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Wikipedia, the world's free online encyclopedia, went dark on Wednesday and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their websites in protest of pending U.S. legislation designed to curb online piracy.
The unusual protest was visible across the Internet in many forms on Wednesday, with dozens of commercial and non-profit websites either closing down for the day or urging visitors to oppose what had until recently been a relatively obscure and technical legislative proposal.
The legislation, known as SOPA in the U.S. House of Representatives and PIPA in the Senate, has been a major priority for entertainment companies, publishers, pharmaceutical companies and many industry groups, who say it is critical to curbing online piracy that costs them billions of dollars a year.
Internet companies aim to get U.S. lawmakers to back off of bills designed to shut down access to overseas websites that traffic in stolen content or counterfeit goods, which they say would also have undermine innovation and free speech rights not to mention compromise the functioning of the Internet.
The effort has gained traction. The White House over the weekend warned that overly broad legislation could harm free speech, and on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner acknowledged there was a lack of consensus on the bills.
Several members of Congress said the legislation appeared stalled, with some reversing earlier support for the measures.
Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas reversed his support for the legislation on Facebook: "better to get this done right rather than fast and wrong"; Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida also renounced his support for the bill on Facebook; Florida Congressman and Republican Dennis Ross backed off SOPA via Twitter; Politico notes that Republican Ben Quayle of Arizona has removed his name from the list of SOPA's cosponsors; a spokesman for Nebraska GOP Congressman Lee Terry told The Omaha World Herald on Tuesday he was ending his support for the bill; and Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, a co-sponsor of PIPA, earlier said he wouldn't vote for it in its current form.
"Something this big – which looks to be the largest and most prolific online protest ever in the short history of the Internet – that's bound to get the attention of lawmakers across the board," said Jeffrey Silva, an analyst at Medley Global Advisors.
Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."
It included a link to help Internet users contact their representatives.
Craigslist, the free Internet classifieds site, also went black in protest, while Google's home search page included a black bar slapped over its logo, and asked readers: "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!"
Smaller sites, such as Reddit.com and BoingBoing.net, were also dark, with BoingBoing noting that the proposed anti-piracy bills "would put us in legal jeopardy if we linked to a site anywhere online that had links to copyright infringement."
Bill Allison, editorial director at the Sunlight Foundation, a lobbying watchdog group, said the Internet companies' 24-hour boycott was an effective campaign.
"It's a way of engaging the public in something that had been a very much behind closed doors kind of business as usual in Washington thing. It's a way to get the public aware and alerted to it, and somewhat on their side," Allison said.
The bills were seemingly on track for approval by Congress, but sentiment has shifted in recent weeks and an implicit veto threat from the White House has cast doubt on whether legislation will pass.
Republican Representative Tom Price, head of the House Republican Policy Committee, said in a hallway interview, "I don't think it is going anywhere."
"There is real confusion about it, number one, but number two, there are real concerns about whether or not it would it would shutdown the ability of entrepreneurs, new businesses and the like to utilize the Internet for their purposes," Mr. Price said.
When asked about the anti-piracy legislation at a news conference on Wednesday, Boehner said lawmakers will continue to try to find support for it, but that it's not there now.
"It's pretty clear to many of us that there is a lack of consensus at this point," Boehner said.
Some big tech names including Facebook and Twitter declined to participate in a boycott despite their opposition to the legislation.
The companies were not prepared to sacrifice a day's worth of revenue and risk the ire of users for a protest whose impact on lawmakers would be hard to gauge.
Google's solution allows the search engine giant to keep revenue attached to its searches, while still highlighting the issue.
The protest drew some criticism ahead of its launch.
"This publicity stunt does a disservice to its users by promoting fear instead of facts," Lamar Smith, Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a sponsor of SOPA, said in a statement on Tuesday. "Perhaps during the blackout, Internet users can look elsewhere for an accurate definition of online piracy."
Former Senator Chris Dodd, who now chairs the Motion Picture Association of America, labeled the blackout a "gimmick" and called for its supporters to "stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy."
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Voriconazole (Oral route)
Brand Names:
- Vfend
Dosage Forms:
- Powder for Suspension
- Tablet
Uses of This Medicine:
Voriconazole is used to treat serious fungal or yeast infections, such as aspergillosis (fungal infection in the lungs), candidemia (fungal infection in the blood), esophageal candidiasis (candida esophagitis), or other fungal infections (infections in the skin, stomach, kidney, bladder, or wounds). It may also be used to treat patients with serious fungal or yeast infections who cannot tolerate other types of treatment or do not respond to other types of treatment.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
Before Using This Medicine:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of voriconazole in children younger than 12 years of age. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Older adults
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of voriconazole in the elderly.
