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|Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger (left) and Niners TE Vernon Davis are among the best at their positions.
It is blue-chip/red-chip time here at NFL.com, which means ranking the top players and head coaches in the NFL.
In last year's blue-chip/red-chip column, I broke it down by team. This year I'm breaking it down by positions because it keeps the number of players on the list to the select few that meet the criteria for the grading system.
With a great deal of help from NFL Network colleague Brian Baldinger, we built a blue-chip/red-chip board. The goal was to get a top 10 at each position. But at some spots, like wide receiver and cornerback, we went more than 10. At others, like center, we went less. The end result is the top 73 players on offense and the top 75 on defense. Baldinger provided great insight and was a tremendous help, but I take full responsibility for the final product.
Definition of a blue-chip player
» Player demonstrates rare abilities and can create mismatches that have an obvious impact on the game
» Is a premier player in the league and a weapon on the field
» Combines competitiveness and skill to have a consistent championship-level performance
» Rates in the top five at his position in the league
Definition of a red-chip player
» Player has abilities that can create mismatches vs. most opponents in the league
» Is a featured player on the team and has impact on the outcome of the game
» Player can't be taken out of the game in one-on-one matchup
» Has a consistent level of performance each week
» Plays at a championship level performance
» Rates in the top 10 at his position in the league
Before you rip the rankings, make sure to read the above definitions and make sure the player you feel has been slighted fits the description. Not everyone can make the list, so there are going to be some good -- but not great -- players that fall short. In a separate column before the season, I will rank all the teams, using a point-based system, to come up with my blue-chip/red-chip power rankings.
So let's get started with the offense (click here for the defense and head coaches). Also note that the players are listed in order, starting with the best player at each position.
Blue Chips
Tom Brady, Patriots
Peyton Manning, Colts
Philip Rivers, Chargers
Drew Brees, Saints
Aaron Rodgers, Packers
Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers
Red Chips
Michael Vick, Eagles
Matt Ryan, Falcons
Matt Schaub, Texans
Eli Manning, Giants
» This is the only position I had six blue-chip players. All of them are clearly vital to their teams.
» I left Tony Romo off the red-chip list based on last year's shoulder injury, which affected his season. If healthy, Romo belongs on the list.
» Michael Vick is not a blue-chip player yet. He needs to play an entire season the way he played last year, then he might be able to unseat someone. However, even if he does play that well consistently, I'm not sure he is better than the six players ranked higher than him.
Blue Chips
Adrian Peterson, Vikings
Chris Johnson, Titans
Steven Jackson, Rams
Ray Rice, Ravens
Michael Turner, Falcons
Red Chips
Arian Foster, Texans
Rashard Mendenhall, Steelers
Jamaal Charles, Chiefs
Maurice Jones-Drew, Jaguars
DeAngelo Williams, Panthers
» The biggest omission is Frank Gore of the 49ers, who I feel is a really good player, but not quite up to par with the other red-chippers.
Blue Chips
Andre Johnson, Texans
Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals
Reggie Wayne, Colts
Greg Jennings, Packers
Roddy White, Falcons
Red Chips
Calvin Johnson, Lions
Wes Welker, Patriots
Santonio Holmes, Jets
DeSean Jackson, Eagles
Mike Wallace, Steelers
Vincent Jackson, Chargers
Miles Austin, Cowboys
Brandon Marshall, Dolphins
Marques Colston, Saints
Steve Smith, Panthers
» Dwayne Bowe of the Chiefs was the hardest omission. He had 15 touchdowns last season, but it never felt like he could take over a game.
» Why did 15 WRs make the cut? With all the three-receiver sets in the league, I didn't want to shortchange the position.
Blue Chips
Vernon Davis, 49ers
Marcedes Lewis, Jaguars
Antonio Gates, Chargers
Dallas Clark, Colts
Jason Witten, Cowboys
Red Chips
Jermichael Finley, Packers
Kellen Winslow, Buccaneers
Visanthe Shiancoe, Vikings
Heath Miller, Steelers
Zach Miller, Seahawks
» Both Clark and Gates have been hurt, but when they are on the field they dominate and are impossible to take out of the game.
» Finley is really a blue-chip player, but due to his injury last year, I moved him down.
» Rob Gronkowski of the Patriots almost made the list. With one more season like last year, he is a slam dunk to be a red chip.
» Heath Miller of the Steelers is so good in pass protections and run blocking that even though he is not a down-the-field receiver, he does so many things well that he cannot be taken off the list.
Blue Chips
D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Jets
Donald Penn, Buccaneers
Joe Thomas, Browns
Jake Long, Dolphins
Marcus McNeill, Chargers
Red Chips
Michael Roos, Titans
Jason Peters, Eagles
Chad Clifton, Packers
Jordan Gross, Panthers
Joe Staley, 49ers
» It's no coincidence all 10 play left tackle; it's where the best linemen play.
» Debated between Roos and McNeill for the final blue-chip spot, but ultimately settled on the Charger. Both are excellent players.
Blue Chips
Jahri Evans, Saints
Logan Mankins, Patriots
Josh Sitton, Packers
Chris Snee, Giants
Steve Hutchinson, Vikings
Red Chips
Carl Nicks, Saints
Harvey Dahl, Rams
Brandon Moore, Jets
Davin Joseph, Bucs
Kris Dielman, Chargers
» Hard to leave the Ravens' Ben Grubbs and the Browns' Eric Steinbach off the list, but only could have 10. Both players would be the next in line.
Blue Chips
Nick Mangold, Jets
Maurkice Pouncey, Steelers
Nick Hardwick, Chargers
Alex Mack, Browns
Ryan Kalil, Panthers
Red Chips
Andre Gurode, Cowboys
Kyle Cook, Bengals
Max Unger, Seahawks
» Only eight centers are on the list. It did not make sense to add a player to the list if his play did not fit the description in the grading system.
Follow Michael Lombardi on Twitter @michaelombardi


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Robins book Wembley date
Swindon will meet Chesterfield in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final at Wembley after beating Barnet 1-0 at The County Ground.
After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, the home side made their numerical advantage count after 17 minutes - with Barnet's Mark Hughes off the field receiving treatment - as Alan Connell found space to meet a perfect delivery from Paul Caddis.
The Robins had chances to extend their lead before the break, with Barnet goalkeeper Dean Brill on hand to deny close-range efforts from Raffaele De Vita and Paul Benson.
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Meggan was excited to come to her first fiesta party, and she brought her thoroughbred legs with her. Her sexy blues and pretty smile lit up the room. She seemed a little shy but was will to do whatever. Commando pulled out his dick, and she pretty much got the idea on what to do next. She put the cock in her mouth all the way down to base, and I am pretty sure she still had the pretty smile. She took the thick meat like it was an everyday thing and love the fiesta afterwards.
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When you create a Directory Proxy Server instance, the certificate database is automatically populated with the CA certificates of certain trusted CAs. You can add trusted CA certificates to the certificate database if necessary, by using the Directory Service Control Center (DSCC) or by using the dpadm command. For more information, see To Install a CA-Signed Server Certificate for Directory Proxy Server in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
When a client provides a certificate to Directory Proxy Server, the server verifies that certificate against the list of trusted CA certificates in its certificate database. The verification is successful if the server's certificate database contains the client certificate itself, or the CA certificate with which the client certificate was generated.
The server certificate can be one of the following:
Self-signed certificate. A public and private key pair, where the public key is signed by Directory Proxy Server.
Trusted CA certificate. A single certificate that is automatically generated by the company's internal certificate server or by a known Certificate Authority (CA).
Directory Proxy Server also supports the use of a server certificate chain. A server certificate chain is a collection of certificates that are automatically generated by the company's internal certificate server or by a known CA. The certificates in a chain trace back to the original CA, providing proof of identity. This proof is required each time you obtain or install a new server certificate.
When an instance of Directory Proxy Server is created, a default self-signed certificate is created. By default, Directory Proxy Server manages the SSL certificate database password internally.
You can install any number of certificates on a server. When you configure SSL for an instance of Directory Proxy Server, you must install at least one server certificate and one trusted CA certificate.
For an explanation of how certificate-based authentication works, see Certificate-Based Authentication. For information about how to configure certificate-based authentication for Directory Proxy Server, see To Configure Certificate-based Authentication in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.


