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My original post on the book "A Donsy of Gnomes" stirred quite a bit of interest! You can read the original post here: https://theparentingpassageway.com/2012/07/09/a-donsy-of-gnomes-7-gentle-gnome-stories/ . One of my wonderful readers wrote in with her story of how she used "A Donsy of Gnomes" in her daughter's first grade experience. Thank you to my reader Kristen from Vermont for sharing with all of The Parenting Passageway's readers!
Here is what Kristen wrote, and I hope it will spark some creative ideas for your own homeschooling experience:
At the end of my daughter's first grade year, I decided to incorporate Sieglinde De Francesca's sweet book of gnome stories into our Nature Block."How to Create a Spring Nature Block for Grades 1-3". I loved her ideas but being the busy mama that I am with a small farm to 'manage' and two young girls under my constant care, I couldn't possibly figure out how to find time to write my own stories. Here in northern Vermont, we have seven to eight months of winter and relative 'rest time' but once it warms up, we are like crazed squirrels running here and there trying to fit everything in before it snows again! I learned an important lesson this first year of homeschooling: don't leave any planning for spring undone before spring arrives. You will never find the time once it's warm enough to venture outside again and enjoy longer stretches of fresh air and the warmth of the sun.
So, I cheated. I've been telling Sieglinde's stories all year, with needle felted characters for each story, and my daughters have enjoyed them immensely. (In fact, when I told the last story of the book, which occurs in late spring, my girls cried and I had to reassure them that they'd hear the stories all over again beginning in late summer!) My plan was to tell the last two stories over the course of a month and tweak each story just a wee bit, adding bits of natural history here and there. For instance, when I was in graduate school studying forest ecology, I loved reading about microhabitats and the 'pillows and cradles' you often see on the forest floor in mature stands. Why not have the gnomes enjoy a rollicking time running up and down that lumpy ground, just for fun? I also love wildflowers, especially the ephemeral ones in spring that look really groovy, like Jack-in-the-pulpit. So why not have a gnome take shelter beneath a Jack-in-the-pulpit "roof" during a quick rain shower? And, since I'm a bit obsessed with birds, why not have the gnomes comment on some of the bird songs as they scampered through the woods during the story?
The rhythm of our weeks was simple and was basically the same as telling the fairy tales, except that we incorporated nature walks into our afternoons to look for pillows and cradles and Jack-in-the-pulpits and notice what birds were singing their springtime songs. We kept a nature journal which included a picture of the story and a short summary.
I also drew my own picture for story and hung them below our blackboard. On these, I wrote words that my daughter could learn to write in her MLB and then practice reading. We also incorporated a game in Peggy Kaye's wonderful book "Games For Reading". It involved writing a short sentence related to the story, cutting up the sentence into pieces so that the words or phrases were separated, and asking my daughter to put the pieces back together in the right order to make a logical sentence.
She had already seen most words on my drawing and written many of them in her main lesson book so this was not as difficult a task as I thought it might be. She is having a hard time learning to read and is not the type of kid who will sit down and try to figure it out herself. A late bloomer, perhaps, but a child who loves to hear and retell stories!
Overall, I think this block was a stunning success and for weeks afterward my girls played with the needle felted gnomes (and other animal characters from the stories that I needle felted). They both attended a garden camp this summer and during one of their walks in the forest they gleefully showed their friends how much fun it is to run up the pillows and down the cradles in the forest, just like little gnomes do!
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Gatland ups ante: Lions must win for survival
On the day that he unveiled Andy Farrell as one of his assistant coaches, Warren Gatland conceded that the credibility of the Lions was at stake if they returned from Australia without a series victory.
Gatland also admitted it had been the hardest decision of his life to break the news to long-time friend and coaching ally, Shaun Edwards, that he would be taking Edwards's former Wigan teammate, Farrell, rather than him as one of the three assistant coaches.
Farrell was paraded in the opulent surroundings of Hopetoun House just outside Edinburgh, and hailed as one of those hired to not only help beat the Wallabies but also to save the Lions brand in the process. There was no attempt to downplay the fact that another series defeat, which would be the Lions' fourth since victory in South Africa 15 years ago, would threaten the credibility of the iconic touring side.
"All the discussion after the 2005 trip to New Zealand was of wondering if the Lions were dead and would they be scrapped," Gatland said.
That prospect was also acknowledged by assistant coach Rob Howley, who was involved in the 2009 tour to South Africa.
"Those questions will continue to be asked until a Lions series is won," he said.
Gatland immediately upped the ante for the trip by describing Australia as "the easiest place to tour".
He said: "If you'd said to me, out of the three southern hemisphere teams, pick your choice of where you'd like to go, I would've said Australia probably."
Gatland was wary of the Wallabies using off-field diversionary tactics as a means of unsettling visiting teams.
"They will do whatever it takes to get a result," said the Lions head coach, rather well-equipped himself in the sledging stakes.
Farrell spoke of travelling with Wigan as an 18-year-old to take on the Brisbane Broncos in rugby league's World Club Challenge in 1994.
"We weren't given a cat in hell's chance of going over there in their backyard, and there were 62,000 there that day, a full house and we turned them over," he said.
"It was a big shock for everyone. That's what stayed with me. Australia is a real sport-loving nation. There will be a lot of old tricks of the trade coming our way on a six-week tour. They'll try to get stuck into us, try to ruffle our feathers.
"But you look at the players that the British and Irish Lions are going to take over, and you can't not be full of confidence."
Farrell is aware of the his privileged position, barely a year since he was drafted from Saracens by England's Stuart Lancaster to take on his first coaching role in international rugby. He fleetingly backtracked on that decision when opting to stay with Saracens after the previous year's Six Nations championship, only to change his mind. That his rise has been swift will not have been lost on Edwards, who has many more years of experience to offer, a Lions tour three years ago included.
"You couldn't get any more similar than me and Shaun, from the same background,'' Farrell said.
''He was the first to text me after we beat the All Blacks even though Wales had just lost to Australia. We're good friends. We haven't spoken [about the Lions] but we will.
"It's been a hell of a year so far. It's unbelievable. I feel very fortunate to have an opportunity like this early in a coaching career. It's something I'm very proud of as well. It's always been a dream to be associated in some way with a Lions tour."
The Lions coaches went through the process of choosing a putative 36-man squad on Tuesday night, excluding those who were injured. The third assistant coach, Graham Rowntree, revealed that it had taken them an hour to decide on the composition of the back row alone.
Hopetoun House was once the ancestral home of the governor-general of Australia. That post has become a relic of the past. Every effort was being made yesterday to ensure the Lions did not follow suit.


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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the real Iron ManJuly 29, 2014: 1:10 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Tesla's stock performance lately has been as electric as its Model S car. Shares are up more than 50% this year ... following a 335% surge in 2013!
So Tesla is either one of the most overvalued stocks trading right now or a screaming bargain, if you believe Elon Musk's company will really revolutionize the auto market in the next few years.
You might get more clarity when Tesla (TSLA) reports its latest earnings after the closing bell Thursday.
Wall Street analysts are expecting Tesla to post a sales increase of more than 46% in the second quarter, along with a small profit. But the numbers for the past three months aren't really what matter most to investors.
The main focus will be how many cars Tesla says it plans to deliver in the coming quarters. Investors will also be eager for more details about Tesla's gigafactory, a plant that will allow the company to produce more, lower-cost electric batteries that will be able to last longer between charges.
There have been several rumors on tech and automotive blogs in the past week that Tesla may announce that the gigafactory will be built in Nevada and that Tesla supplier Panasonic (PCRFY) may invest in it. The gigafactory could cost up to $5 billion to construct.
That's a lot of money. Even for Elon Musk -- the billionaire and creative muse for Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Iron Man Tony Stark. (Will Tesla play some Black Sabbath as hold music before the conference call Thursday? Or maybe this great -- and strange -- jazz cover by The Bad Plus?)
