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Blurb as eBook publisher?
There doesn't seem to be a "Suggestions" area so I am posting here.
Why not consider the idea of making blurb into a creation/publication platform for eBooks? Having you own book on your coffee table is fun, but I suspect more people would actually buy blurb-produced books if they could get one for, say, $5-$10. I don't expect to sell any books because of the pricing issues that have been recently discussed, but I might sell a few if the price could be low enough so that people might be willing to take a chance.
I know that most blurb books are photo books, and as far as I know the Kindle doesn't do photos, but the iPad does, and it is bound to get some competition soon. I don't know about eBook file formats, but this seems to be a developing market, so some standards may exist already.
Just a thought.
I fully agree with you jshook! I have been going crazy just trying to make an affordable text version of my 8×10 prose-poetry/photo book, I have been halted on every turn. 1. I can't export or import booksmart files. 2. Cannot slurp my blog to cheaper 5×8 version,..and this is the kicker, 3 tonight I have been trying the copy paste method which is near impossible,because I can't have two of same program running at the same time for ease of transfer.
If this is truly to help artists create and sell, they sure have some holes in the process. These fixes would seem so helpful so we can all stay with the times to EPUBLISH and PDF file transfer without wasting hours on the process.
For the record, Blurb is cool. I like your template support and if you tweak with the user friendly stuff you will be hard to pass up. I guarantee I would sell tons of books at a cheaper production price. Something to think about?
I specifically asked Blurb for ebook capability on my second project. They said they would convey the request, but I don't know how much urgency there really is on their end as I imagine it would mess with their bottom line too much. Still, if folks were downloading a book from Blurb as well as printing it, I would think there could be a little money made. How about it, Blurb?
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i also agree i been wanting to get in connection with ebooks because it seems very popular at the moment especially with the release of the ipad
I would love this – it really is the way forward, and could be so much more affordable..
Here is some ideas about how to create your own eBook PDF files, it can be done with Adobe InDesign as well as Acrobat Pro on your own.
And, perhaps some of you should submit feedback and suggestion email support system at Blurb, and you might want to include this link of this forum discussion, so that someone from Blurb look into this forum.
Please note that not always that Blurb staff comes in and read every forum threads every time. That is why I suggest a link of reference to be submitted in your feedback/or suggestion email submission.
I hope this helps.
Brian | Passionately Blurbarian
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Thanks for the reply :D
I don't see a link though?
I agree with this idea. It is hard to compete with book stores especially when some of their large format books are on sale for as little as $5.00. Maybe these are not best sellers but still blurb books are small and expensive for the retail buyer. I have just one sale here to a family relative-no sales to the general public. Would e-sales really help? I think that the buyer still does not perceive a blurb book as high in quality to those books in a walk in book store. For $5-$10 maybe someone will take a chance on my e-book.
Hi. Has anything developed about the e-book option with blurb? I am wanting to go that way myself and if I can do that especially with I pad and other stuff becoming more user based………I think it all makes good sense. If blurb books arent cheap enough for retailers, then we all will slowly wander to other places or formats. I love blurb and want to stay but can they change…….


text: Obama to take aim at patent trolls Business 04 June 13 by Philippa Warr Tweet Shutterstock President Obama is expected to announce a set of executive actions aimed at reducing the problem of patent trolling.The practice of patent trolling has grown massively in recent years and involves companies acquiring patents with the intention of using them to collect licensing fees under threat of lawsuit rather than to innovate or create products.According to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Obama will instruct the US Patent and Trademark Office to rework its rules in order to provide more information to the defendant in a patent lawsuit.As well as providing the defendant with a better idea of who is suing them, the changes are also thought to include measures to allow the court system to punish those filing speculative or otherwise abusive lawsuits. The measures are unlikely to prevent massive corporate patent lawsuits such as those between Apple and Samsung, however they may serve to reduce the glut of speculative smaller suits. Edited by Liat Clark Comments Latest on wired.co.uk

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The latest engine to roll out of Pratt & Whitney just might deliver what the
aerospace industry has sought in a commercial jet for more than a century _ some
peace and quiet.
"The tremendous racket that is at present associated with the aeroplane plays a considerable part in prejudicing the public against these machines," read a 1911 editorial in The Aero, an industry publication based in London, that advocated the "fitting of silencers" on engines.
Pratt's PurePower geared turbofan engine _ well-known for its efficiency with jet fuel _ is also a long stride toward quieter flight. With a noise profile that comes in 20 decibels below the most stringent airport standards, the engine is expected to be noticed by far fewer people on the ground.
And the result: Airlines have ordered more than 3,500 of the engines for new aircraft.
A twin-engine airplane flying 1,000 feet overhead comes in as loud as a noisy dishwasher to people on the ground, about 70 decibels. So living by an airport is like having a reprise of that dishwasher every few minutes throughout the day. Pratt's engine, at about 20 decibels lower, will be more like the hum of a refrigerator.
Since those early, loud days of jet flight, the aerospace world has cycled through its share of solutions. Mechanical ideas included putting mufflers on engines, but they proved to be heavy. Others focused on advanced materials that deaden sound. The latest advances have come from relying more on the quieter portions of the engine for thrust.
But with airplanes still considerably loud, airlines are forced to operate within noise budgets set by airports; pay noise fees; and jump through hoops to avoid being especially loud over populated areas. The major engine-makers, Pratt and General Electric, are both releasing engines that they say are significantly quieter than existing technologies.
"This is the first time in commercial aviation that you can't blame the engine guys anymore," Alan Epstein, Pratt's head of technology, said in an interview. He said it won't be long until "airplanes get to the noise levels of highways."
Analysts say the drop in engine noise _ Pratt, a division of United Technologies Corp., advertises a 75 percent reduction _ is a jump forward in an industry used to smaller advances. "This is a big change, not just an incremental improvement," said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst with the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va.
The engine lines up against its noise-conscious competitor, GE Aviation's LEAP engine, which bets on the cumulative effect of a handful of material and design changes to reduce noise, Aboulafia said. The Pratt engine, on the other hand, is a more straightforward approach, accomplished by moving more air, more slowly.
"It doesn't depend on a host of new incremental improvements," he said. "That definitely has its appeal."
For airplane makers, like Airbus, the less noisy engines _ combined with more aerodynamic airframes _ will give their airline customers some wiggle room within the "noise budgets" at airports, which are set to decrease over time.
In the very least, a quieter engine "enables them to preserve their existing operations," said Raphael Sheffield, head of technical marketing at Airbus, which will have a version of Pratt's engine on its new A320neo single-aisle airliner.
