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Heidi's wedding dress is from the Monique Lhuillier Spring 2009 line. The dress, called "Symphony," retails for $7,500. It is made of silk organza and has a drop waist with a peacock feather design. The ivory silk chiffon sash retails for $2,500. It has an embellished motif at the center.
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Episode #0030″Sweet Whispers"
In this edition of Vertebreaker!, Max Russell, Peter Chestnut, James Edgewood, Michael Madison, and Jeremy Rockwell are in the studio this week. We cover lots of topics including: Breakup Sex, Sex Tapes, Wrong Kid?, Don King, Octa-Mom, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Multiple Children, 7 Days, STD Test, STD Call, THE LIST, Hooking up at the Clinic, Ty's Sex Tape, Walking in on your Friend, ISU, BJ's and Poker, BJ's and Sealab 2021, Balls and Balls, the J Hook, Blue Balls, Rubbing herself with your piece, Drunk Sex, Ty thinks about George Bush while trying to get hard, 2 Guys 1 Horse, Peanut Butter Farts, Pudding Farter, and much more. This show was recorded on March 8th, 2009.
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Yes, I know, I've been away for a while. Lots going on. Most of it not great, sigh. It's been a rough month or two. But there are two good things: One, I finally finished my New Project and it is in Mr. Agent's hands, and Two, I have started writing a Terrible POV novella that will hopefully not be awful. It's very, very odd writing in his voice. The story starts about a month before UNHOLY MAGIC, and we'll see how far into the established timeline it goes; I'm not sure yet if it'll cover any of UM/CoG or not. Probably not, but if you guys like it and it's successful I may do another one which does cover that period/story from his POV.
Oh, and Three, for my UK readers! I will be at FantasyCon in Brighton this weekend! I'll be signing books at the big Friday night signing, and doing a reading Saturday afternoon at three. Eep. I have no idea what to read. Any suggestions?
I'm very excited; I love conventions, and I think this is going to be a really cool one, but I know very few people who'll be there so please by all means come and say hello if you're there.
Also for my UK/AUS readers, when I return I will have some info on FINDING MAGIC for you. I know it's taken a while, sorry, but it will be released here/there, and hopefully it won't take too long.
So…just a quick one, basically. Like I said, it's been a fairly rough and busy couple of months. But I'm hoping to be back on track soon.


