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Mr Greg Hunt MP, Parliamentary Secretary with ministerial responsibility for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, joined Member for Leichhardt, Mr Warren Entsch, and Member for Herbert, Mr Peter Lindsay, today to announce the rebuilding of Willis Island's meteorological office.
"Willis Island's field office is one of 12 being rebuilt over the next six years thanks to the Howard Government's $19.8 million budget boost for the Bureau," Mr Hunt said.
"This new funding in the 2005-06 Budget demonstrates the Australian Government's commitment to delivering quality meteorological services to communities across Australia.
Mr Hunt congratulated Mr Entsch and Mr Lindsay for the work they have done to push for better services at Willis Island. The funding will combine with $14.2 million of existing Bureau funding to rebuild the 12 offices, which are part of an Australia-wide network of 50 offices.
"Willis Island is the veteran of the offices to be replaced, located in an especially severe environment in the Coral Sea. The office was built in 1950 and is a vital element in the tropical cyclone warning system," Mr Entsch said.
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The Denver Broncos (5-3) played solid ball to claim a road win against Cincinnati Bengals (3-5) one of the toughest defenses in the division.
What it means: The Denver Broncos are secure and unchallenged with a .625 winning percentage in the AFC West. The Denver Broncos offense seems to be taking better direction under quarterback Peyton Manning.
Still not a complete game: The Denver Broncos started off with a 17-3 lead that later turned into a 20-17 deficit and then rallied back to dominated the fourth quarter by scoring two touchdowns. However, this goes to show that the similar to last week's victory over the New Orleans Saints, this wasn't a 100 percent input by the Denver Broncos. Although giving up 17 points resulted in a risky T-junction in the second quarter, the Denver Broncos still gained control in the end, clearly marking their capabilities.
Manning domination continues: Peyton Manning is making a solid case for the MVP contest this season. Although he threw back-to-back interceptions in the second half, Peyton Manning led the Denver Broncos to a comeback in the fourth quarter. The 11-time Pro Bowler Peyton Manning had 27 of 35 passes completed for 291 yards with three touchdowns in the game. In the past three consecutive games Peyton Manning has thrown above a combined 300-yards.
Receivers make solid performances: The Denver Broncos receivers Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker stood out Sunday night. Demaryius Thomas had six catches for seven yards while Erick Decker which was matched by Eric Decker's eight catches for 99 yards as well as two touchdowns.
Slow run game: Both, the Denver Broncos and Cincinnati Bengals struggled to run the ball. However, Denver Broncos running back Willis McGahee led in the game with 23 carries on 66 yards.
Big production for Von Miller: Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller amassed a total nine sacks so far this season after the addition of Sunday's three sacks. Von Miller is now just half a sack short of teammate Elvis Dumervil's mark of 21 sacks accumulated during his first two season in the NFL.
Good protection: The Cincinnati Bengals usually take more than a couple of sacks home from a single game, but the Denver Broncos posed an impenetrable offensive line that kept the Bengals at zero sacks Sunday.
Trindon Holliday serves purpose: The wide receiver/ return specialist Trindon Holliday, who was claimed off-waiver by the Denver Broncos from the Houston Texans just last month started the second half with a -yard kickoff return for a touchdown to boost the Denver Broncos to a 17-3 lead. However, the Denver Broncos return game clearly needed some polishing.
Next: The Denver Broncos next play the Panthers in a road game, marking now Broncos coach John Fox's first time back since to Carolina since he was fired following the 2010 season.
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Patterns of Aging in Thailand and Cote d'Ivoire
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AbstractThis paper is broadly concerned with the living standards of older people in two contrasting developing countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Thailand. We use a series of household surveys from these two countries to present evidence on factors affecting the living standards of the elderly: living arrangements, labor force participation, illness, urbanization, income and consumption. One of the issues we examine is whether life-cycle patterns of income aid consumption can be detected in the data. The fact that few of the elderly live alone makes it difficult to accurately measure the welfare levels of the elderly, or to make statements about the life-cycle patterns of income aid consumption of individuals. We find that labor force participation and individual income patterns follow the standard life-cycle hump shapes in both countries, but that avenge living standards within households are quite flat over the life-cycle. The data presented suggest that changes in family composition aid living arrangements of the elderly are likely to be more important sources of old-age insurance than asset accumulation.
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9 Great New Designer Espresso Machines
They say that once a coffee lover starts drinking espresso, it's hard to drink anything but. This can be true, especially if you tend to rely on that energy jolt while working throughout the day. Then again, making the right espresso isn't always easy, that is, unless you've got the right machine for the job.
These new espresso machines are more for commercial applications, but then again, wouldn't you want to have one of these in your home? Some of the better espresso machines can easily cost between $500-800. It wouldn't be a stretch to find a commercial espresso machine that a coffee shop is trying to sell for about that kind of money.
