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The definitive memoir by legendary actress and performer Debbie Reynolds that offers a unique and deeply personal perspective on Hollywood and its elite, from the glory days of MGM to the present.
Unsinkable shines a spotlight on the resilient woman whose talent and passion for her work have endured for more than six decades. In her engaging, down-to-earth voice, Debbie shares private details about her man and money troubles, and invites us into the close circle of her family life. She looks back at her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age including her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, recalls stories that never reached the tabloids about celebrities like Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, and Gene Kelly, and also takes us on a guided tour through each of her movies with behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
Frank and forthright, Unsinkable is a revealing portrait of a woman whose determination is an inspiration.

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Progress Lighting P4280-20 Antique Bronze Madison Three-Light Single-Tier Chandelier with Reversible Arms and Etched White Glass Shades
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With a timeless, uncomplicated sensibility, the Madison collection offers lighting versatility through its reversible chandeliers, brackets and other fixtures that possess the ability to cast light up or down with the same fixture, according to need. Etched glass enhances a variety of finishes: modern Brushed Nickel, classic Antique Bronze or Satin Brass, and a European inspired Cobblestone.
- Can be mounted in up or down position
- Etched glass shades
- Includes 6 feet of chain
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- Depth: 22"
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The only way you actually make this chandelier shorter is to shorten the length of the chain.
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The Progress Lighting P4280 should work fine for that application. The diameter of the fixture is only 22".
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Can the arms be reversed after installation?
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Presidential Candidates Face Off Tonight in First Debate
DENVER (AP) – Offering deficit-cutting ideas before his first debate with President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney says he might be willing to reduce income tax deductions used by millions of families for home mortgage interest and health care costs.
He suggested the changes could be part of a plan that includes a 20-percent cut in tax rates across the board, continuation of upper income tax cuts that Obama wants to end and a comprehensive tax overhaul plan that the Republican presidential contender has so far declined to flesh out in detail. Romney says his overall plans would invigorate the still-faltering U.S. economy.
Both Romney and Obama spent their time mostly in private on Tuesday, preparing for the debate, the president in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas, Romney already in Denver where the faceoff will take place at 9 p.m. today. Neither held public campaign events, but Obama took a break from preparation to visit nearby Hoover Dam, and Romney picked up lunch at a Chipotle Mexican Grill near his hotel.
In an interview Monday night, Romney said, "As an option you could say everybody's going to get up to a $17,000 deduction. And you could use your charitable deduction, your home mortgage deduction, or others – your health care deduction, and you can fill that bucket, if you will, that $17,000 bucket that way. And higher-income people might have a lower number."
A Romney adviser said changes in other areas – a taxpayer's personal exemption and the deduction or credit for health care – would also be taken into account if deductions were limited as Romney suggested. Combining changes to those two areas with the limit on deductions would maintain Romney's goal of keeping tax burdens the same for wealthy and middle income taxpayers, the adviser said.
On another subject, in a separate local interview ahead of the debate, Romney said he would honor the temporary permission the Obama administration has granted to many young illegal immigrants to allow them to stay in the country.
Obama announced in June that he would prevent deportation for some children brought to the United States by illegal immigrant parents. Applicants must not have a serious criminal record and must meet other requirements, such as graduating from high school or serving in the U.S. military.
Romney had previously refused to say whether he would retain the policy if he won the election.
He granted the interviews as he and Obama looked ahead to the debate, the first of three they will hold before Election Day.
Away from Denver, the campaign pressed ahead Tuesday in ads, in courts and in local election officials' offices across the states.
The Romney-supporting independent group Crossroads GPS launched an $11 million, 10-day ad campaign in eight swing states. Its new ad criticizes Obama's assertion that unemployment would fall if Congress passed his proposed stimulus law. The national unemployment rate still stands above 8 percent.
No president since World War II has won re-election with the unemployment rate above 7.2 percent.


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A douchebitch is a girl who acts like a douchebag. That girl that you see/know and the first word that comes to mind when you think of her is "douchy". She is like the bitch who is not just a bitch but she actually thinks she is cool and that people like her. Main problem here is that she is oblivious to the fact that she is a complete douche and girls and guys alike find her annoying and hope she doesn't come to parties/outings and annoy people. She is a girl we have to tell people about before they meet her. When they do they are like "oooooh yeah ok that girl! Yup I totally know what you mean!"
Wow, that girl (insert name here) is such a douchebitch. Tonight she actually thought the shit she was saying about other people was funny. She even made a joke about fat people and said racist shit to my (some culture) roommate and thought is was okay. Not to mention the fact that she spent the whole night texting 8 different guys then talked crap about all of them to everyone. She fucked them all already and had three of them come to the party. She also told me we are lucky she came to our party because she is so busy and barely had time yet she drank all our alcohol and stayed all night. She's on the couch with two dudes with her shoes on, passed out with her boobs out. Oh wait no the dudes are leaving now. What a fuckin douchebitch.
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The feminine form of douchebag. Used to describe someone who embodies the highest form of idiocy while also maintaining elevated levels of cuntishness. A person who sucks. May also apply to males who have transcended mere douchebaggery by whining, throwing tantrums, or lacking in manhood so much that their testicles have actually inverted, travelled upwards into the body cavity, and become ovaries.
Just drive through the Hamptons or Beverly Hills. You'll find plenty.
Ex: That newscaster on My13 News at 11 is such a douchebitch...
Ex: That newscaster on My13 News at 11 is such a douchebitch...
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A person who you hate A LOT. Worse than calling them a douche bag. This person is majorly annoying and they have somehow pissed you off to the fullest extreme ever possible.
Kevin, my ex, is such a douche bitch! He seriously fucked my sister last weekend!
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noun: a Tom Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
a person who fits the definition of a Douch Bag and a Bitch
a person who fits the definition of a Douch Bag and a Bitch
Tom Buchanan from "The Great Gatsby" is a douche bitch
by Veggies<3 December 12, 2008
A girl that seems to have no brains whatsoever, but still knows how to be rude and tactless.
-"Why can't your sister just be nice and do what we ask of her?"
-"Man, she's just too much of a douchebitch!"
-"Man, she's just too much of a douchebitch!"
by pirate89RAWR August 19, 2009
A person who is acting like both a douche bag and a bitch at the same time; a stupid asshole.
Did John just call Cathy a Douche Bitch?
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One who wears sunglasses indoors, in the rain, at night, and/or in the club.
Aubrey is such a douche-bitch when wears her stunna shades in the club to hide her fucked up eyebrows.
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KILLEEN (October 29, 2012)--Jackson Huang emigrated from Taiwan to Killeen in the 1970s and has spent the past few decades dedicated to the Fort Hood community and honoring military heroes by covering his restaurant walls with photos of them.
"I am very, very happy, so I do it for them," Huang said.
Huang's sister and her husband, who was stationed at Fort Hood, sponsored him and his wife to move to Killeen in 1977.
Huang's first job in America was cooking for the Fort Hood Officer's club.
Then, in 1981, with the help of Killeen civic leaders T. J. Mills and Bernie Beck, he opened Taiwan Dragon in downtown Killeen.
The restaurant quickly became a local favorite, especially with members of the Fort Hood community.
Huang's mentor and friend Ann Farris admires Huang's dedication.
"How unlikely is it that someone came from Taiwan without a penny in his pocket, created a success story for himself and a way to make a living for his family and send all the family members to college based on his respect for the American soldier?"
Farris also said Huang wants to show our military men and women how much he respects them and the difference they make for the world.
To this day, many visiting officers eat at Taiwan Dragon.
When officers get promotions, Huang helps them celebrate with a cake on the house and photos he takes to hang up later.
He also gives them copies.
Even when the restaurant, along with the walls adorned with pictures, burned down in 2008, Huang continued to be dedicated to his passion of serving the Fort Hood community.
Thanks to a general wife's encouragement, Huang rebuilt the restaurant and his photo collection.
It took about a year to gather all those photos again, but Huang said he had no choice.
"It's not about the food, it's about the experience," Farris said.
"You're in this place that the walls speak."
Although Huang does not know how many photos he has, he said he has spent much of his time photographing, framing and hanging up the photos of present and past Army leaders and Fort Hood commanders according to rankings and divisions.
Huang's dedication to Fort Hood earned him the honor of being named a "Fort Hood Good Neighbor."


