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This question is related to two others referring to "how to speak out loud 24-hour clock times".
It has been asked how do English-speaking countries that officially use the 24-hour clock system refer to times greater than noon, like for instance 13:00hs (1 PM), when in fact, in the very same UK, such situations happen daily, at Post Offices and Railway Stations.
So, since this situation actually happens daily in the UK, I was wondering how do Brits deal with it? Please bear in mind that there are many different possibilities, situations or cases of speech, that will not necessarily turn out in the same fashion. I will mention a few that come to my mind.
a) When telling someone that his train departs at 13:00.
I would guess: "Your train leaves at one." (it may be obvious that its one p.m.)
b) When quoting or going through a timetable for someone else (for any reason)
I would guess: "That train leaves at, let me see, fourteen, sixteen, twenty and twenty-two hours".
c) When the station speaker goes off announcing departure times.
I would guess: "The train departing at twenty-three twenty-two is delayed and will be departing at twenty-three thirty (hours?)".
I think that there are two basic ways of treating the information or the time-table, as raw data, or in a processed form. When you process it, I think you are in position of adapting and telling it the way you would find best, but when you read it "raw", like in cases where you have to read out many different times, or a full timetable, I guess that there is no point in going through all the burden of "converting" every single time to a 12-hour clock time, even when in UK, which officially uses a 12-hour clock.
I'm tempted to call to a UK Train Station to actually check on this, but maybe you can shed me some light into this matter? I think the same happens in US, with Railway Stations too and other public transportation systems as well?


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ROCKLEDGE, FL - After more than 37 years of service in the healthcare industry, including 23 years in Brevard County, Health First President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Means has announced he will be retiring from his current position effective December 2011.
"Over the past 15 years, I have watched Health First grow into this area's premiere provider of healthcare services. Health First is well positioned to continue to offer our patients and this community the absolute highest levels of service. The construction of Viera Hospital is on track and on schedule to become the cornerstone of Health First's Viera campus next year," Means said. "Our existing hospitals as well as our health plans consistently receive the highest industry recognition, and our physicians and associates continue to ensure Brevard County receives the best available medical care. I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to lead this great organization for 23 years and look forward to exploring a number of different professional pursuits, hopefully at a little more leisurely pace."
"Mike Means has been a key architect of this organization since its inception," said Russell Fischer, Chairman of the Health First Board of Directors. "His leadership has been critical to our healthcare system's success. The Board will move ahead both deliberately and expeditiously to select a successor who will carry on his high level of leadership and commitment."
Mr. Means has been the President and CEO of Health First since the organization formed in 1995 with the joining of Cape Canaveral Hospital, Holmes Regional Medical Center, where he served as President/CEO from September 1988 through July, 1995, and Palm Bay Hospital.
Prior to joining Holmes Regional Medical Center he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Orlando Regional Medical Center, a four-hospital system; as well as the not-for-profit holding company comprised of four subsidiary corporations from 1980 until 1988.
In his internal announcement, Means said "After 23 years, I am more grateful than ever for having been able to live and work in such a fine community and to have had the exciting opportunities to lead Holmes Regional Medical Center and since 1995, Health First."
The succession planning process is being conducted by the Health First Board of Directors and the 20-month notice of Means' retirement will ensure a smooth leadership transition for Brevard County's largest provider of healthcare services.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration and Hospital Administration from the University of Florida.
In 1988 Mike received the Emerging Leaders in Healthcare Award presented by Healthcare Forum and Korn/Ferry International, San Francisco. This award recognizes individuals who have excelled in their past and present management positions, displaying leadership abilities through accomplishment.
In 1994, Mike was selected as "Alumnus of the Year" from the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Mike is active in professional and civic organizations on the local, state, and national level.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE); is a past member of the Board of Directors for Voluntary Hospitals of America - Southeast; a member of the University of Central Florida's Health Services Administration Programs Community Board; the Board of Overseers at Florida Institute of Technology's School of Business, Melbourne, Florida; and United Way of Brevard County.
He received the Citizen of the Year Award from the Space Coast March of Dimes in 1998. Mike served as Vice Chairman of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. He served as chairman of the Melbourne/Palm Bay Area Chamber of Commerce in 1992 and as chairman of the Florida Hospital Association in 1993 and continues to be active in these organizations. Mike was selected by Florida Today as the Volunteer of the Year in 2005.
Mike Means and his wife, Gwen, raised their son and daughter in Brevard County and reside in Indialantic, Florida.


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Why you should add Kuala Lumpur to your Indie/RTW trip
- Variety - colonial architecture rubs shoulders with Chinatown, giant mosques, and temples.
- Kuala Lumpur has the tallest skyscrapers in SE Asia, and the modernity of the city is a testament to Malaysian ingenuity.
- KL is your starting place to explore the Cameron Highlands and Taman Negara.
- If you had the choice of Little India, Chinatown or a Malay restaurant for lunch, which would you choose? Malaysian food is as varied and tasty as you'll find in a region defined by amazing cuisine.
- Experience the cultural diversity in KL - ethnic Malays, Chinese, Indian, and British have all had an impact on what the city looks and feels like today.
- Visit a tolerant Islamic country where smiles are as common as sunny days
- If you're into nightlife, KL is your city.
- There are a wide variety of parks and monuments outside of the city limits that are great to visit as day trips and get away from the chaos of the city.
- There are cheap flights available regionally (from AirAsia), and KL is a great city to add into your multi-stop flight itinerary as it's a major Southeast Asian hub.
Indie travel tips for Kuala Lumpur
- Check out the Lembah Kiara Recreational Park, particularly in the morning or evening, to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
- Take a day trip to the Genting Highlands and see how Southeast Asia does theme parks
- Learn more about the Islamic culture at the open-plan, 4 story Islamic Arts Museum.
- Though nearly every tourist visits the Petronas Towers, there's a reason for that.
- Visit the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park - the world's largest free-flight, walk in aviary.
- Check out the Central Market, a fixture in KL since 1888.
- If you're coming to KL for the food, hit up the Kampung Baru Hawker Stalls on Saturday night and into early Sunday morning.


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Mad cow, fake alcohol, bogus beef and... mutant fish? Has the European food industry gone mad? As if the horsemeat scandal isn't enough to knock consumers' confidence, the European Commission is now set to allow animal proteins to be fed to fish.
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- Róża Gräfin von Thun Und Hohenstein, Polish MEP, European People's Party.


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Thumbs up to Northwest Bank and the Dickinson County Museum for donating 120 Iowa history books to Estherville Lincoln Central fifth-graders. It's community-minded groups such as this that really give us a sense of community.
Thumbs up to Iowa Lakes Community College music students, alumni and community members for putting on a great coffee house last Saturday.
Thumbs up to the Emmet County Water Trails Association on making great plans at its annual meeting this past Monday. This coalition from a lot of different sectors of the community is going to make a big difference in what the Des Moines River means to Emmet County.
Thumbs up to the Armstrong-Ringsted Board of Education for steering through the shoals that naturally come with the future consolidation with Sentral. North Union is already one of the best small to mid-sized schools in Iowa in its use of technology in the classroom.
Thumbs up to the Emmet County Board of Supervisors for keeping a sharp eye on taxpayers' money. At Tuesday's board meeting, the supervisors did not rubber stamp approval of a bid for the Armstrong shop addition that was $24,000 over the engineer's estimate. That's a good reason to table approval and ask why.
Thumbs up to the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Friends of Fort Defiance for a great Fright Hike Halloween night. Some things never change - namely, the eternal desire for kids to have the living daylights scared out of them.
Thumbs up to the Estherville Parks and Recreation Board, city officials and all other who helped put up the new playground equipment at Trinity Park on Friday and today. The Parks and Rec Board does a good job of planning park improvements and sticking to that plan.


