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HURI is pleased to announce its research fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year.
HURI's fellowship program offers funding for research in Ukrainian studies at all stages of an academic career. Our fellows conduct research in residence at HURI while making use of the extensive resources at Harvard University, participating in seminars, and connecting with other scholars in the field.
In addition to fellowships offered in previous years, the Institute has started awarding the HURI Research Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies. These fellowships, which carry on the legacy of the Shklar Fellowship program, are supported by a combination of HURI endowment funds, such as the Alex Woskob Family Foundation Endowment, with additional support from the Ukrainian Studies Fund. HURI is grateful for the ongoing generosity of its donors.
This year, HURI welcomes nine fellows; three in the fall and six in the spring semester. These scholars will examine different aspects of Ukraine through their research, including its history, politics, nationalities, interethnic relations, identities, and early literature. As specialists of several different fields, their perspectives will contribute greatly to our weekly Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, where they will give presentations and participate in discussions. We look forward to learning from them!
Fall Semester
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
HURI Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"In Search of History's Other Subjects: Oral History of Decollectivization in Ukraine in the 1990s"
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is an associate professor of cultural anthropology, head of the Department of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, a founder of the Oral History Program at the Prairie Centre for Study of Ukrainian Heritage, and an adjunct professor in the Department of History, all at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the founding editor of the Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning.
During her fellowship at HURI, Khanenko-Friesen will analyze data she previously collected on decollectivization in Ukraine. In 2007–9, she carried out an oral history project, "Decollectivization in Ukraine in the 1990s: Rural Perspectives and Experiences." The project recorded some 140 autobiographical interviews with former collective farmers in ten of Ukraine's regions, and gathered extensive photographic evidence. Both kinds of data contain rich ethnographic evidence of how decollectivization was experienced and processed by those who have been directly, and profoundly, affected by it.
Now, Khanenko-Friesen will develop her study of these personal narratives on villagers' life prior and during decollectivization. She intends to produce a manuscript during her 2018-19 sabbatical year. Of interest to her, thus far, has been to identify and examine a particular reflective mode, a kind of shared subjectivity that both underscores and governs the ongoing memorialization of the post-socialist transition and the formation of a new collective memory of late socialism. With this project, she also wants to give the disadvantaged villagers an opportunity to be heard and to present their own views on the profound socio-economic changes they had lived through in the 1990s.
Research Interests: Post-socialist transition; Oral history, vernacular culture, folklore; Diaspora, ethnicity, migration; Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Canada, Western Canada
Gennadii Korolov
Senior Research Fellow, PhD in History, Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences
Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"Ukrainian State-Building and Federalism (1917-1921): Is It an Affirmative Interaction?"
Gennadii Korolov is a senior research fellow at the Department of History of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1921 at the Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), and a research associate at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). He received his PhD in History from the Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2010.
Gennadii Korolov has received several scholarships from the Center of East European Studies of Warsaw University, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 2015 he was honored as a recipient of the Krzysztof Skubiszewski Scholarship. During 2010-2012 he was a co-editor of the journal "Problemy vyvchennia istorii Ukrain'skoi revolutsii 1917-1921".
At HURI, Korolov intends to examine federalist projects and ideas from the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921. These ideas had a common feature: on the one hand, they proclaimed an aspiration to shape the federation as a national state and, on the other, they maintained a temporary loyalty to national minorities (Jews, Poles, Russians and others). This was the antinomic essence of Ukraine's federalism.
Research Interests: History of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-21, History of federalist ideas in East-Central Europe
Robert Romanchuk
Associate Professor, Florida State University, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
HURI Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"The Old Slavic Digenis Akritis (The Deeds of the Brave Men of Old): A Critical Edition"
Robert Romanchuk is the Pribic Family Associate Professor of Slavic in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. A philologist, he has published the monograph Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397–1501 (U. Toronto Press, 2007) and a number of book chapters and journal publications, most recently chapters on the literature of Mount Athos for David Wallace's Europe: A Literary History, 1348–1418 (Oxford UP, 2016) and on "lettered education" in Kyivan Rus for the English translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus', vol. 3 (ed. Frank Sysyn: CIUS, 2016). He has also published several psychoanalytic studies of modern (nineteenth-century) literature.
At HURI he will prepare a critical edition of the Byzantine romantic epic Digenis Akritis in its Old Slavic translation, "The Deeds of the Brave Men of Old"—a work of considerable importance to Byzantine, Slavic, and oral-traditional studies. The Slavic Digenis, produced in thirteenth-century Ukrainian Galicia or fourteenth-century Macedonia, helps us glimpse the Byzantine archetype and evaluate the principal Greek witnesses; at the same time, it is the earliest uncontested witness of Slavic epic composition. The edition, based on an in situ transcription of the manuscripts, treats the Slavic Digenis as a branch of the Greek tradition. It devotes considerable attention to the "formulaic style" of oral epic poetry, as the Slavic translation expands on its source using oral-traditional formulas and themes from the Greek and Slavic traditions alike.
Research Interests: Byzantine and Slavic philology: the institutions and practices of pedagogy and psychagogy in medieval Eastern Christianity; the "romantic epic" Digenis Akritis ; Psychoanalysis and literature: the creolized (Ukrainian-Russian) "Little Russian" literary milieu out of which Gogol emerged; the implication of the Gogolian text in psychoanalytic theory
Spring Semester
Hanna Abakunova
PhD, History
Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"Ukrainians and Others in the World War II: Interethnic Relations and Rescue of Jews and Roma in Southern Ukraine"
Hanna (Anna) Abakunova holds a PhD in Holocaust History from the University of Sheffield (UK) as well as an MA and BA in History and Psychology from the Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University where she also finished the "kandydat nauk" (candidate of science in History) degree program. She is currently working as an associate tutor at the University of Sheffield (UK).
Abakunova is the co-author of the "Annotated Bibliography on the Genocide and Persecution of Roma and Sinti" published by the IHRA (Berlin, 2016). She is also the author of other publications on the extermination and rescue of Jews and Roma in Ukraine published in Ukraine, Russia, Poland and Romania and forthcoming in the UK and the USA. From 2008 to 2018 she held Visiting Research Fellow positions at a number of institutions, including the NIOD (Amsterdam), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the New Europe College (Bucharest), Yahad-in Unum (Paris), Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and EHRI Research Fellowship in Bundesarchiv (Berlin and Ludwigsburg). She received a number of prestigious awards, including the Wolfson Scholarship in the Humanities, the Sir Ian Kershaw Prize, the Sir William Carr Prize, and others.
At HURI, Abakunova will examine interethnic relations during the Holocaust in the Mykolayiv and Kherson oblasts between two major groups of victims: Jews and Roma, on the one hand, and those who came to their assistance (mainly Ukrainians, but also Crimean Tatars and ethnic Germans) on the other. Drawing on archival materials and individual memories of these ethnic groups, Abakunova will contribute to the mutual understanding of commonly shared war experience that, according to her, must be viewed as a tragic integral part of the history of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Research Interests: Holocaust and Roma persecution in Ukraine during the World War II; rescue attempts of Ukrainians and other ethnic groups towards Jews and Roma in Ukraine during the Holocaust; Jewish and Roma self-rescue; deportation and extermination of Roma and Jews in Transnistria, development of historiography of the Holocaust in Ukraine; interethnic relations during the World War II in Ukraine
Georgiy Kasianov
Professor, Institute of the History of Ukraine
Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"Image of the Other: Uses and Abuses (Poland – Ukraine – Russia, Short 20th Century)"
Georgiy Kasianov is a Head of the Department of Contemporary History and Politics at the Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is an author, co-author, and co-editor of more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th - 21st centuries, history of the intelligentsia of Ukraine, and history of ideas. His most recent monograph is devoted to the politics of history in Ukraine and neighboring countries in the 1980s - 2000s.
Kasianov's research project comprises an interdisciplinary study on the use and abuse of the image of 'the Other' in the period after the crash of Communism in Europe (1989/91 to the present). His study is based on the case of three neighboring countries: Ukraine, Poland and Russia.
In his study, Kasianov will analyze the stereotypes imprinted in the image of the Other in these countries; the techniques and tools aimed at creation, use, misuse, and abuse of the image of the Other; and the historical and cultural genealogy of this image of the Other. He also aims to disseminate the project results among policy makers and the general public.
Area of Study: History, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology
Nataliya Kibita
Teaching Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political Science
HURI Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"Soviet Legacy in Ukrainian Post-Soviet Politics: Continuity and Discontinuity of Political Institutions in Ukraine between 1917 and 1996"
Before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science in September 2015, Nataliya Kibita taught Soviet history at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on Ukrainian political and economic history in the twentieth century. In 2013, Dr Kibita published Soviet Economic Management under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform (London, Routledge). Kibita received her Ph.D. from the University of Geneva in 2008, her MA in European Studies from the European Institute of the University of Geneva in 2001 and her BA from the National University 'Ostroh Academy' in Ukraine in 1999.
At HURI, Kibita will work on her current research which examines the question, 'Why is Ukraine not authoritarian?' from a historical perspective and assesses the continuity of political institutions. In particular, the project analyses the origins of the regional fragmentation of political elites and of consensus-seeking politics in Ukraine. It explores the effect of party and state reforms that had been devised by the Soviet leadership in the 1920s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s and tests the hypothesis that regional political fragmentation in post-Soviet Ukraine, as well as the tendency towards consensus-seeking politics, is a legacy of the Soviet political system.
Research Interests
Ukraine's state- and nation-building in the 20th century, regionalism in Ukraine, political culture in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet institutions; state-building in Eastern Europe in the interwar period
Alessandro Milani
Historian, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités
Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"Greek Catholic Ukrainian Galicians and Carpatho-Ukrainians in the Context of Interwar Breakdown and Recomposition of National Entities (1919-1938/39)."
Qualified as "maître de conference" (associate professor) in History and Civilizations in France, Alessandro Milani is an Italian-born historian associated with the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, a laboratory of the French National Center for Scientific Research (UMR 8582- Conseil National Recherche Scientifique-Ecole pratique des hautes études: http://www.gsrl.cnrs.fr/ ). He was previously awarded, inter alia, a PhD in Church History from Venice Cà Foscari University, having been a visiting doctoral researcher at the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris "Ulm" and at the Baltic and East European Graduate Studies of the Södertörns högskolas; a M.Phil. in Librarianship and Documentation from the Vatican School of Biblioteconomy; a M.Phil. in Archival Studies from the Vatican School of Palaeography; and an MA in International Relations at the University of Trieste.
His research and publications deal with religion and politics in the Central European Union.
As a HURI fellow, he will analyze the opposed policies of nationalities enacted by the governments of Warsaw and Prague. This work will serve as the basis of a monograph on the condition of Western Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia between 1919 and 1938/9. Based on largely unpublished sources from the archives of the Vatican, Warsaw, Prague, and supplemented by the collections of HURI, this research aims to understand how Greek Catholics managed to preserve their cultural and ritual identity.
Research Interests: Contemporary History of Ukraine, Nation and nation building in Eastern Europe, ethno-ritual identities between the two world wars, Greek Catholicism in Central-Eastern Europe, Church/State relations in Central- Eastern Europe, Geopolitics of Central-Eastern Europe
Mykola Riabchuk
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Nationalities' Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
HURI Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies
"Slavia Orthodoxa and Challenges of Modernization: Construction of Modern Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian Identities as Emancipation from the East Slavonic 'Imagined Community'"
Mykola Riabchuk (1953) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities' Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Since 2014, he heads also the Ukrainian PEN-center and chairs the jury of the Yuri Sheveliov award endowed by the Ukrainian PEN for the best essays. Dr. Riabchuk penned several books and many articles on civil society, state/nation building, nationalism, national identity, and postcommunist transition in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine. Five of his books were translated into Polish, and one into French (De la petit Russie a l'Ukraine, 2003), German (Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine, 2005), and Hungarian (A ket Ukraina, 2015). His work was distinguished with a number of national and international awards and fellowships, including Fulbright (1994-96, 2016), Reagan-Fascell (2011), and EURIAS (2013-14).
The book-length project aims at a study of modern Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian identities as peculiar and interrelated discursive formations. Their construction is conceptualized as protracted and incoherent process of emancipation of all three nations from Slavia Orthodoxa – a premodern East Slavonic/Orthodox Christian imagined community of 'true believers' that had been fused, in the 18th century, with the political ideology of the new-born Russian empire and modified eventually into a similar quasi-religious community of the Soviet people. Its founding myth reinforces, and is reinforced by, very strong anti-Western forces that emphasize the primordial 'otherness' of the essentialized Slavonic/Orthodox civilization and reject western values and institutions. Deconstruction of its quasi-historical tenets and emancipation from its ideological spell is thus crucial for the development of all three East Slavonic nations, specifically Ukraine as the most advanced in the process.
Research Interests: Postcommunist transformations, postcolonialism, national identity, cultural and language politics, Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Russian relations
Viktoriya Sereda
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ukrainian Catholic University
HURI MAPA Project Research Fellow
"Religious, Social, and Political Dimensions of Regionalism in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine"
Viktoriya Sereda, a sociologist with a PhD in Sociology (2006), is an Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Prior to her earning doctoral degree, she graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (majoring in history, 1996); the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest (UNESCO Ethnic and Minority Studies MA Program, majoring in sociology, 2000); the University of Edinburgh (MSc by Research in Sociology Program, 2001). In 2017-18 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). In 2016-17 she worked on the "MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine" project at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. In 2011-2015, she was a head of sociological part of the project "Region, Nation, and Beyond. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine." She is an author of a number of articles published in Ukrainian, Austrian, French, German, Hungarian, Polish and Russian academic journals.
During her stay at the HURI, Sereda plans to continue working on "The Mapa: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program," which is undertaken by the HURI together with partners in Ukraine. In particular, she will contribute her expertise on the comparative cross-regional analysis of religious identities and civic activism in contemporary Ukraine using the most recent sociological survey data.
Research interests: urban sociology, sociology of everyday life, memory studies, nationalism and identity studies