And beyond that, the quieter engine will give airlines some room to possibly add more flights "within the existing noise budget."
With projections for airlines to see annual increases in passenger miles, airports and the entire industry are looking at how to build out capacity at airports, while remaining good neighbors to residents in surrounding areas. Noise and emissions are expected to be major issues in this expansion, and Pratt and other engine makers are competing to offer the least noisy engine.
"The biggest impediment to the expansion of air transportation in the developed world is noise," Epstein said.
The Pratt engine is quieter than other engines, but it is also bigger.
An airplane engine gets its thrust from one of two related sections: the engine core, where the air compression and combustion occur, and the fan, which is driven by the engine core and pushes a large volume of air with large blades.
It's the engine's center core _ the jet portion where combustion occurs _ that makes it particularly loud.
Part of the air that enters an engine goes through the core, where it's mixed with jet fuel and ignited, but most of the air goes around the core. Over time, engine makers like Pratt have made smaller and smaller jet cores, while enlarging the size of the fan and its blades that give more thrust with less noise.
"You can have the same amount of thrust with a small amount of air going very fast, or a much larger amount of air slowly," Epstein said. "So more air means the engine needs to get bigger and bigger in diameter."
The more air moving through the fan, as opposed to through the engine core, the quieter _ and more fuel-efficient _ the engine will be. And that ratio of air that moves through the core compared to the air that moves through the outer fan is called the bypass ratio.
The company released the JT8D engine in 1963 for Boeing's 727. Its bypass ratio was 1, so equal amounts of air are sent through the engine's jet and fan. In 1970, Pratt's JT9D upped the ratio to 5 for the 747.
The latest PurePower engine out of Pratt has a bypass ratio of 12 _ for every 1 part of air that goes through the engine core, 12 others are sent through the much quieter fan.
"It's so quiet on approach that if it's coming for landing (and) you shut off the engines, people on the ground wouldn't know the difference," Epstein said.
Noise limits are coming down each year, analysts said.
The limits, though set by each country, are based on recommendations from the International Civil Aviation Organization, a standard-setting agency of the United Nations.
To keep up with the falling noise ceiling, airports have two general tools: make less noise with a quieter engine or avoid flying over where people live.
The avoidance approach has airlines tweak their approaches and takeoffs to make less noise where it really matters.
For example, aircraft approaching Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., fly along the Potomac River rather than over densely populated areas. At LaGuardia Airport in New York planes taking off make a 180-degree turn to climb over the water rather than throttling the engines over the Bronx.
In some cases, pilots will stay higher in the air as long as possible before landing.
But with an overall quieter aircraft, it's possible that airlines could bring jets into smaller airports that are closer to sensitive, urban areas.
Porter Airlines, a regional airline based at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, ordered a dozen CSeries airliners from Bombardier _ with Pratt's geared turbofan engine _ to expand its service from a short-haul model to a coast-to-coast model with added destinations in Florida, California and British Columbia.
Currently, Porter only flies quieter propeller-driver turboprops to destinations about 2 hours away from Toronto, mainly because agreements between the city, the airport and the port authority have limited the airport to those aircraft.
The only problem is that the CSeries jets that Porter ordered are currently banned from flying at the airport that's just 1.5 miles from the center of Toronto and its 2.6 million residents.
"When we started, we didn't have the sense that we could operate jets from there because the technology didn't really exist," said Porter Airlines spokesman Brad Cicero. "But the CSeries program really changed that for us."
The airline's purchase is conditioned on local and national officials changing the airport's jet ban and approving a 367-yard extension to the runway, Cicero added that Bombardier has guaranteed that the dozen CS100s will be able to operate within the airports existing noise limits.
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Why I've come to love twitter
I've just stumbled over an article on Traffikd about why the author has come to like Twitter. I will use this to write down my own experience with Twitter so far, since I have a slightly different approach.
Although I had a Twitter account for quiet some time now, I haven't been using it much until a few month ago. For me, it had more of a nerd toy than being a useful tool for anything. Now that I use it on a daily basis, my opinion has changed though.
There are many uses for twitter, be it self marketing, means to communicate with friends or as a source of information. I know many who just follow people they know since it's much easier to establish a more personal relationship to friends, colleagues and followers while at the same time remain more control ofer the flood of information that is coming from those you follow.
Until a few days ago I thought the same way but they way I use twitter has changed after I watched the following youtube video on Jessy Newhart's blog:
I've been using tweetdeck for a few weeks now but I never thought about the potential of it until I watched this video. Although I still agree that you shouldn't follow everyone who follows you or everyone you find on twitter, I don't have a problem with following a large number of people anymore, as long as the person writes about stuff that is of interest to you.
To still be able to prioritize whose tweets I want to follow I use two options tweetdeck offers.
Groups: My number one rule for twitter is to only follow people who write about stuff that is of main interest for me. In my case that is webdesign, information architecture and webdevelopment. Therefore I have set up 3 groups in tweetdeck for those three topics. I try to organize most of the people I follow based on those groups, leaving everyone who writes about other stuff in the main category.
Filters: The second technique I use are filters. Since I have already set up groups to organize everyone based on three major topics, I can now easily filter those groups for every keyword I am interested in. If I want the hottest links about webdesign I just type "RT @" in my filter to find all links that have been retweeted (and thus being of a certain quality) by the webdesign community.
So this is basically how I work with twitter since I have seen Jessy Newhart's video. If you found this interesting, you should definetely watch his video. Using twitter this way means to use it more as a repository of information rather than a tool of communication. This is still possible though. Just create a group with people you want to communicate with to take them out of all the noise that will flood your tweetdeck when you follow many people.
I have to add that I just follow about 150 people at the moment, but I feel that this approach is very scalable.
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Damon and Blunt Spark 'Adjustment Bureau'
James Rocchi, Special to MSN Movies
Roughly inspired by a 1954 short story from the same writer who had his works turned into the films "Blade Runner," "Total Recall" and "Paycheck," "The Adjustment Bureau" offers what science-fiction fans will recognize as Philip K. Dick in a box: conspiracy, reality-bending, big brainy questions and little weird details. Senatorial candidate David Norris (Matt Damon) is preparing a concession speech when he meets ballerina Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), and the connection is immediate. Nothing could keep them from pursuing each other ... aside from a mysterious conspiracy of retro-stylish men with knowledge of some grand plan that must be kept to themselves, and that doesn't include room for love between David and Elise.