Pregnancy Category | Explanation | |
All Trimesters | D | Studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus. However, the benefits of therapy in a life threatening situation or a serious disease, may outweigh the potential risk. |
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Other medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
- Amifampridine
- Amisulpride
- Astemizole
- Bepridil
- Carbamazepine
- Cisapride
- Conivaptan
- Dihydroergotamine
- Dronedarone
- Efavirenz
- Eliglustat
- Eplerenone
- Ergoloid Mesylates
- Ergonovine
- Ergotamine
- Flibanserin
- Fluconazole
- Isavuconazonium Sulfate
- Ivabradine
- Lomitapide
- Lovastatin
- Lurasidone
- Maraviroc
- Mephobarbital
- Mesoridazine
- Methylergonovine
- Methysergide
- Naloxegol
- Nelfinavir
- Nimodipine
- Phenobarbital
- Pimozide
- Piperaquine
- Posaconazole
- Primidone
- Quinidine
- Rifabutin
- Rifampin
- Ritonavir
- Saquinavir
- Simvastatin
- Sirolimus
- Sparfloxacin
- St John's Wort
- Terfenadine
- Thioridazine
- Tolvaptan
- Venetoclax
- Ziprasidone
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Acenocoumarol
- Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine
- Alprazolam
- Amiodarone
- Amitriptyline
- Amoxapine
- Anagrelide
- Apomorphine
- Aprepitant
- Aripiprazole
- Arsenic Trioxide
- Artemether
- Asenapine
- Avanafil
- Axitinib
- Azithromycin
- Bedaquiline
- Boceprevir
- Bosutinib
- Brentuximab Vedotin
- Bretylium
- Brexpiprazole
- Bromocriptine
- Buserelin
- Cabazitaxel
- Cabozantinib
- Calcifediol
- Cariprazine
- Ceritinib
- Chloramphenicol
- Chloroquine
- Chlorpromazine
- Cilostazol
- Ciprofloxacin
- Citalopram
- Clarithromycin
- Clomipramine
- Clozapine
- Cobicistat
- Cobimetinib
- Crizotinib
- Cyclobenzaprine
- Cyclosporine
- Dabrafenib
- Daclatasvir
- Dasabuvir
- Dasatinib
- Degarelix
- Delamanid
- Delavirdine
- Desipramine
- Deslorelin
- Dicumarol
- Disopyramide
- Docetaxel
- Dofetilide
- Dolasetron
- Domperidone
- Donepezil
- Doxorubicin
- Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Liposome
- Droperidol
- Eletriptan
- Elvitegravir
- Entacapone
- Enzalutamide
- Erlotinib
- Erythromycin
- Escitalopram
- Eslicarbazepine Acetate
- Eszopiclone
- Everolimus
- Fentanyl
- Fingolimod
- Flecainide
- Fluoxetine
- Fluticasone
- Fosaprepitant
- Fosphenytoin
- Gatifloxacin
- Gemifloxacin
- Glimepiride
- Gonadorelin
- Goserelin
- Granisetron
- Halofantrine
- Haloperidol
- Histrelin
- Hydrocodone
- Hydroxychloroquine
- Ibrutinib
- Ibutilide
- Idelalisib
- Ifosfamide
- Iloperidone
- Imipramine
- Irinotecan
- Irinotecan Liposome
- Ivacaftor
- Ixabepilone
- Lapatinib
- Leuprolide
- Levofloxacin
- Levomilnacipran
- Lopinavir
- Lumacaftor
- Lumefantrine
- Macitentan
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- Mefloquine
- Metronidazole
- Mifepristone
- Moxifloxacin
- Nafarelin
- Nevirapine
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- Nilotinib
- Norfloxacin
- Nortriptyline
- Octreotide
- Ofloxacin
- Olaparib
- Ombitasvir
- Ondansetron
- Palbociclib
- Paliperidone
- Panobinostat
- Paritaprevir
- Pasireotide
- Pazopanib
- Perflutren Lipid Microsphere
- Phenprocoumon
- Phenytoin
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- Pitolisant
- Ponatinib
- Procainamide
- Prochlorperazine
- Promethazine
- Propafenone
- Protriptyline
- Quetiapine
- Quinine
- Ranolazine
- Reboxetine
- Regorafenib
- Retapamulin
- Romidepsin
- Ruxolitinib
- Salmeterol
- Sevoflurane
- Sildenafil
- Simeprevir
- Sodium Phosphate
- Sodium Phosphate, Dibasic
- Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic
- Solifenacin
- Sonidegib
- Sorafenib
- Sotalol
- Sulpiride
- Sunitinib
- Suvorexant
- Tacrolimus
- Tamsulosin
- Telaprevir
- Telavancin
- Telithromycin
- Temsirolimus
- Tetrabenazine
- Ticagrelor
- Tizanidine
- Toremifene
- Trabectedin
- Trazodone
- Triazolam
- Trifluoperazine
- Trimipramine
- Triptorelin
- Vandetanib
- Vardenafil
- Vemurafenib
- Vilanterol
- Vilazodone
- Vinblastine
- Vincristine
- Vincristine Sulfate Liposome
- Vinflunine
- Vinorelbine
- Vorapaxar
- Warfarin
- Zolpidem
- Zuclopenthixol
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Alfentanil
- Amprenavir
- Atorvastatin
- Cerivastatin
- Desogestrel
- Dienogest
- Drospirenone
- Estradiol Cypionate
- Estradiol Valerate
- Ethinyl Estradiol
- Ethynodiol Diacetate
- Etonogestrel
- Etravirine
- Fosamprenavir
- Glipizide
- Glyburide
- Levonorgestrel
- Meloxicam
- Mestranol
- Methadone
- Midazolam
- Norelgestromin
- Norethindrone
- Norgestimate
- Norgestrel
- Omeprazole
- Oxycodone
- Tolbutamide
- Tretinoin
Other interactions
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Other medical problems
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Cancer treatment (eg, chemotherapy), recent or history of or
- Heart disease, history of or
- Mineral imbalance (eg, low potassium, magnesium, or calcium in the blood) or
- Stem cell transplant Use with caution. These conditions may increase your risk of having serious side effects.
- Galactose intolerance (rare hereditary problem) or
- Glucose-galactose malabsorption (rare hereditary problem) or
- Lapp lactase deficiency (rare hereditary problem) or
- Any condition that makes it hard for you to digest sugars or dairy products Use with caution. The tablet form of this medicine contains lactose (milk sugar) and the oral liquid contains sucrose (table sugar), which can make these conditions worse.
- Heart rhythm problems (eg, arrhythmia, QT prolongation) or
- Kidney disease or
- Liver disease (including cirrhosis) or
- Pancreas problems Use with caution. May make these conditions worse.
Proper Use of This Medicine:
Take this medicine exactly as directed by your doctor. Do not take more of it, do not take it more often, and do not take it for a longer time than your doctor ordered. To do so may increase the chance of side effects.
This medicine comes with a patient information leaflet. Read and follow the instructions carefully. Talk with your doctor if you have any questions.
It is best to take this medicine at least 1 hour before or 1 hour after a meal.
Shake the oral liquid well before each use. Use the oral dispenser that comes with the package to measure the dose. Rinse the oral dispenser with water after each use.
Keep using this medicine for the full treatment time, even if you feel better after the first few doses. Your infection may not clear up if you stop using the medicine too soon.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
- For oral dosage forms (suspension or tablets):
- For fungal infections:
- Adults and children older than 12 years of age At first, a loading dose of voriconazole injection is given by your doctor on the first 24 hours of treatment. Then, your doctor may switch you to an oral maintenance dose of 200 milligrams (mg) taken every 12 hours.
- Children younger than 12 years of age Use and dose must be determined by your doctor.
- For fungal infections:
Missed dose
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Do not refrigerate or freeze the mixed suspension. The mixed suspension should be kept at room temperature and used within 14 days.
Precautions While Using This Medicine:
It is very important that your doctor check the progress of you or your child at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly. Blood tests will be needed to check for unwanted effects.
If your or your child's symptoms do not improve, or if they become worse, check with your doctor. You may need to take this medicine for several months before your infection gets better.
Using this medicine while you are pregnant can harm your unborn baby. Use an effective form of birth control to keep from getting pregnant. If you think you have become pregnant while using the medicine, tell your doctor right away.
