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Hi I'm Karen Rogers & I discovered Stampin' Up! just over 3 years ago
shortly after it came to New Zealand. The rest is history as I became a
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I just love bringing pleasure to so many, either by teaching them in a
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The Center for Middletown Studies sponsors the Comparative Urban Studies series with Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. It is an outgrowth of the center's work on small cities in both the U.S. and abroad. The editorial staff is as follows: Kenneth Hall (Ball State University), Lead Editor, and James Connolly (Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State University) and Steven Morillo (Wabash College), Associate Editors.
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5 April 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a call for public comment on the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Extension Standard.
WCS defines an open standard interface to easily access multi-dimensional, spatio-temporal coverages, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, image time series, simulation data, point clouds, and meshes.
The OGC WCS CRS Extension defines an extension to the WCS Core that enables requests to specify that coverages be returned in one of a number of different Coordinate Reference Systems. While the WCS Core defines access only in the coverage's Native CRS (i.e., the one in which the coverage is stored on the server), the WCS CRS Extension defines how to request and obtain a coverage in a CRS different from the Native CRS. This flexibility is important, for example, in exchanging data between different environments.
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Reports are swirling as we go to press that Governor David Paterson is not long for Albany, and that he might be forced to resign over the much publicized aide-gate. While Paterson has vehemently held to the position that he will not step down under any circumstances (although he has said that the will not run for re-election, or rather election, since he was handed the post when Spitzer made his ignominious exit), the circumstances might have just gotten a little out of control.
The plot keeps thickening on the Paterson aide that was accused of beating his girlfriend on Halloween night last year, and the further accusations that Paterson used his office and staff to try and get the allegedly abused woman to keep everything on the down low. And, it seems, those latter accusations are growing more severe by the day.
So, since Eliot Spitzer literally destroyed his opponent and was elected governor in 2006 with almost 70 percent of the vote, New York could be witnessing its second governor in four years forced to resign under a cloud of scandal and misdeeds.
This has to set some sort of modern-day record.
So what now? It certainly looks like Andrew Cuomo is going to run for governor, and Rick Lazio has already thrown his hat in the ring as a Republican candidate, but would these two fare any better?
Wethinks no.
Maybe it's time for New York State voters to quit electing career politicians to run our state, and follow the lead of the wise and shifty folks out in the Golden Bear State: California. This is New York, and there's no reason why we can't elect a celebrity to office – we've got plenty of them living here, too.
We could go the more stately route, and elect somebody who could project the air of a born leader of men, somebody like Martin Scorsese or Robert De Niro. Or we could think completely outside the box. How about a Jay-Z/Chuck D 2010 ballot? A perfect combination of youth and experience, and I'm sure they could get Rev Run to come on board as Minister of Information.
But it doesn't just have to be about the boys, either. Doesn't Madonna live part-time in New York? Given the stalemate up in Albany and the stranglehold it has on official state business, she wouldn't really need to be here much more than a month or two out of the year anyway.
Which gets us to thinking: with all of the dysfunction in Albany since Governor David Paterson took over for Spitzer, we're not really sure how him stepping down is going to solve anything, even if he did abuse the powers of his office. No, this system is broke beyond repair and needs some red-carpet names to fix it. Time to get shallow, folks.


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Photos of Newark ACTS interns Michelle McWilliams and Ryan Bruns ship visiting in the Port of New York & New Jersey, July 2014. Photos by David Rider, President & Executive Director.
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The Hope College Wind Symphony will be presenting its first full concert of the semester, "Viva la France!," on Friday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
All music in the program is inspired by France or written by French composers. The concert will consist of: "Symphonic Prelude (The Cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer)," by Mark Camphouse; "Suite Francaise," by Darius Milhaud; "Marche Militaire Francaise," by Camille Saint-Saens; "Petite Symphonie," by Charles Gounod; and "Paris Sketches," by Martin Ellerby.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Make a theatre invitation and tickets! Use these when you are putting on a puppet show or a play. Why not put on the Goldilocks play for your friends or family? Or invent your own!
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'man is the sum total of his own thoughts'
Posted by Smokey Stover on January 25, 2007
In Reply to: 'man is the sum total of his own thoughts' posted by Smokey Stover on January 19, 2007
: : : what does 'man is the sum total of his own thoughts' mean?
: : I'm pretty sure you knew where you had read this, and I wish you had told us. It comes from
: : "The Master Key System
: : Written By Charles F. Haanel
: : born May 22, 1866 in Ann Arbor Michigan
: : died November 27, 1949"
: : This system belongs to the category of spiritual self-help, and is divided into lessons. To give something of the flavor of Haanel's writing, I'm including both Sian's quotation and the paragraph above it.
: : "26. It used to be said that man is completely built over every seven years, but some scientists now declare that we build ourselves over entirely every eleven months; so we are really only eleven months old. If we build the defects back into our bodies year after year, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
: : 27. Man is the sum total of his own thoughts; so the question is, how are we going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones? At first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but we can keep from entertaining them. The only way to do this is to forget them -- which means, get something for them. This is where the ready-made affirmation comes into play."
: : There is a serious philosophical system in which the quoted statement makes sense, but I'm not sure whether or not we should view Haanel's statement in that context.
: : In the early 18th century the Anglo-Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley, made a considerable stir with a simple but bold philosophical point of view: his "Empiricist philosophy, ... holds that everything save the spiritual exists only insofar as it is perceived by the senses" (quoted from the EB Online). The corollaries and ramifications are obvious and pretty far-reaching. Essentially, everything material that we know is without demonstrable reality outside our mind. Our perception is our only reality. Do we have a body? Our mind says so. Do we have friends and acquaintances? Our perceptions say so. Do we communicate? Our perceptions say so. Scientists prove this and that, philosophers teach this and that. How do we know? Our minds say that we read it somewhere, or heard it; or that we talked with so-and-so. Other than our perceptions, what do we have to go on? Does Sian exist? Yes, in my mind. Other than that? Who knows besides God, who may simply have planted all those memories and perceptions in our minds, like the monks who created Buffy's sister, Dawn, out of pure green energy and then planted memories in the minds of her mother and sister to give Dawn a plausible history. Stretching it? Just carrying Berkeley's philosophy to one of its several logical conclusions.
: : Berkeley, incidentally, is the author of the well-known conundrum, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it really fall?" This very popular quotation may be Bishop Berkeley's most enduring legacy. It has given rise to all sorts of silliness, including:
: : There was a young man who said, "God,
: : Must think it exceedingly odd
: : If he finds that this tree
: : Continues to be
: : When there's no one about in the Quad."
: : "Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd:
: : I am always about in the Quad.
: : And that's why the tree
: : Continues to be,
: : Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God."
: : Did Haanel get his statement from his studies, and therefore from Berkeley? I don't know any other context in which to view the statement and have it make sense. No matter. The statement, by itself, is not, I think, essential to his teaching.
Bishop Berkeley, in his conundrum about the tree, asked "Does it make a sound?" It's perhaps a little too easy to answer in that form, but Berkeley's reasoning is fairly clear.


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Dr. Hauschka helps fight world hunger while they give you a holistic makeover
Dr. Hauschka Skin Care is pretty bad-ass on many levels. Aside from offering holistic skin care and makeup, they are doing their part to help end world hunger by donating a portion of their proceeds (when you buy a Dr. Hauschka trial kit) to Heifer, an international program which is set up to help end world hunger.