Still, Tesla MUST make these types of investments. They are the key to its future success ... and it may be the reason why the stock is worth considering even though it trades at more than 200 times 2014 earnings estimates and nearly 75 times 2015 profit forecasts. (Roll over, value guru Benjamin Graham. Tell David Dodd the news.)
Investors have been excited about the rhapsodic reviews and sales for the Model S. Wall Street hopes the upcoming Model X crossover will be as big a hit.
Related: Model X due in early 2015
But they really want the company's Model 3 or Model III (sadly not the Model E) mass-market car, which is likely due out in 2017 and expected to come with a price tag of about $35,000, to wow consumers.
The "cheaper" Tesla car is what Musk believes can turn the car maker into a true force to be reckoned with in the automotive world ... a legitimate powerhouse along the likes of Ford (F), General Motors (GM), Toyota (TM) and Honda (HMC), instead of just a "niche" electric car company.
Related: GM is eating Ford's dust
Musk has an ambitious goal of 500,000 vehicle sales a year by 2020. To put that target in perspective, Tesla sold (or "delivered" in Tesla jargon) 22,450 Model S sedans last year.
Tesla will only be able to hit the half a million mark if it gets the gigafactory up and running soon. But one big Tesla bull thinks Musk's plan is doable. And that's why he believes the stock is still worth owning, valuation be damned.
Gilad Shany, an analyst with Baron Funds, says that if Tesla can sell 500,000 cars in 2020 ... and if you assume that the average selling price is around $50,000 to reflect a bigger portion of less pricey Model 3 sales than more expensive Model S and X vehicles ... then Tesla could wind up reporting $25 billion in annual sales.
He also thinks that Tesla's profit margins could be about 20%. Do the math and Tesla would be earning $5 billion. That's big league numbers, not start-up territory.
Shany works with the Baron Partners and Baron Opportunity Funds, which both own Tesla shares. He said those funds tend to own stocks for an average of seven years. So he's not going to bail on it because of what happens in one quarter.
He compares it more to Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOGL) than Ford and GM, and argues that Tesla is a cool company that should be able to attract the best and brightest in engineering talent.
Related: Tesla opens up its patent portfolio to all
"Tesla is the only auto company that can hire away from big tech companies in Silicon Valley. I know people who would die for a job at Tesla. That's a huge barrier for other auto companies to overcome," Shany said.
That all makes sense. But can Tesla really sell 500,000 electric cars in a world where gas guzzlers still rule the road? Shany said investors would be foolish to underestimate demand for electric vehicles.
Shany thinks the biggest factor holding back sales right now is the high price tag. He notes that two cheaper electric vehicles, the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3, have both had solid sales despite what he calls mediocre reviews for the Leaf and the fact that the i3 is meant to be a secondary "city driving" car.
Another valid point. But it still may be hard for average investors to wrap their head around the stock's lofty price. Cole Wilcox, CEO of Longboard Asset Management, said he no longer owns Tesla because he's concerned about the valuation. I spoke with Wilcox last year about why he liked Tesla so much.
But Wilcox said he sees better opportunities elsewhere in the electric vehicle market. His fund's second largest holding is BYD Company, a Chinese maker of electric cars and rechargeable batteries. That stock is expensive too ... the Hong Kong-listed shares trade at 52 times 2015 earnings estimates. But it's not as frothy as Tesla.
Related: Tesla topped Google in CNNMoney's March Stock Mania brackets
And there's an added benefit. BYD has the backing of Cadillac-lover Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKB) MidAmerican Energy unit acquired a 10% stake in BYD in 2008.
"This is the Tesla of China. The upside could be a lot bigger," Wilcox said.
But Wilcox is still a fan of Tesla's strategy ... and of Elon Musk. He said the only reason he sold is the high price. And even Musk has pointed out on occasion that Tesla's shares may be trading at a price that's higher than they deserve right now.
"I have no problem with the company. Tesla is still executing. Musk has done a fantastic job," Wilcox said. "But Tesla has a lot of work to do in order to grow into its valuation."
Related: Costs add up for Tesla
Well put. So if you are looking to trade Tesla, keep in mind that it is risky and volatile. There are still a substantial number of short sellers betting that the stock will go down. And even though shares are up a lot in 2014, the stock is about 15% off its all-time high. That could be a sign that momentum investors are nervous.
But if you are a long-term investor like Shany, then the stock could be worth it. Just don't panic if the stock plunges following earnings Thursday.
To quote Jim Morrison, keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.


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Welcome Oblivion (album)
From nine inch nails wiki
How To Destroy Angels. It is the band's first full-length release and their third release in all. It was released by Columbia Records on March 5th, 2013. It is labeled as Sigil 4. The vinyl release of the album comes with two bonus tracks. When downloaded from HTDA's official store, the tracks each come with their own artwork, a variation of the head from the album's art.
Rob Sheridan describes the album's concept as "anxiety of information overload as humanity and technology converge and presenting technological singularity and post-humanism as both a terrifying and transformative moment for mankind and nature."
Tracks 2, 5, 6 and 12 previously appeared on An Omen EP.
A1 "The Wake-Up" - 1:43
There are two unique tracks on the vinyl format: "The Province Of Fear" and "Unintended Consequences". The vinyl release also includes a CD within the sleeve, containing the vinyl sequencing of the album.
Whilst the digital version of the album is officially listed as the same as the CD version, some download sites have listed it with the band's first EP included as "bonus tracks".
An Omen EP, released November 2012, served as a precursor to the album, with four of its six tracks featuring on Welcome Oblivion, three of which had a music video.
The album was announced alongside the video release for "The Loop Closes," one of four tracks to be featured on both this album and An Omen EP. The first single to be released from the album (that was not already on An Omen EP) was "How Long?" on January 31st, accompanied by its music video and an announcement of the tracklisting and the vinyl's album art.
On February 19th, HTDA made "And The Sky Began To Scream" available for free via text service Maebe, the first song to be released on the service. The full CD/Digital version of the album was made available to stream in its entirety for free via Pitchfork on February 20th, and on the same day the band released pre-orders through their own website, and some new t-shirt designs linked to the album's artwork.
The Bug was originally to appear on the album, providing a musical hook for one of the tracks (which one is unknown). However, as Mariqueen Maandig "couldn't get happy with her voice on it"[sic], the hook was ultimately scrapped. The Bug has stated he'll use it in his own music in the future.[1]
Like the band's first EP, the CD and vinyl versions of the album have different artwork. Due to a printing issue, the vinyl edition of the album was delayed until the 19th of March.
Written, arranged, programmed, performed,
Mariqueen Maandig
Mixed by Alan Moulder
"We Fade Away" co-written/performed with Alessandro Cortini
Management: Rebel Waltz
Published by Cloudcover, Inc. (ASCAP), M'aidez (ASCAP), Songs in the key of mink, and modwheelmusic, inc. (ASCAP) for "We Fade Away" administered by Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI)
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Art direction
The art of the album was conceived by the entire HTDA group, and was primarily executed by Rob Sheridan. He used a technique of creating art, placing the image onto VHS tapes and then photographing distortion through a CRT monitor as shown here.
