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Sugar Land mayor to be write-in for DeLay's seat
Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace will be a write-in candidate for the seat House Majority Leader Tom DeLay abandoned, according to a member of Wallace's campaign team.
Wallace made the decision after DeLay announced Tuesday that he would withdraw his name from the November ballot, leaving the Republican slot blank and opening up the race to a GOP write-in candidate.
The state Republican Party lost its legal battle to replace DeLay with another candidate of its choosing earlier this week.
Anyone can run as a write-in candidate. But the state Republican Party says it will back a single campaign.
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"Republicans are working together with grass-roots leadership in the district to get behind and vigorously support one candidate, whether he or she is on the ballot or not,'' Texas Republican Chairwoman Tina Benkiser said.
Mounting a successful write-in candidacy will be extremely difficult, according to political experts. First, the party will have to persuade straight-ticket Republican voters to individually select candidates in each race. And if there are several write-in candidates, the statistical probability for success also declines. There's also a question of how much money a candidate can raise in a shortened campaign cycle.
Democratic nominee Nick Lampson has had all summer to campaign and has $2.1 million in the bank.
Wallace said today there is too much at stake to allow Democrats to win this seat, while acknowledging that the campaign will be exciting because of the "unique challenges a write in candidate must overcome.''
"I will be taking the fight to Nick Lampson,'' Wallace said in a statement. "The voters of this district have been denied a choice and the liberal Democrats are celebrating the absence of a Republican candidate on the ballot. But their celebration will be short lived because we intend to offer voters a real choice in November and wage a campaign that will be victorious.''
Austin political consultant Bill Miller called a write-in campaign "ludicrous.''
"It is handing the seat to the Democrats,'' he said. "Republicans cannot win this seat with a write-in candidate, I don't care what name they write in.''
What a write-in candidate gains is a leg up in the next primary, Miller said. Even if the candidate loses, he or she will be able to build name identification and visibility. "Losing once is no big deal,'' Miller said. "Lose more than once, then you are branded a loser.''
Write-in candidates have until Aug. 29 to register with the secretary of state. Prospective candidates have to pay a $3,125 filing fee or submit a petition with 500 registered voters in the 22nd Congressional District.
Anyone who ran in the March primary is not eligible as a write-in candidate. And state representatives, who also are on the ballot this November, would have to withdraw from their races to run as a write-in candidate for the congressional seat.
That means Sugar Land lawyer Tom Campbell, who came in second in the March GOP primary, and state Reps. Robert Talton of Pasadena and Charlie Howard of Sugar Land are out of the running.
Of the dozen or so candidates who were seeking the nomination, that left Wallace and Houston City Council member Shelley Sekula-Gibbs and Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace as possibly the most viable write-in candidates, Republicans said.
Sekula-Gibbs still has not decided what to do.
"People are giving me their input. I will make a decision in the near future,'' Sekula-Gibbs said. "The opportunity is very interesting. I am keenly interested in this seat and have been open about my desire. This is a different situation.''
A write-in candidacy is not "insurmountable,'' Sekula-Gibbs said. "The demographics of the district suggest a Republican can win. Voters would not only have to be convinced I was the right candidate, but familiar with the process.''
Sekula-Gibbs, who has the backing of prodigious campaign contributors such as homebuilder Bob Perry, stated a willingness to commit personal money as well.
Running a winning write-in campaign is so hard it's almost inconceivable, Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson said.
"While that's about the only route left open to Republicans, they'll find it daunting to pull that off,'' he said.
Although the district leans Republican, voters in the district are going to be depressed, Jillson said, and one of their responses may be to stay home as a protest.
Republicans may be better off declaring that an injustice has been done to their party and rallying for the next round, two years from now, Jillson said.
DeLay fended off three challengers in the March GOP primary to win the nomination for re-election. Then in April, while under indictment and in the midst of a federal influence-peddling scandal, he announced he would not seek re-election.
DeLay resigned from office in June and moved his official residence to Virginia, though he maintains a home in Sugar Land.
Benkiser ruled that DeLay was ineligible to serve in office and should be replaced on the ballot.
The Texas Democratic Party sued, claiming DeLay and Benkiser were trying to get around a state law that limits the ability of political parties to replace a candidate who merely withdraws from a race. They argued that the U.S. Constitution sets residency requirements for candidates only on Election Day, and not before.
Last week, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks against the Republicans. Sparks said they were trying to set up a pre-election residency requirement that didn't exist. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia rejected an appeal Monday.
Sparks did note that DeLay was free to withdraw his name from the ballot under state law. The problem was putting on a replacement.
DeLay stood by his decision to become a Virginia resident to start a business working for conservative causes.
"This decision was and is irrevocable, which I made clear from day one,'' he said. "My action was taken in accordance with Texas law, federal precedent and common sense,'' he said. "I felt it was my duty to allow Texas Republicans to choose a new candidate for the fall election ballot.''


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"Ayelet Lerman is a performance, installation and sound artist living in Jerusalem. She researches the non-verbal emotional field that stretches through the use of sound, music, sculpture, and movement. Ayelet was a young classical violist when she decided to look for new directions in life. She finished a BA in philosophy and biology and travelled in India. Her return to the art world was through her studies at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem where she finished the four years course at 2010. Her final work, "Stringed", an installation-performance, granted her an award from the Jerusalem Mayor. Since November 2010 she is the curator of "Wire Tapping", the experimental music series at Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem. In June 2012, she concluded a year and a half residency program at mamuta at the Daniela Passal's arts and media center in Jerusalem with a solo exhibition of performance-installations. She finds a place for her experimental art and music in numerous art events, festivals and exhibitions.