*Although I acknowledge Heifer's efforts, I do believe their fundages could feed even more hungry people by educating and teaching the ways of a vegan diet in third world countries. My two cents.
Okay ladies, ready to get excited? Dr. Hauschka has mascara ($23.50) in the most amazing fabu colors (aside from their various shades of black and brown): royal blue, golden green and aubergine (purpley goodness). Not only is their volume mascara cruelty free (amen!) but they are also smudge resistant and contain neem leaf extract which helps strengthen your lashes.
If you're a liquid liner kind of girl like I am, watch out! They have a smooth vegan eye liner ($16.95) which also contains neem and is perfect for those with sensitive skin. It strengthens and conditions and lasts throughout the day. I have a soft spot for this particular product. This vegan eyeliner was one of the first vegan beauty products I had ever tried back in the day ('twas a gift from my sugar booger).
Also, on the makeup side of things, their liquid concealer ($21.95) is the shiznit and contains all-natural mineral ingredients and therapeutic botanicals to sooth redness and irritation.
Dr. Hauschka has a very dope, user friendly website which is easy to navigate. They offer a wide variety of skin care and body care and you can shop by skin concern, season, lifestyle, mood or ingredient. Check for ingredients when reading product descriptions. Some contain honey and beeswax (which I realize some vegans use and some don't). Dr. Hauschka is like fine dining for makeup. It's a lil' on the pricey side but well worth it… so get your boyfriend to surprise you with some holistic goodies for your birthday.
For more info: Dr. Hauschka
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I've been using Hauschka for years now. But I've also been vegan for 11 years as well. I just checked out one of their websites; they use lanolin, beeswax, propolis, silk, and carmine(which is crushed beetles). So, just thought I'd let you know that any vegans out there probably should check each individual product. Most vegans really don't want to use any of these products if they're vegan.


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I woke up a bit earlier this morning than usual, as I had made arrangements to meet with a reporter from NBC Action News (KSHB 41 in KC) at about 5:30. I got all my stuff together last night, so all I had to do was throw some clothes on, make a fresh batch of pressed coffee, and roll out.
It was a nippy 43°F this morning, but my cargo pants plus a long sleeve thermal shirt under a t-shirt provided perfect insulation. I rolled up to the news van just in time to see Lorin approaching. We talked to the news crew for a bit, then I recorded an interview. As more commuters started showing up, we did a live broadcast complete with close-ups of some of our commuting gear and another mini-interview. I made sure that it was clear that our Lenexa convoy was a weekly event. Maybe we'll get more of a following this year.
We had to make a few superfluous roll-by passes of the camera so they could get footage of us all on the road, decked out in reflective gear and das blinkenlichten. After that, the five of us were workbound!
Northbound on Nieman
Waiting at Mission Road and SW Blvd for our left turn light.
Riding through northern KCK
One of the iconic grain elevators near Rainbow.
Lorin, John and I met JR at Coffee Girls this morning. Change things up a bit.
The sun is up as early as ever. The downtown skyline glistens in the morning sun.
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Peaches - AA XXX
Monday, May 12, 2008
KC Bike Week 2008 Day 1: Morning Convoy!
I woke up a bit earlier this morning than usual, as I had made arrangements to meet with a reporter from NBC Action News (KSHB 41 in KC) at about 5:30. I got all my stuff together last night, so all I had to do was throw some clothes on, make a fresh batch of pressed coffee, and roll out.
11 comments:
- Chuong Doan said...
Thats awesome dude. I think its important that people see that you don't need fancy clothes or gear to ride to work. You don't need no stinkin spandex- cargo pants, jeans, khakis, t-shirts or whatever will get the job done.
- May 12, 2008 10:46 AM
- Noah said...
We had all types out this morning. Plain clothes. Non-cycling athletic gear. Mixed cycling/street clothes and someone in full cold-weather bicycle racing kit.
- May 12, 2008 11:03 AM
- Chuong Doan said...
BTW- are you going to Casa Paloma tonight? I'm gonna try to make it out there for a ride and some nachos.
- May 12, 2008 11:17 AM
- Noah said...
Oh hell yes I'll be out there.
- May 12, 2008 11:24 AM
I saw Noah on TV and it changed me life! I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.
- May 12, 2008 11:27 AM
- Noah said...
- May 12, 2008 11:33 AM
- Warren T said...
They've got your story on their web site.
Cool. Glad to see you had some people show up.
- May 12, 2008 11:37 AM
- XAVI NOVELL said...
a good blog !!! , from catalonia
freebike xavi !!!!
- May 12, 2008 1:24 PM
- Frogman said...
Gah! The reporter read the web address in the video and said "backslash." That really peeves me. Anyway, that is what you sound like IRL. ;)
- May 12, 2008 10:08 PM
- Noah said...
I gnashed my teeth when he said backslash too.
- May 12, 2008 10:11 PM
- Apertome said...
It's great that you got that news coverage. Very cool. You sure had quite a group for the ride! Things are very quiet around here, as the students are gone now. It's very pleasant.
- May 13, 2008 11:37 AM
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Open recalls checked and performed
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Good through : 4YR/ 50K
2 sets of keys included
Key Code (Ford only)
Vehicle Exterior
No evidence of flood, hail, fire, or other major damage
Body Panel and Bumpers
No significant visible damage or misalignment
Road Test
Idles Properly
Starts properly (hot / cold)
Accelerates and cruises properly
No shakes or shimmies
Exterior Lights
Headlights aligned, auto on/off operates
Driving, fog, and turn signal lights operate
Brake, reverse, and parking lights operate
License plate lights operate and bracket intact
All light housings free of moisture.
Glass, Outside Mirrors, & Wipers
Windshield free from visible cracks
Wipers and washers operate in all modes
Wiper blade condition
Windows operational and free from defects
Interior Amenities
Tilt / telescopic steering wheel, column lock
Horn operational
Lights (instrument panel, courtesy, dome, map)
Mirror controls (rear view and side)
Entertainment System (radio, CD, DVD)
Navigation System
A/C System operational
Defog / Defrost operational
Heating system operational
Sunroof / Moonroof operational
Sun visors operate properly
Power outlets and aux ports operate
Floor mats included
Owners manual included
Door trim, panels attached
Fold down latches work
Seat adjustments operate (power, memory, etc.)
Heated / Cooled seats operate
Luggage Compartment
Carpet intact
Jack, spare tire, rools present and operations
Spare tire is correct size/type, no damage, fully aired
Air Bag & Safety Belts
Air bags intact, no safety codes, dash lights work
safety belts operate
No warning lights / codes (active or stored)
Fluid leaks - minor seepage normal/acceptable
Hoses, lines: (coolant, fuel, brake, etc.)
Belts (checked for wear, cracks, fraying, etc.)
Power steering pump operates normally
Engine mounts are not broken / serparated
Oil & filter (changed)
Maintenance light reset
Cooling System
Coolant system checked - Freeze point -36 °F
Water pump works properly
Electrical System
Battery type, condition, load tests checked
Cold Crank : 600 Amps
Alternator output correct
Ignition System Works
Starter Operates
Auto / manual operation checked (cold/hot)
Shift interlock operate
Clutch operates
Drive axle / transfer case operations are normal
Universal joints, CV joints (checked for leaks)
AWD/4WD systems operates properly
Automatic transmission / transaxle fluid (checked)
All tires/wheels are the matching/correct size?
