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At the Ballet Centre we emphasize the development of the student where your child is the main focus.
We stress the anatomical development of a young dancer learning self -esteem through self-discipline.
Proper technique is important in the growth of any dancer. With our adaptation of the Russian Method of ballet, we have gained an extended appreciation of the role physics plays in proper balance of the body. This understanding, imparted to our students from their earliest experiences here enables them to exquisitely perform the dramatic jumps, turns and rapid changes required.
All classes are accompanied by a pianist, this enables the teacher to give their full and uninterrupted attention to teaching rather than fumbling with recorded music. The Ballet Centre has its own theatre and scenery and provides costumes for all performances at no cost to the parents.
- We administer with the upmost care and compassion. Our teachers are well trained in the art of classical ballet and follow a specific syllabus throughout the year. -
FREE BALLET CLINIC-Sat. July 16th 10:00 am til noon ages 5 to 18 lunch will be served and free tickets given to "Ballet Under the Stars" that evening to all participants for more info call 801 265-0707
Flexibility class - Mondays 5:30 -6:30 ,July 25th thru Aug.22nd. $50 for entire workshop
all ages and both genders..for dancers, athletes, people tired of yoga classes etc.
Ballet Workshop July 25th thru Aug. 25th
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Michelle Armstrong
- received her early training with Susan Wright and studied with Willam Christensen for nine years. She was a corps de ballet member with Ballet West in the 1986-87 season and performed with New York City Ballet with Jacques d'Amboise in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1988. In 1991-92, she studied and danced with Anatoli Kucheruk of the Kiev Ballet, Russia. This is her 22nd year as the artistic director of the Ballet Centre. Michelle has a BFA in ballet from the University of Utah
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Natali Baker
- started ballet 21 years ago and studied at the Classical Ballet Conservatory in Orem, Utah and was a member of The College of Eastern Utah's Ballet Repertory Ensemble. After taking a two-year break to get her degree, she came to the Ballet Centre and has been a member of the centre class for the past 13 years. Natali has performed as a soloist in many Ballet Centre productions. Natali is married and has one son and a baby girl.
Elizabeth Armstrong - Elizabeth has been a part of the Ballet Centre her whole life. She has danced in leading roles in the Ballet Centre productions and staged many ballets for "Ballet Under the Stars." Elizabeth has been a teacher's assistant in character class and choreographed several Ballet Centre productions. She is currently pursuing an Engineering degree at the University of Utah.
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accomplished dancer in the Centre class.This is her first year on our staff as a permanent teacher. Symbria loves working with young children.
Amber Giles-Amber began dancing at the Ballet Centre in 1999. She has been the stage manager since 2005. Amber holds a BA Degree in Graphic Design from Southern New Hampshire University and calls the Ballet Centre her home away from home.
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PRE-BALLET: Tuesday & Friday - 4:30-5:30pm
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Winter Quarter - November 30-February 12
Spring Quarter - February 15-April 22
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Rev. Emeh "Anthony" Nwaogu of St. Anthony Catholic Church in South Dallas was sentenced Friday by state District Judge Harold Entz.
He faced a sentence of two to 20 years. He will be eligible for parole in 2 1/2 years.
Defense attorneys asked the judge to give Nwaogu probation and immediately deport him to his native Nigeria to receive treatment.
Because of his felony conviction, Nwaogu - a Nigerian citizen who has been in Dallas since 1993 - will be deported automatically when he completes his sentence.
Defense attorneys and the prosecutor handling the case called the judge's decision a fair one.
"I think justice was done," Assistant District Attorney Robbie McClung said. "The judge took a lot of things into consideration. . . . Now he'll get the sentence he deserves here, and in five years he'll be Nigeria's concern. And hopefully he can get the treatment he needs there."
The victim was assaulted at Nwaogu's home in May while her grandmother and mother cleaned the house for him, according to court records.
In her closing statement Friday, McClung said the victim in this case had a history of being sexually abused before she was adopted and that her adoptive parents told Nwaogu about it.
Mary Edlund, chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, attended the hearing and said the judge's sentence was clear.
"What we've heard today from the courts . . . is that any individual who abuses their position of trust and authority is going to be dealt with very sternly," she said. "And as a church, we hear that message. The Catholic diocese hears that message. Our priority is making our churches and schools safe places for children."
Nwaogu is the ninth priest in the Dallas Catholic Diocese to be accused of child sexual abuse in the 1990s and the second to be arrested.
The other one arrested, Rudolph "Rudy" Kos, is serving a life sentence in state prison. The diocese and its insurers paid about $31 million to settle claims that church leaders covered up his abuse of 11 boys.
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WATERBURY A Winooski Street residence that began using solar technology last year will receive a visit from the governor next week to help showcase local efforts toward energy efficiency.
Waterbury Local Action Energy Partnership on Monday is recognizing its Waterbury/Duxbury Solar Year, a year in which the amount of solar energy generated doubled for both towns. Gov. Peter Shumlin will speak at the event.
The residence is the home of the Rev. Peter Plagge, minister of the Waterbury Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, and his wife, Erin Mooney, a special education teacher at U-32.
Plagge and his family had about a dozen solar panels installed on their roof last spring, and they have generated solar energy since September, he said.
The home used Waterbury-based solar business SunCommon, so the family did not need up-front costs, Plagge said.
