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Brent crude held below $111 per barrel yesterday, not far off its highest this month, as US lawmakers were preparing to launch a last-chance round of budget talks to stop the world's largest oil consumer slipping back into recession.
Brent crude was down 10 cents to $ 110.70 per barrel by 1342 GMT, on course for a weekly gain of about 1.5 percent and a full-year increase of about 3 percent, which would be its smallest in four years, Reuters reported. US crude rose 17 cents to $ 91.04, set for its first yearly loss in four years.
"We now have to go again into the weekend with the "fiscal cliff" risk, and if it is not solved then crude oil could start 2013 with a correction given that it has for now dissociated itself from equities but without clear new bullish inputs," said Olivier Jakob from Petromatrix consultancy.
Oil futures outperformed stocks this week and Dow Jones industrial average futures was down again yesterday as US President Barack Obama and congressional leaders were set to meet for the first time since November amid low expectations for a "fiscal cliff" deal before Jan. 1.


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OpinionPoliticsOn Israel and Palestine, Obama is Rick Perry Obama has been more pro-Israel than any US president before him, including George W Bush - but what will it get him? 24 Sep 2011 15:17 GMT | Politics, US & Canada, Israel, Palestine, United States By MJ Rosenberg @MJayRosenberg MJ Rosenberg has worked on Capitol Hill for various Democratic members of the House and Senate for 15 years. He was also a Clinton political appointee at USAID. Story highlightsPresident Barack Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly succeeded in making clear why the Palestinians had no other choice but to take their statehood bid to the UN and why the United States can no longer pretend to be an "honest broker" in the conflict.For the first time since the UN conferred statehood on Israel 63 years ago, the sitting US president told the world body that the United States will back Israel, right or wrong. The president's speech was so one-sided, in fact, that he sounded a lot like Texas Governor Rick Perry, who gave a similar speech to a group of "pro-Israel" right-wingers one day earlier. Perry is not the president, so his speech was different, except for the motivation, which was President Barack Obama's speech to the UN sounded disturbingly similar to Texas Governor Rick Perry's speech to Pro-Israel right-wingers one day earlier [GALLO/GETTY] President Barack Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly succeeded in making clear why the Palestinians had no other choice but to take their statehood bid to the UN and why the United States can no longer pretend to be an "honest broker" in the conflict.For the first time since the UN conferred statehood on Israel 63 years ago, the sitting US president told the world body that the United States will back Israel, right or wrong. The president's speech was so one-sided, in fact, that he sounded a lot like Texas Governor Rick Perry, who gave a similar speech to a group of "pro-Israel" right-wingers one day earlier. Perry is not the president, so his speech was different, except for the motivation, which was same.Both speeches were standard "pro-Israel" bloviating, but Perry gave his on the campaign trail and not in front of the entire world. (I hesitate to call a speech opposing Palestinian statehood "pro-Israel" when the latest comprehensive poll on the subject says that 70 per cent of Israelis say Israel should support the UN's decision if statehood is granted.)The very best explanation of what Obama did at the United Nations came from Daniel Levy, a Brit who moved to Israel right out of college 18 years ago. "There is virtually no thread of reason running between the way he [Obama] related to the rest of the world and its developments, particularly in the Middle East, and the positions he espoused on Israel-Palestine - a conflict apparently occurring on another planet," said Levy, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. "Palestinian freedoms, rights and self-determination are somehow supposed to be attained without the recourse to leverage, international law or meaningful international support, considered to be necessary and legitimate virtually everywhere else." "Palestinian freedoms, rights and self-determination are somehow supposed to be attained without the recourse to leverage, international law or meaningful international support." - Daniel Levy, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation Of course, there is one "thread", although it is not of "reason". Every word in Obama's speech was designed not to advance a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but to keep single-issue donors and, to a lesser extent, single-issue voters in his camp for the 2012 election. Not a week goes by without the Obama team sending emails out to people it deems Israel voters to remind them of all the wonderful things this president has done for Israel. One recently was dedicated to citing quotes from Prime Minister Netanyahu praising Obama - the first time I can remember that a president sought to validate himself by citing the praise of a foreign leader.Obama isn't lying about his "pro-Israel" record, however. This administration has been the most one-sided supporter of everything Israel asks for since 1948. There is no competition. Not even George W Bush comes close. Most pro-Israel president everWhen the Israelis, following Obama's election, asked Bush to give Israel permission to bomb Iran, he said no, despite his vice president and neoconservative aides pushing the Israeli position hard. Bush also did more than Obama to advance the peace process that the Israeli right hates so much, convening an international summit at Aqaba and being the first president to say, in unambiguous terms, that the United States supports "two states, living side by side in peace and security".On Israel, Obama is to the right of Bush, to the right of Reagan, and certainly to the right of Clinton. On Israel and Palestine, Barack Obama is Rick Perry.Of course, Obama's outrageous surrender to Netanyahu still won't impress the Israel-Firsters. They have despised him from day one, for all kinds of reasons, and predictably condemned the speech. Meanwhile, Israel's thuggish far-right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told reporters that: "I am ready to sign on this speech with both hands." Avigdor Lieberman, a right-wing Israeli politician, could have written Obama's speech [GALLO/GETTY] Lieberman is telling the truth - he could have written Obama's speech - and the neocons are lying. But neocons are adherents of the Sen Mitch McConnell (R-KY) school: They have only one goal, which is to defeat this president. And although privately they celebrate their amazing success at intimidating Obama into submission, publicly they denounce him and send scary emails to senior citizens in Florida and New Jersey warning them that Obama wants to destroy Israel.But these speeches and love-ins with Netanyahu accomplish nothing for Obama. The single-issue Israel voters and donors (three per cent of the Jewish community) will take their money and votes elsewhere.And Netanyahu will, working from Jerusalem, do everything he can to help the Republicans win the next election. It's almost funny how these people would exchange the person who is the most "pro-Israel" president ever (looking at it from their "maintain-the-occupation-at-all-costs" vantage point) for an unknown quantity like Perry or Romney. After all, a Republican whose main constituency is Wall Street would likely turn out to approach Israel with more scepticism than Obama does.But it's a game. Netanyahu and the lobby want to defeat Obama to demonstrate, yet again, who calls the shots on US Middle East policy.But forget the campaign for a moment - which is what Obama should have done when addressing the UN The president's speech was an embarrassing disaster. Since 2009, 1,600 Palestinians (overwhelmingly civilians and over 400 children) have been killed by the Israeli army. Thirteen