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Cant' see it.
Why does she have to do all the work while her co-star goes casual? She looks great, but I agree that all the outfits can use a little tweaking.
Yeah, same here. They're all pretty good but would benefit by some changes. She herself looks terrific in all.
Those jeans and ugly distressed shoes do look out of place at the book signing. Those are often very casual events, but this one appears to be a rather bigger deal, and no wonder. Hough's easy elegance seems much more appropriate, especially as a representative of the film.
Addendum: Just looked up the movie, and jeezum crow, I had no idea how young she is! Not even twenty-five yet.
Totally giving her a pass on the twee dress, knowing that.
Her poise is remarkable. She doesn't look any older, I just thought she was because she's so self-possessed! I kind of love her now.
1, 3 & 4 are fine. 2, not so much.
as much as I hate number 2, I have to admit her hair looks awesome in it
I just want Josh Duhamel.
Right — I don't care how her wardrobe grabs me as long as HE does.
I cannot recall a single outfit of hers that has been 100% fab to me. All of these outfits need help.
She's kinda irked me ever since that season of DWTS where her bf Chuck Wicks was her partner. They had this one super-sexual dance, and I just found it to be TMI and very at odds with the image she tries to cultivate. Also, she and Seacrest…don't get it at all.
Josh Duhamel delights me. In every photo call, he looks stoned, giddy and a bit flirty. I think he'd be a fun co-star.
I think the red dress is great … the others all need an emergency squad of seamstresses, fully weaponized with scissors, needles and thread.
I truly, madly, deeply wish she would employ a new eyebrow wrangler. A softer brow would make a world of difference. I love that first dress and the last look – although a shorter hem would've made it perfect.
I like her shiny copper shoes.
I love me a pink and black dress, so #1 is perfect. #2 is awful from the waist down. #3 is pretty damn good, and #4 just needs a shorter skirt. The copper shoes are awesome.
I want to see the top of that floral peplum dress with a plum/wine colored pencil skirt. I bet that would be nice.
I am in love with the top of that floral peplum dress (I would buy that in a minidress). And, I do understand what they were going for. The problem is peplum is never the answer. Never. And this particularly peplum just looked superfluous. But I love the floral fabric of the peplum and I like how they pulled pieces out of that for the beading on the top.
I find her sort of inexplicably likeable as well, and have this hope that one day she is going to figure out this slightly quirky/edgy/different look she seems to be aiming for and knock it outof the park. But for now I appreciate thatshe appears to be trying to create her own unique looks without straying over into crazy land or trashyville. You're almost there Julieanne!
I confess I love the twee dress and I love it on her. It fits her to perfection.
That second dress is just…weird. The top would be much nicer with even, say, a black pencil skirt. But the two colors of white don't even seem to match, which makes the top look like she had a dry-cleaning accident.
No to the hair, the makeup, and the clothes. Oh, Julianne, since Seacrest it has been all down hill.
My inner Liesl Von Trapp wants to steal that pink and black dress and twirl around in it.
I just COVET the metallic shoes she's wearing in the last picture!
I really like the first one. That's just my kind of thing. I completely agree that the second one needs to be cut apart and the top half paired with some skinny pants maybe. I would leave off the peplum or change the peplum somehow because it is shaped weirdly. The last two aren't quite right to me. Her hair and face look nice though.
The first pink fluffy confection should go to a brunette youngster, like Hailee Seinfeld (sp?). The last Fine Corinthian skirt should return to the bucket seat of a Chrysler Cordoba.
OMG I love this dress! Its adorable in every way. Would even be a super cute dress down wedding dress! To bad I just got married!
Why the heck does she dress like a dowdy old woman? She's my daughter's age, but her hair and makeup and clothes and EVERYTHING = old hag!


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Allentown is shining the spotlight on a century's worth of "romping."
The city is observing its 100th "Romper Day" Monday night. It's meant to bring together all of the children who have taken part in the city's summer recreation programs.
They'll participate in a number of drills, dances and activities.
"Romper Day" gets underway at J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown at 7 p.m. It's free, and there will be a special fireworks display to mark the 100th anniversary.

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Department of Computer Science, Monash University
An Informal Career Guide for Aspiring Computer Scientists
by Carlo Kopp
Department of Computer Science, Monash University
The computer has captured the imagination of the modern world, finding an ever increasing number of applications in industry, government, research, education, defence, entertainment, commerce and last, but not least, the household.
This is a trend which was first observed during the 1960s, and today still shows no sign of slowing down.
Where there is growth, there is a demand for skilled people, and where demand is strong, skilled people can command respectable salaries and good job security.
A career in computing is usually professionally rewarding and well paid.
Because computing permeates the modern world so completely, there is a vast number of job types of widely varying skill levels to which a young professional can aspire.
The greatest challenge in finding a career in the modern world of computing is figuring out where you can best fit into the bigger picture. The ideal job is a well rewarded, stable position, well matched to your temperament, talents, formal academic training and past experience. To find such a position you must do an appropriate degree course, learn your strengths and weaknesses academically and professionally, discover what interests you and what bores you, and finally, identify an organisation which has a demand for your specific capabilities.
In a highly competitive job market your best means of being successful is to develop your skills to match the types of jobs available in the industries available.
Having made these observations, we must note that the career path of most individuals is seldom locked into one category alone.
Indeed, in many organisations computer professionals will perform tasks which may fall into several of these categories at any time. Similarly, many individuals will change the type of work they do during their career, hopping across categories. Some organisations will intentionally move staff between such jobs, to broaden their experience and skills.
The market availability for many specialisations will rise and fall over time and people will often drift across job types in the quest for more interesting work or better salaries or both.
What we end up doing at any point in our career depends on our interests, temperament, skills and, of course, opportunities.
In general, the better your skills and experience, the more opportunities are available.
Collecting a set of skills, formal academic training and experience and matching these to a career can often be a complex task. This is for a very good reason - computers, software and the underlying science which allows us to create such technology are often complicated, requiring a large and complex industry to produce and support them.
You should not let this complexity intimidate you in your quest for a career as a Computing Professional. Means and ways of navigating yourself through this maze do exist and are not that hard to understand. With a little self knowledge and common sense you can easily plot yourself a course which will take you in your preferred direction.
When deciding upon a career as a Computing Professional there are two basic questions which you must ask yourself.
What type of work do I wish
to do ?
What technology do I wish to work with ?
To understand the importance of these questions, we'll take a brief look at the types of work and range of technologies available to computing professionals, to give you some idea of what to look for in a computing course.
Obviously you will learn more about them during your computing course and therefore be well placed by such time as you begin your job search as a computing graduate
The jobs performed by Computing Professionals can broadly be divided into four major categories.
Within each of these categories a wide range of skill levels, salaries and job difficulty exist.
Research and Education
Research and Education is performed by research scientists and lecturers who are typically individuals with a good track record of high academic achievement, have usually completed a higher degree (Masters or Doctorate) and enjoy dealing with complex abstract problems and sharing knowledge.
A research scientist is a scientific explorer who attempts to solve problems which have never been solved before.
Lecturers typically teach university courses and impart knowledge to undergraduate and graduate students. In universities many academic staff perform both research and teaching. Both are challenging but difficult occupations which are seldom rewarded in income for the training and effort required to qualify.
Typically only several percent of any student class ends up in these occupations.