Advanced academic studies in composition helped French-born American musician Wade Matthews realize he was not interested in telling other people what or how to play. In 1989, he moved from New York to Madrid and became part of the international improv community. Drawing on his knowledge of electronic music, he approached the bass clarinet and alto flute as "acoustic synthesizers", rethinking their sonic possibilities, phrasing, and relation to breath in a musical language based on real-time creation. When faster processors made laptop synthesis viable, Matthews returned to his first love, tweaking a virtual synthesizer to allow very rapid control of sound parameters for solo playing and dialog with others. In 2007, he founded INTERMEDIA 28 with photographer Adam Lubroth and guitarist Julio Camarena. There, he began to combine field recordings with electronic synthesis in a 2-computer setup that has since become his main instrument.
Carmel Raz composes, performs and researches music. Her music has been performed by a number or ensembles including the Arditti, Molinari, Carmel and Pacifica Quartets, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Orkest de Ereprijs, and the Musica Nova Consort. As a violinist, she has been featured as a chamber musician at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, and the Kennedy Center. She has performed with the Israel Contemporary Players, Ensemble Meitar, the Israel Contemporary String Quartet, and the Ensemble Modern Academy, and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchesterand has been featured at many international festivals.
Carmel is also active as an improviser, performing on violin, viola and mandolin in a variety of genres ranging from Jazz to free improv and world music. She plays with the Jewish music band Tafillalt, with whom she has performed across Europe, notably at the "Sounds of Israel" Festival in Hamburg and the Lviv Klezfest in Ukraine.
Born in 1982, Carmel holds a Diplom in violin performance from the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, and a Masters degree in composition from the University of Chicago. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Yale, working on a dissertation on the relationship between ideas about the nervous system and early Romantic music."-Aural Terrains
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'Margaret Sanger,' by Jean H. Baker: review
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Margaret Sanger
A Life of Passion
By Jean H. Baker
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It's not hard to guess where Margaret Sanger found her inspiration. Born in 1879, the mother of birth control was one of 11 children. "My mother died at 48," she wrote in "My Fight for Birth Control." "My father lived to be 80." The latter was a stonecutter, specializing in children's gravestones. The former was a devout Catholic who was pregnant 18 times during her 30-year marriage.
From these beginnings, Margaret Sanger became one of the most important reformers in American history - a woman who by the mid-1900s needed no introduction, certainly not to women desperate for information about how to limit their families. Thousands of them wrote her directly, needing to put nothing more on the envelope than "Margaret Sanger, New York."
Sadly, as historian Jean H. Baker notes in her new biography "Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion," Sanger has gone from renown to unknown - unclaimed by feminists critical of her support of eugenics, and thoughtlessly overlooked by a country still uncomfortable with women's reproductive rights. "She has been written out of history, thereby easily caricatured and denied the context required for any fair appraisal of her life and work," writes Baker, whose work goes far in changing this.
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Sanger's young life was defined by her class - she was born to a poor Irish family in upstate New York - her father's suspicion of religion, and her mother's bad health. As a young adult, she attended nursing school, but dropped out shortly after marrying. Before long, she was living in the suburbs with three children. This, however, was as conventional as Sanger ever got - and it didn't last for long. "A strong, insistent urge to be in the current of life's activities" soon overtook her, and she persuaded her husband to move to New York City.
There, she worked as a nurse on the Lower East Side, where she saw the effects of the Comstock laws, which made it illegal, even for medicinal reasons, to mail any "erotic" materials, including information and devices related to masturbation, abortion and contraception. Even medical textbooks could not mention these things.
One night in 1912, Sanger helped a doctor attend to a woman, Sadie Sachs, ill from a botched abortion. Sachs had begged the doctor for information about contraception, but the doctor refused. In New York, it was illegal even to give oral information about contraception. A few months later, Sanger was called back to the same apartment, where Sadie died from septicemia, the result of self-inflicted abortion. She was 28 and the mother of three. From that moment, birth control became, as Baker puts it, "the plot of Margaret Sanger's life."
Her first act was to print publications that unabashedly promised defiance of the Comstock laws - and delivered. For this a warrant for her arrest was made, punishable by up to 40 years in prison. To avoid this, she fled to England for a year. When she returned, the charges were dropped, though her activism continued, often in the form of clinics that disseminated contraceptive information to mothers (and she eventually landed in jail plenty).
It's questionable whether Baker's biography adds much to Ellen Chesler's 1992 "Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America," but nearly 200 pages shorter, it is concise and still comprehensive. While she decries it, Baker notes that Sanger's support of eugenics was in accordance with the day's leading scientists. Baker also notes that Sanger never supported eugenics to propagate the white race, as many did, but only to control suffering brought on by overpopulation.
Baker especially excels at capturing the radicalness of Sanger's movement. There were other female reformers in her time, supporting suffrage and temperance, but while controversial, these issues were more or less considered acceptable female "complaints." Sex was not. "Sanger's self-help reform was a revolution because it involved public discussion of secret matters of sex, considered unspeakable and obscene."
Best of all, Sanger never held back. She talked explicitly about female anatomy. She thought it a woman's right to enjoy sex. As her international prestige soared, she went to India and grilled Gandhi - Gandhi! - on his support for celibacy, wondering what women should do in the case of marital pressure or rape. And she spent her 70s not in retirement, but almost single-handedly bankrolling the pill.
She also got on people's nerves, even in her own camp. She had largely been a one-woman show, but as she aged, she reluctantly ceded power - never something she was good at. When her successors began using phrases like "planned parenthood" and "family planning" instead of "birth control," she balked at their prudishness, wondering what they were helping women plan - vacations?
