'indigo'
If at anytime, there are questions, issues or problems, don't hesitate to ask on cross-project mailing list, or open a cross-project bug.
Checkout CVS juno.build project
Check out project
org.eclipse.juno.build from
dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/callisto. If you do not have write access to this repository location, contact the webmaster, explaining which project you are working with, and CC the Planning Council chairperson (currently firstname.lastname@example.com).
Install the b3 Aggregator
- Update as of 8/10/11: While following the following instruction, to work with Juno aggregation build files, it is recommended, if not required, to use the 0.2.x version of the b3 aggregator, running on Eclipse 3.7, installed from b3's "3.7 repo", at following URL:
- Follow instructions to install the b3 Aggregator editor (and checkout the above mentioned CVS project). Tip: many find it preferable to have a separate workspace for this aggregation work, as it works with many p2 repositories and can add a lot of background processing as it works with all those repositories.
- Open the file
simrel.b3aggrusing the Aggregator Model Editor
- Tip: Having the model "loaded" and allowing it to update itself (staying current with latest contents of referenced repos) and syncing up the juno.build project on a regular basis, can often help you spot errors or inconsistencies with your own contributions, and allow fixes to be made before committing your own update to CVS.
For new project contributions
- Tip: if you are nervous about making large changes you can always tag the CVS juno.build project before making large changes, so there is an obvious restore point. For example, you could tag with <youruserid>_pre<project>addition<datetime> or some such easily recognizable marker.
- Create the following elements (New Child) under Aggregator Juno:
- One or more Contacts (show Property View to specify Email and Name)
- A Contribution (specify Label and link to Contact)
- A Mapped Repository (specify Location: URL of your p2 repository)
- Your Features (select name from features found in your repository, select Categories from pre-defined set, specify exact version to be included in aggregation under Version Range)
- A Mapped Repository (specify Location: URL of your p2 repository)
- Select your Contribution and invoke Detach Resource from the context menu. Choose a filename like
projectname.b3aggrcon(renaming this file at a later stage is not supported). For ease of bookkeeping, it is advisable to use the "exact" name of your project as it appears in the Eclipse Foundation databases, including top level and subproject names, as appropriate, for example,
emf-validation.b3aggrconis preferable to
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- Verify. To ensure that your contribution will not break the build, right-click on your contribution and select "Verify Repository".
- Checkin. At this point, you are ready to checkin your contribution. You will need to synchronize and check in changes to the simrel.b3aggr file, as well as your
Updating contributions
- To change things like Contributors or Categories, or adding or removing features, you should use the b3 Aggregator with the top level
simrel.b3aggrfile ... as these things often have relationships that span files and you need to update, synchronize and checkin all effected files. Note: the Categories are normally only added or edited by Planning Council, so be sure large changes there have been discussed via bugzilla, etc. (You can do this via e-mail, or a bugzilla entry in cross-project category).
- To changes values of feature versions, or repository URLs, you can directly change your
projectname.b3aggrconfile with text editor (or build scripts) and check those in, in isolation. Of course, you can and should still use the b3 aggregator editor, and it is often desirable to do so, as it will do a "workbench build" and will tell you if something is wrong. For example, if the repository URL does not point to a valid repository, you'll know about it right away, if you use the b3 Aggregator Editor.
- Note that contributions, features, and repositories can be enabled or disabled, via property page. This allows temporary changes with minimal disruption. For example, if you disable a contribution or feature, it will be left out of a category, without having to also edit the category). This is especially useful if there is a leaf component that is "broken" and should temporarily be omitted from the build. Important: One implication of this is you will need to sometimes re-enable your contribution or feature, even if you did not disable it. These are sometimes disabled by others -- without notice -- especially if a contribution or feature is causing build breaks for an extended period of time especially if there's been no communication explaining it or describing status or outlook on cross-project list. Of course, fixing the issue is the desired first choice, as disabling one contribution or feature will often require other contributions or features to be disabled simply because they depend on the broken one.


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Visit 50+ Lower East Side galleries for a gallery stroll on Sunday, March 10th from noon-6PM during Armory Arts Week.