You or your child should not use astemizole (Hismanal®), barbiturates (such as phenobarbital or Luminal®), carbamazepine (Tegretol®), cisapride (Propulsid®), efavirenz (Sustiva®), ergot medicines (such as dihydroergotamine, ergotamine, Cafergot®, Ergomar®, or Wigraine®), pimozide (Orap®), quinidine (Quinaglute®), rifabutin (Mycobutin®), rifampin (Rifadin®, Rimactane®), ritonavir (Norvir®), sirolimus (Rapamune®), St. John's wort, or terfenadine (Seldane®). Using any of them together with this medicine may increase the chance of unwanted effects.
This medicine may cause vision problems. Avoid driving (especially at night), using machines, or doing anything else that could be dangerous if you cannot see well. Call your doctor if you or your child have any vision changes or if bright lights bother your eyes.
Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have pain or tenderness in the upper stomach, pale stools, dark urine, loss of appetite, nausea, unusual tiredness or weakness, or yellow eyes or skin. These could be symptoms of a serious liver problem.
Contact your doctor right away if you or your child have any changes to your heart rhythm. You might feel dizzy or faint, or you might have a fast, pounding, or uneven heartbeat. Make sure your doctor knows if you or anyone in your family has ever had a heart rhythm problem such as QT prolongation.
This medicine may make your skin more sensitive to sunlight. Use a sunscreen when you are outdoors. Avoid sunlamps and tanning beds.
Serious skin reactions can occur during treatment with this medicine. Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have blistering, peeling, loose skin, red skin lesions, severe acne or skin rash, sores or ulcers on the skin, or fever or chills while you are using this medicine.
This medicine may cause bone pain when used for a long period of time. Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have bone pain while using this medicine.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Side Effects of This Medicine:
- More common
- Difficulty seeing at night
- increased sensitivity of the eyes to sunlight
- rash
- vision changes
- Less common
- Abdominal or stomach pain
- bloating or swelling of the face, arms, hands, lower legs, or feet
- blurred vision
- chills
- clay-colored stools
- confusion
- convulsions
- dark urine
- decreased urine
- dizziness
- dry mouth
- faintness or lightheadedness when getting up suddenly from a lying or sitting position
- fever
- flushing
- increased thirst
- irregular or pounding heartbeat
- itching
- loss of appetite
- muscle pain or cramps
- muscle spasms or twitching
- nausea
- nervousness
- numbness or tingling in the hands, feet, or lips
- pounding in the ears
- rapid weight gain
- rash with flat lesions or small raised lesions on the skin
- shortness of breath
- slow or fast heartbeat
- sweating
- trembling
- unpleasant breath odor
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- vomiting of blood
- yellow eyes or skin
- Rare
- Agitation
- blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin
- hostility or anger
- increased sensitivity of the skin to sunlight
- irritability
- redness or other discoloration of the skin
- seeing things that are not there
- severe sunburn
- Incidence not known
- Bone pain
- Less common
- Diarrhea
- headache
- vomiting
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Getting familiar with tools
"There's a lost generation of children who have no practical hands-on skills. They may know how to operate an iPad at five but wouldn't know the first thing to do with pliers or a screwdriver."
Timothy Dahl, founder of builtbykids.com
Whack on bubble wrap
Screw into drywall first
Build a bolt board
Cut up foam core
Perfection is not the goal
My 10-year-old son and husband were building a backyard fort together. I walked outside and I heard my son complain, "But Dad, if you don't let me do the hammering my way, nobody will know that a kid helped build it."
Elisa Bernick, Associate Editor
Introduce tools one or two at a time
Kids are easily frustrated. Be careful not to go too fast. Let kids handle a tool, see how it works and feel a sense of accomplishment with it before moving on to another one.
Books and Programs
Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem by Chris Monroe.
Chico Bon Bon the monkey uses special tools from his handy-dandy tool belt to fix a very large problem in the pipes. We LOVE this book!
Shop class used to be where
many kids were introduced to
DIY, but no more. There are
some great regional programs
and courses, however.
Check out:
- Construction Kids in Brooklyn. constructionkids.com
- Eliot School in Boston. eliotschool.org
- Randall Museum in San Francisco: woodworking for kids. randallmuseum.org/YouthClasses.aspx
- Makeville in Brooklyn. makevillekids.com
- Kids' Carpentry in California and Minnesota. kidscarpentry.net
- Tinkering School in California and other locations. tinkeringschool.com
Don't do it for them
The biggest challenges for experienced DIYers are time and patience. That's why pro carpenters have their children take my classes. It's very easy for an adult to take over and just do things for the child, but you have to let kids do everything they can do.
Joe Lichty, Kids' Carpentry instructor
Work at their height
Play by the (safety) rules
1. Always wear safety glasses.
2. Tie up long hair.
3. Wear closed-toe shoes.
4. Clean up after each work period.
5. When using a saw, clamp the wood or secure it in a vise and have kids hold the saw with both hands or put one hand behind their back to prevent accidents.
Don't toss that trash
Taking apart a broken gadget like a fan or toaster is great for young minds and fingers. Kids get to unscrew things, learn how something is put together and have fun (cut off the cord for safety). If you don't happen to have anything broken lying around, you can buy small appliances cheaply at yard sales or thrift stores. Look for older versions. The newer appliances are mostly snap-together plastic.
Skip electronic devices, which might have potentially dangerous parts. Capacitors, for example, can hold voltage long after they're disconnected from a power source.


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It has been more than 10 years since the No Child Left Behind Act was put into effect by the Bush administration, and I feel the act has let down America's youth in the public schools.
I just graduated from the public school system, and I can't help but wonder what my education would be like if the act had not happened.
Today's public schools are all about meeting the standards set by the government. I believe many kids do not like school because it is so stressful. I remember being in the fourth grade and being so nervous about taking the yearly tests administered to students.
Teachers are under so much pressure to have their students pass the test that many of them teach solely for students to pass the test. Teachers now have to spend most of their time on reading and mathematics and are slowly pushing out social studies, science and music. This hurts students because they are not developing skills to be successful problem solvers and critical thinkers.
No Child Left Behind is limiting our children's education to what the state Legislature and the federal government feel they should know, not what the students should know to succeed in life after high school.
The stress that is being put on our teachers and students is not fair, and the worst part is many people just blame it on the kids or the teachers. Maybe those in the government should take a look at the policy instead of always placing the blame on those who have been affected negatively by it.
No Child Left Behind Act does more harm than good
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On May 30, Yoshinoya America opened the first-ever Asiana Grill Yoshinoya in Fullerton, California. While the company has long been known in California and Nevada for its quick-service concept, the Asiana Grill Yoshinoya marks its first foray into fast casual.