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Some senior adults opened their doors to see new faces Wednesday during their usual Meals on Wheels deliveries.
As part of the organization�s Community Champions Day, an event to raise awareness about the program and its mission, local leaders rode along with regular Meals on Wheels volunteers Tuesday as they delivered food.
Anne Baker, executive director of Alamance County�s Meals on Wheels program, told the volunteers before leaving on the routes Tuesday to think, �I might be the only person this person sees today,� and �I might bring the only food this person eats today.�
She said Alamance County Meals on Wheels has participated in the event twice before, though it used to be called Mayors for Meals and involved only elected officials going on the routes. This year, a range of community members attended � including businessmen, fire and police officials, and an Elvis impersonator.
Wayne Euliss, who dressed up as Elvis � something he does as a side job � rode on Randy Brown�s route, and signed and gave away scarves to the women he met along the way.
�You sure have held up well,� Lois Battley said as she welcomed Euliss and Brown into her home when they dropped off her meal.
Battley said she �very seldom� was able to get out of her home, but brought out her miniature Dachshund to meet Elvis.
Brown said he has been delivering meals for nine years.
�A lot of people don�t have family,� Brown said. �We�re their only contact and the people checking on them.�
Dan and Hazel Montgomery, who have been married for 68 years, are among those without any close family members nearby, according to Dan.
Dan Montgomery said his wife has moderate dementia, and though she has received a meal from the program for a while, he recently started receiving a daily meal from the organization at the urging of their out-of-town daughters.
Hazel Montgomery sat in her sunroom as Euliss signed a scarf for her and provided some brief musical entertainment.
In addition to Euliss, other community members who went on delivery routes Tuesday included Celo Faucette, Willy Fisher, Heidi Norwick, Jackie Cole, Joan Kimbro, Jay Smith, Paul Mauney, Lee Kimrey, Jennifer Newsome, Jeff Prichard and Dave Gronewoller.
Gronewoller, president of GC Partners in Winston-Salem, which operates multiple Golden Corral locations, owns the catering company that provides the food for Alamance County�s Meals on Wheels program, Baker said, adding that Tuesday was Gronewoller�s first time going on a delivery.
Alamance County�s Meals on Wheels program delivers 300 meals a day, five days a week, to qualifying people who are 60 years or older, live alone, do not drive, have trouble with living skills, and receive less than 20 hours of in-home aid.
Baker said the program is funded by federal and state money, along with community support.


