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According to a new report, Taylor Armstrong's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills castmates are "disgusted" with her decision to release a tell-all book just months after the tragic suicide of husband Russell Armstrong.
A source tells the Hollywood Life blog that Taylor's costars think it's "horrible" that she's writing her book so soon after Russell's passing.
"When Taylor announced she was going to write a book about her supposed abusive relationship with her husband everyone thought it was just disgusting," says the source. "It's just too soon and the cast just thinks this speaks volumes about who Taylor is at heart."
As for Taylor, she has stated in the past that she is writing the memoir, titled Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss and Finding the Courage Within, to help other women in abusive relationships. In fact, in a statement given to ABC news today, Taylor states the only reason she's releasing her book now is because Russell is no longer here, citing she would have been too scared to do so if he was still alive.
"I wish I could have ben able to tell my story before now… But, until my husband Russell's suicide, I didn't feel safe to bring my story into the light, to help all battered and abused women, and men, and aid them in their struggle," says Taylor.
Taylor continues, "I discussed my book Monday night for the first time on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live. The overwhelming response from viewers and their outpourings of support has been gratifying. From the bottom of my heart, I believe if my book can help others find the courage to deal with the pain and fear of their abusive relationships, I will have made a real difference in their lives."
All righty. Moving on to Kim Richards, who is currently getting help in rehab. A source tells PEOPLE that Kim, 47, is seeking treatment for alcohol abuse and "other problems."
"Kim has been to rehab more than once before," says the source, "but every time is a new time, and everyone just hopes this sticks and that she gets the help she needs. It's serious."
The source who reveals Kim has been "erratic" also adds that she is no longer living with her boyfriend Ken Blumenfeld and that she was pretty much homeless before rehab.
"He's not in the picture. No one really knows what the deal was with them, but Kim doesn't live with Ken," the source says. "She's basically homeless, staying with various friends. She doesn't have a home base. It's not unusual for people to not hear from her for long stretches of time. It's been that way for years."
Kim's family is, however, "relieved she's getting help," states the source. "She has lots of issues. She needs help."
The Rumor Fix blog adds that Kim is at the Betty Ford Center near Palm Springs. She will reportedly be in the program for 30 days at a cost of $27,900. Could Bravo be footing the bill? After all, it was reported this week that the network forced Kim to get help.
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Now, you may have noticed the CULV name is cumbersome (and we've sort of taken to pronouncing it as "Cool-V"), we were told that the reason is because they couldn't get a marketing name out in time before the first few products went to retail.
Trivia aside, the CULV processor platform is aimed at the niche between the netbooks and normal notebooks. It offers more mobility via low voltage processors thus increasing battery uptime, but retains much of the performance and form factor of standard notebooks, albeit in a much slimmer and lighter design.
Price-wise, the CULV notebooks tend to be priced around the same as normal notebooks, but much lesser than business class ultralights. So while they cost more than a netbook, the performance and mobility of the CULV processor based notebooks will be enough to justify the price difference.
For this shootout, we've taken six 13-inch Intel CULV processor based models from Acer, Dell, HP, LG, MSI and Toshiba while also adding on the Lenovo IdeaPad U350 from our previous review. This should give a good indication of which notebook to get as all of them feature different price points and designs to suit the different tastes of consumers.
Note however, that some of the notebooks sport the more recent variants of the Intel CULV processors unlike some of the earlier notebook models. This discrepancy is to be expected because of the uneven adoption rate as pointed above. While this would inevitably bring about some differences in results, it shouldn't affect things too much and besides, direct comparisons in the notebooks world are difficult in the first place. As such, each is a unique contender as chosen from the retail scene at the point of comparison and it's really up to them to impress upon us and you, the consumers. Let's meet the contenders, shall we?
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Interview date: 06/02/2008
Run date: 06/25/2008
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Chances are, you haven't heard of New York indie dance rockers We Are Scientists, which is a downright shame because they are awesome. If you live in England, however, you're quite familiar with them because the band, much like the Pixies before them, are far more successful on the other side of the pond than they are in their homeland. That could soon change, now that the band has a new home at Astralwerks Records and a fab new record, Brain Thrust Mastery. Bullz-Eye caught up with "singing guitarist" Keith Murray to discuss the factual accuracy of the band's press releases, the stigma of being described as a power pop band, and kitties.
Keith Murray: How ya doin', Dave?
Bullz-Eye: Good, how are you?
KM: I'm all right.
BE: First off, I love the new record.
KM: Cool, thank you!
BE: But first things first: I would just like to say that I think With Love and Squalor has one of the greatest album covers of all time.
KM: Ha ha ha! Thanks.
BE: I noticed you went in a decidedly different direction with the new album.
KM: Yeah, we did. The cover for With Love and Squalor was actually a very last-minute decision. We had taken those photos before we were even signed; we had just decided that that would be a funny promo shot for us to take. We had taken those pictures in my apartment, with a friend of Chris' (Cain, bassist) taking the pictures, and we never used them. We had a guy who was working on the cover that we had in mind for With Love and Squalor, and about three days before the deadline, he told us he wasn't going to meet the deadline and couldn't do it. We're all like, "My God, what are we going to do?" At the last minute, we thought, "Use the cat photos! We have the cat photos, just use 'em!" And ultimately, it worked out very well.
BE: On your first album, it appeared that you only put to tape what the three of you could reproduce live.
KM: Right.
BE: Now you lose a member of the band [drummer Michael Tapper], and make a record that sounds absolutely huge. What was your approach to making the new album?
KM: Um, the philosophy behind the three men, three instruments thing on With Love and Squalor was largely a function of being a band who, when we wrote those songs, was only playing live shows. We weren't, by any stretch of the imagination, a recording band. So we would write the songs to maximize the efficacy of three guys playing in a room, trying to fill as much space with those three instruments as possible. And I like that record a lot, and it certainly served us very well, but I do feel like, because we were writing those songs to be [played] live, they all tended to be up-tempo, dance-y rock songs. So I think on this one, we were much more conscious of wanting to make a record that felt like it was written to be an album, and it would have peaks and valleys of intensity. So that was something we were definitely keeping in mind, and we also felt like there was no reason to limit ourselves to simply what we can reproduce live. And initially, our theory was that we were going to [make] this record and then figure out how to play it live. As it turns out, we couldn't reproduce it live without having a fourth guy, so we added our friend Max Hart, who plays keyboards with us live now.
BE: Why did Michael decide to retire?
KM: There were many, many reasons. Initially, of all of us, he was the most worn out by all of the touring we did for the last record. Afterward, he moved to L.A., and he built…a life. So while we were working on the record in New York, he was not really around very much, and I think by the time the record was being recorded, he didn't really feel much attachment to it. And he wasn't very excited about going back on tour again anyway. So it was more of a bowing out than raging against it, as Zach de la Rocha might put it.
BE: Is there a fan of the Kids in the Hall in the band? [Note: the riff in "Let's See It" is eerily similar to the Kids' theme song.]
