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Our main aim is to try and capture any phenomena that is occurring at the location. Every investigation is approached using scientific type methods and views where we use an extensive range of latest modern technology to capture, record and log every step of the investigation. A final report of the investigation and its findings is given to the client as well as a copy archived securely in our database. Most of our investigations may consist in the use of CCTV IR Cameras, audio recording software, remote wireless temperature logging, voice recorders, IR breakers and various other recording or motion detected devices.
Details and Methods of a CPI Investigation
The first thing with any investigation is to carry out a preliminary meeting with the client to establish what the problem might be and if necessary, arrange to talk to any witnesses. During this meeting, we may suggest that the client keeps a diary for two weeks to record everything that occurs noting down the date, time and a description of the activity. A diary can help both the client and ourselves to gain a clear picture of frequency and types of phenomena that has been occurring. After two weeks we would do a follow up phone call or meeting to discuss the diary and see if further weeks or recording is required or whether a date should be booked with the client to investigate using our equipment.
Normally, we carry out the investigation overnight starting from around 7pm and finishing around 4 or 5am at the latest. Investigating overnight is nothing to do with the myth that phenomena is more active at night. Investigating overnight helps us to control many of the environmental variables such as noise polution as possible. Also, a lot of the equipment we use works a lot better in low light and any audio recording can seem a lot clearer however, we are flexible to fit around clients needs and schedules.
Upon arrival to the location we immediately begin setting up all the necessary euipment making sure that health and safety is addressed. Once all the equipment is set up in the desired areas the team members are split up between the areas and the camera monitoring station. Just before the start of the investigation, a team briefing is given about the investigation plan and all investigation guidelines and policies are given as a reminder including the health and safety regulations and any security notices. Sometimes it is necessary to use investigation log sheets in which team members would carry with them to make notes such as times, area and description of activity and these would be issued during the briefing.
Once the investigation begins, each small team will go to their designated area and spend 45 minutes taking notes, taking photos or video, recording audio using voice recorders and also listening out for any type of activity. After the 45 minutes everyone joins up in a break area for a 15 minute refreshment break. After the break the team will rotate to a different area to investigate so that all areas have been covered by all team members.
On completion of the overnight investigation, the team will pack away the equipment and spend the next few weeks analysing the recordings and measuring against everything including any notes taken. The investigation details and any findings are then put into a report with one copy being sent to the client and one copy is securely archived into our database for our teams own research and analysis into the paranormal phenomena. Once the client has recieved the report and spent some time reviewing the document, we may carry out a post investigation consultation to discuss the report and answer any questions or concerns the client may have. We value our clients confidentialy which is why details of the investigation will never be shared with any third parties unless consent is given by the client.

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Other couples use the lyrics of the song to send the message that this is indeed the last song of the night by choosing songs like "Last Dance", "Save the Last Dance" or "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)".
Then there are participation songs that people sing along and dance with that keep the energy high, send a sweet message or allow everyone, young and old, to get involved like "Don't Stop Believin", "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" or "Theme form New york, New York"
One thing to note; when you decide to end your reception with the song "(I've had) The Time of My Life" from the movie "Dirty Dancing", there is a certain expectation. Regardless of how dangerous or impossible performing a lift while wearing a wedding dress seems, guests get giddy with anticipation that the couple will suddenly transform into Baby and Johnny and WOW them with a show stopping lift in the center of the dance floor. Trust me on this. They're all thinking it and hoping for it.
Here are some video examples of what we typically see at weddings that end with (I've Had) The Time of My Life".
Alison and John succumb to the calling of the song by doing a simple, "hug" lift and gentle spin that ends with a sweet kiss.
Noelle and James kick it up a notch with a modified overhead lift and spin that was a real crowd pleaser.
Not to be outdone, Kristy and Stephen give the crowd a sweet little lift and adorable pose. They were kind of pressured into it, but you'll see.
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Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia) is a Canadian-American actress.
In addition to her acting career, she is also a model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee (or Pamela Lee) after marrying Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.
Anderson is a member of the animal rights movement and has conducted campaigns condemning the commercial fur industry and promoting veganism through the animal welfarist organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In 2006, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She maintains dual Canadian and American citizenship. In addition to her fame from modelling and acting, Anderson has received a great deal of press attention for her well-publicized personal life.
Her relationships have made headlines in gossip magazines for years. Anderson married Tommy Lee, drummer of Mötley Crüe, on February 19, 1995, after knowing him for 96 hours/4 days. They wed on a beach, with Anderson in a bikini. Anderson's mother did not know, and learned of the marriage from People magazine. During this time, she was known professionally as Pamela Anderson Lee. Together they have two sons, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee. Dylan Jagger Lee was named for Anderson's great grandfather, Dale Jagger Grosco who fought in World War II.
The couple divorced in 1998. Although divorced, the couple reunited briefly upon Lee's release from prison but eventually split again in 2001. They reconciled and split again in 2008. In March 2002, Anderson publicly stated that she had contracted Hepatitis C from Lee (supposedly from sharing tattoo needles), and began writing a regular column for Jane magazine. In October 2003, Anderson jokingly said on Howard Stern's radio show that she does not expect to live more than 10 or 15 years, but this was misconstrued and taken seriously by many websites and tabloids.
After the 1998 divorce, Anderson became engaged to the model Marcus Schenkenberg; they broke up in 2001. She then became engaged to the singer Kid Rock (Robert J. Ritchie); she broke up with him in 2003. On July 18, 2006, it was announced that she would marry Kid Rock on July 29, 2006, on a yacht near St Tropez, France. "Feels like I've been stuck in a time warp," said Anderson in her blog entry. "Not able to let go of MY family picture ... it's been sad and lonely and frustrating ... I've raised my kids alone in hope of a miracle. Well my miracle came and went. And came back and back because he knew that I'd wake up one day and realize that I was waiting for nothing." "I'm moving on," she declared. "I feel like I'm finally free ... I'm in love."
There was extensive unconfirmed media speculation that the marriage was pregnancy-related, but the theory was based only on Anderson's representative's refusal to comment on the question. On November 10, 2006, it was announced that Anderson had miscarried while in Vancouver shooting a new film, Blonde and Blonder. Seventeen days later, on November 27, 2006, Anderson filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences.
Some news reports have suggested that Kid Rock's outrage during a screening of Borat, in which Anderson plays a cameo role, led to the filing for divorce two weeks later. In September 2007, Anderson told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that she was engaged. On September 29, Anderson and film producer Rick Salomon applied for a marriage license in Las Vegas. On October 6, 2007, Anderson married Salomon in a small wedding ceremony at The Mirage, between her two nightly appearances at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Hans Klok's magic show.