But Yoshinoya isn't the only quick-serve company trying its hand at a more upscale fast-casual concept. Pie Five, a fast-casual offshoot of Pizza Inn, is celebrating its sixth store and one-year anniversary. And Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Eat'n Park is bringing its famed smiley-face cookies and potato soup to a new line of fast-casual bistros called Hello Bistro.
Dennis Lombardi, executive vice president of foodservice strategies at WD Partners, says it's a smart move for quick serves to get into the fast-casual business. By planning a new brand with a higher price point and slower service model, he says, companies can reach entirely new market segments.
But while having an experienced parent company can make for an easier concept roll out, Lombardi cautions that the fast causal needs to have plenty of appeal by itself.
"The fast-casual brand has to stand on its own two feet," Lombardi says. "Don't expect the parent brand to do any more than help introduce it." He praises Pie Five as one fast-casual offshoot that has strong potential.
Flynn Dekker, vice president of marketing for Pie Five parent Pizza Inn Holdings, says Pie Five ended up developing a stronger brand identity than originally planned.
"The initial thought was we were going to expand the Pizza Inn brand," Dekker says. "We really found out from customers that it didn't work."
Since existing customers strongly associated the Pizza Inn name with the chain's buffet format, the new brand went a different direction. Pie Five offers nine-inch, made-to-order pizzas and cooks them in less than five minutes.
"We really had to come up with a new process, a new product, and serve it at a new pace," Dekker says. "It's just a completely different model for us."
Lombardi says it's important for quick serves to recognize the unique challenges they'll face as they transition to a fast-casual model. Though reaching a new market segment has its advantages, Lombardi says, companies should think carefully before making any big changes.
"It's not necessarily as easy as they think it might be," he says.
To help with its transition, Pizza Inn hired a handful of dedicated specialists. It also looked to its franchisees for best-practice tips. Pizza Inn has 56 express locations, and those provided several key insights in developing the Pie Five model.
"We took a lot of our best practices from that model," Dekker says. "We had to develop this product very quickly."
With 93 restaurants, Yoshinoya America has plenty of experience serving food fast and at a low price point. For Asiana Grill Yoshinoya, the challenge is ramping up that experience for a new clientele, says executive vice president Manuel Villarreal.
Villarreal says the company is hoping its low-priced beef bowls catch on with different demographics through the new fast-casual concept.
"Our main customers are Hispanic and Asian customers," Villarreal says. "For the company to expand nationally, we need a little more than just a bowl."
Asiana Grill Yoshinoya, Villarreal says, was designed to appeal to groups like Anglo-Americans, women (the existing customer based is 65 percent male), and the upper middle class. Instead of ready-to-eat bowls, the new restaurant offers an exhibition-style kitchen, where workers will assemble highly customizable salads, soups, and sandwiches right in front of customers.
Of course, plenty of challenges await a chain that targets a new market segment; Villarreal and Dekker both say launching their new brands took a lot of work. But offering a good product and pricing it competitively usually succeeds, they say.
"The most important thing is to create a product that has value for the consumer," Villarreal says. "Anybody can open a restaurant, but it's not so simple. The competition is huge."
EATIN' FOOD replied on Permalink
Pie Five Pizza Co. really differentiated itself from the Pizza Inn brand. So much, that in its hometown, many don't know they're related. By the time most of their customers find out, they will have already been impressed by Pie Five and any negative stigmas of Pizza Inn won't carry over. Pizza Inn is my favorite pizza chain and I'm excited to see where they take Pie Five. Kudos to Mr. Dekker and the rest of Pizza Inn Holdings.
Steve replied on Permalink
One correction to your article: Eat 'N Park and its fast-casual offshoot, Hello Bistro, are based in Pittsburgh, not Philadelphia. The nearest Eat 'N Park from Philadelphia is in the central part of Pennsylvania.


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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art.
In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.).
The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkinsa budding writer shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. Considered a masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich panorama of life in England between the wars. Includes these novels: A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World.
As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Anthony Powell's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview – where James Atlas interviews Charles McGrath about the life and work of Anthony Powell – begins as soon as the audiobook ends.
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"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician." (Chicago Tribune)
"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's." (New York Times)
"Vance's narration captivates listeners throughout this outstanding examination of a life in progress." (AudioFile)
"A Masterpiece on All Counts"
A Dance to the Music of Time, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin, was rated by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Written by the English novelist Anthony Powell, who took almost 25 years to create the 12-volume set, provides a highly-literate and highly-amusing look into the English upper-middle class between the 1920s and the 1970s. The book covers politics, class-consciousness, society, culture, love, social graces, manners, education, power, money, snobbery, humour, and more.
Although daunting in terms of length, the absolutely brilliant narration by the talented Simon Vance rewards the reader over thousands of pages, hundreds of characters, and twelve installments of gorgeous prose. This is a not-to-be-missed collection of novels for any serious reader of English literature.
"Unappreciated Gem"
I won't belabor the point, earlier positive reviewers are right, this is an excellent production of an overlooked gem. It is full of lovely prose and a fascinating re-creation of a bygone era. The interview which accompanies the First Movement, which you should read first, makes an apt comparison to Proust, while pointing out that Powell's acute observations of character focus much less on the narrator and more on the other characters. There is little navel gazing here, and you come to appreciate the narrator "Jenkins" and his modesty which enables him to cast more light on other characters.
Readers of contemporary novels may struggle with the minimal plot of this book... very little happens during the first six hours of narration! But hang in there as Powell populates his world with memorable characters and transports you to another place and time.
Simon Vance does an excellent job.
Powell's Music of Time books are a masterpiece of English literature. Massive in scope but ironically very narrow in its analysis of people, place and time, Powell devoted his life to these novels. His prose are rich, lyrical and incredibly smart. Simon Vance is excellent as always.
"A stately masterpiece. Not for the impatient."
Profound, multi-layered.
The brilliantly sharp humour, and the ever deepening insights of both protagonist and indeed reader as the narrative unfolds. A marvellous portrait of an era long gone. To be compared with Brideshead Revisited.
The different voices and the sense of wistfulness that Powell intended.
No! Certainly not.
I don't blame those people who complained they were bored. It is not for everyone. This is a cerebral slow burner of a tale spread over 12 novels and about 40 years. It's not for those who like a rollicking, tumultuous incident-packed plot. It just aint that sort of work.
For those with time, patience, and an interest in English social history, this is a glorious and profound experience.
"simon vance - gifted narrator."
Superb reading of great book.So many characters, so many voices , how does Simon Vance do it?
I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. - Salinger ^(;,;)^
"It is no good being a beauty alone..."