In a Reddit AMA, Sheridan gave the following explanation of the ideas that went into the artwork:
"The visual direction of this album came about first from the concept of the record. Trying to express the anxiety of information overload, the end of mankind as both terrifying and transformative, apocalypse and evolution, etc. I was inspired by the way Trent and Atticus set up rules for themselves around the way they record music for each project, and the analog methods they were experimenting with for this record that tied into its themes. So I started looking for a visual analogy for that, and also a visual analogy for information overloading the pipeline it's being sent through - of signals unable to display coherently. It led me down the road of experimenting with analog cables and old CRT monitors and VHS decks. The result was a set of rules I came up with for creating the visuals. As much of a pain in the ass the process is sometimes, it's strangely freeing to work within constraints. Not only does it force a rigid visual consistency, it takes Photoshop out of the equation entirely (the CRT texture makes the images largely uneditable in post, besides color corrections). Sometimes there's something extremely daunting about a blank document in Photoshop, because you can go absolutely ANYWHERE with it. Setting up some limitations has proved really useful."[2]
For more information, see How To Destroy Angels Live 2013
HTDA's first live shows were played in the spring of 2013 as a short North American tour to promote Welcome Oblivion. The shows featured innovative production using light curtains made of LED-filled tubing, with dazzling visuals controlled from the stage by Rob Sheridan.
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Raheem Jarbo, aka Mega Ran, aka Random, is one of the more noted video game musicians out there. For his latest album, though, he went a little further than just rapping about video games.
With financial help from fans, he's been able to put together a concept album that includes not just the music, but accompanying comic and video game material as well, all centred on his partly-autobiographical idea of a man who is a teacher, rapper and hero.
The album, Language Arts: Volume One, isn't bad! And while I haven't read the graphic novel, I have played the game, which for a guy called Mega Ran is unsurprisingly based heavily on Mega Man. It's pretty good!
Language Arts: Volume One is the first in a series of three planned releases based on the idea. You can check out more info below.
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The Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium met on Monday, December 7. Those attending enjoyed a festive and delicious potluck Turkey dinner. During a brief business meeting Continuing Education certificates were distributed to those who had completed the Survey Monkey course. Nominations were made for next year's officers. A White Elephant gift exchange was enjoyed by all, and the group was adjourned until January 25.
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East Coast-based industry professionals have been revising itineraries frantically as they attempt to reach Santa Monica in time for the first day of the market on Wednesday (31).
Ferocious weather conditions have battered New York and surrounding Eastern regions ever since the storm made landfall on Monday, leaving airline and train schedules in tatters.
FilmNation CEO Glen Basner [pictured] said he caught the last flight out of New York on Sunday night and Cargo Entertainment president of distribution Mark Lindsay was another New Yorker who departed early.
Meanwhile others such as Sundance Selects/IFC Films svp of acquisitions and productions Arianna Bocco and Visit Films head Ryan Kampe announced on Facebook pages that they do not expect to reach the West Coast until at least Wednesday. Flights in some New York airports are unlikely to resume until Tuesday at the earliest.
By Monday evening East Coast time the storm, which was downgraded from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone, was generating 80mph winds and authorities said more than 1.5m people had lost power.
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will remain suspended on Tuesday and federal government offices in Washington DC are expected to remain closed until Wednesday.
According to reports the Caribbean death toll from Hurricane Sandy was understood to have reached 69 over the weekend.


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Those who pay attention to the online world will probably know that Google+ fever is sweeping the blogosphere. Everyone wants an invite to the "Facebook killer" and invites are pretty hard to come by. If you are lucky enough to have one, you can brag about being in the group early and if not, you are left wondering what is going on in there and will you ever get to be a part of it. Invites are in such demand they are even popping up for sale on ebay for as much as $100.
What is the rush and why are we all clamouring to jump on board the Google+ ship when we don't even know what it's all about? Well for one, we humans love to belong to groups. And what could be better than belonging to Google+, a group which is entirely based on the ability to form groups. Because Google+ is by invitation only, the boundaries are less permeable than Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and the other social networking sites; anyone can join those simply by signing up. Permeability of boundaries has been linked to group identification in numerous psychology studies. Members of groups with highly permeable boundaries have reduced ingroup identification. So a person who is on Facebook just won't feel as passionate about being a "Facebook user" as someone who is part of Google+. Google+ users on the other hand, feel strongly about their membership and are spreading their new ingroup love, which automatically makes Google+ seem pretty cool and exclusive.
We are now willing to buy our way into a group that four days ago didn't even exist because if there is one thing people hate, it's being excluded. By releasing the new social networking site as invite only, Google has created something we want to be part of but most just can't. In a review of research on social exclusion, Dewall and colleagues (2010) highlight how being left out can cause numerous behavioural and emotional problems. Social exclusion can lead to increased aggression, decrease pro-social behaviour, and even induce actual physical pain. Hopefully more invites will open up before those who are being excluded start suffering the negative effects of social exclusion.
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The five-year project, "A Living Laboratory: Redesigning General Education for a 21st Century College of Technology," is being funded by a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and builds on several waterfront-related programs started in 2007, among them Gold's study on the importance of place in Walt Whitman's poetry.
The project will create a new digital platform for learning at City Tech, an updated curriculum, and establish an endowment to support the Center for the Study of the Brooklyn Waterfront.
"We're taking an approach to learning that utilizes the natural and built environments around City Tech - and their social cultural, environmental, political, professional and literary histories - as our classroom," Gold said. "In doing so, we build on faculty expertise in place-based education and student interest in new technologies."
The City Tech campus, at 300 Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn, is surrounded by historic neighborhoods - Fort Greene to the east, Brooklyn Heights and the waterfront to the west - that do offer students an unusual opportunity.
Not so long ago, laptops were discouraged in the classroom. They were seen as a distraction by many teachers. That thinking has changed, as teachers embrace multimedia and look for ways to expand the learning traditional experience.
City Tech is betting that through the school's digital platform and waterfront study center, students will use new tools to reinterpret the borough's rich history in meaningful ways. Who knew that Twitter and Fulton Ferry Landing could share something in common?
"City Tech's new digital platform will forge bonds among students between courses, deepening their engagement with course materials," Gold said. "It will also make the shared intellectual culture of the institutions more visible to the College itself and to the wider public."


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Author Notes: This recipe is inspired by a Bobby Flay recipe that I had been wanting to try, but which called for heavy cream. I love the substitution of coconut not only for it's health benefits, but for the sweet creaminess that it adds to this dish. The sweetness of the potatoes, the creaminess of the coconut milk, and the spiciness of the chipotles and cinnamon come together to create a nicely-balanced, easy to prepare side dish. —JenCereghino
Serves: 4-6
Yams or Sweet Potatoes
cups Canned Coconut Milk (regular)
Chipotle in Adobo
teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
Sea Salt
Black Pepper
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Using a mandoline or sharp knife, slice sweet potatoes into 1/8″ thick rounds.
- Add one chipotle pepper, 1 tbls. of adobo sauce, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, and coconut milk to a blender or food processor. Puree until smooth.
- In a 10 x 10 x 2-inch casserole, arrange the potatoes in an even layer on the bottom of the casserole, drizzle with 3 tablespoons of the coconut milk mixture and season with salt and pepper. Repeat with the remaining potatoes, coconut milk, and salt and pepper to form 8-10 layers. Press down on the layers to totally submerge in the coconut mixture. Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon. Gratin can be covered and refrigerated, for up to two days, until ready to bake.
- Cover and bake for 30 minutes, remove cover and continue baking for 30-45 minutes, or until the coconut milk has been absorbed and the potatoes are cooked through and the top is browned.
- Remove from oven and cover. Let set for 10 minutes. Slice and serve.


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NEW YORK -- At a crowded French bakery on Manhattan's Upper East Side, no one seems to recognize actor Andrew McCarthy. At least no one asks, "Weren't you Kevin in St. Elmo's Fire?" or "Blane in Pretty in Pink"
But there are days when he does get those questions, more than a quarter century after his years as part of the teen "Brat Pack" that included Molly Ringwald and Rob Lowe. "Some days I'm hotter than others," McCarthy says with a laugh. "It depends what's been on TV the night before. But my teenage fans are now women, so there's less screaming and squealing, which is better for all of us."
Twelve weeks shy of turning 50, McCarthy -- an actor, director and award-winning travel writer -- is still boyish. His first book, The Long Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down (Free Press, $26), is being released Tuesday.
