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SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: Kate Winslet gives some life lessons to a young man in postwar Germany.
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The Reader' wants to believe that a good book can save anybody, even Nazis
By Richard von Busack
RESOLVED: Convicted Nazi war criminals should be allowed books on tape. Just such an imaginary debate is at the heart of all the should-he-or-shouldn't-he? in the dreary Oscar-season prestige entry The Reader. Director Stephen Daldry, whose The Hours turned on more intense feminist trauma, again slides back and forth in time. In a small city after World War II, a German lawyer, Michael (Ralph Fiennes), was once a puking schoolboy (David Kross), ill with scarlet fever. A curt streetcar conductor, Hannah (Kate Winslet), cleaned him up and sent him home. Months later, after he recovers, an affair begins. Winslet works that Dietrich toughness; with a gruff, soft German accent she calls the kid she's shtupping "kid." She never lets him under her skin, even though she lets him into her body. The affair is interspersed with bathing rituals; she sulks in her own bath or washes Michael like a groom washes a horse. After they make love, Hannah likes to be read to by him. One day, she vanishes, and he is left more or less unable to love for the rest of his life.
The crux of Michael's problem lies in his schooldays. Michael was taking a class on the law of the Holocaust, taught by a professor (Bruno Ganz) who was a victim of the Reich. On school assignment, Michael stumbles into a courtroom where Hannah is on trial. It turns out that Hitler signed her paychecks during the war. While Michael conceals himself in the courtroom, he watches as Hannah is accused of having passively stood by while concentration camp prisoners died.
The Reader is a combination of guilt-by-association grandstanding and lost-love maundering: I mean the kind of first love that keeps a person from ever functioning properly for the rest of his life, the kind of first love even devoted moviegoers don't really believe in anymore. The story has a point: some 60,000 people worked at Auschwitz, and only a handful ever served jail time for it. The legacy of guilt would take some unusual, unsuspected forms. But the film sets up the moral dilemma, as emphasized by screenwriter David Hare—what if you loved a Nazi?—and then makes sure that Michael is absolutely innocent. There's an essential cruelty to Bernhard Schlink's popular novel that disguises itself—as cruelty often will—as sensitivity. The exculpation Michael might have performed goes against the film's notion of penance, or the single aspect that made Oprah pounce on the novel: the long improvement of Hannah's mind with great books. How well this improvement goes we can guess; Michael may be sending her Chekhov, but she's got Irving Wallace in her jail cell.
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Winslet's tough commonness in the early scenes is attractive. Such a practical older lover does a young man good, whether he knows it or not at the time. Then this young version of Hannah vanishes, and she is last seen in indifferently applied old-person makeup, chilled by the cooler until her lips are purple. The Reader insists that the Nazis were human beings and that reading might have reformed them. We're aware of the former. But reading in the abstract means little. In fact the Nazis were great, swooning readers, and Goebbels was a novelist.
THE READER (R; 123 min.), directed by Stephen Daldry, written by David Hare, based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink, photographed by Roger Deakins and Chris Menges and starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet, opens Dec. 25.
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Every once in a while, a priest comes along in life who you know you will remember. Every once in a while, you get lucky.
For me, that priest is Father Clement Aapengnuo, a Ghanaian-born priest who served as associate pastor at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Arlington, Va., for the last seven-and-a-half years. On Sundays, when I would see Father Clem walk into the back of the sanctuary before Mass, I used to do a little dance in my seat. I was fond of all the priests at St. Charles, but Father Clem was something special.
Father Clem traveled to the United States in 2006 with the goal of earning his master's in conflict analysis and resolution — a subject with which he was already intimately familiar. Ghana had seen its fair share of ethnic conflict from 1980 to 2002, and the priest had been active in peace-building movements, including developing and leading the Northern Ghana Peace Project.
In December, Father Clem achieved his educational goal by successfully defending his dissertation. And in late January, he returned home to put what he had learned to good use. Though I am no longer there, I know, with Father Clem's departure, St. Charles is a parish in mourning. While he may have been in the United States primarily to further his own education, it was we, his community, who received the best schooling.
When he spoke, Father Clem simply made those who listened to him better. Better Christians, better disciples, better human beings. His worldview — he didn't receive his first shoe until he was in high school — offered a unique perspective that both challenged and inspired. Maybe it's the reporter in me, but many's the time I found myself scribbling a bit of his sage wisdom or commentary on the back of an old receipt during homilies. His three-step plan for discernment became a foundation of my prayer life for several years running (email me if you're interested), and his wisdom has drawn me closer to God in every possible way.
One of the reasons why I love this ministry so much is that we, the Catholic press, get to honor the priests and other clergy who have made a positive difference in our lives. We hear so often in the news — or, heartbreakingly, in our own parish communities — about priests who have shamed the Church with their acts of evil. It's good for us — especially during Catholic Press Month — to remember the priests who, like Father Clement, have touched our lives and who have changed us for the better.
Though I bid my farewells to Father Clem nearly a year ago, my heart still stings when I think of a St. Charles without him there. But I take comfort in the fact that he is following his own call — and in his parting words: "Do not be sad that I am going. You are sending me back to Ghana as a missionary to share what you have taught me."
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Classic Novels Turned Chick-Lit
Some of our friends have been getting pushback from their editors that their manuscripts could be a little bit more "chick lit." That's sort of like Picasso presenting 'The Old Guitarist' and being told "more pink! And put a cupcake in it!" But then, cupcakes are delightful. So here are some classic novels we made a little bit lighter, a little bit brighter, a little bit more "chick-lit".
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January 14, 2013
Union: NYC School Bus Strike to Start Wednesday
Source: Associated Press
By: Verena Dobnik
A strike by New York City school bus drivers that had been threatened for weeks will start Wednesday morning, affecting 152,000 students, the president of the union representing the drivers announced Monday.
Michael Cordiello of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union said more than 8,000 bus drivers and matrons will participate in the strike, brought about by a dispute over job protections in any new bus company contracts for the bus routes. Matrons accompany the children on the bus and make sure they get on and off the bus safely.
"With its regrettable decision to strike, the union is abandoning 152,000 students and their families who rely on school bus service each day," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. "As Chancellor (Dennis) Walcott and I have said, the City will take all steps available to ensure that those who are impacted have the support they need, and we are now activating the protocols we put in place in the event of a strike."
Cordiello said, "Safely transporting our children back and forth school today has, and always will be, the top priority of every man and woman who make up ATU Local 1181."
Under the city's strike contingency plans, students would receive free MetroCards for mass transit. Parents or guardians of younger children also would get the cards.
Families of special needs students would be reimbursed for private transportation. Of the 152,000 students who use the buses, 54,000 are disabled and would face extra hardships in trying to find alternative transportation.
There are 1.1 million students in the New York City schools. While the majority don't use school buses, those that do are among the youngest ones.
The city wants to cut transportation costs and has put bus contracts with private bus companies up for bid. The union is decrying the lack of employee protections, saying current drivers with skills and experience could suddenly lose their jobs once their contracts are up in June if the companies they work for aren't the ones getting the new contracts and the new contract holders don't hire them.
The mayor said the privately-contracted drivers were demanding job security, or Employee Protection Provisions.
However, such a guarantee is not allowed in contracts between drivers and companies chosen by the city to provide bus services, the city says. The state Court of Appeals in 2011 barred the city from including EPP because of competitive bidding laws. Hence, the mayor said, the city cannot accept the union demand for an EPP clause.
"Let me be clear: the union's decision to strike has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with job protections that the City legally cannot include in its bus contracts," Bloomberg's statement said. "We hope that the union will reconsider its irresponsible and misguided decision to jeopardize our students' education."
The drivers' contracts expire on June 30, and Bloomberg said the city must seek competitive bids that would save money.