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This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli of tvworthwatching.com, sitting in for Terry Gross. The hardest ticket to get on Broadway this year is the musical "The Book of Mormon," a collaboration by Robert Lopez of "Avenue Q" and our first guests, "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. "The Book of Mormon" won nine Tonys at the 2011 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Terry spoke with Trey Parker and Matt Stone last May, a month before those Tonys were awarded.
If you know anything about "South Park," you would expect that a musical co-written by Parker and Stone would be irreverent, and you'd be right. But it's also got heart. The story is about two young Mormons who are sent on their first mission to Uganda, where they learn Africa is not like "The Lion King." Let's start with the opening song, set at a mission training center in Salt Lake City, where young Mormons are learning door-to-door missionary techniques.
ANDREW RANNELLS: (Singing) Hello, my name is Elder Price, and I would like to share with you the most amazing book.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Hello, my name is Elder Grant. It's a book about America a long, long time ago. It has so many awesome parts. You simply won't believe how much this book can change your life. Hello, my name is Elder Green. I would like to share with you this book of Jesus Christ. Hello, my name is Elder Young. Did you know that Jesus lived here in the USA? You can read all about it now in this nifty book. It's free. No, you don't have to pay.
Hello, hello, my name is Elder Smith. And can I leave this book with you for you to just peruse? Hello, hello, I'll just leave it here. It has a lot of information you can really use. Hello, hi, my name is - Jesus Christ - you have a lovely home. Hello, it's an amazing book. Bonjour, hola, me llamo Elder White. Are these your kids? - This book gives you the secret to eternal life. Sound good?
Eternal life - Jesus Christ - is super-fun, hello - ding-dong! - and if you let us in, we'll show you how it can be done. No, thanks. - You sure? Oh well, that's fine. Good-bye. Have fun in hell. Hey now! You simply won't believe how much this book can change - this book will change - this book will change your life...
JOSH GAD: Hello, would you like to change religions? I have a free book written by Jesus.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: No, no, Elder Cunningham, that's not how we do it. You're making things up again. Just stick to the approved dialogue.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Hello, my name is Elder Cunningham, and we would like to share with you this book of Jesus Christ. Hello! Hello! Ding-dong! Just take this book. It's free - for you from me. You simply won't believe how much this book will change, this book will change, this book will change your life. So you won't burn in - Hello! You're going to die someday, but if you read this book you'll see that there's another way...
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, welcome back to FRESH AIR, and congratulations on "The Book of Mormon."
MATT STONE: Thanks.
TREY PARKER: Cool. Thank you.
GROSS: Before we talk about why and how you wrote the musical, let's talk about the opening song that we just heard. The ringing doorbells, as part of the song, that works so well musically and in terms of the narrative. How did you decide to work that in? How did that come to you?
PARKER: It was actually the first song we wrote for the entire show. Once we knew that we wanted to start with missionaries, and we knew we wanted to start with missionaries at the missionary training center, and let's start the way that most people, your average person, their interaction with Mormons, which is those guys in white shirts that come to your door.
You know, so before we get into anything else about Mormonism, we just wanted to start there, and then it was - pretty quickly we came up with the hook of, like, let's use the doorbell as actually part of the music.
GROSS: So did Mormons come to your door, and did your family let them in when you were growing up?
STONE: They never came to my door, I don't think. I don't know if my dad would have let them in either.
PARKER: We lived in - we grew up in Colorado. So we actually, we were around a lot of Mormons. And we went to school with Mormons and things like that. But I think that the first time I actually saw them come to the door was in college, actually. I had some Mormons come to where I was staying in college.
Since then we've had a few, and we always try to - I always tried to start kind of a dialogue with them. But you learn pretty quickly that they are trained impeccably to be able to handle anything. And so it's pretty cool to try to mess with them.
STONE: Knock them off their game.
PARKER: You can't do it.
STONE: But then, you know, with "Hello," the idea was that you'd reveal that you were at the missionary training center, which is in Provo, Utah, which is where they get - they learn all their language skills and they learn their - you know, what to do when you do get invited into a house.
And we found out later, at the missionary training center they actually have, like, prop living rooms, like fake living rooms with actors that, you know, it's like one of your tests is to go and, like, go into this fake living room and sit down and do your spiel, and have to deal with this in a real situation.
PARKER: It's like the holodeck. It's like the holodeck on "Star Trek."
STONE: It's like a driving simulator, yeah.
GROSS: So did you go to a missionary training center as part of your research for the show?
STONE: No, we didn't go there, but we went to - we did take a field trip to Salt Lake City with Bobby Lopez, our co-writer, who had never been to Salt Lake City. And we interviewed a bunch of missionaries or ex-missionaries, people who'd been on mission, which really for us was pretty easy to find. We just talked to waiters, you know, in downtown Salt Lake City.
STONE: You know, most, like, post-collegiate, kind of like 25- to 30-year-old guys, and almost every single waiter we asked if they'd been on a mission, they had. Right? It was like every single one. So that was where we got a lot of our research done about missionaries, was actually in Salt Lake City.
GROSS: So maybe this is a good time to hear the song in which the missionaries are getting paired, and they're finding out what mission they're going to be sent on. And the song is called "Two By Two." And would you talk about writing this song and maybe talk about how it changed your relationship to be writing songs with a third person, with Robert Lopez, who wrote the song, co-wrote the songs for "Avenue Q"?
PARKER: It was - it was like being in a band. I mean, it was just - we would just hang out in a room, and again, we'd kick around the idea of what's the hook of the song.
And we'd come up with the hook, and you'd sort of talk about that first. And we're like, okay, well, what is it? You know, they're sent two guys at a time. They're being paired off here. Of course, you know, the idea of two by two came out really quick. We thought it would be a really militant - I remember it started being much more...
STONE: It was a much more (humming). It was much more snare drum and a militaristic kind of beat, like two by two we go from door - it's supposed to be this joke of they're the army. And we had this kind of metaphor going that they were sent along - they're soldiers of God and they're going around the world to sell their stuff.
The joke - and it kind of comes at the end of the song is, is just how funny we find that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be kind of grammatically weird with two of's in there. And so we made the "of" kind of this running joke of, like, we're the army of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
And you can start stacking these of's in this crazy way, and that was kind of a central joke too.
PARKER: And I remember at one point we were, like, yeah, it's a good song, but it's just - it's a little dry. And we realized it was because of the military thing. I remember Bobby being, like, you know, we could put this different feel to it that's a bit more just cheesy, and then that's when - one of my prouder moments - where I remembered a thing from high school, when I was in choir in high school, we actually had a song where we sang ooh-wa-hey-ah shout out wow.
GROSS: Oh, I love that stuff.
PARKER: And it was like shout out wow. And I remember - and so we actually just recorded that, singing it, you know, shout out wow. And it just, the rest of the song fell into place after that.
GROSS: It's a great song. So here it is, "Two By Two," as the young missionaries are paired off and assigned their mission. And this is from "The Book of Mormon."
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Shout out wow. Two by two we're marching door to door 'cause God loves Mormons, and he wants some more. A two-year mission is our sacrifice. We are the army of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
(Singing) Two by two, and today we'll know who we'll make the journey with and where we'll go. We're fighting for a cause, but we're really, really nice. We are the army of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Elder White and Elder Smith.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: Oh, I knew we'd get paired together.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Your location will be France.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: France, land of pastries and turtlenecks.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Two by two, I guess it's you and me. We're off to reach across land and sea. Satan has a hold of France. We need to knock him off his perch. We are the soldiers of the army of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Elder Cross and Elder Green, you will be serving in Japan.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: Oh, Japan, land of soy sauce. And Mothra!
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Elder Harris and Elder Brown...
RANNELLS: (Singing) Heavenly father, where will I go on my mission? Will it be China or old Mexico on my mission? It could be San Fran by the bay, Australia where they say g'day, but I pray I'm sent to my favorite place, Orlando. I love you, Orlando, Sea World and Disney and putt-putt golfing.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Elder Price...
RANNELLS: Yes, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Your brother will be Elder Cunningham.
GAD: That's me. That's me. Hello. Oh, hi.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: And your mission location is Uganda.
GAD: Uganda? Uganda? Cool. Where is that?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: Africa.
GAD: Oh, boy, like "Lion King."
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Two by two and now it's time to go. Our paths have been revealed...
GROSS: That's a song from "The Book of Mormon," which was co-written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park."
So as we heard in that song, the two stars of the show, the two lead missionaries from the show, are assigned what turns out to be Uganda. Why did you choose Uganda as being, like, the nightmare come true as opposed to the dream come true for them?
STONE: We just wanted it to be that place that you always read about where - and a lot of times it's sub-Saharan Africa, it seems like. I mean, lately it's been Haiti, where it's just that place you go, can this place get a break? You know, they have earthquakes and then cholera and then a warlord, you know, and then a famine and then, you know, no water.
And you know, it was just supposed to be that place. And we settled on Uganda honestly because they speak English there. So that seemed one, like, less leap to make. And we settled on Northern Uganda, which has had a humanitarian crisis of its own, and it borders Congo and the Sudan.
So really it was kind of a bunch of different things that brought us to that. We didn't start with Uganda. It's supposed to be just generic, war-torn worst-place-on-Earth that where - if you are from Utah, nothing you've learned in Utah when you're 18 or 19 years old makes any sense when you get there.
GROSS: Let me stop you there. Is that part of what you were trying to kind of puzzle through in this musical, why 19-year-old white missionaries from Salt Lake City would feel like they could go to a place in Africa...
STONE: Yeah.
GROSS: ...where they didn't understand the culture, and have something to offer?
STONE: Yeah, I mean I think that like Trey said, we have this coming-of-age story, which is, you know, missionaries, you know, you're that perfect age. When I was 18, I thought I knew everything.
I think, you know, you're 18, you're told you've got all this information. Now go change the world. You're like - you know, I just think naturally when we're all about 17 or 18, we think we know everything, and then life, you know, you get - life slaps you upside the head.
And I think that happens for a lot of people just when they go an hour away to college, or they get - they move out of the house. But a lot of these kids go to another country, another culture, and a lot of them end up in Third World countries, and they're probably seeing things that they never have seen before.
So in addition to the coming-of-age story, we have a big fish-out-of-water story going, and it just seemed really funny to send these two, you know, kids who've grown up in this perfect place, you know, quote-unquote, to a place where nothing makes sense that they've learned. So definitely that was a big part of it.
BIANCULLI: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, speaking to Terry Gross. More after a break; this is FRESH AIR.
BIANCULLI: Let's get back to Terry's interview from earlier this year with "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Their musical "The Book of Mormon" won nine Tony Awards and is now the hottest ticket on Broadway.
GROSS: So I don't want people to get the wrong idea about how you present Mormonism in your show because you kind of challenge the credibility of this, the literal credibility of the story of the Book of Mormon.
But you love your characters, and you think that eventually they do do good in the world, not in the way that they expected to, but you're not about being, like, really kind of cynical in this.
PARKER: Yeah, no, and I - really what I grew up loving Broadway for was the fact that it, at least, you know, in all these classics, you know, they weren't cynical. They were very optimistic, and it offered this kind of - they always ended with a big happy number, and everything was okay. And as cheesy as that can seem, I loved it.
You know, and that's - you know, I don't think anyone would want to go see a two-hour-long Mormon-bashing, and that's not - we wouldn't want to see that either. It's just not - obviously you have to have characters that you love.
And even if you, in certain things, have characters that you love to hate, that's fine, but you know, everyone wants to see a little piece of themselves up there, and that's what makes a musical, draws people in.
And so, you know, like we were saying about the whole thing about this - even though this is about a very devout Mormon getting put with someone and getting shot around the world and trying to be very Mormon, people can relate to just that feeling of being in high school and getting out and thinking: Okay, well, now I'm ready to just go tell everyone what's up and make my mark in the world, and it's going to be really awesome.
PARKER: And then you get slapped back down to reality. You know, and I think that everyone can relate to that part of it.
And also the reason we knew it would work great with Bobby right away was because we all shared this thing where it's like we love the goofiness of Mormon stories. We love the - you know, some of them are so incredulous, and yet we really liked most - almost all the Mormons we'd ever met.
GROSS: So have Mormons in the audience enjoyed the musical? Do you know? Have you gotten feedback?
PARKER: It's really funny. We can actually - when we were there for previews, and we were there that whole month, where we'd go and watch it every single night and try to change it, you could hear the pockets of Mormons. You could hear where they were because there are some certain things in the show that are very specifically Mormon and things you - you either - or at least ex-Mormons.
You know, like, you could hear these people, this little group of people laugh, and no one else really got the joke, and it would just be some reference to something that's very Mormon.
And you know, obviously it's a select group of Mormons that are going to come to the show - have kind of embraced it.
GROSS: And the official church response?
STONE: The official church response was something along the lines of: "The Book of Mormon," the musical, might entertain you for a night, but The Book of Mormon, the book as scripture, could change your - will change your life through Jesus, or something like that.
PARKER: Yeah, which is a great response.
STONE: Which we actually completely agree with - it's a totally very big-hearted, American response. It's kind of like - the Mormon church's response to this musical is almost like our QED at the end of it. It's like: See, we told you, Mormons are - that's a cool, that's a cool American response to, like, a ribbing, you know, a big musical that's done in their name.
So it just - that was like - we were like, there, see? That's what we were talking about. Because before the church responded, a lot of, you know, people would ask us about, like, are you afraid of what the church is going to say? And Trey and I were like: They're going to be cool. Trust us. They're going to be cool.
And people in New York are like: No, they're not. They're going to be, you know, mad at you guys. There are going to be protests. We're like, nope, they're going to be cool. And I mean, I don't know if we totally knew, but we weren't that surprised by the church's response.
PARKER: We had faith in them.
STONE: Yes, we had faith.
GROSS: There's obviously some Disney in there. And one of the songs is kind of a parody of "Hakuna Matata." And in "The Lion King" "Hakuna Matata" is a song about the expression that describes our problem-free philosophy. It's a lighthearted song. And your version is "Hasa Diga Eebowai." And did you want to talk a little bit about this song?
STONE: Yeah. I mean, that's our, like, welcome to Vietnam song.
STONE: That's the song where, you know, you get off the plane and they just get off the plane like full of vigor like here we are, we're here to change the world and it's like, okay, you're in a new reality. And so it started kind of from an anti-"Lion King," you know, song, but write it in the same tone so it has that same kind of gallows humor. But, yeah, I mean that was a really fun song to write, actually.
STONE: That's where we really got to go for it, you know, that was the point of that song.
GROSS: Okay. So imagine the missionaries stepping off the plane meeting some actually very poor people from Uganda and hearing this song. This is from the cast recording of "The Book of Mormon."
MICHAEL POTTS: In this part of Africa we all have a saying: whenever something bad happens, we just throw our hands to the sky and say Hasa Diga Eebowai.
GAD: Hasa Diga Eebowai?
POTTS: It's the only way to get through all these troubled times. There's war. Poverty. Famine. But having a saying makes it all seem better.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) There isn't enough food to eat. Hasa Diga Eebowai. People are starving in the street. Hasa Diga Eebowai. Hasa Diga Eebowai. Hasa Diga Eebowai.
RANNELLS: Well, that's pretty neat.
GAD: Does it mean no worries for the rest of our days?
POTTS: Kind of. (Singing) We've had no rain in several days. Hasa Diga Eebowai. And 80 percent of us have AIDS. Hasa Diga Eebowai.
GROSS: Okay, so we're fading out before all the expletives.