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Cockles Never Safe to Eat
In the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Alaska magazine, a story on page 64 called "Hunting the Mighty Cockle" included an error.
That story incorrectly suggested that cockles, an Alaskan shellfish, can be harvested and eaten based on the time of year. It stated "it is only safe to dig cockles in the late fall and winter, when the water temperature is too cold to allow blooming of the algae that cause paralysis shellfish poisoning."
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has clarified that there is no safe time for harvesting cockles for human consumption. The department issued a public statement saying individuals who want to eat cockles should only purchase them at a proper wholesale or retail outlet. It said in part: "Shellfish can contain the toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) any time of the year. The DHSS Section of Epidemiology has received reports of Alaskans with PSP during every month of the year; there are no "safe" months."
To learn more about Alaska shellfish and PSP, see the Alaska Division of Environmental Health website at http://dec.alaska.gov/eh/RecShell/index.html.
Alaska magazine regrets the error.
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Cafe Altura Regular Roast Ground Coffee is grown in the Sierra Madre mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. Volcanic soils, high altitude and a variety of shade trees offer an ideal environment for growing arabica coffees organically and sustainably.
About Cafe Altura
Cafe Altura was started in 1980 when the viability of organic companies and the nation's interest in organic products was still unknown. Cafe Altura was founded to support the principles of organic farming - sustainability, living wages for farmers and stewardship of some of the worlds most verdant and beautiful landscapers - and to provide an avenue for the quality organic beans to reach the U.S. marketplace. Cafe Altura has remained small in both production capacity and management style to ensure that these concepts remain guiding principles.
Cafe Altura is a shade grown coffee. The shading of the delicate Arabica coffee trees is an important element in the organic management of the coffee farms. The Ecosystem in and around the trees, such as, birds and insects, as well as, the micro level biodiversity in the soil beneath, all benefit from having native trees in the system. As consumers, they see a benefit from the longer ripening times of the cherries providing a more complex flavor.
Cafe Altura roasts and packages their coffee in an Organic Certified roasting facility in Santa Paula, California. All of their coffees are small batch roasted to ensure cup quality and integrity. The coffees are roasted to order and Cafe Altura maintains minimal standing inventory of coffees roasted only days before.