Cordiello refuted the idea that the EPP was not allowed. He said the 2011 Court of Appeals ruling was based on the fact that the city at the time did not offer the judges enough evidence to support its contention that the EPP job-security clause does not push up costs.
The union president also challenged the mayor's assertion that both sides in the labor dispute had been talking "all along."
Not true, Cordiello said. He said he'd met the chancellor for only 20 minutes last week, and the deputy chancellor for an hour.
He said Bloomberg and Walcott refused "to engage in any sort of productive dialogue" and had "forced our hand to strike."
Among those who showed up at the union news conference was Susan Valdes-Dapena, the mother of a 10-year-old boy who is bused from their home in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria to Roosevelt Island. Her son will now have to be driven to and from school.
He attends The Child School/Legacy High School, a state-chartered private school for children with learning disabilities.
"I'm here because I'm concerned about what happens if the drivers lose their seniority, if they're less experienced," Valdes-Dapena said.
"You can teach someone to drive a school bus, but what happens when all hell breaks loose behind them?" she asked, explaining that it takes experience to deal with situations like bus breakdowns, medical emergencies of kids with special needs or traffic, when kids get frustrated or unruly.
"The drivers we have now — I'd trust them with my own life," she said.
The New York City School Bus Contractors Coalition, which represents the bus companies, condemned the strike, saying it would be illegal. The coalition said it would file unfair labor practice charges and civil lawsuits.
"We will do our very best to safely operate during the strike and call on the union to conduct peaceful and responsible picket lines," the organization said. "While we are the employers, this dispute is strictly between the union and the city regarding the removal of the Employee Protection Provision from the upcoming bids. Our hope is that a strike will be averted for the sake of the children and all who rely on this essential service."
The head of another union, Teamsters Local 854, said its members would not go on strike with the bus drivers because their contracts don't allow it, but they would not cross any picket lines. Local 854 represents drivers, matrons and mechanics, some of whom work alongside members of ATU.
Dan Gatto, president of the local, put the blame on Bloomberg. "For weeks now, City Hall has refused to discuss the job-killing provisions they are insisting on as part of new contracts with bus contractors," he said. "We urge Mayor Bloomberg and his administration to work with the ATU to resolve this dispute before a job action is required."
In 2011, the city said the union was threatening to strike over bus route contract bids, but the union said the warning was a false alarm. No strike took place.
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Katie Holmes & Suri Cruise: Toy Store & Starbucks!
Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise step out for a fun afternoon out together on Saturday (March 5) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The 32-year-old actress and her 4-year-old daughter dropped by a toy store, Starbucks, and a gourmet cupcake shop through the afternoon.
Katie and Suri are in town while Tom Cruise films Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
FYI: Katie is wearing a Jennifer Meyer Initial Necklace in "S" for Suri and Current/Elliott High-Rise Bell jeans in Patriot. She carried a Max Mara "Margaux" tote!


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Austerity: 2011's Darling Becomes 2012's Pariah
Posted: 05/29/2012 4:58 pm
There's a new scarlet letter in town. Actually, it's the same letter -- "A" -- but it stands for a different word that's increasingly regarded as shameful: Austerity. The darling idea of 2010 and 2011 has become the pariah concept of 2012. One of the defining features of conventional wisdom is the way it perpetuates itself. Once a certain narrative or idea takes hold in the political and media establishments, it becomes almost impossible to shake. So when the conventional wisdom does change, it's worth noting.
And the evidence of profound change is all around. In May, anti-austerity sentiment helped François Hollande topple French president Nicolas Sarkozy, one of the architects of the austerity measures that have caused waves of protest across Europe, especially in Greece.


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CARSON, Calif. (Friday, July 26, 2013) – The LA Galaxy announced today that the club has agreed to loan defender Bryan Gaul and midfielder Kenney Walker to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the NASL. Both players are scheduled to begin training with the Strikers at the start of next week ahead of their NASL Fall Season opener against the New York Cosmos on August 3. The loan is scheduled to run through the end of the year.
Neither Gaul nor Walker have appeared in a regular season game for the Galaxy this season, though Walker did play 90 minutes in the loss to Carolina in the Third Round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on May 29.
As rookies in 2012, both Gaul and Walker were a part of the Galaxy team that won their second straight MLS Cup championship. Gaul appeared in 19 games in all competitions, making 11 starts and registering one assist. Walker appeared in four games in all competitions, making one league appearance while starting three games in the CONCACAF Champions League.
The Galaxy are back in action this weekend when they travel to Colorado to face the Rapids at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday afternoon. That game, which is the second of three meetings between the two sides this season, kicks off at 4 p.m. (PT) and can be seen live on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. That will be LA's final MLS game before beginning play in the Guinness International Champions Cup next week. For more information about these games or to purchase tickets to any Galaxy home game, please visit the club's official website at www.lagalaxy.com or call 877-3GALAXY (342-5299).


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The Common Core curriculum has been adopted now in 45 states including Louisiana. The Obama administration claims this curriculum is "voluntary." "Voluntary" means that the state gets cut off from federal funding if it doesn't adopt the standards.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Common Core curriculum, it is created in the private sector but pushed onto the states by the federal government. This is a government educational program for children from the cradle through college. It involves all subjects and grades, private and public schools. Children and parents' personal data is collected for the government without parents' knowledge and consent.
The curriculum has been criticized for being clearly biased to a liberal perspective. Common Core is not about education; it is about indoctrinating the children. The government curriculum is unconstitutional. It violates the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which established the principle that the power to oversee education belongs to the states, not big government. The education of the children should be locally controlled. The states should be able to adopt curricula of their choice without the threat or fear of losing federal money.
Parents and grandparents of school-age children should be concerned. The government is trying to indoctrinate children into one way of thinking, their way of thinking. They want our teachers to teach the children that the government is their best friend and not their enemy. All schools should teach the children how to think but never what to think.
Please contact your congressman to investigate this curriculum. The true intent of Common Core means getting behind the mask of innocent children, not their test scores. The government is trying to sell this new way of education as hope and change to America. This is just another way to keep parents in the dark and our children brainwashed. Nothing is as vital to the government as control of young minds.
This has been tried over and over throughout history, but it never worked. This is considered educational tyranny. Teachers are forced to redo lessons to teach a curriculum that has yet to be proven accurate and effective. Faith, God and prayers are needed back in our schools. Separation of church and state will also be the ruination of this country. Big government never works. God bless America.
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The Common Core curriculum has been adopted now in 45 states including Louisiana. The Obama administration claims this curriculum is "voluntary." "Voluntary" means that the state gets cut off from federal funding if it doesn't adopt the standards.


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Twenty-Three Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
May 07, 2012
May 07, 2012
Twenty-three students from Southwestern University were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on May 4, 2012.
Founded at the College of William and Mary on Dec. 5, 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic honor society. Southwestern is one of only 11 colleges and universities in Texas that have been granted a chapter of Phi Bata Kappa.
Southwestern's 2012 initiates were:
Brooke Blomquist
Sarah Chatfield
Alexa Daniel
Lauren David
Donato De Luca
Donald Frye
Taylor Garcia
Susan Garrard
Harrison Glaser
Hayley Hervieux
Ancy Jacob
Kelly Johnson
Rory Jones
Alexis Kropf
Anna Malone
Kristen McCollum
Jenna Mossbarger
Jack Parker
Maria Pollifrone
Anastasia Porter
Kari Shearer
Violetta Vasquez
Julia Von Alexander
The speaker for the induction ceremony was Erin Crockett, a 2005 Southwestern graduate and member of Phi Beta Kappa who was recently hired as a tenure-track faculty member at Southwestern. Crockett recently earned her Ph.D. in Human Development from The University of Texas at Austin.


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A man accused of stalking Ashanti has been granted the opportunity to represent himself at his own trial.