Development, Design, Systems Analysis
Development and Design is performed by software developers (also known as development programmers) and hardware and system designers. Systems Analysis is specialised commercial software development work
Like researchers and lecturers, developers and designers are typically individuals with high or good academic performance, very often with a higher degree, who enjoy the creative process and the challenges and intellectual discipline of converting new scientific ideas into products.
A developer or designer will produce software, hardware or systems to meet a client's requirements. This process involves the understanding of a customer's technical needs, the search for a suitable solution, the creation and testing of the solution, and the maintenance of the product design once it has been fielded.
A Systems Analyst typically designs dataflow diagrams or database schema which are used to produce commercial software systems, such as financial packages, inventory, production or manufacturing stock control systems, or client or customer databases.
In larger organisations a systems analyst may specialise in this occupation. In smaller organisations the systems analyst may also convert the specifications into a program.
An occupation related to systems analysis, often overlapping, is business analysis, where the analyst analyses the function of the business and produces specifications for systems analysts, or for development programmers.
Development and design is a challenging and difficult occupation: well rewarded in countries with strong manufacturing economies - less well rewarded in Australia which has a weak manufacturing sector.
Systems analysis and business analysis is often less technically challenging than development and design of software and hardware, but is usually much better rewarded in Australia, as demand has been quite strong in recent times.
Much like researchers, only a small proportion of any student class ends up in Development and Design positions. A much larger proportion end up working as Systems Analysts.
Support and Administration
Support and Administration is performed by system administrators, database or application administrators, and hardware or systems support professionals, who are typically individuals with an undergraduate (Bachelor) degree and with good academic performance who enjoy interacting with people, maintaining software, hardware or systems in service and solving problems.
An administrator or support professional is most often employed by an organisation not specialising in computer technology and is therefore the organisation's expert maintainer of computer software tools or hardware.
Professionals working for organisations which use computer technology advise management on the purchase and operation of products, support products in service and advise and solve problems for non-expert users.
Professionals working for organisations which produce computer software and hardware advise on sales and marketing, devise customer solutions, install and commission products, and provide support to customers once the product is in service.
Support and administration is seldom a boring occupation and can be exceptionally well rewarded in Australia, compared to other specialisations.
A large proportion of any student class will end up in this occupation.
Marketing and Sales
Marketing and Sales is performed by marketers, salespeople and sales support specialists (often called sales engineers) respectively, who are most often individuals with a talent for negotiation and dealing with people and are less interested in the intricacies of the technology being sold.
A marketing professional is typically concerned with analysing customer requirements and demand for products, defining product specifications, and producing sales literature. A sales professional will negotiate directly with customers or clients, to sell a product or service. A sales support professional will provide technical advice to management, sales, marketing, and customers or clients. In many organisations, these job descriptions may overlap.
The prerequisite for performing such work is personality and temperament, as well as some technical skill.
Salespeople, marketers and sales support specialists are mainly occupied with finding product solutions for customers, demonstrating products and negotiating for product sales, although they also may spend time conducting market research and advising their employers on commercial opportunities. They typically enjoy the adventure of competing for business and the often lucrative rewards of being successful in selling products or services.
Professionals in this area can often reap exceptional financial rewards if successful, but the work itself is often difficult and will always include its share of disappointments.
Job security is often poor and the very nature of the occupation means that it is exceptionally competitive at every level.
Typically a moderate proportion of any class will end up in this occupation.
How does this insight help us with our choice of what career to choose as a Computer Professional?
It helps us by showing that no matter what we like doing most, what we do best, and how we perform professionally, there will always be one or more categories of work which we can perform successfully.
The factor which most commonly determines whether we are successful or not is how hard we work and how good our skills are in relation to the type of work we are doing.
Very few people successfully choose themselves a profession for life in their late teens. It is only once you understand your own abilities and tastes that you can seriously focus on a direction.
In Australia, as in every other economy, availability of work in any given category is closely tied to the structure of the economy. The largest employers of computing professionals are financial institutions and large retailers. Closely following are larger mining and resource companies, and the heavy engineering companies which support them. Government departments also cover an appreciable fraction of the job market. Small and medium sized businesses, particularly in manufacturing or the supply of computers, collectively provide another substantial but smaller range of opportunities.
Reflecting these structural patterns, most of the available positions fall into the categories of systems analysis, support and administration. With the decline in Australia's manufacturing industry, the demand for research, development and design skills has been modest, although the mining and resource industry has provided a robust number of positions for scientific software tool development and support.
As noted earlier, people will often move between positions through their careers, and may change the type of work they perform many times throughout the course of a working life.
Examples of common moves are support and administration professionals moving into sales and marketing, designers and developers moving between development-design and support-administration jobs or researchers moving between academic and design-development jobs.
Highly experienced professionals in any category may choose to do consultancy, teaching, management or to found their own businesses.
Computing is without doubt one of the broadest, most technologically diverse and interesting disciplines available to us in this century.
The choice of what technological facet of computing you choose to specialise in is an often complex question.
Were it a matter of interests alone, we could pursue what we enjoy and do best. In practice, the demand for any specialisation can fluctuate quite dramatically with the economic demand for the product created by such specialists. In some instances, the demand for some specialisations may vanish entirely as new technology displaces older technology.
The key to success in the choice of specialisation is to find a sensible balance between general computing skills, fundamental knowledge and specialist skills.
A high level of specialisation can make you vulnerable to market fluctuations, with exceptionally well paid work when demand is up and no work when demand is down. A low level of specialisation often makes it difficult to get better paying work but makes you less vulnerable to fluctuations in market demand.
The choice of what technological skills to learn is often a difficult one. Essentially what you will learn in any university course is a mix of fundamental or basic knowledge and practical or "hands on" skills in using particular software or hardware tools.
Fundamental knowledge never changes and, therefore, what fundamentals you learn well will remain with you for life.
Most jobs are centred on practical skills and therefore practical skills make you more competitive in the short term. However, because practical skills often become obsolete or superseded fairly rapidly, especially where the technology is evolving quickly, you are trained to have a deep understanding of computing so that you can modify your practical skills over time.
Competitive economic pressures mean that many employers will prefer to shed staff as their skills become obsolete, rather than retrain them. Computer scientists are trained to learn new skills quickly - a skill that will be useful over the very long term. Finding a proper balance between theory and practice is a crucial factor in being successful professionally.
Good fundamental knowledge better equips you to learn new technology quickly, and therefore to adapt to changing technology. If you understand the inner workings of a class of tool[1], you can learn any tool in that class much faster. Good fundamental knowledge makes you more adaptable, and can be regarded as a form of occupational insurance. Should you learn to use a particular tool without grasping its operating principles, when that tool becomes obsolete your knowledge has also become obsolete (remembering what keystrokes worked with tool XXX will no longer be useful, once you must use tool YYY !).
Because computer technology evolves so quickly, every computer professional will have to learn a large number of tools throughout his or her career. Equipping yourself with the skills and fundamental knowledge to adapt quickly is therefore a good investment.
A good undergraduate course is typically designed to provide a robust set of fundamental skills, balancing breadth and depth.
In the broadest sense, computing as a discipline can be divided into:
Software topics are primarily concerned with the programs which are run on computers. Hardware topics are mostly concerned with the inner workings of machines which perform computing, while systems topics are mostly concerned with the interaction between software and hardware, and interactions between systems. All three areas are important parts of the whole and no computer professional can go through life without bumping into each area at one or another time.