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Q&A is a series on the Business Intelligence from the Swamp Blog that interviews key members of the Pentaho team to learn more about their focus at Pentaho and outlook on the Business Intelligence industry.
You may be familiar with our interviewee today from reading his blogs on BI from the Swamp or watching a demo on the Pentaho Evaluation Sandbox. If you are a customer, there is a very good chance you have met him virtually or in person. Michael Tarallo is the Director of Sales Engineering and our feature today on Q&A. To learn more about Mike and his role at Pentaho we asked him 5 questions.
1. What brought you to Pentaho?
It was spring of 2007 and after about 9+ years at Information Builders (IBI), a proprietary Business Intelligence company, I felt I achieved all that I could and decided to "find new cheese". Around the time I was promoted to Senior Sales Engineer at IBI, a recruiter approached me speaking in tongues of this "thing" called "Open Source Business Intelligence." I remember thinking, "Sheesh, I am having a hard enough time selling this expensive proprietary stuff, how the heck am I going to sell Open Source since it's already free?" However, after a thorough investigation, I decided to leave my comfortable position at IBI for a company that was new and exciting called Pentaho.
When I finally learned that Open Source is not about "free" software but more about community, collaboration and better software, I was immediately enlightened and couldn't wait to get started. I distinctly remember the Sales Manager at IBI, attempting to put fear in my head, "Ya know Mike, the grass isn't always greener." Well, sir 4 Years later, not only is the grass greener, but it is thicker and fuller than ever. Remember, comfort is the enemy of achievement – (Dr. Farrah Gray)
2. What do you do?
I am the Director of Sales Engineering, responsible for leading the Sales Engineers and pre-sales activities within the organization. I started 4 years ago as the first Pentaho Sales Consultant (SC), responsible for Pre-Sales activities. There are technical and consulting related activities that occur during the sales cycle, before the actual sale hence Pre-Sales. Pentaho was still fairly new at the time and either sales team members or Product Management performed many product demonstrations. As the company grew it became increasingly important to a build a group that would focus support on the sales team as its pre-sales activities increased. My initial goal was to introduce pre-sales processes, create collateral and demonstrations that focused on "solutions" for business problems, rather than demonstrate a bunch of "tools".
As the Pentaho Sales and Pre-Sales teams grew worldwide, there was a huge demand on Sales Engineer (SE) resources. With the continued growth of the company and finally a larger team of SEs – I was promoted to Director of Sales Engineering in order to lead and proliferate those processes throughout our group.
3. Why are Sales Engineers a vital part of the success of a sales cycle?
Sales Engineers are the stage performers of the IT world: immensely capable, adaptable, confident, excellent communicators who are equally cool in front of large crowds and intimate groups. Sales Engineers work closely with Pentaho Account Managers to demonstrate the breadth and depth of Pentaho products as a complete solution.
Sales Engineering provides what I call the "Solution Vision" to the prospect who is evaluating our software. We present the "Art of the Possible" by demonstrating and discussing how Pentaho software fits in the context of their landscape. At all costs we try to stay away from generic demonstrations, but sometimes you have to play the game. And when we do play, we play hard. Let's face it; there are a lot of software packages that can "do" the same thing. Sales Engineering provides that 2% factor by establishing a relationship with the prospect and making them feel comfortable that the Pentaho solution can meet their specific needs. Without Sales Engineering, a crucial piece of the sales process would be missing.
4. What makes a good Sales Engineer (SE)?
There are a number of facets that make a good SE, good. But, there are key factors that make a good SE, great. Some of these characteristics are learned over time, and some are just part of one's personality and are difficult to master. Aside from technical expertise, one important quality of a great SE is, communication. Learning not only how to communicate with the prospect but also with the account rep and other members of the SE team.
Every person, whether prospect or rep, is different. The key is being able to listen to what is being said and also what is not being said. This is important so the appropriate persuasive questions can be asked and proper expectations can be set.
Once communication skills are honed a SE should be able to translate the product's technical software capabilities into the suitable business value to the prospect. There is nothing worse than demonstrating software to a company who has no idea why you just showed it to them.
I feel that an SE also needs to establish themselves as a leader in his/her domain. If your technical strength lies in some sort of application development you may want to focus your talents in the OEM group – where it is more about embedding and integrating the software into the prospect's applications. If you are able to articulate the business value better or provide subject matter expertise you can specialize in creating vertical demonstrations and collateral relevant to the sectors you are working with.
Finally….energy, lots of energy, enough said.
5. What does the "Pre" in Pre-Sales stand for?
Doing a demonstration without knowing anything is called a "show up and throw up." Hoping you know what a prospect wants is not good enough. It is critical to know their exact needs and how to best demonstrate our capabilities. I prefer to think of the "Pre" to stand for: P-prepare, R-respond, E-execute. Those actions will make for shorter sales cycles, proper customer expectations and increased sales.
Want to see what Mike is up to now?
- Read his blog Business Intelligence in the heads of people
- Follow him on Twitter @mtarallo
- Check out the latest wealth of resources on the Pentaho Evaluation Sandbox
Do you have additional questions for Mike? Is there someone or a certain role at Pentaho you would like us to interview? Leave your questions in the comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.


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WAAF will be at the Northeast Motorcycle Expo at the Seaport World Trade Center on Sunday, January 12th. Join us from noon-2p for you chance to win great prizes like ski tickets! The Seaport World Trade Center is located at 200 Seaport Blvd., Boston MA.


