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To nonprofit tech geeks: I bring glad tidings. There is going to be more to love at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conrerence this year. First, for nptechies who are also Drupal dorks, below is a quick rundown of the Drupal content planned to date for the 2012 NTC in San Francisco. After that, I will give you some background on changes in the NTC that aim to improve it for those of us who are seasoned nptechies.
- Pre-Conference NTC Drupal Day for Nonprofit IT Professionals, Tuesday April 3rd, 9:30am - 3pm: This new event is in the conference hotel, right before the conference kicks off. Sean Larkin and ThinkShout are lead facilitators, along with the Drupal Association, Civic Actions, OpenSourcery, and Jackson River. Read more on ThinkShout's blog. You can register for Drupal Day as part of your conference registration.
- Drupal Breakout sessions:
- Building & Supporting Drupal Websites: In-House, Outhouse, or Both? Wednesday, April 4th, 10:30am - 12pm.
- Drupal Best Practices for Empowering Non-Profits, Wednesday, April 4th, 1:30pm - 3pm.
- Advanced Drupal Users Salon, Thursday, April 5th, 1:30pm - 3pm.
- Find other members of the Drupal Community of Practice online affinity group in person.
This Drupal content is the result of a larger effort to create more opportunities for expert nptechies to get what they want and need out of the conference. Last year, some of us NTC repeat attenders, olde tymers, and non-beginners expressed a desire for more from the NTC. The NTEN staff and agenda steering committees took this very seriously. The NTC must always be a welcoming place for newbies who are taking their first taste of nptech kool-aid. The goal for the 2012 NTC is to try some experiments to see if we can facilitate creativity, flexibility, and richer content for those of us who consider ourselves journey-level nptechies and platform-specific cat herders. One of these experiments is the new breakout session format called the Salon:
NTC Salons are not your typical presentation but a peer-sharing session. Come prepared to circle the chairs, rock the flip charts, and meet your community, and remember: Real Techies Talk to Each Other. Salons are moderated by someone with topical knowledge with a set description and takeaways.
There will be salons on topics like advocacy and server virtualization, and for advanced users of platforms like Joomla! and Salesforce. There will be open salon slots (moderated by the rock star of non-boring moderators, Gunner), where those of us who want to grab a group of colleagues and dig deeper into an topic can set up an impromptu session on the fly.
I am really excited about these changes. Like all good nptech experiments, I expect we will make mistakes that we can learn from for 2013. Bring it on, I say.
You will find me, in some capacity, at most of the NTC Drupal events. I hope to meet you there!
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The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a Federally funded program, which works to improve the health of low-income elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) foods. 97% of CSFP participants at the Federal level are over the age of 60. South Dakota participants are all over the age of 60 with an income at or below 130% of poverty.
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USDA purchases food and makes it available to CSFP State agencies along with funds for administrative costs. State agencies obtain the food and distribute to public and non-profit private local agencies for distribution to eligible individuals.
Local agencies determine the eligibility of applicants, distribute the foods, and provide nutrition education. Local agencies also provide referrals to other welfare, nutrition, and health care programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare.
CSFP food packages do not provide a complete diet, but rather are good sources of the nutrients typically lacking in the diets of the target population.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
trying to get back in the saddle
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Yaaa! So glad you are back and had a good vacation! I feel the same way when we leave the beach - and this year- my husband and I were like "what are we doing????...why are we not living down here"! Life is TOO SHORT.... SO!! we are moving! we have started the process ....our goal is by the end of the year but fingers crossed it will be sooner! Myrtle Beach here we come! No more mountain winters makes me happy!!
May be your day of moving to the beach is right around the corner or at least many more visit more often! :)
Have a great day! - Liz McNeil
- 9:38 AM, July 24, 2012
- Between You and Me said...
I'm so glad that you had such a great vacation....you guys are such a beautiful family....the girls are so beautiful, each in her own way.
I absolutely love the shot of you with all of them...thinking that one is a framer. I love that you are nearly laughing in it...proof that you had a blast together.
We still need to talk details about my noonday party....August is coming fast!!!
- 9:41 AM, July 24, 2012
Welcome back home! The way your described your vacation, I wouldn't have wanted to leave either. I can't wait to see the photos! I visted your blog every single day in hopes there would be a post. I was very excited to see one today. =)
- 9:42 AM, July 24, 2012
- Kelli @ Life at 818 said...
I feel ya.. I'm headed down this Friday, but only for a few days, not a whole week.. can't wait to get there :o)
- 9:44 AM, July 24, 2012
- Sheri said...
I love madisons dress. Where is it from? You all look so happy and beautiful. And are you as sad as I am about packing our college babies up again? Waaaahhhhhh.
- 9:59 AM, July 24, 2012
Your description of leaving Seaside was exactly how I felt leaving our slice of heaven in RI every year. Weeks 1 & 2 were great, but before the middle of the last week I would begin to mourn. For years we talked of buying a place there, but we kept thinking we couldn't afford it; really I think that deep down we didn't think we deserved it. Well, we took the plunge and last week we closed on a beautiful seaside cottage a block from our favorite beach. To make our dream come true and affordable, we'll use it 3-4 weeks every summer and rent it out the rest of the time. Until then our goal is to grow our internet business so my husband can take early retirement from his day job and move there permanently in 3 years. Do it!
- 10:01 AM, July 24, 2012
I have the same feeling when I leave York, Maine!
I know my husband and I are meant to be there! Its magical and we love it! Hoping to one day have a cottage there. We live in New Brunswick Canada, loved reading the others comment on how they made there favourite place their home!
- 11:13 AM, July 24, 2012
Love these smiling pictures of your family so relaxed, happy content!
- 11:31 AM, July 24, 2012
- traci said...
i am having a hard time returning to reality too. so glad you had a wonderful trip. i loved following all your photos on instagram. i have never been to that part of florida. i better put it on my list.
- 11:44 AM, July 24, 2012
- Kerri said...
I am so happy you enjoyed your vacation! We were in North Conway, Neew Hampshire and we feel the same way when we leave!
I am thinking of maybe doing the half marathon in Seaside if it isn't already sold out for next year! XOXO
- 11:46 AM, July 24, 2012
- Katiebee said...
hi paige~
we were in seaside two weeks ago! we must have walked the same beach as i have a picture of the gazebo with the pelican! glad you had a good trip~ it's a nice area~ we love all the airstream food booths, especially the snowcones~
welcome back!
- 11:51 AM, July 24, 2012
- Jboo said...
Happy to hear that you all had such a wonderful and special time. Am putting it on my list of vacation spots! :)
Happy re-entry!
- 1:29 PM, July 24, 2012
- Courtney DeFeo said...
gorgeous! i love that you were in your happiest place with your precious fam.
- 5:51 PM, July 24, 2012
- Hillcrest Acres said...
I share your love for Seaside!!!! It is absolutely perfect.
Have a great week.
- 9:30 PM, July 24, 2012
Paige, I too checked your blog every night hoping to see new pictures but was also really hoping you truly "unplugged" from here. We are going to Florida in 2 wks (the Destin area- not by my choice but family booked a condo there) and I can't wait to go to Seaside! I haven't been to florida in 25 yrs and my love of your blog and your love for Seaside have me sooo excited to spend some time there. In a nutshell can you tell me what to do, where to eat and must see places? Also - please share where you stayed this year? I just am so excited to see Seaside- goodbye destin, and hello seaside (I am hoping they aren't too far apart so we can go back and forth a few days of the week we will b there!!)