STONE: Before the good stuff.
GROSS: Before...
PARKER: Yeah.
GROSS: Yeah.
STONE: Before the meat and potatoes.
GROSS: After this part we just can't play it on the radio. And it's quite a send-up of the "Hakuna Matata." Have you gotten interesting reactions to this one?
PARKER: Well, "Hasa Diga Eebowai" is that song in the show where you know people are in or they're out.
PARKER: Basically, you know, it's either the point where we lose you or we really get you on board, and we have a lot of that in a lot of the stuff we do. We have that moment in the show, which is either, you know, you're with us or you should get out now. And it really is sort of that song.
GROSS: So this is your first Broadway musical. You've done musicals, but they've been animated. So now you're working with real people, real audiences in the theater. You have to worry about renting a theater, an orchestra, just, you know, all of this stuff. So what's one of the biggest nightmares that you had that you'd never have to face doing animation?
PARKER: Well, I'd say - I mean, what was crazy for us - and something we had to get used to fast was just the idea that if we want to rewrite something, if we want to change something, you know, it's like - especially in a song, then you got to get it re-orchestrated. Then you got to get it re-choreographed. Then you got to teach it to everybody. And meanwhile, you're doing a show that night.
You know, so it was just this crazy thing where we're so - especially with "South Park," you know. We can change things so last-minute, and especially because we do almost all the voices. We can, like, go in there. We can write it down, run into the booth and record it, slap it in, see how it looks, change it again if we need to. And with this, you know, pretty quickly, we had people telling us, like, guys, guys. You can't change this much right now.
And learning how to dish that out, you know, learning how to - all right, well, we can change these lines right now. We'll give them this because we want to change that. We'll try to see that in two nights' performance. We're not going to see it tonight. You know, just a lot of things like that that was, for us, a big learning curve.
STONE: Yeah.
BIANCULLI: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, speaking to Terry Gross in May. We'll continue their conversation in the second half of the show. I'm David Bianculli, and this is FRESH AIR.
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross, back with more of Terry's 2011 interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the animated series "South Park." They've been working together nearly 20 years. Now they have the biggest hit on Broadway: the musical comedy "The Book of Mormon," which they co-wrote with Robert Lopez, who also co-wrote "Avenue Q."
A month after Terry spoke with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, "The Book of Mormon" won nine Tony Awards. The show is about two young Mormom missionaries who were sent on their first mission to Uganda. They're supposed to be converting people who are facing problems about which the young Mormons are totally clueless.
GROSS: Okay. Time for another song. So I want to play "Turn it Off," which is this great production number. And, you know, in a lot of musicals, there's that big, inspiring number where you're told to, like, you know, be yourself and think great thoughts, whenever you're sad, like, put on a happy face. Or if you fall down, pick yourself up and start all over again.
But this is called "Turn it Off." So, like, if you're feeling something unpleasant, just, like, turn it off. It's a song about repressing feelings. Tell us about writing this song and the kinds of songs that inspired this one.
PARKER: This was a little ditty - I wrote a first version of this, basically, because I just - we knew we had to have a big tap number. We've got a bunch of dudes in, you know, white shirts and ties.
PARKER: It's, like, we've got to have a tap number. But I just - this was a great example of a song that, like, I had just a little ditty for that was just this very repetitive... (Singing) Turn it off, like a light switch. Just go click. Da, da, da, da, da. (Speaking) And I remember Bobby right away saying yeah, it's cool. It kind of runs in place.
You know, it's kind of, like, was the same thing musically, over and over and over. And this song expanded and expanded. And then we all would sit in the room together and say: Well, maybe it shouldn't just be - it was all just the stuff about gay thoughts and all those jokes. And they were great jokes and it worked, but then we sat there going, well, what else?
You know, maybe we should have other Mormons chime in on other things that aren't just gay thoughts, but other things. And we started writing the other verses, and then Bobby actually wrote the verse about the father, the abusive father. And then it grew and it grew. And then Casey came in and turned it from a little tap number...
GROSS: Your co-director and choreographer. Yeah.
PARKER: Yeah, the co-director and choreographer, and turned it from a little tap song into a giant tap song and added all this other stuff. And so it was just this great song that you watched going from this little ditty to this big Broadway number, you know, kind of before your eyes.
GROSS: So let's hear it. This is "Turn it Off," from the new cast recording of "The Book of Mormon" which was co-written by my guests Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the co-creators of "South Park."
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #5: (Singing) Turn it off, like a light switch. Just go click. It's a cool little Mormon trick. We do it all the time. When you're feeling certain feelings that just don't seem right, treat these pesky feelings like a reading light.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) And turn them off, like a light switch. Just go back. Really, what's so hard about that? Turn it off. Turn it off. Right now.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (Singing) When I was young, my dad would treat my mom real bad. Every time the Utah Jazz would lose, he started drinking and I started thinking: How am I going to keep my mom from getting abused? I'd see her all scared, and my soul was dying. My dad would say to me, now don't you dare start crying. Turn it off.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: Like a light switch. Just go click. It's our nifty little Mormon trick. Turn it off. Turn it off.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #7: (Singing) My sister was a dancer, but she got cancer. The doctor said she still had two months more. I thought she had time, so I got in line for the new iPhone at the Apple store. She lay there dying with my father and mother. Her very last words were: Where is my brother?
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Turn it off. Yeah. Bid those sad feelings adieu.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #7: (Singing) The fear that I might get cancer, too.
RORY O'MALLEY: (As Elder McKinley) (Singing) When I was in fifth grade, I had a friend, Steve Blade. He and I were close as two friends could be. One thing led to another, and soon I would discover I was having really strange feelings for Steve. I thought about us on a deserted island. We'd swim naked in the sea and then he'd try and...
(Singing) Turn it off, like a light switch. There, it's gone.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #7: Good for you.
O'MALLEY: (As Elder McKinley) (Singing) My hetero side just won. I'm all better now. Boys should be with girls, as heavenly father's planned. So if you ever feel you'd rather be with a man, turn it off.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #7: Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having...
GROSS: That's "Turn it Off" from the new cast recording of "The Book of Mormon," and the show was co-written by my guests Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who also created "South Park." So every time I hear that song, I laugh, because it's ironic, but it's also - it's so upbeat and so catchy and so - I don't know. The...
STONE: Yeah, that song for me...
GROSS: Yeah.
STONE: That song for me is funny, because it's so happy, but it's about something that, like, we all...
GROSS: Exactly. It's about all these tragic things.
STONE: ...we all know, and it's kind of the most tragic thing, yeah. And, I mean, not just for, you know, like the character that sings it is played by Rory O'Malley, who just kills it in that song. He's amazing. Is about a missionary, you know, who's overseas and obviously gay, and, like, the church has just said yeah, you're not. Just don't think about that. You know, which is like no solution at all.
But it's not even - even if you were just - they send these 19-year-old kids around the world, even if, you know, they're just - they're sexual beings, you know. They're sexual animals. And they just say, yeah. Just turn that off. And there's just nothing in that.
You know, there's a point in the story when Price - now they've landed in Africa. They've seen some horrors. They're really questioning what the hell's going on. They go back to the mission. He says, wow, I'm having some confusing thoughts. And then this is the song that's given to them. So the song is not supposed to really help you.
STONE: You know, he realizes it doesn't really get much. He doesn't get much out of it.
GROSS: Was it really amazing to hear your songs orchestrated in the way they were played by a live band in a theater?
PARKER: Amazing. And what's crazy, the really crazy part about it is they're all kind of rehearsing off on their own, in their own building, all the musicians, while you're still doing it there in the theater with a piano and drums, and then you finally, about four days before you're going to open, you go and listen to the actors sing it. What do they call it, sitzprobe?
STONE: Sitzprobe.
PARKER: They call it sitzprobe, and they're like, oh, wait till sitzprobe. Wait till sitzprobe. And you go and you actually hear, and it's the first time even all these actors and actresses, which some of them have been doing workshops for five years, are sitting there hearing, like singing it and this whole orchestra is backing them up.
And I remember Nikki, who sings "Sal Tlay Ka Siti," she did that song and the orchestra is backing her up and she just broke down. She just started crying and couldn't finish. It was really beautiful.
STONE: It was really cool. It was the first time hearing it with a nine-piece band instead of a two-piece band.
PARKER: Yeah.
GROSS: Just one more thing. I think that "The Book of Mormon" has something of the quality of "South Park" in the sense that "South Park" is just kind of stripped-down animation. It's down to the basics. And there's something so basic about the show. It's like great music, great performers, great orchestrations, really original concepts. But there's nothing fancy about the sets. It's just like, it's...
PARKER: Yeah. It was a very conscious decision. And the reason that we did that is because we did so many workshops in New York in the sort of three years leading up to it. And we would do these workshops which were no costumes, no lights, just in a big room with fluorescent lights and, you know, 40 people sitting there, and it would kill. And we were just like, okay, all we can do now is ruin this.
Even though we had to take this to the stage, let's be really aware of not, you know, let the songs and the acting and the music and the performances, let that all be center stage. Let's not surround it by a bunch of stuff. We knew it worked without any of it, so let's add just enough to make it a beautiful Broadway show but not step on any toes.
GROSS: Well, it's been great to talk with you again. Congratulations on all the success you've been having with "The Book of Mormon," and thank you so much for coming back to FRESH AIR.
PARKER: Thanks.
STONE: Thanks a lot.
BIANCULLI: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, co-writers with Robert Lopez of the Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon," this year's hottest ticket on Broadway. And probably next year's too.
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A few weeks ago we had our first official look at concept art for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment's upcoming Green Lantern and today we have our first look at some actual video footage of the superhero epic.
The highly anticipated Green Lantern trailer is set to release attached to Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 next weekend but Entertainment Tonight aired a preview which features our very first look at Ryan Reynolds in action as Green Lantern.
While brief, the video does showcase several scenes and angles of Ryan Reynolds in the CGI Green Lantern outfit. It also includes shots of him flying, some of the Green Lantern ring's powers and one of Kilowog, an alien Green Lantern sure to be a fan favorite. This might be the best we get until next week so enjoy:
The early Green Lantern footage at Comic-Con didn't show much of what is presented here so if you missed that, you didn't miss much. This footage definitely emphasizes the more comedic tone of the movie and hence, the comparisons to Marvel's Iron Man series, especially considering that Reynolds is the star.
The big point of contention will be on how people feel about the somewhat awkward looking CGI-rendered Green Lantern costume that Ryan Reynolds is sporting here. I found the glow and effects to be rather underwhelming, even when considering the film is not coming out until next summer.
Green Lantern and its colorful science fiction nature will be testing the other end of the superhero spectrum when compared to the grounded and gritty Batman films by Chris Nolan. It will be intriguing to observe the reaction of mainstream audiences to this as we approach the path to possible cameos or crossovers in the future between characters of the DC film universe.
This is but a brief taste of what's to come, so let's hold judgement until see the HD trailer for Green Lantern, which we can expect within a week.
Green Lantern arrives in 2D and 3D theaters on June 17, 2011.
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The babies are three months old now. It feels like the longest and shortest three months of my life. When I think about how little sleep I have managed in the time, it makes me feel extremely weary (probably even wearier than I actually am!). It is all going surprisingly well though. Some days are too frustrating for words, days when the babies refuse to sleep or tag-team all day long or decide to spend 45 minutes feeding every three hours or just decide to feed every three hours all day and night. Today is Dew Drop's turn to be awake more than he is asleep. There is always someone having a bad day!
In between all of that, there are the other two boys who have ongoing needs. Nugget is one month off four and seems to have had a personality transplant overnight. He is just such a boy now! He lives in a fantasy land of robots, aliens, super heroes and the like. He is defiant. He shuts down when things don't go his way. He struggles to express himself when he is frustrated. He fights sleep. He chucks massive tantrums when he is tired (or tired of me!). It is all so very challenging and yet so very exciting. He is growing up and with all of these difficulties comes a more mature little mind. He asks different kinds of questions and tries to link things together to find a pattern in life. You can almost see him drawing conclusions and filing information away for later use. It is wonderful to witness and contribute to.
Doo Dah is his usual self - full of sunshine and cheek! He is such a funny kid that he even finds himself amusing and spends his life laughing at his own "jokes" (rather Simon Townsend like if you ask me). He has decided to start using the potty. While I am incredibly grateful for his interest (remembering that Nugget wasn't toilet trained until he was nearly 3 and a half!), I feel that this may be stretching the friendship just a little! It is so difficult to supervise a wee on the potty whilst simultaneously breast feeding twins! We are managing okay at the moment with only the odd wee on the carpet. Hopefully it will be a short and sweet stage. At least this is reducing the use of the cloth nappies so the twins have more to use in the day!
My other challenge really is keeping the house going. I have my girls (Cassie and Laura) who come in the afternoon from 4-630 to help out. The in-laws have been helping us to pay for this little luxury since the babies were about 8 weeks old and all my voluntary helpers dried up! This enables me to get a few jobs done and sort out dinner, while they mind the boys or bum-pat the babies. They are a saving grace and I really think I would have gone mental without them! Therese, the cleaner, comes once a fortnight too. She does the heavy cleaning jobs so at least the floors and bathroom get done some of the time! Without all of these people to help out, I don't think our house would function at all! Just getting the washing done, folded and put away (at least 10 loads a week), keeping the kitchen clean and the beds made and the toys in some kind of order is a full time job! I dread the day that I am on my own, but sadly it is nearing...
We have managed to get out a couple of times this month!
March 2-6 - Tresillian! The babies and I checked in for a week's residential. It was a great rest for me, but we didn't manage to achieve the twin's goals! The whole bum-pat/shh thing isn't very helpful for a busy Mum of four! I pretty much went right back to what I was doing before I went when I got home - at least the babies sleep some of the time that way! The only down side is that The Minx still sleeps on her tummy (and sucks her thumb!) and Dew Drop spends some of the day in the hammock. Sleep is sleep though I think. I have weighed up the SIDS risk and we don't have any of the other risk factors. Hopefully she will be okay (she has been able to roll off her tummy onto her back since 8 weeks so I think she can get herself out of trouble if need be).
March 14 -We went to the Twins Plus festival at Taronga Zoo with Auntie B, Billy and co which was really great! The twins won a gift voucher for being the youngest twins in attendance. The boys really loved the animals (especially the chimps I think) and the train rides. Personally I thought we spent too much time with the seals (I hate seals) at the jeapody of the more interesting animals :)
March 21 -We had the Mothers Group 4 year old birthday party. It was at Ruddock park in Westleigh. The kids had a superb time! The babies were well behaved too - Geege and I carried one each in a Bjorn and they were very happy with themselves. I thought it was a great idea for ensuring peace and the opportunity to catch up with the other families however, failed to remember that you can't sit down on the ground when wearing a baby in a Bjorn! My back was pretty sore at the end, but nothing that an Epsom Salts bath didn't fix!
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Suit Filed Over Secret Army Testing in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis man has filed suit over secret military-sponsored chemical testing in St. Louis during the Cold War.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Benjamin Phillips is the sole plaintiff in the suit filed in St. Louis Circuit Court, though his attorney is seeking to turn it into a class action lawsuit.
Government contractors in the 1950s and 1960s sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide from the backs of station wagons, from atop low-income housing projects and at other locations. The government conceded in 1994 that the spraying was part of a biological weapons program. St. Louis was picked because its topography was similar to some Russian cities.
The spraying received renewed interest earlier this fall after publicity about research by Lisa Martino-Taylor, a St. Louis professor.