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Written and directed by George Nolfi, the film follows a fairly familiar set of rules and delivers a fairly familiar set of images and ideas. Imagine if "The Matrix" was not crafted to satisfy someone who watched Bruce Lee movies and read comic books while procrastinating on a computer science degree, but instead made for the enjoyment of someone who watched Douglas Sirk melodramas and read Harlequin romance novels while procrastinating on a theology degree. You get the same concerns -- What's real? Do we have free will? Can anything stop love? -- but with foot chases instead of gun battles, discussions of divine grace instead of robotic evil, and love, not kung-fu, conquering all.
As David pursues Elise, he keeps on encountering roadblocks thrown up by the Adjustment Bureau, nattily dressed functionaries who talk like organization men but seem just a touch more-than-human. They have neat Moleskine notebooks that open up to display animated maps of the workings of the universe and a neat knack for opening a door in one place and stepping out through it in another place blocks or miles away. The neatest thing about these functionaries -- played, moving up the ladder of management, by Anthony Mackie, John Slattery and Terence Stamp -- is that they do have a ladder of management, and they sound like they're out of "Office Space," not some boil-in-bag cliché sci-fi film. Slattery, exasperated by David's persistence in the face of warnings and obstacles, notes, "I just can't catch a break on this case," and you actually feel for the bad day at work he's having.
To director Nolfi's credit, he gets a substantial amount of chemistry out of Damon and Blunt -- their initial meeting throws so many sparks off the screen it might as well be in 3-D -- and he takes advantage of cinematographer John Toll (who shot the not-dissimilar "Vanilla Sky") and New York's shooting locations to terrific effect. It's his directorial debut, and after writing for Damon in both "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "Ocean's Twelve," Nolfi has a good sense of how to best use the actor's charisma and skills.
If one thing damages "The Adjustment Bureau," it's how it literally talks itself out of being really good, the energy of the final chase (full of space-shifting special effects shots so casually delivered it takes a few moments to realize how well-done and well-executed they actually are) diluted and undercut by a lengthy overexplanation of the film's metaphysics by Mackie. The Bureau is such an interesting idea -- capable of minor miracles and with the kind of gift for timing that when you imagine the metaphorical angels dancing on the head of a pin, these are the guys doing the choreography -- that Nolfi's need to answer every question in the last reel is more exasperating than enlightening.
Do Nolfi, Damon and Blunt create an instant classic of the emotional sci-fi subgenre like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" or "Solaris," where the big pseudoscientific idea in the film is just an excuse to explore philosophical ideas about love? Not quite. It's a hyper-adrenalized date movie, one that owes far more to Nicholas Sparks than Philip K. Dick. (Getting the squirrely, speed-freak ideas of Dick's wired, weird stories and novels on the big screen involves so much money and effort that the weirdness is often the first thing to go, as if the Philharmonic tuned up for needlessly large, elevator-music versions of Clash songs.) It's too bad that Nolfi couldn't stick closer to the cold bizarre brilliance of Dick's work in his film. The sentiment of "The Adjustment Bureau" isn't necessarily what sinks it, but the overexplained softened edges of the story turn what could have been an exceptional brain-bender into a good, but fairly standard-issue, heart-warmer.
James Rocchi's writings on film have appeared at Cinematical.com, Netflix.com, AMCtv.com, IFC.com, SFGate.com and in Mother Jones magazine. He was also the on-air film critic for San Francisco's CBS-5 from 2006 to 2008. He now lives in Los Angeles, where every ending is a twist ending.


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West Valley City • After winning his last match of the day, Payson High junior Riley Loveless said that it was possible that his hometown might be one that is known for its wrestling.
That being said, it certainly would follow that the Loveless name would have contributed much to that reputation.
At the end of the first day of competition at the Utah state wrestling tournament, Payson was right in the chase for the team title in Class 3A with foes such as Uintah and Juab. Loveless, who won an individual state title a year ago at 120 pounds, will seek another title at 126 in the championship round today at the Maverik Center.
But its team glory that Loveless has his eyes on.
"It's a big deal in Payson. We're kind of known as a wrestling school," Loveless said. "We were really close last year; we lost by seven or eight points. It's all I think about. We've lost two state team titles and we're not going to lose another one."
Loveless pinned Morgan's Owen Pentz to earn his place in a championship bout. Riley's cousin Hagen Loveless, a senior for Payson, also advanced at 138 pounds with a win over Uintah's Cody Merkley, and Hagen's younger brother Jed Loveless advanced to the finals at 106.
All of those Loveless grapplers have older brothers who went on to wrestle collegiately as well.
"I've already won one [state title] individually. I'd really like to get one with the team," Riley Loveless said.
In Class 2A, returning champs such as Millard's Chase Kelly, North Sevier's Brendon Sorenson and South Summit's Matt Lee found continuing success while wrestling at higher weight classes.
"I feel like it's going pretty good. I'm staying offensive and keeping the pressure on them, that's how I've been winning matches," said Lee, after knocking off North Sevier's Casen Burgess in a 120-pound semifinal.
Monticello's Hunter Bouring, after beating Duchesne's Braiden Clayburn to grab a spot in the Class 1A finals at 126 pounds, thought that winning a previous individual championship did have an upside when it came to trying to repeat.
"I think it kind of puts a target on your back too," said the Buckaroo senior. "Kids want to go out and beat you, but I think there's an intimidation factor that kind of goes with it — it kind of works both ways."
3A, 2A/1A wrestling
(Day 1 team results)
1. Payson 164.0
2. Juab 131.5
3. Uintah 129.0
4. Union 117.0
5. Desert Hills 114.0
6. Pine View 97.5
7. Bear River 88.5
8. Cedar City 76.5
9. Morgan 74.5
10. Dixie 59.0
1. Delta 238.0
2. North Sevier 157.0
3. Millard 155.0
4. Monticello 148.0
5. Altamont 111.5
6. Beaver 111.0
7. S. Summit 108.0
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Whatever the happy-go-lucky bullshit spun by Friends Reunited and its ilk, school, for the majority of people, sucked big time, however much we like to reconfigure childhood memories as the "best days of our lives". It's a cut-throat environment which, as Rian Johnson, writer/director of the extraordinary Brick, alludes to in an interview on this DVD, dovetails neatly with the worlds of hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir.
By appropriating its slang-heavy patter and noir plot from the novels of Dashiell Hammett (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) and transferring them to a contemporary Californian high school, Brick subverts two genres, resulting in a film that's postmodern on one level, deliciously retro on another. And yet emerges as something unique... "It doesn't represent what being a teenager is like," Johnson says. "But maybe it represents a little more accurately what being a teenager feels like."