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22 More Rules of the Super Bowl Party
This is the Journal's second annual Super Bowl Party Rules column, which I guess makes it Super Bowl Party Rules 2, which sounds like a terrible movie starring Ryan Reynolds. You can see why the NFL loves to spiff up its Super Bowl with fancy-pants Roman numerals. They make everything seem so portentous and classy! Today I ate XIV mini-donuts and CCXXXI French Fries. See? I am Spartacus, reading the New Yorker.
Let's not pretend you are going to blow off the Super Bowl. Every year there are some lying liar-liars who claim to be uninterested in the game and planning on going to the gym or painting pottery or reciting Chaucer by a whale oil lamp, but this is the Great American TV Ritual, and it cannot be resisted. Don't try to be above it all. You are eating greasy food with your greasy fingers and sitting in front of the television for four hours and you will like it. Or else.
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This year's Super Bowl features two excellent teams: the Boise Houndstooth and the Evanston River Kittens. Or maybe it's the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. It will be on TV, so you will need access to a TV, or at least stand at the window of a Best Buy BBY 0.24 % and hope you don't get arrested. But you should watch it in a group. Please. Nothing's sadder than a Super Bowl Party for One. So call some friends. Rent some friends. eBay EBAY -0.56 % some friends! And please follow these Super Bowl Party Rules:
1. A Super Bowl Party is just a bunch of smart-alecks making pithy wisecracks about a mass cultural event. It's like Twitter, but with people.
2.Before the game, go around the room and ask everybody who they think is going to win. The person who says "Argo!" is going to totally win the Super Bowl pool.
3. A Super Bowl Party is casual. There's no dress code. Well…pants. You should at least wear pants. Can we just agree on pants? Please. Pants.
4. It is now illegal in 37 states to run out of guacamole in the first quarter.
5. If you're ordering pizza for your Super Bowl Party, don't get bogged down by the "pizza math." One pie per person. Eight people, eight pies. This was in ninth-grade algebra. Look it up.
6.If you are grilling burgers outside in the cold, don't act like you're landing a spaceship on Jupiter. You're just grilling burgers outside in the cold, man. It's not that amazing.
7. A good Super Bowl prank is to show up with big bowl of kale salad and yell, 'WHO'S READY FOR SOME KALE SALAAAADDD!!!"
8. Somebody at your Super Bowl Party will have not been to a Super Bowl Party since the late 80s. And they will see the 49ers on the TV and exclaim, "This team is still in this game? Where is that Jed Idaho or Jeff Montana or whatever?"
9. There will be someone at your Super Bowl party who doesn't know the story of the Manti Te'o Hoax. This will take between two and seven hours to explain, and they will still be thoroughly confused.
10. Chili, not soup. Never soup. There once was a man who served soup at his Super Bowl Party, and he was never visited by his friends or family again.
11. To the person who says, "Turn up the volume, I want to hear what the announcers are saying!" Let me tell you what the announcers are saying: They are saying the exact same stuff your Uncle Billy is saying, and he's had four bourbons.
12. Ninety percent of Super Bowl commercials now have talking animals. And the Super Bowl commercials that don't have talking animals would be vastly better with talking animals.
13. A Super Bowl Party host is always super-proud of putting a TV in the bathroom. The host has three kids, all of them honor students, and is more proud of the TV in the bathroom. The host is on the cover of Time magazine. Still: more proud of the TV in the bathroom.
14. Beyoncé is doing the Super Bowl halftime show. And no matter what your conspiracy-theory loving Aunt Betsy is saying, Beyoncé is actually in New Orleans. This halftime show wasn't prerecorded in an abandoned warehouse in Columbus, Ohio, in 2009.
15. Phil Simms is so obviously lip-syncing, though.
16. You don't need a Super Bowl to remind you that New Orleans is awesome. New Orleans is also awesome 101% of the time.
17. Somewhere, an angry Bill Belichick is watching this Super Bowl while sitting on a chair made of concrete blocks.
18. Tom Brady and Gisele aren't watching the Super Bowl. Are you kidding? They're in the Caribbean, racing each other on French-speaking dolphins they bought for $12 million each.
19. If your TV breaks down midway through the game, a little-known Super Bowl trick is that you can dial CBS's Jim Nantz on a landline and he will personally narrate the Super Bowl to you on the phone for 15 cents a minute. Fact.
20. There's also going to be someone at your Super Bowl Party who says, with three minutes left in the game, "WAIT, the head coaches of the Ravens and Niners are BROTHERS? That's INCREDIBLE! Why didn't someone tell me?"
21.Who wants to change the channel to "Downton Abbey" at 9 p.m.? Everybody who does, make a secret hand signal. Whoa, that's everybody. "Downton Abbey" it is.
22.You're going to find chicken wings in your couch cushions in August. Sorry. It wasn't me.
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Marvel Comics vs. Science: 5 of the Most Absurd Superhero Origins
The Punisher
Origin Story: Vietnam veteran Frank Castle puts his past as a killing machine Green Beret behind him, taking his wife and two kids on a delightful picnic in New York's Central Park. Their pleasant family times are interrupted by mafia gang war shenanigans (the worst kind), which spill out of the woods and onto their picnic blanket and cold chicken legs.
Frank's wife and kids are riddled with so many bullets that, even if they'd somehow managed to survive their 748,092 gunshot wounds, they'd most likely have died of lead poisoning. Frank's a little bitter about all of this.
Comic Book Consequences: Frank realizes that superheroes might be helpful in some cases (fighting super villains, rescuing kittens, ensuring $100 million four-day domestic box office grosses), but in two other areas are woefully inefficient: keeping mafia-related gun battles out of our nation's public parks, and mending a broken heart. Unable to repair the second problem but positively brimming with ideas about how to fix the first, Frank draws a white skull on some body armor, gets himself a fuck-ton of guns and paints the town scarlet with mobster blood.
What Would Have Happened in Real Life: Frank engages in a costly lawsuit with the city of New York, hoping to net $15 million for their negligence in failing to prevent mobster gunplay in public recreation areas. The city eventually wins the case on a technicality, since Frank had been picnicking in a non-sanctioned picnic area, and the bullet-ridden remains of his family technically counted as litter.
A Second Possibility: Furious that his family's murder has gone unpunished, Frank paints a white skull on some body armor, walks out onto the street holding guns, and shoots the first criminals he sees. He is promptly apprehended and incarcerated for murder, as his attention-grabbing costuming choice made him fairly easy to spot during his post-shooting spree getaway.
Frank Castle serves five consecutive life sentences without possibility for parole. He is briefly considered a vigilante hero during the Reagan era, when New York crime becomes a hot-button issue, but after Giuliani's term he fades into obscurity. He is currently interested in female pen pals looking for friendship ("...and then who knows?").


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I'm running a Windows XP desktop in a corporate environment. How can I find out what AD groups I belong to?
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Try running gpresult /V from the command line as an administrator on the computer. It should output something like this:
This should not only list security groups but distribution groups, if I recall correctly (and which might also be useful to know). Also takes care of nesting, ie you are in group A which is in B, so it shows you as also in B (again I am trying to recall the details here).
In Vista and Win7 natively, for XP you probably need the sp2 support tools (which would also require that you have sufficient priviledges to install them of course). http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=49AE8576-9BB9-4126-9761-BA8011FABF38&displaylang=en
I think you can write in a cmd window:
It works at least for me here.
Start - Run - CMD - GPRESULT /r is sufficient -> you don't need to display the full "/v" to visualize group belongings as a client-user as far as AD is concerned (under Windows 7 for sure, but I'm not sure about winxp)
If you don't have access to AD:
Start - Run - CMD - GPRESULT /v
You will see at the end: The user is part of the following security groups
If you're looking for speed then gpresult is s l o w...especially if there are a lot of GPO's applied.
Just run one of the following, one is for local group and the other is for domain groups:-
Local - 'c:\windows\system32\net.exe localgroup' + 'name of group to check'
Domain - 'c:\windows\system32\net.exe group /domain' + 'name of group to check'
Then parse the output for the username you are looking for as the result will list of the users in that group. Hope this helps.


