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I want to piggyback on the guest post by my friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, entitled Kamae. I think that in Shorin-Ryu (all the different branches) we have learned that there are no fixed positions, or kamae. When we move, we move. We do not take up certain postures.
However, if you were to look at a book showing kata photographs, it would seem that each movement of the kata is fixed. You punch and hold it. You block, and hold it. You kick, step down, and hold it. We take certain stances and hold our hands in certain positions -- at least it looks so in books.
But in actuality, the photos in a book are just snapshots. If a kata is made up on 1,000 photos, a book might only show 20. It is showing just the highlights. If the 1,000 photos were shown, it would take a whole book for just one kata. So we are only seeing 1 out of 50 photos.
These snapshots seem fixed, but really they are not. We hit and move, and block and move, and kick, and move. We move.
Have you noticed that most kata begin with the hands held down? I believe that this is to represent the most natural position. Usually, we do not walk around or stand with our hands held above our heads, or even at our chest level. Usually, our hands rest naturally.
I was working on a set of yakusoku kumite patterns for our dojo. I consulted my Sensei in Okinawa, Sensei Katsuhiko Shinsato, about the patterns. He recommended that they begin with the hands resting naturally on the thighs. He did not want the hands to be held up in a fixed postition.
Shinzato Sensei has also made the point that we must learn to be able to block from wherever our hands may be. If they are down by our thighs, we block from there. If they are crossed on our chest, we block from there. If they are on top of our head, we block from there. Wherever they are, we block from there. We do not adjust.
Of course, the same goes for striking, kicking, whatever. We move from where we are. From that point, we move directly into the block or strike. We do not waste time taking a position or pulling our hands back. The movement must be direct -- otherwise there is wasted time, and in that time you will be hit.
Imagine two people. One pulls his hand back before punching. The other one punches directly. By the time the first one pulls his hand back, the other one may already have completed his punch.
Using the koshi (whole body dynamics), it is possible to generate considerable power in a short distance. So blocking or striking without pulling back or taking a fixed position is possible.
If a person takes a fixed position -- this is very important -- there is moment, a split second, when he cannot move. In his mind, he is moving to a fixed or rigid position. He is not zig zagging -- he is moving to a certain position. If you know this, you can attack at that moment.
And if you do this (take a fixed position), the attacker can attack you at that movement.
When an attacker stands in front of you with his legs open, I like to tell my student to "make a wish". This refers to what you say when you break the wishbone at Thanksgiving and other family events. If a person is dumb enough to stand in front of you with his legs open (an unintended kamae probably), you should just kick him in the groin as quickly and as hard as you can. It is like breaking the wishbone... "make a wish."
As Nakata Sensei mentioned, taking a kamae telegraphs your intention. It also shows that you know some form of Karate. A skilled Karate person will be able to gauge your ability by your composure and the type of kamae you take. You will be giving away something.
Think about wild animals attacking a prey. Once a lion charges, it takes no fixed position until it has the prey firmly in its jaws. It is just a blur of motion.
Actually, animals only take fixed positions in mating rituals. Otherwise, they move quickly to attack or escape.
Why have fixed positions become so common in Karate? I think that there are several answers, including:
- Tournaments. Competitors are judged by the perfection of their positions rather than the effectiveness of their movement.
- Books. The photo thing.
- Fighting. Many modern instructors do not know how to fight and think of Karate within the arena of Karate movements and rules, rather than street attacks with no rules.
- Movies. Fixed positions look cool to the audience.
- Magazine covers. Same as movies.
In fact, that is the main thing -- to be able to move freely. Once we accomplish the block or strike, we have to move into the next technique or escape. There is no time or use for posing.
In the words of the great movie Talladega Nights (paraphrasing it), we have to learn to "come at you like a Spider Monkey!"
We have to learn to move freely. This also requires that we can think freely. A fixed mind leads to fixed positions. Rigid thinking leads to a rigid body. A relaxed, free mind, leads to a relaxed, free body.
No fixed positions (kamae), no fixed stances, no fixed responses. Without hesitation or conscious thought, we have to be able to move appropriately and directly. It is like turning on a light. There is no perceptible gap between the light leaving the light bulb and striking the floor.
I have thought of another analogy. Think about an Olympic swimmer. He takes a fixed position at the start and he reaches out to touch the wall at the end of the race. In between there is only motion, no fixed or rigid positions. The same goes for sprints and other races.
Is Karate any different?
Charles C. Goodin


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Beyond the door material, another important decision is determining whether a more sophisticated door system is required for the application. In the MasterFormat section 08 30 00, Specialty Doors and Frames, a number of door types are listed for special functions, access locations, sliding and folding hardware, and even pressure-resistant types. Among these, there are several mentioned by Building Teams for consideration today:
• Pivoted or hinged doors. Both pivots and hinges can be used interchangeably, although hinged, prefabricated doors are generally less expensive. The presentation of the door types is the key factor. A hinged door typically reveals a knuckle spanning 4½ inches, while a pivot door's profile is much smaller, with a 1½-inch knuckle. (Means Illustrated Construction Dictionary defines a door knuckle as "one of the enlarged, protruding, cylindrical parts of a hinge through which the pin is inserted.) The pivot door also offers a higher level of durability, making it a common choice for commercial applications.
• Balanced doors. Ideal for windy climates, a balanced door is a more sophisticated, engineered system for exterior entrances. "The balanced door system is a complete assembly where the hanging and closing of the door is controlled by the door system, negating some of the effects of excessive wind conditions," says Jim Berg, a veteran door systems consultant.
If a balanced door isn't in the budget, then pivoted or hinged doors need to be designed with higher opening and closing forces, as more of the door leaf is exposed to the wind.
• Automatic and revolving doors. Automatic doors are commonly used to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or simply to handle highly trafficked entrances, as in hospitals and grocery stores. Because the price difference between automatic and revolving doors is substantial, revolving doors are usually reserved for buildings with significant weather requirements.
Revolving doors can also be helpful in mitigating the effects of strong negative and positive air pressures created by the HVAC systems and outdoor conditions, which cause wear and tear to a typical door. Consequently, the number of service calls is reduced with revolving or vestibule door systems.
According to Studio 08 Principal Rick Lewis, the most common type of revolving door is the single-post door. However, "Many of the airports are now using a type that allows more people to be in the door unit at one time, to move more traffic," he says. Today there are small, three- and four-wing models for lower-traffic applications, while the large, two-wing or three-wing automatic revolving doors are more common in retail centers, hospitals, and transportation centers.
In most applications, a low-energy power operator meeting ANSI A156.19 (Standard for Power Assist and Low Energy Power Operated Doors) is specified as an ADA-compliant installation. However, for industrial settings, a heavy-duty power operator compliant with ANSI A156.10 (American National Standard for Power Operated Pedestrian Doors) is used. The industrial types are often specified with a ramp and guides, as the doors generally don't stop and reset if a person or object enters the sensory field.
While the lower energy operators do stop and reset, this action can eventually wear down the mechanism. "Currently, manufactured units are considerably better than the ones that first came out 20 years ago," says Lewis. "However, an ANSI A156.10 unit requires a lot of maintenance because the door operator is used each time a person, cart, or motorized vehicle passes through the opening." Lewis says there is considerable power and momentum in the door as an operator is functioning, and "this causes not only the operators to receive a lot of abuse, but also the doors and frames."
While retrofitting ordinary doors into automatic doors can be difficult and expensive, there are cases where there is no way around the problem for certain types of buildings, such as churches, temples, mosques, and other religious institutions, which are now required by ADA standards to update their access points. +

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Ok, looks like I've joined the club finally and cracked my first rib kiteboarding.
Happened after my mystic warrior harness started to come somewhat loose in strong wind. Boosted big off a wave and came down hard doing a loop. Kept kiting after that. But realised it was cracked when I felt it move the next time I crashed.
Hurts not too bad. Vietnamese doctor had no real advice but just gave me some codeine tablets.
How long till the pain goes away? How long should I avoid kiting?