Devar Hurd is facing 10 counts, including criminal contempt and felony stalking, after allegedly breaking the terms of a restraining order by bombarding the Always On Time singer with sexually explicit messages on Twitter.com.
He had been banned from contacting Ashanti and her family after completing a two-year prison sentence in 2012 for sending similar lewd notes to her manager mother, Tina Douglas.
Hurd, who has pleaded not guilty to the accusations, appeared in New York's Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday (05Jun14), when Justice Charles Solomon allowed the suspect the right to self-representation.
The defendant had previously complained about the way his attorney, Glenn Hardy, had handled the case so far. Hardy will remain as Hurd's legal advisor, reports the New York Daily News.
Pre-trial hearings are set to take place next Wednesday (11Jun14).


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Pregnant model Amber Rose revealed her baby's gender on Twitter, tweeting a photo of a onesie for "our Lil Boy" with Slash emblazoned on it. Rose, who's in her second trimester, is obsessed with the Guns 'N' Roses guitarist, dressing like him for Halloween. She even had a Slash hat-shaped cake for her 29th birthday.
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The engaged couple have been open about their excitement for the baby, releasing skin-baring maternity pics, and sharing plans for a natural childbirth (she wants to do a drug-free water birth for the "bragging rights.") The notoriously weed-loving rapper has even abstained from smoking up around his still nauseous fiancé.
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Quantitative easing must die!
The Federal Reserve made it official yesterday, saying it's full steam ahead for the money-printing operation that is creating all sorts of financial dislocations without helping the economy grow very much.
Nobody expected anything different, although Wall Street had been hoping Fed policymakers would lose what little sense they have left and print even more money.
As Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke apparently prepares to retreat into the safety of academia, it is time to look at the damage QE (think crinkly C-notes, not luxury cruise liners) is doing.
First, QE's scant achievements.
By pumping an excessive amount of money into the banking system, QE may have saved the US financial system from catastrophe.
May have! That is, if you buy the argument being sold mainly by frantic members of Congress whining on TV that the banking system was near collapse in the early days of the financial crisis.
That's so 2007. There is no crisis today, and any bank that hasn't gotten itself upright by now and still needs an unlimited money supply doesn't deserve to be in business.
QE also helped lots of people refinance debt (especially mortgages) at much lower interest rates. And those folks will be eternally grateful.
One of the debtors that's been helped enormously by lower rates is Uncle Sam. Without the ability to borrow so cheaply, Washington would have been forced long ago to trim spending — or run deficits even larger than today's incomprehensible ones.
OK, let's start with the worst of the bad things. QE has changed the very nature of the free-market system. And it has jeopardized America's standing as the one safe financial haven in the world.
Policymakers had hoped that creating trillions of dollars in extra dough would cause people to borrow more and banks to lend more freely. The economy would boom, the Fed said.
Instead this extra money (liquidity is the phrase used on Wall Street) has created another stock-market bubble and left the economy limping.
Some people like it when stocks are rising, especially the elite rich who can afford the risk that comes with timing a bubble just right.
But the losers are the majority of Americans who rely on income from savings rates that hover at budget-breaking lows. They've been battered for years and have had to cut back on spending. Essentially, they are paying a hidden tax to kept Washington's debt lower.
There are other problems.
Big investors like pension funds, insurance companies, school endowments and run-of-the-mill rich people haven't been able to find the returns they are accustomed to in normal markets. So they've been moving into more tangible assets, or at least ones that are connected to the real world.
So for years Americans have been paying more, for instance, for gasoline because Wall Street in its quest for higher yields has been jacking up the value of energy futures contracts.
Gasoline might be a buck a gallon cheaper today if the market weren't dominated by Wall Street traders looking for alternative investments because of QE.
And then there's housing.
You may have heard that home prices are climbing dramatically, but homeownership fell to the lowest level in 17 years during the first quarter.
What's that about?
As I mentioned in a recent column, sales are mainly better and prices are rising because financial giants like Blackstone Group, Colony Capital and others are buying in bulk.
In this environment of low interest rates and a lack of other safe investments, real estate is suddenly looking good to the ultrawealthy.
These are part of the unintended consequences of QE that affect you directly.
Then there are more esoteric problems, like trust in the US dollar.
If foreign investors suddenly lose faith that their money in US banks is safe, interest rates are going to rise sharply, the economy will suffer, and our quality of life will diminish substantially.
QE is like the snakehead fish recently found in that Harlem pond: It's ugly and very hard to kill.
Bernanke has said it will be a cinch to unwind QE, or un-print the trillions in extra loot. But nobody has ever tried doing it before.
The Fed is already starting to blame politicians for all of our problems. And while the folks in Congress and the White House do share a great deal of blame, the Fed finger-pointing should start in the mirror.
Friday's employment number for April will contain a huge number of phantom jobs that may not really exist.
So whatever the figure turns out to be — and Wall Street thinks it'll be around 150,000 — will be overstated by this guess. The Labor Department calls this the birth/death model, I call it sketchy. Something I've been doing for a long time.


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We have an XO-1 from the original G1G1 program. The kids have somehow managed to damage CN11 (the power connector) on the motherboard, so that we have to "wiggle" the plug in order for the power adapter to charge the battery or power the unit; the central post (the + terminal) is loose and appears to be making intermittent connection internally.
I've confirmed that it's not the adapter - both the supplied one and a compatible Lenovo Thinkpad adapter respond in the same way.
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Long-Distance Calibration
Calibration Is Complicated at Best. Add Problems of Long Distance, Timing and Customs Regulations, and Things Get Really Tricky
Ceuta is one of those odd corners of the globe, a political anomaly cast up after centuries of political storm. Approximately 7-sq.mi. (18 sq km) territory on the north coast of Africa just west of Morocco, it lies about 12 mi (20 km) across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain. Its strategic location has made it a contested bit of real estate all the way back to the Carthaginians. At various times, it has been under Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Berber and Portuguese control. Since 1580, it has been claimed by Spain, and is now a Spanish "autonomous city."
But Ceuta is no backwater. It is a very modern city with daily, high-speed ferry service to and from Cádiz in Spain. It is a free port, and oil, industry, retail and tourism drive its economy. Its population of some 78,000 gets its electricity from the Spanish electric power provider Endesa Generación.
Endesa generates 33% of Spain's electricity and has 25 plants spread over the Iberian Peninsula, plus five in the Balearic islands in the Mediterranean, nine in the Canary Islands, and two in Ceuta and Melilla, a similar city on the north coast of Africa near the Moroccan border. The power plant in Ceuta has an installed capacity of about 100 MW provided by nine diesel generators and a gas turbine.
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Like most electricity providers today, Endesa's objective is to optimize its competitive position by producing electricity at a minimum cost, all while maximizing the availability of its equipment, ensuring the safety of its employees and respecting the natural environment. This is a tall order given that Endesa has electrical generating facilites spread out all over the Iberian peninsula, the southwestern Mediterannean and out in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa.
Part of fulfilling this tall order means that keeping track of greenhouse gas emissions for regulatory and sustainability purposes is a big issue for Endesa. This effort is supported by Endress+Hauser's Promass flowmeters installed on its facilities' gensets. But installing flowmeters is only part of the solution. Those meters have to be calibrated, in Ceuta's case, every three years. And here's where things get a bit more complicated.
Germán Canosa Murcia, electrical maintenance technician at Endesa in Ceuta, explains: "The calibration of these flowmeters is extremely important because first, the Spanish electricity system operator, Red Eléctrica of Spain SA, requires testing on certain flowmeters to ensure adequate performance, and these have to be calibrated every three years. We also have to properly calculate fuel consumption and CO2 emissions to comply with Spanish and European Union regulations. Finally, we have an internal directive of the company to keep track of these things." (Figure 1)
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But regulatory and corporate demands aside, the calibration of the 11 flowmeters at the Ceuta facility present other challenges. All the flowmeters could not be removed at the same time because each genset has to be stopped when the flowmeter is removed, and Ceuta had only one backup flowmeter. Calibrating all of them at once would virtually shut down the facility. But doing them one at a time also presented problems. The process would drag out over nearly a year and incur extra costs.
