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It's true; the whole Acidemic thing got started because of Asia Argento. It was 2003 or so. We were in love with her from SCARLET DIVA onwards. Her sheer reckless bravery was the inspiration behind Acidemic. We wanted to make something worthy of her. She was set to do our cover story/interview and even sent us cool self-portrait photos. Then, we lost communication. It was around the time her HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS premiered at Cannes and got trashed by the critics (a lot of whom have since come around and praised it). We figured she just had to hole up somewhere and cut loose the inessential strings until the heat died down. Hell, we did that all the time ourselves.
And so, we decided print was too expensive and to go with the web after all. Anyway, what could we say in an interview? Asia already opened her guts and soul to us, and even more, in her work. She later read and said she liked my article analyzing SCARLET DIVA. I'm still atwitter and aflutter!
Now she's getting huge! She ROCKED Cannes this year with three or four films, including the upcoming Catherine Breillat film, THE LAST MISTRESS, her dad Dario's MOTHER OF TEARS, some new thing from Abel Ferrara, and BOARDING GATE by my new favorite du jour, Olivier Assyas (reviewed below).
Anyway, here are some of the photos she sent as options for the cover...self portraits and bad assedness! I have the cover somewhere around here... we used the top photo but only the left half so you only see the word "Die" --- Yes! Death and Sex are one in cinema and embodied perfectly in the mythical archetype of the blood goddess anima... an anima named Asia!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Lists AFI Forgot: The Acidemic Top Ten
What makes an acidemic film? Well, it's about FREEDOM! It's beyond duality, it means doing whatever you want - sticking it to the man if he gets in your way, but doing it with LOVE. What makes an artist free? Well it's about the doors of perception being wiped clean to see reality as it truly is, infinite (to paraphrase Aldous Huxley). That doesn't necc. mean it's a drug film, because there's plenty of drug films just as inhibited and hung up as straight films. No, it means the makers of the film either encourage or allow a perspective free of the usual dubious moral hand-wringing and punishments for transgression against the patriarchy. Seriously, how many films pretend to be badass, and then have it all be a dream, or the antihero decides to give themselves up, or the fallen women throws herself in front of a bullet so her true love can marry the boring socially acceptable gal? Or what about the lesbian couple who have to get shot at the end, or else Jessica Stein picks some beige normie instead of her hot girlfriend, or it's aaalll a dream?
Here's 10 movies that are truly free, truly alive, truly... acidemic! Take that, AFI with your moronic categories like Sports and courtroom. Here are some Acidemic Top Tens:
1. Over the Edge (pictured above)
2. Heavenly Creatures
3. Dazed & Confused
4. Kids (right)
5. Spider Baby
6. The Exorcist
7. The Butcher Boy
8. Thirteen
9. Bully
10. Rebel Without a Cause
1. The Holy Mountain
2. Performance
3. Head
4. Last Tango in Paris
5. Pierrot Le Fou
6. Psych-Out
7. Breakfast of Champions
8. Persona
9. La Dolce Vita
10. Fight Club
1. Night of the Iguana
2. The Lost Weekend
3. Scarlet Diva
4. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
5. Leaving Las Vegas
6. Twentieth Century
7. International House
8. The Thin Man
9. Long Day's Journey Into Night
10. Bad Lieutenant
I might be forgetting something, but that's a good mix of the canonized, the eclectic and the popular, ala the AFI lists. I also made some lists over on Bright Lights After Dark!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Olivier Assayas - Super Genius
Thank god that at least there are a few Frenchmen, like Olivier Assayas, who get that life is beautiful even when (or especially when) it's drenched in blood. Assayas makes movies that move and feel like ambient techno music - glacial emotions and settings, rapid tempo stream of conscious flow editing and magnificent paranoid foley work: as characters walk around hallways there's a constant flow of parties, cash registers, and other sounds from all around - in short, the real noises of this crazy world. In attempting a futurist neo-realism, he shows us just how bizarre our lives have become. He makes it seem ironic that science fiction movies are built on sets when the real world is right now far more complex and cyber-delic than anything one singular human mind could e'er imagine. Assayas provides a link wherein even corporate work and air travel becomes sexual and dangerous.
His latest, BOARDING GATE, returns to the world of corporate espionage in catsuits that won him mixed reviews with DEMONLOVER (2002). Superstar Asia Argento is great here playing a cross between her strung-out exhibitionist in SCARLET DIVA and the role which helped make her an international sex symbol, the influential-but-little-seen cult film NEW ROSE HOTEL. Based on a short story by William Gibson and directed by Abel Ferrara, HOTEL was set in a dystopian future where international corporations had replaced government and everything from banking to boarding room negotiations were done via cameraphones!
Science fiction what? Released in 1998, NEW ROSE HOTEL was futuristic for about three hours. It starred Christopher Walken and Willem DaFoe as two corporate spies-for-hire who recruit Asia's duplicitous and irresistible prostitute to seduce and betray a married Japanese researcher. They find Argento at a hip bar where the DJ is playing Cat Power in all murky cool Bozan Bajeli reds. Assayas clearly loves NEW ROSE HOTEL or parts of it. The son of Jacques Remy, Assayas has captured the child's eye view of jet set privilege, being shuffled through futuristic airport terminals and off to weird meetings and culture shock shopping malls without hardly knowing why or how soon you will get to rest and have a coke.
Critics say that for all his innovations, Assayas is derivative, but that's hardly relevant; if he riffs on other's work, it's cool because he steals only from the very best. Using the template of Godard's ALPHAVILLE (modern business architecture and practices as science fiction) and the sexy late night with unlimited mini-bar expense account decadence of Ferrara's HOTEL and joining them together at the USB port where Argento's own SCARLET DIVA wanders in exile.
One thing Assayas does better than all the rest is the sense of emotionless futurism that comes from being drugged out on international flights. There's a bravado stretch of time in GATE where nothing happens except pure poetry in cinema, an extended montage of Asia on an overnight flight to Hong Kong - the tacky but beautiful television shows hawking the city you are landing in, seeming strange and alien after a bad nights sleep with the sound off on your airplane headphones; the weird intimacy that develops between passengers sleeping next to each other; Asia climbing over sleeping Chinese people to get back to her seat; waking up cuddled against the old man next to her and not feeling good or bad about it, grabbing a bottle of water off the stewardess's tray at what seems like the dead of night, but then opening the window and being blinded by sunlight. If you have seen DEMONLOVER you remember the opening with the water on the plane and this leads to a sense of overall paranoia which Assayas clearly loves playing with, exploiting for our mutual benefit. Most of all he has an eye for Asia Argento, perhaps the perfect queen of the Assayas universe (which she helped birth, after all, via HOTEL). Maggie Cheung and Connie Nielsen could only do so much with their catsuits and slinky stares; Asia is this sort of person, this cat woman espionage agent: like Assayas she has a famous filmmaker dad (Dario) and a penchant for "stealing" shots at airports for maximum free sci fi affect. And just like her character in GATE, Argento lives the life of a jet setting debauched intellectual artist forever maneuvering her way through the tangled web of vice and male desire for her own exhibitionist fun and profit! It's who she is... in real life, if that still existed.