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Why Do Cats Knock Things Over? 4 Possible Reasons
No one really knows why cats seems so compelled to knock things over, but people who study feline behavior have a few ideas.
Cats are the most popular pets in the world (not counting fish because c'mon), yet they're not truly domesticated.
Historical evidence suggests cats first bonded with humans thousands of years ago after following humankind into the age of agriculture. Cats ate rodents and other pests that raided human pantries, and humans never minded the adorable volunteer exterminators, so it was (and is) a good situation for both species.
But no co-habitation is perfect. So we need to take into account the inherent nature of felines.
Modern day house cats aren't much different instinctually than their ancestors of a few thousand years ago. Cats are pound-for-pound one of nature's most efficient and ruthless land-based predators.
Cats can see in the dark, their ears can pick up high-pitched frequencies of rodent and bird sounds and their whiskers help them sense movement all around their bodies.
Cats can sprint over 30 mph. They have exceptional balance and flexibility. Their jaws and teeth are adapted to crush bones. The reason their claws retract into their paws—unlike those of a dog or a mouse—is to keep them super sharp, which is handy for climbing and murdering.
The point is, cats don't really need to lay around your house all day, but it is easier than killing stuff all the time. But given their instincts, it makes sense that when they're awake, those urges to exercise and kill manifest in some unpredictable ways.
So here are some of science's best guesses as to why cats must knock things over.
1. Cats Are Driven to Explore.
"Cats use their paws to test and explore objects, and the movement, sound and touch or feel of the object helps them understand what might be safe or not," says Adi Hovav, a feline behavior counselor with the ASPCA.
"Will this fall if I push it? Yup? Okay, neat."
2. Just Making Sure.
"Your cat's instincts tell her, 'That paperweight or knickknack could turn out to be a mouse," writes Dr. H. Ellen Whiteley.
And what does a mouse do when you prod it? It runs, and your cat gets a snack. But cats are also smart, so after a couple years, they probably understand your vitamin bottles aren't food. So what else?
3. How Will You React?
People tend to react when their best friend starts destroying their apartment. When your cat starts knocking over your stuff, you pay attention to it.
"Cats are incredibly adept at finding ways to manipulate what they want," says certified animal behavior consultant Amy Shojai, "which often comes down to: Look at me, feed me, play with me."
If you make a point to give your cat some exercise and attention every day, he might be less inclined to smash up the place.
Many cat behaviorists suggest ignoring some of your cats more destructive attempts to get your attention to remove the attention incentive.
4. It's Fun!
Cats are pretty mysterious and there's a lot we don't know about them. So try knocking something over with them. Maybe knocking stuff over is fun?
No, of course it's fun!
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Maldonado racks up another penalty point
Pastor Maldonado racked up his fourth penalty point on his superlicence at the Spanish Grand Prix after his collision with Caterham's Marcus Ericsson.
Maldonado clashed with Ericsson at Turn 11 early in the race and was given a five-second stop-go penalty at his first pit stop. The stewards also gave him another penalty point, bringing his total to four after the three he picked up in Bahrain for crashing into Esteban Gutierrez. Twelve points within a 12 month period adds up to a single race ban, meaning Maldonado has used a third of his points after just a quarter of this year's season.
"Today's result is a bit disappointing but my race had been already compromised by starting at the back the grid," Maldonado said, referring to his crash in qualifying. "At least we saw the chequered flag and collected more data for the team to keep on developing the car.
"We made a step forward in terms of pace with the car this weekend, it was much more competitive than 15th but the lack of top speed meant we weren't able to attack even if we had a quicker car than others around us. We need to keep working on that and to be faster on the straights."


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But today I want to catch up on all my crafty shares that have been happening around the place.
Ok first.
Here is my latest layout for 7 Dots studio.
I have so many bits and pieces or scrap paper, my favourite stamps etc floating around my desk at the moment as I am struggling with time. ( Building a house, sporting commitments and a new job will do that!) So i challenged myself to use all these bits and pieces up in a layout and this is how I came up with this layout!
I love how I can mix and match my favourites from all the 7 Dots lines and come up with a fun bright layout like this! You can find all the products and details on the 7 Dots studio blog.
The next thing I would like to share is the latest challenge over on the Words and Paintery challenge site.
LOVE this colour combo!!! I thoroughly enjoyed doing this layout!!
So head on over and give it a go!!
Next is the latest creation for 2 Crafty chipboard!
Another layout of Maya's crazy faces! Lots of colour this time creating a background as I have before with water colour pens and some water.
For all the details and products used visit the 2 Crafty blog!
Ok I need to go get messy and meet some deadlines . Thanks again!