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(Update 2) A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit Metro Manila and Batangas Province Tuesday evening, April 4, 2017, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said.
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The other day I took it upon myself to go to lunch with one of my best friends Ivy and both kids. In hindsight this was obviously a bad decision but I try to be optimistic whilst in the moment.
We hit up one of my favorite spots, Lady Marmalade.
It's a small, quaint and very eclectic restaurant.
Furnished with mismatched chairs and tables, showcasing local artists work on the walls (for sale, of course).
They have by far the BEST eggs Benedict in town and their food in general is fresh, locally grown and delectable.
We get in and Ivy helps me get the kids out of their thick layers and settled into their seats.
I situate myself between both kids and am about to glance at the menu.
Suddenly Ben grabs the menu and throws it on the floor, Nate starts demanding apple juice and the lunch begins to come undone.
Me: Nate do you want a sandwich or rice with chicken?
Nate: SANDWICH!
Me: Can I please have the club sandwich for him (pointing at Nate) and the scrambled eggs with a side of brown bread for him (pointing at Ben).
Server: Anything for you? (with a look of horror knowing that this is about to get messy)
Me: I need a few minutes, thanks (with a look of horror knowing that it's about to get messy)
Ivy chimes in: Apple juice please!
Nate has the biggest smile, Ben is exploring the room with a big grin and we decide on what we'll eat.
So far so goodish.
This is where the fun begins.
Lunch arrives and Ben is loving the bread while Nate is spitting out his sandwich.
Me: Take a bite Nati!
Nate: No tomatoes!
Me: Fine! (I remove all signs of the tomato)
Me: Okay can you take a bite now?
Nate: No! It's yucky!
On a side note, this is one of the best Club Sandwiches in town!
This battle goes on for a bit when I realize that Ben needs more food.
To my surprise he eats some egg and continues gnawing on the bread.
Nate is now fidgety and is demanding Bens food.
At this point I am
livid annoyed!
I can't even remember what it is that I'm eating and my blood pressure is through the roof.
I decide to take a pic of the food, knowing that I'll be venting about this later, and the result is the photo heading of this post (while I try and take the pic, Ben throws his plate with the eggs on the floor. I think he's trying to tell me something)
Much like that lunch the photo is blurry and out of focus.