Israelis have been killed over the same period. Despite that, Obama devoted 120 words of his speech to Israeli suffering (even going so far as to cite the Holocaust) and not one word to Palestinian suffering.Example: An Australian newspaper reports on a new film about the tragedy of Palestinian women in Gaza (under full Israeli blockade) who are suffering with breast cancer but are not permitted by Israel to leave Gaza for treatment. (They used to go to Israeli hospitals or hospitals in the Arab states and Europe.) Nor does Israel permit the import of the radioactive isotopes used to treat breast cancers. So they die.One could go on and on about the horrors of the occupation but it won't matter to the politicians who determine US foreign policy. They know which side their bread is buttered on, as Obama demonstrated at the UN this week. Time for a new brokerBut, I'm surprised to say, Obama did Palestinians and the 70 per cent of Israelis who support statehood a big favour. By demonstrating that the United States refuses to play the role of "honest broker" and by telling the UN that we are Israel and Israel is us, the United States is yielding the role of Middle East peacemaker to others. The French, Turks, Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, South Africans, and Russians don't agree on much. But they do agree on the urgency of the creation of a Palestinian state in the areas occupied in 1967. And they agree that the United States, no longer the superpower it once was, should move over and let countries not fully invested in one side play a more constructive role.Those who wonder how these "other countries" could exert the leadership the US has abdicated might consider the issue of economics, trade, etc. Israel does not live on an island with the United States. It is part of the world and not even the United States and the $3.5bn it hands over to Israel each year (no strings attached) can save Israel if the rest of the world says "enough".Obama has chosen to abdicate. The rest of the world is eager to step up.And that is why I have no doubt that the state of Palestine was created this week at the United Nations. By opting out, Obama did a tremendous favour to Palestinians and Israelis both. Palestinians will have their fully sovereign, contiguous state. And the Jewish state of Israel will finally be secure. As Israelis like to say, "yhiyeh tov". Or as Arabs say, "insha'Allah khair". Everything will be fine. MJ Rosenberg is a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. A version of this article previously appeared on Foreign Policy Matters. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.Source: Al Jazeera
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Retooled Hamas Bloodies Israel With Help From Hezbollah
Jonathan Ferziger and Saud Abu RamadanHoisting themselves from a tunnel underneath the Gaza border, the Hamas gunmen sprinted through desert brush to attack an Israeli military post and kill five soldiers, retreating with a bounty of captured machine-guns.
The strike at Israel's border with Gaza at Nahal Oz, recorded by a militant and broadcast on the group's television station, demonstrates how Hamas's one-time ragtag Al-Qassam Brigades militia has transformed itself into a disciplined force and inflicted greater damage on Israel's vastly larger army than ever before. Sixty-four soldiers died, the most in a military conflict since the second Lebanon war in 2006, and more than six times the number of troops killed in Israel's last ground war in Gaza in 2009.
Weapons that Israel says were smuggled from Iran and a playbook inspired by Lebanon's Hezbollah forces were key ingredients that enabled Hamas to hold out against Israel's monthlong offensive. Confronting Israeli troops head-on was a change from previous wars where Hamas mostly fought through hidden bombs and booby-trapped buildings.
Hamas "succeeded in exacting a price from Israel and causing serious damage and losses among its soldiers," Yoram Schweitzer, a senior research fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, wrote in a report. The military campaign "strengthened its hegemony among all the organizations operating in Gaza," he said.
Fighters Killed
To be sure, Hamas has suffered serious setbacks. Israel killed three of its senior military commanders in an overnight attack. The group lost hundreds of its fighters during the war, about two-thirds of its 10,000 rockets and dozens of attack tunnels, some of which cost as much as $3 million to build, according to Israel. There are also international moves afoot to give the rival Fatah movement, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, new powers in Gaza.
While the losses in Gaza were tremendous, "this is not likely to have a major material impact on Hamas the organization," said Youssef Munayyer, executive director of the Washington-based Palestine Center, a research group. "At the end of the day, Palestinians blame Israel for their plight and will support resistance to it more than acquiescence to it."
Besides the tunnels, Hamas spent the past five years digging passages throughout the small coastal territory, which enabled them to surprise Israeli soldiers by popping up behind them. The subterranean network was inspired by the example of Hezbollah, which burrowed through south Lebanon with the help of consultants from North Korea, where tunneling has become a virtual military art form.
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A U.S. federal court in Washington last month found North Korea and Iran liable for damages from 2006 missiles fired at Israel from Lebanon. A 2010 study by the Congressional Research service cites intelligence sources as saying North Korea trained Hezbollah to build tunnels.
In Gaza, "the tunnel network became something of an equalizer," Munayyer said, allowing militants to kill more Israeli soldiers than they did six years ago.
While tensions had grown between Hamas and Hezbollah over the Lebanese group's support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, the two Islamist groups closed ranks against their common Israeli enemy.
In a July 25 speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah pledged "all means of support" to the "Palestinian resistance" in Gaza, meaning Hamas and other militant groups. Hamas and Hezbollah are both designated terrorist organizations by Israel and the U.S. Both came to prominence in part by carrying out suicide bombings that killed hundreds of civilians.
The Al-Qassam Brigades promised revenge today after Israel's nighttime killing of its commanders. "Killing our leaders won't weaken us," the group said in an e-mailed statement.
'Serious Damage'
Israeli forces, who according to Gaza officials killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in the fighting, suffered the worst losses to Hamas from battles in Gaza City's Shuja'iya neighborhood and Rafah in the south. Thirteen soldiers died in a single day in Shuja'iya.
When the chairman of the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee announced an inquiry into the Gaza military campaign, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called it a "a clear Israeli admission that their army was defeated by the Palestinian resistance."
The committee's chairman, Zeev Elkin of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, told Army Radio on Aug. 3 that the panel will investigate all the tough questions raised by the war, including why Israel didn't destroy the Hamas tunnels even though they knew about their existence years ago.
The committee expects to hear testimony from Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and senior army commanders, he said.
"Al-Qassam has been preparing for an intensive operation like this for years," Adnan Abu Aamer, a political scientist at Gaza's al-Ummah University. "The fighters' performance on the ground surprised the Israelis and truly impressed Palestinians and the Arab world."


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Hockey Hall of Famer Gordie Howe is 85.
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Actor Richard Chamberlain ("Dr. Kildare," "The Towering Inferno") is 79.