Needless to say, that they look amazing. The Speedster from Kees Van Der Westen looks particularly fetching in chrome. The Van Der Westen machines are said to be the best espresso machines in the world. La Marzocco also makes some mean espresso machines. The Mistral was also designed by Van Der Westen. These machines are also quite pricey.
All in all, they look amazing, but as you might already know, a simple French press that you can buy for about $20 also makes great espresso. Granted, it's not as fast and you won't be able to get that frothy milk and you won't be getting a lot of pressure out of it, but hey, it still does the job well.
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So as mentioned these are largely, pretty much exclusively actually, commercial machines - they can be used for home, but they would be massive overkill. Price wise these are going to run you far more than 500-800 dollars, the two group La Marzocco Mistral pictured here runs closer to 10,000. That cost doesn't even include a water filtration system, which can run you up to an additional few grand.
Next up, and this is my main problem, there is a huge misunderstanding about what espresso actually is, not just here but thought out the world - this being a blog dedicated mostly to technology though the misunderstanding understandable.
A lot of people believe that espresso is a type of coffee beverage, when it is simply (or rather no so simply) a method of brewing coffee. In fact there is an actual definition as to what espresso is from the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) - to paraphrase: it is a 1.5-2oz beverage prepared from 14-18 grams of coffee extracted under 9-10 bar with the water temperature being about 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit. The beverage is generally extracted between 20 and 30 seconds.
As for preparing good espresso, you could have the Slayer (one of the most recent "game changing" espresso machines that has appeared in the industry) and still pull horrible shots. Pulling a good shot of espresso takes practice, patience, and a very detail oriented process.
The method mentioned at the end of the article, using a french press to make espresso, is not actually a method of making espresso. I am going to assume that the author is referring to leaving coffee in the press for an extended amount of time, which would yield a very strong and bitter form of coffee.
Generally it would be said that the coffee made with this method is over-extracted. When coffee is brewed the goal is to extract certain elements from the ground coffee, there are good and bad elements to every coffee. The main goal is to extract all of the good and none of the bad, which is to say all of the non-bitter, astringent, or other negative parts. The longer you allow a coffee to be immersed in a french press, or any other immersion brewing method for that matter, the more solids dissolve in to the water - at the beginning of the process you are extracting most of the desirable elements and the longer you leave it the more of the undesirable elements you begin to extract.
A great way to see how dramatic the differences in flavors are in the extraction process is to taste the drink through the various stages of extraction, while your are brewing your french press start pouring yourself a small cup every thirty seconds to a minute and taste every stage of the extraction, or if you want to up your game go to your local specialty coffee joint and see if the Baristas there will serve you a deconstructed shot of espresso. Essentially this is a shot of espresso broken up in to the different stages of extraction and it's a great way to see how espresso unfolds through the extraction process.
Sorry for the long-winded comment, and I hope this was at least slightly informative.


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Slave Pianos, Punkasila and Pipeline to Oblivion at MUMA, by Dan Rule
Slave Pianos, Punkasila and Pipeline to Oblivion at MUMA
AK–47 shaped guitars, lo-fi video works and a performance by an Indonesian punk band are just a few pieces of this collaborative show at MUMA with Japanese artist Midori Mitamura and Danius Kesminas.
By Dan Rule, 13th May 2011
Running alongside Midori Mitamura's stunning series of shifting domestic installations and breakfast gatherings and a succinct exhibition of works from the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) collection, Danius Kesminas's suite of projects might appear a tad convoluted at first glance.
A vodka still and automated PVC pipe organ that plays the traditional Lithuanian drinking song Gerkit Gerkit, Broliukai (Drink Brothers, Drink); an installation of revolutionary murals; AK–47 shaped guitars; lo-fi video works and the odd performance by an Indonesian concept punk band; and a self-playing grand piano perched on a giant electric chair and controlled via an audience-operated computer console: the uninitiated could hardly be blamed for evacuating the building in a bewildered terror. But there's a disarming coherence to these incredibly intricate, painstakingly conceptualised and engineered works – a kind of collaborative bind.
Indeed, it's a sensibility that emanates from Kesminas's Pipeline to Oblivion project with every blocky note puffed from the PVC pipe organ. It takes its cues from a myriad of narratives surrounding Lithuania's independence from the former USSR, Eastern Europe's alcoholism epidemic and an illegal series of underground pipelines pumping black market vodka or "moonshine" across the border to Lithuania from neighbouring Belarus.
Kesminas's organ effectively snuffs the process. By utilising the vodka distillation process to power the organ's Lithuanian drinking hymn, he subverts the drink's devilish effects. The binding power of song – the same social glue that helped facilitate Lithuania's "singing revolution" and eventuated in the country's successful pro-democracy movement – is re-enabled and re-activated.