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Jordi Alcaraz's deeply emotional and
cerebral show, Deixants I Portes (Wakes
and Doors), featured nearly two dozen
paintings and a few sculptures. The Catalan
artist uses simple, inexpensive materials
and builds his own heavy wooden
frames. Tearing, gouging, and burning
through the thin paper and cardboard of
his booklike assemblages, Alcaraz reveals
each layer as a way of producing "drawings."
His enigmatic markings are made
with ink, glass, staples, and bits of wire,
effectively challenging the viewer to
write the story. Alcaraz manipulates the
glass or acrylic he uses to protect each
piece, adding shadows, lines, and an unexpected
Llibre D'astronomía (II), 2012, is a tattered book, crudely bound with butcher's
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Alcaraz introduces an additional dimension
to his sculptures by engaging
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them. A molded paraffin headlike shape
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the side of the vitrine, as if trying to escape
from a nightmare. It's a subtle, yet
arresting, gesture.
One of the more minimal works in the
show was Procés Per Fixar Idees (I),
2012. The book's images are composed
of bits of broken acrylic, stapled to its
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—Annette M. Rose-Shapiro
"Longhand" proves an apt title for Christopher Kurtz's four-piece show at Tomlinson Kong Contemporary. On a formal level, Kurtz's
sculptures suggest the lines and shapes of handwriting. Two of the pieces, "Litany" and "Act Together," resemble the baroque swirls of
cursive script made three-dimensional. The slender quills of the other two pieces, "Palace" and "The Gloaming," suggest a different graphic sensibility: neat and formal, yet still bearing the trace of the hand, these forms etch soft black lines in space to create volume and void.
And yet, "Longhand" suggests not only formal associations of handwriting but the manual, painstaking process by which these sculptures were made. Kurtz, who is also a furniture designer, is a master carpenter. Each of the hand-carved pieces exemplifies some particular aspect of his technical prowess: his ability to make wood curl and loop back around itself in improbable ways; to carve bass-wood into long, needle-thin spikes; to create invisible seams that join two pieces as if they had always been one. The sculptures in "Longhand" do not apologize for the evident labor and skill that they require, but nor do they belabor the point. Carpentry is in service to Kurtz's art, but this is not art about carpentry...
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TKC will be exhibiting at the Houston Fine Art Fair, Booth 105
September 14th - 16th
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Featuring new and recent work by:
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Christopher Kurtz is a sculptor who works in wood. His work moves between natural winding branches and pointed stick-like forms. Either way, his approach to sculpture is a classical one. It contains a will to order, one that is less about power than balance. While Nietzsche may linger in the shadows, the articulation of proportions is more given to Chuang-Tzu. The content is only a matter of degree. A subtle tilt or bend in the wood will determine the work's expressive potential. Kurtz's sense of ordering is generally more spatial than formal. Whether thinly carved wooden spears shoot out from a central hub into the space around them or a large fallen branch becomes the readymade design for a winding linear form, Kurtz follows the course of his observations and thought. His work may recall three-dimensional asterisks, such as bursting planetary orbs, or it may suggest a ribbon-like estuary that flows until it becomes fixed in time like a meandering glacier. Regardless of his sources, the structure within each piece of work remains clear and incisive. The resolution is less about pre-determination than a process that engenders discovery...
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Christopher Kurtz approaches sculpture with the meticulous dexterity of a trained craftsman. To create Litany, 2012, arguably the centerpiece of his first solo exhibition in New York, the artist routinely woke before daybreak to hand-carve maple, oak, and cedar into strips of wood, then gingerly pieced these together into a continuous beam that curves thirteen feet across the gallery and soars five feet toward the ceiling. In some places thick and heavy, in others nimbly slender, it swoops through the air, often branching into seamless, curling tendrils.
Litany is so delicate and so immaculate that it seems unbelievable the work was carved by hand. Kurtz has painted the sides of the beam a stark white and the top and bottom a coal black, which obscures the medium somewhat, causing the work to oscillate between what it is (wood, handcrafted) and what it seems (metal, machine-made). This dualism accentuates the capacity of wood to do things it often doesn't do—twirl and spiral, pirouette and twist. It also highlights Kurtz's process, notably the stunning levels of patience and attention required to make wood appear weightless.