- 11:06 PM, July 24, 2012
- brockey said...
We love Seaside also but we have a second home in HHI and enjoy that also !
- 8:00 AM, July 25, 2012
- Lindsey said...
I sure did miss your posts last week...did my best not to pout! Every time I'd think about how much I missed your words and pictures though, I was reminded that you were getting some much needed, interrupted time with your sweet family...totally worth the sacrifice on my part. Looks like y'all had a wonderful trip! Sounds like things will be crazy this week...can't believe it's time for Savannah to go back to UGA!
- 8:16 AM, July 25, 2012
- Art and Sand said...
We took the plunge and downsized 15 years ago so we could have our little beach cottage. I still work, but every day when I drive off the freeway to the beach, I feel like I am on vacation. When we were considering moving to the beach, a friend said that it was a good move because kids and grandchildren would always want to visit family who live at the beach. Of course, with your girls, you couldn't have a small cottage. And, believe me, we walk the beach daily and never grow tired of our view. Rather, we daily thank God for allowing us to live such blessed lives.
- 4:48 PM, July 25, 2012
curious ART and SAND - where is your beach? we live in the midwest and have considered near savannah georgia tybeeisland, south texas, and new hampshire wouldlove to know if there are any tiny cottages on the ocean left for sale in the US :)
- 11:20 PM, July 25, 2012
- Jodi said...
So glad to have you back! I just love all the pictures, makes me want to visit Seaside someday for sure! Plus...I just LOVE the beach, so I know I would love it. :)
Looks like you had a wonderful time.
- 3:36 PM, July 26, 2012


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July 13, 2018, 7:21 pmThomas Bryant - C - Washington Wizards
Thomas Bryant hurt his right ankle and went to the locker room on Friday.
Luckily for Bryant, it was not the same ankle he hurt in Los Angeles before getting cut by the Lakers. He had been playing pretty well for the Wizards in Summer League averaging 12.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in his previous two games. It wasn't too bad as Bryant has since returned to the game.
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April 25, 2019, 11:00 pmJakob Poeltl - C - San Antonio Spurs
Jakob Poeltl shot 4-for-6 from the field for eight points with nine boards, two assists and one block in 28 minutes for a 120-103 win over the Nuggets in Game 6 on Thursday.
Poeltl was not able to shut down Nikola Jokic (43 points) but it didn't matter, as the Spurs shot 57.1 percent from the field to blow out the Nuggets. The Spurs will head to Denver for a winner-take-all affair in Game 7 on Saturday.
April 25, 2019, 10:54 pmGary Harris - G - Denver Nuggets
Gary Harris scored 14 points in Game 6 against the Spurs on Thursday night as the Nuggets fell 120-103.
Harris scored a few points in this one but didn't do a whole lot else. The Nuggets will probably need him to have more of a visible imprint on the game to make major noise.
April 25, 2019, 10:53 pmDerrick White - G - San Antonio Spurs
Derrick White shot 4-for-7 from the floor for 13 points with one rebound, two assists, two blocks and two 3-pointers in 27 minutes against the Nuggets on Thursday.
White wasn't particularly effective on the stat sheet in Game 6, but his grit and solid defense helped the Spurs secure a win on their home floor. He limited his turnovers to just one in this game. White will need to stay efficient in a decisive Game 7 on Saturday in Denver.
April 25, 2019, 10:49 pmPaul Millsap - F - Denver Nuggets
Paul Millsap was almost a non-factor on Thursday night scoring just 12 points and adding four boards in heavy minutes.
Millsap has to be better for this team to make any major noise deep in the playoffs. He just hasn't been back to his normal self for long stretches this year, so here's to hoping he can find form.
April 25, 2019, 10:49 pmRudy Gay - F - San Antonio Spurs
Rudy Gay shot 7-for-11 for 19 points with four boards, two assists, two blocks and three 3-pointers in 28 minutes against the Nuggets on Thursday.
After being a non-factor for much of the series, Gay played extra efficient as a savvy veteran on Thursday night. He led the bench in scoring and helped set the tone to force a Game 7. Gay will need another game like this if the Spurs want any chance of surviving in Denver.
April 25, 2019, 10:43 pmDeMar DeRozan - G - San Antonio Spurs
DeMar DeRozan shot 12-for-16 from the field for 25 points with seven assists and seven boards in 36 minutes to force a Game 7 against the Nuggets on Thursday.
DeRozan and LaMarcus Aldridge (26 points and 10 rebounds) took it to the Nuggets for their final home game of the opening round. For a team not making much noise in the regular season, all eyes will be on the Spurs and Nuggets Game 7 on Saturday. Never count out Pop and the Spurs.
April 25, 2019, 10:42 pmJamal Murray - G - Denver Nuggets
Jamal Murray scored just 16 points (7-of-19 from the floor) on Thursday in the Game 6 loss to the Spurs.
Murray was quiet in this one as the Nuggets tried to close it out. He did manage six assists but Nikola Jokic is going to need some help from his supporting cast to cement a date with Portland.
April 25, 2019, 10:37 pmNikola Jokic - C - Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic scored a career-high 43 points and approached a triple-double with 12 rebounds and nine assists in Thursday's Game 6 loss.
It was a waste of a great performance from Jokic as the Nuggets couldn't close out the Spurs in Game 6. Home cookin' might be just what the doctor ordered.
April 25, 2019, 10:34 pmLaMarcus Aldridge - F - San Antonio Spurs
LaMarcus Aldridge shot 10-for-18 from the field for 26 points with 10 boards, five assists, one block and one 3-pointer in 37 minutes to avoid elimination against the Nuggets on Thursday.
Aldridge was terrific all night, using home court advantage to play with energy. He took matters into his own hands, forcing a Game 7 on Saturday in Denver. Expect Aldridge to be giving his best effort on a winner-take-all affair.
April 25, 2019, 5:58 pmJeff Hornacek - Team - New York Knicks
The Kings have interviewed Jeff Hornacek for an assistant coach position.
The Kings have already hired their head coach, Luke Walton. However, with Walton's status up in the air with the recent allegations made against him, the Kings would do well to hire an assistant with head coaching experience. Hornacek last coached for the Knicks before being fired at the end of the 2017-2018 season. His overall record as head coach for the Knicks and the Suns is 161-216.
