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From Robin Miller's Robin Takes 5, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC.
1 pound fresh or frozen bread or pizza dough, thawed according to package directions
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup sliced yellow onions
1 green bell pepper, seeded and cut into thin strips
2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut into thin strips
1 tablespoon fajita seasoning
Preheat the oven to 375F.
Roll the dough out into a large circle about 1/2 inch thick. Transfer the dough to a baking sheet (don't worry if some dough hangs over the edge - you'll be folding it in half). Set aside.
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An open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo:
The sneaky ways the big oil companies are using to promote the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, is enough to arouse grave suspicions that the procedure is as dangerous as the environmental scientists say it is.
Many questions arise. Why are there large financial contributions by energy companies to certain congressional campaigns? Why is there secrecy about the toxic chemical mix injected into the shale bedrock, and why is it further cloaked under a heading of "proprietary protection'?
Why are there only four public hearings in all of New York and only one hearing in all of New York City when this is such an important issue? Why are no e-mails or letters accepted as testimony? Why do interested parties have to sign up in advance and only then be allowed to testify in person at the hearings?
Why the unseemly rush to approve such a frightening and apparently irreversible action?
Many of us saw the "60 Minutes" segment where tap water on a Pennsylvania farm burst into flames when a match was lit near it. The gas was methane, one of the pollutants involved in global warming. From what we know so far, the risks of hydrofracking outweigh the potential benefits of this potential environmental disaster.
Please put a total ban on hydrofracking. Save us from big oil.
Marjorie Ferrigno
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2010-04-14, 09:36 | Link #1 |
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Angel Beats! - Requests for new threads
Since the Angel Beats! forum is limited (only Mods and Admin can create new threads), this thread serves as a way to request a new thread to be created.
Please post here if you wish to request a new Angel Beats! thread. Please bear in mind that we will only accept reasonable requests, we wish to maintain the focus within the forum and cut down on the noise (so no pointless threads cluttering up the place). Don't forget that you may still post in existing threads as usual, the only restriction is that you may not create new threads within this particular forum. |
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I'm afraid that... no can do.
So far, this character was shown only as "exotic" considering his style and speech pattern, nothing past this point. In a sense, there isn't much pertinent subjects that members can discuss about TK at this point of the series. This may be the case in the future (such like his background being unfolded for instance), but so far, if a thread were to be created for this character, its purpose would be basically about appreciation for a character looks/style and... that's it. Unless a character becomes "developed enough", interesting as a subject of discussion, they won't have any individual thread. However, we may create "general character discussion" threads, encompassing characters within a said group (like SSS, god's side [temp.], etc). We will see to it.
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Though I agree we really could use one here with how much of it been going on in the other threads.
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I'd like to request an "Angel Beats - Novel Translation Thread," similar to the one in the Bakemonogatari sub-forum. If you need a chapter to kickstart it, here's Chapter Zero, a prologue of sorts, translated by Sub Smith. http://subsmith.wordpress.com/2010/0...ocket-for-two/
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Thread Created.
Now, as far as characters' threads requests go, I don't think a new thread can be opened basing on a single episode. Yui had little screentime in episode 3 and several in episode 4, but we don't know her role yet. Same goes for Hinata and the others. If episode 5 turns out to be focused on a particular character again, being him Matsushita, Takeyama or anyone else aside the 3 main characters, please don't rush asking characters' threads for them. This is my generic line of thinking. In practical terms, a Yui thread would seem more likely at this point of time, since her role looks unpredictable and different from the others. But I want to see a bit more (at least 1 ep) before deciding.
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There is no need for novel spoiler mention in the title, though it will be a courtesy to keep the novel "spoilers" within spoilers tags, with proper spoiler tag title.
Anyway, I'm going to create it: surely, even with the anime material alone, I think Hinata is the only "grunt SSS" that has a proper character background and development.
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I knew this kind of request would have come and already addressed the matter on whether or not the Tenshi thread's title should be changed. You can read the discussion in this page.
In short, change rejected.
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They are the first independent school in the state to be authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School.
"They are making the dream of a global society happen with the many different cultures represented" says Mary Vanden Busch, Head of the School.
Starting at just 18 months old kids at the Wisconsin International School in De Pere learn Mandarin and Spanish.
"When they are three they start choosing between one or the other" she explains.
At three is also when the school starts its International Baccalaureate program.
"Our world is getting smaller and smaller because of technology and networking that we have and in order for them to be successful in our global society they need to know about each other, have a greater tolerance, understanding" says Vanden Busch.
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My Way: An Autobiography
by Paul Anka, David DaltonA teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to fame with a slew of hits-from "Diana" to "Put Your Head on my Shoulder"-that earned him a place touring with the major stars of his era, including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. He wrote Holly's last hit
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When I wrote "Lonely Boy," that wasn't some clever notion I'd come up with—that was me. I'd left my family and friends behind in Canada and suddenly I was out on the road, performing in front of thousands of people. I was envious of the camaraderie, the pranks, the dirty jokes, and the silly games of my contemporaries back home. As corny as it sounds, deep down I really was a lonely teenager— because, invariably, I was alone. I was out there singing, and I'd see teenagers together at those dances. It looked like another world, a movie, almost. That kind of romance wasn't possible, living on the road. Sex, however, was another matter.