KM: (laughs) I would say – I think I know where this is going – I would say not a diehard fan. Certainly not a big enough fan that an homage [to the group] might be intentionally implanted. (laughs) It was really funny, someone mentioned that to me, maybe two months ago, and I was like, "What the hell are you talking about?" [Pause, pretending that someone is playing him the Kids in the Hall theme song] "Ooooooohhhh. Yeah, all right, okay. Fair enough"
BE: Let's talk about "Chick Lit." The middle break sounds like it's straight from a Curve record. Are you fans of theirs?
KM: We're familiar with Curve. I don't actually own any Curve records, sadly.
BE: I own one of their singles, and that is exactly who I thought of when I heard it.
KM: Ha ha, really? What's the song?
BE: "Chinese Burn."
KM: Ha. I'll check it out.
BE: The vocals on the new album, and the harmonies in particular, are striking in comparison to the first album. You sound much more confident this time around.
KM: (pause) Uh, yeah...it wasn't a decision that the vocals this time would deliver more confidence. I think two years of singing every day has probably made me a lot more comfortable singing. I definitely do now feel like I know exactly what my voice is going to be doing at any time, when before there may have been some gray areas. I think that is simply a matter of having practiced a lot more by playing shows. But that is funny that with the last record, we had been playing some of those songs over a year by the time we had actually recorded them, so you would think that the confidence in the vocals would have been there. Yeah, I think in general, when we were making this record, we were really excited about it. We had figured out essentially what we wanted to do with it, but the excitement of invention was still very fresh, and I think that plays itself out in the performances.
BE: I'm not sure how you're going to react to this, but I have to say it.
KM: (laughs)
BE: I hear a strong power pop element to this album. How do you feel about that description? Is that something you resist, or embrace?
KM: Uhhhhh, I will say as a thinking music lover, the phrase "power pop" does make my skin crawl, but I know what you're referring to. The aspect of the album that has that sensibility to it is intentionally so. Things like "Impatience," we tried to straddle the line between an Eno and…I guess I wouldn't say we were straddling the line between somebody and Fountains of Wayne, for example. But I could see how it could veer towards that. I think we were interested in just simplifying things a little, and making the arrangements less of the hook and focus more on the actual hooks of the song, which is a very power pop thing to do.
BE: Thank you for not wanting to reach through the phone and throttle me for that.
KM: (joking) Oh, I do want to reach through the phone and throttle you!
BE: I understand that power pop equals commercial death, so you probably don't want those words anywhere in this interview.
KM: (laughs) Hey, you gotta call it like you see it.
BE: You guys clearly take some creative license with your press releases – and I appreciate that – but a lot of it, while outrageous, also seems plausible. Where does the part about the $1.4 million in lottery winnings fall on that scale?
KM: Sadly, we earned that money the hard way, through record receipts. I'm just kidding, nobody has $1.4 million. Well, people in the world do, just nobody I know. It did dawn on me recently how…our press release was crafted that way because we were reading the standard press release that was being drawn up for us, and it was incredibly boring, and tedious, and painful for us to look at. So we wrote that one just because we thought it would be a little bit more entertaining. But now it's beginning to dawn on me that it's entirely unhelpful to journalists who are trying to use that press release to glean information to improve their article. So it probably backfired by making journalists hate us for doing that.
BE: It was actually a very entertaining read, but I will admit it does make me wonder what percentage of your responses to my questions are complete and outright lies.
KM: (laughs) I can't remember what responses I've given so far, but I feel very honest right now.
BE: I noticed that you jumped from Virgin to Astralwerks. Is that just a matter of the mother ship shuffling contracts to various subsidiaries, or did you actually have to start from scratch with them?
KM: It was definitely just a contract shift. The big move was that back in September, we moved the general contract to Virgin UK, so now they run everything and Astralwerks does it over here. But our flagship label these days is Virgin UK. Because our success is generally focused in Europe, it made less sense to Virgin US, and us, to stay with them. We were asking if we could move to Astralwerks, because they seem to appreciate the indie bands that they have. They were taking bands that were doing well on Virgin UK and releasing their records over here, with not necessarily an eye for selling millions and millions of records, but getting those bands to the people that will probably be listening to them. As opposed to a huge label trying to get play on "Grey's Anatomy" or something like that.
BE: You actually led into my next question. You have a loyal following in England. What the hell is wrong with the Americans?
KM: Ha ha ha! I think, first of all, that we're bigger in England just because of the national tastes of England, which align a little more to what we're doing than general commercial American tastes. Given the cultural climate in general, that's still sort of a niche market in the States, whereas in the UK, we get played on their A lists on their national radio, and we get played on MTV all the time. So I think just the cultural tenor there is a little different and slightly more accommodating to large-scale success. In terms of what's wrong with Americans: nothing. We do better than I had any reason to suspect we'd do in the States, but we're still just an indie band here, and over there, we're a rock radio band.
BE: Back to Astralwerks for a second. Time to suck up to your new label. Who is your favorite Astralwerks band, past or present?
KM: I really am feeling Hot Chip these days. Astralwerks really does have a legitimately sweet label, and there is consistency to the bands on their roster, which is nice. You believe that someone is picking these bands because they actually like them, whereas if you looked at Virgin's roster before, clearly somebody there liked us enough to sign us, but…either somebody has the most wonderfully eclectic musical tastes of all time, or they just sort of…sign bands. But yeah, Astralwerks seems to have a grander scheme in mind.
BE: They are to me what Sire Records used to be when I was growing up. Knowing that a band was signed to Sire – or in this case, Astralwerks – you had an idea of what they were all about.
KM: Yeah, exactly, exactly. I haven't actually even been to the office yet and met most of the people that work there, because we've been in England since January, and the contract shift just happened in March. I'm actually going [to Astralwerks' office] tomorrow to meet all those people, but from what I've seen, they seem pretty awesome.
BE: We're doing a piece on rock and roll fantasy bands. A bunch of the guys on the staff pick their favorite musicians to form one kickass band. If you could have any four musicians, dead or alive, to round out We Are Scientists, who would they be?
KM: They have to be in We Are Scientists?
BE: Or backing you up in any band, if you could have four musicians…
KM: I could be in a band with these guys.
BE: Sure. Or pick four people to form their own band.
KM: All right. (pause) Oh, man.
BE: We actually held a draft, just to make sure no one picked the same person twice.
KM: (laughs) I'd like Lou Reed on vocals, I'd like Kevin Shields on guitar…oh, crap, let's see…maybe Eno batting cleanup, doing keyboards and stuff like that.
BE: Who's your drummer?
KM: I'm trying to think of someone with very simple, tasteful…I'd like to go with Matt Helders, the guy from Arctic Monkeys, but I don't think he'd quite fit in with these guys. (pause) Drummers are hard. Hell, I'm just gonna go with Mo Tucker. I know that Velvet Underground is over-represented in there.