The couple separated on December 13, and on February 22, 2008, Anderson requested through the courts that the marriage be annulled, citing fraud. In February 2007, Anderson said that she still often had sex with Lee since their divorce. In mid-2008 Lee said that they were going to try again to make things work together. In October 2013, Anderson said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she and Salomon were "friends with benefits". In January 2014, she announced that she had remarried Salomon on an unspecified date. A sex tape of Anderson and Tommy Lee on their honeymoon was stolen from their home in 1995 and made a huge stir on the Internet.
Anderson sued the video distribution company, Internet Entertainment Group. Ultimately, the Lees entered into a confidential settlement agreement with IEG. Thereafter, the company began making the tape available to subscribers to its web sites again, resulting in triple the normal traffic on the sites.
Another tape, which was made before the Tommy Lee tape, involving Anderson and musician Bret Michaels from Poison, was later announced, and an abridged version of less than 60 seconds appeared on the internet. Frames of the video first appeared in Penthouse magazine in March 1998. The tape was successfully blocked by Michaels, but a four-minute sex tape is still available on the Internet.
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Caribou Choral Society plans holiday concerts
CARIBOU, Maine — The Caribou Choral Society is busy preparing its 41st annual season of Christmas concerts, this year entitled "Ring Those Christmas Bells."
The concerts are scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 3, at 3 p.m. at St. Louis Church in Fort Kent; Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary Church in Caribou; and Sunday, Dec. 10, at 3 p.m. at St. Mary's Church in Presque Isle.
The program will consist of its usual two parts: (1) sacred and classical, both traditional and contemporary and (2) popular and light-hearted songs. Featured in the first half will be: "People, Look East"; Vivaldi's "Gloria In Excelsis Deo"; John Rutter's "Christmas Lullaby"; "Still, Still, Still"; "The Coventry Carol," and end with "And the Glory of the Lord" from Handel's "Messiah."
The second half of the program will include a new arrangement of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," "Santa Baby," "We Wish You the Merriest, the Merriest," "Calypso Carol" and the humorous "Twelve Days of a Regifted Christmas." The concert will end with the traditional "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah."
All are welcome to attend to help kick off the holiday season with music. The concerts are free but a good-will offering is appreciated at the end.


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Do you want to know how I hacked my tools so that I can now get even more work done in the same amount of time (and earn more money?) Here are a few of my tricks:
Google Machine Translation in OmegaTThis is a big no-no with some clients, as they don't want Google to know what they're working on, which is perfectly understandable. After all, Google is another company, not God.
If you're working on material that is going to end up on Google anyway as soon as possible, then it can be a help to activate the machine translation within OmegaT, so that you'll have a translation suggestion from Google displayed directly in the program.
If you want you can go ahead and start OmegaT with this command:
java -jar -Dgoogle.api.key=***** OmegaT.jar
Replace ***** with your own Google key.
Add a Second ScreenYou can save time by adding an extra screen to your computer setup, so you don't have to switch between programs all the time. Also, it saves you time because it's easier to maintain an overview of your project, and if you do get lost in all those windows, it's easier to get back on track because there's more room on your virtual desktop.
Use a Remote Desktop ProgramI have two PC's, that I use for translation work. The first is running Linux, and the second is running Windows. If you don't want to have two corresponding screens on your desk, you can install a remote desktop program and choose which desktop you want to have displayed on your one physical screen. Just turn on both computers, and log on remotely on the one that doesn't have a screen attached, using the one with the screen. You could even move the second computer to another room, if you wanted to free up more space.
Having only one screen also saves electricity.
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- Artist: J. Curly
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- Release Date: 10/1/2009
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Off the road from an extensive touring career as lead guitarist and vocalist for Leon Russell, Jason 'J. Curly' Speegle has just released his first album, The J. Curly Band, which has already hit the national Roots Rock chart, breaking the top 50. The project was recorded in Alabama and Nashville with some of the finest seasoned players from the Southland. Born and raised in north Alabama, the earlier Muscle Shoals players influenced and shaped J. Curly's unique sound and style. As a young teenager, just listening to Aretha Franklin's The Weight set the impassioned J. Curly on a path to becoming the commanding slide guitarist he is today. 'Speegle is one of the most entertaining, energetic, soulful musicians around and brings the electric touch...Speegle played a solo blues number on slide guitar as well as any 'Delta Blues Man' could.' -Leon Russell concert review, Vail Daily 'One of the best Southern Rock Bands in the USA...J. Curly Speegle performing the lead vocal and laying down some ingeniously cool guitar licks takes this recording to the level of extraordinary...Without a doubt this is truly one of the most triumphant CD's we have ever heard here at Roots Music Report. Southern Rock, Blues, and Roots Rock at it's best.' Five Stars - Roots Music Report As the J. Curly Band's debut album proves, his music spans the genres of southern rock, roots rock, blues, R & B, and Americana. 'Years of exposure on the road will do it to you,' he says. Songs like 'The River' illustrate J. Curly's desire to keep coming home to Alabama, where his musical roots began.


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So here it is again, that festive celebration that gives us all an excuse to deck the halls.
This is now an annual post with the usual suspects appearing. The vintage lanterns have been up for a couple of weeks now to get us in the festive mood.
Rudolf now finds himself on the wall.
The gnome from my childhood Christmases is in pride of place on the mantel piece and
has now been joined by a flock of vintage robins this year,
a gift from the talented Caroline McCatty. Frosty fairy, from one of our annual fairy swaps has made a return visit.
Creepy or cute, you choose?
I have a marvelous collection of hand-made cards
this year, thank you for going that extra mile at such a busy time.
The tree is now up and
encrusted with my favourite decorations.
And there are more fairy lights in places you just could not imagine.
But the highlight of the festive season is the fairy swap I do with Caroline, this year the theme was Frightening fairy and once again Caroline has won. So del Toro in nature, I am so lucky to have yet another McCatty original!!
My fairy became a little too corpulent to accommodate a growler that sounded more like a cow than a frightening other being. But it is the joy of making something for someone.
We have been making and swapping fairies for years now, do you have a Christmas tradition you would like to tell me about?


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Voters across the country agree: the JD Supra Corporate Brief is a great way to start the day! Are the days when Chief Compliance Officers are held accountable a thing of the past? (Bettina Eckerle of Eckerle Law) Over the past eight months, companies have filed more than 400 Iran notices with the SEC… (Shearman… Read more »


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Listen to the latest Tea & Tattle Episode here or on iTunes.