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"We have requested all the doctors be on time in the OPD. Those who are in the ward rounds or in emergency can send a part of their team to the OPD so that the rush of patients can be managed," said PGIMER director Dr Jagat Ram.
The hospital's OPD starts at 8am. "Not all doctors enter the rooms on time. This adds to the queues and makes it difficult to manage the OPDs," said a PGIMER official.
Sources in the PGIMER administration have confirmed that a three-month period will be given to the doctors and habitual late comers will be issued warning notes. "If we can chargesheet doctors guilty of research misconduct, this issue can also be tackled," said an official.
The institute sees patients from the adjoining states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. Most of these patients have to stay over for days to see a doctor.
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Positions - Approved strength - Present strength
Faculty - 555 - 456
Senior residents - 576 - 558
Junior residents - 263 - 167
Total doctors - 1,394 - 1,181
Total number of patients in the OPD per day (as per the statistics provided by the PGIMER) | 6,731 (including new and old patients)
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Dept - Patients - Doctors
Internal medicine - 250-300 - 10-12
Pediatric medicine - 450-500 - 15-20
Gynaecology - 450-500 - 25-30
Gastroenterology - 350-400 - 16-17
Ophthalmology department---OPD—800-1000---doctors---6-7


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ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.
While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with wheels attached to a boxy, head-height screen glowing with an image of Mr. Brin's face. The BrinBot obeyed its human commander and sputtered around from group to group, talking to attendees about Google and other topics via a videoconferencing system.
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Welcome to the GameGravy.com Rewind Episode 8 Podcast.
Speaking in it is Anthony DeVirgilis (Nintendo Editor) Twitter:@kingant620 and Michael Johnston (Editor in Chief) Twitter:@mikeatron and also Jeffrey Wilkes (Sony/Nintendo Editor). We hope you enjoy Episode 8!
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- Latest reviews on the site and what we've been playing (Hyrule Warriors, Freaking Meatbags, Anomaly 2)
- News: Happy 18th Birthday Nintendo 64, Destiny Bug See All Content, Hyrule Warriors DLC,
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ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) is a remake of Malayalam film of the same name. Allu Sirish is seen as the rich NRI who comes to India to lead life as a common man.
It is a mix of all commercial elements such as comedy, romance, action and also politics.
Allu Sirish looks a bit rigid in comedy scenes, but looks alright in romance and action bits.
Ruksar Dhillon's glamour is a definite plus for ABCD. Master Bharath is a grown man now and he plays the hero's sidekick in the film.
ABCD looks like a faithful remake of the original starring Dulquer Salman. Can Allu Sirish do justice to the role pulled off by the super talented Dulquer? The original was all about good moments and solid performances.
Let's see whether the remake can match up to the original or not. The trailer is a passable one with nothing striking except for the politics part that comes towards the end of it.
Also the rich NRI adjusting to an Indian commoner's lifestyle should be fun. Sanjeev Reddy is the director of ABCD that is bankrolled by Madhura Sridhar and Yash Rangineni.


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This treemap was generated with the Treemap 4.1 tool from University of Maryland. This is a tutorial that I wrote on how to get to the output, step by step.
Firewall Log in a Treemap
need help in 3d treemap
On January 11th, 2011 Adeline San says:
hi all,
I'm a student and i'm doing project on visualization. can i know is it possible to generate a 3d treemap using DAVIX? if so, how can i do it? hope to heard from you soon. thank you.
Link fixed
On May 21st, 2009 raffy says:
Sorry for that. And thanks for reporting the broken link. It's fixed.
"tutorial" link?
On May 21st, 2009 ecojam says:
The "tutorial" link goes to a blank page...


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: RAM size: 8MB (who uses less than that?)
From: Marc Tricou (Marc.Tricou_at_xi-quadrat.de)
Date: 2003-01-17
> But after doing the mod I saw that there are three other good causes for
Not to forget the extreme advantage for recording: you could record 7
Superbe! keep on with this mod. I'll try it some day.
Regards, Marc
-- www.dj-quarc.de The intuitive MP3 manager for Winamp
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Stickup...Emerald Cove Bowling Alley, 12229 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, 1951
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Glickman. Date: 1951-09-19. Assignment: Valley stickup. 4000 taken bowling alley. 12229 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City. Mug shots of Roy Nixt (white shirt) and Edward Collins (dark shirt). Miss Fay Neuss tells about robbery. Detective Pat Poe checks over office where Nixt held eight at shotgun point. Police officers question Elwin Burton, owner of bowling alley that was heldup".


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"Carrie Stetko. . . is a believable character with compelling flaws, understandable motivations, and is given a clear voice by Rucka. . .the look and feel of this book is dead on... a must read."
"Carrie's Dirty Harry and we... are on the edge of our seats. . .And if the last three pages don't break your heart even as they make you smile, then your soul is made of ice. Bravo, Mr.'s Lieber and Rucka. Now please go make more."
"A stark, gripping little graphic novel, with wonderful art by Steve Lieber (one of my favorite artists ever since his run on Hawkman, back when the Winged Avenger was written by John Ostrander). The Antarctic setting is used as nicely here as in John Carpenter's The Thing, creating a sense of bleakness and hopelessness that pervades the rest of the tale. The sequel, Whiteout: Melt, is even more intense, although not really a whodunit; it's basically a spy story with Carrie stuck in the middle of things (Lilly is long gone). It's all but impossible to put down."
"...works wonderfully well. Rucka creates some real three-dimensional characters. . . The murder plot unfolds at a nice pace, details all come together in the end, and there's still room for character development."
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The contract will see Laurie pick up $400,000 (£224,000) per episode and assures him a place on the show until 2012.
In his native Britain, the 49-year-old remains most closely associated with his comic roles in Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
However, in the US he is the star of one of the biggest dramas on television, and his role as irascible medic Gregory House has earned him two Golden Globe wins and three Emmy nominations.
When the show began in 2004, Laurie was little known to US audiences and earned a mere five-figure salary.
With each successive series, his earning power has grown and the new deal with Universal Media Studios puts him among the five highest-paid actors in US television.
The list is topped by Charlie Sheen, who is believed to earn $825,000 (£461,000) per episode for the sitcom Two And A Half Men, incldunig money from his ownership rights to the show.
Besides Sheen, only CSI star William Petersen and 24's Kiefer Sutherland earn more than Laurie.
The new deal will also give Laurie a producing credit on the show, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
House returns to US screens next week for a fifth season. Series four drew an average audience of 16.7 million, making it the second-highest rated scripted series behind Desperate Housewives.
The Old Etonian, Cambridge-educated Laurie has criticised the British for their attitude to his success on the other side of the Atlantic.
"There's a notion that I've sold out. Sold out what, exactly? There's a peculiar British attitude that I took an oath I wouldn't be successful, and reneged on it."
Laurie began his showbusiness career with Cambridge Footlights, alongside Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson. His comedy partnership with Fry lasted for many years, encompassing A Bit Of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster, an ITV adaptation of the PG Wodehouse classic in which he played Bertie Wooster.
He came to the attention of Hollywood executives in 1996 film 101 Dalmations, going on to appear in children's movie Stuart Little and landing a cameo role in Friends.
Laurie has battled clinical depression and has been frank about the toll which his US career has taken on his family life. For the past four years, he has lived in California during the filming of House, while his wife, Jo, and their three teenage children have remained at home in North London. However, they are reported to be joining him in the US later this year.
"It's been a great strain, but all things come to an end - strains as well as delights - and we'll get through," he said recently, adding that he is not as miserable as his screen character but can't help looking like it: "I have a grumpy face and in repose look as if I'm about to jump off a bridge."