And what is real life? you tell me... exactly.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Queen of Dicks - CONCLUSION (part 4)
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Great Dads of the 1970s #10: Josh Brolin as Dr. Block in PLANET TERROR
I'll grant you that Brolin's character in this beautifully constructed gonzo gem from Robert Rodriguez (can I go out on a limb and say it's his best film since EL MARIACHI?) is in fact rather evil. Yes, he tries to kill his unfaithful wife even before he gets turned into a zombie, but damned if he ain't a good dad to his kid, Tony (played by Robert's son Rebel and named--presumably-- after Danny Torrance's finger in THE SHINING).
First off, there's the fact that daddy and mommy are doctors, who wake up at night to go to work! Pardon me, but I think that's just about the coolest thing in the world. Maybe it's just that I'm so sick to death of those tiresome scenes of domestic tranquility around the breakfast table, dad with briefcase and mom in her apron, etc. that are supposed to spell out family dynamics in so many bad films. Here that breakfast family dynamic is inversed and made as sinister and exciting as getting ready for trick or treating.
Second, there's his line to his kid: "No dead bodies for daddy tonight," how cool is that? It lets the kid into dad's world, similar to the "give us a kiss" line in JAWS it delineates just exactly how the kid serves to help the father deal with his big adult issues, i.e. by acting as an conduit back to innocence. The son becomes the touchstone of decency which enables dad to wade into the blood, vice and depravity of 1970s monster hunting, eating, and becoming.
The cool daddyhood is also apparent in his relation with Tony even before the dead bodies line; it's just there in the way they relate to each other. Block treats Danny like an equal, like a young man deserving of respect and confidence but at the same time Block doesn't pass responsibility or betray any emotional dissonance or anxiety that might effect the kid, unlike Dakota, the near-hysterical anesthesiologist mom (Marley Shelton) who is terrified her husband will discover she's about to run off with her hot lesbian lover (Carmen Electra).
"Do we believe her?" he calmly asks Tony when mom lies about the text message she receives while preparing their nightly breakfast. ("Nope," Tony flatly answers).
Dakota shows all her anxiety and fear to Tony, while dad Brolin never would; he's even respectful of Tony's action figures and their desire to "eat brains."
How can a man make such a great dad in such a short scene? One word: BROLIN!
Have you heard Brolin is going to play George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's new biopic? The mind boggles, the stomach contracts, and the gall rises.
Read a great interview with Brolin and Shelton on slashfilm here (where I stole the above image, thanks fellas!)
Zombie Glamour
In channeling the cosmic zeitgeist into my paintings lately, they've all become zombie portraits (including the above, of Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong from SHANGHAI EXPRESS).
I've been working from film stills in an attempt to capture the idea of the "dissolving of memory" - how with movies you remember key scenes and then you see the movie years later and the scene turns out to be completely different! It's about seeing a young beautiful actress, then watching the making of documentary and seeing the withered stalk she's become... the hair and teeth gone, replaced by wig and dentures, the flesh decaying... the voice gone gravelly as she lurches forward to rend your living flesh and devour you screaming... until you too are aged and cannibalistic... meanwhile, the young image stays forever glowing on the silver screen....MOCKING YOU!
It's also about me being older and having written on film for long enough that I go back and reread some of my recollections on films I've seen and realize that even my memories of certain film scenes change over time... whoa!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Bing Crosby's "When the Organ Played 'Oh Promise Me'"
First of all, there's the brilliant corniness of the song title. What the devil is this film about? Whatever the answer, it is PURE 30s ACIDEMIA! I especially dig the weird "womb-skull" hybrid at the end.
Thanks to C. Jerry Kutner over at Bright Lights After Dark for finding this on youtube. Read his thing on it here.
Thanks to C. Jerry Kutner over at Bright Lights After Dark for finding this on youtube. Read his thing on it here.
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We're so teary! Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore) and Nina Dobrev (Elena Gilbert) made a very special video for a very special fan of The Vampire Diaries and now we're all emotional!
Easter weekend is coming up, and Nina has been planning to visit her family for the holiday. "Mentally preparing, bracing myself for the cold- Easter means family this weekend. I don't miss living in snow, but I'm excited to visit it!" she tweeted about her trip to Toronto.
In addition to getting together with her relatives in Canada, Nina and boyfriend Ian will make time for a visit with Kayla, a TVD fan who needs a lung transplant. On her Twitter, Kayla asks that everyone be an organ donor.
"We know you watch the show," Nina says in her video. "And we know about you, too. We've been following you." Then she told Kayla, "Elena will never be as strong as you. … Or as courageous." Ian agreed, "Can't compare."
Then the couple asked her to clear her schedule on Saturday so they could come visit. They each blew her a kiss and said they'd see her soon.
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On this day in 1938, 12,000 San Antonio pecan shellers, mostly Hispanic women, walked off their jobs to protest a wage cut, beginning a three-month strike. The pecan-shelling industry was one of the lowest-paid in the United States, with a typical wage ranging between two and three dollars a week. In the 1930s Texas pecans accounted for approximately 50 percent of the nation's production, with nearly 400 shelling factories in San Antonio alone. Working conditions were abysmal, and San Antonio's high tuberculosis rate--148 deaths for each 100,000 persons, compared to the national average of 54--was blamed at least partially on the fine brown dust that permeated the air. The original strike leader was Emma Tenayuca Brooks, a well-known figure in San Antonio politics. In March 1938 both sides agreed to arbitration and reached an initial agreement on hourly wages of seven and eight cents, but shortly thereafter Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour. Concerned that the new law would encourage mechanization and displace thousands of shellers, the Congress of Industrial Organizations sought an exemption for pecan workers. The Department of Labor, however, denied the exemption, and over the next three years cracking machines replaced more than 10,000 shellers in San Antonio shops.


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Best gags and funniest jokes thread.
I know you all watch some funny stuff. What are your fave jokes/gag sequences? Share links plz!
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"Oscar Wilde was walking down the narrow cobblestone streets of Dublin, Ireland when a man walked out of a pub and engaged him in conversation. "I have shagged many a beautiful young lassie in my day," said the stranger. "How dare you boast so arrogantly," Wilde replied. The man was taken aback, and quickly sized up our hero. "Are you one of those poofs, then?" quoth he. Wilde decided that he desperately needed to establish some heterosexual credibility at this juncture. Just then, a bonnie lass strode out of the tavern. Wilde approached her with great confidence, saying, "My my, your tollywompers are looking splendid this afternoon." She, in turn, froze solid, and screeched for a wretched hag who stood behind her. "Mother! Did you hear the filth this man hath speweth?" The old hag took out a can of Cheez Whiz, and sprayed poor Wilde all up and down his body. As he turned to run out of the neighborhood, the surprisingly speedy hag produced a can of Silly String™ and began to blast him. Panting, Wilde wept bitterly, tears smearing the cheese as he wailed, "Do you not know who I am, foul succubus?" Alas, his protestations fell on deaf ears. Desperate, and with no viable alternative, Wilde dropped his trousers and let loose a mighty wind from his arse, hoping to scare off the wench. The fart was so foul, it caused the heathenish woman to faint, and all nearby birds to fly from their perches in terror. "This is why I eat roast-beef sandwiches from Arby's," Wilde exclaimed, now utterly victorious."