Today on Tea & Tattle podcast, Sophie and I examine our concerns about having too much of a perfectionist mentality, and how the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi helps us to embrace the imperfect and lead happier lives.
Wabi-sabi is rooted in Japan and is closely linked to the Japanese tea ceremony, but it's an approach to life that can be adopted by anyone, anywhere in the world. Having a wabi-sabi mindset enables you to recognise and appreciate beauty in the imperfect and the transient, such as a worn, much-read book, or leaves falling from a tree.
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In this episode, Sophie and I share our favourite definitions of wabi-sabi from literature we've read on the subject, and discuss more generally what wabi-sabi means to us and how we're trying to accept and be at peace with imperfection in our own lives.
Listen to learn more about the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi and how to embrace the perfectly imperfect.
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Two warehouses closing in Woodland, erasing 107 jobs
Woodland will lose 107 warehouse jobs when two national companies close their distribution centers in March.
RadioShack Corp. is closing its facility March 6, eliminating 57 jobs. The move comes as the electronics retailer struggles financially; RadioShack recently closed two stores in the Sacramento area.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania-based logistics company Genco will close its 50-employee Woodland warehouse March 8.
The twin closures were disclosed earlier this month in filings with the state Employment Development Department.
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In the distinguished novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, some of the most significant events are mental and psychological taking place in the mind of the protagonist, Raskolnikov. Throughout Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky manages to give these internal events a sense of suspense, excitement, and climax associated with the external action.
The entire novel is purely psychological, primarily internal, "taking the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind". As it is revealed later on in the novel, Raskolnikov believes in the theory of the extraordinary man. He theorizes that there are two races of man, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the latter being able to commit crime because they have a gift or talent to utter "a new word". Raskolnikov relies on this fact, presuming that by killing the old pawnbroker he will better society, and mankind as a whole.
These ideas are constantly spoken through the thoughts of Raskolnikov as he questions if he is worthy of being above morality. He says at one point of debating his thoughts, "And what if I am wrong? And what if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general I mean, the whole race of mankind--then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be".
Raskolnikov experiences salvation at the end of the novel, but before the novel reaches this point Dostoyevsky uses eternal events to create a sense of suspense, excitement, and climax.
Even in the first chapter Dostoyevsky makes great use of suspense. The reader is told on the first page that Raskolnikov is contemplating a "desperate deed", but it is not yet revealed. There are clues given throughout the first chapter as to what the mysterious deed is, such as that it will take place in the pawnbrokers apartment. This slow revelation of details builds on the reader's interest, creating suspense.
After Raskolnikov commits the murder of the pawnbroker he lives in constant fear of being discovered. The scenes that take place directly after the murder produce excitement in the reader. Dostoyevsky builds this excitement with phrases such as ""æperhaps there were a great many stains, but that he did not see them, did not notice them because his perceptions were failing"æSuddenly he remembered that there had been blood on the purse too. Ah! There must be blood on the pocket too!" This phrase, which signifies Raskolnikov being emotionally distraught, excites the reader because he too is excited.
Some of the external events that create the most suspense and excitement are when Raskolnikov is in the office of Porfiry Petrovich, the magistrate in charge of the investigation of the murder. Porfiry hints to Raskolnikov that he is aware that he is the murderer of the pawnbroker, but doesn't come out in the open to say it. For example Porfiry says, "If I leave one man quite alone, if I don't touch him and don't worry him, but let him know or at least suspect every moment that I know all about it and am watching him day and night"æhe'll be bound to lose his head". This statement is Porfiry's method of getting Rashkolnikov to confess, and it is suspenseful and exciting because at this point the reader doesn't know what evidence Porfiry has against him.
Another external event that creates suspense and excitement is when Raskolnikov discovers that the character Svidrigailov has overheard him confessing and could turn him in at any given point. Svidrigailov tells him that he knows by stating to Rashkolnikov ""æyou admit that it's done simply from humanity. She wasn't a louse you know"æthe old pawnbroker woman". At this point Raskolnikov is astonished that anyone else knows of the crime he committed. This creates suspense and excitement in the reader as it is wondered whether or not Svidrigailov will turn him in.
The novel reaches the climax, where the pique of the reader's interest is, at the point that Raskolnikov goes to the police station to turn himself in and confess. At this point, Raskolnikov has reached salvation, realizing that life in a square yard of space is still life. This psychological awakening is reached just before the climax when Rashkolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an ax and robbed them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky gives the psychological internal events of Raskolnikov's life a sense of excitement, suspense, and climax, as they are associated with external actions in the novel Crime and Punishment.


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1. Name:Etienne Raubenheimer
2. Age:22
3. Location + Time zone:Stellenbosch +2 south africa
4. Tell us something about yourself:Studyin, love wakeboarding and chillin with friends
Character INFORMATION
1. Main character: (name, race, class, level)Naala,night elf, druid
2. Specialization:
Main spec: (link your build here) (PvP/PvE) + Gylphs http://wow335.gamestool.net/druidt.php?0000000000000000000000000000503202132322012053123033013511105500010000000000000000000
Off spec: (link your build here) (PvP/PvE) + Gylphs http://wow335.gamestool.net/druidt.php?0532003100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000230033312031502331253312231
3. How long have you been playing your current class and spec?Bout 2 months
4. What are your professions and are they on maximum skill?ganna do leatherworking and engineering and no not maxed
5. Screenshot of your interface, stats and DPS on a dummy target.Use:http://imageshack.us/
6. What made you create this character?The feral druids are fun to play with, and i like the wide variaty a druid offers
7.Alts:(name, class, spec)Had a shamy and warlock named Raubs and Saromon - draenai and human - elemental and affliction/destruction, but stopped playin with them a long time ago and can't recover there accounts
1. How long have you been playing WoW? started when i was 16 so round about 6 years
2. How do you classify your playing time? ussualy at night, weekends when im not out or have to study
3. What do you prefer, PvP or PvE? Why?pvp - more adrenalin rush but pve with a good group is also extremely entertaining
4. Are you able to use Team Speak?yes
5. Have you played on retail? If yes, for how long?nope too expensive
6. What is your raiding experience?have done all raids and know tactics - watched with my brother as he went till LK ( he is also in guild)
7. Are you the sole user of your account?yes
8. What addons are you currently using?recount,gearscore, use alot of macros aswell
9. What made you choose Ghost Division? brother joined them a long time ago and he says that they are awesome
10. Why should we invite you?I play fair and don't like players that play only for themselves
11. Will you attend a raid even if you don't need any gear? of course!
12. What are your previous guilds and why are you no longer part of them?was with spirit of the alliance with previous characters but that was a long time ago - first guild with this char
13. Can anyone from our guild vouch for you?darthoran then Stormz,amaranth,andraste are characters that my brother plays with
Entertain us: (favourite song, movie, joke, quote, etc..)queen - dont stop me now, hangover, "if you cant beat them, join them"!