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"The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it," is a thing retired pitcher Goose Gossage said, channeling his inner '80s movie villain during an interview with ESPN back in March. The Hall of Fame reliever wasn't entirely wrong. Like nearly every other aspect of popular culture, the nerds have won—at least so far as MLB's front offices are concerned. (With a few exceptions, the on-field play is still largely the realm of the jock.)
In the 35 years since baseball oracle Bill James coined the term "sabermetrics," his "search for objective knowledge about baseball" has grown from an outsider curiosity to a driving force behind the scenes of America's pastime. The phenomenon, which uses oft overlooked statistics to evaluate players and optimize team performance, has led to an explosion of stat-head hires who have helped to fundamentally transform the game. In the process, it has devalued traditional metrics for newer models, inflaming the perpetual struggle of jocks versus nerds.
Baseball Prospectus has been fanning those flames since the mid '90s, pioneering new statistical tools and offering some of the most insightful statistical analysis in the business. Since 2012, the site has been home to the equally wonderful daily podcast Effectively Wild, cohosted by then editor-in-chief Ben Lindbergh and his successor, Sam Miller. Lindbergh has since left the site (he now works as a writer at former BP managing partner Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight), but the pair still post the show every weekday like clockwork—with the notable exception of certain stretches in 2015.
The pair had a book to write—and a baseball team to run. Last summer, Lindbergh and Miller took the reigns of the Sonoma Stompers, utilizing the independent league team as a sort of real-world laboratory in which to finally bring their wildest stat-head theories to life. The result, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work, is quite possibly the most engaging entrée into the labyrinthine world of baseball statistics since Moneyball.
Along the way, the Stompers experience the highs and lows of a baseball season, sign Sean Conroy, the first openly gay player professional baseball player in the country, and have a predictably hilarious encounter with mixed-martial artist and sometime baseball player Jose Canseco.
Lindbergh and Miller hopped on Skype to discuss the book ahead of its May 4 release.
At what point did the whole experiment become real? And when did the book enter into the equation?
SAM MILLER: The first time that I felt like it was actually going to happen was when I first spoke to the owner of the Stompers. When he said he thought it was a good idea, we realized it was plausible. From there it kind of took care of itself. It's a pitch that everyone immediately responds to fairly excitedly. It's actually fun—although it's much less fun when you actually get down to the nitty gritty of it, because you realize that everyone involved is a person with their own competing agendas and interests.
BEN LINDBERGH: The book and project came together in tandem. As much as we would have been tempted to do it without a book, it just wouldn't have been feasible. I had to move out to Sonoma for the summer and Sam had family obligations that he had to give up. The project was always continent on the book. When we got the book deal, we realized we were really doing this.
Was there pushback against the idea of using this entire season as a sort of laboratory experiment?
SAM: I think there was some trepidation from the people whose careers we were going to be in a position to affect. When you tell the manager or players that you're going to do this and to trust you, they don't know you well enough to trust you. And they don't know what your intentions are. It's very easy for them to imagine the worst. I think Ben and I are very conservative in the way we approach this project and the way we approach everything, but they didn't know that. I think they got comfortable when they realized we weren't going to be super radical—but I think you can make the case that we should have been more radical. If we had to do it over again, we would probably take an approach that would be a little more disruptive and worth worrying about.
There was a lesson in there about not holding any players back from positions in higher leagues for the benefit of the team. A lot of players ultimately see this as a stepping stone.
SAM: They see it as a stepping stone and almost everyone involved sees it as a stepping stone for them. That is why these leagues exist: so guys can get another chance. If there wasn't a realistic possibility for them to move up, you wouldn't have the talent. And if you didn't have the talent, you wouldn't have the business. I think everyone knows that you have to go along with this system—and it's a hard system to deal with when you're losing your best pitcher or best centerfielder a week before the end of the season. If you didn't allow that guy to go, leagues like this would cease to function. Partly you don't want to step in their toes and get in the way of their career. But you're also spending three months with these guys. You're there 10 hours a day, and lot of camaraderie that extends to you in the front office, and you don't want to be unpopular. You want to stay on the good side of the clique. To some degree, I was at a disadvantage because of my insufferable need to be liked. Going back to childhood, I have a very hard time not being like by jocks.
If we had simulated this season a million times, in very few of them would we have gotten a better narrative arc.
You only had the single season, but it was split into two parts — which played out with extremely different results. Why was there such a huge divergence between the first and second halves?
BEN: It was incredible how distinct it was. It kind of went completely the opposite of how we hoped it would. We hoped we would do well enough to stay in the race and not embarrass ourselves in the first half—that gradually we would gather all of this intelligence, because the more time we had, the data we would be able to gather. We thought we would be able to apply all of that knowledge in the second half and go undefeated from then on. That didn't happen. We started off incredibly well. We couldn't lose. And to some extent, we couldn't completely figure out why. So it became an impediment in certain ways, because the big thing in baseball is that when you want to try something new, there's always some objection, and if you're losing, there's some pushback because the manager or whoever is making these decisions doesn't want to look like he's panicking. But if you're winning, you have an even more uphill battle because the manager can tell you that you don't need to change anything. It was hard to experiment because we were already winning and they felt like they didn't need to do anything different.
In the second half, we did do more, and we somehow lost more. i think that was more correlation than causation, I hope. We lost a lot of players—we were victim to our own success in a way. We had some of the best players in the league, and when you're that low in the professional baseball pecking order, other leagues look down and hoist up the best players from the league below. That happened to us and it became a challenge to fill these roster slots on the fly.
The phrase "baseball is a game of failure" pops up a few times toward the end. What did you mean by that?
SAM: I don't think I believe that baseball is a game of failure. I resist that idea. It's a zero-sum game. If I learned anything, particularly in the second half, it's that you're just going to run into good teams. It's sometimes tempting to think that the outcome of a game is a referendum on your abilities or who you are as a person. But sometimes you're playing a good team. We went up against a team that was doing things completely differently than us. If you had said that it was going to be a season where the stat-heads are going up against a team that is doing things completely sub-optimally, we would have said, "What a great setup." But the problem is that they also had strengths.
The second-half collapse was because we kept losing really good players, but a lot of it was just that we were getting out hustled for new players. We didn't really figure out a way to crack that the way that they did. Other than that, to a large degree our vision about what the team should be was realized in the second half. We just didn't have the players anymore.
BEN: We were lucky from a storytelling perspective. If we had simulated this season a million times, in very few of them would we have gotten a better narrative arc. We got the highest highs and the lowest lows, and we got some incredible individual stories and angles that we never would have planned for. There were ways in which we could have been a terrible team that was never in contention or we could have just walked to the title. But there wouldn't have been very much narrative tension, but as it was, we happened to get this very distinctive split season where everything was going great and then everything was going horrible and all of these stories presented themselves.
And you got Sean [Conroy], which has to be the best story of the season.
BEN: In very many ways. Sean Conroy was one of the players we signed, based on college stats. He was passed over in the major league draft by every other professional team in the country. They weren't interested because he doesn't throw extremely hard—he's a side armer, he's not a huge guy—but he was incredibly effective. We signed him, and not only was he one of the best players in the league and a great guy to be around, but he also became the first openly gay professional baseball player in the country. How he handled that was really impressive to watch and gave us unexpected insight into how a clubhouse works. He makes it more than just a story about stat-heads.
Do you get the sense the Stompers will be carrying any of these lessons over into the next season? Or will they just be hitting the reset button?
SAM: I think they're definitely carrying some of this forward. But they're somewhat limited. We were very lucky in that we had access to a tremendous amount of data that wouldn't otherwise be available at that level. We were gifted with PITCHf/x (a pitch tracking system) cameras at the park and software that helps with advanced scouting, and we had a great volunteer labor force that went out and scouted games for us. The Stompers won't have that, so a lot of the data that we had access to they won't have. Even without that, though, one of the things about playing in a four-team league is that there aren't very many secrets if you're paying attention. [Stompers general manager] Theo Fightmaster was in perfect syncronicity with what we were doing all along. I would expect the team to play a brand of baseball that's—if not the most radical thing in the world—certainly different than the kind any of the other teams are playing.