***** "For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected; so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we, ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity."
-- Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market
BOOK ONE (A Question of Upbringing): the first of Powell's monster 12-book 'A Dance to the Music of Time' deals primarily with Nick and his fellow students during their last year in public school and first couple years either "up" at University or "down" in the city working. The four major players in the first book: Nicholas Jenkins (the narrator), Charles Stringham, Peter Templer, and Kenneth Widmerpool. These characters all show up again in Book 2. Along with various other characters (Nick's uncle, Jean Templer, Mark Members, JG Quiggin, Bill Truscott, etc.).
BOOK TWO ('A Buyer's Market'): focuses on Nick and some new characters, and many of the old, as they maneuver through the social dinners, dances and teas that seem designed to both stratify society AND bring together these young people together to get married; to find adequate husbands for daughters and satisfy the social or monetary need of the men who are just starting to 'make something' of their lives.
Events seem to guide the paths of these people in and out of each others lives. Probably the most painful to watch is Widmerpool, who seems always to exist in a socially difficult place and constantly dealing with sugary embarrassments.
I love how art is taking on a larger presence in his novels. Not a surprising fact given that the book itself is named after a painting with the same name by Nicolas Poussin. But, internal to the book, it makes sense given that Edgar Bosworth Deacon (an artist) plays a part and that Nick is now working in a publishing house devoted to art books.
There are parts of this novel that, obviously, bring to mind Marcel Proust, but a lot of the first two novels, at least, seem substantively more related to both Evelyn Waugh and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I wonder if the either the character of Members/Quiggin is, in fact, E. Waugh. And if so, who the other writer "is".
***** "Emotional crises always promote the urgent need for executive action, so that the times when we most hope to be free from the practical administration of life are always those when the need to cope with the concrete world is more than ever necessary"
-- Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World
BOOK THREE ('The Acceptance World'): There is something amazing about Powell's attempt to gather the passage of time, the progression of life, the dynamic of relationships over 12 novels. When I read Proust and as I read Powell and even Knausgaard, I am always a bit shocked by the boldness of folding together six (Knausgaard), seven (Proust), or twelve novels into a narrative that actually works.
Reading Powell reminds me of reading an Evelyn Waugh that is stretched out over decades, or reading Proust where instead of the narrator focusing in, the narrator is actually ignoring the inner-life and capturing the world and the people around him. It is kind of dizzying if you step back and think about it. It is like reading Downton Abbey serialized from the 30s into the 60s with more characters, more art, and a bit more London and bit less Abbey.
So, I'm done with A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement and done with Spring. Bring on Summer and I'm guessing World War 2.
"An Innocent Time"
I made it through all four movements of A Dance to the Music of Time -- that's 12 separate novels -- and I think this sits with the third movement as the most appealing. The early parts of this may be the strongest of the entire cycle, but they are also the most conventional. Powell writes with real grace and patience, and he introduces the first of his more than several dozen characters. Still, the star of all the novels is the voice, and it's at its most pure here at the start.
Bottom line, you can read this movement without going on to the others, but you really can't do the reverse.
YES, but this is difficult to listen to as there are so many characters over such a long period of time.
"An immersion in English life between the wars"
This understated book is the first of a series that grew on me and became enthralling. Written in form of an autobiography, it tells the life of an author from his boyhood after the first world war through his youth in school and at Oxford, his military service during the second world war, and afterward through his old age in perhaps the late 60s. The story is an assemblage of small moments in his relationships, in the military and otherwise mainly with artists, musicians and authors. One character recurs throughout, acting as a sort of archetypal figure of trage-comedy.
Some may find the pace too slow; there is little action, but give the books a chance. I found myself feeling as if I was there, too, seeing, hearing, feeling, even smelling, life as it was in England then. Taken as a whole, it has a mythic force. I found it haunting and well as amusing. Simon Vance achieves a tour de force of portraying widely diverse characters completely convincingly, enabling me to become immersed in the story.
I recommend listening to rather than reading these, at first, because the various accents of the characters are key to the story. Being unfamiliar with British class society, and their various accents, I would have lost a great deal if I had started with the books.
"Couldn't Finish"
This is the most boring audio book I have attempted to listen to, and one of the very few I have been unable to finish.
"The best way to enjoy this true classic"
The written version of this book is rightly regarded as an English classic, but its size (4 volumes)can be off-putting but this unabridged audio version makes it more accessible taking some of the pressure off of your time being read to you whilst driving or working with your hands or when your eyes are 'tired'. This reading highlights the perfect way in which the English language is used throughout the book. Only an unabridged version can really do this book justice. You will find yourself becoming attached to a whole host of characters and following them through their lives and traumas and 4 volumes. And as for value for money... it makes membership even more attractive!!
"Life in a past era in minute detail"
I chose this audio book as I had enjoyed watching the Channel 4 dramatization. The whole audio version comprises three "Movements" and each movement is divided into three parts. It's a lot of listening: over 60 hours. It's ordered chronologically so needs to be listened in sequence as the characters back-stories are detailed in Movement One, part one and so on. It did find it helped that I'd seen the screen version so had a mind's eye view of the characters as there are so many of them. The main characters are a group of men whose lives are described from their school days onwards. It's an upper class life starting in the mid 1920s. It's not a riveting listen more an unfolding of their lives and interactions with other people and tangentially with historical events. I've read elsewhere that the author based many of the characters on real-people (see Wikipedia entry about the books). This first Movement takes the main players from school to early adulthood.
The writing is stylish and the narrator does a splendid job of bringing the characters to life.
"Completely compulsive and absorbing"
This is a listening experience not to be missed! It's true that the first three books (the first download) are not the best, but I'm giving 5 stars to the whole series because you have to get to grips with the first books in order to understand the whole series. Powell introduces nearly all the characters in the first books and you really have to work your way through the 12 books quite fast in order to remember who is who. Recognised as a 20th century classic, A Dance to the Music of Time holds up a mirror to a certain part of British society in the mid-20th century. It is completely compulsive. Once you have got to know the characters they take on depth and as you listen you become increasingly intrigued and involved in the story. Where the books are at their best is in the mid century, when they describe the war years and then the late 40s. With a very light touch, they evoke both post-war depression (gloomy, dark streets) and post-war optimism (new magazines and art movements). As things gradually get better in London, and Britain in general, the story comments on the major social improvements of the period, and some of the truly weird things which happened in the 60s and 70s – explaining, without judging, both the paranoia of some and the search for an alternative society of others. Simon Vance's reading is masterly – every character has his or her own voice. He keeps faith with the main character, Nick, who looks on but never judges. This is not however, a bodice ripper – only a brilliant explanation of the 20th century. As far as listening is concerned it's one of the very best books I've ever listened to – absolutely absorbing - you don't want it to end, but it's also one of those books you can just start all over again!