(You don´t need to answer those questions, but it will be nice if you do.)
1. Do you play any other video games?COD and CS
2. Describe yourself to us in the best possible way:Fun lovin guy that likes to spend time with friends, but also to enjoy my time alone.


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PZ Meyers points to Jennifer Granick's WIRED News editorial on the NAS and NSTA's decision to deny Kansas permission to incorporate NAS/NSTA science teaching standards into the state curriculum. It seems the NAS/NSTA doesn't want Kansas to use their materials to help implement the state's ridiculous curricular choices on biology and evolution.
A number of people have expressed mixed feelings about this. PZ ultimately comes down on the side of the NAS/NSTA. Donna Wentworth at Copyfight takes the opposite position. My reaction's straightforward: the NAS/NSTA's motives are good, but their actions are wrong, and copyright's not the appropriate legal mechanism for their purposes. Therefore, I believe the NAS/NSTA should let the goofballs in Kansas Board of Ed. use their materials. Furthermore, I believe the law should allow Kansas to do so, regardless of what the NAS and NSTA choose. While I'm wishing, I believe that Kansas should toss those clowns off its Board of Ed. Well, reality disappoints me in manifold ways, but that's nothing new.
Let's consider why some people might consideer the NAS/NSTA justified here. PZ suggests that NAS/NSTA are trying to prevent adulteration and misrepresentation of their work:
What the Kansas school board has done is to take a legitimate set of science standards, and patched in odd little bits of anti-science nonsense here and there, and called that their science curriculum. NAS and NSTA are merely saying, "Hold it! You don't get to trade off our name as scientific institutions and label that monstrosity 'Science'!"
However, it's not clear to me that the Kansas State Board of Ed. is actually representing their curriculum as consistent with NAS/NSTA's views. In fact, they're probably not --- as Granick writes:
NAS and NSTA do not have to endorse the Kansas Board of Education's decision to teach intelligent design. The theory isn't supported by science, and Kansas should not be able to imply that teaching it comports with NAS or NSTA standards. United States trademark law would certainly prohibit Kansas from claiming NAS or NSTA approval for its alternative curriculum.
If Kansas were to claim or imply that the NAS and NSTA endorse the Kansas science curriculum's shoddy science --- or even sow confusion about whether they do --- then NAS and NSTA would be within their legal rights to stop this trademark infringement.
In other words, to the extent that the NAS/NSTA have a legitimate legal interest here, it's in protecting the integrity of their names. This class of problems is covered by trademark law. Markets, whether in goods or information, work best when actors have "perfect information", which includes knowing the truthful past history of actors. Trademark law protects markets from the confusion that would result if one could muddy the waters around a name.
But NAS/NSTA aren't invoking trademark law. They're invoking copyright, which is a completely different kind of intellectual property. The purpose of copyright law is to provide an incentive to produce novel works, by allowing a creator to capture some of the work's economic value.
Copyright accomplishes this value-capture by granting the creator a limited, transferable monopoly on copies and derivative works. This seems like a fine mechanism for capturing economic value for the creator. But under current law, copyright's limited monopoly includes a veto power on whether derivative works can be created at all.
In my opinion, this is completely wrong. Copyright should never grant the author control over whether a derivative work is made, only on how the value from those works gets distributed. First, I don't believe creators have any moral right to prohibit derivative works, regardless of those works' nature. Second, in the US, intellectual property law's purpose is not to protect creators' moral rights, but to "promote the progress of the useful arts". Therefore, I believe derivative works should always be permitted, even where the uses involved far exceed traditional "fair uses", so long as the following conditions are satisfied:
- The creator of the derivative work does not create confusion as to the authorship and provenance of the work and its elements.
- The creator of the original work receives fair compensation for the dilution of that work's economic value, if any significant dilution occurs.
Obviously, in this case, the NAS and NSTA couldn't care less about economic value. Their invocation of copyright is in no way about preserving the incentive for them to continue producing teaching standards. It is about preventing the creation of a derivative work. And in the general case, preventing derivative work creation does not "promote the progress of the useful arts" (except indirectly and by accident, which isn't a principled basis for designing law).
Of course, I'm hardly a fan of so-called Intelligent Design, and none of the above exonerates, in any way, the Kansas School Board of Ed., which richly deserves all the contempt that has been heaped upon them.


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I'm tired of being late.
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So tell me! Do you have a book coming out this year? I want to read it! Is your favorite author releasing a book this year? I want to read it!
At the end of this year, when people ask what my favorite book of 2013 was, I won't mention something that came out in 2011. :)


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Police were alerted to photos on a Clogher man's Facebook page which showed him taking a 'selfie' inside Dungannon Courthouse, local Magistrates have heard.
East Tyrone Magistrates Court was also told that, despite not being present in court to hear that he was being convicted in the matter, the defendant was not intending to make any legal challenge in the case.
Twenty-two year-old Lee McCausland, whose address was given in court as Crossowen Gardens, was convicted in his absence after neither he nor his solicitor turned up at court.
A bench warrant was issued by the court and McCausland subsequently presented himself to police later the same day and pointed out that he believed the case was due up the following week. This was backed by his solicitor.
McCausland was convicted of taking a photograph in Dungannon Courthouse on April 7, 2014, and again four days later on April 11.
The court heard police were alerted to a newspaper article showing the pictures on McCausland's own personal Facebook page.
In relation to the conviction of taking photographs in court, District Judge John Meehan asked whether McCausland wished to appeal the decision.
District Judge Meehan said: "If so, the cas e will be transferred to Omagh Magistrates Court for a fresh contest to be heard.
"I have little doubt the resident judge will be most unhappy if there is a last minute plea change or conviction."
District Judge Meehan granted time for the defence to consult with McCausland, who returned to court, stating he did not wish to appeal in the matter.
Judge Meehan released McCausland on bail of £200, whilst awaiting the preparation of pre-sentence reports by the Northern Ireland Probation Board.
McCausland was ordered to return to court for sentencing in the offence on April 29.