It's part memoir, dealing with his parallel careers in acting and writing, his alcoholism -- he's been sober since 1992, he says -- and overcoming his self-doubts and insecurities. And it's part travelogue about trips to Patagonia, the Amazon and Mt. Kilimanjaro. Over iced tea, he calls it "an internal journey played out externally."
In it, he writes, "Success in acting had given me a persona and a shell of confidence; my travels helped me find myself beneath that persona and fill out that shell with belief. Through travel, I began to grow up."
The book is framed around the months leading up to his second marriage in August 2011, when his bride-to-be, Dolores Rice, an Irish stage director and writer, tried to plan their wedding from their home in Manhattan while he found a need to sail down the Amazon or climb Kilimanjaro's 19,336 feet.
After an eight-year relationship and four-year engagement, McCarthy's need to leave home could be seen as a case of male non-commitment. He says, "The question wasn't so much if we'd get married, but when and how."
In his book, his wife is identified only as D. "It's not really about her," he says. "It's no tell-all bio." But a moment later, he calls her "the moral compass in the middle of the story. I'm the idiot failing about."
As editor-at-large of National Geographic Traveler, who's had three articles chosen for the Best American Travel Writing series of books, McCarthy prefers to travel alone. He cites one of his literary influences, Paul Theroux, who touts the "lucidity of loneliness."
But as part of his version of settling down, McCarthy had his 10-year-old son from his first marriage (to Carol Schneider) join him on an assignment in the Sahara. His 6-year-old daughter with Rice was his companion to Tahiti. The entire family went camping in Wyoming -- "for fun, not work."
He recognizes a paradox in his travels, preferably off most tourist maps: "I've traveled in order to feel at home in myself." He sees acting and travel writing as "branches of the same tree," but often when he's writing, "I wish I was acting, and when I'm acting, I wish I was writing."
He's also directed, including episodes of two TV series, Lipstick Jungle and Gossip Girl, in which he's appeared.
His next acting role is on a Hallmark TV movie in December, Christmas Dance, playing a "corporate guy who has to learn to waltz and falls in love with his dance teacher and learns the meaning of life. You get the idea." He calls it "an irony-free zone, but lovely."
His next writing assignment in November takes him to Darjeeling, India, in search of "the best tea in the world."
His book's publisher is touting comparisons between the The Longest Way Home and Elizabeth Gilbert's mega-best-seller Eat, Pray, Love.
"Of course they are," he says with a laugh. "Didn't that sell 6 million copies? I liked it. It was honest, well-told and very atmospheric."
What about a movie version of his book?
McCarthy laughs and says he'd welcome any interest. But he doubts he'd play himself: "I'm sure they'd find someone hotter," he says and laughs again.
Andrew McCarthy has appeared in more than 70 films and TV series, including:
St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Weekend at Bernie's (1989), The Joy Luck Club (1993), Mulholland Falls (1996), Heaven Must Wait (2001), Lipstick Jungle (2008-09), Gossip Girl (2009) and White Collar (2011).


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Florida's education commissioner will resign amid allegations that he changed the grade of a charter school run by a major Republican donor during his previous job as Indiana's school chief, a state education official said Thursday.
Tony Bennett will resign in the wake of the scandal surrounding Christel House Academy, the official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement was not yet authorized for public release.
Bennett, when reached by the AP, would say only that "no decisions have been made at this point." He has denied any wrongdoing.
Emails published by the AP this week show Bennett and his Indiana staff scrambled last fall to ensure Christel DeHaan's school received an "A," despite poor 10th-grade algebra scores that initially earned it a "C."
Annual Grades Fall Sharply for Florida Schools
Bennett lost his re-election bid last November in Indiana. He was hired by Florida as its education commissioner, a non-elected post, in December.
Indiana uses the A-F grades to determine which schools get taken over by the state and whether students seeking state-funded vouchers to attend private school need to first spend a year in public school. They also help determine how much state funding schools receive. A low grade also can detract from a neighborhood and drive home buyers elsewhere.
After Bennett learned about a likely low grade for Christel House, he fired off a Sept. 12 email to his chief of staff.
"This will be a HUGE problem for us," Bennett wrote. "They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work."
Bennett, who now is reworking Florida's grading system as that state's education commissioner, denied that DeHaan's Christel House Academy school received special treatment. He said discovering that the charter would receive a low grade raised broader concerns with grades for other "combined" schools — those that included multiple grade levels — across the state.
Bennett downplayed the emails on Tuesday, repeating his assertion that he took action because he was concerned there was a flaw in the formula.
"It is absurd that anyone would believe that I would change the grade of a school based on a political donor or trying to hide schools from accountability," Bennett said. "That's fictitious at best, and it's totally unfounded."
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He acknowledged that the problem was identified and fixed prior to the release of school grades but maintained the change affected as many as 13 schools.
"We did nothing wrong. We did nothing covert. We did nothing secretive," Bennett said.
The revelations that Bennett and Indiana officials scrambled to change the grade of one school come amid a strong debate over Florida's grading system.
Bennett earlier this month pushed the Florida board that oversees education policy to adopt a "safety net" provision that prevented the grades of more than 500 schools from dropping more than one grade this year.
That provision was adopted by a 4-3 vote amid much debate and criticism that the move would "mask" the true performance of schools. Bennett's plan was even opposed by the education foundation set up by Bush. The grades released last week still showed a sharp drop in the number of A-rated schools and a jump in the number of F-rated ones.
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Congrats Joe Philbin! Read here from Jay Glazer. While I can't imagine even going through an interview process so shortly after such a tragic loss, I wonder if now may be as good a time as any for Joe and his family to start the process of moving forward. In his time under McCarthy, I've gone from thinking Philbin didn't do anything (assumed McCarthy did everything) to realizing that Philbin really was a big part of the coaching staff. He helped put together game plans every week, was very engaged with the players and was a critical person at practice orchestrating everything. He's smart, he can be funny and he's a good guy by all accounts. Congrats Joe – you deserve it.
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Why You Exfoliate Your Skin
Everyone knows the purpose and functions of the major organs in the human body, but many overlook one of the most important organs we have: our skin. The human body's skin is actually the largest organ of the body. The total surface area on average for adults is about 22 square feet, and can weigh up to 8 pounds. Now that is a whole lot of skin to love.
Our body's skin is constructed of several layers of ectodermic tissue. This tissue's main purpose is to protect the muscles, organs, ligaments, and bones underneath it. Skin, however also has a purpose to protect the body on the outside too. Most notably our skin allows for our sense of touch. Thousands of nerve endings in each square inch of our skin allow for the gentlest of caresses to be felt. Our skin also works as an impenetrable defensive wall protecting our bodies from harmful pathogens and pollution from the outside world. It has the capability to control our body's temperature both preserving heat to increase body temperature as well as radiating heat to cool down the body. Our skin is even water resistant preventing any precious nutrients from being washed down the drain.
One of the greatest aspects of our skin is that it is forever changing. Typically speaking for adults our skin completely replaces itself in a cycle running approximately every 30 days or so. In fact, every single day that you are alive, your skin is shedding off dead skin cells, which then allows for new skin cells to take their place. What this means for your appearance is more youthful and smoother looking skin if you know what to do. If not handled correctly, you are looking at skin that is dull, uneven, blemished, and prone to wrinkles.
But, what do you do? This is where exfoliation comes into play. Exfoliation is the process of shedding off the outmost layer of dead skin cells from your body. This is done so that the new skin cells can replace the dead ones. After exfoliation, it is also prime time to treat your skin with moisturizers or toners. Hello younger looking skin!
How Do You Exfoliate?
