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Mail-in ballots on their way to voters this week carry a question with far-reaching impact on the way Coloradans tax themselves and spend money on education.
Amendment 66 asks for a $950 million tax increase to fund a recently passed law, Senate Bill 213, that would implement school reform and change the way the state distributes dollars to its 178 school districts.
The new law touches on many aspects of school finance, starting with changing the way the state counts student enrollment. It also intends to channel more money toward early-childhood education, at-risk students, English-language learners, charter schools and locally determined innovations such as longer school days and years.
Advocates frame the tax increase as a crucial investment in education that will vault Colorado into a position as a national leader in reform.
"It's a transaction," said Gov. John Hickenlooper, who supports the measure. "Everyone has to decide: Is this worth what we're giving — $950 million? I'd argue it allows us to go out and say it's the most comprehensive education-reform initiative in the history of the United States. And if it passes, it will make us a national model for public education."
Criticism of the measure touches on several key arguments: The tax burden would be too great in a recovering economy; there's not enough reform in the overall package; and fairness issues abound, including disparities in districts' return on investment.
The tax issue has been a tipping point for business support of the measure. Most business groups have remained neutral on Amendment 66, but those that have come out against it, such as the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce, cite the two-tiered state income tax proposal as the deal-breaker.
The new tax structure doesn't change the state corporate rate, but small businesses that report business income on personal tax returns would see an increase.
"We have a flat tax in Colorado, nice and simple, and we need to keep that," said John Brackney, president and CEO of the group. "Otherwise, the next issue will come along and it will be a slippery slope of every legitimate interest saying it's just a tweak, let's do three, four or five (tiers)."
Major overhaul
The measure would provide the first major overhaul to the state's school finance system in nearly 20 years. It would attempt to make state and local shares of district funding more equitable by resetting the equation for funding lower-income districts.
It would pour $165.5 million into full-day kindergarten and $77.5 million into preschool programs. It also targets $100 million for education-innovation grants, such as expanded school days, and $381.3 million for student testing, professional development for educators, early literacy and school accountability.
It promises a net gain in funding for every district and financial transparency through a website that would allow the public to track spending at the school level.
"There's not a single district in the state that loses revenue on this," said Sen. Mike Johnston, the Denver Democrat who carried the bill.
What does it mean to a taxpayer's bottom line?
That depends on where they fall within the proposed two-tiered state income tax system that does away with the 4.63 percent flat rate. Taxable income up to $75,000 would be subject to a 5 percent levy; income over that amount would be taxed at 5.9 percent.
For example, households with $35,000 of taxable income would pay an additional $130 annually; those with $85,000 would pay $405 more; and those with $135,000 would pay $1,040 more.
The financial impact of Amendment 66 goes beyond the tax increase alone, because it also frees up more than $600 million in existing education funding and redirects it to target programs.
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School districts across the Colorado are projected to get a bump in the total amount of funding they receive from the state if Amendment 66 passes. Some districts, depending on formulas for funding children in poverty and English learners, will receive more money per student than others.
The figures are estimates from the Colorado Department of Education. They are based on current enrollment numbers but include estimates for an increase in the number of children attending full-day kindergarten and pre-kindergarten as a result of the school finance law.
Overall funding increases take into account, $441 per pupil for the teaching and leadership investment and hold harmless provisions.
Some school districts will receive more funding overall, though their per pupil funding is expected to decrease because of increased enrollment stemming from additional kindergarten and preschool slots. Other districts, such as Clear Creek and Pawnee, showing overall decreases may levy other mills that are not represented the data.
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Leaders from most school districts have thrown their weight behind the measure, but some quibble with the new system of divvying up the funding, which will provide larger sums of money to those with greater concentrations of English learners and children in poverty.
In Colorado's rural areas, which account for 82 percent of the state's school districts and 23 percent of the student population, the reaction to Amendment 66 has varied. The Colorado Rural Schools Caucus, which has 136 members statewide, avoided the issue until a couple of weeks ago, when it decided to support the measure.
For the caucus, the key selling point is the influx of resources, particularly to areas where assessed property values are low and mill levies run high, limiting availability of local resources for schools. New money could also help make up for five years of recession budget cuts.
"For us, it's an equity issue," said George Welsh, superintendent of the Center School District in the San Luis Valley. "It's not perfect. But the way it takes into account your size and at-risk population and distributes dollars that way is a whole lot more equitable than what we're currently doing."
The Center School District could get an extra $1.8 million if the amendment passes, which bumps up its funding by 40 percent. Per-student funding at the school district is expected to grow 32 percent to $9,937.
The new law would address concerns around Amendment 23, which calls for annual increases in K-12 funding tied to inflation. SB213 would instead earmark 43 percent of the state's general fund for education, which proponents say would both protect education funding and also avoid crowding out the rest of the budget.
It also provides a reserve fund of $600 million, accrued from the first year of new tax revenues, that could mitigate cuts in lean years.
"If the budget drops again, you have padding to protect K-12," said Johnston, "which both protects K-12 and prevents K-12 from eating the rest of the budget."
Critics such as former state legislator Norma Anderson, the Jefferson County Republican who carried the last school finance act in 1994, contend that the 43 percent would not sufficiently fund K-12 education under the law and that base funding would need to come from the remaining budget.
The new law would include money to advance existing but unfunded reforms. Professional development money would augment the educator evaluation system passed in 2010 and put into effect this school year. Other dollars would address early-literacy development mandated by last year's passage of the READ Act and implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
Another major change would be the mechanism for counting students for funding purposes. The current one-day count near the start of the year would be replaced by a year-long tally that would effectively transfer per-pupil funding if a student changed schools.
Opponents such as Bob Hagedorn, a former Democratic state legislator from Aurora, see the measure as a "missed opportunity" for reform, even though it does contain money to help charter schools.
"I don't think it's enough of a step forward," said Hagedorn, who characterized the charter school enhancements as simply a means to quell political opposition to the tax increase. "It's much better than the status quo. But on the other hand, they could've done a lot more."
Far from perfect
Van Schoales, CEO of A+ Denver and the outgoing president of Colorado League of Charter Schools, said that while the measure remains far from perfect, it does offer major reforms.
Under the new law, the Charter School Institute would get funding equal to the average of what school districts are spending on mill levies. Charters could leave school districts that are not sharing their mill levy dollars and sign on with CSI. The law designates $18 million for charter capital construction.
"What ended up in Amendment 66 will be the best school finance law for charter schools in the country," Schoales said.
Some districts would see less return on their tax investment than others.
The Douglas County School District would get nearly $52 million, an increase of about 14 percent. The district's per-pupil funding would grow by more than 9 percent to $6,995, according to state estimates.