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text: Patrick, Vincent Some input into your discussion. Here is the data on get latency for Elan4 in an Opteron cluster quorumi: prun -N2 pgping -f get 0 64 1: 4 bytes 2.36 uSec 1.69 MB/s 1: 8 bytes 2.35 uSec 3.40 MB/s 1: 16 bytes 2.38 uSec 6.73 MB/s 1: 32 bytes 2.37 uSec 13.50 MB/s 1: 64 bytes 2.43 uSec 26.30 MB/s This example reports the average time for 1000 blocking get calls. Patrick's description of the mechanism is essentially correct, apart from the detail that we have a fast path for short operations that avoids the need to set up a DMA. You can probably do a bit better on the very fastest nodes, but this is what I see on the system we have in the office. > You want less than 3us per Get of 64 Bytes ? I don't > know if even Quadrics can do it. Yes we can! > The good news is that you can pipeline it very well. Indeed. There is lots of parallelism in the hardware so you can me processing multiple requests at the same time. In this sequence of short jobs I measure the average time for 8 byte gets 2 at a time, 4 at a time etc. quorumi: prun -N2 pgping -f get -b2 8 1: 8 bytes 1.32 uSec 6.07 MB/s quorumi: prun -N2 pgping -f get -b4 8 1: 8 bytes 1.04 uSec 7.66 MB/s quorumi: prun -N2 pgping -f get -b8 8 1: 8 bytes 0.84 uSec 9.47 MB/s quorumi: prun -N2 pgping -f get -b16 8 1: 8 bytes 0.82 uSec 9.79 MB/s quorumi: prun -N2 pgping -f get -b32 8 1: 8 bytes 0.79 uSec 10.18 MB/s The limiting factor is the rate at which the remote NIC can read data over the PCI bus. Best Wishes Duncan Roweth Quadrics Limited P.S. Clearly our sales people focus on the current product (Elan4 NICs) but we will be supporting the installed base of Elan3 systems for some years yet. Most of the big systems have extended warranties, so we keep a stock of spares, but there are a few hundred adapters and associated switches. Drop us some mail if you are interested.


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Residents of 250N10, a new luxury apartment building in Williamsburg, will have no trouble directing visitors to their home.
"It's the one with the Mr. Brainwash mural."
An arresting view for any passerby, the mural, completed this week, spans the length of the entire building, displaying an artistic view of the neighborhood's history with a bold reminder that "Life is Beautiful."
Internationally renowned street artist Thierry Guetta, known as Mr. Brainwash, designed the massive piece of art using his signature tagline and collage style.
But despite the themes that make this piece a distinct Brainwash work of art, David Sigman, executive vice president of building developer LCOR, felt it was important that the mural reflect the neighborhood of Williamsburg.
"We made the wall available and said, 'Tell us what you're thinking about,'" Sigman said of the collaboration with Guetta. "He came back with a couple of pieces that were very similar to work that he's already done, but if we have a complaint about street art today, it's that it isn't specific to the place. It can be on any wall."
That was when Sigman started doing some research into the neighborhood. The building, located at 250 North 10th St., is right off of Roebling Street.
Sigman said a quick poll of the residents showed that many had no idea who the Roeblings were.
It turns out that John Augustus Roebling was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, and his son Charles Roebling worked on completing its construction.
Then, to make the mural even more local, Sigman did some additional research into the designer of the Williamsburg Bridge, Henry Hornbostel.
Sigman provided Guetta with old pictures of the men, which were then included into the final product — a mesh of the past and present, and an homage to the history of the vibrant neighborhood of Williamsburg.
While Mr. Brainwash designed the piece, it was a group of three local Brooklyn artists who took the electronically transmitted piece, blew it up, stenciled it onto the building and then painted it.
The entire drawing and painting process took just over two weeks, according to Chris Seriale, a collector of Mr. Brainwash's work, manager of the installation and member of New World Group, the firm that handled the residential marketing at 250N10.
It was Seriale who introduced the developers of the building to Mr. Brainwash, knowing his work — and the artist — personally.
"I'm a collector," Seriale said, "so I've been following Mr. Brainwash's career since he started. I've met him a lot of times throughout the collecting process."
Seriale called Brainwash "one of the top three most influential street artists in the world today," and said that the mural is the first permanent piece of his in New York. He has work featured around the world, with most of his U.S. artwork in Los Angeles.
At press time, Mr. Brainwash had not come to see the finished mural, but Seriale said he had sent Mr. Brainwash pictures throughout the process.
"He's seen the images of it and he loves it," Seriale said. "He's freaking out about it."
One of world's most popular street artists paints 250N10 mural
Residents of 250N10, a new luxury apartment building in Williamsburg, will have no trouble directing visitors to their home.


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New NAB chief Andrew Thorburn shakes up executive team
NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn has announced sweeping changes in the bank's top executive ranks in his first day on the job, as he vowed to lift shareholders returns by focusing on the domestic and New Zealand bank.
Business banking boss Joseph Healy and group executive for enterprise services and transformation Lisa Gray will leave the bank as a result of the overhaul.
Chief risk officer Bruce Munro, 61, will retire, while the head of products and markets Rick Sawers has previously said he would be retiring.
Mr Thorburn today announced four internal appointments to fill the positions, saying he had picked a new team to drive stronger returns.
He said the new team's prime focus would be on building a stronger business in NAB's core Australian and New Zealand operations.
Angela Mentis, who previously ran nabBusiness, will run the larger business banking division. This is the flagship arm of NAB, but it has recently been losing market share to rivals.
Antony Cahill will be in charge of products and markets, after running lending and deposits until now.
David Gall, who most recently worked in the products and markets area, has been appointed chief risk officer.
And Renee Roberts will move from chief risk officer in New Zealand to fill the position vacated by Ms Gray.
"We understand the need to deliver better returns for our shareholders. We will do this by focusing on our customers and building a stronger Australian and New Zealand franchise," Mr Thorburn said in a statement.
"NAB has a strong foundation for growth and the new members of the group executive Leadership team are committed to taking the action required to drive stronger results and returns for our customers and our shareholders," Mr Thorburn said.
"These individuals are banking professionals with experience in business and retail, product, risk and technology and share a desire to work as part of a team leading sustainable change across our organization," he said.
It is Mr Thorburn's first day in the job after Cameron Clyne's retirement, but the new chief executive has been considering the changes since his appointment in April.
Facing intense shareholder pressure for NAB to lift its performance, Mr Thorburn said the new appointments had the depth of experience and expertise needed.
"Selecting a leadership team is one of the biggest decisions a CEO makes, and I have taken the time since my appointment was announced in April to consider who are the best people to take NAB forward," he said.
Some analysts had predicted that Mr Thorburn would also restructure divisions within NAB, but he said its operating model would remain intact. Other senior executives are remaining in their positions.


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Tom White, Ken Martin, George Artz, Christopher Carillo, David Kiesling, Darrel Robbins, Wayne Michelson, Karl Almandinger, Urs Kellenberger, Larry Carpenter, Chuck Kranz, C.R. Valley, Rick Hawkins, Diev Hart, Polina V., Duane Cromleigh, Emily Hutchinson, Pat Denevan, Tom Low, Raffy, Tom Rust, Ward Carter, Brad Martin, Marc Stelzer, Rob Johnson, Charlie Nelson, Steve Rodriguez, Van Pelham.
Ken Martin reported that attempts to contact Zac Majors have not been successful. Appears that Zac will be out of town until June. In Zac's absence, Ken will chair meeting. Members were reminded to please act civilly, and refrain from name calling. Non board members limited to 1 minute comments, 3 minute total for the meeting.
Ken reports that there are sufficientt forms in locker box, and that Urs, Chris Valley, and Larry Carpenter will hold packs of additional stickers and forms.
Secretary had nothing report.
Safety Officer reported on mid air collision between tandem pilot with passenger, and a pilot which occurred on March 22.
Treasurer reports bank balance of $11,400, $6984 in deposits, $2684 budget shortfall so far this year.