Tire Pressures are within specifcations
Normal tire wear, no allignment / sidewall issues
Tire tread depth
Left Front : 7/32" Right Front : 7/32"
Left Rear : 4/32" Right Rear : 4/32"
Buy Happy: Meets or exceeds 5/32" (50%)
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Steers properly
Rack/pinion, linkage, and boots not damaged
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Simply Tasty Time-Saving Dinners
By Family Features
If another busy night has you stressed about what to put on the table, it may be time to broaden your dinnertime repertoire. There are options in the frozen food aisle that can help you prepare a real, nutritious meal even when you're pressed for time.
With more and more companies listening to consumers and finding ways to make their products with simpler ingredients while still maintaining a great, family-pleasing taste, you can find prepared food in the frozen section that you can feel good about serving to your family. And one of the simplest, healthier proteins that is found in the freezer aisle is seafood.
Fresh from the sea and available in several varieties - including fish sticks, fillets and shrimp as well as a range of styles, such as breaded, battered, sauced or grilled - there are frozen options for every taste, lifestyle and occasion. Seafood not only cooks quickly compared to other proteins, but numerous health agencies recommend eating seafood at least twice a week due to its health benefits. Seafood contains natural omega-3 fatty acids, lean protein and critical vitamins and minerals that can aid brain development, promote heart health, help fight obesity and improve overall health.
These health benefits, combined with the convenience and simple goodness of prepared seafood products, such as Gorton's Seafood, make it easy to serve a better-for-you meal for the family in no time at all. Gorton's also listened to consumers and made its ingredients even simpler and ingredient labels easier to read and understand.
"Delicious, quality seafood isn't just about the seafood," said Mary Beth Gangloff, who is leading the simplification charge at Gorton's. "This effort is about doing everything we can possibly do to ensure that nothing gets in the way of our real, authentic ingredients and great taste. Our goal is to ensure that the goodness of our seafood reaches our consumers in every single bite."
Cooking with seafood also lets you keep other ingredients simple, so you can let the distinct flavor of the seafood be the star. Keep it simple and pair seafood with a salad or easy side dish, or check out one of these family-friendly recipes that require just five ingredients and less than 30 minutes to prepare and cook.
Find more simple, time-saving recipes your busy family will love at gortons.com.
Fish Stick Taco
- 24 Gorton's Classic Breaded Fish Sticks
- 12 hard taco shells
- 3 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
- 3 cups salsa
- 3 cups lettuce, shredded
- Prepare fish sticks according to package instructions. Place two cooked fish sticks in each taco shell followed by 1/4 cup cheese, 1/4 cup salsa and 1/4 cup lettuce. Serve immediately.
Honey Mustard Beer Batter Fillet Sandwich
- 10 Gorton's Beer Batter Fillets
- 1/2 cup honey mustard
- 5 sandwich rolls, sliced
- 5 lettuce leaves
- 10 slices of tomato
- Prepare fillets according to package instructions.
- Spread half of mustard onto bottoms of sandwich rolls and top with lettuce leaf. Spread remaining mustard on cooked fillets and place two cooked fillets on each roll.
- Place two slices of tomato on each sandwich. Top with remaining half of roll and serve immediately.


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When South African runner Caster Semenya won the gold in the 800 meters at the 2009 World Championship last August, onlookers asked a lot of questions.
Dr. John Sloop was one of those people.
He is a Professor of Communication Studies and the Association Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt. Monday night, he presented his research to a large crowd in Baxter 101 on the competing discourses of race and gender that emerged during the Caster Semenya affair as the 2010 Brigance Forum Lecturer.
"As I read the news surrounding this case I could not help but reflect on a phrase very well known to many educated loosely in the area of rhetorical and cultural studies in the last 20 years or so," he said. "To wit, Dewey's observation: Of all things communicating is the most wonderful. It is through this analysis of this discourse surrounding this case that we see most profoundly the reason which communication is in fact the most wonderful of things. It…creates."
Dr. Sloop explored the way the media, including interviews, news articles, and blog posts, mediated identity and gave voice of various discourses about gender and race in the wake of the questions about Simonyi's gender and reactions to them after her successful showing last year at the World Championship.
Semenya was known internationally for her dramatic improvements in speed, but, after her 2009 success, some international officials demanded a gender verification test be performed.
Sloop looked at the different discourses that emerged during this time.
He was drawn by the competing discourses about what he calls gender Some, like those from countries whose runner lost to Semenya, namely Australia, interpreted her speed and strength as a runner to be a marker inconsistent with conceptions of femaleness.
Semenya was found to have higher testosterone than the average female, and this too was used as evidence that she was male.
Even still, there were those who interpreted her family's and friend's description of her preferences for pants, for playing football, and her boyish features as evidence that she was male.
Sloop found it interesting that there were those who accepted these biological, visual, and cultural descriptions of Semenya, and still argued that she is a female.
Sloop shared other scholars' work on what he called the gray area of gender. He quoted a New York Times interview with a gender scholar show said, "Sex is so messy that in the end these doctors are not going to be able to run a test that will answer the question. Science can and will inform their decision, but they are going to have to decide which of the dozens characters of sex matters to them. Their decision will be like the consensus regarding how many points are awarded for a touch down or a field goal. It's going to be a sports decision not a natural one about how we choose the play the game of sex."
Sloop found the topic so interesting because there were so many discourses emerging from the situation, relating not just to gender, but race and nationalism. He argued the fact that this was an international competition and that Semenya won it is much of the reason these discourses emerged. He also believes there is more to come on Semenya.
"Given the very recent news that she has announced that Caster Semenya plans to resume her careen on the international circuit, we are at a moment in which we will be seeing gender done and undone," he said. "Despite having allowed Semenya to keep the gold medal and the flag money the IAAF never released the results of its tests. Simonyi's decision last week to push the IAAF to make a decision and how they have determined gender should" show how gender matters and how communication will shape how people talk about it.
"I was thrilled with the attendance, and I think it perhaps indicates the level of interest in questions around race and gender on campus and speaks to exciting things happening in classrooms," said Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Department Chair Jennifer Abbott, who organized the event. "I found the talk fascinating because it shows evidence that there is room for alternative ways of thinking about gender and discourses that are more disruptive of those gender norms."
Dr. Sloop will spend the rest of his time on campus meeting with faculty and students during meals and in Rhetoric and English classes.
UPDATE: The Rhetoric Department holds an annual dinner prior to the Brigance Forum each year. They honor students for their achievement. Gary James was named winner of the Joe O'Rourke Award as Rhetoric's Top Graduating Senior.


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Fromelles – "The worst 24hrs in Australia's entire history."
At 19:00 CET today, a ceremony will be held at the Commission's newest cemetery at Fromelles in northern France, to dedicate the newly erected headstones of 14 Australian soldiers who died 95 years ago, during the Battle of Fromelles.
This public event forms the latest chapter in the Fromelles story, which has seen the discovery of 250 Australian and British soldiers, who were killed on 19 July 1916.