Board members of the Douglas County School District voted unanimously to oppose the measure. They argue that residents in Douglas County will be paying an additional $90 million to $100 million in taxes, but the district will get only $50 million in extra funding.
"Fundamentally, the issue from our point of view is that we're going to pay a dollar, and the state, after it processes it, will send 50 cents back to us. We think that's a bad deal," said board member Doug Benevento, who is seeking re-election.
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg defended the system of doling out education dollars. He said if the amendment failed, districts with low property-tax wealth would be left behind.
"The rich will get richer and poor will get poorer," Boasberg said. "Denver actually has significant property wealth, in part because of its commercial property, but for other poor communities like Commerce City, Greeley, Mapleton and Aurora, they are the ones who would suffer really badly."
Boasberg said the additional funding is critical to closing the achievement gap between white children and minorities, and between poor students and their more affluent counterparts.
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Amendment 66
Below are estimates that show how the state's six largest school districts will fare if voters approve Amendment 66 in November.
Adams 12 Five Star
Funding before Amendment 66: $272 million
Funding after Amendment 66: $309 million
Funding change: $37 million
Percent change: 14 percent
Per Pupil before Amendment 66: $6,463
Per Pupil after Amendment 66: $7,076
Per Pupil Change: $613
Percent change: 9.5 percent
Aurora Public Schools
Funding before Amendment 66: $262 million
Funding after Amendment 66: $325 million
Funding change: $63 million
Percent change: 24 percent
Per Pupil before Amendment 66: $6,933
Per Pupil after Amendment 66: $8,104
Per Pupil Change: $1,171
Percent change: 17 percent
Cherry Creek Schools
Funding before Amendment 66: $336 million
Funding after Amendment 66: $371 million
Funding change: $35 million
Percent change: 10 percent
Per Pupil before Amendment 66: $6,576
Per Pupil after Amendment 66: $7,016
Per Pupil Change: $440
Percent change: 7 percent
Denver Public Schools
Funding before Amendment 66: $561 million
Funding after Amendment 66: $693 million
Funding change: $132 million
Percent change: 23 percent
Per Pupil before Amendment 66: $7,045
Per Pupil after Amendment 66: $8,131
Per Pupil Change: $1,086
Percent change: 15 percent
Douglas County School District
Funding before Amendment 66: $399 million
Funding after Amendment 66: $451 million
Funding change: $52 million
Percent change: 13 percent
Per Pupil before Amendment 66: $6,388
Per Pupil after Amendment 66: $6,995
Per Pupil Change: $606
Percent change: 9.5 percent
Jefferson County Public Schools
Funding before Amendment 66: $523 million
Funding after Amendment 66: $594 million
Funding change: $71 million
Percent change: 14 percent
Per Pupil before Amendment 66: $6,486
Per Pupil after Amendment 66: $7,112
Per Pupil Change: $627
Percent change: 10 percent
Source: Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Legislative Council and Denver Post calculations


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Huh. He never really struck me as the fame whore/showbiz type, but now that former Bachelor Ben Flajnik has landed his own reality show, it looks like he may dig the spotlight a bit more than anyone originally thought.
Yes -- I said he's landed his own reality show, as in a reality show that centers solely around him and doesn't have anything to do with 25 women trying to win his affections. (Whew! For a minute there, I thought maybe ABC was making him The Bachelor again.)
Ben's new show will be on the E! Network, and it will basically follow him around in his daily life working at his winery, Envolve. A source told Wetpaint, "It will be about the day-to-day business of the company. Both from the wine-making and the marketing angles."
Zzzzzzzz. Is anyone else already snoring?
I mean, the wine part is kind of cool (because wine is awesome), but the whole day-to-day business stuff is enough to put anyone into a deep state of REM sleep. Who cares about how they make the wine -- when do we get to drink it?
Supposedly Ben's friends and his sister will also be a part of the show, but I'm not sure their presence is going to make things any more interesting. Ben's season of The Bachelor was pretty entertaining -- but only because of his ex-fiance Courtney Robertson. Honestly, if she hadn't been on the show, ABC probably would've lost a lot of viewers fairly early on into the season. Ben seems like a nice dude, but let's face it -- he pretty much put the "B" in boring as far as being The Bachelor goes.
Ugh. This new reality show is only in the negotiation stage, and I think I already hate it.
But there is hope -- maybe if Ben and his friends and his sister guzzle a lot of the wine while they're making it and showing us how to run a wine business, things could potentially get a lot more interesting.
How's that old saying go? "In wine, there's truth"? or something like that?
(Maybe we'll finally find out why he refuses to cut his hair.)
Will you watch Ben's new show when it comes out?
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Steven Moffat would like everyone to know that Series Nine is going to air in an uninterrupted run (he already confirmed the same about Series Eight back in December). So the whole whole "A Good Man Goes to War" summer break stunt won't be repeated. Probably just as well - it does seem in retrospect that that was a stopgap measure to help stretch out a very limited quantity of Who.
The Metro and the Daily Mirror have essentially the same version of this story as the one at Digital Spy, who have the earliest time stamp, so that's probably where they got it. Unless both the Metro and the Mirror have taken out subscriptions to Doctor Who Magazine as a source of cutting-edge news...nah, it couldn't be true. Although Tom Spilsbury's excited about the Mirror reporting on Peter Capaldi's new interview in DWM. And the date stamp on the news article about that interview was midnight 9 January, which sounds awfully like a press release prepped in advance, actually (either that or the article timestamp was backdated, but as the magazine only came out the 9th it sounds like the Mirror may have been given an advance copy for publicity purposes. Hum. The show's come a long way since 2005, hasn't it?)
Oh, the content of the Capaldi interview? "I was five when the show started. I don't remember Doctor Who not being
part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The
Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in
my DNA."
Then some comments about how awkward he felt about the Zoe Ball special last year until it actually happened, how much he's enjoying rewatches of the show, and a quite solid defense of pre-CGI special effects. To wit, "People look at them now and, understandably, mock the bargain-basement monsters, and the accidents and collisions that came from having virtually no time in the studio to shoot fantastically ambitious stories. But those old shows were only made to be watched once, on a flickering monochrome telly that smelled of valves and furniture polish."
"In that context, they succeeded immeasurably. They were triumphs of imagination.
"It may surprise you now, but something like The Web Planet [an episode from 1965] lived powerfully and expansively in my head for decades… until the DVDs came along and spoiled the party. But I'm glad to say that the Menoptra eventually flitted back into my dreams, where they belong."
Calling "The Web Planet" an episode indeed. Those aren't our brackets.
(Obviously the ideal way to end this post would be with a clip from the infamous Spanish dub of "The Web Planet", but since that's mysteriously missing from the Internet, we'll have to settle for a fanvid instead. Be warned that the actual story is much less exciting than this appears, although episode one is gorgeously atmospheric.)