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Silver Bluff and Midland Valley have already healed old wounds in winning region titles.
Midland Valley (7-3 overall, 5-1 overall) ran off six straight wins to end the regular season with the school's first Region 4-AAA title. Silver Bluff (10-0 overall, 5-0 Region 6-AA) won the Region 6-AA title for the first time since 1993.
Now the teams will have to escape demons from the postseason. Both schools blew second-half leads to lose in the first round of last year's state playoffs.
The Bluff fell to Batesburg-Leesville 28-21 in Class AA action, after leading 21-7 entering the fourth quarter. The Panthers went on to play for the state title, where they lost to Emerald. Midland Valley fell to Lake City in Class AAA play 41-31 after leading 31-21 midway through the third quarter.
The Mustangs will have their hands full with last year's state runner-up Manning, while the Bluff will take on a resurgent Bishop England team.
"We definitely didn't get an easy draw, they're very formidable," Mustang coach Rick Knight said. "Hopefully memory will serve a little from last year. The region title is history now. They have to put that behind them because we want more."
Midland Valley lost running back Travis Mays in the fourth week of the season to an elbow injury for four games. In stepped backup Pele Williams who had three 100-yard performances.
Mays has come back to team with Williams to provide a powerful one-two punch. Mays piled 115 yards and scored on a 36-yard touchdown in the Mustangs' 17-14 title-clinching win over Strom Thurmond. Williams added 67 yards as Midland Valley ran up 273 yards rushing.
Williston-Elko's Brian Williams used a 253-yard performance on 38 carries last Friday to overtake Silver Bluff's Marcus Jones for the area rushing lead.
Williams finished the year with 1,455 yards on 258 tries to go with 14 touchdowns. Jones trails the defending champion with 1,313 yards on 196 attempts. Jones has an area-leading 22 touchdowns for the Bulldogs, the best rushing team in the area.
Strom Thurmond quarterback Antwaun Hillary is drawing major-college attention for a good reason. The senior completed the regular season with 1,418 yards and 12 TD passes, hitting on 99 of 175 attempts.
"He does so much for this club because he is so dangerous," Thurmond coach Brian Smith said. "He probably could easily go over 1,000 yards rushing too, but we throw out of the shotgun formation and that hurts his yards. He doesn't worry about it though. He thinks team first. He's that unselfish."
Hillary also rushed for 774 yards and 11 touchdowns on just 107 carries for an area-best 7.2-yards per carry. The senior leads Thurmond (5-5 overall, 4-2 Region 4-AAA) into Charleston to face Burke in Class AAA playoff action.
Williston-Elko (9-1 overall, 6-0 overall) ran off nine straight wins after opening the season with a loss to Barnwell. The Blue Devils welcome Thornwell tonight in the first round of the Class A playoffs.
Midland Valley ended the season with a six-game winning streak. Silver Bluff has won 10 straight, and Aiken (8-2 overall, 5-1 region 3-AAAA) is on a five-game win streak. After winning it's first three Region 3-AAAA games, North Augusta has now dropped three in a row.
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Turin Shroud Once Again Fake!So, earlier this year, I thought they - whoever they are - proved that the Turin shroud was genuine. But now it is back to fake again, apparently:
Turin Shroud confirmed as fake
June 22, 2005
A FRENCH magazine has said it had carried out experiments that proved the Shroud of Turin, believed by some Christians to be their religion's holiest relic, was a fraud.
"A mediaeval technique helped us to make a Shroud," Science & Vie (Science and Life) said in its July issue.
The Shroud is claimed by its defenders to be the cloth in which the body of Jesus Christ was wrapped after his crucifixion.
It bears the faint image of a blood-covered man with holes in his hand and wounds in his body and head, the apparent result of being crucified, stabbed by a Roman spear and forced to wear a crown of thorns.
In 1988, scientists carried out carbon-14 dating of the delicate linen cloth and concluded that the material was made some time between 1260 and 1390. Their study prompted the then archbishop of Turin, where the Shroud is stored, to admit that the garment was a hoax. But the debate sharply revived in January this year.
Drawing on a method previously used by sceptics to attack authenticity claims about the Shroud, the magazine got an artist to do a bas-relief - a sculpture that stands out from the surrounding background - of a Christ-like face.
A scientist then laid out a damp linen sheet over the bas-relief and let it dry, so that the thin cloth was moulded onto the face.
Using cotton wool, he then carefully dabbed ferric oxide, mixed with gelatine, onto the cloth to make blood-like marks. When the cloth was turned inside-out, the reversed marks resulted in the famous image of the crucified Christ.
Gelatine, an animal by-product rich in collagen, was frequently used by Middle Age painters as a fixative to bind pigments to canvas or wood.
The imprinted image turned out to be wash-resistant, impervious to temperatures of 250 C (482 F) and was undamaged by exposure to a range of harsh chemicals, including bisulphite which, without the help of the gelatine, would normally have degraded ferric oxide to the compound ferrous oxide.
The experiments, said the magazine, answer several claims made by the pro-Shroud camp, which says the marks could not have been painted onto the cloth.
Pretty interesting technique, that. And, yum, gelatin.
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Hot But Crazy: Alexis Dziena's (Entourage) BF Gets a Restraining Order
Welcome to the first installment of Hot But Crazy:
Do you guys remember the scary hot girl, with BIG doll eyes (You know the kind that are cute…and maybe plotting your murder) that "E" dated on Entourage? C'mon you remember, she kept inviting herself to things and genuinely reeked of crazy ex-girlfriend. Well I remember her, MOSTLY because I think that she's incredibly hot…but I'm into crazy. Well, according to TMZ,
Jeffrey Francis Ausley says he and Dziena had been dating for a few months, but when he tried to end it, she went crazy … screaming, throwing tantrums and threatening to harm Ausley and herself.
In court docs, Ausley says the final straw came when Dziena showed up at his house last week with a bag of clothes and announced she was moving in … and if he didn't go along with it, she'd have him arrested "because she knew how."
Dziena — who played E's psycho ex-GF on "Entourage" — has now been ordered to stay 100 yards away from Ausley.
I'm not gonna say that this dude knew what he was getting into…but Alexis Dziena's gotta have a monopoly on playing Hollywood's crazy ex-girlfriend, right now. So far, she's done it in Entourage and Nick & Norah's Inifinte Playlist . Maybe she's a character actor like Daniel Day Lewis?
Either way, I think she looks like Topanga from Boy Meets World and I'm into that. Also, maybe she's not completely crazy, she might just be a New Yorker…
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Retailers call off LBT strike, shops to open today
After much distress, disillusionment and dialogue, the city's retailers called off the Local Body Tax (LBT) strike late last evening. The Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association (FRTWA) has announced that shops will open today.
Viren Shah, president, FRTWA, said, "Many retailers wanted to call of the strike because of the festive season. Others felt that the common man was being inconvenienced. However, we will continue to protest by not registering LBT, and only paying five per cent VAT."
Starting today, retailers between South Mumbai and Bandra, Vile Parle and Santacruz will open their shops.
Wholesalers, however, have not arrived at the same conclusion yet. Speaking to SMD, a member of the Joint Action Committee of Textile Traders Association said, "We will not break our strike under any circumstances."
Meanwhile, yesterday, before the strike was called off, traders and shopkeepers found newer ways of expressing their discontent after the Maharashtra government decided that it will levy the LBT from October 1.
On Saturday afternoon, nearly 1,000 traders formed a human chain between Mohammad Ali Road and Crawford Market and protested for two hours. Viral Shah, a trader of the Gifts and Novelties Association, who was a part of the chain had said, "If we accept LBT, we will suffer for life."
The Supreme Court's refusal of the Maharashtra traders' associations plea to grant interim stay on the tax aggravated protestors. More so, the traders felt that Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan turned a blind eye to their issue. A member of the Joint Action Committee of Textile Traders Associations, on condition of anonymity, said, "We have a problem with LBT's regulations, which are not conducive to business and harass us. The chief minister's attitude isn't helping either. We will soon come out on the streets with our wives and children and protest dressed in black."
Other traders took the religious route. Yesterday, the Joint Action Committee of Textile Traders Associations performed a 'maha yagna' for the welfare of the traders at Riddhi Siddhi Mandir at Zaveri Bazaar. A member of the association said, "We arranged for this yagna so that God blesses the government with sensibility."