What is significant about Litany, then—as opposed to some of the other works on view here, all impressive displays of technical prowess and execution—is the way Kurtz emphasizes the human quality of craftsmanship as a genre. Is it pitifully romantic to think the human hand may imbue an aesthetic object with a certain set of qualities that a machine cannot? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that it is precisely the illusory choice of paint as well as the play of dimension that unravels these questions, pushing Litany firmly out of the realm of craft.
TKC will be exhibiting at the PULSE New York, Booth A10
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street Chelsea
New York, NY 10011
Thursday, May 3, 12pm- 8pm
Friday, May 4, 10am-8pm
Saturday, May 5, 12pm-8pm
Sunday, May 6, 12pm-5pm
Much contemporary art floating around galleries these days couples aesthetic purity (e.g., the Minimalism of Dan Flavin) with nose-thumbing at a particular medium (e.g., John Baldessari's riffs on photography). This combo plate is exactly what Mr. Girardoni (b. 1967) offers up in an exhibition that's somehow much better in overall "feel" than in its irritatingly familiar parts.
The Baldessari-esque section consists of large color C-prints of the backs of billboards in the desert, a New York City street with construction scaffolding, and a gritty Los Angeles parking lot. They're mounted on aluminum and elegantly defaced with buttered-on rectangles of paint. They look, in a word, good. The Flavinlike component is made up of long cast-resin bars, backlighted in purple, that lean or lie around in a separate room. These are pretty nice, too. If it weren't for the faint, sci-fi music (an increasingly obligatory "sound" element in exhibitions), "Lost-and-Found" would totally transcend some of its arguable particulars and be a really convincing show.
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Stocks mixed as markets close
Stocks were mixed as markets closed Tuesday, following an up-and-down day of trading.
The major indexes saw losses early in the day but rose later and finished with mixed results. The Dow Jones industrial average finished near Monday's price, dropping 1.38 points to 15,520.59. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.63 points to 1,685.96, and the Nasdaq 100 index was up 17.33 points, 0.5%, to 3,616.47.
Investors were encouraged by a handful of strong earnings reports, including Chrysler and Pfizer, and were closely watching another meeting of the Federal Reserve. Home prices rose 12.2% from a year ago, their strongest annual gains in 7 years, giving investors more good news to digest.
On Monday, the Dow dropped 0.2%, to 15,521.97. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 0.4% to 1,685.33. The tech-laden Nasdaq composite index was down 0.4%, to 3,599.14.
MONDAY: Stocks lower as markets close
Japan's benchmark index recovered some of the territory lost during Monday's plunge. The Nikkei 225 index rose 1.5% to 13,869.82.
In Europe, benchmark indexes closed higher. In Britain, the FTSE 100 ended up 0.1% at 6,571. Germany's DAX closed up 0.1% to 8,271 and France's CAC 40 finished 0.4% higher at 3,987.
Benchmark crude for August delivery dropped $1.43 to $103.12 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The near-month contract for the benchmark grade fell 15 cents to close at $104.55 a barrel on the Nymex on Monday.
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State Local Annual2012
State and Local Documents Task Force
DATE: Saturday, June 23, 2012
TIME: 8:00-10:00am
LOCATION: Sheraton Park Hotel, Park BC
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Attendance Sheet (Secretary Lynda Kellam to circulate)
III. Adoption of the Agenda
IV. Approval of Minutes from ALA Annual 2011-New Orleans; and ALA Mid-Winter 2012-Dallas
V. Liaison Reports
(Reports from Committees that have met in person or virtually since Midwinter, and only items that are of direct interest or affect SLDTF)
- Legislation (Shari Laster)
- Program (Crenetha Brunson)
- Cataloging (Chelsea Dinsmore)
- Education (Richard Gause)
- GITCO (Wilhelmina Randtke)
- Publications (Bill Cuthbertson)
VI. Old Business
- Centralizing the coordination of library legislative advocacy at the state level (Barbara Miller)
- Monitoring the collection and storage of born digital documents at the state level (Jennie Gerke)
- Libraries and E-government: promises and pitfalls (Robbie Sittel to send a message)
VII. New Business
Call for volunteers to serve as liaisons to the following GODORT committees. Each committee is a 2-year term; the webmaster is not limited.