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|How To Impress Your Friends With SACD
|Wednesday, 12 December 2007
AV Education on RHT
How To Impress Your Friends With SACD
Written by Jerry Del Colliano
AudioRevolution.com and RevolutionHomeTheater.com readers are the ambassadors of new AV technology to the non-enthusiast world. While you sometimes have to take a little friendly verbal abuse (ball-breaking, as it is called in Jersey) for investing $20,000 in a TV or $7,900 in a new preamp, your razzing comes more from jealousy and envy than anything else. Your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to show your neighbors, friends and technically savvy acquaintances why you are so gaga about audio and video.
One of the latest and greatest audio technologies to come along in recent years is SACD. By now, you likely know that SACD is one of two formats competing to replace the 20-year veteran known as the compact disc. Although it began as a primarily stereo format, SACD has blossomed into a high-resolution surround format capable of taking you places that a standard CD cannot. The goal of this article is highlight the way to best show off the new format to your friends. This includes explaining to them on a basic level how SACD works and why it is better than the CD that they might think is just fine. I find the best way is to talk a little computer talk. Everyone now knows what bits and bytes are. SACD discs have more space, which allows more room for storage of information than a CD has. SACD also uses a different encoding method called DSD, which allows even more music to fit on a standard-sized disc. If needed at the end of your demonstration, you can do an A-B test with one (or a few) of the titles you played, assuming your guests aren't completely blown away on the first round.
You want to be sure to explain the differences between the standard SACD discs and the hybrid discs. Standard SACDs, which make up much of the current overall SACD catalog, can only be played in a special SACD player. These range in price from a few hundred dollars to many thousands. Some of these SACD players also play DVD-Video discs and all of them play your existing collection of CDs. Some SACD players can also play the competing DVD-Audio discs, but the vast majority of the players in the market do not. Another point you want to make is about surround sound. SACDs are generally marked if they are mixed for surround sound playback. You also need to have your player connected to a fairly up-to-date receiver or AV preamp with a 5.1 analog input, so that you can enjoy all of what SACD has to offer you in surround sound. Although it is not the best-sounding option, certainly the easiest and most cost-effective is an all-in-one system, such as Sony's Dream System, which is priced around $1,000.
Some things to think about before you start spinning the music include getting your rap down. If you have guests over, make sure they have a drink in hand and are seated in the "hot spot" in your system. It makes them feel special and shows to them that you have put special attention into setting up your system at a very high level. Dim the lights as best you can. If you have Lutron controls for your lights, then you will have presets that don't put you in the dark but still de-emphasizes the visual as part of the musical listening experience. If you don't have a fancy lighting situation – no problem. An Ikea floor-standing lamp with dimmer and a few strategically placed candles works well. I keep a Tiffany's crystal tea light holder near my rack for night time listening sessions which illuminates beautifully. The crystal piece (even from Tiffany's) didn't cost more than $50, if my memory serves me right.
After you have explained all of the technology and have your guest(s) seated and ready for takeoff, you want to take a lesson from the world's best DJs and manage the tempo and emotions through the music. You are in control of your system and you want to grab your guests' attention. Of course, everyone's taste in music is different and you want know if someone is more into jazz or pop before playing your demo. For the most part, I stick with mainstream music that people have heard elsewhere before. Rarely do non-audio-geeks do A-B comparisons between formats, so if their basis for judging songs from Thriller is the radio or their CD player, then your job of impressing them got a lot easier.
A critical detail I learned from doing demos while working for Mark Levinson at Cello Music and Film Los Angeles and Christopher Hansen at Christopher Hansen Ltd. in Beverly Hills was to never let a song go much longer than 1:30. Really, what I am listening for is a good spot in the first chorus where I gently roll down the volume and get my client's (or your guests') thoughts on what they just heard. While they are raving, I cue up the next disc. You might need a little Maglite flashlight to make this process go more smoothly if you are effectively dimming the lights. You don't want to make it too dark, but you do want to take the process of looking all over the room out of the music listening experience. The idea of playing a song to the first chorus is to give your guest a taste of the tune, but not the whole experience. They can get immersed in that at home if they invest in a system.
You want to be flexible with your demo material to a certain extent, based on the tastes of your guests. Here is my basic SACD demo repertoire that I make changes to, depending on who will be listening. You want to start slowly with stereo music and get into more and more intense tunes and then surround sound. You want to have your closer already picked out and then another cool disc to put on after you are done with your demo for background music while you discuss your system, the new formats, music and more.
Jerry's Suggested SACD Demo Repertoire
1. I like to start with something like "The Girl From Ipanema" from Getz-Gilberto (Universal – Verve) which is handily the first track on the disc. It is an open and acoustic recording with a melody that people know around the world. The recording is beautiful on any format but it really shines on SACD. You can do a little bit on how the record literally defined Brazilian Jazz. You want to roll the volume down a few measures into Getz's first solo.
2. If your guests are golfers, you might spin a track from Notes From a Hebridean Island from Linn Records. Also an acoustic recording, this record has stellar sonics and makes you feel like you should be taking a few warm-up swings before teeing it up at Carnoustie or Old Head. You don't want to get too deep into this disc for demo purposes, but it sets a nice mood. I specifically like this disc for background listening while I read. It is way out of my stereotypical musical tastes, but it sounds incredibly liquid and periodically sneaks my attention away from my book and back into the music.
3. Next I build some suspense with "All Blues" from the all-time classic Kind of Blue. You can pre-sell the fact that this record has been mixed into surround sound, but it has been done very subtly. Suggest that your guests listen for the specific detail of the brushes on the cymbals start. You can let this track roll a little longer than normal. I find the best spot to bring it down is about halfway through the first Miles solo.
4. You've set a jazzy and low-key mood with your first three tracks and now you want to pick up the pace a little. I therefore suggest you make the transition with something fun like Legalize It from reggae legend Peter Tosh. This SACD is mixed in surround and, unlike the previously-mentioned recordings, is not acoustic. It is also more upbeat. Be sure to point out how the wa-wa guitars are in the rear speakers and how Tosh's vocals beam from right in the middle of the two speakers.
5. If you are showing off your system for Baby Boomers, especially women, try "Piece of My Heart" from Cheap Thrills, featuring Big Brother and the Holding Company. If the Peter Tosh record you just played didn't make your guests want to fire up the bong and relive forgotten moments of 1967, this cut will. You want to manage this demo carefully, because it isn't a pristine live recording, but it is swiftly mixed for surround sound. Be sure to point out the backup singers mixed in the rear channels and give this track a little more volume than the earlier acoustic tracks.
6. En route to bringing your demo to a close, I recommend that you move towards Earth Wind and Fire's That's The Way of the World: Alive in 1975 and the track "Shining Star." Also a live recording, this cut shows vast improvements in live recordings over a relatively short period of time. I often muse about the anti-disco movement sometimes caused us to forget how incredible a band Earth Wind and Fire was (and still is). They can really play and this surround sound mix allows you to hear a large-scale pop-funk act blasting out their big hits with big sound. Roll the track down at the part where they start to rap, which is right before the tune modulates to another key.
7. To wrap things up, you will want to play something like "Money" from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon. Everyone knows the tune and the surround sound mix is more deliberate than some of the earlier tracks I suggested. The cash register sounds really bounce from speaker to speaker, driving home the potential of listening to music in surround sound. Spin the track down somewhere in the sax solo.
By no means is this the definitive soundtrack to highlight SACD for every listener, but it is a good place to start. You can plug in new discs as they are released, which will expand your own chops as a SACD DJ.
Remember to have fun with the entire event. Invite guests for a summer barbeque or a more formal dinner party. Make the music as much a part of the fun as the food, the wine and the company. Being the ambassador to the world of high-end AV for your friends is an important role. Your research and learning from publications like AudioRevolution.com and RevolutionHomeTheater.com are an essential element to the success and growth of the industry. If you can show your friends the value that great-sounding music can bring to their lives, you are doing more than your part to help make these new formats become part of the mainstream culture.
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TAPS 162I: The Idea of a Theater
Examines the idea of a theater from the religious street theater of Medieval York, though Shakespeare's Globe, and onto the mental theater of the Romantic reader and the alienation effects of Brecht's radical playhouse in the 20th cent
Last offered: Winter 2013 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
TAPS 163D: Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge (ENGLISH 163D)