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Head trauma awareness up, but many NFL players are tuning it out
When the NFL and the NFL Players Association completed their 10-year labor deal last year, they agreed to commit more than $100 million over its duration to medical research, primarily that of brain injuries.
Since NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was questioned at congressional hearings in 2009 about the league's approach to concussions and whether head injuries in football can be linked to brain disease, the league has toughened its standards and improved its methods for diagnosing and treating concussed players.
There are campaigns by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin about awareness, and even Hall of Fame safety Ronnie Lott is a spokesman for the league's cause.
Concussion awareness has never been greater in the eyes of the NFL. But the win-at-any-cost culture of among most players seemingly still exists.
Despite the potential long-term effects of repeated blows to the head, players are loathe to take themselves out of a game for medical precautions.
• Steelers safety Ryan Clark suffered two concussions in a 15-day span — and didn't miss a game.
• Teammate Troy Polamalu has been diagnosed with "eight or nine" concussions over his career but told "The Dan Patrick Show" during the offseason that he lied about having concussions in the past. "Yes, I have, for sure," Polamalu said, noting that he has chosen to play injured despite the team's medical staff advising him otherwise.
• Steelers linebacker James Harrison has estimated he had a dozen unreported concussions during his career.
• San Francisco quarterback Alex Smith stayed in the game for several plays after he suffered a concussion against St. Louis two weeks ago.
• The next night, Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler played seven snaps after his concussion.
• Steelers running back Isaac Redman was diagnosed with a concussion during last week's game against Baltimore and said he was "woozy" as late as Tuesday. He passed a concussion test and was on the practice field the next day. He was cleared a day later and will be on field Sunday against the Browns.
• Chicago linebacker Brian Urlacher said recently he would cover up a concussion if it meant staying on the field.
"There's a lot of risk, but there's a lot of reward in (football)," Clark said. "You can provide a great life for your family. You get great relationships. We get paid well. But you know there's going to be some risk to it, especially if you play the way that I play it."
'Why would you tell?'
One hundred and 58 players are on the season-ending injured reserve list but only five because of concussions, with the biggest name being Detroit running back Jahvid Best.
Yet there are 14 players on this weekend's injury report with concussions. Five are listed as probable, and two of those are expected to play Sunday and have not missed a game.
Last week, Sporting News released the results of a survey of 103 players from 27 teams that asked whether they would hide concussion symptoms to stay on the field. Fifty-six percent said yes.
Former Steelers running back Willie Parker said it's a similar mentality today as he played from 2004-09.
"For me, it was the team first," said Parker, who signed with the Steelers as an undrafted rookie free agent and fought to beat out a future Hall of Famer (Jerome Bettis) and a notable free agent signee (Duce Staley). "That's how I looked at it. You don't want to let your brother next to you down."
Will that mentality change?
"Not if you have any fight in you," said Parker, who broke a leg toward the end of the 2007 season and never was the same. "You have to have fight in you, hunger in you and that dog in you. If you get a concussion, why would you tell? Why would you say something?"
Pressure to play
Steelers rookie running back Chris Rainey was knocked to the ground by Indianapolis' Jerraud Powers during a preseason game and was forced to undergo a series of sidelines tests.
Rainey returned to the field a quarter later.
He said he probably wouldn't have let on he was hurt had he not been forced to sit, per NFL rules that state a player requiring medical attention on the field must miss at least one play.
"I would have gone to the sideline, shaken my head and gotten ready for another play," Rainey said.
Even with all the knowledge available about concussions, many players insist they would rather suffer a concussion than a knee injury.
"If it isn't something really serious to the point I can't stand up, I don't see a reason why I would take myself out of the game," Steelers running back Jonathan Dwyer said.
Urlacher was more blunt.
"A knee injury puts you out for a season. A concussion you may miss a game or two," Urlacher said. "Huge difference."
Urlacher, an eight-time Pro Bowler, is established enough not to have to worry about job security if he has to sit out a couple of weeks.
"Me, personally, I wouldn't want to be sitting down," said Parker, who didn't have that luxury early in his career. "Once you sit down, you let somebody else come in and get their shot, and I am not about to do that."
Redman, in a three-way battle for playing time with Dwyer and Rashard Mendenhall, disputed that he feels a need to rush back.
"I don't feel pressure at all," he said. "If I am healthy, I am going to play. I don't feel like I am going to be sitting on the sidelines if I don't get out there in time."
Some people's symptoms go away quickly and others linger.
"Everybody is different," said Penguins center Sidney Crosby who missed 101 games after suffering a concussion. "Even when I was skating during the playoffs (in 2011), I was still dealing with dizziness. But some people just don't get symptoms that bad."
The NFL has a stringent concussion protocol that players must pass before being cleared to play.
The ImPACT test is a computer-based program that measures mental and memory agility in addition to reaction speed and recognition skills. It takes players through various tasks such as word identification, design memory, Xs and Os, distractor tests, symbol matching and color matching, and letter memory.
The NFL mandates players take a baseline test at the beginning of the season so doctors have a comparison for a later date, if needed.
'A different perspective'
Steelers tackle Max Starks may be in the minority when it comes to concussion awareness.
Starks' wife, Dr. Tiffany Calloway-Starks, is a physiatrist — a nerve, muscle and bone expert who treats injuries or illnesses that affect how a person moves — at UPMC and has worked closely with people suffering traumatic brain injuries.
"I have a different perspective compared to some of the other guys," Starks said. "It is not about right now but down the line. There are years to go, especially if you plan on playing longer in this league. Quality of life is really an important thing. With all the information out there now, it is hard to say that you are just going to play through it."
Starks is part of the NFL Players Association's Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury committee that was formed to raise awareness of head trauma.
Starks has taken his role on the committee and applied it to his teammates — especially if someone is not disclosing concussion-like symptoms.
"I would really be upset if I found out somebody was withholding that," Starks said. "A concussion means to me that you are punch drunk and out of it. I had one in college, and I remember sitting through that ImPACT test and not being able to focus. I couldn't imagine playing this level and having those types of symptoms."
So Starks keeps an eye out when it comes to his teammates, even if that means glaring at them in a meeting.
"If (someone) is sitting in the meeting and rubbing his head and trying to look at the playbook, that it is a dead giveaway," Starks said. "That is when you have to be a good teammate. I keep an eye out for that. The onus is now on us as teammates as well to report if a guy is symptomatic."
Starks said he never came across a teammate who withheld concussion-like symptoms with the Steelers.
"In this locker room, it is that important because we had so many guys affected by concussions that you have to take it seriously," Starks said. "When you have prestigious (Steelers) alumni who had the detrimental effects, you can't take it lightly."
Mark Kaboly is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Intelligence experts estimate that only 20 percent of a person's success is attributed to IQ but that as much as the entire remaining 80 percent may be a direct result of what has become known as EQ, or emotional intelligence. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer who are believed to have first coined the term "emotional intelligence," define it as "a subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others, feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions." People who have a high EQ exhibit the following:
- Impulse control
- Problem solving skills
- Empathy
- The ability to self soothe
- Delay gratification
- Self motivation
- Read other people's emotional cues
- Self esteem
- Adaptability
- Resilience
- The ability to identify, express and understand feelings
The Benefits of High EQ
According to Lawrence Shapiro, PhD, the author of How to Raise a Child with a High EQ, "having a high EQ may be more important to success in life than a high IQ as measured by a standardized test of verbal and nonverbal cognitive intelligence." Children who have high EQs achieve better academically, have fewer temper tantrums, are better problem solvers, are less impulsive, have better attention spans, are more motivated, healthier and are more well liked. The great news about EQ, it that parents are the greatest influencers of high EQ. Children learn most of their emotional lessons from their parents and there is a lot parents can do to increase their children's EQ.
5 Things Parents Can Do to Increase EQ
- Pay attention to your child's cues, starting from birth. Studies show that infant's whose caretakers don't pay attention to their cues have difficulty developing the ability to regulate their emotions. If for example a mother with post partum depression is too depressed to respond to her child's cues, that baby might give up on crying to communicate and instead become passive and disengaged. Without a parent's help learning how to calm herself down, she may not learn effective calming skills.
- Teach self calming skills. An anxious baby cannot take in social cues from those around him. An anxious child cannot learn in school or make friends. Children look to their parents to gain these soothing skills. It starts out with parents holding, rocking, talk to and singing to their child to help them calm down. As children get older the skills become more complex. When my daughter Quincy was about 18 months old she went through a period when she was waking up and having trouble calming herself back to sleep. Every night before she went to sleep I would talk to her about "The Plan." I told her that when she had trouble sleeping that she should turn to her paci, her piggy (a stuffed animal) and her blanket. I made these suggestions based on things I had seen work for her previously. The plan became so ingrained that sometimes she would start to cry and the remind herself out loud, "paci, piggy, blanket."
- Help children understand and identify their emotions. For young children, intense emotions can be scary and overwhelming. Identifying and labeling emotions can normalize them and allow kids to identify these responses in others which helps develop empathy. Believe it or not, studies show that the act of labeling an emotion can have a soothing effect on the nervous system which allows kids to recover more quickly from upsetting event. According to John Gottman, PhD author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, "This doesn't mean telling kids how they ought to feel. It simply means helping them develop a vocabulary with which to express their emotions."
- Reduce television viewing. The average child spends 38 hours a week watching television. According to Shapiro, "it is passive time spent in front of the TV that stunts the growth of EQ skills." Studies show that children who watch a lot of TV become more: desensitized to the pain and suffering of others, fearful, anxious and aggressive. Experts have found is that children who are frequently exposed to inappropriate images and messages are 11 times more likely to be disruptive, fight with family members, hit other kids, and destroy property. To make that statistic stand out even more, those same researchers claim that children who watched a lot of TV when they were eight years old are more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts as adults than their peers who did not watch as much TV. To add insult to injury, all that tube time is time not spent interacting with peers, developing social skills, or problem solving.
- Teach problem solving. The ability to solve problems is developed primarily from experience. Sometimes it is easier for parents to solve their child's problem rather than teach them how to do it in their own. Children start to learn to problem solve in infancy. When my daughter Mendez was 9 months old we were sitting together while she played with a ball. The ball slipped out of her hands and rolled away from her, just outside of her reach. My first instinct was to solve the problem for her and hand her the ball. But I held back and allowed her to solve the problem for herself. She ultimately crawled over to the ball stretching in a way she never had before and proudly showed me the ball. As children become more verbal they tend to need their parents to brainstorm problem solving ideas with them. The keys for parents is sending the message that every problem has a solution and having the patience to help children find their own age-appropriate resolutions.