Actress Shirley Jones ("The Partridge Family," "Oklahoma!") is 79.
Country singer-songwriter John D. Loudermilk is 79.
Trumpeter Herb Alpert is 78.
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is 73.
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is 73.
Radio talk show host Michael Savage is 71.
Actor Christopher Walken is 70.
Guitarist Mick Ralphs (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company) is 69.
Actor and comedian Gabe Kaplan ("Welcome Back, Kotter") is 68.
Former U.S. vice president, senator and presidential candidate Al Gore is 65.
Actress Rhea Perlman ("Cheers") is 65.
Actor and college football Hall of Fame running back Ed Marinaro ("Hill Street Blues," "Blue Mountain State") is 63.
Guitarist Angus Young of AC/DC is 58.
Actor Marc McClure ("Superman" and "Back to the Future" movies) is 56.
Actor Tony Cox ("Bad Santa," "Me, Myself and Irene") is 55.
Opera composer Jake Heggie ("Dead Man Walking," "Moby-Dick") is 52.
TV host Samantha Brown ("Girl Meets Hawaii," "Passport to China") is 43.
Former NBA guard Steve Smith is 44.
Actor Damon Herriman ("Justified," "J. Edgar") is 43.
Bassist Bob Crawford of the Avett Brothers is 42.
Actor Ewan McGregor ("I Love You Phillip Morris," "Moulin Rouge!") is 42.
Actor Andrew Bowen ("MADtv," "ER") is 41.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is 41.
Actress Emma Atkins is 38.
Actress Ashton Moore, a Newport Beach native, is 37.
Actor Daniel Mays ("Atonement," "Vera Drake") is 35.
Rapper Tony Yayo is 35.
Singer and actress Trenyce Cobbins ("American Idol") is 33.
Washington Nationals pitcher Chien-Ming Wang is 33.
Singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham is 32.
Guitarist Ryland Blackinton of Cobra Starship is 31.
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Actress Jessica Szohr ("Gossip Girl") is 28.
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Following the recent death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in December of 2011, Kim Jong Un became the leader of the people of North Korea. Until that time, North Korea had maintained a militant course which kept the world in a state of unease; ignoring the hunger of the North Korean people and devoting available resources to the development of nuclear missile capacity. North Korea has never accepted the 38th parallel, the line dividing North Korea from South Korea, set following the bloody Korean war of the early 1950s, and which the rest of the world respects. As Kim Jong Un took charge, not yet having reached his thirtieth birthday, the world wondered how his ascension would change the belligerent status of North Korea. Today, we may have an answer.
This week, as we write, President Obama and world leaders are meeting in South Korea to discuss a world safe from nuclear terror. It may be irony or by intent that North Korea at this time has announced a renewal of hostility toward the free world.
South Korea, the setting for these meetings for nuclear limitation, is a close ally of the US, and viewed as an enemy by the North Korean dictatorship. North Korea harbors an ongoing hatred for America and most of the free world. Many may have briefly thought that the new leader of the northern half of the Korean Peninsula might have a vision that the free world could work with. Two short weeks ago, North Korea signed an agreement to halt weapon programs in exchange for food aid; hopes rose. Then, as plans were put in place to deliver beef and many other foods to the hungry people, Pyongyang announced on March 16 that they were preparing to launch a satellite to mark the birth of the first of the leading family, seen as a deity, Kim Il Sung. This was consideredan extreme provocation by the American administration, although in truth the food plan was to have gone through without regard to the nuclear freeze.
Kurt M. Campbell, head of The Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs said, "We have never seen this trajectory before. We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued." Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, stated that "The North Korean nuclear and long-range missile plans represent a real and credible threat to the security of the region and to Australia" and that the launch would be "in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions."
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The datapacker package
datapacker is a tool to group files by size. It is designed to group files such that they fill fixed-size containers (called bins) using the minimum number of containers. This is useful, for instance, if you want to archive a number of files to CD or DVD, and want to organize them such that you use the minimum possible number of CDs or DVDs.
In many cases, datapacker executes almost instantaneously. Of particular note, the hardlink action can be used to effectively copy data into bins without having to actually copy the data at all.
datapacker is a tool in the traditional Unix style; it can be used in pipes and call other tools.
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Lacunosa Town (Japanese: カゴメタウン Kagome Town) is a town in the northeastern area of the Unova region. To the west of Lacunosa Town is Route 12 and to the east is Route 13. To the north-east of Lacunosa Town lies the Giant Chasm, which is a location that has affected the residents of the town greatly for many years.
The Lacunosa Legend
A long time ago, it is said that a large meteor came from the sky containing a terrifying monster. It was said that at night the monster would appear in the town along with the cold winds and take away humans and Pokémon to eat them. Eventually, the residents of the town surrounded Lacunosa Town in a wall to keep the monster out and a rule was then set on the town that forbade anyone from leaving at night and encouraged people to stay in their homes. Even though Lacunosa residents claim to no longer believe this old story, they still stay inside of their houses at night and the walls remain standing to this day.
Places of interest
Pokémon Center
Inside Lacunosa's Pokémon Center is a girl who will give the player a Gracidea if a fateful encounter Shaymin is shown to her.
The girl on the second floor can tell the player what Pokémon were on their team at the time they earned a particular Gym Badge if the player agrees to show her that Badge.
Executive's house
The house on the northeastern part of the town's walls is home to a businessman, though due to business trips during the week, he only appears on SundayBW nights. He gives the player one Berry from a range of Berries, some of which are not commonly found in Unova.
Lacunosa Town has a population of 16.
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Elixir | In front of the policeman near the north-west corner of the town (hidden) | B W | |
Max Repel | On a wall near the north-east corner (hidden) | B W | |
Gracidea | Gift from the girl inside the Pokémon Center if she is shown a fateful encounter Shaymin. | B W | |
Pecha Berry | Souvenir from executive on Sunday nights | B W | |
Leppa Berry | Souvenir from executive on Sunday nights | B W | |
Lum Berry | Souvenir from executive on Sunday nights | B W | |
Bluk Berry | Souvenir from executive on Sunday nights | B W | |
Leppa Berry | Souvenir from executive on Saturday nights | B2 W2 | |
Pecha Berry | Souvenir from executive on Monday nights | B2 W2 | |
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Hugh is the player's tag partner in this battle.
In the anime
Lacunosa Town appeared from Jostling for the Junior Cup! to Goodbye, Junior Cup - Hello Adventure! as the site for the Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup. Its main landmark seems to be the big stadium were the World Tournament is held.