She also worried about the movement losing ground, and wouldn't be surprised by the current attempts to defund Planned Parenthood. She never believed, however, that these conservative campaigns had any basis in reality. Women wanted birth control; they were often just too intimidated by culture and religion to admit it. Always a believer in public persuasion, Sanger would give women today the same advice she gave her granddaughters when they would perform plays for her: Project your voices, she would say.
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Just Falafel sends competition winner Aqil Rashid to Ivy League University
Just Falafel, the UAE-based company that has propelled a traditional Middle Eastern food to global recognition, rolled out 'Help Us Help You' community outreach campaign that is aimed at supporting a student's dream with an academic scholarship. Launched in January 2012, the initiative was open to any individual pursuing higher education.
Students from all over the world submitted a two-minute video message expressing why they deserve the prize and how they will give back to the community someday.
Aqil Rashid was declared the winner. The young boy from Pakistan who was 15 years old back then, dedicated much of his time in building drinking wells in remote villages in Afghanistan.
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Aqil says he feels "Ecstatic, blessed and grateful" to be given this opportunity by Just Falafel and says he realises "He has an opportunity that lots of kids don't have and he will make the best of it."
He was awarded the prize when he was in Grade 10, at 15 years old and says it acted as a huge incentive for him to pass his exams to make his dream of an Ivy League university become a reality.
With hard work and determination, qualities that Just Falafel CEO Fadi Malas saw from the beginning, Aqil scored straight A's in his exams and gained six offers to American Universities. He said it was a tough decision to choose between Brown, University of Pennsylvania (Upenn), UCLA, UC Berkley and Emory, that caused much discussion between family and friends.
He chose Brown, the 7th oldest college in the USA and once again saw loyal family and friends come together to support him, just like in the competition two years ago. Aqil says he still remembers waiting for the decision, constantly pressing the "refresh" button on his computer to see if he had won and running to wake up his parents with the news after Just Falafel contacted him.
The award from Just Falafel, that offered to pay fees for any school anywhere in the world, he says, forced him to get organised quickly. As soon as he won, he began scouring the world for universities abroad. Aqil, whose family is originally from Pakistan, says that he is interested in a technology-related course as his passion is studying how technology will be shaping the world when he graduates in four years' time.
The competition has opened up the power of social media, an initiative by Just Falafel, who itself has been the subject of a case study by Facebook on how to use Facebook Pages and Ads to drive brand awareness and generate franchise leads.
Aqil says he is looking forward to university life and thinks that his multi-cultural upbringing and education in Dubai will make the transition to being an overseas graduate easier.
He says "in the UAE you are exposed to many different cultures and cannot afford to be narrow-minded."
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Big East Psychology 101 and Expansion: How the Small Control the LargeNovember 9, 2010
Update: TCU is not willing to accept a football only offer. Great news for those fans who want a more secure Big East Conference.
The news rush from finding out about the Big East presidents and athletic directors meeting in Philadelphia last Tuesday has faded. The general consensus among bloggers such as frankthetank.worpress.com, nunesmagician.com from Syracuse and Chas Rich from Pittblather.com is this:
The Big East will invite TCU to join as a football-only member. That move was a foregone conclusion prior to Tuesday's meeting. The real reason for the pomp and circumstance last week was to pressure the Villanova Wildcats to step up to the plate and become an FBS member.
Of course the sixteen presidents voted in favor of the plan. It's a way to solve nothing about the conference's long-term future, and it causes no pain—to anyone except the Mountain West schools TCU is leaving behind.
In short, it was a McDonald's commercial. Too much hype about a product known all too well.
The tiniest school with the least amount of money manipulates seven large public universities to secure the future of its six Catholic brethren. Providence College is where it all started. Providence College is the Windsor Castle of the Big East with Dave Gavitt, Mike Tranghese and now John Marinatto all calling the 3,938-student Catholic college home.
What's not surprising is the birth of the Big East there—a good idea shared among Seton Hall, Syracuse, UConn, St. John's, Georgetown, Boston College and, of course, Providence. What is surprising? Years later—31, to be exact—the tiny outpost in nondescript Rhode Island dictates the fate of eight BCS-member institutions.
The thinking there suffers from a myopia that is the exact opposite of the broad vision of new Pac-12 commissioner Tom Scott and the cunning empire building of Jim Delaney. Providence's domination, with its six Catholic allies in tow, keeps the Big East dead last among the BCS conferences at $33 million for the total conference per year.
Contrast that amount with the $20 million Northwestern pocketed last year, even though the Wildcats played before about 24,000-28,000 fans.
A program like Pitt's, which averaged 54,000 per home game last year, actually makes $15.88 million less than Northwestern. Each Big East football member takes in $2.875 million in TV revenue per year.
The discrepancy will not be altered much by the addition of TCU. In fact, moving Villanova up may actually cost the eight conference members fees in giveaways to the Wildcats as they make the difficult transition from FCS to FBS.
But Providence and its allies have been skillful in protecting the $1.25 million each of its eight fellow basketball-only members, including Notre Dame, makes.
Notre Dame, with the conference's largest endowment—$4.79 billion—is happy to have Providence call the shots—its $1.2 million endowment is the league's smallest.
The eight BCS members believe they have nowhere to go, and none of them have the guts BYU displayed in opting for independence.
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more: http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/...-gathers-in-ncCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Republican soul-searching begins in earnest this week as GOP officials from every state in the nation come together for the first time since their party's November shellacking.
There is broad agreement that the Republican Party needs to undergo fundamental changes to remain competitive as surging minority populations re-shape the American electorate. But there is no clear path forward. And even as they gather in a Charlotte, N.C., hotel this week just days after President Barack Obama began his second term Republicans are in some ways as divided as ever.
Facing his first re-election test later in the week, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus is under intense pressure to improve the Republican brand to attract more women and Hispanics, while not upsetting the hard-line conservatives who represent his party's most passionate voters.
