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August 25, 2008
Making History Straight Outta Compton
By Steve Jones
Twenty years ago this month, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton hit the music industry like a slug to the chest. The album by Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella on Eazy-E's independent Ruthless Records had critics howling that it glorified gang violence, while others praised its unapologetic, hell-raising view of living in poverty.It also turned the spotlight on West Coast hip-hop and soon had major labels scrambling to sign every kid from South-Central Los Angeles with a story to tell. Gangsta rap would become a commercially dominant force in hip-hop for years to come.
Straight Outta Compton incited everybody from law enforcement and legislatures to women's rights group and ministers with its profanity-laced rhymes. It also went double platinum without radio airplay or a nationwide tour. Still, it has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by VH1, Rolling Stone, The Source, Time and others.
A 19-year-old Ice Cube was N.W.A's principal lyricist, and he says the World's Most Dangerous Group, as it was billed, "didn't lose no sleep" over the controversies. He takes a look back at the seminal album:
The album's influence. "It's incredible. I still think it's still influencing people. What's funny is how many people just bit our style. That was a no-no back in the day. But it's what (the music industry) does. They give you a duplicate, but it's never as good as the original. They took it and warped it."
Gangsta music. "It was what we saw all around us in Los Angeles. Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you."
F--- Tha Police. "We were just tired of them. They take advantage of the communities they patrol, especially poor ones. So it was like: 'Enough is enough. We have to say something.' Before we did that song, the police could do no wrong. But after that song came out and the Rodney King situation reinforced what we were saying, their conduct started being scrutinized."
The complaint letter from the FBI. "We were naive to what we were really up against. We thought as long as LAPD and the sheriff aren't coming this way, we're cool. That just shows you how much those police agencies affect the 'hood. They blind you so you can't even see the big boys coming." (c) Copyright 2008 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. <>>


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Billionaire Jon Huntsman, Sr. has ridden the ups and downs of chemicals business over the past four decades, nearing bankruptcy at one point and later suing a private equity firm that reneged on a deal to acquire his company. But for more than 20 years, the four-time cancer survivor has also been busy drumming up support for cancer research. He's given at least $400 million since 1999 to establish the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Late last week, he upped that amount by $100 million – about $50 million of which is coming from him.
Huntsman realized that not nearly enough research is being done on children's cancers, so he has spearheaded the construction of a new research building for children's cancer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He convinced three other parties to contribute what amounts to roughly $50 million: Intermountain Healthcare, which runs a number of hospitals in Utah; the Mormon Church, of which he is a member; and the Utah state legislature. The Mormon Church is circling back to its history with the donation; it opened a children's hospital in Utah over 100 years ago, Huntsman explained. Construction of the new building is slated to begin in 2014.
Why focus on children's cancers? "HCI in a recent study showed that for a child diagnosed with cancer, the risk of siblings getting cancer is double that of normal populations," Huntsman told me on the phone the other day. "It raised a question in our minds. What happens to their siblings? What happens to children with cancer when they reach teenage and adult years? Does it reoccur? What happens to their children? Do their odds of getting cancer go up? Nobody knows these answers."
Huntsman, whose parents both died of cancer, proudly told me that Huntsman Cancer Institute has established itself as one of 21 comprehensive cancer care centers in the U.S. Before it was created, there was no other leading cancer research hospital in the intermountain West. "I'm really pushing forward to make this the finest center in the world," he added.
The funding for the new center, to be called the Primary Children's and Family Research Center, comes amid a drop in cancer research funds from the National Institutes of Health, Huntsman lamented. "Money allocated by the government is dramatically lower than it has been in 50 years," he said. The solution? He lobbies Senators in Washington and bankers on Wall Street, and he urges the private sector and wealthy individuals to follow his lead. Said Huntsman: "I get so enthused. Senators see me coming and close their doors. People tell me, 'Jon, all you ever talk about is cancer.'"
The 76-year-old does, however, talk about other things. As executive chairman of chemicals firm Huntsman Corp, which has operations in 75 countries, Jon Huntsman regularly travels the globe for business. It's been a banner year for $11 billion (revenues) company, which announced in September that it would spend $1.1 billion to buy the titanium dioxide pigment business of Rockwood Holdings. Investors seemed to like the deal, driving Huntsman Corp. stock to the highest it's been since May 2008. That jump, plus a rise in the value of real estate holdings that Jon Huntsman has in Idaho and Utah, puts Huntsman back among the ranks of the world's billionaires.
Better business for him means more money for his charitable endeavors. Huntsman says the profits of every business except Huntsman Corp. – he's got two private equity firms in addition to the real estate – get put into the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He has already given more than $1. 2 billion away over his lifetime, and has signed on to the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Giving Pledge.
His larger vision is to make the Huntsman Cancer Institute research central for a network of hospitals around the world. "There's no need to have multiple research centers. Then we don't have to replicate hundreds of millions of dollars in cost," he explained. His idea is to make the institute in Salt Lake the hub to train teams of doctors and hospitals around the world, and share the research HCI does. There's a project going on in Mexico now and he aims to have more teams ready to train others. "It's the future of the solution to cancer globally," said Huntsman. "People cannot afford the huge expenses in research."
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English barrister A. M. (Alexander Meyrick) Broadley was the son of Rev. Alexander Broadley, vicar of Bradpole, and Frances Jane Meyrick Broadley. He was born on July 19, 1847 and studied at Warminster, Marlborough, and in Switzerland. Beginning in 1869 he worked as a lawyer and journalist in India, Tuniaia, Egypt, and Belgium. Following the death of his father in 1893, Broadley returned to England and built a home in Bradpole, Dorset, where he and his mother spent the rest of their lives. At The Knapp, his Bradpole home, A. M. Broadley focused on writing, collecting historical documents, and grangerizing books (illustrating or creating volumes with clippings from manuscripts and published sources). Bradley's published works include
Broadley's grangerized books and scrapbook albums have attracted the attention of scholars. Bridwell Library's Broadley album focuses on the life of Brian Bury Collins (1754-1807). Collins (later known as Brian Bury) was an Evangelical Anglican who was a close associate of the John and Charles Wesley and of Lady Huntingdon.
Foster, Joseph.
Alexander Meyrick Broadley: Barrister, Historian, Collector, Author, Cartoonist and Freemason,
Harmon, Nolan B., Ed.
The A. M. Broadley album contains correspondence and images of Rev. Brian Bury Collins and other eighteenth-century English religious leaders. The printed title page describes the contents as follows:
Additionally, the collection includes materials from the early twentieth century generated by Alexander Myerick Broadley's efforts to document the life of Brian Bury Collins.
The collection consists of a single series:
The collection is open for research use.
Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain copyright authorization.
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications for which Bridwell Library assumes no responsibility.
This collection is indexed under the following terms in the Southern Methodist University Libraries' online catalog. Researchers desiring related materials may search the catalog using these terms.
A. M. Broadley album on Brian Bury Collins, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
The album was disassembled in 2013 and the contents digitized and housed in archival boxes and folders. C numbers are "Collins" inventory numbers assigned previously to individual pages in the album. Two entries are marked "Moore" rather than "Collins." Some items did not receive inventory numbers (designated C? on the list); other inventory numbers seem to have been missed. In processing, items measuring more than 8.5" x 14" were flattened, foldered, and placed in an oversize materials box.
In 1981 the following letters were removed by library staff and placed in other manuscript collections at Bridwell Library:
by Timothy S. G. Binkley, 2013.
Ada Negraru, 2013
This series comprises 203 eighteenth-and nineteenth-century letters and printed images of Brian Bury Collins; his associates; Bath, England; and other localities associated with Rev. Collins and the Wesleyan movement. Twentieth-century materials in the collection relate to Broadley's collecting, collating, and publishing of the album contents.