Canosa says, "The original plan was to remove a flowmeter, replace it with a backup and send the flowmeter back to the manufacturer for calibration. But Ceuta has special tax and customs procedures, and the equipment must pass both procedures when being sent and when it is returned. This fact, coupled with the transporting and the calibration time, could take as long as a month for each one. With 11 flowmeters, the total calibration time could be up to 11 months."
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Thanks for the nice vids. I like your sun protection gloves and sleeves, similar to what I use. Sometimes I will reverse the left and right gloves so that the dark latex palms cover the top part of the hands which take a lot of beating from a hot overhead sun. The mesh backs on my home made versions will not block with extended use in intense Summer sunlight. The compromise is that mesh palms are not as good for handling fish....
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I think I got the idea about the gloves in a post here last year. Maybe it was yours. It has been working great for me.
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Drama Title: High Kick!: Counterattack of The Short Legs
Korean Title: 하이킥 – 짧은 다리의 역습 / 하이킥3
Genre: Family, Comedy, Romance
Language: Korean
Episodes: 120
Broadcast Place: South Korea
Broadcast Network: MBC
Broadcast Period: September 19 2011
Air Time: Monday to Friday 19:45 PM
Preceded By: All My Love
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Plot Summary
A sitcom about a family who moves in to the house of wife's brother due to bankruptcy.
Ahn Nae Sang and Yoon Yoo Sun are middle aged husband and wife. They used to be rich until Ahn's company went bankrupt. After Nae Sang's business bankrupted, this couple moves in to live with Yoon Yoo Sun's younger brother Yoon Kye Sang's house, who is a health doctor, and the conflict starts. And, Yoon Yoo Sun who turns menopause becomes emotional unstable after the bankrupt of her husband's company.
Ahn Nae-sang as Ahn Nae-sang
A self-respecting and macho father who lives in the house of brother-in-law. Typical Gyeongsang man. Authoritarian and self-centered personality, where even to install a fluorescent light has to instruct family member, and wife Yoon Yoo Sun has to walk before him when crossing tunnel. He gets used to frequently pick up anything to throw, and has a habit of yelling, "Ah get lost!" Bood type is RH-AB, but is very scared when needed his help, a small pain is pretending as serious condition. Nae Sang has a habit to blame others for anything happened.
Yoon Yoo Sun as Yoon Yoo Sun
Ahn Nae Sang's Wife. Is soft nature just like her bumpy life. After bankruptcy, she is diagnosed of early menopause due to extreme stress. After that the swing up and down of her emotion becomes worse, always suddenly cries, or suddenly has a bad feeling and does exaggerated behaviors, wasting a lot of efforts on self-striving, until other people is suspecting if she has gone crazy.
Yoon Kye-sang as Yoon Kye-sang
Yoo Sun's younger brother. A health doctor of high school. Has a sunny face and hidden power of always fulfilling what he said. He did unauthorized surgery for patients who did not have any money, and was referred to the Disciplinary Committee, and such he resigned from university hospital and joined health center. He is caring even to kids, gentle to patients but is surprisingly stubborn. The bright smile and always does what he has said are the cause the often provokes internal conflict. Lack of social experience, learn more through reading. Through his learning experience, he whacks bad high school students as his experiment.
Seo Ji-seok as Yoon Ji-seok
Brother of Yoon Yoo Sun and Yoon Kye Sang. A passionate PE (physical education) teacher at high school. With sanguine temperament, he can fight even with an umbrella. Simple, ignorance, hot blooded, and has a short feeling spectrum unlike most people. When gets angry he can get agitated in 1 second but after 1 second he will cool down quickly. Good athleticism, excellent body, but also has some falsehood that causing him to be taken on ambulance when teaching arts of self-defense. Unlike appearance, has a pure heart like a child.
Lee Jong-suk as Ahn Jong-seok
Son of Ahn Nae Sang and Yoon Yoo Sun. A popular ice hockey player, but falls because of ranks last in whole school. A maternal-fetal beautiful male. The third year. Initially he can go into university as the promising ice hockey rookie player with identity of student excelling in sports, but because of family bankrupt, he fails to straight away rise to university. Is best friend with Kang Seung Yoo. Neglects his study due to sports, and so still listen to class of second grade. Has prank, funny and absurd personality.
Park Ha-sun as Park Ha-sun
Korean language teacher of high school. A 26 years old good luck angel, and cousin Kim Ji-won. Kind-hearted, open-minded and always prioritize taking care of others, so her body is very tired. Always feel sorry even she does nothing wrong, eaisly trust others and get cheated. After the foreign teacher Julien was cheated when searching for house, she rents her a room in Ji-won's house. Character is very kind, and good in baseball with great strength.
Ko Young-Wook as Ko Young-Wook
A exam-taking student who clings to Noryangjin campus and who will cry for a small piece of buttered beef. He has prepared for a few years to take the 9th grade civil service exam at Noryangjin campus. That's why, when he is poor but is in lycorexia, he will fight for even a small cut of beef. Is not negotiable in his principle, a kind of rigid person. Just like the pursuit of Ha Sun who is like angel, very obsessed and very single-minded.
Park Ji-sun as Park Ji-sun
Has a petulant charm that cannot be hidden. A English teacher of the high school. Her skin is very delicate, very sensitive and thus always wears a very large visor hat to work. Petulant and hypercritical, and shirk her own responsibilities to others.
Yoon Gun as Yoon Gun
Music teacher of unknown origin who strangle anywhere. Occasionally go to London vintage market to buy clothes, the sense of fashion trending is especially prominent among teachers, and is criticized by headmaster everyday. Wherever he goes, he always sit like a sculpture, very difficult to integrate and mix around, always play alone.
Krystal Jung Soo-Jung as Ahn Soo-jung
Daughter of Ahn Nae Sang and Yoon Yoo Sun. Jong Seok's sister. Yesterday is LA! Today is a bully across the Noryangjin. Goes to USA to study abroad, returns home during school holiday for spending money, but because the family suddenly gone broke is in decadence since. Looks simple, carefree characteristic similar to her father, and play wild games such as piling with male siblings in the house. Except the things that she pay attention to, she gets no idea on other things, but is used to ask particularly small things of others.
Kim Ji-won as Kim Ji-won
Cousion of Ha Sun. Has external appearance like a doll, and is the little devil head famous in High Kick. Second grade of high school student. When she is still kid, parents moved in to Yeouido to stay with Ha Sun. Previously she worked hard to achieve the aim of her father who hopes that she will become a doctor (ranked second in school), but actually she is more interested in arts and music. During free time she always ride bicycle to museum and concerts.
Julien Kang as Julien
A Korea fan who is knowing more about Korea than Korean. Foreign English teacher in the high school. Good in cooking and even win Yoo Sun in blind test. He is addicted to rubdown in the bathroom, and establishes deep friendship with the uncle who performs the rubdown.
Baek Jin-hee as Baek Jin-hee
A youngster who has no money, no background, but a lot of deb. Managed to struggling to enter university graduation class by doing a variety of works, scholarship and loan. Accidentally witnessed the crime scene, causing her to be chased rogue gangsters, leading to her been sacked by the internship company. She is even been chased in campus. After school she is sheltered by school senior Ha Sun. Because she is always had no money, so always stressed of money, although struggling in the pressure but has very cheerful vitality. When sad she likes to sit at the last bus seat, and put her head out of the window to enjoy the speed.