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The Best '30s Horror Movies
List Rules Vote up your favorite horror films that were released in the 1930s
This list of the best 1930s horror movies features some truly terrifying tales of murder, monsters, and mayhem. Fans of the horror genre might scoff at horror films made over 70 years ago, but if you give these movies a chance, they will most assuredly leave your hair standing on end, and your knuckles white.
One of the most iconic horror movies ever made was released in the '30s: Tod Browning's Freaks. Revolutionary, and unlike any movie that came before or afterward, Freaks featured real sideshow performers with real deformities. The original version of the film was deemed too disturbing to be released. The film ruined Browning's career. The two dominant horror actors of the '30s and '40s, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, also appear on this list as Dracula and Frankenstein, respectively. The Black Cat was the first of eight films to pit the two on-screen legends against one another.
Also on this list, you'll find the work of legendary German director Fritz Lang. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, a follow up to Lang's earlier silent film about the mad doctor, is regarded as one of the finest horror films of the decade. Vote up the best '30s horror movies below, and be sure to let us know what you think in the comment section.


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The preceding being said, in these symbols the interval is fully realized from the beginning up to the uttermost limit; precisely in the same manner as illustrated by Pythagoreans in their numerical sequence, a component of their secret teaching which has not been fully understood to this day.
Figure 23 – Pythagorean grid
If we place the grid on the base of the pyramid and perform the sum of the sums, we will get a numeric value for the beginning of each pyramid level. Note that the number seven is situated at the beginning. I deliberately do not mention the conversion code enabling one to comprehend the individual components of this ascending sequence, especially because it is a little more complicated than it first seems.


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To be held at the Manchester Museum Thursday 6th – Saturday 8th September 2007, under the auspices of the Museums and Galleries History Group, the Society for the History of Natural History and the University of Manchester.
Registration is invited by 30 June 2007. Full rate: £25 per day. Speakers; MGHG/SHNH members; students: £15 per day. For full programme details and booking form, see www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/naturebehindglass/
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The conference will be hosted by the Manchester Museum, and is also supported by the British Acdemy; the University of Manchester (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures; Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts; Centre for Museology), the Museums and Galleries History Group and the Society for the History of Natural History.
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Well, I realized that it is 'the' Halloween month and most blogs I visited or tweeter I followed or FB were/are all about celebration of Halloween for the last 2 weeks. Personally, I don't think I ever experience the real American's Halloween (mental note: must experience that the next time I visit America), which is more festive than Aussie's Halloween (because Aussies don't really celebrate it as big as the American!). Since I didn't end up going to any Halloween party this year but I would also like to touch on the 'Halloween topic', thus the following picture: I changed my mobile homescreen according to the month's festival ;) Oh and some of my this month faves ^_^
Favourite Weekends: General Conference
Favourite News : Lian and Clifford is Getting Married!!
Favourite makeover reality TV shows:
Lian and Clifford, her fiance!
Me and Lian couple years ago before she left Miri for her mission.
Big Congratulation to one of my best friends, Lian, who will tie the knot with her fiance in a couple months!!!! I would like to dedicated this particular post to them because they have come a long way. I have known Lian for nearly 7 or 8 years through the church. Couple years after I joined the church, Lian moved back to Miri for a period of time and we were not only going to the same church but worked in the same place too - Dialysis Centre in Miri. Having to work in the same place and participating in church activities had definitely helped us become closer friends. For me, she is such a smart and independent girl. When she decided to serve the Lord and spend 1 1/2 years on mission, I admired her faith and testimony. Unfortunately during the time she served her mission, I came to Australia for my education and we never get a chance to meet up for years. Thank goodness for Skype that allows us still catch up and updated our life with each other. I am truly happy that she found her happiness and ready to move into a new stage of life in a new environment. It takes courage to accept big chances in life. It's all worth it in the end Lian, at the meantime, enjoy the journey!!! *hug*
Favourite makeover reality TV shows:
New Favourite Dessert Place: Eggless
Yes, the shop owner is Malaysian.). Also, the menu changes every month so old/ new customers can always come back to try different types of desserts. My friends and I have to wait for about 45 min to get seated and that's how popular it is.
Favourite Change:
YesStyle which has now became my number one online shopping website other than eBay. As I went through the products lists, I came across with a few hair colouring products. Instantly I decided it's time to change my hair colour. I've been pretty much black hair entire my life, I think I need a new look. I did some research on this particular hair colouring product - palty -on yourtube and seems like a good one to go for, so I ordered the caramel-latte colour. On the day when the product arrived (together with a few other skincare products I bought as it's free shipping to buy more ^.*), I had my hair trimmed too before I DIY my hair-colouring .At first I think the hair stylist cut my hair for too short but it turned out pretty good. So, Ta-Da... my new look - short brown hair babe! (side note: on the colour product, it shows you how the colour will turned out to be according to your previous hair colour.Since my hair was darker, instead of caramel-latte, it became brown, which is what I want.)