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Those with Down Syndrome and their families will now have a place to learn, and have fun in their new Buddy House.
It began when a few parents of children with Down Syndrome noticed a similar program while at the Special Olympics in Louisville.
"Five years ago, the dream began, and we never realized in five years we would be in this building," said Buddy House Director and parent Jane Tichenor.
Tichenor says the community and contractors working under budget made this possible.
"When they found out what it was for and what we were doing here, the generosity and hearts of people opened up for us," said Tichenor.
One group of WKU students participating in a project called $100 Solutions helped decorate the Big Red room for educating older participants.
"It's intended to teach students they can make a world of difference with only a hundred dollars," said $100 Solutions Member Micah McClendon.
The students decorated the room for just $35 and plan to spend the rest on books and other supplies for the room.
""It'll be a good hangout," said Buddy House participant John Michael Huffman.
When asked if she was excited about the new building, Buddy House participant Kate Tichenor said "Yes mam!"
Tichenor says people with Down Syndrome are capapble of so much more than many once believed.
"I think we have a testament with the people right here in Bowling Green with all the things and accomplishments those with Down Syndrome have accomplished," said Tichenor.
Those accomplishments are something Tichenor hopes will build as the program reaches more families with it's home.
The program will have an awareness night at Bowling Green Ballpark on Aug. 24. They will host their annual Buddy Walk on September 14. Tichenor says it's funds from events like these that help pay for the Buddy House.
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What is the difference between video and grabación? In other words, what types of "videos" does each describe? Which of the two would best describe a video recorded using a home video recorder or digital camera?
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To me, there's mostly a one to one relation between vídeo in Spanish and video in English, and between grabación and recording.
That said, video can also mean video cassette recorder, or video cassette.
They are similar, but are used in different ways:
Usually translates to just 'video', though it has other meanings.
It can be translated to recording, and it means:
So they have similar meanings, but for vídeo the most common is the concept of a video, and for grabación it's the act of recording a vídeo.
From RAE.es Vídeo and Grabacíon (sorry for the weird links, it's hard to link to words with accents).
A 'grabación' is best used for non-professional video recording. 'Vídeos' is used for any kind of visual media, usually for short formats.
If you refer to a short format like a youtube video or a video taken with the phone you will say 'vídeo'. But we usually say 'vídeo' if the video is in VHS or BETA format. Those video magnetic cases are named 'vídeos'.
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By Cannabis Magazine
And so for a few days Barcelona will become the Cannabis Capital of the world thanks to the 8th annual celebration of Spannabis, from the 25th to 27th of Febuary 2011.
Cornellá's convention center will once again host what has become the world's largest fair in the hemp sector. With a little over 8,000 m2 and over 150 exhibitioners, you can see and try a wide range of products, ranging from industrial hemp to materials for cultivating, various paraphernalia and of course the world's best known seed banks. We will also be in the presence of associations and various professionals of the cannabis world, making Spannabis an excellent place to meet people and network.
Additionally we look forward to celebrating another year of the Cannabis Champions Cup, by far the most aromatic award out there despite all attempts to tarnish its image.
This time around we hope to surpass the high records of attendance last year, which reached over 18,000 people in a three day period. DJ's with all the best music and people in costumes parading through the isles will be present to add an extra element to the atmosphere.
We look forward to seeing all of you at what will be the Greatest Cannabis Event in the World.
Ice D-Sign prepared seed-packaging and trade show materials for this event, and is attending the Spannabis fair with Barney's Farm.


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Can Sencha please release the fix for:
I understand that this is fixed for paying customers in 2.2.6, and that the rest of us have to wait until v2.3.0 is released.
This bug makes our application (Gradebook2 Sakai Foundation) almost unusable.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Our application specific JIRA where we track this is:
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I'm using gxt 2.2.5 and there is a solution:
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) { .x-grid3-row td.x-grid3-cell { box-sizing: border-box; } }
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Hi skyrosbit,
I tried with your solution, and added
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However, I got an warning message
: encountered "and". Was expecting one of: "{" ","
Do I make any mistake?
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after google, I added the code in my jsp file, between <style></style>
but still not work...
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I have similar situation ....
To find the solutions I have created a separate Web application with the Grid component, in which I managed to fix the bug.
But when I moved the СSS-trick to a real project, cleared all cache, it still did not work.
But I found that the problem was in unneccessary *.layout() method call for a container (not grid, but the parent container). So I removed this call and it works now.