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tunnelpost necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
We are a post production company that is 6 years old that has been growing leaps and bounds over the last six years. We have just moved into new space and we are doing very high profile projects. While our competitors have been shrinking we have been growing quicker than we can almost handle.
We do mostly feature films but also have done TV, commercials, and just about every other type of content. We are constantly in need of designers and this is a good way for us to test the waters on our own updated branding that we need to do.
Check out our current web site at tunnelpost.com.
Entertainment Industry Professionals, content creators, major TV and Film Studios. Mostly in US market but have done some international expansion and projects.
The new logo should read Tunnel for the company name and NOT Tunnel Post
I would like to update our image to be more of a Web 2.0 look. Our look needs to work both for a nice big sign on our building in Los Angeles as well as on t-shirts, letterhead, and so on. So design with that in mind. Maybe there are multiple version of a similar design or a 2D and 3D version as well as one with a glossy overlay.
Really all I am looking for is a web 2.0 version of what we already have. I don't need to reinvent the wheel here but I need to update the look and feel. If everyone can take my existing logo and add their spin to its depth, texture (gloss / glass looking), and perpective then I bet we get to the place where I want to be very quickly.
As you can see our first logo was a cross section of film frame and a traffic sign for entering a Tunnel. While that is nice, we are moving away from analog film in the entertainment industry and we need a more updated logo for the age of high end digital filmmaking, design and animation and all the other things that we do.
Attached are some of the recent elements that we have created internally so you can get a sense of where we want to go in terms of design style (gloss, glass looking, gradients, and so on...).
We are both a creative services firm as well as someone that needs to appear corporate to certain clients. So we need to not get so funky that we alienate our studio clients but also not be so corporate that we alienate ourselves creatively.
Lastly, we like to integrate things like grey scale camera charts, framing guides, and other film elements into our site, our location and so on.
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Food is all about fusion these days, combining fabulous tasting ingredients into a sum greater than its parts
Like bacon. And tacos. Meet "The Baco".
On April 4, opening day for the West Michigan Whitecaps baseball team, fans will be able to buy The Baco after voting for it in an online contest for new menu items. The Baco is made from bacon strips fried into the shape of a taco shell, then filled with lettuce and tomato. Think of it as a BLT without the bread. Mayo comes on the side.