A discipline as broad, deep and complex as Computer Science is hard to summarise in a page without doing injustice to one or another branch of the discipline. You should therefore regard this discussion as a guide only.
Software oriented specialisations are typically divided into the following categories:
Hardware oriented specialisations are most often divided into the following categories:
Systems oriented specialisations span hardware and software, and are therefore often identified with either category:
Your course will contain some compulsory topics and some elective topics. It makes good sense for you to seek advice on what elective topics to choose to produce a particular package of skills for a particular specialisation. Beware of "flavour of the month" specialisations, as the demand for these can dramatically fluctuate in the market.
The key to success lies in selecting the best balance in technology to cover the areas likely to fit your intended job content.
Typically, course structures and electives provide a wide range of possible content. Students may choose a standard three year pass degree, a four year honours degree, or a four or five year double major with or without honours. Therefore, students may opt for narrower course content in a shorter undergraduate pass degree course, broader content in a double major, or deeper content in an honours degree course. A double major with honours provides a very broad and deep course content, and would be particularly useful to a development programming career.
Examples could be splitting electives between databases and operating systems, operating systems and hardware, graphics and databases, software engineering and databases, software engineering and artificial intelligence, or compilers and artificial intelligence.
Another strategy can be that of splitting course content between a technological focus and a non-computing industry discipline focus. An example would be a split between computing and either accounting, business studies or economics, for a career as a systems/business analyst. Another possible split would be between computing, and geophysical science, geology, chemistry, mechanical or chemical engineering, or mathematics, for a career in the mining and resource industry. People interested in working for computer suppliers and manufacturers or the telecommunications industry can opt to split computing with electronic/electrical engineering, either via a double major in Computer Science and Engineering or a Computer Systems Engineering major.
Computer Science is a fascinating, challenging, broad and rapidly growing discipline, which offers a wide range of career opportunities.
Whilst it demands much hard work and commitment, it also provides good rewards in remuneration, job satisfaction, standing in the workplace and job mobility.
[1] Common software tools are
word processors (eg MS Word, WordPerfect), spreadsheets (eg Lotus
MS Excel), WWW browsers (eg Netscape Navigator or MS Explorer),
tools (Adobe Photoshop).
About the author:
Carlo Kopp has fifteen years of industry experience. He has worked as a systems programmer, embedded programmer, application programmer, computer design engineer, technical support engineer, sales support engineer, production engineer and manager, research and development office manager, adviser in strategic marketing, consultant and trade journal writer. He holds a first class Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering (1984, UWA), completed a research Masters Degree in Computer Science (1996, Monash) and is currently working on his PhD in Computer Science at Monash University.
The views and opinions in this document are those of the author and do not constitute the policy or official position of Monash University. This document is provided as an informal guide to prospective students and does not in any way supersede or supplant any official Monash University syllabus or course structure document.


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Friday, December 28, 2012
Neon Peach
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That is so cute. I love that color belt with the blue dress. Those boots pull the whole outfit together.ReplyDelete
Gracie- I love it! Both the band and the outfit- and the brooch- major score!ReplyDelete
PS: My band is going to be called Ghost Kitty. All I need is to learn how to schreech, uh, I mean sing.
Booooots. Love your boots! And your Lynne pin. (Which now that I consider would be an excellent name for a product lol!) See you in the new year Gracey.ReplyDelete
Beautiful, Gracey! You never disappoint! Lynne now needs to be a pin-sourcer and use that trade name xReplyDelete
Just so cute! I love the cardi with the dress, and the peach accents are Pretty with a capital P!ReplyDelete
Really cute outfit!!!! I love the neon peach belt and the pin is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I never heard of neon peach before -- but it's pretty fab. Love this combination and your new pin!ReplyDelete
Super cute dress!ReplyDelete
xo Jennifer
I love this. I will totally join your band if that's what we're going to call it. I'm in :) I really love your boots, I'm in need of a pair of boots like this but I haven't checked into Born yet. I will have to do that! Happy long weekend darling!ReplyDelete
Love the cardi and boots!ReplyDelete
You. Look. Gorgeous. ♥ReplyDelete
Blue is so your color! And Neon Peach sounds like an ideal name for an 80s band...I can only imagine what the band's attire would look like!ReplyDelete
Knocked Up Fabulous
Just discovered your blog and love your style! Must invest in more belts in 2013.ReplyDelete
Great outfit, fabulous brooch, and best band name! When are you touring? Are you coming to the UK? Will you do Love is a Battlefield?ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful new year, Gracey! xxxx
I want a band t-shirt to proclaim my groupie-ness! And will Neon Peach sing the beautiful blues of this outfit? I love it all - the silhouette, proportions, print, palette, everything!ReplyDelete
I don't play any instrument or even sing, but I will be your road manager for your 80's cover bandReplyDelete
Love the Bangles and The GoGo's so much back then.
Love this outfit! The dress is super cute, and the pin is the perfect accessory! I'd forgotten about pins and brooches, and I'm using a couple in an upcoming post!ReplyDelete
Love your personality as much as your clothes. And I just finished reading Sally's book. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
i'm all for an 80s girl band! the name would be perfect, lol!!ReplyDelete
Love the dress and the outfit. A girl cover band sounds like a lot of fun! I did see the Mixtape musical in SD a couple of months ago and that was a lot of fun as the 80ties was fun!ReplyDelete
Please make that 80's cover band happen - I would go see you guys perform :)ReplyDelete
I love your outfit today! That dress is so pretty, and the pin is darling.
you and goodwill, how do you do it? you look so, so cute in this! Happy New Year to my new found blog friend!ReplyDelete
For last year's words belong to last year's languageReplyDelete
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
Wishing you joy, love, laughter and magical moments in 2013.
Happy New Year Gracie.
YES! Please start an 80s cover band ;) heheReplyDelete
Love the brooch, it definitely pops against the neon peach belt!
How can I reserve the album? :)ReplyDelete
You find the prettiest thrifted vintage dresses. I may be looking at them wrong 'round here. Whenever I think I've found a "Gracey dress" that might fit me, they never do - and some of them have had gorgeous, gorgeous fabric AND pleated skirts.
This is how much I love you. I actually mailed you that pin. Don't think those dangling beads didn't intrigue me like a very pretty cat toy...lol.
Happy New Year Gracey!ReplyDelete
I think that is both an awesome belt, and band name. I'm sure you gals would rock.
Chic on the Cheap
Your smile is infectious. I can't help but grin whenever I look at your photos. Thank you for bringing me so much joy in 2012. Here's to a wonderful 2013.ReplyDelete
This outfit is so flippin' cute!
Beautiful dress on you Gracey. Love the belt and pin too. Really nice outfit today, and well, everyday. dawn suitcase vignettes xo Happy New Year!!ReplyDelete
What a pretty dress xoReplyDelete
Love this outfit! A dress with tights, boots and a cardi is my favorite combo for fall/ winter.ReplyDelete
Oooooh can I join your band? You don't need singing ability or musical talent in any way to join right? I love your dress! So sweet!ReplyDelete
I just love this outfit to bits! Perfect!:)ReplyDelete
Happy new year Gracey and thank you for the card!:)
Hooray! Comments! I love comments!! (And cake, but if you just leave a comment, I'll manage the cake on my own).