Brick begins with a dead blonde lying face down in muddy water, hair fanned out like a smudged halo. The victim, Emily (Emilie De Raven), a good girl gone druggy, was the one-time girlfriend of our hero Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who, two days before, received a call from her asking for help. Delving first into her disappearance, then her murder, our amateur gumshoe stumbles around his coastal home town, giving almost as good as he gets and determined to "start shaking things up". This, in true noir fashion, requires Brendan, abetted by misfit friend The Brain (Matt O'Leary), to ingratiate himself into his ex's circle of dealers and druggies, coming up against the gamut of noir archetypes: ice queen Laura (Nora Zehetner), femme fatale Kara (Meagan Good), lovestruck sap Dode (Noah Segan), thuggish Tug (Noah Fleiss) and eccentric crime kingpin The Pin (Lukas Haas), who runs a drugs empire from the basement of his mum's house. So far, so noir. Even Brendan's terse relationship with his school's assistant vice-principal (Shaft's Richard Roundtree) echoes Bogart's antagonistic chinwags with the cops who were forever trying to lean on him. That's not to say Gordon-Levitt is even remotely trying to channel Bogey. Johnson and his leading man are too smart for that. But, as the director notes, Brendan is "going to be Sam Spade in 10 years from now."
That the movie doesn't implode under the weight of its influences is a tribute to Johnson and his excellent cast, who treat the material dead straight, without any recourse to camp or irony. And even though the dialogue (part teen-speak, part noir patois) can be as impenetrable as the spiralling plot, Johnson is clearly aware of his conventions and when to deviate from them. So, by eschewing the traditional noir motifs of deep shadows, guys in hats and moody black-and-white for the sunny environs of San Clemente, California (where he grew up) – and swapping the mean streets of LA for the hallways of his old high school – he edges the mood closer to the suburban paranoia of David Lynch.
As befits a film this dense and daring, the extras are a treat. While Johnson's commentary was unavailable at press time, we are still gifted with a fascinating comparison between the director's "chicken scratch" storyboards and the film itself. There's also a number of deleted and extended scenes – he trimmed eight minutes after the film played Sundance, where it won an award for "Originality of Vision" – and an interview with Johnson covering all the bases. Throw in an amusing teenage home movie, a behind-the-scenes peek at his UK press tour, a pair of screen tests, and a featurette on the film's score (created by Johnson's cousin in his Bournemouth flat, using wine glasses and kitchenware) and you have a mightily impressive package.
Still, it's the film you'll find yourself revisiting. Like Memento and Donnie Darko, Brick gives up its secrets slyly. It's fearlessly composed and adroitly executed. The noir knowingness and smartypants vernacular might prove to be a barrier for casual viewers, but give a little back and Brick really kicks.


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yeah, just read. this is another day hurray...
Anyways, that was totally irrelevant to the story. So here you go, without further adue I bid you chapter SIX! :]
Remember from the other chapters SLAVERY IS BAD KIDS. I OWN NO ONE. :D
Day 249
Mikey's POV.
Yet another boring day in the life of me. I sleep, sit and take my damn meds. I breathe, that's the most exciting part! Pssht, who am I kidding? My life sucks. Why can't anyone bail me out?! This is not fair! I heard something else at my door. I looked up as Bob walked in. I still wasn't going to talk to anyone.
Bob's POV.
I walked into his little room. It was way too bright in there. My eyes finally adjusted and there I saw him. In the corner. In a straightjacket. I had a bad feeling in my stomach...
"I can't believe that Mikey's here. Out of all people in our little group, Mikey!? What did he ever do to deserve this cruel fate?"
I said hi and tried to get him to talk like the others. Man, I bet I sound like a broken record, but nothing was getting him to talk. Not. One. Single. Thing. It was a little nerve wracking. After more than a half hour of silence, he looked up at me. He opened his mouth to speak and I looked at him, waiting. We've been waiting for him to talk for the past few weeks. He whispered something. I couldn't hear him. "Mikey, what? I can't hear you." He looked at me, and said it again, barely audible. I was about to ask him again what he said, but the doctor came in and cut me off telling me I had to leave. Great huh?
Mikey's POV.
I sat there quietly. Oh so quietly, under Bob's eyes. Finally after sitting there, I couldn't stand it. I was about to break down, I had to tell him. I just had to. I talked, but since I hadn't used my voice in forever it was rather weak. I couldn't get my voice to go above a whisper. Bob couldn't hear me, and then...the stupid doctor came in a cut him off. I sighed mentally and looked down, avoiding Bob's stare as he walked out. "These voices...they won't leave me alone. They threaten to hurt me. Please...someone help..." Why couldn't they just leave me alone?? For one day??
"Mikey, you know we can't do that. Yes, Mikey, we wouldn't want you to get too sane..."
And there they were again...tormenting me for the thousandth time that day...
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Menifee Mayor Scott Mann released a statement Tuesday afternoon declaring Menifee Valley "safe" and urging residents to move on after Planning Commissioner Mark Matelko failed to produce documents regarding the application of sludge to agricultural lands in Menifee.
Mann had given Matelko a deadline of 5 p.m. Tuesday to produce documents the commissioner said prove the application of biosolids (sludge) on many more sections of Menifee than is shown in Riverside County maps. Matelko and his wife, Janine, have been vocal advocates for additional testing of the soil, alleging there has been ongoing application of sludge on local agricultural lands -- a practice banned in 2001 -- that is a dangerous health threat to residents.
"The deadline for Commissioner Matelko to produce additional sludge records has come and gone," Mann said in a prepared statement. "The City of Menifee stands on the expert testimony provided at the City's Biosolids Workshop on March 5, 2013. Going forward, we know which parcels in the City that permitted Type A sludge was applied for agricultural purposes and we have in our Municipal Code a mechanism for additional soils testing should those areas be developed in the future.
"As previously stated by several regulatory agencies and press accounts, the Menifee Valley is safe -- your homes, schools, and parks are safe and always have been. It is now time to focus our time, energy and resources on other pressing issues, such as improving traffic circulation in our city."
In the March 5 biosolids workshop, several experts from Riverside County and elsewhere testified that there was no health danger to residents from any sludge that may have been applied in years past. That hasn't stopped the Matelkos and other concerned citizens from disputing the experts' testimony, as well as the sludge application map.
No Sludge Evidence Provided; Mayor Says It's Time to Move On
Menifee Mayor Scott Mann released a statement Tuesday afternoon declaring Menifee Valley "safe" and urging residents to move on after Planning Commissioner Mark Matelko failed to produce documents regarding the application of sludge to agricultural lands in Menifee.