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The Fine Arts Theatre, located in the Ferguson Fine Arts Center, is the main stage for our theatrical, instrumental, and vocal performances.
Each year, our curtain rises for a fall and spring play, Summerset Theatre performances, and a Children's Theatre performance. Our ensembles and community vocal groups, including The Royal Scots, The Chorale, The Youth Choir, and The Chamber Singers perform on this stage. Our instrumental groups, including the Big Band, The Concert Band, and The Orchestra also perform in the Ferguson Fine Arts Theatre.
The Ferguson Fine Arts Center has seating for approximately 400, including locations that are accessible to wheelchairs. An orchestra pit borders the theatre's stage. Theatrical events have reserved seating placement. A seating chart can help you locate your place. Instrumental and vocal events do not have reserved seating placement; seats are available on a first-come basis.
Every seat is a good seat in the Ferguson Fine Arts Center. The Ferguson Fine Arts Center upgraded its sound and lighting systems a few years ago. New speakers provide the truest sound. The lighting is more brilliant and expressive; improvements and additions provide more on-line instruments and the latest in control systems technology.
Our guests can enjoy cookies, punch, and coffee during intermissions at most of our events. These are available for a free will offering.
In addition to the theatre, the costume shop, the make-up room, and the technical backstage area, the Ferguson Fine Arts Center is also home to The Highland Gallery, graphics design lab; drawing, painting, and pottery classrooms, as well as a computerized piano lab, instrumental music rooms. The Box Office and fine arts faculty offices are also located in the Ferguson Fine Arts Center.
A parking lot with nearly 300 spaces is located just outside the Ferguson Fine Arts Center. Maps and directions to the Ferguson Fine Arts Center can help visitors find their way.
Box Office
Tickets may be purchased at the Box Office three weeks prior to the event. Get ticket information here. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. The phone number is 815.599.3718, and the email address is email@example.com.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Treadle Sewing Machine
10 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
That would be a good bit of history. It just seems like it was a part of our life forever. We learned to sew on it o- probably more exercise to it than just pushing on a foot pedal today. So glad you had Ann take pictures. This one is a treasure that I have never seen before.
- July 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Elizabeth said...
P.S. Pansy curtains are now gone. The little green metal box that held straight pins is in my sewing room - just as a memento, along with the big gob of beeswax that Mother would draw her darning thread through to make it stronger.
- July 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Louise Blood said...
This is a great picture, that sewing machine served us all well, and I am so glad for this picture. That is the same sewing maching we had in Ralston, isn't it? It was under the west window near Dwight's bed. Dwight and I sewed our first quilt blocks on it. I can still see Mother sitting at the machine sewing clothes, sewing different parts without clipping the thread and handing them to me to clip the thread between the pieces. She knew how to expedite the job withoug wasting time or thread.
I was fascinated with that gob of beeswax, and of course the pin box is a treasure, I'm glad they were both saved.
These pictures have been such fun. Any more?
- July 24, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Judy said...
Hi Louise! I am glad that you knew the sewing machine was at Ralston as well. Maybe it was like "Fiddler on the Roof". Might have been poor, but had to have a sewing machine.
- July 24, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Judy said...
Elizabeth, meant to comment about the beeswax gob. Why did we like to play with it?????
- July 24, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Elizabeth said...
It was soft and smooth - but it has become discolored over time. Thanks, Louise, for remembering Ralston. Wish we knew more of the story about how it came to be at our house. Things like that were hard to come by. Ralston was also the period when we finally got a small refrigerator, wonder of wonders.
- July 25, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Ann said...
The treadle sewing machine was like magic. Mother would sometimes let me sit on the floor and push the peddle with my hands. Steve and I also learned how to take the belt off the wheel so we (please note, I didn't do this by myself) could see how fast we could make the peddle go, then take our hands off and watch it keep going. Hemming dishtowels was my first sewing machine experience on this machine. And the old cabinet it sat in was wonderful - it even had drawers, and Mother could fold up part of the top, fold down another section, tuck the machine down in the cabinet and close the lid. Wish someone in the family still had it!
- July 25, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Ann said...
PS. I think I took these photos with the very small Brownie camera that had been left at home. And I don't think Judy posed for this one, I think I took it when she wasn't looking, that is until the monster flash bulb went off. The first camera of my very own was one Dwight and Velna gave me for High School graduation.
- July 25, 2010 at 9:49 AM
- Elizabeth said...
That very small Brownie camera was the Baby Brownie that was Dwight's first camera, that he gave to me - I must have acquired another camera to leave that one behind. Glad you had it.
- July 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Elizabeth said...
That very small Brownie camera was the Baby Brownie that was Dwight's first camera, that he gave to me - I must have acquired another camera to leave that one behind. Glad you had it.
- July 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM


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Cave Evil reviewed. I love it, it's one of my favorite games of the year. But I'm well aware that it's like telling folks that Ulver's black metal album "Nattens Madrigals" is a masterpiece while knowing full well that most people will think it's just a bunch of ill-produced, amateurish noise. It isn't going to be for everybody, and there are things about it that are willfully obscure or esoteric. Cave Evil is definitely not mainstream- it's pretty old fashioned in an Avalon Hill/SPI kind of way, the artwork would be regarded as crude by many (when in fact it's awesome and appropriate to the subject matter), and it's a fairly ruthless elimination game like Titan or Wiz-War.
Putting the black metal stuff aside, I still think it's a great game. It's like some long lost fantasy game from 1982, and I think that was exactly the design goal. There's more Gary Gygax in its creatures and concepts than Tolkien, and I really appreciate that.
Yeah, it's expensive. It's tough when you can get something like Drizzt or Gears of War for the same price and get tons of plastic toys. But for as much as I like both of those games, neither has the heart or the genuine "indie" spirit that Cave Evil shows. This is totally what I mean when I talk about bringing in new themes, new settings, and new influences. It's also a self-published, made-in-the-USA game with a very limited print run made by people who are totally passionate about both games and obscure music. Your $70 is buying something more precious than bubble gum machine figures.
F:ATtie member in good standing Geoff Englestein sent me a review copy of his new Z-Man title The Ares Project, I'm really looking forward to digging into it. Four sides that play very differently. It looks like a great concept
Why wasn't I paying attention to Eclipse before? That looks awesome.
On the Consoles
I'm on two Gameshark reviews this week, the console edition of Battlefield 3 and Cave Story 3D on the 3DS. I've already ranted about how fucking awful the single player game is in BF3, I'm playing multiplayer now. You can really feel the size of the maps with only 24 players in a game, as compared to the 64 the PC version allows. Cave Story is awesome, it's the same great freeware game that's been around since 2004 but the new artwork and graphics are great. The 3D is really well done. I still think this is one of the best of the retro platformers. It completely captures the tone of NES games like Goonies II or Blaster Master.
Arkham City is the best game of 2011. No need to prattle, just buy the god damned thing. A masterpiece.
On the Phone
Dang, Mage Gauntlet gets pretty hard. I've actually put it off and have been playing Rocket Cat's hook games instead lately, particularly Hook Worlds. It's the endless runner one, with four very different worlds to swing (and shoot) your way through. The gravity dwarf one is freaking hard.
Somehow I missed that Gunstar Heroes is on IOS. Sega had a sale this week and it was a buck, I couldn't resist. Of course the controls are horrible.
On the Screen
Wow, The Keep sure is a screwed up movie. I had not seen it since the late 1980s, mostly due to the fact that it's never been released on DVD. It does not, in any way, hold up. It is delirously 1980s, half of it looks like a freaking Ultravox video. MASSIVE lens flares, slow motion, "arty" angles, a Tangerine Dream score…it's supposed to be set in WWII, but it's pretty squarely occurring in 1983.
I won't spoil it if you haven't seen it, but it's about Nazis running afoul of something hidden in…The Keep. In some ways, it's kind of another take on the Golem story and it draws in a sort of Jewish revenge fantasy. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but neither does a young Ian McKellan made up to look like an old man. I think it was actually his first feature role. The weird ass cast also includes Scott Glen (sans his fishnet shirt and snake tattoo from Urban Cowboy), Gabriel Byrne, and Jurgen Prochnow.
But the real W.T.F. is that it's directed by Michael Mann, just a couple of years before he put Crockett and Tubbs on the beat and long before Heat and his other stylish dramas. You can totally tell, too. You can also totally tell that he should never, ever go anywhere near the director's chair of a horror film.
I like it, enough to have watched it twice in the past week…but it is really pretty terrible. Mayfair Games did a board game based on it, strangely enough, that Robert Martin (RIP) always talked about owning but we never played it. No, I never read the F. Paul Wilson novel.
Taking a break from the TV stuff to watch some good Halloweeny movies. Night of the Demon in particular. It's an _amazing_ horror picture directed by the great Jacques Tourneur. The Aleister Crowley-like cult leader in it is one of my favorite characters in the horror cinema. He's so subtly diabolical, yet he's very much a slave to the dark forces he deals with.
On Spotify
I figured that since this is the Cave Evil review and that some of you might wander into the game without having any idea how to distinguish Burzum from Mayhem, I put together a little primer playlist. There's some old stuff and some new stuff on there. I just heard the last track, off the new Wolves in the Throne Room record, last night. Awesome album, one of the better BM releases I've heard in a while.
Emperor- I am the Black Wizards
Celtic Frost- Return to the Eve
Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger
Satyricon- Dark Medieval Times
Ulver- I Troldskog Faren Vild
Bathory- Call from the Grave
Mayhem- Necrolust
Burzum- Lost Wisdom
Furze- Zaredoo Knives Endow thy Sight
Watain- Black Salvation
Deathspell Omega- Drink the Devil's Blood
Mortifera- Le Revenant
Leviathan- A Bouquet of Blood for Skull
Enslaved- Jotunblod
…And Oceans- Aquarium of Children
Krohm- I Suffer the Astral Woe
Drudkh- Furrows of Gods
Negura Bunget- I
Wolves in the Throne Room- Subterranean Initiation
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November 8, 2012, Erma Naomi Lee Brown was received into the arms of her loving Savior, Jesus Christ. Erma was born June 17, 1918, in Round Valley, to Edgar and Bertha Lee. Erma was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Emily Holcomb; and granddaughter, Dr. Robyn Lee Rairigh. She is survived by husband, Harold Brown; four children, Sharon (Robert Rairigh) of Gering, Terry (Ann) Brown of Hawaii, Charlene (Phil) Severson of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Ted (Kathy) Brown of Littleton, Colo.; grandchildren; sister, DeVohn (Leo) Peterson of Nebraska, and numerous nieces and nephews. Erma was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She was extremely proud of her 12 grandchildren, 22 (soon to be 24) great-grandchildren, eight (soon to be nine) great- great-grandchildren.She graduated from high school in Broken Bow. Erma married Harold Brown March 20, 1940. She enjoyed ranch life before moving to Cheyenne in 1954, where Harold and Erma acquired the Twin Chimney's Motel, and Dairy Twist Ice Cream. Her love and work ethic were an example to her children, grandchildren and brought the entire family closer together. Erma was always charitable and never turned away a hungry stranger or someone that needed a roof over their head.Being Norwegian, she was proud of her heritage and passed along the recipe for Lefse that was famous among family and friends. Grandchildren have fond memories of her butterhorns, "pigs-in-a-blanket", and sugar cookies. Erma would often recite from memory, even at age 94, poems that she memorized from school. She was a great whistler, yodeler, and always sang while she worked, often from dawn to midnight. She loved camping and fishing trips with her family.Erma was a devoted Christian and her love of the Lord was conveyed by the way she lived her life. Her favorite scripture was the 23rd Psalm.Memorials may be made to Community Christian School, 511 W. 14th St., Scottsbluff, NE., or Billy Graham Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28201-001.A celebration of life service was Nov. 12, 2012, at the Evangelical Free Church, under the direction of Wiedersphan-Radomsky Chapel.Published in Custer County Chief, Nov. 15, 2012