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If there's anyone with fall party outfit styling tips to share, it's the perennially chic Marchesa cofounder Georgina Chapman. The designer hit the red carpet last night, but not for a glam Fashion Week party or to support one of the many, many starlets who wear her gowns to splashy Hollywood premieres. Instead, Georgina was on hand at the Crosby Street Hotel to celebrate her own moviemaking debut.
She hosted a special screening of A Dream of Flying, her first-ever directorial short film as part of Canon's "Project Imaginat10n." Georgina's short is part of a series of five films, each inspired by photos shot by regular people with Canon cameras. Georgina's cinematic effort is in esteemed company; fellow directors are Eva Longoria, Jamie Foxx, LCD System's James Murphy, and Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. Oh, and the legendary Ron Howard mentored her through the process. Georgina's ethereally beautiful film told the story of a girl who spent her life trying not to fly. And, yes, the costumes were amazing, especially a diaphanous slate blue and gold-flecked '30s-inspired gown.
Before the screening, Georgina graciously took a few moments to chat about fashion and film and give quite possibly the most refreshing style advice ever—right before her famous-himself movie producer husband Harvey Weinstein stepped in for a quick photo op with his wife and then quietly darted back out of the room again. He didn't want to take the spotlight away from her. Awwwww...
Harvey Weinstein shows his support for wife Georgina
GLAMOUR: How did your background in fashion design influence your filmmaking debut?
Georgina Chapman: I approach it very much in the same way that I would do a collection. I started with mood boards and I did story boards for each section of the movie, and that really helped me with color and with the influence with lighting. I used a lot of the photographs that the contestants submitted. So it was a very visual experience for me. And then came the emotional component, which was something I wasn't so used to.
Tell me more about the costumes.
GC: Well, the dresses have a lot of Marchesa in it. I was very clear on my vision and I worked very closely and collaborated with a costume designer [Sarah Mae Burton] who was wonderful and she brought in a lot of stuff, which was great, but the main protagonist is in Marchesa, from the girl all the way through.
Marchesa is known for beautiful, beautiful dresses to wear out to parties. What are your styling tips for dressing up to go out in this colder weather?
GC: Well, tonight, I have on trousers and a tunic [laughs]. [Her paisley matched set outfit is from the Marchesa Voyage diffusion line.] I think one important thing is always make sure you feel good in an outfit, and then that's always a great place to start. I think if someone feels uncomfortable before she leaves the house, the chances of her feeling good an hour later are not very high [laughs].
Oh, we've been there, so true. Do you have any key pieces for your fall party outfits?
GC: I like to change it up a bit. I think it's always good to have that one pair of shoes that works with a stocking. It's just revisiting your wardrobe a little bit.
Check out a behind-the-scenes shot of Georgina calling the shots on her film set:
Do you agree with Georgina's advice to just be comfortable? I've totally been there, and it's so true! How good is her directing outfit?


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Sign up starts on Tuesday, June 6 at the Adult Reference Desk.
For each book you read, write in the date the book was completed, the book title, the book author, and the number of pages read on your reading log. Be sure to check in every couple weeks at the Adult Reference Desk to have a librarian initial your log and update your progress for our records.
For every 100 pages you read, you are entered for a chance to win gift cards and a brand new Kindle Fire! The teen who reads the most pages wins a $10 Barnes and Nobles gift card. When you register you will also receive a chance to guess the number of candy pieces in our candy jar, and the closest guess without going over wins the entire jar!
Reading logs need to be turned at the Adult Reference Desk by Saturday, July 29th at 4:45pm.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2-4pm
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Project Linus Blankets
Wednesday, July 19, 2-4pm
Project Linus is an organization that supplies children who are ill, traumatized, or in need with handmade blankets. For this program we will be making No-Sew Fleece Blankets to donate to the local chapter. After the blankets are done refreshments will be served.
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I should be packing a bag tonight. I should be getting on a plane tomorrow. My fragile and shrinking little family planned a vacation together this summer for the first time in 15 years. I should heading home to my Mom's to pack up the car and head to our favorite house just down the road on the Outer Banks. Kitty Hawk, to be precise. 4.5 mile post. On the other side of the pavement from the beach, but the house across the way washed out to sea in a hurricane (Gordon? Bertha? Fran?) years ago, so we have a clear view of the water from the front deck. We always had a clear view from the crow's nest on the roof.
It was going to be a week of quiet relaxing together. Of sunrise breakfasts wrapped in blankets on the porch. Of mornings picking a sun-dried suit off the railing and pulling it onto my ever-blackening body to spend the day wearing as little as possible and absolutely nothing on my feet. Of afternoons spent reading and drinking cheap beer in the sun, sleeping face down in the warm, stoney sand, and wearing myself out in the rough surf. Of long walks hunting for shells and sea glass at sunset. Of sunset swims and moonlight skinny dips. Of showering outside in the rustic, wooden shower stall and tripping up the back stairs wrapped only in a towel. Of sitting at the picnic table in the kitchen picking bushels of crabs for hours. Of quiet evenings silently working puzzles and playing cribbage with Mom. Of evenings at the cheesy pirate-themed miniature golf course with brother and sister. And margaritas and gin and tonics. And fried seafood dinners complete with hushpuppies. Of a day trip to Ocracoke Island. And a night at "The Lost Colony." Of tucking into bed and falling asleep listening to the rhythmic pounding of the surf outside my window. Of the smell of the fresh, salt-sea air. Of endless hours of just being quiet together. Of endless hours of talking and laughing ourselves silly. Of inside jokes that would forever put their stamp on the week. Of family.
I am a beach girl. I was raised up throwing chicken necks into the waves to catch crabs for dinner, brown as a berry and barefoot with little more than a bathing suit covering the bottom I let hang out of the hem of a WRV or 17th Street Surf Shop t-shirt. I may be a gypsy, may move hither and yon to cities and mountains, but the salt water is in my blood. The ocean is a part of me, and it is where I go to recharge my soul. The same holds true for my kin, and so to have both of them together is the ultimate luxury — and just what I needed this summer. Needed to take long walks alone or with my sister and stuff myself full with fresh ocean catch or pancakes with mom and laugh at old episodes of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and new episodes of "Archer" with brother and just generally let the four of us be the best of who we are together in our favorite place. It would have made us all better people.
We're probably idiots to cancel, but we have good reasons for not going. Mom isn't well, and we don't need her to push herself. She couldn't enjoy it as she's currently feeling. All of us are taxed by demands our schedules put on our lives. The real world encroached weeks ago to make escape impossible. It's for the best, really. We can shove it all down and muddle through for twelve more months. It will make the getaway all the sweeter next summer. Please, dear God, let us all still be there and let it happen for us next summer. I know it's a risk we're taking to expect nothing to change in a year's time, but I'm banking on it.