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It's official: Our lists are in and we've compiled them to give you our combined knowledge in the form of a top 50 albums list. The following is Amoeba's top picks for 2012 based on those who submitted lists of their favorites of the year. (For world music picks, go here; for classical picks, check out Rubin's list; and see more best of 2012 fun here.)
1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Everyone seemed to be able to agree on Frank Ocean this year, from independent purists to mainstream fans. It's no surprise that when compiling our top lists, Frank Ocean easily made No. 1.
"Outside the hype, this guy is the genuine deal. Orange is a cohesive old-school album with vivid modern snapshots of moving to the city and the characters he met there." — Aaron Detroit
2. Light Asylum – Light Asylum
A favorite among Amoebites, Light Asylum's self-titled debut gripped fans of electronic music and '80s-influenced synth pop.
"Shannon Funchess has that deep powerful voice like Alison Moyet. And Bruno Coviello plays those keyboards like only Vince Clark can. It is the perfect mix of dark and haunting lyrics and new wave electronics." — Brad Schelden
3. Trust - Trst
The most fun album of 2012? We certainly all loved Trust's Canadian dark electro.
"I fell in love with this band the first time that I heard them. They are a band made for me. This is the spooky and dark goth music that I love. A perfect blend of synthpop and dark wave." — Brad Schelden
4. Chromatics – Kill for Love
Brad (No. 1) and I (No. 8) were suckers for the haunting new album from Portland-based dream pop band Chromatics.
"Another perfect album of dreamy electronic love songs. These songs are seriously breathtaking and they make it seem so easy." — Brad Schelden
5. Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games
Our electronic music fans went ape over the stunning album by Pye Corner Audio, one of two he released this year.
"Beautiful sci-fi melodies, thumpin' nods to Detroit electro & techno, and lots of John Carpenter-inspired synth arpeggios. File Under: Night Driving Music." — Aaron Detroit
6. Beach House – Bloom
Brad and I were both gaga over Beach House's new album.
"While Bloom's overflowing romanticism is something to celebrate, so is its remarkable pop precision." — Billy Gil
7. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
Killer Mike's politically charged album pleased fans of hip-hop and indie rock alike.
"Killer Mike wins on all fronts: his beats are insane, like on the fast-paced "Go!," calling to mind OutKast singles of yore; he raps better and faster than rappers half his age; and the quality of his rhymes is superb." — Billy Gil
8. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
Kelly and I loved the new album from lo-fi masters Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
"Mature Themes is a misnomer in that Ariel Pink still sings about things like "suicide dumplings dropping testicle bombs" on Bowie-ish "Kinski Assassin." But there's a newfound desire to move beyond jokey lo-fi (even when it serves him well, as on the heavy blues of "Schnitzel Boogie" and ethereal jazzercise jam "Pink Slime")." — Billy Gil
9. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel …
Fiona Apple shocked fans and detractors alike with her powerful fourth album in 2012.
"Another long (7 Years!) hiatus spawns an essential release. Apple is in familiar territory lyrically, but her relationship analysis is wry and witty as ever and exceedingly more adept." — Aaron Detroit
10. Death Grips – The Money Store
Death Grips' The Money Store bridged the gap between hip-hop and hardcore.
"Complete insanity. The Money Store's gleefully violent party music slaps you in the privates and wakes you up to the possibilities of sound and energy." — Billy Gil
"This record has been described as a sort of culmination of all-things-Swans (even Jarboe is back for some vocal and "voice collage" duties.) To my ears, this is very true and believe it to be one of Michael Gira's greatest works." — Aaron Detroit
12. Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
"On The Haunted Man, Natasha Khan pushes herself to the limit, whether that be vocally, on stunning opener 'Lillies,' with Khan nearly going hoarse to pull you in; or emotionally, on the crushing 'Laura,' which digs heartbreak out of choice detail." — Billy Gil
13. Mac DeMarco – 2
"He is sort of a combination of Pavement and Ariel Pink. This album is seriously addictive and I like it more every time that I listen to it." — Brad Schelden
14. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
"Stott has been my man the last couple of years, dragging techno through the cold, dead and decaying streets of his beautiful post-apocalyptic soundscape." — Aaron Detroit
"As its oceanic title would suggest, Oshin moves like a wave, building and crashing, scenic and blue, with the melodies seeping through to you over time and repeat listens." — Billy Gil
"Visions is an album that manages to have it both ways, frontloading with relatively 'normal' singles 'Genesis,' whose beat is so basic it would be limiting if Grimes didn't do her best pop star impression over it, and 'Oblivion,' where Boucher gets freaky over a squelching beat that only goes down easy due to its bubblegum melodies, some approximation of early Madonna spaced out to infinity." — Billy Gil
17. Zelienople - The World Is A House On Fire
"I finally found a band that sounds like Slowdive. ... This album is really beautiful. You might need to prepare yourself before you venture into the world of Zelienople." — Brad Schelden
18. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
"Best album for helping raise awareness of cancer in a year when it mattered was emcee/producer El-P's stellar 2012 release on Fat Possum (his own Def Jux label is on permanent hiatus) is Cancer 4 Cure, which was dedicated to his pal/former collaborator Camu Tao who died from cancer. The album came out in a year when hip-hop lost MCA of the Beastie Boys to cancer." — Billyjam
19. Peaking Lights - Lucifer
"... Lucifer is a silky, trippy affair." — Billy Gil
20. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
"E-bows, machetes as percussion and disturbing (as well as amusing) scatological metaphors are some of the unlikely ingredients that make up this terrifying (and weirdly infectious) beauty. There's really nothing else like it, so enjoy figuring it out for the rest of your life." — Aaron Detroit
21. Jessica Pratt - JP
"Since her debut album of lush, hand-picked folk melodies dropped a just few months ago demand for Jessica's debut, simply titled JP, has become as difficult to keep up with as the multitude of glowing reviews surfacing all over the interwebs lauding Ms. Pratt's ability to make everyone mistake her bewitching, home-brewed folkways for that of retro private press obscurities." — Kelly S. Osato
22. Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
"Collaboration between the Italian duo of Donato Dozzy & Neel, beautifully crafted atmospheric techno album." — Oliver Hollywood
23. VedomirVedomir -
"Mikhaylo Vityk released a slew of records under his Vakula moniker this year, but the album released by Dekmantel by his Vedomir guise really stood out. Slow burning, haunting shit from the Ukrainian producer." — Oliver Hollywood
24. Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues
"Best concept album expertly executed of the year was by turntablist/producer extraordinair whose deconstructed, scratch masterpiece 12 Bit Blues on Ninja Tune came in two versions (LP and CD) and featured such tracks as '8 Bit Blues.'" — Billyjam
25. Tame Impala – Lonerism
"Kevin Parker's songs, written quietly and in solitude in Paris, convey the melodies you hum to yourself in your head out of boredom, while the dream-like arrangements reveal their hooks upon repeated spins, lodging themselves into you over time." — Billy Gil
26. Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime III
"Raw minimal rhythmic funk music." — Oliver Hollywood
27. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
"Best 2012 album worth the half a decade wait was Aesop Rock's pitch perfect Skelethon on Rhymesayers — which diehard fans patiently waited five years for and were most happy with the results. The album did (and needed to) include lyric sheets to help decipher Aesop Rock's ever intricate lyrics on songs like 'Zero Dark Thirty.'" — Billyjam
28. Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos - FRKWYS Vol. 9: Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos - Icon Give Thank
"... if you haven't yet heard the psyched-out electronic-dub vibes of Icon Give Thank, I suggest you check it out." — Billy Gil
29. Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony
"On her sophomore release, Swedish composer/singer von Hausswolff brings long instrumental pipe organ pieces together with well-crafted existential pop tunes and a set of ethereal pipes all her own." — Aaron Detroit
30. Tin Man - Neo Neo Acid
"Long lush melodic acid lines from the Vienna producer." — Oliver Hollywood
31. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
"This album seriously surprised me and quickly became one of my favorites of the year. It might just be one of the most beautiful albums that I have ever heard." — Brad Schelden
32. Miriel Wagner - Mirel Wagner
"Originally released in Scandinavia last year, the quietly-strummed folk-noir and murder-balladry of Mirel Wagner's sef-titled debut landed stateside this year. Her voice is somber and child-like, the arrangements are minimal and stark but make no mistake, she is singing the blues." — Aaron Detroit
33. Homeboy Sandman - First Of A Living Breed
"Most prolific and consistently high quality hip-hop recording artist of 2012 was Homeboy Sandman who unleashed hip-hop gems like 'Illuminati' which was on First Of A Living Breed - one of three (count em) releases that he dropped on Stones Throw in 2012." — Billyjam
34. Crystal Castles - III
"A perfect dark electronic album for these winter months. ... But beneath [it] is a fun and vibrant energy." — Brad Schelden
35. Actress - R.I.P.
"Superb follow up to Hazyville and Splazsh, Britain's Darren Cunningham steps out even further with this conceptual album of grainy low-end vibrations." — Oliver Hollywood
36. Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
"Ty Segall and his wrecking crew of musicians tear through roughly a half-hour of some of the best pure rock 'n' roll in ages — one of three albums he released this year, including his solo album Twins and collaboration with White Fence, Hair." — Billy Gil
37. The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
"This album got down deep inside of me after the first time I heard it. I keep coming back to it over and over this year. A fantastic dark album. I feel like they finally lived up to their name." — Brad Schelden
38. JJ Doom - Keys To The Kuffs
"JJ Doom is the collaboration of [MF] DOOM and Jneiro Jarel and they delivered a great album in 2012 with tracks like 'GuvNor.'" — Billyjam
39. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
"Believe the hype; Lamar and his producers have made the best mainstream hip-hop album of the year by amazing at every turn. Dismiss it to your own loss." — Billy Gil
40. Assembly Of Light - Assembly Of Light
"A choral group with a dozen-or-so members from Providence, RI known for their show-stealing appearance on metal-duo The Body's 2010 release, All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood. AOL's self-titled debut-proper has some of the same heavy/ethereal juxtapositions, but the vocals are turned up-to-11, floating above the crushing waves of drums and demon-yowls to a stunning effect." — Aaron Detroit
41. Casual and J. Rawls - Respect Game or Expect Flames
"Bay Area hip-hop collective to have the best year in 2012 was the long-running Hieroglyphics collective whose numerous releases by members in 2012 included Casual's collaboration with J-Rawls Respect Game or Expect Flames on Nature Sounds/Fat Beats ..." — Billyjam
42. Agent Ribbons - Family Haircut
"'Family Haircut' is the title track from Agent Ribbons' current limited run cassette-only release on the Portland-based Cassingle And Loving It label, not to mention the upcoming September 11th release of their seven-inch teaser Let Them Talk on Antenna Farm records, a harbinger for the Missus Ribbons' upcoming full length LP set to drop in 2013." — Kelly S. Osato
43. Lushlife - Plateau Vision
"Plateau Vision on Western Vinyl Records (a label that typically doesn't release hip-hop) features great tracks like 'Big Sur' and 'Magnolia' ..." — Billyjam
44. Prizehog - A Talking To
"SF's own sludge-rockin' skull-crushing trio ..." — Kelly S. Osato
45. Emeralds - Just To Feel Anything
"The album will make you think you are in the 70s. Sitting in a room with a hundred synthesizers. I have had this album on repeat since I first heard it a couple of months ago." — Brad Schelden
