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After birthing my 1040 words epic There Is Nothing Stock About It for Blogcritics; I am all worded out. So, I thought I'd do something different today and use more photos to describe the process of bringing this dish to life.
My version was inspired by the Catalan dish served at Els Casals a fabulous restaurant in Barcelona, Spain.
Organic free-range chicken legs, olive oil, smoked pimenton.
Bake at 450 F for 15 minutes to brown skin.
Reduce to 325 F, roast for 60 minutes.
Ajo Blanco a traditional cold Sevillian soup that I turned into a thick "sauce" for the canelones. Almonds soaked overnight in water and drained, Spanish olive oil, sherry vinegar, 4 garlic cloves (blanched), sea salt, figs, mineral water. Blitzed and strained.
The Filling...chopped chicken, veggies, grated Queso Manchego, thyme.
White Wine Pasta, olive oil, corn meal. Pipe filling. Roll up the canelones. Spoon Ajo Blanco sauce. Top with grated Queso Mahon.
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NAMIBIA'S archery team set several records and collected a mammoth 17 medals to win the African Archery Championships in Morocco on Friday.
The six Namibian archers are now the continental champions in their respective divisions, while the men also won the team division.
Namibia's 225 points amassed against Morocco is a new African record in the Men's Compound Division.
Female Namibian archer Iroleen von Litzenborg-Page set two new continental records. She now holds the new Africa record in the compound round for women for her 650 points as well as the record in the compound elimination round after scoring 136.
South Africa's Petrus Marx set two records. He shot a new record score in the compound round (685) and also a new record in the compound elimination round (147 out of possible 150).
This team was the most successful archery team from Namibia ever competing at an international event, said Archery Namibia's Frank Bockmühl.
"The results again prove that consistent activity on the national level eventually leads to desired results," said Bockmühl.
"Congratulations to all the archers and their coach, Marja Woortman. You did us all proud when you received your medals under our national flag and to the sound of our national anthem," he added.
The competition started last week Monday with a full compound round (72 arrows at 50 m distance) and ended on Friday.
During this week, as part of the seeding, two additional competitions were held. The first was the 'African Open', which featured teams from Iraq, Belgium, Poland and Switzerland in competition with the teams from Africa.
The other was a competition reserved only for African Commonwealth Games countrie, which ended on Thursday.
On Friday, the team and individual champions were determined by one-on-one matches, with the winner proceeding to the next round.
Again this was a most successful day for Namibia, especially since it was the first time that a Namibian archer, Francois Marais, beat the South African top-ranked compound archer to become the new African Continental Champion.
The next championships take place in 2014.
Full Results
2012 African Open Archery Championships
Men Compound - Petrus Marx, RSA (gold), Francois Marais, Namibia (silver), Lesley Page
Namibia (bronze);
Women Compound - Beanta Viviers, Namibia (gold), Iroleen von Litzenborg-Page, Namibia (silver), Beatrix van der Merwe, Namibia (bronze);
Men Compound Team - Namibia, three archers (gold), Egypt (silver), Morocco (bronze);
African Commonwealth Games Countries
Men Compound - Petrus Marx, RSA (gold), Francois Marais, Namibia (silver), Lesley Page, Namibia (bronze);
Women Compound - Iroleen von Litzenborg-Page, Namibia (gold), Beanta Viviers, Namibia (silver), Beatrix van der Merwe, Namibia (bronze);
African Continental Archery Championships
Men Compound - Francois Marais, Namibia (gold); Petrus Marx, RSA (silver), Louw Nel, Namibia (bronze);
Women Compound - Beanta Viviers, Namibia (gold), Iroleen von Litzenborg-Page, Namibia (silver), Beatrix van der Merwe, Namibia (bronze);
Men Compound Team - Namibia (gold), Egypt (silver), Morocco (bronze).


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Business leaders attending the monthly networking event at the Novotel in Reading's Friar Street heard how they and their employees and families can take advantage of a free will scheme thanks to the Marie Curie charity.
Three Reading solicitors – Boyes Turner, Clifton Ingram, and Setfords Solictors – have teamed up with the cancer nursing charity to offer anyone over 55 a free written will.
Toni Denyer, the charity's legacy adviser for the south east and London, told guests about the cause's history and future fundraising campaigns.
She said: "This month is our Great Daffodil Appeal, so there will be lots of volunteers handing daffodils out to raise money. We are looking to raise £45,000 from Berkshire alone and £7m nationally.
"We are looking for the three Ts – your time, your talent, and your treasure. If you can bring any of your skills to help us you are always welcome.
"If you'd like to host a Blooming Great Tea Party, that is a great way of getting more people involved.
"You can also leave a gift to us in a will, and that is the main way we collect money. Annually we receive between £20-25m."
The raffle was won by Bernadette Varilone, owner of Unique Gardens, a specialist garden designer based in Woodley, who won a bed and breakfast stay for two at Novotel.
She said: "I will definitely enjoy that - I'm looking forward to it!"
The hotel's general manager, Jacqui McMillan, was hosting her final First Friday Club before going on to take the reins of a new Novotel in Brentford and said: "It's been amazing being part of Reading.
"There's been lots of great change in the town since I've been here and the recently approved BID (Business Improvement District) will help that continue."
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
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By Jason A. Smith
The Henry County Farmers Market has developed a plan to enable the needy to eat fresh, nutritional foods, and they can purchase them with EBT cards, said Frank Hancock, agriculture and natural resource agent for the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Office in McDonough.
An EBT card is an electronic benefits transfer card used in the nation's foodstamp program.
"It enables the EBT customer to utilize their benefits at small, community farmers markets that were, prior to now, unacceptable," said Willie Torrey, manager for Georgia's new EBT Farmers Market Implementation Program, which is funded by the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Hancock said the EBT program has allowed market organizers to acquire a terminal designed to process purchases with foodstamps.
On Thursday, as part of the effort to highlight use of the EBT cards, the market's McDonough location -- at Heritage Park -- will offer a number of cooking demonstrations, taste tests, and information on healthy eating and exercise, from 2 to 6 p.m.
Torrey said chefs will be on hand at the market, to give taste tests and demonstrations on "basic and innovative techniques for preparing fresh fruits and vegetables." Such lessons, he said, are essential in today's world.
"We're living in a time when cooking freshly prepared food is not as prevalent as it was two generations ago," said Torrey.
Lusi Martin, an intern from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, who is studying to be a registered dietitian, will assist in the demonstrations. She said the event will not only benefit customers at the market, but vendors as well.
"Apart from being healthy, it's also to support your local farmers," she said. "You want to know where your food is coming from, and the farmers market offers that."
Hancock said the market will offer an exercise challenge, on the day of the demonstrations, to bolster its mission of promoting good health.
"We'll give a free tomato to whoever jumps rope the most times in a row," Hancock said.
For more details, call the Extension Office at (770) 288-8421.