Clubhouse Manager had nothing to report.
Tech Officer reports ropes building installation will be soon, various improvements to servers, etc. Purchased replacement camera for $100.
Tom Rust requested to bring up old business, vote was taken of members, majority in favor of delaying old business in favor of new business, and voting on bylaw amendment proposals (2).
Ken reported that tandem program rules violations had been found to have occurred, specifically that required non compensation forms have not been filed in the locker box prior to every tandem flight, that there is evidence that commercial tandem activities have occurred at the Fort, no yearly inspections of equipment and verifications of ratings / insurance have been conducted, and that safety incident reports have not been filed within 24 house of incident(s). It was made clear that further tandem rules violations will result in suspensions.
Ken reported that an official tandem administrator had not yet been appointed for this year, but that the executive committee had done so this week. Ken introduced Darrel Robbins as the new appointee.
Darrel addressed the membership, spoke of his desire to work with the N.P.S. to find a way to legalize commercial tandem flights at Fort Funston. He stressed the importance of the Fellow Feathers maintaining control of and limiting commercial tandem operations to assure compatibility with non commercial HG flight.
Darrel expressed his wish to have the approval of the membership for this work.
A majority of members showed support.
Ken brought up that the increase of non pilot pedestrian traffic at the Fort is increasing safety risk, and the need to address this problem. Not only is foot traffic increasing on the sand trail to beach ladder, but also on several newer trails through the ice plant field. Multiple 25' rule violations were witnessed on recent weekend flying day, 8 warnings were issued, 6 by one officer alone.
Ken asked the membership to think about the problem, and to come up with ideas for solutions. Several possible solutions were proposed, including working with NPS to obtain a barrier around the ice plant field, increased monitoring by pilots on the ground, and a traffic light system. Further discussion / action to follow at subsequent meetings.
Voting on Article 12 bylaw amendment proceeded. Tom Low explained the proposed amendment. Discussion followed. Ken read aloud the entire amendment proposal. Role call vote was taken, Ken explained that only 10 hour voting members could vote. 18 members voted for, 6 voted against. 2nd vote to take place at the May meeting.
Voting on the Article 5 bylaw amendment proposal proceeded. David Kiesling explained the proposed amendment. Discussion followed. David read aloud the proposed amendments. Role call vote was taken. 10 hour voting members only. 11 members voted for, 13 against. Ammendment failed.
Tom Rust and Emily Hutchinson expressed a wish to ask the NPS to allow permission for the return of the dugout near launch.
Ken announced the need for a further chips clearing work party.
Tom Rust expressed his belief that too many suspensions occurred last year, and that he would like the club to ask USHPA for leniency for revocations of 2 members
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I used a birthday giftcard I had on the Laura Mercier Tuxedo Palette, Limited Edition:
This one comes with a matte black, a shimmery charcoal, a matte white and a shimmery white. See what they are giving you here? Options to blend and play!
What's stupid about the Promo pic is that the stunning lip colour she has on is NOT the one from the black tie collection (they are offering a red and white gloss as part of it instead) which makes no sense. If you are going have a look for a collection shouldn't you use all the products from your collection?
I wouldn't say the shades are madly pigmented – good quality yes but the white and grey shade aren't crazy pigmented but that's ok. Nothing a bit of lid primer or a sticky base won't fix.
I don't know if I would have bought it without a giftcard but I am actually quite looking forwarded to playing with it. Shall post pics soon. Price £30.


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THAT is amazing. Did he customize all the figures? I'd love to know what he used for the building/columns. This is a very nice set-up…. I hope he has it in a nice display area and keeps it this way. I am eager to see what he could do with all the characters that the JLU has available now.
Thanks for sharing.
I just re-read your description, lol…. nevermind my question on the columns…. my reading skills are in desperate need of work, I guess…. either that or I was just so amazed by the pictures that my mind went to mush….. yeah, let's go with that.
I would LOVE to see someone put together dioramas of different JLU episodes, assuming we get all the show characters one day. This is just awesome though. Must have taken a long time to put together.
Ha! That's awesome! Thanks for posting, Dan!
Fantastic. Way to go, C-Zod. Great idea and execution.
Mmmmmmmmmmm …. Super Powers makes eeeeeeverything right.
Did you know Super Powers can cure a rainy day? Its true.
Fun stuff. Huzzah & kudos to Cuban Zod.
Super Powers can cure the common cold. And that diorama is too cool for school. Excellent customs, great use of the JSA, and a top-notch re-creation of an iconic moment in comics history.


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... and thanks for visiting the "OLPC" related Wiki-Pages, for the One Laptop Per Child Universal Primary Education project regarding Tunisie. This website is a collaborative website in which you can create a login and then edit and add the pages. This tool is made available by the One Laptop Per Child not for profit. This is an "Open Community" project, similar to the Wikipedia, wikibooks and Open Source Community projects, like Linux, OpenOffice, etc. and it is working along Agenda 21 and Millennium Development Goal nr.2: Bringing Universal Primary Education. To edit text on this page or add pages, log in and and "edit page / save page" button will appear.
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The aim of this educational project, is on one hand to bring Universal Primary Education by 2015 as - anno year 2000 initiated - United Nations Millennium Development Goal nr.2. On the other hand, OLPC's mission is to manage the open hard and software project, to bring forward the best possible laptop combination for education: the XO-XServer combination. For this and above approach, - and also a lot of lobbying by the right persons on the right places and time - the United Nations is a Partner in this Open Community project! It is the largest educational project undertaken by Humanity ever, and deemed by many as one of the most inspiring projects out there. 2008, saw the first countries with a 100% roll out to all of their kids aged 5 till 15: Peru, Uruguay. Several Island States have a 100% deployment too; Rwanda and Australia are following at fast pace too. Every XO can load over 100 ebooks on its memory and has a choice of over 86.000 eBooks available, as well as many (educational) games, all education disciplines covered, etc. etc.. things are moving fast indeed.
Tunisia has a special relation to OLPC as it was at the ITU - Tunisia in 2005, that the OLPC XO-XS was presented to the world together with Kofi ANAN - the United Nations Secretary General. More: http://tedxmiami.com/bio/rodrigo-arboleda-2/ skip to 9:50 by Rodrigo Arboleda is currently Chairman and CEO, for One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).
Although OLPC has not opened any legal OLPC Tunisie entity in Tunisie, Tunisie does host the European Headquarters of OLPC in the magnificent surroundings at the befriended SWIFT company near Brussels.Design Continuum, was unveiled at the WSIS - World Symposium on the Information Society, Tunisia by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte.
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Animal Farm" by George Orwell, let me remind you the fate of Boxer, a powerful horse, who dedicated his life to hard labor for the good of others, and was greatly admired by all animals. With his strong muscles and persistence, Boxer created the prosperous Animal Farm, but when his lungs gave out he was immediately sold by the ruling-class pigs to Alfred Simmons, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler. The semi-literate animals were told that Boxer was being transferred to a hospital and later to a retirement house, where he would be able to rest and enjoy fruits of his hard labor. Only the clever and well-read donkey, Benjamin, was not deceived and tried to warn the naive animals, but he was too slow in convincing his fellow four leggers, and Boxer disappeared from the farm forever.
