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Cleadon and East Boldon councillor David Potts who has a history of mental illness is hoping he can use his own experiences to change people's perception of mental illness.
Councillor Potts, who is till trying to get his life in order after being detained under section 4 of the Mental Health Act following his deselection as the prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate in the Labour held Edinburgh South constituency at the next General Election, is now backing a national campaign to get a section of the Mental Health Act, which states an MP can never sit in Parliament if they suffer a nervous breakdown while in office, changed.
Under Section 141 of the Mental Health Act 1983, an MP automatically loses their seat if detained under the Act for a period of 6 months or more.
He said: "how can this be fair? Basically what this says to people is, if like me, you've suffered from a mental health problem, your opinions will never be valid again".
He went on to say, "this means that people who have the most experience of the system cannot change the system.
"When I was about 14 I started getting very depressed and became paranoid and I've had to cope with these feelings ever since. Things became extremely difficult for my family after I tried to kill myself and as you can imagine, I wasn't a very pleasant person to be around"
"Eventually, my mam took me to the local hospital to see one of the doctors there and he said he wanted me to go into hospital. They basically said to me I could either go voluntarily, or I could be sectioned for up to six months."
Councillor Potts, who is a self employed financial trader and lives in West Boldon, spent the next few months in hospital, is backing a national campaign by mental health charity Rethink, to raise awareness of mental health issues with MPs.
He said: "I am taking a big risk being so open about my mental health problems and there are things people can and I am sure will, say, it could also be the end of my politial ambitions, but if you go through something like this, you should be allowed to have your say.
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Justin Timberlake is, without question, one of the most talented people on the planet. He can sing like an angel, dance like his middle name is "Thriller," is rivaled only by Alec Baldwin as the best "SNL" host in recent memory, and an Oscar nod for his turn in "The Social Network" is almost a foregone conclusion.
His new film, "Yogi Bear," an 3D film adaption of the beloved Hanna-Barbera cartoon that mixes animation and live action, is—shall we say—an unexpected choice, especially on the heels of a role that's earning his serious critical acclaim, but Timberlake took his preparation quite seriously.
At the press day for the movie, which Timberlake attended on crutches after injuring himself on the set of his current project, "Now," (he joked it was sustained by "kickin' ass") Timberlake explained his process to nail the voice of Boo-Boo.
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"I had someone on hand with the old 60s and 70s cartoons and I would sit there and listen to it in between takes and before we would start our sessions," Timberlake began. "It would take me 15 to 20 minutes to really get—this is all really boring, geeky vocal stuff—but to get your palate to the right level of the character, so after the first 20 minutes, I would go back and rerecord everything we'd done in the first half hour because you just get in the pocket of the tone and inflection. Wow, I'm really killing any sort of coolness I had before I got here," he laughs.
"At the risk of ruining my social life, funny enough, I kind of learned how to sing when I was a kid imitating singers on the radio; Al Green and Michael Jackson and Don Henley. But also, I was an only child and obviously really bored. I would entertain my parents by imitating Scooby Doo and Boo-Boo, all the cartoon voices."
Having grown up watching the cartoons, we asked Timberlake what touchstones he wanted to make sure he brought to his performance.
"I wanted to sort of [conjure] Buster Keaton, if I may, to offset the bigness and brashness and almost absurdity of Yogi that [Dan Aykroyd] was able to find and so hilariously portray. It was sort of a Laurel and Hardy type of thing."
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Hundreds of quilts – from traditional 19th century patterns to modern-day works of self-expression – will "blanket" several museums and other venues in Lowell, as the Mill City prepares for the Lowell Quilt Festival.
Hundreds of quilts – from traditional 19th century patterns to modern-day works of self-expression – will "blanket" several museums and other venues in Lowell, as the Mill City prepares for the Lowell Quilt Festival.
The event kicks off with a gallery night: exhibits, lectures, receptions and more, set for Thursday, Aug. 7 through Sunday, Aug. 10, with an opening reception Aug. 7, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at select museums and galleries.
About 10,000 quilt lovers are expected to come to the city over the course of the four-day festival, said Connie Colom, executive director of the New England Quilt Museum, which oversees the festival in partnership with several cultural institutions in Lowell.When worlds meet
They keynote event will be Images, a juried show with more than 300 quilts at the Paul E. Tsongas Arena, with prizes for a wide array of categories, including youth entries for students and under.
The arena will also host a viewing of quilts from Peacequilts,, which teaches artisans in Haiti to create quilts with scenes reflecting life there.
The 16 quilts on exhibit are made by students ages 14 to 18, with vibrant images of the Haitian environment.
Peacequilts grew out of the Martha's Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti project, started 10 years ago as a way to help workers in Haiti provide an income for their families.
Jeanne Staples, coordinator of Peacequilts, said, "We were bringing back beautiful, embroidered table cloths, but they weren't selling very well because people don't entertain that way anymore."
Staples, an artist and quilt collector whose family originated in Nova Scotia – a haven for quilting – said she hit on the idea that although quilting is not a native art in Haiti, it could lend itself well to the exquisite sewing skills craftswomen there already possessed.
"We have women who work on a daily basis…we pay them a wage, and also a percentage of what we think we can sell the quilt for. We give them some direction and feedback," Staples said.
The funds earned from quilt sales go back into related projects, she said.
Staples said, when quilting is introduced to a culture, it finds a following. "Quilting has to start somewhere," she said, adding that the quilt makers will adapt colors, patterns and textiles from their culture to give the art of quilting yet another dimension.Historical and personal
A major part of the exhibit is the journey of quilting from a traditional folk art – a practice still preserved by many quilters – to an individual expression, sometimes surprising but always deeply personal.
In conjunction with the festival, the Brush Art Gallery is hosting Arts Quilts Lowell 2008, its second national juried exhibition of original quilts, which opens Sunday, Aug. 3 and runs through Oct. 26, with a reception set for Saturday, Aug. 9.
The entries often express an artist's personality, and often an emotion or experience such as the death of a loved one.
"They are often very cathartic," said E. Linda Poras, executive director of the Brush Art Gallery. "With the quilt, the artist may be working out an experience." The gallery will display 33 quilts selected from the 250 entries by the jurors – Colom, and Clara Wainwright, a pioneer in cultural events in the greater Boston area including the founding of First Night, and herself a quilt maker.
Among the artists selected was Elfa Jonsdottir of Worcester, creator of "Sod Walk," a series of five quilts inspired by her upbringing in Iceland.
Jondsottir said sod walls were the walls of homes from a long-past age in Iceland, and said she recalled playing among them as a child.
"They have unique herring bone patterns, and I have not seen them anyplace else," Jonsdottir said. "As a child, I used to play among the ruins."
She also began her lifelong love of textile arts as a child, and believes quilting, along with other textile-based arts, is coming into its own in the fine arts world but needs events such as the quilt festival to give it credibility as a valid artistic expression.
"It is sometimes seen as a second class art. When you have a big festival like this, you really elevate it," Jonsdottir said. "It takes something like that to make people aware of the art."Art and economy
Organizers hope that, with fuel costs and economic worries prompting many people to keep vacations close to home, the quilt festival will provide an affordable way to enjoy great art.
"With the gas problems and the economy… we are hoping that it will be people who are not making trips far a field this year will look for things to do," said Colom, who said group rates are available.
In addition to celebrating the art of quilting, the event is a major fundraiser for the New England Quilt Museum, which Colom says hopes to raise $50,000 for museum programs and operations.
"I think more and more quilting is seen as a different art medium, instead of working in paper or canvas, or oils or clay, they work in fabric and textiles," Colom said. "They are pushing to see what they can do, and to constantly be outside the box."If you go
The Lowell Quilt Festival takes place Aug. 7-10 in Lowell. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Gallery night opening reception 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission: $12 (adult) for a multi-day ticket grants access to the Images Quilt Show and Merchant Malls at the Tsongas Arena, and The New England Quilt Museum. Discounted group rates available.
Other participating venues include the Whistler House Museum of Art, American Textile History Museum, Friends Fabric Art at Western Art Studios, The Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios, The Revolving Museum, Lowell National Historical Park and Tsongas Industrial History Center.
For more information, call 978-452-4207 or visit www.lowellquiltfestival.org. Margaret Smith is Arts and Calendar editor at Community Newspaper Company's Northwest Unit. E-mail her at email@example.com.