BE: When you mentioned simple, that was the first name that came to my head.
KM: Yeah, Mo Tucker owns simplicity.
BE: So what does the rest of your year look like?
KM: We're going back to the UK this weekend, because our next single, "Chick Lit," comes out on Monday. So we're going to do the promotional stuff, like in-store [shows], and radio shows, and then summer festivals throughout the summer, cut up by two brief American tours. Then hopefully we're going to do a longer American tour in the autumn. Oh, we're doing an R.E.M. tour, that'll be in Europe at the beginning of October, I think. I don't know, there's a lot of stuff in autumn that's in flux. But right now, it's just European festivals going into the horizon.
BE: Very cool. Well, I appreciate you taking the time to talk with us.
KM: Yeah, sure! My pleasure.
BE: I really just wanted to ask you about the kitties.
KM: (chuckles) Man, you shouldn't have made that your first question. The tedium must have been killing you after a while.
BE: Not at all. Best of luck with the new record.
KM: Thanks, man!
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July 8, 2010 -- The rate of decline of high school smokers has leveled off or slowed after many years of progress, and more vigorous efforts are needed to reverse this "discouraging" finding, the CDC says in a new report.
Across all racial and ethnic groups, as well as among males and females, there has been either a slowing or leveling off of the rate of decline, study researcher Terry Pechacek, PhD, associate director of CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, tells WebMD.
Because of this slowing trend, "thousands of youths are developing an addiction from which one in three are going to die prematurely," says Pechacek, author of the report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for July 9, 2010.
Because of the slowing rate of decline, he tells WebMD, "we are not going to be able to reach our 2010 objective" of reducing the prevalence of current cigarette use among high school students to 16% or less anytime soon.
Partly to blame has been a decline in concerted antismoking campaigns, he says, and many formerly successful efforts have been stopped by states, mostly for financial reasons, Pechacek says.
CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, says in a news release that although four in five high school students don't smoke, "it's discouraging to see that current smoking did not continue to decline more rapidly among youth."
He says that the "slow progress since 2003 tells us that much more needs to be done to reduce youth smoking."
The report finds that:
- The percentage of students who reported current cigarette use increased from 27.5% in 1991 to 36.4% in 1997, declined sharply to 21.9% in 2003, after which the decline slowed to 19.5% in 2009.
- The percentage of students who ever smoked cigarettes did not change from 1991 to 1999, declined from 70.4% in 1999 to 58.4% in 2003, then declined more gradually to 46.3% in 2009.
- The percentage of students who reported current frequent cigarette use increased from 12.7% in 1991 to 16.8% in 1999, declined to 9.7% in 2003, and then slowed to 7.3% in 2009.
Call for New Antismoking Efforts
Pechacek tells WebMD that the latest findings emphasize a need to return teen smoking trends to the more rapid rate of decline seen from the late 1990s through 2003.
Efforts should include expansion of counter-advertising media campaigns, reduction of tobacco advertising, promotions, and availability of cigarettes, and a renewed push for laws mandating tobacco-free environments.
Also, he says, cigarette prices ought to be increased through state excise taxes.
The report, using data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey, questioned students in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. "Ever-smoked" was defined as ever trying cigarettes, even a puff or two; "current smoking" was defined as smoking on at least one day during the 30 days prior to the survey. "Current frequent smokers" were those who said they smoked on 20 or more days during the past 30.
Pechacek tells WebMD that the implications of the findings "are that far, far too many youths who could have been prevented from smoking are on the pathway to premature death."
He adds: "We are disappointed at the slowing. We are not surprised because effective prevention efforts have been reduced due to budget cutbacks at the state level, and tobacco use has become less of a priority issue. Complacency set in that we were making progress."
"We know what works," Pechacek tells WebMD. "It's a matter of doing what we know can be effective," including efforts to make smoking less socially acceptable.
"The good news is that four out of five youths are not smoking, and rates of ever-smoking have come down to the lowest levels we have ever seen in the survey," Pechacek says.
"The bad news is, far too many kids are continuing to develop the nicotine addiction, and the rates of 19.5% current smokers are much higher than they could be if we were effectively doing the programs that we know would prevent youth smoking," he says.


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Francisco Rodriguez Traded to Milwaukee
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With a $17.5 million option looming over every game Francisco Rodriguez finished this year, the Mets chose to get out from under the money and traded their closer to Milwaukee for some players to be named later. While the move won't mean much in Milwaukee, it does leave a vacuum in New York that must be filled.
John Axford will continue to close in Milwaukee unless he gets hurt. In many ways he's been better than Rodriguez this year, and he's much cheaper. K-Rod's option vests if he finishes another twenty or so more games this year, and the Brewers can't spend that money. Axford owners should not panic.
But in New York there's a closer's role change in the offing. The primary candidates are set, so let's suss them out one by one.
Jason Isringhausen was the early favorite to be the next closer. He holds the team lead in holds and used to be the primary setup man. The fountain of youth has treated him to a sub-3.50 ERA after missing most of 2010 recovering from surgery. But look "closer" and the numbers don't look as nice. His strikeout rate (6.59 K/9) and whiff rate (6.4%) are well below average for a reliever. He's walking more than four per nine. He has a .213 batting average on balls in play (BABIP) and he's stranded 80% of runners, numbers that usually trend towards .300 and 70% respectively. As those numbers regress, he might have some struggles ahead.
Hometown hero Pedro Beato is tied for third in holds and has perhaps 'deserved' his low-threes ERA more than Izzy. At least, his BABIP is .224, but his strand rate is 52.4%. As both numbers regress, he might stay in about the same spot. The 'problem' with Beato is that he's more of a ground-ball pitcher than a strikeout pitcher. He only strikes out 5.4 batters per nine, and even with a nice 2.7 BB/9 and 54.3% ground-ball rate, he doesn't have the strikeout rate of a closer. Only one of the top 35 relievers sorted by saves has a strikeout rate well below six per nine, and Matt Capps is not a closer to emulate right now.
That leaves Bobby Parnell as the best option for the role. First, the negative. Parnell has had a career of showing great velocity (95 MPH average on his fastball) and poor control (3.82 BB/9 career). While he was only throwing the fastball and not striking people out (7.7 K/9 before this year), this was a problem. Now, the positive. Parnell is throwing his slider more than ever this year, and this has resulted in the best strikeout rate of his career (10.95 K/9). A recent stretch of better control (three walks since June first) has Parnell showing average control (3.28 BB/9). Strike out three batters for every one you walk, and you're ready to be a closer. Especially if you've got a flamethrower of an arm.
Some Mets fans might doubt the fact that Parnell has the mentality to close. He has had some issues in the past. On the other hand, this year's version looks like the best version, and the numbers say he's the best option. Good luck hunting for saves.