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One thing odd I notice is that each of these gags are around the halfway point of the cartoon.
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Despite the horror stories of delays and complex messes, this Tax Day hasn't been as bad as it was hyped to be.
The deal struck on January 1st, 2013 provided the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with ample time to prepare and fix some of the internal problems that were supposed to be disastrous for the agency on April 15th. Although the worry seems to be for naught, there are still a multitude of consequences that come from the dilemma of the fiscal cliff.
Congress decided to keep the Bush-era tax policies for all families who earn a tax income lower than $450,000 and for all single-investors who earn less than $400,000. A crucial part of the deal is that these policies were made permanent, so Congress no longer can debate them further. There will no longer be uncertainty for taxpayers about what their tax rate will be.
Not all that came from the deal was good. Congress failed to extend certain policies so some permanent tax increases were also included in the deal. The reduction of the Payroll Tax from 6.2% to 4.2% has expired, which will drive up rates for primarily middle-class taxpayers. Additionally, the marginal income tax rate was allowed to rise for families with a taxable income greater than $450,000 and for single filers who have a taxable income over $400,000. This tax increase may put more of a burden on small businesses and investors.
The Fiscal Cliff additionally affected how quickly taxes have been filed. Since the IRS did not start to accept certain returns until mid-March, it is likely that many taxpayers will request extensions and file taxes late. The slower than usual process of filing taxes has been a downside of Tax Day 2013, although it may have been much worse.
So once taxes have been filed, where do they go? A percentage of the total income tax revenue is distributed to a variety of categories. According to the White House, National Defense and Healthcare take up the vast majority of federal income tax revenue. 24.64% of the total revenue from income tax payments goes to the general category of National Defense and 22.45% goes to Healthcare. The single largest portion of the revenue is 10.26%, which is allocated to fund ongoing operations, equipment and supplies under the National Defense budget. Other areas where taxpayer dollars are spent include job and family security, education and job training, veteran's benefits and much more. There additionally are the federal social security and Medicare taxes, which go to their respective programs.
The White House has an interactive site – whitehouse.gov/taxreceipt – where taxpayers can plug in tax payments to see how their tax dollars are divided up and exactly how much they pay to each area of government spending.
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When I started practicing Kripalu Yoga around 19 years ago, the main lessons I got were: "Accept yourself, exactly as you are today," "Don't compare," and "Don't judge—yourself or others." Those were all messages I desperately needed to hear that deeply planted seeds of healing in me.
The growing movement to make yoga an Olympic sport pretty much blows every one of those sacred tenets to the moon. I don't mean to jump on the whole yoga-competitions-are-evil caravan—it's crowded enough—but after witnessing my first live yoga competition the other night I am all a-shudder and need to process.
Just walking in the door to "see" yoga at a theater in midtown Manhattan for the 2012 United States Yoga Asana Championship New York Regional edition last Friday night was odd enough. As a yoga junkie, though, I was curious—what exactly happens at a yoga competition? Who's got the loudest ujayyi? Who can fidget least in Savasana? Who can keep their bottom ribs arced in Triangle? Those are things I'd want to strive for, at least, since I've been told so many times, in so many styles of classes: "Yoga is not about how close you can get your foot to your head" and "Yoga is about moving with the breath" and "Yoga is about dipping deep inside to the place beyond places, where everything," as my Kripalu Yoga Teacher Trainer Devarshi says, is "eternal, infinite, and whole."


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Golden State Warriors still don't know who their opponent in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs will be and will close the regular season Wednesday against the Denver Nuggets.
The Warriors are locked into the sixth seed in the West and could either face the Los Angeles Clippers or Oklahoma City Thunder in the conference quarterfinals.
Golden State won its last time out with a 130-120 triumph versus the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, as Stephen Curry led the way with 32 points and 15 assists. David Lee tallied 25 points with nine rebounds, Draymond Green had a career-high 20 points with 12 rebounds and Klay Thompson also added 20 points for the Warriors.
"It's nice to see him (Lee) get his legs back and moving well," said Curry, who is averaging 32.8 points and 10.8 assists in the last five games. "It's a big-time confidence boost going into the playoffs just the way his body has responded."
Curry made 7-of-13 3-pointers for the Warriors, who finished 15-of-37 from beyond the arc. The Warriors set a franchise record with 766 3-pointers this season, eclipsing the previous mark set in 2007-08 (761).
The Warriors have 50 wins for the first time since the 1993-94 season and are 9-5 in the last 14 games. They are closing the regular season on the road where they have accumulated a 23-17 record.
A win Wednesday would give the Warriors their most wins since 1991-92 (55).
In injury news for Golden State, center Andrew Bogut is out indefinitely with a broken rib and veteran Jermaine O'Neal will see extended playing time. O'Neal made his 13th start his last time out, posting 10 points in 21 minutes.
Denver closes out the season at home and has won three in a row at the Pepsi Center, where it sports a 22-18 mark this season.
The Nuggets had won three straight and four of six games until dropping a 117-105 decision to the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday. All five Denver starters scored in double figures, as Kenneth Faried and Aaron Brooks notched 21 and 19 points, respectively.
Timofey Mozgov had 18 points and 11 rebounds, while Quincy Miller and Randy Foye scored 11 points apiece for the Nuggets, who shot 43 percent and scored 23 points off 15 turnovers. The Nuggets were down 13-0 early on and trailed 63-46 at halftime.
"Their 13-0 run to start the game happened so fast. Maybe I should have called a timeout. As short-handed as we were, we didn't have enough juice to get over the hump," Nuggets head coach Brian Shaw said.
Faried is averaging 20.0 points and 10.8 rebounds since March 1.
Denver guard Ty Lawson (knee) is expected to miss Wednesday's game against the Clippers and hasn't played since April 4 at Memphis (4 games). Lawson is averaging team highs in points (17.6), assists (8.8) and steals (1.6).
The Nuggets will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2002-03 and has won two of three meetings with Golden State this season. Denver is 6-2 in the last eight games in this series and has won 16 of the past 19 games as the host versus the Warriors.
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Forza 4 – (Kinect) Impressions
Forza 4 is Turn 10′s latest in their critically acclaimed driving series. This article will detail my early experiences with Microsoft's flagship driving franchise with Kinect impressions. If you're pressed for time i can give you a really quick run-down of Forza 4 via Kinect. I can say for certain that Forza 4 and Kinect do not mix for driving. Now that we got that out of the way lets do the formalities. Forza 4 is a driving game developed by Turn 10 and published by Microsoft Game Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360. It released October 11, 2011.
Kinect – We all heard about Kinect "your body is the controller". Many of you even bought Kinect who own a 360. Well, I finally gave in and bought Kinect for a great deal during Black Friday. I knew Forza 4 was playable with Kinect before i bought it. I seen videos featuring Autovista and driving with head tracking abilities. However videos do little in my opinion. I had to try it out for myself and i did. There are some basic things you have to know when playing Forza 4 via Kinect. You have to stand while playing Autovista mode. You can sit or stand while actually driving.