- Legislation (Chair is seeking a very active and engaged individual for this position)
- Publications
- Rare & Endangered (participation may be virtual)
- Program (there is usually a combined TF/Committee sponsorship of a program)
- SLDTF Webmaster (services may or may not be needed, depending.)
VIII. Discussion/ Presentation
Join us to hear about the State Level Publications Needs and Offers project. Particularly relevant for historic documents and materials which are not yet digitally available, Chair Marie Concannon will explain the need for this project, report on efforts to recruit volunteers, and discuss continuation of the project after she steps down as Chair.
IX. Recap of any action items, next steps
X. Adjourn


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Around 200 European and international distributors and festival programmers are expected in London next week for the 10th edition of the London UK Film Focus (LUFF), running June 24-27.
Premieres include Exclusive Media's Formula 1 doc 1, StudioCanal's horror thriller In Fear, the Damian Jones-produced Powder Room starring Sheridan Smith, Metro International's raucous comedy The Stag and Altitude Film Sales' The Hooligan Factory.
uConnect, the London-based sales outfit run by Peter Rogers, will be screening Summer In February, starring Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens.
"The timing is very good for us. We did think it would stand out at LUFF," said Rogers. The love triangle tale was released in the UK earlier this month by Metrodome.
LUFF will return to the BFI Southbank to showcase features.
Natalie Brenner, EVP of international sales at Metro International, said: "You have the best screening rooms in London. You have an invited list of really good distributors who sit and really watch films. It's not that awful market situation where they're half looking at their Blackberries, running in and running out.
"We always felt the Cannes marketplace was chaotic and really hard to get distributors to focus on films if they weren't part of the festival."
Last year's event is understood to have generated more than $8.5m in sales.
Good timing
Regular attendee Timo T. Lahtinen, CEO of Copenhagen-based Smile Entertainment, said LUFF's place in the film calendar increases its appeal.
He said: "LUFF has found the perfect slot. Vacations have not really started anywhere in Europe and at the same time, there isn't very much else happening."
In recent years, Smile has snapped up such titles as Swinging With The Finkels and From Time To Time.
Helena Mackenzie, head of inward investment and bsiness development at Film London, has overseen the event from the outset.
Edinburgh overlap
LUFF overlaps with the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30) but Mackenzie said that relations between the two events are cordial.
"We try to make that situation work as best as possible," she added.
There are no plans for a formal partnership at this stage but LUFF organisers have not discounted the possibility that the events may find a way of working more closely together.
International sellers
In recent years, an increasing number of British films have been sold by international sales agents. LUFF has addressed this by showing up to five of these films - and, at the same time, allowing UK sales agents to show a similar number of non-British titles.
This year, French sales powerhouse Wild Bunch will be screening Ken Loach's Spirit Of '45. Swedish outfit Yellow Affair will be screening A Long Way From Home. Meanwhile, British company Hanway will be screening US director James Toback's Seduced And Abandoned.
Emerging talent
Alongside more established names, LUFF will also showcase emerging filmmakers seeking sales representation in its Breakthrough sidebar.
This year, Breakthrough will include MJ Delaney's Powder Room and Good Morning Karachi, directed by former Golden Leopard winner Sabiha Sumar and produced by Sarah Radclyffe.
Speaking of LUFF's established place in the film calendar, Film London chief executive Adrian Wootton pointed to "the mess that was the London screenings and all the incoherence of people coming (to London) in the autumn and then going to Mifed (the autumn market in Milan)" before the event cemented its position.
"It's not just a talking shop or networking opportunity," Wootton added.
"Every year, people have watched and bought films and spent money with UK films….you know what acquisitions executives are like. They are pretty brutal about their attendance at things.
"The fact they have come back each year indicates they think it is a useful business event at which to spend time."
The event costs an estimated £175,000 to stage.
In spite of the financial crisis, the event's supporters - which include the BFI, Mayor of London, Film Export UK and UK Trade & Investment - remain staunchly behind the event.