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Since design and technology stopped being a compulsory GCSE subject in 2000, there has been a decline in the number of students taking D&T at GSCE and A level, now making it one of the most unpopular subjects in secondary schools. Many schools have been cutting back provisions or removing the subject from the curriculum entirely [1].
Between 2003 and 2013 there was a 50% drop in the GCSE numbers for design and technology [2] which begs the question as to why exactly have people stopped taking design?
The English Baccalaureate (EBacc), a performance measure for schools to increase the core five academic subjects – English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language was introduced in 2010 as a result of rising numbers in creative, non-academic subjects. The government argued " that many of these qualifications do not carry real weight for entry to higher education or for getting a job" [3].
According to an MP, students attending comprehensive schools are "studying low quality subjects that will prevent them gaining a place at top universities, unlike their peers at private and grammar schools" [4]. Statistically, students in private and grammar schools are less likely to take up creative subjects.
Wellington College, a private boarding school in Berkshire is one of the many schools with low design and technology numbers. In 2016, only 26 out of 179 students took design and technology at GCSE which was on a par with the number taking Greek and less than a quarter of the number taking Latin. This then drops even further in A-Level to 4 which was less than the number taking art history or Mandarin [5]. Similar numbers can be found at other independent schools with 6 A-Level entrants at Sedbergh School (out of 103) [6], 5 at Eton College [7]and none at all at Westminster School and Cheltenham Ladies College. So why are students at independent schools not studying design?
You would expect schools which charge students up to £13,000 a term to have top of the range equipment for their design department. Many of the most well known and successful independent schools state on their websites that they have well equipped workshops with facilities such as 3D printing, CNC machining and laser cutting. These are facilities that would be the envy of many schools. The quality of the teaching is also often recognised in the schools inspection reports such as the one for Oakham School – "work in art and design is exceptional" and for Eton College – "quality of product design is exceptional". [8] [9]
I spoke to two members of the Design & Technology department at a leading independent school to see what they thought about the decline in numbers. Being a private school, they do not follow the EBacc and therefore do not have to limit students from doing creative subjects and so I was interested to see if they had seen a significant change in the number of students taking up design and technology. "Numbers taking A-level have reduced in recent years; it has been a similar pattern with a number of other schools. GCSE has been mostly stable". [10]
I wanted to explore the possible reasons as to why their students might not be taking up D&T. As an outsider I asked whether it was viewed as academic enough but the response was that this was just "amongst a small minority who would be unlikely to take the subject in any case". I also questioned if studying D&T would not be as impressive on university applications as other subjects and whether potential career options related to design are not seen as interesting, useful or lucrative. They agreed with my point about design not looking impressive saying that "unfortunately there is some truth in this since a small selection of universities are dismissive of design. It depends on the institution and course being applied for – a message we try to get across to our students". However they did not completely agree that potential career options related to design are not seen as interesting or useful, suggesting that this was "not a commonly held view". When considering the financial rewards they felt this was not a major concern "perhaps compared to a career in Law or the City/finance, but not a deciding factor to most students".
The websites for many, if not all, of the leading independent schools highlight the large proportion of students who go on to Oxford and Cambridge University, the Russel Group of universities or to Ivy League institutions in the US. I wanted to know the extent to which students are influenced by their parents, staff, news and university requirements on the subjects they choose to study at GCSE. "Understandably, parents influence decisions to a great extent, as do tutors, house masters etc. Raising awareness of the subject in the media and national conscious can only help to realign perceptions of the subject."
It seemed that university was always something which the students and parents potentially thought about, influencing their decisions in which GCSE options to take. For students that are rejecting design as a GCSE option, to what extent have they even begun to think about university or career options? The response was that "career choice is not the foremost issue for pupils choosing GCSEs due to the number of GCSEs they can take. Most take design because they enjoy it!"
I wanted their opinion on how design and technology could be made more attractive to students and how more students could be influenced to choose it as a subject. They suggested "there needs to be greater recognition of what the subject has to offer at all levels of society. The relevance of DT needs to be acknowledged by politicians and universities need to recognise the personal qualities evidenced through the pursuit of a thorough design exercise".
They also referred to an article that highlighted how the nature of education has changed in recent years. There has been greater emphasis on academic achievements whereas traditionally education has been about "passing on core notions of humanity and civilisation", "equip students to live independently" and to "participate in the life of their community". [11]
With such a change in emphasis, it is perhaps not surprising that the number of students taking design and technology have fallen over recent years. The experience of the independent schools shows that they have not been immune from this even though they can provide the finest teaching facilities and equipment; inspection results indicate that high quality results are achieved and the evidence that those who take design are happy to have done so.
The independent schools do not follow the EBacc so this cannot be used as a reason for the low numbers enrolled in GCSE and A-Level courses. However many of the schools have very strong traditions of their students following certain career paths. Eton students have often ended up in politics [12] and many schools have strong military links such as Wellington College that still has a field gun team [13]. Many schools are proud of the contribution that their past pupils have made in the fields of sport and performing arts. It is likely that pupils and parents are aware of this and that this has an unconscious influence on their choice of GCSE and A-Level subjects, leading them to focus on subjects that are more suited to potential career paths. Whilst it may be difficult for individual schools to influence national educational policies and university recruitment procedures, a potential route towards increasing enrolment in GCSEs and A-Levels is to highlight to parents and students as early as possible what can be achieved in the department and that studying design is a route to innovation that can benefit the country economically and improve people's lives.
[1] Hardy, A. (2015). Why has the number of teenagers taking design and technology GCSE dropped?. Available: https://www.data.org.uk/blog/2015/september/30/why-has-the-number-of-teenagers-taking-design-and-technology-gcse-dropped/. Last accessed 1/11/16.
[2] Brown, M. (2015). https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/17/arts-and-culture-systematically-removed-from-uk-education-system. Available: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jun/15/a-level-subjects-preferred-by-universities-by-private-school-and-comprehensive. Last accessed 5/11/16.
[3]Cape UK. (2016). What's All This About The EBACC?. Available: http://www.capeuk.org/capeuk-bridge-news/whats-all-this-about-the-ebacc.html#. Last accessed 5/11/16.
[4] The Guardian. (2011). A-level choices: the sharp contrast between private schools and comprehensives – get the data. Available: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jun/15/a-level-subjects-preferred-by-universities-by-private-school-and-comprehensive. Last accessed 5/11/16.
