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- Distance from Washington, D.C.: 128 miles
- Best time: April to October
- Best for: Girl's GetawayRomanticFood and Wine
Tucked away on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, this down-to-earth Maryland waterfront town perfectly blends the old world (think Naval Academy tall ships parading down the bay) with the new school (the local cuisine and shopping rival anything you can find back home). Annapolis is close enough to several cities to get a diverse mix of visitors, but steeped enough in its own traditions—it is the state capital, after all—to bring a unique flavor to your weekend. Grab your girlfriends, pack light, and take lots of photos on these quaint cobblestone streets. – By Elana Schor
Annapolis Cheat Sheet
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1Find your perfect treat at one of the boutiques and quirky general stores of the downtown shopping district. Culinary inspiration abounds at the Spice & Tea Exchange, and the Pink Crab offers flirty sundresses perfect for dashing around town.
2You've probably worked up a thirst, and luckily Level Lounge is there for a can't-miss happy hour. Try the baked apple pisco sour or the pomegranate caipirinha, but don't get too full on small plates like the caramelized onion gnocchi . . .
3. . . because you won't want to miss the feast of fresh Chesapeake crabs on offer at Cantler's Riverside, just a few minutes' drive from the water. Forget the tourist traps downtown, with their highway-robbery prices—the relaxed vibe and outdoor seating here make it an unbeatable place to watch the sunset.
1Start the day with waffles and local art at coffeehouse-and-gallery 49 West, where the baked goods are all homemade and the photography is dominated by talented locals.
2It wouldn't be a girls' weekend without a little men-in-uniform-watching, right? Put on your whites to go soak up the history during a tour of the storied Naval Academy. Senator John McCain and former President Jimmy Carter are among the famous alumni whose adventures are frequently invoked by talented tour guides.
3A lusher taste of the city's past is on view at the William Paca House and Garden, where you can stop and smell the flowers in a sumptuous two-acre spread of trees and flowers that dates back to the eighteenth century.
4Pick up lunch at Giolitti's, an Italian deli renowned by locals for sandwiches that range from meatball subs to piquant Cuban paninis.
5Get out on the water with a two-hour sailing cruise on the Schooner Woodwind. Check the calendar online for your ideal experience, whether it's a sunset sail or a French-wine-tasting afternoon.
6Kick back and compare notes (or souvenirs) before heading out for noodles and spicy lettuce wraps at "modern Thai" hotspot Lemongrass. Make sure to cool that fire with one of their fun cocktails.
7Keep the night rolling with some live music at the downtown Rams Head Tavern, one of the nation's best small clubs, where the acts range from country to acoustic to funk.
1Brunch in seaside style at the Severn Inn on the waterfront, famous for its views of the Naval Academy campus and its decadent buffet.
2Swap your favorite stories from the weekend over a pedicure or eco-friendly massage at Varuna Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa, where the organic Aveda products will transport you to a permanent vacation.
3For a bit of outdoor relaxation on your way home, stop by Quiet Waters Park with a glass of wine or treat for a brief picnic or a stroll along the hiking trails.
Where to Stay
For location and price, you can't beat Gibson's Lodgings, (rooms from $129/night), where several of the houses-turned-guest suites come with kitchens, and both parking and a continental breakfast are free. The center of downtown is within walking distance.
To splurge in high style, try The Annapolis Inn (rooms from $259/night). You'll feel like a modern-day Marie Antoinette stepping from the marble bathtub into a plush robe and relaxing on the exquisite silk couches that line its rococo suites.
When to Go
Like its western neighbor, Washington, D.C., the town can get downright swampy in summer and sleepy in winter. The best time to hit Annapolis is in the spring and fall, when a bevy of special events bring convivial crowds to the shore.
In April, stop by the annual croquet match between the Naval Academy and St. John's, or wait until May for the local Maritime Festival and a cavalcade of celebratory cadets during Commissioning Week.
Fall brings the annual United States Sailboat Show, usually in early October, and a fall festival that peaks with Halloween Eve festivities.
How to Get There
By car from Washington, D.C.: Annapolis is about forty-five minutes from Washington D.C. Take Route 50 East into Maryland until Exit 24, which leads you into town.
By car from Philadelphia: Annapolis is about two and a half hours from Philadelphia. Take I-95 South toward I-97 South and the Bay Bridge, which will take you to Route 50 East. Exit 24 will then take you into town.
By taxi (within town): Most destinations are within a ten to fifteen minute drive from downtown and can be reached by local taxis. We recommend Annapollis Cab Company (410-268-0022).


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One of the biggest headaches when photographing food and drinks is the amount of lighting available. When I first started working on food-related freelance assignments a few years ago, editors would sometimes ask for photos to go along with the article. Unfortunately, I was such a novice with my DSLR that the photos I took on location (whether it was a cafe, bar, restaurant, or greenhouse) came out too dark for the photo editor to use. Sometimes they sent a *real* photographer out; other times, when the budget was too tight, they made do with PR promo photos instead.
Over the years my on-location shots got a tad better, but never as good as shooting recipe experiments at home, where it's much easier to get natural lighting by the window or get faux bright lighting with a small photo tent.
And so, thank you Manhattan Cocktail Classic, for organizing this cocktail photography workshop and recognizing that there is a need for food and cocktail geeks to acquire skills for taking nice and discreet shots in low lighting. The key word is discreet. After all, the main purpose of going out to eat and drink is enjoying what you are eating and drinking, not getting assaulted with flashes or shutter sounds while someone next to you is overdocumenting their experience.
And of course, low-light techniques be as useful in noodle shops, banh mi stands, and dim sum parlors as in bars.
The workshop was held at the hip and lovely PDT in the East Village. Seriously, if you can take a decent shot at PDT, where the only lighting sources are votive candles or small overhead lights for the taxidermy, you can take a decent shot anywhere.
Elba S. Giron and Angel Arroyo from We Shoot Cocktails led one group in working with studio set-ups for cocktails, while Leo Borovskiy from Lush Life Productions spoke about photographing on location. (And by the way, the Vesper cocktail made by bartender John deBary was pretty groovy. So was the Old Fashioned, which, even though the whiskey was just Jameson, somehow tasted better than every other Old Fashioned out there.)
Based on everyone's advice, here are 10 tips for photographing drinks in low lighting. Many of these can be applied to other food-centric environments:
1. You don't need a DSLR to get great shots at a bar - Some of the best photos in the group were taken with point-and-shoot cameras and even iPhones. What matters more is how steady the camera is held. Which brings us to...
2. Get a Gorillapod or another mini tripod - They cost between $15 to $45 and fit inside any purse or decent-sized camera bag. This way, you can set your exposure for longer and not worry about any hand vibration (especially when drinking at the same time.) They're also great for shooting at a low angle, if you want a more atmospheric background than just the tabletop. My shots on Sunday would probably have come out 5x better with a Gorillapod.
3. The tripod doesn't always have to be right-side-up - To get a shot of the entire room, one good method is to steady your tripod against the wall and then use your arm strength to push the tripod against the wall, while snapping the shot. This way, you don't put any weight on the camera itself and cause it to move.
4. In absence of tripods, make use of stable objects - Tables are best for steadying your camera on. Martini glasses won't work, but and old fashioned glass might, in a pinch.
5.Exhale - According to Leo Borovskiy, if you press the shutter after a deep exhale, your hands do not move as much.
6. Experiment with available lighting - Use candles and overhead lamps, and even sit at the bar if the lighting is better. With clear drinks, try placing the candle to the side, so light bounces off the liquid. With milky or fizzy drinks, place the candle behind the glass to highlight bubbles the texture.