Exfoliation can be done in two different ways, the physical (or mechanical)- removing the dead skin by friction, and chemical- removing the dead skin by dissolving it. For this blog post, we will be focusing on physical exfoliates. The most notable of this form is scrubs. The exfoliating aspect in homemade scrubs is usually in sugar, salt, cornmeal, oatmeal, or other herbal form. These substances when used in a skin treatment are safe and effective ways to remove dead skin cells, to make way for the new.
Usually, unless advised differently, exfoliants can be used once to twice a week during your normal washing routine if you have dry or sensitive skin, and for those that have oily skin, two to four times a week. Regardless of your skin type, immediately stop exfoliating if your skin becomes irritated or a rash develops.
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Ground up Oatmeal (rich in vitamins B and E)- Oatmeal is a scrub leader because it titters the line of abrasion (because it removes dead skin cells by friction) but also is gentle enough for sensitive skin types. Since oatmeal is soft, it does not have the rough jagged edges of an exfoliant like fruit pits or seeds so it will not irritate, making it use full body from head to toe.
Dead Sea Salt- High Mineral Content– Dead sea salt contains essential minerals that are beneficial to the skin. The addition of dead sea salt in your products will help draw out impurities in your skin, as well as provide gentle exfoliation to your skin.
Poppy Seed– Poppy Seed can be used in soap, scrubs, and facial masks to add natural exfoliation.
Yogurt- yogurt contains lactic acid. Lactic acid has alpha hydroxyl acid in it. This acid is the same acid that is used as a chemical exfoliates. When combined with other ingredients, yogurt in skin treatments allows for skin smoothening. When used on a regular basis, yogurt rids your body of dry, rough patches.
Calendula Powder– Calendula is used to help soften skin, and reduce inflammation.
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BlackBerry Posts Loss as Phones Go Unsold
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BlackBerry Ltd. posted a $965 million quarterly loss Friday and left many questions unanswered about the smartphone maker's future, its customers, and a proposed $4.7 billion deal to go private.
The Canadian company's fiscal second-quarter results, including a 45% drop in revenue from a year earlier, were in line with estimates it preannounced a week ago. BlackBerry shares rose 8 cents to $8.03 in New York on Friday. The shares are down 33% so far this year....
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11 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
VGTI scientists find out why HIV vaccines are not effective
VGTI scientists find out why HIV vaccines are not effective
Singapore: Scientists at Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida (VGTI), US, a nonprofit immunological research institute, showed that previously unidentified dysfunction in follicular helper T cells might have major implications on the ability of HIV infected patients to respond to vaccines.
The research was conducted by Dr Elias K Haddad, associate member and Dr Rafael Cubas, both from the VGTI Florida, and their colleagues from the US and Europe.
Antibodies, which are secreted by B cells, are among the most effective weapons against infectious diseases such as HIV, influenza, and the common cold as they are the major therapeutic components that are produced in response to vaccines. Follicular helper T cells are the major inducers of this antibody response.
The majority of HIV infected individuals fail to produce protective antibodies and therefore, have diminished responses to immunizations. Dr Haddad and colleagues identified components of the mechanism that are impaired during HIV infection. These results provide important insight into HIV pathogenesis and pave the way to the development of novel anti HIV therapies.
Dr Haddad and his colleagues contend that the results of this investigation will have important implications for the design of novel vaccines and therapies against HIV infection. Dr Haddad said, "Targeting follicular helper T cells in vaccine development may lead to the design of more effective vaccines for HIV."


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Table of Contents:
Section 1: atWar News
Section 2: The Training Initiative
Section 3: Funny Amok Video
Section 4: atWar Gossip
"Read what your heart desires" - Someone
atWar News
For starters, we have two new moderators! Congratulations to Eagle and Google Chrome. Ivan had asked us all to nominate who we wish to see as moderators, and now we have them. It appears that Google Chrome is taking his role as moderator gladly, as the Fun screenshots thread is just filled with funny pictures of Google Chrome testing out his new moderator abilities, haha!
As for the Clan War scene, ENIGMA has returned! Heat Check and other core ENIGMA members have revived the once competitive clan for this season. Now we will be able to see those classic clan wars between Epic Clan and ENIGMA that caused so much drama in past seasons. As we're in the topic of clan wars, Aristokrats have been knocked from their throne as #1! Epic Clan has been winning a lot of clan wars lately, and as the season comes to a close, would Aristokrats finally meet a worthy rival and lose their beloved #1 position? We have a couple of weeks to find out!
The Training Initiative
A new training initiative for the players run by the players is searching for trainers to teach atWar skills and mechanics to the new or curious members of the community. The initiative has been started to keep the game fresh and help new players coming into the game, helping us retain longer members of the community. For the older players of the game, they become more reformed in what they already know.
Trainers will be awarded for their work through trophies.
Trainees will be able to learn anything they wish.
Anyone willing to train people contact JF/, no forward requirements of a trainer other than he is active, wiling to train and understands the game.
Funny Amok Video
The video is very funny, it continues the Hitler meme of altering the subtitles of the video into something funny. In this case, Amok is Hitler who is angrily shouting insults at different parts of the community.
- This video is not meant to offend anyone that was stated or associated with in the video.
atWar Gossip
Shorter than the usual this week, but that means its a quicker read for those on a time crunch in their very busy lives of sitting in main lobby.
We have new mods, and no to the heart break of everyone, it is not Nifty.
The question is: Why does Google Chrome hate hearts? Has he faced a horrible childhood or a lonely valentines day?
But, the most important news in this week is: Did Dr. Trollface get personality disorder and became lemonade again??
What ever happened, may the Lemonade serve atWar and continue to put a sour taste in everyone's mouth.
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I knew it was time for another post, and there are so many things out there *they aren't telling you* I started to feel overwhelmed, so I'm going to pick something small today. I was reading through my endless stack of hastily printed blog posts and a few paragraphs about the latest major Earth disaster (Fukushima -- it's hard to keep track of them all, isn't it?) caught my eye.
So what caused these massive explosions in Reactors 3 and 4 to occur? According to Stone, nuclear weaponry was used to forcibly demolish these structures. Magna BSP, a security firm, allegedly installed massive "security cameras" inside the reactors prior to the disaster. These cameras weighed over 1,000 pounds, and look oddly similar to uranium gun-type nuclear bombs (http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/co...).
"When you put two and two together, it appears as though nuclear weapons disguised as security cameras may have been used to blow up Fukushima's reactors. Perhaps this explains the reason for the information blackout on Reactor 4 that occurred in the days following the disaster (http://www.naturalnews.com/031758_F...).
(Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/032692_Fukushima_earthquake.html)
"Hmmph," I thought. "What are the odds this "Magna BSP" is an Israeli Firm?" 100 percent, as it turns out. Yeah, they're also the guys being accused of introducing the STUXNET virus to the nuclear plants. Here's a picture of their security camera.
I wouldn't want to fly on any airline that's planning to use this system, either: Magna BSP gets grant for plane collision prevention system
Nor would I want to fly in any airports using ICTS, another Israeli firm. They were in charge of airport security for the 9-11 attacks, the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, and the Moscow Airport bombing.
Take it from me, folks, the Israelis really suck at security. They're like the English at cooking, or the Italians at accounting. It's just not their thing.


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A tightening housing inventory and steady demand for new homes throughout Southwest Florida has national builders returning to the area for the first time since the Great Recession.
In recent months, some of the U.S.'s largest homebuilders have either announced plans or begun construction on projects put on hold during the prolonged economic downturn that began five years earlier.
"Job growth in feeder markets is rising, and that's allowing people who thought about selling a home to come down and retire in areas like Sarasota," said Tony Polito, Tampa Bay regional director for Metrostudy, a housing data provider. "Builders are picking up on that."
The renewed national interest comes at the end of a year in which local builders such as Neal Communities and Medallion Home posted all-time sales highs and began new communities.
With a shrinking supply of existing real estate for sale, national developers are hurrying to finish models and spec homes to compete with their local counterparts.