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One difference is that the CPU voltage limits are specified variably from 400MHz (1.5V) to 50MHz (1V) the current at these speeds is not mentioned. The FreeRunner includes a variant that can be clocked up to 500MHz, however a) current consumption is insane at this frequency and b) various other components can't cope with the peripheral clock at this speed. It is therefore safe to assume that the highest frequency for the Neo FreeRunner is 400MHz.
Harald Welte wrote in an e-mail to the neo1973-hardware mailing list:
[...] apart from two differences, [the S3C2442B] is software/register-wise exactly identical to the s3c2440. Hardware-wise it is packaged with 64MByte (x32) SDRAM and depending on the type, 128/256MByte NAND flash (2k page size). The differences are: 1) all pull-up resistors (GPBUP, ...) are now pull-down 2) the default initializers for the PLL have changed [...]
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Lack of undue hardship determination no ground for relief for student loan creditors
Below, Stanford Law School's Bryan Henderson recaps yesterday's opinion in United Student Aid Funds v. Espinosa (08-1134). Check the United Student Aid Funds SCOTUSwiki page for additional information.
On March 23, 2010, in an opinion by Justice Thomas, the Court unanimously held that although a bankruptcy court is required to make an undue hardship determination before discharging student debt, the court's failure to do so is not a jurisdictional ground sufficient to reopen a final judgment as void under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4). Likewise, the Court held that there is no due process ground to reopen a judgment when a creditor receives actual notice of the discharge proceedings, even if the student debtor fails to adhere to the bankruptcy rules requiring service of a summons and complaint on the creditor. [You can read my preview of the case and recap of oral argument here and here.]
The Court found that neither of the two traditional grounds for reopening a judgment as void under Rule 60(b)(4) "" a certain type of jurisdictional error or violation of due process "" were present. Though relying on the fact that no party raised the jurisdictional question below, the court noted that a jurisdictional challenge would in any event fail because Section 523(a)(8)'s requirement that a bankruptcy court make an undue hardship finding is a precondition to obtaining a discharge order, not a limit on the court's jurisdiction. Moreover, there was no due process violation because the creditor's receipt of actual notice in this case "more that satisfied" its due process rights under Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.
Emphasizing the importance of finality, the Court rejected the creditor's request "" supported by the United States as amicus "" to expand the narrow grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)(4) to include a court's lack of statutory authority to confirm a bankruptcy plan absent an undue hardship finding. The Court reasoned that its characterization of Section 523(a)(8)'s undue hardship requirement as "self-executing" in Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation v. Hood meant only that the bankruptcy court must make an undue hardship finding even if the creditor does not request one, not that its failure to make such a finding renders a subsequent confirmation order void for purposes of Rule 60(b)(4). Such a failure, the Court reasoned, was not "on par" with the jurisdictional and notice failings that normally define void judgments and can be addressed by filing a timely appeal.
Notably, the Court strictly limited its holding to the student loan context, avoiding the thorny related questions concerning other types of nondischargable debt stemming from specified tax debts, domestic support obligations, and DWI-related debt. The Court did note, however, a statutory difference between student debt and these other forms of debt: the former is sometimes dischargeable (upon a finding of undue hardship), while the latter is not dischargeable under any circumstances.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — TaShawn Thomas scored 13 points to lead Houston to a 67-58 victory over South Florida on Saturday.
Danrad Knowles and Tione Womack each had 12 points and Jherrod Stiggers finished with 11 for Houston. The Cougars (10-5) improved to 2-0 in the American Athletic Conference, coming in off an upset of No. 17 Connecticut on New Year's Eve.
Martino Brock had 11 points and Chris Perry added 10 to pace South Florida (9-6, 0-2), which has dropped four of five games since an 8-2 start.
USF, which never led after scoring the first four points of the game, failed to convert all 10 of its 3-point attempts en route to a 34-26 halftime deficit. The Bulls also committed eight turnovers and had seven shots blocked before the break.
After missing 26 shots in a row from long range in a span of three games, South Florida broke through midway through the second half on a 3-pointer by Musa Abdul-Aleem. The Bulls hit four more to finish 5 for 21.
Thomas, a junior forward, became the 13th player in school history to record at least 1,100 points and 700 rebounds with his four rebounds.
USF starting point guard Anthony Collins, a Houston native, missed his fifth consecutive game with swelling and tendinitis in his surgically repaired left knee.
Houston played without three injured starters – forward J.J. Richardson and guards Daniel House and L.J. Rose.
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§9-6-8. Confidentiality of records.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all records of the department, state and regional long-term care ombudsmen, nursing home or facility administrators, the office of health facility licensure and certification and all protective services agencies concerning an adult or facility resident under this article are confidential and may not be released, except in accordance with the provisions of section eleven of this article.
(b) Unless the adult concerned is receiving adult protective services or unless there are pending proceedings with regard to the adult, the records maintained by the adult protective services agency shall be destroyed thirty years following their preparation.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section or any other provision of this code to the contrary, all records concerning reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults, including all records generated as a result of such reports, may be made available to:
(1) Employees or agents of the department who need access to the records for official business.
(2) Any law-enforcement agency investigating a report of known or suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
(3) The prosecuting attorney of the judicial circuit in which the vulnerable adult resides or in which the alleged abuse, neglect or exploitation occurred.
(4) A circuit court or the Supreme Court of Appeals subpoenaing the records. The court shall, before permitting use of the records in connection with any court proceeding, review the records for relevancy and materiality to the issues in the proceeding. The court may issue an order to limit the examination and use of the records or any part of the record.
(5) A grand jury, by subpoena, upon its determination that access to the records is necessary in the conduct of its official business.
(6) The recognized protection and advocacy agency for the disabled of the State of West Virginia.
(7) The victim.
(8) The victim's legal representative, unless he or she is the subject of an investigation under this article.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section or any other provision of this code to the contrary, summaries concerning substantiated investigative reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of adults may be made available to:
(1) Any person who the department has determined to have abused, neglected or exploited the victim.
(2) Any appropriate official of the state or regional long-term care ombudsman investigating a report of known or suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
(3) Any person engaged in bona fide research or auditing, as defined by the department. However, information identifying the subjects of the report may not be made available to the researcher.
(4) Employees or agents of an agency of another state that has jurisdiction to investigate known or suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults.
(5) A professional person when the information is necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of, and service delivery to, a vulnerable adult.
(6) A department administrative hearing officer when the hearing officer determines the information is necessary for the determination of an issue before the officer.
(e) The identity of any person reporting abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult may not be released, without that person's written consent, to any person other than employees of the department responsible for protective services or the appropriate prosecuting attorney or law-enforcement agency. This subsection grants protection only for the person who reported the abuse, neglect or exploitation and protects only the fact that the person is the reporter. This subsection does not prohibit the subpoena of a person reporting the abuse, neglect or exploitation when deemed necessary by the prosecuting attorney or the department to protect a vulnerable adult who is the subject of a report, if the fact that the person made the report is not disclosed.