I'd always thought if only I could make it in the music business, everything would be perfect, but ever since "Diana" hit, my life was just more working and touring and writing. The tour bus was my home. You knew everyone and they became your family. Especially at my age, you take family wherever you find it. But, even as sibling rivalries go, it was a pretty competitive family. You'd wonder who was going to have the next hit and who wasn't. In 1958, five of my songs became hit singles: "You Are My Destiny," "Crazy Love," "Let the Bells Keep Ringing," "Midnight," and "(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings." It was all happening so fast. When I came down from Ottawa, Canada, here I was sharing charts with The Everly Brothers and started touring. I remember the hula hoop being huge that year.
In 1959, I met Bobby Darin for the first time. I thought to myself, "Gee, I'm really touring big-time now!" "Mack the Knife" came out in August and I tried to bump it off with "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," which hit in September; in November, "It's Time to Cry" came out. Frankie Avalon had one of his biggest hits, "Venus," in 1959. I had four hits that year—and "Lonely Boy" got featured in the movie Girls Town with Mamie Van Doren. Big year—four songs in the Top 100. I got friendly with Lloyd Price who had a hit with "Stagger Lee," produced by Don Costa on ABC-Paramount where I was recording. Originally a morbid tale of a murderer by that name, Dick Clark thought the lyrics were too dark and made him change them. It was at ABC where I first met Carole King—you could see right away she was going places, that's how talented she was.
Things were good, but then things changed. They always do. After the plane crash in February 1959 that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, the road just wasn't the same anymore. When you're very young and something like that happens, everything seems to come to a standstill. It was strange, very strange. Time really seemed to just stop, Buddy's death left a big hole in my life, an enormous silence.
That was when I started touring less and doing more television—Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town, The Perry Como Show. I pretty much be- came a regular on The Dick Clark Show and Dick Clark's Saturday Night, and, of course, American Bandstand, which was just getting off the ground. It was based out of Philadelphia, and was all the rage on weekday after- noons, not only because of the music, but also the personalities, the romances, who was dancing with whom. A cross between a reality show and a soap opera, kids felt they had to keep up on a daily basis. I wasn't that much older than they were.
The whole key to doing those shows was faking it. The first thing you had to learn was how to lip-synch. They emphasized—and overemphasize—that you needed to get it down flawlessly or you'd end up looking like a dope. We were all very conscious of the fact that if you messed up you looked like a badly dubbed foreign movie—your lips are moving but no sound comes out. There was no live band so you had to rehearse—with yourself. You'd practice in the mirror, see if you could pull it off, catch yourself fluffing the line.
Of course, there were the inevitable "technical hitches." One time when I was on American Bandstand, we were live, and I was singing "Diana" when, in the middle of the chorus, the record stuck. I was left standing there just repeating the words "Oh my darlin', oh my darlin', oh my darlin', oh my darlin'," until finally, I just started fucking laugh- ing and that was that. They just shut the record off. Kids watching prob- ably had no idea what had just happened. And it certainly didn't become a scandal, like it did for poor Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Night Live.
We all dreaded going on these shows. You did it one way in a studio and then you had to mimic it syllable for syllable on the pop music cir- cuit. You'd do it over and over again—exactly the same as on your rec- ord—at all these record hops, so it seemed like you'd been doing it forever. I don't remember how good any of us were at it, but lip- synching was the key. Getting on any of these local bandstand shows— that would make or break you.
A little later Dick Clark developed his local clique, Frankie Avalon and Fabian and that whole Philadelphia gang. But, of course, eventu- ally Mr. Squeaky Clean was brought up on payola charges.
That was like a big shock for all of us because, you know, every- thing was supposedly so honest and innocent back then—most of all Dick Clark himself, who projected this wholesome image, and sud- denly his name comes up in connection with this squalid "pay-for- play" business.
I remember Congress announcing their intention to hold hearings over payola in November 1959. It hit us like a bolt of lightning.
But why should I be surprised? When I joined ABC and began to have hits, they were making so much dough—most of it from my hit records—that they used to take bags of money out on an airplane to L.A. just to keep the television branch of ABC going. It was just get- ting started and they needed money to to keep it operating. Everything was so casual, nothing was computerized, money was flying out of teenagers' pockets and into the coffers of the record companies and radio stations—and into the hands of the mob, too, since they controlled the jukeboxes and the clubs we performed in.
In those early years—we're talking 1959 and 1960—I was making mad money, more than a million dollars a year, which some reporter figured out was equal to the combined salaries of the president and vice president of the United States and half the U.S. Senate—and I wasn't even old enough to vote yet.
When American Bandstand first took off there was a lot of hanky- panky going on between the deejays and the guys promoting the rec- ords, lots of money changing hands to get air time for their records. That's what payola was—paying to get your record played. We were just clueless young artists—what did we know? Our songs were be- coming hits and then we started hearing the word "payola," and all the rumors about who was paying who to plug your record.
In the beginning music publishers and songwriters used to walk around with music sheets; they'd sit at a piano and plug a song—that's years and years ago—but this eventually gave way in the late '50s to the new wave of promotion guys. They were called "promo men," guys who would be hired by the record companies to go around and pay off disc jockeys.
It was a common business practice but eventually people started questioning it because these disc jockeys also happened to be in the publishing business themselves. They frequently got writing credit on records they had nothing to do with, and they often had a piece of a record company, too. There was definitely a conflict of interest there, but everybody would turn a blind eye and say, "Hey, what can you do, y'know? That's just the way it is." Still, it was a dirty business. No respectable businessman would run his company like that. But for the record companies payola was a very useful tool—you could just buy yourself a hot record. What a racket!