Autovista – Autovista mode is a mode where you can inspect dream cars in full detail. Kinect actually makes great use of this mode. Imagine hands free navigation where you can walk around a car, open doors, trunks, engine bays, get inside, look at gauges, exhaust, wheels up close all in high resolution detail. The 458 Italia was as if it was parked in my garage. As i moved my hands to specific motions shown on screen i opened up doors where i could get inside and look at stuff. You look around by leaning. The voice narrator will pop up when you inspect specific car parts. He will then explain what they are and how they were made.
If you ask me if Kinect is good for Autovista i would say yes. Kinect works only as good as you follow and perform the motions on screen. For the most part Kinect is responsive and pretty accurate regarding Autovista. I admit there is a draw about moving around a car virtually on screen without having to hold anything. It is quite visceral and in my opinion Kinect works for situations such as Autovista (not for driving). Autovista is very scripted and linear. You can't tinker with any parts like taking lug-nuts off of wheels or anything like that. There are plenty of cars to unlock and buy via DLC for Autovista. So in the end score one for Kinect regarding Autovista! It was implemented well.
Kinect Driving – You navigate Menus and game options with your your hands by pointing at spots on the screen. To whisk through menus horizontally you use your hands Minority Report style. The main menu for Kinect has limited options and to be frank its just a watered down experience compared to when you play with a gamepad or steering wheel. It feels tacked on to be blunt. To drive (i sat at the edge of the chair as instructed) you hold your right hand at 3 o' clock and left hand at 9 o' clock to steer. That is it. Braking, shifting and practically everything else is done for you. You can't check stats or use the rewind feature with Kinect (i couldn't at least or didn't know how to if you could).
Within 2 minutes i felt whatever fun Kinect had starting to wear off and a tacked on peripheral experience starting to ensue. I originally planned to play the entire game for review through Kinect but after completing one race with it i know that would be a gravely mistake. Forza 4 isn't meant to be played with Kinect for review. When you start Kinect's version of single player you don't even get the opening cutscene featuring the guy from Top Gear like you do when you play with the gamepad. So its safe to say i will review Forza 4 with a gamepad so i can get the entire experience of the game.
Impressions with Gamepad
When you choose to play Forza 4 with controller you are choosing to play the actual full game of Forza 4 and not just "parts" of it. The main menu screen featured Play Career, Community, Autovista, Free Play and Marketplace. Thanks to my brother's diligent Forza 3 playing i was rewarded with a Profile Import Bonus and gifted 13,000 credits for nothing. The game said i had to collect that money on my online bank (in-game). Next i went into the Marketplace section to see what it had. Forza 4 doesn't skimp on DLC. I saw the November Speed Pack DLC where i downloaded the Scirocco R (for free). I also downloaded the 2012 BMW M5 for free as well. There was also the Ign December pack and the American Muscle Car Pack ( i'm guessing on the names). At any rate thats alote of DLC for a game that isn't three months old.
After checking out some options and navigating the menus (which was easy) i decided to start Play Career. Just for referance i played all races on medium difficulty (easy so far) and i have not had to change anything ie tire pressure, gears etc. I'm basically still an amateur in the amateur circuit. I started at F license and i'm already at D license with little effort so far. You gain Credits, XP and Affinity Award bonuses for certain car companies. For example i drove a Toyota early on that i won with. As i won races i earned Affinity bonuses from Toyota like 25% everything i buy from them. Its a nice perk and there are different kinds of Affinity bonuses to achieve.
As far as the actual driving is concerned it feels heavily assisted at medium difficulty. The braking and shifting are done for you. You can also rewind when you make a mistake which takes the difficulty away even more. Some tracks are more difficult to master while others are easy. There is an Automatic Upgrade section for noobs which makes modding your car much easier but takes away your control. The races been pretty easy so far which is why i haven't modded any of my cars yet.
I found it weird that you cannot change camera views while racing. You can check out so many aspects in-game of your car but not change camera views. As far as the Forza 4′s graphics are concerned they look great. Taking pictures of your car in photo mode as well driving look picture perfect. The backgrounds are highly detailed and the lighting used was improved over Forza 3. Forza 4 is a looker make no mistake. The sound design is robust as all of the cars have their own realistic rumbles. Music is good so far as well.
In conclusion its really simple people, play Forza 4 with a gamepad or steering wheel NOT Kinect. Thanks for reading.


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Registration is not required for this free event, which is open to ages 6 and older. After you fold, you'll receive a chance to see which plane flies the farthest for a prize!
In addition, Evening Library Time and WSRE PBSKids present Daniel Tiger. Yes, he's coming to the Crestview Public Library! Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, and Daniel Tiger leaves around 7:15 p.m. Registration is not required, and this event is open to all ages but ages 3-8 will probably enjoy it the most!
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The Laughing Owl (Sceloglaux albifacies), also known as Whēkau or the White-faced Owl, was an endemic owl found in New Zealand, but is now extinct. It was plentiful when European settlers arrived in New Zealand in 1840. Specimens were sent to the British Museum, where a scientific description was published in 1845. The species belongs to the monotypic genus Sceloglaux ("scoundrel owl", probably because of the mischievous-sounding calls).
Buller (1905) mentions the testimony of a correspondent who claimed that Laughing Owls would be attracted by accordion play. Given that recorded vocalizations are an effective means to attract owls, and given the similarity of a distant accordion's tune to the call of the Laughing Owl as reported, it is apparent that the method might have worked.
In the South Island, the larger subspecies albifacies inhabited low rainfall districts, including Nelson, Canterbury and Otago. They were also found in the central mountains and possibly Fiordland. Specimens of S. a. albifacies were collected from Stewart Island in or around 1881.
Trevor H. Worthy (1997) records 57 body and 17 egg specimens in public collections. He concluded that the only ones of these that may be the missing type of rufifacies were NHMW 50.809 or that of the Universidad de Concepción. Greenway (1967) mentions specimens at Cambridge, Massachusetts (probably Harvard Museum of Natural History) and Edinburgh (Royal Museum) that seem to be missing in Worthy's summary.
Individuals of a bird louse of the genus Strigiphilus were found to parasitize Laughing Owls (Pilgrim & Palma, 1982).
Extinction was caused by persecution (mainly for specimens), land use changes, and the introduction of predators such as cats and stoats. It was generally accepted until the late 20th century that the species' disappearance was due to competition by introduced predators for the kiore, a favorite prey of the Laughing Owl (an idea originally advanced by Walter Buller). However, since the kiore is itself an introduced animal, the Laughing Owl originally preyed on small birds, reptiles and bats, and later probably utilized introduced mice as well. Direct predation on this unwary and gentle-natured bird seems much more likely to have caused the species' extinction. A comprehensive review of the species' decline and disappearance is presented by Williams & Harrison (1972).