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State applies for grant to expand health care work force
The state has applied for roughly $5 million in federal stimulus money to expand the state's health care work force, according to an announcement made Monday by Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The funding would go to providing scholarships, affordable education and other support to low-income people wishing to pursue nursing or another health-related career.
Regionally, health care professionals said that, if the state receives the money, it could help offset a looming shortage of health care workers. "This is a good cause," said Ron Bianchi, corporate senior vice president at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport. "A lot of people don't go into the health care field because they can't afford advanced training or retraining."
Plans for the money include providing more than $900,000 in scholarship and financial support to new students entering the field, and to current health care workers who seek to expand their skills. The money would be used through Connecticut's Workforce Investment Strategies in Healthcare (WISH), a comprehensive initiative that works in partnership with community colleges and local work force boards.
But not all those receiving funding through the grant fall into these categories.
St. Vincent's College, in Bridgeport, an independent two-year college that provides education in nursing and other health-related fields, is also slated to get a piece of the funding. The college is affiliated with St. Vincent's Medical Center.
College vice president and dean Joanne Wolfertz said St. Vincent's share of the money would go toward helping current students stay in school. Many students who come through the college need academic assistance to graduate and go on to the health care field, Wolfertz explained. "A lot of students who come here have not been in a classroom in a long time," she said.
Creating health care workers is essential, Wolfertz said, as many people in these fields -- particularly nursing -- are nearing retirement age. In this unstable economic climate, she said, these older worker are loathe to retire because they needed the money provided by steady employment. But, once the country's financial situation improves, people will start retiring again, leaving a gap in health professions.
Bianchi echoed Wolfertz's concerns about the aging health care work force, and hopes that the money the state is pursuing will help funnel fresh blood into the profession. "This is needed," he said.
According to a press release from the governor's office, the three-year stimulus grant would help WISH place more than 3,200 students in 11 community college degree programs, helping them to pursue careers as nurses, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, surgical technicians and other health professional. Additionally, WISH would find jobs for 2,500 new health care workers and provide expanded retraining opportunities to more than 600 workers.
Another local health official also applauded the application for the stimulus funding. Like Bianchi and Wolfertz, Hope Juckel-Regan, Bridgeport Hospital executive vice president and chief operating officer, fears a nursing shortage is on the horizon. "I strongly believe we need to do all we can to bring more people into the profession," she said.


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The Los Angeles Galaxy continue their preseason preparations on Wednesday night at Cal State Fullerton's Titan Stadium, where they will host Costa Rican side Puntarenas FC in an international friendly.
Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena admitted he doesn't know much, if anything, about this week's opponent, although he does savor the idea of having his club involved in a meaningful competition. The Galaxy have not lost in any of their preseason matches -- five scrimmages, including last Friday's 5-2 victory over San Diego State which featured three goals by Edson Buddle -- and Arena said he's viewing Wednesday's game as the first real indication of how far his team has progressed.
Not that he's been worried about the Galaxy's development. Unlike last year at this time, when the Galaxy were deep into their roster overhaul and adjusting to Arena's coaching in his first training camp with the club, this preseason has progressed smoothly.
"I just think we're very far ahead from last year in all aspects of the game," he said. "Last year we played the games a little too early for us with a whole new group coming in. When we played the Pan-Pacific (Championship) in the middle of February, that was a little too early.
"Now we're in the middle of March, which is a better time for us to be playing open games."
Puntarenas currently are tied for second (with CF Universidad de Costa Rica) in Costa Rica's Primera Division, nine points behind first-place San Carlos FC, and have won only one of their last five matches (1-2-2). Puntarenas, founded in 2004, is led by captain/defender Dario Delgado Mora and were finalists in last season's Costa Rican League championship, where they lost to CF Brujas on penalty kicks.
Puntarenas, who are coached by Uruguayan Jorge Walter Gonzalez Estevez, qualified for the quarterfinals of the 2007 CONCACAF Champions Cup, now known as the CONCACAF Champions League. They lost to the Houston Dynamo 2-1 in a competition that eventually was won by CF Pachuca, who beat CD Guadalajara in the final.
Puntarenas had qualfied for the Champions Cup by virtue of their 2006 Torneo UNCAF championship.
"My sense is they're a good team and good competition," Arena said. "It's competition in a gated game, which helps.
"When you play an exhibition in public you take it a little bit more seriously. I think that's a start of our final preparations for the opening game of league."
The Galaxy begin the regular season against the New England Revolution on March 27 at The Home Depot Center.
Larry Morgan is a contributor to MLSnet.com.


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To be friendly with someone Why is Patrick chumming up to me all of a sudden? He's usually so distant.
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to try or seem to become friendly with someone. Todd chummed up to Martin. I don't want to have to chum up to anyone I don't want to work with.


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ABC Thrills Over Michelle Obama's Oscar Appearance: 'Straight Out of Argo'
Last week, ABC scored an exclusive "get." Barack and Michelle Obama appeared on Good Morning America to welcome back co-host Robin Roberts from a serious illness. On Tuesday, Roberts paid the White House back, fawning over the "trend-setting" First Lady and her "hot" bangs. The anchor asked not a single tough question during the two part, eight and a half minute segment.
Co-anchor George Stephanopoulos compared Mrs. Obama's appearance at the Oscars, Sunday, to the real mission in the movie Argo: Rescuing American hostages from Iran. He thrilled over the secretive appearance: "Producers go undercover to the White House in a move straight out of Argo." Elizabeth Vargas echoed, "It was like something out of Argo." The hostages in Iran faced death, not the revelation of a TV appearance. [MP3 audio here.]
The graphic laughably screamed, "Mission Michelle."
Roberts's first question made it clear that this would be an interview full of softballs. Regarding the President's second inaugural, she enthused, "It really seemed, Mrs. Obama, that you and the President and your family, this time around, really took in the moment. Was that the case?"
Later, the host moved on to the deeply pressing issue of the First Lady's hair. Gossiping to the ABC audience, she revealed, "I couldn't resist asking about her latest trend-setting move. Yep. Those new bangs. There's no hotter topic."
After the first segment, which totaled 4 minutes and 34 seconds, Roberts and Mrs. Obama came back for another four minutes to do a cooking story.
Back on February 20, the First Lady gushed over how exciting this segment would be: "And personally, I am looking forward to our interview together in a couple of days."
Roberts has a long history of fawning over the Obamas. On May 10, 2012, she lauded, "I'm getting chills" just thinking about the President's flip on gay marriage.
A transcript of the February 26 segment follows:
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mission, Michelle. The top secret operation revealed to get the First Lady to announce best picture at the Oscars. Producers go undercover to the White House in a move straight out of Argo. This morning, Robin's exclusive interview with the First Lady.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We're going now to turn to Robin's exclusive interview with First Lady Michelle Obama. All over the headlines this week, especially after that surprise appearance at the Oscars to announce the best picture. Robin sat down with her before heading to L.A. to talk about the First Lady's let's move campaign and a whole lot more, including how the president is handling a teenager in the White House.
JOHN ROBERTS: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
ROBIN ROBERTS: It really seemed, Mrs. Obama, that you and the President and your family, this time around, really took in the moment. Was that the case?
MICHELLE OBAMA: Absolutely. We made a conscious decision to take this in because four years ago, it was a whirlwind. So, this was one of those times where we had to just stop and breathe and appreciate all that we'd accomplished and all that was left to do.
ROBERTS: As President Obama begins his second term, gun violence has become an issue close to both the President and the First Lady. In January, Mrs. Obama attended the funeral of one, young victim in Chicago, gunned down just a week after performing at the inauguration.
OBAMA: Hadiya was an honor student. One of the things her mother said at this funeral, she said, "I did everything I was supposed to do." And she was absolutely right. She did everything she was supposed to do. She was standing in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids grew up, where our house is. And she was caught in the line of fire. I just don't want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.
ROBERTS: Our country's children have long been the focus of Mrs. Obama's time in the White House. This is the third anniversary of her Let's Move campaign, taking on childhood obesity. What have you accomplished with Let's Move and what remains to be done?
OBAMA: When we started, there were a lot of people in this country who would have never thought that childhood obesity was a health crisis. But now, we're starting to see rates of obesity coming down like never before. This new initiative that we're announcing, the "my plate" recipe partnership, where we're collaborating with some of the top media companies in this country. And they are compiling and labeling and promoting recipes that meet the "my plate" guidelines.
ROBERTS: Now, before I let Mrs. Obama go, I couldn't resist asking about her latest trend-setting move. Yep. Those new bangs. There's no hotter topic.
OBAMA: Oh, what? What?
ROBERTS: No hotter topic, than your bangs.
OBAMA: Bangs? What bangs?
ROBERTS: You know, you forced me to go wigless. In December, my wonderful stylist picked out a wig for me. In December. You didn't debut this until January. Look at this picture.
[On-screen: A picture of Roberts win a wig looking similar to Michelle Obama.]
OBAMA: My goodness. That's cute.
ROBERTS: I know and I was going to do that. Everyone would have thought I was copying you when I came back.
OBAMA: Aww, well, you know what? Robin, you were so gorgeous. You are one of the women who can do whatever to your hair and you look great.
ROBERTS: Oh, well, thank you.
OBAMA: So, you can mix it up.
ROBERTS: That was December, the wig.
OBAMA: Okay. Robin had it first. Robin-- I'm following you.
ROBERTS: Not at all. But that's the spirit of everything. And when I think about your children, Malia's going to be 15 in July.
OBAMA: Yeah, I know.
ROBERTS: And your husband has kinda joked, just a little bit, about the knock, knock, knock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, young man. Is he really concerned about that?
OBAMA: No. I mean, I think he likes to -- fathers in particular, I don't think they really know how they're going to feel until it happens. You know? There's nothing like the look on his face when Malia dresses up for a party and she's heading out. And she walks past him. And you can see his face sort of just drop a little bit. Like, what was that? You know? He's a little gray. People think the gray is from his job. It's from his children. So, we'll see how that goes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Welcome to the club on that one.
ELIZABETH VARGAS: Good luck.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm loving all the details that are coming in about the secret Oscar announcement.
VARGAS: It was like something out of Argo.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah. One of the producers told "the hollywood reporter" they had to fly secretly to the White House. They had to keep it off the manifests. Keep it off all the program runs. First Lady said yes immediately. Se said, "I think it's a great idea. We watch movies all the time at the White House." And they pulled it off.
VARGAS: They sure did! That was great!
-- Scott Whitlock is the senior news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.