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More on Rotating Sleeves
After the publication of Part 41 of this series of articles, the title of this month's piece could have been "Let The Debate Begin." There was an overwhelming response to my comments that there was no true advantage to utilizing a barbell with rotating sleeves when performing the squat, bench press, or deadlift. To some, this was the equivalent of attacking the Pope, noting that Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback Michael Vick produces a lot of statistics but few clutch victories, or that the Nautilus machines designed and produced in the early 1970's brought better overall results than the end product of today's training even with lots of friction in the mechanical components and some strength curves that needed modification. Sorry, there is no Santa Claus and you can efficiently and effectively squat 800 pounds with a non-rotating barbell. It came as no surprise that one of the major distributors of a well known brand of barbells communicated in an unflattering manner. One of the statements often used in our facility, and one I have uttered for perhaps thirty years to our trainees, is that "I don't make up the facts, I'm just reporting them." as we apply what I believe is the best and most useable information to the training programs of the athletes we are responsible for. Regarding my October Titan/Eleiko article, Tom from Ivanko himself noted, "Well… we are force-fed all this crap by a lot of marketing people that are holding themselves out as knowledgeable experts in the field. Much is only gimmicks to increase the price of the product. The price of a bar should be largely determined by the cost of using a good alloy steel and hi-tech manufacturing techniques to transform the steel into a hi-performance tool of the trade, not gimmicks and hype." I agree and believe that Ivanko Barbell Company has the major share of the market for the obvious reason that Tom and his staff deliver the best product for the best price and do so consistently.
I would agree with Tom's implied statement that most have forgotten that the primary function of the barbell is to provide effective and safe training for the user. The "best" components utilized in the manufacturing of a barbell mean little if the bar itself is not strong enough to avoid distortion or actual breakage during use. Previous installments in this series have made reference to tensile strength, shear, and other physical factors that determine the strength of the bar but one should start with the question, "Will my choice of barbell product protect me and those who utilize the bar relative to the specific application we're addressing?" Let me backtrack and now clearly state, in my garage, that same query would most probably sound like, "Hey, is the bar gonna hold up when we squat and deadlift?" The part of Tom's statement above that counts most in any gym, school weight room, garage, or basement is "The price of a bar should be largely determined by the cost of using a good alloy steel and hi-tech manufacturing techniques to transform the steel into a hi-performance tool of the trade…" Working with my father as an iron worker I learned that you first have to have a "good" piece of iron or steel for the specific job. Lifting heavy weights requires a bar that will not bend or break and yes, absolutely, they can and do break. Go to the Ivanko website and read some of Tom's articles about bars (made by other manufacturers, not Ivanko) that have brought lawsuits after their failure during use caused crippling or disfiguring injury. A warning to the squeamish: the article referring to the "testicular incident" is absolutely true and should be disturbing! So for the many bar and equipment "aficionados," first things first would be securing a bar that will hold up to the weights and what I will term, the "dropping abuse" it will be subjected to. Without this, any additional "bells and whistles" count for nothing.
One of our readers e mailed:
"…another great article that makes you go 'hmm' ……I was under the impression and led to believe, that rotating sleeves took the stiffness or torque off the wrists – making curls in the power rack smoother and more comfortable. After 40 years of lifting and thanks to you, an un-ending quest to train on the 'best stuff', I should`ve just kept my first barbell – a 'DP' vinyl set – solid bar with a cheap aluminum sleeve autographed by Bruce Randall…who knew ?"
Despite the obvious sarcasm in referencing vinyl plates and doing curls within the power rack, as per my reference in last month's installment, this is a legitimate observation/question. I was clear that in some applications, such as Olympic lifting movements like the clean or snatch, there was an advantage to using a barbell with a rotating sleeve. There will not be so much "rotation" when doing a curl that using a barbell with a rotating sleeve becomes a necessity. There is an exercise we did as young men, never popular but seen at times in the late 1950's to the early to mid-1960's as a result of John Jesse's training books. Jesse was a highly respected track and field coach who authored a number of books on strength training and conditioning. These were pioneering efforts for his day and he occasionally had an article in one of Weider's magazines. Jesse espoused what were the "usual" basic, common sense themes of training and I purchased a few of his books. One program for football players included an exercise called "Power Curls" which was a power clean from the floor, with a curl, or reverse grip. It was perhaps as awkward to perform as it is to describe but with a bit of practice, proved to be an enjoyable, full body, hard, demanding, and productive movement. If one recalls Karl Norberg, the San Francisco longshoreman who performed incredible feats of strength and went head-to-head with the great John Grimek in an oft-cited lifting exhibition, this reverse curl type of clean was the way he elevated the barbell to his chest before pressing it.
Our group of guys, using a chrome vanadium York bar that was non-rotating, with screw-on inside collars and "small-holed" plates, adopted the "reverse curl from the floor" movement with good results. The non-rotating sleeves never proved to be a hindrance nor injury provoking factor. For those interested in obtaining one of John Jesse's best books, go to memorabilia expert Bill Hinbern's site. Bill has reprinted a quantity of classic training books and manuals and is "the place" to find the training courses and hard to get materials from the turn of the century through the modern era. Bill Hinbern's Super Strength Training site can be accessed at www.superstrengthtraining.com and there, you can get John Jesse's comprehensive book "Wrestling Physical Conditioning Encyclopedia" which is considered one of the best works on both amateur style wrestling and physical training. The specific link for the book is: www.superstrengthtraining.com/john_jesse.html
Another factor to consider when choosing a barbell for the three powerlifts is bar diameter but I will have another month's worth of commentary before getting to that.


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At Rosemont Junior High School in La Crescenta, getting students who have sprained an ankle or are suffering an asthma attack to the health office from the hillside playing fields, three ramp levels down, is not easy.
Now, thanks to the recent donation of a wheelchair from a Glendale hospital, it will be a lot easier.
School health clerk Cynthia Pageler said Rosemont had a 25-year-old wheelchair, but could not afford to buy a new one, which costs about $1,500.
The PTA contacted Mary Ann Martin, manager of Glendale Adventist Hospital's Occupational Medicine Center, for help. Martin made a few telephone calls and got a nearly new chair from the hospital.
Pageler said the school uses a wheelchair about once a week. Most of the injuries--usually sprains, cuts and asthma attacks--occur on the playing fields at the lower levels of the campus.


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25 Stunning Photoshop Fire & Explosion Tutorials
Photoshop tutorials help a lot for improving the design skills. Besides learning something totally new, it is also possible to find out the other ways of creating the same effects.
Fire, flames or explosion are frequently used effects in everyday design. In general, they look hard to implement, specially to create a quality one.
Here are 25 stunning fire & explosion Photoshop tutorials which describe the steps well, have beautiful outputs & shows that such effects are not that difficult to create.
Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
Hell Of Tutorial In Photoshop
Making Of Fire Dragon
Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion Tutorial
Creating A Nuclear Explosion Effect
Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop
Fire Lines
How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation
Space Explosion Photoshop Tutorial
Photoshop Text With Fire Tutorial
Photoshop Drawing A Fire Tutorial
Create an Explosive Cover With Photo Manipulation
Light Your House On Fire
3D Text Explosion Using Illustrator And Photoshop
Fire Cube
Ring Of Fire
Creating Fireballs And Explosions
Exploding Planet
Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect
Photoshop Fox Fire Tutorial
Create A Fireball Or Mars Like Planet
Create A Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect
Olympic Torch Fire In Photoshop
Photoshop Fireball Tutorial
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23 Responses for "25 Stunning Photoshop Fire & Explosion Tutorials"
Wade Jackman March 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Wow, what a great assortment! I'm particularly fond of that first one. Hopefully Ill have time one day soon to try it.
chubke March 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Some really nice tutorials! Will try them for sure!
barat March 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
How nice – my tut is on the list
Timothy Maggenti March 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 pm
You really are talented, I have "played" with photoshop etc. but this is really great work. Keep up the great work.
Madhavi Sani March 4th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
My God guys, you could burn the place down!
Just joking!
Really good tutorials.
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logo design guru March 5th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
this looks great. I love the dragon. Fire is such a fun element to play around with in art. Fire and water are the hardest to reproduce but make the best effects.
Sklep Zoologiczny Wędkarski March 7th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Very nice collection, "Fire Lines" and "How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation" #1 for me.
zenith May 20th, 2009 at 6:30 am
thanks nice list.
Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing July 15th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I've seen many great fire effects in my life, most of them made using Photoshop. Here's one element that refuses to get cliched. Web designers are still using it to great effects on their sites and I just can't seem to get enough of them.
Nice post there. I'm sure that these tuts will help many designers in their attempt to create some really cool effects.
Dean October 19th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I recently came across your blog. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Very informative and nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
WebDesign October 20th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Outstanding!!! Never seen before…. I loved visiting this Blog as everytime I visit I'll get something out of you guys…
Pepe Netro October 21st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
This tut rules:
Ron Arts January 21st, 2010 at 6:38 am
I like the way the elements have been used in a creative manner. Creativity never ends!
Ron Arts Web Design January 26th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Really nice tutorial. Your work is simply outstanding, very unique and creative.
Design That Rocks February 3rd, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Love the tutorial collection. Working with fire is a tricky task and its nice to have a group of resources like this.
Good work….flame ON!
Daksh March 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
the burnout link doesnt work
hawa mago June 6th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
this is great work…
Tim Donovan March 22nd, 2011 at 11:48 am
The fire hair tutorial looks awesome i am thinking on implementing it on a project for a client of mine. thanks for putting this list of tutorials together.
glendy davila May 10th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
wow guys this is breathtaking
Alex Cullinane September 28th, 2011 at 7:32 am
Hey man, just done the tut for the flaming hair, it's amazing, it works on so many different effects.
I tried it on a scared childs face instead of a ecstatic woman, it gives such a completely different feel to it. Amazing.
Sunny February 6th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
i must say this was amazing photoshop fir explosion, thanks for share this tutorials.!
winbluegod May 3rd, 2013 at 8:42 pm
Soooo cool, this is my flame effect:http://4-designer.com/2013/01/simple-and-useful-flame-effect-original-tutorial/


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Austin, Texas indie-rock five-piece Spoon is back from a few years of silence with its latest record, They Want My Soul, released earlier this month on Loma Vista records. The band took time off after its 2010 release Transference, at which point singer Britt Daniel told the bloggers at The Line of Best Fit that he was looking for "something that was going to reinvigorate me, to excite me about working on new stuff again." It was time well spent: the new album is bustling with urgency and the band sounds energized on singles like "Rent I Pay" and "Do You." The band is in town on Labor Day Weekend to play the Made In America Festival, but they'll join us for a special Labor Day Free at Noon at World Cafe Live on Monday, September 1st. Listen to the broadcast on 88.5 FM, watch the webcast at XPN.org or RSVP to join us at World Cafe Live.
Little Hurricane will head up a double-header outdoor Free at Noon on Friday, September 12th, at the Porch at 30th Street Station. The San Diego blues-rock duo this year formed in 2010 and quickly developed a reputation for its tremendous live energy, something that's taken it to the stages of Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. This year the band released its second album of original material, Gold Fever, though it also released a collection of cover songs in 2013 called Stay Classy, where it tackled popular favorites from Bill Withers to Elbow. Tune in to Free at Noon on your radio at 88.5 FM or RSVP to join us in person at The Porch at 30th Street on September 12th.
Joining the band is Philadelphia's New Sound Brass, who you may remember as the marching band that led the XPoNential Music Festival audience from Wiggins Park to the Susquehanna Bank Center this summer. The band also performed at 2nd Street Festival this year, opened for PhillyBloco at World Cafe Live, and generally has become renowned for its lively and crowd participatory arrangements of popular songs reimagined in the brass band tradition. Tune in to Free at Noon on your radio at 88.5 FM or RSVP to join us in person at The Porch at 30th Street on September 5th.
The infectious pop-rock trio Jukebox The Ghost returns to the Free At Noon stage this week for the second time, playing fresh material as well as old favorites. The band just wrapped a North American tour with A Great Big World and spent part of the spring doing a mini-tour playing original sets and cover sets for fans. Safe Travels, the band's third full-length album, was released in 2012, and they've recently put out two catchy new singles, "The Great Unknown" in May and "Sound of a Broken Heart" this month. Jukebox is currently working on its as-yet untitled fourth LP; join us to hear the new tunes and old faves at the performance or listen in at 88.5 FM or xpn.org.


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Gregg Allman Reflects on Friends and Brothers
Gregg Allman has the right to feel a bit nostalgic. In January, musicians ranging from Eric Church and Trace Adkins to Jackson Browne, Sam Moore, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Robert Randolph and the members of Widespread Panic celebrated his life during an all-star tribute concert in Atlanta, Ga., and The Allman Brothers Band will officially mark their 45th anniversary during their annual run at New York's Beacon Theatre (which kicks off tomorrow night). Allman's life story will also be turned into a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, The All-American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter and Wyatt Russell. However, despite peeking into the rearview mirror, the 66-year-old singer/organist has his eyes firmly planted on the future. At the end of 2014, Allman will turn his attention away from The Allman Brothers Band and focus on his recharged solo group. He plans to enter the studio with Don Was to record an album of all-new, original material, and a blues record is also in the works.
A wide-range of musicians from the rock, country, blues and jamband worlds took part in the "All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman" tribute in January. At what point in the event's planning did you find out about the tribute and what was your initial response?