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- AnonymousMarch 26, 2013 8:30 PM
Let's hope the council will in fact move on this time. The sludge zealots will continue to shout into the wind with their unfounded dogma: so be it. Let them have their three minutes and move on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 10:17 AM
With his credibility and judgment seriously in question, Planning Commissioner Matelko should resign. Matelko has demonstrated that his personal bias adversely affects his ability to function on the planning commission and therefore should step down.ReplyDelete
If he fails to do so then the council, as it has a right to do, should vote to oust him, something Furhman obviously doesn't have the foresight to do.Replies
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 1:10 PM
I agree 100%. Matelko has to go. Time to put pressure on Furhman to remove hime from the planning commission.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 10:42 AM
I don't know why Mr. & Mrs.Matelko failed to produce their written documents proving their claims of illgal sludge dumping..surely, with all their passion on the subject they must have ten years of documents somewhere..After all, I have to keep ten years of receipts for the I.R.S. and I don't feel passionately about the I.R.S. However, I do have a problem with Mayor Scott Mann's prepared statement,"The City of Menifee stands on expert testimony.." Who found these experts? Coldwell Banker? Cenury 21? Since at least two on the council are realtors....just asking?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 12:31 PM
Mr. and Mrs. Matelko offered many times to share the records with city council in the presence of sheriff's officials and they were turned down. The city wants the records so they can be destroyed as the records at the County of Riverside were destroyed when the seriousness of all this came to light. The records had been at the county for years and suddenly it was decided that they should be destroyed. I think the Matelko's have done their due diligence and the city has failed the citizens. We were told to have a health dept. to monitor the health of people after the dumping of this toxic material and that has been asked for over and over with no action taken.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 1:42 PM
"The city wants the records so they can be destroyed" Just another example of the length the fanatics will use to justify their failure to produce proof of anything significant. The real reason is nothing exists. This tactic allows them to keep waving their arms claiming "I have proof". The health department monitoring has been misstated; I suggest you go back and re-read that again.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 2:49 PM
Why not share a copy of the records if you are that paranoid? Matelko has no records that prove anything. Time for him to removed from the planning commission.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 1:58 PM
Do you have some information about the credentials or legitimacy of the experts or is this just an emotional expression of your inability to grasp what was presented? The insinuation that being a realtor is tantamount to rigging the testimony requires some pretty definitive proof.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 11:43 PM
Take it from a me. A Menifee resident who works at the Orange County Sanitation District where the biosolids (sludge) originated from. Class A and Class B biosolids are both safe to human health. I sometimes find myself covered in the sh$% at work. Visit the link above and learn something.


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A breakup is like a volcano. After its eruption, there are aftershocks. When the decision of going separate ways is final, give yourself ample time to settle down. How to start over after a breakup is feasible when the reality already sets in. You are now free from your partner, and living life on your own is the next thing that should be done. Here are some hints for picking up the pieces for a worry-free life on your own:
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Here's one of Tom's NAUTILUS replicas. He made quite a few during his life, and most are in the private collections of people who treasure them as the priceless relics they are.
Tom with his display at a Sci Fi Convention.
One of Tom's favorite pieces was this replica of Harper Goff's original NAUTILUS concept model. People who knew both gentlemen tell me Harper looked on Tom as "the son he never had". Above, Harper examines Tom's replica of the NAUTILUS prototype.
Now THIS is what I call being a dedicated Leaguer! Here's a look into Tom Scherman's apartment, which was decorated like the inside of the NAUTILUS, and no doubt contained many artifacts and souvenirs.
Here's Tom's cutaway model of the NAUTILUS, on display at the IMAGINEERING offices in California.
Tom put this model on display at an EQUICON show in San Diego. The scene shows the NAUTILUS navigating the underwater channel into Vulcania.
But Tom didn't stop with small-scale replicas of the submarine; here's his full-sized replica of the Crew Diver Suit, presently on display at the LIVING SEAS EXHIBIT in Florida.
Tom Scherman was directly involved with making this giant scale waterline version of the NAUTILUS, and the Mysteries Du Nautilus exhibit, presently on display at EURODISNEY in France.
Courtesy of Harry Hathorne, here's a whimsical cartoon Tom did for a friend, regarding the EDL project.
Tom was a great one for sketching ideas on napkins, most of which he gave away to friends. Here's one Tom did of the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND attraction in Japan, approximately ten years before it came to be. This image was provided by Tom's brother, Rowland Scherman. Thank you! ;-)
This is a very famous picture of Tom intently studying the submarine he loved so well. It was his uncompromising attention to detail and devotion to the subject that earned him the well-deserved title, "Mister Nautilus". Oh, BTW: I meant to add a P.S. to this photo a while ago, but forgot. As Wayne Orlicki pointed out: take a good look at the pipe in Tom's hand: it is a replica of a Nautilus Crew Diver helmet. No doubt a one-of-a-kind item. Tom really lived it, didn't he? Thanks for pointing this out, Wayne.
Tom's brother Rowland sent these pictures along. Above is Tom in 1957 with his first scratch-built NAUTILUS model; and below is Tom in Paris with his final creation: the giant scale replica in the Mysteries Du Nautilus exhibit at EURODISNEY in France. These two projects represent the "alpha and omega" of Tom's career: his initial and ultimate artistic renderings of the NAUTILUS.
The journey of a lifetime. You start with something you can hold in your hand, and finish with one you can stand on. One can only try to imagine what it must have felt like to see the dreams of his youth realized to that extent. It took devotion, determination, perseverance, hard work, and extreme good fortune to achieve what he did. It's almost as if Tom knew what his destiny would be, and made it happen. That's very, very rare.
Here's a pic of Tom on the job.
And two more of Tom Scherman in France, aboard his ultimate NAUTILUS replica…
…and inside the wheelhouse.
DAVID SCHERMAN has his own Memorial Website for his brother Tom. There, you will see a great photo of Tom at work on one of his NAUTILUS models, as well as several more of the unique NAPKIN DRAWINGS the late Mr. Scherman was famous for. Please access David's website via our LINKS page.
Of this picture, Ned Land might say, "Well, he really got his monster, didn't he?"
NEW! (I replaced the picture of Tom and Dan Kachur with the Nemo helmet that we used to carry above with this one because the other picture is seen in two other places on this Website.) This is a picture of Tom Scherman and Dan Kachur's lovely wife Bertha at Tom's Hollywood apartment with the original Nemo helmet that was used in the underwater sequences of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: truly a significant artifact from the movie. This photo was taken by Dan on July 02,1993. This and the following six photos are all from the personal collection of Dan and Bertha Kachur, are protected by copyright, and are exclusive to the VulcaniaSubmarine.Com Website. The author has asked me to convey his request that you do not copy or distribute these images in any form whatsoever. Please respect his wishes. Thank you.