Was the eighteenth century right in proclaiming Shakespeare to be the greatest moral philosopher? What are the ethical challenges Shakespeare's major plays still pose for us? Can we divorce ethical decisions from the contingencies of experience? We will ask a series of normative ethical questions (to do with pleasure, power, old age, self-sacrifice, and truth telling) and attempt to answer them in relation to the dramatic situation of Shakespeare's characters on the one hand and our own cultural situation on the other. The ethical challenge of Shakespearean drama will be set against selected readings in ethical theory.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors: Lupic, I. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 13
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM at Econ 139 with Lupic, I. (PI)
Instructors: Lupic, I. (PI)
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER |
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Section 02 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 5
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TAPS 167: Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice (CLASSICS 112)
Gods and heroes, fate and free choice, gender conflict, the justice or injustice of the universe: these are just some of the fundamental human issues that we will explore in about ten of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI) ; Kim, H. (TA)
2019-2020 Winter
4 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-303 with McCall, M. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
TAPS 177: Dramatic Writing: The Fundamentals (TAPS 277)
Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Marsha Norman, Patrick Shanley, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Octavio Solis and others. Table readings of one-act length work required by quarter's end.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
TAPS 180Q: Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
Preference to sophomores. Chomsky's ideas and work which challenge the political and economic paradigms governing the U.S. Topics include his model for linguistics; cold war U.S. involvements in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Central and S. America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia and E. Timor; the media, terrorism, ideology, and culture; student and popular movements; and the role of resistance.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors: Rehm, R. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 16 / 16
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at Memaud125 with Rehm, R. (PI)
Instructors: Rehm, R. (PI)
Notes: Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores; first-year students admitted if space available. Advance sign-up process and deadlines at http://introsems.stanford.edu.
TAPS 197: Dance in Prison: The Arts, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation in America (AMSTUD 197, DANCE 197)
This class works collaboratively with a local juvenile hall to use civic engagement and performance to explore the aesthetic, cultural and legal issues in the lives of incarcerated youth. In the process students gain an understanding of incarceration on an immediate and personal scale. Taught jointly by a Dance Studies scholar and a lawyer specializing in Juvenile Justice, we will consider what unique understandings are possible if we position the arts as central to an exploration of punishment, rehabilitation and recidivism in America. The course will examine case studies, historical and contemporary narratives about the social, imaginative and behavioral change possible through arts programs in prison.Half of the class meetings will be in Hillcrest Juvenile Hall in San Mateo, where our class will join with a group of 13-18 year old youths currently detained there. Dance will be used to help shape their individual expressive voices, and ours, through collaborative hip hop dance classes. Books to be read are Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and Last Chance in Texas by John Hubner.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
2019-2020 Spring
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
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TAPS 248: Family Drama: American Plays about Families (ENGLISH 148)
Focus on great dramas about family life (Albee, Kushner, Shephard, Vogel, Kron, Nottage, Parks). Communication in writing and speaking about conflict central to learning in this class.
Last offered: Autumn 2013 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
TAPS 251C: Hamlet and the Critics (ENGLISH 115C, ENGLISH 215C, TAPS 151C)
Focus is on Shakespeare's Hamlet as a site of rich critical controversy from the eighteenth century to the present. Aim is to read, discuss, and evaluate different approaches to the play, from biographical, theatrical, and psychological to formalist, materialist, feminist, new historicist, and, most recently, quantitative. The ambition is to see whether there can be great literature without (a) great (deal of) criticism. The challenge is to understand the theory of literature through the study of its criticism.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum | Repeatable for credit
URBANST 126: Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation (CSRE 162A, RELIGST 162X)
A life of engagement in social transformation is often built on a foundation of spiritual and religious commitments. Case studies of nonviolent social change agents including Rosa Parks in the civil rights movement, César Chávez in the labor movement, and WIlliam Sloane Coffin in the peace movement; the religious and spiritual underpinnings of their commitments. Theory and principles of nonviolence. Films and readings. Service learning component includes placements in organizations engaged in social transformation. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
2019-2020 Winter
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
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U.S. Drops Case Against Ex-Lobbyists
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Federal prosecutors yesterday abandoned an espionage-law case against two former lobbyists for a pro-Israel advocacy group, a case that had transfixed much of official Washington because of its potential to criminalize the exchange of sensitive information among journalists, lobbyists and policy analysts.
In asking a judge to dismiss charges against Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, formerly of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, officials said recent court rulings had changed the legal landscape and made it unlikely that they would win.
Prosecutors and investigators had used FBI wiretaps to pursue Rosen and Weissman for at least five years, building a complex case that involved secret court hearings and dozens of legal filings and rulings. The two men were charged in 2005 with conspiring to obtain classified information -- about topics including al-Qaeda and U.S. forces in Iraq -- and pass it to the Israeli government and journalists from The Washington Post and other news organizations.
Rosen and Weissman were the first civilians not employed by the government charged under the 1917 espionage statute.
"Thank God we live in a country where you can defend yourself against an injustice like this," Rosen, 66, said yesterday. He said the case was politicized and pushed by government officials "who have an obsession with leaks . . . and an obsession with Israel and the theory that it spies on America."
The case was not a total loss for the government. A former Pentagon analyst, Lawrence A. Franklin, pleaded guilty in 2005 to passing government secrets to Rosen and Weissman. He was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
Lawyers for Rosen and Weissman attributed the withdrawal of the case in part to the Obama administration. "We are extremely grateful that this new Administration . . . has taken seriously their obligation to evaluate cases on the merits," the lawyers, Abbe D. Lowell, John Nassikas and Baruch Weiss, said in a statement.
But David Szady, who was the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence when the case was brought, said politics was not a factor in the decisions to file charges or to withdraw them. "If you commit espionage against the United States, the FBI has an obligation to investigate that, regardless of the political fires around it, and we're blind to whatever country may be involved," Szady said.
Recent pretrial rulings made the case difficult for the government, including an appeals court ruling that allowed the defense to use "national defense information" at trial. A lower-court judge also said prosecutors must show that the two men knew that the information they allegedly disclosed would harm the United States or help a foreign government -- a high burden for prosecutors.
Dana J. Boente, the acting U.S. attorney in Alexandria, where the trial was set to begin June 2, said prosecutors reversed course because of "the diminished likelihood the government will prevail at trial . . . and the inevitable disclosure of classified information that would occur." Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was aware of the discussions, law enforcement sources said, adding that the ultimate decision was made by prosecutors.
Officials said FBI agents opposed the decision, believing they had a strong case. Joseph Persichini Jr., assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, said yesterday that the case's end was "disappointing," but he commended the work of the agents.
The decision to drop the case was welcomed by AIPAC, long an influential presence in Washington because of its close ties to policymakers, think tanks and lawmakers. The group had distanced itself from Rosen and Weissman, formally firing them in 2005, but spokesman Patrick Dorton yesterday called the decision "a great day" for the defendants and their families.
AIPAC's critics had seized on the allegations against the two lobbyists as fresh evidence that the group had aligned itself so closely with the Israeli government that it was acting on that country's behalf. Supporters of the group said they were mystified by the case, noting that collecting information from government officials and sharing it with others, including governments with embassies in Washington, is a highly profitable local business.
The outcome left wider opinions about AIPAC and its influence largely unchanged. Jon B. Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he had never found the case to be particularly revealing about AIPAC. "I thought it was an unusual action by the government," he said.
Gary Wasserman, a professor of government at Georgetown University who is writing a book about the case, said he was not surprised that AIPAC was pleased by the proposed dismissal. A trial, he added, "would have provoked a lot of public discussion about how they worked."
Staff reporters R. Jeffrey Smith and Carrie Johnson and research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.