Exactly one year ago, the last of those 250 soldiers was buried in a ceremony to dedicate Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. Over the past 12 months, evidence to help identify more of those buried at Fromelles has been successfully gathered, enabling the Australian and British governments to name 14 more Australian soldiers in April 2011, adding to those 96 Australian soldiers already identified by name. This painstaking work has been possible by using a combination of DNA testing and the careful analysis of historical, archaeological and forensic information
Tonight's ceremony will see family members of many of the 14 newly identified soldiers being given the chance to pay their respects to their loved ones. Also in attendance will be various dignitaries and the people of Fromelles, who have shown tremendous support over the past few years, to enable the project to reach such a successful conclusion
However, this is not the end of the Fromelles story, as any new evidence pertaining to any of those soldiers not yet identified will be examined at a yearly Board of Identification, which will be held once every year until 2014. More information can be found at www.fromelles.org (This text was taken directly from CWGC).
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Fromelles – The worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history
An attack in and around the villages of Fleurbaix and Fromelles was initially pencilled in as part of a widening of the Somme offensive. However, the successes on the Somme were not forthcoming and the relevance of an attack around Fromelles was dismissed by the Army's High Command on July 16th. However, Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Haking (GOC XI Corps), the local commander of the area was still keen to press ahead with the operation, despite no clear objective or plan.
The rough idea, hastily modified from the original plan, was to stop the Germans moving troops from this sector, south to re-enforce the Somme area. This attack would also be the first to involve the Australians. Their 5th Division had landed in France just days before, and would be thrown in right at the deep end. Assisted by the British 61st Division.
The attack would centre around a salient – nick named 'Sugar Loaf' due to its size and shape. Sugar Loaf was relatively small but commanded all the high ground in the area and had unrestricted views on all sides. Sugar Loaf was held by the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, and they had built a very solid and intricate defensive position. Taking the Loaf would not be easy, and would need some clever tactics, perhaps a surprise attack under darkness using a small number of elite troops.
After careful consideration, the clever chaps of the Army High Command decided that a huge artillery bombardment, followed by a full frontal mass infantry attack in broad daylight, would be the best way to go. The artillery bombardment would definitely smash the defenders to little pieces, and the infantry would be able to amble up the hill, cigars on the go, and take the positions.
Sound familiar? Unfortunately it seems that the lessons of July 1st were not fully heeded.
For seven odd hours before zero, the German lines were shelled to bits. The problem was, the maps that the British Officers had that showed the position of the German lines were out of date. The German had actually pulled back a few hundred yards to a new defensive line. Those shells, all 200,000 of them, fell on empty earth and reduced the landscape to a muddy bog, devoid of cover – which would prove disastrous.
After the bombardment the Australian and British troops advanced. Some elements of the Australian contingent actually made it to their first objective; however there were no Germans there, just mud and more mud. From their new positions the Germans made easy work of the attackers. With no cover, they didn't stand a chance.
The British and Australian troops who advanced on the right flank of the attack didn't even have the chance to reach their objective – they were literally cut to pieces by machine guns as they crossed No Man's Land.
Later in the evening, the British asked the Australian 15th Brigade to join up with a renewed assault on the German lines at 9pm. However, this attack was cancelled, but someone forgot to tell the Australians, who advanced again, alone, and suffered terribly.
During a German counter attack the Australian forces were split into two, each side becoming increasingly isolated and vulnerable to complete encirclement. The order to retreat at daybreak was given, however by the time the retreat had begun; those Germans had set up even more machine gun posts and inflicted devastating casualties on the retreating Australian troops.
It was not a good introduction to battle for the Australians. After a little over 24 hours of fighting, they had suffered 5,533 casualties (killed, wounded or prisoners). The British had fared slightly better, but still, 1,547 casualties were not insignificant. Not one inch of ground had been one. It was a complete disaster.
The Australian War Memorial describes the battle as "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history."
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Fellini's Rome
He was 18 and inexperienced — in all respects — when he came to Rome in 1938. For Federico Fellini, it was the beginning of a love affair that lasted more than 50 years.
Rome dazzled and indulged him. It fed the dreams he turned into such movies as La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Roma and others so imaginative that a word had to be coined to describe them: "Fellini-esque." He could hardly bear to be anywhere but Rome, even when Hollywood summoned him to receive an Oscar (four for best foreign film and an honorary award in 1993, just a few months before his death).
"When I was a boy, I wanted to travel and see the world," he told Charlotte Chandler, the author of reminiscences titled "I, Fellini," "but then I found Rome and found my world."
The city has been marking the 10th anniversary of the director's death this fall with "Romacord Fellini," a celebration through the end of the year that includes concerts, presentations and showings of the master's films. I went in October for the festivities and to see Rome through Fellini's eyes, to sit in his favorite cafes and wander past the places from his films that lodged in my imagination: the Colosseum at night, lighted up like a birthday cake, as in "Roma"; the Bernini colonnade at St. Peter's Square, where an errant young wife is reconciled with her husband at the end of "The White Sheik"; and, above all, Trevi Fountain, which some aficionados cannot conjure without envisioning Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni of "La Dolce Vita" wading in it.
To prepare for the trip, I spent most of my free nights for about a month watching videos: "La Strada" (1954), "Nights of Cabiria" (1957), "La Dolce Vita" (1960), "8 1/2" (1963), "Satyricon" (1969), "Roma" (1972), "Amarcord" (1974). Bizarre, vulgar, illogical, brimming with psychological disorder, Fellini's films don't submit easily to interpretation. Loving them is a visceral thing, a little like his love for Rome.
"FeFe," Roman taxi drivers used to call to him, using the nickname by which he was known around the city, "why don't you make pictures we can understand?" He says in "I, Fellini," "I answer them that is it because I tell the truth, and the truth is never clear, while lies are quickly understood by everyone."
It seems as though all of Rome knew Fellini. I met some of his old friends and colleagues almost effortlessly while I was here: Luigi Esposito, retired concierge at the Grand Hotel Plaza, who knew Fellini when he was sketching American GIs on the streets of the city during World War II to make money; and photographer Carlo Riccardi, who used to run into Fellini around town while taking pictures of people living the sweet life before Fellini's film taught us to call it "La Dolce Vita."
"He was a lovely man," Esposito said. "Even when he was young, he was something."
Fellini was tall and skinny when he came to Rome from his hometown of Rimini, too ashamed to wear swimming trunks at the beach in the nearby seaside town of Fregene, where he later bought a house and is remembered with an annual film festival.
In his imagination, he looked more like suave, sexy Mastroianni, whom he cast as the lead in such autobiographical films as "8 1/2." The director filled out and adopted accessories - tweed hat, brim turned down, and a coat, collar turned up - that created a look for him. As he aged, his eyebrows remained dark when his hair turned gray, and his bella figura increased in girth because he couldn't resist pasta and pastry.
I frequently felt his presence. Walking the Pincio, a park on the northeast side of Rome, I fancied I saw him and his wife of 50 years, actress Giulietta Masina, on a dignified afternoon passeggiata. At the window of a shoe store on Via della Croce near the Spanish Steps, I wondered what FeFe would think of a certain pair of boots.
This section of Rome, stretching from about the Spanish Steps to the Piazza del Popolo, was Fellini's neighborhood. He used to have coffee at Canova, a stylish cafe on the Piazza del Popolo, which he is said to have preferred to adjacent Caffè Rosati because Canova's sidewalk tables were shaded from the morning sun.