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Hong Kong, 2012, colour, 2.35:1, 92 mins.
Director: Peng Haoxiang 彭浩翔 [Pang Ho-cheung].
Rating: 6/10.
Rough-and-ready satire of low-end Hong Kong filmmaking is what it is, and no more.
Hong Kong, the present day. Well-known film producer Du Huizhang (Du Wenze) gives a master class to students at a university, moderated by a professor, Zheng (Zheng Danrui). Asked about product placement, he tells a story in which his pitch to an insurance company was screwed up by his assistant, overseas Chinese Liu Qian'er (Xue Kaiqi), wrongly altering his presentation. On the subject of raising finance, he recounts a memorable dinner in Beihai, Guangxi province, China, with a potential investor, gangster Tyrannosaurus (Zheng Zhongji), who wanted him to remake his favourite erotic costume drama from his youth, Confession of a Concubine 官人我要 (1976), with the same actress, Shao Yinyin. Tyrannosaurus suggested the title Confessions of Two Concubines 官人我又要. Back in Hong Kong, Du Huizhang couldn't persuade Shao Yinyin (Shao Yinyin), now in her 60s, to take the part; but he got an old friend, Zhao Yongda (Zou Kaiguang), then running an illegal gambling den, to agree to direct. Du Huizhang was behind on his alimony payments to his ex-wife, barrister Zeng Lifen (Tian Ruini); when she told him to look after their young daughter Du Xiaojuan (Chen Peiyan) while she was on a business trip to Shanghai, Du Huizhang was helped by wannabe starlet Xu Jiaxin, aka Popping Candy (Chen Jing). Shao Yinyin finally agreed to take the part when Du Huizhang came up with the idea of using CGI to put her face on to Xu Jiaxin's body in the sex scenes. Production was finally ready to start – but more problems were to follow.
Vulgaria 低俗喜剧 is what it is, and no more – a rough-and-ready comedy about the lower end of the film industry, shot on the hoof (in a rapid 12 days), absolutely Hong Kong in its humour (the dialogue only really works in Cantonese), and with not much structure beyond a series of sketches. Most of all, it's a return to roots by maverick director Peng Haoxiang 彭浩翔 [Pang Ho-cheung], a deliberately free-wheeling blast of energy by a film-maker who seems to need to let off some steam at a time when he's becoming too conventional mainstream (Love in a Puff 志明与春娇, 2010; Love in the Buff 春娇与志明, 2012). On that level, it works fine: the film has more hits than misses in its jokes, and the cameo-heavy structure keeps things moving. It's exactly what its Chinese title says, "A Comedy in Poor Taste".
Peng has been here before, from different angles: film-making satire (You Shoot, I Shoot 买凶拍人, 2001), erotic film-making (AV 青春梦工场, 2005) and racy dialogue (Love in a Puff). Vulgaria throws it all together and, from the film's opening with a 10-second pause for easily offended viewers to leave the cinema, it wears its shock value on its sleeve. And that's the biggest problem with the movie: as in Love in a Puff, Peng's desire to shock too often gets in the way of the real humour. Only in one sequence does he really hit the mark and spend the time developing a whole setpiece: a dinner with a Mainland gangster financier, beautifully over-played by Hong Kong comedian Zheng Zhongji 郑中基 [Ronald Cheng], that sends up things like extravagance in New China, triad face-saving and Hong Kong kowtowing to Mainland money – and climaxes, literally, with a bang.
Most of the other scenes are more like brief comedy sketches littered with sex-jokes. Some work okay (such as a wannabe starlet describing her idea for a masturbation videogame), while others (Yang Qianhua 杨千嬅 [Miriam Yeung] cameoing as an equal opportunities officer) don't spark as they should. The best stuff, in fact, is when Peng stops trying to shock his audience and lets the characters develop on their own: at its rather soft heart, the film is more about a divorced father trying to connect with his young daughter, or recover his self-esteem by launching a successful franchise, than an expose of the seamier side of Hong Kong film-making.
As the producer who'll literally do anything to raise a dollar (including copulating with a mule), Du Wenze 杜汶泽 [Chapman To] is nicely cast, managing to hint at a real character beneath the producer-ly show-acting. (Du's scenes with his real wife, actress Tian Ruini 田蕊妮, as his acerbic ex, also hit the spot.) And several of the cameos – 1970s sexpot Shao Yinyin 邵音音 [Susan Shaw] and Hong Kong-based Japanese actor Hayama Hiro 叶山豪, as themselves – have a good-humoured warmth. But the best performance, apart from Du's, is by Shanghai-born model Chen Jing 陈靜, 23, aka E-Cup Goddess Dada 百果园E神, as a starlet with a special gift who's known as Popping Candy 爆炸糖. Chen manages to blend sexiness, innocence and knowingness into a character who, in comic terms, is the most real one in the whole movie.
Technically, the film is nothing special, but that doesn't get in the way of the antics.
Presented by Sun Entertainment Culture (HK). Produced by Making Film Productions (HK).
Script: Peng Haoxiang [Pang Ho-cheung], Lin Chaorong, Lu Yixin. Original story: Peng Haoxiang [Pang Ho-cheung]. Photography: Guan Zhiyao [Jason Kwan]. Editing: Li Donquan [Wenders Li]. Music: Huang Ailun [Alan Wong], Weng Weiying [Janet Yung]. Art direction: He Lelin. Costumes: He Lelin. Sound: Liang Zhida, Wang Qingsheng. Visual effects: Wang Yinghao.
Cast: Du Wenze [Chapman To] (Du Huizhang), Zheng Zhongji [Ronald Cheng] (Bao Long/Tyrannosaurus), Chen Jing (Xu Jiaxin/Baozhatang/Popping Candy), Shao Yinyin [Susan Shaw] (Shao Yinyin), Lei Yuyang (Lei Yongcheng), Zou Kaiguang [Matt Chow] (Zhao Yongda/Blackie), Tian Ruini (Zeng Lifen, Du Huizhang's ex-wife), Hayama Hiro (himself), Lin Xue [Lam Suet] (Huatou, Tyrannosaurus' sidekick at dinner), Zheng Danrui [Lawrence Cheng] (Zheng, professor), Xue Kaiqi [Fiona Sit] (Liu Qian'er/Quin, Du Huizhang's assistant), Yang Qianhua [Miriam Yeung] (Miss Liang, equal-opportunities officer), Zhan Ruiwen [Jim Chim] (Junhuo Liu/Fireworks Liu), Gu Dezhao [Vincent Kok] (PlayBoy Condoms CEO), Miao Kexiu [Nora Miao] (Miss Zhang, schoolteacher), Yin Zhiwen [Jimmy Wan], Hu Jiale, Huang Lu, Peng Liwei (students at master class), Zhang Yuhua (Tyrannosaurus' other sidekick), Chen Peiyan (Du Xiaojuan/Jacqueline, Du Huizhang's daughter), Peng Liwei (Peng Liwei/Fat Wei), Li Manfen (Mrs. Liang), Zhou Junwei (policeman), Chen Kai'en (production manager), Peng Xiuhui (tealady), Liu Weiheng (Entertainment Scoop reporter), Tan Yunjia (Entertainment Scoop cameraman), Mai Lingling (hypnotist).
Premiere: Hong Kong Film Festival (Hong Kong Panorama), 27 Mar 2012.
Release: Hong Kong, 9 Aug 2012.
(Review originally published on Film Business Asia, 31 Jul 2012.)