text: Tolerance is a beautiful thing. In the Netherlands, it's a tall, cultured, bicycle-ridding beautiful thing. The small, flat country has attained larger-than-life status through its famously liberal attitudes and policies, lending it a reputation for luring young travelers eager to let loose. But the Netherlands is a lot more than, ahem, coffeeshops and glowing red lights. Composed of culturally and linguistically diverse provinces, the Netherlands' vibrant cities, arresting national parks and green countryside are enough to make any visitor swoon. Traverse the canals and cafes of Amsterdam, making sure to stop into its world-class museums. Rival city Rotterdam reveals the country's grittier side, while medieval Delft still celebrates its hometown hero Johannes Vermeer. Hop over to historical Haarlem for a cobbled walk through history, or head into pan-European Maastricht for a different kind of Dutch experience. Need a little rural respite? Even amid all these cities, you're never far from the tulip-littered, windmill-sprinkled farmlands of the Netherlands' countryside—tailor-made of cycle-touring. Escape to the sand dunes of the North Sea beaches and let the windswept views inspire your own Van Gogh. And all the while, live easy among the easy-going.


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The oral health intervention strategies are described separately below. Each of these strategies is most effective when it is combined with other strategies. For example, changing knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs will do little to increase visits to a dentist if there is limited access to dentists in communities (e.g., no dental offices in the area, cost of dental services). Similarly, changing knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs will not be as effective if there is not social support for brushing and flossing teeth, wearing head and mouth protection, reducing sugar intake, or quitting tobacco use.
As described in Readiness and Preparation, it is important to make sure that the intervention strategies are created to represent and address the needs of the Population. This may include paying attention to how different groups think about oral health and related risk factors or health conditions. For example, oral diseases and conditions may be much more common in some communities. Therefore, community members may believe that it is unavoidable. Furthermore, an intervention works best when there is an attempt to address language, reading level, and cultural barriers (see Cultural Competence for more information).
Select one of the following intervention
The purpose of your intervention is to change…
E = evidence supports the effectiveness of this strategy
C = evidence supports use of this strategy in combination with other strategies
I = insufficient evidence to make a recommendation
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Hale starts with the remarkable career of Themistocles – the visionary who realised that a Persian attempt to invade and subjugate Greece was inevitable and that Athens had to develop sea power to counter this threat – and ends not with Athens' defeat and surrender to Sparta in the Peloponnesian war (404 BC) but with Athens' capitulation to Macedonia some 80 years later. For Hale, Athens' Golden Age is interrupted, not terminated, by Sparta, and once the Lacedaemonians' short-lived empire ignominiously collapses, Athens revives and is able to continue its glorious trajectory well into the 4th century, before being definitively scuppered by Alexander the Great and his successors.
Hale stresses, then, that the navy became the emblem of Athenian liberty and democracy. The ethos of the trireme, manned by free Athenian males, where distinctions of class and wealth were thrown overboard in favour of collective spirit and mutual endeavour, inevitably translated into the political field and shaped the radical demos that Athens became. The common man who risked his life at sea for Athens and brought wealth and security to the city now wanted to take part in the Assembly and affect decisions on matters of war, defence and foreign policy.
But if the navy provided the power and prestige for democratic values and institutions to hold sway in Athens, then, inevitably, critics of Athenian democracy blamed Athens' maritime obsessions for what they saw as the degeneration of society.
Aristotle disparagingly described the Athenian constitution as 'democracy based on triremes', and argued that the exoticism and heterogeneity of outward-looking maritime empires were antithetical to the functioning of an orderly state. Plato was an equally ardent critic of the Athenian thalassocracy and its architects – who he identified as Themistocles, Cimon and Pericles:
'Yes, they say these men made our city great. They never realise that it is now swollen and infected because of these statesmen of former days, who paid no heed to discipline and justice. Instead, they filled our city with harbors and navy yards and walls and tribute and such-like trash.'
But if these navy yards were trash for Plato, Hale suggests for democratic Athenians they were the city's pride and joy:
'The glories of the Acropolis dominate our modern view of Athens. Ancient Athenians saw their city differently. In terms of civic pride, the temples of the gods were eclipsed by the vast complex of installations for the navy. Near Zea Harbor at the Piraeus stood the largest roofed building in Athens, indeed in all of Greece. It was a naval arsenal, four hundred feet in length. The Athenian architect Philo designed it to house the linen sails, rigging and other "hanging gear" of the fleet. Philo was so proud of his storehouse or skeuotheke that he wrote a book about it, and the Assembly voted to inscribe its specifications on a marble stele. The Parthenon received no such attention at the time of its construction.'


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Debates ensue regarding what constitutes a service animal versus an emotional support or psychiatric therapy animal.
Debates ensue regarding what constitutes a service animal versus an emotional support or psychiatric therapy animal.
The Americans With Disabilities Act is clear: "While Emotional Support Animals or Comfort Animals are often used as part of a medical treatment plan as therapy animals, they are not considered service animals under the ADA."
Currently, service animals are limited to dogs and, in some cases, miniature horses. Whether a service dog is used for a physical or psychological disability, it must be ADA-certified.
Emotional support animals do not have the same level of access as service dogs. ADA further provides: "Emotional support animals, comfort animals and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not considered service animals either."
The ADA offers a handy, easy-to-understand chart that compares rights based on assistance dogs. Some points include:
— Public establishments must allow service dogs, but not necessarily therapy or emotional support dogs.
— Service dogs are specially trained to assist just one person, while therapy and emotional support dogs are not.
— Service and emotional support dogs are allowed to live with disabled owners even if there is a "no pets" policy in place.
While rules are fairly black and white regarding dogs, gray areas exist with other animals. Animal Legal and Historical Center, through its animallaw.info site, clarifies: "An emotional support animal is not a pet. An emotional support animal is a companion animal that provides therapeutic benefit to an individual with a mental or psychiatric disability. The person seeking the emotional support animal must have a verifiable disability (the reason cannot just be a need for companionship)."
A diagnosis for an emotional support or therapy animal must come from a medical physician in order to be legitimate. There are general sites to register an emotional support animal, but esadoctors.com issues this statement: "ESA registration is neither necessary nor required by law. ESA registration is not recognized by airlines or landlords. The only recognized certification of an emotional support animal is an ESA letter from a licensed mental health professional."


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DALLAS (Reuters) - Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, told jurors at his insider trading trial he was angry when he learned an Internet company he invested in was planning an equity offering but was not told the information was confidential before he sold his shares in the firm.
Cuban was called to testify on Thursday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused him of dumping his $7.9 million worth of shares in Montreal-based Internet search company Mamma.com Inc in June 2004 after learning that it planned a private placement that would dilute his stake.
He acknowledged to jurors and a packed courtroom in Dallas federal court that he did not support the offering, but that he emailed his broker a day after the sales stopped to "make sure" they were "kosher," and asked him to "check with your folks."
Cuban said he never got a written answer, but "presumed they'd do their job."
The SEC accuses Cuban, 55, of trading on inside information when he unloaded his 600,000 shares after learning in a June 28, 2004 phone call from Mamma.com Chief Executive Guy Fauré about the offering, which would have dropped Cuban's stake to 4.9 percent from 6.3 percent.
Mamma.com shares dropped 9.3 percent on June 30, 2004, the morning after the offering was announced. By that time, Cuban had already sold his shares, avoiding a $750,000 loss.
Cuban is estimated by Forbes magazine to have a $2.5 billion net worth. He has maintained that there was nothing wrong with his trades.
In his testimony, Cuban described himself as a conservative investor who had never been involved with a company that raised funds through the type of offering planned by Mamma.com, known as private investment in public equity (PIPE).
"I always associate PIPE with scam companies," and such an offering signals possible financial problems and desperation, Cuban testified when questioned by his lawyer Thomas Melsheimer.
Cuban told jurors that immediately after a June 28 phone call with Fauré, he called Arnie Owens, who was in charge of the offering.
According to Cuban, Owens "invited me to be an investor" in the offering, even though all shares had been accounted for.
Cuban said he understood this to be public information and told Owens he wasn't interested.
"I sold my shares knowing it was public information," Cuban told jurors.
Cuban testified that he told his broker to sell the shares at a market price, resulting in 10,000 shares being sold that day, and the remaining 590,000 the next day.
SEC lawyer Jan Folena attempted to show through questioning about email exchanges and blog entries that Cuban dumped the shares solely to avoid a financial loss on a confidential deal.
Cuban said he had also recently learned Mamma.com was being investigated by the SEC about possible dealings by a known stock swindler, the late Irving Kott, and that it was one of several reasons he sold his shares.
Cuban said after his initial investment, the price of Mamma stock kept going down, prompting him to start heavily researching the company.
Earlier this week, the SEC presented video testimony from Fauré, who said Cuban told him upon learning of the offering plan: "Now I'm screwed. I can't sell."
Cuban disputed that account, and maintains that he never believed the information was confidential or material enough to trigger an insider trading violation.
Fauré could not be subpoenaed to testify in person because he is a Canadian citizen.
Cuban is expected to return to the witness stand on Monday when the trial before U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater resumes. The trial is expected to last eight to 10 days.
In suing Cuban, the SEC is seeking to recoup ill-gotten gains, impose fines and obtain a permanent injunction to bar him from similar alleged misconduct.
Cuban rose to prominence ahead of the dot-com crash by selling his company, Broadcast.com, in 1999 to Yahoo Inc for $5.7 billion.
He is a star of the ABC television show "Shark Tank" and has appeared on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
The SEC brought the civil lawsuit against Cuban in November 2008. Fitzwater dismissed the suit in 2009. A federal appeals court revived the case the following year.
The case is SEC v. Cuban, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, No. 08-02050.
(Editing by Karen Brooks, Lisa Shumaker, John Wallace, Dan Grebler and Andrew Hay)