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"I asked him what was wrong, and he told me that there was an accident last night. Car accident."
It was a Saturday morning about 11am.
It was time to get up and get myself together as I had some serious drinking to get on with.
All us girls had decided to get really wrecked before we turned up at the party.
I got dressed and woke everyone up so that I could go down the street and decide on what we were drinking.
We are all bourbon drinkers so three bottles of the ever so delicious Jim Bean was chosen.
As we sat in the lounge room watching footy and kicking back with our bourbons there was a knock at the door.
I decided to get it. It was the fellas.
We were shouting them taxis out to the party as they were too drunk to drive.
They came in and sat down yelling abuse at the umpires.
They all got up again and went out the back for some pipes.
Wherever they went they would always get stuck into the mull, didn't matter what time of day it was - I'm not quite sure where they get it from.
I'm surprised there's some left in the township as they smoke flat out.
Can't have a two minute conversation with them as it takes fifteen minutes to get one sentence out of them.
By the time Geoff Farmer kicked a screamer of a goal we were all pretty wrecked, including my dog.
The boys had made him inhale the smoke out of the bong. It wasn't looking too good. We decided not to go to the party as the weather was shocking.
I hate outdoor parties. Was blowing an absolute gale and pouring down.
The boys still wanted to go so they rang up one of the guy's brothers who was a real geek - never smokes, drinks, or picks up.
Came about 10.30 and Beth still wanted to go so she left and we sat up and had our own party.
We stayed up until about 2, waiting for Beth.
By then we were pretty much out of it, we listened to the music as we fell asleep in the lounge room.
The phone was ringing, it woke me up.
I should have been awake anyway to let the dog out for a pee. I answered it.
Sounded like Macca, sounded really quiet. I asked him how the party was. He said he didn't go.
They dropped him off at his house as he didn't want to go to some chick's 18th in the freezing cold anyway.
Then he started crying. I'd never heard a boy cry over the phone before.
I asked him what was wrong, and he told me that there was an accident last night. Car accident.
He said they were just going too fast. They couldn't stop and they hit it - a tree. It was over the road, the roads were wet, they all died instantly.
A year has passed and I can't believe how quick it has gone. We all got together again, kicking back over a few drinks and thinking about all the good times we shared.


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Necrophagist "Onset of Putfrefaction" (Willowtip)
Necrophagist's debut album from 1999 that's been out of print for years and desperately wanted by so many. This is no simple re-print, it's a completely new edition. The band was waiting for this day to unleash the complete fury of the compositions, which the band believed to be lost […]


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College basketball fans generally assume that ESPN analyst Dick Vitale is a little biased towards some of the premier programs in the state of North Carolina. But when it comes to college football, Vitale does not have to hide his allegiance. Vitale, who has two daughters who played varsity tennis for the school, openly roots for Notre Dame on the gridiron. Sunday, on Twitter, he stood up for his favorite program after seeing Irish "bashers" lay into the school following the latest alleged academic scandal.
I have a tough time dealing with the ND bashers- someone explain to me since I AM A DUMMY -WHAT DID ND do wrong in the latest situation?
There are a few things at play here. First and foremost, it's no secret that Notre Dame is one of the most envied/disliked programs in the country. Fans of other teams generally don't waste an opportunity to take shots at the Irish when they can.
But regarding the issue at hand, there are a number of ways to look at it. Vitale, clearly, believes that the administration did its job by discovering the academic dishonesty, reporting it to the NCAA, and making it clear that appropriate action will be taken. On the flip side, the bashers would argue that at Notre Dame, which prides itself on academics, this shouldn't happen in the first place.
So far, the general public only knows that four current players are under investigation for the alleged transgressions. At some point soon, we'll know more regarding how and why it all happened.