Sandwiched between these, one on each side of the Via del Corso, are the almost-twin Baroque churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Monte Santo, designed in the 1660s by Carlo Rainaldi. Santa Maria del Popolo is across the way, justly more renowned for two Caravaggios depicting the crucifixion of St. Peter and the conversion of St. Paul, intimate images that could serve to remind us that, unlike many directors, Fellini took his inspiration from painting, not literature.
The piazza at the churches' doorsteps is a terrific wide-open space, centered by an Egyptian obelisk, with steps leading up to a breathtaking overlook in the Pincio. The view of Rome from there is almost as good as in the opening scene of "La Dolce Vita," which follows a helicopter carrying a statue of Jesus Christ over the Eternal City, dangling from a cable as if it were a toy action figure.
An excellent sampling of Roman humanity rushes across the Piazza del Popolo in plain view of an espresso drinker at Canova. "The show [in Italy] can be so engrossing that many people spend most of their lives just looking at it," Luigi Barzini wrote in "The Italians." Fellini was a great people watcher and collector; it stimulated his thinking about the characters in his films. He often drew people who interested him on napkins and tablecloths - fat, ugly, grizzled, dwarfish, the odder the better and, if female, magnanimously endowed.
Along with filmmaking, pasta, the circus and dreams, women are what Fellini adored most. It was part Italian machismo, part rebellion against the Catholic faith in which he was raised and part mother love, as evidenced by his fascination with big breasts. Fellini's sexism struck me as more sexy than sexist, a quality often missed by tourists flocking to the chaste Vatican and Forum.
I felt it all around his neighborhood, where some of Rome's ritziest shops cluster. On Via del Babuino, near Fellini's apartment, a woman can buy a negligee to match her sheets, and on chic Via dei Condotti, running from the foot of the Spanish Steps to Via del Corso, there are costly gifts for lovers from La Perla, Max Mara, Dolce & Gabbana. In "I, Fellini," the director told author Chandler something that echoed in my mind about rich men taking their mistresses shopping there in the afternoon: "After that, they go to the 'nest', and the man is finished in time to arrive home for dinner with his wife and children."
Regardless of where he'd been, Fellini went home to elfish Giulietta, his soul mate and muse. Her performance in "La Strada" as the heart-rending clown Gelsomina, opposite a savage circus strongman played by Anthony Quinn, helped make Fellini famous. He loved the privacy of their life together. In his brief 1993 Oscar acceptance speech, he brought down the house by saying, "Thank you, dearest Giulietta. And please, stop crying." At the end of his funeral in Michelangelo's church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, near the Piazza della Repubblica, she did the same, waving and saying simply, "Ciao, amore." She died of cancer five months later.
They lived at No. 110 Via Margutta, an apartment marked by a simple plaque, on a pretty Roman lane close to the Piazza del Popolo. Artists and antiques dealers have long favored this street, which has a few restaurants and hotels but is otherwise residential.
Nearby, the Grand Hotel Plaza on Via del Corso, where I stayed for several nights, is another important stop for Fellini pilgrims. From his childhood, the director was in awe of grand hotels where beautiful rich people drank champagne. With its fabulously frescoed inner lobby and marble staircase guarded by a large stone lion, the Plaza evokes Fellini's grand hotel fantasies.
My room on the third floor was pure Italian baronial. There were prints of Rome on the walls, tassels, fringed lamps, a generous double bed and flowingly draped casement windows, all with the look of a beautiful Roman woman of a certain age who's barely hanging on to her looks.
When Fellini found fame, he could afford to entertain American producers here. "They spend their days sitting in their underpants in the biggest suites making long-distance calls," he says in "I, Fellini." " … When they receive you … they make no effort to put on anything more."
Fellini found shooting on location hard to control and had elaborate re-creations of famous Roman monuments — Trevi Fountain, for instance — created at Cinecittà, the studios on the southern outskirts of the city that became virtually synonymous with him. It isn't easy for Fellini fans to visit the places where key scenes from his movies were filmed.
But you can take the Metropolitana from Piazza del Popolo to Cinecittà, as he routinely did. He went there even when he wasn't making a picture to get inspiration and feed the studio's stray cats.
Riding the subway is a Fellini-esque trip in itself, evoking an unforgettable sequence in "Roma," the director's paean to the Eternal City, depicting the construction of the Metropolitana. In it, workers break through a wall underground and discover an ancient Roman house with breathtakingly intact wall frescoes, like those tourists see at the National Roman Museum in the Palazzo, that melt away before our horrified eyes.
In 30 minutes, you're at the front gate of Cinecittà, though you can't go in unless you've come to make a movie (a pity, because Fellini's office is still there, the colored markers he sketched with on the desk, his hat and scarf hanging from a peg on the wall). But for devotees, the 99-acre studio complex is still worth a visit. It looks like an Italian Fascist Art Deco college campus, overhung by funereal cypresses. It was built in the 1930s by Benito Mussolini and used for such big American movies as "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "Cleopatra" (1963) during the decade after the war when the paparazzi chased U.S. stars up and down the Via Veneto and Rome got the moniker "Hollywood on the Tiber."
Flush times didn't last, and Cinecittà moldered; eventually part of it was sold to developers of Cinecittà Due, a big shopping mall. But somewhere FeFe is smiling because in the decade after his death, Cinecittà came back to life, attracting American movie projects again, including Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" (due in early 2004).
Beyond Cinecittà, Canova, Via Margutta and the Grand Hotel Plaza, Fellini devotees must rely on the imagination to guide them. For summoning up "La Dolce Vita," a movie that fascinated and repulsed viewers, visits to Via Veneto and the Trevi Fountain are musts.
The Veneto fell on hard times in the 1980s and 1990s, but it's starting to look up, with swank idlers again filling Harry's Bar, Doney and the Café de Paris. And crowds never forsook the 18th century Baroque fountain, a looming white marble confection with water so clear and inviting some people can't resist plunging in à la Ekberg and Mastroianni.
Just off the little piazza, on Vicolo delle Bollette, is Al Moro, a trattoria favored by Fellini, known for its version of spaghetti alla carbonara. The director liked proprietor Mario Romagnoli's face, which appears in a large photograph in the front room, and cast him in "Satyricon."
One night, I took a taxi to Trastevere, on the west side of the Tiber River, to tour the International Museum of Film and Entertainment, a funny little place on Via Portuense way off the beaten track that tries its best to live up to its name. It is stuffed with Italian film, TV and theater memorabilia, including scripts and letters written by Fellini.
Then, in a flash of enlightenment, I knew what next to do to celebrate Fellini. I saw a movie at the Alcazar, one of the many theaters in Trastevere: Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers," about a youthful ménage a trois, which I found ultimately tiresome. It didn't matter, though. I was in a bigger, better motion picture: Fellini's Rome.
[Article by Susan Spano, LA Times Staff Writer
November 9, 2003]
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Halo: Reach marks the end of an era. No, we haven't seen the last of Master Chief and the Spartans. Microsoft will keep pumping out games in its world-beating shooter series for the forseeable future, but the Xbox maker will be doing it without Bungie Studios.
The developer that delivered the sleeper hit Halo: Combat Evolved has signed a deal with Activision, and Reach, which Microsoft will release Tuesday for Xbox 360, is Bungie's swan song in the series that made it famous.
No pressure or anything.
At first, Reach seems like a dire miscalculation. It's a prequel to the original Halo game, and Star Wars fans know that the urge to fill in the blanks can mar a beloved mythology.