Were thrilled that our work to educate Waterbury and Duxbury residents about solar and help connect them to local installers has paid off, said Duncan McDougall, Waterbury LEAP board chairman, in a news release.
Other speakers will include McDougall; Jessica Edgerly Walsh, lead organizer at SunCommon; state Rep. Rebecca Ellis, D-Waterbury; and Jamison Ervin, a Waterbury LEAP board member.
The home is not off the grid yet, but eventually it will generate enough credit from Green Mountain Power that the family will just be making lease payments for the solar technology, Plagge said. The lease payment is equivalent to the homes current GMP electricity bill, he said.
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I always struggle with what to tip for hair..
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30% is a generous tip.
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As you may have heard, Tatiana and I got married this week … for the third time. We wish and hope all of our couples have as amazing and perfect a time as we did. There has been so much coverage, as expected, with so much more to come, but for you here is the director's cut, my speech from the wedding that I only delivered half of due to iPhone issues. I'm sharing it here because this wedding not only was a high point of our lives, but our experience of it and the heightening of our empathy will affect every wedding we shoot in years to come:
I'm here to say that the cliches are real.
The treacly, sanctimonious banal nonsense is real.
There is someone out there for you who is just … right. And when you feel it, you will know. It will be different than anything you've ever experienced.
As Charlotte told some of you last night, I've been down some relationship roads before. I've known wonderful people, but there's a reason this is the last one … we are right together. I simply didn't know this could be like this. I hoped, I saw this in my couples, I read about it, but maybe, I thought … not for me. Maybe a relationship could only reach me so deeply. But I was wrong. With Tatiana I basically scooped up all my insides and said "Take this, they're yours."
Love transforms you. Another cliche: She completes me. Or, in the word of a drunk girl we met in Madrid, "You are a 6, but she makes you at least a 9, because you just glow around her." Last night so many people mentioned that Tatiana has transformed me that people started asking "How big of a jerk *were* you?" Well, it's not really that … it's just that I'm so much happier. With life and with myself. That makes my every moment feel different. I've been so lucky in life, but we aren't built to really feel the luck we have every day — it's like the taste of our own mouths. But with Tatiana I feel lucky, all the time.
Love takes faith. When I moved in, I asked my old landlord what I could do with furniture I didn't need. He said "just leave it, we'll take care of it." And I walked out, leaving everything behind. And there has been so much from my pre-Tatiana life that I've simply said "Oh, hey, I don't need this anymore. I know what I do need, and it's simple, and pure, and perfect." I don't need insecurities and cynicism anymore than I need a lumpy brown couch or a coffee table that I never got around to putting together right. We have had faith at even our darkest moments, and that's what got us through.
Love takes work. You might have heard that I can be a workaholic, at least when I find a project I believe. I twice worked until I had to be carried away from my office in an ambulance, and one of those times I had the ambulance take me back to the hospital after 17 hours of treatment. But I have never worked on anything nearly as hard as this relationship. There have been times when it took absolutely every bit of effort I could possibly muster to make sure that we kept moving forward, kept getting better, and ended up here.
But it took more than me; it took the help from so many of the people in this room. The friends who listen to and celebrate with us, the family who have given us guidance and inspiration our entire life, the clients who show us weekend after weekend what it is to love and celebrate even after the insane stress of planning a modern wedding.
We are so happy to be here celebrating not just a wedding, not just a triple-married couple, but a marriage, a marriage that has been more wildly successful than I could have ever imagined. This has been one of the happiest, most important days of my life, but I'm also looking forward to tomorrow, when we're not bride and groom anymore, but just two people who are super-duper married, living a simple, happy life. And, thanks to a life with Tatiana, and a life where I get to continue to know and love and celebrate with all of you, I'm looking forward to all of our tomorrows.
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Bruno Mars due in court in Vegas cocaine plea deal
LAS VEGAS Bruno Mars is due before a Las Vegas judge on a plea agreement on a felony cocaine possession charge.
Prosecutors and his attorneys say the 25-year-old Grammy nominee plans to waive an evidentiary hearing Friday so a justice of the peace can bind him over to state court for his plea.
Mars' real name is Peter Hernandez. The agreement will let him plead guilty as a first-time offender to a charge that would be dismissed if he stays out of trouble for a year, completes community service and drug counseling, and pays a $2,000 fine.
The "Just the Way You Are" singer was arrested in September after a Las Vegas nightclub performance.
Police said he had 2.6 grams of cocaine.
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The Weather Girls are back in the top 40 once again, some 32 years after 'It's Raining Men' first entered the charts (they splashed in at No.31 on Sunday, pop pickers). The camp anthem was a worldwide smash back in 1982, and also a post-Spice Girls No.1 for Geri Halliwell in 2001. Now Martha Wash – the surviving member of the duo – is enjoying chart success all over again. And all because of a Facebook campaign set up in protest at UKIP councillor David Silvester's fire and brimstone open letter to David Cameron, published in a Henley-on-Thames local newspaper.
The crux of Silvester's epistle, should you have been living under a rock to try and shelter from the endless rain, suggested the inclement downpour from the heavens which still shows no signs of abating is direct action from a God angry with us for allowing a gay marriage bill to pass through parliament. Historians might deem this a strange moment of intervention given the 2,000 odd years God's been keeping out of our way as part of some free will embargo, but there you have it.