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Amsterhammer wrote:Red Rick wrote:I agreer with Bigmac here. I think it kinda hurts spontaneous discussion.
Which is exactly what your ill-judged and pointless intervention achieved today. I treated this topic with some disdain till today, but if your action is part of the new regime around here, rather than just an individual aberration, I can guarantee a further exodus of sensible, rational posters who choose not to be treated like little kids, especially not by a brand new mod.Maarten's life may be a fascinating subject, but it's not the topic of the thread, so let's discuss Babes on Bikes shall we?
"Get a life" is not something that needs to be edited out c.q. 'censored'! It does not constitute an invitation to a discussion about that person's life, or to a fight. It is an expression, no more. Giving me a 'warning' for the expression "get a life" leaves me speechless.
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Remember last December when the NFL Network crew screwed up and put Derrick Mason's headshot on Roy Williams of the Cowboys' name? (here is our post showing it in case you forgot)
Well, it seems that D-Mase was so caught up in all the hype surrounding the Favre vs. Packers matchup tonight, that he just couldn't stay away, as he is moonlighting this season as not Roy Williams, but as former Raven Derrick Martin.
Hopefully Mason can get some inside information on the Packers and Vikings, two teams on the Ravens' schedule later this season.


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Deus Ex: Human Revolution movie signs Sinister director -report
Sinister, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Dickerson will head up the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution film.
Deadline reports CBS has signed Derrickson both to direct and write the script, assisted by C. Robert Cargill, who also co-wrote Sinister.
"Deus Ex is a phenomenal cyberpunk game with soul and intelligence. By combining amazing action and tension with big, philosophical ideas, Deus Ex is smart, ballsy, and will make one hell of a movie. Cargill and I can't wait to bring it to the big screen," Derrickson said.
The two are said to have played the shooter RPG start to finish before agreeing to meet with producers.
Deus Ex has not been dated. The film is being produced by Roy Lee (The Incident, How To Train Your Dragon) and Adrian Askarieh (Hitman, upcoming Kane & Lynch) will produce, with John P. Middleton as executive producer.
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Undisputed Facts Show Chevron Guilty of Environmental Crimes in Ecuador Rainforest
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8 March 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Karen Hinton at +1.703.798.3109
Quito, Ecuador – The Ecuadorians, who recently won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for massive oil contamination in the Ecuador rainforest, said today undisputed facts clearly show the company guilty of environmental crimes that resulted in the destruction of once pristine land and water and direct harm to the health of the area's 30,000 residents.
Karen Hinton, the U.S. spokesperson for the Ecuadorians, said, "Chevron wants to make this case about anything other than the undisputed facts that it intentionally dumped 18 billion gallons of hazardous water into the rainforest and built over 900 unlined pits to permanently store pure crude and production water – a toxic brew that continues to leech into the soil and water today.
"An appellate court of three judges reviewed the lower court's findings and upheld the judgment in its entirety, finding Chevron guilty of environmental crimes. It is now on appeal to Ecuador's national court. Meanwhile, we have a legitimate judgment we will enforce. Those are the facts."
When evidence began pouring in against Chevron, the company began accusing the Ecuadorians and the courts of fraud, even though Chevron fought in U.S. court to have the trial litigated in Ecuador citing the fairness of the country's court system. See this report that provides expert opinion on Ecuador's court system.
Long before Chevron's charges surfaced, the Ecuadorians had accused the company of numerous instances of judicial misconduct: manipulating contamination samples by undercounting hydrocarbons, using inappropriate testing methods, testing far away and uphill from the well sites for toxins, and delaying the trial with abusive testing practices.
The Ecuador courts noted these abuses and also found that Chevron oversaw a fraudulent remediation in 1995 that encouraged residents to build homes on top of and near oil pits that they thought had been cleaned by the company. Testing during the trial found that soil and water samples from the so-called "remediated" pits were just as toxic as samples from pits that had not been cleaned.
"Chevron knowingly put these people in greater danger to their health and lives by not confessing the company had simply thrown dirt over the pits instead of cleaning them properly, as required by the agreement," said Hinton.
The three appellate court judges also were clearly outraged at the oil giant's abuse of the judicial process during the trial. They noted Chevron had "staged incidents that encumbered the process of the trial" and that it dumped 20,000 pages of largely redundant evidence on the appellate court to delay consideration of the case. The plaintiffs have long accused Chevron of trying to undermine the trial by filing frivolous motions and trying to intimidate judges.
Among the key findings by the panel, which reviewed the voluminous trial record of 220,000 pages for 11 months:
In response to Chevron's complaints that it was "denied justice" in Ecuador, the appellate court noted on the second page of its decision that the only filings from the oil giant that were denied were those that were "abusive" and "clearly designed to obstruct the administration of justice." For example, Chevron once filed 18 similar motions in the trial court in a 30-minute period, and tried to have the judge removed when he did not rule on them fast enough.
The court found that Chevron's requests for proof that it needed to defend itself – including the tedious task of conducting 36 judicial inspections of the company's former well sites – were "processed without exception." It found that "hundreds of thousands of documents submitted by Chevron bloated the trial record with everything it considered relevant."
Referencing Article 283 of Ecuador's civil code, and citing a long list of examples of Chevron's malfeasance during the trial, the appellate panel upheld a decision that Chevron should pay the costs of the plaintiffs due to the "flagrant bad faith it exhibited in the case."