In the adjoining space, a very different kind of collaborative musical creation hammers out its distortion-prone, luridly coloured attack. Punkasila (which translates to "punk principles") are a Yogyakarta "post-disaster" punk band who play hand-carved AK–47- and M16-shaped guitars. Formed by Kesminas whilst undertaking a residency in the city during 2006, the band represents a mash-up of traditional and post-Suharto Indonesian ideologies, politics and iconography. The space is garnered with giant, revolutionary murals and posters depicting the band in a kind of heroic stance. Their guitar weaponry perch on mechanised tripods, swinging about the room, ready to unleash a wave of distortion on anything that moves. Video works and an interactive music box take the place of fold back monitors; waves of sonic and visual noise pre-empt a diverse, playful, empowered new Indonesia.
In the third space, the latest incarnation of Keminas's longstanding Slave Pianos project – which sees avant-garde sound works by visual artists reconfigured into the classical form – consists of an automated grand piano positioned atop a gigantic electric chair. Audience members can then control the piano by selecting a composition via an adjoining computer consol. On selecting an artist to be "executed", a mechanical plotter with video screen moves across a wall-mounted world map, landing on a point of geo-political relevance to the artist. It's a kind of arcane, hilarious and slightly sinister surveillance process. Artists are selected, tracked and musically executed.
That said, what's most striking about Kesminas's selected projects is their very collectivity. Indeed, ultimately, these works seem to preface the power and potential of community. Though inherently complex – even convoluted – in their sprawling forms, justifications and artistic and political logic, these are works that have been built from the ground up.
Be it an Indonesian punk militia or a swathe of artists willing to be executed, the catalyst for each of these projects is a convergence – or at least a consideration – of many heads, hearts and hands.
Slave Pianos | Punkasila | Pipeline to Oblivion runs until July 23 at Monash University Museum of Art.
Punk rocking the old order, by Robert Nelson
Punk rocking the old order
Reviewed by Robert Nelson
June 1, 2011
Indonesian art band Punkasila attacks the pomposity of acronyms at MUMA.
Slave Pianos, Punkasila, Pipeline to oblivion,
MUMA, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield,
Until July 23
PREPARED for its final chord, a piano has been secured to an electric chair. As visitor to the Monash University Museum of Art, you become a witness to its execution and can participate in its death throes. The chair is huge and of asymmetrical shape to accommodate the grand musical instrument.
How the piano came to merit a death penalty is a long story. The macabre work by Danius Kesminas and an art collective called Slave Pianos sums up the avant-garde history of stressful relations with the keyboard. Advertisement: Story continues below
Representing melodic music as if it were universal, the piano stands accused of cultural arrogance. On a keyboard, all the chromatic tones for metrical music are laid out with the air of regular and invariable rules, like destiny. With this system, you can substitute for a whole chamber ensemble and still express individual subjectivity as a performer.
As for the piano condemned at MUMA, it doesn't even need hands to make music, much less subjective interpretation. Along the keyboard there is a register of pistons that press the keys by electronic signals, like a digital pianola. A range of sources can be selected, which will cause the piano to play and testify, in its final moments, to the case against it.
The idea that musical instruments belong to a theatre of destruction is further investigated in the next room. Here Kesminas teams up with an Indonesian art band Punkasila, which he helped to form. In their dress and gestures, the members adopt the language of guerillas, taking music to an extreme of violent hyperbole by crafting their guitars as guns.
The war they wage is political in a funny, deconstructive way. At stake is the status of certain acronyms, which proliferate in Indonesian as much as promises or loan words from other languages. In Bahasa Indonesia, and even our own language, an acronym - no matter how recent - already sounds like an official institution.
Any pretentious idea can be given an acronym and automatic authority is conferred upon it, as if long established, like NATO, which suggests a body originating with the very birth of Western civilisation.
Acronyms give plans, hopes and ideologies a rhetorical mechanism for appearing sturdy and determined, when they may be nothing but a hollow shell for vanity and folly. So Punkasila wages the Acronym Wars.
Kesminas produces a final anarchistic critique of false order in /Pipeline to oblivion/, also with collaborators. A beautiful organ operates by an old-fashioned mechanism - a large drum has intervals recorded on separate tracks and, as it rotates, armatures are shifted to release pressured air to pipes of different lengths, yielding a melody.
This vigorous work sits alongside a more inward installation by Midori Mitamura that also involves sound and chaos.
The artist has collected objects and conversations and assembled the disparate objects to form a narrative. In a sweet gesture, she links the themes by a fragile piece of yarn and also makes breakfast for guests in the gallery.
The installation sums up the thoughtful sense of self-possession that keeps us from vodka.