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Australians are very friendly and helpful people, with a great sense of
humor and a natural ability to tell jokes and play with words. Some times we may appear cold because of our "private nature" which has been imported over the past 2 decades, but it is just takes time to "break the ice", and everything goes well. It means you can talk about any subject, but for more personal matters, things will take a little bit longer to come out in the open.
The majority of Australians live in coastal areas because the interior of the country called "the Outback", can be a very arid area with many deserts and lack of water. Australians tend to follow each other a bit, like sheep on a hill. This happens because of the stability of Australian Institutions and the strong economy. For example, since the beginning of 2003 there has been a boom in the housing market, which has made thousands of Australians buy and sell homes for investment. The result has been that so many people did
it created a steep rise in house prices. For a couple of months every single place I went, the talk was about houses. Because of this stability, Australians tend to plan for the long term, which can make life a little bit boring sometimes.
Australians were born to compete! In reality, Australia is considered one of the most competitive nations on Earth. This covers all areas of life including the work place. For example, Australians surfers broke a long-term hold on the Surf Scene by the Americans and Hawaiians, and today there is not a single international contest without at least many Aussies running in top position. Companies that sponsor sports events such as Billabong, Rip Curl and many others broke the Australian borders to become a symbol of Aussie culture all over the globe, displacing many bigger foreign companies on the market. These great Australians Companies, today almost dictate what young people and teenagers are wearing worldwide.
Fishing in Australia: Well, well, well, this is a big thing in Australia, and it is amazing how passionately Australians feel about fishing. It is difficult to resist fishing, because of the number of fantastic places to fish, and the number and variety of species available, combined with a very good climate, sunshine almost all year long, and idyllic locations. Anyway there are 3 important things to know. The first is that in all States except Queensland, a fishing License is required and can be easily obtained in tackle shops or convenience shops in small towns. The license is cheap and lasts for different amounts of time. The second important thing to remember is that not all fish can be captured. In every state there are rules about size and quantity (called Bag limit). These rules are explained in a booklet given for free in tackle shops and government institutions. It means that if you catch a fish that doesn't comply with the rules, you must return it immediately.
Also, there are rules for quantity and size of oysters, mussels and other shellfish. Crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, prawns and yabbies have an extra rule that states that no females can be taken. No worries, because everything is explained in the booklet, and if in doubt, put them back to the water. The only important thing you have to take with you when going fishing besides the gear and the bait is a ruler to measure your catch. To drive a boat you also need a
license, except if the motor is less than 6 horsepower.
Cinemas in
Australia are disappearing from the streets and are moving to inside Shopping
Centers. Most are now divided in many smaller theatres, showing 3 or 4 different movies at the same time. Prices for Adults are about AU$ 13,00 and Children and students with ID pay around AU$ 10,00. On Thursdays there are specials with the entry costing AU$ 8.70. Thursdays have become a big day out in Australia, cause the Shopping
Centers are open for extended hours; 9 pm instead of the regular 5pm. Young people use this time to catch up on the gossip!
Australians are compulsive buyers having some of the biggest credit card debts in the world. On rainy days (no beach to go) it is very hard to get a parking place in a Shopping
Center, and over the Christmas period and Boxing day (the day after Christmas) it is almost impossible, with lines of car parking on the streets outside the shopping area. Shopping is very good here with lots of variety and good offers. In all Australian Shopping
Centers smoking is prohibited. There are also suburban small shopping
centers to look after the locals. They are pretty close together and almost always have a bakery, a Pharmacy, Medical
center, a small supermarket, dentist, Fish and Chips shop, Pizza Shop and small eatery. It is difficult to see something unusual or unique in these shops.
Nothing demands as much attention from Australians as a House. It is as a national symbol of security. Firstly, it is relatively easy to buy a house in Australia, as soon as you have a job for more than 6 months. The banks finance them for up to 30 years, and the government is giving an incentive for first homebuyers. Secondly, it is considered the best long-term investment due to the market increase that grows over the years without risks. That is why it is easy to find places to rent in Australia. There are lot of people who buy 2 or 3 houses to rent out and let the rent pay the bloody Mortgage. Another interesting detail is that many Australians don't grow roots in the place they were born, especially younger people starting careers. They sell the place and buy another one wherever the job is. As an example: None of my
neighbors are the same, as when I moved into my place 4 years ago. Everybody has gone to another city or another house. It is kind
of like changing clothes. Very easy to do! Older people also don't stay long, because as soon as they have the Mortgage paid off, they sell the place; buy a smaller one, put some cash aside for retirement and travel. Many retirees sell the home to buy a campervan or motor home and hit the road in style. The price of the rent regulates the price of the mortgage; meaning that if you have one house paid off, you give that one as a guarantee for a second one, and rent it out to let the second house pay it off. Do you get it? That is why houses are a very big deal for Australians.
Going to the beach on weekends in Australia is a very popular exercise, just as much as going to the Shopping
Center or doing any sport. The so called Australian Beach Culture, is similar to California, Rio de Janeiro, and the Mediterranean. Australians live by the sea, and the beach complements the house creating an extended backyard in which to play. With the exception of some places that can get some winter weather, most of Australia is sunny throughout the year. This provides an excellent alternative of relaxation all year round, but you also must know that because of the thinning of the Ozone layer above some areas, there is a greater danger of harmful rays from the sun. The sun here is very strong and burns the skin really fast. Australia is has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world; so if you go to the beach, take hats and sun block. DON'T EXPOSURE YOURSELF FOR TOO LONG UNDER THE SUN. Other important matters concern the rips and
currents most Australian beaches have. Sometimes the sea can present itself as calm as you like, but rips underneath can be strong and unexpected. So, if you are not very knowledgeable about the sea, you'd better swim only in patrolled waters between the flags placed by lifesavers on the sand. By the way, it is prohibited to sell anything on the beach without a council permit, and wherever dogs are allowed, they must be on a leash.
If you are not going to a special
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one-color shirt, with sleeves folded to just below the elbow, long pants of a good fabric, and leather shoes. No tie is necessary. Jacket and tie are usually only worn during business meetings, by businessmen or Real Estate Agents. Australians vary in their style of clothing, some loving
colorful clothes and stamps, some hating it. At the beach it is more common to wear shorts than Speedos or
bikinis, for both, males and females. Australians don't like to show off their bodies pretty much, still a consequence from the 1900's, when it was prohibited to have a swim in the ocean, and wear nothing that could permit a tan on your skin. Melbourne is the top fashion place in Australia.
Australian Television: The salvation is the SBS channel, with lots of good
programs and documentaries. It is also the only channel that reports about every continent on the Globe and shows Soccer games from all over the world every Saturday. Other channels show boring programs such as; reality
TV, American sitcoms and tourist programs that make you feel like the poorest person on Earth etc... Sometimes I think that television in Australia is made to be boring so that it encourages you to get out and do something or work for longer shifts. That's right, if I have to choose between watching TV until 10 o'clock or working until 10 o'clock, I will take the second.
Australian Radios are another difficult thing to get along with. The repetition of songs day after day is a pain in the ass and none of the radio stations seem to have any individuality.
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Councils from all over Australia, do an Environment impact study before authorizing any new construction and development. As I said before, it is 10 out of 10.