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"We don't want to get women out of porn, we want to get them INTO porn!" said Erika Lust, the heroine pornographer and porn crusader featured in the first of Rashida Jones' new Netflix documentary series on the porn industry called "Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On." This emphatic statement by Erika seems to embody the message Rashida was clearly sending throughout episode one.
"Women on Top" is the name of the first installment of the series and highlights a new phenomenon called "feminist** porn." The idea is that by placing women behind the camera (and in front of it), the harms of porn are replaced by romance and sex that is supposed to be enjoyable for the women involved to the women in porn and appeal to women watching it.
The story begins with scenes of flowers blowing in the wind, the sun shining and horses frolicking on a farm. We hear soft music and the peaceful sounds of birds chirping in the background. Next, we are introduced to Holly, a porn photographer whose claim to fame is (according to her), creating "glamorous, beautiful" pornographic images. The story of Holly's life and the life of her mother, who is also a pornographer, is presented in a nostalgic and romantic way. At one point Holly proudly reminisces about a time her mother shot an eight-woman orgy for Playboy magazine.
For much of the time Holly and her mother sit at a breakfast table, coffees in hand, and discuss in a manner that comes across as cozy and cute, how they have always been so shy to talk about "real" sex openly, even to the point of saying that having the mother-daughter talk about sex when Holly was young was "so awkward." We get the idea through this scene that the "special" pornographic work of Holly and her mother is playful, innocent and fanciful.
Then, we are whisked to Barcelona, and in a flurry of dramatic and emotionally charged sound bites, Rashida continues to paint the picture of a perfect porn utopia. A place where empowered women rule, the scenes are beautiful and glamourous; the sex filmed is real, pleasurable, caring, classy, intimate and downright amazing; and the sexual fantasies are story-driven, romantic, and inviting. Erika Lust says that unlike mainstream porn, her films show "good sexual encounters"…that "empower" women and are based on "values where the people in [the porn scene] feel connected, that they are respecting each other," and that show "female pleasure."
After so much buildup of this so-called feminist empowering porn, the viewer is about to burst with joy because Rashida has almost totally convinced you that porn is a healthy and happy place for women. Finally we are brought onto an actual "feminist porn" set, where Erika Lust does her magic.
A young woman named Monica is seated at a piano and is about to embark on her first ever porn scene. She is wide-eyed and visibly nervous. The script says that she is going to act out her wildest fantasy of engaging in sex while she plays the piano on a stage. She anxiously fumbles through her lines a few times and Erika is getting impatient.
Then in comes the male character and the sexual scene begins. During the scene Monica is aggressively being pummeled by the man from behind, her hair is being yanked back, and she is clearly in distress. She calls out "Stop!", "please give me a moment, I need a moment." Annoyed, the crew asks her what the problem is, and as she winces as she says "I'm in pain!"
But waiting will cost too much money. They are on the clock, and so Erika the "feminist" hero of this episode, who actually could care less about Monica, bluntly tells her to just "fake it."
Oh. Wait. I thought this was supposed to depict "real" female pleasure. Apparently not.
In an effort to explain away what actually just happened, Erika says, "well in the end this is a film, and it is an illusion, and I create the image that I want you to see as an audience."
You see, what Rashida has been presenting through the stories of Erika and Holly have been thinly veiled illusions as well.
If you aren't convinced that Erika's words about female empowerment are a mere facade, you could dig a tiny bit deeper and check out her website. But once there you may be thoroughly perplexed and disturbed by the fact that her latest porn film is about the mutilation, rape, and torture of a woman "submissive" by a man—she titles it "feminist submissive porn."
Say what? The most basic definition of feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. How is the rape and mutilation of a woman by a man even a remotely feminist idea?
One sex industry survivor told me, "Porn was built on the antithesis of feminism. It was built by men for men. The bottom line is porn is all about releasing men's inner predator, on film and virtually. Porn is never about the girl…they are not 'turned on' by the scenes in porn."
The fact is that this so-called feminist porn is no different than mainstream hardcore porn. It is exactly the same thing with higher cost and production value.
This episode is an example of a much larger disturbing trend happening today in pop culture. Women are attempting to own the title of "feminist" in order to whitewash and justify some of the most degrading acts that could ever happen to women. Touting the label of "feminist," women are pimping out other women, promoting porn, promoting prostitution, and objectifying themselves by peddling softcore porn on social media in the name of "liberation" (see Kim Kardashian's latest nude photo with the caption "liberated").
But just because I say the words "I can fly" a hundred times doesn't make it true. Likewise, porn doesn't magically lose its harms by repeatedly invoking the words "feminist" and "empowering." The fact remains that porn is inherently objectifying, dehumanizing and degrading to women regardless of the spin used to try and present it in a different light.
Rashida would have done well to stick to the truth about porn as she did in her original documentary, in 2015, for which she received backlash because of an honest presentation of the industry. But sadly, at least in this episode, she bowed to the pressure of a porn-influenced media culture in order not to lose her "cool-status" in the eyes of her peers.
At Exodus Cry we have a vision for women that doesn't include being sexually exploited and consumed by hyper-aggressive men on film while having to fake pleasure. What Rashida has presented in this episode is not empowerment or equality–it is downright objectification and degradation.
** It's important to acknowledge the existence of healthy feminism. At its most basic level, feminism is advocating for the rights of women equal to those of men. It's not about man-hating. It's not about casting off all traditional roles of women, as long as these roles can be exercised from a place of equality and respect. Although the term has been hijacked in a myriad of ways by those who promote ideas that are not in line with preserving the dignity of women, healthy feminism does still exist.


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Russian Jewish political prisoner Raiza Palatnik suffered a heart attack Monday while in solitary confinement at her forced-labor camp, and was rushed to a civilian hospital at Dniepropetrovsk, Jewish sources said today. They said Russian Jews were expressing anxiety over the conditions of the 36-year-old librarian, who was sentenced last June 24 to two years' imprisonment for "distributing anti-Soviet propaganda." She is due for release next Dec. 1, the second anniversary of her arrest.


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Brandon Beck is director of the band and wind instrument program at Walla Walla University, a position he has held since 2000. In his position as associate professor of music, he teaches conducting, methods classes, private instruction in low brass instruments, and also directs the Wind Symphony, Steel Band, Brass Ensembles, and as of 2009, the Symphony Orchestra.
Beck has taught since 1981, teaching at three academies before joining the faculty at Southern Adventist University for three years from 1997-2000. While at Auburn Adventist Academy (AAA) in Auburn, Washington, his last academy position, he received the 1995 Lowe Teaching Award as teacher of the year, an award voted by the school's faculty and students, and was listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers in 1992 and 1996. His ensembles at AAA received numerous awards and distinctions, including invitational performances at the 1987 Western International Band Clinic, the 1990 General Conference Session in Indianapolis, and the 1993 annual meeting of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.
His band at AAA consistently received superior ratings in contests run by the local Pierce County League of Music Educators, achieving the highest score for bands four out of the five times they participated. It also won the Small Schools Division of the Lewis and Clark College 1996 Northwest Invitational Band Contest.
Beck has served as a band clinician for high school and elementary band clinics or honor bands in Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington. Most recently he directed the Oregon Music Educators Association's District 6 Honor Band at Pendleton High School in the fall of 2009, and will be directing the Walla Walla University Invitational Honor Band in January of 2011.
Beck completed a Bachelor of Music degree in music education at Walla Walla College (now University), serving as assistant college band director during his senior year. A bass trombonist, he studied with Lloyd Leno at Walla Walla College and with Paul Bauer, Leon Brown, and Royce Lumpkin at the University of North Texas, where he did additional undergraduate study. He completed a master's degree at Vandercook College of Music in 1988 where he continued his bass trombone studies with Roger Rocco.