7. Don't worry that much about white balance - Lighting in bars is tricky enough, and you don't need to spend 15 minutes just adjusting the white balance while the ice in your drink melts. You can always do a quick white balance pre-set, but if you have a point-and-shoot or if your camera refuses to measure in dim lighting (like my Nikon D40), just pick the closest setting (I chose Incandescent.) If you can, shoot in raw and fix the white balance later in Photoshop or Lightroom.
8. Don't use the highest ISO setting - It's tempting to use the highest ISO in extreme low light, but the higher you bump up the ISO up, the grainier the shot will get. Instead, choose a lower ISO (200 to 800, depending on your camera) and open your lens wider.
9. Shoot in aperture mode - It's the fastest way to get a good shot; going manual and trying to meter in dim lighting will just take up more time. I opened my lens to f/3.0 and let my camera find its comfortable shutter speed. To capture more of the action in the background, go for a smaller aperture if your camera can handle it in dim lighting.
10. Use discretion - When shooting at a bar, plan your shots in your head beforehand. Maybe even let the bartender know you're photographing. Take only a few shots so that you can enjoy your drink and let everyone else enjoy theirs.
The folks from We Shoot Cocktails also took over a small area in the back of PDT to show us a simple studio set-up using scoop lights and white posterboard:
So much easier! But then, the bright lighting doesn't quite capture the atmosphere of a modern-day speakeasy.
More beyond-the-basics photography tips:
How to: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio - from Strobist
Video: Food Photography w/ On Camera Speedlight - from White on Rice Couple
Lowel EGO Lights for Food Photography - from Steamy Kitchen
Food Props on Sunday - 1st Installment - from Lucullian
Food Props on Sunday - 2nd Installment - from Lucullian
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As if by magic, this artist-cum-illusionist transforms Hennessy into an 'optic theatre', and appears within it.
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The artists would not be who they are today without their São Paolo roots, just as Hennessy would not be the Maison it has become without its heritage in Cognac, France.
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The New England Mountain Bike Association�s Kona Bicycles Mountain Bike Adventure Series kicks off its 13th season next weekend.
The adventure series events give mountain bikers a chance to ride new trails, meet other cyclists and get something to eat after the ride. Each venue offers marked courses for riders of all levels, riding in groups large or small, as well as rides with leaders. Each event raises money for a charity.
The first event of the series will be held May 4 at Middlesex Fells Reservation in Stoneham. The 2,500-acre park is managed by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. The Fells event will raise money for trail improvement projects at the park. The event will also feature two Ride Like a Girl clinics, which offer bike skill instructions for girls and women.
The Happening at Huntington will be held June 2 at Collis P. Huntington State Park in Redding, Conn.
NEMBAfest, which NEMBA calls its �big kahuna� of the series, will be held June 21-23 at Kingdom Trails in East Burke, Vt., considered by many to be one of the best mountain biking areas in the country.
Unlike the other one-day events in the adventure series, NEMBAfest is a three-day festival with a full schedule of events, including riding, camping and music.
Kingdom Trails, located in East Burke, in an area of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom, includes about 110 miles of trails, mostly singletrack with some doubletrack and wide-open trails. The trails near the summit of Burke Mountain are technical but they become smoother as they stretch away from the mountain. Kingdom Trails was recently voted the best mountain bike trail network in North America by Bike Magazine.
NEMBAfest will feature mountain biking at Kingdom Trails, lift passes to Burke Mountain Gravity Trails, shuttles to town and the camping area, bike demonstrations, expo area, music on Saturday night, and many led rides.
On July 21, an event will be held at either Wendell State Forest in Wendell or Kenneth Dubuque State Forest in Hawley.
The series moves to Pittsfield State Forest in Pittsfield on Aug. 4; Bluff Point in Groton, Conn., on Aug. 18; Great Brook Farm State Park in Carlisle on Sept. 15; and Bear Brook State Park in Allentown, N.H., on Oct. 6.
The series finale will be the Wicked Ride of the East at Harold Parker State Forest in North Andover on Oct. 27. This ride, usually held on Halloween weekend, is always a popular event.
Registration for most events will be held from 8:30 or 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The rides start about 9 a.m. and continue to about midafternoon. The cost for most of the events is $10 for NEMBA members and $25 for nonmembers; the events are free for anyone who joins NEMBA on the day of the event.
The Wachusett Mountain Hillclimb returns May 11 after a successful first year.
About 215 racers participated last year in the Wachusett Hillclimb, which is presented by Destination Cycling as part of the Bike Up the Mountain Point Series Northeast Championship.
�That is really great for the first year,� said Mary Powers of Destination Cycling. �It�s a very good number for a race right out of the gate.�
The 3.7-mile course features 1,162 feet of climbing and finishes on the summit of Mount Wachusett. The race starts at 9:30 a.m.
The Wachusett race begins on Mile Hill Road in Westminster near the intersection of Route 140. The course then passes Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, goes up Mountain Road, turns right on N Road, to Administration Road and then to the summit at 2,006 feet.
The field from the mass start will probably break up after the ski area, where the road kicks up to about 10 percent. The course has a lot of twists, turns and undulating terrain on the second half, with a steep finish.
BUMPS added Wachusett last year to its schedule of challenging climbs. The series includes 11 hillclimbs. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 the most difficult, there are several events ranked as 5. However, Wachusett is on the easier end of the scale.
The 19th annual Sterling Classic Road Race, presented by the Minuteman Road Club, will be held May 11. The popular event often has drawn 500 racers.
The climb on Meetinghouse Hill Road, where the race begins and ends, is the key.
The racing starts at the bottom of the hill on Meetinghouse Hill Road, near the First Church of Sterling, on Meetinghouse Hill Road, it then goes under Interstate 190 to Rowley Hill Road, to Heywood Road, then back onto North Row Road to Route 12 to Route 62 at Sterling Common and then right on Park Street for the uphill finish to Meetinghouse Hill Road.
A 2-mile neutral rollout from the Chocksett Middle School on Boutelle Road in Sterling will precede the start. Course laps range from three to 10, depending on the category. The race is described by organizers as a �classic Belgium-style New England grinder.�
The racing starts at 8:30 a.m., with the elite categories beginning around 1 p.m.
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I recently upgraded to 12.10. In the process, my laptop, which is a W520 in a dock, connected to 2 external monitors (the same monitors.. Dell U2400). I finally got the nvidia-experimental-310 driver working with both monitors. Everything was glorious for a few weeks, and then the thing decided to upgrade the kernel and I didn't realize it did that when I asked it to do the apt-get upgrade.
After realizing my mistake, I went back and tried reinstalling the nvidia driver, since I assumed it needed to be built against the current kernel again. I couldn't get either the nvidia-current or nvidia-experimental-310 drivers working (they booted into a black screen with a flashing cursor, or, in the case of the 310 driver, wouldn't let me enable my second screen).
I was able to get the nvidia-experimental-304 driver working, though. So, after some trial and error, I updated my xorg.conf file and rebooted. Now, however, I get the following error in my Xorg.0.log file:
[ 16.023] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia-experimental-304" (module does not exist, 0)
But, when I go to a virtual terminal, and run the following:
# modprobe nvidia-experimental-304
# /etc/init.d/lightdm restart
Everything now works as expected, except that the following still shows up in my Xorg.0.log file, even when X starts as I would expect it to:
[ 16.023] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia-experimental-304" (module does not exist, 0)
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing incorrectly? I'd like to get the module to automatically load on startup, so I can boot into X directly, without having to manually modprobe the module.
My xorg.conf file follows.