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Published in CareersConnect, November 2012
By Travis Authier
On a given day, a recruiting team may pull hundreds of résumés from which they select the most available, capable, and affordable candidates for further consideration. Those that are noticed first generally have the right credentials—and they show it! Of course if you know you're light on qualifications, give yourself a fighting chance by presenting a thoughtful, professional résumé that best represents your capabilities.
Like a savory dish at a five-star restaurant, you have to add garnish to your résumé to get it the attention it deserves. Decoration in the form of professional certifications, training, and degrees are the way to make this happen. This is easier said than done, however, because they can be time consuming and expensive. Nonetheless, realize that the labor pool of qualified professionals is getting saturated and it's becoming harder to distinguish oneself with experience alone. In fact, while the federal government often exchanges experience in lieu of professional certifications in their hiring process, the same standard doesn't always apply when they request talent from their industry partners. The unfortunate truth is that many consulting firms that specialize in contract management support services have had to turn away seasoned veterans with 20+ years of experience because their client required a certain certification or training from their candidates. Don't let this happen to you! Instead, stock your résumé with relevant training and certifications that will make it shine. There are four distinct benefits that immediately come to mind:
Aside from making yourself more marketable, certifications also serve as a great form of employment protection. The more of them you have, the more insulated you are from being unemployed for a prolonged period of time. Having a CFCM, MBA, or FAC-C Level II alone should get you an interview by someone and, of course, if you have other related training and experience to accompany it, you'll surface in even more recruiter web searches and become marketable to even more firms. Remember, even if you don't have the certifications themselves, annotating related training can only help your case.
By knowing that you are among the most qualified of candidates from whom a recruiter has to choose, you automatically shift the balance of power in salary negotiations. Now, instead of hoping that someone offers you a job, you can negotiate with more confidence and wait until the right offer comes along. All of a sudden, instead of "seeking" work, you've become more actively "sought after," which is the ideal position!
Just as lawyers and doctors often place designations such as JD (Juris Doctorate) or PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in their signature blocks, contract professionals have designations, too. Placing your hard-earned CFCM or CPCM title in your own signature block is a subtle advertisement in every e-mail you send. It tells the reader that you're a qualified professional in your field. Adding these same designations to your name on different social networking sites, such as LinkedIn or your ContractManagementJobs.com account, will get you instant recognition.
This may be one of the more overlooked or least considered benefits that stem from obtaining professional certifications and education. The truth is when recruiters and their clients see these in a résumé, they are less inclined to probe a candidate for information out of fear of offending a true "contracting professional." Your relevant certifications and professional education alone validate your standing in the contracting community and your knowledge of contracting principles, thus making your opinion on related matters worthy of consideration.
If you do not have the have the time, money, or experience that professional training or schooling requires to jazz up your résumé, there's still hope! Even the most accomplished contract managers often sell themselves short by not avoiding some very basic rules concerning résumé presentation. Don't let the same happen to you. Make the most of your limited credentials by taking a few minutes to consider the following before posting your résumé.
1. Acronyms
Unless you know your audience and are fairly confident they understand the meaning of an acronym, err on the side of caution and spell it out to avoid confusing them. If you're applying for a contractor position that supports a federal client, there is a great chance the client will want to see your résumé so it's important to use terminology with which they are reasonably familiar.
2. Grammar/Punctuation
Good contract managers have a keen attention to detail and there's no better way to misrepresent yourself to a recruiter than by displaying a lack of it in your résumé by demonstrating poor grammar and punctuation. Remember, recruiters need professionals that can represent the company well, so they place a premium on avoiding résumés that appear less than professional grade. Therefore, before posting your résumé on a job search engine, print it, comb it for errors, and consider having a trusted friend review it as well. Your resume is a reflection of you and therefore you want it to represent your capabilities, experiences, and achievements in the best possible light.
3. Generalizing/Redundancy
Most professionals, save for the most seasoned contracting veterans, cap their résumé at two pages. Recruiters appreciate succinct résumés because when written correctly, two pages are generally enough space to demonstrate if the candidate has the necessary background and training. Consider focusing on quality and not quantity and not generalizing or being overly repetitive. For example, if you've performed many of the same tasks throughout your career then find ways to differentiate them. Get specific. For example, instead of mentioning several times the prosaic "performed closeout functions," turn it into an accomplishment such as "Led team of four in closing out 700 expired contracts in two months, recouping $10,000 in unspent agency funds." Such statements tend to resonate with the reader.
Final thought: Chances are a recruiter doesn't know you and, therefore, has only your résumé from which they can base an opinion. Your résumé is your only spokesperson! So think of it as the invitation to your party that you're dying for recruiters to attend. Create a buzz and generate interest about it. Make the recruiters want to RSVP!
About the Author
Travis Authier, CPCM, CFCM, CCCM is a Senior Program Manager at YRCI. Prior to joining YRCI, he served as an active duty Air Force Contracting Officer and an Acquisition Consultant. As YRCI'c Senior Project Manager, he is responsible for the recruiting, staffing, and execution of a large portfolio of projects on which YRCI employees serve as acquisition consultants to a variety of federal and commercial clients around the nation. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Satya Nadella's Microsoft is all about "mobile and the cloud," a more nuanced view of what it means to be a devices and services business. So if day one of its BUILD developer conference was all about the mobile, it's not surprising that day two was all about the cloud -- with Cloud and Server chief Scott Guthrie making 44 separate announcements about Azure in the course of his keynote.
Azure: Blending IaaS and PaaS
Microsoft's Azure cloud service has been the driver for much of the company's recent innovation, with its mix of infrastructure and platform features. Working with Azure has meant working with its web portal every time you wanted to create new virtual machines. Microsoft is streamlining the process for developers, so you can now create a virtual machine straight from Visual Studio. You can also manage your existing VMs, and even remotely debug apps running across devices and the cloud.
Increased automation makes Azure, and the cloud as a whole, more palatable to IT departments. With support for Puppet and Chef, you're now able to automate configuration management across a flexible fabric of virtual servers. By adding open configuration management tooling to Azure Microsoft is making its cloud surprisingly portable -- you can take those configurations and use the same tools to deploy them on other, competing, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds. Microsoft is also using its own tooling to simplify defining and provisioning virtual servers, with its PowerShell scripting environment now supporting a JSON-based template language that can be used to deploy not just servers and applications, but also the low level connections that form the foundations of a cloud application.
Azure's web platform is perhaps the most visible element of its Platform as a Service (Paas) aspect. It's now able to autoscale web sites, helping your apps keep online as loads fluctuate. There's also support for a new Webjobs role, which offloads work to background threads running in any supported language, and tools for handling traffic across Azure's global network of data centers. You can now also use Azure as a development platform for web applications, with private staging sites that can be swapped for live sites at a click of a button.
The other side of Azure's PaaS is its mobile services tooling. Designed to support not just Windows and Windows Phone, but also iOS, MacOS, and Android, Azure Mobile Services handles back end services for mobile apps, with APIs for storage, notifications, and authentication. Microsoft demonstrated it using the new Office 365 APIs announced a couple of weeks ago, linking an app to its cloud Active Directory service and the Office 365 calendar, using one authentication token to open access to both services.