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Jennifer R. Dusing concentrates her practice in the areas of adoption, family law, general civil litigation, and mediation.
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fwiw . . . i'm not so sure Snell is a worthy favorite tonight, certainly his numbers have been better with Seattle than they were with Pittsburgh, it just might be that Wak and Adair are the kick in the behind that Snell needed. . . on that case alone, i could back him as a medium to heavy dog when the mariners are playing well. but i'm not sure he's worth the going rate tonight.
also, the mariners are 9-2 at home this month, they seem to be enjoying the cold weather, and tonight will be the coldest night they've had since very early in the season.
snell is also due some regression in his babpip, his strong run with the mariners has brough his overal rate down to just below the mlb average, but when you look at what he's done over the past few weeks, you discover numbers that just aren't sustainable over the long haul. that doesn't mean all those balls find holes tonight, but it does lead me to think there's isn't much value in backing him at these prices.
i think this series will be dictated by the rangers attitude muscle. will they play hard and be focused ? or are they just going through the motions ? i don't know that answer, those that do have an inside track on this series. i think the mariners will play hard and maintain focus throughout this series, if the rangers follow suit, i think the mariners win 2 of 3, but i think the sunday prices will be tough to swallow if backing seattle. if the rangers just show up, i think a mariners sweep in a clear possibilty.
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AIR FORCE ACADEMY — Athletic director Hans Mueh remains hopeful that defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter will stay at Air Force.
A source close to the Texas A&M team told the San Antonio Express-News on Friday that DeRuyter was expected to take a similar job with the Aggies. The Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday a deal was close.
Mueh's budget doesn't allow Air Force to compete with the salaries offered at major-college football's bigger programs, but he's trying.
"We've done a few things to try to sweeten the pot a little bit," Mueh said Friday. "Length of contract and maybe a little more money, but my threshold is met pretty fast."
Mueh said the salaries for AFA assistant football coaches are comparable to what is paid at the top end of the Mountain West Conference.
Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun eased the atmosphere Friday when he announced he was staying with the Falcons for at least a fourth season, removing his name as a candidate to replace Lane Kiffin at Tennessee. When told of Calhoun's decision to stay during a team meeting Friday, there was a loud cheer from the AFA players, who start spring practice Feb. 18.
Calhoun's announcement certainly changed Mueh's schedule for the day, and gladly so.
"Coach Calhoun is true to his word, and he loves this school," Mueh said. "He saw the kind of pressure we all were getting in the department, and he was gracious enough to put out the statement. The rumors that go around out there are a little bizarre at times. We're very happy that at least for a while this still is his dream job."
While players and assistant coaches weren't allowed to speak with the media last week, chief of football operations Jeff Cosky was aware of the concerns around the athletic department.
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The foundation for academic learning is rooted in play. We do lots of playing in the Caterpillar class. The activities in the two year old class will support your child's learning using different kinds of materials from nature and the everyday world. The children will be encouraged to use their senses as they work with these materials. There are also many kinds of age-appropriate art projects, puzzles, games, dramatic play, blocks, cars, trucks and trains that encourage working together. All of our activities and material are designed for cognitive and social development. They are presented in playful, fun-filled themes that draw curiosity and support learning.
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Circle time is a small group time for our two year olds to develop their sitting and listening skills. At the beginning of the year,we wil start with short time periods that will increase with the group's maturity. Some of the activities the children will be participating in are: stories, songs, finger-puppet plays, games and flannel board stories. It is also a time to talk with the children about themes, holidays, and special events.
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November 21, 2007
New Details for Indie Xbox Live Arcade Game
Axiom Overdrive
First pilot job advertisement posted
Reflexive Entertainment reveals first details of
the Blast Thru game mode in its upcoming XBLA title Axiom Overdrive.
Players develop precision left stick thrust
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while carrying delicate shock sensitive high explosives.
Managing the counter orbital movement of the
grappled explosives is key to success on these levels, as is mastering a
well-timed grapple release, to slingshot the explosives and blast open bulkhead
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text: Nefopam and Meperidine Are Infra-Additive on the Shivering Threshold in HumansAlfonsi, Pascal MD*; Passard, Andrea MD†; Guignard, Bruno MD†; Chauvin, Marcel MD†; Sessler, Daniel I. MD‡Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2014 - Volume 119 - Issue 1 - p 58–63 doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000193 Anesthetic Pharmacology: Research Report Abstract In Brief Author Information BACKGROUND: Induction of therapeutic hypothermia is often complicated by shivering. Nefopam, a nonsedative benzoxazocine analgesic, reduces the shivering threshold (triggering core temperature) with minimal side effects. Consequently, nefopam is an attractive drug for inducing therapeutic hypothermia. However, nefopam alone is insufficient and thus needs to be combined with another drug. Meperidine also reduces the shivering threshold. We therefore determined whether the combination of nefopam and meperidine is additive, infra-additive, or synergistic on the shivering threshold. METHODS: Ten volunteers were each studied on 4 randomly assigned days. In random order, they were given the following treatments: (1) control, no drug; (2) nefopam to a target concentration of 0.1 μg/mL; (3) meperidine to a target concentration of 0.1 μg/mL; and (4) both nefopam and meperidine at target concentrations of 0.1 μg/mL each. Lactated Ringer's solution at 4°C was infused to decrease core temperature while mean skin temperature was kept near 30.5°C. The core temperature that increased oxygen consumption >25% defined the shivering threshold. RESULTS: Nefopam reduced the shivering thresholds by 0.7°C ± 0.3°C compared with no drug. Meperidine reduced the shivering thresholds by 0.4°C ± 0.3°C compared with no drug. When combined, the shivering threshold decreased by only 0.6°C ± 0.4°C, which was about half what would have been expected based on the individual effects of each drug (P < 0.001). The effect of combined nefopam and meperidine on the shivering threshold was thus infra-additive. CONCLUSIONS: The combination of nefopam and meperidine should be avoided for induction of therapeutic hypothermia. Better options would be combinations of drugs that are at least additive or even synergistic. Published ahead of print May 7, 2014 From the *Department of Anesthesia, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France; †Department of Anesthesia, Hôpital Ambroisse Paré, AP-HP, Paris, France; and ‡Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Accepted for publication December 31, 2013. Published ahead of print May 7, 2014 Funding: Supported by the Medical Research Association (Boulogne, France), Laboratoires Biocodex (Compiègne, France), and the Joseph Drown Foundation (Los Angeles, CA). The sponsors were not involved in subject recruitment, data acquisition, or analysis of results. None of the investigators has a personal financial interest in this research. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This report was previously presented, in part, at the American Society of Anesthesiologists Congress 2005 and French National Congress 2005. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Address correspondence to Pascal Alfonsi, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpital Cochin, 27, Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris, 75014, France. Address e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. On the World Wide Web: www.OR.org. © 2014 International Anesthesia Research Society