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Ben Barnes, artistic director of the Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Ireland), discusses Irish drama in the 20th century—part of a celebration of the Abbey's 100th anniversary.
This year, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, is being celebrated by performances, discussions, and lectures on three continents. All programs illuminate the rich diversity, range, and depth of the Abbey's repertoire and new works.
As part of this year-long celebration, Abbey artistic director Ben Barnes visits the Wexner Center to talk about Irish drama in the 20th century and the future of the Abbey Theatre. During his four-year tenure as artistic director, Barnes focused on developing a stronger European and international dimension in the Abbey's work and supported the development and presentation of new work. He has directed theater and opera extensively in Ireland and throughout the world.
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October 18-24, 2011
URUGUAY FILM FEST is a weeklong, non-profit and non-competitive film exhibition, presented by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University. The festival will premiere a selection of feature films, documentaries, shorts and animated films from Uruguay. Most of the films are New York/US premieres.
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Join Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy and Actus Software, and Andrew Brust, Founder/CEO of Blue Badge Insights, as they discuss their perceptions from the Build 2011 Conference. Andrew currently helps customers and partners of Microsoft understand how to strategically work with the Microsoft stack from a business perspective. Andrew also sits on the Business Intelligence Partner Advisory Council helping to guide Microsoft in the BI Platform with realistic market feedback. With the coming release of Windows 8, there will be a real importance placed on the enterprise side of the business along with the developer side. A big key with this launch will be the ability to work with one tablet device for all enterprise projects (dashboards, etc.). This is a great interview to catch to get a feel for what's coming with Windows 8!
Andrew Brust is Founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights, an analysis, strategy and advisory firm serving Microsoft customers and partners. Brust is also a member of Microsoft's BI Partner Advisory Council; co-author of "Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008" (Microsoft Press, 2008); a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP; an advisor to the New York Technology Council; and a frequent speaker at industry events. Brust pens the "Redmond Review" column and writes the "Redmond Diary" blog for Visual Studio Magazine and Redmond Developer News. He's been a participant in the Microsoft ecosystem for nearly 20 years, and has worked closely with both Microsoft's Redmond-based corporate team and its field organization for more than a decade. Brust is also a member of several Microsoft "insiders" groups that supply him with insight around numerous technologies out of Redmond.
Tim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI)- Touch, Gesture, and Neural, in Rich Client Technologies on a broad spectrum of devices
Tim has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press. Tim has been awarded many times for the highest rated technical presentations and keynotes for Microsoft and many other technology conferences around the world. Tim has been on stage with, and done numerous keynote demos for many Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
Tim founded InterKnowlogy, a custom application development company, in 1999 and Actus Interactive Software in 2011 and has over 30 years of experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.
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(Today we're digging into our past and bringing back some of our favorite Superbowl Sunday posts. Here's one by Erik Davis, originally posted in 2008.)
This particular Cinematical Seven took awhile to sort out. First, I needed to decide whether I would focus solely on women who play sports in film or if I should open it up to women who play sports and/or appear in sports films. As you can see from the photo above, I went with the latter. Then I needed to decide whether I would only select drop-dead gorgeous women, or if there was room for the girl next door in the list as well. I'm sure you sympathize with the tough choices I had to make this afternoon. Anyway, in honor of Superbowl Sunday (Go Colts/Saints!), here are my picks for the hottest sports girls on film (a title which took me all of about an hour to come up with -- after all, there are so many different ways to write it):
Kelly Preston as Avery Bishop in Jerry Maguire -- She's harsh, she's intimidating and she doesn't exactly use those legs to kick a long field goal. Before Jerry (Tom Cruise) had his moral epiphany and wound up wooing the adorable Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), he was attached at the hip to the cunning, yet super sexy Avery. She'd come a long way from Space Camp, and after watching Jerry Maguire, I was extremely jealous that John Travolta got to spend every boot camp with this gal.
Kathy Ireland as Lucy Draper in Necessary Roughness -- Unlike Preston, supermodel Kathy Ireland did kick the long field goals in this fairly funny comedy from 1991. When a rag-tag group of misfit football players (led by an aging Scott Bakula) are in desperate need of a replacement kicker, Ireland is brought in to kick ass. And she does. Though, unfortunately for us and them, she doesn't shower with the rest of the team.
Ali Larter as Darcy Sears in Varsity Blues -- When her boyfriend (the star quarterback) gets injured, this needy cheerleader latches on to the replacement QB (James Van Der Beek) and attempts to seduce him by inviting the dude to her house, then undressing in the back room before walking out naked, with her private areas covered up by whip cream. Dare I say this was, by far, the best part of the entire movie. Van Der Beek, however, turned her down in order to shack up with a boring Amy Smart. Men everywhere wanted to punch him ... hard.
Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy in Bull Durham -- Regarded as one of the best reviewed sports films of all time, Bull Durham had it all: sports, romance, comedy, sports and a sexy baseball groupie played by Susan Sarandon. Kevin Costner plays a veteran catcher who's sent to the minor leagues to help a rookie pitcher (Tim Robbins) with his game. Sarandon's Savoy seduces both men, and does a damn good job. Who can forget that poster of Sarandon sitting on a car with her arm around Costner -- her white shirt falling off her shoulder; that brown curly hair drifting off along with the sunset. In real life, however, Sarandon wound up marrying the other guy. Oh well.
Talia Shire as Adrianna Pennino in Rocky -- When we first meet Adrian, she's this dorky little girl with glasses. But throughout the film, as her relationship with Rocky progresses, she grows stronger; more aware of who she is and what she wants. That, to me, is very attractive -- and over the course of the next four Rocky films, she'll grow even more, losing the glasses, letting down her hair. By Rocky V, Adrian's a fox! Though, in my mind, she always was.
Cindy Morgan as Lacey Underall in Caddyshack -- If the theme of this post is seduction, then the scene in which Lacey attempts to seduce Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) in Caddyshack has to go down as one of the hottest, most hilarious seduction scenes in the history of film. As she stands there, looking all hot and bothered, Lacey goes, "Would you like to tie me up with some of your ties, Ty?" Her role in the film isn't too large, but how you can talk about Caddyshack and not mention Lacey?
Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty and Tracy Reiner as Dottie, Mae, Kit and Betty in A League of Their Own -- I honestly tried to choose just one gal from this film, but all four of these ladies looked wonderful in this cute and cuddly dramedy from 1992. While all the men are off to war, two sisters join a women's professional baseball team with a washed-up, drunken coach (Tom Hanks) who couldn't care less about anything. Eventually, the girls come together, get dirty and learn the true meaning of friendship. There's not a whole lot of skin, but damn it if these girls didn't look damn fine in an old school uniform. And in my opinion, there's nothing sexier than a girl who knows how to slide head first into home.
For more, check out Moviefone's choices for the 25 best sports movies of all time.


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Nottingham Forest have sacked their manager Sean O'Driscoll despite beating Leeds 4-2 today!
It appears that the clubs owner wants to change of coach for someone with Premier League experience!
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"Infertile"; "fruitless"? How would you describe such a woman in an informal talk to your friend?
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I wouldn't use a particular word, I'd just say, "She can't have a baby."
Historically, a woman with such a condition was considered to be barren, but that word is not used much today (although it is nevertheless likely to be understood). Nowadays, one would probably say she is "seeing a fertility counselor" or some such circumlocution, and people would infer the rest.
I have always used the word barren, although that word is a bit antiquated.
For some, the word barren may carry a negative connotation. For instance, when the word is used in the Bible it's written as if it was a curse. There are Biblical stories of women who were barren but then were blessed by God and were able to conceive. Consequently, someone who is Jewish/Christian/Muslim might find that particular word a bit insensitive, as it seemingly implies they are cursed.
Perhaps the best way to avoid any potential embarrassment is to state the facts plainly, as in, "She is unable to conceive." Even though most people will understand your intent, I'm not a fan of saying, "She cannot have a baby," because that can be taken literally to mean that she is not fit to mother. Just because someone cannot conceive does not mean they cannot have a child through alternative means, such as adoption or surrogacy.
Joke answers: unbearable, impregnable, inconceivable (maybe that doesn't mean what I think it means...)
In an informal setting, a woman who has passed menopause may describe herself as "dried up" even if she's had many children.
The joke was not meant to provide answers, but a funny lesson on the complexity of the English language - not that other languages aren't complex. Many lessons are best illustrated through humor - although the underlying lessons of that message can be missed entirely. Thanks for the go-around here; I was able to give my daughter a lesson in the fun and folly of language.
I personally would say "she was not able to have children", and if that is too difficult just don't bring it up.
I liked the "euphemism treadmill" concept - very illustrative of the situation - I often get dinged for using the words ignorant, or deception as being negative although I find few ways of expressing the same meaning, and both can be positive or neutral when used that way...


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If ℝ# exists then why is cof(θL(ℝ)) = ω? Also I have the same question for the L(Vλ+1) generalization (if it's actually a different proof; I presume it isn't), i.e. if θ is defined as the sup of the surjections in L(Vλ+1) of Vλ+1 onto an ordinal, then if Vλ+1# exists why is cof(θL(Vλ+1)) = ω?
This is because the pieces of the sharp singularize Theta. Let s_n be the sequence of the first n cardinals above continuum and let a_n be the nth cardinal above continuum. Then the theory of reals with a parameter s_n in L_{a_n+1}(R) is a set of reals A_n. They are Wadge cofinal in Theta, another words the sequence is not in L(R) but each A_n is and that is why you get a singularization.
Scott, the best way to think of sharps is via mice. Think of x^# as a mouse over x with one measure which is iterable. R^# is a mouse over R with one measure which is iterable. Things become very easy ones you make the move from sharps as reals or sets of reals or etc to sharps as mice.


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What happens to your Twitter account when you die? Is it deleted after a certain period? Should your friends or relatives inform Twitter that you are dead?
I have found the answer on the page of Twitter Help Center:
I've got an inactive Twitter account, and the pattern is the same as for inactive FaceBook accounts. After about a month or so of inactivity you get an email with the text:
And I will expect to get more emails on the same lines.
Obviously at some point Twitter may consider deleting inactive accounts. But given that that would mean suddenly announcing that they have millions fewer users than they had previously announced I doubt they will do it except in a dire financial emergency.
It stays open, unless Twitter decides to delete inactive accounts after a certain point. I can't see any harm in it staying open.