Open source .NET and Xamarin
The other side of Microsoft's cloud developer story is its languages. There's not been much movement there over the last few years, while it's been redesigning its compiler from the ground up. The resulting Roslyn compiler was released -- and open sourced -- on stage by C#'s designer, Anders Hjelsberg.
Roslyn is best thought of as Compiler as a Service, exposing compiler features in the Visual Studio (and other) IDEs. Using Roslyn it's easier to see just what your code is doing, as you get intimate knowledge of how it compiles. That makes it simpler to refactor code, as you can see just what effects code changes will have -- without having to recompile, build, and test your app every time you make a change.
Open sourcing its developer technologies makes a lot of sense for Microsoft, as it means it can continue to work closely with partners like Xamarin to deliver cross-platform solutions. Adding iOS and Android UIs to Windows universal apps will be easier for developers with the release of Xamarin 3.0 which will add support for Windows new shared project model.
Xamarin CTO Miguel De Icaza likes what Microsoft has done with universal apps, telling us, "Shared projects make things easy. It used to be painful, you think how come it didn't work this way before." Adding Xamarin's iOS and Android support to the universal app model makes sense, all you need to learn will be a new API for the UI on alternate platforms.
Supporting the Roslyn compiler will allow Xamarin to put more resources into its IDE for MacOS users, making it, as Icaza says, "A big deal for end user developers". Replacing the Mono compiler with Roslyn wasn't hard, De Icaza told us, "It needed a couple of minimal patches."
De Icaza is enthusiastic about the changes Microsoft is making, and about the changed relationship between the two companies, "It's a change in the dynamics of how we interact with Microsoft, with an active plan to collaborate. We had a wish list of things on both sides, so we're working together, sharing roadmaps and technologies."
One significant outcome of the new relationship was Microsoft taking the time and effort to give Xamarin access to .NET documentation under a Creative Commons license (as De Icaza notes, "Open source developers aren't so good at documentation"). De Icaza sees this donation as a sign of just how important the relationship is to Microsoft.
Microsoft's relationships with companies like Xamarin will be key to the success of the new .NET Foundation. As De Icaza points out, it's got one of the requirements for success, "There's a clear mission, to make .NET the best platform for a wide range of uses". That work will happen inside and outside the foundation, and the release of Roslyn should speed up language development.
Getting the bill
While much of Microsoft's work on redesigning its Azure portal is focused on the growing importance of DevOps, there's a lot there for end-user developers too. Improved debugging and monitoring makes a lot of sense, as does integration of the cloud-based Visual Studio editor. They're all important features, but the real winner is one that adds much needed transparency to the cloud: The ability to see just what it's costing you.
Being able to see how much a cloud-hosted app costs -- from storage to bandwidth to compute -- is vitally important for end-user developers, when it's often their own credit cards on the line, not a corporate account. From the new Azure portal you'll be able to see how different elements of an app add to your total bill, letting you know what parts of an app need tuning, as well as when your budget is about to be exhausted! Knowing that your data costs are high while your bandwidth costs are low makes it easy to reconsider how an app stores data.
Changes all around
BUILD 2014 has been a landmark event for Microsoft -- for both its mobile and cloud aspects. New operating system releases are one aspect of those changes, but it's the deep changes in both technologies and philosophy in the cloud that really show just how much Microsoft has changed. Azure is the heart of the new Microsoft, and in its relationships with companies like Xamarin and Puppet Labs it's showing just how open it has become.
It's an openness that's going to be key to Microsoft's future, as it works with organizations like the .NET Foundation to deliver the tools and technologies its ecosystem needs to BUILD the infrastructure that Nadella's ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence will require. One thing's clear, though: this is only the start of a massive wave of changes both for and from the folk up in Redmond.


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Elizabeth, Illinois
Elizabeth, Illinois, as seen from the observation tower west of the village.
|Name origin: Elizabeth Armstrong, an early settler
|Nickname: The Heart of Jo Daviess County[1]
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|801 ft (244 m) [2]
|42°19′04″N 90°13′17″W / 42.31778°N 90.22139°WCoordinates: 42°19′04″N 90°13′17″W / 42.31778°N 90.22139°W
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|0.78 sq mi (2 km2)
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|761 (2010)
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Elizabeth is a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. The population was 761 at the 2010 census.
Elizabeth is located at 42°19′1″N 90°13′24″W / 42.31694°N 90.22333°W (42.317007, -90.223231).[3]
According to the 2010 census, the village has a total area of 0.78 square miles (2.0 km2), all land.[4]
As of the 2000 United States Census,[5] there were 682 people, 309 households, and 177 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,554.8 people per square mile (598.5/km²). There were 343 housing units at an average density of 782.0 per square mile (301.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.97% White, 0.15% African American, 0.15% Asian, and 0.73% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.15% of the population.
There were 309 households out of which 21.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.9% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.4% were non-families. 39.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 23.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.05 and the average family size was 2.74.
In the village the population was spread out with 17.4% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 21.8% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 32.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 84.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.9 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $33,587, and the median income for a family was $41,354. Males had a median income of $27,917 versus $23,636 for females. The per capita income for the village was $17,235. About 4.5% of families and 8.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 13.7% of those age 65 or over.
Former U.S. Congressman John C. McKenzie lived most of his life in Elizabeth and is buried at Elizabeth Cemetery.
Notable multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird has a home on a farm just outside this village.
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Although a settlement of modest size, Elizabeth incorporated in 1868, has a long history of printed media. It was first served by the Elizabeth News, starting at the latest in 1889.[6] In 1913 or 1914 the paper changed its name to the Elizabeth Weekly News. The Elizabeth Weekly continued its publication until 1979.[7] A second newspaper, the Elizabeth Times, was published in the village from 1937 through 1955.[8]
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- Apple River Fort
- Battle of Apple River Fort
- Chicago Great Western Railroad Depot
- Elizabeth Armstrong
- ^ Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
- ^ "Newtown". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 21, 2007.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "Places: Illinois". 2010 Census Gazetteer Files. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ Illinois Newspaper Project | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- ^ Illinois Newspaper Project | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- ^ Illinois Newspaper Project | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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For the 25 million adults who suffer daily from Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), an important new resource is now available that will demonstrate how to control acid reflux and heartburn. Dr. Tim Harlan, AKA Dr. Gourmet, board-certified internist and Medical Director at Tulane University School of Medicine, has released a new book, The Dr. Gourmet Diet for People with GERD/Acid Reflux, and a new iPhoneApp, diet4gerd, both of which include information on how to eat great food without the pain of reflux, recommendations for lifestyle change, and "Tummy Tips" to help you live a pain-free life.
Research has shown that being overweight increases the risk of acid reflux; The Dr. Gourmet Diet for People with GERD/Acid Reflux and diet4gerd help people lose weight, eat great food and control acid reflux.