Luckily, Bungie wisely left the stones of Master Chief's past unturned. Rather, Reach takes us to the titular planet where humanity lost a major battle to the alien Covenant. Much of the game is spent watching man's best-laid plans dashed to pieces.
Narrative storytelling has never been Bungie's strong suit. Yes, Halo's lore is deep and complex, elaborated upon in novels, comics, viral campaigns and alternate-reality games. But when you're playing Halo, the story relies on movement and action: Something bad happens. Go somewhere. Kill dudes. Push a button.
That predictable formula doesn't change much in Halo: Reach, except for the fact that now you're doing it with company. You're the latest member of Noble Team – a squad of drop-ship badasses straight out of Aliens. Sadly, none of your compatriots are half as lively as Hudson and Hicks.
Bungie tries. Kat, Noble 6's intelligence officer and estrogen-powered ass-kicker, is the most entertaining of your compatriots. But she and all the characters in Halo: Reach are one-note Johnnies, all swagger and no depth.
That's always been the problem with the Halo games: There's no soul beneath the helmets. Martin O'Donnell's soundtrack swells, pulling at the heartstrings and pumping us full of adrenaline. But all the blood spilled never quite feels like it comes from real flesh. According to Halo lore, zillions died on the human colony of Reach, but you never see anything remotely resembling a massacre. Just bloodstains on walls and the occasional slumped rag doll.
Still, the game's eight-hour campaign is a fun one. Halo's best moments have always taken place outdoors, so Reach is right to get you out of the library and into the wide-open plains, where players can treat each new battlefield like a sandbox. Pick your weapon, point of entry and first foe, and the rest plays out in a heated, frenzied fashion that few other shooters have been able to replicate.
Halo's trademark vehicular sequences are the campaign's highlights, especially when Noble Team takes to the skies and beyond. An airborne chopper assault on occupied skyscrapers exemplifies the ease with which Bungie has always managed to deliver a sense of grand scale. Ditto an all-too-brief excursion to outer space, the series' first attempt at dogfights.
Still Master of Multiplayer —————————
Halo games have always been about multiplayer. The reason we're still talking about Halo is because the Xbox game introduced LAN culture to the dorm room, consistently delivering some of the best death matches you can play from your couch.
And while young turks like Modern Warfare have been chipping away at Halo's base by injecting role-play progression to online scrums, Halo has remained an innovator. Reach brims with features that few other console games deliver.
The game's map-making and movie-recording features, first introduced in Halo 3, remain a marvel that no other game can touch. The cooperative Firefight mode returns, with an endless array of options that let players create their own half-hour challenges, then take them on with friends. And players gain experience as they play, earning the ability to unlock (purely aesthetic) armor upgrades.
Halo: Reach lives or dies by its team battles and free-for-alls. Not surprisingly, they're still awesome. A handful of notable new ways to fight, including objective-oriented battles that take a cue from the Battlefield games, inject fresh oxygen to multiplayer.
The extra character abilities seem like nods to the games that have dared to challenge Master Chief's dominance since 2001. Online and throughout the campaign, players can nab upgrades that juice their Spartan with jet packs, temporary invulnerability, stealth camo and the ability to sprint – a supposed superpower that really should have been in Master Chief's arsenal since Day 1.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but after playing May's Halo: Reach beta, I feel like a bit of the game's freshness has been spoiled. Many pivotal locations in the campaign became well-trod territory during the test. Not to mention the fact that these familiar places remind me that just a year ago we were playing Halo 3: ODST.
There used to be a big difference between annual, flogged-to-death franchises and event games like Halo, but that line is blurring. And Reach takes a couple of chinks in its armor for retreading ground.
The final, bittersweet moments of the game's campaign suggest that Bungie has put much thought into the dilemma: Can you have too much of a good thing?
That question is no longer Bungie's to answer. In its stead, I'll share my two cR: It's starting to look like it.
WIRED Amazing multiplayer, new combat-oriented character customizations, killer space dogfights.
TIRED Weak plot and characters, feels similar to last year's Halo.
$60, Microsoft
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A source confirms to PEOPLE that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Camille Grammer, 43, and her ex-husband Kelsey, 57, have finally reached an amicable settlement in the case involving their two young children Mason and Jude.
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LOS ANGELES -- Ed Shaughnessy, the jazz drummer who for nearly three decades anchored the rhythm section of Doc Severinsen's "Tonight Show" band, has died in Southern California. He was 84.
William Selditz, a close family friend, told the Los Angeles Times that Shaughnessy had a heart attack Friday at his home in Calabasas, outside Los Angeles.
The Jersey City native began his jazz career as a teenager, playing with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Count Basie. He replaced Buddy Rich in Tommy Dorsey's band.
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The Steelers' roots in Pittsburgh date back to July 8, 1933 when they were founded under the name Pittsburgh Pirates by Arthur Joseph Rooney. They were a member of the Eastern Division of the 10-team NFL, five of which remain: Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago (Arizona) Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and New York Giants.
The Steelers were not always the thriving team that they are today, however. In their first seven seasons, the Pittsburgh Steelers won only 22 games. Professional football just wasn't a priority in Pittsburgh, where baseball and college football were much more popular, so Art Rooney often took the Steelers away from their home at Forbes Field, and on the road to cities such as Johnstown, PA; Youngstown, OH; and New Orleans, LA. Through it all, Rooney never faltered in his resolve to make pro football successful in Pittsburgh.
In 1938, Rooney offered Colorado All-American Byron "Whizzer" White a $15,800 contract, making him the NFL's first 'big money' player. Two years later, in an attempt to generate some fan support and involvement, the football team changed its name to the Pittsburgh Steelers, in recognition of Pittsburgh's proud steel heritage. Yet it still took two more years before the Steelers, thanks to rookie Bill Dudley who led the NFL in rushing, enjoyed their first winning season.
The following years saw the Pittsburgh Steelers merged with the Philadelphia Eagles "Steagles" (1943) and Cardinals "Card-Pitt" (1944) as football rosters became depleted by World War II. The Steelers first chance at a division title came in 1947 under coach Jock Sutherland as the Pittsburgh Steelers finished in a tie for first place in the NFL's Eastern Division with the Philadelphia Eagles, who beat the Steelers in a playoff game 21-0. From 1957 to 1963, the Steelers, led by quarterback Bobby Layne, defensive tackle Ernie Stautner and running back John Henry Johnson, were again division contenders but continued to come up short. The 'dynasty years' of the Pittsburgh Steelers were still a decade away.
Two significant changes took place in 1970, when the Pittsburgh Steelers, under the leadership of coach Chuck Noll, moved from the NFL to the AFC Central with the merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, and also moved into their new home at Three Rivers Stadium, named after the three rivers (Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers) that converge at downtown Pittsburgh. Previously, the Steelers had played home games at both Forbes Field and Pitt Stadium (home of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers) from 1958-63 and, exclusively at Pitt Stadium from 1964-69.