"Always Beautiful...."
I did love the writing and the wit, the gentle flow of the 'story' and the atmosphere it sets. Gently unfolding narratives are fine with me, if I am in the right mood and this is what it delivers. I also very much enjoyed the narration - his voices worked well in underlining the social strata we are living in here.
At times, partly due to the calming qualities of the reader's voice and partly due to the sometimes less than gripping sections, my mind did wander and I may have missed several minutes here and there maybe 10 or more sometimes - but it never seemed to matter much.
If you want drama and action, don't buy this. If you want a rich slice of social commentary with almost no pace but a lot of atmosphere to get thoroughly lost in, this is probably for you.
"I''m not sure"
I'm not sure why, but I've always been curious about this story and I missed the highly recommended 1990s(?) TV adaptation. I was looking for hours and hours of listening, and having exhausted my favourite Victorian classics (for the time being) decided to give this a go. It gets you interested and then it's hard work - and gets you interested again and then is hard work again.; I'm not sure why the narrator is so important to the story to be there in the first place - actually I'm not sure where the story is going. And its easy to drift off mid extra-long sentence and miss something happening. So I've just downloaded the second volume - I'm not sure why. Maybe Simon Vance?
"A privilege to have read it"
Have not read the print version
His range of voices was better even than my imagination could have conjured up.
Yes, but that would have been impossible.
If I were Powell, perhaps I would be able to write well enough to describe how fantastically good this cycle of books is—but I am not. What I can say is that it is an astonishing work of literature. The writing is simple and clear, it is by turns humorous and tragic, just like life.
I enjoyed every sentence; when I had to stop I was irritated by the interruptions; I was sorry when it ended and I feel that reading it was my time best spent.
Simon Vance, who narrated the entire twelve books, gave voice to a whole world of men and women, all with their own vocal affectations, habits and accents, all distinct and recognisable. He is obviously a truly talented artist but that sort of reading needed far more than just talent, it required the sort of application that most people would have trouble holding for a few hours, let alone the weeks or even months that recording this massive work would have involved.
The irony is that both writer and actor put so much work into the Music of Time books and they are so skilled at their jobs that the whole thing appears completely effortless.
ADTTMOT is perhaps my favourite series of novels. I can understand why people don't like it; it is dry, complex, determinedly upper-class and very long, but it is a masterpiece. The language is fantastic - if complex, the characterisation subtle and accomplished and you really need to read them all to appreciate the grand literary structure that has been created out of nuance, seemingly extraneous conversations and random events..there is a plan!
I too wondered what was going on after the first novel but was irredeemably hooked.
However, despite good narration I think that it's all too much for a simply read audiobook - a dramatisation would have worked better I think as it would still have a large element of narration to explain and set the context but would remove the demand to over-extemporise with the panalopy of different characters.
"Good narrator wasted on a boring story"
Struggled with this one giving up mid chapter 4. Uninteresting characters that I couldn't engage with. Not recommended.
"Jane Austen for the mid Twentieth Century"
I read these books in paperback twenty years or so ago. I loved them then, and have enjoyed rediscovering them now. I quite see the criticisms others have made, the snobishness, the smugness, etc. Even so, having been brought up in the England which pervades the books I recognise, and delight in the characters who people them, and I just love Powell's observation and analysis. OK OK, he's not quite up with Austen, but then, who is?
He shares her observation and humour, and his evocation of the zeitgeist of the fifties and sixties in England certainly rings true to me. If I have a quibble it is with the reader's pronunciation here and there. Mostly this is trivial, but nobody who had been to a performance of Siegried could possibly pronounce the name Mime as if describing one of those white faced pests who are inspired by Marcel Marceau. The name is pronounced 'meemer'. This confused me for a moment.
I can't be bothered to write reviews for each of the 'Movements' this will have to serve for the entire set of books.
""The interminable linoleum of our school-days.""
Yes. It is good to read a novel that develops slowly - after all, these are the first three novels in a twelve-volume series.
It is already a TV series.
The least interesting feature of the first three novels, at least, of Anthony Powell's 12-volume "A Dance to the Movement of Time" (1951-1975) is its philosophy of time-as-music-and-art and of the inter-relatedness of everything. Powell opens book one, "A Question of Upbringing" (1951) with a discrete scene, almost an extended epigraph, which initiates this philosophy by way of a reference to Nicolas Poussin's 1636 painting, "A Dance to the Music of Time". But this scene could be more remarkable as a brief acknowledgement of a world of labour that is elsewhere largely absent from the novels; these are best appreciated as a satire of middle- and upper-middle-class men who have barely escaped their public school-days, even by the end of book three, which marks the first "movement" of the series. That novel, "The Acceptance World" (1955), concludes with a wonderful account of the annual school reunion and its host, the boys' former housemaster, Le Bas. This is Powell at his best: he gets the tone of satire just right because it arises from within the social milieu, needing only the not-entirely honest detachment of Nicholas Jenkins as narrator to provide a degree of critical edge. There are many other opportunities for acute observations as the small group of main characters run into each other, usually at society events in London from the 1920s into the 1930s. It says something about the quality of Powell's writing that the novels held my attention even though most of the characters are deficient in sympathy and understanding and evince narrowness of outlook that derives from their material advantages. Through Jenkins' point of view, it can be suggested that Powell is critical of the shallowness of the social world portrayed, even though he is far from a radical social commentator. It is less clear that he is critical of the roles to which Nicholas assigns the women he meets, and he is more liberal than everyone else he meets, male or female.
Nicholas Jenkins has his fortune told at one point, as though Powell isn't confident that the first-person narration is successfully conveying his character; or, perhaps it is that Jenkins isn't that much of a character, however crucial he is to the novels. This is most evident in the presentation of the character of Kenneth Widmerpool, who becomes central to the twelve novels. It is a brilliant technique to have Widmerpool presented intermittently in these first three novels and through the first-person narration of Nicholas Jenkins.