It really got out of hand by the late '50s. By then, there were squads of these promo men, like the guy The Stones make fun of on "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man." These were slick guys who plugged records, which at that time simply meant paying off these disc jockeys. You'd go into the men's room and right out in the open there'd be promo guys handing over huge envelopes stuffed with cash. I don't know how deep Dick Clark was into all this—he went on de- nying it, but the evidence kept piling up and so did the rumors.
Dick Clark used all kinds of rationales to justify his participation in it. One day Leonard Goldenson, the head of ABC, brought him into the office and, you know, really grilled him and what they found out was that he'd been given the publishing—I think all or part of it—to my record, "Don't Gamble with Love" as a payoff for getting me on American Bandstand.
I was just a kid, so what did I care? They gave me three hundred bucks a week—I was in heaven, you know? I was just writing away on a record contract and when Congress started asking questions of all these people, it all came out in public that they'd given Dick Clark a piece of my publishing.
But Dick Clark was never indicted because the stuff that went on wasn't, strictly speaking, illegal, but still it was definitely frowned upon. So even though they tried to nail him on it and there was a lot of bad publicity, they really couldn't do anything. Nevertheless, for Mr. Clean-Cut Dick Clark, it was a really big, big deal, and it went on for some time. I know they dragged his producer, Tony Mammarella, down to Washington for sessions with the subcommittee. They brought him down to D.C., and he started naming names and telling about the money that had changed hands—he admitted to it all. And they brought in other people, too. Dave Maynard and a guy named Norm Prescott— these were all disc jockeys—and they started spilling the beans. They'd say stuff like, "If you played a new song, you'd get a thousand bucks right there on the spot, and then if you got it into the charts they'd give you another ten thousand bucks." Those were huge amounts of money back then and people were outraged. It just boggled the mind to think that these hit songs were fixed. So right away you knew they had to find a fall guy.
That's where Alan Freed comes in. Freed was a revolutionary deejay and rock impresario who did more than anyone to promote rock 'n' roll. He plugged all the R&B artists and really changed the scene; never- theless, he was the guy who got crucified in all of this. He was indicted in 1962 on two counts of what they called "commercial bribery" and was fined $300, which wasn't much of a punishment money-wise, but it was all they could do. It was the resulting public disgrace that exacted the real price, though, and led to his downfall. He was blackballed by the industry, and lost everything—his livelihood, his self-respect. He was made the scapegoat for the whole thing. Everybody had a hand in the pot, but Alan was the one who was made to pay. He was a nice guy and a true rock visionary, but for some reason they just had it in for him. Within a year or two of those hearings he was ruined, and a year after that, on Lyndon Johnson's inauguration day, January 20, 1965, he was dead.
Okay, what now? Here I was, a bona fide teen idol, but I knew that wasn't going to be enough. A lot of us had a good run as teen singers in the fifties, but we weren't going to be teenagers forever. Those of us who wanted to survive knew we had to do something else to prove ourselves. It's the law of pop music: ever y three years you have to reinvent yourself. After you've done that a few times, you get to stick around.
Irv, thank God, was just such an astute, resourceful manager. After I'd had a few hit records he knew I was going places, but he also knew I was going to make mistakes, right? So he figured, let Paul Anka fail out of town. It was a way to test the waters for my new songs. If they hit there, bring them back to the big city. It was a brilliant formula.
I'd always had this attraction to the Rat Pack, Sinatra and those guys. I wanted to wind up like them. So when I told him what I wanted to do, he came up with an ingenious plan to take this teen idol kid, smooth out the rough spots, put me in a tux, and transform me into a performer who could become an attraction for adult audiences— get me headlining at night clubs like the Copacabana in New York. His first move was to get me to record an album called My Heart Sings, which featured old standards like "Autumn Leaves" and "I Love Paris," and included only one of my so-called teen songs. I also did a big band album, Paul Anka Swings for Young Lovers and later on a live LP, Anka at the Copa.
In 1958, Irv Feld made a deal for me to open for Sophie Tucker at the Sahara. At that time I was riding the crest of all my teenage success. There I was in Vegas, long before The Beatles set foot in the States. So when they did come, I already knew where I was going. I wasn't go- ing to get blown out of the water like all my other soft-pop contem- poraries.
So I opened for Sophie Tucker at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. I had finally made it to the fabled land of the Rat Pack. When I showed up in Vegas I was way ahead of myself. I was the youngest headliner ever. Wayne Newton came out much later doing his 1963 hit, "Danke Schoen," becoming a Vegas fixture. I was different, not only in that I wrote my own songs, but I'd taken the time to become a polished cabaret act. Because I was underage and I wasn't allowed in the casino, they would bring me into the hotel through the back door.
I did about twenty-five minutes opening for Sophie Tucker. There were a lot of families in Vegas, their kids listened to the radio and watched American Bandstand, so they knew me, and, all of a sudden, they've got five hundred kids in a showroom at a Sophie Tucker con- cert going nuts. I wasn't even on stage yet when this huge hooting- screaming-whistling barrage of noise came on. Then you've got Sophie Tucker coming on and going "Some of these days, mama can I have another, uh, banana split, mama" or whatever the words were. The kids started screaming as soon as she came on. She was a trouper, nothing fazed Sophie, she was like a great old battleship, but in the end it was too unsettling for her, they were driving her nuts. She was a grande old dame, and after opening night she asked me to close the show for her. She just said, "My boy, I hope that you could come on after me so that I don't get pelted with spitballs." Funny lady.