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To recap the Cup of Russia event 2010, Chan fell 4 times between the SP and LP. In the FS, his PCS was only 3 points higher than Verner which is about right since as you said he was better than Verner in every aspect. Verner, as you said, skated well but a measured performance, and in the FS he made minor errors on his 3A and 2A, and no quad attempt. As for the "5th fall", Chan had a 2A+3T negated because of the Zayak Rule. It was a pretty big mental error, because after falling on his opening quad, he did a 3A+3T (one of the only ones I've seen him do, actually) and with two axel attempts and two lutzes, he should have just done a 2A+2T for the win. With that error, Verner won the FS by 11 points, and without any quad attempt or as good spins/footwork as Chan, and even Chan did a 2A+2T, Verner still would have won the FS by 6 points (although lost overall). However, you can't consider Chan actually falling 5 times because of the Zayak rule, and at any rate, he lost the FS and the competition (as he should have).
The reality is, Chan has won exactly once with 4 falls, and never with 5 falls. If he did just a 2A+2T, he would have won CoR 2010 with 4 falls. Saying you actually were referring to an 'equivalent' of 6-7 falls when he fell 4 times SP+LP combined - and lost the competition at that - is pretty lame. I agree that the Oda result was wrong (and yes, Oda was screwed left right and centre), and 2013 Worlds (Ten unfortunately not having the last name Hanyu/Fernandez/Takahashi), and when he beat Javier at Skate Canada. But those are his controversial wins in my opinion (you like to argue 2012 Worlds but you already know my stance and the CoP justification for that win... essentially the same justification for Hanyu winning the GPF).
In the past, you have made it sound like his career is littered with controversial wins - even starting threads seemingly about some skaters like S/S and making it about Chan - and saying he can win with 5 falls (or even 4 when that only happened a single time) when you're referring to a result where he came 2nd with 4 falls, is frankly misleading, not giving him credit for the elements he does execute and his skating ability overall, and trivializing an otherwise stellar career for him where the vast majority of his wins were merited. When you have an artistic skater, they're bound to have controversial wins/placements - hence Takahashi's placements or when Buttle won Four Continents with 2 falls or Kostner being 2nd at Worlds last year after an SP fall, or the Germans over the Canadians last year with their LP problems. It's frankly something that has to be fixed with the sport, but to smear the skaters for judging that's beyond their control is unfair.


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In the Artist's Studio at Perrot!
Author and Illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg conducted a collage workshop for kids at Perrot on July 7th. Kids learned how to construct 3-D relief collages and created a collage to take home. Ms. Greenberg also talked about how this process influences her style in the picture books she illustrates.
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Check out some of the books Melanie Hope Greenberg has illustrated:
Melanie Hope Greenberg is a self-taught illustrator. She began her career in 1981 designing greeting cards for UNICEF and decorating games, wrapping paper, mugs, and posters in her unique style. "Everyone Belongs," a poster for the Children's Defense Fund published in 1995, is still popular today.
Ms. Greenberg wrote and illustrated her first picture book in 1989. A former president of the Children's Book Illustrator's Group, she is currently on the steering committee for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, NY Metro Chapter. She is still an artist for UNICEF, as well as the Poverty Law Center and the National Association of Education for Young Children. Ms. Greenberg travels throughout the U.S. presenting her author-illustrator workshops for elementary school students, teachers, artists, and writers.


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If Mirai doesn't make a real effort to convince USFS she is serious about her skating, Mirai could find herself off the World team once again. Gracie, Ashley and Polina impressed the ISU judges at Sochi and Saitama while Mirai bombed at 4CC. Mirai has a lot to prove, and she could start by selecting a coach and then train hard in preparation for the GP. She absolutely has to put in two good performances on the GP circuit to have any chance at 2015 Nationals.
I think Gracie will stay the #1 US lady. I don't find her very artistic but I want to wait and she what she creates with Lori first.
Gracie is far more athletic than artistic.
I think they needed the ice princess image to lend her some sort of gravitas. Ultimately she just has to develop more emotional projection. Her skating skills aren't so bad. She just has to connect them to a mood/character. Also stop hanging her arm down during catch foot spins. It makes her look like a blond blue eyed gorilla!
Reading the "crazy predictions" thread, I realized that a lot of people already consider Polina ahead of Gracie for the next seasons... Why?! I'm not stating that Gracie is "the best skater in the world now and forever" as someone does but Polina has never actually beaten Gracie!! They're both excellent skaters, yes, but I think that Gracie's jumps and spins are much better than Polina's, and with Carroll has PCS has really gone up miles. The only thing in favour of Polina at the moment would be consistency but... do you remember 2012 Gracie? She was extremely solid and consistent, but then everyone expected so much from her and in the GP she began to bomb here and there. Couldn't the same happen to Polina, too (so they would both become "sometimes consistent and sometimes inconsistent skaters", as almost everyone is)?
FSGMT asked: A lot of people already consider Polina ahead of Gracie for the next seasons... Why?!
I think Polina skates with an all out abandon while Gracie seems to hold something back.
I expect Gracie to remain #1 this year but by the following year, Polina to become #1 (unless she continues to grow and then we will see).
Polina has an organic quality in her interpretation which you can't teach . Gracie is a very pretty athletic skater who is also a very good spinner I think it's going to be all about the programs .
I do not feel that way about Gold vs. Edmunds, however. Edmunds is still on the rise, but she has a bit of growing up to do, and who knows if she can keep her technical skills up/remain injury free through it all. At least on the international/world scale, Edmunds has yet to really break through the way Gold has. A solid skate by Edmunds cannot yet beat clean (or even flawed) Gold. The only reason Wagner had the edge over Gold for a year is because the latter was literally all over the place. But now that Gold has pulled it together (somewhat....), she's the new #1. The issue with Edmunds is not so much consistency as it is just "not being there yet". Different situation IMO.
Now, it COULD happen - Edmunds surpassing Gold for #1 - especially if the latter ends up going through post-Oly slump, but I wouldn't be willing to bet on it like the Gold/Wagner situation. More variables involved this time. If Edmunds can still do 2 3-3s at 18/19, then I'll believe it.
I don't have a preference between Gracie and Polina at this point, but I do feel like Polina has more potential. I don't feel a connection with Gracie's skating--I don't yet for Polina either, but I feel like she could develop it. Of course, this is just speaking in terms of personal preference, not in terms of "who will make it"--that'll be insanely difficult to predict.
I was at SOI last night and it was great to see all of the top four ladies form Boston live for the first time. I know it's deep into the off season, and exhibitions are far different from competition but still there was a lot to take in.
Polina - What I noticed right off the bat is her arms and how beautiful they are. I think she's still growing into her limbs but she has a very natural, beautiful port de bras. It's also clear that she had the least amount of experience of the four. She was skating well, but there was no real relating to the audience, but I got the impression it was a quality that would come in time. I also thought it was interesting to see she only did edge jumps in her program but they were really really nicely done.
Ashley - I was really impressed with her. Exhibition is where she really shines. She seems to really know her body and what it means to sell a program and PERFORM the heck out of it. Seeing her live really helps me understand why her PCS are always so high. Because they should be. Also her triples were on last night. Not a shadow of a doubt. I guess that's a benefit to getting to compete in so many major events, and do all the tours that come with it, there's a certain security I felt with her. It was like I knew she was going to come out and nail every moment.