If I change the Driver "nvidia-experimental-304" to "nvidia" in my xorg.conf file, the system runs in low-graphics mode on reboot, with the following errors in the xorg.conf file:
[ 17.147] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[ 17.163] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[ 17.163] (EE) NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[ 17.163] (EE) NVIDIA(0): consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[ 17.163] (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
[ 17.163] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen 0
syslog now shows:
Dec 3 12:55:03 corellia kernel: [ 33.405620] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
Dec 3 12:55:03 corellia kernel: [ 33.431116] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Dec 3 12:55:03 corellia kernel: [ 33.431118] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 304.64 (buildd@papaya) Fri Nov 9 10:49:08 UTC 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
Section "Files"
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL U2410"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia-experimental-304"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro 1000M"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-5"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-5: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0, DFP-6: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
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Morningstar is arguably the best open source for mutual fund data. Why? Morningstar is in the data business. It makes its money by selling data to users. Many funds and non-fund reference sites quote M* data. I'm sure M* collects a fee. How do they get all this data? The fund companies give it to M* free and in the format M* wants for two reason. 1) No fund wants to have "no data available" on the M* site and 2) M* is not in competition with the funds. There is no way a firm like Vanguard can get the needed cooperation from their competitors to establish a data base like M*'s. Even if they did it might be considered collusion and thus be illegal.Ping Pong wrote:It's not so much a bug as it is a lack of desire to enter the thousands of holdings for each mutual fund into a database each quarter and then categorize all those holdings to get the appropriate percentages. It's a fairly labor intensive process when you figure there are thousands of funds out there and no standardized way of reporting holdings.
Though you would think this would be easy enough for Vanguard to do for their own funds. Perhaps they get the data for all funds from a third party, and the third party doesn't do anything special for Vanguard funds.
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Garment Solutions necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 103 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Garment Solutions
Garment Solutions is an Australian owned company specialising in offshore sourcing and manufacture of quality products imported from China. We offer a full service experience from design right through to the completed product, delivered to your door.
With access to the best mills in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia and utilizing some of the best manufacturers in China, Garment Solutions goes even a step further to ensure the highest standards in quality by ensuring 100% of your product is inspected by Independent Quality Control Technicians.
With years of experience in off-shore sourcing and manufacture, our staff will happily arrange every detail including customs, shipping and delivery, which makes Garment Solutions your one-stop shop in China.
Our Target market is any company within Australia that requires our services to assist in their hand bags/ shoes/ jewellery / garment / promotional products etc manufacturing offshore to China. We have a fully staffed office in Shanghai in which we can marry your product and source the specialized manufacturer for whatever your product requirements may be. Basically we can assist in a huge range of fabrics and all sorts of products. ( there is nothing we cannot source)
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I spent just a couple days at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2012 conference this past week in Vancouver. Because of personal stuff going on I couldn't attend the whole conference, but by watching some live streaming, following the conference twitter channel, reading some live blogs, and browsing some of the papers afterward I put together a decent understanding of the topics covered and the issues that came up. Of course, I had far less time than I wanted to connect with people there, but I have hopes that I can address that over the next year online and then go all out for LAK13 in Belgium.
Some attendees felt a disconnect that many vendors and researchers are looking at retention (students re-enrolling across terms) and course completion rather than learning itself. But aren't we doing learning analytics, they asked?
At Pearson, I am working on exactly the problem of retention and course success. I work mainly with data from Pearson's LearningStudio hosted learning management system. I sometimes have access to learning outcomes data but only very rarely; I can't count on having that.
The data scientist is not drunk
Is my work a a case of the drunk looking for her keys under the streetlight? I don't think so, and it's not just do to with the profitability of institutions or their need to demonstrate adequate program completion rates and year-over-year retention to accreditation bodies.
Students enroll in higher education programs for many reasons, not all of which have to do with learning. We would all hope that after two or four or more years taking coursework a student will have better skills and cognitive capacity than when she started. But bachelor's and associate's degree programs today require students to take many classes that are not relevant to them or to their future work, that merely serve as hurdles to jump over to acquire the degree. The learning is not enough, because education serves a signaling purpose in addition to working to improve a student's cognitive capacity.
As people working in education, we have to recognize the reality of higher education today, that it is only partially about learning. I'm talking from a purely U.S.-based perspective, as that's my focus. In the U.S. today, bachelor's degrees are a basic entry ticket to a decent job in many cases. In fact, credential inflation means that now a master's degree is required for entry into many professions.
Some economists think higher ed degrees primarily function as signals to employers, that they are not mainly about increased learning or cognitive capacity. On this theory, a student's degree shows that he has qualities valued by employers: conformity, conscientiousness, a willingness to defer gratification. If signaling is true in some situations or in some ways, that means it's not enough for a student to take some classes and merely learn what they need to use on the job. They need to get through an entire program, arbitrary requirements and uninteresting or useless classes included.
There's good evidence that signaling theories of education do not tell the whole story about higher education, that returns to education do indeed reflect the additional skills that graduates in various disciplines bring to the job market. The signaling theory may be true in part but as we might hope, education is also about actual preparation and learning–I don't mean to say it is not.
I also don't mean to reduce higher education to job market preparation, though I do question degrees that don't represent a sound economic investment. The cost of post-secondary education today is such that we can't divorce it from its role in linking people with economic opportunity.
Are learning and course completion orthogonal?
One presenter called completion and learning orthogonal outcomes. At least one attendee in that session took issue with that. We would all hope this is not the case — we hope that students don't successfully complete classes without learning anything — but can't everyone think of a class they were required to take but didn't take anything away from it? I just completed a Ph.D. and virtually all of the cognate classes were worthless, annoying and time-consuming efforts that I had to complete if I wanted my degree. There was almost no learning taking place in those courses, and I am a highly motivated and engaged learner, taking courses that I thought would be interesting. Sometimes students do just need to complete a course, learning or no.
Certainly we should work toward making every course a worthwhile learning experience for students but in the real world there are always going to be some classes that aren't that for one reason or another. Assuming that completing a particular program is a good thing for a particular student (a somewhat questionable assumption in this era of heavy student loan debt and low-value degrees), helping them get through all their courses successfully regardless of learning is a good in itself.


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The inside of 40 Love Café feels like a food court, the outside just the tiniest bit like Wimbledon courtside.
Within the Burbank Tennis Center, the café's interior is all large white floor tiles and pinkish walls, with the tables and white tubular chairs you've seen inside countless malls. But step outside and you're in the world of tennis whites, with al fresco seating at café tables overlooking an immaculate court. Kudos to the tennis student brave enough to schedule a lesson at midday, when the tables are full with the lunchtime crowd. With the court in the foreground and the mountains in the background, the shaded tables are a welcome respite from the workaday world, or even just from the playground at McCambridge Park.
40 Love Café's menu serves up the burgers and fries you'd expect from a concession at a public park. But it hits an ace with its Thai food.
We tried a mixture of appetizers, soups and entrees in varying degrees of heat. You can specify "not spicy at all," mild, medium or spicy. None of our dishes was tongue-searingly spicy and some of the medium dishes had more bite than the one on which we took the spicy option.
The café's thick spring rolls looked, as spring rolls usually do, like veggie aliens trying to burst through a viscous pod of rice paper. These were filled mainly with romaine lettuce leaves with some green onion, carrot, cucumber and chicken breast. The accompanying plum sauce, sweet and thick, seemed too cloying for the salad wrap. Egg rolls were crispy, stuffed with ground pork, glass noodles and minutely chopped veggies. Perfect for dipping in sweet and sour sauce.