Silvester was suspended by UKIP party leader and Joe the Camel impersonator Nigel Farage in January, but clearly the Old Testament frothing of a bigoted antiquarian upset members of the gay community enough to want to register their protest in an entertaining and postmodern way; it certainly beats egging Silvester's house, which happened a few days ago (thankfully Justin Bieber had an alibi this time).
The campaign started out merely as an idea on the internet, but soon G-A-Y owner Jeremy Joseph was offering to donate £1,000 to Elton John's AIDS Foundation if the song went Top 20. And, while the track might have finished just outside the top 30 having been poised at Number 21 in the midweek chart, it raised plenty of awareness through media coverage – hopefully some hearty guffaws as well as landing the requisite bloody nose.
It's a type of protest we're likely to see more and more of in the coming months and years, thanks to the millions of songs that have been released over the decades, catalogued and in stasis on media libraries like iTunes, just waiting to be brought back to life. When someone decided to take on the might of Simon Cowell back in 2009 by starting a campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to the Christmas Number One and topple the hegemony of The X Factor, it felt like an anomaly, despite its eventual success. 'Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead' last year? Less so. Soon the charts may be flooded with classic old songs making points about thorny topical issues. Here are just a few we thought of regarding current events, should anyone be itching to start a campaign about something but are too damn lazy to come up with a track to champion their cause.
'Paint a Vulgar Picture' by The Smiths – in protest at the MPs portrait scandal
£250,000 spent on politicians' portraits? How much etc? The amount dished out for politicians to preserve themselves in paint for posterity in the House of Commons – especially in times of austerity – stuck in the collective craw of much of the electorate recently, especially when they realised they were footing the bill. How about 'Paint a Vulgar Picture' by The Smiths, lobbed at the political classes like some well-aimed Jackson Pollock splodges? The fact the song is about the music industry wringing dry dead rock stars for all they're worth is almost irrelevant. Who cares about the song? It's all about the statement, dumbass! Let's get 'Paint a Vulgar Picture' into the Top 40 now!
'The Wanderer' by Status Quo – in protest at plans to make foreign-born terror suspects stateless
Home Secretary Theresa May caused controversy recently with plans to revoke the citizenship of foreign terror suspects previously awarded UK citizen status, should they, you know, get suspected of any wrongdoing anytime soon. That's right, these people will be ejected from the bosom of these isles and made stateless because they might have possibly been up to no good. But hang on a minute? Surely you can't take someone's citizenship away from them and cut them adrift to wander the corridors of diplomatic purgatory forever and a day just because you're feeling a bit suspicious? Let's send the three chord metal-boogie of Status Quo's 'The Wanderer' back into the charts immediately in protest!
'Empty Rooms' by Gary Moore – in protest at the Bedroom Tax
Got a spare room? How dare you. Since 1st April last year (oh so it's an April Fool is it?), welfare reforms brought in under Iain Duncan Smith have cut the amount of benefit people can get if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom in their council or housing association home. But hang about, that doesn't seem very nice. Let's propel the mulleted late guitar monster Gary Moore back into the charts with his 80s power ballad 'Empty Rooms' right now (this may be Gary's only chance of ever re-entering the charts, so make it a good one).
'Dickhead' by Kate Nash – in protest at Justin Bieber behaving like a dickhead
Justin Bieber is rich, successful, good looking, talented and has nearly 50 million followers on Twitter. So why's he acting like a dickhead? Even Beliebers must be wondering what the hell is going on with Justin. Put Kate Nash's 'Dickhead' into the hit parade this Sunday and make Justin aware of your derision!
'Sins Of My Father' by Tom Waits – in protest at actor's ancestors
A bit of a strange one this. It has been revealed that Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch – who stars in the movie 12 Years A Slave had a great, great, great, great, great grandfather who kept slaves at an 18th century sugar plantation in Barbados, and some people are calling for the popular thespian to apologise for sins of the fathers. This might be the perfect time to put 'Sins of My Father' by Tom Waits from the awesome 'Real Gone' album into the charts, in protest at Cumberbatch doing absolutely nothing to halt the segregationist behaviour of his ancestor born three centuries before he was even a twinkle in his daddy's eye.
'Just The Way You Are' by Billy Joel – in protest at 'Eastenders'' modernisation
Recently, it's been revealed Eastenders is being dragged kicking and screaming out of the 1980s, with producers looking to trendy Shoreditch as inspiration. So from now on it'll be less Phil Mitchell having sex with Sharon and more hipsters on Bromptons drinking flat whites and Essex teenagers vomiting in your turn-ups down Brick Lane. But wait: what if we don't want Eastenders to change? What if we're resistant to change? Look at Coronation Street, purging the loveable old folk and implementing racier storylines with these young whippersnappers. Rubbish! Some of us want Eastenders kept exactly the way it is regardless, of plummeting ratings and recycled miserablist storylines involving Ian Beale. Let's get 'Just The Way You Are' into the charts as soon as we can before they turn the Queen Vic into the Macbeth!
'Hold Back The Rain' by Duran Duran – in protest at the bloody weather!
So if God wants to protest about gay marriage then let's protest back at God for the deluge we've been suffering this winter. Oi God, stop the bleedin' rain will ya? Don't you think we've had enough precipitation for one season? How would you like it if we came round yours and emptied our bladders for months on end all over your house? Let's get 'Hold Back The Rai'' by Duran Duran to Number One in the charts to send a message to God that we're not happy, despite the fact he's omniscient and knows this already.