"There's demand to get these homes done," said Cammie Longen�cker, vice president of sales and marketing for Taylor Morrison, an Arizona-based builder that is active locally.
Atlanta-based builder Ashton Woods Homes expects to make its debut in Sarasota next month, when it starts work on 91 single-family homes in its Whitaker Park community off Richardson Road.
"Real estate has started to come back to normal conditions, and we were looking around the state for other markets we could get into," said Mike Roche, vice president of sales and marketing for Ashton Woods. "Sarasota was at the top of the list. We want to be a major player here."
The developer said Thursday construction at Whitaker Park will begin within 90 days, with offerings ranging from three- to five-bedroom homes between 1,700 square feet to 3,000 square feet.
Ashton Woods anticipates prices to start in the high $200,000s, climbing to $400,000.
The company has been building homes in Orlando and Tampa for more than a decade, selling 480 homes between those two markets this year.
Whitaker Park, along with 140 homes Ashton Woods will build as part of the new phase of Rosedale in East Bradenton, will become the company's first developments in Southwest Florida.
By mid-summer, Ashton Woods plans to have four active projects here.
Roche said Sarasota's inventory, which is flirting with decade lows, combined with rising sales, prices and residential permit activity, has prompted the company to look for opportunities here.
And Ashton Woods is not alone.
California-based Ryland Homes, once the nation's third-largest builder, has begun construction in five communities from Parrish to Sarasota. In all, it has more than 600 single-family lots carved out for development.
Ryland's newest community — its first in Sarasota in several years — is Palmer Lakes, where its first model opened just a couple of months ago. Already, 10 new homes have been sold out of 78 available lots.
Ryland also is under contract on three additional parcels that are expected to close early next year. When that occurs, it would provide the company with another 325 home sites, said Joe Fontana, Ryland Homes' division president.
"We're seeing a market now where there's some wind at your back, so we're investing more capital south of Tampa Bay," Fontana said. "There's a lot more family formations being felt by builders, and we have the financial strength to go in and build these large projects."
Miami-based Lennar Homes, meanwhile, has acquired a modest seven home sites in Cypress Falls, a gated adult community inside The Woodlands in North Port.
Priced from the mid- $100,000s, the single-family homes planned there will range in size from 1,677 square feet to 2,529 square feet. A grand opening is planned for late January.
Lennar, one of the nation's largest builders, also is actively building at its Riverstrand community in Bradenton, and in Stoneybrook At Venice.
The company in November purchased about 172 acres in Lakewood Ranch from master developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch for $6.6 million, where it intends to build as many as 281 homes. Construction at the Bridgewater community is expected to begin next year.
"We continue to put spec homes in the ground, knowing they will be sold before they're ready to close," said Matt Devereaux, director of sales for Lennar. "Some might want a house in 30 days, some in six months."
But perhaps the most active national builder in Southwest Florida is Taylor Morrison. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., the company is building in eight neighborhoods between Manatee and Sarasota counties.
Its most recent projects include 95 single-family home sites at Arbor Reserve, in Bradenton, which is slated to break ground in January, and Esplanade by Siesta Key, a gated community slated for 247 single-family homes. Work there is underway.
Dozens of homes are now under construction at Taylor Morrison's Esplanade Golf & Country Club in Lakewood Ranch, which contains 1,250 home sites. A second phase, set to include an 18-hole golf course and other amenities, also is planned.
Taylor Morrison also is finalizing permitting for Arbor Lakes at Palmer Ranch, where development of 260 single-family homes on 217 acres is expected to begin in 2013.
The company saw sales in the area grow 23 percent this year, amid a shift to building smaller and less expensive homes to compete with foreclosures. With supplies of distressed homes diminishing, Taylor Morrison expects those figures to climb even further.
Local housing market draws national builders
A tightening housing inventory and steady demand for new homes throughout Southwest Florida has national builders returning to the area for the first time since the Great Recession.


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We delve into an exceptionally important aspect of Heavy Metal: the history of album cover art. From the birth of the genre, to downloadable art, we explore the prehistory, evolution, and future of the significance of album art for metal bands and their albums, we begin a multi-part journey into the history of metal cover art.
Hosted by Greg Davies, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
Clips and Sources
Book bound in human skin found at Harvard library
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (Special Features)
Evil Dead – Listening to the Book of the Dead
Good Reads: And Justice for Art
Joe Rogan Experience #887: James Hetfield
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)
Metal Evolution: New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Metallica gets OWNED by Spinal Tap
Pantera / Hellyeah's Vinnie Paul – Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?
The Shiver: Walpurgis – Artwork by HR Giger
Metal News Links
After the break-up of SISTER SIN, vocalist LIV SIN has a new solo album coming out
Broadway Adaptation Of NIKKI SIXX's 'The Heroin Diaries' To Begin Casting
CHUCK BERRY, a massive influence on Rock and Roll, and eventually Metal, has died at age 90
EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Releases Official Video For 'Speak To Me' Solo Single
GHOST Announce Headline Summer Tour Surrounding IRON MAIDEN Dates
Listen To ANTHRAX's Cover Version Of KANSAS Classic 'Carry On Wayward Son'
Report: MÖTLEY CRÜE's Biopic 'The Dirt' To Land At NETFLIX
SLAUGHTER Frontman MARK SLAUGHTER To Release 'Halfway There' Solo Album
There's a metal tribute to PINK FLOYD's "The Wall" coming out
Recommended Listening:
- "Wicked Young Man" by Alice Cooper from Brutal Planet
- "Hardwired" by Metallica from Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
- "F.C.I. / The Awakening" by Evildead from Annihilation of Civilization
- "South Pacific Overtutre" by Original Broadway Cast from South Pacific
- "Blue Suede Shoes" by Elvis Presley from Elvis Presley
- "Liquid Love" by Freddie Hubbard from Liquid Love
- "We Can Work it Out" by The Beatles from The Red Album: The Beatles – 1962-1966
- "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones from Beggars' Banquet
- "Doctor Who Meets Metal" by Eric Calderone from The 331Erock YouTube Channel
- "Moonage Daydream" by David Bowie from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
- "Out of Focus" by Blue Cheer from Vincebus Eruptum
- "The Rocker" by Thin Lizzy from Vagabonds of the Western World
- "Beth" by KISS from Destroyer
- "It's All Coming Back to me Now" by Meat Loaf from Bat Out of Hell III
- "Police Truck" by Dead Kennedys from Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
- "Running Free" by Iron Maiden from Iron Maiden
- "Turbo Lover" by Judas Priest from Turbo
- "Antisocial" by Anthrax from State of Euphoria
- "Nothin' But a Good Time" by Poison from Open Up and Say… Ahh!
- "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi from New Jersey
- "Split Wide Open" by Cannibal Corpse from Tomb of the Mutilated
- "When Satan Rules His World" by Deicide from Once Upon a Cross
- "Moonrise Fields of Sorrow" by Immortal from Battles in the North
- "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica from Metallica: The Black Album (1991)
- "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap from This is Spinal Tap
- "Sad But True" by Metallica from Live Shit: Binge and Purge
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana from Nevermind
- "Walk" by Pantera from Vulgar Display of Power
- "Lost in Space" by Avantasia from The Scarecrow
- "Octavarium" by Dream Theater from Octavarium
- "Twilight of the Gods" by Blind Guardian from Beyond the Red Mirror
- "The Four Horsemen" by Metallica from Acoustic Metal
- "…and Justice for All" by Metallica from …and Justice for All
- "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes from Fragile
- "Phantom of the Opera" by Iron Maiden from Quilmes Rock Festival Argentina 2009


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Since the 1990's UT System libraries have worked through the UT System Digital Library (UTSDL) to increase the buying power of individual UT System libraries. The UTSDL is an active library consortium of the UT System's academic and health related institutions. The consortium complements the collection strengths of each UT institution's library with online scholarly resources. UTSDL provides access to resources ranging from humanities ebooks to medical research journals. The UTSDL provides licensing services for electronic products and leverages group purchasing power in order to reduce costs across the UT System. In fiscal year 2015, the UT Health Science Center Library as part of the UTSDL consortium spent $1,223,935 for subscriptions to electronic journals and databases resulting in cost avoidance estimated at $9,691,265 based on vendor list prices. Journals published by Nature, Science, American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and many others are included in the UTSDL consortium subscriptions. The UTSDL is managed by librarians at UT Austin along with collection development librarians at each UT System campus.