"They're really going to have to do full throttle self-examination. They have alienated so many people who are Republicans," said Olympia Snowe, a three-term Republican senator who retired last year, in part because of her party's shift to the right. "It's going to be a mighty challenge. The party's gone astray."
Indeed, the formal theme of the Republican National Committee's winter meeting "Renew, Grow, Win" reflects an understanding from party officials that the GOP must grow to survive. In particular, this week's meeting will focus on the need to abandon harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration, women's issues and the social safety net, rhetoric that helped drive moderate voters and minorities toward Democrats last fall.
"We need to renew our values, renew our party, renew what we stand for," RNC spokesman Sean Spicer said.
The push to broaden the party's message is the focus, but not the only business on the agenda for the three-day meeting in North Carolina, a presidential swing state where Democrats hosted their national convention last summer.
Republicans from across the nation will decide Friday whether Priebus deserves a second term after his party lost an opportunity to win the White House and add Senate seats under what appeared to be favorable political conditions. The 40-year-old Wisconsin native is widely expected to win re-election, despite a challenge from Maine National Committeeman Mark Willis, a former Ron Paul supporter who led a brief revolt at the party's national convention last year in Tampa, Fla.
Willis said Wednesday that he did not have the backing of three states needed to ensure a spot on the ballot with Priebus. He acknowledged that he would not likely defeat the sitting chairman even if he qualifies for the ballot. But he and others lashed out at party leaders, saying they were marginalizing grassroots supporters who favored presidential candidates like Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann or Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who is thought to have interest in a 2016 presidential bid.
per a post here, the Gop chair for MO was going to meet with Willis today and perhaps bring the third state he would need to be nominated to oppose Priebus.
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Skoda's sales in November increased 3.8% to 77, 900 units, from 75,000 during the same month last year.
During the first eleven months of the year, Skoda's sales were up 6.9% to 873,000 units, compared with 816,800 units last year.
"Once again, we increased our deliveries even though markets were difficult," says Werner Eichhorn, ŠKODA board member for sales and marketing. "Our growth in Western Europe in November is especially welcome given that we grew against the market trend."
Last month Skoda sold 28,200 vehicles in Western Europe, up 4.3%, and 331,900 units from January to November. The best Western European markets were Germany up 15.2% and Great Britain up 30.2%. In Eastern Europe the automaker sold 12,400 units, up 7.9% and 123,500 vehicles from January to November, up 26.7%. Russia was the market which contributed the most to this increase with 9,000 vehicles, up 12.5%.
In China, sales reached 21,100 vehicles, up 4.9% and 225,900 cars during the first eleven months of the year, up 7.1%. India sold 2,000 units last month, a decrease from 2,300 units last year, but from January to November sales reached 32,100 units, up 24.4%.
ŠKODA deliveries to customers in November 2012 (in units, rounded, by models; +/- in per cent year on year):
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2013 Trends in Law Enforcement (Radio Show)
This week on "FEDtalk", Craig Floyd, chairman and CEO, of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, and Jon Adler, with the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, give an overview of the 2013 Preliminary End of the Year Fatality Report.
The guests discuss trends within the 2013 report and trends over the years with this report. They will also go over how the report is being utilized.
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College nurtures voices of young writers
Updated 10:51 pm, Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Western Connecticut State University's young writers conference this summer again provides middle and high school students the chance to work on writing skills with university faculty who are published writers.
Students have a choice of two workshops each day of the conference that runs July 15 through 19 at the university's midtown campus in Danbury.
"We keep the workshops small to give the students hands-on experience," said Melissa Carlo, who runs the program. "At the end of the week, students are invited to read a piece they wrote that could be published in the writers journal."
Students will be invited back to the university in the fall when the journal is released, she said.
The conference runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. The cost of $450 includes breakfast and lunch and there is a $50 discount for registering by May 31.
Carlo is the new full-time project coordinator for the Bridge program, which brings Bethel and Danbury middle and high school students to the university for tutoring and other programs.
Carlo said the writers conference is just one more program to introduce young people to the campus.
It's a great chance for young writers to learn from published writers and understand the different writing genres.
Here's a sample of the workshops:
Introduction to Poetry Workshop: Students explore poetic forms, learn about the elements of poetry and discuss their own poems with other young writers and the faculty.
Advanced Poetry Workshop: Focus will be on raising the sophistication level of their writing and exploring more advanced writing techniques.
Writing the Short Story: Students will write through creative exercises and timed writing sessions. Students also will write a complete short story in 1,000 or fewer words.
Screenwriting Workshop: Students will have hands-on experience in dramatic writing for stage and screen. They will write their own webisodes, 6- to 8-minute short films and/or a 10-minute play.
Song Writing Workshop: Learn how to write song lyrics in traditions ranging from the folkies to the rockers to the rappers.
Writing a Feature Story: Students learn interviewing techniques to write articles for magazines and/or newspapers.
Sports Writing: Writers work on deadline, compose feature stories and write game stories.
Video Game Writing: Aspiring writers work together on video game writing.
Writing the Fairy Tale: Students read, discuss and study classic fairy tales and write their own contemporary fairy tales.
A couple of the other workshops are interpreting body language, college admissions essay workshop and college interview workshop.
Western faculty who will teach the workshops include:
Louisa Burns-Bisogno, an award-winning screenwriter, director and author, with more than 100 on-screen credits.
Oscar De Los Santos, chair of the writing department at Western, who has written and edited fiction and nonfiction books. His novel, "After Celia," will be published this year.
Kelly L. Goodridge has taught writing for more than a decade at Western and has been a reporter.
James Lomuscio has been a journalist for 35 years and is associate editor for WestportNow.com, an online news site.