Friday, 10 January 2014
Uninterrupted Series Nine and other news musings
By Dorothy Ail at 08:00
Labels: 2014 , newspaper , Peter Capaldi , Steven Moffat
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>>it does seem in retrospect that that was a stopgap measure to help stretch out a very limited quantity of Who.
we got the same amount, if not more, with all the extra specials. god damn.
they have been trying to move the show to the autumn, they've managed it.
- 10 January 2014 at 08:19
...no we haven't. We've only had one full season in the two and a half years since season 6 finished.
- 10 January 2014 at 20:25
The first episode of the web planet (13 February 1965) was indeed called the web planet!
- 11 January 2014 at 08:27
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Omelette Arnold Bennett
This is actually a famous classic, created – so the story goes – for the novelist Arnold Bennett, who wrote an entire novel, Imperial Palace, while staying at the Savoy hotel.
While his work was in progress, the chefs perfected the omelette to such a degree that our friend demanded that it be made for him wherever he travelled anywhere in the world and hence its name. Meanwhile, the Savoy Grill, proud of their achievement, still serve it every single day, year in, year out. It is a truly wonderful creation, a flat but fluffy open-faced omelette made with smoked finnan haddock. What I have discovered is that, while chefs can instantly call upon a ladle of béchamel or hollandaise (both included in the Savoy recipe), it's quite a fiddle to make all this at home. So I have adapted it so that it becomes much simpler and speedier, but I promise just as brilliant as the original.
This recipe is from Delia's Complete How to Cook, The Delia Collection: Fish. Serves 2 as a supper dish or 3 as a light lunch with salad
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To begin with, measure the crème fraîche into a medium saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer.
Add some freshly milled black pepper but don't add salt yet because the haddock can be quite salty. Then pop in the prepared fish and let it poach gently, uncovered, for about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, make up the sauce: separate one of the eggs, breaking the yolk into a small bowl and reserving the white in another bowl. Add the cornflour to the yolk and whisk well. When the fish is cooked, use a draining spoon to lift it out into a sieve placed over the saucepan, to allow the liquid to drain back. Press lightly to extract every last drop of liquid, then place the sieve containing the fish on a plate.
At this point pre-heat the grill to its highest setting. Now bring the liquid in the pan back up to simmering point, then pour it on to the egg yolk, whisking all the time. Then return the whole mixture to the saucepan and gently bring it back to just below simmering point or until it has thickened – no more than one or two minutes. After that, remove it from the heat and stir in the cooked haddock, tasting to see if it needs any salt. Next, whisk up the egg white to the soft-peak stage and carefully fold it into the haddock mixture.
Now for the omelette. First beat the 4 remaining eggs with some seasoning. Next, melt the butter and oil in a frying pan until foaming, swirling them round to coat the sides and base. When it's very hot add the eggs, let them settle for about 2 minutes, then begin to draw the edges into the centre, tilting the pan to let the liquid egg run into the gaps.
When you feel the eggs are half set, turn the heat down and spoon the haddock mixture evenly over the surface of the eggs, using a palette knife to spread it. Now sprinkle the Gruyère over the top and place the omelette pan under the grill, positioning it roughly 5 inches (13 cm) from the heat source. The omelette will now take 2-3 minutes to become puffy, golden brown and bubbling. Remove it from the grill, let it settle and relax for 5 minutes before cutting into wedges and serving on warmed plates.


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The Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition opens with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Sanchez Art Center. Concurrently, the center presents a show featuring work by the 2013 award winners, Ellen Little and Lucy Traeger, in the East Gallery.
This year's competition is juried by Jenny Gheith of SFMOMA. At 1 p.m. April 13 she will give a talk and present awards. This year the competition was opened to artists from Alaska as well as California, Oregon and Washington.
Gheith selected 47 pieces to exhibit from 936 works created by 360 artists. The number of entries marked a new record for the Sanchez.
In the East Gallery, Little presents her large watercolor paintings. Sanchez Program Manager Melinda Lightfoot notes that the paintings maintain the "delicacy that transparent watercolors can bestow, despite their size." Traeger presents acrylic paintings focused on people and events from the news media. She brings her personal compassion and indignation to bear on tragic stories, aiming to inspire viewers to take action.
Both exhibitions will be on view through May 18. The Sanchez Art Center is at 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays. Call 650-355-1894 or visit www.sanchezartcenter.org.
Stanford Art Spaces
Colorful abstract paintings by Michael Fram and Timothy Stroth are presented through the end of April at Stanford Art Spaces. A reception for the artists will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The works are on view in the Center for Integrated Systems and David W. Packard Electrical Engineering Building at Stanford University. The buildings are open during normal business hours Mondays through Fridays. Contact curator DeWitt Cheng at 650-725-3622 or e-mail email@example.com.
Art of the haggadah
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is showing "Arthur Szyk and the Art of the Haggadah" through June 29. It is the first showing of all 48 original paintings of Szyk's 1940 masterpiece in more than 60 years.
The haggadah ("the telling") recounts the story of the exodus of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Szyk illustrated the story with the ancient techniques of medieval illuminated manuscripts, but with a contemporary twist. He drew parallels between the situation of the Jews in Egypt and the rising threat of Nazi power.
When it first came out in the 1940s, The Times of London said it was "among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has produced."
The CJM is at 736 Mission St., San Francisco. It is open daily (except Wednesdays) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens and $5 on Thursdays after 5 p.m. Call 415-655-7800 or visit www.thecjm.org.
Gandolfi illustrations
A retrospective exhibition of illustrations by Gail Gandolfi is on view at the Manor House through April 29. A reception for the show will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The Manor House is at 10 Twin Pines Park, Belmont. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
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Art on the Square has set the dates for the eighth annual showcase of original fine arts and crafts at Courthouse Square in downtown Redwood City. It's held in conjunction with the city's Music on the Square concerts and the Police Athletic League Blues, Art & BBQ Festival.
The dates for Art on the Square are June 13, July 11 (Jewelry on the Square), July 25 and August 22. Hours are 5 to 8:30 p.m. The PAL Blues Festival date is July 26; the event runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
There's also a call to artists who live, work or exhibit in Redwood City to submit an original design for the city's second annual "Summer Event T-shirt Contest." The winner will receive $250 from the Redwood City Parks & Art Foundation plus a $250 gift certificate courtesy of University Art. The contest deadline is April 18.
To enter the contest or to submit an application for Art on the Square, visit www.redwoodcityevents.com.
Jazz On The Hill
KCSM-FM's live music celebration "Jazz on the Hill" is coming to College of San Mateo from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 7. Arts and crafts vendors interested in being a part of the event should visit the Web site at www.jazzonthehill.org; click on "Vendor" for information and an application. The application deadline is April 18. For further information, contact Denise Delaney at email@example.com.