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Entertainment news, WWE current and future legends, NWO, Hollywood, Australia, Sin City, Las Vegas, Olympics, gaming and more...
Movies Hollywood Entertainment Marvel Entertainment Amazing Spider-Man The Wolverine The Avengers The Dark Knight Rises Marvel Games James Bond Casinos Affiliate Programs Advertising
Kevin Nash teases NWO - New World Order return...
Kevin Nash, who was likely joking, teased an nWo reunion on his Twitter account recently, writing, "A lot of you wanted an NWO reunion,there will be one.As you know we only come in take over mode.Stay tuned!!!" The message was then re-tweeted by TNA Executive Eric Bischoff.
Nash later wrote, "Rock will never walk out of the Rumble with the belt we got Phils back... Sorry @CMPunk we got your back!!!!"
Nash also stated that Punk would be the leader and that the nWo army would be there "to protect the gold."
Wrestling legend Rey wants Pacquiao-Floyd in WWE ring...
During Rey Mysterio's tour stop in Manila, Philippines, Mysterio teased a mixed tag match with top boxing stars Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who "competed" at WrestleMania 24 four years ago. "I love Manny. In fact, Manny, if you're watching right now, I'm inviting you to join forces with Rey Mysterio in the WWE to take on "Money" (Floyd) Mayweather," Rey said on Manila TV, playing off Mayweather and Pacquiao unable to come together on a dream boxing fight. "I know you don't need me to take him on but this is just a teaser: me and you versus him and Alberto Del Rio."
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin and 'Iron' Mike Tyson at WWE Summerslam weekend function...
WWE Hall of Famers "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Mike Tyson are scheduled to attend a Summerslam Weekend function in Los Angeles, according to WWE announcer Jim Ross. Ross wrote in his latest blog on jrsbarbq.com: "If you see me wandering around L.A. Summerslam weekend, I'm there for a major, THQ function at the Grammy Museum the night before the PPV. Among those scheduled to attend the private affair are @steveaustinBSR and @miketyson, among many others."
WWE Announcer Legend Jim Ross Blog Update...
WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross is back with his latest blog about Monday's 1,000th episode of RAW, here are just a few highlights:
RAW 1000: "Memorable week especially kicking it off with RAW1000 in St Louis. No guarantees that any of us will be around for RAW2000 so I particularly enjoyed my experiences Monday night.
"The reality of the matter is this...it is highly unlikely, thanks Gorilla, that exact collection of performers will EVER be under the same roof again. I look back upon my attendance at RAW1000 as a privilege and am grateful to have had the opportunity to see so many old friends that have meant a great deal to me over my long career."
Inducting Mick Foley in the WWE Hall of Fame: "@RealMickFoley when asked who would induct him if/when Mick goes into the WWE HOF mentioned Terry Funk and yours truly. While I would love to honor Mick on that special occasion, there is no way that I would ever put myself in the same category with Terry Funk. Terry mentored Mick and treated Mick like a son. While I'd love to induct Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy into the WWE HOF, I think that Terry Funk is the best choice. However, I stand ready if called upon."
If CM Punk would reform the nWo: "A follower on @JRsBBQ on Twitter asked if I thought @CMPunk would reform the nWo. I have no idea if this topic is any thing more than speculation based on my friend Kevin Nash having some fun with the subject on Twitter. Bottom line is that I don't know but I would be surprised if Punk headed up a faction at this time because he seems to be such a solitary man. The only way that I see that ever happening at this stage of Punk's career is if he had complete control on who comprised the group."
Pro Wrestling giant Great Khali has tumor removed...
WWE wrestler Great Khali (Dalip Singh) had a tumor removed on Wednesday, which will put him out of action for 2-3 months. The tumor was on Khali's pituitary gland, which caused him to increase in height to over seven-feet-tall. However, if left untreated, the tumor could have been fatal, according to WWE's chief medical director, Dr. Joseph Maroon. It's the same issue that affected Andre the Giant. Surgery was performed at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pa.
TNA Video: Funny or Die Olympic training featuring Kurt Angle and Rob Van Dam...
TNA stars Kurt Angle and Rob Van Dam are featured in Funny or Die video. The theme is Angle returning to the Olympics with RVD as his trainer. You can check out the video at http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/636c3d08e1/olympic-trials-with-kurt-angle?playlist=featured_videos
'Squirrelly' move puts U.S. wrestler on map...
LONDON — It began as a goof — two brothers horsing around, dreaming up exotic wrestling moves straight out of the Vince McMahon WWE handbook and trying them out on each other.
The move has since gone viral as a YouTube sensation, become a nickname and, before the 2012 London Games are over, it might become part of U.S. Olympic lore — a highlight burned into our minds forever.
Ellis Coleman and his older brother, Lillashawn, used to wrestle with each other at their high school outside of Chicago when they would dial up crazy moves to use on each other.
The best of them was called the "Flying Squirrel.'' Ellis never forgot it, and now has turned it into a cottage industry for himself.
Coleman, at age 21 the youngest member of the six-man U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling team, has used the move about a dozen times in competition.
Perhaps the highest profile time he used it was in last year's Junior World Championships to come back and beat his opponent in the semifinals. ESPN ranked the move third on its "Best of the Best Highlights'' for 2011.
"It's been crazy,'' Coleman said yesterday. "Every time someone sees it, kids are reaching out to me on Facebook and Twitter asking me to show them the move.''
In the words of Coleman, one of a host of athletes at these Olympic Games representing the New York Athletic Club, here's how the move is executed: "You snap the opponent's head down, leap over him and, as you land on your feet, you grab his waist, pull him over, pick him up and throw him down.''
In Greco-Roman wrestling, the competitors get points for their various moves. Five points is the most you can get for one move. Coleman said he has used the move about a dozen times and usually gets at least three points for it.
He first unveiled it out of desperation in a match he was losing, stunned his opponent with it and went on to win it.
Coleman said he likes to use the move as an element of surprise and isn't sure if he will use it in the Olympics.
"If I'm losing, though, you'll definitely see it,'' he said. "It's a risky move. It's a spur-of-the-moment thing. It's so sudden you can't stop it. I always pictured myself, even in the Olympic setting and losing in the finals match, third period with 15 seconds left, hitting the 'Flying Squirrel' and everyone going crazy. I still picture it."
Though Coleman's teammates chide him for the move, they also embrace his guts for using it.
"They should probably put him on medication for even trying that," teammate Justin Lester said jokingly. "He's crazy for doing it, but that's what's going to make him good in the long run. You've got guys like him who are innovative and aren't afraid to wrestle.''
"It's definitely a move of desperation,'' said Dremiel Byers, the elder statesman and heavyweight of the Greco-Roman team at age 37.
"It's his wild card. It lets the opponent know he'll do anything to win.''
U.S. Wrestling Greco-Roman coach Steve Fraser said Coleman's flash has "brought a lot of attention to wrestling and Greco. He's talented, hungry and young … and a pleasure to work with. He's a very coachable kid. We love him."
The "Flying Squirrel'' craze reached such a pitch that Coleman recently bought himself a live flying squirrel pet and named him Rocky, who is about 45 days old and eats lot of apples and seeds.