- Lacunosa's Japanese motto is カゴメは 編んでできた 三角形.
- Lacunosa Town is the only town in the known Pokémon world whose citizens' schedule changes dramatically based on the time of day.
- In Black 2 and White 2, Professor Juniper directly mentions the possible origin of the name "Lacunosa," deriving the origin from lacunosus and describing the cloud type as a formation that resembles "a net or a fence," while relating that origin to the reason for the walls around Lacunosa Town, designed to keep Kyurem away.
Name origin
Language | Name | Origin |
Japanese | カゴメタウン Kagome Town | 籠目 kagome, kagome lattice. |
English | Lacunosa Town | From lacunosus, clouds characterized by a net or honeycomb pattern. |
French | Entrelasque | From entrelacer (interweave) and lasque (species of diamond). |
German | Tessera | From the Greek τέσσερα tessera (four). |
Italian | Fortebrezza | Literally, "strong breeze". Also from forte (fortress). |
Spanish | Pueblo Ladrillo | From ladrillo, brick. |
Korean | 보배마을 Bobae Maeul | From 보배 (寶貝) bobae, treasure. |
Chinese (Mandarin) | 籠目鎮 Lóngmù Zhèn | From 籠目 kagome. Literally means "Basket eye". |
This article is part of Project Cities and Towns, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every city and town in the Pokémon world. |


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Dibon — pining; wasting. (1.) A city in Moab (Num. 21:30); called also Dibon-gad (33:45), because it was built by Gad and Dimon (Isa. 15:9). It has been identified with the modern Diban, about 3 miles north of the Arnon and 12 miles east of the Dead Sea. (See MOABITE STONE .)
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Students in Washington Junior High and Mid-Prairie Middle School Students will have the opportunity to take part in an event that caps off a year's worth of financial study and career exploration. Jennifer Ott, Program Coordinator at Workplace Learning Connection talks about the Financial Literacy Fair.
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A Nicotine patch is a medicated adhesive patch that is placed on the skin to transport a particular dose of medication through the skin and into the bloodstream. Nicotine patch is used as a great help in nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), a process for smoking cessation. Smoking cessation is the process of stopping the habit of inhaling a smoked substance. Nicotine patch can help a person quit smoking by replacing the nicotine in cigarettes. The nicotine in tobacco is a significant part of cigarette addiction. When a person stops smoking, his/her nicotine levels drop rapidly. This drop can cause withdrawal symptoms such as craving tobacco, nervousness, irritability, headache, weight gain, and difficulty concentrating. Qutting smoking is hard and the chance of success is great when a person is ready and has made a promise to give up smoking. Nicotine replacement products are part of a total stop-smoking program that includes behavior change, counseling, and support. Smoking causes lung disease such as cancer and heart disease. Stopping smoking is one of the most important things a person can do to improve his/her health and well-being.
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Lincoln City Council Member Terry Werner says wants to see companies who contract with the city be required to pay a poverty level wage. The proposed Ordinance would require that companies who contract with the city pay $8.85 an hour to their employees. Companies that don't offer health insurance would have to pay $9.73.
For Non-Profit Organizations that receive money from the city the same would be true, if they get 25-thousand dollars or more and have 10 employees working in the program that receives the money.
According to the Joint Budget Committee and Werner, only five agencies get more than 25-thousand dollars from the city. These groups will only be affected if they have more than 10 employees.
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(CNN) — "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Seth Meyers will take over NBC's "Late Night" show next year when current host Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show," NBC announced Sunday.
SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels will also be the executive producer of "Late Night with Seth Meyers." He was also named executive producer of "The Tonight Show" earlier this year when the network announced Fallon would replace Jay Leno.
No premiere date has been announced, but NBC has said Leno's exit and Fallon's debut will coincide with the Winter Olympics coverage in 2014.
All three shows will broadcast from NBC's New York headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. NBC announced in April that "Tonight" would relocate back to New York from Burbank, California. Johnny Carson moved the show there four decades ago to take advantage of Hollywood-based guests and Southern California's lifestyle.
Meyers, 39, would be the fourth comedian to host "Late Night" since it went on the air in 1982, starting with David Letterman and followed by Conan O'Brien and Fallon. "Seth couldn't be in better company," Michaels said.
"We think Seth is one of the brightest, most insightful comedy writers and performers of his generation," NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said in the official announcement.
Meyers has been the frontrunner in speculation about who would succeed Fallon.
Like Fallon before him, Meyers anchored SNL's "Weekend Update" desk. Along with being a performer, Meyers is the show's head writer. Meyers is currently in his 12th season with SNL.
"I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car," Meyers said in the NBC news release. "12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice."
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Budget motels will be just as happy to satisfy your needs as the fancier
If you're staying at the Ritz-Carlton, you probably expect the hotel to do its utmost to fulfill any special request, be it for your favorite brand of bubbly in the minibar or cookies for your children. If, on the other hand, you're at a Motel 6, your expectations for customized service may be considerably lower (since the cost of your accommodations certainly is).
This needn't be the case. Most budget and midprice hotels work just as hard as their luxury counterparts to satisfy certain special requests—but you have to ask for what you want.
Take bathroom amenities: Best Western rooms are ordinarily stocked with standard minibottles of shampoo and conditioner. And, spokeswoman Carolyn Marion says, "Any Best Western in the world will supply additional toiletries—razor, shaving cream, toothbrush, toothpaste—at no charge, if you request them."
Most hotels also try to honor room location requests, far beyond that of smoking or nonsmoking. "We make every effort," says Kelley Johnson of Motel 6. "We can't make guarantees, but we try to accommodate requests for the ground floor or second floor, for poolside or by the front office, or away from the highway." In taller buildings, you might request a room on an upper level for the most light or the best view, or on a low floor if you're cautious about fire escapes.
If you travel with small children, you're probably accustomed to calling ahead for cots or cribs. But you can also ask to have glass-topped tables removed from your room or the minibar emptied of candy. If you're traveling with pets, it helps to know that many hotels—including more than 1,000 North American Best Westerns, most Motel 6 properties, and many Days Inns—will happily accommodate animals if you make advance arrangements.
Once you've customized your hotel room to your heart's content, you may find there's just one additional request you'd want to make: late checkout.