Poetry reading
The Not Yet Dead Poets Society presents a reading by Cathy Barber and Maurine Killough at 7 p.m. Wednesday<cm, April 9> at The Main Gallery, 1018 Main St., Redwood City. An open reading period will follow. The event is hosted by Casey FitzSimons.
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MicheleNutrition needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Michele Schlossberg CHNC, MINDFUL EATING, VIBRANT LIVING!
I am a small business owner in the process of "branding" myself therefore I'm changing my business name to my name which is a little strange so I need some help!!! I am a energetic, positive woman who loves to support her clients and inspire them to eat better and live a healthier life. I teach cooking classes and take my clients to the grocery store. I believe is whole real foods, not diet foods and believe deprivation leads to yo-yo dieting which isn't good. I follow an organic approach - fruits, veggies, nuts and humanly raised animal protein. I am NOT "earthy" crunchy or "hippie" like in any way (no offense) but stylish, trendy and fun! I'd love for my logo to represent me!!!!
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Black Label CrossFit
Black Label CrossFit is a new fitness community in Mount Washington, Ky. CrossFit is a fitness method that is hard core, but scale-able for anyone and any age. Navy Seals, Olympic Athletes, and Soccer Moms all CrossFit and become phenomenally fit. It is constantly varied, functional movement, performed at HIGH INTENSITY. At a CrossFit gym you will not see exercise machines but rather, free weights, pull up bars, kettlebells, medicine balls, ropes, rings, bar bells and bumper plates. CrossFit makes elite athletes out of the ordinary person, it can be painful and brutal, but extremely addictive and fun! We get results at CrossFit and our athletes are our best advertising.
Our target audience is the average suburban Joe/Jane who may have been physically fit in the past but life has happened and they are now out of shape but motivated to do something about it. A lot of our clients are moms who have put their kids first and let their own health suffer. Its amazing to see them get into the CrossFit gym and start lifting heavy weights, doing pull ups, doing what they thought was impossible, and feeling empowered for the first time in their lives!
The designs that usually catch my eye are not symmetrical but rather grungy and imitate graffiti or tattoo art. I like splats, swirls, wings, eagles and creative fonts. I like creative logos that can be placed on t-shirts fronts, sides, collars, hem, sleeves, etc.
The logo will also be used for car wrapping and for the website. So I will need as many versions as possible.
The site below has a few current CrossFit Logos.
Everything in our facility is black, hence the name Black Label CrossFit. I would not be opposed to using skulls or other dark imagery. I want someone to see our logo and know that this place is "baddass!"
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SKŪ and KHŪ are Primitive Quendian roots signifying "curse".[1]
The root of opposite meaning is AYA.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 149 (roots appearing as "SKŪ-, KHŪ-")


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Like any conscientious emacs user I edit blog posts with it all the time using "It's All Text". However I'm often inserting HTML hrefs into my text and when I come to do my final proof read they tend to get in the way. Is there a mode I can toggle into that will hide these elements?
More generally are there any pointers on how to write a mode that modifies the actual buffer view while leaving the buffer contents untouched? Or does this just involve magic hacking with font-lock?


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To those of you following the saga of our latest little craft project here at the Pettit house, I can actually say that it's finished, it's over, it's finally done! I was beginning to have some serious doubts about that….
It took so much longer than I was expecting. And, we had a big set-back on Thursday that kind of soured me to the whole experience. Mom could see that my patience with the project was pretty well shot, but she's one determined lady who pushed me to see that it got all the way done. You all can probably appreciate the horror of our "crafting accident" story. After spending hours picking beads off an old belt, and even more hours gluing them to some sticks, you can imagine our reaction when one of the sticks fell from it's drying "rack" we rigged up in the garage….. It was like a slow-motion scene in a scary movie where you just cannot move……we heard a noise, we looked up, we saw it start to slip, we saw it come crashing down, we saw it bounce against the garage floor, and bounce again, and again….beads flying off in all directions, tips to branches snapping off and hurling themselves into space… sigh.
Then the worst part ever is that Mom insisted we pick up every single bead in that garage and put it back in the bowl…. and glue it back on. Must have been at least 200 tiny seed beads. At least. I absolutely drew the line at trying to re-glue the broken off branches. Didn't care at that point if I ever saw those darn branches again in my life. But, we persevered and the branches are now set up in the house like we had hoped. Here are a few more photos.
Once we got the sticks propped into a hurricane jar and held in place with some rocks, we were finally able to bring out the ornaments I found at Pottery Barn that inspired the whole project in the first place.
Love, love, love these little black spiders hanging from their chain webs. Can you believe we did all this work just so we could hang these spiders on some black sticks like they did at Pottery Barn?? We must be crazy people! (Do not say a word, Uncle Paul)!
Here is our Halloween project in it's final home.
I'm pretty relieved that it's over. I'm still glad we tackled this, as it gave Nik lots of joy to work on it with us. And we certainly will have lots of memories from it all. I'm getting to the point where I can almost laugh about the garage incident. But I still might suggest to all of you out there that you just buy the sticks at Pottery Barn and be done with it.
In other news, I'm really looking forward to this afternoon. Today, our little kit club, the Paper-Playground, is holding our second annual ScrapPink Crop for the Cure. Why ScrapPink?
Every 12 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer. We are helping to raise money for breast cancer awareness by scrapbooking! Every penny of a $10 donation will support the Susan G. Komen Foundation's mission to find a cure for breast cancer through research, education, screening and treatment. For further information on this worthy cause, go to www.scrappink.com. What better way to spend a beautiful Saturday? If any of you are in the Raleigh, NC area and would like to join us, we would love to have you. Visit our website for more information and directions.
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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
1991-1992 school year
This individual first met Harry Potter at Diagon Alley during the latter's first visit to the alley, in 1991. There, he offered Harry a Folio Magi and some card combinations. He was very proud to help Harry. When the school year started, he could be seen at the Classroom 5B where he was in charge of a game of pairs with Chocolate Frog Cards.[3]
1992–1993 school year
In 1992 he met Harry Potter again at Diagon Alley, and talked to him about the new card combinations. In the school year, he maintained his post at the Club. This year, he was in charge of giving prizes to students who possessed a certain set of cards.[4]
1993–1994 school year
In the 1993–1994 school year, this student could be seen by the Club yet again. He maintained the award-giving game he had ran the previous year.[5]
Behind the scenes
- "A football card! This is what Derek was talking about... I wonder if he would trade this for a Famous Witches and Wizards Card."