I often find myself in Benjamin's position. Whatever I attempt to do is too little too late, and the current generation of pigs - Squealers more precisely - knows even better how to deceive, divide, and control a multitude of the honest, well-meaning and hard-working Boxers in our society; soldiers, for example.
My other advice is: Educate yourself. Here "educate" does not mean "get certified," or "buy mediocre, useless education from the most expensive, for-profit outfit." When I say "educate," I mean give yourself a way of discerning between lies and misinformation you are fed each second of every day and truth as best as you can establish it by whatever means.
Two examples come to mind. The first example was pointed out by my well educated son: Will Americans Make Tradeoffs They Don't Understand? This example touches upon the all-important concepts of energy and fuels. Without the high energy density, fungible fuels flowing at high rates through our complex civilization, our society will cease to exist within 20-30 years from today.
A Public Agenda survey in 2009 found nearly 4 in 10 Americans (39 percent) couldn't name a fossil fuel. Nearly half couldn't name a renewable energy source. More than half of the public (56 percent) says incorrectly that nuclear energy contributes to global warming. About one-third of the public (31 percent) thinks solar energy contributes to global warming. While the survey is a few years old, I am skeptical that public knowledge has improved all that much. I know first hand, because I am a Benjamin who teaches these concepts to college-level engineers. Since my blog is dedicated to the issues of energy, society and ecology, I'll only state that this particular ignorance is deadly for a society that makes no efforts to diversify itself away from personal automobile and to densify its cities.
The second example has to do with Facebook's IPO. Almost all media reactions (please have a second look at Molly) focused on the failure to price the stock sufficiently low, so that the pigs at the trough could make a one-day killing by flipping the fast appreciating stock for cash. This is considered to be in bad taste in the casino that used to be known as U.S. economy. When a new company wins by being well-financed with its IPO, that's bad. But when pigs make oodles of cash they did not earn, that's good.
Now please do not get me wrong. I think that Facebook epitomizes what is wrong with us. The largest IPO in recent history is for a company whose business plan is to inject pigdom into the lives of a bunch of narcissists (from Greek narcissus, meaning "sleep" or "numbness") and voyeurs, while pretending to be a socially responsible agent. The unquestionable social benefits of Facebook appear to be incidental and orthogonal to its money-making mission.
I am still waiting for a multitude of IPOs of manufacturing companies, oil companies, mineral mining companies, mass transit companies, computer hardware companies, organic farming companies, healthy food companies, solar water heater companies, or cheap drug companies; anything that would make me believe that there is a way to cure my beloved but confused country from the self-inflicted wounds. These companies do not have to be big and should serve their local communities.
And if you believe that Facebook catalyzed change in the world, this may be so, but please remember that the overthrow of communism in Poland and Eastern Europe, the most important event in the last six decades, succeeded without Facebook or cell phones. Educated, determined, and ethical people did it. Those people got really fed up with their pigs.
P.S. As a timely addition to my blog, please read this New York Times article on local TV coverage. Local news(?) is still the number one source of information(?) for Americans. Thus, it is instructive to understand that now it does not matter which station you are watching. The agreed-upon coverage will be the same in most markets. I do not watch anything on TV, but PBS and - occasionally - Comedy Central between 10 and 11 p.m. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert bring the only solid, fact-checked, and informative news U.S. citizens can count on outside of NPR and PBS. How funny and sad at the same time.


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BREAKING NEWS: Two sources in Chicago diplomatic circles identify Ambassador Chris Stevens as gay (meaning State Department sent gay man to be ambassador to Libya)
[ Ambassador Chris Stevens in the 70s with male companion Austin Tichenor, whose Facebook profile has been displaying photos and remembrances of Stevens the last few days including references to the gay-themed novel "Brideshead Revisited" whose main characters were star-crossed, doomed lovers "Sebastian" and "Charles"…which is not a far cry from the names "Austin" and "Chris", as some of Austin's friends have noted on Facebook. ]
Programming Note: listen to a special radio report on this developing story via the HillBuzz & Mrs. Fox Show, archived from 9/14/2012– click HERE to listen
Today I went out into the field here in Chicago looking to talk to some of the striking teachers but no one in a red-shirt was anywhere to be found (or, if they were wearing one, they had nothing to do with the teachers' union strike). A journalist friend of mine asked me to nose around and see if I could uncover anything about slain Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was rumored to be gay. A former "roommate" of Stevens by the name of Austin Tichenor lives and works in Chicago and while making calls to friends of mine in the theater world who know him I also thought to check some sources with the city who deal with the State Department and foreign dignitaries when they are in town.
Of course, they've all been talking about Ambassador Stevens' murder by Muslims in Libya: and all of them are incredulous that the State Department sent a gay man to be ambassador to a Muslim country. News reports continue to indicate that the Muslims who murdered Stevens also raped him repeatedly, before and after his death.
I was told by friends in the City's protocol office to go over to the Second Story Bar in downtown Chicago, just off Michigan Avenue, because it's where a lot of gay guys who work for both the city and the consulates go after work. Chicago is home to a great number of consulates, including the Polish, Chinese, and Serbian consulates amongst others. I happened to luck out when the bartender working, who is a friend, tipped me off that a man in a suit talking to some other foreign-looking types worked at the Serbian consulate a few doors up the street towards the lake.
Second Story Bar is literally on the second floor of a nondescript building whose ground level houses some sort of Thai restaurant. A psychic's office is prominently advertised on the door leading to a steep flight of stairs and a blank green steel door that hides the tucked-away bar. The place has the feel of a speakeasy, with exposed bricks and battered plaster on the walls and an oddball collection of black and white photographs and pig-themed folk art scattered over drinkers' heads in any exposed space.
I'm forever perplexed that actual reporters don't camp out in these sorts of places because great scoops are very easy to find if you just go in there and ask questions. The Serbian consulate employee identified himself to me as "Dino" and wouldn't give me any more of a name than that, but told me it was no secret that Chris Stevens was gay and that "it was stupid to send him to Libya as the ambassador when he was a known homosexual".
Dino explained in great detail that the brutal sodomizing of Stevens' corpse was something that Muslims do to show the "utmost disrespect to the body" and that this is "a great insult in Islam" reserved for homosexuals. "It is like making him a woman in death and he will be a woman now after life" the Serbian explained to me. There's a good chance this guy was Muslim too, and gay, which makes my head spin more than a little since he seemed to have no anger at all in his voice that Muslims in Libya assassinated the American ambassador and then sodomized his corpse.
"He should not have gone there" was the general consensus from this man.
You won't hear any of this in the media, no doubt, but in Chicago's diplomatic circles at least there is no doubt that Chris Stevens was gay and that pretty much anyone in the diplomatic world knew that. That includes the Libyans who were hired as security at the consulate in Benghazi who betrayed Ambassador Stevens and assisted in his murder.
Meanwhile, the White House is ignoring the fact that a gay ambassador to a Muslim country was murdered and they are in fact still pretending that all of this is about some obscure movie about Muhammad and has nothing at all to do with Barack Obama repeatedly and vociferously spiking the football over killing Osama bin Laden (which took place all throughout the Democrats' convention last week).
TUNE in to the HillBuzz & Mrs. Fox Show tonight at 1030pm CST to listen to more on this story as it develops (click same link to hear in archives later too).