The glass noodle salad had a confetti of iceberg lettuce, green and yellow onions, shredded carrot, relatively dry chicken breast and whole mint leaves over the noodles, with a sweet, vinegary dressing. We ordered ours spicy, which explains rounds of jalapeños sprinkled into the mix. Ribboning the mature mint leaves to integrate them into the salad would've helped the overall flavor.
The Tom Kah Kai, which we ordered mild, was flavorful and soothing, with chicken and mushrooms floating in a broth of lemon grass- and galanga-infused coconut milk. I'll come back in the winter for this soup, maybe increasing the heat a bit.
Pad Kee Mao, known as drunkard's noodles, had an intensely flavorful gravy that tasted of fish sauce, oyster sauce, chile, garlic, vinegar and lime. Basil and jalapeño dotted the wide rice noodles and chicken. No doggie bag needed for this dish. Medium was the perfect level of heat for my family, which favors the spicy over the safe.
We ordered the Pad Woon Sen with shrimp for $2 extra, and though they were a wonderful addition, the dish didn't need them. Chopped glass noodles, tender carrot slices, cabbage and onion, crisp bean sprouts were stir fried with egg and chicken in a savory sauce bursting with chicken flavor with a hint of fish sauce and garlic.
My favorite, though, was the Panang Beef in its gorgeous orangish-red curry paste and coconut milk sauce. The beef was fall-apart tender, the halved red chiles beckoning, and the sauce lick-your-plate delicious. We didn't actually lick our plates, because that's just not done courtside.
REBECCA BRYANT is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Caribbean Travel & Life and other publications.
40 Love Café
Where: 249 E. Amherst Drive, Burbank
Hours: Open Tuesday to Friday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free parking.
More info: (818) 973-1684, 40lovecafe.com.


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PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A Somali-American man was found guilty on Thursday of trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Oregon using a fake bomb supplied to him by undercover agents posing as Islamist militants, the public defender's office said.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen and former Oregon State University student, faces a possible life prison term on his conviction on a single charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Sentencing is set for May 14.
Mohamud was arrested shortly after attempting to use his cell phone to remotely detonate an artificial car bomb planted near a Portland square crowded with thousands of people attending the ceremony the day after Thanksgiving in 2010.
No one was hurt, and authorities say the public was never in real danger.
During a three-week trial in U.S. District Court in Portland, defense attorneys argued that overzealous law enforcement officers posing as al Qaeda militants invented a crime and entrapped their client.
But the jury agreed with the prosecution's argument that Mohamud, 19 years old at the time of the crime, was already radicalized and could have backed out of the bomb plot at any point.
On the morning of the planned bombing, Mohamud reportedly told a friend that it was "the greatest morning of my life." Hours later, he dialed a cell phone that he thought would trigger the bomb and kill thousands of people.
"Mr. Mohamud made a series of choices over a period of several years - choices that were leading him down a path that would have ended in violence," Greg Fowler, the FBI's special agent in charge of the Portland division, said in a statement.
"His actions showed little regard for the rights and responsibilities that come with being an American or respect for the lives that he was prepared to take," he added.
The case, closely watched by many in the nation's Muslim American community, was one of several sting operations in recent years in which individuals were tracked by undercover FBI agents and later tried to detonate fake bombs in various locations.
"We are disappointed with the verdict," federal public defender Steven Wax said, adding that he planned to appeal. "There are a number of issues that will be raised."
Defense lawyers had tried to paint a picture of Mohamud, who spent months with the undercover agents, as a young man who was particularly vulnerable to entrapment, which legal experts had earlier said was always a tough case to prove.
At trial, one of the undercover agents testified that he and a fellow agent were aware that Mohamud was lonely, had little money and that his family was in distress. He said Mohamud wept during their first meeting and that he heard his partner tell Mohamud on many occasions, "I love you."
The agent also acknowledged that he and his partner had coached Mohamud on what he should say in a videotaped "goodbye" message they filmed of him weeks before the planned attack.
In the video, shown to the jury by prosecutors, Mohamud is seen solemnly saying to the camera: "A dark day is coming your way ... your people will not remain safe."
Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for The Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the case could alienate the Muslim community, but was quick to say that "nobody wants to see any possibility of any sort of violence by a lone wolf."
"I think convictions in these kinds of cases are almost forgone conclusions based on the government's actions. They are the same in each case," he said.
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PBE and EnviroWindows
For more than 15 years EnviroWindows served as a supporting service for low budget projects and new, innovative initiatives in the environmental domain. The service was successfully operated and some pioneering projects started from here.
One impressive example is DestiNet which took its first steps under the umbrella of EnviroWindows in 2002 as a Type-II partnership after the Johannesburg World Summit – it is now a well-established networking portal and partnership for sustainable development.
Reflecting the technical developments and low price availability of IT infrastructure for projects, the EEA is now revising its approaches in this domain. EnviroWindows and the PBE platform will cease to exist as a separate domain. The provision of IT infrastructure as a service is no longer a critical element to start a new project or initiative. In this sense EnviroWindows and PBE have successfully fulfilled their role. However, it is now time for change taking intoaccount resource efficiency and cost-benefit considerations.
We thank all our partners for the innovative, open and fruitful cooperation across a number of environmental themes. This has been mutually-benefitial for all involed profiting a lot from the exchange of ideas from all contributors. Closing the technical service of our hosting platform does not mean that EEA stays out of cooperation – instead it is refocusing its efforts and concentrating on thematic input and exchange where and whenever it is possible.


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Here is the final report of the Care Inquiry. Advertisements
Below are four supporting documents for the final report of the Care Inquiry.
Eight leading charities are urging the Government to rethink care and the way in which the most vulnerable children and families who encounter the care system are treated in England. The call to base decisions on need and not legal status comes following an eight-month inquiry into the best way to provide permanent homes for […]
Dez Holmes is the director of research in practice and sits on the Care Inquiry steering group.
This presentation was presented by Professor Gill Schofield, from the School of Social Work at University of East Anglia, at the final session of the Care enquiry on January 8th 2012.
The third evidence session of the Care Inquiry took place on 8th January at the Nuffield Foundation, London, attended by social care professionals, representatives from the eight Care Inquiry charities and care experienced young people and care givers.
The third and final session of the Care Inquiry will take place in London on Tuesday 8 January. This session follows two previous evidence sessions in November and December, a Parliamentary briefing and a consultation with young people with experience of care in December.