"The key to controlling GERD is careful experimentation to find what works best in reducing your symptoms," says Dr. Tim Harlan, aka Dr. Gourmet. "The book and app provide information, recommendations and recipes to help determine symptom triggers and meal ideas that don't cause discomfort."
The Dr. Gourmet Diet for People with GERD/Acid Reflux is available for download at DrGourmet.com for $14.95 and softback book for $19.95. Diet4gerd is available for download on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch in the iTunes App Store for $2.99.
For more information about Dr. Gourmet, Dr. Tim Harlan, The Dr. Gourmet Diet for People with GERD/Acid Reflux and diet4gerd, please visit http://www.drgourmet.com or http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/diet4gerd/id420825581?mt=8#
About Dr. Gourmet
Dr. Timothy Harlan, who practices medicine daily in New Orleans, is currently the Medical Director of the Tulane University Medical Group at Tulane University School of Medicine and is an assistant professor of medicine. He writes extensively on diet and health. His books, It's Heartly Fare and Hand On Heart, guide readers on what they can eat for optimum health. Just Tell Me What to Eat (Da Capo Lifelong Books) is being released in June 2011. As a recognized expert, Dr. Harlan has been featured on CNN, "The New York Times" and "The Wall Street Journal" and other top-tier media outlets. On television Harlan has been the on-air expert for the Food Network show "Cooking Thin" and as a host on the DIY Network show "AskDIY." His 2002 public broadcast program "The Dr. Gourmet Show" earned an Emmy® Award for excellence in medical programming.
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Ford Mustang Boss 302: first drive
Ford says its 444bhp 'Stang out-handles the best Europe has to offer. True or false? There's only one way to find out…
Posted: 05 May 2011
With that live rear axle sitting out the back, you expect there to be some bumping and jumping as the car hits bumps mid-corner. And, sure enough, there is. But the key thing is that it happens in such a super-controlled way, and the steering is quick enough, that you can catch it before it becomes a problem. If anything, it makes driving it even more fun. Ford likes to say that a well-set-up live axle arrangement is better than a poor independent set-up, which is true. Particularly when the car costs just $40,995 and goes as fast as the Boss.


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Investors who dumped their emerging- market assets this year ignored the economic reality on the ground, according to the chief executive officer of FLSmidth & Co. A/S, a Danish company that boasts the world's biggest installed base of cement production lines used to build everything from roads in India to high-rise towers in Brazil.
Karstadt, the department-store unit of insolvent German retailer Arcandor AG that is in talks with potential buyers, may fail to convince some German cities to abandon tax claims, endangering the sale, said the insolvency administrator's spokesman Thomas Schulz in an interview today.
Arcandor AG's Karstadt department- store chain attracted a third potential suitor, the insolvent German retailer's administrator said.
A document sent by Italian entrepreneur Maurizio Borletti regarding Germany's Karstadt doesn't constitute an offer for the department-store chain, according to its insolvency administrator.
Karstadt, the insolvent German department-store chain that's up for sale, received three binding offers from investors and extended a deadline to decide on the winning bid.
FLSmidth & Co. A/S rose the most among Copenhagen's benchmark stocks today after two of Denmark's biggest banks raised price estimates on bets the maker of mining equipment's cost-cutting plan will improve profits.
Triton, the private equity firm that bid for Arcandor AG's Karstadt department-store unit last week, said the deadline to reach an agreement may be extended.
Karstadt, the German department-store chain owned by insolvent retailer Arcandor AG , started talks with a third suitor, which is examining the division's books, a spokesman for the bankruptcy administrator said.
Karstadt, the insolvent German department-store chain that's up for sale, hasn't yet received any binding offers and may extend a May 28 deadline that was set by its bankruptcy administrator.
Maurizio Borletti , the owner of Italy's La Rinascente and France's Printemps department stores, made an approach for insolvent German competitor Karstadt AG, seeking to trump Berggruen Holdings Ltd.
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Mbanza-Kongo — Over ten artists and cultural agents were honoured Tuesday in northern Zaire province by the local government officials, in recognition of their contribution in promotion of socio-cultural values in the region.
The artists and cultural agents received certificates of merit, during a ceremony witnessed by the deputy governor of Zaire province for political and social sector, Rogério Eduardo Zabila, in representation of the provincial governor, José Joanes André.
In their message, the local artists and cultural agents highlighted the daily plight they face.
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The Renewable-Energy Surcharge Calculator: Calculate the Renewable-Energy Levy Yourself
How will the renewable-energy levy for electricity, the EEG-Umlage, develop by 2018? So that everybody can answer this question, Agora Energiewende has developed a software that – with just a few mouse clicks – determines how political decisions will affect the renewable-energy levy for electricity.
The program is Excel-based and requires only a little knowledge to operate. In terms of software, one needs Windows and a 2007 Excel version. On Macs and older versions of Excel, an Excel 97 version works, too. The program doesn't work with Open Office. We are currently working on an online version.
In just seconds, the software calculates not only the cost of the renewable-energy levy for the years up to 2017, but also in diagrams shows the distribution of cash flows and the composition of the remuneration. The user can choose among a variety of scenarios for energy policy and the energy-economic framework, as well as the rate of the expansion of renewable energy in coming years. This way, the annual new capacities for renewable energy can vary, as well as the level of electricity prices on the energy exchange, the extent of the levy exemption for large consumers (privilege), or the amount of feed-in-tariff for plant operators.
The tool has two modes: Decision-makers may opt for an easy-to-use mode with useful pre-defined scenarios, while experts can go deeper with the more complex mode hat enables them to calculate in more variables.
The renewable-energy levy calculator is updated regularly. Until now, it is only available in a German language version.
The Renewable-Energy Levy Calculator download:
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Does anyone know of any research regarding math textbook adoption and grade configurations? In particular, I am looking for information on K-6 adoptions vs. K-5/6-8 adoptions. I have scoured the web without finding anything :(
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Lynn - I'll add your question to the MSP2 newsletter that will go out today. Hopefully, you'll get some responses. Kim
Thanks, Kim ~~ that would be wonderful :) Am finding it hard to believe that there's nothing out there...
If you are a state that has adopted the Common Core State Standards, the textbooks publishers are racing to get a book out for the schools that are aligned with them. I do not know of any research regarding textbook adoption and grade configurations. I have always had to supplement with any textbook that I have used. I hope that I have been some help. It is hard to adopt a book that meets all the standards.
Something in Shannon's comment made me think of the "What Works Clearinghouse" - it is funded by the US Dept. of Education and they have funded quite a bit of research on existing curriculum materials. I did a search on math and quite a few studies came up - Accelerated Math, Connected Math. There is a ton of good information across the disciplines - hope you find something that helps.
Thank you for your efforts and suggestions, Shannon and Kim. As a search committee we have already discussed how textbooks are rapidly changing in response to the CCSS-M at this point as well as the fact that a "perfect" textbook does not exist. Our goal is to find one that needs the least "fixing" and supports teachers as they respond to the CCSS-M instructional shifts and mathematical practices in addition to the appropriate content. My original question was mainly wondering about what to include in our PK-6 search ~~ just PK-6 series or PK-5/6-8 series as well...
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