NEW! Dan took this picture of Tom Scherman with a Disney Diver helmet. Dan tells me Tom kept this piece wrapped up in a blanket and stashed in his bedroom for safe keeping. Tom said this was an actual helmet used in the movie. It looks very similar to the one on display at the LIVING SEAS EXHIBIT in Florida. Studying this photo, I couldn't help but relate. The only other guy I know who has things that look like this laying around his pad is, well…..me. J
NEW! Dan caught this view of a larger model of one of the Seahorse Minisubs just aft of the NAUTILUS TWO. Truly unique. And more amazing, from the standpoint of someone who designs and builds working subs, I believe this design would not be difficult at all to produce in the form of a functional manned submersible. Certainly, a one-man version adapted like a 1-ATM Hardsuit (sort of a fantasy NEWTSUIT) could be achieved without too much difficulty.
NEW! Dan snapped this picture of Tom's replica version of the original HARPER GOFF NAUTILUS CONCEPT model, on display in Tom's Hollywood apartment back in 1995. Obviously, the man's digs were a tribute to 20,000 Leagues.
NEW! And last (for now) but not least: here's a Tom Scherman NAUTILUS replica belonging to Dan Kachur. You can see more of this model, and also more of the amazing scale model work of Dan Kachur, on Dan's page here at VSC in the NAUTILUS MODELS section.
Dan wanted his pictures displayed here because, in his words, "Vulcania Submarine is the best." We certainly appreciate that sentiment, and hope you will all enjoy and respect his contributions to our Website as much as we do.
Thanks Dan!
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A number of the things I do with Connect are related to presenting at all. It's a great collaboration tool, and in order to use it that way, I am going to set my meeting room up in some very specific ways. So what I want to do here is show you how I would set that room up to use as a meeting room and some of the tips and tricks that I've learned along the way to make it easier for my participants to be a part of that room. So the first thing that we'll need to do is create a room, and although it's called a Meeting, in this case, I'm really thinking of it as a room. So I am going to go ahead and select New Meeting, and we are just going to call this Tim's Room.
I'm actually going to allow anyone who has the URL for the meeting to enter the room because it's a room that I'm going to meet with a variety of different people and so I don't have to worry about that. I'm not going to include any Audio Conferencing with this meeting because in general, I'll probably use some type of conferencing solution, but again, I don't want to try and integrate it, I want it to be as easy as possible for people to come into the room. So I won't include anything and then I can make decisions later about how to talk to those people.
I'm going to click Next just to point out that for this type of meeting room, I don't generally invite transient attendees into the room by creating an account for them and then making them a participant in the room, but often times rooms like this are used for multiple purposes. So I might have a colleague, for example, Olivia, whom I want to invite into the room and give her specific access. So I'm going to select her name and click Add. And right now she's a participant, but if she's going to meet with people in my room, in my absence, I might like to select her name and set her permissions so that she herself is a host.
What that means is that she can enter the room as a host without my presence and that means that the room is a lot more flexible as a result. So I'll click Finish. Now at this point, my room is configured. I'm going to go ahead and enter it. Because they are going to be a lot of people in this room that I don't know, or that I'm only working with briefly, or that I'm working with for the first time, I didn't want to have to create User Accounts on my system for them, but I do want to able to collaborate with them. For example, I might open up a Whiteboard and start a Whiteboard session.
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It's Sticky! It's Shifty! It's the first-ever Stick Shift video, filmed on location in the City of Angels, where Vanity Fair's cracked, car-loving team is currently covering the 2008 L.A. Auto Show—a grand bazaar vaunting a struggling industry, being held in a city that's literally burning. Operator, get me Nero at his place in Rome.
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With all due respect to vegetarians, Fourth of July grub at my house has to hit several key criteria.
It must be meaty. It must be bold. It must pair nicely with beer and wine and cocktails. It must easily feed a crowd. It must be simple to prepare. It must be convenient to eat outside. And did I mention it has to be meaty?
Which is why my July 4 gatherings always involve an array of burgers and sausages and hot dogs, as well as some assortment of steak tips and pulled pork. All big and bold and meaty and do-ahead-easy.
But this year I wanted to throw something new into the mix, something that still hit all my must-haves, but that's a little outside the usual. And that's how I came up with this recipe for sweet-and-tangy chili grinders. It's a basic beef and bean chili with a rich-and-sweet sauce that's spooned onto slabs of baguette, then topped with cheese.
What I particularly like about this recipe is that the chili can be prepped the day before, then simply reheated just before serving. And since I already have the grill going for the rest of the meal, I like to assemble the grinders, then set them over the flames for a few minutes to toast the baguette and melt the cheese.
If you can't find Peppadew peppers in your grocery store, substitute mild banana peppers, which are sold jarred near the pickles.
Sweet-and-Tangy Chili Grinders
Serves eight.
14-ounce jar mild Peppadew peppers (drained)
12-ounce jar roasted red peppers, drained
6-ounce can tomato paste
2 medium yellow onions, quartered
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons canola or vegetable oil
3 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1-inch chunks
Two 15-ounce cans kidney beans, drained
1 to 2 jalapeno peppers, diced (seeds removed, if desired)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
Salt and ground black pepper
Four 18-inch baguettes
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
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If you remember 1973, you know it was a difficult period for the United States. A series of events, including the Watergate scandal, the OPEC oil embargo, the Vietnam War and the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, had shaken the public's morale.
By November, President Richard Nixon's approval rating stood at 37 percent and presidential approval ratings tend to track the mood of the nation. Given all this, you might think that 1973 was not a good year in which to invest in the stock market.
But you'd be wrong. From Nov. 30, 1973, to Nov. 30, 1983, the S&P 500 recorded an average annual return of 10.9 percent. So, if you had invested $10,000 in the market at the beginning of that period, it would have grown to $28,139 by the end. And over the next 20 years, from Nov. 30, 1983, to Nov. 30, 2003, the S&P 500 returned, on average, 12.8 percent a year; consequently, $10,000 invested in 1983 would have grown to $111,219 in 20 years. (Keep in mind, however, that the S & P 500 is an unmanaged index, and you cannot invest directly into it. Also, past performance is not an indication of future results.)
In short, if you had started investing in the troubled year of 1973, and you had kept investing, you would have probably done pretty well over the next three decades.
Now, let's look at what's happening in the country in 2006. We are facing global unrest, high gas prices and concerns about economic security.
Although there are some similarities between 1973 and 2006, a controversial war, high gas prices, political concerns, there are also some key differences.