46. Uni and Her Ukelele - Lover's Cliche
"An infectious pop record full of heart and heady hooks that is, I can personally guarantee, the only thing missing from the Springtime of your life if you are not bumping it right now." — Kelly S. Osato
47. Twin Shadow – Confess
"Though everything sounds like an '80s radio dream reconstructed by memory, Lewis Jr. breaks through the Instagrammed, instant-memory sheen by flashing some vulnerability." — Billy Gil
48. The Soft Pack - Strapped
"This is really the album that turned me into a super fan. ... Garagey catchy indie rock." — Brad Schelden
49. The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance
"They were are always good, but Long Slow Dance takes the S.F. garage rockers to epic heights, with a newfound clarity to their vocals and straightforwardness of songwriting." — Billy Gil
50. The Coup - Sorry To Bother You
"Boots Riley resurrects The Coup as a full-band after a 6-year hiatus to drop the rare 'record of our times.' Funky, fierce, funny, heart-wrenching and inspirational." — Aaron Detroit
Aaron Detroit, goth buyer/used buyer
Billy Gil, amoeba blogger
Billyjam, amoeba blogger
Brad Schelden, indie buyer
Kelly S. Osato, J-Pop buyer/cloud city admin/info broker
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by George Artsitas
Throughout his career, LeBron James has handled his brief bouts of powerlessness about as well as any King can.
James wasn't at the copy desk when Sports Illustrated threw his 17-year-old face on the cover with three little proclamatory words, "The Chosen One" serving more as job title than headline. It was never his choice to be The Chosen One.
But eventually James commandeered the nickname as his own, broadcasting it permanently between his shoulder blades with a bold face CHOSEN 1 tattoo taking up most of the real estate on his upper back.
Later, the biggest Decision he's ever made publicly blackened his image worse than if he joined the Sith, leaving him powerless over the vitriolic spew castigated on him for the next couple of years. So James embraced his new role as villain and trolled America one game at a time until he was handed the Larry O'Brien, smiling wide-eyed like a surprised 5-year-old who had been handed a loaded waffle cone, and the jig was up.
Now that he can count down the months to his 30th birthday, with about half of his career behind him, James admits his status as the go-to guy for ushering in a new generation of younger players is not really up to him.
He's an ambassador to the NBA's youth by default.
"I am," James says, two sacks of ice situated on each knee following probably his worst game of the year, a 94-89 loss to Utah where he finished 4-13 with 13 points. "[Whether] I want it or not."
As nonchalant as his words come off, James has been anything but apathetic helping out the young class of the NBA. He's embracing it like the other roles he's been saddled with before, ready and willing to tuck inexperienced NBA guys under his 7-foot-quarter-inch wingspan whenever nurturing is necessary.
James lays claim to an impressive ring of protégés around the League, expanding the names in his Samsung phone to include younger players who grew up idolizing LeBron and graciously welcome the King's advice with open arms.
Eric Bledsoe, Kyrie Irving and even Kevin Durant count James as a friend and mentor. He's talked about freely handing out advice to John Wall and Paul George on the court.
Even with football players—Johnny Football, Braxton Miller and most recently Tony Romo—James admits his offering of counsel is simply innate, and like so many things, out of his control.
"It's just part of my personality, that's all," James said.
In GQ earlier this month, James defined the texts, the little chunks of hallowed advice, as his "secret words."
So we spoke with three young protégés of James'—Trey Burke, Tristan Thompson and Norris Cole—about what exactly those "secret words" are.
The way the group talked about James, one thing was made certain: he doesn't seem to rub people the wrong way. No one had a single bad word to say. Not even the slightest quibble. Just a bunch of young kids simply giddy to flip a parasocial relationship they once had into a surreal mentorship meant to guide their professional progress into adulthood.
Cleveland's Tristan Thompson has known James since back in high school, calling him a "big brother" nearly his entire professional career. So when the power forward was drafted No. 4 overall by the Cavs in 2011, James gave the power forward a dose of brotherly reality.
"Congratulations! It's just the beginning. Now the real work starts."
When he was in high school and at the LeBron James Leadership Academy, a gangly 17-year-old Thompson shuffled up to James and small-talked about basketball. Even as a top-10 national recruit in the 2010 class, Thompson was nervous. Stomach bubbling, he eventually asked James for his number for whenever he needed a little guidance with the game.
James happily obliged.
But as anyone whose gotten a phone number knows, getting the digits are just the first step.
"He responded, too," Thompson said through a chuckle.
Now five years later, after keeping tabs with Thompson up through his short career at Texas and now in his third year in the league, responses from James matriculate through his inbox intermittently.
With Thompson fortuitously drafted to Cleveland—just 30 minutes from James's house in Akron—either guy can make the short half hour drive to just kick it and kibitz about whatever. There's no constrictions on where the conversation can go.
"It's not just basketball, it's basically life. Anything I want to talk about," Thompson said. "If I call, I know he'll pick up."
The biggest help came during the lockout year, when Thompson was just a rookie, forced to play back-to-backs-to-backs while dealing with the emotional high-low swoon of his first year in the League.
James just reminded Thompson to stay consistent and just play hard. Everything else—numbers and wins—will work itself out.
The entire time he's been in the League, James has preached one thing to Thompson. As a big man, he needs three moves: a jump hook, a counter and a 15-foot jumper. With how active Thompson is on the floor, James let him know that if he can get the midrange J, it'll open everything up for the young post.
"I think It's almost like a cheat sheet," Thompson said, describing his ability to reach out to the four-time MVP. "Being able to ask him about things he's went through that I'm facing right now—how he dealt with it—I can kind of piggyback and take from him to help me get through adversity or things I need help with. It's great to have a resource like that. He's honest up front and always been available which is big time. It shows a lot about his character, who he is as a person and what a great heart he has."
"It's definitely a relationship right there, with the Ohio connection," Burke says face down in some pre-game chicken curry before he takes on James for the first time in Salt Lake City. He peeks at film in the background of the Heat's last game out of the corner of his eye between bites, hurrying to swallow before finishing each thought.
"It goes to show what type of person he is," Burke says. "He's always willing to share his knowledge about the game, give his feedback and insight. You need guys like that."
Two Ohio Mr. Basketballs, James (2001-03) and Burke (2011) originally met back when the Utah Jazz rookie was in 9th grade at Columbus Northland High. The Cavs played a preseason game at University of Akron and the little freshman went up to meet the local savior, though Burke doubts James remembers the exchange now.
A few years later Burke ended up as a standout at the LeBron James Skills Academy the summer before he would win the 2013 Wooden Award. Still, no genuine personal relationship sprouted.
It wasn't until Burke finally found national success in last year's NCAA Tournament that the other former Ohio Mr. Basketball reached out.
James' agent Rich Paul—who Burke had a relationship with—handed off the Michigan star's number to the MVP, and the best individual players in college and the NBA last year started to chat.
Swirled up between breaking out as a star on a national stage and leading the Wolverines to their highest level of relevancy since Chris Webber's phantom timeout in 1992, Burke can't pinpoint what the first text he got was. What he does know is that the texts ran through Michigan's NCAA Championship loss to Louisville, bled into Burke getting drafted ninth overall in last year's Draft and continue to this day.
With how busy the two are during the season, the frequency of conversations has dwindled. But when news came down that Burke injured his finger this preseason and would be forced to watch the first twelve games of his professional career in a suit on the sideline, James reached out to keep the rookie's hopes up.
James understands. It's why he keeps driving home two main pieces of advice: stay healthy and keep grinding. Work hard and work smart. Keep your body as finely-tuned machine so you can use it to its potential. James knows all rookies eventually hit the same wall.
"I went from playing 27 games in high school a season to trying to playing 82 games," James said. "We all hit a wall. It's challenging. The traveling, the games, the practices, just the time commitment to being on the floor. It's very taxing."
And Burke is always very receptive to the messages. When it comes to his actual textual diction, Burke says James refrains from using emojis and describes his texts as "straightforward and pretty comprehensive."
But for Burke, the presentation of the text doesn't matter; it's the content of the message he wants to file away for later.
"I wanted to get something away form what he was telling me, not just see it as him texting me," Burke said. "As good as a player he is, I'm gong to have to compete with him a lot—not just this year, but down the line."
Twenty-four picks after Thompson was selected by the Cavs in 2011, another product of Ohio was down the street in Cleveland, ready to get scooped up by James's new team.
It was Cleveland State standout point guard Norris Cole, the most famous high-volume haircut since the VHS sleeve cover of High School High.
Riding a solid motor, versatile skill set and the legend of a 40-point, 20-rebound, 9-assist night against Youngstown State, Cole was taken late in the first round (28 overall) by Miami.
After he got the call he was drafted, Cole semi-expected a text from Miami's most famous local. Eventually it came.
"Welcome to the family."
Cole is the second-youngest member of the Miami Heat. He still holds the title of last Heat draft pick to play in a regular season game and doesn't know what it's like playing in the NBA without James as a teammate.
Anyone who has followed the Heat, noticed the video bombing during post-game interviews, watched their attempts at a "Harlem Shake" video or heard about "Battioke" knows the Heat truly try to act like a tight-knit family.
So even after maybe their worst loss of the year to Utah in early February, the locker room is still jocular.
Guys giggle next to each other on the trainers table. Michael Beasley plops a backpack filled with trendy new bright colored and graphic-heavy camouflage socks in front of Dwyane Wade's locker. Beasley fingers through what feels like dozens of pairs. Wade smiles back approvingly.
Cole has his own pair with pink-and-purple polka dots meant to match his purple shirt. ("We're the Heatles now," he says. "You gotta bring them swag.")
While Cole straightens out his socks, making sure each dot is symmetrical, at the first mention of James his head instinctively kicks back and a smile beams through his Invisalign braces.
"That's my boy, man," Cole said. "We're from Ohio, baby."
After the Draft, the Dayton local was immediately invited to James' house in Akron, just a 40-minute drive down the I-77 from Cleveland State, to play in some open runs with James and Bledsoe, who was coming off his rookie year for the Clippers at the time.
"It's been all she wrote ever since," Cole said.
By the time Cole got to Miami, James made sure his new family member got the best. He let Cole steal some of his workout and training methods. He sifted through his contacts to make sure Cole only trained with the best available.
And more then anything, James offered the wisdom that comes along with being a once-in-a-generation athlete.
"Whatever I need, whenever I need to talk to him, he's available," Cole said. "He's always trying to be a mentor. He's a special player and has some gifts that can't be taught, so he's always been open."
James might have some talents that can't be taught, but that doesn't mean he won't be there to assist any young guys willing to try and learn anyway.
As the defacto guidance counselor of the NBA, he's available to impart his wisdom whenever it's called upon.
"If guys want advice, I'm here to give it," James said.
He says that like he has a choice.