And so it's over to you. What makes you angry and which song might you choose to let the world know all about it?


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I think that, at this stage, silverware is more important. Most of us knew we were not going to compete for the league for a couple of years at least, so trophies in the bag and all that.The thing is, if we don't start to compete for at least a top 4 place next year then I think then that becomes more important.


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Various state and federal regulatory bodies are still looking into Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) ad relationship with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), but CEO Eric Schmidt says the deal is on for October. Schmidt made the remarks in an interview with Bloomberg, while in Denver hanging out at the Democratic National Convention. That regulatory body may seek to block the deal has been a remote, but possible obstacle since it was announced in early June. The companies have always maintained the opinion that they don't need regulatory approval to go ahead, but that they wanted to give regulators some time to voice any objections now. From the beginning, Google and Yahoo have said they'd wait 3.5 months, about 100 days, to go forward. Meanwhile, in addition to potential trip ups from domestic regulators, Canada's Competition Bureau is looking into things as well. Fortunately, the companies don't have to get the blessing of the EU's hard-nosed regulators, since the agreement only applies to ads served up in the US and in Canada.
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President Bush will address the nation from Louisiana this Thursday at 6 pm (PT). Here are some predictions:
# of times he'll claim to be "working hard" as our President: 3.
# of times he'll bring up Iraq: 2.
# of times he'll mention prayer and/or God: 5.
# of times he'll admit he was a major fuckwad for rushing back from vacation to "save" Terri Schiavo, yet took his own sweet time leaving Crawford when one of America's cities was being destroyed: 0.
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Recent years have seen an increasing number of scientists employ data parallel computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Hadoop to run data intensive applications and conduct analysis. In these co-located compute and storage frameworks, a wise data placement scheme can significantly improve the performance. Existing data parallel frameworks, e.g., Hadoop, or Hadoop-based clouds, distribute the data using a random placement method for simplicity and load balance. However, we observe that many data intensive applications exhibit interest locality which only sweep part of a big data set. The data often accessed together result from their grouping semantics. Without taking data grouping into consideration, the random placement does not perform well and is way below the efficiency of optimal data distribution. In this paper, we develop a new Data-gRouping-AWare (DRAW) data placement scheme to address the above-mentioned problem. DRAW dynamically scrutinizes data access from system log files. It extracts optimal data groupings and re-organizes data layouts to achieve the maximum parallelism per group subjective to load balance. By experimenting two real-world MapReduce applications with different data placement schemes on a 40-node test bed, we conclude that DRAW increases the total number of local map tasks executed up to 59.8%, reduces the completion latency of the map phase up to 41.7%, and improves the overall performance by 36.4%, in comparison with Hadoop's default random placement.
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This website is devoted to a selection of fine wine estates from Germany, whose wines are available in the United States through wine importer and distributor, Slocum & Sons, located in North Haven, Connecticut. This portfolio has been created by Eric Litchfield, the company's Import Sales Director, who has spent considerable time selecting producers that define today's highest standards of wine making. Mr. Litchfield's philosophy is allowing the wine producer and nature to harmonize equally, utilizing sustainable agriculture, organic and biodynamic farming to reach the purest expression of grape varietal, microclimate and terroir, yielding wines of supreme balance and elegance.
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We are very lucky. For over 400 years the family Crusius lives in one of the finest wine regions of Germany - the middle Nahe. Near the landscape is here considerably
and more diverse, the river meanders still in their original bed, the mighty Red rock massif marks the spectacular centerpiece of the region. This unique landscape is what drives us to make wines that show the origin and inspire. We are guided by three principles to achieve this goal.
1) Excellent location portfolio. We are convinced that the best and most typical wines can arise only in large documents. Therefore, we strive to always know better our top locations and expand their share of the total. Our vineyards are located in the immediate vicinity of the winery (no vineyard is further away than 8km). 70% of our vineyard area are classified "first principles" bring to the position of the Statute VDP Nahe and therefore entitled, "Large Family".
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several days. Ultimately flow more than 130 years of cumulative experience in winemaking. Peter Crusius belongs to a very small circle of German wine growers, the
further pursued even after graduation in Geisenheim, the quality question. Parallel to the work in the domestic winery, he wrote an empirical work on the "impact of pruning on the quality of wine". The investigated methods are now standard. The continued close contact with the Geisenheim Research practice helps us a lot.
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"The 2015 grape harvest was unusual in two ways. Not that the trend is completely unexpected, but never before have we had a harvest kick off so early and be so brief. It's definitely a change from the classic romantic vision of a wine harvest. But the bottom line is this: all's well that ends well," says Steffen Christmann, President of the Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter (VDP).
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The past month or so has seen a rise or decline in some of the biggest players in the digital music landscape. Apple Music launched, SoundCloud is…transitioning, SFX (the owners of Beatport) are in the midst of a fire sale, Tidal came and went, Spotify is plotting along, and Vinyl is on the rise (again!). Interesting times, to say the least. Below we have divided our online habits into three categories: Streaming (Paid), Streaming (Free), and Purchasing, in order to better evaluate the current state of the industry and also to offer our thoughts and aspirations for where things might go.