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Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Hipster Shaun Revives the Mid 2012 Macbook Pro
The Macbook Pro suffered a catastrophic S.M.A.R.T hard drive failure. Fortunately Hipster Shaun is here to save the day.
The Macbook Pro is opened by T6 Torx Screws.
The failed HDD is a Toshiba made in Laguna.
Hipster Shaun replaced it with a Malaysian 1TB Western Digital. This will be a temporary solution until we get some hybrid drives from our Hasidic friends.
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The First Time I've Ever Seen the BBC Pixelate anything.
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Back Up Your Data!
Can't imagine these things are still being sold in 2016!!!!!
Hipster Shaun has totally stopped getting mechanical hard drives. Unlike watches, we iz ok to adopt current data stowrage technology. Time to back up all those photos and pr0n!
Massaman Curry
Organic schmorganic. Surprisingly cheaper than the non-organic vershun. Whut up wif that?
Feeling this is like feeling my testicles outdoors in the Alps in winter
I think we did well after 3 hours.
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Many people still haven't updated their website to HTML5. Reasons are aplenty, such as it is still pretty new, Internet Explorer (IE) is still not supporting it, it's a huge cost to convert the existing website to HTML5, HTML5 is a myth and it's not working, HTML5 is not adopted worldwide yet, and etc.
But there are plenty of good reasons to start implementing HTML5. This is not only aimed at web developer or web designers, because businesses with an online presence should think of their long term strategy for their web as well.
Below are the 10 reasons to change your web to HTML5 or to start using HTML5.
Reason #10: Accessibility
HTML5 makes creating accessible sites easier for two main reasons: semantics and ARIA. The new (some currently available) HTML headings like , , ,
, , etc. allow screen readers to easily access content. Before, your screen readers had no way to determine what a given
 was even if you assigned it an ID or Class. With new semantic tags screen readers can better examine the HTML document and create a better experience for those who use them.
ARIA is a W3C spec that is mainly used to assign specific "roles" to elements in an HTML document – essentially creating important landmarks on the page: header, footer, navigation or article, via role attributes. This has been well overlooked and widely under-used mostly due to the fact that it wasn't valid, however, HTML5 will validate these attributes. Also, HTML5 will have built in roles that can't be over-ridden making assigning roles a no brainer.
Reason #9: Video and Audio Support
Forget about Flash Player and other third party media players, make your videos and audio truly accessible with the new HTML5 <video> and <audio> tags. Getting your media to play correctly has always been pretty much a nightmare, you had to use the <embed> and <object> tags and assign a huge list of parameters just to get the thing visible and working correctly. Your media tags just become these nasty, huge chunks of confusing code segments. HTML5′s video and audio tags basically treat them as images; <video src="url"/>. But what about all those parameters like height, width and autoplay? No worries my good man, just define those attributes in the tag just like any other HTML element: <video src="url" width="640px" height="380px" autoplay/>.
It's actually that dead simple, however because old evil browsers out there don't like our HTML5 friend, you'll need to add a little bit more code to get them working correctly… but this code isn't nearly as gnarly and messy as the <object> and <embed> tags:
<video poster="myvideo.jpg" controls>
<source src="myvideo.m4v" type="video/mp4″ />
<source src="myvideo.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
<embed src="/to/my/video/player"></embed>
Reason #8: Doctype
<!DOCTYPE html>
Yup that's it, that is the doctype, nothing more, nothing less. Pretty simple right? No more cutting and pasting some long unreadable line of code and no more dirty head tags filled with doctype attributes. You can simply and easily type it out and be happy. The really great thing about it though, beyond the simplicity, is that it works in every browser clear back to the dreaded IE6.
Another example to show how HTML5 has a much cleaner and simple code is this: the reference link code for stylesheet in HTML4.01 needed to be defined for "type" (in this case, text/css), and the code looks like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
With HTML5, the code is clean and simple:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
There is no need to define the "type" anymore in HTML5 because when the "rel" is defined for "stylesheet", it is understood that it is "text/css" type.
Yup, that's it!
Reason #7: Cleaner Code
If you are passionate about simple, elegant, easy to read code then HTML5 is the beast for you. HTML5 allows you to write clear and descriptive code, semantic code that allows you to easily separate meaning from style and content. Consider this typical and simple header code with navigation:

Header Text

Link

Link

Link

So this code is pretty clean and simple? But with HTML5 you can clean this up even more and at the same time give your markup more meaning:

Header Text

Link

Link

Link

With HTML5 you can finally cure your "divitis" and "classitis" by using semantic and HTML headers to describe your content. Previously you would generally just use div's for every block of content than drop an id or class on it to describe its content but with the new
,
, , ,  and  tags, HTML5 allows you to code your markup cleaner as well as keep your CSS better organized and happier.
Reason #6: Smarter Storage
One of the coolest things about HTML5 is the new local storage feature. It's a little bit of a cross between regular old cookies and a client-side database. It's better than cookies because it allows for storage across multiple windows, it has better security and performance and data will persist even after the browser is closed. Because it's essentially a client side data base you don't have to worry about the user deleting cookies and it is been adopted by all the popular browsers.
Local storage is great for many things, but it's one of HTML5 tools that are making web apps possible without third party plugins. Being able to store data in the user's browser allows you to easily create those app features like: storing user information, the ability to cache data, and the ability to load the user's previous application state. If you are interested in getting started with local storage, check out Christian Heilmann's great 24 Ways article from last year — Wrapping Things Nicely with HTML5 Local Storage.
Reason #5: Better Interactions
We all want better interactions, we all want a more dynamic website that responds to the user and allows the user to enjoy/interact your content instead of just look at it. Enter <canvas>, the drawing HTML5 tag that allows you to do most (if not more) interactive and animated possibilities than the previous rich internet application platforms like Flash.
Beyond <canvas>, HTML5 also comes with a slew of great APIs that allow you to build a better user experience and a beefier, more dynamic web application — here's a quick list of native APIs:
Drag and Drop (DnD)
Offline storage database
Browser history management
document editing
Timed media playback
Reason #4: Game Development
Yup, that is correct, you can develop games using HTML5′s <canvas> tag. HTML5 provides a great, mobile friendly way to develop fun, interactive games. Furthermore, Zynga, one of the largest game developer for Facebook with popular title such as Farmville, has announced that they are porting their games to HTML5.
If you've built Flash games before, you'll love building HTML5 games.
Reason #3: Legacy/Cross Browser Support
<!–[if lt IE 9]>

Reason #2: Mobile, Mobile, Mobile
The adoption of mobile devices continues to grow very rapidly and this means that more and more users will be using their mobile browsers to view your web site or application. HTML5 is the most mobile ready tool for developing mobile sites and apps. With Adobe announcing the death of mobile Flash, you will now count on HTML5 to do your mobile web application development.
Mobile browsers have fully adopted HTML5 so creating mobile ready projects is as easy as designing and constructing for their smaller touch screen displays — hence the popularity of Responsive Design. There are some great meta tags that also allow you to optimize for mobile:
Viewport: allows you to define viewport widths and zoom settings
Full screen browsing: IOS specific values that allow Apple devices to display in full screen mode
Home Screen Icons: like favicons on desktop, these icons are used to add favorites to the home screen of an IOS and Android mobile device
Reason #1: It's the Future!
The number one reason why you should start using HTML5 today is this: it's the future, start using it now so you don't get left behind. HTML5 is not going anywhere and as more and more elements get adopted more and more companies will start to develop in HTML5. HTML5 is essentially just HTML, it's not scary, it's not anything you really need to figure out or relearn — if you're developing XHTML strict right now you are already developing in HTML5 so why not take full advantage of it's current capability?
At Zymora, we have adopted HTML5 for quite some time, and the number 1 reason why we love HTML5 is the fact that the code is cleaner and easier. If we need to make one change on the HTML code, we used to spend hours and hours finding it and making sure that it works. Now, with HTML5, we could find the code easily