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The World Bank's projects and operations are designed to support low-income and middle-income countries' poverty reduction strategies. Countries develop strategies around a range of reforms and investments likely to improve people's lives from universal education to passable roads, from quality health care to improved governance and inclusive economic growth. In parallel, the Bank strives to align its assistance with the country's priorities and harmonize its aid program with other agencies to boost aid effectiveness.
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To open the Fall 2013 season, Margaret Atwood, author of the Oryx and Crake trilogy, will be joined in conversation by novelist and columnist Carl Hiaasen, whose most recent work is the bestselling Bad Monkey.
MaddAddam continues the dystopian themes that characterize both Oryx and The Year of the Flood, in which Atwood creates a compelling fictional reality that forces her readers to reflect on the current issues of their own. In conversation with journalist and author Carl Hiaasen, Atwood will reflect upon the dystopian themes running through her recent work and look back on her remarkable career.
Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006.
Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long PenTM.
Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of twelve previous novels, including the best-selling Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and four best-selling children's books, Chomp, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His most recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald.


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Auditorium Speaker Series, ALA President's Program, Opening General Session and Closing Session
The green Libraries Transform Communities booklet is available online as a printable, full-color Macromedia Flash file at ALA Immediate Past-President Leslie Burger's web site as the Transformation Tool Kit.
- Featured speaker of the 2007 Charlemae Rollins President's Program, sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC, a division of ALA), was Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). Her presentation was taped by C-SPAN and is available online at Children's Issues.
- Irshad Manji spoke on Monday, June 25, 2007. She was sponsored by one of our exhibitors, St. Martin's Griffin, Holtzbrinck Publishers. Her presentation was taped by C-SPAN and is available online at Reformation of Islam. You can contact Holtzbrinch Publishers/St. Martin's Press directly with any further questions -- E-Mail: Abbye Simkowitz: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Garrison Keillor spoke at the Closing Session on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. His presentation was taped by C-SPAN and is available online at My Life in Libraries.
Programs and Other Events
For ease of future organization, please follow the format below when linking to an individual program, or to a page with a group of programs.
Friday, June 23
- Mother Goose on the Loose information session - informal meeting in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Hotel from 3:30-4:30, Look for the yellow goose!
Saturday, June 23
- Capturing Our Stories: a National Oral History Program of Retired/Retiring Librarians - ALA Presidential Initiative
- Washington Office Update Session with Video of Judge Royce Lamberth, Handouts and Briefs. - Sponsored by ALA Washington Office, OITP
- Getting What You're Worth Salary Workshop - Sponsored by ALA-APA with Speakers Connie Maxwell, Annita Owens and Greg Hardin, Texas Woman's University.
- Alternative Media Task Force hand outs - Bibliographic and Web Tools for Alternative Publications and Getting Alternative Press Titles into Libraries and Promoting Alternative Presses in the Library - Sposnored by ALA-SRRT.
- Informing the Future of MARC: An Empirical Approach - Sponsored by ALCTS
Sunday, June 24
- Capturing Our Stories: a National Oral History Program of Retired/Retiring Librarians - ALA Presidential Initiative
- Harnessing the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries - Sponsored by RUSA-MARS with Speakers Meredith Farkas and David Free
- PR Forum - 10 Cool Technologies that Can Impact the Public Relations Plan @ your library - Sponsored by ALA PIO with Speaker Stephen Abram
- Technology for Trustees - Sponsored by ALTA, with speakers Christine Lind Hage, Larry Neal, Andrew Pace, Karen Schneider
- Status of Recent Litigation Affecting Libraries - Freedom to Read Foundation General Counsel Theresa Chmara discusses key legal cases impacting intellectual freedom in libraries. Cosponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee. Also referenced on the OIF blog.
From 3:30-4:30 in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, meet with Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen to talk about Mother Goose on the Loose [1]. This early literacy program was the second winner of the Godfrey Award for Excellence in Public Library Programming for Children and Families. Come to ask questions, share favorite songs and activities, tell success stories, book training workshops, and say hello. Look for the Mother Goose stuffed animal in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt. Also on Friday, same time, same place!
Monday, June 25
- Capturing Our Stories: a National Oral History Program of Retired/Retiring Librarians - ALA Presidential Initiative
- Ambient Findability: Librarians, Libraries, and the Internet of Things, by Peter Morville, for the ALCTS 50th Anniversary President's Program. Also see LITA blogpost for discussion.
- Avenues of Advocacy: Using Standards to Make a Difference by Carla Funk
- See it, Hear it, Touch it: How do Communication and Learning Styles Affect Virtual Reference Service? - Sponsored by RUSA RSS/MARS
- Paul Reveres or Benedict Arnolds: Whistleblowing in the Post-9/11 Age. Featuring Sibel Edmonds and Stephen Kohn. Sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Committee on Legislation. Also referenced on the OIF blog.
- Serving Transgendered Patrons: Addressing the Information Needs of Female-to-Male Transsexuals - by John Otto. Resources from workshop via the workshop link. Sponsored by GLBT Round Table
Tuesday, June 26
Library Day on the Hill - sponsored by ALA
Links to Multiple Day Archives
- Libraries Transform Communities presentations are stored on their own wiki
- Videos from AL Focus, the video home of American Libraries magazine
- AASL Blog posts about the conference
- ACRL programs at conference
- LITA Blog posts and podcasts from the conference
- PLA Blog posts from the conference
- YALSA blog posts on the conference
- YALSA's Annual Podcasts