Lee Juk as Lee Juk
A classic city male, and health doctor of cold city. The predecessor of Yoon Kye Sang and an anal practitioner, is putting all his effort into repetitive anal treatment. Is very tired of real life and cynical. On the appearance he is a man of few words, quiet person, but the heart is very complicated.
Kang Seung-yoon as Kang Seung-yoon
Jong Seok's Best Friend. A simple and honest 4-dimensional family who lives for loyalty. As the son of traditional medicine family in Gyeongju, he speaks authentic Gyeongsang dialect. Get to know the family of Ahn Nae Sang when he gave food to four of the family who looked like a beggar, and becomes good friend with Ahn Jong Seok. He suddenly wants to become ballet dancer, suddenly wants to become president, very unpredictable. Not smart, and does not suit the heart of Yoo Sun. Although a little blank, but is loyal, kind, and willing to give up everything for the person he loved.
Jin Ji-hee – Special cameo appearance
Shin Se-kyeong – Special cameo appearance
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Family sitcom High Kick gets a Season 3
After the success of 2006′s Unstoppable High Kick and 2010′s High Kick Through the Roof, director Kim Byung-wook has signed on with Chorokbaem Media, producers of the first two series, to produce a third season.
Both sitcoms were 30-minute daily shows that aired more than 100 episodes and launched the careers of quite a number of young stars: Jung Il-woo, Kim Bum, Kim Hye-sung, Park Min- young, Yoon Shi-yoon, Shin Se-kyung, Hwang Jung-eum, and Daniel Choi, to name some. (Some of those actors had previous credits, but it was their High Kick experience that really put them in the mainstream public consciousness.)
Despite being called a third "season," don't expect a return of the same characters or storylines. The two existing seasons come from the same PD and share the same grumpy grandpa (Lee Soon-jae), but feature entirely different characters. Consider it similar to the Nonstop series, just set around a large family rather than a university campus.
Season 3 will also bring onboard a fresh cast, although you can expect a similar mix of light-hearted family scenarios with a bit of melodrama at some points. (Korean sitcoms aren't really that comedic in the way we think of sitcoms in the States, but the format employs a light touch and loose plotting.)
The next season will air sometime in 2011.
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woah, i haven't watched the first 2 season yet. is it good?
it look interesting cause kim bum and kim hye sung was in there
who are the casts?
[TALK OF THE TOWN] 'High Kick' gets a third season
sitcom "High Kick" has been renewed for a third season "High Kick! Season 3".
The announcement was made on Monday by Chorokbaem Media, which produces the series.
Kim Byung-wook, who directed the first two seasons, will return to direct season three.
The plot, casting and broadcasting station for season three have yet to be determined.
The first season, which was called "High Kick!", aired from 2006 to 2007 and featured young stars such as Jeong Il-woo, Kim Beom and Park Min-yeong.
Season two, called "High Kick Through The Roof", which starred Sin Se-kyeong and Choi Daniel, had viewer ratings of about 25 percent.
Netizens have already been buzzing about the series' return, with some saying they are "thrilled" about the show's return to television.
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"Highkick 3" confirmed to broadcast on MBC 'Original members?'
"Highkick 3" after 1 and 2 has confirmed to be broadcast on MBC this time and producer Kim Byung-wook is in control again.
Productions Green Snake Media revealed on the 7th, "A contract in supporting the production of 120 episodes of "Highkick 3" was signed for 8 billion and 71 million won (About US$8 millions). This is 2.75 times more than the amount of 3 billion and 16 million won it cost for the 120 episodes of "Highkick 2" in 2009.
Green Snake Media expects to raise up to 10 billion won through "Highkick 3" with the drama contents, export and other business ideas relating to the drama.
As the broadcast of the drama is confirmed, the question as to which actors and actresses will take part is raising expectations. Producer Kim Byung-wook mentioned the casting is yet to be made, but he is considering the original members.
Meanwhile "Highkick 3" is to be released this fall after casting has been confirmed this March or April.
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"High Kick! Season 3", casting competition ignited
Kim Byung-wook producers "High Kick! Season 3" is hot with casting competition.
Actors and actresses are lining up for the cast of the next season as the first two seasons have already produced many stars like Jeong Il-woo, Choi Daniel, Sin Se-kyeong and more.
Actually, many management companies with rookies actors and actresses are keeping a close watch on the movements of the production team and attempting at continuous contact.
Someone conveyed, "Everyone is dying to be in the next "High Kick". The production is just keeping every option open as it is only the beginning".
Not only rookies, but even existing stars want to be on this. Noh Joo-hyeon, Park Yeong-gyoo, Lee Soon-jae, Jeong Bo-seok and more have been successful so far in changing their image through producer Kim Byung-wook's sitcom.
A hallyu star also expressed his want to working with PD Kim Byung-wook.
Apparently Hwang Sin-hye is also being considered as a cast for "High Kick! Season 3".
Coming this fall and completing the line up within April, all viewers and the whole broadcast biz have their attention on "High Kick! Season 3"
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Yoon Kye-sang in "High Kick 3″?
The popular daily sitcom series "High Kick" is looking to go into its third season, and Yoon Kye-sang is up for the leading role.
The "Road Number One" and "Triple" actor may have to go through a bit of a change in order to fit in with the normal workings of the "High Kick" series but he's looking to be a main lead character.
The series with wildly successful "Unstoppable High Kick" and "High Kick Through the Roof" are looking to air their third season in September of this year.
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"High Kick 3" Lee Soon-jae, Sin Goo, Oh Ji-myeong, Im Hyeon-sik love call
The four kings of sitcoms Lee Soon-jae, Sin Goo, Oh Ji-myeong and Im Hyeon-sik have been getting requests to be in the MBC "High Kick! Season 3" which has halfway completed its casting.
With the third season of this sitcom being produced, national top stars, kid actors and even rookies are competing for the main role.
Actor Yoon Kye-sang, Ki Tae-yeong, Hwang Sin-hye, Kang Seong-yeon and more have had meetings with the production are waiting for the results.
As the netizens focus on who will play the other roles besides the main ones, Sin Goo, Oh Ji-myeong, Im Hyeon-sik and others have been brought up.
Their names have been brought up in the case that Lee Soon-jae will not participate in this season.
The three people have made viewers roll over in laughter in SBS sitcoms "Can't Stop Them", "Soonpoong Clinic" and more.
Netizen's look forward to the 4 kings being cast and they say, "It would be awesome if Oh Ji-myeong was in it", "Have them all in", "Make a "Three Friends High Kick" with Lee Soon-jae, Oh Ji-myeong and Sin Goo", "I like them all" and more.
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Who's in "High Kick 3"?
The casting competition for MBC "High Kick! Season 3" is fierce.
The most heated competition is for the main role and Yoon Kye-sang, Ki Tae-yeong, Hwang Sin-hye, Kang Seong-yeon have completed their meetings and waiting for the final result.
The "High Kick" series have produced many popular actors and actresses lately.
Jeong Il-woo, Kim Beom, Hwang Jeong-eum, Kwang Soo, Yoo In-na, Choi Daniel, Yoon Si-yoon, Sin Se-kyeong and more have become famous stars after stepping on "High Kick".
On a phone call with a media on the 27th, Green Snake Media said, "High Kick! Season 3" has been completed about halfway. We will officially announce who has been cast from those mentioned previously. We can't announce the cast first as they have a potential to turn another way round".
Meanwhile, MBC "High Kick! Season 3" which is coming in September will have actress Jin Ji-hee as a surprise cameo act.
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Possibilities of SHINee's Minho joining the cast of "High Kick 3"
The possibilities of SHINee's Minho appearance on the upcoming sitcom "High Kick 3" will be difficult due to SHINee's current promotions of their Japanese debut single, "Replay."