Perhaps most important, our economy today is much stronger than it was back then. And as an investor, you might be particularly interested in the following:
Interest rates are near a 40-year low. When interest rates are low, it is less expensive for businesses to borrow money to expand their operations. And as businesses grow, so does their attractiveness to investors.
Corporate profits are growing rapidly. Corporate profits have expanded at double-digit rates for 10 consecutive quarters; profitability is one of the key fundamentals that drive a company's stock price. So, despite the worried national mood, the investment climate of 2006 may actually be quite promising.
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It's true that 2006 may be an unusually tense year for the country. But as we've seen, 1973 was also a difficult year - in fact, by some measures, considerably more unsettling than 2006 - and yet, many investors who had faith in the financial markets in 1973 were amply rewarded.
Of course, you might not achieve similar returns going forward over the next few decades. No one can predict the future course of the markets. But the experience of 1973 shows the historical importance of continuous investing. A systematic investment plan does not assure a profit and does not protect against loss in declining markets. Such a plan involves continuous investment in securities regardless of fluctuating price levels of such securities, the investor should consider the financial ability to continue the purchases through periods of low price levels.
So, don't let today's headlines keep you on the investment "sidelines." If you buy quality investments, diversify your portfolio and invest for the long term, you may be able to design a strategy designed to work toward your financial goals in good times and bad.
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Tumblr, the sleeping giant for journalists on social media
We all like to keep a step ahead of the game, particularly when knowing your social media counts for a helluva lot in today's modern newsroom.
So here's a tip: learn how to use Tumblr.
Tumblr has become the stand-out tool of choice for anyone who wants to start a web presence quickly – but not at the cost of powerful tools or presentation value.
And for journalists, it solves a simple but frustrating problem – how to curate and archive the vast amounts of content we're pushing out across the web.
Take a look at this. Christian Purefoy is CNN's West Africa correspondent, and a massive part of his job is sharing content on social media. With Tumblr, he can collate all of his tweets (archiving them as he goes) while also posting video, images, infographics… all within the same tool.
It provides Christian with a great-looking repository for his work – and harnesses the power of Twitter – through auto-tweeting features – to bring people there.
And it's not as if it's a tricky tool either — all you need to get this very sophisticated content management system on your computer is a simple bookmark on your toolbar.
It's a dead easy way to keep hold of all the amazing content people like Christian produces on the fly. The sort of stuff that is valuable, but perhaps not valuable enough to spend some time post-trip sorting out.
And look at the current alternative. Lyse Doucet, for example, is perhaps one of the most underrated news tweeters out there.
In Egypt, her coverage using social networks was ground-breaking, at least among some of the stuffier BBC journalists who didn't give Twitter a second look until someone like Lyse showed how important it is.
But I can't be bothered to go and find you any examples of why Lyse is so good with the medium, because to do so would mean trawling through weeks and weeks of Twitter posts.
So, some of the best on-the-ground reporting from Tahrir Square is simply lost. Had Lyse adopted a Tumblr page, we wouldn't have this problem.
Christian isn't the only journalist making the most of Tumblr, by the way. Take a look at the Guardian's efforts. Impressive, no? More impressive are the individual pages, as demonstrated by Josh Halliday here.
When Twitter was first getting off the ground, a lot of us snapped up accounts early. But, not entirely sure what it was useful for, we'd then toddle off back to Facebook and MySpace before eventually deciding to give it another go a few months down the line. Indeed, I documented that return for myself here.
Like Twitter, Tumblr is slowly getting people giving it a second chance. Paul Bradshaw, notably, seems not to have regretted going back to the service after giving up first time around.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Kobe Bryant sat out both of the Los Angeles Lakers' practices on Friday with soreness in his right foot.
Bryant practiced on the Lakers' first four days of training camp, but skipped the morning session Friday. The Lakers expected him to practice in the evening session, but the superstar was held out after further evaluation.
The fifth-leading scorer in NBA history is beginning his 17th season with the Lakers. He is a five-time NBA champion and a 14-time All-Star.
The Lakers will practice at their training complex Saturday before travelling to Fresno, Calif., for their preseason opener Sunday against Golden State.
New centre Dwight Howard won't play in Fresno while recovering from off-season back surgery, but is participating in nearly every part of Los Angeles' camp practices.
It was Canada's night at the NBA Draft as four players from north of the border were selected.
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8. Nik Stauskas - Kings
18. Tyler Ennis - Suns
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I made this recipe for Thanksgiving last year, and it was delicious! The blend of flavors was fantastic, and I appreciated that it was something slightly different from the usual holiday sides. We're making it again this Thanksgiving!
Cipollini and Apples with Bacon
Photo: Randy Mayor; Styling: Cindy Barr
"The holidays are the only time I feel it's worth it to fool around with these tiny onions. They become really tender and brown, which pairs well with the slight crunch from the apples. And the browned onions and pink fruit look just lovely together and brighten up the table." --Tiffany Vickers Davis, Assistant Test Kitchen Director
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: about 3/4 cup)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 117
- Fat: 4.1g
- Saturated fat: 1.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.4g
- Protein: 1.7g
- Carbohydrate: 19.7g
- Fiber: 1.7g
- Cholesterol: 8mg
- Iron: 0.4mg
- Sodium: 237mg
- Calcium: 23mg
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 4 medium Gala apples, cored and cut into (1/4-inch-thick) wedges
- 2 slices applewood-smoked bacon, chopped
- 20 ounces small cipollini onions, peeled
- 1/3 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Thyme sprigs (optional)
- 1. Melt butter in a large, heavy skillet over high heat. Add apples to pan; cook 6 minutes or until edges are very brown, stirring frequently. Remove apples from pan; set aside. Reduce heat to medium. Add bacon to pan; cook 3 minutes or until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, reserving drippings; set bacon aside. Add onions to drippings in pan; cover and cook 8 minutes or until golden, stirring occasionally. Stir in chicken broth, vinegar, and thyme leaves; cook 7 minutes. Uncover; return apples to pan. Cook 3 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Stir in bacon, salt, and pepper. Garnish with thyme sprigs, if desired.
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Amy Winehouse Throws Down... At 'Cinderella' Production
Popeater.com: If a report in the Sun is accurate, notorious big-voiced bad girl Amy Winehouse could be looking at another assault charge for kicking a theater manager... at a children's pantomime production of 'Cinderella.' Sources claim that Winehouse was rowdy during the entire first act of the show, shouting profanities at a cast including Mickey Rooney. When staff tried to usher Winehouse to a private box, the singer allegedly attacked front-of-house manager Richard Pound, "pulling his hair, punching him and kicking him between the legs."Winehouse went to the show in support of her friend Anthony Kavanagh, a former MTV reality star acting as the understudy for Prince Charming. A backstage source told the Sun, "Anthony brought Amy to impress the cast with his showbiz connections. But it backfired badly."