- —The cut line (presumably intended for Harry), that named Derek.[src]
- Derek is never referred to by name in the normal gameplay of all the video games he makes an appearance. The line of dialogue that mentions his name was intended to be used in the Game Boy Color version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. However, this piece of dialogue was cut and went unused, though it still appears in the game's ROM.[2]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
Notes and references
- ↑ He must have at least been in his first year in 1991.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Game Boy Color) on The Cutting Room Floor
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - GBC version
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - GBC version
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - GBA version


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WINTER PARK, Fla.—The Barry Buccaneers tied the Tampa Spartans 1-1 in the opening round of the NCAA South Region Women's Soccer Tournament at Sandspur Field on Friday night, but fell 3-2 in penalty kicks to end their season.
The Bucs (12-4-3) grabbed an early lead when Tampa's Candice Sheilds was whistled for a hand ball just inside the penalty box. Lauren Manna converted the kick for her 10th goal of the year in the 29th minute.
The lead held up, despite tremendous pressure from the Spartans (15-3-2) who out-shot Barry 17-5. But in the 84th minute, CiCi Gonzalez was fouled in the box and connected on the penalty to knot the game at one.
In the overtime periods, Tampa managed just one shot and Barry had one corner.
In the shootout, Barry's Tamara Vuckovich pinged her shot off the right post and Tampa's Alyson Gregorowicz came up with big saves on Karla Monge and Ashley Harlan to lift the Spartans over the Bucs. Cina Salemi, Gonzalez and Kaley Ward converted their kicks for Tampa, while Manna and Katie Turner connected for Barry. Barry's Becca Rogers saved a shot from Tampa's Taylor Wade.
Soccer Game Summary (Final)
2013 Barry University Soccer
Barry vs #18 Tampa (11/15/13 at Winter Park, FL)
Barry (12-4-3) vs. Tampa (15-3-2)
Date: 11/15/13 Attendance: 125
Weather: Light Drizzle, Low 70's
Goals by period 1 2 OT O2 Tot
Barry......................... 1 0 0 0 - 1
Tampa...................... 0 1 0 0 - 1
1. 28:58 BARRY-W Lauren Manna (10) Penalty kick
2. 83:28 UTW Cici Gonzalez (15) Penalty kick
Barry: 7/N 10/Y 6/N 27/Y 5/N
Tampa: 5/Y 15/Y 33/Y 29/N
Tampa wins shootout 3-2
Shots: Barry 5, Tampa 18
Saves: Barry 6 (Becca Rogers 6), Tampa 1 (Alyson Gregorowicz 1)


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Summer Sun Gold Tomato Pasta With Breadcrumbs Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 2 slices crusty bread, torn into small pieces
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
- 16 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 medium cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 pints Sun Gold cherry tomatoes or other small cherry tomatoes, whole
- 1 pound small shaped pasta (I used trofie)
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Meanwhile, add bread pieces to a food processor, and process until fine crumbs are formed, about 10 seconds. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a 10-inch stainless steel skillet over medium until shimmering. Add crumbs and stir until evenly coated in the oil. Cook, stirring often, until breadcrumbs are golden brown, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a medium-sized bowl. Toss with a quarter of the sliced basil and season with salt and pepper.
Wipe out skillet. Heat butter and remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat until butter is melted. Add garlic and red pepper flakes, and cook until garlic is lightly browned, about 1 minute. Raise heat to medium-high, and add tomatoes and half the shredded basil. Stir well. Cook until all the tomatoes have burst open, and a light sauce begins to form, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
Cook pasta to al dente according to the directions on the packaging. Reserve a 1/4 cup of pasta water, and then drain in the colander. Add pasta to the skillet with tomatoes and toss well. Turn heat to high, pour in half of the reserved pasta water, and cook until sauce is thick. If too dry, add more of the pasta water.
Serve pasta with a sprinkling of breadcrumbs and the remaining basil.
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You don't have to drive a hybrid to be sustainable; there are plenty of options to get from one place to another in Lincoln, and here are a few ideas.
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Eighty-two miles of the trails are specifically for commuters, so we suggest you tune up that bicycle and hit the trails for shopping trips or work.
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June 27, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Yale cross country and track standout Lindsay Donaldson has been named First Team Academic All-America by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and ESPN The Magazine. This is the second straight year Donaldson has earned Academic All-America recognition; she was a second team selection last year. She is the 18th Ivy Leaguer named Academic All-America this school year, setting a new conference record.
A junior sociology major, Donaldson is currently in England for the Yale/Harvard vs. Oxford/Cambridge meet. She concluded her season by placing 22nd in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA Championships, finishing in a time of 16:33.13. The five-time All-American placed third at the 2006 NCAA Cross Country Championships, which tied the highest finish ever for an Ivy Leaguer.
Donaldson will serve as captain of the 2007 Yale women's cross country team. She is a USTFCCCA All-Academic selection and a three-time Academic All-Ivy honoree (fall 2005, fall 2006, spring 2007).
The Lincoln, Mass., native was the ECAC indoor 3,000-meter champion this season. She holds the top three marks all-time in both the mile and the 3,000 at Indoor Heps, and was the 2006 Heps cross country champion. Her time of 4:43.56 in the mile is a school record.
Donaldson is the second Bulldog to earn Academic All-America honors this year. Football's Ed McCarthy was a second team selection.
Stanford's Arianna Lambie was named University Division Academic All-America of the Year. The women's track & field/cross country team is the last of 12 selected by CoSIDA this year. The others are football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country, men's at-large (all other sports) and women's at-large. A first, second and third team are chosen in the University (Division I and I-AA) and College (Divisions II, III and NAIA) Divisions. Only student-athletes with at least sophomore standing and a 3.20 GPA are eligible for nomination by their school's sports information department.
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Maybe it was because Hank Adler goofed on the number of national championships the University of Houston men's golf team won while Steve Elkington played for the Cougars.
Or maybe it was simply because Adler opened his interview with Elkington with an unoriginal: "G'day mate."
Whatever it was, Elkington definitely had a response. The 10-time PGA Tour winner turned out to be part roaster, part joker and fully candid during the annual Toshiba Classic Breakfast with a Champion on Tuesday morning at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa.
Adler, bless his heart, is known as the Toshiba Classic chairman emeritus. By the end of the program, he could've been known as Elkington's punching bag.
Elkington told Adler, who was dressed in a pink shirt, that he looked like a Tylenol pill.
When the two discussed the topic of the PGA ridding Q-School, Elkington had to explain the new tours and playfully suggested he should also ask the questions in addition to giving the answers.
Adler hung in there and did ask some great questions. The program was entertaining. It was also meaningful, since the money raised benefits the Mary and Dick Allen Diabetes Center.
Before introducing Elkington, Adler reminded everyone the primary goal of the tournament is to raise money and have fun doing it. Tuesday was fun.
Later Adler mistakenly said Elkington won two national championships at Houston. It was three.