Mirai - Was stunning. Especially On Golden Pond was breathtaking, and I also was really surprised by how fast she was skating. There was even one point when she was going into a jump that someone behind me commentated in it. Unfortunately she was someone that looked like she struggled with the on ice seating because she was going into a triple flip and I think she ran out of real estate and couldn't complete it. But boy has she found her voice. For me she skated with the most nuance last night, and she has this rare gift to change the energy of the room. I understand why people are worried that she went with Adam Rippon for her programs, but I have to say I think it was a genius move. It's clear she's passionate about these routines and that really comes across live. Also she's doing Caroline's pearl variation in the layback to great affect, and she's started holding her boot in the biellman position. She also had easily the best axel jump of any skater last night.
Gracie - It was clear that Gracie chose two pieces meant to be real show stoppers and I think on the whole it worked for her. The whole arena really got excited when they realized her second piece was Let It Go. I do admit, it made me really curious to see how Lori and Frank are going to keep developing her. I think she was another one that could have used the extra room that was missing because of the on ice seating. On the whole, I always feel like all of the skaters would have benefitted from that, but I guess they have their reasons for doing it that way. It was interesting, from where I was sitting at times Gracie really reminded me of Nicole Bobek. I can't quite pin point it, she doesn't have Nicole's spirals, and ultimately their strengths are very different, but for some reason the way their blades use the ice and the way they both relate to it, made me think of Nicole when I was watching Gracie.
Truth be told, I really just think it's going to boil down to who is consistent and who shows up with their a-game. Mirai has as god a shot as any to be a part of the conversation, and if her programs are of the quality of the exhibitions, I think she could turn heads. Ashley is still very much in this to win this. It's a shame that this past season went the way it did for her, but I think you can tell she's all the better for it performance wise. Polina has such a bright future ahead of her. If she keeps moving in this trajectory, she has a ton of potential. Gracie is the girl of the moment no doubt. We'll have to see if Frank and Lori can help her up the ante next year. The USFSA pretty clearly will be happy to place her a top their podium if she delivers the goods.
I agree about Mirai at SOI. She has the best artistry/performance and the best spins. I loved both of her programs, especially the one to Demons. She put her heart and soul into that one. She fell on a triple lutz when I saw her (can't remember which program), but so did Gracie. Mirai should be a contender but she needs to build up some credibility with the judges so that she gets the marks she deserved in PCS.
Ashley is next best in performance, but needs the right programs and needs to fix her bad habit of two-footing jumps. That may not be possible.
Gracie is super-fast but lacking in artistry and performance. She did better, I thought, with the Chicago program. She is not a Disney princess. She has the difficult jumps, though, so that will keep her in contention.
I didn't see Polina, but think it's way too soon to make any predictions about her. She isn't going to stay that skinny forever. Other skaters have faltered when their bodies filled out; but some have not. It's wait and see with her. She also needs better programs and better packaging from what I saw of her competitive programs. She needs a makeover a la Michelle Kwan in 1996.


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A trail of diesel fuel lines West St. Bernard Highway from Chalmette to Arabi after a truck driver claims something struck his fuel tank, according to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office.
The driver of the truck, Vincent Burton, 44, of Picayune, Miss., told sheriff's deputies he heard something hit the truck while driving through New Orleans on his way to the Domino Sugar Refinery in Arabi, Sheriff's Office Spokesman Steve Cannizaro said. Burton works for Meyers Warehouse Inc. in eastern New Orleans.
The truck's fuel tank holds as much as 100 gallon of diesel fuel, but officials aren't sure how much leaked onto the roadway.
A motorist flagged Burton down on west St. Bernard Highway to call his attention to the leak, Cannizaro said. When Burton got out of his truck to investigate, he couldn't find a leak and continued on his way, Cannizaro said.
Burton was eventually stopped by St. Bernard sheriff deputies on Aycock at Royal streets, where he was questioned by police and fire officials and later by state police who cited him for careless handling of a hazardous material and failing to notify authorities of the spill.
Meyers Warehouse has hired a private contractor to clean up the spill, Cannizaro said.


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I was recently helping out a trainer who was working with some young horses. He wanted to show me how to "properly flex a horse", and proceeded to take a long yearling (possibly two years old) by the bridle, clipped a lead rope onto one side of the bit, then tied it's head around to the saddle. He said you then leave them there for 10 minutes, then do the same on the other side.
Was I right to be thinking... when he showed me this?? That poor filly had NO release whatsoever. I have never known of anybody flexing a horse in that way, I have always seen a pressure/release method which seemed much kinder and the horse still learned how to flex just fine.
Is this a normal thing to do or is it really as bad as it looked to me? Please enlighten me!
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Frank Russo has always been a smooth operator -- a sweet-talking, charismatic back-slapper who could work a room like Don King. He hugged. He kissed. He sang duets of "Under the Boardwalk" with his partner in crime, Jimmy Dimora. Together, the former Cuyahoga County auditor and county commissioner brought the party to the Democratic Party. Until the feds turned the tables, inviting them to a courthouse.
And that should have been the end of it.
Except it wasn't.
In 2010, Russo pleaded guilty to 21 corruption-related offenses and was sentenced to more than two decades in prison.
But he's still free -- free not just to testify against others and help the feds make their cases against other defendants, but free to party with friends and come and go as he pleases.
Coming Sunday: Columnist Mark Naymik says the public should do what the courts won't, and put Russo under house arrest. Find out what he means in The Plain Dealer or at cleveland.com/naymik
Reports of a smiling Frank Russo volunteering at a Tremont soup kitchen, or enjoying lunch with friends and family, or sunsets from his lakefront condo only fuel the disgust of a public whose pockets he and his cronies picked with impunity for more than a decade.
How is that possible? Why isn't Russo spending his days and nights in a federal penitentiary, or at least restricted in his movements?
Mike Tobin, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, says snitches like Russo are a necessary evil in high-profile prosecutions -- such as the longest, most expensive federal investigation into public corruption in Cuyahoga County history. But once they've testified against their co-conspirators, Tobin said, it's off to Club Fed.
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Distasteful as it seems, the deals typically don't include conditions on how convicted felons spend their free time while they're waiting to testify. Such is the case with Russo. That does not make the situation any less offensive, however -- particularly since Russo has now been enjoying the good life for more than 20 months since admitting his guilt, with no end in sight.
Russo is to testify at the racketeering trial of Anthony Calabrese III in September. Other trials are pending.
Russo is not the only flipped felon still enjoying freedom while waiting to testify: J. Kevin Kelley, Steven Pumper, Sandy Klimkowski, Brian Schuman, Daniel Gallagher and Anthony Sinagra all remain at liberty, Tobin said.
But Russo is the poster boy for the smug cronyism, shameless corruption and heedless self-indulgence that for years characterized both his actions and county politics at the highest level. The prosecutor's office erred in not establishing a tougher set of rules for how Russo could spend his many extra months of freedom.'


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AUBURN, Alabama -- Auburn will upgrade the clubhouse for the baseball program in the offseason, athletics director Jay Jacobs announced Tuesday.
The $1 million upgrade will be made possible with a donation from former Auburn pitcher Tim Hudson and wife Kim. The couple donated the funds needed to construct the facility, Jacobs said Tuesday during an appearance at the Auburn Chamber of Commerce.