UPDATE: Here's a graphic I've seen making the rounds on Facebook that says it all…
I think the "ImpeachNancyPelosi" group on Facebook started this one but I don't know that for sure.
UPDATE #2: Here are more tributes that are being posted on Ambassador Stevens' friend Austin's Facebook page.
* calling them "two gay poets"
* referencing the tragic gay story "Brideshead Revisited" regarding Chris and Austin's relationship in the past.
People here in Chicago are very openly talking about Chris Stevens being gay…and yet he was sent to be the ambassador to Libya at a time when Muslims were toppling governments and introducing radical Islamists into power.
UPDATE: 9/16/2012 — the corrupt media is still not reporting on Ambassador Stevens being raped by Muslims before and after he was assassinated. The Left is claiming "that didn't happen" and also showing only cropped images of the Ambassador, shirtless, with captions saying "he's being carried to safely by helpers from the crowd!". No, the Muslims were stripping him naked, removing his belt and pants, and raping him. The uncensored photos show the man stripped nude and being dragged off by Muslims to be violated.
The corrupt media is whitewashing all this because it (a) makes Muslims look terrible for raping Ambassador Stevens (and then his corpse) and (b) it hurts Obama for people to know that Muslims raped the male American ambassador before and after killing him. Male-rape is not what this administration wants to talk about six weeks before an election.
You can EASILY read all about the rape via foreign news sources in the Middle East which have no qualms reporting it.
One good source is the Lebanese media. If you can't read squiggles and little dots that look like bugs, they have an English version too that was linked here. The Libyan Free Press is also extensively reporting on the rape of Ambassador Stevens.
Pamela Geller at AtlasShrugs is, of course, on top of this as always. BareNakedIslam is covering it like crazy too.
If you don't know about this, it's because you either purposefully don't WANT to know or you're foolishly just getting your news from the corrupt media and receiving only the information they want to give you after it has been best censored to help Obama.
Verumserum just posted this video purporting to be of Ambassador Stevens' body being recovered from wreckage by the Muslims who would shortly thereafter drag his corpse through the streets, strip the body naked, and rape it; the corrupt media will not show you these monsters shouting "Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar!" as they do this, but here it is:


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What better way to wrap up the LA Film Festival than with the playful, intellectually challenging and probably not entirely pleasant French mind-bender "The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq"?
It's a cinematic speculation about what "actually" happened when the cranky author disappeared from a book tour for a couple of days.
The film screens at 4:20 p.m. on June 19.
For more LA Film Festival news and reviews, be sure to check out www.dailynews.com/la-film-festival.


text: Cape Town - Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer applauded his team's defence, discipline and guts after South Africa edged out England 16-15 at Twickenham on Saturday.This win secured the Springboks a third win on tour and ended the Castle Outgoing Tour in a very positive fashion. Earlier on tour Ireland and Scotland also suffered defeats against South Africa."It was very tough out there today. It could have gone either way. England is a quality side," Meyer said afterwards.International Rugby: England v South Africa Highlights"Our defence was awesome. There wasn't any space and it was a wet ball. But our discipline was very good. We talked about it before the time and we really did well with that. We only conceded one try on the whole tour and I am very happy about that." Meyer has some praise for England's effort, especially late in the game."A lot of our players could not train this week and there was definitely a swing in the momentum at the end of the match. England was getting the penalties and they were starting to get good ball." Meyer was very pleased to finish the season with a win."It was a tough year for us, we lost around 10 players after the World Cup last year and another ten through injury. We probably would have lost a match like this earlier in the year, but this time our guts has won it for us. That is what you need to win World Cups." Captain Jean de Villiers was equally proud of his team."It is great. We came over here wanting three wins and we got that, so we're pretty happy tonight. I think we put ourselves under a lot of pressure and made it difficult for ourselves, but earlier in the year we probably would've lost this game and we learned from it, stuck through it and got through it."De Villiers admitted that their only try in the match came in a fortunate way, but said the bounce of the ball has gone against his side in the past as well."All tries are worth five points and we'll definitely take that one. It was a well-worked try! Sometimes the bounce of the ball goes your way and definitely tonight it did. Two points the other way and we're on the other end of it. It's a very fine line in Test match rugby but this time around, we'll take the win."Number 8 Duane Vermeulen was named man-of-the-match. "It's a good one. Winning three in a row is especially good and we just enjoyed it. It was about adapting the conditions. It was a very tough game - especially the kicking game. It's just a great feeling and the boys coming off the bench made a big difference." HAVE YOUR SAY: Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer applauded his team's defence, discipline and guts after South Africa edged out England. What are your thoughts on the Bok's performance in the UK tour? Send your thoughts to Sport24.


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More: Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued the following press statement in response to the declaration of famine in Somalia and drought in the Horn of Africa:
"The United States is deeply concerned by the humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa and today's announcement by the United Nations that a famine is underway in parts of Somalia. The United States is the largest bilateral donor of emergency assistance to the eastern Horn of Africa. We have already responded with over $431 million in food and non-food emergency assistance this year alone.
"But it is not enough -- the need is only expected to increase and more must be done by the United States and the international community. That is why today the United States government is providing an additional $28 million in aid for people in Somalia and for Somali refugees in Kenya.
"The eastern Horn of Africa is prone to chronic food insecurity which has been exacerbated by a two-year drought. Crops have dried up, livestock have died, and food prices have been skyrocketing. In Somalia, twenty years without a central government and the relentless terrorism by al-Shabaab against its own people has turned an already severe situation into a dire one that is only expected to get worse. Even so, we remain cautiously optimistic that al-Shabaab will permit unimpeded international assistance in famine struck areas.
"The United States -- in close coordination with the international community -- is working to assist more than 11 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, who are in dire need of assistance. To anticipate growing needs, the United States government has worked with our partners over the last year to pre-position food in the region, increase funding for early warning systems, and strengthen non-food assistance in the feeding, health, water and sanitation sectors. In addition to emergency assistance, this administration's Feed the Future program is working to break the cycle of hunger once and for all by addressing the root causes of hunger and food insecurity through innovative agricultural advances.
"But the United States cannot solve the crisis in the Horn alone. All donors in the international community must commit to taking additional steps to tackle both immediate assistance needs and strengthen capacity in the region to respond to future crises."
Karen in Missouri writes:
What does our government NOT understand..we are borrowing money to pay our debts. We don't have anything to give at this time.
Not only that..I've read about this neverending shortage of food, etc. A woman showing up with 5 small children and an infant..If she can't feed and care for them properly..what is she doing having more. Maybe training doctors to do tubal ligations would be a better choice to send..
They've been starving in Africa all of my life..some 60+ years. There is not enough wealth on this planet to take care of people who will not help themselves.
Keeping millions half alive is not a solution..it just compounds the problem.


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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Book Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth
12 comments:
- Selina said...
Great review. You captured all the awesomeness without any spoilers. Divergent is definitely one of my favorite books of this year so far.
- June 2, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- A Journey in Reading said...
I love dystopian stories, Lauren Oliver got me hooked on them. Now I want to read this one even more.
- June 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- LinWash said...
I agree with you. Divergent is great!
- June 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- Amy J said...