[5] Wellington College. (2017). College History. Available: https://www.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/about/college-history/. Last accessed 22/02/17.
[6] Sedbergh School. (2017). Available: http://www.sedberghschool.org. Last accessed 22/02/17.
[7] Eton College . (2017). A2 Statistics- Summer 2016. Available: http://www.etoncollege.com/userfiles/files/Final%20Summer%20A2%20Statistics.pdf. Last accessed 22/02/17.
[8] Independent Schools Inspection. (2016). Independent Schools Inspection- Eton College. Available: http://www.etoncollege.com/userfiles/files/Eton%20Inspection%20Report%202016.pdf. Last accessed 12/11/16.
[9] Independent Schools Inspection. (2013). Independent Schools Inspectorate- Oakham School. Available: http://www.isi.net/school/oakham-school-6753. Last accessed 12/11/16.
[10] Anonymous, Personal Communications. (2016).
[11] Hattie, J et al. (2016). Learning strategies: a synthesis and conceptual model. Available: http://www.nature.com/articles/npjscilearn201613#abstract. Last accessed 10/11/16.
[12] Cowley, J. (2013). Eton Eternal: How one school came to dominate public Life. Available: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2013/05/eton-eternal-how-one-school-came-dominate-public-life. Last accessed 9/11/16.
[13] Maritime Cadets. (2016). The Field Gun. Available: http://www.maritimecadets.co.uk/Field%20Gun/field_gun.html. Last accessed 22/02/17.
[14] Rod Purcell. (2014). [Image]. Dressing for the occasion: Speech Day Harrow School. Available: (http://www.beautifuldaze.org/2014/05/dressing-for-occaision-speech-day.html#!/2014/05/dressing-for-occaision-speech-day.html. Last accessed 22/02/17.


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Against censorship, against Zionism, for refugee rights
at Friday, December 4, 2009
[As reported in GLW #819 a performance of the play Seven Jewish Children that was to be held at the venue Kulcha on November 21 in Fremantle was cancelled. It was scrapped following the intervention of the Jewish Community Council (JCC). The comments below are based on the contribution to a November 25 Fremantle Council meeting by Hilton ward councillor and Socialist Alliance member Sam Wainwright.]
I want to congratulate the members of Friends of Palestine WA and the fifty other supporters of Palestinian human rights and free speech who gathered on the footpath last Saturday evening for a protest performance of the play Seven Jewish Children. By now most of you will be aware of the sorry sequence of events that lead to the effective censoring of this artwork. Amnesty International who were hosting the play felt pressured by the venue managers to cancel it after they in turn had been leant on by the JCC.
In their attack on the play the JCC resorted to the entirely dishonest charge that it was anti-Semitic. Extraordinarily their spokesperson even claimed that the play resurrected the medieval "blood libel" myth that Jews ritually sacrificed Christian children. The claim of anti-Semitism is a complete fabrication, the play's script is freely available on the internet and people can judge it for themselves.
I attended the street performance with my partner Janet who is of Jewish origin. Her Mum Dorothy fled fascism in Europe on the eve of the Second World War. She's a tireless fighter against racism and campaigner for human rights known to many in the Perth activist scene. The Australian Jewish Democratic Society criticized the lobbying efforts of the JCC as "acute but very misguided anxiety." They are just some of the Jewish voices who have rejected the attempt by the JCC to stifle any criticism of the policies of the Israeli government and the recent bombing of Gaza.
As the pro-Israel lobby has consistently done, it pretends to be sole "owner" of the memory of the Holocaust which in turn it places at the uncritical service of Israel. For it any discussion which deals with both the Holocaust and the dispossession of the Palestinians on the same page, such as this play, is unacceptable. Tragically, by labelling any criticism of the Israeli government and its actions as anti-Semitic, by crying wolf and using the term as a play thing to be wheeled out on a whim; the JCC actually undermines and diminishes the rights of both Jews and Palestinians.
The federal Labor government's siding with Israel and it's refusal to support the legal and moral rights of the Palestinians is a disgrace. However our federal member for Fremantle Melissa Parke, who has worked as a UN human rights lawyer in Gaza, was spot on when she told the Fremantle Herald, "I'm acutely aware that there are relatively few avenues in Australia for the Palestinian perspective to be voiced and heard. If not at Kulcha, if not in Fremantle, then where?"
In the spirit of opposition to censorship I'm not suggesting that the council should be telling Kulcha what plays they should or should not host. However we do want Fremantle to be a place that supports a vibrant and diverse artistic scene. Censoring art that some people don't like in order to avoid controversy is not only doomed to failure as this episode demonstrates, but it's a recipe for only promoting art that pleases no one and fails to stimulate reflection.
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When we first meet our clients, they are so passionate about their brand and its products making an impact, and so they should be. As we set about our work creating our own brand ambassadors for the client, we too end up getting as equally excited and passionate about the brand.
When our brand ambassadors, known as Territory Sales Managers, visit retail stores across the country to help maximise those crucial sales for the client, sometimes this same enthusiasm is not reflected in its own store staff. We get it. The shop floor team probably speak to a lot of brand ambassadors and representatives throughout the week, so it can be hard to be motivated and excited about every single product and promotion.
We've rounded up our top three ways to keep store staff interested in your product and help drive those crucial sales when we aren't on shop floor.
It's great working with a brand to create these amazing offers and competitions to help drive sales of a particular product, but without the support of the shop floor team these can often get forgotten about.
But why should a staff member show loads of interest in helping your product? Whilst it's great if the team member is naturally enthusiastic about their duties, not everyone has this same level of interest, therefore a simple incentive and competition between stores can be just the encouragement they need
Whether it be a prize for the store or for each individual, by incentivising the team and keeping their interest over a significant period of time you can ensure you make a real difference to your products sales and profit, at every store level.
When deciding what the incentive or competition will be, make sure it's relevant and of interest to the majority of staff members.
Keep it mainstream and not too quirky, one of our clients launched a competition for one member of the team to win tickets to The Brits – this resonated with a lot of people and drove those sales magnificently.
Create Champions
Speak to store managers about creating champions of your brand and its products.
You'll be surprised how many individuals would love to take on more responsibilities at work; after all it makes their day more fun.
Provide these team members with challenges and targets. And again an incentive now and then won't go a miss.
If anyone needs some slight encouragement, show them another store's figures, sometimes it's all the incentive they need to smash their targets – a bit of healthy competition is only ever a good thing.