Critical Mass: Cultural Conduits, Translations and Provocations, by Shelley McSpedden
Critical Mass: Cultural Conduits, Translations and Provocations in the Work of Danius Kesminas and Collaborators
by Shelley McSpedden
Danius Kesminas is an artist who likes to tinker with arcane technologies and semiotic orders. His provocative experimentations with these systems function as a kind of critical mass, sparking creative chain reactions amidst an expanding network of collaborators that course out in seemingly inexhaustible manifestations, mutations and iterations. Slave Pianos, Punkasila, Pipeline to Oblivion: 3 Projects by Danius Kesminas and Collaborators (5 May – 23 July 2011), curated by Monash University Museum of Art's Director, Max Delany, provides a raucous rendition of three of his major projects to-date.
Pipeline to Oblivion 2011 serves up an explosive blend of folk art, music, dissident production processes and a DYI mentality, all doused in a good soaking of moonshine liquor. In a distillation of a deliciously preposterous instance of backyard ingenuity in which a three kilometre pipeline for smuggling black market vodka in from neighbouring Belarus was discovered by Lithuanian authorities in 2004, Kesminas presents a pipe organ fashioned from PVC water pipes and other repurposed household equipment which also doubles as a fully functioning vodka still. Resembling the Lithuanian folk instrument, the skudučiai, this automated device pumps out the traditional drinking song Gerkit Gerkit, Broliukai (Drink Brothers, Drink) at regular intervals. The high spiritedness of proceedings is hampered somewhat by a cluster of paintings adorning the gallery walls which appropriate 1930s Lithuania posters promoting abstinence. Nearby, a bust of the Bishop Motiejus Valančius – a teetotaller who led the popular temperance movement in Lithuania in the mid 19th century – watches sombrely over proceedings.
As Boris Kremer evocatively attests, "If vodka is culture, and no doubt it is, then Kesminas' still is the neo-rustic version of the alchemists' melting pot and the art it spurts out is the panacea against museum fatigue."1 Kesminas utilises the "social lubricants" of music, drink and subversive humour to grease the wheels of ethnographic encounters and the projects that they engender.2 Mining the crude cultural caricature of the vodka swilling Eastern European, this work reveals some sobering insights into the way the vodka trade flows through the history of Lithuania and its relations with neighbouring Slavic countries.3 The underground pipeline also functions as a potent emblem of economic and political concerns of contemporary Lithuania, as the recent increased demand for black market spirits is just one up-shot of massive inflation linked to the nation's entry into the European Union in 2004. 4
Each of Kesminas' projects is anchored by his role as agent provocateur. In a documentary video in Pipeline to Oblivion for example, he and a small film crew scour the streets of Eišiškės, a remote Lithuanian village, approaching locals to help orientate them in relation to a map of the underground network they have. At one point Kesminas even presents this map to Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first head of state and later its representative to the European Parliament, asking him what he knows about the fabled network.5 This seemingly earnest attempt to locate and verify the existence of the system is, in fact, based on a ruse as the map is a highly speculative fabrication created by the artist. Here Kesminas' irreverent cultural incitements come across as an affectionate in-joke in large part because of his own Lithuanian heritage, a lineage made evident to the viewer by his effortless grasp of the language (an old world version inherited from his grandparents) and numerous references to local diasporic manifestations of the culture, such as the inclusion in the installation of a painting borrowed from Melbourne's iconic Lithuanian Club.
In Punkasila however, Kesminas takes on the role of the cultural interloper. This "high octane" punk band was formed as a kind of contingent structural improvisation – a tactic to penetrate a culture and country he had no real knowledge of whilst on residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2006.6 In a parodic nod to Malcolm McLaren he set about handpicking a 'Super Group' scouted from the vibrant local music scene.7 Their status as an art collective/punk band has seen them play across diverse forums – from official art events such as the Tenth Biennale of Havana in Cuba in 2009 to local music mainstays such as Melbourne's Ding Dong Lounge.
Punkasila's moniker riffs off Pancasila– a five prong ideology devised in the Sukarno era (1945–65) as the new order of Indonesian nationhood. The band makes further playful gestures to the state apparatus in Post-reformasi Indonesia through their irreverent embrace of military motifs. In the installation at MUMA we find alongside the obligatory paraphernalia accompanying any self respecting rock group – t-shirts, video clips, promotional posters, comics and even business cards – a sprawling bricolage of objects ripped from Indonesia's cottage industries – custom-made mahogany guitars carved to resemble M–16s and AK–47s, camouflage fatigues fabricated from batik, hand painted bollywood style banners, and most strikingly a Garuda (Indonesia's national emblem) plastered with band's insignia and gripping their iconic gun guitar. These objects attest to a hyper-collaborative effort involving countless Indonesian crafts people and artisans.