A proposal for Minho to appear in the upcoming sitcom was brought up during initial talks, according to an official. However, a specific meeting for his appearance was never set.
SHINee recently released their debut music video "Replay" with the single set to be released on June 22nd, and will soon begin their full-fledged activities. On June 19th, SHINee will head to England to perform at the Abbey Road Studios in London in celebration of their debut. They will be the first Asian singers to perform at the Abbey Road Studios.
The group will then proceed to begin touring Japan starting in July and will host several live events. Due to the group's upcoming Japan schedule, it will be most difficult for Minho to appear on "High Kick 3."
Minho first made his drama debut last year in the KBS drama special "Pianist," and played a genius pianist.
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I really really love UNSTOPPABLE HIGH KICK. i really adore them it feels like they are really family. and the plot of the story was very superb!
and i hate the fact that " I CANT NEVER WATCHED THEM TOGETHER AGAIN! I MISS THEM SO MUCH! my heart are aching now, i feel like i want yo cry! :(( (yeah i know i maybe look weird on you guys! )
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Yoon Kye-sang "High Kick! Season 3"? Discussing in the affirmative
Actor Yoon Kye-sang spoke about the possibilities of being in MBC's new sitcome "High Kick! Season 33".
Yoon's management told Seoul Newspaper NTN on the phone, "We had a meeting with producer Kim Byung-wook. It is being discussed positively".
Rumors of Yoon Kye-sang and "High Kick! Season 3" leaked out last April. He was looking forward to the broadcasting of MBC drama "The Greatest Love" so he had carefully stated, "It's not the time to talk about it in detail". However, now that "The Greatest Love" has 3 more episodes to go, it has been mentioned again.
Meanwhile, Yoon Kye-sang is playing perfect herb doctor Yoon Pil-joo in "The Greatest Love". He is also a 'beast' in the movie "Poongsan" being released soon.
If he confirms for "High Kick! Season 3", he will be acting out the romantic, beat and comic guy.
Meanwhile, "High Kick! Season 3" is coming soon after MBC daily sitcom "All my Love", from the 19th of September.
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Yoon Yoo-seon and Ahn Nae-sang joins Kim Byung-wook PD's "High Kick! Season 3"
Actress Yoon Yoo-seon and Ahn Nae-sang will join Kim Byung-wook PD's new sitcom "High Kick! Season 3" as a married couple.
"High Kick! Season 3" is the third series of "High Kick!" and "High Kick Through The Roof" in MBC by producer Kim Byung-wook.
As much as the "High Kick" series has discharged many stars like Jeong Il-woo, Kim Beom, Park Min-yeong, Sin Se-kyeong, Yoon Si-yoon, Hwang Jeong-eum, Choi Daniel and more, the cast is one very important factor in this sitcom.
Yoon Yoo-seon and Ahn Nae-sang will be acting as a married couple in "High Kick! Season 3".
A member of production said, "The two people who have shown steady acting through movies and dramas, will be acting as a married couple in "High Kick! Season 3" and have already been gathering interest".
It is said that the two met with producer Kim Byung-wook recently and spoke in detail about their roles.
Meanwhile, the new "High Kick! Season 3" will be based on two neighboring houses and the cast for younger actors and actresses is in process.
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f(x)'s Krystal Set to Appear on MBC's 'High Kick'
Fans of f(x) will be pleased to hear that Krystal is set to appear on on the 3rd season of the the sitcom 'High Kick'.
Not being a stranger to appearing on sitcoms, Krystal showed off her youthful image on 'More Charming by the Day" last year. She's now making her comeback with High Kick, the sitcom will start airing its 3rd season on September 19, 2011.
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Cast list for MBC's 'High Kick 3′ confirmed! f(x)'s Krystal officially joins cast!
After a good amount of swirling rumors over the casting for MBC's 'High Kick 3', the final roster of star-studded actors and actresses to participate in the daily sitcom has finally been confirmed!
In line with previous rumors, f(x)'s Krystal will be making her 2nd appearance as an actress, playing the role of Ahn Soo Jung, the daughter of a formerly rich couple.
The couple roles are to played by Ahn Nae Sang and Yoon Yoo Sun.
Other confirmed roles will be filled by Yoon Gye Sang, Lee Jong Suk, Seo Ji Suk, Kang Seung Yoon, Park Ha Sun, Kim Ji Won, Park Ji Sun, Julien Kang, Go Young Wook, and Baek Jin Hee.
That is quite a list! This new sitcom, the third in the wildly popular 'High Kick' series led by PD Kim Byung Wook, will air, following the conclusion of the long-running MBC sitcom, 'All My Love'.
The first episode of 'High Kick 3′ is scheduled to air on September 19th, so stay tuned!
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I thought I'd post a blog showing a technique I haven't seen elsewhere. This is from a recent post of mine at the SqlTeam forums.
The problem: you have two tables, each containing mutiple rows of data per "SetID". You need to compare the two tables to see which sets have complete matches.
First, the DDL and the data:
create table #t1
(SetID int not null,
Attribute varchar(10) not null,
Value int not null,
constraint t1_pk primary key (SetID, Attribute))
create table #t2
(SetID int not null,
Attribute varchar(10) not null,
Value int not null,
constraint t2_pk primary key (SetID, Attribute))
insert into #t1
select 1,'a',1 union
select 1,'b',2 union
select 1,'c',3 union
select 2,'a',4 union
select 2,'c',5...
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Les Paul Dies, Aged 94
Sad day for musicians everywhere - Les Paul, one of the world's most incredible, influential and innovative guitarists & inventors, has passed away. It's time to pay tribute to the man who gave us the Gibson Les Paul, the multi-track recording and the tape delay - and changed the face of music forever.
Les Paul, R. I. P. 1915 - 2009: The World Lost a Genius
It's simply impossible to underestimate the importance of Les Paul (Born Lester William Polsfuss in 1915) to the world of music. Even though newer generations might've not been totally aware of him or his music, what he's done has changed the face of music forever, and his influence touched us all. He made the sound of rock and roll possible.
One of the foremost influences on 20th century sound and responsible for the world's most famous guitar, the Les Paul model, Les Paul's prestigious career in music and invention spans from the 1930s to the present. Though he's indisputably one of America's most popular, influential, and accomplished electric guitarists, Les Paul is best known as an early innovator in the development of the solid body guitar. His groundbreaking design would become the template for Gibson's best-selling electric, the Les Paul model, introduced in 1952.
Some Gibson Les Paul players: George Harrison (The Beatles), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
Anyone who ever fell in love with rock music, at some point must have been thrilled by the sound of a Gibson Les Paul, whether they knew it was a Les Paul or not. Iconic guitarists who've played a Les Paul include George Harrison (Beatles), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, John Lennon and many, many more. The Gibson Les Paul guitar is still one of the most desirable musical instrument for many guitarists, and it's popularity remains undiminished, even many decades after Les Paul designed his first prototype.
In fact, the most popular guitar at Dolphin right now is a Les Paul-style guitar, the Vintage V100 Lemon Drop, which is inspired by the Gibson Les Paul pleayed by Peter Green during his Fleetwood Mac days.
How Les Paul invented the guitar that changed music
Tinkering with electronics and guitar amplification since his youth, Les Paul began constructing his own electric guitar in the late '30s. Unhappy with the first generation of commercially available hollowbodies because of their thin tone, lack of sustain, and feedback problems, Paul opted to build an entirely new structure. "I was interested in proving that a vibration-free top was the way to go," he has said. "I even built a guitar out of a railroad rail to prove it. What I wanted was to amplify pure string vibration, without the resonance of the wood getting involved in the sound."
With the good graces of Epiphone president Epi Stathopoulo, Paul used the Epiphone plant and machinery in 1941 to bring his vision to fruition. He affectionately dubbed the guitar "The Log."