She was this very big imposing aunt of a woman—Paul McCartney once referred to her as "Our favorite American group, Sophie Tucker." She was like the lady next door yet had a good strong sense of who she was. She had her game down. She was a legend who had so many years of being a success, she was like a singing Statue of Liberty.
She was great to work with. I used to hang with her after the show. She'd sit in her big robe and sign autographs and meet people back- stage. I held the cigar box she put the money in. But she wasn't any- body to hang out with really. She was like ninety-two—born in tsarist Russia in another century. We didn't have all that much in common. The girls I was going to bed with were just a bit younger and a lot skinnier.
My bringing soft, preachified rock 'n' roll to Vegas helped business and I started getting invited back. Rock 'n' roll, even preachified rock'n' roll, was not the kind of music Vegas favored but, after all, money was money, numbers were numbers.
At first I was so young I wasn't allowed into the casinos other than to walk the halls, stay in the room, etc. I loved entertaining, I loved meeting people, but, initially I didn't—wasn't allowed to—socialize. Basically I hid in my room. The irony being that I was headlining, fill- ing a show room, and yet not allowed to go near a casino because I was underage. So I would look through the outside window, go back to my suite, and watch television, or I'd stay in my room and write songs. Lonely boy in Sin City.
That was really the beginning of my other career. Meanwhile, the whole teen idol thing, once thought to be a passing phase, was getting a lot of mainstream attention. The music business had gotten behind it and suddenly there was this huge "teen market" that hadn't existed before. But there was I, just trying my damndest to get away from it. For a while I had a foot in both worlds, but I knew which one I wanted to follow.
Then Irv Feld carefully arranged the perfect setting for my night- club debut—the first time I would appear in a show not designed spe- cifically for teenagers. It was a big step. New Year's Day, 1959. On that day, Paul Anka's second incarnation began.
There was a lot riding on this move, so Irv next cleverly booked me at the Lotus Club in Washington, D.C. It was his hometown and as he put it, "I could paper the joint with friends and celebrities who came free and made a lot of noise." On February 15, the day after Valentine's Day, I began a weeklong engagement there.
Just a genius move on his part. And true to his prediction, there was a virtual who's who of music-biz people, deejays, press, and publicists on hand my opening night. And because my nightclub debut was a success there, I got booked into top clubs in Las Vegas, Boston, Phila- delphia, and Buffalo.
Irv Feld and I always felt: hit the clubs, break into Vegas. He wanted me in those places and I wanted to get in there. When I first went out, I saw Johnnie Ray, an old idol for me and all these older guys who took the business in their stride. Eddie Fisher and Nat King Cole were the best-selling artists at the time, playing Vegas and New York. They were all very supportive of me, considering I was just a snot-nosed kid.
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PAUL ANKA had his own vocal group by the age of thirteen and released his first single at sixteen. His first million-selling #1 hit, "Diana", made him a star. He was born in Ottawa, Canada, and lives in Southern California.
PAUL ANKA had his own vocal group by the age of thirteen and released his first single at sixteen. His first million-selling #1 hit, "Diana," made him a star. He was born in Ottawa, Canada, and lives in Southern California.
DAVID DALTON, a founding contributor of Rolling Stone, is the author of books including Piece of My Heart, Faithfull with Marianne, and Bob's Brain: Decoding Dylan.
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I am on page 321 and don't know if I can finish this self absorbed book. This book is obviously one sided view which makes you think "really"! I guess it would have been great to be one of lucky cherished friends.
So very disappointed. I to have been a fan of Paul Anka for many years having been a teen in the 50"s. I was astonished not only with with his self-serving ego but also his adulation
of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack.
Seems he cared more about them
then he does his
family.Hope his wife got a mega-buck financial settlement.
Very disappointed !!!!
It was very disappointing and I'm a big fan of Paul Anka. It was not well written at all and contents not only repetitive but not very interesting or informative about his "real" life.
I am a sixty something huge fan of Paul Anka and his music. It's difficult to believe that such a talented songwriter who can pen hits, such as "You're Having My Baby, Do I Love You, The Times of Your Life"' just to name a few of my favorites, could write a book filled with such trashy language. His obsession with the Mafia, the Rat Pack, and the people who moved in those circles is disturbing, especially when he says he never participated, just observed. I was looking forward to reading more about his family which I always felt had to be the inspiration behind his compositions. I am half way through the book and feel more disappointment with each page.
Self-serving drivel from a mafia wannabe. Stick to music Mr. Anka
I have been a huge Paul Anka fan for years and years. I have been to many, many of his concerts. I've been backstage and had my picture taken with him, and also had my daughter sit with him onstage, as he sang to her over 35 years ago. He was the King to me back then. I will be going to his May concert and wish I hadn't started reading this book until after that time. I am about 100 pages away from finishing the 406 page book of trash. I cannot believe I just said that. I am forcing myself daily to read more so that I can finally say "done". This is not an autobiography, but a book filled with all his Vegas/Mafia friends (but of course he was never involved in any of that), trash language, drugs, alcohol, womanizing (but of course he wasn't involved in any of that) and yes, the self absorbed (as mentioned before) person Mr. Anka must really be. People, this book is going nowhere if more folks read reviews. I hope I can enjoy his in person concert coming up....how will I put this book behind me?