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I am finishing my long-overdue photography book about the National Parks, to be released this summer for the NPS Centennial: 456 pages, 450+ photographs, 120,000+ words, 60 maps, 12×10 inches, $65. The book has two unique features. It is comprehensive, with images from each corner of each US National Park in a beautiful design. It doubles as a photography guide (location notes, with a bit of my experiences and impressions). More details are at TreasuredLandsBook.com, where you can also enter a draw to win a free signed copy.
The working title is "Treasured Lands" because it is the name of my traveling exhibit, but it itself, it doesn't say "National Parks". I need a subtitle. With that in mind, I have created a survey with exactly one question: "Which subtitle would make you more likely to purchase my book". To see the options and vote, click here if you don't see options below.
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The main objective of the Wye City Group is the promotion of the refinement and adoption of international standards in statistics for rural areas and agriculture household incomes.
Statisticians and economists in national statistical offices, especially in North America, Western Europe, and in multilateral institutions have an established, shared interest in improving methods for collecting data on rural development, communities, and farm and non-farm households.Such information is becoming of increasing importance as policy for agriculture broadens, as rural issues rise up the political agenda, and as the structure of farming and rural areas evolves.
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Leah and I both hail from the Veale and Harriman/Harryman side of my family. My maternal GG grandfather, George Elmer Veale, married Margaret Harriman. George's sister, Clara Veale, married one of Margaret's cousins, William Bowles Harriman. Both George and Clara Veale were children of my 3rd great grandparents, Andrew Jackson Veale and Elizabeth Miller Veale, who migrated from Daviess County, Indiana, to Wabaunsee County, Kansas, in the late 1800s.
Earlier this year, Leah got together with our cousins Wanda and Debbie, and drove out to the Old Stone Church in Maple Hill, Kansas, where several of our relatives are buried. Leah sent me pictures from their escapade, including this photo of George and Margaret's grave, as well as some of the church and grounds.
|Old Stone Church, Maple Hill, Kansas
|Margaret Harriman Veale - 1850-1932
|Leah (2nd from left) with her brother, George, and our cousins, Debbie and Wanda
George Elmer Veale (1850-1928) m. Margaret A. Harriman (1850-1932) in 1872 >
Alice A. Veale (1872-1954) m. Joseph Bartram (1860-1930) in 1891 >
John Bartram (1911-1987) m. Donna Marie Madsen (1919-1966) in 1938 >
Rebecca Elizabeth Bartram (living) m. William Lee Brittain (1942-2003) in 1964 >
CORRECTION: I had mistakenly included the wrong picture of Leah, George, Debbie and Wanda. The photo, above, is the correct photo (sorry, Leah!).


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Red Sauce with Prosciutto Necks at Di Palo's
Homemade red sauce with pasta is nothing new at Di Palo's in Little Italy, but on a recent visit, the team explained that they're increasing the regularity of some of their offerings. Which means you have even more chances to get this prosciutto-filled red sauce, either in packaged form or dressed with pasta in the deli case, ready to eat.
What makes this red sauce different from all other red sauce? Prosciutto neck, the bony end of the ham, which the market has in abundance, and sells on its own for a mere $5.99 a pound. The bone and skin get stewed with tomatoes, onions, and olive oil until the sauce is concentrated and sweet; then the meatier portion of the neck is cut into a small dice and left to soften in the sauce shortly before it's finished.
The bone and skin drive intense porky flavors to the very core of the tomatoes, infusing the sauce with an unctuous richness that coats pasta especially well. The prosciutto dice is more for texture; it's reserved until the end so the meat doesn't dry out during prolonged cooking.
Most snack-y items at Di Palo's—that gorgeous porchetta, for instance—add up fast. But a half-pound portion of pre-cooked and -sauced prosciutto neck pasta will run you about $3.50 for a very respectable pick-me-up. Should your ambitions run more grand, you can always take home a prosciutto neck and make a sauce of your own.
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Webb drops out of Obama veepstakes
Cross another Virginia Democrat off the list of potential running mates for Barack Obama. Three weeks after former governor Mark Warner told the Virginia Democratic Convention that he would not accept his party's nomination for vice president, Sen. Jim Webb issued a statement today saying, "Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for Vice President."
"I entered elective politics," continues Webb, "because of my commitment to strengthen America's national security posture, to promote economic fairness, and to increase government accountability. I have worked hard to deliver upon that commitment, and I am convinced that my efforts and talents toward those ends are best served in the Senate."
According to UVA professor and political pundit Larry Sabato, all the hype about Webb being able to deliver Virginia to Obama's column in November may have been unwarranted in the first place. "Vice presidential candidates really don't matter that much," says Sabato. "People don't believe that in the summer because there's enormous attention on this question now. But come November, people really do vote for the presidential candidates alone."
Still, Sabato says that we may yet see a Virginian on the Democratic ticket, since Gov. Tim Kaine– who was the first governor outside Illinois to endorse Obama's candidacy back in February 2007– still has not removed his name from consideration. "I don't think there's any question that, if asked, he'll take it," says Sabato. "He's still very much in the hunt."
If that happens, Sabato points out, it would be a significant loss for the state Democratic party. "The instant Kaine was sworn in, [Lt. Gov.] Bill Bolling would become governor, and the Democrats would lose control of state government," he says. "That would be unprecedented since Virginia went to four-year terms in 1852, and Bolling would instantly become a formidable candidate to be elected to a full term."
In the past, Kaine has deflected such speculation. "You're not going to see me leave," the Governor told the Hook during a visit to Sabato's class in April. "I'll be Governor of Virginia through January of 2010. Maybe after I'm governor I'll be able to help him."
On the other side of the aisle, another Virginia politician has been the subject of vice presidential speculation. Congressman Eric Cantor's (R-Henrico) name has been mentioned with increasing frequency as a candidate to pair up with John McCain, but Sabato says he doesn't see a McCain-Cantor ticket in his crystal ball. "His name recognition outside of his district is literally zero," says Sabato. "Besides, if you pick a young House member who's even younger than Obama, it makes it hard to make the inexperience argument."