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We're giving this song /10.As well as being the sound of dancefloor stampedes from now until the end of time 'All The Lovers' is also the sound of a million Kylie fans breathing a collective sigh of relief. It's grown up but carefree, bombastic yet delicate, sober in spirit and drunk on love. The upbeat discoballad is written by Jim Eliot and Mima Stilwell, produced by Jim with some additional fiddling around from Stuart Price, and brought to life by Kylie. It is very hard not to listen to this song on repeat.[THIS AUDIO CLIP IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE - HAVE A LOOK ON YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING]
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Skip to comments.(Mark) Steyn countersues Mann for 10 millon dollars
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Mark Steyn has decided to countersue Michael Mann for $10 million.
The legal document reads like a drama. See below.
130. Plaintiff [Mann] has engaged in a pattern of abusive litigation designed to chill freedom of speech and to stifle legitimate criticism of Plaintiffs work. He is currently suing Dr Tim Ball in British Columbia over a hoary bit of word play (should be in the state pen, not Penn State) applied to innumerable Pennsylvanians over the years. Having initiated the suit, Dr Mann then stalled the discovery process, so that the BC suit is now entering its third year Manns object being to use the process as a punishment, rather than any eventual trial and conviction. See Mann vs Ball et al, British Columbia VLC-S-S-111913 (2011) (exhibit attached).
131.At the other end of the spectrum, Plaintiff and his Counsel have issued demands that have no basis in law, as they well know including the preposterous assertion, in response to a parody video by Minnesotans for Global Warming, that Professor Manns likeness is protected from parody and satire There is a smell to the hockey stick that, in Lady Macbeths words, all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten nor all the investigations. And so Dr Mann has determined to sue it into respectability.
132. At the same time, Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its respectability by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia. . .
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hey, he's been outta VA for years. He's PA's problem now.
Michael Mann just met a man.
Luck ain't gonna help him now....
Kinda like Big Enos Burdette, huh? His word is "gold"?
Hopefully, soon to become "settled lawsuit"
Steyn is going to be his nemesis now, not just an annoying thorn in his side which was all Steyn could be while it was a battle of hurled words.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bull hockey player.
This court episode means that Mann has to produce his data file...and that's been the one thing that he's avoided doing. I don't see him cooperating, and this whole case dissolves within a month or two. His lawyer has to be asking about fees and wondering now if he'll get anything out of this deal.
Longing for the good ol' days when you settled something like this with a sock in the kisser. Too much legal eagle BS!
Sure hope Steyn's attorney can nail Mann to the wall and stop this costly fraud which is robbing all Americans and especially the coal miners of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. However, with Obama preaching this "is accepted science" and liberal judges controlling the courts, I think we are all screwed despite evidence showing global warming/climate change to be a fraud. Liberals/Progressives have built fortunes on this theory and will now defend it with money, judicial and political clout. This is just another reason conservatives must win in 2014 if we are to have a chance of reversing course and saving America for future generations.
Yep. Steyn is exactly right in that some like Mann, use the legal process to harass and punish. Now that will at least work both ways.
From Mr. Mann's demand to dominate climate science as well as his thin skinned attempt at punishing detractors, we are obviously dealing with a narcissist.
Narcissists glory in perceived power and are tyrannical to challenges. A true narcissist doesn't consider what's right and wrong, instead they consider what's good and what's bad for me personally!
We owe much of our nations problems to narcissists. Some of the biggest of recent memory were LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barak O'bama. Outside of this country, Putin, that stupid N.Korea guy, and the late Chavez.
The success of our American system is that we have been able to limit the damage each of these narcissists have been able to do.
Mark is his own lawyer in this case
I hope he has the good sense to have a lawyer advising him and checking out what he produces such as this counter-suit. Steyn's problem is this lawsuit is in the Washington Dc Federal Courts. Their talent pool is far too leftist as it is and Ogungu is going to try to stack them. This is why Harry Reid cot rid of the filibuster
Also it seems the judge assigned to this case is a vile dunderhead of the AA variety. IIRC
Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
everyone Mann sued should do this!! Why didnt he think of it before?
He doesn't have an attorney. After Steyn lost on the first go round in court, he wrote a column saying bad things about the judge, which prompted his lawyers to drop him as a client.
Limbaugh should pay him $50,000 for each time he hosts. All of in the form of a donation to Steyn's legal defense fund.
Steyn sure as heck better have a lawyer working for him...under him, advising him. Reading and checkout this counter suit
Levin's firm or Hewit's firm or the Pacific Legal Foundation or
any number of law firms across the land would take up Steyn's cause
in a heartbeat and Mark knows that. He's up to something pretty
Maybe TGO Mark Levin could do some pro bono work for him :p
Most don't recall that in 2012(when Steyn made the statement), others were making similar statements, like it was a co-ordinated strategy.
Heartland Institute said global warmists were like the unibomber and planned also saying like Manson, Castro.
When Heartland began the campaign, many financial donors immediately dropped them, forcing Heartland to turn to the coal industry for additional funding.
So, my premise was, if coal was willing to bail out Heartland, they should be willing to bail out Steyn.
Perhaps he does, behind the scene. Now, I have no idea, of course. Just pure speculatin'...
Steyn is very quick on his feet. He will make mincemeat of Mann in court. He will not hold back the way a prissy white shoe lawyer will....who wants to maintain an image in the so called legal community of lawyers and black robes. Steyn does not have this problem.
Related thread:
Michael Mann Faces Bankruptcy as his Courtroom Climate Capers Collapse
"Yep. Steyn is exactly right in that some like Mann, use the legal process to harass and punish."