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By GRAHAM BRINK
© St. Petersburg Times, published December 24, 1999
TAMPA -- Hillsborough Circuit Judge Cynthia Holloway stepped aside from Valessa Robinson's first-degree murder case on Thursday after defense attorneys accused her of bias, a decision that could postpone the Feb. 14 trial.
Attorneys for Robinson, the Carrollwood teenager accused of killing her mother, filed a motion Monday asserting that Holloway already viewed their client as guilty. They pointed to statements she made Dec. 17 as she sentenced Robinson's boyfriend, Adam Davis, to death for his role in the killing.
Referring to Davis and Robinson, Holloway said, "between these two defendants, there is no significant difference in the level of culpability." The defense attorneys argued the statement created the impression that the judge couldn't hear Robinson's case with an open mind.
The case was transferred to Circuit Judge Diana Allen, who may be forced to delay the trial depending on what she has on her docket for February, said Hillsborough Chief Judge Dennis Alvarez.
"It won't speed things up," Alvarez said.
More and more, attorneys are asking Hillsborough judges to disqualify themselves from cases, said Alvarez, who called the trend disturbing.
When asked to step aside, judges cannot consider whether the allegations against them are true but only whether they would be legally sufficient to require them to get off the case if they were true, according to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. Most judges err on the side of caution and step aside to avoid appeals, a distinct possibility in murder cases.
Judges also are forbidden from explaining why they did or did not step aside, Alvarez said. The rules can leave the public the impression the judge did something wrong, he said.
"The allegations can be totally groundless, but still legally sufficient," he said. "It's an easy way to get a judge that you don't like off of a case."
It also can be an effective way for attorneys to buy time because so-called recusals often require postponing a case. Alvarez said he did not know if that was the intent in the Robinson case because he was unaware of the details. Robinson's attorneys could not be reached for comment.
"Speaking in generalities ... some attorneys will use it as a delay tactic," Alvarez said.
If attorneys want the second judge in a case to step aside, they must prove the merits of the allegations they level against that judge, not just raise the questions, Alvarez said.
"It's much harder the second time around," he said. "You only get one free bite at the apple."
Prosecutor Pam Bondi said she did not want to comment on a pending case.
Valessa Robinson told detectives she was tripping on LSD with Davis at a Denny's in July 1998 when they decided to kill her mother, Vicki Robinson, a divorced Carrollwood real estate agent. Mrs. Robinson's body was stuffed in a garbage can in some woods. Five days later, Davis, Valessa Robinson and Jon Whispel were caught in west Texas driving Mrs. Robinson's minivan.
Whispel accepted a plea deal for 25 years in prison in exchange for agreeing to testify against Davis and Robinson. A jury convicted Davis in November.
Regardless of when Robinson's trial begins, the new judge must decide several legal matters, including whether to let the jury hear Robinson's taped confession.
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"The David Wagenman's of Gerber, Ca."
|I am researching my Mother's side of my family.
As of the census return of 1875 - This Family lived at the cottagerplace Byhrstuen under the Farm Byhr in Nord-Fron Parish in Gudbradsdalen, Norway. Amund Pedersen was Born Mar 10,1849-Died Jan 14,1914. He married Kari Amundsdatter (Ronstalien)May 25,1870. She was Born Feb 5,1841-Died April 28,1930. They came to the U.S. in 1887-settled in Rothsay, Minnesota with 6 children. One of them was Anne(B-Mar 2,1875-D-Sept 15,1948)who married Otto (Kjelsen) Foss(B-May 23,1859-D-April 23,1931) on Nov 15,1889 or 1890 at Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
My Grandfather Peder Alfred Foss was born to this couple on Sept 21,1898 - died Oct 16, 1973 and married Mable Aanes, Born Feb 22,1901 - died Aug 21, 1960 who's parents were John Knudson Aanes Born October 15, 1864 - Died August 13,1927 & Tala Wibe born March 8,1874 - Died July 28, 1913. They were married January 1,1893.
John's mothers name was Sigrid (Husby)Hakstad. She lived in Norway (b-1841-d-April 20,1920). I would appreciate any information about these people especially over in Norway. Thanks
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Good morning. The federal government might be headed for a shutdown, so get to that national monument before Friday. The rest of the news:
Sen. Greg Ball's upcoming hearings on terrorism and emergency preparedness include controversial critics of Islam. (TU)
Sen. Marty Golden wants human services caseworkers to snap a cellphone photo that would prove where and when they made a home visit. (TU)
A bill designed to boost organ donor signups passes the Senate Transportation Committee. (TU)
An NYC gun rights group sues the city, claiming that its permit process raises too high a bar to gun ownership. (DN)
A former adviser to Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is now running the press operation for the Department of Corrections. (BN)
Saratoga Springs reaches agreements with two CSEA units. (TU)
Where is John Cheever when we need him?: State and local officials want to see Sing Sing shut down, and perhaps turned into condos. (GNS)
President Barack Obama will be back in NYC today, shoring up his base. (DN)
NYSERDA has launched the state's first incentive program for solar thermal systems, which produce hot water from solar technologies. (TU)
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand unveils her "entrepreneurship agenda." (TU)
Darrel Aubertine and Ken Adams receive Senate approval as Ag Commissioner and ESDC head, respectively. (NYS Public Radio)
Few localities are choosing NYC's pension option of borrowing from the state of offset cost increases. (GNS)
Pedro Espada Jr. and his son plead not guilty to tax evasion. (DN)
Tea Party Patriots dig Andrew Cuomo's budget. (NYP)
A federal judge puts a woman on extended jury duty for making racist comments on her questionnaire. (DN)
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House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan rolls out his proposed budget for 2012. (WashPost)
Both sides in the Washington budget battle seem to be hardening their positions. (NYT)
States worry that a federal shutdown could delay grants that keep the wolf at the door. (NYT)
Speaker John Boehner says Democrats would likely win the rhetoric war that would ensue after a shutdown. (Politico)
The Democratic National Committee has a new boss. (Politico)
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If you are like me, living in the United States at this time of year, you know that it's time for politics. The phone won't stop ringing, ads for this candidate or that candidate pop up all the time on the television, and little cardboard signs have started appearing on all the neighborhood lawns, declaring each house's allegiances.
However, unless you live in Maine, you may not have heard a recent story that demands the gaming community's attention. The implications of the story of Maine State Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz are huge for the community and culture of gaming. The political landscape of not only America, but the world, is changing, and this story is an example of the growing pains. It is important for politicians from both sides of the aisle and from any party to understand how gaming has changed, who gamers really are, and even use this to both help their campaigns and form their policies.
The story of candidate Colleeen Lachowicz starts way back in 2009 when Mrs. Lachowicz was running about the world of Azeroth, playing World of Warcraft like so many others. As Santiaga, a Level 85 Orc Rogue, she enjoyed stabbing things.
So I'm a level 68 orc rogue girl. That means I stab things… a lot… Who would have thought that a peace-lovin', social worker and democrat would enjoy that?
That is a direct quote from Lachowicz from a forum she frequented, and is a normal enough sentiment for many modern gamers. I myself found great relief during university, after a long day, in sitting in front of a television, loading up Call of Duty: Black Op Zombies, and laying into the living dead with a Thompson's Machine Gun with a couple of my friends (it's okay, they're Nazis and Zombies!). Digital violence can not only be a stress relief, but a good way to train your hand-eye coordination!
Fast forward to the Fall of 2012. Lachowicz has been involved in Maine politics for some time and has decided to run as a Democratic Candidate for the State Senate. The Maine Republican Party has dug up a number of Colleen's old forum posts and in game messages and have launched a campaign at www.colleensworld.com, ridiculing and attacking Lachowicz for her time in World of Warcraft and many of the statements connected to her through her guild and gameplay.
To a gamer, the site reads like a bad joke, but it has gained attention on numerous news sites, from the Escapist to Forbes, CNN to Fox News. While there are numerous posts that I actually think opponents would be wise to question (in particular Lochowicz statement about wanting to drown Grover Norquist, an American conservative activist, in a bathtub), and that Mrs. Lachowicz is going to have a very hard time explaining the VAST majority of the posts and comments highlighted as shocking – yet many of her posts come off as laughably quaint. It is fair to question this woman's suitability for governance when she comments that she'd like to kill an opponent. It is not fair to question her ability when she says she enjoys "cooking sausages on the grill while doing dungeons."
This isn't an issues of Democratic versus Conservative ideals, nor even attack ads, privacy, or civil discourse. This is a much bigger issue. This is about gaming becoming part of the mainstream global culture. Face it boys and girls, we are not underground anymore.
The Conservative party does have a larger percentage of people who are part of the older generation. No skew, just a fact. Honestly, I think old people have some damn fine ideas, and I'd like to see every generation and every political party debate and argue at the same level, but right now there is a problem with that. Some people simply do not have the same vocabulary of technology and gaming that we do. Many of us have now grown up with gaming around us for our entire lives. There are still numerous misconceptions that exist in the political world and it is time we started, as a community, not ridiculing people for these misconceptions, but educating.
First and foremost, the argument that a politician should not have time to play videogames is simply bogus. Gaming is hobby, just like any other. No one would bat an eye at a Politician saying he played golf, collected stamps, or was part of almost any other hobby. People simply have a misconception about what the "gamer" is now. From the Colleen's world site, there is the statistic listed that "the average WoW gamer is 28 and spends 22.7 hours a week playing in Azeroth". I actually was kind of shocked by this. I thought it would have been a much lower age and a far greater time commitment. Let's round up (because I dislike math), and that gives us a 30 year old gamer who spends roughly three hours a day playing World of Warcraft. That average probably doesn't account for weekend binges and I know I've spent hours in an MMO simply using it as a chat room. That's just an average, and is more than likely thrown off by outliers on either side of the data set.
The 28 year-old comment shouldn't even hold weight. The average gamer is now figured to be 34 [quoted from http://www.esrb.org/about/video-game-industry-statistics.jsp]. Gaming is a hobby that is edging more and more into older and older generations. Casual gaming has been introduced into many senior living centers, and the average age of gamers continues to climb. The claim that gaming is a juvenile hobby doesn't really hold weight anymore. It certainly began as a hobby for children, but in an industry producing as many "M" rated games, specifically meant to NOT be played by children, as it does, I don't think you can even claim the gaming industry is dominated by children anymore.
Now, the time spent in this hobby is at least a marginally valid complaint. No matter what your job, if you spend most of your time doing something other than that job, your performance is likely going to suffer, and people have every right to criticize you for it. When your performance suffering is going to affect the governing of an entire state, and all the people living there, it's probably a good idea to rethink your priorities.
Who's to say that, upon winning the position as State senator, Lochowicz wouldn't let her WoW account lapse for a while, or simply not play nearly as much? Any hobby can do this. If a politician were to play golf during a crisis, that would be unacceptable, but there is no problem with him taking time off to relax and enjoy a hobby every once in a while. WoW is just another hobby, nothing more, nothing less. You can play it casually or over-indulge.
The idea of playing games and working in politics has even been proven to not only be acceptable, but perhaps even
beneficial by another story that popped up in the news a month or so ago. Sean Smith was one of the four Americans killed at the attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi on Septemebr 11th of this year [http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/vilerat/]. He was a valued member of the Diplomatic Service… and what can only be deemed a more than casual EVE online player. While it was tragic to hear of his death, it was also more than a little inspiring to see a gamer (and one who played EVE, a game only the most determined and hordcore of gamers can handle) in such an important political office. But that isn't the most important part.
While in the world of EVE, Sean Smith, known as Vile Rat , was a diplomat of great skill and renown. Not only for his Alliance, the Goonswarm, but within the entire game. EVE was, in many ways, another world for Smith to practice the art of diplomacy, and skill he was directly connected to in his life and to his career. Gaming provided him a training grounds. Gaming helped him be better at his job.
And who is to say games haven't been doing this for a while? Simulation games can teach you a lot about whatever you are simulating, be it plane, train or city to build. Playing the economy in a game like WoW or GW2 can teach you a lot about how the stockmarket works. I know I have learned a ton of knowledge about history I may very well not have come across from the Age of Empires series, and learned a ton of vocabulary for my Archaeology of Greek and Roman Daily Life class from CivCity Rome. (Hey, whatever works, right Dr. Shumka?)
So what do both parties have to learn from this exchange? First and foremost, we live in an age where anything you say online can be brought against you. Mrs. Lachowicz probably should have thought twice about typing some of those remarks, particularly where she was already in Maine politics. Once you enter the public sphere of politics, your leisure and personal life are in a spotlight. You may hate it, but that's the truth.
However, the Maine Republican party has made a grave error in mixing style and substance. What they should be caring about is what Colleen said, not where she said it. Gaming is a part of adult culture in today's world. The average gamer in 34, and 25% of all gamers are over 50. [from http://www.esrb.org/about/video-game-industry-statistics.jsp] What may have been the domain of children once is now firmly placed its feet in the adult market. The fact that someone plays a game as their hobby, and let alone enjoys being part of the community and killing a few digital monsters now and again is mo longer a valid critique of their character.
This is a larger issue, in truth. That vast majority of politicians have come from a generation that did not deal with video games, may not have ever played a video game, or experienced the internet during it's growth. These were hobbies of the younger generations, of the 80's and 90's. As more and more people who grew up with video games and the internet make their way into politics, I think we'll see a more accepting and understanding political body. Of course, by that point, we'll probably be complaining about the fact that our kid are spending all their time in Holodecks. At least we killed monsters and talked with REAL people while playing games!
(Everything really is cyclical, isn't it?)
[author] [author_image timthumb='on']http://www.puresophistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/profile-pic.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Born in Maine, Educated in Canada, and forged on the Internet, Jacob is a proud gamer, unabashed nerd and writer. He received his degree in Classics from Mount Allison university and his love of stories and their meaning from countless hours reading Homer, playing old school RPG's and studying Joseph Cambell. His one rule to live by? "Always dress as if you were going to give a speech."[/author_info] [/author]