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May 1st, 2014
Ruggedized, high-resolution digital HD cameras to expand identification capabilities in global security
BOSTON, Mass. – May 1, 2014 -- Adimec (www.adimec.com), a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, will showcase its portfolio of vision products and technology aimed at the global security market at the 2014 edition of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing event in Baltimore, MD., held May 6th through May 8th. The company will display and discuss the latest enhancements to its TMX-DHD series of rugged full HD COTS cameras to provide color full motion video in daylight on airborne payloads, long range observations systems, and other sensor system architectures.
In addition to the 2/3" CCD image sensor based cameras in remote sensor head, cube outline, or board-level configurations, the TMX-DHD series now includes 1/2" CCD image sensor options (TMX8-DHD and TMX9-DHD) for alternate optical formats, and these cameras will be demonstrated at the exhibition. All of the cameras in the TMX-6 and 7 DHD series offer 60 fps for no motion blur in the images when fast reaction time is required while the TMX8 and 9 series offer solutions for high-volume land-based vehicles programs. These cameras are optimized for lifetime extension and upgrade programs (standard definition to full HD) with various interfaces including HD-SDI, CoaXPress, andCamera Link andmini-Camera Link and possibilities for integrated zoom optics.
Other key characteristics of the cameras include a rugged design (MIL-STD-810 qualified) for harsh outdoor conditions; operating capabilities in a wide range of temperatures (-40℃ to +71℃); video enhancement, NIR sensitivity, light weight, and low power consumption. Adimec's rugged cameras offer extremely low failure rates, configuration control, and comprehensive obsolescence mitigation for long-term programs.
Visit Adimec in Booth #516 on the exhibition floor to discuss these cameras as well as many developments in progress, which will include CMOS-based systems, enhanced image processing and integrated electro-optical modules.
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Adimec specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-performance cameras that meet the application-specific requirements of key market segments, including machine vision, medical imaging, and outdoor imaging. Founded in 1992, the company partners with major OEMs around the world to facilitate the creation of industry-leading cameras. Its products meet a wide range of performance, size, cost, interface and application requirements and its Adimec True Accurate Imaging® technology provides new levels of precision and accuracy to vision systems. Adimec has offices around the world focused on creating customer value and satisfaction through local, personalized support. For more information, go to www.adimec.com. For more information on imaging and vision topics, check our blog.
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Forgiveness is hard. It is hard to do and it is hard to write about. Most wisdom and spiritual traditions promote it as a necessary practice for salvation (in this life and/or the next). Yet, we hang on to our angers, resentments, and traumas, turning pain into suffering. There is even a point of view … Continue reading Forgiveness
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Yes, I'm still here! Yes, I know it's not Monday, but I'm behind! Between vacation, WoW and the Holidays I'm just running short on time to post as frequently as I am accustomed to doing 🙂 The days that I work, I get home in time to raid and then have a ton of things to do after the raid (you know, like eat dinner, do my random heroic, get ready for tomorrow night's raid, etc), and the days I don't work…well, I'm doing a lot of playing! However, now that the rush is over, and I'm starting to fall back into a somewhat normal schedule, I suspect that my posting schedule will settle back into place as well.
Until then, let me give you a bit of (a brief) recap of what I've been up to lately!
On Raiding
Our 25 mans are set to start up in about 10 days, and I'm quite excited for them. In the interim we have been trucking through the new content with a 10 man group, that is constantly shifting with different members of our 25 man progression team. We have currently cleared through 8 of the 12 available encounters, and will hopefully add another one or two notches to our belt this week.
I am finding that the healing is extremely challenging, and every now and again, borderline frustrating. There are times that I just don't feel that I have the tools to optimally do what the encounter is asking of me, and that is a bit stressful. To the point that I while I was hesitant to offer it before, I will say that I think Resto Druids need some tweaking in a PvE Raid environment. Now, I'm not saying that the sky is falling or that we are terrible healers, I just think that the way our heals are designed are not meshing well with some of the encounter mechanics…or with what the other healers can bring to a raid. I do think that resto druids, as a whole, need some re-evaluation to put us in a "good" spot.
Outside of that complaint, I am finding most of the new encounters to be enjoyable and interesting…even if Blizzard over-utilized the "get out of the bad" mechanic.
On Gear
I finally got Tyrande's Favorite Doll. And I have to say that it's a fantastic trinket…as long as you remember to use the cooldown! I've set up a Power Aura to let me know when mine was off of Cooldown. However, after last night's Chimearon work, I realized that I wasn't using it on cooldown as I should, and so I added a sound to the aura.
I had originally thought that the mana return had a chance to proc, however, after some testing I realized that is not the case. Both the mana return and the damage done by the trinket is called "Detonate Mana". From what I can tell, the mana is always a return of 4200 (which is an astounding 25,000 mana in a 6 minute fight!), but the damage done by the trinket far exceeds that. I had hits on a single target that ranged from 4369 to 8700, with very limited testing. And, on some AE things over the past few days, I've seen hits exceed 40,000 damage. Which makes me wonder how the trinket plays out for a DPS class, assuming of course that it is already quite good due to the static intellect attribute of the trinket.
In short, I've been very pleased with the trinket since I have acquired it. I would absolutely recommend grinding it out if you are on the fence about acquiring one.
As for the rest of Beru's gear, I've basically finished out my "346" set, and my only upgrades will now come from raiding and valor points.
On Time Sinks
Archeology seems to be the mother of all time sinks. And now that I'm entrenched in it, I can't seem to find a way out. So I pull out a movie, toss it in, and dig. I'm sure that right as I "finish" with it, Blizzard will unleash that 8th, as yet undiscoverable, race that we see in the interface, and then I'll have to start all over again.
Of course, just about everything that I want is in Uldum and the digsites there are so rare. I really with that after you've "completed" a race tree and obtained all of the rare items from the tree, the other digsites would be favored to spawn.
On Twilight Jasmine
I hate it. It's used for everything…and in very high quantity. It's over farmed, and there are too few nodes in the zone since the nerf, and I've yet to find a consistently good "farming path" for it. Honestly, if you are going to require 12 herbs for a flask, it really should be a bit easier to obtain. This herb is the bane of my existence right now. I loathe having to farm for it and I loathe having to use it, because it means I will have to go and farm more. Oh…and while I am ranting about herbing:
On Phased Gathering Nodes
PLEASE FIX THIS! There is absolutely nothing more frustrating that trying to farm herbs than having half of your nodes phase out as you approach them. Sure it wasn't the intent that nodes were phased, was it? I mean, they weren't in any of the WotLK zones, so I can only assume that it's a bug here. Right now, Twilight Jasmine (and herbing in Twilight Highlands) basically does nothing but piss me off.
On Deepsea Sagefish Pools
Speaking of things that are pissing me off….
Why are there no deepsea sagefish pools? Almost every caster is going to want 90 int or 90 spirit food, and yet we can't fish them out of a pool? WTF! Not only do we get screwed trying to help our guild fish their fish feast up by having to cast outside of pools, we get MURGLESNORT (or whatever the heck it's called). I get about 3 murglesnort to every 1 sagefish that I catch. AND THERE ISN'T EVEN A RECIPE FOR THAT STUPID FISH!
I can only hope that this was an oversight, and that soon, in one of these GC posts or patch notes that are coming up we will see "deepsea sagefish have decided to be more social, and can now be found swimming together in pools".
On Non-WoW things
I saw True Grit over the weekend. It was amazing. Go see it!
I got a Xbox/Kinect for Christmas, and I'm loving it. I have just two games for it (Kinect Adventures and Dance Central), but I've had a lot of fun (and a good workout!) from both. If anyone else has any experiences with some of the other games out that they'd recommend, please let me know!
All in all
I've been enjoying the new content. I'm really looking forward to pushing forward with our 25 man team and seeing where we will go. I'm also having a good deal of fun working through the content in our 10 mans, and will only believe that our 25s will be smoother as a result of the experience.
How have you been spending your time? What Cataclysm things are really bothering you?