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City of Hillsboro, ORHome Menu
Water & Group Exercise Schedules
Water & Group Exercise Schedule
These classes are included with the purchase of your Membership Pass or Single Visit Fee.
Check out the City of Hillsboro Parks & Recreation Activities Guide for more classes.
‡ New Classes to the Schedule
Please note, only 40 people will be allowed to participate in each class for safety and enjoyment reasons.
Classes may be canceled based on attendance and instructor availability.
Classes may be canceled if less than 3 participants are present 10 minutes after starting time. Class instructors are subject to change.
- Water Exercise Class Descriptions & Reminders
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Total Body Conditioning
- Date: 01/30/2020 5:50 am - 6:35 am
- Location: SHARC
953 SE Maple
Hillsboro, Oregon 97123
Strength and Core Conditioning: Get everything you want out of a fitness class! Enjoy a combination class that alternates strength training exercises with cardio to sculpt every major muscle group, ending with intense core conditioning to tone your abs and back.
Class is:
Tuesday, Thursday, Fridays, 5:50 - 6:35 am with Brittany
Mondays and Thursday from 5:30 - 6:30 pm with Shari


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Marty Larson is the owner and founder of Uncommon Age, a unique fitness studio located in downtown Stillwater. Marty and her team offer an integrated approach to fitness that addresses the nervous system in order to achieve optimal health and wellness.
We use a variety of modalities including Pilates, GYROTONIC®, kettlebells, resistance training, yoga, nutritional education and support, along with personal coaching and training and classes in order to meet our clients' needs. At any given time, we all need different input in our lives in order to achieve our personal goals. We believe in helping our clients navigate through these somewhat frightening and choppy waters through education and support. Advocating for our clients is at the core of everything we do, helping them to build a skill set with which to alleviate pain, build strength, increase endurance, and minimize potential injury.
Marty and her staff of certified and well-trained coaches bring years of experience.


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- Educate and advise job-seekers on networking and interviewing techniques so that they can be more competitive in the job market.
- Assist in negotiating job offers and writing employment contracts.


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If you're reading this blog, then you may have heard of Miller Lite's contest with the movie The Internship. It awarded a group of friends a Miller Lite internship and a chance to attend the movie premiere. But you may not know that for a group of students, this summer has been a "real" internship experience at MillerCoors, and I'm happy to be one of them.
I spent almost six years working on Wall Street before heading back to school to work in marketing. I enjoyed my prior career, but I knew that I wanted to switch roles and work on products that touch people's lives every day. Soon into my first semester, I knew that the beer industry was a perfect fit, because beer is a fun product that brings people together. Fortunately, I became one of the 14 interns who would soon spend their summer in Chicago learning marketing the "MillerCoors way."
The first few days of the internship were intense, with many of us meeting our supervisors and learning about our summer projects for the first time. Before long, we had packed up our things and made our way up to the Milwaukee office for orientation. The highlight of orientation was definitely our tour of the Milwaukee Brewery. Watching hundreds of bottles, cans and kegs get filled and packaged made me appreciate how quickly our company brews beer and gets it to so many parts of the country.
One thing each intern has in common is that we all are attempting to solve a real problem facing MillerCoors right now. Receiving that level of responsibility can be daunting, but we have a lot of resources and people to help us arrive at the best solution. Who knows, very soon you may be enjoying a product that was developed by someone in the intern class!
There have been many things to like about my internship so far, especially enjoying the free beer at Fred & Adolph's, our pub in the Chicago office. However, what I have enjoyed the most has been the relationships I have started to build with my fellow interns. We have already done weekly group dinners, started brewing our own beer, and had a great time at a Coors Light concert. No matter where we end up in our careers, I feel that our shared summer experience will enable us to remain a part of each other's lives.
As I write this, I have about four weeks left in my internship. While it has been a great ride, I still have a lot of work left to do so that I can present my recommendation to several key people at the company. Working at MillerCoors has truly made me believe that going back to school was the right decision for my career, and I hope it will be the start of many successful years in the beer industry.
Until next time, cheers!