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January 25, 2012 | by Andrew Kameka
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SEGA is hedging its bets on Android and delivering the a new-ish game Sonic the Hedgehog. No longer just an iOS affair, Sonic 4: Episode 1 is available now in the Android Market for anyone with an urge to race through plush lands, grab coins, and defeat evil in a way that only Sonic can. Ok, you might be able to see someone on PED's do something similar, but not in digital form.
Be aware that this is not the Tegra-optimized version of the game first teased in December. That version of the game (Episode II) is to have an all new set of graphics and physics built specifically for Tegra 2 and 3 processors that would really push the boundaries of what we're use to seeing from SEGA's mobile games. Not only is this version compatible with non-Tegra devices, the Android Market website tells me that it is incompatible with several Tegra phone and tablet models linked to my account. The Motorola Atrix and Toshiba Thrive are supported, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Toshiba Thrive 7 are not for some reason.
All compatible devices can purchase Episode I for $3.99 USD and download an additional 107 MB file in order to run the game under a more traditional Sonic look. There are also two levels built specifically for phones with an accelerometer, 7 special stages, 4 unique zones, a "revamped classic boss battle" when taking on Dr. Eggman.
I made the purchase instantly based on my childhood love of Sonic, even though I know something better's coming along. Grab this game if you don't want to wait until the unnamed date later this year when Sonic Episode II arrives.
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Michael Richard Weinberg, of Page Springs, died July 24 in Flagstaff.
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I continue to look for information on the family of Nelson Merry. I went to the Archives this afternoon and spent a few hours looking up sources. Today, I discovered the joys of using city directories! I've not used them in my own research yet, but as I was browsing the shelves in one of the reading rooms at the Archives, I saw them and decided to look.
I am quite glad that I did! I looked through more than 20 years of directories for the families and found some very interesting information. In fact, I was able to quickly locate the death certificate information for Adella Merry Mitchell (daughter of Nelson G. Merry). I noticed from the directory information that the last time she is listed alongside her husband was 1917.
I also finally got a chance to use Stephen Morse's Enumeration District finder today and had located the family residence in 1920 because of his tool – my text searching had been unsuccessful, so I browsed through the ED that was indicated by his tool and found the residence. By 1920, Edward Mitchell (Adella's husband) was widowed.
This knowledge then narrowed down my search for Adella's death immensely. So, going to the TN online index for deaths, I stared with 1917. Wouldn't you know it was there! Adella Mitchell died July 26, 1917. I will have to go back to the Archives tomorrow to get her death certificate.