Mark of genius: from The Log, Les Paul's first invention (left) to Les Paul-inspired guitars such as the Lemon Drop, the Les Paul invention changed the design of electric guitars.
Though The Log came close to it, it still wasn't quite what he was after. In the early 1950s, Gibson Guitar would cultivate a partnership with Paul that would lead to the creation of the guitar he'd seen only in his dreams.
Working closely with Paul, Gibson forged a relationship that would change popular culture forever. The Gibson Les Paul model—the most powerful and respected electric guitar in history—began with the 1952 release of the Les Paul Goldtop. After introducing the original Les Paul Goldtop in 1952, Gibson issued the Black Beauty, the mahogany-topped Les Paul Custom, in 1954. The Les Paul Junior (1954) and Special (1955) were also introduced before the canonical Les Paul Standard hit the market in 1958.
With revolutionary humbucker pickups, this sunburst classic has remained unchanged for the half-century since it hit the market.
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Les Paul, the Jazz Guitarist
Les Paul didn't just invent the iconic guitar - he was actually a gifted guitarist, often listed amongst the best and most influential players ever. In the Les Paul Trio he translated the dizzying runs and unusual harmonies found on Jazz at the Philharmonic into a slower, subtler, more commercial approach. His novelty instrumentals were tighter, brasher, and punctuated with effects. Overall, the trademark Les Paul sound was razor-sharp, clean-shaven, and divinely smooth.
And Les Paul was also one of the most succesful guitarists, too! In the 1950s, he had several hits with his wife Mary Ford, and the duo were bona fide popstars. Through hits, tours, and popular radio shows, Paul and Ford kept one foot in the technological vanguard and the other in the cultural mainstream. When not creating hit songs with his wife or doing radio and TV shows, Les Paul was busy revolutionizing the way people made music.
He experimented with dubbing live tracks over recorded tracks, also altering the playback speed. This resulted in "Lover (When You're Near Me)," his revolutionary 1947 predecessor to multi-track recording. The hit instrumental featured Les Paul on eight different electric guitar parts, all playing together. To explain this revolutionary new idea, he introduced the fictional "Les Paulverizer" device, which multiplies anything fed into it, like a guitar sound or a voice.
Paul has stated that the idea was to explain to the audience how his single guitar could be "multiplied" into an orchestra. The device even became the subject of comedy, with Ford multiplying herself and her vacuum cleaner with it so he could finish the housework faster. Later Paul claimed to have made the myth real for his stage show, using a small box attached to his guitar, which was really just a stage prop.
He typically pretended to lay down one track after another on stage, in-sync, and then play over the repeating forms he had recorded. Today, such a thing is not just possible but common, thanks to FX pedals such as the Akai Headrush, which simply updates Les Paul's visionary concept.
Les Paul & the multi-track recording technique
Paul acquired a first generation Ampex tape recorder from Crosby in 1949, and began his most important multi-tracking adventure, adding a fourth head to the recorder to create sound-on-sound recordings. While tinkering with the machine and its many possibilities, he also came up with tape delay. These tricks, along with another recent Les Paul innovation—close mic-ing vocals—were integrated for the first time on a single recording: the 1950 No. 1 tour de force "How High the Moon."
Tributes to the Legend
When Les Paul passed away on 13th August, from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, he was surrounded by family and loved ones. According to the Gibson website, he had been receiving the best available treatment through this final battle and in keeping with his persona, he showed incredible strength, tenacity and courage.
Up until very recently, Les Paul could still be seen performing weekly at a jazz club in New York. In 2008, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame paid tribute to Les Paul in a week-long celebration of the life of this Grammy-award winner musician. Les Paul has since become the only individual to share membership into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Les Paul will be sadly missed, and many musicians have already paid their tributes to this musical giant:
Slash said, "Les Paul was a shining example of how full one's life can be, he was so vibrant and full of positive energy. I'm honored and humbled to have known and played with him over the years, he was an exceptionally brilliant man."
Joe Satriani said, "Les Paul set a standard for musicianship and innovation that remains unsurpassed. He was the original guitar hero, and the kindest of souls. Last October I joined him onstage at The Iridium club in NYC, and he was still shredding. He was and still is an inspiration to us all."
Joan Jett said, "I, and everyone at Blackheart Records, mourn the passing of our dear friend, Les Paul. He was a genius inventor, musical innovator, and a wonderful person. Without the advances he pioneered, the recording sciences and the electric guitar would have been left years behind. I will miss him so much."
Joe Perry said, "As a guitarist and a fan of music in general, I know the amazing contributions Les Paul made in his lifetime to the art of making music. I think if the general public knew how much of that influence is heard every day in the music that they listen to, they would be amazed. He was a true genius. The few times that I had met him, he made me feel like I had known him forever. He was always sharp, ready to rock and he was always talking about his next gig. Knowing that he is not walking the earth anymore is sad and I have lost a friend. But every time I pick up a guitar I'll know that his spirit is alive and well right next to me. "
For more tributes and complete information about Les Paul's life and career, please visit the official Gibson website.


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Wellness Ingredient Trends 2008
Editor David Feder explains that there are trends in wellness that are so overarching as to be rote; obesity, diabetes and heart disease are really megatrends. The ingredient trends within them, however, are where processors will need to focus their energies.
I. Trend Shift
The paradigm shift from foods to ingredients in the focus on wellness has reached its "tipping point." Independent market analyst Datamonitor (www.datamonitor.com), London, notes "the 65 percent of consumers who are trying to eat more healthily are no longer focused solely on reducing food intake or on moderating their consumption of perceived 'dietary evils' such as fats, sugars and salts."
According to research provided by Lu Ann Williams, senior analyst for Innova Market Insights (www.innovadatabase.com), Duiven, Netherlands, satiety and appetite suppressants could be the next "magic bullet." She also cites as big trends "super ingredients," the "exotic and extreme fruits and extracts," yet, conversely, "super simple" will be more important to consumers than "super premium." Other ingredient trends Williams cites involve those which address memory, cognition, skin and beauty."
Datamonitor's research further shows a trend toward "positive nutrition" is emerging — consumers are "actively seeking nutrient-rich fresh, organic and functional food and drinks." So-called superfoods and beverages rich in specific nutrients and phytochemicals such as anti-oxidants are promoted as able to improve health and/or prevent disease.
II. Last Year's Trends Still Strong
There's little sign of slowdown for previous ingredient stars, especially soy and omega oils. According to a report by Soyatech LLC (www.soyatech.com), Bar Harbor, Maine, increasing demand for protein will drive up world soy-protein production more than 7 percent per year by 2010, to nearly 4 million metric tons, translating to almost $4 billion. Other reports show double-digit growth for soy foods and ingredients on a global scale.
One carryover trend from last year is that for gluten-free products. The designation was extended to beverages, but the number of launches throughout the category continues to climb, along with sales that are approaching $750 million per year.
Omega oils are finding their way into a broader spectrum of products, and via a number of different sources. Catching up to odorless and flavorless microencapsulated salmon oil are omegas from flax, micro algae, chia and krill.
As omega oils such as DHA and EPA enter the food chain in dairy products, orange juice, cereals, bread and soups, a rush of research is linking the oils to more and more health benefits. In addition to heart health, omegas are proving helpful to immune function, vision, mental health, cognition and even improved outcomes for high-risk pregnancies.
Go With Your Gut
Probiotics have been on the cusp, still primarily associated in consumers' minds with yogurt and yogurt beverages. But last year saw them segue to other dairy items, such as cheese, then make the jump to bars, breakfast foods and even chocolate.