The upgrade is part of Auburn's master plan for the facility.
Hudson, currently with the Atlanta Braves, has remained close to the program since his departure in 1997.
Construction at Plainsman Park will begin following the season.
The baseball team concludes the regular season this week with a game tonight against Jacksonville State and a three-game series against Arkansas beginning Thursday.


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It's noon and in Los Angeles there is one hilarious individual and right now he's sleeping. Yes, sleeping. It's noon. The temperature is rising. The Sun is starring daggers at us and this man, Detroit-native SANDY DANTO continues his slumber. Why is he sleeping? Because he can. The difference between the reader and him is that when he wakes up, he's not popping out of a dream. He's living in it. He's living it. Sandy on stage is like watching Lebron James try out for Freshman basketball at St. Vincent- St. Mary, they both had to take bathroom breaks.
Joking aside, Danto goes up everywhere. His resume is a who's who of legendary (and not so legendary) comedy clubs around the world. His actual life lends itself to the most unique stories that could be written for TV and film. He references tough times in his life that in no way, should be funny, but he pulls off the job. The reaction received from taking in his creativity isn't just a laugh or a "That's funny"; it's a thought process that activates inspiration and emotion and you'll be grateful for it.
Sandy moved to Hollywood after studying at Indiana University while taking summer classes at Second City in Detroit. He immediately started working at National Lampoon upon landing in Los Angeles. He is a character actor, but is equally comfortable playing himself and did so plenty during his stint with the Lampoon. In addition to his on camera work, he writes, directs and produces comedy shorts, which is what he was hired to do for National Lampoon in the first place. He's appeared on Mad TV and Comedy Central's Mash up. He goes on tour with 90's icon Pauly Shore all over the world and built a name for himself that he carries back to LA on his back and throws down at the steps of his apartment, where he gets back to work, writing jokes. Whether or not any success, paid gigs or applause fulfill him, isn't even relevant at this point. His presence on stage as a performer and friend is relevant in itself. Anything else is bonus and whether or not you laugh, isn't. He'll be fine because, after all, he's just dreaming.
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Syracuse University director of athletics Daryl Gross announced this afternoon that head football coach Greg Robinson will return for the 2008 season.
Gross said a number of factors led to his decision to retain Robinson, though he made it clear to the head coach that significant progress is expected and that the rebuilding stage is over. It's time to win, he said.
"It's a situation that's been very, very painful," Gross said of the Orange football team. "I want to see us win. I want to see us have success. I think that's very clear. It was made clear to him, those concepts."
Gross said there is no minimum number of wins as a condition for Robinson's return. He also said he did not demand staff changes, though Robinson indicated he was open to examining all aspects of his program philosophy and staffing.
"It'll be obvious," Gross said of the standard Robinson and the Orange must meet.
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Unmasking the first of our Ones To Watch 2012, Daniel Fahey takes a backseat as Spector frontman, Fred MacPherson, lines up some rather poetic analogies of his own...
Premature nostalgia: music's current tripwire. La Roux and Goulding thought we wanted regurgitated 80s synth pop in 2010, while Yuck fed-back the longhaired recall of slack rock a year later. How did we lose a decade of musical touchstones within 12 months?
Now even, listen to the wrong people and they'll say that even dubstep ain't what it used it be, despite it only being around long enough to take off its nappy and smear the charts with the worst of its contents.
So when we catch-up with Spector's Fred MacPherson on an early December morning and he starts sprouting about wanting to connect to The Strokes and The White Stripes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Golden Generation of indie pop, alarm bells start clang clang clanging: is music about to implode? That was less than ten years ago!
Don't hang up those headphones just yet. Let's start at the beginning.
Even at 10am, when VF calls up MacPherson, he's instantly affable, richly articulate and – he reassuringly tells us – not just in his pants on the other end of the line.
In the conversation that ensues, it feels like we finally may have a pop star in our midst that has something intelligent to convey and some opinions not sugar coated in media-trained dryness. Maybe pop still has the life to kick out the dross of the X Factor's output and give some credibility back to mainstream music.
Some may remember Fred's first foray into music with Les Incompetents, a short-lived teenage whirlwind of Libertines-like lust. Its dynasty, in MacPherson's eyes measures up a little differently. "In the middle of it, it seemed like it was a big naffy joke," he muses. "It felt like waking up, face down on the pavement in front of your friend's mum's house with an empty Smirnoff ice in your hand and trying to remember what happened the night before. That was sort of the career path of the band."
Once that line of business diverted to the dole queue, Fred re-emerged with the proggy darkness of Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, re-tuning preconceptions of his musical prowess. "When we were with Ox.Eagle with Transgressive they just literally let us do what we wanted," he remembers. "We got records back to them and were like [sniggers]: 'good luck marketing this,' while they had their head in their hands."
His latest incarnation, Spector, is another sonic reworking. It rewinds towards the echoing grandeur of 'Hot Fuss' with a mixture of joyful stadium-styled choruses and broken-hearted honesty. Perhaps, even unintentionally, veering towards a coming of age composition for the 23-year-old.
How did the latest project come about? "It was all on a computer," says Fred eagerly. "A lot of it sounds band-like but the last thing I was doing was getting five guys in a room together because that seemed…" he pauses, thinks, "it felt backwards to get a load of guys together in a room. It felt like maybe that era of music in a post-internet world is less relevant, the songs then brought it back to that place where we did need five guys in a room."
And at that point, how did you set about recruiting a band? "I did it in the way maybe the army recruits people. I invited them round and asked them what clothes they liked, what films they liked, what music they liked and if they fulfilled that criteria then I'd hear them play some instruments – that was the last thing on my mind."
Do you think it's been successful so far? "We're definitely not the tightest band," Fred offers, deadpanning: "but we're probably in the top million."
After several sold out London dates, some infant festival appearances and a spot on Jools Holland – "We asked Flea [from Red Hot Chili Peppers] if he wanted to come to a party afterwards and he said [puts on a shaky US accent]: 'look at me, I'm an old man!'" – Spector are now looking to dovetail a solid release and improve on their live show.
How's the album shaping up? "I guess we're maybe a third of the way through," Fred says. "We're just trying to get the right productions because we don't want it to be a straight down the line indie rock album or a straight down the line electro pop album. It's really about trying to craft a sound that's sonically relevant, whilst making what is essentially pop in the most part, with some really leftfield guitars and electronic work. We don't want to make an album that comes from another time we want to make an album that sounds like its come from now."
Lyrical inspiration has also proved painful so far. "The second you start going through some real big relationships you feel like your life is destroyed," Fred admits, "and when it comes to writing lyrics it's hard to really think about anything else.
"But it's definitely got a romantic vibe and I do believe in the idea of romance. I also remember listening to the songs I was listening to growing up, I was listing to The Strokes, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol and Kings Of Leon – even though a lot of those bands were really cool and hip but at the heart of the songs it's still raw and emotional and it thought it would be something good to channel."
Why are you attempting emulate those years? "It's not even a case of referencing in a musical or stylistic level, I think a lot of the songs are trying to be as honest as possible and find yourself being kind of childlike in those situations. That would be the kind of music I was listening to when I was 13, 14.
"I don't think we set out saying we all want guitars that go ding ding ding ding, it was more of a case of 'let's make something that we would have enjoyed when we were that age'. Hopefully it isn't too much of a retro sound because we've got other elements to take it into the future."