Kesminas' role amidst all this energetic Indo-centric production is slightly perplexing, what is this middle aged Australian man doing thrashing about with all these young Indonesian punks? He is brazen about this cultural disconnect and promotes the fact that he does not speak the language of his fellow band members and has only a rudimentary knowledge of their country's political history gleaned from a copy of Damien Kingsbury's The Politics of Indonesia.8 Rather than being "paralysed by taboos", Punkasila instead embraces the generative potential of this culture clash.9 Kesminas claims there is a certain artistic license afforded to him as the "White Buffoon", ignorant to Indonesian customs and cultural sensitivities, which allows Punkasila to sidestep political and cultural embargos, such as in their appropriation of the Garuda Pancasila.10
The productive miscommunications, linguistic slippages and chance formulations which occur in the personal intercultural space occupied by the band translates into their broader strategy of "semiotic guerrilla warfare" – with their song titles and lyrics consisting solely of Indonesian acronyms of government, military and religious organisations. These official insignias are recast as rousing new idioms; KORPRI (Civil Servants Corp of the Republic of Indonesia) becomes Korak Pringisan (Smiling Criminals); while RPKAD (Army Para-commando Regiment) is reinterpreted as Rampung Kenthu Anake Duwekmu (Let's Have Sex! But the child will be yours). In the proud punk tradition, these seemingly juvenile semiotic shifts perform a poignant emptying out of state, religious and moral imperatives. As anthropologist Dick Hebdige suggests we should not underestimate the signifying power of the spectacular subculture, "as an actual mechanism of semantic disorder: a kind of temporary blockage in the system of representation"11.
An assault on the symbolic order is launched on an entirely different front in the remaining section of the exhibition by Slave Pianos – a collective of artists and musicians Rohan Drape, Neil Kelly, Danius Kesminas and Michael Stevenson. Slave Pianos' central mission is the recuperation of a range of avant-garde works using the protocol of the classical cannon. Archiving and transcribing these works into musical scores, the conversion exchanges the currency of radical singularity for repeatable legibility. This should not be seen as a complete taming of the original materials however for it also offers them the possibility of new and unimagined articulations. This long running project has seen Slave Pianos collaborate with a varied ensemble of musicians, artists, actors and writers in constructing and presenting these scores in a cacophony of operas, concerts and performances across the globe.
In a schlocky rendition of Cold War aesthetics, Slave Pianos presents The Execution Protocol III: Mutually Assured Production (The MAP room) 2007–11 at MUMA, an installation which situates the viewer inside a 'war room' containing an oversized computer terminal tracking data on an adjacent wall-map of the globe and connected to large scale electric chair in which a 19th century piano attached to a computer controlled solenoid device sits waiting passively. Viewers are invited to sentence an avant-garde artist to death by selecting them from a list of names on the console – at which point biographical data about the artist appears on the monitor and their movements plotted on the map. In a particularly perverse form of persecution these experimental trailblazers are then sent to their death as the mechanised piano 'executes' their work in automated tones.
Whilst an irreverent play on the artistic aura of the avant-garde, the work also functions as a form of homage – an animated archive of a diverse range of conceptual practices. Not only concerned with the artistic itinerary of individuals, the work can be seen to track the topography of complex networks of avant-garde production across the globe. As Max Delany observes, "Cartographic mapping – extending the tradition of Fluxus' genealogical diagrams and the psycho-geographic cartography of the Situationists – is a feature of Slave Pianos' methodology"12. In positioning local artists such as John Nixon and Ronnie van Hout alongside international luminaries such as Martin Creed, Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono, Slave Pianos provokes their audience to envisage artistic links, nods and reverberations across time and space. Thus, in each of the projects exhibited Kesminas and his collaborators can be seen to chart the subterranean cultural flows which refuse to be contained by national borders or official channels.


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James Franklin Jeffrey (born 1946) is a former senior American diplomat and an expert in political, security, and energy issues in the Middle East, Turkey, Germany, and the Balkans.
He has held senior assignments in Washington, D.C., and abroad, including as Deputy National Security Advisor (2007-2008); United States Ambassador to Iraq (2010-2012); United States Ambassador to Turkey (2008-2010); and United States Ambassador to Albania (2002-2004). In 2010 Jeffrey was appointed to the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service, Career Ambassador. From 1969 to 1976, Jeffrey was a U.S. Army infantry officer, with service in Germany and Vietnam.
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He joined the Foreign Service in 1977. After a training assignment in Tunis, Tunisia he was posted to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he served as the on-site U.S. representative during a hijacking of a Turkish Air Flight with five U.S. businessmen taken as hostages, in May 1981. Jeffrey then served on assignments in Adana and Ankara as a political-military officer, from 1983-1987.