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Winter League roundup: Arcia paces Aragua's outburst
Venezuelan Winter League
Aragua 13, Caracas 6
Aragua scored four runs in the first and four more in the sixth, eventually finishing with 13 in a victory over Caracas on Wednesday. Twins outfielder Oswaldo Arcia went 4-for-5, scored twice and knocked in three runs, and first baseman Hector Gimenez added his fifth homer in four nights -- a two-run shot in the first. Gimenez now has 14 home runs this season, good enough for third best in the Venezuelan Winter League. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Aragua 13, Caracas 6
Aragua scored four runs in the first and four more in the sixth, eventually finishing with 13 in a victory over Caracas on Wednesday. Twins outfielder Oswaldo Arcia went 4-for-5, scored twice and knocked in three runs, and first baseman Hector Gimenez added his fifth homer in four nights -- a two-run shot in the first. Gimenez now has 14 home runs this season, good enough for third best in the Venezuelan Winter League. Box score
Margarita 5, Caribes 2 (Game 1)
Margarita's three-run sixth inning proved to be the difference in Game 1 of a doubleheader Wednesday. Max Ramirez, David Peralta and Manny Pina hit consecutive RBI singles in the frame, and the bullpen did the rest. San Diego's Alexi Amarista went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI for Caribes. Box score
Margarita 3, Caribes 2 (Game 2)
Mets infielder Wilmer Flores went 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs in Game 2, as Margarita completed its doubleheader sweep of first-place Caribes. Eric Berger allowed two runs on three hits in six innings to pick up the win, and Luis Ramirez earned the save. Peralta's RBI single in the sixth proved to be the difference. Box score
La Guaira 4, Magallanes 0
Alex Cabrera and C.J. Retherford each hit two-run homers for La Guaira, and that was more than enough offense on Wednesday night. Right-hander Junior Guerra tossed six shutout innings and allowed just two hits, as the bullpen completed the shutout. Veteran outfielder Juan Rivera had two of Magallanes' three hits, including a double. Box score
Lara 12, Zulia 5
Joe Thurston and Pirates outfielder Andrew Lambo each had three hits and an RBI, keying Lara's rout of Zulia on Wednesday. Paulo Orlando and Anderson De La Rosa went deep for Lara, and Lino Urdaneta picked up the win with 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief. Zulia's J.C. Linares went 3-for-4 with two RBIs in defeat. Box score
Dominican Winter League
Licey 5, Gigantes 1
Yamaico Navarro's monster night at the plate powered Licey to an easy win over Gigantes on Wednesday. Navarro, who signed with the Yankees last month, went 4-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs, improving his average to .305 this season. Rangers outfielder Engel Beltre chipped in with a 2-for-5 night, and Mariners righty Hector Noesi allowed one run on five hits in 5 2/3 innings to earn the win. Baltimore's Francisco Peguero went 2-for-4 in defeat. Box score
Aguilas 6, Toros 3
Rafael Ynoa went 2-for-4 with a homer, propelling Aguilas to a victory over Toros on Wednesday night. Ynoa -- a Colorado farmhand -- is hitting .340 this season. Danny Santana and Hector Luna also had two hits, and Rockies right-hander Juan Nicasio earned the victory, allowing three runs (one earned) in six innings, while striking out five. Box score
Escogido 4, Estrellas 3 (12 innings)
Melky Mesa's single in the 12th plated Kevin Pillar, as Escogido won a thriller over Estrellas. Pirates No. 2 prospect Gregory Polanco went 2-for-4 with two runs and a double. Both Mesa and Pillar had two hits, as well. Escogido tied the game in the sixth on back-to-back doubles from Polanco and Angels prospect C.J. Cron, and neither team would score again until the 12th. Box score
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Mayaguez 8, Carolina 4
Michael Taylor, the Nationals No. 4 overall prospect, went 3-for-5 with a double and scored twice, as Mayaguez beat Carolina on Wednesday. Randy Ruiz also had three hits, and Luis Montanez came off the bench to notch a pair of RBIs on two hits. Carolina's Anthony Garcia went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs in defeat. Box score
Ponce 4, Caguas 1
Ponce broke the game open with a three-run sixth inning and knocked off Caguas behind a three-hit night from third baseman Jonathan Mota. Giancarlo Alvarado improved to 2-0 on the season, tossing 5 1/3 innings and allowing a run on three hits, while striking out six. Padres outfield prospect Reymond Fuentes went 2-for-5 for Ponce. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Guasave 2, Culiacan 1
Japhet Amador hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning, and that was all the offense Guasave needed in a pitchers' duel against Culiacan on Wednesday. Culiacan's Rodrigo Lopez tossed a complete game, allowing just three hits, but was done in by the long ball. He took the loss to drop to 2-6. Marco Tovar allowed just an unearned run in six innings, while striking out seven to notch the victory. Box score
Los Mochis 6, Obregon 3
First baseman Sandy Madera carried the Los Mochis offense, going 4-for-4 with two homers, three runs and three RBIs in a victory over Obregon. In six games this season, Madera is hitting .609 with four homers. Brian Burgamy also went deep for Los Mochis, while Agustin Murillo hit a solo shot for Obregon. Box score
Hermosillo 5, Navojoa 2
Jose Aguilar's seventh-inning home run broke a 2-2 tie and propelled Hermosillo to a victory over Navojoa on Wednesday. Jerry Owens went 3-for-4 with a double, raising his league-leading batting average to .369. Jon Weber had two of Navojoa's five hits in the loss. Box score
Mexicali 3, Mazatlan 1
Ricky Alvarez and Chris Roberson had two hits apiece, and Russell Branyan hit a solo homer for some insurance in the eighth inning, as Mexicali topped Mazatlan. Javier Martinez pitched 5 1/3 shutout innings and allowed only two hits to earn the win. Horacio Ramirez was also sharp, but took the loss. Box score
AJ Cassavell is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ajcassavell.


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Well if you're getting answers, write them down and
maybe those answers will work for you, maybe they won't
or perhaps those answers can help someone else also.
In the end it's your decision.
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Sanity Situation
Here is where you discuss everything under the sun, just keep it clean.
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Well if you're getting answers, write them down and
maybe those answers will work for you, maybe they won't
or perhaps those answers can help someone else also.
In the end it's your decision.
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someone think of a question to ask. anything
Austin Williamson: Future Actor
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If I were asking Jim a question I'd ask..
Do you still scuba diving?
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As you can see I changed my question
and ended up with gramatic blubber
question is
Are you still scuba diving?
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He says he does still scuba dive every now and then. He keeps talking under his breath otherwise, like he's very focused on something he's working on and just talking to himself. But yes, he does still scuba dive
Austin Williamson: Future Actor
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hahahah your so funny!
OK another one
If Jim could change anything regarding
caring for his dad during his
alz. days what would he have done differently?
or what advice do you think he would give to
those children or friends who want to assist those
with ALZ in the best way that they can.
Maybe that's two questions but I'm unsure on how to
word this
Yes I realize he is very focused on his new endeavour
but if he could answer I wonder what he would say
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He says that you have to have patience and understanding. You musn't get frustrated with them because it's something they can't just switch off. It's a battle within. Jim says that he'd give anything to have his dad back, but nothing on what he would've changed back then. Focuses more on the here and now instead of the then and "what if?'s. Sometimes can be very upsetting to bring up memories
Austin Williamson: Future Actor
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Yes, I notice that re the memories.
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while you're at it Conner can you ask Doris Stokes why she's been so quiet......?....lol
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1) ...who's Conner?
2) This is serious, I'm not pulling anything
Austin Williamson: Future Actor
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oops.........sorry Austin.........my mistake........
ok....please can you ask him why he's been so quiet recently.....i know he's been busy with Burt Wonderstone and the exhibition but i was surprised when he didn't tweet some Christmas/New Year greetings and he chose not to tweet the exhibition news/pics......
Thanks Austin...
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He's been in sort of a bleh state lately, he says. One day he just woke up and didn't feel the same as he normally does. He thinks that he might be able to find the source of this issue by painting them out and hopefully he can go from there. All he's doing is taking time out for himself so he can feel better mentally, but he is still going to use what motivation he still does have for "Burt Wonderstone" and other public appearences. I guess he just doesn't have the personal time for Twitter lately
Austin Williamson: Future Actor
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Can you ask him if our love reach him? If it touches his heart?
Do we (fans) put a smile on his face?
I'm a guardian of the spark...
I'm a God damn and proud good fan... and I love it! = )>
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Sometimes one has to extricate oneself from all the
electronic wire crossing and focus on something else.
Twitter can wait for now, he is right to focus on
Burt Wonderstone.
Sometimes work can be a type of therapy,
it can take you're mind off the one
and move it on to the team effort.