I loved this book! I was hesitant on reading it because of the length and hype for it, but I fell in love with it in the first chapter!
- June 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Sherry @ Flipping Pages for All Ages said...
- June 2, 2011 at 11:55 AM
- Amelia said...
ohh I so agree! This is probably the best book I've read all year. Fabulous!
- June 2, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Casey (The Bookish Type) said...
I couldn't agree more -- this book was phenomenal. Your review was brilliaant!
- June 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- Lisa Mandina said...
I loved this book as well!
- June 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM
- Bere said...
Fantastic review, Eleni! I love dystopian novels and this one definitely sounds amazing. I will definitely lookout for this one. I love the cover too! =)
- June 2, 2011 at 7:07 PM
I was wondering if this would be just another subpar entry in the post-Hunter Games dystopian genre, but now I'm excited to hear it's worth a read.
- June 2, 2011 at 7:08 PM
- Ελλάδα said...
This book is amazing! I could not put it down! This story grabs you on page ONE! It keeps you guessing but reveals enough though the story that you don't get frustrated with the plot. There is a strong female character that is relatable but has her own personality. I recommend this book to everyone who likes an adventure and plot twist that takes you by surprise. I hope this is followed by a book two very soon in Roth's future.
- March 6, 2012 at 10:04 PM
- charmaine smith said...
Obviously I'm dumb for not getting to this one sooner. I can't wait to read it :)))
Great review!
charmaine of IT Consulting Dallas
- April 7, 2013 at 5:28 AM
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Nefarious Guy (Harrison Heller) is an award-winning machinima director and co-founder of Amorphous Blob Productions. He recently graduated from Brown University with a BA in Modern Culture & Media.
Façade (2013)
Roy, a successful businessman, pays a visit to David, his ne'er-do-well brother, on the night of their father's death. But Roy isn't all that he seems to be and his confession of a dark family secret could change both their lives forever.
Starring John Racioppo and Dennis Kozee.
Original music by Tommy Kraft.
Facade – First Look
Post-production continues on Facade, our upcoming live-action short, as we inch closer to completion.
Tommy Kraft has been working hard on the color correction with direction from me and DP Darrell Ayer. The color correction process is well on its way with about 75% of the shots more or less finalized. Below are some color graded stills from the first two scenes of the movie. We hope you enjoy!
As Replica Wraps, Facade Enters Post-Production
Wow, its been a while since my last post! Here are some quick updates:
Replica, a short sci-fi film I co-wrote and edited, is in the final stages of post-production. Hopefully, I can post a link here soon. I've been busy designing all the Kickstarter rewards (postcards, posters, dvd cover, etc).
I just finished production on Facade, a short film I wrote and directed. I had a really great time working with the talented cast and crew! I can't thank you guys enough! This was also the first time I had a DP (Darrell Ayer), which was awesome. I'm currently knee deep in post-production and am hoping to have the film ready for release by the end of the month. In the mean time, below is a brief synopsis and some stills from the film (no color correction yet).
Roy, a successful businessman, pays a visit to David, his ne'er-do-well brother, on the night of their father's death. But Roy isn't all that he seems to be and his confession of a dark family secret could change both their lives forever.
Drone @ 2012 Fort Myers Film Festival
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Clockwise: Part 2 on Hiatus, Replica Enters Production
Hi all. We've been pretty quiet here lately so I thought I'd give a quick update about what's going on at ABP.
I took another brief hiatus from production of Clockwise: Part 2 in order to help develop a live action short my friend Sam Eilertsen will be directing this spring. The short, a sci-fi noir called Replica, is set in a universe I was developing for an ambitious 40-minute machinima.
Sam was intrigued by the idea and asked if I would be interested in working with him on an 8-minute live action film set in the same world. We worked on the script together, writing and rewriting each other's drafts, until we were finally satisfied with the result. Now things are finally moving forward. Casting will begin soon, followed by fundraising and production. I can't wait to see everything start coming together! More updates soon.
Replica (by Sam Eilertsen and Harrison Heller) takes place in a not-too-distant future in which humans have created a race of sentient androids. The androids (known as "grays" for their silver eyes) were built as slaves, but eventually gained equal rights with humans. However, they remain an oppressed minority. Five years after their emancipation, an assassin armed with powerful weaponry starts killing the leaders of the Android Rights Movement, and a human detective is left the job of investigating the killings. Scorned by his fellow officers for his apparent sympathy with the grays, Detective Quinlan persists and begins to uncover a dangerous secret…


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GORHAM, Maine.—For the sixth consecutive season, the number one and number two seeds will face off in the Little East Conference Men's Tennis Championship Match, as the top-seeded University of Southern Maine Huskies (13-3) will host second-seeded UMass Boston men's tennis (9-8) Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m.
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The Beacons will be looking to build off of last year's success, where they defeated #2 UMass Dartmouth 5-4. Little East Conference Player of the Tournament Alex Loyer ('13) and current seniors Charles Lai (Boston, Mass.) and Eglis Bizhtoi (Kucovë, Albania) each went 2-0 in the title match.
Lai and Bizhoti are two of the four returners for head coach Eric Berg, as the two each finished 2-0 in Friday's 5-0 LEC Semifinal victory over Western Connecticut State University.
Lai and fellow senior Sean Cullen (Medway, Mass.) have been the top doubles pair in the Little East all season long, as the two finished 6-0 in conference play and are 11-2 overall at number one singles. The pair have also been two of the most consistent singles players in the LEC, as Cullen finished 5-1 against LEC foes, while Lai went 6-0 at number two in the conference and 10-2 overall at the second spot.
Bizhoti has taken a huge step forward in his second season as a Beacon, teaming up with first-year senior Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y.) to form a formidable pair.
They combined to finish 7-2 overall at number two doubles, including a 5-0 mark against conference foes. In singles play, Bizhoti has posted an impressive 7-3 record at number three singles, while Grinhaus has gone 6-3 at number four singles, including a 5-1 record in the LEC.
UMass Boston's final pair has come on strong as of late as well, as Lyle Analetto (Belmont, Mass.) and Jack Wang (Suzhou, China) earned a huge point at number three doubles Friday afternoon.
After tinkering with combinations all season long, the pair ended the year with a 3-5 mark at number three doubles. Wang has won three-straight singles match to improve to 3-2 on the year at number five singles, while Analetto stands at 1-5 at number six singles.
The Beacons will look to avenge their lone Little East Conference loss of the year Saturday, after dropping a 7-2 contest to the Huskies on April 10. Lai and Cullen earned a victory at number one doubles and Lai added a win at number two singles, but the Huskies shut the Beacons down from there.


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Now you have me even more giddy to see it. And that pic of Kovacs made me jump out of my chair and throw my hands up saying "HOLY CRUD YAY!!!" My boss gave me a weird look. So worth it.
You forgot to mention the nudity.
Jon's was so casual, it fit the character, and they weren't blatant about it, but the others was a bit of a surprise, and almost seemed to border on gratuitous. I can hear Concerned Moms of America beginning to rattle their bars, now, when they took little Timmy and Kimmy to "the new superhero movie" and got an eyeful!
It took me a minute to realize Moloch was Frewer, and there was another name in the opening credits I noticed, but didn't see the actor.