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A new Dev Watercooler went up today and it addressed a topic near and dear to my heart, healing. Specifically, it told us some of the changes we can expect to see to the healing game in Warlords of Draenor.
The first topic brought up is about health and resilience. It's mainly related to PVP, so I don't really care. I do think beginning the Watercooler with this was a mistake, as it open it up to cries of "Waaah, PVE healing is being nerfed because of PVP" and "you're making healing too hard!"
Here's the problem with that argument. It's stupid. Okay, I'll explain more. Nerfs (and buffs) relate to class and game balance. If you overhaul all of healing – reduce effectiveness of spells for each class/spec, add cast times, try to make each healer think and plan more – no one is getting nerfed. As a Resto Druid, I'm not any worse off than the Resto Shaman who's seeing the exact same types of changes to their spells. People may not trust Blizzard to fix things correctly, but are they going to completely break the PVE game so no healer is capable of keeping their group/raid alive? No. They're not.
Let's move on to the changes that are being discussed.
Healer throughput will be toned down relative to the size of player health pools
…healers are able to refill health bars so fast that we have to make damage more and more "bursty" in order to challenge them. Ideally, we want players to spend some time below full health without having healers feel like the players they're responsible for are in danger of dying at any moment. We also think that healer gameplay would be more varied, interesting, and skillful if your allies spent more time between 0% and 100%, rather than just getting damaged quickly to low health, forcing the healer to then scramble to get them back to 100% as quickly as possible.
To me, this sounds fantastic. I know it's something that was tried before, but I'm glad Blizzard is giving it another shot. Hopefully it works this time. Health bars do get filled way too fast, and people spend way too much time at 100% health. Healing has turned into a very twitchy game, a contest of who can get those heals out first. As a Druid, the idea of people not being at full health very often is fantastic. I don't want my Rejuvenation to be 60% overheal anymore, I'd love for it to do more effective healing. As a healer in general, I also really like this. I don't want to play whack-a-mole. I want healing to require some thought and planning. If a tank dies, I don't want it to be because I missed the 1 GCD that I could have healed her in between damage ticks. I'd rather it be because for the last 5 or 10 seconds I didn't prioritize or anticipate damage correctly, and I got too far behind to save them.
Additionally, we're toning down the power of absorbs in general. When they get too strong, absorption effects are often used in place of direct healing instead of as a way to supplement it.
Obviously absorbs create huge balance problems. It's nice that this is acknowledged, but we didn't get much detail about how this will be fixed.
We also took a look at healing spells that were passive or auto-targeted (so-called "smart" heals). We want healers to care about who they're targeting and which heals they're using, because that makes healer gameplay more interactive and fun. To that end, we're reducing the healing of many passive and auto-targeted heals, and making smart heals a little less smart. Smart heals will now randomly pick any injured target within range instead of always picking the most injured target. Priority will still be given to players over pets, of course.
I'm a bit torn on this. I think smart heals are a huge problem. However, I'm not sure that making them dumber is the answer. I'd rather see less smart heals overall and have the ones left be less efficient. On the other hand, having my Wild Growth target a person at 70% health instead of the person at 30% health will force me to use some targeted heals on them, which I think we need to do more of.
Another of our goals for healing in this expansion is to strike a better balance between single-target and multi-target healing spells. We've taken a close look at the mana efficiency of our multi-target heals, and in many cases, we're reducing their efficiency, usually by reducing the amount they heal. Sometimes, but more rarely, raising their mana cost was a better decision. We want players to use multi-target heals, but they should only be better than their single-target equivalents when they heal more than two players without any overhealing.
On the surface, this sounds good. However, thinking more about it, I see a problem. Earlier in the post they mentioned that they don't want players to be sitting at 100% health so often. If that's the case, multi-target heals should usually be hitting two or more players without overhealing, meaning they're usually better than their single-target equivalents, meaning there's really no decision to be made. I think that efficiency/mana costs will need to be adjusted even more if this has any chance of working.
Finally, we're removing the low-throughput, low-mana-cost heals like Nourish, Holy Light, Heal, and Healing Wave, because we think that while they do add complexity, they don't truly add depth to healing gameplay.
…we've increased base mana regen a great deal at early gear levels, while having it scale up less at later gear levels.
In theory, this should mean that we can't spend our mana willy-nilly in the last tier of the xpac. As long as they don't add in things like the legendary meta-gem to ruin it.
Less instant cast heals
Over time, healers have gained a bigger and bigger arsenal of heals that they can cast while on the move, which removes the inherent cost that movement is intended to have for them, while also limiting players' ability to counter healing in PvP.
Now this change does actually seem to be mainly about PVP. But, I think for many of the spells they mention getting a cast time (Wild Growth, Uplift, Word of Glory, Light of Dawn, Cascade, Divine Star, Halo) a side effect will be that these smart/multi-target heals are even less efficient, and encourage people to think before they use them. I do have a couple concerns with the spells they're giving a cast time to though. Giving Prayer of Mending a cast time seems unnecessarily punitive, as does giving a cast time to Wild Growth, a HoT. If they do this, I think WG needs a small instant heal component like RJ does, otherwise it takes too long after you decide to cast it for it to start ticking.
Overall, I'm impressed with the information they released and really hope that everything works out. I think a few of the points need some more thought in order to accomplish the stated goal, but I'm hopeful.
I think a major overhaul is just what the healing game needs. Right now it's about as engaging as swatting flies. Make mana matter, force us to make choices, let us use our whole toolkit without 1 or 2 spells making up the most of our healing. If they can pull it off, healing should be fun again.
The 80% of comments whinging on the watercooler post really boil down to this:


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Mom Took Cancer-Stricken Daughter from Hospital Because of Bill
(NEW YORK) -- The mother who took her cancer-stricken daughter from Phoenix Children's Hospital with a catheter still in her heart defended her actions, saying the hospital intimidated the family about paying the bill.
Surveillance video captured Norma Bracamontes walking out of the hospital with her 11-year-old daughter Emily on Nov. 28 at 10:30 p.m. along with a young boy.
Bracamontes said the hospital not only threatened her family, but they made threats to Emily as she battled leukemia.
"Emily, you're not going to go home cause your mom and your dad haven't filled all the forms, so blame them that you're going to be here stuck in the hospital," Bracamontes told ABC News, imitating an unnamed hospital official.
Bracamontes said in addition to the intimidation, the hospital provided insufficient care when her daughter became ill with the MRSA virus, which led to Emily's arm being amputated.
The Phoenix Children's Hospital released a statement to ABC News, saying, "Our policy is to provide services either free of charge or at a reduced amount to patients who are not able to pay for services."
In regards to the MRSA infection, the hospital said, "We steadfastly disagree with the assertions brought forth regarding the quality of care Emily received."
Emily and her family are back home in Mexico continuing her fight against leukemia, and she credits her mother with saving her life.
"She saved my life…she saved my life two times," Emily said.
"I know here in Mexico, I feel good because the doctors...love me so much," she added.
Police began a frantic search for the little girl after the hospital reported her missing on Nov. 28. Authorities and medical professionals feared the catheter in Emily's heart could become infected and potentially kill her if it was not removed by a medical professional.
A nurse supervisor called 911 when she realized Emily was missing and described how she was able to avoid detection.
"She was wearing a wig, which is not unusual. A lot of our cancer patients wear wigs," the supervisor said. "She wasn't wearing a wig when she went into the bathroom though and then she was wearing a wig when she came out and she was actually covering her right arm, the amputated arm."
Police said Bracamontes removed her daughter's IV before walking her out of the hospital in street clothes. The family left the hospital in a black van and disappeared.
Bracamontes' husband, Luis, was stopped by Border Patrol agents on Dec. 1 when he was trying to leave Mexico and drive into Arizona.
Luis, 46, told authorities that the family lived a "nomadic" life, and did not have a permanent residence, ABC News affiliate KNXV-TV reported. He also denied any involvement in removing his daughter from the hospital and provided "no valuable information" as far as the whereabouts of his daughter at that time, according to police.
Police who stopped Luis said he was a Mexican citizen with a U.S. Resident Alien ID card, and that the girl and her mother were U.S. citizens.
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Doc Pomus
One of the beating hearts in the music industry from rock's golden era -
Doc Pomus was a bonafide hit machine: "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment" and "Viva Las Vegas" are just a small sample of the anthems he wrote.
In the words of Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records' producer and co-owner, "If the music industry had a heart, it would be Doc Pomus."
Born Jerome Solon Felder in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on June 27, 1925, he is the author (or co-author) of some of the greatest songs in rock and roll history, including "This Magic Moment" (the Drifters), "Young Blood" (the Coasters, co-written with Leiber and Stoller), "A Teenager in Love" (Dion and the Belmonts), "Lonely Avenue" (Ray Charles) and "Save the Last Dance for Me" (Ben E. King). Elvis Presley recorded at least twenty Pomus originals, including "Little Sister" and "Viva Las Vegas." A range of artists whose varied ranks include blues giant B.B. King ("There Must Be a Better World Somewhere") and teen idol Fabian ("Turn Me Loose") also cut Pomus' songs.
Pomus got into the blues at the age of 15 through the message embedded in Big Joe Turner's "Piney Brown Blues." As Pomus said, "It was the transformation of my life." He began hanging out in Greenwich Village and eventually found his way to a club called George's Tavern, where he began singing. He became what he called a "college student by day, professional blues singer by night." To hide his singing from his parents, he changed his name to Doc Pomus. He began making records when he was 19, and he liked to say that he was the only white blues singer on crutches on either coast. Pomus had been stricken by polio at the age of six and was confined to crutches and a wheelchair.
He then started writing songs, and Gatemouth Moore recorded one of his compositions for National Records in 1946. When Herb Abramson and Ahmet Ertegun formed Atlantic Records in 1947, they hired Pomus as a songwriter. His style was earthy, full of street-corner soul and bluesy desire. He is credited with writing more than 1,000 songs, many with partner Mort Shuman.
In the last ten years of his life, he wrote some of his greatest songs, including "From the Heart," "Blinded by Love," "There Must Be a Better World Somewhere," "Prisoner of Life" and "The Real Me." He continued writing almost to the end of his life, working on a portable keyboard with Dr. John in his hospital room. As he said, "I'm doing the same stuff I always did. I'm acting the same way I always acted. The only difference is that now I talk about it. At one time I wouldn't express my opinions except to maybe my closest friends, because it wasn't cool to be that animated. Now I don't hold anything back. I really don't want to live to see a day where the space that I take up in the world is like some musty closet, some little broom closet somewhere. I want to be able to talk out—even if I'm wrong."
Doc Pomus died of lung cancer on March 14, 1991. That same year, he became the first non–African American recipient of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award. In 1992 he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2012 the biopic A.K.A. Doc Pomus was released. The film's cast illustrated Pomus' sphere of influence, with appearances by Dion, Gerry Goffin, Dr. John, B.B. King, Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Lou Reed and more. Doc Pomus is remembered not only as a peerless songwriter but also as a formidable personality and cheerful raconteur—one of the real characters from rock and roll's golden era.
Inductee: Jerome Solon Felder a.k.a. Doc Pomus (songwriter; born June 27, 1925, died March 14, 1991)