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Fountain Pen Inks That Celebrate Autumn Colors11/10/2012
Sometimes the inks in my rotation do a little ink dance in my daily journal. The steps consist of the ink name plus a doodle that shows the ink color to good advantage.
My most recent ink and pen duos were chosen at random and include a few favorites plus several inks that warranted testing in pens different from their last outings. None of those former couples were wedded but rather suffered ill-fated flings. Time to be a bit more successful at matchmaking.
To my surprise and without planning, my rotation took on the colors of autumn. I have no idea how that happened but the result is quite pleasing.
Pens in order from top to bottom:
- Pelikan M215, custom cursive italic
- Levenger True Writer, Masuyama stub
- Lamy Safari, custom fine cursive italic
- Levenger True Writer, Masuyama cursive italic
- Namiki Falcon (resin), Soft Fine
- Pilot Elite Socrates pocket pen, Fine
- Levenger True Writer, Fine
- Lamy AL-Star, Oblique Broad
- Lamy Vista, 1.1mm italic
- Lamy AL-Star, custom fine italic
Notes: Montblanc Racing Green has been discontinued and Noodler's FPN Dumas Tulipe Noire was a limited edition release. Noodler's #41 Brown is the original formulation – not the one currently available. The Pilot pocket pen was made in 1976 but all of the other pens are current models. The paper is Strathmore Windpower Sketch. It's a bit toothy for fountain pens but excellent for swabs and doodles.


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With the integration of TV & Movies onto the internet becoming more and more common, some of you may be surprised to know that fitness is making the move as well. There are a variety of fitness personalities, product sites, exercise program sites, virtual trainers and a multitude of gyms, studios and boot camps on vying for your online attention. However, none are as dynamic and entertaining as the recently launched fitPOP.com
FitPOP is the brainchild of fitness and nutrition expert Alicia Marie, (MTV's Made) who you may also recognize from the covers of Oxygen and a variety of other fitness magazines, as well as the author of the recently published "Booty Bible". With fitPOP, Alicia offers health-centric daily articles and information in a fun, easy to understand way.
FitPOP also has a remarkable online series that stars Alicia and Todd Roy called "Alicia Marie's Cardio World". If you had not had a chance to see an episode, I would take a look because they really are unique!
I had a chance to sit down with Todd Roy and ask him a few questions. Todd, who's a full time producer/director at HD FILMS, has been creating music videos, television and award winning online content for over a decade. Not only is Todd co-starring in "Alicia Marie's Cardio World" but you will also find him in the very popular, video game focused online series, "The Jace Hall Show," of which season five is set to premiere on IGN.com in June.
D: What is fitPOP.com?
T: Simply, fitPOP is a website filled with fitness and pop culture goodness, mainly geared by and toward Alicia's female audience. Although personally I suspect fitPOP is the closest thing we will get to seeing what Alicia Marie's brain must be like! She does love all things fitness and pop culture and will post several articles a day about these subjects. One might be a fitness article for getting sexier abs and then an hour later she writes an article about the women's shoes that Kanye West is designing! Also, have you seen how pink the site is? Yes, fitPOP is Alicia's brain online! In addition to the site being an aggregate for fitness and pop information, the site is also the home for Alicia's new book, The Booty Bible, which is her top ten commandments for easy tush tightening! In the fitness world Alicia has an extremely popular booty. The Booty Bible is where she shares all of her booty secrets. It's has been a popular item!
D: On fitPOP I became a fan of your Cardio World series, which you essentially co-star with Alicia. What were your initial ideas for the series?
T: For the longest time Alicia had the idea to mix humor with fitness information. My initial idea was it should be the visual opposite of what other "fitness" video looks like. We spent a lot of time going over concepts and ideas she had that were based on twitter questions she would get. Bouncing the ideas back and fourth, lead to the collaboration you see in the series. The show is a perfect blend of our two brains. It is not your typical fitness series…we are not doing exercises, but sharing information in short easy to digest 6 min-video segments of happiness!
D: Who actually created Cardio World?
T: Alicia did. At the heart of Cardio World is a really solid fitness information foundation and Alicia is an expert in that area… so the core information, and the concepts we communicate comes from her knowledge base.
D: What about the other eye popping aspects of the show?
T: I would say the visual style and way the information is jubilantly presented in Cardio World is what happens when fitness information passes through my brain after bouncing off of Alicia's brain. Most folks, when they hear "Fitness series" think of some people working out in a gym, or studio showing movements etc. And I will tell you, the internet is full of a lot of videos like that. For me, as a creative producer charged with making something visually original, I looked at enough fitness videos to see that while there were some really smart knowledgeable people making great stuff, there was not much innovative variations between what this person is doing vs. what that person was doing. What I saw was a land scape of similarity and an opportunity to create something new.
D: What direction did you take creatively to achieve this goal?
T: We used a lot of green screen, motion and 3D graphics and great sound design. We made sure the writing and editing was tight, that we were always communicating information. We thought it should feel like Pee Wee's Playhouse but with us, talking about healthy things, and hopefully making you laugh. I think I read a study showing that people learn easily when presented material in a humorous way. You can teach kids the ABC's with a black board and chalk, or, you can communicate that same ABC information via Sesame Street. While the information being communicated is the same, which format is more fun to absorb the information from? What will stick better?
D: Was it your goal to produce something different?
T: Yes. As a producer in the most creative (and competitive) place in the world, I think the process of imaginatively finding the most creative way to share information is OUR jobs regardless of if you're telling stories for TV, movies or even an online fitness series! Alicia and I are an odd bunch, and Cardio World is an expression of how information is expressed through our…oddness. Sorry, I get excited about this stuff! I think both Alicia and I wanted the show to really be different, yet be relatable to everyone, whether you are a gym rat or not! As a fitness enthusiast I know enough about our physiology to be amazed by some of the counterintuitive concepts that have to be understood if you are trying to transform your body. And I like that with Cardio World we can touch upon these concepts.
D: I have watched all the episodes and everyone that I have shown them too loves them.
T: So the show communicates…. and that is what we want to do! Communicate these fitness concepts so we can all be better informed and make healthier decisions.
D: Do you have a favorite?
T: All of them have their special charm but I think Ep5 "To eat or Not to Eat?" really demonstrated just how "out there" we could go with this format, while still being relatable and communicated useful information. This episode dealt with the question of whether you should have a small morning meal before working out or wait till after. When talking to Alicia about what core concept we were dealing with, she was talking about glycogen, ATP levels and how the metabolism is always looking for energy to burn and it make our tummies unhappy, etc. So as I'm processing what she is talking about I just keep thinking, "Can't she just go visit a stomach and have the stomach explain how sad it is there is no food down here…" And that thought formed the basis of the episode, which involved Alicia flying a tiny UFO into my stomach to have a conversation with my stomach. That in in turn leads to the stomach singing and other unexpected fun times…you have to see it! I thought that one was cool.
More information:
Alicia Marie(@AliciaMarieBody)
Todd Roy (@Todd_Roy)
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2279585/fullcredits#cast
Fit Pop (www.FitPop.com) is an HD Films property and produced in North Hollywood www.HDFilms.com Other productions produced at HD Films include Space 2099, The Morning After Show, Chadam, The Jace Hall Show and "V"
Published on Mar 27, 2012