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Rumors abound that the next iPad is imminent, and that its screen will have four times as many pixels as the current one, giving it stunning crispness and true high-definition capability.
I don't want to talk about that. Rumors are rumors, and while they often end up being true, they're not true yet. So let's talk about something else with pixels: computer monitors.
When I set up an old desktop PC to record some music last year, I was suddenly in the market for a monitor — two of them, actually. For a while now, new monitors have only been available in a widescreen format. Their 16:9 width-to-height aspect ratio matches that of HDTVs.
Well, I didn't want that. An older 4:3 monitor would give me more vertical space to work; if I really wanted to stretch out horizontally, I could span my desktop across two monitors next to each other.
There are two measurements of size that matter: resolution and area. Comparing resolution is fairly easy; the specs on a monitor will tell you if it supports 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080, 1600 x 1200 or whatever. Multiply the numbers and you get the total number of pixels you have to work with. (Those amount to 921,600, 2,073,600, and 1,920,000, respectively, by the way.)
The other measurement monitors advertise is the diagonal size. Unfortunately, a widescreen monitor and an older, more "square" monitor might both say they're 19 inches. It takes a bit of middle school math, but it soon becomes clear that the 4:3 monitor has more area (about 173 square inches) than the fancier 16:9 widescreen (about 154 square inches). This makes intuitive sense if you take it to its logical extreme: a 1-inch-high monitor can still have a diagonal size of 19 inches but it won't have much area.
All of this is moot if you're not considering a used or refurbished monitor (or just one that's been stuck in a stock room for five years). Newer monitors do offer lower power consumption, better color reproduction and increased contrast ratios. In fact, LED monitors do all of that even better than LCD models. Usually, anyway.
Just like flat-panel televisions, LED monitors are really just a different kind of LCD monitor. It's only the backlighting that's different; traditional LCD screens use fluorescent lighting, while LED screens use, well, LEDs. It's not guaranteed that an LED monitor will perform better than an LCD, because fluorescent LCD screens are more mature and have had more tweaks and improvements engineered into them over the years. In general, though, an LED screen will use less power and just plain look better. And cost more. Duh.
One thing you do need to be careful about when you spot an LCD or LED monitor deal? The resolution. Bargain hunters will see a ton of 20-inch monitors out there for less than $100, but most of them are 1600 x 900. Not bad, but it's nice to have the option to step up to full HD, 1920 x 1080. You can either pay a bit more for a non-bargain 20-incher or pay a bit more for a larger size that also has greater resolution.
Or get a laptop. Or an iPad.
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Presidential debate transcript
Transcript of the Oct. 3, 2012, presidential debate at the University of Denver as prepared by the Commission on Presidential Debates with permission to re-publish:
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BROWN: We'd like to get started on the program that you will see unfold here before the debate actually starts in the next — slightly less than 30 minutes. My name is Janet Brown. I'm the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates. And I'd like to welcome you to the first debate of the 2012 general election season. We are very...
Go, Pioneers.
We're very grateful to be here on this beautiful campus, very grateful to the leadership of the university, to the entire community, to the city of Denver, to the state of Colorado.
My happy duty is to introduce some people that will thank a lot of the organizations and individuals who have been working for two years to make tonight possible. There are many of them, and their contribution is critical to what you will see unfold here over the next hour-and-a-half.
BROWN: I am going to start by introducing the co-chairmen of the Commission on Presidential Debates, Frank Fahrenkopf and Mike McCurry.
FAHRENKOPF: Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman. And welcome to this great city, this great hall, and this most important debate.
This is actually a very, very important time for the Commission on Presidential Debates because this is our 25th anniversary. It was in 1987 when then Democratic Chairman Paul Kirk, when I was chairman of the Republican National Committee, formed the Commission on Presidential Debates. Tonight is the 23rd debate in the general elections that we've conducted through seven terms, seven different cycles. So it's a very, very important — important time for us.
But it's also in one way a sad one for me, and that is that Paul Kirk is no longer the co-chairman of this commission. For most of you in this audience in Washington that you know, that when Ted Kennedy passed away, Paul was appointed and to serve in his seat until the special election was held in Massachusetts. And Paul at that time resigned.
But Paul was with us for 25 years. We know that he and Gail (ph) are sitting out on Cape Cod right now watching this on C-SPAN. And all of us on the commission, not only the members of the commission, but the people behind these cameras, the people backstage in lighting and the people with sound who have been doing this for 25 years, we miss Paul, we respect the great dedication he gave to this commission. And our best to him and Gail (ph).
It is also special because of the change in format that you're going to see tonight from what you've seen in the past 22 debates. The commission for a long time has wrestled with the question of how can we get more depth in discussion on the issues that are so important to the American people in making a decision who they're going to vote for.
And so the commission has proposed — and you will see it put in place tonight — 90 minutes divided into six pods, if you will, six sections of time, which will be covering six different subjects. And the moderator tonight, Jim Lehrer, focusing on domestic relations and domestic matters, will have the power to follow up and hopefully drill down and really give to the American people clear status from these two candidates of what they will do if they're elected by the American people on November 6th.
The same format will be held in the final debate, which will be held in Florida later this month. Bob Schieffer of CBS News will moderate that. And that focus will be on foreign policy.
We're also happy tonight to have with us in this audience four of the commissioners, members of the commission. I don't think we've ever had six of us together at one debate (inaudible). So I'm going to ask them if they would please stand when I call their name. The first, a former United States senator from the great state of Missouri, John "Jack" Danforth.
From the great state of Wyoming, former United States Senator Al Simpson.
From the state of California — and I've always got to look at Antonia's (ph) title, because she's been with us so many years, she's the president of the California Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Antonia Hernandez (ph). Been with us for many years. Welcome, Antonia (ph).
And the newest member of the commission, which means a lot to me, I have a daughter and a son-in-law who are Golden Domers, who graduated from Notre Dame, and we're happy to add to our list tonight Father John Jenkins (ph), president of Notre Dome — Notre Dame University in South Bend.
Now I have to lecture — I have to lecture first about these things. Please not only but them on silent running, turn them off. This hall will be dark as we go forward. And, you know, even if you're — you've got it on silent running and you turn it on, it flashes a light.
Hopefully we can live for 90 minutes without these things on. So please won't you join us, turn them off, keep them off, so that we won't interfere.
Secondly, this is not the primary debates, folks. And all the cheering that we just heard, we hope that we won't hear that anymore until the end of the debate. There are many people in this audience who really are part of history tonight, because you're here in person. But there'll be somewhere between 50 million and 100 million people sitting at home watching this, listening very carefully to the president and to Governor Romney, trying to make determinations as to what they're going to on November 6th.
FAHRENKOPF: It's wrong for us to intrude on them. So please, don't clap, don't cheer, don't make any noise. Jim Lehrer will talk to you again about this in a moment.
And we have a little surprise for those who don't follow the rules. This is a hockey arena, and what you don't know is we've built in secret trap doors under every seat. You can look down. You won't see it. But if you break the rules, a button will be pushed and you will be swimming with the fishes.
So please, very, very seriously, it's important that this be done in a way that we maintain the dignity of this event and we don't interfere with those people at home.
And now, my last chore is not a chore at all, but a great, great delight, to welcome the new co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Most of you will recognize him as the first press secretary in the White House for William Jefferson Clinton.
Mike, it's all yours, buddy.
MCCURRY: Thanks.
Thank you very much, and it's been great to be your partner in this. But I want to also send a special word to Paul Kirk, my former boss, someone who led this commission extraordinarily well. And it is a daunting challenge to follow in his incredible footsteps.
I also want to start by just saying we really have had a great time at the University of Denver, and I hope you have been, too. They are just incredible as partners and we could not have had a better facility, a better team to work with. So to the entire university community and all the folks at the University of Denver who have helped us, thank you very much on behalf of the commission.
There are a number of other organizations that have been absolutely key to us in helping put this on, make it a working space, and make it an enjoyable place for those who come here to participate in this debate. I want to start with Anheiser-Busch, who's been our partner since 1992. Thank you.
Southwest Airlines, which has helped us transport things around the country so all four of these debates can go off in a timely way; the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Sheldon S. Cohen, Crowell and Moring, the International Bottled Water Association, the Kovler Fund and many, many others. Please give those sponsors and the folks who help us a big hand.
Now, a little bit of information about how we put this broadcast on. You'll see so many cameras around you. They represent the major network organizations that together pool their resources so that we can bring this broadcast to the American people. And I want to spend a little bit of time tonight paying a special tribute to ABC News. It was their turn tonight to work with us, and all of the sound equipment and cameras that you see here are theirs.
ABC, thank you for doing a tremendous job for us.
And last and certainly not least, our friends at C-SPAN. This part of this debate program is being carried to the American people by C-SPAN so that my mother can see it. And so for our friends at C- SPAN, thank you very much for carrying this part of the debate to the American people.
Now, I want to — I also just want to add to what Frank said about the importance of turning your cell phones off now. Pretend you just got on the plane and they just said the door is closed and everything with an on and off button has to go off now. So just check and make sure that it's off. And just contemplate the pleasure — the sheer bliss of having 90 minutes that you don't have to text, tweet, or read an e-mail. Wouldn't that be nice?
And also — and also, as Frank said, very important that we do respect the television audience watching this debate and make sure that we refrain from interrupting what the candidates need to do and what the American people need to do as they hear the candidates, by disturbing this important occasion with applause or any other outward demonstration.
That's it for us, but lastly for me, the greatest pleasure of all — I've mentioned what a great partnership we've had with the University of Denver. And it's a great pleasure for me to introduce now a great friend of the commission, someone who's worked very closely and very well with us, the chancellor of the University of Denver, Robert Coombe.