Hopefully he will still eat right,take rest when needed and
know that people out here care about him.
oops, that's the mom coming out of me.
I sometimes need to remember that myself.
Hey, that makes me want to have a peanut butter and
jam(raspberry) sandwish, my comfort food.
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WHEATON, Ill. – The Albion College defenders couldn't contain Wheaton College quarterback Jordan Roberts and it walked out of McCully Stadium with a 66-0 loss in the non-league football game.
Roberts, a senior, racked up 149 rushing yards and three touchdowns and passed for 127 yards and a score in the first half. He tacked on a 7-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and finished the night with 174 rushing and 156 passing yards.
Wheaton's second offensive unit played the final quarter and a half and it tacked on a pair of scores. Backup quarterback Reece Butler hooked up with Adam Bruere for a 51-yard touchdown in the third quarter and Danny Puknaitis capped an 8-play drive in the fourth quarter with a 4-yard touchdown run.
Albion moved the ball to the Wheaton 3-yard line in the second quarter, but the scoring threat was snuffed out by an interception.
Michael Czarnecki led the Briton offense with 55 rushing yards. Quarterbacks Nick Heiserman and Chad Hamilton combined the throw for 132 yards.
Albion returns home for its Sept. 21 non-league game against Aurora University. Kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m. at Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium.


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Updated: June 11, 2011. These figures arrived too late for last year's auction, so they will be sold this year. I am also looking into a separate donation for this year... Drop a line if you have ideas, they might be better than mine!
Updated: October 11, 2011 - new dates for con inserted.
Just a quick note to tell you that the figures (not the castle, sorry) shown below are the Wargames @ Nordalia.com donation to the FlatCon annual Gamers For Life auction in Normal Illinois.
FlatCon 2011 Oct. 21st-23rd, 2011 Heartland Community College, Normal, IL
88s in front of a sparse wood. Every once in a while we at Wargames @ Nordalia HQ get blindsided by a product line that has been around for a bit and we just didn't know about it. Forged In Battle was one of those product lines. The first time we noticed anything about them, the line was pretty extensive. Of course we had to run out and get some to find out how much they rock... Or don't. We spent quite a bit of time thinking about how broad a look we wanted to give you all at the line - do we order a few of each country, a single pack of infantry, a little of each... We settled on a wide view of the German part of the line, giving you our impression of tanks, vehicles, and infantry. While restricting ourselves to a single country might disappoint you if you're looking for a particular country, we did have to worry about the overall costs - including shipping - of what already turned out to be a large selection. We also had to limit the time it took to paint this stuff up while other items sit on our painting table screaming for review (we held off the 28mm JTFM Panzergrenadier review for this one, for example). So you get the nazis. We had a place for all of this stuff in our armies, but they're painted for the army we're going to deploy them in, so bear with us if you don't like our painting choices.
So we ordered a set of three Opel Blitz's, a set of 88s with tows, an infantry platoon, Panzer III, Hetzer, mortar squad, and HMG squad. That gives us a selection of infantry, trucks, tanks, and guns. First impressions are important, these came packaged nicely and in decent sized sets - more on that below. We'll take a look at them individually to give you a handle on just what you'll be getting, and we'll show you some comparisons to other vendor's models along the way. The over-arching comments are both positive and negative from our perspective. The figures are nicely done overall, and the vehicles are very well done overall. The figures have some issues around the face - some beeing too short top-to-bottom, but once painted this isn't too large a problem. The only thing that we found completely out of place in all that we looked at was the rifles, which we'll discuss in the infantry section.
The finished review, moving to the front.OUR APOLOGIES: These models were purchased in 2009 and finished in December 2009. The vagueries of life kept us from completing the review any sooner. Some of these models are one full year old, so if you are aware that a vendor has re-mastered their models since the ones pictured in this review, please drop us a line and we'll note it here.From the very beginning of World War II, German soldiers rode Sdkfz 251s into battle. In the waning days of the war there were plenty of them still running around, transporting troops, being mobile gun platforms, and even rocket launching platforms. If there is a single vehicle that could be considered iconic of Nazi military power, the Sdkfz 251 would be it. Propoganda shots showed men jumping out of it, they were deployed on every front, and were inspiration for APC designers for a generation.
It has been a while since I wrote a review for the site, my apologies, as real life – work and family – have taken precedence. Since I now have some free time, I'm re-starting reviews, but only on new miniatures, the items I had stacked up for review when I quit writing will just be fodder for my brush, as some of them have gotten years old, and I would hate to misrepresent a vendor by reviewing something that doesn't exist anymore, or has been re-mastered.
Africa Corps Gothic Line Miniatures with the Tamiya 1:48th Opel BlitzWith that said, the new GOTHIC Line Miniatures came about at the same time that I decided I could pick up some new reviews, so I ordered their entire product line to offer up for your consumption.
Joe Debold takes a first (and second!) look at Steel Dreadnought Games' Naval Thunder - Battleship Row and gives you a report on what he finds.
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Emmanuel's Communication Department proudly welcomes Mr. Clint Ross as their newest faculty member. He begins teaching full-time this fall.
"Mr. Ross brings with him a gift for storytelling through the visual image as well as practical experience in a variety of areas, including film, television, and church media," says Mrs. Jennifer Benson, Communication Department Chair and School of Business Dean."We are excited to have found someone with his skills and heart to help our students translate their own ideas through video into messages that will help them achieve their career goals."
Mr. Ross and his wife Lizzie move to Franklin Springs from Savannah, where he earned his Master of Arts, Film & Television from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Most recently, he was the Associate Production Team Leader at Savannah Christian Church, one of the top 100 largest churches in America, where he oversaw and developed all video components, including live services, short films, volunteer recruitment and coordination for the entire production department. He is also a 2006 graduate of Emmanuel's School of Christian Ministries and has worked as a writer, producer, director and editor.
Below are some examples of Mr. Ross' work in video and film production:
· John, The Disciple Jesus Loved: An Easter Opener - http://www.vimeo.com/23075754
· Michael Taylor Testimony - http://www.vimeo.com/20897837
· An Extended Scene from The Angel of Marye's Heights Documentary - http://www.vimeo.com/18233614
· Walls: A Music Video - http://www.vimeo.com/17086826
· Trailer for The Angel of Marye's Heights - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhXYhPcLRto
Emmanuel's Communication Studies major offers concentrations in multimedia and corporate communication for the B.A. and B.S. degrees. The program began in 1998 and offers minors in film studies and communication studies. With their motto of impacting the world for Christ through media, the communication program prepares students to be Christian communicators in learning, working, and serving with their minds, hearts and spirits throughout college and life.
For more information, please contact Mrs. Jennifer Benson at email@example.com 706-245-7226.


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Team Canada's hopes for gold in Sochi could be derailed by a metal post.
The post in question is the one that Steven Stamkos broke his leg on on Monday afternoon. If you haven't seen the incident yet, consider yourself lucky. It was hard to watch as the Tampa Bay Lightning superstar center lost his balance while skating hard toward his own net on a backcheck and slammed his right leg into the goal post, snapping his tibia.
Stamkos tried to get up, but couldn't put weight on his leg. He was eventually taken off the ice on a stretcher, and had surgery the next day. There's no timetable as of now for his return to the NHL, and his chances of playing in the Olympics aren't very good. Some timetables out there are three to six months. The Olympics are now just under three months away.
Tampa Bay GM Steve Yzerman, who is also the executive director of Team Canada, is hopeful that because of Stamkos' age, conditioning and work ethic he will be on the lower side of the 3-6 time frame. But when you have a metal rod inserted along the entire length of your tibia, there's really no way to tell at this point how long the recovery will take.