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LOS ANGELES – Global architectural design firm HOK has launched a new business: HOK Product Design, LLC. Through this venture, HOK designers from across the firm will design products for use in and around the firm's core business of architecture and interior design. HOK Product Design will license its designs to manufacturers for fabrication and sale.
"HOK has a history of harnessing our entrepreneurial culture as a way to advance our practice and profession. This is especially relevant in difficult economic times such as these," says Riccardo Mascia, AIA, a member of HOK's executive committee and head of HOK's Idea Board. The Idea Board is a group of firm leaders and external business advisers charged with collecting, vetting and funding proposals for new business pursuits from HOK's people.
"Product design is a new outlet for our unique brand of design thinking that aims at creating value for HOK by creatively responding to the needs of a new range of customers, in addition to those of our current clients," explains Mascia. "We also want to offer our people new opportunities for creative expression and professional development."
HOK Product Design, LLC, which is structured as a standalone business within HOK, is led by Susan Grossinger, former director of interiors for HOK Los Angeles. The business will support the development of products ranging from architectural and interior design to consumer, health care, and sustainable offerings. "Product design is a natural extension of what we already do in terms of developing innovative solutions to our clients' challenges. Our goal is to start from square one in terms of creating new concepts, as opposed to simply modifying existing products that are already on the market," says Grossinger. "We also operate as an extension of HOK's long-term leadership in sustainability, and are committed to having all our products enhance environmental quality."
The new company already has secured business arrangements with manufacturing partners for 12 products designed by HOK people. Designed by HOK's planning and architecture designers Matt Snelling and Paul Wilhelms, the FRENO Rain Garden is a kit-of-parts, urban rain garden for stormwater filtration and groundwater recharge. This patent pending modular system saves clients more than 30 percent over traditional construction in both budget and time and is licensed to Midwest Products Group. HOK Chicago interior designers Tom Polucci and Natalie Banaszak designed Mannington's rubber and carpet tile Spectrum Collection, and HOK Houston interior designer Paul Smead designed an executive lounge seating group as part of the Cumberland Furniture Designer's Speak program. The Shadowline Wall Coping designed by Los Angeles architect Chris Anderson is licensed to WP Hickman and was simply a response to the lack of commercially available standard options. Other products under development target the health care, lighting, urban planning, furniture, finishes, fire and life safety, and sustainable sectors.
"HOK's global experience in strategic planning, workplace, health care, science and technology, and other specialties gives our designers the creative vision required to identify gaps between what's available in the market and products that can provide value to our clients while improving the experience, health and productivity of end users," says Grossinger. "We want to fill these gaps with our innovative product ideas."
[View video of FRENO Rain Garden]
HOK Blue Box Ventures, LLC
HOK Product Design, LLC, is the first business to form under the umbrella of the new HOK Blue Box Ventures, LLC, company.
The ideas for both the product design business and HOK Blue Box Ventures, LLC, emerged from HOK's three-day Blue Ocean Design Charrette in October 2007. In that meeting, a diverse group of more than 180 HOK leaders from across the world gathered in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to re-imagine the firm's future.
The Blue Ocean Strategy concept is based on the business strategy book of that name by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. The authors advise companies to create new, uncontested or "Blue Ocean" markets rather than competing in an overcrowded "Red Ocean" market space.
"During our Blue Ocean Charrette it became clear that instead of finding a single Blue Ocean market, HOK needed to be a firm that was continuously searching for new ideas to transform our business," says Mascia.
The Idea Board was charged with funding Blue Ocean strategies as part of HOK Blue Box Ventures, LLC, to look for ideas that are "ambitious, far-reaching and creative," explains Mascia. Ideas that receive funding must exhibit the ability to create meaningful value for HOK and its clients through revenue growth or significant cost savings.
HOK is a global architectural firm that specializes in planning, design and delivery solutions for buildings and communities. Through its collaborative network of 23 offices worldwide, the firm serves diverse clients within the corporate, commercial, public and institutional markets. HOK is committed to developing resources and expertise to help lead the world toward sustainable communities and building environments. Founded in 1955, the firm's expertise includes architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, lighting, graphics, facilities planning and assessment, and construction services. For more information, go to www.hok.com.


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After a great response on Vital Football, Wrexham fans would be v. grateful for your ongoing support to HELP!
Following a fantastic response from 'fans united' on the Vital Football network, Wrexham fans would be extremely grateful for your ongoing support to HELP! them reach their target of 10,500 names and to Protect The Racecourse Ground in the Local Development Plan, to protect its use for football and sports, for our future generations. Ten thousand five hundred names, equates to the current reduced capacity of the ground, while the last remaining 5,000 plus Kop terracing in British football, has been closed down for the student housing development.
The petition currently totals 7,349 and has seen support from more than 30 clubs from across the UK and abroad. From Brighton to Grampus Eight in Tokyo.
Here is the one click link to sign the petition : www.petitiononline.com/LDPWFC21
Why should other fans care ? Well this situation is embryonic and effects the wider football community and the need to preserve our football heritage. Visiting fans are of course just as important as home fans to create a Vital atmosphere and these cherished football stadiums, deserve to be protected as a vital part of the community in both economy and spirit. Empathy and social history is not often commonly found amongst property developers. The Racecourse proudly holds the unique title of being The Oldest International Football Stadium In the World, still in use today.
Thanks for your much valued support and to preserving the heart and soul of traditional football.
The Protect The Racecourse team.
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Decline of Buddhism in Thailand
Lucky Severson, Religion and Ethics: There's a struggle going on inside Thailand. It's between two powerful influences. One side can be found in places like this; the other in crowded spaces like this. For now it seems that one side is falling behind.
This is Professor John Butt, senior advisor to the Institute of Religion at Payap University in Chiang Mai.
PROF. JOHN BUTT: It's a real clash with modernity, with social change, and it's been very intense. The changes that took place in America and in Europe have been extended over a couple of centuries; here it's been a couple of decades…