I didn't find out about it until it was about halfway put together. [My old friend and former roommate] Jackson Browne called me and I hadn't heard from him in a while so I thought, "That's odd." My first reactionwas, "Oh, man. They only do this for dead people." Then, I thought, "Oh, God. What if it's a bomb?" But then I kept hearing who had signed on—people like Dr. John. I was just flipping. Man, I'll tell ya, I have never experienced such an incredible evening in my entire life. It felt like I was seven or eight years old and it was Christmas. It gave me chills and a bump in my throat. I did "These Days" and "Melissa" with Jackson and, at the end of the bridge of "Melissa," he had a big tear on his face. I said, "Oh, no, Jackson. Not now!" The kid who did "Win, Lose or Draw" [Eric Church] turned it into a great country song.
My manager Michael Lehman and Don Was put together the most incredible band: [onetime Allmans keyboardist] Chuck Leavell playing piano, Jimmy Hall on harp and [former ABB guitarist] Jack Pearson on guitar. Pearson, man, he must have been woodshedding because every person on that stage, at one time or another, said to me: "Is Jacky Pearson playing 10 times better than he used to or am I hearing stuff?" I said, "No, you are exactly right." Somebody needs to hire that boy. If I had room for him I would hire him tomorrow.
Speaking of Gregg Allman & Friends, you recently switched up your solo band's lineup. You even added Marc Quiñones, who has served as The Allman Brothers Band's percussionist since 1991. What brought about these changes?
I hired two horn players, so Gregg Allman & Friends is now a nine-piece band. Marc Quiñones is a permanent member and we have Ron Johnson (Warren Haynes Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe) on bass. Those two were the catalyst that put the fire in my band's ass. I had to let Jerry Jemmott go because he was developing hearing problems. I hated it—we did many years together and parted ways super friends—and Floyd Miles, on the account of his hips and knees, had to pretty much retire. I had been with Floyd off and on since I was 14, but he's hung it up. My goal is to hit every place The Allman Brothers didn't.
You mentioned Eric Church's version of "Win, Lose or Draw" and Trace Adkins described his participation in the tribute as "the coolest thing I've ever done in my career." However, your songs always seemed more rooted in the blues and singer-songwriter side of The Allman Brothers Band's repertoire. Are you surprised by the way that your music has influenced the modern country world?
I was born in Nashville and I know a lot of those people. I would say that for the last 25 or 30 years, I have been approached about—and thought about myself—going forth on a country music project. I have been given carte blanche to do that whenever I want. But that has to sit on the backburner for now because I am very, very interested in doing my next record in Muscle Shoals with Mr. Don Was producing. [Allman is also slated to record a blues project with T Bone Burnett this year.]
Your last solo album, 2011's Low Country Blues, consisted mostly of covers. I have heard that this album will feature all original material. Is that still your goal?
It will be called All Compositions By. I have written way more than enough songs. I always like to go in there with 20 songs. Some will turn into two songs and some don't always pan out and we'll shit-can it. These are all new songs that I wrote, and it will be [recorded with] my band. I believe that part of the whole effect happens when you see a bunch of dudes get up onstage behind their instruments and they start playing, and it is just like someone turned a record on or close to it. That's the effect. Bonnie Raitt is good at doing that.
Your memoir My Cross to Bear has been adapted into the film Midnight Rider. The actors portraying you recently spent time on the road with your band.
They're living with me at my house. They call it shadowing—unless you are in the shower or asleep, they are with ya. Tyson Ritter is playing the young me, and William Hurt is playing the not-so-young me. They watch every move you make to get your idiosyncrasies down. I am executive producer and can pull the plug on it anytime.
Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks recently announced that they will leave The Allman Brothers Band at the end of 2014. What does the future hold for the band?
This is it—this is the end of it. Forty-five years is enough and I want to do something else anyway. Everyone has their own real good respective bands. Who's to say? We may get together every five years anddo just one play at a time.
How does the decision to stop playing with The Allman Brothers Band affect your solo career?
I suppose I am the only one who can legitimately play all of the Brothers' songs. The other guys can play some of them but, on the account of that I wrote or sing most of them, I will be carrying that on. Only every song that I do in my band that was written by me for the Brothers I have totally rearranged—and all for the better. I play a lot of electric guitar, and I have an extremely good keyboardist. The horns are really starting to sink in now: It is really working out perfect. This is what I've dreamt of all my life. Don't get me wrong, I loved playing with The Allman Brothers—and I still do—but The Allman Brothers never seemed to have a focal point. A band doesn't necessarily have to have a leader but they do have to have a focal point—a point at where everyone starts and they somehow never had that. Nobody seemed to want to take over the job after my brother passed away. I was pretty much out to lunch myself, but we trenched on. I am the leader of my band now, and it seems to work out much smoother.
Keep playing greg.you guy areone of tthese reasons i learned to play guitar
Thanks for a wonderful interview with some new insights!
Anybody else detect in this interview a whiff of a F.u.? Been bothering me since I read it. "Never been a focal point" since Duane passed?? Wasnt that the point - even when Duane was the band leader? Two lead guitars, two drums, bass and keys, get iton and make magic. Good luck with this new "focal point" thing Gregg. And not even a "thanks" to Derek, Warren, Butch and Jai and all the other bros for carryng you all those shows and years…
Gregg Allman has never needed Derek, Warren, Butch, Jamioe, or Dickey. Gregg Allman IS what makes the band. Don't fool yourself. Do you have any idea how many musicians can play on that level? Boatloads. There are people like Jack Pearson running around that could step in and easily assist Gregg should he decide to keep ABB going. In my opinion, Warren, Derek, Butch…etc. owe Gregg a debt they can never fully repay. They're incredibly lucky to be a part of what Duane and Gregg started.
"Anybody else detect in this interview a whiff of a F.u.?"
No, not at all. Gregg has said for decades, comparing the ABB to his band, 'In my band there's only one cook in the kitchen'. He's said for many years that when Derek and Warren are done, the ABB is done. Gregg and Warren are close friends. There's zero need for GA to reinvent the wheel at this point: he already has a band.
Remember whose name is on that band. Gregg had the horrible task of replacing his own brother for much of those 45 years, but the backbone of the Brothers is that voice. I've loved every incarnation of the Brothers (and yes, have seen them when Gregg was too shit-faced to play), but it is that voice - and the last bridge in Melissa - that still brings a lump to my throat. (FYI: If you haven't seen the Muscle Shoal Documentary, go get it now.)
"Anybody else detect in this interview a whiff of a F.u?
How 'bout remembering all those years with Dickie Betts contributing, leading, playing, and reinventing the band? Puhlease, Dickie was the band for years, and not one thanks. Oh yeah, remember, he named his son after Duane!
I love the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts. I've been seeing them all in concert since 1979. I've bought all their releases on album, cassette & CD. This month I'm finally going to NYC to see the ABB at the Beacon. Although, I'm not happy with the manner in which Dickey has been demonized by the ABB band organization, I still enjoy their music and wish ALL the ABB band members, past and present the very best. The world is a much better place because of all of them!