He wrote the McGraw-Hill text "Writing with Your Head and Your Heart: Balancing Logic and Emotion to Create Powerful Nonfiction."
Jasmine Dreame Wagner is the author of two chapbooks: "Rewilding," and "Listening for Earthquakes." Her poems and short stories have appeared in such journals as Blackbird, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Seattle Review, and in two anthologies.
Hope you can take advantage of this program if writing is your passion.
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To celebrate 10 years in the business, shoe designer Rupert Sanderson showcases an exclusive collection at Selfridges, London.
Rupert Sanderson celebrated an impressive 10 years in the business yesterday. To mark the occasion the British shoe designer unveiled a stunning anniversary collection in one of Selfridge's window displays.
Created in association with Thehousewith, The Anniversary Collection window displays Rupert's 10/10 Collection – a retrospective of 10 stunning shoe designs, one to celebrate each year the brand has been in business. With a colour palette of icy silvers and cool blues, the exhibit showcases the 10/10 Collection perfectly and is the perfect window-shop stop to have a look at this Christmas. "Based on our distinctive shoe-wheel graphic, the window displays my 10/10 collection in a graphic and arresting way, whilst keeping with Selfridges white winter wonderland theme," says the designer.
The 10/10 Collection itself reflects the personality of the brand to a T, with some of Rupert's iconic shoes of the last 10 years making an appearance. From the quirky cut-out 'Estelle' to the classic lace up 'Jupiter' – each of the 10 has been redesigned in a dusky, sci-fi silver. Both the collection and the exhibit remind us of what a prominent British brand Rupert Sanderson has become in the last decade.
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Forecast and Review: Expect an easy upgrade path to Windows Server .NET. Has there been a follow-up to that? I see that they recently added books focused on the newer CompTIA Security+ certification. One book was put out through MS Press and the other book is through the official MOC (Microsoft Official Curriculum) -- I believe class 2810. Thank you. At TechMentor in New Orleans in early April, David Lowe of Microsoft Training & Certification (its security and specialty programs) said that Microsoft is considering adding new certifications on security and other areas of specialization but was not willing to comment on timeframes, contents or other details. I believe there might be a security cert (or perhaps more than one) in the offing in 2004 or 2005. Given their current exam schedule and future commitments to BackOffice component exams in late 2003/early 2004, it seems pretty unlikely to me that such a program (or programs) would be introduced before mid-year next year.
That said, when it comes to second-guessing Microsoft, I could always be wrong -- but I do have a decent track record at this kind of thing (I'm currently batting between .600 and .700 on my "Microsoft prognostications" according to my own tracking over the past 5 years).
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Travel: What's Your Favourite City?
Posted by SussexMummy | Posted in Holiday, Information, Travel | Posted on 03-07-2013
Tags: dublin, favourite city, ireland, memories, music, travel
Do you have a favourite city? I do. I've recently come back from two nights in Dublin, my favourite city. The break was short, but much needed. Two nights on my own in the city I love . For the first time in a long time I was just me, not someones wife, or mother, and not a blogger or writer. I wasn't working – well, I did have my phone on me so did do a bit of emailing but I wasn't really working – I could just do what I wanted, when I wanted. And it got me thinking. What is it about this city that pulls me in and makes me want to return so many times?
I first went to Dublin in 1998. It was the first year of my A-levels and a friend of mine and I went on a day trip. We took the ferry from Liverpool with his mum and sister – a very early start if I recall. The pretense of the trip was a bit of a booze run, but I wanted to see the city. Back then the attraction for me was a boyband I liked at the time – I'm sure I'm not alone in being a Boyzone fan – not that I was expecting to bump into any of them. I'd seen the city on one of their videos and, being something of a fan of the Irish accent, wanted to go and see it for myself. I didn't realise then that it would be the first of many trips I've taken over there in the last 15 years. The fact that my friend and I returned ourselves for a day trip a few months later should perhaps have been a hint though.
My first big trip to Dublin came at the end of 1999. The very end in fact. I went with a good friend from Norway to Dublin for New Year. The turn of the Millennium seemed as good a reason as any to go to Dublin, and this time I'd be staying for a few days as opposed to a few hours. The appeal had changed a little from that first trip. The music was still prominent – the new Irish boyband of Westlife were in fact responsible for my becoming friends with my co-traveller – but we were also off to see Temple Bar and all it had to offer. Lots of alcohol if I recall. My main advice is to never be in a city changing its national currency if you're likely to be hungover. The change to the Euro occurred on January 1st 2000, and it was baffling.
From the year 2000 I have returned numerous times, at least once a year up until recently. I've been for New Years again, St Patricks Day, on trips with my Mum, my Norwegian friend, and in more recent times my husband and even his family. I have so many incredible memories that all stem from that city. Shopping till we literally couldn't lift our suitcases with my crazy Norwegian friend, a friend I also accompanied to Sligo for the day in early 2002 when I nearly got hit by a car. The car was being driven by one of Westlife, so not all bad. Watching a St Patricks Day parade before a night out which largely included green drinks and some very dubious walking. My last trip to Dublin with her occurred in 2008, just a few months after I was married. We went to Croke Park for a huge Westlife concert and that was an unforgettable night in itself. I returned again on my first solo trip just a few weeks later to do some genealogical research for my new in laws, or at least that was the reason I gave at the time.
My last visit to Dublin for many years was in 2009. My husband was turning 30 and his younger twin brothers were turning 21. Clearly a cause for celebration and their parents had the genius idea of going to Dublin to do it. Needless to say the younger members of the party spent a lot of time in and around Temple Bar for the few days we were there, and I was a bit like Tourist Information having been quite as many times as I had.