"They bond with their owners,'' Coleman said. "He sleeps during the day and is very nocturnal, so I'll take him out of his cage and he'll crawl on me and fly to the curtains. Eventually, when he bonds with me, I'll be able to take him out in my pocket and he'll stay there without flying away.''
Coleman dreams of flying away from these Olympics with some hardware. Something gold, perhaps. (The New York Post)
NSW govt investigates 'floating casino'...
The NSW government is investigating whether cruise company P&O operated an illegal floating casino off the NSW coast.
Hospitality Minister George Souris on Wednesday said a government authority was investigating an allegation that passengers could play blackjack, pontoon, poker and roulette on a cruise that left Sydney on Friday night.
The cruise ship also had 40 poker machines onboard and let passengers charge $5000 on their credit cards for gambling, News Ltd reported.
"I've asked the Office of Liquor and Gaming to investigate whether a casino operation was under way in NSW territorial waters or whether gambling operations were under way in commonwealth waters," he told reporters in Sydney.
"It may be that NSW jurisdiction was breached, it may be that the commonwealth jurisdiction was breached. It may be even that both were breached."
He said NSW had no jurisdiction beyond 12 nautical miles from shore.
"Those are international waters," he said.
"In international shipping after the 12-nautical-mile limit it opens boats to gambling but also to duty-free liquor sales."
James Packer to speak at tourism conference in Canberra...
Billionare James Packer will be the drawcard for hoteliers, resort operators and owners attending a tourism conference in Canberra in late October. Mr Packer will open the Tourism & Transport Forum's annual "Leadership 2012" conference.
The gaming tycoon is a major tourism player given his Crown resorts in Perth and Melbourne attract 25 million visitors a year...
Jackman to Begin Filming 'Wolverine' in Australia...
Hollywood star Hugh Jackman will begin filming the next installment of his "X-Men" spin-off movies in Sydney next week, even though the female lead is yet to be confirmed.
Jackman, who admitted struggling to get into shape after packing on the pounds to play Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables," said his role as Wolverine, which he first played 12 years ago, was "the backbone of my career."
"I love the character. I still love the character," he said. "I had no choice at the time, I was going to take anything that came along, but I happened to have walked into probably the most interesting and complex of the superhero characters."
"I've always loved playing it and when I stop loving it I'll stop doing it," he added.
Melco Crown Project Gets Red Light on Casino...
Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. MPEL +2.32% still doesn't have permission to build a casino at its latest project, according to a revised government contract published Wednesday.
The Macao Studio City project, in which Melco Crown has a 60% equity interest, is designated for a five-star hotel and film facilities, indicates the latest government contract detailing various revisions to the agreement. But the document doesn't mention any casino facilities despite the company's earlier statements they hope to open up to 400 gambling tables at the property. It's possible the government could give the green-light on a casino later, but the uncertainty could complicate the company's efforts to finance the project.
Melco Crown, backed by Lawrence Ho and James Packer—the sons of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho and the late Australian casino-and-media magnate Kerry Packer—is one of six casino license holders in Macau, where it already runs two casino-resort properties in the world's largest gambling hub.
A representative for Melco Crown didn't respond to requests for comment.
In June 2011, Melco Crown signed a $360 million deal to gain control over the Macao Studio City project, resolving a bitter dispute between the project's earlier partners that had escalated to the Hong Kong courts, stalling development for years. New Cotai Holdings LLC, an arm of U.S. investment firms Oaktree Capital Management L.P. and Silver Point Capital L.P., retained its 40% stake in the project.
Earlier this month Melco Crown announced plans to enter the burgeoning Philippines market by teaming up with local property developer Belle Corp. BEL.PH -0.20% to partner on a casino resort that will cost at least $1 billion in an area the Philippines hopes will become Manila's version of the Las Vegas Strip. (The Wall Street Journal)
First Second unveils André the Giant comic...
First Second has confirmed its André the Giant biography.
Cartoonist Box Brown is working on the book charting the life of the professional wrestler and actor, reports ICv2.
André Roussimoff was a star and one-time champion of the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE).
He is also known for his role in cult classic movie The Princess Bride.
Roussimoff has the condition acromegaly, which saw him grow to 7'4" in height. He died of heart failure in 1993 at the age of 46.
Box is the author of Xeric grant-funded graphic novel Love Is a Peculiar Type of Thing.
The untitled André the Giant biography is scheduled for release in 2014. (Digital Spy)
The Expendables 2 slapped with R rating for extreme violence...
Action star-laden sequel The Expendables 2 has been given an R rating for its violent and sexual content in the US.
Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and co will even be throwing some bad language into the mix as they bat off hostile attackers in this follow-up to the 2010 action-packed extravaganza.
Lionsgate was rumoured to have been considering a PG-13 rating for the film, which is due for release in the States on August 17th.
Once again, Stallone assembles his hardened team of old-school mercenaries for a special mission - taking revenge after one of their squad is murdered on the job.
Director Simon West was never in any doubt that the film would receive such a high rating, given the 'very hard' violence and language perpetrated by the all-star cast throughout the film.
'I'm sure there were some financial people who wanted it to be PG-13 because they thought it would somehow make more money or have a broader audience, but there was no way,' he told wegotthiscovered.com.
'When you get these guys on the set, they can't say a line without putting the F-bomb in it, and they can't pick up a gun without blowing several limbs off.' (Metro)
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A photo of you while serving, and one of you now.
The Top is (BT1) Boiler tech. 1st Class in 1999 On board the USS Bataan LHD 5
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Okay. Then = radio-teletype operator in 82nd artillery in South Korea, 1962. Now = the blacksmith shop where I volunteer at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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MOS 94B (Food Service Specialist) 3/63 Armor during my first outing at 7th Army Training Center, Grafenwohr, FRG 1976
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Cynistoicurianism: The world view best expressed by "I can't trust them any farther than I can throw them. There's nothing I can do about it. Let's have a drink.
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Yes it is, but I lost all my "then" pictures in a house fire......
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IRS "easiest enforcer" of health care law
Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Despite claiming Obamacare was "not a tax," Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the Internal Revenue Service would be the "easiest enforcer" of penalties against those who refuse to comply with the new health care law.
"The way we usually think of taxation, Wolf, is that taxation as the IRS administers is collected on broad swaths and large categories of individuals," Wasserman Schultz said. "This is a penalty that will be assessed on the tax return if you choose to roll the dice and make us all pay for your being irresponsible and increase all of our health care costs."
"We're not going to tolerate that any more in America. You have to be responsible and you have to pay a penalty if you choose not to be," she added.
Last week the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare on the basis that it falls under Congress' taxation power. However, critics have argued that the health care law actually mandates Americans to buy a service under threat of government coercion, a violation of the commerce clause. The Supreme Court upheld this argument but still gave the green light anyway.
Under Obamacare, the IRS will be empowered to collect a whole raft of information about taxpayers and small business owners.
"The IRS now gets to know about a small business's entire payroll, the level of their insurance coverage — and it gets to know the income of not just the primary breadwinner in your house, but your entire family's income, in order to assess/collect the mandated tax," reports Fox News.
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Earlier this year, the IRS said it would need at least 4,000 new agents to enforce the Affordable Care Act along with $300 million dollars extra in funding to manage the infrastructure needed to compel Americans to comply with Obamacare.
However, that could only mark the beginning of a massive expansion of the IRS as a result of Obamacare. Back in 2010 it was reported that as many as 16,500 extra armed IRS agents were being hired to harass Americans into complying with the new mandates.
Congressman Ron Paul responded by asking why so many armed agents were required to enforce a law that the Obama administration has promoted as beneficial to the American people.
"16,500 armed bureaucrats coming to make this program work – if it was a good program and everybody liked it, you wouldn't need 16,500 thugs coming with their guns and putting you in jail if you didn't follow all the rules," said Paul.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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