Jeffrey served in Munich, Germany, during the collapse of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany from 1989-1991, including as acting principal officer during the first Gulf War, and liaison to Radio Free Europe. He then was selected as the State Department's coordinator for the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (now OSCE) and later as Deputy Presidential Special Advisor for Bosnia Implementation, working to put into place the Dayton Accords.Middle East affairs
In 1996 Jeffrey was selected as Deputy Chief of Mission to the American Embassy Kuwait, and served during Operation Desert Fox and the evacuation of Embassy Kuwait. In 1999 he returned to Turkey, as Deputy Chief of Mission. After serving as Ambassador to Albania from 2002 to 2004, he was selected by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Ambassador John Negroponte to bridge the transition from the Coalition Provisional Authority to the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and subsequently served as Deputy Chief of Mission from 2004 to 2005. He served as Charge d'Affaires in Baghdad before returning to Washington to serve as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Special Advisor for Iraq from 2006 to 2007. Jeffrey then served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, covering broader Middle East policy matters, including co-chairing the Interagency Iran Policy Group.
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Hi I'm Stephanie and love music! I'm always up for attending concerts and it is sometimes hard to persuade my friends to go see indie/folk concerts, so I thought I would join this group and meet some new friends in the process.
Adem, The Civil Wars, Andrew Bird, Ray LaMontagne, British Sea Power, Ben Harper, Damien Rice, Iron & Wine, Elliot Smith, Pete Yorn, Robert Plant, She & Him, The Mountain Goats, The Xx, Blind Pilot.....the list goes on and on...
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Hi Stephanie where is everyone meeting up tomorrow.
Hi Stephanie - I will check it out! Sorry we missed you last night. We looked all over in the Vic, bummer...we'll catch yo soon.
Sounds great. I am looking forward to it. Thanks for organizing!
Thanks Stephanie for the warm welcome! I'm looking forward to some cool concerts with cool people! One show that I'm already going to with a few friends is Yo La Tengo in February at The Vic. You guys should definitely come out for that. Other than that, my big watch-dog list for touring artists would be I Break Horses, Com Truise, Sleep Over, Clinic, Austra, Wild Flag and The Kills, off the top of my head.
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Yes Stephanie, both my friend Doug and I will be there. Can't wait...and thank you so much for selling us the two tickets. Looking forward to meeting you on Sunday. ~ Vicky
Thanks, Would you like me to pay you before the event? Also, my friend Doug Lasch signed up too. Would you have a ticket for him as well? Any chance the group will go to Wilco?????? Or, am I dreaming? lol
Thank you and I look forward to meeting. ~ Vicky
Hi Stephanie, The tickets are sold out on the Civil War web site. Do you have access to more tickets? I just signed up for the group and am soooo excited to have people to attend these kind of small venue concert with. Vicky
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Open play time in the gym for members and non-members. Kids get a chance to play in our gym; a safe and clean environment free from the cold or heat. Continuous supervision of a parent is required.
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At various times throughout the week we convert our state-of-the-art gym into a supervised indoor playspace where kids can climb, play, and explore with new friends. Playspace passes may be purchased at the front desk.
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The All Access Pass is your ticket to enjoying premium benefits available at JW Tumbles. All Access Pass holders can attend Playspace once a week for the full semester, receive FREE admission to special events, get priority registration and more! The pass is available each semester and may be added to your membership at any time. Ask about our Family Pass and Loyalty Pass (available at some locations).
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Girls and boys go beyond just blocks in Construction Junction. This advanced art program lets children learn how to plan, build, and construct their own 3-D art projects! Roads, towers, monuments, and pyramids are just a sample of the structures to be introduced, imagined, and created with wood, collage, cloth, clay, and more (45 minutes) Ages: 3 - 6 Years.
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Trying to juggle two kids? Come tumble with us instead! We've combined elements of our signature Tumbles programs into activities that are exciting for little ones and their big sibs to do together, and only one grown-up lap is required! Circle time, relays, tumbling, swings and more! (60 minutes)
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All aboard! Join us for an exciting musical adventure where you and your child will become passengers on the Rockin' Railroad! Each week, a rockin' crew and "conductor" will take you on a journey through tempo, rhythm, word recognition, and sound identification. The class will explore a different instrument and musical genre each week and meet special puppet friends along the way. We'll also make stops at fun destinations including Instrumentville and Grandma's House before heading back to Kidville Station! The train's about to leave...so have your tickets out please! (45 minutes)
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A JWT instructor will lead your child through age and developmentally appropriate yoga poses, breathing exercises, chanting, meditation, and relaxation techniques that offer a child-friendly relationship to the physical and philosophical traditions of yoga. Filled with music, movement, props and storytelling this program promotes body awareness, motor coordination, social skills, positive thinking, strength and flexibility. (45 min)
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Break out the jams! High-energy hip-hop will give your child a medium to explore rhythmic expression and fitness to grow a lifetime of love for dance. Using new and "old-school" beats, your child will develop his or her own funky style through steps and routines, which will be showcased in a special end of the semester dance party for family and friends. (45 minutes)
Sign Language Class 4 - 9 years
Children 4-9 years old are welcome to join us for an American Sign Language class. Students will learn the alphabet along with their names and some basic signs.