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If grim markets this year have skewered your portfolio's returns, you probably weren't investing much in Latin America.
While many world stock markets have been suffering, Latin America's have refused to follow suit. Through June 4, the Morgan Stanley Capital International Latin America equity price index has gained 11.6 percent this year, while the MSCI Emerging Markets index fell 5.8 percent and the MSCI World index shed 5.3 percent of its value.
Within Latin America, the MSCI Brazil stock index jumped 13.4 percent this year through June 4, while Argentina's leapt an even higher 22.5 percent. In addition, Colombia's stock market rose 16.7 percent, while Mexico's market climbed 7 percent.
Evidently, this showing wasn't just a one-off event: Over the five-year period, Latin America was collectively the best performing stock market region in the world on an annualized-return basis, MSCI data show.
Behind Latin America's good showing, many experts cite global demand for commodities, such as oil, iron ore, and other metals that Latin America supplies. Such trends added punch to an overall economically brightening picture in the region. "Latin America is experiencing its fifth year of steady expansion. The region's economy has been growing, creating more employment [and] rising incomes, but generally lower inflation, which means greater purchasing power for Latin Americans," sums up Alfredo Coutino, senior economist for Latin America at Moody's Economy.com.
All the while, the region's trade expansion beyond the United States market now helps limit any impact of a US recession, he holds.
Meanwhile, the region continues to offer attractions for socially responsible investors, some experts say. Some companies there "have themes in their sector or industry that play well in sustainability," says Lauren Compere, shareholder advocacy director at Boston Common Asset Management. But she would avoid "polluters" or "companies that create degradation in the mining or extracting process."
Despite Latin America's growth, signs suggest many international investors aren't pouring money into Latin America right now, chasing after good returns. This year through May 28, US-registered Latin American mutual funds had net inflows of $362 million, according to data of AMG Data Services. Although that exceeds the net $309 million into this category in the first five months of 2007, it's almost $1 billion less than the net inflows during the same period in 2006.
Moreover, the Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for May showed a lessened enthusiasm for Latin America among global emerging markets managers: Asked about their most preferred emerging-market region over the next year, only 29 percent of survey respondents cited Latin America – more preferred to invest in emerging nations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
In interviews, some – but not all – managers expressed concern about the run-ups already in some Latin markets, given the global economic slowdown.
"At this stage, I'd be cautious [about Latin America] and wait until stock prices come down," suggests Simon Hallett, chief investment officer of Harding, Loevner Management in Somerville, N.J. "Sentiment [has been] powerfully in favor of Brazil," he says, so right now, there "doesn't seem room for sharp positive surprises."
Acadian Asset Management in Boston has "recently gotten more cautious on Brazil because it's done so well," says John Chisholm co-chief investment officer for the company. Instead, the firm now prefers such markets as Russia's and South Korea's.
Within Latin America, "Mexico remains a ... market in which we believe we can do well," says Mr. Chisholm. Among the factors favoring Mexico, he holds: are its currency, since the Mexican peso "looks less extended than the Brazilian real; monetary policy, which is a little looser in Mexico than Brazil," and, on balance, oil prices, since "Mexico exports more oil than Brazil."
Fiona Morrison, investment manager in London of the Aberdeen Emerging Markets fund likes the long-term domestic growth story in Latin America. But for now, she's pessimistic about emerging markets as a whole. "We expect further corrections in these markets," she says. "Most analysts expect 15 percent earnings growth in 2008 for emerging markets, which we think is optimistic. As [actual] earnings come out, emerging markets will be downgraded, and we expect a leg down again in the performance of the markets," including Latin America's.
But some investment pros continue to champion Latin America. "Possibly the pace of gains seen recently won't be sustainable, [but] we still believe the region will perform well over the short, medium, and long term," says Nick Beecroft, portfolio specialist with T. Rowe Price in London.
With stock holdings such as those of retailers Wal-Mart de Mexico and Lojas Renner in Brazil, T. Rowe Price's Latin America Fund is "heavily biased toward domestic growth," he says. But the fund also has "big positions" in multinational firms in Brazil, including Vale, a mining company, and Petrobras, an oil producer.
BlackRock Inc., a mutual fund company in New York, not only has a Latin America mutual fund but an overweighting to Latin America in its emerging markets portfolios. Most the firm's "global fund managers have it as an overweight as well," says Will Landers, the company's senior portfolio manager for Latin America.
Given the range of positive trends there, Mr. Landers believes it's "a good time to be investing in that region."


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Daniela Mack
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack has been acclaimed for her "caramel timbre, flickering vibrato, and crisp articulation" (Opernwelt) as she "hurls fast notes like a Teresa Berganza or a Frederica von Stade". (San Francisco Chronicle)
The operas of Rossini will figure prominently in Daniela Mack's 2010 – 2011 season. She opens the season in a role for which she has already garnered much critical acclaim: Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Pittsburgh Opera. She will make her role debut and house debut as Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri at Opéra National de Bordeaux and Florentine Opera. She will then sing Angelina in La Cenerentola at Opera Colorado. Concert performances include Handel's Messiah with the Calgary Philharmonic, Falla's El amor brujowith the Boca Raton Philharmonic, and Ravel's Shéhérazade with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She will also be a soloist in a Valentine's Day Gala for Opéra Louisiane with tenor Alek Shrader. Future seasons will see Ms. Mack at the San Francisco Opera and English National Opera.
In the 2009 – 2010 season, Ms. Mack returned to the San Francisco Opera for her final year in the Adler Fellowship Program where she was seen as Siebel inFaust. Previous appearances at San Francisco Opera have included Idamante in Idomeneo and Lucienne in Die tote Stadt for her house debut. She made her Deutsche Oper Berlin debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, a role that she also sang with Opera Omaha. In addition, she was the mezzo-soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Recent notable engagements include her debuts with Opera Theatre of St. Louis as Tamiri in Il re pastore and with Opera Cleveland as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. In 2007, Ms. Mack performed the title role of La Cenerentola as a member of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera. She was also a featured artist in the Plácido Domingo Gala Concert – A Night for New Orleans with New Orleans Opera and made her West Coast recital debut as part of San Francisco Opera's Schwabacher Debut Recital Series.