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Queens is the largest and most diverse borough in the city. To know everything about Queens means having to serve this borough for a lifetime. Katz has served in the City Council and the State Assembly, but perhaps more importantly, she put in her time working for Claire Schulman, the former – and long serving - Queens borough president.
This column has always been skeptical of the office of the borough president, regardless of who holds it. It seems difficult to justify more government in a time when we are constantly looking to pare down. To better grasp the importance of this office, who better to talk to than Melinda Katz?
"We are approaching a time (next January) when we will have a new mayor, a new comptroller, and a new borough president," says Katz. "The new person needs to see that we get our fair share."
Candidates can only bring so much individualized experience to this office. For example, a candidate like Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., with his background in law enforcement, would speak well to those concerned about crime.
Katz's time at the City Council was spent in large part with the Land Use Committee. In 2001, candidate Mike Bloomberg told a crowd of people at a restaurant outside of Forest Park that middle-income affordable housing was necessary for the future of the city. That is still true 11 years later.
Katz's experience heading the Land Use Committee may be useful for an office that still seems like a work in progress to many people.
Capital money, the kind of discretionary money that goes to parks and other projects will be important to Queens in the next ten years. Not only for beautification purposes, but for housing and the construction jobs that could come with it.
Queens has a lot of trade union workers that would benefit from wise use of capital discretionary money. If Katz can show in the next ten months that she is the candidate to best develop land and keep housing affordable, she will have a strong platform.
The Democratic field can get crowded in a hurry, however, and that might be why she is hitting the ground early. This column has never really endorsed a candidate, and it would never do that this early in a race, but there is great value to having served in two bodies of government and under a borough president.
The Power of Floyd Flake
Four years ago, I started covering the candidacy of then-Comptroller Bill Thompson in his bid to become mayor. The criticism about Thompson then has come up again this time around.
People say that he is not inspiring enough to energize his base. They say that he has run many times. They say that he only gets far in primaries because the field is usually weak. Despite all of these reasons, I would say – yet again – he is the frontrunner.
The fact that Thompson is not simply a firebrand candidate makes him stronger. And he has not run for mayor as the Democratic nominee more than once. That is why he got the endorsement of the Reverend Floyd Flake last week.
Flake spent a long time in Congress, and his Queens district was diverse. He was a centrist who sometimes backed Republicans. If Thompson can impress Flake, he is already further along than a lot of other candidates in the Democratic field.
Consider that Thompson is pretty strong in Brooklyn, his original hometown (Harlem is his new home). He is strong in upper Manhattan. And with Flake's help – if he gets it – he can make a dent in Queens.
Thompson, before announcing his candidacy, made the rounds in predominantly Hispanic circles in the Bronx for the last few years. As long as the press is all over Christine Quinn, Thompson can build up support in the outer boroughs. Having run four years ago is an advantage to Thompson. All of his negatives have been flushed out already.
Anything can happen from now until this really heats up in the spring. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio will get most of the union support. Quinn will get a lot of party help, especially in Midtown and below.
This means that the field, which is not a weak one, will be split. That's good news for Thompson. If Thompson can push the Democratic primary to a run-off, and he probably will, he can win the nomination.
Barring a blockbuster change in the Democratic field, like Hillary Clinton jumping in (which will not happen), this is good terrain for the former Comptroller.


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CAIRO — The second court appearance for ousted President Mohammed Morsi was very different from his first: He wore a white prison uniform Tuesday instead of a trim dark suit. And when the Islamist leader wanted to speak, a judge controlled his microphone in the soundproof glass cell.
The session was carefully managed by authorities, with state TV showing only edited excerpts, not a planned live feed, as the military-backed interim government and allied media sought to control the narrative of Egypt's political turmoil following the Arab Spring.
An agitated Morsi paced in the courtroom cage, separated from other defendants, and raised his hands as he angrily questioned why he was in court. "Who are you? Tell me!" he shouted at the presiding judge.
Judge Shabaan el-Shami responded: "I am the head of Egypt's criminal court!"
After five hours, the court session was adjourned until Feb. 22.
The 62-year-old former president is on trial with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and militants from the Palestinian Hamas group and Lebanon's Hezbollah. They are charged in connection with prison breaks that freed 20,000 inmates during the 18-day uprising against Morsi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Three years ago, on Jan. 28, 2011, protesters battled police in Cairo with stones and firebombs, and burned down the ruling party headquarters. Crowds chased away the much-reviled police forces, torched their vehicles and burned some of their stations — forcing some police to withdraw or join the demonstrators, only to be replaced by the military.
To mark Tuesday's anniversary, Morsi supporters briefly clashed with police in central Cairo. Separately, gunmen also killed an aide to the interior minister in a drive-by shooting outside Cairo, as well as a policeman guarding a church in a southern section of the capital. Security forces were deployed, erecting checkpoints as they braced for more trouble, but no major violence was reported.
Morsi's appearance in court was only the second time he has been seen in public since the July 3 military coup that toppled him following mass protests of his administration. Egypt's first freely elected president was shown in court in November on separate charges in a session that was marked by his repeated outbursts.
This time, however, Morsi was separated from other defendants in the glass cage, with a microphone controlled by the judge.
A promised live feed from the courtroom did not occur, something a senior state TV official told local media that security forces demanded.
In reports from the court, where journalists were allowed to attend but could not record or photograph, Morsi asked the judge to address him as the "president of the republic so long as I am alive or have not stepped down." The comments were carried by the state flagship newspaper Al-Ahram, in its online version.
The newspaper said Morsi expressed respect for the judiciary but asked the court not to get involved in the politics of "the military coup."
Michael W. Hanna, a Middle East expert from New York's Century Foundation, said Egyptian authorities were seeking to keep a tight lid on the proceedings and control the message from the Muslim Brotherhood leadership. He added that there was a general public weariness about the trials of officials.
"They don't want it to be a damaging spectacle. They want it to be a spectacle, just not a damaging spectacle," he said in a telephone interview from Washington. "They don't want this to be an opportunity for the defendants to embarrass them and turn the tables on them."
There are 130 defendants besides Morsi, but only 19 appeared with him Tuesday. Another 111 defendants, including members of Hamas and Hezbollah, are being tried in absentia.
Prosecutors have demanded the maximum penalty for the defendants, which could mean a life sentence for Morsi. He is charged with helping foreign militant groups to enter the country from neighboring Hamas-ruled Gaza, to lead the 2011 prison breaks.
"These acts were committed with the terrorist aim of terrifying the public and spreading chaos," a prosecutor told the court. He said Morsi and other leading Brotherhood members have plotted with foreign groups to "undermine the Egyptian state and its institutions."
Brotherhood lawyers have said the trial appears aimed at "denigrating" Morsi and the group. Morsi already faces three other trials on various charges, some of them carrying the death penalty.
Morsi and his Brotherhood colleagues were arrested on Jan. 27, 2011, the eve of what became known as the "Friday of Rage," and were sent to prison to undercut the protests.
Authorities say up to 800 foreign militants, including others from Lebanon's Hezbollah, then entered Egypt to help free their own prisoners in Egyptian jails.
Two days later, in some of the still-unclear events of the uprising, there appeared to be an attempt to spread chaos when several prisons in Egypt were stormed, some by men with bulldozers.
There was a widespread belief at the time that the police freed prisoners to create the pandemonium. Rights groups have recorded a number of incidents when prison riots ended up with police killing a number of inmates to quell the mayhem. The groups have called for an independent investigation into events of the day.
Nasser Amin, a rights lawyer on the board of the National Council for Human Rights appointed by the interim authorities, said the investigation of Morsi and his allies was building long before he was ousted from office.
But Amin called the case weak, like the trials of Mubarak and other former regime officials. He said the Egyptian judicial system is not prepared to handle such political cases.
"How are they going to prove that Morsi tried to undermine the Egyptian state?" he said.
A more-controlled Morsi appears in Egyptian court
CAIRO — The second court appearance for ousted President Mohammed Morsi was very different from his first: He wore a white prison uniform Tuesday instead of a trim dark suit. And when the Islamist leader wanted to speak, a judge controlled his microphone in the soundproof glass cell.


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Mr. Speaker, it has been months and the NDP has yet to explain the $21 billion carbon tax found on page 4 of its platform. This tax would raise the price on everything that Canadian families in Mississauga—Streetsville pay for, including gas, groceries and electricity.
Our government has a low tax plan for jobs and growth across the country, a plan Canadians support. In fact, thanks to our government's efforts a Canadian family of four now keeps over $3,000 more of its money in its own pockets.
Why does the NDP leader and his party want Canadians to pay billions for his risky economic policies?