Widmerpool is an extraordinary character, in part because, in comparison with the socially-accomplished Charles Stringham and Peter Templar, Nicholas's two most important contemporaries at school he verges on the embarrassing. At the school reunion, Nicholas comments on Widmerpool's "innate oddness, one might almost say his monstrosity" and, yet, in this third novel we become aware that, alongside the frenetic social world as characters come and go and revolve around Stringham, Templar and Jenkins, himself, Widmerpool is doggedly rising. "Ah, yes, Widermerpool. ... I hope he will find his level in life", Le Bas remarks, thereby missing the point of Widmerpool. It should be said, however, that Widmerpool's rise is quite unlike that of many characters in novels of social mobility – exactly how different is best appreciated by readers, themselves, though a sense of how different is suggested by Jenkins' description of Widmerpool's odd but determined style of dancing. It is in these passages of social satire and character delineation, rather than in the explicit philosophical interventions made by Nicholas Jenkins on Powell's behalf that Powell's achievement is best appreciated. For all the talk of roman-fleuve, time, art, and music, Powell's novels do not push the boundaries of the novel as a genre.


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Parental rightsat risk in Surf City
Huntington Beach has become the latest Orange County city to take up a "social host" ordinance. Such laws hold adults, including parents, responsible for alcohol use by people under age 21, even under strict supervision or in normal social settings, such as a Christmas dinner.
The other cities are Laguna Beach, which adopted a social host ordinance Dec. 4, as well as Irvine, Mission Viejo and Laguna Hills. As we noted earlier, we were surprised that Laguna Beach, which prides itself on being the most socially liberal city in Orange County, imposed mores more akin to the alcohol Prohibition days of the 1920s. In perhaps an opposition fashion, such an ordinance would short-circuit parental rights, something seemingly valued in conservative Huntington Beach.
On Dec. 17, the Huntington Beach City Council "directed City Attorney Jennifer McGrath to draw up a 'social host' ordinance that would penalize adults who condone underage drinking in their homes," the Register reported. If the ordinance resembles that just adopted in Laguna Beach, a first offense would lead to a punishment of a required Nanny State indoctrination course; a second offense would bring a $1,000 fine.
We hope at least that Surf City also adopts the exceptions that our Editorial Page and others successfully urged on Laguna Beach. For example, exceptions were made for religious services, although that means the police would get to interpret what a "religious service" is, perhaps leading to First Amendment concerns. And a child merely carrying a beer to a parent would not constitute a violation. Although if Little Johnny sneaks a sip on the way to bringing Dad a beer on Super Bowl Sunday, could the police come barging in?
State law already bans anyone under 21 from drinking alcohol. Parents already are liable for illegal activities that occur in their homes. And Huntington Beach police are known for vigorously – some say excessively – enforcing city ordinances against loud parties, drinking on sidewalks and other alcohol infractions.
"Where do you draw the line?" Roger Pilon posited to us; he's vice president for legal affairs at the libertarian Cato Institute. "The usual way you go about this is to hold the person doing the drinking responsible. This sounds more in the category of feel-good legislation."
He pointed out that, during the 1970s, many states dropped their drinking ages to 18 (California did not). The thinking was that the voting age was dropped to 18 in 1971; and someone 18 could join the military to fight for his country. So why not allow drinking? But the federal Drinking Age Act of 1984 forced all states to make 21 the drinking age or face the loss of federal highway funds.
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We urge the Huntington Beach City Council to respect parental authority and not uncork such an ordinance.
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Two Northwest Iowans, One From Spencer Sentenced On Meth Charges
Date posted - August 27, 2013
Sioux City, Iowa — Two people from northwest Iowa will serve time in prison after admitting to making and selling methamphetamine.
Court records show 50-year-old Vicki Shannon of Spencer and 52-year-old David Robley of Early pled guilty in May to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute meth.
The investigation found store purchase logs where Shannon and Robley had bought products containing 500 grams of pseudoephedrine, one of the key ingredients in making meth. Officers later stopped their vehicle as they were leaving a building in Clay County.
They obtained a search warrant for the building and found numerous items inside that are used in making meth, including lithium batteries and empty pseudoephedrine boxes. Shannon was sentenced to 14 months in prison and Robley eight months.
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Friday, May 17, was the last Denton High School chess club meeting of 2012-2013. Dr. Alexey Root announced that the June issue of Chess Life for Kids would feature a story on Denton High School chess club members at SuperNationals V. She also collected quotes for her upcoming Chess Life article. There was food and bughouse. An officers' meeting followed. |
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There you are minding your own business, drinking a latte at a cafe, taking a photo at Palazzo Pisani Moretta when you see a combine floating down the canal next to you. This is precisely what happened to tourists and residents in Venice, Italy last week. AGCO core brands Fendt and Massey Ferguson hosted a harvesting launch for their European dealers and distributors in Venice and floated two combines down the Grand Canal. What a site!
While Fendt showcased their new X-Series HYBRID combine, Massey Ferguson chose their CENTORA combine. Both models are an absolute representation of AGCO's continuing commitment to develop class-leading harvesting machinery. These products are available in a variety of European markets.
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Won't you help support DayPoems? A Dream of Bric-a-bracBy John Hay10/8/1838-7/1/1905C.K. loquitur. I dreamed I was in fair Niphon. Amid tea-fields I journeyed on, Reclined in my jinrikishaw; Across the rolling plains I saw The lordly Fusi-yama rise, His blue cone lost in bluer skies. At last I bade my bearers stop Before what seemed a china-shop. I roused myself and entered in. A fearful joy, like some sweet sin, Pierced through my bosom as I gazed, Entranced, transported, and amazed. For all the house was but one room, And in its clear and grateful gloom, Filled with all odors strange and strong That to the wondrous East belong, I saw above, around, below, A sight to make the warm heart glow, And leave the eager soul no lack,- An endless wealth of bric-a-brac. I saw bronze statues, old and rare, Fashioned by no mere mortal skill, With robes that fluttered in the air, Blown out by Art's eternal will; And delicate ivory netsukes, Richer in tone than Cheddar cheese, Of saints and hermits, cats and dogs, Grim warriors and ecstatic frogs. And here and there those wondrous masks, More living flesh than sandal-wood, Where the full soul in pleasure basks And dreams of love, the only good. The walls were all with pictures hung: Gay villas bright in rain-washed air, Trees to whose boughs brown monkeys clung, Outlineless dabs of fuzzy hair. And all about the opulent shelves Littered with porcelain beyond price: Imari pots arrayed themselves Beside Ming dishes; grain-of-rice Vied with the Royal Satsuma, Proud of its sallow ivory beam; And Kaga's Thousand Hermits lay Tranced in some punch-bowl's golden gleam. Over bronze censers, black with age, The five-clawed dragons strife engage; A curled and insolent Dog of Foo Sniffs at the smoke aspiring through. In what old days, in what far lands, What busy brains, what cunning hands, With what quaint speech, what alien thought, Strange fellow-men these marvels wrought! As thus I mused, I was aware There grew before my eager eyes A little maid too bright and fair, Too strangely lovely for surprise. It seemed the beauty of the place Had suddenly become concrete, So full was she of Orient grace, From her slant eyes and burnished face Down to her little gold-bronze feet. She was a girl of old Japan; Her small hand held a glided fan, Which scattered fragrance through the room; Her cheek was rich with pallid bloom, Her eye was dark with languid fire, Her red lips breathed a vague desire; Her teeth, of pearl inviolate, Sweetly proclaimed her maiden state. Her garb was stiff with broidered gold Twined with mysterious fold on fold, That gave no hint where, hidden well, Her dainty form might warmly dwell, A pearl within too large a shell. So quaint, so short, so lissome, she, It seemed as if it well might be Some jocose god, with sportive whirl, Had taken up a long lithe girl And tied a graceful knot in her. I tried to speak, and found, oh, bliss! I needed no interpreter; I knew the Japanese for kiss, I had no other thought but this; And she, with smile and blush divine, Kind to my stammering prayer did seem; My thought was hers, and hers was mine, In the swift logic of my dream. My arms clung round her slender waist, Through gold and silk the form I traced, And glad as rain that follows drouth, I kissed and kissed her bright red mouth. What ailed the girl? 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Paws on the Red Carpet will benefit animal shelter
The Pet Project Foundation in partnership with the San Clemente/Dana Point Animal Shelter is preparing for the annual Tail of Two Cities fundraiser.