The hope is that the album will be out in April and Fred says that he's been given a longer than usual to tinker with the release. "A major label can afford to take a bit more time and market a bit more but in turn you have to do what they need you to do. It's a bit like being a young Playboy model, going out with a rich 80-year-old man: you're not going to get everything you want for nothing," he laughs.
As for the live side of things, Fred doesn't think the group are there quite yet, likening their current output "to the old banger that you drive from your 17th birthday onwards." But with optimism, underpinned by an enduring wit, he marks out his plans: "I hope by the end of 2011 we'll be well oiled," he says, "by next year we'll be the young professional's first Ford Fiesta or something."
With support slots with The Killers and an upcoming tour with Florence and the Machine, big show insights will hopefully give room for the live side of things to match with the recorded oomph. "Watching bands like The Killers play is an inspiration to see how they can make full-scale entertainment," admits Fred. "I believe that's what Spector is about: it's entertaining it's not [Claude] Debussy, contrary to popular belief…it's a bit more Ed Tudor-Pole."
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Child endangering, State Road: A man is accused of being in possession of suspected drugs during a traffic stop June 20 around 11:15 a.m. Police found the man's child in the backseat and a pacifier covered with suspected marijuana.
Breaking and entering, Day Drive: A man's wallet, containing credit cards, cash, his driver's license and his insurance card, was taken from his locker at Planet Fitness June 19 between 3:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.
Breaking and entering, Day Drive: A man's wallet, containing credit cards and his driver's license, was taken from his locker at Planet Fitness June 19 between 3:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Breaking and entering, Laverne Avenue: A pressure locker and master lock were taken from a man's shed sometime between June 19 at 4 p.m. and June 20 at 11 a.m.
Attempted breaking and entering, Snow Road: An unknown person attempted to pry open a door at Pearlbrook Baptist Church sometime between June 15 and June 22.
Misuse of credit card, Woodrow Avenue: A man's debit card was used to make purchases totaling $1,252 between June 19 at 1 p.m. and June 20 at 7 a.m.
Counterfeit bills, Ridge Road: A man is accused of attempted to exchange three fraudulent $10 bills at Shell on June 18 at 7:32 a.m. Police notified the U.S. Secret Service.
Deception to obtain drugs, Ridge Road: A man is accused of passing a fraudulent prescription in his name to obtain prescription drugs.
Suspected drug possession, Snow Road: Two women are accused of being in possession of suspected drugs and drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop June 22 at 2:40 a.m.
Breaking and entering, State Road: An unknown person forced entry into Tony's Pizza and stole cash from the register sometime between June 20 at 10:15 p.m. and June 21 at 3:45 a.m.
Breaking and entering, Brookpark Road: Four tires and rims valued at $3,884 were removed from a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee at Spitzer Dodge on June 23 around 2 a.m.
Attempted burglary, Brainard Drive: An unknown person attempted to pry off a home's front door knob June 23 between 7:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Criminal damaging, Wellington Avenue: A man reported June 22 at 7:10 p.m. that while repossessing car, a woman slammed her car's door into his own car, causing a dent.
Theft, Park Drive: A woman reported that an unknown person stole miscellaneous jewelry from her dresser sometime between April 23 and June 21.
Suspected drug possession, West Pleasant Valley Road: After responding to a report of a disturbance June 21 around 1 a.m., officers found two men in possession of suspected drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Suspected drug possession, Snow Road: While conducting a follow-up on an earlier call June 22 around 4 a.m., officers found a man and woman in possession of suspected drugs.
Suspected drug possession, Virginia Avenue: After responding to a noise disturbance June 23 at 9:06 p.m. officers found a woman in possession of suspected drugs.
Breaking and entering, Fernhill Avenue: A GPS, cash and gift cards were stolen from a car parked in an unattached garage sometime between June 24 at 9 p.m. and June 25 at 5:55 a.m.
Criminal damaging, Chevrolet Boulevard: An unknown person attempted to pry open a door at a man's apartment sometime between June 19 at 7 p.m. and June 23 at 6 p.m.
Theft, West Ridgewood Drive: Victoria's Secret reported June 25 around 2:30 p.m. that an unknown person stole clothing valued at $1,400 from the store.
Theft, Chevrolet Boulevard: A man reported June 24 around 10:20 a.m. that miscellaneous tools and cash had been stolen from his car. The driver's side door was damaged.
Motor vehicle theft, Brookpark Road: Hertz reported June 5 around 10 a.m. that a man had never returned a 2013 Chevrolet Sonic he'd rented.
Burglary, Westlake Avenue: An unknown person or persons entered a home and stole electronics June 24 between 7 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Detectives are investigating.
Theft, Ridge Road: Prescription medication was stolen from a man's car, which was parked at Pleasant Lake Villa, sometime between June 26 at 11:30 p.m. and June 27 at 12:30 a.m.
Burglary, Jeanne Drive: Prescription medication was stolen from a man's residence June 26 between 8:30 a.m. and 2:35 p.m. There were no signs of forced entry.
Theft, Brookpark Road: National Car Mart reported that an unknown person removed radios from two cars sometime between June 25 at 6:30 p.m. and June 26 at 9:30 a.m.


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Error from St. Louis Circuit CourtCircuit Court
And now at this day come the
parties aforesaid by their respective attornies and the court
now here being sufficiently advised of and concerning
the premises consider that the judgment aforesaid in
form aforesaid by the said Circuit CourtCircuit Court be re-
versed and for nought held and esteemed and it is ordered
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Joseph RobidouxJoseph Robideaux his costs and charged by him about
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I JosephJoseph C BrownBrown Clerk of the Supreme CourtSupreme Court
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souri do certify the foregoing is a true and full
copy of the opinion of the said court delivered in
the said case of Jeffrey vsJoseph RobidouxJoseph Robideaux and
of the Judgment of the said Court rendered in the said case as they remain in my officer.
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Despite problems surrounding the graphic cards needed for their game's demonstration today, Senior Producer Tomasz Gop and Level Designer Marek Zimak look positively chilled on their large white sofas at the Eurogamer Expo. And why shouldn't they? CD Projekt's The Witcher was a great surprise in terms of reception and sales, players the world over enjoying the unique combat and unusual maturity of witcher Geralt's bloody adventure. Of course the guys aren't fazed.
Three years on from the first game's release, The Witcher II is gathering up steam as CD Projekt look to build upon that success. But the studio hasn't been prepared to sit on its laurels, with wholesale changes around things like the engine and the combat ensuring that the game will be a completely new beast. But along with all that has come renewed controversy about the game's sexual content, resurfacing the criticism of the first game's 'sex cards' in particular. So as I settle in on my own large white sofa, I ask Tomasz and Marek about all these things and more about The Witcher II, and also touch on their thoughts about CD Projekt subsidiary Good Old Games.
How surprised were you guys by the critical reaction to and the commercial success of The Witcher, and in particular the staggering sales of 1.5m for a new IP on PC?
Tomasz Gop: I think that every starting developer has the thought that he could do well with his game so we weren't totally taken aback by the success. But yeah, we're happy, we're extremely happy that everything worked, the pieces came together, and that we pulled it off, actually. It's great, but we're not thinking that a miracle happened; we really worked hard for this.