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The 5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in the History of Fanfiction
When traveling in the vast, anonymous, lawless expanse known as the Internet, it's a given that you're going to run into some weird shit. Maybe none of it is weirder than the world of erotic fanfiction.
This is where fans lovingly write up tales of, say, Legolas and Gimli going at it, in excruciating detail. But dig deeper and you find stories featuring such random matchups of character that it'll send your mind, and boner, reeling:
#5. Captain Jean-Luc Picard Meets Elrond From Lord of the Rings; Sex Ensues
The Scenario:
In this long, molasses-paced tale, Picard is on the most important mission of his life: a mission for fun. It seems that his superiors think he needs a vacation, and so they send him off to [insert garbled fake planet name here] to relax.
Of course, something unexplained goes horribly wrong, and he ends up crash-landing on Middle-Earth. He's found and nursed back to health by Lord Elrond. Hilarity ensues.
Oh, wait, did we say hilarity? There's actually none of that. Instead it's just four more chapters of Elrond telling Picard to stay in bed, Picard playing a flute, and Glorfindel wandering by, thinking that this is the gayest damn thing he's ever seen.
Finally, Picard admits that he "experimented" once with a French dude, and Elrond, proving himself as trustworthy and honorable as any good elf, takes advantage of Picard's fragile emotional state to make out with him:
They drew away after what seemed a lifetime but was only mere minutes. The taste of Elrond's lips still lingered in Picard's mouth as they finally looked upon each other with new eyes. Relieved sighs came from both of them as both embraced, Elrond nuzzling against Picard's neck as he rested against Elrond's shoulder.
Please pause here and take a moment to savor the thought of Hugo Weaving "nuzzling" someone. Really fix that image in your mind.
But It Really Gets Creepy When...
Elrond went further by clutching Picard with his fingers, pulling at the fabric of his slacks to feel what was underneath.
The telltale bulge in the elf's leggings stood out between them, especially with the weight it had against Picard's thigh.
Elrond moved over Picard's body like a serpent and sharply nibbled at a peaked nipple.
A few quick notes to the author: slacks are not hot. You've never heard a love song with the word "slacks" in it. Even less hot than slacks are bulging leggings, particularly when they're barely concealing an elven boner. Also, the image of Agent Smith slithering up and down Patrick Stewart's body, snake-style, is one that will haunt us until the end of our days, thanks so much.
Plausibility Factor: 2
First of all, we're going to object to the notion that Middle Earth is a separate planet from Earth, which Tolkien always insisted was in the distant past of our world, or on some other plane of existence. It's difficult to believe that any LotR fan could pleasure themselves to a story with that kind of inaccuracy.
The best explanation we can contrive is that maybe Picard entered some kind of interdimensional rift, and the ship's navigation tried to adjust by sending him to a world with a fan base as geeky as his own.
#4. Fred and George Weasley from Harry Potter Hook Up With Lance Bass of N*SYNC
The Scenario:
According to this romantic tale, Fred and George Weasley from the Harry Potter universe were at a party with Lance Bass of N*Sync fame. Beyond that, the narrative offers absolutely no explanation. Whose party was it? Was this in the wizarding world, or in the human world? Why were they both invited? Is Lance Bass secretly a wizard? No one knows.
Either way, we soon find out that Fred and George (who are twins, if you're new to the Harry Potterverse) have a sexy game they play where they do a switcheroo on their sex partners without letting them know. Cue breathy dirty-talk and weird instances of twin-language:
"Mayflower," Fred said casually, which was their code word for "Someone wants you and can I pretend to be you and have sex with them please?" "Lance Bass."
George's eyes widened. "Lance Bass wants me?"
Fred's heart sank. That wasn't the right response, as far as he was concerned. "Yeah?"
"Since when?"
"I didn't even know he was here," George said, looking around furtively, and Fred's heart sank even more. This didn't look promising.
Throughout the story, the writer makes the very bold assumption that Lance Bass is a treat no questionably gay wizard could bear to pass up. Bypassing even "ass," "cock" and "twin," the most commonly uttered phrase in the story is "It's Lance Bass!" as though this is all the motivation a healthy wizard boner needs.
The setting jumps around in the course of this 15,000-word epic of magic and homosexual hook-ups. It's made all the stranger by the random allusions to the magical Harry Potter world, and the odd phrases the author uses to make everything sound erotic, even when it's clearly, clearly not:
They flew to the nearest Portkey and lingered there, licking vinegar-stained fingers and making excuses not to go home until Fred grabbed George's damp hand and held it over the half-chewed acorn.
"We've got room for a fourth, right? Yeah. I think we do."
But It Really Gets Creepy When...
Capitalizing on his fame as a late-nineties pop star/astronaut hopeful, Bass manages to convince both Weasleys to accompany him home, where he not only successfully seduces them, but manages to turn them gay for each other, as well.
Lance Basstronaut
That's right; brothers Fred and George do it for Mr. Bass's benefit, and then realize they're more attracted to each other than anyone else. Keep in mind that they're identical twins. Here, narcissism reaches new, terrifying heights.
Plausibility Factor: 5
There are a number of problems here. The Weasley twins belong to a wizarding world bound to secrecy, with its own, self-contained culture (including its own music). This begs the question of how exactly they know who "It's Lance Bass!" is.
But even if we forgive all of that, we still refuse to believe that "Bye Bye Bye" has gotten anyone laid since 2001.
#3. Frank N. Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show Meets a Highlander
The Scenario:
Now we're venturing into the land of the truly bizarre. Who should stumble onto the castle of one Dr. Frank N. Furter, your friendly neighborhood tranny/cannibal from Rocky Horror Picture Show, but Methos, a 5,000 year-old immortal from the Highlander TV show and movies. How, exactly?
That's what we'd like to ask the author of this tale. The answer seems to be, "Wouldn't you like to know."
From the story:
How Methos had ended up taking a teaching job in the arse-end of nowhere, he wasn't entirely sure...
Well, that's convenient. Naturally, Methos chooses the rainiest, darkest night of the year to drive to the ass-end of nowhere, and naturally he gets a flat tire. So Methos chooses to walk back to a big creepy house he passed a ways back and ask for help. Five millennia haven't taught him much about self-sufficiency, apparently.
After a perfunctory and ultimately pointless introduction to all the minor characters, Methos meets Frank, and is inexplicably attracted to him.
"You're quite handsome." Methos started at the sudden declaration from the host.
"Why, thank you Dr. Furter, you're pretty good looking yourself."
"Oh, please. Call me Frank."
"Okay, Frank. You can call me Benjamin."
"Well, Benjamin. You have both looks and brains. God was having a good day when he made you." Methos smirked. Frank was clearly trying to chat him up, and Methos had to admit that he found this unique individual somewhat arousing, in a disturbing way. He hadn't swung that way in a very long time, but he thought he might be amenable.
Now, we can't speak for all of you, but we're pretty sure that if we hadn't considered man-on-man sex in several thousand years, Tim Curry in bad drag would not change our minds. In fact, it would probably pretty much fucking guarantee that the idea never crossed our minds again, no matter how many more seedy encounters on back roads we lived through.
But It Really Gets Creepy When...
After the strangely short and undetailed description of the sex, Frank randomly and inexplicably tries to murder Methos, obviously unsuccessfully, since he's immortal and all. Methos flees the castle.
He ran back to his car, started the engine and floored it, ignoring the complaining squeals from the flat tyre as he headed back to the main road as fast as possible.
Were this a sensible or kind world, that sentence would have come right after "God was having a good day when he made you." Unfortunately, it is not; this is the kind of world where women are men, men are immortal, and five-thousand-year-old straight guys accept blowjobs from cross-dressing strangers.
Plausibility Factor: 4
At least these two sort of exist in the same world, unlike Captain Picard and Elrond up there.
However, even if we want to accept that a Highlander would accept a job that would place him out in the wilderness with crazed trannies and that he would get a flat "tyre," we still can't see him relinquishing centuries of repressed sexuality at the weirdly manicured hands of a sadistic drag queen.