What a shame Dickey Betts was not at "All My Friends" tribute.
After Duane's death, he carried the band's guitar sound and played the slide parts even though he hated doing it because he loved Duane so much. It's time to swallow pride and reunite him with the band even for one show before it all ends.
Saw the brothers on every BEACON run since the beginning DICKEY BETTS ALLMANS. WARREN HAYNES ALLMANS..while both different ..both EQUAL


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If they had migrated south, those on the continental European land mass would have been unable to return as the land bridge which had joined it disappeared after the Anglian ice age. Island Britain did not open up again until 60,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped to expose a huge land mass archaeologists named Doggerland, allowing Neanderthals and H. sapiens to cross into Norfolk. Doggerland is now beneath the North Sea.
Stars of the show
The room showing what happened when humans reappeared contains the real stars of the show. A few metres apart stand a small and stocky, friendly faced Neanderthal man and a taller, leaner, meaner-looking early modern human.
At first glance, the larger modern man looks as if he has a cigarette hanging from his lips (see image, above right). In fact, it is a fine paintbrush which he is using to paint his upper leg. His ankles are also covered in a red ochre pigment. He lived 33,000 years ago in Paviland in Wales. Well, that's where the body he is modelled on was found – his head was from the Czech Republic.
The moody modern man, the Neanderthal, and the gallery of ancestral heads at the start of the exhibition were made by Dutch palaeo-artists and identical twin brothers, Alfons and Adrie Kennis.
Aside from those stunning realisations, there are other treasures: a human skull shaped into a bowl from Gough's cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, and artwork carved into antlers. There are also early sewing needles – a "huge advance" says Stringer, which would have afforded a significant survival edge.
The journey through time peters out somewhat in modern Britain, with NHM illustrating Britain as the human melting pot it has always been. A video shows celebrities, some of whose genetic make-up reveals them to be 1 to 2 per cent Neanderthal.
Nevertheless, the exhibition succeeds magnificently in pulling together all the strands of Britain's early human history, and in creating a real sense of how our ancestors lived. And despite the thousands of years that separate us, those reconstructed faces hold captivating pre-echoes of the humans we have become.
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story is at London's Natural History Museum until 28 September 2014.
This article will appear in print under the headline "Becoming human"
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|SVU, Episode 12.20
|Production number: 12020
First aired: 30 March 2011
| Written By
Jonathan Greene
Directed By
Jonathan Kaplan
A young girl's body is found with a doll left as a totem, so SVU retraces her last steps, which included a lesson with her piano teacher (Elizabeth Mitchell). Then they seek help from psychologist, Dr. Cap Jackson (Jeremy Irons) who decodes the meaning of the totem.
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Episode plot
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The body of missing girl Marnie Foster is found outside a church in a duffel bag. The autopsy shows that Marnie was sexually assaulted with a foreign object and suffocated to death with a pillow. There was a doll placed with Marnie in the bag and Marnie was given sleeping pills. With Dr. Huang out of town, psychologist Dr. Cap Jackson helps the SVU squad with the case. Dr. Jackson believes that the killer didn't mean to murder Marnie.
The detectives later discover that the doll found with Marnie doesn't belong to Marnie, and was made 20 years ago. When Fin and Olivia go to talk to Marnie's mother, Susan, they witness Susan arguing with a man and getting pushed by him. The man turns out to be Chet Hadler, who had an affair with Susan. It turns out that Chet has a record of sexually abusing his previous girlfriend's daughter. Susan and Chet's alibi checks out. They were at a hotel together the day Marnie was murdered.
Dr. Jackson believes that Marnie's killer is a woman, but Olivia and Elliot don't think so because female rapists are rare, especially those who kill their victims. Dr. Jackson tells Olivia that his daughter, Ann passed away and he is not re-opening his clinic because he lost creditability with his colleagues for breaking doctor-patient confidentiality by cooperating with the police. Dr. Jackson believes not only is Marnie's killer a woman, but she was possibly sexually abused herself. The doll is a totem for the killer's loss of innocence.
The detectives focus on the female adults in Marnie's life which includes Marnie's piano teacher, June Frye. June is shaken up over Marnie's death and tells Olivia that she was a talented student. June tells Olivia that her parents died in a car accident a long time ago. Meanwhile, the other detectives question Marnie's teachers who all have alibis. They decide to check out Marnie's funeral to see if her killer might be there.
At Marnie's funeral, Elliot, Dr. Jackson, Olivia, and Fin keep an eye out for anyone suspicious. Olivia notices a woman running through the crowd which turns out to be June Frye. Back at the precinct, it's discovered that June has no criminal record and teaches piano lessons at the brownstone that she inherited from her parents which is right around the corner from the church where Marnie's body was found.
Dr. Jackson says that June claims that Susan Foster called to cancel Marnie's piano lesson, but it turns out not to be true. June actually called Susan to cancel the lesson and canceled her other students' lessons as well. Unfortunately, Marnie didn't get the message that her piano lesson was canceled. Elliot believes that June's brownstone is the crime scene and wants to get a warrant, but Dr. Jackson wants to talk to June first.
Dr. Jackson, Olivia, and Elliot go to June's brownstone to talk to her. While there, Elliot and Dr. Jackson search around the brownstone and Dr. Jackson discovers a doll's hair on a pile of piano sheet music. Olivia finds pillows which matches the one found in the duffel bag where Marnie's body was. The detectives also discover luggage in the garbage that matches the duffel bag that Marnie's body was placed in. While Elliot and Dr. Jackson were outside, a muffled thud is heard from the house and Olivia calls for an ambulance. When they get inside, June is found unconscious on the ground from taking sleeping pills and Dr. Jackson tries to revive her by giving her CPR.
June awakes in the hospital, but she refuses to talk about what happened to Marnie. Fin tells the detectives that June used bleach on the wooden spoon and the luggage which destroyed the DNA. Marnie's fingerprints were found at June's house along with her other piano students.
Dr. Jackson talks to June about the doll. She talks about her mother, but refuses to talk about her father. When June says that maybe she needs a lawyer, the detectives stop Dr. Jackson from talking to June since she asked for a lawyer. When Dr. Jackson explains he has to leave because June asked for a lawyer, June becomes upset and changes her mind. She explains to Dr. Jackson that her father gave the doll and sexually abused her. She confesses to murdering Marnie.
Before June is arrested, the detectives see June kneeling and praying for forgiveness which leads the detectives to believe that there are other victims. The detectives question June's students who say that she's a good teacher. One of her students tells Elliot that June was seen arguing with an older woman the day Marnie was killed. It is later discovered that the lady is June's mother, Elaine Frye Cavanaugh. Dr. Jackson wonders why June said that her mother was dead. Elliot wonders if Elaine abused Marnie and believes that Elaine was over at June's house the day Marnie was killed. Olivia believes that Elaine killed Marnie.