Environazis like the Sierra Club an the EPA have been doing this for years. They seek to bleed your financial resources down to nothing using the courts which are all too willing to drag out the legal process for the benefit of their "brother lawyers."
You know what you call a failed lawyer? Answer: Your Honor! Most judges were unable to make a decent living as lawyers.
I'll tell you exactly what Mark is up to. He is very fast on his feet and has great stage presence if the job calls for it. You can see this when he is on TV or radio. Markie is going to tear Mann apart limb from limb when Mann gets up on the witness stand. Mark will eat him alive. Mann is lo-IQ compared to Mark with awful stage presece
I trust Mark will have a lawyer with him in court to advise him. Outside court too
But Mark will be the lawyer the judge sees in court. Jury too if there is one
Thanks for the backgrounder!!!
Fund your allies and defund your enemies. Fund your allies with the wealth you take from your enemies. Its the Chicago-Kenyan way
Kenyan thug style politics means take away your enemy's livelihood and ability to make campaign donation to conservative causes. When Obama-EPA kill our coal industry (miners are already going bankrupt) this reduces their ability to fund pro-coal politicians who are the Republicans. Mark Steyn too might not get a donation from them
Kenyan thugs defund their enemies, tax them more, impose ObamaKare on them then transfer this money to liberal NGOs and Federal workers and the votes they buy via giving out ObamaFones, EBT cards, housing and other welfare programs that some are coordinated with the states. There are tons of lib NGOs feeding at the public trough (the Federal one) Just like in House of Cards where Frank Underwood's wife heads up a do gooder NGO (operating where else but Africa!) which might well get private foundation money . But Federal taxpayer money too for sure given FU's political power.
Mark Steyn is one of the greats.
Exactly, great breakdown of the way the left has operated for ages. I don't know why conservative politicians can't seem to see this and support those who oppose their own enemies with more vehemence.
The problem is that AGW the researchers like Michael Mann at Penn State are not releasing their source code or raw data. So there is no way to verify their computer models independently.
Back in late 1980s when I was a CS undergrad at UMN and later a CS grad student at UIUC, I worked quite bit with researchers to fix up their Fortran simulations, doing code optimization for models run on Cray supercomputers and TMC Connection Machines at the MN Supercomputer Center and at NCSA.
In those days all the big federal granting agencies (National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, etc) required that any computer source code created or funded using federal research money must be made available to any US citizen on request. I spent plenty of time at the copy machine killing trees and spinning tapes for these requests. I tracked my time for billing purposes.
Some time after I left (not sure when) the federal research agencies quietly changed the rules. The requirement for public disclosure was dropped.
That is the whole problem. Bring back the requirement that, to get federal funding, you must make available your raw data and computer source code to anyone on request (and if they pay reasonable expenses for providing it).
That was the old rule in the 1980s.
It would fix the whole problem.
I agree with that appraisal of him.
Barratry used to be frowned upon - illegal, in fact. Then the lawyers took over.
Thanks. In the Obama era just follow the Federal money. Who gets funded and who gets defunded. Who gets taxed more and who is paying zero Federal taxes and even illegally claiming low income credits on Fed taxes to get thousands in rebates like the illegal aliens love to do
As in defund Catholic social services with the excuse they do not provide abortion and birth control in their workers health plans. Then take this money to fund an Acorn type outfit to provide services the Catholic church once did. It migt be some black churches or leftist Lutheran churches. Thus providing jobs for Obama voters and supporters. No straight male or conservative can get these jobs
The fund and defund dichotomy. Keep your eyes on it
I read that Steyn fired his lawyers and that makes more sense than having a low life, scum bag, money grubbing lawyer dropping a paying client because he "said bad things about a judge".
You binflick'en boggers.
Everyone, the only financial way to help Mark is to buy a gift certificate for his books and other items, here:
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meanwhile the wacko from carthage, disgraced son of Tennessee, digs deep to fund all the litigation upon which his whole life's work depends
Ummmm....He's the guy Graham Spanier (famous for the Sandusky case) called on the carpet and said "Did you fabricate this global warming nonsense?" Mann said "No sir." Spanier said " OK, don't let it happen again. Keep those grants coming in."
"Back in late 1980s when I was a CS undergrad at UMN and later a CS grad student at UIUC, I worked quite bit with researchers to fix up their Fortran simulations, doing code optimization for models run on Cray supercomputers and TMC Connection Machines at the MN Supercomputer Center and at NCSA."
Cool! I did the same thing at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in the late 1970's as a Research Assistant farmed out to NCAR by the CU Computer Science Department when I was getting my MS in CS at CU.
Back in late 1980s when I was a CS undergrad at UMN and later a CS grad student at UIUC, I worked quite bit with researchers to fix up their Fortran simulations, doing code optimization for models run on Cray supercomputers and TMC Connection Machines at the MN Supercomputer Center and at NCSA.
Cool! I did the same thing at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in the late 1970s as a Research Assistant farmed out to NCAR by the CU Computer Science Department when I was getting my MS in CS at CU.
Yeah, it was pretty typical RA grunt-work back then. We charged hundreds of dollars for the dead trees and tapes. Nowadays it would probably cost $12 for the 4GB USB stick.
In a perfect world, there should be a rule that researchers receiving federal tax money should make their raw input data and simulation source code available on their web site. Sort of like the GPL.