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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Hannah Anderson, the Southern California teenager whose alleged abductor authorities say killed her mother and brother, wiped away tears on Saturday at a memorial service for her slain family.
Some 250 people attended the service for Christina Anderson, 44, and her son Ethan, 8, at the Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church about 20 miles east of San Diego.
It was held two weeks after a multi-state search for Anderson, 16, and her suspected kidnapper, James Lee DiMaggio, 40, ended at a mountain lake in the Idaho wilderness, where an FBI agent shot and killed DiMaggio.
Police say that, before driving off with Hannah, the family friend-turned-abductor lured Christina Anderson and Ethan to his home in Boulevard near San Diego and killed them.
Their bodies were discovered on August 4 in the wreckage of the property, which DiMaggio is believed to have set ablaze with the aid of a timer.
"Ethan was a handsome little guy with spirit, the kind of guy you'd want for a son, a brother, a friend," the boy's great-uncle, Dave Braun, told those in attendance.
Braun described Christina Anderson as a "wonderful mother and friend" who was always ready to help people. "We will miss them forever and always think of them," he said.
The Anderson family lived in Lakeside near San Diego.
The slayings and kidnapping made national headlines and triggered one of the most widespread Amber Alerts in the history of the system used to notify motorists of a kidnapping.
DiMaggio and Anderson were photographed in his car at 12:10 a.m. on August 4, some 20 hours before DiMaggio's house went up in flames. Anderson later told NBC News in an interview that aired on "Today" that DiMaggio had picked her up the previous day from her cheerleading camp.
"Our prayers were answered for the safe return of Hannah and true justice was served that day by the FBI," Braun said. "Now we turn our thoughts to healing."
Authorities have not publicly discussed any possible motives for DiMaggio's alleged actions. Braun told reporters that DiMaggio had developed an apparent infatuation with the high school student that had made Hannah uncomfortable.
Braun noted that it was particularly troubling that his niece and great-nephew were killed by a close family friend.
"We are still shocked by that," Braun said. "We are concerned now about Hannah and how she'll recover from this."
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Can't seem to get enough Star Wars? Now here's a 15-inch altar at which you can worship, with ARTFX Kotobukiya statues of Yoda and Palpatine fighting and shooting sparks out their fingers at each other, and it'll only cost you $174.99. It's relatively big, with Palpatine standing 11 inches tall, but whatever that purple shit is coming out of their fingers, we really don't want to know. Not to worry, though, that scum is removable. Take the jump for a couple of closeups of the Forceful battle.
You'd think for all that money this model would come to you already assembled, but no. You still must snap together the sacred parts. You'll have to wait, too, because this glorious sculpture won't be available until next March. [Star Wars Shop, via The Uber Review]


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Manuella – Maamelten
Famous Lebanese restaurant
Location:Maamelten, Jounieh, Mount Lebanon
Price:Between 23$ and 40$
Review by Souad
Manuella is a famous Lebanese restaurant known for its generous menus and the quality of its food.
The restaurant is huge with an internal lobby and a seaside terrace. The mezze and grills are excellent, raw meat is really fresh, the seafood and fish menu is very varied. The service is like the big Lebanese restaurants' service, so sometimes you feel that it is too intrusive and sometimes not caring.
The restaurant is ideal for group dinners although the prices are above average – fish formulas: 30$ and grills formulas: 25$.Write a Review
Rich fish menu in addition Traditional Lebanese menu
Suitable for vegetarians. Serves alcohol.
Good to know
Has a terrace. Recommended for large groups and families.
On the maritime road of Maamelten, seaside.
3 Reviews
Mar 28, 2011 at 14:58It is a very interesting restaurant, very delicious food and fresh with good prices.
Oct 23, 2010 at 13:40Five stars.
Sep 12, 2016 at 21:52plz change the prices on the site of ta3mini site bcz ur add is 25$ for the grill menu & 30$ for the fish menu and that is not ur real prices inside ur restaurant
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Phone Number: 09 832 480 or 03 763 863
Website: http://www.manuellarestaurant.com/
Get there
On the maritime road of Maamelten, seaside.
See Also
La Pêche du Jour - Byblos(10 votes)
Lebanese fish restaurant on the beach
Dar l'Azrak - Byblos(10 votes)
Lebanese and seafood restaurant in an exceptional location
Mhanna sur Mer - Amchit(43 votes)
Famous Lebanese Fish Restaurant in Amchit
Challalat al Zarka - Baaklin(10 votes)
Traditional Lebanese restaurant in a special location
Diwan El Hassoun - Chabtine(27 votes)
Fine traditional Lebanese food
Kasr Fakhreddine - Broumana(3 votes)
High End Lebanese Restaurant with an Outstanding View


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BALTIMORE, April 21 (UPI) -- Matt Kemp highlighted a fifth-inning rally with a go-ahead RBI single Sunday, boosting the Los Angeles Dodgers over Baltimore 7-4 in interleague play.
Trailing 4-1 entering the frame, the Dodgers loaded the bases with none out against Orioles starter Jake Arrieta (1-1) and Mark Ellis chased him with a two-run single.
T.J. McFarlane entered and promptly delivered a score-tying double to Adrian Gonzalez.
That brought up Kemp (3-for-5), who lined a 2-0 pitch into left field, scoring Ellis with the go-ahead tally.
Ellis finished with three RBI and J.P. Howell (1-0) earned the decision after getting the last out in the fifth inning as Los Angeles snapped a six-game losing streak.
Arrieta issued five walks and a coughed up a pair of hits over four full innings for the O's.
Adam Jones went 2-for-3 with a solo homer while J.J. Hardy added a two-run single in the loss.


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