From 1998 to 2009 I went to Dublin at least once a year every year. A cycle I planned to continue, but pregnancy and Little Man's arrival soon put a stop to that. Returning this last week was a pleasure. I spent two full days in the city and for the first time didn't step one foot into Temple Bar. I frequented Grafton Street and Henry Street – shops galore – and spent a delightful two hours sat in the sunshine of St Stephens Green reading a book. I ate leisurely breakfasts in cafes – Bewley's Grafton Street is a MUST. I rode the hop-on hop-off bus around the city, taking in the sights, hiding from the rain, and remembering great times. The bus is something I have done every time I've visited. Its such fun and so convenient. The numerous buskers – of varying skills – that litter the main shopping streets are always a hit, whether they are singing, playing music, or attempting to look like statues. The highlight of my latest trip was an evening out with a good friend. The last time I saw him was during my second visit of 2008 so it had been far too long. You wont be surprised to learn he has a musical connection to my story, having been in an Irish boyband himself several years ago.
My reasons for going to Dublin have changed since that first trip 15 years ago, but my love of the city hasn't. I wish I could put my finger on what it is about the city that makes me return year upon year. I just recall feeling at home there even back then on my first visit, and that feeling was as strong this week as ever before. Will I be going back? You better believe it. Trips to Dublin will be something I always do, and I hope to take Little Man with me soon. Yes, I may well venture out of the city on my next trip, but I suspect Dublin will always be at the heart of it.
What's YOUR favourite city?


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At the Int'l Sport Summit, ROB APATOFF, L.A. Gear VP for Marketing, announced he will become Chief Marketing Officer at U.S. Healthcare (THE DAILY). FROM INSIDE MEDIA: NBC has named JOHN LUGINBILL VP/Advertising Sales Manager for the Central Region. Luginbill formerly held the same position for the Eastern Central Region....JOHN KASTBERG has been promoted to GM & VP by The Sporting News....NICK NILES has been named President, CEO and Publisher of Golf Magazine Properties. He will also retain his former position as President of The Sporting News Publishing Company (INSIDE MEDIA, 1/4-17 issue)....The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy has appointed MIKE DEPALMER to Dir of Tennis (NBTA)....The Rockies yesterday promoted KELI MCGREGOR to VP of Operations and SUE ANN MCCLAREN to Asst VP of Ticket Operations (Rockies)....Walt Disney Co. appointed DAVID MALMUTH to head its Disneyland Resort theme park project in Anaheim (L.A. TIMES, 1/18).
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I'm flying into dehli on the 19th September for a few months and plan on travelling south then onto Thailand. Has anyone got similar plans? I'f anyone can give me any tips or must see? Really appreciate it
Hey I plan to travel this area. So if you're looking for a travel buddy get in touch.
Hey when are you planning to be there? Have you got anything booked yet?


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How do I frame the photo with color on all 4 sides? I have seen it done on some of the sites and like the look. Thanks.
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Monotone Photo Template
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no it doesn't automatically frame the photo on all 4 sides.........just top and bottom... take a look at wildstorm.wordpress.com..... not the most recent... but go in four or five posts and looks at the results when the color is on all four sides..................keep flipping through and with the different photos thaere are some really fine results... I think......Thanks for your help.
It seems to have something to do with the image size
As per the FAQ that teck07 linked to, "The layout width is dynamic and depends on the image used in a post. The maximum layout width is 804 pixels (for horizontal images) and 560 pixels (for vertical images)."
I believe that if you upload a photo which is much smaller than the maximum size allowed for Monotone, the photo will be surrounded on all four sides.
not the case. I have tried resizing without success.
I've noticed this issue on photos that are rectangular, and taller than they are wide. If they are vertical images of the maximum or greater width, there will be no framing on the sides.
Does anyone else have any ideas.......... I would really like to get this figured out? :-)
Your images need to be smaller than 804 pixels wide for horizontal images or smaller than 560 pixels wide for vertical images for the border to go all the way around the images.
Oh, if it were only so easy..................I have tried that and is does not work.
Does anyone have any more information on how to fully frame photos using this template?
Thanks for your help
@jeeoc: I switched my test blog to the Monotone theme, downloaded your 600x600 "Gus Pumps" photo, uploaded it in a new post and it got framed on all four sides alright. Maybe your problem is that the photo is stored elsewhere: the FAQ says it has to be uploaded in your blog.
have anybody try using this theme with digg shortcode? i follow each steps in FAQ, but it does not show up in my post.
the digg short cut will not work because it produces an digg image
and the theme anly allows one image per post...
Also check out this previous comment for links
to the FAQ page about Monotone by clicking here
Here's a suggestion. If you have a graphic program (I have Corel), you can frame your photo in any color before you upload it to WordPress
Hi, i love the Monotone theme, especially the fact that it changes colours to match your pic!! However, I am facing a problem. Tried looking through FAQs and other forums, but none of the info was able to help.
I am currently uploading photos from my flickr page, and using the 'All Sizes' button, and then copying the HTML link, and inserting it into my new posts (as HTML of course). When i insert the large photos (1024 x 680), the pic exceeds the borders, and when i insert the medium photos (500 x 332), the pic is too small for the border. Also, Monotone doesn't seem to resize the photo to fit the coloured area.
Using a previous theme on WordPress.org, i was able to resize the photos to the size i wanted by changing the height or width in the HTML. However, in this case, it doesn't work, and the photos remain fixed at either 1024 x 680 or 500 x 332, depending on which one i copy from flickr. Is there a way to resize the photos to fit the border, or to cause the border to auto-resize to fit the pic? OR am i doing something wrong? The URL is http://negativexposure.wordpress.com
This is the HTML code i am using (i tried changing the width and height to different values, but the pic still remains the same):
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2947648763_887684c3ca.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="DSC_7658.jpg" />
Hope someone can help! Thanks!!