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Technically, it was called the Bikini Invitational, but given that I didn't receive an invitation I'll have to assume it was just the preliminary rounds. Either way, the good folks at Hard Rock and their aptly named Rehab pool club got Joanna Krupa and the photo shy Marta Krupa to pose down for the big event over the weekend at their Vegas property. Then they added Hef's wife, Crystal Hefner, in a bikini as the expert DJ to get the music pumping. Hey, it's Vegas and hot girls and a pool. You don't need to start questioning the details.
Girls, please don't forget to invite Uncle Bill to your next poolside soiree. Remember, the trench coats I wear are just emotional expressions of my sensitive insides. Enjoy.


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The Denver Black Police Officers Organization does not agree with an accepted plea deal for the man accused of murdering Celena Hollis in the line of duty, but it understands why it happened.
A statement Friday night from Sgt. Joseph Unser, president of the organization, expressed compassion and support for the still-grieving family over the murder that happened last summer during an outdoor jazz concert when suspect Rollin Oliver fired his gun into the crowd, hitting Hollis.
Oliver, who had been charged with first-degree murder with extreme indifference for human life, originally pleaded not guilty in October. As part of a plea deal, Oliver pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Friday.
The original charge of first-degree murder was dropped.
Oliver faces a minimum sentence of 16 years and a maximum of 26 years in prison. His sentence will also require Oliver to serve five years of parole.
Unser said the agreement was reached with consent from the Hollis family, who met with the district attorney's office more than once.
He said the family gave agreed in an effort to find closure and "start to move forward."
Hollis, a seven-year veteran of the department, had been the Black Police Officers Organization president before her death.
"Our organization lost an amazing leader and member when Celena was killed and for us, this is very difficult to accept," Unser wrote. "Celena's life was worth so much more than anything the justice system can offer. … Yet we must move forward and continue our healing process and this plea agreement and the sentence are part of that process. We may not agree with the plea agreement, but we, as police officers, understand the rationale behind it and will allow the system to run its course."
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Hardeeville water tower receives makeover
Signs of Hardeeville's branding initiative are starting pop up throughout the city. The most recent example is the water tower off Interstate 95.
"You can see the new branding on the water tower off of I-95 near Exit 5," said City Councilman Scott Ready. "We're all excited that we're able to see these changes."
The water tower was chosen as an ideal place to display the city's new logo, as the Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewer Authority was already repainting their tank. Hardeeville jumped on the opportunity, which allowed it to get competitive pricing for the tower's makeover.
"The funds came from the local hospitality funds that are considered a tourism-related item," finance director Chanel Lewis said. "They did not come from the general fund. One of the guidelines is you can use it to promote local tourism."
The process involved removing the old logo, scaling the tower, confirming colors with city staff, sketching out the new design and filling it in. Utility Service Group worked for two weeks and finished the job before July 4.
The process for getting the water tower painted started in mid-May, downtown development manager Chris Damgen said.
"The water and sewer authority own the tank, so we made the request to them," Damgen said. "They helped facilitate that for us and up it went."
So far, Damgen said, the comments the city has received about the its branding effort have been positive.
"We've received comments about how the new watermark is far more legible than what it was beforehand," Damgen said. "The lettering is a lot easier to see from a car on the interstate and the exits. People are also excited about where we're going next with the branding."
Damgen said the city is implementing an aggressive strategy to keep residents excited. The brand was proposed in April by Arnett Muldrow & Associates after a three-day workshop.
Damgen said city limit signs, uniforms for staff (specifically the fire department), new vehicles and other signage are the next items on the agenda.
"I want the people that have invested their time and energy to help identify the new brand for Hardeeville to know that their work and time is paying off," said Ready. "I'd just like to bring attention and gratitude to the people that made this happen. I'm glad they're getting to see the results of their dedication."


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…. In a word Nourishing – Quite literally food for my soul It's absolutely amazing to me after having just spent the last eleven days in Paris , sitting on an airplane en route back to Canada, that I am filled with nothing but smiles, sighs and a boatload of Gratitude. I am grateful for sooooooooo many things at this particular junket, but one of my dearest friends the fabulous Lisa Ferguson (StrengthsMentor) who put me forward as a social media speaker - in addition to this … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving a day for Gratitude
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. Irv Kupcinet Thanksgiving Gratitude Obviously we should never wait for the holidays to detail all things we are grateful for; however this reminder has spurred my imagination. I am thankful for so many things. Here are just a few....... My Family- Who loves and supports me. My clients- Who embark on a daily journey of faith, building &/or remodeling their homes My friends- My Cheerleaders, who encourage me … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving enjoy your get together!
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. Erma Bombeck Decorate - Look Festive enjoy the moment! Keep the meaning close to your heart. Ensure the table setting, equates to your menu. (ie, if soup ensure there are bowls and soup spoons ) Enjoy your moments together, being thankful as a family Determine your place setting style formal and or informal Most … [Read more...]
"I believe that the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more of yourself." - Oprah Winfrey GOALS Greatness Organized thoughts Achievement Love Sucess I have always been a bit of a dreamer. I come from humble hardworking parents. Good, honest Polish stalk and although goal setting was never something they directly instilled in me it none the less found its way into my psyche. I believe their gentle (and sometimes not … [Read more...]
1 month until Canadian Thanksgiving-Plan your dinner party!
A stellar table setting and combo! Another Setting-So beyond gorgeous! OK-Who knew? Fabulously Cheep and Cheerful! Thanksgiving decor! I love the feel of fall! Pears and leaves -That simple yet amazing!!! Martha Stweart you put me to shame! Great table cloth idea! Perfect for the kiddies! Mini pumpkin pies -DANGEROUS! I could eat 100!!! Another simple centerpiece -Baskets -Candles-Nuts and a Card! Various squash and gourds -Simple centerpiece Welcome Friends -Marker on pumpkins tres … [Read more...]
120 days until the New Year!
"Home is the heart of life ….. Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures ….making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone." - Terence Conran - Designer/Author/Restaurateur 120 days until the New Year! Plan next year's Reno by following these simple tips. Since fall is upon us, and school is about to commence I thought it would be fitting to address a topic for those homeowners thinking about … [Read more...]
Terrific Tuesday-Expect the Unexpected
"A person with flair is a gambler at heart." - Billy Baldwin Expect the Unexpected I truly become giddy with delight when I witness the birth of a fabulous new design. Like most of us in the industry, I am not a fan of cookie cutter design. My work is ultimately at its finest, when clients are willing to embrace a unique concept. When you plan a space, dare to dream, and then include a bit of originality and a little of the unexpected. I am the first to admit that … [Read more...]
Thank You Teachers!
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown Teachers… To teach: Can be defined as a few things… to show or help (a person) to learn (how) to do something to give lessons to (a student, pupil, or class); guide the studies to give lessons in (a subject) to someone; help someone to develop (a skill or trait) to provide (a person) with knowledge, insight, … [Read more...]
Preparing for back to school!
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."-Unknown I know, I know, I know Back to School? Mom's are screaming YIPPEE! Kids are counting down the days..... Are you prepared?? 10 days and counting until the 2012 school year begins! Here are a few images to inspire Excitement, Brilliance, and Organization! The Countdown Only a little bit more time to grab your supplies! If working on the … [Read more...]
There are no words….
"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it." - George Elliston There are no words.... Well maybe a few! I couldn't achieve a wordless post if my life depended on it. There is far too much to say. First and foremost, a huge shout out, to everyone involved, for a fabulous "Yellow Brick House" Fundraiser! Team JBD Thank you to the community of Markham, for attending and sharing your enthusiasm and generously donating to help design the new Markham shelter for … [Read more...]