Many think Three Rivers Stadium brought good luck, as the Pittsburgh Steelers' first-ever division title came in 1972 with an 11-3 record. In the first playoff game at Three Rivers, the Steelers defeated the Oakland Raiders 13-7 and advanced to the AFC Championship Game (which they later lost) with Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception," perhaps the most famous play in NFL history, during the final minute of the game.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, led by Hall of Famers Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mel Blount, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert and Jack Ham, again reached the playoffs in 1973, winning the Super Bowl the next two seasons. After missing another chance at the Super Bowl with playoff losses in 1976 and 1977, the Steelers won the Super Bowl again in 1978 and 1979, becoming the first team in NFL history to win four Super Bowls and the only team to win back-to-back Super Bowls twice. With six consecutive AFC Central championships, eight straight years of playoff appearances, and four Super Bowl championships, the Steelers were affectionately dubbed as the "Team of the Decade" for the 1970s.
The newest chapter of Steelers history began in June of 1998 with the official ground-breaking for Heinz Field, the new 64,450-seat home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Panthers. The gates to Heinz Field were officially opened in August of 2001 for seasons of thrills and excitement that will provide a lifetime of memories for generations of football fans. Beyond the South Plaza, Heinz Field's horseshoe shape allows for a beautiful view of the city's unique skyline and the fountain at the Point. Dan Rooney, son of Steelers founder Art Rooney, looks at Heinz Field as the Steelers' "thank you" to the loyal fans who made them one of the best football franchises in history - a beautiful, intimate home where "every seat is a good football seat."
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and realize you were duped by a satirical website. Turns out Bill Murray is NOT an enemy of the Christian right. But it seemed so plausible! He's so laconic and subversive! Surely there are wingnuts who dislike him! LET'S GO!
PLAIN JANE – 9:00PM (the CW) New show! Expert Louise Roe gives a bunch of gals makeovers and fashion tips so that they can reveal their true feelings to guys they have crushes on. Oh, man. That sounds like a recipe for rejection and sheer ANGUISH. I can't wait. ANTICIPATION: BACKFIRE!
TOP CHEF – 9:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) This season is set in DC, so you knew it was only a matter of time before the show forced the contestants to make food for annoying political pundits. Tonight, creepy Angelo and the gang will cook for a judging panel that includes Luke Russert (he knows what the hip young voters think!) and Joe Scarborough (he used to be conservative! I think!). Hopefully, tonight's challenge will be one that, unlike last time, doesn't unnecessarily spare dopes like Stephen from getting eliminated. Seriously, that guy is dead weight. How much longer are they gonna let him and Cocaine Lady hang around? I dislike challenges that somehow involve gamesmanship and lessen the importance of the food. MAKE IT ABOUT THE FOOD. I don't care about strategy.
Also, I'm starting to think Kenny may get the boot sooner rather than later. For all his bluster and supposed advanced skill, the guy sure has been in the bottom a lot, and seems more interested in showing off technique than making, you know, good food. WHERE'S THE SOUL, MAN? Also, Ed and Tiffany might hook up tonight. I really hope it isn't caught on film. ANTICIPATION: SPICY!
WORK OF ART – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) The first season of this show is winding down, and it looks like it's gonna probably be Miles or Nicole taking the title at the end. Last week, Nicole made a stack of Styrofoam trays that the judges went nutso over. I didn't get it. It looked like hanging garbage. They ultimately chose a PILE of garbage Peregrin made (seriously, it looked like a pile of garbage). So now you know how to win this show: make sure anything you make looks like garbage. It's so chaotic and messy, like life! ANTICIPATION: GARBAGE!
MAN VS. FOOD – 9:00PM (Travel Channel) Why must food be the enemy? Food is your friend. It's delicious and sometimes it has chocolate. You needn't see it as an adversary. Tonight, Adam tries to eat 7 lbs. of seafood, 7.5 lbs. of pasta, and 2.5 gallons of ice cream. Shouldn't this show be called "Man vs. Toilet"? ANTICIPATION: WHAT SMELLS?
TOSH.0 – 10:30PM (Comedy Central) This show beats Stewart and Colbert in the ratings. Hmmm, I wonder why. Is it because it doesn't have boring interviews? Yep, that's pretty much the golden key right there. ANTICIPATION: NO BORING INTERVIEWS!
Wednesday Watch List: Plain Women! Scarborough Country! Food!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and realize you were duped by a satirical website. Turns out Bill Murray is NOT an enemy of the Christian right. But it seemed so plausible! He's so laconic and subversive! Surely there are wingnuts who dislike him! LET'S GO!


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this yule i made some masks for a winter solstice ritual celebrating the return of the sun. i'm still a novice at mask making, but i felt much more confident with the process this time. i'm definitely pleased with the results and impressed that these seemed to fit well even though i made them without measuring or molding the faces of the people that wore them. that is the benefit of using model magic i think. it remains slightly flexible even after it's cured.
here's the sun god mask ready to dry. i sculpted these both out of crayola model magic, just like the henry killinger mask. again, it's hard to get a smooth surface (as is obvious here. it looks like the sun god has some severe acne scars ;) i didn't care too much this time because i knew i was going to add glitter and several coats of varnish.
the masks were built on top of some styrofoam wig stands i picked up at a thrift store for cheap. i covered them with aluminum foil to prevent the clay from sticking to the foam.
unfortunately i didn't take any in-process shots of building the rest of the god mask, but here he is. the mask is coated in a couple different types of glitter. i used mod podge to glue it on. there's finer gold around his eyes and mouth, coarser for the rest of the face. to create the rays i cut apart a bunch of super glittery "christmas floral" stems in varying colors i found at the craft store. he's almost a sun green man in that way. the rays are all hot glued on. (i love my high temp hot glue gun!)
here's the moon goddess after her glitter treatment.
here are two pics of me wearing the completed masks. i wanted to show off how the eyes look through them since the photos of the people in the ritual don't show that. i was going to cover the eye holes with black see through fabric, but decided against it. i really like seeing the eyes.
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It was just last week that I had one of those experiences that I would normally have broken a sprint record trying to get away from. It was one that began with a passage through an eerie green glow into a world inhabited by those that surely were not of this world, a passage that was accompanied by cries and screams that are certain to send shivers down one's spine, and one that leads to places I would not be brave enough to venture in alone. It is past a funeral parlour that I stumble upon a wedding, not one accompanied by the gaiety of celebration but by the howls of fear of the reluctant bride, Ah Ling, who is forced inot a union with a dead man – a ghost marriage.
The marriage is one that takes one horrible twist after another, Ah Ling finds herself pregnant with the child of her ghost husband and goes insane … and that I was to discover is where the haunting journey begins.
The haunting journey was of course one that was not real, or even in a nightmare (I wouldn't have been brave enough to live through or even sleep through it). It was part of a combined effort between Sentosa 4D Magix and Singapore Cable Car to bring what is a really scary Halloween themed trail, Deadly Ever After. The 288 metre trail is one that combines Chinese superstitions with other elements of Asian spooky tales weaved into a tale of fate and vengeance, taking one through places such as a graveyard and even a haunted hospital.
The trail is one that has been in the works since March this year – the efforts of 10 students from the Singapore Polytechnic's School of Architecture and the Built Environment and has already had two runs on 19 and 20 October 2012. For anyone who is brave enough, this weekend sees the last opportunity to have the experience – the trail is open on 26, 27 and 28 October from 7 to 11 pm. Entry into Deadly Ever After costs $17 and is not recommended for children under 13. There is also an option of a $28 Premium Package (which can be purchased from the Harbourfront Tower 2 Cable Car ticketing counter) which includes a 1 way Singapore Cable Car ride and admission to the trail.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.98 no.8 Cape Town Ago. 2008
Task shifting in the public health sector - what is the evidence?