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Welcome to The Efendi Boutique Hotel of Israel
Nestled in the picturesque narrow lanes of Acre, the Efendi Boutique Hotel overlooks the historic city walls and the magnificent Mediterranean Sea beyond. The unique structure of this boutique hotel combines two ancient houses that have hundreds of years of history stored within their walls. These houses were meticulously reconstructed and merged into one building before being converted into a boutique hotel.
The Efendi boutique hotel is the fulfillment of a dream long held by Uri Jeremias, chef and proprietor of the famed Uri Buri restaurant. Complex preservation and restoration work over a period of eight years gave birth to a gorgeous, breathtaking pearl that was truly a labor of love. Thought was invested in each and every detail of the preservation work, which was performed under the supervision of the Antiquities Authority. Artisans were specially flown in from Italy in order to undertake this delicate work, as well as the restoration of the beautiful ceilings. Also preserved was a fresco of the city of Istanbul, which was found at the site. The fresco had been created in 1878 in honor of the new Orient Express train station.
The boutique hotel has twelve special rooms spread out over three levels, each of which has four guestrooms and a central communal salon with appealing sitting areas conducive to rest and relaxation. Guests can also go enjoy the sea air from the large terrace on the northern side of the hotel and enjoy the scenery from one of the luxurious lounging areas.
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text: The road to Collum Coal Mine is covered in sooty black coal dust. I'm here with Huang Lei, a 25-year-old native of Sichuan, who used to work as an interpreter at this mine. As we drive in, Zambians and Chinese alike shout out greetings to him. "People still remember me," Huang Lei said. "So it's like coming back home. I know this place too well." Too well, because when he arrived, in late 2009, workers had just rioted. The Zambians complained their bosses beat them; they said their pay was pathetically low and safety procedures lax. Huang Lei said one of the first things he did when he got here was make sure workers got helmets and boots. He left after a year, he said, because he couldn't stomach the way workers were treated. Soon after, in October 2010, hundreds of workers protested again, demanding fair pay. Taska Chinko, a coal miner, was in the crowd that gathered outside the gates of the Chinese managers' living quarters. He said instead of trying to talk with the workers, two Chinese managers grabbed pellet guns, and began firing on the crowd. Chinko ran, but 12 other miners were injured — two critically. Chinko said he still can't believe what happened. "When we saw the management coming out with guns, we felt so bad," he said. "We're not like animals, where they have to use guns to keep us away." Once the shots were fired, the workers ran amok. They looted one of the Chinese compounds — exactly what the Chinese managers said they'd been trying to prevent. Eventually, things calmed down. The injured were compensated, and the Chinese managers arrested. A few months later, however, the case was inexplicably dropped and the managers went back to China. And work at Collum coal mine carried on. Changes Made The four Chinese brothers who own the mine have made some changes. They've doubled salaries, though they're still below the international poverty line. They've also hired a Zambian human resources officer named Corry Moono, who works out of a mud brick room in the corner of the compound. He said his role is to make sure the company follows labor laws, and to protect the interests of the company and the workers. But he added that's not how the company or the workers see him; he's received threats from both. "The workers say, 'you're siding with the Chinese.' And the Chinese are saying, 'you are siding with the black guys.'" But Moono said a little communication and respect go a long way. He said he's helped avert three near-riots since he came here last year. "I've said, 'Boys, let's work together. Our investors are here to make money, and you're also here to work so you can earn a living.' I tried to talk to them like that and to some extent, they understood. They haven't rioted in the past nine months." That doesn't mean they're happy. One of the Chinese staff at the mine told Huang Lei, the former interpreter, that the workers are planning to strike again this week. They're still paid subsistence wages, and they don't get paid at all when the mine doesn't need them. The miner Taska Chinko said he has other complaints, too. For instance, he gets no paid time off, he had to buy his own helmet, and he's worried about his lungs. "There's a lot of dust inside the mine, particularly when they blast," he said. Chinko said if he could, he'd find another job, but there aren't any. China's Investment in Zambia Chinese investment has helped create jobs around the country. Hundreds of miles north, in Zambia's Copperbelt, Collum's coal helps fuel Chinese copper smelting. Miners and smelter workers there voice similar gripes to those at Collum. On payday, after a few swigs of hooch, they voice them loudly. "I'm a boilermaker. Artisan!" one miner said. "But you see the money I'm making. If I gave you this money could you manage? You can't!" The miners wave their narrow white paystubs from the Chinese-owned Chambishi Copper Smelter. Most of them are making less than $200 a month, and they say their rent eats up most of that. Some Chinese companies protest that they're paying at least minimum wage, so they aren't breaking the law. But Goodwell Kaluba, General Secretary of Zambia's National Union of Mine and Allied Workers, said minimum wage is meant for a safe, sedentary job, like a salesclerk, not for a mineworker. Kaluba said Zambia's Chinese-run mines are most often in breach of the country's labor laws, and have the worst safety records. Still, he's seen some improvements. He said one big mine, NFCA, used to have fatalities almost every month. For the past six months, there have been none. He said he hopes the trend continues because in many ways, Chinese investment has helped Zambia. "Some of the youths who were unemployed, they're now employed. So that's an area we also need to appreciate. We cannot always talk about negatives," Kaluba said. "But when we're talking about safety issues, concerning the life of someone, we need to talk about it." Worker's Rights Some Zambian workers are surprised to hear that many Chinese miners in China aren't treated much better. But in China, workers have little recourse. There are no independent trade unions, many mines are state-owned, and the Chinese press is kept semi-muzzled on the subject of workers' rights. So it's a bit of a shock for some Chinese companies to come to a place like Zambia, where workers can protest and strike, and even vote to change the government, which they did just last month. But there are some Chinese companies here that already get it. Wu Jiang Rong is a project manager for Shanghai Construction Group, a listed, majority state-owned company that does about $11 billion of business a year around the world. He said his company is trying to use more local people in Zambia, even though they're not as efficient as Chinese workers. "We try to train the local laborers to improve their skills. A lot of them, when they come, they are general laborers, and after a few months they are painter, carpenter, bricklayer." He shows me around the stylish conference center and banquet hall his company has just finished building for the Zambian government. He sweeps a hand to the meticulously painted walls. "You can see most of the paint work here has been done by them, including the base work," he said, referring to the local workers. "I'm very proud of them." Wu sees his company's presence in Zambia as a long-term game, so he wants to do high-quality work, treat workers well, and build a good reputation. It's how world-class companies operate. There is a bit of a class distinction between the huge, cosmopolitan Shanghai Construction Corporation, and the scrappy Collum Coal Mine, run by brothers from one of China's poorest provinces, who cut corners at the expense of their workers to earn more now, without thinking of the costs they'll pay — and have paid — as a result. As we leave Collum Coal Mine, Huang Lei, said many Chinese companies in Zambia have learned from last year's shooting incident. Some change has started, and he said he hopes new President Michael Sata will speed it up. "I hope that he will just force all the Chinese companies to follow the labor law properly." Then, he said, Chinese companies, ever pragmatic, will get in line. In this new political climate, the worst of them may start doing the right thing for the wrong reasons — treating workers fairly, to avoid fines and prosecution. But at least that would be a start. The workers at Collum Coal Mine might even consider it a victory.