Three things are pushing the probiotics trend: the recognition of gut health's importance to obesity management and cancer prevention; the decades-old tradition of gut health-oriented foods and beverages overseas, coupled with the rising immigrant population bringing those traditions with them; and the subsequent fact our current generation of consumers doesn't seem to have a problem talking about healthy bowel function.
As an example of how strong the probiotic trend is, GMA/FPA, citing separate sources, reported in November that Paris-based Groupe Danone (www.danone.com) posted nearly $2 billion in worldwide sales last year of its Activia yogurt product featuring its patented probiotic bacteria. This figure is up 30 percent over last year's sales.
According to GMA/FPA, analysts say Activia's introduction in the U.S. (through its Dannon division) "was one of the most successful product launches in recent food-industry history, with sales expected to reach $300 million this year." Danone expects Activia and its Danactive brands to account for 40 percent of its yogurt business in 2008.
Last year saw critical mass arrive for weight-management ingredients that target satiety as opposed to caloric balance. Sugar replacers are still big business, but those with added satiety effects, such as inulin, or exotic botanical extracts such as the South Asian fruit Garcinia cambogia, are proving attractive. Garcinia cambogia, shown to suppress appetite and inhibit fat production, is the main ingredient in InterHealth Nutraceuticals (www.interhealthusa.com), Benicia, Calif., CitriMax and Super CitriMax formulations.
Fiber Power
Next year could be the year for resistant starch, too. "The outlook for natural resistant starch in 2008 is bright," states Rhonda Witwer, nutrition business development manager for Bridgewater, N.J.-based National Starch Food Innovation Inc. (www.foodinnovation.com), makers of HiMaize resistant starch from corn. "Its fermentation in the gut is critical for important metabolic benefits, including increased satiety, increased fat burning and increased insulin sensitivity in healthy people as well as individuals with type II diabetics, as well as reduced body fat in animal models. These metabolism benefits differentiate resistant starch from other types of non-fermentable fiber."
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Theme houses are elements of our residential life program that have special connections to our educational program. They provide special experiences that extend various aspects of our educational program. Theme houses enable both majors and non-majors with an active interest in a field to live together and explore a theme in a fun and comfortable residential setting.
Earlham has several theme houses that are specific to culture. Those houses are detailed below. For more information on theme houses and friendship houses, visit the Office of Residence Life.
Theme: African/African-American Cultural CenterLocation: 420 College AvenueOccupancy: 6
Theme: Beit Kehillah - Jewish Cultural CenterLocation: 527 National Rd. WestOccupancy: 5
The residents of JCC sponsor weekly Shabbat dinners, maintain a library of resources on Jewish life and faith, and provide special events on holidays and other occasions.
Theme: Mindfullness HouseLocation: 531 National Road WestOccupancy: 5
Theme: LGBTQ+ HouseLocation: 535 National Road WestOccupancy: 7
Theme: Quaker HouseLocation: 800 National Road WestOccupancy: 7
Quaker Living Learning House provides an environment for Quaker students and students interested in Quakerism. The house provides an atmosphere and a space where residents explore what Quakerism means to students, community members and others. House sponsored events to make the Quaker presence on campus more visible include workshops, worship and fellowship.
Theme: Interfaith HouseLocation: 400 College AvenueOccupancy: 7
InterFaith House brings together students of different religions to grow in their own faith and observance and to promote knowledge, understanding, and cooperation among people of diverse spiritual perspectives.


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Zach Billingsley knows how important community partnerships are for organizations like the Children's Volunteer Health Network, so when he was able to partner with the Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation in 2008, he jumped at the opportunity.
"We cannot do what we do without strong support from our community," CVHN's executive director told The Sun. "Partnerships with foundations like DCWAF, local businesses and individuals are critical because this community is why we exist, and this community is the reason we will be able to continue to meet the needs of our local children."
Since 2008, the DCWAF has contributed $395,000 to the help support the mission of the Children's Volunteer Health Network, a faith-based 501(c)(3) organization, which seeks "to enhance the lives of uninsured and underinsured school age children by facilitating free, immediate access to medical, dental and mental health care."
The CVHN, according to its website, estimates that 25 percent of Walton County and 13 percent of Okaloosa County children have no health insurance and 60 percent of Walton County's families have no dental insurance. The site also notes that there are only 15 dentists in Walton County to serve a population of more than 50,000.
"We utilize volunteers as much as possible, however, the reality is that funding is needed to take care of our local uninsured and underinsured kids," Billingsley wrote in an email to The Sun. "DCWAF has supported two of four major programs, the Mobile Dental Clinic called 'Just for Grins' and the new stand-alone 'CVHN Dental Clinic.' "
The Mobile Dental Clinic is a 34-foot RV that has been converted into a two-chair dental office. The clinic has treated more than 3,500 children and performed more than 21,000 procedures since 2008, Billingsley noted.
Located in Santa Rosa Beach, the CVHN Dental Clinic serves children in both Okaloosa and Walton counties. Like all of their programs, Billingsley said that all children that qualify for the free and reduced lunch program qualify for their services.
Open for only 11 months, the Dental Clinic has treated more than 300 children and performed more than 3,200 procedures, Billingsley told The Sun.
As the president of the Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation, John Russell said contributing to local charities is the main mission of his organization. In its first year, the DCWAF only supported one charity, and since then they have grown to support 14 charities from Pensacola to Panama City, including Children in Crisis, Shelter House, Emerald Coast Children's Advocacy Center and Food for Thought.
Since 2006, the DCWAF has donated more than $4.7 million to these charities.
In 2012, the Destin's wine auction was named as one of the Top 10 Charity Wine Auctions by Wine Spectator. Not only is this a tremendous accomplishment for his organization, but Russell said the prestige of being recognized is a tremendous benefit to the local charities that benefit from the foundation's success.
Based on live auction funds raised, Destin's $894,620 put them on the map with wine auctions from California, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and New York. In total, Russell and his team raised $1.22 million in 2012.
"The beauty of it all is the amount of money we were able to raise for our charities," he told The Sun.
The 2013 Destin Charity Wine Auction weekend will be held April 26-28 as part of the South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival. For more information visit www.DCWAF.org.
Without the funding from organizations like the Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation, Billingsley said there would be many children in the area who would suffer from a lack of care due to family hardships or other situations.
"We have seen children come to CVHN for help who have never seen a dentist, have multiple severely decayed teeth and are not able to afford the expensive dental work they need," he said. "They are in pain and many have lost hope. This funding will not only take their pain away and repair their teeth, it will return a smile to their faces, give them their self-esteem back and provide hope for their future."


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Kat Von D is singled again after parting ways with DJ Deadmau5.
The 30-year-old tattoo artist and reality star confirmed the break up on her Twitter page, writing on November 10, "Man, I sure was wrong. But at least he made it a no-brainer to break that off. #lessonlearned."
"Clarification: Deadmau5 and I are no longer together," she continued, adding, "Now, we can get all of the 'I told you so's' outta the way... And move on."
DeadMau5, a 31-year-old Canadian DJ who performs wearing a giant cat head, also opened up about the split on his Facebook writing, "going to spend a little while screwing my head back on. i guess im not cut out for relationships right now. and that's all i really wan't [sic]to dwell on it right now. ill figure it out. no hard feelings."
He later added on his official Twitter account, "it happened too fast, i lost my balance and fell into a familiar dark place that im having difficulty with. she deserves someone stronger."
Von D and DeadMau5, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman, first confirmed their relationship in September. The pair began dating after meeting at a party.
Kat Von D was previously engaged to Jesse James, ex-husband of Sandra Bullock. He and Bullock, his third wife, divorced in 2010 after he admitted in interviews he was unfaithful during their almost 5-year marriage.
Von D and James broke up in September 2011 and the tattoo artist later accused him of cheating on her.
"Today I encountered the 19th girl to add to the list of people Jesse cheated on me with during this last year," Von D wrote on November 13.