I'm not sure I can finish this book, I'm about 3/4 of the way through and ready to skip pages. I thought this was an autobiography, not a book about the mob in Vegas. I'm sooo over reading the stores of what the mob did, even though the author "had no part in any of it". I thought I would be reading about Paul Anka, not a book filled with stories about other celebrities and the mob. I think two pages so far have been dedicated to his wife and kids. Good luck reading this if you're a fan.
Well-done autobiography. He emphasizes how important the arrangement is.
Covers how he wrote "My Way" for Sinatra and the theme for the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He shares much information about the Rat Pack and seems a bit of an angel compared to them, but he probably was more of a voice of reason among them. It is largely about Vegas and how smart he was to diversify his investments rather than just depending on his talent or the longevity of his singing career, which he has also luckily had.
The Vegas mafia share the limelight. Never boring, a great read.
Very disappointed with this book. All about his life and "friends" in Vegas. Wish I had saved my money. Maybe he should just stick to singing and writing, which he does so well....
I love you so that i can cry
Certainly not the best book I've ever read but certainly entertaining. If you want a light read, and want to learn about some great stories from behind the scenes, you'll love Anka's stories. I got this book because I always respected Anka as one of the greatest entertainers of our time, but mostly because he is one of the most responsible and respected people in showbiz today.


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Garvey Resource Centre opens in St Ann
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ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann — Residents and visitors to St Ann now have an opportunity to learn more about the work and philosophies of the country's first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
This, thanks to the just opened Marcus Garvey Resource Centre which has been equipped with a permanent exhibition, informational resources and memorabilia of the late native of the parish.
The opening of the centre, located at the St Ann Parish Library, formed part of the activities to mark Marcus Garvey Day last Friday, the 125th anniversary of his birth.
Director General of the Jamaica Library Service, Patricia Roberts said the facility was established to honour the life and work of Garvey and will from time to time present activities such as lectures and performances.
"The main objective of the centre is to preserve the heritage of Marcus Garvey, to encourage the study and exploration of Garvey's contribution to Jamaica and people of African descent across the Diaspora," she said at Friday's civic ceremony.
"We want to awaken and increase community understanding on the relevance of Garvey's teaching in modern Jamaica, we want to also develop an additional area for cultural heritage tourism," she added.
Roberts explained that the establishment of the centre was part of a major expansion and renovation project being undertaken at the library through financial assistance from the CHASE Fund.
Several organisations and individuals, including one of Garvey's sons Dr Julius Garvey, contributed to the setting up of the facility. The others included the St Ann Homecoming and Heritage Foundation, the Marcus Garvey Foundation in Philadelphia, USA and the St Ann Improvement Committee.
Custos of St Ann, Radcliffe Walters, who has been instrumental in the process of establishing the centre, on Friday called on visitors to the facility to use the information they will find as an avenue of empowering themselves.
Meanwhile, Member of Parliament for north east St Ann, Shahine Robinson while making her contribution to the observance of the hero's birthday, said she would continue representation for the restoration of Garvey's childhood home.
"Ground was broken there and it is my intention to carry out my aggressive representation to make sure that the restoration of that house becomes a reality," Robinson said.
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding broke ground for the restoration of the house, located at Market Street, last October. However, work is yet to commence on the project.
During Friday's celebration, mayor of St Ann's Bay and chairman of the St Ann Parish Council, Desmond Gilmore, announced that the council would provide a scholarship to honour the late hero.
The Marcus Garvey Scholarship for Excellence, Gilmore said, would be awarded to a student enrolling at Marcus Garvey High School and would be maintained over a five-year period, on condition that the recipient performed at an acceptable standard.
Gilmore announced that Janae Coombs, who has the highest Grade Six Achievement Test average among the group of students placed at the school, was the first recipient.
Eight students had applied for the scholarship valued at $50,000 each year.
He said the council intends to expand the programme in coming years so that more students could benefit.


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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president on Sunday appointed 17 new provincial governors, including seven members of his Muslim Brotherhood, adding to its already considerable power in the legislative and executive branches.
Mohammed Morsi's appointments come before the June 30 anniversary of his taking office, when the liberal and secular Egyptian opposition plans mass demonstrations to demand his ouster.
A leading opponent, Mohamed ElBaradei, told a group of striking writers, film makers and Opera House staffers on Sunday, "We hope to see early departure of the regime ... it's a surreal and absurd regime."
The opposition accuses Morsi and his allies of trying to monopolize power and install their operatives in every state institution. The Brotherhood accuses the opposition of trying to unseat Morsi after failing in elections.
Besides the new Brotherhood governors, the appointment of Adel el-Khayat, a member of the political arm of ex-Islamic militant group Gamaa Islamiya, drew attention. He will rule the ancient southern city of Luxor, a main tourist site.
In 1997, his group claimed responsibility for what became known as Luxor massacre, when 58 tourists and four Egyptians were killed at the Temple of Hatshepsut outside Luxor. Since then, the city has seen Islamists as a threat to their tourist income.
Gamaa Islamiya later renounced violence and turned to politics. The party is a top ally of Morsi, and its leaders have threatened an "Islamic revolution" if liberals try to unseat the Islamist president.
The appointments mean that the Brotherhood controls the governorships in 10 out of the country's 27 provinces, allowing it to further consolidate power, as governors play an influential role in arrangements for elections.