Elliot and Olivia talk to Elaine, who denies murdering Marnie and orders them to leave. Elaine's daughter from her second marriage, Katie asks what's wrong and Elaine asks her to tell the detectives where she was the day Marnie died. Katie says that she dropped off Elaine at a bridge tournament. She starts getting upset and says that she didn't do anything. Elaine tells her to shut up, but then Katie runs off to her room and hides in her closet. Elliot is able to coax Katie out of the closet. Olivia asks Katie if it's her room which Katie says it is, but when Elaine comes in, she tells them to get out of her room which is assumed that Elaine and Katie share the same room which disgust Olivia.
At Rikers, Dr. Jackson and Elliot tell June that she doesn't belong in prison and that they know that June put Marnie in the duffel bag after Katie killed Marnie. Olivia walks in with Katie and the two sisters hug each other while in tears. Dr. Jackson assures June that what happened to her wasn't her fault. Which is known that their mother, Elaine have been abusing them; leaving them physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred which destroys their innocence as children completely; Katie is the one affected the most, because she has been traumatized ongoing from childhood to adulthood; which left her in a mental fragile state.
Katie confesses to molesting & murder Marnie, June came home and helped get rid of Marnie's body. On the other side, June said, that she heard enough and Olivia told her that she had to testify against Katie about the abuse she endured and also share the her own abuse. June ask if that will be enough of keep her for going to prison. Olivia tells June that Katie will be sent to psychiatric facility; also, Dr. Jackson stated that they will do everything they can to help Katie; but she will never be free again, because of the murder she committed as a result of the loss of her innocences. June ask her about what will happen to her mother. Olivia also told June that there is one apartment bedroom that Katie shared with Elaine; so, she will be charged and sent to prison for the ongoing abuse that lasted throughout Katie's life. Soon, Katie voice call out to June from the otherside tells her that she still loves her and still always be her little sister despite what fate she had due to her fragile state she in. June can't help but feel guilty for what happened believing she let her family be destroyed wondering how can she forigive herself; But, Dr. Jackson assures her that he will help her and will find a way out from her depressionable state to an heathier person. Olivia looks on in hope; believing that it will help June regain her sense of innocence.
Main CastEdit
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch (credit only)
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang (credit only) (mentioned)
- Tamara Tunie as ME Dr. Melinda Warner
- Dann Florek as Captain Don Cragen (credit only)
Recurring castEdit
- Jeremy Irons as Dr. Captain Jackson
Guest castEdit
- Lisa Banes as Elaine Frye Cavanaugh
- Agatha Nowicki as Katie Cavanaugh
- Heidi Armbruster as Susan Foster
- Doug Wert as Chester Hadler
- Elizabeth Mitchell as June Frye
- Carmen Lopez as Rosita Vasquez
- Renée Veronica Freeman as Casey
- Stephanie Brait as Sheila
- Thoa Dang as Lily
- Dylan Gelulla as Becca (as Dylan Gelula)
- Cecilia Gault as Linda
- Katelyn Rapp as Sarah
- Kaylin Iannone as Tina
- Todd Thurston as Wilson
- Wayne Scherzer as Craig (as Wayne R. Scherzer)
- Andrew Firda as Shane
References Edit
Episode references
This episode is based on the Melissa Huckaby case. Melissa Huckaby was a Sunday school teacher who raped and murdered a little girl by the name of Sandra Cantu, put her body in a suitcase, and dumped her in a lake.
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- Dr. Jackson's daughter who was attacked in Mask has died.
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Specialized Business MS Degrees on the Rise
Now more than ever, students are opting to pursue a specialized MS degree as opposed to a traditional MBA. Many universities are responding to this demand by offering programs in finance, supply chain management, management, accounting, marketing analytics and others. Why the rise?
A Bloomberg Businessweek article cites the boom in these specialized degrees as a direct result of the high cost, time, and work experience needed to complete a tradition MBA program.
Schools such as Maryland's Smith and Michigan's Broad are working on their fifth and seventh MS program, respectively.
Which program would you choose? And why?
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fucking ellen
in this addition of OLD PEOPLE NOTES
Just in case you ever get down about progress in this country.
Ellen came out as gay in 1997 and back then it was A HUGE FUCKING SHITSTORM like everyone was like WTF THIS PROMINENT TV STAR IS GAY HOW IS THIS HAPPENINNGGGG. Nowadays, celebrities come out left and right and may get a little buzz for a week, but no one cares that much anymore. So we're making strides towards acceptance, even if we're not there yet.
Shortly after Ellen herself came out, her character in her eponymous sitcom Ellen, also publicly came out, after weeks of teasing the audience with gags like the one above. This is was also a media shitstorm, because this was the first time that a popular television show had a gay main character. And it took four seasons for it to come to light.
Unlike the real Ellen, the character Ellen was deeply troubled by her feelings and refused to accept the fact that she was gay until the bitter end. I suggest you watch the coming out episode which is curiously titled "The Puppy Episode" (actually a reference to a remark by a producer of the show who said something along the lines of, "If Ellen is never interested in dating, maybe she should get a puppy." The producer was unaware that the puppy Ellen wanted was in fact a woman.)
This is one of the most important television moments in cultural history, and it wasn't without its drawbacks. Despite being one of the best rated episodes in the history of the show, audiences ultimately weren't comfortable with a show centered around a lesbian and Ellen was canceled the very next year.
Everyone loves Ellen, because she is just an altogether likeable and amazing person, but I'm not sure if people realize just how important she has been and will be to the success of LGBT movement.


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The Saybrook Forum
Courage to Lead08/05/2011
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Shelley Drogin's remarks at the recent LIOS Graduate College graduation in June 2011:
In a recent planning meeting with the Dean of LIOS Judy Heinrich and Organizational Systems Chair Mark Jones, we were reminded of one of the great educators, Parker Palmer. Parker wrote a book and founded a program called" the Courage to Teach." As we thought about LIOS Graduate College, the phrase "the Courage to Lead" was uttered and it was one of those YES moments. I want to expand upon the concept of "the Power of Yes." But first, let me begin with the alternatives to Yes.
Our minds know all too well NO (all of us are familiar with the terrible twos that are filled with NO's); we are quite familiar with the MAYBE's, the NO-BUT'S, or YES-BUT's. However, in contrast, there are those YES moments in life that our consciousness can fall into, those YES's that exist beyond our doubts, the YES's that have no end. When I speak of "the Courage to Lead," I am reminded that we must have the courage to attend to, to pay attention to, those YES's.
Courage as a concept and as a word is rooted in the heart. The head of leadership is more about theories of practice and practice of theories. The heart of leadership, "the Courage to Lead," is about our values and dreams. It is difficult to talk about courage without exploring fear. It has been said that courage is fear that has said its prayers. Let me tell you a true story about the first tightrope walker (taken from Mark S. Lewis' commencement speech at University of Texas, 2000).