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An intro to gymnastics program for kids three to five years old (age offerings vary so please call us or see our class schedule for availability)! Kids will increase flexibility and muscle control, and they will gain the fundamental tools to get serious about gymnastics. The JW Tumbles Gymnastics Kids program is in accordance with USA Gymnastics Compulsory Level Preparation Skills for the following: bars, beam, high bar, parallel bars, floor, vault, and rings. And unlike traditional gyms, JW Tumbles program is non-competitive, so your Tumbler can learn and grow within their individual strengths without any added pressure.
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We've combined all of our big kid classes into one Sampler Session! Each week will feature one of our signature programs including: Stompers/Jumpers, Sporty Kids, Obstacle Course Adventures and Gymnastics. This is a great class for kids that like a variety or if you are unsure of the best class for your child.
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Canadian Arctic mystery unravelled after 160 years
The world could finally learn this summer what happened to the doomed ships of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage.
The voyage was the demise of Franklin and the 128 men he took to the Canadian Arctic after the Royal Navy ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus he led became trapped in ice, where it is presumed they sank somewhere off Nunavut's King William Island.
"We are continuing our search for an as yet undiscovered national historic site," Environment Minister Peter Kent said in announcing the resumption of the search. "This is the year I hope we will solve one of the great mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration."
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WARREN COUNTY, N.Y. – A 17-year old was treated for minor injuries she sustained in a two car accident on State Route 9 in Warren County.
On March 22, the Warren County Sheriff's Office responded to State Route 9 at the entrance to the Northgate Plaza for a two car accident.
The operator of the first vehicle was 17-year old Jennifer Neuman of Fort Edward, who was attempting to make left hand turn out of the Northgate Plaza onto Route 9, according to the sheriff's office. Authorities say she pulled out in front of the second vehicle driven by 35-year old Arthur Cook of Glens Falls.
A passenger of the first vehicle, 17-year old Karissa Wright, was transported to Glens Falls Hospital by West Glens Falls EMS for minor injuries.
Neuman was issued citation for failure to yield the right of way.
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Two citizens spoke to the Marion County Board of Education at the end of its July 8 meeting, and they expressed contrary views about the district's leadership.
Amanda Beard concluded her remarks by calling for Superintendent Taylora Schlosser and the school board members to resign, while Barney Tharp defended Schlosser and the school board for recent steps they have taken.
After each of them spoke, Board Member Butch Cecil thanked them for taking the time to go through the process to get on the agenda.
Superintendent Taylora Schlosser introduced three new central office employees at the July 8 Marion County Board of Education meeting.
Traci Sharpe will serve as the district's director of exceptional child education. Troy Benningfield is the new instructional supervisor and food service director, and Jennifer Osbourne is the new personnel director.
"You have to surround yourself with great personnel and allow them to do their jobs," Schlosser said.
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The July 8 meeting of the Marion County Board of Education concluded with more than 30 minutes of public comments from citizens. The hour of the meeting before those comments included a number of procedural matters for the 2014-15 academic year.
Each of these items were approved 3-0. Board Member Bernard Miles was not present during last week's meeting.
The following items were approved last week:
• The student code of conduct for the 2014-15 school year.
• Exceptional child education procedures for special education programs.
Dan Avilla started flying remote control planes in 1969. He's been flying RC jets for 15 years.
And this year was the fourth time he's made the trip from Prescott, Arizona to the Lebanon-Springfield Airport for Jets Over Kentucky.
"The scenery is beautiful. The local people are so receptive and friendly wherever you go," Avilla said. "And Lewis Patton just runs a smooth event."
Patton has been organizing Jets Over Kentucky for 10 years. According to Avilla, it's one of the best shows he and his wife attend.
By Matt Overing
Fifteen years ago, downtown Lebanon was dying.
Now, it's back on the rise.
The Lebanon Enterprise published a story in its July 21, 1999, edition about "Downtown Dying," which discussed how businesses weren't growing and how downtown was no longer an attractive place.
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A Lebanon man reportedly robbed Old Kentucky Home Motel the same day he was released from jail for public intoxication.
Police say 27-year-old Timothy Dale Lanham robbed the motel July 5, and then fled from the scene on foot.
Bardstown Police later found Lanham at a residence on Taylorsville Road where he initially denied, but later admitted to the reported robbery.