Military and police generals run at least nine other provinces, a throwback to the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, when both powerful institutions had a share of the country's provincial authorities. Mubarak was deposed in 2011.
Some of the provinces to be run by Brotherhood governors are opposition strongholds, such as the Nile Delta provinces of Gharbiya and Menoufia.
The new governors are scheduled to take their oath of office on Monday.


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A technical glitch shut down KeyBank's online banking system for a few hours Monday morning, but the company said the system is up and running.
A spokesman for the Cleveland-based bank said the issue was internal and didn't affect ATMs or mobile applications.
Possible cyberattacks leave U.S. banks wary
U.S. financial institutions, including some in Ohio, have been threatened by a potential cyberattack that could make online banking services unavailable today, the Ohio Bankers League and the Ohio Credit Union League warned Monday.
The two organizations emphasized that an interruption of service would not threaten the security of a person's accounts, but could temporarily hamper the ability to conduct online transactions.
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India being a multi-cultural country, exhibits a wide array of dressing styles. Each style heralding from their particular state has a special touch to it. Saree being the national dress of India is worn by most women, but in a special style reflecting which part of India they belong to. There are numerous innovative ways of saree draping styles, among which a unique way is half sarees.
What is a Half Saree ?
Half Sarees are predominantly seen in South India, as mostly unmarried girls in South India wear this traditional outfit. Earlier this saree draping style was restricted only to the rural belles and never worn by girls in the cities. However, nowadays, this dress has found its way to showrooms of renowned designers and various malls all over India. This trend of draping a saree has actually been popularized by television and movie celebrities, and models walking on the ramp of various fashion shows, which has convinced every teenager to posses at least one pair of this chic half saree in their wardrobe.
Half Sarees, in comparison to the full sarees are more comfortable and hassle free to wear and handle, as it is very easy, simple style allowing more freedom of movement. It is just a long fluid skirt with several pleats, a matching blouse and a long saree drape, whose end is folded at the back of the skirt. Girls of Kerala wear this colorful attire on the festival of Onam, whereas girls from Tamil Nadu wear it in Pongal festival. Young girls of Andhra Pradesh wear these half sarees in the festival of Ugadhi.
Similar to half sarees is another most popularly attire of North India – Ghagra-Choli, which the girls of Northern India wear more or less in every festival.
Different Names of Half Sarees.
Though this style is called half saree, it has got different names in different states of India, along with a special touch of the exclusive reflection of the state's artwork. In most parts of India these half sarees include embroidery, fabric, glass work and inclusion of precious stones. Half sarees are locally is known as Pavada Dhavani or Davani in Tamil Nadu, Mundum Neriyathum in Kerela and Langa Voni in Andhra Pradesh.
This traditional dress looks very elegant on a girl and given the modern touches of designer-works on them, they look classy and gorgeous, bringing out the grace of Indian women. Though salwar kameez or jeans and tops are now the most common dresses in India, Half Sarees have reclaimed the market for special occasions.
Half Sarees – A different Saree for Special Occasions


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Robert Waltsak (American, b. 1944) "The Concert", oil on canvas, contemporary
Robert Waltsak (American, b. 1944) "The Concert", oil on canvas, contemporary
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Robert Alan Waltsak grew up in Newark, New Jersey and is a contemporary American Impressionist painter. He attended the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey, the Newark School of Fine Arts, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has been exhibited at the Hastings on Hudson Museum and at the Ridgewood Juried Show, where he won an award in 2002. Not only is he an accomplished painter, but also a notable woodworker. He has made furniture for the sets of Broadway's hit production "Wicked" and "Fortune's Fool". Waltsak lives and works in New Jersey and he is represented by a number of galleries in the Northeast United States.
Impressionist works are characterized by broad, expressive brushstrokes and the careful and accurate depiction of light and shadow. The first Impressionist painters in the nineteenth century were some of the first artists to paint en plein air, a French artistic term meaning "in the open air", or outdoors. Waltsak continues this tradition, as depicting natural light is important to his work's purpose. Frank DuMond, of the twentieth century American Impressionists and one of Waltsak's major influences also painted outdoors to capture the natural light. Waltsak's bright palette is very similar to that of DuMond. Waltsak's mission in painting is to "achieve nature" on the canvas, and to paint the variations of light and shadow of the landscape. He paints the sunlight touching the world around him during all seasons and all times of day, giving his oeuvre, or breadth of work, an ever changing and evolving quality.


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In the year 2250, water is scarce, and those who control it control everything. Sixteen-year-old Luca has struggled with this truth, and what it means, his entire life. As the son of the Deliverer, he will one day have to descend to the underground Aquifer each year and negotiate with the reportedly ratlike miners who harvest the world's fresh water. But he has learned the true control rests with the Council aboveground, a group that has people following without hesitation, and which has forbidden all emotion and art in the name of keeping the peace. And this Council has broken his father's spirit, while also forcing Luca to hide every feeling that rules his heart.
But when Luca's father goes missing, everything shifts. Luca is forced underground, and discovers secrets, lies, and mysteries that cause him to reevaluate who he is and the world he serves. Together with his friends and a very alluring girl, Luca seeks to free his people and the Rats from the Council's control. But Luca's mission is not without struggle and loss, as his desire to uncover the truth could have greater consequences than he ever imagined.