In 1859 the Great Blondin -- the man who invented the high wire act, announced to the world that he intended to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Five thousand people including the Prince of Wales gathered to watch. Halfway across, Blondin suddenly stopped, steadied himself, backflipped into the air, landed squarely on the rope, then continued safely to the other side. During that year, Blondin crossed the Falls again and again--once blindfolded, once carrying a stove, once in chains, and once on a bicycle. Just as he was about to begin yet another crossing, this time pushing a wheelbarrow, he turned to the crowd and shouted "who believes that I can cross pushing this wheelbarrow." Every hand in the crowd went up. Blondin pointed at one man.
"Do you believe that I can do it?" he asked.
"Yes, I believe you can," said the man.
"Are you certain?" said Blondin.
"Yes," said the man.
"Absolutely certain?"
"Yes, absolutely certain."
"Thank you," said Blondin, "then, sir, get into the wheelbarrow."
Like that man in the crowd, we often know a lot of things, some with apparent certainty. But also like that man, there will be times in your life when knowing things won't matter as much as how scary the situation is--and when that happens you'll have to decide whether or not to get into the wheelbarrow. There are times when, in order to succeed, you will have to trust --when you will have to take a big leap of faith--and when that time comes I hope you will face your fear, say your prayers, and take appropriate action.
What you have earned as graduates of this amazing institution is the ability to move on, to dare to do anything. What you retain as graduates of this amazing institution is the privilege to return any time--to return emotionally, spiritually, or just to visit. And it is what you've learned at LIOS that will in part determine what you do out there.
And my hope is that "your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known."-anonymous
Who's in charge here?08/03/2011
Political leaders say they way a "systemic" fix to America's problems – but Aimee Juarez doesn't believe them.
Writing at Rethinking Complexity, she suggests that American politicians are very good at causing system problems but not at fixing them. The only kind of solution congress ever looks for are piecemeal solutions, with little regard to the big picture or long-term consequences.
As a result even good ideas can push us deeper into the hole we're digging … because systemic problems require system-wide solutions.
Meet Our Community: Alisha Smith, PhD Candidate in Mind-Body Medicine08/03/2011
I currently work as the data manager for a federally-funded program called Indianapolis Healthy Start, geared at reducing infant mortality in the United States. Additionally, I serve as an adjunct faculty member at Ivy Tech Community College wh
Is Carl Jung having an American Renaissance?08/02/2011
That's the question asked by Saybrook Psychology Professor Eugene Taylor, who has recently been asked to review two books about Jung's work for the APA's website.
A recent upswing in positive reviews of Jung's work, new analysis about Jung's insights, and popular acclaim, Taylor suggests, are signs that even academic psychology - long dominated by "experimentalists" who didn't believe anything they couldn't measure under laboratory conditions - is accepting the value of depth psychology's approach to the human mind.
Meet Our Community: Carrie Phelps, PhD Candidate in Mind-Body Medicine08/01/2011
Carrie Phelps has over 30 years experience in the health and wellness field.
Formally trained in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Methodology, Carrie served as a consultant and project manager for Activate America, a national YMCA organizational wellness initiative. Recently she served as the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives for the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region where she initiated and mobilized sustainable organizational learning environments, strategic thinking and action, and program design for high impact.
In 2001, she helped develop and implement the Institute for the Healing Arts in Nashville Tennessee. Working with an integrated team of healthcare professionals, Carrie served as the Director of Integrative Medicine, and established a comprehensive approach to total health. As a faculty member of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine based in Washington D.C., Carrie trains clients and healthcare professionals in scientifically-proven mind-body approaches. She has conducted hundreds of wellness presentations, workshops, intensives, and certification courses to medical staff, high-level executives, and the general public. She is a certified life coach, one-on-one HeartMath provider, and Nia instructor. Carrie received her Masters degree in Exercise Science from Denver University.
Currently, Carrie is the Health and Well-Being Technical Advisor for YMCA of the USA and a doctoral student at Saybrook University where she is studying mind-body medicine with a concentration in healthcare systems.
Alumnus Steven Kull, PhD '80 Releases New Edition of WorldPublicOpinion.org08/01/2011
To see the August 1 edition of WorldPublicOpinion.org click here: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/
Our youth obsessed culture is about to get a shock07/27/2011
The first wave of Baby Boomers are retiring, and by some estimates one-in-five Americans will be over 65 by 2030.
How does a culture obsessed with youth cope?
So far, most of our fixes have been technological - and amazing new gadgets to help the elderly function are in the works.
But even the researchers behind these new inventions admit it: our society can't handle this "silver tsumani" without fundamentally changing they way it handles the elderly.
An essay at The New Existentialists suggests that psychology should be playing a key role in this transition. That instead of just trying to "fix" symptoms, psychologists have a vital role to play in providing healthy perspective to people about the a life that includes old age.
Meet Our Community: Tamami Shirai, MS candidate in Mind-Body Medicine07/26/2011
I am originally from Tokyo, Japan. I have about twenty years of experience in human resources with global corporations, as well as experience as a career counselor in Japan.
I was originally interested in clinical psychology when I was in the college, but the way it was taught and practiced did not feel like the best approach to me. I thought there might be another way, so I changed my course to social psychology with statistical research.
Because my husband is American, we moved to the US at the end of 2007 and settled in California. I decided to come back to graduate school after I was injured in 2008 and had to leave my job for rehabilitation. I could not stand and walk for many hours, nor could I sit in a chair for very long. During the treatment of my injury, I had a chance to learn about biofeedback and guided imagery at one of the integrative clinics in La Jolla, CA. Although Western medicine helped me a lot, I was fascinated with these noninvasive approaches that connect with mind and body.
I researched several schools where I could learn about biofeedback; however, I chose Saybrook because the program covers all health fields rather than limiting the course of study to a psychological perspective. I especially wanted to learn from Dr. James Gordon, the Dean of the Mind-Body Medicine program.
Why is the NFL better at compromising than congress?07/26/2011
This week the NFL announced it had reached an agreement with its players.
Republicans and Democrats? Not so much.
In his recent book, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises, Avishai Margolit, professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, refers to compromise as "an ambivalent concept." On the one hand, we laud those who can preserve friendship or peace through cooperation. On the other hand, we revile those who too readily accede to intransigence. Compromise can be pragmatic and strategic, consider the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis; compromise can be cowardly and weak, consider much of the historic judgment against policies of appeasement during the rise of Nazi Germany. In an environment where words are chosen carefully to frame a perception in order to influence another's thinking, how we conceptualize compromise matters.
Read more about compromise and America at Rethinking Complexity
Why are we all less happy?07/25/2011
In 2009 a major study showed that women were increasingly unhappy in the modern world – and a host of pundits, psychologists, and sociologists asked "What's happened to the fairer sex?"
Was it feminism that was making women less happy? Economic inequality? Higher expectations? Loneliness? Feminism? (That one came up a lot. Apparently people like to blame things on feminism).