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I have set up MP3 ringtones for both incoming calls and text messages on my new Galaxy Nexus, but I can't figure out how to silence them without hanging up (in the case of incoming calls) or without having to wait until the entire sound bite is over? Any suggestions? Does anyone know how to do that? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
When the Galaxy Nexus is ringing...
Tap the power button on the right side of the screen.
The ringtone will stop and the screen will switch off. BUT the call has not been hung up.
You can even press the power button again to switch the screen back on and the ringtone is silent if the call is still waiting to be answered. The voice call will still be at the correct volume when you actually answer it.
Use volume-rocker
Click either up or down volume to silence your phone. This is the user-manual-recommended way. When you click it your screen stays on.
A third option is to enable the setting so you can flip your phone face down when ringing to silence the phone. Under Sound Settings > Phone Call Silence I believe.
Just press power key at the right side of device. It will become silent.


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Many shuls have the practice of selling kibbudim (i.e. aliyot, hafotrah, opening the aron, etc.) on major holidays, usually via auction. I've been to some shuls where this is done every shabbat.
A related practice is "pledge drives", where after the Rabbi's speech on a major holiday, the floor is open for people to pledge donations to the shul.
How is this allowed on shabbat and chag? Isn't this essentially masah umatan or at least too closely related to matters of money or business?