Yzerman may be hopeful of the faster comeback because of Stamkos' aforementioned attributes, but they really could help. Stamkos comes from the Gary Roberts School of Fitness. If you haven't heard about the former NHLer's training program, just watch this video of Stamkos working out for a quick introduction:
Roberts was one of the most intense players the NHL ever saw. Seriously, his stare alone could melt vulcanized rubber in under 1.6 seconds. But that intensity he had on the ice also translated into incredible off-ice workouts. His legendary physique meant he could play in the NHL until the age of 42, despite having numerous serious injuries in his career, including the degeneration of the nerves in his neck that required two surgeries; injuries to both shoulders that required surgery on each; and a broken fibula.
Roberts has passed along his workout and nutrition knowledge to a new generation of players, including Stamkos, who came into the league as a scrawny 18-year-old rookie and now looks like an Adonis on ice. Roberts has pushed Stamkos to get into the condition he's in, and that work ethic should only help him in his recovery from this brutal injury.
Will he play in the Olympics? You'd have to believe it's a long shot. But if anyone could make a rapid comeback like that, it would be Stamkos. With a little help from Gary Roberts, of course.
Team USA Goalie Trouble
Just a day after Team Canada saw one of its prized players go down with a major injury, Team USA got an injury scare of its own. Los Angeles Kings netminder Jonathan Quick, who many see as being the starting goaltender for the United States in Sochi, left Tuesday's game in Buffalo with what turned out to be a severe groin strain. That should keep him out of action for anywhere from three to six weeks. Groin strains are quite problematic for goalies, so his situation will have to be watched closely as we get closer to Sochi.
Oh, and by the way, the goalie at the other end of the ice who watched Quick leave the game? That would be Buffalo's Ryan Miller, who was Team USA's starter in Vancouver and who wants to be the starter again in Sochi.
Miller is making quite the case. On Tuesday he stopped 43 of 45 shots and blanked the Kings in the shootout to pick up the win and be named the game's first star. For the year he's sporting a 3.28 GAA and .916 save percentage for a very, very bad Buffalo squad.
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Air Force Woman Could Be Convicted in Her Own Rape
A woman airman in the US Air Force who was allegedly raped by three of her male counterparts is being charged with indecent acts, according to an AP report. If convicted, the woman could face a year in prison, a pay cut, a bad-conduct discharge, and would even be registered as a sex offender, the woman's defense lawyers told the AP.
Cassandra Hernandez, who was stationed with the Air Force in North Carolina, was allegedly assaulted six months ago while in another airman's room; she fled partially clothed, she said. After reporting the attack she received a medical examination, but declined to testify after she was allegedly interrogated by an Air Force defense attorney without her lawyer present.
"The pressure of the judicial process was too much for me, and I felt like no one was looking out for my interests," Hernandez wrote to the AP. She was subsequently charged with one count of consuming alcohol as a minor (she admittedly was drinking the night in question) and one count of committing indecent acts.
The Air Force Public Affairs division said that its investigation did not find sufficient evidence to support the woman's claims of sexual assault, reported KVUE, a Houston television station. The accused men were granted immunity from the sexual assault charges for their testimony against Hernandez in the US Air Force's case against her, KVUE further reported.
Hernandez worries that the handling of her case will impact others in the Air Force as well. "Will other women come forward after a rape when they hear that this is how they may be treated?" she wrote in a letters to the US Congress and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, according to KVUE. "The process has almost been as painful as the rape."
Hernandez is scheduled to begin court marshal on September 24. [Emphasis added.]
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Lesbian Escapes Russia By Boat, Sails to Canada With Woman She Loves
In what is an amazing story, a Russian lesbian escaped her homophobic family and sailed ten months to Canada to be with the woman she loves.
In a heartwarming story by Joe Morgan in Gay Star News, he reports about the life of twenty-something Elena from Ivanova, a city 250 km east of Moscow, whose parents forced her to wear high heels and makeup and be a "proper woman." She tried to make them happy by getting a boyfriend but met a Canadian woman online named Meg.
"Meg can do everything; she is a musician, she plays the piano, flies planes, sails boats... To me she was this incredible woman, she simply stunned me with what she could do, and, of course, I pretty much instantly fell in love with her," she said.
The couple met in Kiev, Ukraine, where she planned to escape. Telling her family she was headed to the opera, she secretly packed a small bag. When Elena met Meg at the Kiev airport, she told Prospekt Mag "When I saw her, I saw she was standing in the crowd of people. I don't know how to explain how I felt, but I think I was so excited that I could hardly understand what was going on around me."
Elena eventually decided to be honest with her mother and boyfriend, but when they arrived in Kiev, they brought her dad, and "they attacked us. They grabbed me, held both my arms tight and brought me to a McDonalds near the train station. My father slapped three tickets on the table and said 'you're coming with us to Ivanovo.' That was their ultimatum for me, and it was the first time that I ever disagreed with them in my life."
A fight broke out, and all four were led to a police station. Unexpectedly, the police chose the couple's side and, eventually, the parents went back to Russia. But Elena's mom had taken her passport, stranded her. A friend finally retrieved it from the family's home and took it to Elena in Odessa.
The couple went to Turkey, where Meg put a mortgage on her house in Canada so they could buy a boat and sailing lessons. Two months later, the women were on the open sea. They crossed the Mediterranean, survived a hurricane in the Atlantic, and sailed without stopping until they reached Canada.
After 10 months, they arrived in Canada in April 2007.
"When we arrived, it was all very quiet, it was 2 am, we simply parked the boat at the yacht club, and there was nobody there," said Elena. "And that was the irony of it. We had completed such a huge journey for love, but there was nobody to meet us. It was pretty silent. We didn't actually need anything, we just wanted to sleep, to rest, and to start living our life."
The couple still live on the boat they bought in Turkey, and Elena has written a book, "Talking to the Moon."


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We are a husband and wife who love furniture. She is a Kansas native, born and raised in Wichita. Her family came to Kansas by covered wagon and homesteaded on the prairie. He is an Army brat, who packed his bags and moved each and every year of his life before marrying and settling down to raise a family in Wichita. We have two locations. Our first store opened in Wichita, Kansas in 1984. It is a 15,000 square foot showroom in the Douglas Design District in the College Hill neighborhood. Where else can one park at the front door or park around back? We chose this location for a reason. It is where we live and raise our family.
A few years later we opened a second location in Overland Park, Kansas. We chose the historic Strang Carbarn for our store. It is a beautiful limestone building that once housed trolley cars operating on the Strang Trolley Car line. Stroll down Santa Fe Drive. In the summer and fall visit the Farmers Market. Visit a unique blend of shops and cafes in the heart of Downtown Overland Park.


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Time is running short for a housing-reform bill this year, the head of the Mortgage Bankers Association said Monday, adding the Senate only has about a month to act on legislation.
"We see a window closing" for a bill that would address what to do with government-owned mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , David Stevens, who heads the trade group, told MarketWatch during a National Association for Business Economics conference.
Leaders of the Senate Banking Committee have been working on a bipartisan plan but haven't released a proposal to date. Last week, White House National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling also said the clock is ticking this election year.
"I do think that most of the parties involved understand that they want to move with some speed because they don't want to lose the window," Sperling said. The Obama administration has been working with Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat, and Mike Crapo of Idaho, the panel's top Republican, on their bill. It's expected to replace Fannie and Freddie with a new agency.
Stevens put a finer point on it: "I think [in] 30 days we need to see something introduced in the Senate or the window begins closing very rapidly," he said.