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Some providers want to discourage their clients from running a server (mail, ftp, game or other) on their computer and therefore change the public IP address the user gets regularly. Other providers have fewer addresses than they have subscribers and therefore assign a random address to each user when he connects to the internet and assign that same address to another user after he disconnects. Both these processes are usually done by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server (DHCP server).
Some people want to run a mail, ftp or game server on their computer and for that software to run it is usually necessary to enter the public IP address currently assigned to the user into the configuration. Other people would like to use a remote desktop application and want to know what IP address to connect to from a remote location.
The currently used IP addresses (IPv4) look like four blocks of digits ranging from 0 to 255 separated by a period like "192.168.0.255".In the new schema (IPv6) addresses can be written in different ways:
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The Kansas City Chiefs are playing short-handed as they bid for their first two-game winning streak of the season.
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Wide receiver Dwayne Bowe left Sunday's 30-7 loss against the Cleveland Browns in the first half with a rib injury and never returned.
Running back Jamaal Charles also left the game with a rib injury, but he was able to return after initally being considered questionable.
Both players were off to huge starts. Charles had 123 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown, before initially leaving. Bowe had a 47-yard catch and a 23-yard catch in the early parts of the game. Bowe is a free agent after the season, and we'd be surprised if he returned to Kansas City.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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Royal Navy sailors given PSPs as study aids
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The Senior Service has begun issuing PlayStation Portables to its sailors in an attempt to make them... er... study.
Under the PSP-per-sailor scheme – conceived at HMS Collingwood, a maritime warfare school in Hampshire - the handheld console will used by Navy personnel for reading coursework on while away at sea.
As part of a trial into the scheme's effectiveness, an unspecified number of marine warfare engineering technicians have already received PSPs - according to a report by The Times. Each handheld console is preloaded with study packages designed to be read for up to 12 minutes at a time.
Sailors will be free to kick back with a videogame once they tire of studying, though, because the report added that naval chiefs decided against disabling the PSP's disc drive.
If the trial is successful then greater numbers of sailors in other areas of the Navy may receive the Sony console.
How much the Navy is spending on the handhelds isn't known. Perhaps, should the scheme be extended, it will follow in the British Army's footsteps by advising soldiers to ask their families for e-book viewers instead of iPods at Christmas. ®


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Must Do's: The Rotorua Escapade Pass
Experience Rotorua's best attractions and activities with the convenience of the Rotorua Escapade Pass tour!
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The Rotorua Escapade Pass will get you in to some of the cities most popular activities and attractions. This drive your self experience includes:
Paradise Valley Springs OR Rainbow Springs
Paradise Valley Springs is the only place in New Zealand where you can get up close and pat a Lion Cub! Visitors can also meet and interact with other friendly farm animals, such as Alpacas, Goats, Deer, Thar, and Wallabies, and spot native New Zealand birds. Or you can make a visit to the Rainbow Springs Kiwi & Wildlife Park which ish ome to a huge variety of New Zealand's most precious inhabitants, such as the rare Kiwi bird, prehistoric Tuatara, and Kea. Rainbow Springs also has the new Big Splash water ride for adrenalin seekers, which takes you on a journey through the evolution of New Zealand. Watch out for the dinosaurs!
Agroventures OR the Zorb
Agroventures is one of New Zealand's top adventure playgrounds with five rides that will get your adrenalin pumping and your heart racing! The Escapade Pass will get you on to any one of these rides: choose from the Agrojet - the world's fastest sprint boat, the Swoop - a 40 metre high swing, or the Schweeb, the world's first human powered monorail racing track. Or you can see the team at the Zorb and jump inside a 3.5 metre inflatabile ball where you're sent slipping and sliding and spinning down a massive hill, basically think a waterslide crossed with a rollercoaster!
Skyline Rotorua
Head up Mt Ngongotaha at Skyline Rotorua in a gondola and enjoy the stunning 180 degree panoramic views of Lake Rotorua and the surrounding region. Then head back down the mountain on the world famous luge! The Escapade Pass gets you 5 thrilling luge rides, so you can enjoy the scenic track, the intermediate track and even take on the more challenging Advanced track.
Polynesian Spa
The Polynesian Spa is consistantly voted one of the top spa destinations in the world and a definite must do when in Rotorua. With it's hot mineral pools and theraputic geothermal waters on the edge of Lake Rotorua, it makes for the perfect place to relax and unwind after a full day out and about.
Make the most of your time in our little city with a Rotorua Escapade Pass. It's a great way to experience the best of what Rotorua has to offer, saving you both time and money as you only pay one overall price rather than the individual entry prices. The pass also gives you total flexibility and no need to book ahead at the activities and attractions.
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Rotorua Travel NZ Ltd. is a privately owned business based in Rotorua, New Zealand, specialising in packaging attractions and activities into sightseeing passes- a one stop shop for you to offer the best of Rotorua sights and activities.


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"Rehab With Dr. Drew" Returns To VH1 To Directly Help Young Adults With Their Addiction Issues
For me, there are no finish lines. No recovered, just recovering. -- Bill Clegg, from Ninety Days
LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 -- VH1 and Dr. Drew has started production today on a sixth installment of "Rehab with Dr. Drew" to directly address alcohol and drug addiction among young adults, the largest group afflicted by addiction issues in the U.S.
According to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that an estimated 23.1 million American who were 12 or older needed treatment for drug and alcohol abuse that year, while only 2.6 million received treatment in a specialty facility. Another source, the 2009 Treatment Episode Data Set, which gathers information on persons admitted to publicly funded treatment programs, shows that the age group with the highest proportion of admissions was 25 to 29 years at 15.2 percent followed closely by the 20 to 24 years age group at 14.9 percent.
And in the sixth installment of the Celebrity Rehab franchise Dr. Drew once again takes viewers behind the closed doors of the rehabilitation process. From heartbreak to hope we follow Dr. Drew and his patients on their difficult and deeply emotional journey to sobriety. An often raw and unflinching look at the many faces of addiction, Dr. Drew shows us that rehab is not a glamorous spa vacation for celebrities as often portrayed in the media but a profound life changing process that offers hope for a better life. "Rehab with Dr. Drew," will premiere in September 2012 with eight one-hour episodes.
"Addiction is a disease that doesn't limit itself to celebrities but reaches across all economic, social and racial boundaries with lasting and profound effects of not only of the patients but also their families, friends and co-workers. Rehabilitation and sobriety on the other hand are an arduous lifelong journey," said Dr. Drew.
"Many of our young adult viewers have shared with us that Dr. Drew and our multiple seasons of 'Celebrity Rehab' has made them more aware about substance abuse. And a large number of them have asked for his assistance with their own challenges," said Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Production, VH1. "This season, the moment felt right to turn our focus from celebrities, to young adults who could benefit under Dr. Drew and his team's expert professional treatment. In some ways, we felt that stripping away the celebrity layer could reach even more viewers and touch them in a different way."
Dr. Drew is the host of the nationally syndicated late night radio show Loveline as well as a respected practicing MD, board certified in internal and addiction medicine, who is staff at Huntington Hospital and assistant clinical professor of KECK USC School of Medicine. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper Collins) and Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins.) Dr. Drew co-authored the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism that was published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier) in September 2006, and is the first systematic, empirical scholarly study of celebrity personality. Dr. Drew hosted VH1's "Sober House" and "Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew" and can be seen on MTV's "Teen Mom" and "16 & Pregnant." Additionally, Dr. Drew is hosting a new prime time show on HLN called "Dr. Drew."
Returning for their sixth seasons to assist Dr. Drew are counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague. Also returning this season is Dr. John R. Sharp, M.D. Dr. Sharp is a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. His expertise is in the integrated treatment of depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder, and addiction. Dr. Sharp has been recognized as Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of The Academy of Psychosomatic. He maintains an active private practice in Boston and Los Angeles. Jennifer Gimenez will also be back as a resident technician. Jennifer was previously seen on season 5 of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" and "Sober House" as the house manager.
For additional information about "Rehab with Dr. Drew" visit the official VH1 Rehab with Dr. Drew site at CelebRehab.VH1.com and on VH1 Mobile each week following the show's on-air premiere. Viewers can also find 'Rehab' updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/vh1 and on Twitter @VH1 with the hashtag #Rehab.
"Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" is produced by Irwin Entertainment. Executive producing for Irwin Entertainment are John Irwin, Damian Sullivan, Joel Rodgers and Rob Buchta. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Howard Lapides also serve as executive producers. Jill Holmes, Tom Huffman and Jeff Olde are executive producers for VH1.
VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 99 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, and extensive video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.