"The thick end of 200 grand can generate $8 million - that's a very good return on public investment," Wootton added.


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Date(s) - 12/28/2016
8:00 pm - 11:59 pm
The Pink Elephant
Last Wednesdays of the month
8pm till done
The Pink Elephant
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Santa Monica, CA 90405
We have some great news! The official Westside Burning Man Meetups are back on! We've found a location (at the Pink Elephant in Santa Monica) on the last Wednesday of every month from 8 till close!
It's organized by LA League of Arts board member Esquire Jauchem (who will also projects awesome Burning Man videos at the meetup!), with Todd Spero and Jacob Casmir coordinating (and often DJing!) the music for the night.
If you have any Burning Man visuals you'd like to bring, find Esquire at the meetup, if you'd like to share your musical stylin's with your fellow burners, talk to Todd or Jacob. Thanks to the three of you for getting this event started up again! (We had just gotten it rolling when we lost our last location months ago.) And of course if you can't get ahold of Esquire, Todd, or Jacob, I can get you in contact with them/help you out, just email me plaid.ramsey (at) burningman.org.
I hope to see you there! – Plaid
BYOD! (Bring your own dust!)


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LAS VEGAS -- We've seen a lot of random stuff at CES, but one of the things that made me do a double take as I roamed the massive show floor was the Solowheel, an "auto balance one-wheel vehicle."
Really, it looked more like a tiny unicycle without handles, and I was baffled as to how Solowheel reps were zooming around their booth in circles like human hamsters. The small wheel didn't even have pedals per se -- just two silver foot rests -- and riders appeared to not be exerting any effort.
Shane Chen, president of Solowheel maker Inventist, said the electric Solowheel, which reaches a max speed of 10 mph, takes about half an hour to learn. The 26-pound wheel can travel up to 10 miles before needing to be plugged into a wall outlet. A full charge takes an hour.
The company says the Solowheel is the smallest, greenest, most convenient "people mover" ever invented. This gyro-stabilized electric device is compact and has gyro-sensors to help riders maintain their balance. Users steer with their feet and control their speed by leaning. Lean forward to speed up, and backward to slow down or stop.
"It doesn't allow you to fall; it automatically catches you," Chen said.
We have some doubts, which were heightened when he wouldn't let me get on the thing.
So far, Inventist has sold 1,500 Solowheels since the product debuted about a year ago. It's sold online and via the SkyMall catalog for $1,795.
The Washington company recommends riders wear a helmet and be at least 15 years old.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, more glitz than gee whiz
50 Cent talks about his SMS audio headphones at CES 2013
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Los Angeles, Nov 29: For now, Wall Street protesters camped out on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn still have their tent city after defying a deadline to pack up and clear out. "Still occupied," read the sign of a protester up in a tree.
Hours after emerging from a possible confrontation with police largely unscathed on Monday, demonstrators turned to the federal courts to keep officers away.
They are arguing that the City Council had passed a resolution in support of Occupy Los Angeles and that the city's mayor and police did not have the authority to evict them.
The chances that protesters will get an injunction appear slim, constitutional experts say.
Until there is a decision, the tent city's inhabitants are left to wonder if and when police will push them out—and if there will be the kind of violence that has engulfed evictions in other cities when they do.
City officials say they will only move in on the camp when conditions are safest not just for protesters and officers but also the roughly 100 homeless people who had joined the encampment.
"There is no concrete deadline," Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said after hundreds of officers withdrew without moving in on the nearly 2-month-old camp.
The effort should come "with as little drama as possible," Beck told reporters.
Police and protesters have clashed elsewhere in recent weeks, most notably in Oakland, California, as officers cleared away camps that officials say have grown more dangerous for public health and safety.
Nine people were arrested in Maine on Monday after protesters at an encampment took down their tents and packed their camping gear after being told to get a permit or move their shelters.
Some of the encampments had been in use almost since the movement against economic disparity and perceived corporate greed began with Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan two months ago.
With each passing week, it seems a city moves in to close a camp. Like Los Angeles, Philadelphia officials imposed their own deadline for protesters to move to make way for a construction project.
On Monday, however, the camp was still standing.