The source said Winehouse behaved like "a demonic child," badly upsetting the kid-filled audience.
Apparently, Winehouse also worked her magic on the Fairy Godmother, played by British actress Anthea Turner. "She was so spaced out and told Anthea, 'I love you, Anthea, sticky-back plastic, I love you,'" the source said. "It got worse because Amy had a cut on her wrist and bled all over Anthea."
In a statement, Thames Valley Police confirmed that an incident occurred: "At around 9:05 p.m. on Saturday night officers were called to the Milton Keynes Theatre in Marlborough Gate, following reports that a 27-year-old man had been assaulted. No arrests have been made and the incident is being investigated."
"Amy was invited by a friend of hers starring in the show," a friend of the troubled singer told PEOPLE. "She wasn't arrested, and she hasn't been questioned by the police yet."
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'Nothing prompts you to realise your own insignificance upon the surface of an unfathomably enormous world quite like an Olympics, and with London silenced but for the frantic tapping of keys in largely futile, yet quietly confident hope (a hallmark of the British MO, one may say) of cumulating any old ticket we're well and truly under way. And, astonishingly, this land of juxtaposed pastures green and dark, satanic mills; of tawdry, exorbitant penthouses and clustered council housing appears to be doing OK under the scrutinising gaze of unified existence. Of course King's Cross is more of a mess than the FIGC and Olympic titans China and America have already amassed an unassailable lead in the mound of scintillating medal stakes although seeing the streets awash with Union Jack aflutter and experiencing all sporting enthusiasm united borders on becoming something veritably rousing.'
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Alleman's Dan Cutkomp and Rockridge's Dylan Daxon are linked by their love of golf.
So the friends talk often about the game. This fall, when parting, their goodbyes have been punctuated by positive thoughts.
"We always end by telling each other, `See you at state,''' Cutkomp said. "We're hoping to make dinner plans this weekend.''
The two high school seniors are among the 22 local individuals and 11 area teams teeing off today in boys' and girls' sectional action around Illinois, trying to reach this weekend's state golf meets.
Cutkomp is one of three Pioneers playing in Class 2A boys' action at the University of Illinois Orange Course in Champaign.
Daxon and his fellow Rockets are in 1A boys' play at Petersburg's Shambolee Golf Course.
There also are sectionals today involving local 3A boys, AA girls and Class A girls.
"It means a lot to get this far,'' said Cutkomp, a sectional qualifier all four of his years in high school.
"But it means more to me this year than last year, when I was alone, because I have teammates with me this time. I'm a senior and this is my last chance. We made state as a team when I was a freshman, and I've been trying to get back there since then.''
Daxon has played at state the last two seasons, tying for third last October.
But even though Daxon repeated as a regional champ last week, leading the Rockets to a school-record score and their first regional title, the senior knows a return to state today is not a given.
"It's a lot easier said than done,'' Daxon said. "We still have to play golf like I know we can.
"We have the potential to go to state without a problem if we go down to Petersburg and play better than we played there earlier this year. Another 326, I don't think, is going to get out. But I also know every single one of us can take five shots off our score.''
The trick is dealing with the sectional pressure, which mounts as a last-chance prospect for seniors such as Cutkomp, Daxon and Will Wallace, the top gun for Moline's team in 3A action at Pekin.
"We just have to play one shot at a time,'' said Wallace, a 3-time sectional qualifier looking for his first trip to state.
"I know it's a cliche, but it's wild how true it is. You can't let a bad hole or a bad shot get you down. I deal with (the pressure) by singing to myself on the course. I don't like to talk much to the competition. I like to stay in the zone. But I will talk when I'm trying to get over something bad and trying to refocus.''
Cutomp finally got that message, he said, helping Alleman to a state runner-up finish in baseball last spring.
"It's taken me three years to learn how to overcome the nervousness,'' Cutkomp said. "Baseball helps because it's a failure game, too. Something goes wrong? Keep fighting. Keep moving forward.''
And, maybe, we'll see you this weekend, Daxon would say.
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Prescott—The Final
This will be the last post of the year. I would like to thank each of you for reading this post and faithfully reading each of the others, because I know that you waited with anticipation for each and every post. Ok, even if you didn't, I'd still like to thank you even if you are only reading this post. It's finals week here at Southern, students are busy all over campus procrastinating or studying, and the rare few are able to balance both. Finals are designed to be cumulative; (except for the rare few professors who show mercy) these tests are designed to encompass everything learnt in class during the semester. I think it is only fitting to follow the trend and make this post cumulative of the past year.
Arriving at Southern, I was unsure of what to expect. I had heard great stories of fun and friends and horror stories of terrible experiences. I was uneasy going into a new situation, but I did it anyway. Thankfully, I had the help of a good buddy from camp. He knew the ins and outs of Southern and seemed to know everyone on campus which made meeting the first few friends pretty easy. I guess this would be the first lesson I learned and the first piece of advice I can share: network to find a friend who can help you out. The advice I received from my friend as well as the connections I made through him helped assure my success my first year of college. When you first get to college, if you don't already have one, find a friend that will act as your bridge into the college world.
In my Greek class this year, we would learn a new concept and then the next week we'd build off the old concept in order to teach a new one. In this same way I felt I built my friend group. The friend group played a tremendously huge role this year. No man is an island and this year especially I felt I was rocked by the waves of troubles. My friend group helped me through, and without them I think I might have been washed away. This would be the second lesson and piece of advice I can give: build a strong network of friends and appreciate them. I found when I was sick in bed unable to get up to eat my friends would bring me food and make sure I was taken care of. Find friends like these, they will watch out for you and save you from a whole lot of trouble, they will help you when you are in trouble, and then rebuke you because you got in trouble. These friends are priceless.
School is can be tough sometimes because of the workload and the stress. Take time to relax! Stress is great and can be a very positive motivator to get things, like school work done, but make sure each day you have time to relax and do something fun. Those who don't relax go crazy. The key is to balance the time spent relaxing with the time spent working. A good balance will go a long way. Thankfully, this was one skill I had picked up before college, but it definitely has served me well here.
I've learned an incredible amount in this one year and I don't feel I can quite do the knowledge justice by trying to summarize in a short blog post, I wish I had more time to share but I don't. I guess this "final review" has come to an end. In this last blog post, I've shared what I feel will help and I hope that it does. I would like to wish each one reading this congratulations on finishing the school year, a warm welcome for those coming next school year, and a hearty thank you to all who have shared an amazing year with me at Southern Adventist University.


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