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Live review: DJ Quik heads to the Grove unleashed after spotty West Coast bash at Club Nokia
[caption id="attachment_100466" align="alignnone" width="580"] DJ Quik at Rock the Bells in San Bernardino this past August. Photo: David Hall, for the Register[/caption]
A sold-out Club Nokia boasted a pre-Thanksgiving event billed as the first-ever West Coast Feast, headlined Wednesday night by three of the most prolific contributors to that scene: Tha Dogg Pound, Too $hort, and a reunited Suga Free and DJ Quik. In what appeared to be a healthy mix of cholos from East L.A. and hipsters from Silverlake, there was slim chance of finding anyone unenthusiastic about catching one or all of those marquee names. This night, anyway, Club Nokia was no place for the casual gangsta rap fan.
Revered for his MC talents by legends like Eminem and Notorious B.I.G., Kurupt celebrated his 40th birthday onstage alongside Daz Dillinger, as Tha Dogg Pound opened with "What Would U Do," and the bass-heavy classic stirred the crowd something fierce. Bouncing from hood anthems ("Cali Iz Active") to recognizable radio features (Snoop Dogg's "Ain't No Fun"), the set culminated in a sincere thank-you from the duo, who noted that "next year we goin' on 20 years."
Junior-high novelty aside, when a capacity crowd can sing every word of every song almost two decades later, with virtually no radio play ... well, frankly, Tha Dogg Pound shouldn't have opened this show.
The strength of the night took a major nosedive when Too $hort affiliate Big Greedy and Greedy Entertainment took the stage after that strong start. Resorting to failed tropes -- "make some noise if you smoke weed," "where Mexico at?" -- only magnified the parody this shameless plug made of West Coast rap.
What most expected to be a song-or-two segue into Too $hort's set became a half-hour barrage of clichés and far too many mentions of female genetalia. The kicker: the Big Greedy track that features Too $hort was performed ... without Too $hort. When the Bay Area mainstay did turn up, sandwiched between vivid storytellers like Dogg Pound and DJ Quik, he provided more comic relief than microphone prowess.
He vowed that his 10th album would be his last on the radio hit "Getting It," but what has followed is a renewed career anchored by frequent collaborations with cohorts E-40 and the Yin Yang Twins. Club bangers like "Shake That Monkey" and "Blow the Whistle" generated almost a bigger response here than $hort's "Don't Fight the Feelin'," easily his strongest (and oldest) cut of the night.
$hort has always made an effort to speak about the ills of the hood, yet he will forever be marred by his inability to shake his rep for sexual decadence. If there's any doubt, just ask him what his favorite word is.
Opting for live drums, Korg synthesizers, and a Jazzmaster Fender for those signature bass lines from his deep catalog, DJ Quik ensured the contrast on the night would tip in his favor. Shifting the evening from campy to musically competent, the Compton producer, who returns Saturday night to headline City National Grove of Anaheim, offered an abbreviated set that nonetheless reinforced the West Coast sound's lasting merits as something much more than an image-driven hip-hop niche.
Having recently reconnected with Pomona's Suga Free for his latest studio effort, The Book of David, the duo initially seemed to puzzle the Club Nokia crowd with live renditions of hits, notably "Down, Down, Down," as Quik's ability to act as both conductor and MC seemed to fly right over the audience's head. Performing cuts that spanned his three-decade career, each track met with an initial jolt of energy from the crowd that inevitably fizzled during improvisational breaks and instrumental interludes.
The night before a holiday, L.A. came looking merely for background jams and familiar rhymes. But "give me a bass line in the key of G," commanded Quik, not something you're likely to hear from rappers. And soon after launching into an instrumental take on "Do I Love Her?," the set abruptly ended with Quik and Free walking off with no thank-you's, no goodnights. Almost seemed like their way of suggesting this set was a bit too gourmet for a ham-and-cheese crowd.
Quik, 42, remains a largely unsung pioneer in rap music, an '80s-inspired innovator who wasn't a product of the West Coast so much as one of its essential framers. The clap track, the funk-heavy low end, the melodic sensibility that's now an integral component in virtually every radio single -- Quik was doing that long before hip-hop came to dominate mainstream pop music by the end of the last century.
But the truth about Quik -- and, though brief, this night's appeared proved it abundantly -- is that he is too West Coast for the rest of rap, yet too talented to feed into the region's gimmicks and stereotypes just the same. He's never had to wear the hood tag on his sleeve to make his stuff authentic -- it just is.
This crowd wanted gangsta; Quik offered groove, and people didn't seem to get it. Fortunately, he and Suga Free have their own gig, without so much marquee-sharing baggage, Saturday night at the Grove, $27.50.
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750 transmission projects authorized in 2012
Mar 07, 2013, 16:41 ET from PJM Interconnection
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Massive shifts in the fuels used to generate electricity are requiring major investments for electric transmission grid improvements, a recent study by PJM Interconnection reveals. In 2012, PJM, which plans improvements to the regional power grid, authorized more than 750 electric transmission improvement projects with a total cost of more than $5 billion.
PJM's recently published report on electric transmission planning details how electric grid upgrades and construction maintain reliable electric supplies while meeting the challenges of power plant retirements, the rapid switch to natural gas, the growth of wind power and states' renewable energy requirements. PJM operates and plans the transmission grid serving 60 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Between Nov. 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2012, PJM received 104 retirement requests for 13,868 megawatts of generation – about enough electricity to supply Indiana's needs for a year. Most of the retirements were related to more stringent environmental regulations combined with low natural gas prices. The trend continues in 2013 with formal notice in January of the retirement of an additional 1,697 megawatts of generation.
"We've never had to cope with generation retirements or fuel shifts on this scale," said Steve Herling, PJM vice president of transmission planning. "The fact that we're able to respond to these changes so efficiently shows the strength of the planning process and the skills of planners both in PJM and the 14 transmission owners within the PJM region."
PJM's analysis identified the need for more than 130 grid updates to avoid reliability problems resulting from the power plant retirements. The $2.4 billion in solutions include equipment upgrades, new substations and substation additions, rebuilding existing lines and construction of new transmission lines.
For example, about $174 million worth of major projects are required in the Mid-Atlantic region to solve reliability problems caused by the retirement of generating units in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Most generator retirements were in the western region of PJM, including western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, western Maryland and Indiana. In particular, retirement of generators along Lake Erie in Ohio will require significant transmission upgrades in and around Cleveland. About $341 million in major projects were authorized to resolve generator-retirement problems in the PJM western region. In total, 137 transmission upgrades were approved.
In Virginia, PJM authorized $293 million in major transmission projects to solve reliability problems caused by retiring generators.