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Pain Matters
Pain is the body's warning sign that something is wrong. Many chronic illnesses and painful conditions cause pain—such as diabetes, arthritis and toothaches. But because people living with dementia struggle to express pain in typical ways, they often have untreated pain. This is especially an issue for people in the later stages of dementia who may struggle to communicate.
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Hello students and parents,
It's Mr. Reed here, getting ready to begin learning and working and creating with the Kindergarten and Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 students in Art Class!
I wish you a warm welcome back to school for those of you who are returning, and for those of you new to Y.I.S. and/or to Japan, I hope you are finding your way around well (please don't hesitate to ask questions).
We're soon to begin our ES art classes, to reacquaint ourselves with one another, to welcome our new classmates, and to dive right into our first art projects. As you know, the ES art classes follow the Primary Years Program (PYP) and are well integrated into the work the children are doing across their various classes and subjects. It's an exciting place to learn and grow and push new boundaries.
I look forward to meeting you at the upcoming Back To School Night on Wednesday, September 7th. Please do feel free to drop into my classroom — room E-203, upper floor, K-1 building — at anytime to ask questions or simply to say 'hello'.
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Lauren Bacall, the award-winning actress and Humphrey Bogart's partner off and on screen, has died at 89.
Robbert JF de Klerk, managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, said Bacall died yesterday at her home in New York. A family member told entertainment website TMZ that the actress had a massive stroke.
Her films included How To Marry A Millionaire, The Mirror Has Two Faces, The Big Sleep and Designing Woman, but one of her biggest was with Bogart - Key Largo, in 1948.
She married Casablanca star Bogart in 1945 and the couple remained together until his death in 1957.
Bacall married actor Jason Robards in 1961 but they divorced in 1969.
The actress, who had three children, appeared recently on an episode of the US animated sitcom Family Guy as Evelyn, a friend of Peter's mother.
Sultry-voiced Bacall became famous with her first movie scene, opposite Bogart in 1944's To Have And Have Not. The willowy 19 year old famously said: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
She was nominated for an Academy Award, won two Tony Awards and received an honorary Oscar in 2009.
Here are 10 key roles in Lauren Bacall's long career, in film and on stage.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944): Bacall's film debut, made when she was 19, and of course, her first film with Humphrey Bogart. The two fell in love on set. And if that were not enough to immortalise the movie, there was the classic line, delivered by Bacall: "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow." Director Howard Hawks wisely mined the chemistry between these two actors.
THE BIG SLEEP (1946): By the time this film noir was made, Bacall and Bogart were married. Hawks also directed this one, an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1939 detective story. Despite what was seen as a terribly confusing plot, the film capitalised on the public fascination with the screen couple.
KEY LARGO (1948): Also a film noir, and also starring Bogart - along with Edward G Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. The movie, directed by John Huston, was the last of four Bacall did with her husband (the third was Dark Passage). Inspired the 1981 song Key Largo by Bertie Higgins.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953): A light-hearted comedy that teamed Bacall with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable; the actresses played models aiming to land rich husbands. Also a great one for quotes. "You don't think he's a little old?" Bacall's character, Schatze Page, is asked. "Wealthy men are never old," she replies.
DESIGNING WOMAN (1957): Another romantic comedy, this time with Bacall starring opposite Gregory Peck. Bacall played a fashion designer, Peck her sports writer husband. The film did well, but Bacall was going through personal turmoil; Bogart died of cancer several months before the film's release.
APPLAUSE (1970): Appearing on Broadway, Bacall won a best-actress Tony for her performance as Margo Channing in this musical, based of course on the 1950 Bette Davis film All About Eve.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974): An older Bacall played a brash, widowed American socialite in this popular Agatha Christie adaptation in which everyone was a suspect.
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1981): Bacall won her second Tony in this John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, also based on a classic film: the 1942 movie of the same name starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES (1996): Bacall played Barbra Streisand's vain, obnoxious mother - and scored an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
DOGVILLE (2003): Bacall starred with Nicole Kidman in this Danish drama by Lars von Trier about a young woman (Kidman) hiding out in a small town in Depression-era Colorado.


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Is it sunday or sunduh?
My wife and I have this ongoing battle over the word sundae. She always pronounces it sunDUH while I say it's sunDAY because when they were first made, one could only get the ice-cream treat on Sunday. She says I'm nuts - I say she's kinda douchey. Who's correct - anyone know?
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I already have the url of the American Heritage Dictionary, thanks to Speedwell. Now as a greedy person I'm asking for more: are there any other good, FREE online English dictionaries with pronunciation samples of the words on the Internet?
Oops! I am ever so sorry, Chuck, I meant to send a new question! Please forgive me.
But since the accident has happened, let's make the best of it. American Heritage Dictionary pronounces sundae 'sundee':
Perenna--I like the clips at m-w.com.
Chuck--at that site, they list "sundee" as the first pronunciation, but they also have "sunDAY" as the second. I've NEVER heard anyone say "sundee"--I'm guessing it's a regionalism, as I grew up in the Northeast (although I did go to school in TX). Where are you & your wife from, if you don't mind me asking? Just trying to figure out who says what. :)
Perenna, you really cannot do better than this: http://www.onelook.com/
Pay attention, though, because although they give you results from a couple dozen possible dictionaries, a few are of purely historical interest.
(cough) Ok, the matter at hand. "SundEE??" I've only EVER heard "sunday." I bet the "sundee" pronunciation is from out in the Northwest US, but truly I haven't a clue.
I know people who pronounce the word "Sunday" the same way... Sundee, and I'm from the Northeast. And they, of course, pronounce the other days of the week similarly... Monday is Mondee, Tuesday is Tuesdee, etc.
Johanna and Speedwell, thanks for the dictionaries. I already had Merriam-Webster in my favourites, but I never noticed before that it has sound in it! The reverse dictionary behind Speedwell's link seems tempting.
My understanding of the etymology is that the inventor or original proprietor altered the spelling to avoid blasphemy. When I say "my understanding" in this case, of course I don't mean to imply that this makes any sense at all to me but hey, this is what America is all about, so why knock it. At any rate, I don't think it really helps with the discussion since I don't remember hearing whether said vendor pronounced the word the same way or differently.
My name really is Sundee, and it comes from the way that people say the days of the week improperly around where I live (Maryland). I will tell someone my name and they will say , "oh, like the day of the the week?" and I will have to correct them. It really is a regional thing. People from out of the area generally do not have as hard of a time understanding my name as people from Mideast do.
its true you could only get icecream on sundays because no one was aloud to drink on sunday's beacause it was church day. wich is where it came from but it is spelled sundae. i know this because i watched a documentory on icecream on the discovery channel.