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Spanish coach doing his absolute best to ensure Spurs win the Championship next season
The Spoiler has come into information that suggests Spurs fans are badly in denial when it comes to correctly apportioning responsibility for their unhappy start to the season. (The Spoiler has also been accused on more than one occasion of being anti-Tottenhamist, an accusation that has no basis in truth.) Various phone-ins and message boards have Spurs fans laying the blame squarely at the feet of Damien Comolli, who has indeed failed to dazzle in the transfer market, and Daniel Levy, for his "Take care of the pennies, and the players will take care of themselves" economic philosophy. Coach Juande Ramos has been given a pass for quietly getting on with a difficult job.
However, the news from the Spurs training ground indicates a very different situation, and that instead of trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear, Ramos is one step away from having the players bump into each to the accompaniment of comedy music.
According to our mole: "Juande came back from his (summer) holidays unhappy in London, and now seems hell-bent on doing all he can to induce his own sacking and pay-off."
"Gus Poyet is not actually the assistant manager anymore, just a translator. The actual assistant manager is a renowned Spanish tennis coach, who has had no involvement before in football. Instead, Poyet spends his time encouraging player revolts in the belief he will be asked to take over as manager by Daniel Levy when they sack Ramos."
Mole also claims that Ramos' famous dietary rigor has also developed a lunatic edge, and that instead of modern sports nutrition, the players are now banned from eating for several hours before a match. Two hours before kick off they are then each instructed to eat two toasted sandwiches. This after an incident in September when Ramos announced he'd discovered why the team were struggling – too much Lucozade. The fizzy energy drink has now joined the long list of banned substances at Tottenham. The effects of the ban have yet to be felt.
More unintentional Tottenham comedy later.


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The Global Enraged: Core customer beliefs stack the deck against your company's messages
2012-10-10Posted on October 10, 2012 8:22 am by Shel Holtz | Brands | Customer Service | Marketing | PR | Social Media
(c) Can Stock PhotoNobody goes into the planning for a communications effort believing the customer is a tabula rasa, a blank slate. Knowing customers have interests, biases and other characteristics is the very reason we conduct audience research. Having seen new research from The Futures Company, however, I'm wondering if that research digs deep enough.
When we study the people who comprise our target market, the focus is squarely on their connection to our message. Underlying any consumer beliefs, however, is the way they feel about business in general. According to The Futures Company's Global MONITOR reserach, that foundational set of believes isn't pretty.
An overwhelming 86 percent of consumers believe that companies put profits over the interests of their customers' interests, according to a report on the study. That means any communication or marketing campaign faces a brick wall of skepticism. While marketing strategies may convince customers that a product or service will meet their needs, they don't remove the suspicion around the company's actual motives.
It gets worse. Eighty-five percent of consumers think business wields unfair amounts of influence over government. Eighty-six percent believe wealth is too concentrated among the wealthy and that the wealthy play by their own set of rules.
And half of these people are pissed off about it. The study describes this population as the "global enraged."
These consumers represent "a powerful and potentially dangerous vanguard," according to Global MONITOR head Michelle Singer. "Anger has pushed consumers past the tipping point."
Understanding this inherent consumer belief should help convince organizations to behave in ways that lead customers to think of them differently. We've seen research, for example, indicating that most companies are not engaging in customer service or support through the social channels where customers expect to find help. If cost is the perceived reason, the lack of customer engagement through Facebook and Twitter serve only to reinforce the belief that companies act solely in the interest of the bottom line. Recognizing that customers come to the table with these beliefs already well ingrained can also help communicators convey an image of their organizations that accurately reflect values that go well beyond shareholder value enhancement, from commitment to the customer to CSR initiatives. Your focus needs to be on those aspects of company behavior that is important to your market.
Consumers are taking action based on their beliefs. For example, according to the report: "47% of these shoppers now bought locally-made goods when possible. Another 36% avoided purchasing products from firms with low ethical standards, as did 29% from global corporations."
According to David Phillips, writing yesterday on Google Plus, "PR has a problem if it is not in a position to support both organisations and their constituents. This means they have to work much harder on the culture of organisations. It going to be tough to head off the rebellion even now."
Encouraging your own company's target market into the marketing funnel will be a lot easier if those customers don't lump you into the same heap to which they consign most businesses. And understanding the degree to which this built-in bias characterizes your customer base should be part of your audience research.
The Futures Company is presenting The Global Enraged research on October 16 in London.
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Rule 206(4)-5 was approved by the SEC in 2010 as a means to curb perceived abuses resulting from investment advisers making political contributions in order to influence government officials involved in selecting investment advisers to manage public pension fund assets. Under the Rule, investment advisers are prohibited from providing investment advisory services for compensation to a government entity for a two-year period after any covered associate of the adviser makes an impermissible contribution to an official or candidate for an office that has or would have the ability to influence the selection of an investment adviser by such government entity, as well as placing restrictions on activities of an adviser to any government entities from soliciting or coordinating contributions from others. The Rule applies to any investment adviser that is registered (or required to be registered) with the SEC, as well as to certain advisers that operate under an exemption from registration available under the Advisers Act.
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It definitely is a Cole world.
Today is the day the lord has made, but that didn't stop Diggy Simmons from talking smack to J.Cole in a new song!
A track randomly appeared in the web-o-sphere today, which also happens to be April Fools Day, from the 17-year-old Diggy dissing newbie rapper J.Cole.