As some generation retired, PJM saw a record amount of new generation in one year, most of it natural gas-fired.
Meanwhile, PJM continues to study the effects of existing wind power on the grid and to plan transmission changes to handle it. The PJM report identified nine grid stability problems at eight locations in Ohio, Illinois and Virginia resulting from conditions related to wind power on the grid. PJM planned and authorized $97 million in transmission projects to ensure that energy from generators, such as wind power, that typically run during overnight "light-use" hours can be delivered without causing stability problems.
Wind power on the grid is expected to grow because many states require a certain amount of electricity sold in the state to come from renewable sources. PJM continues to evaluate the new transmission lines and improvements that will be necessary to add the wind power needed to meet state renewable energy requirements. The study includes off-shore wind and imports of wind-powered electricity from other regions.
PJM's 1,000-page report on transmission planning, the PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan in Review, documents these and other grid needs and related construction and upgrade projects throughout the PJM region.
PJM Interconnection, founded in 1927, ensures the reliability of the high-voltage electric power system serving 60 million people in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. PJM coordinates and directs the operation of the region's transmission grid, which includes 59,750 miles of transmission lines; administers a competitive wholesale electricity market; and plans regional transmission expansion improvements to maintain grid reliability and relieve congestion. Visit PJM at www.pjm.com.
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When the Illinois marriage equality bill was not brought up for a vote on May 31, anti-gay obsessives like Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) crowed as if they had defeated S.B. 10 and turned back the Gay Menace. This was reinforced by gay activists' anger at their suddenly dashed expectations. In fact, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan extended the deadline for the bill through August; it may be taken up in a special session.
To treat one setback as a reversal of the pro-gay historical trend is like treating a winter storm as disproving global climate change. Rather, it is a stern reminder that we must work for our gains. Part of that is critical self-assessment.
By self-assessment I do not mean opportunistic point scoring. Log Cabin Republicans leader Gregory Angelo took the occasion to slam Democrats, despite only two out of 47 Illinois House Republicans having pledged support for S.B. 10. Please. There was no outcry over Republican opponents because no one expected any better from them.
The shortfall in House support contradicts the exaggerated claim of gay political power made by conservatives like Chief Justice John Roberts. That claim is doubtful, as Laurel Ramseyer at Pam's House Blend observes, "[e]ven in 'blue' Illinois." The notion that we don't need constitutional protection is ludicrous given our long struggle just to win marriage in one fourth of the country.
Some gay pundits, like John Aravosis of AMERICAblog, wasted no time in leaping to a race-based analysis, fingering the Black Caucus and black ministers for a loss that had not yet happened. Did we learn nothing from the hasty, ill-informed scapegoating after Prop 8? Statistician Nate Silver refuted that stunningly counterproductive narrative in November 2008. A few thoughts come to mind:
- If you talk about anti-gay black ministers without mentioning pro-gay black ministers, or prominent opponent Cardinal Francis George (who compared the pride paraders to the Ku Klux Klan, though he later apologized), then you need to check your biases.
- We need to learn lessons and apply them, not start an insult match.
- So you're angry. The question is what to do -- likely a mix of changes in spending priorities, better use of allies, better use of data, better matching of message and messenger with the right audience, a new lead sponsor, and a stronger grassroots effort led by people familiar with the local terrain.
As David Badash of The New Civil Rights Movement noted, blaming the Black Caucus or black ministers "is exactly what NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, wants to happen." Why take the bait? Badash adds, "It's time we built bridges with other communities instead of trying to deflect blame onto them." Besides, our communities overlap. Into which balkanized category would you place Mark Carson, the black gay man murdered last month in New York?
Passion motivates us, but smart answers require cool-headed analysis. We need to be clear-eyed, disciplined and tenacious. "Ready, fire, aim" is no strategy.
The deadline extension is an opportunity for a course correction. Rick Garcia, Policy Director for The Civil Rights Agenda, said of the May 31 meltdown, "This is what happens when you allow a multi-billionaire and national organizations that have no clue about Illinois politics and how Springfield works to call the shots." The billionaire is Fred Eychaner, the major donor to Illinois Unites for Marriage. Garcia, a longtime Illinois activist, called for replacing high-priced consultants and lobbyists with "real people standing up and speaking out." You cannot outsource community building.
Wisdom is noticing and repeating what works. Strong interracial and interfaith coalition efforts helped produce marriage equality victories in D.C. and Maryland. Listening, learning, and nurturing trust can create bonds that withstand the windiest of cities.
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So, I didn't update this devlog as much as I intended to, but better late than never.
Day/Night is now established as a force in the world. Plants, predators, and players are now all affected by whether or not they are in "Day" or "Night". Plants bloom quicker in daylight, queens and their pawns move slower at night, and predators come out at night.
One of my goals with this system is to force players into action and have them fight for territory that's getting more sun, and therefore growing food more quickly.
In relation to the day/night cycle and the plant blooming cycle, I added the ability for players to force plants into bloom by clicking on them. When this is done at night, the plant becomes more stressed; when this is done during the day, the plant becomes less stressed. And as the plant becomes more stressed, it takes longer and longer to bloom.
My goal here is for players to learn how to "farm". Part of the trick is that plants gain stress faster than they lose it when farmed, but if left alone for a while they naturally come back down. I see this as part of learning to dwell within the world. I also see it as a way to increase engagement, by making the game more "clicky". In particular, I'm reminded of falling suns in Plants Vs Zombies.
I've also settled on the visual motif for this game. I've decided I want a very geometric look, so the queens are ovals, the pawns are triangles, predators are rotating octagons that live inside deccagons, and plants are squares that fold out when in bloom. I'm not gonna lie, a big incentive to go this route is simply how much easier it is for me to do.
Because this game is based on emergence in mechanics, it seemed natural to work towards random level generation. So far, even with few constraints in place, levels are coming out interesting. I'm gonna keep refining this aspect for probably longer than I need, or until it stops being fun.
I would really like to make the game multiplayer as soon as possible, but due to constraints on my time and the limited amount of time left in the semester, I will most likely wait until May to begin in earnest on that.


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Boston Bruins Sign Left Wing Milan Lucic
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"Since being drafted, Milan has shown consistent improvement, which was highlighted by his performance in the Memorial Cup," said Chiarelli. "He also demonstrated his considerable progress during our development camp in July where his size, strength and physical play reinforced everything that led us to select him last year. Though he still could use some improvement in certain areas, he showed us a lot with his offensive production last season. He plays like a prototypical power forward and we are very excited to have him signed."