I was more annoyed by the short scenes we saw of Bernard, Bernie, and the shrink, plus the absence of Joey/gf and Hollis later on. Hopefully, we'll see them in the extended Director Cut DVD? ToBF framing sequence? I would have at least left in the Kovacs/Bernie scene with him asking for the New Frontiersman, just for the "You won't forget?" spittake.
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Evaluation of a new method for in-patient co-morbidity analysis based on KHIRI Pathology Group Set codes at the Kigali University Teaching Hospital
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'Killing Them Softly' cast stands out
Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly'' is a bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year's "Drive.'' It also does something that, if you're from around these parts, seems downright perverse. It takes the Boston out of George V. Higgins.
Higgins, of course, was probably the best crime novelist this city has produced — Dennis Lehane would be the first to agree — and he's the source for what's still the best Boston crime movie, 1972's "The Friends of Eddie Coyle.'' "Killing Them Softly'' is based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade,'' which, like all Higgins's books, is steeped in local flavor. When someone gets a beating in "Trade,'' it's not just in a parking lot but in the parking lot behind the old Stearns department store off Route 9 in Chestnut Hill. A hood meets a contract killer not at any restaurant but at Jacob Wirth's on Stuart Street (the menu is discussed). It's the kind of book where your fingers smell like stale beer just from turning the pages.
Dominik ("Chopper,'' "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'') throws all this out because he has bigger fish to fry. Like the entire sociopolitical history of America. But I'll get to that in a minute.
The plot in "Killing Them Softly'' is intentionally small-time. A crooked businessman (Vincent Curotola) hires two lowlifes (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) to rob a mob-run poker game, after which the powers that be bring in a fixer named Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) to find out who did it and what to do about it. A number of bodies later, Cogan's done and so is the story.
It's about his professionalism and everybody else's lack thereof, and morals have nothing to do with it. Anyone who has read Higgins knows the books are three-quarters dialogue — foul-mouthed, pungent, comically stupid, almost Joycean in its complexity — and "Killing Them Softly'' retains most of that talk, the characters' engines idling before occasionally revving into the red. You might think the movie's aping Quentin Tarantino, but it's the other way around: Higgins, along with Elmore Leonard, is where Tarantino got most of his shtick. (Higgins, for his part, got his dialogue from the goons he met while working as a journalist and an assistant United States attorney.)
A good actor can do marvelous work with this gift of words, and Dominik, who adapted the novel himself, hands the dialogue out like it's Christmas. McNairy and Mendelsohn are appallingly funny as two scuzzballs you hope never to meet in real life, the former wheezy and almost touchingly naive, the latter just plain mean. Richard Jenkins, as the mob lawyer who's Cogan's contact, creates a fussy little professional fascinated by the criminality he's rubbing up against.
Ray Liotta doesn't get a lot of dialogue as Markie Trattman, the unlucky proprietor of the card game, but he doesn't need it at this point; one look into those bleary goodfella eyes tells us everything we need to know. "Killing Them Softly'' coasts on banter only to erupt in moments of violence that almost burn your hair off, so electrifyingly does Dominik stage and shoot them. That beating mentioned above has a sickening paparazzi immediacy to it, and a later hit on a nighttime boulevard (Comm. and Chestnut Hill avenues in the book) is a slo-mo setpiece as beautiful as it is repugnant. In a sense, the film's a high-end nature documentary: Life in the Animal Kingdom.
Cogan's the star of the story and Pitt's the star of the movie; the two click together like custom-fitted machinery. Late in the going, someone says to Jackie, "I don't know who the [expletive] you are,'' to which he responds, "Very few guys do.'' That's why he's good at his job (i.e., killing people); the character's engaged, shark-like efficiency stems from doing only what's necessary, even when the mooks keep throwing him curveballs. Pitt doesn't showboat, relying on minimal gestures and the watchfulness of his eyes. You like Jackie even as you're horrified by him.
Late in the movie, James Gandolfini shows up as Mickey, a hit man who has seen much better days. He's everything Cogan isn't, stuck in a funk of booze and nostalgia, brooding over women, functionally useless. All of Gandolfini's scenes breathe a terrible sadness, and while "Killing Them Softly'' appears to slow to a crawl whenever Mickey's onscreen, it's actually coming close to its point.
Which is that the weak suffer at the hands of the strong, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you something. Aside from a few local references — Somerville, Wollaston, some place called "Have-erhill'' — Dominik pulls "Killing Them Softly'' out of Higgins's Boston and sets it in a generic urban wasteland in November of 2008. (The film was actually shot in New Orleans, with post-Katrina detritus adding to the sense of decay.) The economic meltdown and the final stages of the presidential campaign are all over the news; during the robbery sequence, as the players contemplate their lost winnings, George W. Bush is on TV telling the country about the hole it's in.
Dominik's aiming for mood rather than overt symbolism: The film's background, often literally out of focus, is ripe with disaster and the hollow bromide of "Hope and Change,'' a slogan that means less than nothing to the characters. The conceit borders on the arrogant and often crosses over, yet "Killing Them Softly'' pulls off its reach in the last scene, when Cogan (in a speech notably not in Higgins's original) lets the mob lawyer know exactly what he thinks the election of a new president means and doesn't mean.
As performed by Pitt with gunmetal scorn, the scene seems absurd at first (what, Cogan's suddenly an expert in American history?), yet the final lines slam shut like a prison door on the audience's fingers. By making a film entirely without illusions about the way this country does business — at the top as at the bottom — "Killing Them Softly'' ironically stays true to "Cogan's Trade'' and Higgins's cauterizing view of human nature. Let the likes of Steven Spielberg renew our faith in the communal ideals with which we lull ourselves to sleep. This movie's the anti-"Lincoln,'' and it jeers in your head long after the lights come up.


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Celeste Frazier is the perfect choice for your keynote speaker, your workshop facilitator or as mistress of ceremonies for your program. As a speaker, Celeste has a way of making the most complex theories easy to understand in accessible, every day language. Above is a talk that Rev. Celeste gave at the Las Vegas Center for Spiritual Living in August of 2017. She comes into the video at about 11:25. Below this text are talks from Various Videos on my YouTube Channel CelesteFrazier1.
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|Open Wide Your Hearts
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|Look Often to the Vast, Vast Countenance
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It's New Year's Eve and that means it's time for fireworks! Fireworks are really easy to photograph, but there's a few things you'll need to make your fireworks photos look their best.
I've written an article entitled "Top 5 Tips for Shooting Fireworks" that explains it all, but here's the basics of what you need to know:
- Use a tripod. With a tripod, you'll get nice steady shots without having to worry about shaking the camera.
- Use your camera's remote control or timer. This way you won't move or shake the camera at all during the shot.
- Long exposure times and shutter speeds. Try setting your camera to 3- or 4-second exposures, or even longer. If your camera doesn't allow for manual exposures, try using one of these modes: fireworks mode, nighttime mode, or landscape mode.
- Turn off the camera flash. Since it'll be dark, the camera will think it needs the flash, but it really won't need flash because the fireworks will be bright enough. Flashes only illuminate the area within a few feet of the camera anyway.
- Location, Location, Location. Location and timing are always important factors, as we learned from Michael Reichmann's article "Where and When" in the Photobird Learning Center. Make sure you have an unobstructed view of the area where the fireworks will be shown.
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