Two years later, another data set has been analyzed, and it turns out that the reason more women are unhappy has nothing to do with women. According to the data, we're ALL less satisfied with life than we were 25 years ago.
Why? What does it mean? At the New Existentialists, they have a pretty good idea: it means we've been trying to become happy by proxy, substituting medication and commercialization for an inner life. Turns out that doesn't work.


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Monrovia — Reports that Motherwell is bolted out of a contract to refurbish storage tanks at the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) are far from the truth, according to LPRC's Managing Director Mr. T. Nelson Williams.
LPRC says Project to Refurbish Storage Tanks on Course for 2015 Completion
LPRC Managing Director Williams, responding to a FrontPageAfrica inquiry said the Motherwell Bridge Limited rehabilitation and expansion project is ongoing.
"The MBL project management team and workers are on site. Yes, another group that was working on certain aspects of the project left while the new team arrived to continue other works as indicated in the status update. The project is on track to be completed by August, 2015."
In July 2010, Motherwell Bridge won a multi-million pound contract to build and refurbish storage tanks in Liberia. As part of the deal, Motherwell Bridge is to renovate and build 22 oil storage tanks at the LPRC site. The project was trumpeted to create 33 jobs for Liberians directly with Motherwell Bridge and 40-50 jobs indirectly with civil and electrical contractors.
The three-year contract worth more than 14 million to build a petroleum products storage had been penciled in for completion in 2013 in a bid to significantly increase the fuel holding capacity of Liberia.
Due to the civil war some fourteen storage tanks had fallen into a state of disrepair.
The refurbishing would have also increased storage of fuels including kerosene, automotive gas oil and aviation fuel.
Last August, Mr. Russell Ward, Chief Executive Officer of Motherwell Bridge Ltd was in Liberia and met with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf during which time, the President praised the UK-based engineering company for the level of work done there so far.
During that meeting, the President said, although the project took a long time to jump-start, she was glad about the progress being reported, which will increase Liberia's capacity to maintain adequate supplies of petroleum products for commerce in Liberia.
At the time, the President also called on the company to make the provision of jobs for Liberians a priority within its operations, as a means of fighting unemployment in the country.
Companies operating in the country, she noted, can serve as major partners in addressing Liberia's unemployment rate. It is unclear how many Liberians are currently employed on the project.
Ward said in his meeting with Sirleaf at the time that the company had completed at least 5 of the product storage tanks out of a total of 14 and the entire project would be completed by July 2015 as he expressed the company's readiness to continue working with Liberia in the government's drive for infrastructural development.


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AC Transit is latest expected to boost fares
By dcuff
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 1:12 pm in AC Transit, Buses, Fare systems.
The AC Transit board tonight is expected to raise fares in the latest of a series of public transit fare increases sweeping across the Bay Area and California.
For anyone who wants to attend, the meeting is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. at AC's headquarters at 1600 Franklin St, Oakland. The basic fare is proposed to rise from $1.75 to $2 on July 1.
It's too bad, many transit advocates say, that fares are going up after a year in which ridership made strong gains as many people, frustrated by higher gas prices, left their cars at home and rode the bus or train.
AC Transit board members have said a fare increase is a bitter but necessary medicine to combat the sharp decline in sale tax revenues that provide much of bus operating funds. AC leaders also grumbled that their district took a $25 million hit in the state's raid on transit funds to balance the state's budget. Based on those repeated statements, a good guess is the board will adopt the fare hike.
You also can expect some public grousing though. Some district critics are incensed that AC Transit is going after a fare hike even though the district won voter approval in November to double a parcel district from $48 to $96 annually in most of the district. Other transit systems in the East Bay don't collect parcel taxes to hep them cover operating costs, critics note.
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Julian Desseau
My name is Julian D'usseau and I am a Pro Rider. I do ride contests but I am mostly an "exposure rider". Having more than 20 photos in main stream magazines, including a one page interview in Transworld Motocross Magazine. I was also listed on the "Top 100 Most Popular Riders" list.
I do compete in most all major contests, including the Dew Tour and IFMA's since 2002 X-Games qualifiers. I have also been to Japan three times for big contests and demos, receiving 1st place in freestyle and another 1st and 2nd the next two times. In the IFMA's i have received good finishes the first couple years and have been top five with lots of 3rd and 4th place finishes. I have also received some 1st and 2nd's in best trick. All of the X-Game qualifiers I have been in I placed around 11th or 12th wich placed me as a wild card in the event that someone could not compete. Last year (2006) in the NBC Dew Tour I received 13th with a couple mistakes.
My TV exposure is good as well, with my own episode of M80 on Fuel TV, as well as contest coverage on ESPN, Fuel, Outdoor Life, and LA TV Network.


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With high school proms happening all over the United States; police are cracking down on the number of drunk teenagers driving home. They are setting up check points on main roads, and visiting schools to warn students on the dangers of drunk driving. Parents are being asked to speak with their children, to help prevent deaths and DUIs.
Simply refusing a breathalyzer won't help you on prom night, either. Any driver refusing a breath test will face extra charges in every state, but special zero tolerance laws will up the stakes for anyone under 21.
Below we have put together some statistics about this time of year and some preventive measures parents can use to keep their teen safe.
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Police increase the number of check points and change locations nightly to help prevent drunk driving accidents during the "teen killing season" of April to June.
In most states, the legal blood alcohol limit is between 0.00% and 0.02% for people under the legal drinking age.
A person under 21 can face more severe penalties after a DUI conviction than a person of the legal drinking age.
Varying by state, first time DUI offenders can generally expect to incur a fine and possible jail time. The penalty is much harsher if property is damaged, an accident occurs, or there is an injury or death.
Mock DUI and accident scenarios are being acted out in front of students in an attempt to make students realize the severity of drinking and driving.
33% of teen fatalities involving drinking and driving occur between April and June.
20% of all alcohol consumed in the US is drunk by 13-20 year olds.
Nearly 25% of drivers ages 16-20 involved in fatal automobile accidents had been engaged in teenage drinking.
About 2.4 million teenagers are heavy drinkers, meaning they had five or more drinks at one time on five or more days in the past month.
50% of all deaths in traffic accidents involving underage drivers who drank are people other than the teenage drinking driver.
33% of students admit to having gotten in a car with a teenage driver who had been drinking.
So you've decided to let them drive...
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December 4, 2012
HANNA Instruments is pleased to announce the release of 12 new Checker® HC Handheld Colorimeters. Designed as an accurate, affordable alternative to chemical test kits, the new Checker HC portable meters measure a variety of parameters including: Ammonia (low, medium and high Ranges), nitrite (low and high range), total chlorine (ultra low range and high range), low range silica, bromine, chromium VI, marine calcium and alkalinity. The Checker line of handheld colorimeters are perfect for testing water quality in wastewater, plating and environmental applications.