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In the Name + of JESUS. Amen.
We are always making plans for the future. Plans for school. Plans for trips. Plans for our family. Plans for purchasing thing. Plans for what we will eat, what we will drink, what we will wear. These plans are not wrong in and of themselves. But they give us an orientation, a fixation on the things of the this world.
And this fixation leads us to worry. We have anxiety about the future, and regrets about the past. We fear shapeless things. We love worthless things. We hate others, hold grudges, resent what others have, look longingly, lustfully at what God has not given to us.
And so we pray half-heartedly; we spend more energy on budgets and meeting than confession and absolution; study the world news and sports stats more than the catechism; master the lyrics to foolish songs but cannot remember the Psalms by heart. And we do all of this, take delight in all these things and worry about these things because we have convinced ourselves, despite our church attendance, that this is all there really is. Jesus isn't return - at least not anytime soon.
Such thoughts, though, do not lead us to really live a care-free life. They lead to a life that is care-worn. We are anxious, restless, troubled by change, changes we cannot control. There is so much we cannot control, and this leads us to sin even more by attempting to control the things and the people around us.
There is a restlessness within us, St Augustine famously confessed, which does not rest until it rests in God. It is exacerbated by our sinfulness because we look for peace and rest, for love and hope, in all the wrong places, in things and people instead of the one, true God.
But even apart from our sin, we were not created to be self-sufficient, independent creatures, as though we could make our own way and find our place in the world apart from God. Attempting to do that very thing is the original sin! By contrast, we are granted peace and rest for both body and soul when we live by faith in the Lord our God, who created us for such life in and with Himself.
The Ascension shows us our future and our hope. Our future, our hope, our real delight, is not in the homes we build, the gadgets we purchase, the sex we have, the wine we drink, the money we make, the teams we root for, the legacy we leave. Our future and our hope is in this: where Christ has gone, so shall we go.
The Son of God took on our human nature. In your baptism you are united with Him in His death and resurrection. Still today He gives you His body and blood. You are in communion not just with a spiritual Jesus, but with the God-Man Jesus who took our human nature into the heavenly places. Everything for us looks toward the kingdom of God. This holy church, the holy Communion, where the saints are gathered together in and around the Word of Christ bidding you, "Lift up your hearts," it is an outpost, an advanced staging ground of that coming kingdom. For the kingdom of God breaks into our restless lives and anxious hearts when we hear Him speaking to us, "Your sins are forgiven," and hear again the words of the holy angels, This same Jesus will come again.
When will this happen? We do not know. It is not for us to know times and seasons. But this Lord Jesus, whom the Holy Apostles saw ascending up into the heavens, will return in the same manner. And we who come after them are called to live in joyous union with them with expectant hope and eager longing for Jesus to come soon. We are called to watch, for we know not the day or the hour. And so in this moment, and every moment, there is only one thing that truly matters: repentance and the forgiveness of sins.
This is what our Lord Jesus commissioned the Holy Apostles to preach in every corner of the world. This message has made it to us, across oceans and centuries, so that we could share in their same hope and joy, in fellowship together with them, worshipping the God who in Christ has loved us and forgives us.
None of this means that your life now, the remaining time you have in this mortal body, is without meaning or worth. If God in Christ took on our human nature, was born in our human nature, suffered in our human nature, died in our human nature, was buried in our human nature, rose again in our human nature, and ascended into heaven in our human nature, then our human nature - our bodies - even though they are frail and weak, dying and diseased, are nevertheless valuable, loved by God, and destined for eternal life in and with Christ.
Your life now matters, for you can truly live, not in the pursuit of things that are passing away, not in lonesome isolation and prideful independence, but you can live a life of joy and worship, of peace and confidence, of doing good to your neighbor and immersing yourself in the Word of God.
You can live this life of joy in Christ because there is nothing you have to fear that Christ has not conquered. There is nothing you have to accomplish that Christ has not already finished. You have nothing to lose, because Christ has already lost it all, losing His life for you, and receiving is again from the dead on the third day, now freely giving it to you.
Christ died, and in Him we are dead. Christ is risen, and in Him we live. Christ has ascended and we also shall live in the kingdom of God, body and soul. So even though we don't know what our earthly future holds for us, we live in joy, we live in hope, we live without fear.
And this not because we've decided to be optimistic or choose to have a cheerful attitude. We live in this joy, hope, and confidence because Christ our Lord has reopened the way to paradise; He has removed the threat of judgment for our sins, He has destroyed death, has promised His return, has promised resurrection for our bodies and life in the kingdom of God.
So in Jesus we rest. In Jesus we have peace. In Jesus our ascended Lord we have everything we need, who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
I am indebted to Rev Christopher Esget and Rev Dr D. Richard Stuckwisch for this sermon.


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February 7 2017
featuring Julie Gunlock
On this Working for Women Podcast, Julie Gunlock speaks to Yvette D'Entrement (better known as the SciBabe). Yvette recently toured Monsanto--an agriculture company that is often vilified by activists. What did Yvette learn? What does Monsanto do to help farmers and make food more accessible to people worldwide? Tune in to find out.


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Gov. Chris Christie today focused the bulk of his annual State of the State address on the damage and subsequent recovery efforts from Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the state of New Jersey in the closing days of October.
Christie called Sandy "the worst storm to strike New Jersey in 100 years," but said despite the destruction the storm "did not destroy our spirit."
"The people of New Jersey have come together as never before," Christie said. "Across party lines. Across ideological lines. Across ages, races and backgrounds. From all parts of our state. Even from out of state. Everyone has come together."
The governor issued a round of "thank yous" to the myriad of first responders, aid groups, utility workers and heroes who responded to the storm and helped fellow citizens.
The governor spent only a short time on the congressional aid bill that has taken more than 10 weeks to wind its way through Congress. Last week, the governor blasted House Republicans for failing to act on the bill, calling the delay politics at its worst.
"We have stood with the citizens of Florida and Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, Iowa and Vermont, California and Missouri in their times of need. Now I trust that they will stand with us," the governor said.
The governor doubled down on previous statements that Sandy changed the game in the state, devastating the state's economy "just when we were coming back from the national recession."
From Sandy, the governor pivoted to the economy, doing his best to pump up what has so far been a tepid recovery in the state. As he has done in the past, Christie cited private-sector job growth, personal income growth and better than-expected income tax receipts as evidence of the recovering economy.
The governor spent much of the second half of the speech touting his accomplishments during his first three years in office, which he said include the 2 percent property tax cap instituted two years ago, reform of the interest arbitration system, pension and health benefits reform, tenure reform and higher education restructuring.
Christie cited his record on taxes, which include "Four years, four balanced budgets. No New taxes. New tax relief to create 75,000 new private-sector jobs."
The governor outlined no new programs or proposals, preferring instead to focus on the past three years and the state's efforts to rebuild after the storm.
"Rebuilding the homes and infrastructure damaged by Sandy is the next big challenge and it will take years," he said. "We will need to spend our funds wisely and efficiently. We will need to cooperate. We will need to learn lessons from past disasters and listen to each other."
In his closing, Christie beseeched the Legislature to work together in the rebuilding effort, in restoring the economy and "reclaiming the promise of New Jersey for future generations – presenting to our renewed excellence in our schools, a sound and balanced budget and a vibrant economy with jobs for those willing to work hard."


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Morning Shift
Morning Shift: Doc explores end of life care in prison
Filmmaker Edgar Barens shares stories from his documentary about the final days of a prisoner and the care he gets from fellow inmates. And, we check in with Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton's parents more than one year after her murder. Photo: HBO