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Monday, 19 October 2009
In amongst the fallen leaves
13 comments:
- Mat said...
totally rocking post! i'm with you all the way on the amount of colour choice and well certain coloures work together and look well thought out and some how grown up (american apparel do this but the look turns out much more immature looking).
And i have all those socks, ever since i visited the shop the first time, over two years ago i have grown my sock collection, and they are now the only socks worth wearing. for comfort, shades and how well they wear.
Spring is here!
- 19 October 2009 at 13:45
you've done it. You've done it. You've taken decent pics of yourself.
Hurrah and also i think you should check out the royal hospital chelsea and its parkland which is amazing and nobody goes to it. YOu might also like the chelsea physic garden which has amazing displays of plants all year round.
- 19 October 2009 at 17:05
- Style Salvage Steve said...
Mat: Thanks! I knew you'd be right behind me on this one. We are both disciples of this great high street store. Surely you mean Autumn is here though?
Anonymous: I can't take any credit for the pics, as always Susie was the photographer so she deserves the pat on the back! I've not yet mastered the art of self portraiture you see. Thanks for the tip, I've not ventured down to the Royal Hospital Chelsea but I like a quiet green space.
- 19 October 2009 at 17:31
- Mat said...
- 19 October 2009 at 17:45
- Make Do Style said...
Ah a great art attack of clothes.
I'm much impresses by the background setting and at ease posing.
The socks are clearly the winners!
- 19 October 2009 at 19:39
- Daniel Jenkins said...
Thought might amuse!
- 20 October 2009 at 11:26
- georgeface said...
Gosh I miss Art Attack!!!
- 20 October 2009 at 14:25
- Cutting dash said...
Look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane.
- 20 October 2009 at 16:08
- Style Salvage Steve said...
Mat: Ha, no worries!
Make Do Style: Thanks...not quite a Neil Buchanan but it was fun. I agree that the setting really is something but I fear the posing requires some more work. I am wearing two pairs of the socks at the moment, it is cold today!
Daniel Jenkins: Thanks so much for the link, I will never listen to anything else. How about we go and see them on tour?
Georgeface: Me too!
Cutting dash:...it is leaf man.
- 20 October 2009 at 17:11
- thischicksgotstyle said...
Hahah love the socks!
The colors of your outfit remind me of this winter's collection of Dries van Noten!
- 20 October 2009 at 20:45
- Barima said...
Art Attack. Good times
I actually think the look works better without the coat. It's a strong ensemble - the best I've seen from you, in fact
- 20 October 2009 at 23:48
- Mens casual jackets said...
I like your look -and all the different colour combinations!bought a similar pair of purple jeans the other day!
- 22 October 2009 at 09:55
- Blank Label said...
autumn is undoubtedly the most beautiful season of them all. i love how much fun you're having with the photoshoot. what a way to enjoy the season and fashion! great stuff steve
- 2 November 2009 at 20:28


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After several days of frustration I have finally got a Patgaurd 2 at our site working again and the primetest 300 talking to it. (Bluetooth issues and licence key locked for unknown reason)
However I have not been able to achieve what I expected to with the software. Even after doing an download then a upload back into the unit it does not remember the details for the item being tested.
Every time have to enter the test type, item location etc when retesting items tested last cycle after entering its ID.
I assume it might have something to do with asset groups in the software but I can not find any reference in the manuals to the 10 digit test code required?
I assume its not the same as the old pat2000 codes as they did not seem to work.
With the fast battery drain, not able to use on AC supply, lead swapping to do PE conductor test/load test, non isolated RCD test and the generally flakiness of the barcode scanner and printer I can understand why the unit had been shelved. However we no longer have a choice as last DOS machine and tester is beyond repair.


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PEMBROKE, N.C. - The Georgia Southwestern women's basketball team played UNC Pembroke close but a late Lady Brave basket proved to be the difference as UNCP came out on top, 64-61, Sunday afternoon.
GSW held a six point advantage, 57-51, with less than five minutes remaining but a 6-0 Lady Brave run evened up the contest setting up the late game heroics.
Two Shaniece Sheffield free throws put the Lady 'Canes up by a point with 32 seconds remaining but UNCP's junior guard Wayne Mack took a pass from Chandrika Fuller and converted a layup to put the Lady Braves back up by one.
Mack's shot proved to be the game winner as GSW's last chance came up short.
Sheffield's shot with eight seconds remaining rolled out and UNC Pembroke held on for a thrilling 64-61 victory.
Southwestern Sophomore guard Kayla Dayton, a recent transfer playing in just her fourth game for the Lady Hurricanes, had a coming out party of sorts.
Dayton finished as the game's leading scorer with career-high 16 points. The 5-foot-10 guard also added five rebounds for GSW (3-10, 1-5 PBC).
Jasmine McSwain (13 points) and Sheffield (12 points) rounded out the Southwestern players who finished in double figures on the afternoon.
Mack led UNCP (8-7, 2-4 PBC) with 13 points, including the ultimate game-winning basket.
Junior forward Jasmine Kemp finished with a double double (10 points, 10 rebounds) for the Lady Braves.
GSW will be back in action this Wednesday as they return to the Storm Dome for a 5:30 p.m. contest against Montevallo.