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Broadway program
Posted 27 February 2009 - 01:16 PM
If I squint at it just right, it looks like Lucien Postelwaite is cast as Tony and I think it's Sara Ricard Orza as Maria, but that's harder to tell (hair down and seen mostly from behind)
Posted 27 February 2009 - 02:07 PM
It wouldn't be the first time that PNB dancers were asked to sing: I remember how surprised I was when they burst into song in "Silver Lining".
Now, if they'd only release the casts, I could plan my second weekend...
Posted 28 February 2009 - 11:25 AM
Now, if they'd only release the casts, I could plan my second weekend...
I know they like to wait till the last minute to see how everyone is doing, but it makes it hard to organize the rest of life. I always try to see as many different casts as I can that first weekend, if I'm reviewing, but there's other stuff I have to see as well. (not to mention the family thing...)
Posted 28 February 2009 - 11:30 AM
If I squint at it just right, it looks like Lucien Postelwaite is cast as Tony and I think it's Sara Ricard Orza as Maria....
That's who I thought they were too when I saw this video for the first time. In fact, I'm 99.5% sure that is who they were.
Posted 28 February 2009 - 12:37 PM
I'll be away from Seattle the first weekend , and things have been so crazy, I never even posted about Jewels last month...
I know they like to wait till the last minute to see how everyone is doing, but it makes it hard to organize the rest of life. I always try to see as many different casts as I can that first weekend, if I'm reviewing, but there's other stuff I have to see as well. (not to mention the family thing...)
I hope that my free days for weekend 2 match with different casts. I was really sad not to have seen Rachel Foster's "Rubies" and Kaori Nakamura's "Diamonds"
Posted 28 February 2009 - 04:36 PM
I was really sad not to have seen ... Kaori Nakamura's "Diamonds"
All my friends agree with you -- I had to be elsewhere, but everyone is chattering away about it.
Posted 03 March 2009 - 05:36 PM
Lesley Rausch debuts in "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" with Jeffrey Stanton, who is a great hoofer. Carla Korbes also dances Strip Tease Girl; Seth Orza debuts as her hoofer.
Korbes and Orza dance the leads in "Carousel", with Korbes making her debut, and Jodie Thomas and James Moore are paired in the same roles.
There are some debuts in "Take Five...More or Less": Tisserand and Porretta in the Opening Night Cast, Dec/Chapman/Gilbreath on Friday, and Thomas in the Saturday matinee.
For "West Side Story Suite":
Tony: Lucien Postlewaite
Anite: Carla Korbes
Maria: Sara Ricard
Riff: Orza or Stanton
Bernardo: Cruz or Bold
Posted 03 March 2009 - 11:32 PM
And have you noticed all the television ads the company has bought for this program. I can hear one now, during the 11 pm news on channel 4, as I'm writing this.
Posted 05 March 2009 - 01:03 PM
Perfect....................I still remember this duo in similar roles in "Take Five" last year.
Lesley Rausch debuts in "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" with Jeffrey Stanton, who is a great hoofer.
P.S. It's also reassuring to see Lesley dancing again since she had to be pulled from doing a role in Rubies due to an injury (ankle I think).
Posted 10 March 2009 - 03:52 PM
For some reason, they haven't starred the debuts, as they have with week one.
Posted 19 March 2009 - 07:15 PM
Jordan Pacitti was Hoofer, and he had some wonderful stage moments, especially when he spotted Seth Orza's Gangster, and pleaded for his life. Such a young Brandoesque moment.
And many bravos to Anton Pankevitch, who played Morrosine almost completely straight, a formidable rival.
Posted 19 March 2009 - 09:08 PM
Rachel Foster was very touching in "Carousel, a Dance". Jerome Tisserand wasn't remotely Billy Bigelow-like: he was sweet, if not innocent. It was as if he were the French exchange student who was in love with Louise and didn't know the backstory about her parents. His dancing was a dream.
Sarah Ricard Orza was spectacular as one of the demi women, with great energy and beautiful legs.
"Take Five..." bores me, despite gallant dancing by Brunson and Lesley Rausch, cast against type. Maybe there's a Girl in Green in her future?
Posted 19 March 2009 - 11:55 PM
Riff, at least when played by Seth Orza, is the Alpha Male, and he is the central character of this work. For one, he's given a voice. (Tony's music to "Something's Coming" is sung from the pit. Maria is a pretty girl, not much of a dance or dramatic challenge for Sarah Ricard Orza.) What was most powerful about his performance was his constant awareness of the pack: it was as if every nerve knew where every one of his Jets was, even if those who weren't in his sight lines, and he was clearly the leader. (Lawrence Brownlee had a similar quality in "I Puritani" at Seattle Opera last year, the Gretzsky-like 360 degree sight.)
Orza's fellow Jets and Karel Cruz's fellow Sharks were another matter. The characters in the movie had too much time and testosterone on their hands; apart from gang land, their lives were going nowhere. The men who danced the Jets and Sharks here are among maybe 300 men on the planet who can do what they do at the highest elite level and make a living at it, the polar opposites of the characters that they play. Most were more boyish than lethal.
I can see why Postlewaite, the Tony in all performances so far and cast for the run, was eager to perform Riff; Riff is even more unlike Tony than Bernardo is, and, according to Peter Boal in the Q&A, he has a great voice.
Carla Korbes was a smash as Anita, almost unrecognizable in a short black wig. She had flair and bite in the same phrase, and she rocked it in "America", a singing and dancing role, with Leanne Duge as a sweet foil. A real standout among the women corps was Rachel Foster, intense as Orza's partner in "Dance at the Gym".
Posted 20 March 2009 - 11:05 AM
I have more thoughts, but have to earn some money right now -- will be back later.
Posted 20 March 2009 - 09:13 PM
Miscellaneous thoughts on Broadway rep
This is the third festival program that Peter Boal has run since he's taken on the directorship, and it's the most modest. That's not necessarily a bad thing -- the Celebrate Seattle festival in 2007 was definitely in the middle of his honeymoon period, and profited from that surge of good will combined with a more fluid economy. Three separate programs outside of the regular season, guest artists and companies alongside PNB regulars, and lots of side dishes as well. Last year's Laugh Out Loud programming cut back a little bit -- two programs-worth of extras alongside the company's regular season production of Balanchine's Midsummer. This year it's one program, and it's all part of the regular subscription season, but there are still extra features on offer, some intentional and some serendipitous. SIFF ran three of the films that are associated with the ballets on view, there are singers from the 5th Avenue Theater in the lobby during intermission, and film clips associated with the individual dances before each act in the theater. This may not be the overflowing buffet of 2007, but it's a juicy evening in the theater, and just different enough from the regular fare that the festival title doesn't seem like a fib.
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Both Poretta and Pankevitch good timing with set-up sketch, but Poretta really hams up the dancing -- it looks like outtakes from The Red Shoes. Helene puts her finger on the difference -- Pankevitch is more realistic, which for me doesn't quite mesh with the comic-like quality of the ballet. I liked the guest artist (apparently Dan Baty is a neighbor of Peter Boal's as well as a donor) in the role of the hit man, but was tickled to see Orza on the second Thursday. There was something about his fedora that made his chin look like Dick Tracy's.
In the filmclip from the Balanchine documentary Vera Zorina seems more sensual in that version. The stage version we're seeing is perkier, perhaps because we see more of the set-up. Rausch and Brunson do just fine, but Körbes really has the accents down. She commits her weight to the sudden drops or shifts, which makes it read more vividly. All three of them have an innocence to them, though, that underlines the cartoonish nature of this work, a la hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold. The film has that fantastical quality, with some Busby Berkely-style camera work (looking at Zorina through the spread legs of Eddie Albert, she seeing the Boss upside down as she's in a deep backbend) which reinforces the comic bookish elements.
Stanton is a much more accomplished tapper than Orza and Pacitti, so he can make the rhythmic life of his character more complex. This isn't really a problem for the other two until the very last part of the ballet, during the escalating repeats for the hoofer -- as the tension mounts it would be great to see more density in the actual dancing. Orza and Pacitti substitute big energy, which makes sense, but isn't quite as thrilling as the other option.
I think Stanton's had the most rehearsal with this ballet and it shows -- he's very confident with his characterization. Orza seems a bit tense in the solo bits, but releases his inner showgirl in the duets -- his shoulder shimmys are great. Pacitii got just one chance at the part this rep, which often makes people feel they have to show everything they have, but he got past that trap easily. I hope he gets more performances when this comes back into the rep.
There's a real bookend feeling to the program, with Romeo and Juliet references in both Slaughter and West Side Story Suite, including the always-tricky dancing with a dead body. Stanton and Rausch do fine on the logistics (how can she help him in partnering without looking like she's doing anything?) and Orza manages Körbes pretty well, but Pacitti could have used one more rehearsal with Brunson -- she's just enough taller than he is when she's in character shoes that her 'dead' legs get in the way. (Brunson spoke at last night's post-show Q/A -- she asked Peter Boal if she was likely to get to perform Slaughter and at the time he said probably not, since Louise Nadeau was also cast as the Striptease Girl, so she said I'm going to cut my hair and he said sure. So she wound up with a long fall for the second duet with all the hair flinging)
Wheeldon has made a very lovely ballet, but it doesn't have much to do with Carousel (this is not a flaw, as far as I'm concerned, just an observation) There's a hint of the Billy Bigelow character in the partnering for the main couple, and a sweet but hokey gimmick at the end of the work (a human carousel with dancers substituting for the horses) that refer to the musical theater piece, but other than that it's just the score. Rogers is very danceable, and I'd be fine if there weren't any references to its origins in the ballet, but I'm not sure if the majority of the audience could hear that music and not think of the storyline it came from.
Wheeldon does an interesting thing at the beginning of the work -- the music is pretty spare, while the ensemble is moving all over the place, but when the score opens up, becoming more lush and more active, the dancers spend more time in place, working under themselves rather than sweeping across the stage. Wheeldon is very good at keeping things interesting without big locomotion -- I wonder if that's a product of his RAD training, which has a very self-reliant quality to it.
Seth Orza has a baseline tension that reads well here in the Billy role -- the bandana from the costume emphasizes the thickness of his neck as it meets his shoulders. He's physically compact -- you could believe he hauled stuff around for a living (this works well for him as Riff in West Side Story Suite too) James Moore is a bit slighter, but it wasn't a distraction -- he's partnered with Jodie Thomas, so they both just seemed like a more petite version. Tisserand and Foster were lovely, but less detailed. I'd love to see what they'd do with a bit more rehearsal and another performance.
The main duet is very juicy -- it may not have to be the Julie and Billy story, but there's certainly a long arc through the whole thing as their relationship develops.
Take Five
The first couple of times I saw this I was pleased to be hearing the music live and happy that the dancers seemed to be having a good time. I'm less diverted now, but there are still opportunities for soloists to have a moment. Leslie Rausch was a bit stiff last year with the vampy aspect of her part, but she's warmed up enough to play with the timing now. Kari Brunson's solo either works (when she hits the accents just right) or doesn't -- there isn't much in there besides the kapow to play with. Last night Jodie Thomas was the girl in yellow, and was able to find rhythmic details in the opening solo that seem to get glossed over elsewhere -- I was thinking of her upcoming move to the Danish company as I was watching all the itsy adjustments.
West Side Story Suite
They run the film preview at the beginning of this act, and for all that the film stock has aged (it has that sepia brown tinge) we aren't more than a minute into it that the audience starts to snap its fingers along with the film -- this is a musical that almost everyone knows and feels that they own. Which makes any changes in the staging or the storyline problematic. I know that this is the version that Robbins wanted to present, but it still feels off when the show closes without Tony getting killed.
Stanton and Orza have the hardest job here as Riff -- in the Cool number, they really have to control their breathing to make the singing work. Carla Körbes does a great job as Anita, belting out America in a black wig and dark makeup. I don't know if it's her Brazilian heritage or just her skills, but she has the tension in the upper body that makes so many Latin dances read as proud -- I've heard flamenco dancers talk about cracking nuts with their shoulder blades. At any rate, her mambo is truly hot, and the rest of the Sharks are right behind her. I've always thought that the Sharks just wiped the floor with the Jets during the "Dance at the Gym" number, since they've got a much tighter style going. The Jets explode all over with their gymnastic-flavored style, but that unidirectional energy scatters all over the stage or the screen. The Sharks are like a laser beam, and burn whatever they touch.
I can't remember all the characters from the film or the stage show, and indeed I don't think that Robbins set their individual quirks on the corps members for this production, but I do recognize the Jet flying on speed (was that A-rab, whose mother was a junkie?) -- Barry Kerollis does a great job with that manic energy. And both Laura Gilbreath and Leanne Duge were naively sweet singing Rosalia, the girl who wants to bring a new washing machine back to Puerto Rico in the America number.
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