Lucic, a 6'4", 220-pound left wing was selected by the Bruins with their third pick (50th overall) in the second round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and has played the past two seasons for the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
Last season, Lucic served as an assistant captain and lead Vancouver in regular season scoring with 30 goals and 38 assists for 68 points in 70 regular season games. He also amassed 147 penalty minutes. During the Giant's run at the 2007 Memorial Cup Championship, Lucic added 19 points and 26 penalty minutes in 22 games.
After lifting the Memorial Cup, the 19-year old was named the Giant's Most Valuable Player, the team's Humanitarian and Service award winner and the 2007 Memorial Cup MVP.
During 2005-2006 campaign, the Vancouver, British Columbia native notched nine goals, 10 assists and had 149 penalty minutes in 62 regular season games for the Giants. He also earned seven points and 23 penalty minutes in 18 post-season games as Vancouver captured the 2006 WHL championship.
Lucic spent most of the 2004-2005 campaign with Coquitlam of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL).
Lucic, slated to play for Team Canada in the Under-20 Summit Series between Canada and Russia this September, recently participated in the Bruins Development Camp.


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Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back." - Written by Mitch Albom in Tuesdays with Morrie, one of the greatest stories ever told.
To answer the two questions in that paragraph...I have had a teacher that could make unpolished students shine. My experience began freshman year at Uniontown High. Fortunately for me, it lasted all four years of high school and continues today. This special teacher technically taught history and social sciences but I recall that all of his courses revolved around the most important of subject matters. His classes offered tidbits on life and how to live it as a quality individual. He taught how to grab it by the reins, make it do things for you that nobody expected, and then affect it so that society might reap the benefits. I learned more about life in those classes than any other courses combined. He has the skill that is hard to find in teachers these days. He finds ways to reach out and touch the hearts of his students and make each believe he or she is equal and has the ability to accomplish dreams and alter lives. He expects the very best out of his students and, more often than not, gets more than their very best. His students desire to be better than their very best. Not many high school students look forward to school. I always looked forward to his classes, and I know many of my classmates did as well. On Friday my wife and I drove to Emporia to be part of a special honor for the five best teachers in the nation. The National Teachers Hall of Fame has inducted 80 teachers into his hallowed halls in the past 16 years. Of those 80, five were inducted this year. Of those five, he was one of this year's inductees. While the attention of the evening wasn't centered on any one individual, it was obvious that he stole the show with his touching speech and video. As I listened to him speak chills ran through me. Those chills took me back to my high school days and reminded me of the same chills I often felt in class when he spoke of a story of success or inspired us all to be better citizens. His name is Norm Conard and I am proud to be his student. Comments Showing most recent comments first [Show in chronological order instead] You're right Mr. Felt... N.C. is one of the greats... another one that doesn't get much recognition is A.J. She's a great polisher of perfection. I enjoyed her class as much as I did Mr. Conard's. It's a shame I don't remember mucho Espanol, but that fact is no fault of hers. (I'm sure there are many grammatical errors in this post too) -- Posted by tribgal on Wed, Jun 20, 2007, at 4:03 PM
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To honor the Merrie Monarch Festival, enjoy a special Kalani Mini MM outdoor hula performance on the lawn by the dining lanai. Guest performers Sean Robbins and the Puna Men's Chorus will back up over 20 hula dancers.
The hula show is from 1-2pm. At 2:30pm Sean teaches a slack key guitar class in Kalani's EMAX.
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CocaCola raised the bar for campaigns around UEFA's Euro 2008 football championships with The Coke Zero Game in Germany. It's a huge and impressive video advergame full of girls, fire, cars and adrenaline.
Responsible agency North Kingdom, known for many award winning projects, announced the game as one of their biggest projects ever. A special page on the North Kingdome site provides insides, a gametrailer and a countdown to the English version. But if I were you, I would instantly go for the German version!
Surprisingly fun sampler concept for Tele2 in Sweden. An almost real dog is beatboxing and you can tell him what to do. This results in your own doggy style beatbox. It's in Swedish, but you will get the message. Agency is Forsman & Bodenfors.
I LOVE this site… it's been done so well I have little to say other than check it out. It's wickedly good. It by Forsman and Bodenfors.
The football finals are in full swing in Australia and Sydney FC has come up with a novel way to get fans into the spirit. Using the 90 minutes, 90 emotions brand campaign idea as inspiration, they used actors to bring to life the various emotions fans go through when watching football in popular Sydney and Brisbane public spaces. He even ran into the Free Hugs guy…
Adidas was founded in 1949 and named after its founder, Adi Dassler. Ever since the brand has been connected to global sports and lifestyle. Adidas is now the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. 180 Amsterdam just released an animated video that tells the pretty amazing story of the German shoe manufacturer Adi Dassler.
To promote the new football game FIFA Street 3, EA Games just released this cool new viral. It shows some high quality extreme football from Mexico. They sure used some 3D add-ons, but that doesn't make it less interesting. Anyhow, it's made by W+K Amsterdam and launched across Europe.
Animated short movies to promote your brand. It's relatively new and can be, at least in terms of viral spread, very successful seeing Coca-Cola's Happiness Factory and Wilkinson's Fight For Kisses. KitKat France got the message and created their own animated short about a young office boy looking for the ultimate break.
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FOXTEL in Australia has launched a new website to try and educate people on High Definition TV. Most HD sites are a mix of techie content and hard to understand diagrams. The Foxtel concept is all about entertainment with some deeper content for the techies should they want it. It's all about the pixels on your screen and how they are freaking out with the impending loss of space once HD arrives.
The US is known for taking their Christian believe very serious. But this initiative from Aberdeen tops it all. Check out the Christvertising website and learn about their brand targeted prayer which involves millions of people pray for your brand. Here's Christvertisings Christmas wish.
It's tradition in Holland to light up loads of individual fireworks during New Years eve. Due to this fact, a lot of accidents happen. The Dutch government called in the 'Liberation Army Against Freedom' to warn for the dangers of fireworks. And the Dutch have heard the message: over half a million people watched the movies within a week time. Campaign by Selmore, production by Comrad, seeding by Pool
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— "I SING BEIJING," a pioneering performance featuring the first-ever singers from Western countries trained to perform in Mandarin, is scheduled Feb. 22, at Kennesaw State University's Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performance Center at 7:30 p.m.
The Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State is presenting "I SING BEIJING" in only its second U.S. appearance. The program debuted in the U.S. at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York earlier this month.
Singers from Albania, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, the U.S. and Uruguay will be joined by rising stars from China to perform a concert featuring scenes and arias from Western repertoire and contemporary Chinese vocal music. They represent some of the top artist programs in the world.
The 12 singers will be led by New York Metropolitan Opera star Hao Jiang Tian, who helped create the program and is its artistic director. Tian is one of the first generation of Chinese singers to reach the pinnacle of Western operatic arts. He has sung as a principal soloist at the Metropolitan for the past 19 seasons and performed in international theaters and opera houses around the world.
"I SING BEIJING" was launched in 2011 by the Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters and the Asian Performing Arts Council as the first project of the Hanyu Academy of Vocal Arts. According to its website, the project's goal is to introduce Mandarin as an idiom for classical singing to Western artists and provide cultural exchange and education for both Western and Chinese singers.
More than 40 singers from some of the top artist schools around the world have been selected in competitive auditions to participate in intensive two-month summer training programs. They receive coaching in conversational Mandarin, Mandarin diction for singing, musical and dramatic coaching in Western repertoire, performance practice of Chinese modern opera, as well as specific lectures on China's musical culture and history.
Each summer, the training program has culminated in formal concerts with the orchestra at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Prior to its New York debut, "I SING BEIJING" also performed in Paris.
During its appearance at Kennesaw State, "I SING BEIJING" will perform a diverse program of more than a dozen selections from some of the most popular Western operas and contemporary Chinese vocal music. Tickets are free but must be reserved by contacting Marsha Moore at firstname.lastname@example.com or 678-797-2571.


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We have similar problems in our church, sometimes. People are coming in at all stages of the service. We generally end up with a full church, though.....
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When we arrived in Orlando, we were supposed to exchange our Chrysler town & country for a smaller car. When we saw the size of the compact (something akin to a Fiat Uno), we gave in to the salesmanship of the rental car person and took a luxury Cadillac ATS - a V8 that turned out to do what felt like gallons per mile rather than miles per gallon!!
Sunday we decided attend a church down the road, so we got into the car, drove out the car park and there we found that a local church was across the road. So we literally drove the 10 m across the road and went in.
There were about 5 people inside....all hispanic...we suddenly realised we did not know what language the service was going to be in - Linda was quick on the draw and asked the first person she found whether this was an English or Spanish service - it was going to be 90% English phew...
We sat down. A young man (about our age ah ah) approached "Hi I'm Sammy the Pastor" "Hi I'm Wayne and we are the congregation..." was my response. The service was supposed to start at 10:30am. By 10:35am we were still the majority of the congregation. By 10:45, the church has filled to about 50-60 people - mostly Puerto Rican. The service was lively and loud, the preaching solid and we were made to feel at home. (We returned the following week as well, but we walked the 10m that time)


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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why'd the change it? I can't say. Maybe people just liked it better that way?
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why'd the change it? I can't say. Maybe people just liked it better that way?
It is really endearing of Americans when they think they can use a few handguns to rise against an army having tanks, artillery and bombs.
Don't forget the flying killer robots. The AI sure as hell won't.
And let's not even talk about Indiana Jones 4 (what, there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies? Ok, I feel you).
Two. You meant 2 Indiana Jones movies, right? I'm sure you meant 2, because I really only remember seeing 2 (worthwhile) Indiana Jones movies.
Seriously though, it's sad when a poor sequel like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull makes a mediocre prequel like Temple of Doom look good.
Critical thinking is central to the Common Core standards. If businesses are really concerned with lack of those skills, they should be promoting Common Core.
The standards really need help from a marketing standpoint. A lot of what is circling social media are complaints about weird and confusing (to parents) math instruction, and on how the standards are a big government takeover designed to indoctrinate our children (standard FUD). There are valid concerns and complaints with them to be sure, but these are not the points that should be debated.
Many carriers have such exclusivity deals with municipalities, Comcast included. This is why there's little to no competition in many areas.
Also, I wouldn't get your hopes up with any improved service, though I share your sentiment in simply wanting a choice.
Looks like a lot of Bologna.
I'll see myself out.
They should have installed Gentoo!
In hopes that the 'malicious actors' would get tired of waiting for the required binaries to be built and give up?
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Think back to the last time you experienced a pleasant smell. Remember how it made you feel? For me the smell of fresh-cut grass puts my mind at ease and instantly relaxes me.
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These are just a few examples of how scents can have a powerful effect on the mind, influence your mood and lower anxiety.
Aromatherapy usually involves the use of essential oils extracted from plants. However, other pleasant smells associated with fond memories can have a positive effect on mood and perspective.
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You may want to explore using aromatherapy in your daily routine. It may be a helpful form of stress relief that's easy to incorporate.
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The master of the squeezebox and unforgettable live performer. One of the major figures of the English Folk scene ...in fact he could be called the Renaissance Man of folk music" ~ Folkworks"
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May 2017
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- May 14: Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith ~ Highly acclaimed folk duo who play traditional and original music of the British Isles.
- May 21: Dovetail Trio ~ Familiar narratives and modern themes with infectious energy and a passion for musical heritage.
- Closed ~ Bank Holiday
June 2017
- June 4: Stick In The Wheel ~ Local heroes!
- June 11: Rattle on the Stovepipe ~ A trio of master musicians on guitar, banjo and fiddle.
- June 18: Sally Ironmonger & Brian Carter ~ A superb songwriter with a voice that doesn't back down.
- June 25: The E17 Folk Street Party ~ Finishing off our season with our now traditional E17 Folk Street Party!


text: Google: Spend More Time Talking to People, Than Asking Siri About the WeatherKat Hannaford10/20/11 5:40amFiled to: BlockquoteAndy rubin siriAndy RubinBlock quoteGoogleiPhoneSIRI234EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The head Android honcho over at Google, Andy Rubin, had a few choice words to say about the iPhone 4S' personal assistant Siri. According to Rubin, we should spend more time talking with actual people than with our phones, and that Apple's technology "isn't a new notion." Advertisement Speaking at the AsiaD conference, Rubin added "I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant" though tasty desserts they totally should be. Right, Rubin? [All Things D via TechRadar via Gizmodo UK] Our newest offspring Gizmodo UK is gobbling up the news in a different timezone, so check them out if you need another Giz fix.Reply234 repliesLeave a reply