I say Sunduh.
Is your wife from St. Louis, Missouri?
I'm guessing your wife is from Saint Louis...
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Emirates expanded its existing operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today with the launch of additional daily A380 service to Jeddah, which has proven to be popular with both business and leisure travellers.
The second A380 service has a capacity to seat 517 passengers in a three class configuration.
"The A380 has received an overwhelmingly positive response from the Saudi market since it was introduced onto our Jeddah route in February 2010. The launch of a second A380, Emirates' flagship aircraft, into Jeddah highlights our commitment to providing travellers in Saudi with the very latest in aircraft innovations,†added Khoory.
Emirates remains committed to the Saudi market with a total of 42 flights per week to four cites including; Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Al Medinah al Munawarah.


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) Final Rule took effect March 16, 2009. This regulation requires retailers to notify their customers of the country of origin of muscle cuts and ground beef (including veal), lamb, pork, chicken and goat meat, as well as fish, shellfish, perishable agricultural commodities, peanuts, pecans, ginseng and macadamia nuts.
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that the Company will expand the Regeneron corporate headquarters and laboratories in Westchester County and create more than 400 new high-skill jobs.
Today's announcement further cements the reputation of the Hudson Valley as an emerging epicenter for biopharmaceutical growth.
"Today's announcement further advances New York's reputation as a leader in the biotech industry," Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said. "This administration has had a laser-like focus on creating an environment where companies, such as Regeneron, can grow and invest. The expansion of Regeneron's headquarters and the addition of hundreds of new high-skill jobs is great news for Westchester County and great news for New York."
"Our recently approved drugs and our robust development pipeline have transformed Regeneron into one of the largest and fastest-growing biopharmaceutical companies in the United States," said Leonard S. Schleifer , M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. "Regeneron has been based in New York since we began 25 years ago, and we are grateful to Gov. Cuomo and New York State for financial support that helps us to continue to expand and create jobs in New York."
The project will add two new buildings with 300,000 square feet of laboratory and office space to the Regeneron complex at the Landmark at Eastview in the Town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York. Currently, Regeneron occupies approximately 590,000 square feet of space at the site and will occupy another 85,000 square feet of additional space there later this year. The expansion will enable the Company to continue to accommodate the rapid growth it has experienced over the last six years – from 682 employees in 2007 to 2,000 today, including more than 1,300 employees in Tarrytown and nearly 600 at its industrial operations and product supply facility in Rensselaer, New York.
Last November, Governor Cuomo announced Regeneron's plans to invest nearly $70 million to expand its manufacturing capacity in Rensselaer and create 300 new jobs in the Capital Region. With the Rensselaer and Tarrytown expansions, the company is slated to create more than 700 new jobs in New York State and invest approximately $170 million in capital expansion in New York over the next few years.
The company had also considered expanding outside New York before the State stepped in with $8.5 million in tax credits through the Excelsior Jobs Program and the Town of Mount Pleasant Industrial Development Agency offered additional incentives.Construction of the new buildings is anticipated to begin in late 2013 and to be completed in late 2015.
About Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Regeneron is a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company based in Tarrytown, New York that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron markets medicines for eye diseases, colorectal cancer, and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including hypercholesterolemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and atopic dermatitis. Regeneron, New York State's largest biotech company, in 2012 was voted the world's #1 biopharmaceutical employer by Science Magazine and Biotech Company of the Year by Scrip Intelligence.Contact Information:Michael Aberman, M.D.Peter DworkinInvestor RelationsCorporate firstname.lastname@example.com@regeneron.com
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Company creates two new business divisions to ensure growth of emerging digital business, while securing future for core paper business
Cohoes, NY – Mohawk, North America's largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital printing, announces an organizational restructuring, creating two new distinct business units: Mohawk Fine Paper and Mohawk Digital. This move will support the growth in Mohawk's emerging digital business while securing the future of its core fine paper business.
The 82-year old manufacturer's core business of fine text and cover papers and envelopes will be managed within the Mohawk Fine Paper division, while the company's growing portfolio of digital substrates – including a wide range of papers and non papers for printing across dry toner, liquid toner and ink jet devices, will be managed within the new Mohawk Digital division.
"Mohawk's traditional fine paper business is mature, while our digital business has experienced, and is positioned for, rapid growth. Given the differing maturity levels of these two segments, it was necessary to develop individual growth strategies to ensure future success." said Thomas D. O'Connor, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mohawk.
Kevin Richard has been named President of Mohawk Fine Paper Division. Formerly Executive Vice President, Operations & Chief Operating Officer at Mohawk, Mr. Richard will oversee sales, marketing, and operations for North America and all global markets.
"Mohawk has proudly manufactured the finest text and cover papers since 1931, including iconic brands like Superfine and Strathmore, and we believe now more than ever, fine paper is being appreciated as consumers rediscover the beauty and impact of paper and print in a digital era. Mohawk's core business will continue to grow and thrive as we allocate more time and resources to innovation and operational excellence," said Kevin Richard, President, Mohawk Fine Paper.
Mr. Richard joined Mohawk in 1995, was promoted to Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer in 2005, and was appointed to the Mohawk Board of Directors in 2007. Prior to joining Mohawk, Mr. Richard had 13 years of experience in the paper industry. Mr. Richard has a BS Electrical Engineering degree from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, and has completed executive education programs at Columbia Business School, Duke's Fuqua School and Harvard Business School.
Paul Biesiadecki has been named President, Mohawk Digital. Previously Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Mohawk, Mr. Biesiadeckiwill have Sales, Marketing, Operational and Financial responsibility for Mohawk's digital business and will oversee the expansion of the digital portfolio, develop relationships with key strategic partners and lead Mohawk's Digital Specialist sales force.
"We have enhanced our historical leadership position in digital papers through acquisition and the development of strategic partnerships. Our portfolio of digital papers, specialty digital substrates, and services is now the most comprehensive offering in the industry. This business unit model gives us the focus and resources to take full advantage of the growth opportunities in digital printing" said Paul Biesiadecki, President, Mohawk Digital.
Mr. Biesiadecki joined Mohawk in 2004, and was promoted to Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing in 2010. Prior to joining Mohawk, Mr. Biesiadecki had over 20 years of experience in the paper industry. Mr. Biesiadecki has a Bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin.
"Paul and Kevin are experienced leaders with the knowledge, skills and passion necessary to drive innovation and growth through improved focus and accountability," said Thomas D. O'Connor, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mohawk.
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Ownership and Governance
The airport is owned by the city of Springfield and overseen by an 11-member administrative board. Airport Board members are appointed by the Springfield city manager, with confirmation made by the city council.
The board generally meets on the third Thursday of every month.