In Los Angeles, protesters had prepared for police action since city leaders announced last week that the camp would be cleared. Campers had packed up about half of the nearly 500 tents.
Some protesters carried gas masks and one had even fashioned one out of duct tape and a plastic bottle.
Some activists had built a tree house out of wooden pallets in a clump of palm trees to make it more difficult to be arrested, while others just sat in a circle with their tents in the plaza.
"I definitely expected to be in jail by 3 a.m.," said Sean Woodward. "I'm happy we're still here."
Protesters chanted "we won, we won" as police left after only four arrests during a largely peaceful, six-hour demonstration against the eviction. The arrests were on charges of failure to disperse.
Instead of moving in to clear the camp, as had been expected, police concentrated on clearing several hundred protesters who had spilled into the street so morning rush-hour traffic would not be affected.
Hours later, several demonstrators asked a federal judge for an injunction against the city.
The civil rights complaint contends that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa usurped the City Council's authority when he set a deadline of 12:01 a.m. Monday for the tent-dwellers to disband.
The council passed a resolution of support for the occupiers in October that effectively allowed them to remain on the lawn despite a city ban on overnight camping, the complaint argued.
"The City Council welcomed them with open arms and said they could stay as long as they want," said Jim Lafferty, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
"The mayor simply does not have the authority to do this," he said.
The city attorney's office had not been served with the complaint and could not comment on it, spokesman John Franklin said. However, he said the city was prepared to oppose any injunction.
"We'll be in court," he said.
Constitutional law experts were skeptical of the injunction's chances.
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that while public parks can be used for protests, they are for the use of all people, not just one group, and that governments can restrict how a park is used for free speech purposes.
"Parks are open to free speech, but that's not a place they can authorize as their own home," said Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.


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RisslingsMissingTeeth wrote:Idoit40fans wrote:Why were they talking about the Staal trade? If they're doing 2013(or 2012-2013 ratings for that matter), that would have been done the previous year at this time, aka the trade would have been party of the 2011-12 season
The grade was based on the past season and then the offseason moves to the airing of the broadcase. Sutter played his first season with the Pens so the time to evaluate the quality of the move was correct.
These guys do their homework. They talked of Ray's patience with Martin and the incredible season he gave in return but mentioned that unless the cap goes up a lot, Ray seriously gambled away the future of the franchise on 3 players. It was a solid objective review IMO.
You still can't judge that trade yet. It's all about pouliot. Sutter didn't do a good enough job this year to justify the trade all on his own.
Well you can judge it, I guess. he got a better return than one could hope for, but not because of anything Sutter did.


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I read the photo caption but I still don't know what's going on here: Two Japan Ground Self-Defence Force's AH-64DJ Apache attack helicopters flying over eight of tanks shooting pyrotechnics in a live-fire exercise near Mount Fuji.
What are the pyrotechnics for? Why are they being fired that way? Is this an exercise to distract Godzilla with pretty sparks?
If you are in the military, please explain in the comments. [Flight Global]


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Long-time School of Physics and Astronomy staff member, Al Knutson died Tuesday, August 4th in a bike/car accident that occurred while he was commuting to work. Knutson joined the School in December, 1961 and ran the Electronics Shop for most of his career. There will be a memorial bike ride for Al on Saturday, August 15th at 11:00 a.m. departing from Stinson Blvd and 37th Ave. NE.
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Peter, Paul and Mary: Carry It On: A Musical Legacy
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There once was a time, some years before the ascendance of rock and roll on Top 40 radio, when popular music veered sharply from the mainstream to sample American roots-music traditions. Inspired by the songs of Pete Seeger and The Weavers, this "folk" music, found its greatest expression during the early 1960's in the songs of an emerging Greenwich Village group known as Peter, Paul and Mary. In the Trio's new PBS show "Carry It On: A Musical Legacy" we share in the four decade long career of Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. D
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For the Love of Music: The Story of Nashville
For over 130 years, Nashville has evolved into the world's premier Music City. From the 1800s when the Fisk Jubilee Singers travelled across continents spreading their music, to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash and so many others building the foundation of America's most vibrant music scene. Today, the evolution continues as artists like The Black Keys, Eric Church and Kings of Leon break new ground in the city they all call home. We've created a one-hour documentary that tells this story in its entirety through the eyes of the musicians, songwriters, producers and artists who live and breathe the inspiration of this great city.