"It's important that you say three," Elkington said somewhat jokingly.
Houston is dear to Elkington's heart. It's where he said he honed his game. And it's also where he met his wife.
Elkington, known as Elk, enjoyed the college life at Houston, where he was roommates with Billy Ray Brown. Elk fondly recalled spending time in the dorm area with key members of the Phi Slamma Jamma, Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwan. Track star Carl Lewis also hung around.
Elk and his golf teammates loved to show off their national championship rings, he said.
Elk shared a story about Lewis and how the Olympian would sometimes dip himself in glitter and run around the dorm room wearing only a robe, and the glitter of course.
"We were scared of Carl Lewis," Elk said in jest.
Elkington was at the University of Houston from 1982 to 1985. Before that, Elk likes to point out, Coach Dave Williams called him once a week, telling him how great it would be to play for the Cougars.
Adler also asked Elkington about his background. Elk was born in Australia and raised in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
And, of course, the topic of Elkington's career highlight came up: his 1995 PGA Championship victory at Riviera, where he beat Colin Montgomerie in a playoff.
Now, at age 50, Elkington is a rookie on the Champions Tour and will make his Toshiba Classic debut this weekend at Newport Beach Country Club.
He said he took last year off to focus on his website, http://www.secretinthedirt.com, a social media-type destination for all things golf.
Elkington also revealed he stays busy with his strong opinions on Twitter with the handle @elkpga.
As Adler read a long list of Elk's accomplishments during his introduction, drawings flashed on the screen, showing Elk's work as a caricaturist.
Elk was refreshingly blunt with his answers.
On Rory McIlroy, he called him "a basket case" for pulling out of the Honda Classic because of a tooth ache and for switching his gear to Nike for the money.
It's no wonder Elk has been a frequent guest of Jim Rome's.
Adler asked if Elk would give the Toshiba Classic a plug.
Elk said he had already talked about his gig at the Breakfast with a Champion. He might have to tell Rome about how it turned out to be entertaining.
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(This first appeared June 25, 2008. I think that the points are worth repeating and the people would probably appreciate new traffic!)
You know, them.
The people who suggest that you can be thoughtful and strategic about this blogging stuff.
I mean, the people:
- like Joanna Young, who suggests that you can generate a month's worth of posts in 30 minutes. She talks about creating a mindmap with the theme of your blog. I tried it one day, while driving. I wrote one phrase, "affirming words" on the middle of a post-it index card. I generated 5 post topics in four minutes. They wrote themselves quickly and they actually were thoughtful and connected and significant.
- like Liz Strauss, who suggests that you can build an editorial calendar for different days, and that you can map out a month of blogging activities and control your blogging time rather than having it control you. A month ago I started a theme for Sundays. I'm working through the week the same way. (Note: the calendar idea is near the bottom of the post. It stayed with me for months before I realized that I could do it, too.).
- like Chris Brogan, who suggests that you stop just thinking about your personal brand and instead, actually do specific things in social media. I discovered that I have several things covered, but that I need to be more specific about a few more.
- like Becky McCray, who says that we need to learn to say no. Actually, Becky has said a lot of things to help me focus, but that's one collection.
- like Rob Hatch, who is proof that people on the other end of social media are people. There are other examples, and you know who you are, but who'd have imagined Brogan's and Hatch's and Swanson's in the same physical space at the same time?
- like Cheryl Smith who started a blog intended for public consumption but didn't tell anyone about it until she had written enough posts to prove to herself she could. That kind of patience has borne fruit for her. (And she let me look ahead of time and helped me find some words from Isaiah that I had been trying to remember for months.)
- like Paul Merrill, who I finally believed about turning off the comment approval. It has freed up conversation wonderfully. (In the process, I also finally got wordpress set to email me each comment so I know. It hadn't been working before.)
- like these faces who remind me by their daily patience and love that the core of social media is the social, not the media.


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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Cut off the bottoms and stems of the eggplants. Peel them using a vegetable peeler and slice them into 1/2-inch slices.
In a heavy bottomed pan heat some olive oil and fry the eggplant slices for about 4 to 5 minutes (if you prefer a healthier version of the dish, you can grill the eggplants). Place the cooked slices on some paper towels to drain any excess oil.
In a large bowl combine the butter, freshly grated Parmesan, and salt, to taste. Add the roughly shredded fresh basil leaves.
Place the angel hair pasta or spaghetti into a pan of boiling water, bring back to the boil and cook until al dente. Drain.
Add the cooked pasta into the big bowl with the butter mixture and combine.
Take a small portion of the pasta and place it on top of an eggplant slice. Roll the eggplant around the pasta and place it in an oven-proof dish. Repeat this process with all the eggplants slices.
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Latest business surveys for the Euro Area suggest that the nascent recovery in activity in the region may be shortlived. Recent data suggests that Euro-Area deleveraging has had a negative impact on trade finance, but that trade finance availability should firm during 2012. Developing countries have made substantial progress toward reducing global poverty, but progress reducing child and maternal mortality rates (two factors closely linked to nutrition) has lagged.
|Headwinds from Euro Area likely to persist through the second quarter of 2012. After Euro Area industrial production accelerated through February 2012, recent business surveys have taken a turn for the worse, suggesting that the recovery in activity may be short lived. Markit's Purchasing Manager's Index for both manufacturing and services in the Euro Area dipped deeper into contractionary territory in April. Although not conclusive, the decline suggests that the ongoing banking sector deleveraging, fiscal consolidation, rising unemployment, high-oil prices, and recent renewed concerns on Euro Area sovereign debts will continue to weigh on real sector activity in Q2. Continued European weakness bodes ill for developing country exporters.
|Trade finance for firms in developing countries appears set to firm after recent weakness. European banking-sector deleveraging cut into trade finance flows as measured by Dealogic in the second half of 2011. Europe (includes both high-income and developing European economies) had been hardest hit, with Q1 2012 flows well below the levels observed even in Q4 2011, when European trade activity was falling at a 29.5 percent annualized pace. In developing regions the story is more mixed. In East Asia and Latin America the data shows some pick up perhaps reflecting entry of regional banks into the trade finance arena. In the Middle East the dissipation of some of the turmoil associated with political change in North Africa has supported flows. Trade finance flows to Africa are also up slightly. However, in South Asia, which witnessed a sharper Q4 2012 trade contraction, flows remain down. A recent ICC-IMF survey observed that the majority of respondents expected an improvement in the outlook for trade finance in 2012.
|Developing countries make progress towards the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Two of the MDGs (benchmark development objectives for the year 2015 set by the UN in 2000) have been met, with a halving of global poverty rates and of the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water. However, MDGs closely linked to food and nutrition are lagging. One conservative estimate suggests that over 200 million children under five years of age in developing countries fail to reach their cognitive development potential because of risks of poor nutrition and poor health. Despite its critical role, only about 0.3% of aid flows are oriented toward nutrition. In recent years, progress has been further complicated by high food prices, which affect diet quality, real-incomes and access to quality of care for infants and young children.