Stevens's group includes big companies including Wells Fargo and Bank of America, as well as smaller banks and servicers.
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Celebrities 'Invade' Homes to Save Water
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Posted: 3/22/2011
Amy Han
March 22 is World Water Day - a day to appreciate all that water gives us in providing public health, environmental and economic benefits. To help educate Americans on the need to save water, EPA's WaterSense program is joining its partner American Water, together with the Student Conservation Association, in promoting the Save Water Today public service campaign to highlight the critical issue of saving water for future generations. Save Water Today is an integral component of American Water's year-long consumer education campaign promoting water efficiency and source water protection to help mark the company's 125th anniversary.
The public service announcement (PSA) campaign comprises a quartet of PSAs that bring together Saturday Night Live alumni Rachel Dratch and Horatio Sanz, Diane Neal (formerly of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), and 16-year-old national surfing champion Lakey Peterson to promote household water conservation. In each 30-second announcement, the uninvited – but not entirely unwelcomed – celebrity appears in someone's home to deliver practical, action tips to viewers.
For more information and to view the PSAs, visit www.savewatertoday.org. For more information on what EPA is doing on water efficiency, visit WaterSense at http://www.epa.gov/watersense.
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The 2011 AAA Photo Contest is a showcase of anthropology at its best. Of the 93 photos submitted, AAA members selected their favorites in each of the four categories: Practice, People, Place and Process. You can view the top 20 photos in Anthropology News. Here on the AAA blog, we will feature several of the photos in a blog series, Photo Friday.
Title: Capac Qolla Dancer, Qoyllur Rit'i Pilgrimage
Photo Courtesy of Andrea M Heckman
Contest Category: Practice
Caption: The annual pilgrimage of Qoyllur Rit'i is sacred for people living around 20,800′ Ausangate peak in Southern Peru. Groups of supporters, called a comparsa, hike 3,000′ with the dancers carrying huge candles, costumes, food, musical instruments, and large crosses among other ritual objects. The dancers perform for up to one week in frigid alpine temperatures where they become the mythical characters they portray. Capac Qolla means "rich merchants" and these dancers have ornate costumes they prepare for one year. Ukukus, or the mythical bear characters stand all night on the glacier to have the honor to bring down a large chunk of ice to melt and drink with their dance groups.
Find your best photos from the last two years…the 2012 AAA Photo Contest is now open. Winning photographs will be displayed at the 111th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. View contest details.
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LZR racing suits propels Greenwich over Darien in meeting of top teams
GREENWICH -- Entering this season the Greenwich and Darien girls swimming teams were wading in unfamiliar waters as the Blue Wave were the reigning FCIAC, Class L, and Open champions. The Cardinals, who typically hold those titles year after year, are now playing the role of the hunter, trying to keep up with Darien.
So when the programs faced off at Greenwich Wednesday, the expectations for a competitive meet were high. What the Blue Wave didn't expect was the Cardinals throwing them a curve before they even touched the water. Unbeknownst to Darien, the Greenwich girls were all wearing their LZR racing suits, which tend to produce faster times and are usually reserved for championship meets.
The look of surprise was written on the faces of the Blue Wave swimmers. The suits appeared to produce the desired result as Greenwich took first place in six of the first seven events en route to a 98-88 win over the defending champs.
So how calculated was the choice in attire? According to Greenwich coach Dick Hawks it was a plan set in motion four days prior to the meet -- and one that worked to perfection.
"This was totally a strategic move going into this meet because I knew the effect it would have on both sides," Hawks said. "My girls would swim with more confidence in those suits and it would undoubtedly upset their psyche which is what happened. The girls were told to tell no one about this and the element of surprise worked to our advantage."
The Cardinals (4-0) certainly swam with confidence and purpose in the opening 200-yard medley relay as the quartet of Isobel Walker, Riley Ennis, Elizabeth Commaroto, and Porter Carlson shocked Darien in an event they excel, taking first with a time of 1:51.31. That effort was followed up with a first-place time of 1:53.57 from Christina Frias in the 200 freestyle and a 50 freestyle win by senior Kim Hill (:24.41) putting Darien (3-1) in an early hole they couldn't dig out of.
"Sure, the suits definitely gave us a mental edge early on but in the end they can only help so much," Hill said. "Today was more than that. This victory was the result of so many people on this team digging deep and swimming their best."
Hill and Frias also would go on to place first in the 100 freestyle (:53.16) and 200 butterfly (1:29.38) respectively while freshman Emily Murphy posted the best diving score on the afternoon with 209.45 points. Darien responded with first-place performances by Courtney Ferreira in the 200 individual medley (2:01.76), Amanda Bieler in the 500 freestyle (5:10.52), Lia Barsanti in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.16), and the team of Bieler, Ferreira, Belle Stobbie, and Lauren Rutledge in the meet-closing 400 freestyle relay (3:38.74). But in the end it really all came back to before the meet ever started and the use of the LZR suits according to Darien head coach Marj Trifone.
"We certainly didn't expect them to be wearing LZR suits in a dual meet since they are normally reserved for championship meets," Trifone said. "Swimming is a mental sport and those suits gave them a big advantage from the start. To be honest it's a smart move on Greenwich's behalf and it definitely worked because it was truly the deciding factor in this meet."
Despite the suit controversy and suffering her first loss of the season Trifone remained proud of how Blue Wave battled all afternoon.
"We swam well after a rough start," Trifone said. "The girls really settled in as the meet went on and one thing I know for sure is that we're looking forward to seeing them again at the Open. A meet like this and to lose in this manner will only motivate us to work harder and get better."
According to Greenwich senior Sara Rogers, the Cardinals realize they may have motivated a powerful Blue Wave squad, but the Cardinals also proved something to themselves.
"We definitely have what it takes to compete with them and by the time the Open comes around at season's end we'll be even better," Rogers said. "They came into this meet expecting to win but now they know what we're capable of. And just as important we know what we're capable of too."
Greenwich 98, Darien 88
200-yard Medley Relay: Greenwich (Isobel Walker, Riley Ennis, Elizabeth Commaroto, Porter Carlson) 1:51.31; 200 Freestyle: Christina Frias (G) 1:53.57; 200 Individual Medley: Courtney Ferreira (D) 2:01.76; 50 Freestyle: Kim Hill (G) 24.41; Diving: Emily Murphy (G) 209.45; 200 Butterfly: Frias (G) 1:29.38; 100 Freestyle: Hill (G) 53.16; 500 Freestyle: Amanda Bieler (D) 5:10.52; 200 Freestyle Relay: Greenwich (Hill, Carlson, Frias, Olivia Hallisey) 1:40.48; 100 Backstroke: Walker (G) 1:00.48; 100 Breatstroke: Lia Barsanti (D) 1:09.16; 400 Freestyle Relay: Darien (Bieler, Ferreira, Belle Stobbie, Lauren Rutledge) 3:38.74
Records: G 4-0; D 3-1


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Jeffrey Gundlach, the bond god of DoubleLine Funds, just wrapped up a presentation at the New York Yacht Club.
The title: "Why Own Any Bonds At All?"
Gundlach has long been correctly bullish on Treasuries. And he reiterated his position that anyone predicting a bond market collapse is "dead wrong."
Among other things, he's convinced that the Federal Reserve will keep monetary policy easy for a very long time.
"There's a better chance Bernanke buys every Treasury bond in existence before he ever sells a single one," quipped Gundlach according to Josh Brown.
The presentation included must-see charts on the states of global debt, government finances, unemployment, and Japan.
He also provided an update on some big trade recommendations including his call to buy natural gas and short Apple.