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After you epoxy the inserts into the foam of your board. How do you access them after you lay up your layers of glass? Do you need to drill through the glass? or is there a better way that has less risk of ruining the threads of the inserts.
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Luxury glasses designed and manufactured in Austria. The collection targets a particular group of people for whom their eyeglasses are precious accessories. Hand-made in Austria means that every frame has to go through a series of manufacturing steps and quality checks which turn every Andy Wolf product into a unique piece of handcraft. These frames not only stand for style and elegance but also make you completely forget that you are wearing glasses.
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Our exclusive Cultural Pass is your ticket to the Flynn Performing Arts Center, the nationally renowned performing arts center in the heart of downtown Burlington. The Flynn features jazz, hip hop, world music, dance, American roots music, Broadway tours and more. Visit the Flynn's Cultural Pass website to see the current schedule.
The Cultural Pass will allow you to attend more than 40 different world-class performances at the Flynn Performing Arts Center during the academic year. The Flynn Performing Arts Center, located at Main and Church streets in the heart of downtown Burlington's entertainment district, is a nationally renowned performing arts venue offering the best in jazz, hip hop, world music, dance, American roots music, Broadway tours and more. The Cultural Pass will give Saint Michael's students access to each event in the Flynn Performing Arts Center's regular season and additional Flynn Performing Arts Center presentations that are announced throughout the year for just a $10 student contribution per ticket. The balance of the ticket cost will be paid for by Saint Michael's.
As a Saint Michael's College student in good standing you will be automatically signed up for the Cultural Pass. The first time you order tickets, please allow extra time in case any issues or problems arise with verifying your account.
Your Cultural Pass entitles you to one ticket per qualifying Flynn Center production. That means, in theory, you could go to over 40 different performances over the course of the academic year.
Your Cultural Pass is good for one $10 ticket for each qualifying event for your own use. You are welcome to purchase additional tickets for friends or family at the regular ticket price at the time of your Cultural Pass ticket order. If you have friends or family that would like to sit together but are purchasing tickets individually, one of you should place the first order and make the Box Office agent who helps you aware of the size of your group. The Box Office will be able to hold adjacent seats for your group. You will be given the location of the seats and they can be held for 24 hours for your friends or family to purchase by visiting or calling the Box Office and mentioning the seat location. Please note however that seats cannot be held for purchase within three days of a performance. If you wish to purchase adjacent seats within 3 days of a performance you must order tickets at the same time - either by visiting or calling the Box Office together.
If you do not have a car, you can take a CCTA bus, which travels from Saint Michael's to downtown Burlington many times a day. You can ride the CCTA bus for free with your Knight Card.
Faculty may order tickets for their class on the College portal under Faculty Resources. Please submit your order at least two weeks before the event. The Flynn Box Office will hold a reservation for the number of tickets requested until one week prior to the event. At that time the purchase will be finalized and no tickets can be returned.
For more information about cultural pass guidelines, tickets for class requirements, rules and regulations, qualifying performances, ordering tickets, and the ticket return policy, please visit the Flynn's Cultural Pass website.


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Friday, January 21, 2011
The Oldest Cheerleader in the NFL..Anybody know?
Never Thought she would be the oldest cheerleader in the NFL at the age of 42. Her name is Laura Vikmanis. She decided to become one of the Ben-Gals Cheerleaders while attending a football game.
A little background about Laura V.
A mother of two daughters; Alexa - 12, and Lila - 14 Living in Springboro Ohio.
She earned her Bachelors in Dietetics and Food Administration from California State, Long Beach and works full-time as a dietician and personal trainer.
She's truly an inspiration to many people including me that we can make our dreams come true if we work hard for it and of course as long as you keep focus on your goal with effort and patience, you will achieve it.
My favorite quote goes with this;
"Expect the Unexpected"..hehe
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The cross bars are made from hardened steel to keep their smooth surface finish, so that tools move smoothly over the tool rest. The 4", 6" and 9" straight lengths are primarily for spindle work and the 9" S-shaped curves are for internal or external bowl turning. The scraper platform (4-1/2" x 1-1/4" x 3/8" thick) offers a machined reference surface with the necessary stability for scraping the insides of boxes. The threaded support posts complete the rigid tool support system; overall lengths are shown in parentheses.
If you have more than one lathe, you need extra posts only, since the heads are interchangeable with a common thread size of M12.
Made in England.
The 1/2", 1-1/8" and 30mm dia. Threaded Posts are not stocked at our retail stores but can be ordered for pick-up.


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The Murdochs pass their parliamentary trial
The biggest surprise for me, at the Murdoch hearings today, was the lack of political theater and crocodile tears of remorse. I was expecting a ceremonial piling-on — a group of politicians all jumping at a very rare opportunity to tell Rupert exactly what they thought of him, with the billionaire mogul just sitting there and taking the insults, reiterating over and over again just how very sorry he was about everything that has happened.
But that's not how it turned out at all. The politicians didn't grandstand nearly as much as their US counterparts are wont to do, and instead asked substantive questions. The Murdochs, for their part, spent more time blustering and denying knowledge of key events at key times than they did apologizing.
The defining moment of the hearing, at least until Rupert Murdoch got pied, was when Jim Sheridan asked him a straight question — "Do you accept that ultimately you are responsible for this whole fiasco?" Rupert certainly gave a straight answer: "No."
The message, repeated ad nauseam from both Rupert and James, was clear: they're very important people running very large businesses, and they simply didn't know what was going on far below them in the News Corp org chart.
I doubt anybody really believes it — not given Murdoch's longstanding reputation for being a hands-on micromanager where his newspapers are concerned. But in its own way, the Murdochs' decision to push back against MPs was a show of strength — a clear sign that they were going to fight rather than let this scandal bring them down. Their regular professions of ignorance even with regard to very important questions — whether News Corp is still paying Glen Mulcaire's legal fees, for instance — were carefully pitched to come across as stonewalling rather than incompetence. James Murdoch, in particular, were quite impressive in his ability to answer questions at length, in borderline-incomprehensible language. As Dan Sabbagh says, he "had facts, information, and answers so long you couldn't remember (or care) what the question was."
So I'm with John Abell on this one: the hearing felt more like the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end.
But the Murdochs are by no means out of the wood. For one thing, Rupert Murdoch promised that if he were legally allowed to, he would stop paying Glen Mulcaire's legal fees. That's big: Mulcaire has been hiding behind a very expensive wall of lawyers for over four years now, and if that wall is taken away from him, he might well have no choice but to tell all. And more generally, the current police investigation into News International is quite likely to reveal an endemic culture of illegality at the News of the World, if not at other News International papers. Beyond that, there's the very real possibility that US authorities might find evidence of illegal activity on this side of the pond; that would set off a whole new news circus, complete with calls that Murdoch sell off all his news properties.
Tonight, the Murdochs have survived the battle — won it, even, if you take Wendi Murdoch into account. She was the real breakout star of the day. They stood their ground and admitted nothing; given how badly the hearings could have gone, that counts as a win. If you take their answers at face value, neither of them is remotely qualified to run a large organization. But no one is taking their answers at face value. And as a result Rupert Murdoch is likely to continue to run News Corp for at least until the results of the UK police investigation are made public.