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ALTON — The Farmington High School girls basketball team clamped down on their rivals in the second quarter and were pretty darn good from the free-throw line the rest of the night. The end result was a solid 41-29 win at Prospect Mountain Tuesday night in Division III.
McKenzie Lloyd led the Tigers (6-3) with 22 points, including all eight of her team's points from the field in the second quarter.
"We started executing the ball more, passing it around," Lloyd said about the second stanza, during which Farmington expanded its lead to seven points.
Lloyd was 12 for 16 from the line on the night and collectively the Tigers hit 23 of 37 free throws. Prospect actually finished with a 12-9 advantage in field goals made. Lloyd was the only player on either team in double figures.
"We try to make those free throws," said Farmington's Kelsey Gregoire, who scored all seven of her points from the line, where she went 7 for 10. "Those are key in the game. If you can't make the short shots, you have to make the free throws when you can."
It didn't help the Timberwolves (4-6) that their best player, junior point guard Ella Montminy, went down with an ankle injury less than three minutes into the contest while driving for the basket. She was carried off the court into the training room and limping heavily when she returned to the bench. She did not return to the game.
"There was a stretch there when Ella went out where all of a sudden everybody looked at each other like, 'How do you play basketball?'" Prospect coach Gordon Bilodeau said. "They weren't fluent on offense, defense broke down a little bit, not much communication. That's not just because Ella went out, that's a team concept that they just haven't been able to get through. I'm very upset with the way they played today."
Bilodeau said Montminy's injury appears to be a severely rolled ankle.
For Farmington, the win was a nice rebound from a 61-46 loss at Campbell last Friday.
"It was a gutsy performance by our girls," Farmington coach Gary Noyes said. "Ella going down for them was big. That was huge for us. Hopefully she's OK, I don't want to see any kid get hurt. But any time you win on the road against one of your rivals, I don't care what the records are, throw those out, it shows that we had a lot of people stepping up."
Farmington never trailed and led 8-5 after a first period that was lackluster offensively for both clubs. A jump shot by Prospect's Brooke Burley tied the game at 11-11, but Farmington closed the half on a 12-5 run, with half of the points coming on free throws and half by Lloyd from the field to lead 23-16 at the break.
"In practice we need to be working on fast breaks," said Prospect's Hope Carazzo. "We didn't execute our fast breaks very well. Next time, we just have to come out stronger. And hopefully, we won't foul as much. (I) had four fouls. I've never had that many before."
Neither team scored a field goal for almost three minutes to start the second half, but a Lloyd layup gave Farmington a 25-17 lead. Save for a free throws early in the frame, the Timberwovles did not score until a baseline jumper by Amelia Duane with 3:20 to go, followed by a Anna Hingston layup about 80 seconds later. Gregoire drained a pair of foul shots in the final seconds, and Farmington held a 32-23 lead after three stops.
The Tigers scored just once from the field in the fourth, a layup by Kara Shannon with less than two minutes to go. But Farmington continued its consistency from the stripe to keep the Timberwolves at bay. Carazzo hit the game's only 3-pointer to cut the visitors' lead to 39-29 with less than a minute to go.
The teams will meet again on Feb. 8 in Farmington. In the meantime, both are in action on Friday. Farmington hosts Raymond while Prospect travels to Campbell.
Farmington, 41-29
FARMINGTON (41) — M. Lloyd 7-8-22, Shannon 1-2-4, King 0-0-0, E. Squires 0-2-2, Lambert 0-0-0, Gregoire 0-7-7, Cardinal 1-2-4, K. Squires 0-2-2. Totals: 9-23-41.
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN (29) — A. Mucher 4-0-8, Montminy 0-0-0, Burley 1-0-2, Rodriguez 0-0-0, McKenzie 1-0-2, L. Mucher 0-1-1, Carazzo 2-1-6, Hingston 2-1-5, Duane 2-1-5, Meyer 0-0-0. Totals: 12-4-29.
Farmington (5-3) 8 15 9 9 — 41
Prospect Mountain (4-6) 5 11 7 6 — 29
3-pointers: F-None; P-1 (Carazzo).


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NoFit State Circus Presents BIANCO @ Roundhouse
Award-winning circus company NoFit State returns to London's Roundhouse this Saturday night for the premier of its new show, BIANCO.
BIANCO is a totally immersive theatrical experience with action taking place above, behind and all around a standing audience. In fact, it is an entirely live-action experience as the narrative is set to a soundtrack performed by a live band.
Directed by Firenza Guidi and inspired by 'The Elephant's Journey', the last book written by Nobel-Prize winning Portuguese author Jose Saramago, the production certainly looks set to make the most of the venue's architecturally impressive Main Space.
If the thought of someone dangling high above you leaves you a little queasy then there is no need to fret. NoFit State are masters of their art and have been performing for over 25 years, won numerous international arts awards and have been described by the Guardian as "the future of British circus".
The preview shows have already sold out and you can see what people are saying about the experience on Twitter with #Bianco2013.
BIANCO is at the Roundhouse from Saturday 6 to Saturday 27 April and tickets can be booked online now.
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- Kinda like the Light Cycles game in Tron.
- Easily portable travel game with integrated drawers in the board to store all the parts.
Sometimes the best games are the most simple. When we saw a game called Quoridor, we were hooked. It's a very simple game with a crazy fun twist. That twist requires all sorts of strategy. And, the more people you add, the more strategy it takes to win. And then we saw that there was a travel version which was even cooler. We call it: Quoridor Pocket Maze-Forming Travel Game - read on to learn the awesomes.
To win the Quoridor Pocket Maze-Forming Travel Game is to do one thing: get your piece to the other side of the board. That's it. But your opponents (up to 4 players in toto) are also trying to do the same. Now, you can't take out any pieces, but what you can do is add walls. That's right, after each of your moves, you can add a wall. Once play starts, the clean playing field is suddenly a labyrinth of obstacles. We think it kinda looks like the Light Cycles from Tron, and THAT'S why we love the Quoridor Pocket Maze-Forming Travel Game so bad. Hey, and the game board is a Grid!
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Working his way up the ranks as a nuclear electrician at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard was hard work. Leaving that career was harder work, but becoming a full time farmer, and a successful one, was well worth the wait says Suffolk, Va., grower Mike Griffin.
Griffin grew up on a farm, and learned to drive a tractor long before he learned to drive a car.
He remembers always wanting to be a farmer.