Airport Board
Jamie Trussell, chair
Joe Carmichael, vice chair
Catherine Moore, secretary
Paige Oxendine, assistant secretary
Jim Anderson
Steve Bach
Robert Fulp
Jamie Holstein
Michael Hoppman
Felicia Morgan
Jay Titus
The airport owns and maintains the basic infrastructure: the terminal, the runways, runway lighting, navigation systems, etc. The airport is, in effect, a landlord. It leases space to private companies, such as airlines, rental car agencies and restaurants.
The airport is self-supporting, meaning that it operates without local, or state tax revenues. Daily operations are funded by user fees, money generated from leases and contracts with the airlines, and other businesses that operate at the airport. Grants from the Federal Aviation Administration are received on a matching basis for the funding of qualifying improvement projects. Federal grants are funded mainly by federal fees on airline tickets, aviation fuel and cargo shipments.
The airport has its own commissioned police force. These officers do everything you would expect from any police department, but they do not screen passengers (or their luggage) before they get on the airplane. The airport also has its own fire department.
The screening of passengers and luggage is done by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The TSA is part of the federal agency known as the Department of Homeland Security.
Air Traffic Control
The airport control tower is run by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA is part of the federal government. Towers are staffed by the FAA, or by private companies that are under contract to the FAA. The control tower at the Springfield-Branson National Airport is owned and staffed by the FAA.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a member of the Scottish Enlightenment who succeeded David Hume in his post as Librarian of the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh. Ferguson later became professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and wrote important works on philosophy and history.


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Photo from The Smithereens Facebook page.
Here's a hearty welcome to The Smithereens on their return to the Chicago area, and a few tears that I'm not at their Viper Alley gig in Lincolnshire tonight. On October 2nd, Pat DiNizio and the boys will be Blondie's special guests at a show at The State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Singer-guitarist Palmyra Delran's recently released new single, "You're My Brian Jones" was picked by Little Steven Van Vandt as the Coolest Song Of The Week on his syndicated Underground Garage syndicated radio show last week. It's from her forthcoming CD, You Are What You Absorb, due out later this year. Delran, a former member of the very fun all-woman band, The Friggs, will be part of what seems like a Little Steven-inspired triple bill with The Party Lights and The Dahlmans at the Mercury Lounge in New York on Sunday, October 14th. Admission is $10.
Ann and Nancy Wilson's book Kicking And Dreaming, written with Charles R. Cross, is now available at stores and online sites like Amazon. The 270-page effort covers the sisters' rock star and personal lives, and includes a section of rare photos.
Chicago power pop group Van Go recently announced on Facebook that its third album, We Happy Few (it preceded their The Long Lost Last Call CD which I reviewed favorably here a while back) has recently been re-released in digital format. According to the post, this was the band's finest hour.
International power pop trio The Britannicas have a three-song digital album for sale on drummer Joe Algeri's Bandcamp page. The 1960s remain a powerful influence on these guys, and how they create those tight harmonies when each member lives on a different continent is a marvel of modern technology. Algeri also recently released an impressive solo effort titled Faux Pas under the pseudonym of The JAC.
As noted in the Palatine Patch, Hot Dog Richie's in Palatine is hoping to raise funds for Rosie Colicci, an eight-year old who has battled brain cancer for most of her life. In order to help others like herself, she created the Rosie's Toy Box campaign, which collects toys and books from donors. In addition to providing a venue for the event, which takes place tomorrow, September 22nd, from 11:00 AM to 8:00PM, Hot Dog Richie's is also helping out with a donation.
The dB's have an upcoming gig at The Hideout in Chicago on November 15th. I saw the renowned power pop band play outside this venue as part of the annual Block Party a few years ago, when their Falling Off The Sky reunion CD was in the early planning stages. Nice to see them coming back.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2003 News Releases > September 2003 > Wayland upgrades AFA program
Wayland upgrades AFA program
PLAINVIEW - Dedication, commitment, accountability. Those were three areas determined to need improvement when Wayland Baptist University evaluated its Academy of Fine Arts program.
AFA, a program designed to teach kids the joys of music, theatre and art, has undergone a major overhaul in an attempt to make the program more enjoyable, more accessible and better for all of those involved.
"We have made a lot of changes," said AFA Co-Director Tisa Whitfill.
One major change that has been addressed is in how students and parents are greeted when they arrive for a lesson. The Wheeler Building, which at times appears as more of a utility barn or maintenance shed for the university, hasn't always been the most inviting place for parents to leave their children. Whitfill said one change to the AFA program is to make sure someone is at the door to greet the parents and child.
"We will have someone open the door and greet every child and wave at the mother," Whitfill said. "If for some reason the teacher hasn't arrived, that person will take the student into the library and they will play a music game
"Kids will never be there without somebody from AFA on-site," she added. "Thinking about it as a parent, it will be a safe, welcome environment for the child that their parents can feel good about."
Whitfill also said those teaching the classes will be held more accountable. Wayland students teach the AFA classes and in the past haven't been overly diligent about making sure they were at the scheduled appointments or contacting the parents or students when they couldn't make the lesson. That has also changed. Whitfill said each WBU student teaching a class has been assigned a faculty mentor. If the teacher misses two appointments, the faculty mentor will take over the student's private lessons until a replacement teacher can be found.
The AFA has also taken extra steps to secure up-to-date contact information in the form of email addresses and cell phone numbers with which a parent can be notified if a teacher needs to reschedule the class.
Not only has the program been restructured, but the building has been remodeled to make it more pleasant and inviting to the students.
"We have taken some time to clean it out and our art students have gone over and decorated the rooms," Whitfill said. "It is going to be very child friendly. We are buying big pillows and bean bags for the kids to sit on and it is going to be very comfortable."
The AFA also has a library of music, games and books that is now accessible to the students.
Whitfill is hoping to see the program grow by adding more group lessons as well as increasing subjects offered to individual students.
"We have the teachers," she said. "Right now we have more teachers than students."
AFA offers individual lesson on any band instrument and several string instruments. The Academy also has teachers willing to teach art, creative dramatics and even handbells.
"Every parent thinks their child can act - and they can," Whitfill said. "Any kid can play a handbell. Every child loves to draw."
The cost to enroll is $50 a month for private lessons and $25 for group lessons. Parents with more than one child in a group will get a price break of $10 for the second child and $5 for the third. Four or more are free. All lessons are one hour a week.
The AFA will provide the supplies and find places for artists to perform other than the semester-ending festival.
"We are not going to work all year and just do one thing," Whitfill said. "We are going to find places for the students to perform during the semester. What's a performance class if you are not performing?"
For more information, contact Whitfill at 291-1080.


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Pee-wee Herman became a Twitter trending topic Tuesday.
His response? "I know you are, what am I?"
Some things never change. Other things, though, have changed quite a bit since the 1991 indecent exposure arrest that all-but destroyed actor Paul Reubens' gig as a TV and movie star playing Pee-wee.
Reubens is mounting an multi-pronged comeback as the bow-tied, manic man-child – appearing on "The Jay Leno Show" Tuesday night and opening a Twitter account as he readies to revive Pee-wee in a Los Angeles stage show in November.