P.S. another suggestion: perhaps the guys who did it can consider making the thumbnails in the archive automatically resize to a small 75 x 75 square? :)
The photos have to be uploaded to WordPress.COM
Why aren't my images working?
In order for Monotone to work with your images, they need to be uploaded to your blog and then inserted into the posts from your Media Library. If you are attempting to insert images into your posts and the images are stored on another web site, it will not work.
Monotone - color backgrounds are gone
This is my site
When trying to write new entries in the past day, the unique colored background that Monotone creates doesn't seem to be working. It only has a blank white background.
This is my latest entry
and for instance, this is one of the previous entries with the proper, colored background
is there anything I can do to fix this? or to get this fixed?
I'll confirm:
http://esladventuresinphotos.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/duck-house/ is fine
http://esladventuresinphotos.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/rien-helen-and-becky/ and http://esladventuresinphotos.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/reeds-and-lilypads/ are not (posted yesterday and today)
I saw it last night and blamed it on the width of the photo.
I'll send a ticket into support.
I have been having the same issue. What is up with the backgrounds not working?
I've had the same problem with the white background the last couple of days, along with a couple other blogs that I frequent using Monotone. I also sent in a support request. Hopefully it will get fixed soon, I want my color back.
I sent a support ticket in as well.
The color issue is currently being looked into; I'll make a note here when this is resolved and respond to any user who has submitted a support ticket regarding the issue. Sorry for the troubles, folks.
Still no news? I wouldn't think it would take 4-5 days to fix.
Noel is still working on this issue. Sorry for the deploy. He hopes to have it figured out and fixed soon.
Still no luck? I'd love to be able to post again soon.
I'm seeing colors back on my blog. Thanks for the fix.
As photopperman has noticed, Monotone has been fixed! Thanks so much for your patience.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Christmas and Falling Angels
The tree came down out of the attic and Paul set it up. Tiffany-Amber and Victoria decorated it and loved doing so. I enjoyed watching them. The angel, having fallen off every time I put her up, is standing beside the tree.
I bought chocolate letters, a Dutch tradition! But I haven't written a single card yet, and I don't know if I will. I haven't done any more decorating, even though my team is coming here tomorrow for a Christmas lunch, and at the back of my mind I feel a little like someone going on vacation with no luggage packed.
All of our neighbours seem to have their Christmas lights up already, but our house is distinctly plain and un-Christmassy. Paul was too busy getting ready for his trip north, to get our lights up. I'm enjoying other people's lights though--they don't have to be on our house.
I would love to have the house decorated and to know that cards are on the way to all of my friends and family. How wonderful it would be if I had done all of my shopping and even wrapped it, but I have accepted the fact that I may not get all of that stuff done this year, which has been extraordinarily busy.
I'm managing to separate Christmas from it's trappings--the traditions that sometimes overwhelm us by feeling as if they are essential. I will still do my best to get cards written if things slow down enough to do so, but this year I am aiming for a more relaxed anticipation of Christmas and a simpler celebration.
This weekend six grandchildren will gather to decorate Christmas cookies in my kitchen, with all of the riotous fun that their parents enjoyed each Christmas of their childhood. There will be more sugar eaten on its way to the cookies than on them and hands and faces will glow red and green. The sugar cookie dough is already made and waiting in the freezer. The children will remember making the cookies. They won't notice if the house isn't decorated!
I'm reminded of an article I read in England in October. I quoted from it before in a different context, but I think it's relevant here and worth sharing part of it again:
When it comes to juggling things, never forget that there are glass balls and rubber balls. And the glass balls are the ones that you cannot drop—they smash and can't be repaired. So it's not about not dropping the ball—it's about not dropping the wrong ball, the glass ball...
Lesley Stahl, one of the anchors on 60 Minutes Live
I think that in the context of Christmas, the rubber balls are the things that I may not get done. The glass balls are being with family and friends and most of all, simply meditating on the coming of Christ into this world.
John 1:1-5 (New Living Translation)
Prologue: Christ, the Eternal Word
1 In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He existed in the beginning with God.
3 God created everything through him,
and nothing was created except through him.
4 The Word gave life to everything that was created,
and his life brought light to everyone.
5 The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness can never extinguish it.
2 comments:
- Angcat said...
Dear Belinda,
There are so many thoughts running through my head as I finish reading your post. I'll try to make sense.
Going to your house for Manager's Christmas parties was never about the decorating, it was about being loved, appreciated and having a Christmas story read by you, to us. It was about being all together, eating, laughing and rejoicing in the coming of our King.
The lack of glass lights on your home doesn't diminish the warm light of Christ you bring wherever you go. In fact, it may emphasize the difference. Not that I have anything against decorating. I'm doing it too, but it is so easy to lose focus in the rush and bustle. I'm often hard put to find a cheery face in the malls at this time of year..."the most wonderful time of the year...".
Have fun with your six little ones. What a wonderful idea.
I love you and appreciate so much how you spill His presence on me, and everyone.
I guess the thing I really looked forward to at your parties was the Yorkshire Pudding...yum
- Belinda said...
Dearest Ang,
Your dear husband Frank was such a blessing, leading crazy games of Scattergories and Madgab and making us laugh so much that I though my stomach would not stop aching.