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#TBT: UK hires Mitch Barnhart as its new Athletics Director
MEMORY LANE — On this day in 2002, the University of Kentucky hired Mitch Barnhart to be its new athletics director.
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Lately, if you roam the woods of Kinns Road Park in the morning, you might recognize, amid the serene natural beauty of pines and oaks, a guy texting into his iPhone, checking his email and occasionally muttering for his two dogs.
His gaze dances crazily across pixels. His mind, formerly a font of meditative thoughts, endlessly rehashes what remains unresolved – personal and professional troubles, distance from loved ones, the weeds jutting up from his lawn like many middle fingers.
He bears a striking resemblance to me. Admittedly, that's who he is.
There I am (as my unleashed dogs mark trees and chase chipmunks) contemplating not the circle of life, but the huge challenges of raising funds for my musical comedy The Gringo Who Stole Christmas, which hits the Proctors stage in December. I stress over what I'm going to say at my signings for my novel next week at the Albany Public Library and the Albany Jewish Community Center. How I should spend more quality time with my family. Or what the hell I should write for my next blog post.
To avoid introspection, out comes my mobile device. Writing and reading emails and scrolling through Facebook updates beats being alone with my thoughts – dwelling on what's wrong with my life.
Indeed, my forest walks have taken on the tenor of a corporate board meeting with myself. I'm hardly the only one. The forest lately seems peppered with people like me glued to their mobile devices, even as their dogs roam unleashed through natural beauty.
So what's a frustrated ruminator to do? As a man of action, I decided to reach out to the venerable guru of forest walks, someone to whom millions of stressed-out people have long turned for advice.
Sure, Henry David Thoreau is dead. So in lieu of making a day trip to Walden and meeting him at a diner for coffee, I resolved to devote my thoughts, during my next dog walk in the forest, to an imaginary conversation with the patron saint of forest meditation.
"I don't get it, Henry," I'd sigh, my fingers itching to check the iPhone in my pocket. "I used to get a lot of introspection done in the forest. I'd write whole chapters of my novel. Now all I'm doing is rehashing my problems. Where did I go wrong?"
He'd turn his long nose to me, his rustic beard fanning out in the style of prophets. Most human beings, when left alone – he told me — tend to dwell on what's wrong with their lives. They've evolved to become problem solvers – struggling over things we haven't figured out. Money troubles. Health concerns. Unable to resolve these issues, these thoughts reverberate in our heads.
"You should spend more time in the woods," he said serenely. "I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements."
"Four hours? I'm in luck if I find an hour to walk in the morning. I have too much to do! Besides, any more than that I'd probably get plantar fasciitis."
He swept his contemplative gaze across the forest debris feeding the next generation of life, evidently meditating on the cycle of the universe. "And what is this 'plantar fasciitis'?"
"A common ailment of modern people who walk too much. You know, heel pain."
"If one remains afraid of pain, he will never experience gain," he observed. "Freeing oneself of worldly engagements takes time."
He told me (as he also wrote in in a book) how he sought to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it."
His words struck a chord. But when I looked back at him, he was no longer there. In his stead, I spied a spherical web, glistening in sunlight. I saw the spider in the middle, like a tiny God over a galaxy of stars. For a moment I relived that childlike feeling of holding the universe in the palm of my hand.
Just then one of my dogs swept past me, chasing after an extremely fast chipmunk, embodying absolute freedom.
Henry David Thoreau had vanished. But his presence stays with me as I strive to reach that place, "to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
In other words, next time I walk in the woods, maybe I'll leave my iPhone in the car.
David Kalish is the author of The Opposite of Everything, a comic twist on his brush with cancer and divorce, and the playwright of The Gringo Who Stole Christmas, a musical comedy that will be performed at Proctors' GE Theater in December


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text: The Metropolitan Sports Facility Commission "approved all the major points of an agreement to buy the Target Center." This clears the way for Glen Taylor to complete his deal to buy the Timberwolves, which has been contingent on public acquisition of the arena. The agreement will keep the NBA team in Minnesota and "leaves open the possibility that an NHL team may return to the Twin Cities." Commission Chair Henry Savelkoul said Taylor is the most likely buyer of any NHL team, and called the odds of an NHL returning to MN in five years "pretty good." The agreement is for 30 years, but it would allow Taylor to break the deal in 10 years if the team has two successive money-losing seasons. Taylor could also opt out if the state legislature fails to provide the promised $750,000-a-year subsidy. "One unique feature" gives the commission an option to buy the team at the price Taylor is paying today -- $88.5M -- plus a compounded 3% increase for each year he has owned the team" (Patrick Sweeney, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 9/30). TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD The "legal scuffle" between Top Rank and "soon-to-be-former" Wolves owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner continues. Top Rank, the group wanting to move the Wolves to New Orleans, won a "minor" victory as U.S. Magistrate Franklin Noel "disagreed with Wolfenson and Ratner's claim that their sale contract was properly terminated" when the NBA blocked the team's sale to Top Rank. Wolfenson and Ratner must decide by next week whether to have a U.S. District Judge review Noel's recommendation (Jay Weiner, Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 9/29). TWINS WATCH: Twins owner Carl Pohlad says he would like to talk with Taylor about the possibility of joint ownership of the Twins (AP, 9/30).


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Sept. 23, 2011 at 4:23 a.m.
Thumbs-up to getting some much-needed rain.
Chiu, Victoria
Thumbs-up to Victoria College and its security for acting fast to resolve a terrible situation.
I think law enforcement's quick action has eased the fears and minds of a lot of students on campus.
Jane, Victoria
I know it is not against the law, but thumbs-down to people who talk on the cell phone while driving.
I was travelling down Navarro at the speed limit, and a young woman turned right in front of me at an intersection.
If I hadn't slammed on the brakes, I would have T-boned her.
She was on the d*** cell phone.
Cary, Victoria
Thumbs-up to the Victoria College Alumni reunion.
Thumbs-up to rain showers Victoria received.
Thumbs-up to Marguerite Griffin and Len Walker, Red Cross volunteers, who traveled to the Bastrop area to help victims of the fires.
Thumbs-up to Dillard's Fit for a Cure fundraiser for breast cancer awareness.
Thumbs-up to Roger Welder upon his appointment by Gov. Rick Perry to the University of Houston System Board of Regents.
Thumbs-up to the LCRA for allowing our rice farmers at least half the water they'll need for their crops.
Thumbs-up and welcome to Victoria's new Convention and Visitor's Bureau director - LaRue Roth.
Thumbs-down to the satellite that at this writing is going to fall on the Earth somewhere.
Thumbs-down to the continuing drought.
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Randy Johnson, Dan Wilson to be Inducted into Mariners Hall of FameOn Saturday, July 28, during a pre-game ceremony, former Mariners Dan Wilson and Randy Johnson will be inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. Join in the fun as the Mariners take on the KC Royals for Dual Bobblehead Day. The first 20,000 fans at Safeco on July 28 will receive a Dan Wilson and Randy Johnson dual bobblehead.
President Obama Holds Fundraiser Lunch in SeattleYou are invited to join President Barack Obama and his musical guest Dave Matthews for an Obama Victory Fund 2012 luncheon in Seattle on Thursday, May 10.