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SAN JOSE — Mike Smith figured he would be tested by the big and physical San Jose Sharks. It was a challenge the Phoenix Coyotes goalie willingly accepted and mastered.
Smith made 33 saves through overtime and then turned aside two more shots in the shootout to carry the Coyotes to a 1-0 win against the Sharks on Saturday.
"It was a good one for me because they throw a lot of stuff at your feet from all different angles, and you have to be sharp all over the ice," Smith said. "It was a good one for me to get under my belt.
"We knew they would come at us pretty hard, and I was fortunate enough to come out on top."
The game's only offense was provided by Phoenix's Mikkel Boedker and Radim Vrbata, who both netted shootout goals against Antii Niemi.
"I thought I would do something else, even when I was in the slot," Vrbata said. "Then the instinct kicked in and I did what I usually do."
Smith, who recorded his second shutout of the season, made several acrobatic saves, including one in the shootout. Smith has 21 career NHL shutouts.
"He was excellent. He made some big saves at the right time," Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said. "He made some tough saves on shots that came through traffic. When you don't give up any goals you give your team a chance to win."
Niemi was nearly perfect, too, stopping 21 shots before the shootout to earn his first shutout of the season and 20th in the NHL.
"We still need to bear down around the net, but there are things we can build upon heading out on the road," Sharks center Joe Thornton said. "We feel comfortable playing this type of game, but unfortunately we lost in a shootout."
Smith improved to 14-19 in shootouts, and Niemi fell to 19-13.
San Jose, which has gone to a shootout in four of six games, dropped its second consecutive tiebreaker. The Coyotes are 1-1 in shootouts, both coming on the road.
Both teams hadn't won in their previous three games.
The Sharks entered with one power-play goal in their previous 21 opportunities and went 0-for-4. Phoenix came in with four goals in 23 chances before an 0-for-3 performance.
San Jose has turned around its penalty-killing. After allowing a power-play goal in each of their first three games, the Sharks have killed 34 consecutive short-handed situations.
"I knew our penalty kill has been good but I don't worry about the streak," Niemi said. "Just stopping shots."
The last time these teams met, there was plenty of offense. The Sharks scored three consecutie goals in a 5-3 win, and Thornton set a team record for the most points (nine) in the first three games of a season (one goal, eight assists). Patrick Marleau became the first player in 20 years to open a season with three multiple-goal games in a row.
Smith, who shut out the Sharks three times last season, improved to 6-3-1 in his career against them.
Notes: Coyotes C Martin Hanzal, who left the game for precautionary reasons, had a four-game point streak snapped. ... Coyotes C Boyd Gordon played in his 450th NHL game. ... The Sharks activated D Brent Burns, who played in his first game of the season. D Matt Irwin was assigned to Worchester of the AHL to make room. ... Tippett coached in his 750th game. ... Sharks LW Ryan Clowe hasn't scored a goal this season.
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Greece said on Wednesday it would never retreat from its decision to block European Union proposals setting minimum punishments for shipping companies and captains responsible for oil slicks.
ATHENS, Greece Greece said on Wednesday it would never retreat from its decision to block European Union proposals setting minimum punishments for shipping companies and captains responsible for oil slicks.
At a meeting of European justice ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta said the proposed new rules would penalize their merchant fleets by going further than international agreements applicable to competitors from outside the E.U.
"The merchant marine is a national treasure that has been defended by our constitution for 60 years. This would have placed Greek seamen at great danger, and no Greek government would ever allow it," said government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros.
Greece has the largest merchant shipping fleet in the E.U., with Greek-registered ships making up about 50 percent of its tonnage. The rest of the Greek-owned fleet which does not fly the Greek flag is far larger and controls more than 18 percent of the worldwide capacity in tonnage.
The issue could be discussed at next week's E.U. summit in Brussels.
"If French wine was under threat, does anyone doubt they would fight until the bitter end?" Antonaros questioned, setting the tone for any future discussion.
The proposed E.U. rules set a series of minimum punishments of up to 10 years imprisonment and fines of euro1.5 million (US$1.9 million) for major pollution at sea resulting from deliberate acts or gross negligence.
The E.U. has been pushing for stronger rules to prevent more accidents like 2002 Prestige oil tanker disaster in northwestern Spain. The Prestige was operated by a company in Athens but flew a Bahamian flag, and its operator was registered in Liberia. Its captain was Greek.
The three countries also want to revise the package to impose a ceiling on the liability that shipping companies can face if there is a pollution disaster. Without that, they say, it will become impossible for shippers to get insurance cover.
Greece's opposition Socialist party criticized the decision to block the E.U. proposals, accusing the government of bowing to pressure from "ship-owning interests."
"It is a service that was offered to ship-owning interests that want to remain without control and to pollute the marine environment," said former Merchant Marine Minister Christos Papoutsis.
Greece should have negotiated a better proposal on pollution rather than just blocking it, he said.
Proposals setting the minimum levels of sanctions need unanimous approval from all 25 governments before they can become E.U. law.
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Wailin' Wednesday: Yoga for a Cause
Calling all yogis! Want to get a yoga session in while supporting a great community program?
We are thrilled that Moksha Yoga Kildonan has selected the Winnipeg Folk Festival as their charity of choice for October. All funds collected for their Karma Classes this month will be donated to our Musical Mentors Program - a program that provides junior high and high school-aged students access to mentorship from local folk and roots artists as well as the opportunity to write and record their own songs.
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Every Friday in October at 7:30 PM and 9:00 PM
The Musical Mentors Program just began again this fall with Keri Latimer (Nathan), Rusty Matyas (The Sheepdogs, Imaginary Cities) and Vanessa Kuzina (Oh My Darling) mentoring students at Churchill High School, Gordon Bell High School and David Livingstone School.
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In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye,
Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen:
Gospel Lk 10:1-9
At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two others
whom he sent ahead of him in pairs
to every town and place he intended to visit.
He said to them,
"The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.
Go on your way;
behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;
and greet no one along the way.
Into whatever house you enter, first say,
'Peace to this household.'
If a peaceful person lives there,
your peace will rest on him;
but if not, it will return to you.
Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you,
for the laborer deserves his payment.
Do not move about from one house to another.
Whatever town you enter and they welcome you,
eat what is set before you,
cure the sick in it and say to them,
'The kingdom of God is at hand for you.'


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Suri Cruise: What a Twisted Lifeby Free Britney at . Comments
Poor Suri Cruise. Almost five, girl is "suffering the effects" of Tom Cruise's religion, Scientology, according to Katie Holmes' parents and Life & Style.
Scientologists treat kids like adults, "independent individuals capable of making their own decisions," reports the magazine's so-called expert.
For Suri Cruise, that means 1 a.m. dinners, playing with penis-shaped candies and still being allowed to use a pacifier, leaving Katie's folks "really upset."
NO BOUNDARIES: That's what Tom and Katie allegedly set for Suri.
"They're very worried that Tom isn't letting Suri enjoy the childhood she deserves because of his Scientology beliefs," says an alleged inside source.
"She often throws tantrums when she's out with Katie and Tom," the insider says, recalling that on March 15, Katie couldn't get Suri into her car seat.
"As always, Suri won and didn't have to sit in her car seat."
Breaking news right here, people. Four-year-old girls can get be temperamental and couples have different ways of raising kids. Stop the presses.