His grandfather, James Griffin, Sr., his father James Griffin, Jr., and his uncle Joe Griffin built a thriving farming operation centered around peanut production. Separate from the family partnership, his grandfather operated a small farming operation. "I did the work for my grandfather, and I did it his way. I didn't always like it, but there was a very good lesson learned — one I appreciate now," the Virginia farmer says.
I have never lost my passion for agriculture. And, I have never forgotten the many lessons I learned from my father, grandfather and uncle working on the farm, he adds.
When it came time to make college decisions he wanted to attend North Carolina State's agriculture program, and was accepted and almost went.
"I remember we had a bad drought that year and my family suggested that I at least consider learning something outside of the farm. At the time, I had an uncle working at the shipyard, and I felt like I might end up working there anyway, so I decided not to go to college. I applied and was accepted into the apprentice program at the shipyard, as an electrician," Griffin says.
"My parents always made sacrifices so that my two sisters and I had the best education possible and could have the things we needed. Our future was and has always been their first priority," the Virginia farmer stresses.
He started in the electrical program at the shipyard. Being a natural tinkerer and always fascinated by how things work, Griffin was a quick learner and rapidly made his way through the apprentice program.
He later moved into the nuclear program at the shipyard and really excelled in what was then a growing area of work. Griffin got out of the apprentice program early and rapidly worked his way up the management structure. After nearly 20 years, he was senior nuclear manager and well on his way to a long career at the shipyard.
Though he left the farm, he didn't really leave it. Often after working 12-hour shifts at the shipyard, he came straight to the farm to help his father. He also began working his own farm, acquiring land in some unique ways.
"I spent as much time as I could riding around in this area, looking at land. When I found land that was fallow and not rented to another farmer, I would look up the owners at the courthouse and write them a letter outlining why I wanted to rent their land, how I would farm it and what it was worth to me," he explains.
"Over a period of years I built up some land and began farming part time, while still working full time at the shipyard and helping my dad.
"I did a lot of my farming at night back then," Griffin laughs. "People at the shipyard asked me how I could go from working long hours at the yard to working long hours on the farm. The shipyard was a job, farming is my passion — totally different than working for a paycheck and benefits," Griffin says.
In 1999, Griffin acquired some valuable farmland and a very important person in his life. The land came from Thomas Ashburn. As part of the deal, Mike agreed to keep Mr. Ashburn's grandson, Jeff, employed in the farming operation.
"Jeff is like a son to me. He's smart, he's hard-working, he's honest and honorable — all the qualities you could ask for in a son. He has always had a significant interest in what was going on with the farm and is always trying to learn something new," Griffin says.
"When I left the shipyard in January 2001, a lot of people – I can't tell you how many people – thought I was crazy. Not my family — they supported me, and I suspect knew I was destined to be a farmer."
At the time Griffin was dating a woman, Susan Nurney, who is now his wife. "I didn't know quite know how to tell her what I was planning to do, but when I did, she said go for it — do what you love to do. She's been totally supportive of my career change and is a big reason for any successes I've had as a farmer," Griffin stresses.
In the mid-1990s cotton made a return to southeast Virginia. In 1995, his father grew a few acres of cotton and Griffin saw his first cotton crop. "I remember rushing back from the shipyard to the farm to see my father's first cotton crop being picked.
"The cotton picker was the most intriguing piece of equipment I had ever seen, and probably still have seen. I knew from the start that I was going to grow cotton."
For the past 14 years Griffin has been a cotton farmer. He grows corn, beans and wheat, but he is cotton farmer — down to his e-mail handle — cottonpickr.
Now, he grows approximately 1,000 acres of cotton and another 800 acres of grain crops. "We have tinkered with and have demonstrated that we can have a short-term continuous cotton rotation and make it profitable. We haven't created an ill-effect on the land, and we replenish everything we take from the soil," he says.
"Still, grain crops are important to us from an economic standpoint and important as crop rotation options. On some of our land, we go one year corn and two years cotton. On different soil types, we can go with wheat and double crop soybeans followed by cotton. None of our cotton land stays out of cotton for more than one year," Griffin explains.
The science of farming is a constant part of Griffin's overall farm plan. He had a nutrient management program developed in 2007, which requires extensive soil sampling and monitoring of inputs.
"On a specific farm, where we suspect we might have problems or micro-nutrient deficiencies, we do tissue sampling to monitor what the plant is going through during four different times in the growing season. We recently began using Helena Chemical Co.'s foliar feeding program. My father, my uncle and I use it on all our cotton and soybean acres. There are some varying opinions concerning foliar nutrients, but on our farms cotton and soybean yields have been on an upward trend since we started with the program."
Griffin also began this year participating in a precision fertility program with Meherrin Chemical Co. There are some cost savings — something in the neighborhood of $35 per acre. "We don't know if we will save $35 an acre every year, but are totally committed to the program," Griffin notes.
In addition to cost savings, the precision fertility program fits in well with Griffin's strict adherence to good soil stewardship. He actively participates in efforts to preserve the Chesapeake Bay and Southern Rivers watersheds. "Putting no more chemicals and fertilizers on our crops than is needed by the crops for top production just makes good economic and environmental sense," Griffin explains.
"You have to be innovative in growing cotton. New, better, more cost effective ways of producing a crop are critical to survival."
Among Griffin's out-of-the-box concepts is conducting variety testing programs in cooperation with a number of seed companies and with Virginia Tech University researchers. "Looking at large blocks of cotton varieties side-by-side gives a much better perspective of subtle differences between the varieties and what will work best on your farm. It's been exciting to watch the genetic improvement in cotton varieties just in the past few years," Griffin says.
"There are so many good cotton varieties today, but not all of them are good for us. Phytogen 375 is one that performs amazingly well on our farms. I'm more excited about this variety than any we grow. It looked good in our field testing in 2007, and it performed well in the field in 2008. This year Phytogen 375 looks outstanding, we have most of our crop split between this variety and Stoneville 4427. I can't wait to see how it yields.
"Growing cotton for Mike Griffin in southeastern Virginia is a total team effort. People like J.B. Riddick at Helena Chemical Co., Bryan Holland at Meherrin Chemical Co., and the staff at the Virginia Tech Ag Research facility are valuable parts of our team, as are many, many university researchers and seed and chemical company representatives," Griffin stresses. "Cotton crops are all different. Every year is different; that's one of the things I enjoy most about growing it. The more I learn about cotton, the more I like it," Griffin concludes.


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The death of Paul Walker in a car crash Saturday at age 40 marks a tragic end to the life of a man who brought innumerable people pleasure as rogue former cop Brian O'Conner in the street-racing "Fast and Furious" pictures.
In tribute, here are five of his more memorable moments from that franchise.
PHOTOS: Paul Walker: 1973-2013
The Chase: ("Fast & Furious"): As Dominic...