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Insanity Chalean Extreme Hybrid Schedule (Free Printable Calendar)
Apr 24, 2013
I posted a Insanity Chalean hybrid awhile back and this one is ABOUT the same, I did make a few slight modifications at the end but other than that it's basically the same.
Are you ready to ROCK your workout with an AMAZING combination of crazy cardio and weight training? Talk about the BEST of both worlds wrapped up in one easy to follow Schedule. Let's face it, no one workout is right for everyone sometimes all it takes is finding your combination!
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I love this. I just purchased Insanity. I start on Monday. I'm so happy to find your blog. In the past I've done Chalean and also TurboFire and P90X but I feel off my schedule and just let my results go to crap. (Read busted my butt for my wedding and then fell by the wayside after). I love the idea of taking two and putting them together especially Chalene's weight workouts. There is something magical to be said for going heavy and taking it slow!ReplyDelete
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Me and my friend will be backpacking South China from May 1st till May 19th. We'll be flying in and out from Hong Kong. The only thing we know is that we really wanna visit Yangshuo. We think a couple of days in HK and Guangshuo will be nice as well. Does anyone has any advice on what we should be visiting? Or for instance any tips on what's a good route to travel without visiting everything twice? We're open for all suggestions!
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Johnston, Robert A. and Barry, Christopher (2006) Age of Acquisition and lexical processing: A review. Visual Cognition, 13 (7-8). pp. 789-845. ISSN 1350-6285 . (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280544000066 ) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming, word reading, and word recognition in the lexical decision task), and in object recognition and semantic processing tasks. It also considers AoA effects in: Memory tasks; face processing tasks; multiple-task studies; and different groups of participants (including bilinguals, aphasics, and deep dyslexics). The review then discusses theoretical accounts of AoA effects, especially within connectionist models, and outlines a number of new and outstanding empirical and theoretical issues in AoA research that are addressed by the papers in this Special Issue.
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Here Comes the Cashmere Bride: Highlights from White Cashmere 2015
I've been covering the annual White Cashmere in support for breast cancer awareness since 2012 or so. This year was no exception. Hosted by Beverly Thomson and held on September 29 at the beautiful, historic Carlu on Yonge and College,… Continue Reading


text: i had two btls and i sold one for some quick cash. so now i have 1 18" btl. i miss the two but one should be plenty. i want a ported box still. you can see the pic to the left in my avatar. thats my old box. the height is fine but i want less length...maybe the back seats can come back up? lol probly not. so just give me some ideas if u have any tricks or hints as to a single btl 18 enclosure ported...such as tuning, ft3 etc etc


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As we reported earlier, Rupert Wyatt has dropped out of directing Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and some new names have emerged as to who will take over the franchise. The top contender for the job is Matt Reeves, who recently dropped out of directing a new version of The Twilight Zone for Warner Bros.
Reeves is best known for directing the J.J. Abrams produced Cloverfield and Let Me In, the remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. Other possible candidates include; Juan Antonio Bayona who directed The Impossible, J Blakeson, director of The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Jeff Nichols director of Mud, and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo of 28 Weeks Later. Rounding out the list are the better known directors Rian Johnson of Looper and Guillermo Del Toro of Hellboy. Whoever is chosen will mark the seventh director in franchise's history.
The film has a completed script, penned by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the writers of Rise of Planet of The Apes. Before Wyatt's departure he hinted that Dawn would take place eight years after the first film. Even more clues about the plot of Dawn exist in Rise, such as the credits sequence which seemed to imply a global pandemic and the spaceship Ikarus from the original 1968 Apes film.


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From the national media buzz that the Lean In pr juggernaut has been building for Sheryl Sandberg's new book, you'd think the Facebook COO had found the "missing link" to solving the gender gap conundrum, "Where are America's Women Leaders?"
So why has every major media outlet, from 60 Minutes and Time magazine to the NY Times, Huffington Post and the Diane Rehm Show been falling all over themselves to cover the 'Lean In' story?
It's Sandberg herself. She's the missing link.
Name one other female, C-suite business superstar who has had the cojones (dare I say "tits"?) to raise her voice, put her personal reputation in the game and talk openly about the gigantic elephant in the room?
What Elephant? That despite the fact that the professional pipeline is bursting with highly educated, professionally seasoned, brilliant, ambitious women ready and itching to lead, men still run the world, holding over 80% of the business, political and institutional power and leadership positions. Anyone who disagrees with that, doesn't know the facts.
So kudos to Sheryl Sandberg for getting America talking about a long-overdue conversation on how America's women Achievers make the leap to Leadership.
And thank you, Sheryl, for doing something even more courageous: bringing the "F" word out of the closet. When was the last time you heard a nationally-known businesswoman, particularly one of Forbes' 20 Most Powerful Women In Business, describe herself as a feminist?
Hillary Clinton has been raising her voice globally on behalf of girls and women for decades. Tina Fey has repeatedly opened doors of opportunity for women comedy writers and performers. The Girl Scouts are now making leadership the major focus of their experience. And there are plenty of women and organizations who are helping to lift the female half of the human race.
Queen Bees Are Alive and Well
But when it comes to Big Business, even the most powerful women leaders have been ever-so-careful not to rock the good-old-boys very comfortable boat.


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Johan de Nysschen on Audi Social Media
Jul 28
Johan de Nysschen is just finishing up with his Q & A on the Fourtitude forums and we have to say we're extremely impressed with Johan's composure and attention to detail in answering nearly every question. Many people know that the I Am Audi project was born from the desire to connect people with Audi by using Social media and the hub for that connection is I Am Audi .com; so we had some questions of our own. Thank you again Johan, we would love to sit with you and get a little more in depth about Audi and its Social media strategy – our door is always open!
1) "How is Audi scaling its online social strategy with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare ect, how is the Audi Social Media team reacting to our ever-growing social presence?"
2) "Knowing Audi is an aspirational Brand and many of our nearly 4,000,000 Facebook and 56,000 Twitter followers do not own the product; how is Audi rewarding these faithful "social" advocates for supporting the Brand?"
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