Pee-wee, who appeared on Leno's show sporting what appeared to be a wedding band, explained, "It's abstinence ring!" – a not-so-subtle reference to the day Reubens turned a movie house into a playhouse of a sordid sort.
"I'm only two days into it – not easy!"
The TV appearance marked a reintroduction of the character. But social media may prove even more effective in re-establishing Pee-wee's presence, giving him a direct way to connect with old fans and gain some new ones. He began tweeting Tuesday and amassed more than 20,000 followers in less than a day. "Pee-wee Herman" quickly became a top topic of tweeters, with most welcoming his return.
"I'm so glad you're back. I've watched Big Adventure three million times, The Pee Wee Herman Show on HBO another million," read one typical post.
It's not just technology that's transformed since Reubens' arrest. Two subsequent decades of celebrity misdeeds make his offense seem less than shocking by comparison.
Reubens' arrest drew headlines, in great part, because he hosted what ostensibly was a Saturday morning children's program. But it was a kiddie show that likely drew more adults than young ones. The kids who watched Pee-wee 20 years ago are long past the age of innocence.
So maybe it's time to welcome back, Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis and the gang, as Pee-wee reboots his campy retro humor for very different world. If Pee-wee's looking for a word of the day to fit the times, perhaps he should try "Twitter."
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Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Defiant Grace: The Suprising Message and Mission of Jesus By Dane Ortlund> http://astore.amazon.com/stressfreel07-20/detail/0852347510
Quote From A Blog Post By Tullian Tchividjian (10/11/11):(Source: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tullian/ )
"When people talk about grace, listen carefully. I've listened long enough to listen for certain things. I listen for "buts and brakes." We often speak about grace with a thousand qualifications which reveal a paralyzing fear that grace will be taken too far. Our greatest concern, it seems, is that people will take advantage of grace and use it as a justification to live licentiously. And since bad behavior is apparently the thing that scares us the most as preachers and parents, we end up saying more about what grace isn't than we do about what grace is.
Matt Richard describes well how naturally we take it upon ourselves to reign grace in when we fear too much of it will result in lawlessness:
I have found that as Christians we many times attribute 'lawlessness' to the preaching of the Gospel. Somewhere in our thinking we rationalize that if the Gospel is presented as "too free, too unconditional or that Jesus fulfills the law for us" that the result will be lax morality, loose living and lawlessness. It is as if we believe that the freeing message of the Gospel actually produces, encourages and grants people a license to sin. Because of this rationalization we find ourselves strapping, holding and attaching restrictions to the Gospel so that we might prevent or limit lawlessness. In other words, the Gospel is placed into bondage due to our rationalization and reaction to lawlessness.
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands–introducing chaos and freedom. And so we find creative ways to qualify it. We speak and live with a "yes grace, but" tone. We're afraid to simply let it be as drastically unsafe, unconditional, uncontrollable, unpredictable, and undomesticated as it truly is.
That's one reason why I am rejoicing over my friend Dane Ortlund's new book Defiant Grace. Dane has written a book on grace with no "buts and brakes." He's a fearless writer and scholar who rightly acknowledges the unsettling, messy, counter-intuitive nature of amazing grace–"beyond price and yet totally free." In the introduction he writes:
For the grace that comes to us in Jesus Christ is not measured. This grace refuses to allow itself to be tethered to our innate sense of fairness, reciprocity, and balancing of the scales. It is defiant…However much we may laud grace with our lips, our hearts are so thoroughly law-marinated that the Christian life must be, at core, one of continually bathing our hearts and minds in gospel grace. We are addicted to law. Conforming our lives to a moral framework, playing by the rules, meeting a minimum standard—this feels normal. And it is how we naturally medicate that deep sense of inadequacy within. The real question is not how to avoid becoming a Pharisee; the question is how to recover from being the Pharisee we already, from the womb, are.
Law feels safe. Grace feels risky. Rule-keeping breeds a sense of manageability; grace feels like moral vertigo. After all, if all that we are is by grace, there is no limit to what God can ask of us. But if some corner of our virtue is due to personal contribution, there is a ceiling on what God can ask of us. He can bring us only so far. He can only ask so much.
Such is not the call of Christ. The Jesus of the Gospels defies our domesticated, play-by-the-rules morality. It was the most extravagant sinners of Jesus' day who received his most compassionate welcome; it was the most scrupulous law-abiders who received his most searing denunciation. The point is not that we should therefore take up sin. The point is that we should lay down the silly insistence on leveraging our sense of self-worth with an ongoing moral record. Better a life of sin with penitence than a life of obedience without it.
It is time to enjoy grace anew. Not the decaffeinated grace that pats us on the hand, ignores our deepest rebellions, and doesn't change us, but the high-octane grace that takes our conscience by the scruff of the neck and breathes new life into us with a pardon so scandalous that we cannot help but be changed. It's time to blow aside the hazy cloud of condemnation that hangs over us throughout the day with the strong wind of gospel grace. "You are not under law but under grace" (Rom 6:14). Jesus is real, grace is defiant, life is short, risk is good. For many of us the time has come to abandon once and for all our play-it-safe, toe-dabbling Christianity and dive in. It is time, as Robert Farrar Capon put it, to get drunk on grace. Two hundred-proof, defiant grace.
Pure gold, huh? I think so.
So, as you listen to people talk about grace, here's a helpful practice: listen for the "but." You won't hear it in Dane's book. You won't feel the tapping of the brakes and you won't see a list of qualifications. What you'll encounter is "grace unmeasured, vast and free." It'll frighten you and free you at the same time. After all, that's what grace does.
As I've said before: whether it's a sermon, a book, a blog post, or a tweet-if the lasting impression you get causes you to focus more on what you must do than on what Christ has done, the gospel of grace has not been communicated and the communicator (albeit, unwittingly) is no better than the Pharisees who were charged by Jesus with "tying up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and laying them on people's shoulders" (Matthew 23:4). Beware of preaching that, in the words of Herman Bavinck, "acknowledges that we are justified by the righteousness of Christ but then seems to think that we are then sanctified by a holiness we ourselves have acquired."
It is through the preaching of grace that Jesus summons sinners (both Christians and non-Christians) and says, "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls" (Matthew 11:28-29). The difference between "religion" and the gospel of grace is that religion gives burdens by announcing that Jesus plus something equals everything while the gospel of grace absorbs burdens announcing that Jesus plus nothing equals everything.
Thanks, Dane, for reminding us of this without flinching!"


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BusinessWeek is feeling some backlash from a story on the rise of the brogrammers, programmers who supposedly drink beer and pop their collars and make out with girls, just like frat guys. We love a fake trend story just as much as the next blog, but yeesh. Even we're starting to get embarrassed. This is like the time the news media thought owling was a thing. "I think BusinessWeek got punk'd," tweeted TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis.
But did they? At this point, who is in on what joke has gotten rather muddled. Read More


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