By Jack Brammer
Lexington Herald-Leader
FRANKFORT — More than 100 new laws approved during Kentucky's 2014 General Assembly went into effect Tuesday, July 15, changing how the state deals with everything from acupuncture to voyeurism.
The Marion County Fiscal Court has approved an agreement with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for a new access road on Hwy. 52.
This road will provide a new access point to Maker's Mark, according to the agreement between the county and the state.
The agreement reads that the state will reimburse the county up to $675,000 for the .1 mile project, which will allow access to the Maker's Mark Museum. Also as part of the project, the access to Ky. 52 from Bridgett Court will be closed and a new access will be created to the tie-in road.
Marion County High School currently has a vacancy on the School-Based Decision Making Council. Any parent with a child at the high school interested in serving on the SBDM council should contact Kathy Jo Underwood at 270-692-6066, extension 150.
The Marion County Heritage Center is publishing a cookbook in 2015 to celebrate Lebanon's 200th anniversary. The books will be sold at the Heritage Center gift shop.
The cookbook will feature divider pages with pictures and information about former eating locations and restaurants, dating back to the 1800s. The book's organizers also hope to include recipes from some of those establishments.
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In her most famous novel Gigi, French novelist Colette said one should never wear artistic jewelry for it wrecks one's reputation. We, however, could not disagree more!
In fact, we believe that adorning oneself with ornamental embellishments not only enhances both one's status and character, but it brings out a side of one's personality that may otherwise be veiled. Another benefit of wearing fanciful jewelry? Well, according to 1930s Olympic figure skater/Hollywood film star Sonja Henie, it takes people's minds off your wrinkles!
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Wolf Fine Jewelers at The Pier Shops at Caesars
Wolf now carries Alex and Ani, eco-friendly items that adorn the body, enlighten the mind and empower the spirit. Powerful positive symbols are incorporated into each and every piece, providing a vehicle for the wearer to express her individuality in an organic and spiritual way. At Wolf, you'll find Alex and Ani's pretty adjustable bangles, all made in the U.S. entirely out of recycled materials.
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King Baby (a term originated by Sigmund Freud referring to a mental condition where a person believes the world revolves around him) is an ultra edgy men's jewelry line that's deeply rooted in the spirit of rock 'n' roll. Handcrafted in the USA, it unites sterling silver with precious stones, 18K gold, onyx beads and leather, while insinuating an air of freedom and strong personal identity.
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Jimmy Crystal Jewelry is the perfect bling for a glitzy resort such as ours. Encrusted with sparkling Swarovski crystals, it looks much more expensive than it really is.
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Tiffany & Co. has recently announced the new Olive Leaf Collection from famed jewelry designer Paloma Picasso. The Olive Leaf Collection is inspired by the olive branch, a symbol of peace and abundance. It also celebrates botanical gardens and natural beauty. Paloma, much like her famous artistic father Pablo, has a brilliant eye for color, which you'll see in her combinations of colorful gemstones and precious metals. We're especially fond of the Olive Leaf cabochon rings with diamonds in 18 karat gold, the Olive Leaf cuff in 18 karat gold and the striking Olive Leaf bib necklace with tsavorites in 18 karat gold.
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Unusual, artsy and affordable, Jillbeads feature a creative assortment of crystals, rhinestones, glass, enamels and resins. The versatility of this jewelry has enhanced its popularity as these items can be worn with both dressy and casual fashions. Jillbeads are known for their whimsical color combinations and unique shapes.
Insiders' Tip: Zephyr Gallery is presently hosting a trunk show for Jillbeads. Running through April 30, the gallery will have a large selection of this quirky contemporary handcrafted jewelry on-hand.
Revolution Jewelers at Revel
Charles Krypell was actually a sculptor prior to becoming an internationally-renowned jewelry designer. You can see how Krypell's sculpting talent and his penchant for three-dimensional media are incorporated into every piece, pushing the boundaries of design. His extensive use of color coupled with gorgeous diamonds and gemstones also blend perfectly to create his unique and distinctive designs. Krypell focuses on the all-around design of the metal and how it embraces the stone which, like a piece of sculpture, is meant to be enjoyed from multiple approaches and dimensions. As for Krypell's philosophy on the ladies, "A woman needs to be animated," exclaims Charles. "She needs to live life to the fullest." We couldn't agree more.
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Caché at The Quarter at Tropicana
Haven't purchased your Easter outfit yet? No worries. Pop into Caché at The Quarter where they have a huge selection of dresses, skirts, blouses and slacks that are perfect for any festive spring occasion. Even better – right now you can take 50 percent off Caché's entire Spring I collection, which includes Riviera Radiance and Parisian Call. Beginning this week, all new marked-down dresses start at $39 and they'll take another 10 percent off clearance sportswear. Plus, there's always a sale room at Caché at the Trop – with prices starting as low as $9!