Charles Shey Wiysonge; Idowu Dele Araoyinbo
South African Cochrane Centre; South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town. email@example.com
To the Editor: We read your editorial of May 20081 on task shifting in the public sector with great interest. With the chronic shortage of health professionals in the public health sector in South Africa and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, task shifting is a very attractive strategy. This is especially true in the context of HIV/AIDS, which poses a significant threat to social security and food supplies in sub-Saharan Africa. While the rational use of effective antiretroviral (ARV) medication has changed the course of the disease in well-resourced countries, the same is not true for resource-poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where a critical shortage of skilled health workers has limited the provision of life-saving ARV drugs to a large proportion of those who need them.2 However, moving specific tasks from highly specialised health workers to less specialised ones in our resource-poor health care systems should be based on solid scientific evidence.3
We searched Medline, EMBASE and The Cochrane Library, and found three systematic reviews that assessed the effectiveness of doctor-nurse substitution in the provision of care at the primary level.4-6 These reviews synthesised currently available randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled before-and-after studies, and found that unselected patients (coming to either primary care facilities or emergency departments) were more satisfied with care from a nurse than from a doctor; but there were no appreciable differences between doctors and nurses in patient health outcomes, the care process, resource utilisation or cost. These systematic reviews provide the scientific basis for task shifting at the primary care level. However, the studies included in these systematic reviews were conducted in high-income countries in Western Europe and North America and did not provide good-quality evidence of the economic results of substituting nurses for doctors. While systematic reviews of the effects of interventions are valuable for making good health care decisions, they are not sufficient. Policymakers who wish to institute programmes for moving the tasks of highly qualified workers to those with shorter training would need to consider local conditions, needs, values, costs and the availability of resources. Such changes to the delivery of care should be preceded (or accompanied) by standardised protocols, appropriate training, regular supportive supervision, and meaningful career development opportunities. However, given the complexity of ARV drugs and the highly specialised nature of care for HIV/AIDS patients, the need exists for a systematic review of the evidence for the effectiveness of nurse-led management of HIV/AIDS patients.7 Should the evidence be lacking, policymakers need to consider programmatic shifts in HIV/AIDS care to be evaluated in the context of RCTs.
1. Niekerk JPdeV. Task shifting or power shedding? S Afr Med J 2008; 98: 327. [ Links ]
2. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF. Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector: Progress Report 2008. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008. [ Links ]
3. Wiysonge CS, Volmink J. Strengthening research capacity. Lancet 2002; 359: 713. [ Links ]
4. Horrocks S, Anderson E, Salisbury C. Systematic review of whether nurse practitioners working in primary care can provide equivalent care to doctors. BMJ 2002; 324: 819-823. [ Links ]
5. Laurant M, Reeves D, Hermens R, Braspenning J, Grol R, Sibbald B. Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2005(2): CD001271. [ Links ]
6. Carter AJ, Chochinov AH. A systematic review of the impact of nurse practitioners on cost, quality of care, satisfaction and wait times in the emergency department. CJEM 2007; 9: 286-295. [ Links ]
7. Araoyinbo ID, Bateganya MH. Substitution of nurses for doctors in managing HIV/AIDS antiretroviral therapy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2008 (in press). [ Links ]


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The 27-year-old Joslin split the 2011-12 season between the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes and the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL. He appeared in 44 games, collecting four points and 35 penalty minutes with Carolina and three assists in four games with Charlotte. The Richmond Hill, Ont., native has 16 NHL points (4-12-16) in 114 career games. He was originally drafted 149th overall by the San Jose Sharks in the fifth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
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As the 2014 election cycle takes shape, no clear leader has broken out in the Republican race to take on Democrat Bruce Braley in the fall.
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Sometime around midnight, temps across KC were in the single digits. This doesn't surprise me, as even on my commute yesterday, I watched as temps fell from 25 degrees to 20 while I was en route. That's a lot of degrees to lose in a short period of time. Clouds moved in during the wee hours and got things to a comparatively balmy 23 degrees by the time I started my ride to the bus. I'd call a 20 degree warm-up in a six-hour span a heat wave.
It was a hammer-fest today, with a little bit of the old off-road. As I approached the Maul, I eschewed the road in favor of the snow-covered knoll. I took it at speed, too, which was fun and slightly scary. It's only about 60 feet long, with maybe a 10 or 15 foot drop. It's not that steep, but there are mounds of plow-piled snow and a curb with icy pavement awaiting me at the base. I barreled through the obstacles, which at least makes me feel like I'm using my Goat to some of its potential.
There's a chance I'll be working from home sometime this weekend, and then I've got Monday off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Since I'm in the financial industry, Stock Market closures are used to mark paid holidays at the company I work for. I'll probably still be out at the Monday night ride. If you don't hear from me until then, you know why. I'm probably going to take it easy this weekend, but as ambivalent and A.D.D.-prone as I tend to be, it's hard to know what's going to happen.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Heat Wave! But it's still in the 20s...
Sometime around midnight, temps across KC were in the single digits. This doesn't surprise me, as even on my commute yesterday, I watched as temps fell from 25 degrees to 20 while I was en route. That's a lot of degrees to lose in a short period of time. Clouds moved in during the wee hours and got things to a comparatively balmy 23 degrees by the time I started my ride to the bus. I'd call a 20 degree warm-up in a six-hour span a heat wave.
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- Jon said...
Same thing here: 17 degrees as I left the house this morning, compared to 5, yesterday.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity...
- January 18, 2008 8:35 AM
- dvicci said...
But with the 70% humidity (as of this writing), it's hard to call it a dry heat.
along the lines of barreling through obstacles, I look forward to taking the panniers and racks off the Kona and putting her back where she belongs... it's been a long time since I've done any trail riding.
Monday is a holiday. Use that time to build up a few muscle fibers! It's sedentary all weekend for me, but come Monday, I'll be up early for a cold trek out to Lawrence and back... care to join me?
- January 18, 2008 11:08 AM
- Noah said...
Tempting, that.
My wife works graveyards so she'll have all of Monday off. It really depends on what she has planned and if I can get our discombobulated apartment back in some semblance of order before then. I've been slackin' off.
If I do ride to Larry town with ya, I will scratch Monday night off of my list.
I do have the PHP User Group meeting tomorrow, though. I might ride to that. It's at 135th and Quivira and I'm ar 87th and Quivira. It's a nice ride, but mid-day on Quivira often implies a bit of sidewalk riding (mostly the uphill death slogs near I-435). Maybe I'll get more riding in than I'd thought.
- January 18, 2008 11:57 AM
- dvicci said...
Just let me know, you're more than welcome (and company always makes rides go quicker and easier).
The route I'll take is here , minus the Clinton Dam detour. I drive to Olathe to start, if only b/c I haven't looked for a good way to get to Lawrence from my front door, and I'm not ready for the extra miles this year yet. Alternatively, there's this route, which is just as good, and slightly more hilly in spots.
I'd like to get on the saddle around 10 at the latest. Too much later and darkness creeps in towards the end of the ride.
Just let me know if you're in.
- January 18, 2008 12:19 PM
- Apertome said...
I hope you enjoy your three-day weekend. Ride a few extra miles on my behalf.
- January 18, 2008 2:38 PM
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