CD Projekt is based in Poland, which is interesting as there are only a few Polish game developers involved within the mainstream industry. What has the success of The Witcher done for the industry in Poland? It must have had some impact.
TG: The entering threshold is still really big because you have to invest quite a lot of money to get a triple-A title anywhere in the world but especially in Poland. If you want to do a triple-A title you have to invest money at prices counted as they would be in Poland, and it's even more money than you would think of any other product that is Polish. But the mindset and the awareness of media and of everyone in Poland have changed. People recognize The Witcher, and many people don't consider games as kiddie-play right now, so it is good. On the other hand, investing money in Poland is still... we'll still need a few years before people start investing huge amounts of money.
So you're here at the Eurogamer Expo promoting The Witcher II. Which areas from the first game have you targeted as needing improvement in the sequel?
Marek Zimak: The combat system is one of the main features we've changed. The things connected to the storyline were improved but they were enriched - they were already good...
TG: They were good, and we didn't want to mess around with them.
MZ: Yeah, we didn't want to mess around with them too much. But the combat system, some of the people didn't really get it. It wasn't something we wanted to have in The Witcher II. We believed we had a better vision of it so we redesigned it and we recreated it in The Witcher II. It's different and it's a little bit more dynamic. It's easier to use and maybe harder to master, but it's what we were looking for. So that's one of the systems for sure that's been totally redesigned.
TG: For example, some people complained about The Witcher's combat being too hardcore or not intuitive, but at the same time there were a lot of people who liked the combat in that game. So we thought, "OK, let's keep the depth, let's keep the system that is rich in features, but at the same time let's try to not make everything obligatory." So, for example, you'd don't have to do time-based clicking in combat in The Witcher II. But still, if you want to play on a higher difficulty setting, you have to utilize advanced techniques like combining strikes, combining magic with strikes, doing your own combos, building up things that are insane. But the entering threshold is lower for combat.
So there's a bit more scope now, you can appeal to a bigger audience.
TG: We definitely take into consideration everything the community says. So if there are some people that tell us it's not intuitive enough, it's not easy enough, then let's have an option to have it easier, and actually in The Witcher II you might be able to make your way through the combat through just button mashing.
In terms of the first game, there was a lot of controversy about its take on sexuality. Some people really liked it, other people were really turned off by it, and in particular the sex cards which were criticized for being misogynistic. You've taken the cards away in The Witcher II, but is there anything else you've done to ensure you don't get the same reaction this time around?
TG: We've extended the storytelling. I don't know about all of them, but definitely most of the romance encounters in the game are told properly and driven towards the player so that whenever he sees the naked woman, I don't know, sometimes making love with the Witcher, it actually it means making love, and not "I want to see nipples!"
Building from that, the recent Rock Paper Shotgun preview was quite critical of one particular scene from The Witcher II you demonstrated for looking pornographic, and then in a later interview with The Cynical Brit you admitted that that reaction had made you reconsider how the scene was handled. Is this something the teams' having to get used to in terms of realizing there is this reaction to the content out there?
TG: You know, that's a really important thing - you've read the Rock Paper Shotgun preview and listened to the Cynical Brit chat (laughs) - people have started writing e-mails to us, a lot of them, saying, "You have stated in a chat that you are thinking about redesigning the scene. Please don't cut out sex from the game. It still needs to be a feature." So, some people did not really understand what I was trying to say. We were thinking about this particular situation in the dungeon, so we were thinking about how to signal to the player that you won't actually have sex with the women; the naked parts of her body, it's immature to signal that might be a sex scene. So we tried to rethink that, but not to remove sex [from The Witcher II]. We would probably never do it as it's much a part of that world of The Witcher as anything else, as much as the violence is.
So you've departed from using the Aurora engine you used in The Witcher to use your own in-house engine. The new engine looks fantastic, but there must be more it's bringing to the table than just visuals. So what else has the new engine given you that Aurora couldn't?
TG: If I wanted to generalize and say it in a really simple way, any designer or artist in our studio right now can do three, four more times things without actually talking with the programmers because he already has the tools that have been designed for him. So if a designer that scripts the storyline wants to invent a new type of quest, on Aurora you'd normally have to have written certain mechanisms for the game, mechanics for checking conditions and so on. Right now [with the new engine] that designer can script it himself. More things are possible and all employees at our company are less dependent now.
It's interesting how having your own engine does give you that much more flexibility...
TG: Well, the main reason for this is because- I don't want to be bullish - but probably role-playing games are the most complex kind of game that anyone would want to make. Not to take anything away from the shooters - shooters are my favourite genre of game - but RPGs are more complex.
One of the big things you guys have been talking about is how The Witcher II will have more cut scenes and more storytelling than the first game. How do you guys feel about narrative and cut scenes, given that gaming seems to be taking steps away from cut scenes in many respects?
TG: There are two things. First thing is that we have more cut scenes than in The Witcher because the story is less linear, you won't be able to see all of them within one playthrough of the game. This is the main reason why the number is bigger. The second thing is that I'm not afraid to say is that, with having a game based around the story, cut scenes are one of the important tools that we use. If we want to introduce a character, giving the player freedom over the camera during that time might make him miss something really important.
MZ: Moreover, sometimes we show the players things that the character in the game doesn't actually see, so the cut scene is the only way we can do that. You don't always see everything that Geralt does. Sometimes we show a different aspect of the situation and we have to use a cut scene there. He's the main hero of course, the game's following him, but then again it's just like in a movie or a book, sometimes you know more, sometimes you know less. It's a plot trick but it makes the game deeper and more fun.
Lastly on The Witcher II, then: what would you say is its unique selling point, the thing that separates it from other role-playing games out there?
TG: I think maturity was what separated The Witcher from other games at that time, and I'm pretty sure we're taking it to another level with the scale of the game, with the way we tell the story, it's still going to kick ass.
MZ: For me, it's also the story. Even if you don't think about the non-linearity, it's a really good story, right? It's something that suits the genre perfectly and it's a very strong part of our game. So I think our story is hard to beat.
So obviously it hasn't got much to do with The Witcher II, but of course CD Projekt is also the team behind Good Old Games. I understand it's a separate team working on that site, but is CD Projekt a happy place to work at right now or are things a bit tense given all the controversy of last week surrounding the shutdown publicity stunt and everything else that happened?
TG: Hmm (pauses)
It must have been a shock...
TG: It's a tricky question because actually it was a shock for me, seriously. I didn't know anything until the very last moment I was seriously speculating whether or not Steam is going to buy them because I didn't know. I mean, we are separate companies in a way. We live in the same building and we work in the same building but...
MZ: Their secrets are not our secrets.
TG: Yeah. How it worked out... I don't know, maybe strategically I would think of doing it differently, but from what I've heard from comments in the community some people hated it but some other guys said, "OK, I didn't know GOG up until this time. Now I know, so they've got my awareness".
MZ: Exactly.
Any publicity is good publicity?
TG: No, no, no. They probably would not do it exactly the same way if they could do it again, but I just think... I don't know. I'm not part of GOG so I don't want to speak on their behalf. I just think, you know, maybe they will do it a different way next time.
Fair enough. Thank you for your time.
TG: No problem.
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The stat sheet that belongs to New Orleans Hornets shooting guard Xavier Henry vaguely resembles a checker board.
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Henry is well aware of the expectations.
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