I'm guessing that Steyn had to wait until Mann had piled up sufficient offenses. Some things require time. For example, if Steyn asked Mann to produce documents, it would be unreasonable to complain the next day that he had not produced them. But after a certain point, it becomes obvious that Mann is obstructionist and/or hiding something.
At any rate, I hope Mark Steyn wins big.
The left has long used the courts to harass and bully. It's good to see someone fighting back.
why did he fire his lawyers?
Probably for the same reason that I used to fire my scum bag, low life parasitic, worse than used car salesmen, lawyers...I wasn't satisfied with what I received for what it cost.
I've read that Mann has big "environmentalist" money behind him. I suspect the lawyers are getting paid.
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Margo Popestaff biosend email
County Road 210's future rests with a multi-million dollar overhaul to meet the traffic demands of 2025.
And that's without the proposed Nocatee development being considered, according to an assessment of the road's future by Sverdrup Civil Inc., a consulting firm.
''This is fine in terms of what they have showed us,'' said County Commission Chairwoman Mary Kohnke. ''But should Nocatee get approved, they will have to redo the part from U.S. 1 to Mickler's Road.''
The Sverdrup study forecasts anywhere from a slight increase in traffic to nine times the 1999 count, thus giving C.R. 210 a future look of two lanes to six lanes.
For example, C.R. 210's 1999 traffic count between Interstate 95 and U.S. 1 shows 6,600 vehicles daily. In 2025, the forecast is for 40,000 vehicles daily.
Between U.S. 1 and the Intracoastal Waterway, the 1999 count was 11,600 vehicles daily. In 2025, the forecast is for 41,200 vehicles. The stretch between U.S. 1 and the Intracoastal is where Nocatee would be located, if the County Commission approves its development plan later this month.
C.R. 210 is a mostly two-lane east to west road across northern St. Johns County. Its ability to move traffic drew sharp criticism during the evacuation of coastal residents from Hurricane Floyd's path.
Consultant Dan Kristoff's report showed a construction-only cost of $55 million to $68 million depending on which options the commission chooses to implement. For example, a four-lane segment will cost less to build than a six-lane segment.
He said he will be working with the county's office of management and budget to come up with the financing plan as part of a report in May.
The county decided last year to have the study done to improve the roadway's ability to handle traffic, especially in a hurricane evacuation. It is paying $250,000 for the study which is expected to be completed later this year.
The study focuses on a new alignment of the roadway making Greenbriar Road part of the western leg and Mickler's Road part of the eastern leg. The current road runs from State Road 13 just north of the Shands Bridge to State Road A1A on the east side.
The study, said Kristoff, factors in the proposed housing developments -- an estimated 30,000 units -- approved but not built in the county's northwest section. For the northeast section of the highway, it uses the existing comprehensive land use plan as a guide.
The existing comp plan does not include the proposed New Town amendment which has to be approved before a Nocatee-sized project could be built. Nocatee is a 15,000-acre proposed development on either side of C.R. 210. Nocatee is proposed to straddle St. Johns and Duval counties.
Kristoff will make a presentation on C.R. 210 to the public Monday at Landrum Middle School in Ponte Vedra Beach at 7 p.m. Maps of the proposed realignment of C.R. 210 will be available for viewing at 5:30 p.m.
On March 1, a similar presentation will be made at Switzerland Point Middle School in conjunction with the north-south corridor study. Maps, too, will be available for viewing at 5:30 p.m.
Kristoff gave the Board of County Commissioners a view of the report on Tuesday.
He said the cost analysis to be given in May will include all costs including those for rights of way, wetland mitigation, engineering and design as well as road construction. That report will give a timeline for when improvements are needed as well as a priority for which segments should be done when, he said.
The report gave the commission an idea of how the road could look at its intersection with U.S. 1. The west leg comes in on U.S. 1 North about a mile south of where the east leg meets U.S. 1.
Although Kristoff showed several options to the commission, Kohnke said her goal is to have the road aligned so that the two ends meet on U.S. 1 via an overpass of the railroad crossing.
Kohnke said the Nocatee plan is part of the development proposal that will come before the County Commission for consideration.
''The road is handling traffic fairly well for a two-lane roadway,'' said Kristoff of its present status.
During Tuesday's meeting, Commissioner John Reardon wanted to know if the study could include an analysis of what to do with the existing part of C.R. 210 that goes to S.R. 13 that will be eliminated in the new alignment.
He was told it was not part of the study. To add it, said Nick Perpich, county engineering project manager, would require a revised contract.
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Four white men who look like they hail from corn country have encounters with four streetwise black women who have solved their penis envy dilemma. The women have a fondness for strapping on the biggest, blackest dildos they can find, and they really enjoy forcing their white partners to suck them before taking them doggie-style as well as a variety of other positions.
There are marginal plots, one of the best involving the failing student who engages in extra credit assignments with her bespectacled professor. The technical prowess of the camera person is somewhat lacking, and scenes are often colored an anemic shade of yellow, but the subject matter is so radical that the release warrants attention, though the viewing demographic might not be that large.


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Wall Street East Should Be on Less Shaky Ground: William Pesek
There's something bizarre about the planned combination of stock exchanges in Tokyo and Osaka.