In the end, this is a film rooted in authenticity. A story filled with passion and truth. A film made simply for the love of music.
To learn more about the film, the cast and see pictures from production, visit The Story of Nashville microsite here: http://www.visitmusiccity.com/storyof...


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Hannah Phillips, from Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tenn.; Kaitie Fritts from Central Hardin High School in Cecilia, Ky.; Chelsea McMeans, from La Vernia High School in La Vernia, Texas; and Morgan Faulkner from Madison Academic Magnet in Jackson, Tenn., are expected to bring more athleticism and speed to the Lady Bisons.
Last year's freshman class made a big impact on the team. Bennett is taking a wait-and-see attitude with this group.
"The potential is there," said Bennett. "But you never know until you get them all together on the practice floor. "I like a lot of things about this group. I think we filled some of our needs. All of them are going to have to adjust to playing on the NCAA Division I level."
Phillips and Faulkner, both 5-foot-10, will play on the wing.
Phillips was an All-Region selection in basketball in 2009. She was also an All-District 11-AAA in basketball in 2008 and 2009. She was All-Region in basketball in 2007. She lettered four years in basketball and three years in soccer.
"Hannah is a long wing player and good defender," said Bennett. "She is developing into a good 3-point shooter. She is very mobile. She can run all day."
Faulkner was a three-time All-State selection in 2006, 2007 and 2009. She was also All-Region in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and All-District in 2007, 2008 and 2009. She was also the Most Valuable Player in both the region and the district in 2008 and 2009. She is all-time leading scorer for Madison Academic with 2,440 points. She is also the leading rebounder (835) and shot blocker (260). She is a versatile athlete with four letters in basketball, three in volleyball and one each in track and field and cross country.
"Morgan had a really good state tournament," said Bennett. "Her team was runner-up in Class A. She scored 70 points in three games in the tournament.
"She is used to being a scorer. She is good at slashing to the basket. She shoots the ball well. She can post up well. She also has good vision with the dribble."
Fritts, 6-1, was the captain of her high school team her senior season. She was named All-State Honorable Mention. She was a member of the All-District Team her senior season and a member of the East-West All-Star team as both a junior and senior.
"I think Kaitie gives us a chance to have a low post player who can score some," Bennett said. "She could give us a low post threat which has been a weakness of our team in the past."
McMeans was a standout athlete at La Vernia High School in La Vernia, Texas. She lettered in basketball, volleyball, track and tennis. She finished her senior season in basketball with 581 points (17.6 per game), 435 rebounds (13.2 per game) and 143 blocked shots (4.3 per game). She has also been active with TeamXpress, one of the top club teams in the state.
"Chelsea is a mobile player," said Bennett. "She can play inside and out. She gives us some flexibility at the post."
The offseason is the time for individual improvement. Once again, the Lady Bisons will be a young team, but Bennett thinks it will be a team intent on getting back on the winning track.
"I think they will come in sort of hungry, and really wanting to work hard and be dedicated towards having a great year," said Bennett. "Our overall team speed is better. We are a little more athletic. We have some good skill players.
"We are going to tweak our style. We are going to try to be more of an up tempo team. We aren't going to be afraid to take a quick, good shot. Hopefully, it will be an exciting style of play."


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Danny Embrey
Lecturer in Jazz Studies, teaches private lessons in jazz guitar. Danny toured and performed during the 1980s with Sergio Mendes and Clare Fischer's Latin Band. While in the Los Angeles area he also toured and/or recorded with such notables as Gary Foster, Steve Houghton, Alan Broadbent, Gene Harris, Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Sheppard, Barry White, Shelly Manne, Monty Budwig, Annie Ross, Sam Most, and Leroy Vinnegar. Upon returning to the Kansas City area, Embrey recorded and toured with Karrin Allyson, Interstring, Frank Mantooth, Sons of Brasil and numerous other world-class jazz groups.