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It's my pleasure to welcome Karen Fenech to MurderSheWrites today. Karen writes contemporary and historical romantic suspense. Her novel Betrayal has been translated in Japanese, and her short fiction has been translated in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. Karen lives with her husband and daughter. Visit her website at: www.karenfenech.com.
Thank you to Debra and the wonderful authors at Murder She Writes for having me here. In addition to giving up her blog today, sometime ago Debra read my recently released novel GONE and provided a quote for the book. Imagine my delight at receiving a quote from an author whose work I had long enjoyed and admired.
Debra's kindness and generosity, and that of other writers I am privileged to know, has made me think of our community of writers as a family. In our family, a call for help when a plot stalls or a character misbehaves brings fellow writers with sleeves rolled back, ready to pitch in and solve the problem. It's these same people who are cheerleaders and champions of our work and, when something in our writing world derails us, they are the ones who give us a much-needed kick in the butt to get up, get going, and move on. No one else really "gets" this part of our lives.
My latest release GONE explores the subject of family. My heroine, FBI Special Agent Clare Marshall, is searching for the sister she was separated from in childhood when her mother tried to kill her. Clare has known the hope of promising clues to her sister's whereabouts and the crushing despair when those clues reveal themselves to be false leads. Now, she tracks her sister to a small South Carolina town. This time it's for real and Clare knows that a reunion with her sister is imminent. When she arrives in town, however, she discovers that her sister is missing and that someone from the town is responsible for her disappearance. Fearing for her sister's life, Clare launches an investigation into her disappearance. Fellow FBI Special Agent Jake Sutton offers help, but Jake is Clare's estranged lover and has an agenda of his own.
Here's an excerpt from GONE:
Clare left the nursing facility and stepped into bright sunlight. She shielded her eyes with the back of one hand and with the other reached into the purse dangling from her shoulder, digging for sunglasses. A man was walking across the parking lot toward her. A trick of the light, he looked like . . .
She hadn't realized she'd spoken his name aloud until she heard it.
He was close enough to have heard as well, though he didn't speak. His eyes, narrowed against the sun, fixed on her with an intensity she remembered all too well.
Too late to pretend she hadn't seen him. It wasn't too late to walk away, though. She wanted to walk away, really wanted to, and because she did forced herself to stay put and meet his gaze.
Jake now stood in front of her, blocking the sunlight. Clare lowered her hand. His chin was at her eye level. He hadn't shaved. Black beard shadowed his jaw, made his tanned skin look darker.
The last time she'd seen him, from the other side of her bed, he'd looked a little pale. Tired from working too hard. Tired from going another ten rounds with her.
That was three years ago. He didn't look to be suffering from sleepless nights anymore. He looked rested and fit. The blue T-shirt he wore over jeans showed his hard, tough body. Was he still with the Bureau? If so, by his casual attire, he wasn't working today.
"I could say the obvious 'small world,'" Jake said.
It had been big enough for her until a moment ago. But in response, she said only, "Must be."
In the awkward silence, a group of women in hospital uniforms dashed by, causing a slight breeze that smelled strongly of spicy perfume.
Jake cleared his throat. "Don't tell me the Bureau's sent you to make sure I'm not lazing my days away fishing?"
He said it with a smile, an obvious attempt at lightness. Clare didn't return the smile.
"You're assigned to the Columbia office?"she said.
"Resident office in Farley, actually."
That surprised her. After they'd stopped seeing each other, Jake had put in for a transfer out of the New York office. They'd been members of the same squad for a time and had been paired off. Working together after things ended had strained them both. Jake was very good at what he did and had earned the commendations to prove it. He could have aimed a lot higher than Farley. She couldn't understand why he hadn't.
She didn't know where he'd gone—didn't want to know—but she would never have imagined him choosing Farley. He was a city boy. She wouldn't have figured he would come here voluntarily. He must have been desperate to create distance between them for him to accept this post.
"Just me, one other agent, and an admin assistant," Jake went on. "How about you? What brings you to our fair town?"
When she'd known him, she'd never mentioned Katie. On the nights he'd stayed at her apartment, she'd stored her cork board and files on her sister in a closet. She had no reason not to tell him about Katie at this time. Her being in Farley and the reason for it was likely climbing the town grapevine at lightning speed. But there was no reason to bring Katie up to him now, when she hadn't before.
"Vacation," she said simply.
He heard the lie. The humor in Jake's gaze vanished and in an instant his gaze grew razor sharp.
"I recall you had a preference for sand and surf," he said.
No doubt he was referring to the one brief getaway they'd taken together—a spur-of-the-moment jaunt following a particularly gruelling assignment. They'd both been wound tight. He'd asked her where she'd like to go.
White sand beach. A pounding surf. No one else around for miles.
Her words returned to her. The next morning, she'd awakened and found he'd packed her suitcase and had found the perfect place for them to go. She didn't care for the reminder of how perfect it had been between them once.
"Not this time," she said. "Good-bye, Jake."
Before he could say anything further, Clare walked away from him.
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Michelle Obama has joined the social media photo-sharing website Pinterest. On Wednesday morning she pinned 12 images on the service, grouped in three categories: "Around the White House," "Great Memories," and "Father's Day." Or rather, she pinned eight of the images, and the Obama reelection campaign put up the rest. The Obama 2012 staff is going to run the site with Mrs. Obama's input. Her personal pins will be signed with her initials, "mo."
Some of the pictures are standard publicity fare. There is Mrs. Obama winning a tug-of-war with talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, while a portrait of George Washington looks on. There's Mrs. Obama digging up what appear to be peppers from the White House garden. There's the Obama family's official 2011 portrait.
But there is also some stuff that might come under the heading of pretty personal blasts-from-the-past. There's a photo from 1992 of the future first lady hugging the future president, her eyes on the camera, his staring off... somewhere. So young, they look. In the Father's Day category there's a rare shot of the couple kissing, and a miniature-golf action shot.
What's Mrs. Obama doing, joining Pinterest now? Keeping up with Ann Romney, for one thing. Mrs. Romney has been on the site for a while, and has a nice, homey pinboard that's heavy on recipes (Meat loaf cake? What's that?), flag shots, and family photos.
The current first lady is also just augmenting her overall social media push. She's got more than 1 million followers on Twitter (Her latest tweet: a twitpic of a sacked-out Bo) and 7 million "likes" on Facebook.
But what's really behind all this is the effort by Obama's reelection team to leverage the first lady's popularity as much as possible as early as possible in the 2012 race. It's a multipronged strategy: social media, her new book about the White House gardening and healthy eating, and traditional media appearances pegged to the book's publication.
Oh, you thought it was just a coincidence that "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America" came out about the time the GOP picked its nominee and the general election began? Toughen up – the campaign's just getting started.
Remember, Mrs. Obama's poll numbers are much better than her husband's. An April Marist survey found that 65 percent of registered voters had a positive view of the first lady, for instance. Only 23 percent had an unfavorable opinion.
"The first lady may be the president's best asset," said Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, when the poll came out. "With numbers like these, expect her to have a high profile on the campaign trail."
Voilà, Pinterest. The Father's Day category on her new pinboard invites viewers to sign a Father's Day card for the president. Click through, and it further invites you to contribute to the campaign.
With both sides eschewing public financing for the fall campaign, they are in a dollars race to amass enough cash to counter the other guy's message. Expect more of the same, from both sides, in months to come.


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Cher Lloyd Rocks Bikini on the Cover of Inked Magazine, Talks 'Risky' Sophomore Album
Cher Lloyd is Inked magazine's cover girl for their August 2013 issue, and the British beauty is oozing pin-up sexiness.
Wearing the same vintage bathing suit she rocked in her 'Oath' video, the songstress looks amazing as she shows off abs and slender legs sitting atop a cherry red convertible. Her inked-up arms are on full display, of course, and the wavy-haired brunette also told the mag she has "around 20" tattoos.
Lloyd also dished on her sophomore serving of songs, saying her next album will stray from her frothy roots and give a much more personal look at her as a person and as an artist.
"I feel like I'm taking a risk this time around because the previous album was kind of bubble-gum pop and we're stepping away from that," she tells Inked. "It's strange because when you listen to my first album, it sounds like I'm a typical pop star wearing princess dresses, but if you look at me I'm kind of on the street side. I'm free to curse whenever I want and express some grown-up situations [with this album], so I think it will be a bit of a shocker for people."
She also talked about her first tattoo and the bird tat she received in honor of her uncle, saying, "I thought there was something special about leaving the cage door open and having the bird fly out on the other side."
Lloyd also dished out some sound advice for youngsters hoping to get some permanent body ink, saying, "It's up to an individual to choose when they want to get a tattoo -- and if you're under the age... you should discuss it with your parents, like I did. My fans know I'm not untouchable. They can always take inspiration from me -- and that extends to my tattoos."
Check out more pictures of Cher Lloyd's Inked photo spread below! She's absolutely sizzling in these throwback shots!


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The Spring SFFS/KRF Grant winners have been announced! SFFS, in partnership with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, is giving away serious money once again, continuing the rapid growth as a prolific funding source in indie cinema—past winners include Beasts of the Southern Wild and Fruitvale Station! Eight filmmaking teams were granted funding a total of $340,000 in funding—the largest amount disbursed to date—to help with their next stage of production, from screenwriting to post. Congratulations to the following filmmakers! We look forward to viewing their work!Read More


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