In Frankfurt, London, New York, Singapore and Sydney the talk is of international linkages. And Japan is merging with, well, itself. Nice idea, creating a Wall Street East. It's just a decade or two too late. Yet there's a way to give this marriage some larger relevance: Put it in Osaka, not Tokyo.
This sounds like a non-starter. Tokyo, it's often said, is Japan and Japan is Tokyo. There's a growing realization, though, that the March 11 earthquake in northeastern Japan wasn't the big one for which Tokyo has braced, as it was along a different fault line. It's raised fresh questions about the wisdom of concentrating so many corporate headquarters in one city.
The sanctity of Tokyo's place in Japan has become a sensitive issue of late. Atsushi Saito, president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc., labeled foreign investors "selfish" in calling for his market to close following the quake. "The foreign firms have called for a shutdown because they wanted to run away," Saito told the Wall Street Journal.
Normally, we foreigners in Japan are called "gaijin." These days, we're jokingly being called "fly-jin" or "bye-jin" for how quickly many of us zoomed out of Tokyo. Many of those so-called runners dashed to Osaka to get farther away from the Fukushima nuclear reactors and leaking radiation.
Exodus from Tokyo
The sudden influx of Tokyoites to Japan's second city has no doubt been a boon to the local economy, where demand for hotel rooms and temporary office space is off the charts. The Osaka Securities Exchange Co. must be loving it. Yet the exodus is worth exploring. It should become official policy of Prime Minister Naoto Kan to diversify Japan's economic infrastructure.
Kan is getting an earful on this from Takayoshi Igarashi, a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo. Just two days before the quake, Kan appointed Igarashi as a Cabinet adviser to brainstorm on reversing Japan's population decline and rural decay. After the quake, Igarashi wasted no time in counseling Kan to begin a "nationwide dispersal" process.
"We have no idea when the big one's going to hit Tokyo, but when it does, it's going to annihilate the entire country because everything is here," Igarashi told Bloomberg last week.
The idea is that the U.S. has Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington D.C. and many other vital cities to ensure economic continuity if one were knocked out by a disaster. Hence the rationale to rebalance Japan away from Tokyo a bit.
Tax Hikes
It won't be popular, and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara won't be amused. Nor will many Japanese citizens. Igarashi favors tax increases over debt sales to finance any redistribution of corporate Japan or government jobs.
More likely, Japan's rebuilding will require both increased taxes and bond issuance. Tax incentives also would come into play to encourage, say, Mizuho Financial Group Inc. or Sony Corp. to move big chunks of staff to Fukuoka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka or Sapporo.
Japan should consider doing just that. The prominence of greater Tokyo, a region that also encompasses three neighboring prefectures, has grown steadily in recent decades. In 1955, it generated 24 percent of the nation's wealth. By 2007, the region's gross domestic product made up a third of Japan's economy, was larger than India's entire GDP and three times the size of Sweden's.
Tokyo Address
Tokyo-ization has accelerated since then. Challenges coming from globalization and China's rise put a bigger premium than ever on a Tokyo address. Japan's government likes to pick its champions and the politicians who decide are in Nagatacho, Tokyo's answer to Capitol Hill. A cultural preference for face-to-face meetings -- and late night drinking -- only added to Tokyo's allure in a tough global environment.
The earthquake and nuclear crisis demand a major rethink. That will require considerable political will on Kan's part.
"In Japan, I think that it would be desirable to spread the wealth around, so to speak, but I do not see it as an inevitable development," says Marcus Noland, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, who has written extensively on the issue. "The economics of agglomeration are complex."
It's a balancing act, and a careful one at that. Political systems with high degrees of centralization tend to see business, finance and government gravitating toward a single center. Some governments have introduced regional-development policies to offset this tendency. Japan could do with more separation between government and business, and geography might help.
Tokyo will always be the world-class Mecca of all things cosmopolitan that it is. It will remain a magnet for Japan's most powerful and ambitious personalities and international talent. Just as it's bad for investors to put all their money in one place, though, it's risky for a nation to do so on a much bigger scale.
As Japan rebuilds from the quake, it should spread economic power around. When the big one does hit Tokyo, this nation of 127 million people and global investors will be glad it did.
(William Pesek is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Trolltech Releases Qt 4.4 Beta
Trolltech has just announced the first Qt 4.4 Beta on its website and made a download available. Among other features, the new version integrates Qt WebKit and multimedia framework that is based on Phonon.
While WebKit integration is a more interesting to developers who would like to program a simple browser for Windows, KDE developers are eagerly anticipating the Phonon features. Details on all the changes are available from the Qt homepage.
Trolltech plans to publish the first release candidate in late April or early May with a final version to follow in late May. The Release date of Qt 4.4. is mainly of interest to KDE 4.1, which is due for release in late July, as Qt 4.4 has a number of features that KDE 4.1 urgently requires.
Issue 26: Linux Shell Handbook 7th Ed./Special Editions
Buy this issue as a PDF
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
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Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
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Gregg Allman Performing At The Balboa Theatre
- When Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 8 p.m.
- Where Balboa Theatre, 868 4th Avenue, San Diego Map | Website
- Age limit All ages
- Categories Blues, Country
- Cost $32.50 - $51.50
Above: Promotional photo of Gregg Allman, who will be performing at the Balboa Theatre on January 9th, 2013. Courtesy of Gregg Allman
Join us on Wed, January 9, 2013 at 8pm for Gregg Allman's performance at the Balboa Theatre. Doors open at 7pm.
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