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More than 10,000 men, women and children will attend camps and summer homes maintained by agencies of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies this Summer, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, executive director of the organization, who in addition to making public details of the fresh air program for the current season, reviewed the services rendered in this field by the local Jewish charities last year.
The Federation, which last year appropriated $95,394 for this part of its work, is increasing the sum to $105,831 for this year, the statement shows. Twenty-seven resorts under the auspices of federated agencies will have begun their activities July 1, when the camping season is on in full swing.
Dr. Lowenstein's announcement shows that out of twenty-seven Summer and Winter camps conducted by affiliated Federation institutions seventeen receive financial assistance from the Federation.
Registration figures indicate that last year's number of those who spend their vacations at affiliated agencies' camps, 10,401, will be exceeded this Summer, Dr. Lowenstein said. Included in the number are 2,718 campers who are taken care of by camps affiliated with the Federation agencies but not supported by the Federation funds.


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These problems allow Stage 3 and 4 students to explore and describe sequences, and explain the patterns they notice.
These problems for Stage 4 and 5 students look at more challenging sequences and introduce the idea of series summation.
These articles make the case for teaching in a way that emphasises understanding of underlying structures rather than simply noticing patterns in sequences.


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Francis Bacon - In Memory of George Dyer (Foundation Beyeler)
The first major New York exhibition in 20 years devoted to Francis Bacon (British, 1909–1992)—one of the most important painters of the 20th century—will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 20 through August 16, 2009. Marking the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective will bring together the most significant works from each period of the artist's remarkable career. Drawn from public and private collections around the world, this landmark exhibition will consist of some 65 paintings, complemented by never-before-seen works and archival material from the Francis Bacon Estate, which will shed new light on the artist's career and working practices. The Metropolitan Museum is the sole U.S. venue of the exhibition tour
"Bacon is more compelling than ever: despite the passage of time, his paintings remain fresh, urgent, and mysterious. Never before has this work been more relevant to young artists," noted Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. "For these reasons, we are very pleased to be able to present a retrospective spanning his entire career to our viewing public."
Entirely self-taught, Francis Bacon emerged in 1945 as a major force in British painting. He rose to prominence over the subsequent 45 years, securing his reputation as one of the seminal artists of his generation. With a predilection for shocking imagery, Bacon's oeuvre was dominated by emotionally charged depictions of the human body that are among the most powerful images in the history of art.
The exhibition's loosely chronological structure will trace critical themes in Bacon's work and explore his philosophy about mankind and the modern condition with visually arresting examples. The earliest group of works, from the 1940s and '50s, focuses on the animalistic qualities of man, including: paintings of heads with snarling mouths (Head I, 1947–1948, The Metropolitan Museum of Art); images of men as pathetic and alone (Study for a Portrait, 1953, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany); and the human figure portrayed as base and bestial (Figures in a Landscape, 1956, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, England). The exhibition also features numerous versions of Bacon's iconic studies (1949–1953) after Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X (1650). Mortality is addressed directly in his last works (Triptych, 1991, The Museum of Modern Art, New York).
In the 1960s, working in his classic style of much looser, colorful, and expressive painting, Bacon showed the human body exposed and violated as in, for example, Lying Figure, 1969 (Foundation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland). In the following decade he increasingly used narrative, autobiography, and myth to mediate ideas about violence and emotion, as in the 1971 painting In Memory of George Dyer (Foundation Beyeler) and Triptych Inspired by the Orestia of Aeschylus, 1981 (Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway).
A number of important works by Bacon will only be presented at the Metropolitan Museum, including Study for Portrait I, 1953 (Denise and Andrew Saul); Painting, 1946 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); and Self Portrait, 1973 (private collection, courtesy Richard Nagy, London).


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- More backwards compatibility than Vista would be great, I've managed to find replacement programs for most things but I'm sure you can sandbox things so I can still run my beloved WinXP games that flat out refuse to work on Vista?
Is it MS fault that older programs don't work in Vista? Why should MS be forced into backwards compatiablity for all applications? ISn't that part of the problem that Vista currently has is maintaing that backwards compatiblity?
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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank #54: Casual Sex (with Sarah Tiana)
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Sarah Tiana and I were talking at The Comedy Store one evening. During our conversation, I came to realize that in my head, I had mistakenly classified her as a sexual "good girl." I guess I've always known her as girlfriend material. So we met back there a couple nights later to discuss how she came into her own, how she operates, and how she likes having become this sexual butterfly.
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Stuff About Sarah
Sarah is at the Comedy Store all the time when she's not on the road entertaining soldiers or at hotels looking for dick. Check her out when you can.
This is the cover of Sarah's album, Comoddity, that got us talking about all this in the first place.
Activia commercial with Matt Knost (commissioner of the Comedians Basketball League). Do you think they asked Matt and Sarah to act retarded so middle aged women can relate to them?
The Music
This song was MASSIVE when I was little. None of us could quite believe that they were getting away with talking about sex so readily and openly. Later, women's studies majors really adopted Salt & Pepa as idols because of their frankness.
I want your sex – This was another really racy song. I was going to use it and then at the last minute I didn't but I thought I'd add the video anyway because it's full of hot people. I'm realizing now that the '80s was ripe with overt sexual innuendo. Lyrics probably started getting obvious with the rise of sexual liberation and because of coke heads being too gacked up to analyze anything below the surface.
Bright Eyes is rad. Bright Eyes are rad? I don't know. But I know rad, and this is it.
They Might Be Giants. Godfathers of dork rock.
Istanbul – Animaniacs – This was actually the first place I heard this song, so I'll include this version, too. I thought they made the song up for this sketch. Animaniacs was the shit. I think it was probably the first time I realized that cartoons can be for adults, too.
Istanbul – The Four Lads – This is one of the reasons I like including music in this podcast. I had no idea this song was a cover. And the original has a cool tone to it that I kind of like.
Istanbul Craig Ferguson – Fuck it. It's a cool video
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Ari that was a great podcast. What an interesting person to interview. Sarah seems like an awesome person.
Great podcast Ari! I think Sarah is my hero..
It's about time it was made clear that women have the ability to be comfortable with their sexuality in a non-hyper sexual way. Life IS full of amazing experiences.. why settle down with a possessive partner to muck up that process?? Its no wonder there are so many unhappy people on this planet. They haven't actually had the chance to live!
At the end of the day, we're all just a bunch of kids trying to have a little fun on this journey before the next life.. 🙂
This girl has a beautiful voice, it was a pleasure just listening to her speak. She seems like a really cool person too. Thanks for putting out these podcasts Ari they are great.


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It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells
Edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson
Book launch events at University of Glasgow, BAC (London) and LADA (London)
June and July 2016: specific dates to be announced.
Adrian Howells (1962–2014) was one of the world's leading figures in the field of one-to-one performance practice - the act of staging an event for one audience participant at a time. Developed over more than a decade, Howells' award-winning work initiated new challenges and innovations in performance art, "intimate theatre," and socially engaged art.
It's All Allowed is the first book devoted to Howells' remarkable achievements and legacy. Contributors here testify to the methodological, thematic and historiographical challenges posed by Howells' performances. Citing his permissive mantra as its title, It's All Allowed includes new writing from leading scholars and artists, as well as writing by Howells himself, an extensive interview, scores, and visual materials, which together offer new insight into Howells' ground-breaking process.
Deirdre Heddon is professor of contemporary performance practice at the University of Glasgow and the author of numerous books, including Autobiography and Performance.
Dominic Johnson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London and the editor of Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey.
Co-published by the Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books, as part of the Intellect Live book series.
It's All Allowed is part of a legacy project funded by Creative Scotland, LADA, the University of Glasgow, Battersea Arts Centre, the Arches, National Theatre of Scotland, the Society for Theatre Research, and Queen Mary University of London.