Diane Leonard, a chairperson with PPF, answered a few questions about the Feb. 24 event.
Q. Tell us a little about the "Paws on the Red Carpet" event.
A. A Tail of Two Cities is our annual fundraiser supporting the animals in our care at the San Clemente/Dana Point (a.k.a. The Two Cities) Animal Shelter. This year will be our ninth anniversary, and we decided to celebrate the Oscars with our "A Tail of Two Cities – Paws on the Red Carpet" themed evening. We are all aware of the trying economic times, so we talked to our membership about what they most wanted to do for this event. The overall answer was a glamorous and fun evening.
Q. How much does it cost? Where do proceeds go?
A. Cost is $150 per person. Sponsorships are also available. All information can be found on our website at petprojectfoundation.org.
Proceeds go to support us in our tireless work of supporting the animals at our San Clemente/Dana Point Shelters and the community. We promote spay and neuter programs, teaching programs with the local schools, a third chance program as well as special-needs animals.
Q. Is this the first Oscar-themed event the Pet Project Foundation has sponsored?
A. Yes ... we have received a wonderful response thus far so it may not be our last.
Q. What Oscar-themed activities will be included?
A. We will have a live stream of the Oscar broadcast. There will be contest for the most accurate Oscar Picks ... with prizes and we will also be dining like the stars with hor d'oeuvres and a three-course dinner prepared by the acclaimed chefs at the Laguna Cliffs Marriot Resort & Spa.
Q. Tell us something we may not know about the Pet Project Foundation.
A. For almost 30 years, Pet Project Foundation and the San Clemente/Dana Point Animal Shelter have been united in a unique partnership to provide pro-humane care to the lost and abandoned animals of our two cities. With PPF providing significant financial support, as well as donating more than 25,000 hours of volunteer time each year, the shelter is able to ensure that every animal in its care will have a safe refuge until a permanent, loving home can be found – no matter how long that takes.
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Eighteen and pregnant, Jessica Chandler was terrified. Taken away from her mentally ill mother and placed into the foster care system as a child, she wanted to be a good parent.
"But I didn't really know what that meant," said Chandler, now a graduate student at Cal State Northridge.
Although she got help from programs that taught her about child rearing, two of her sisters were less fortunate. They struggled with parenting and lost their children to the same system that once claimed them.
A new report by University of Southern California and University of California at Berkeley researchers confirms what social workers have long suspected: that teen mothers who suffered mistreatment as children risk repeating the cycle with their own children.
In Los Angeles County, more than 40 percent of teen mothers had previously been reported to Child Protective Services as possible victims of childhood mistreatment; nearly 20 percent were confirmed to have suffered such abuse or neglect, the researchers found.
Their children, in turn, were twice as likely to suffer such mistreatment as children of other teen mothers.
By their fifth birthday, more than 34 percent of children born to teen mothers reported or confirmed as victims of childhood mistreatment were also reported as possible victims of neglect or abuse.
Scholars have long associated teen motherhood and childhood abuse, but the report provides specific numbers by linking abuse complaint data and teen birth records.
The findings also bolster long-standing ideas about a cycle of abuse from one generation to the next, a widely believed theory that had lacked strong evidence to back it up.
"We talk about wanting to break the cycle of maltreatment. There seems to be an opportunity here," said Emily Putnam-Hornstein, assistant professor in the USC School of Social Work and principal investigator of the research.
By zeroing in on teen mothers who have been victimized, programs might be able to halt or avert another generation from suffering the same kinds of abuse, she said.
The study also focused on L.A. County teens who ended up in foster care: More than a quarter of girls in foster care at age 17 became mothers in their teens, researchers found.
"The sad part is they really don't understand the concept of being a mother yet," said Ebony Randolph, a former foster youth now studying social work at USC.
Advocates said the study, funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, should rally policymakers to ensure that vulnerable youth are taught about pregnancy prevention and to marshal more resources for foster teens who become parents.
"These young parents do not have parents to turn to to help them," said Amy Lemley, policy director for the San Francisco-based John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes. "We simply can't look away and pretend we don't know what happens to their children."
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In Reply to: "A change is in the wind" posted by Miri Barak on March 18, 2004
: : : : It is said about our dinosaur Pod when he encounters other kind of dinosaurs::
: : : : Luckily for them, Pod's instinct to avoid their kind is too deeply ingrained.
: : : : Feeling no *comfort factor*, he withdraws. As an added precaution, Pod puts some daylight between himself and the odd-sized animals.
: : Thank you Henry,you
: : : : My question: What does he mean by comfort factor", somehow it doen't make sense here.
: : : : Thank you very much
: : : : By the way I have a problem also with "put some daylight between himself..." but I stills have'nt try to dig into it.
: : : Comfort factor is a safety margin.
: : : "Put daylight between" means to create a clear gap between two things. A phrase popular recently in politics was to create/put/keep clear blue water between the policies of one party and another to show that they were different.
: : Thank you Henry you helped me immensely.
: Another one:
: "Just around the corner a change is in the wind".
: Does it mean that a change is expected soon?
: Thanks. I found a confirmation to my guess.


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