Another precious memory made. Thank you for your wonderful words and I will see you at the Writers Nest Christmas party. :)


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This Roundup will be different than most. It's about one topic, one incident, one lesson. It also takes a bit of introduction. As I drove my daughter to basketball practice today I started to tell her about the events of these past few days. First I had to explain who Suze Orman is. She's an author of finance books ("oh, dad, like you'd like to write one day." Yes, sorta like that.) and she has a show on CNBC ("oh, like Kudlow." Hmm. No nothing like Larry. Her show takes questions from people that call in and she helps them.) So far so good, She recently offered a card. A pre-paid card, yes, like the gift card you'd get, but you can use it anywhere that takes a credit card. (That's stupid dad, who would want that? Is this for kids who can't just use their credit card like you and mom? No, it's aimed at adults.) Well, there was no selling this idea to my Jane 2.0, and that brings us to Thursday night. My fellow finance blogger (and host of the financial blogger conference I attended in October) Phil Taylor at his site PT Money posted an article What We Need from Suze Orman Instead of Another Celebrity-Endorsed Useless Prepaid Debit Card. It seems another blogger tweeted about it and Suze reacted.
Her tweets about this article included the above screengrab from a video at Fox Business, Suze Orman's Card Backlash. Note that Fox appears to show some respect calling those Suze slammed "money experts." Good move, it takes a long time to conclude whether an author is worth reading, and of course Suze fast visceral response was just wrong. Eventually she apologized, but the damage was done. As far as I'm concerned, she's there with the rantings of Mel Gibson and Michael Richards, but not quite at the level of Kanye West's faux pas. Now, the rest of the roundup.
Even Times Author Ron Lieber wasn't too gung ho on the card. The Approved Card: Uses for Suze Orman's Plastic. He does point out, as my daughter did, the card may be useful to give to a child to use as a preloaded card. Although my local mall sells these for $1.50 and no cost each month. (The mall call is a Visa, and it's used like a credit card, anywhere Visa is taken.)
Stephen at Nerd Wallet posted Suze Orman Loses Her Sh*t on Twitter. More than a recap, Stephen dug up some of Suze' responses to tweeters asking about such cards. All her replies were in favor of using secured cards instead.
Lazy Man and Money posted Suze Orman's Pre-Paid Debit Card Scam. Before you dismiss this as a false accusation, remember, there's no credit involved and the idea that it will help your credit report remains to be seen. Appropriate to add here, Suze is working with Transunion to see if the spending data can be used to help one's credit. At present, it's a science experiment, which is clear if you read the fine print very carefully.
At Beating Broke, Suze Orman Releases Prepaid Card. Wait, What? A level-headed discussion of the card's features, and disappointment in Suze for her rant.
20 and engaged gets the prize for her Suze Orman's "Approved Card" Gets Denied; Thinks PF Bloggers Are Idiots or at least for the fact that it was her tweet that Suze responded to which started the ruckus. Briana gives a great overview of the tweets Suze sent during this time. You'd think she'd have a bit thicker skin.
Elle at Couple Money (not to be confused with Elle, one of my readers and sometime guest poster, more about her later) posted Suze Orman's Approved Prepaid Debit Card Causes a Stir. Elle is kind, "For those with limited banking options or those who have bad credit, the card may work for them." I agree, this card may have limited use. For a very few people who can't even get a debit card from their own bank. Yes, Elle, I was shocked at Suze rant.
Miranda Marquit at her Planting Money Seeds wrote Even if Suze Orman's Name is on the Card Prepaid Debit Sucks. Miranda doesn't leave us wondering "so what do you really think?" No, sir, "While the Approved Card is less crappy than other prepaid cards, it still sucks." Yup, that's right on target.
The Mighty Bargain Hunter gives us My two cents on Suze Orman and her prepaid card. Here's one of the most balanced discussions, kudos to my friend MBH. Best line? "This can't be taken from her: She's done well for herself on this earth by helping a lot of people." And I'll concede, this is probably so.
Jeremy Vohwinkle helps us understand the fees this card has with his article Suze Orman Shows True Colors With Her Approved Prepaid Debit Card. Wow. Those dollars do add up. He also talks about the experimental nature of this card and the work with Transunion behind the scenes.
At Graduated Learning: Life after College, The Approved Card? More like the DIS-Approved Card! An insightful post concluding "I just think that this is a bad move on her part, using her fans' trust for financial gain." Yes, indeed.
Cash Flow Mantra exclaimed Suze Orman, WTF?! (to be clear, the acronym stands for 'Why the fees'?) 'nuff said
Jim Wang at Bargaineering doesn't mince words with Why Suze Orman's Approved Prepaid Debit Card is Terrible. Jim wonders why celebrities don't learn from each other's mistakes. Me too.
And last, really, At Make Spend Save Invest, Is Suze Orman's Approved Prepaid Debit Card Right For You? Some more details about the card itself, but the same conclusion, "no." As many of us believe, a secured credit card is the way to go for those who cannot qualify for a real card.
Now to end this already too long post, about my reader Elle. When I first started blogging about three years ago, Elle knew me from a Usenet group misc.taxes.moderated, where not long ago, I was made an honorary moderator. At my blog I posted an article in which I was, shall I say, unkind to Suze. Elle called me out on it, suggesting that name calling and unkindness didn't suit me (in so many words) and I took her note to heart. I apologized to Suze on my blog, and edited the original article. Since then, I've stuck to the facts, and refrained from nasty name calling, or at least tried to. And I'm grateful to Elle for her kindness and support. If you, my reader agree with everything I write, that's ok, but I won't grow from that. I hope my readers will continue to challenge me, question me and teach me a lesson now and then. In return, I promise to listen, and to never call my readers anything but friend. To call someone an idiot without knowing more than the fact that he doesn't like your card isn't saying much, it's just overreacting. As many have said, Suze, in fact, has helped many, and I'm willing to cut her some slack, but she needs to know one thing. The financial realm contains many finance bloggers, and combined, we have millions of readers from all walks of life. We have different opinions, and disagree on some issues, but we are far from idiots. And our readers know us from our work. Most of which is done for the love of finance, not to push any product.


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