STORY: Diggy Simmons "Unexpected Arrival" Album
In the song titled "What You Say To Me" had both J.Cole and Diggy trending on Twitter before much of the world took a sip of their morning coffee.
VIDEO: Diggy Simmons feat. Jadakiss "88"
Diggy opens up his diss with the following line:
The other day I was listening to "Purple Rain" / Couldn't believe all of the things that I heard him say / Who Dat? Who Dat? You know who it is / Heard you lying on my sis, tellin' people that you hit…
He then starts to get a little more personal in the following bars, taking some serious shots at everything from Cole's personality to his fashion sense:
Little n***a think he Cole, think he live like me / Jet setter, trend setter – yeah you not like me / Can't find a girl you know that do not like me / I can't find a girl I know, that knows you / You local, wasn't even poppin' in the school you used to go to.
I'm about to read your your rights, Miranda / Only thing you hitting in the morning is your hand up / Stand up, matter fact sit down – don't try to call Hovy-hov boy, sit down, he later concludes, gleefully adding: College boy acting like a criminal / Knowing you a broke-back Jake Gyllenhaal / You imaginary player, even TMZ didn't notice you was there / Jeez, you are such a dweeb – and your shirts don't fit; long arms short sleeves. Yeesh.
J.Cole previously mentioned Diggy's name on the track "Grew Up Fast" when he said/: Move along cock-sucker, ain't got nothing to see / 'less you talking blockbuster, you n***as is not Russell / You more Diggy, Me, I'm more Biggie / No diss to the young boy.
Take a listen to the track "What You Say To Me" above, and tell us, do you think the two should just bury da beef?


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Sometimes I think Republicans have their own special GOP edition of The Bible. Via Think Progress:
The House Agriculture Committee convened earlier this week to discuss whether or not to cut as much as $4.1 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps).
As House members discussed slashing the budget for the Farm Bill, which funds SNAP, Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) took issue with some Democrats who cited Jesus Christ's call to care for "the least of these" when describing the government's need to assist the hungry. Instead, Fincher explained that his support for the proposed cuts by quoting a very different Bible verse – 2 Thessalonians 3:10: "For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat."
But while the use of 2 Thessalonians is a convenient tool for those who want to justify ignoring the poor, Fincher's lukewarm Biblical argument doesn't hold up under scrutiny. As many religious bloggers have already pointed out, the author of 2 Thessalonians was actually referring to ancient Christians who had stopped working in anticipation of Jesus' Second Coming. The verse is concerned with correcting a theological misunderstanding (i.e., don't just wait around for Jesus, live an active faith), not passing judgement on the poor.
Worse still, Fincher's use of the Bible to defend the slashing of food stamps isn't just bad theology, it's also bad policy.
Undergirding Fincher's sloppy exegesis is an old conservative fiction that people who rely on food stamps are lazy parasites who mooch off the government and refuse to work. In reality, most of the country's 47 million food stamp recipients are children or the elderly, and many are employed. A 2012 report from the USDA found that 45 percent of SNAP recipients were under 18 years of age, nearly 9 percent were age 60 or older, and more than 40 percent lived in households with earnings.
Fincher's misguided Bible-thumping ignores the plight of America's 8.9 million "working poor." This massive group includes the thousands of participants from the recent fast food and retail workers strikes, people who, despite working full-time 40 hours a week for booming industries, often only make around $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year. That's far below the federal poverty threshold of $23,550 for a family of four and leaves many working families with no choice but to apply for food stamps just to feed their loved ones. The strikers, who are consistently backed by droves of religious leaders, are clearly willing to work, yet lawmakers like Fincher (who made his millions with the help of government farm subsidies) stand poised to deny them access to the food they need by decimating funding for SNAP.
UPDATE: Local Charities Speak Out On GOP's Effort To Slash Food Stamps
UPDATE: 50 Million Americans Are Going Hungry As Congress Considers Gutting Food Stamps
UPDATE: Krugman: "Get really, really angry" about GOP attack on SNAP


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Hydraulic fracking in the United States. Britain's response to shale gas would resemble Nigeria, not the US
According to the Daily Telegraph, the chief executive of Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, Mr Sam Laidlaw, said at Davos that hopes were misplaced that development of shale gas deposits in Britain would be a miracle solution to the country's declining North Sea oil production, and "a game-changer" for the British economy. This was in marked contrast to the United States, where the recovery of shale gas has lowered energy costs to US manufacturers and turned the country into a net exporter of energy.
Mr Laidlaw cited several reasons for his pessimism; for example the environmentalist opposition to shale gas extraction, the density of the population in the gas-bearing area, the lack of infrastructure to distribute the gas and the absence of political will to overcome difficulties, political and other.
However, it seems to me that Mr Laidlaw misses the point about shale gas and why it will not be, for Britain, what he calls in his horrible cliché "a game-changer". It would not be a "game-changer" even if it were developed to the full; rather it would be a game-preserver. It would hold back change rather than promote it.
Why is this? Surely cheap energy and vast tax revenues would transform our prospects?
For Britain to hope that the exploitation of a natural resource would rescue its ailing economy seems to me like a man who purchases lottery tickets in the hope that they will secure his old age. Britain is not Kuwait, where a valuable natural resource is so abundant by comparison with the size of the population that all it would have to do to be prosperous is to pay someone else to do the work, sit back and relax as the revenues rolled in. This is an impossible dream — or nightmare.
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