Become their friend and help…
One of the most important pieces of training we share with our own brand ambassadors before they head out into the field, is the importance of relationships.
At Tactical, we want to make a real difference, and the main way we're going to do that is by creating strong relationships with everyone we work with.
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The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Discovery Program was created in 2013 as an initiative to help support new artists pursue careers in country music. Each year, participants chosen for this program are brought together to learn about the music business from industry insiders and artist mentors, with finalists putting their newfound knowledge to use at the CCMA Discovery Showcase during Country Music Week.
This year, the CCMAs will take place in London, Ont., on Sept. 11 and the Discovery Showcase will take place on Sept. 8. Here, we will spotlight some of this year's up-and-comers slated to perform.
Name: Tenille Arts
From: Weyburn, Sask.
Arts began singing at the age of eight and wrote her first song at 13. Now 21, the Saskatchewan native has moved down south to Nashville to pursue a career in the country capital, penning songs with Noble Vision Music Group. In the past eight years, Arts has parlayed her career from covering songs on YouTube to working with famed songwriters including Adam Wheeler (Scotty McCreery, Tracy Lawrence) and Mark Narmore (Josh Turner, Terri Clark). Arts has her eyes set on even more collaborators in the future. "Dean Brody is very high up on that list," Arts told the Canadian Country Music Association, of her dream collaborators. "I really admire his storytelling and I'm a huge fan of his music."
The rising singer-songwriter also wants to add her name to the list of star female voices in country music, alongside her favourites Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain. "They are all such strong females in the industry and they continue to dominate," she explains. "Shania Twain is someone I love a lot because she broke out of Canada and became a worldwide star. I like to dream big like that and I'd love to represent Canada in the country world some day."
Keep an eye out for new music from Tenille Arts in the coming months, especially nearing the CCMAs this weekend.
Watch the 2016 CCMA Awards on Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m NL) on CBC Television.
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500 Crown Street, Surry Hills (formerly)
Early Feb – The first and last time at a much loved Surry Hills local. It was date night, the first time to ourselves for a while. When we heard about Bird Cow Fish closing we changed our plans to give it a go. One of those places reportedly loved by chefs for its non-showy simple cooking, I'd been meaning to go for a while, but as night outs become less frequent it was easier to overlook for flasher (not necessarily better) options.
And so we found ourselves at an early seating on the final Saturday night in the most buzzing of restaurant with a joyful and happy atmosphere. It probably contributed to the two bottle of wine dinner (my parents would be proud). But we were egged on by some truly memorable food, that had me kicking myself for not coming here before. At least these pictures will remind me of 3 dishes (the pastas & chocolate tart) that were as good as I've had of their kind. To write any more descriptions around textures and the complimentary, contrasting flavours would be to resort to painful cliches (I've done enough of that elsewhere on this blog).
Potato gnocchi with prawn meat sautéed in burnt butter, verjuice, capers & crispy sage
Salt cod ravioli with green olives, lemon, almonds
Slow roast lamb with caponata
Beef Cheek Pie (easy on the sauce, large on the fibrous beef)
To finish:
Cherry mille feuille with mascarpone & pistachio praline
Chocolate Tart
We've all been to these kind of restaurants; that have honed good honest cooking. You may dabble with fusion or molecular gastronomy, but you always come back. I haven't found many of these places in Sydney to be honest, so it's a bit of shame that this was a one-off meal. Almost unrequited love territory. Damn you regulars who got to dine here for several years. Bird Cow Fish it could have been so good…..But we'll always have that chocolate tart.


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OBAMA IS EASY TO FOLLOW, By Louise Annarino, October 9, 2012
Let's talk about the safety nets Romney-Ryan (even Bill O'Reilly – http://voice4america.com/articles/2012/10/08/the-rumble-2012-bill-oreilly-vs-jon-stewart.html ) would shred. As a newly licensed attorney working at The Columbus Legal Aid Society during the Carter and Reagan Administrations, I represented those who had been wrongfully denied safety net benefits such as food stamps, Aid to Families With Dependent Children or AFDC, and General Relief. I understood the value of these programs. Having been terminated from my earlier job as a social worker at Marysville for Women Maximum Security Prison and wrongfully denied Unemployment Benefits I relied on general relief and food stamps (I could eat), a compassionate landlady willing to defer rent (I did not become homeless) until my appeal had been heard, and a bank manager willing to refinance and defer my car payments ( I could continue my job search) for 3 months.
My former employer justified my termination and attempted to block my unemployment benefits because of the Black Studies programs I had implemented, and the trusting willingness of inmates to use me as an intermediary during their prison take-over. After a 3 month wait for a decision on my appeal regarding unemployment benefits, the appeal board found no wrongdoing on my part and granted full benefits. Until then, I had to rely on the social safety-net many of my fellow citizens rely on today.
Each month I stood on line with hundreds of other food stamp recipients to prove my income source, cost of rent/utilities/medical expenditures etc. The longer I was on public assistance the less money I received since I became poorer, and could pay fewer bills. I was no longer able to afford a doctor visit or fill my prescriptions for IBS, and had my phone disconnected. Consequently, I had fewer receipts to prove expenses. The amount of food stamps declined, but I still received $111 per month in General Relief benefits(this amount has barely risen in 30 years). These programs have been altered in scope, purpose. TANF (block grant program to help move recipients into work and turn welfare into a program of temporary assistance) program description by Franklin County Jobs and Family Services actually contains a statement "this is not an entitlement." As if the working poor feel entitled to ANYTHING.
I was very appreciative of the safety net. And,I was lucky. I was soon back on my feet with a job managing a Walden Book Store, while I continued looking for a job in my professional field, Student Personnel Work in Higher Education. Others who had been standing in line with me every month were not so lucky. They had children so could not afford to take a job paying less than their AFDC and lose medicaid coverage for their kids.
Who were these persons? Women and children, the mentally and physically disabled, the elderly, those between jobs and ineligible for unemployment benefits or appealing benefit denials. They became my clients when I joined Legal Aid. It was difficult enough to help them when Carter was president; whenReagan was elected it nearly became impossible.Reagan defined those using the safety nets "Welfare Queens". If such a majestic figure lived among my clients I never saw hid nor hair of her. I saw poverty which made me weep:
-a 48 year old man who looked 90 after working in the mines since he was 16 years old, fighting for Black Lung Benefits. His one room shack on Columbus' south side lacked insulation and drywall; winter wind pushed through every crack, robbing the makeshift coal-fired iron stove he used for cooking and heating of any warmth. He slept on an uncovered box spring, without a mattress, sheets or a pillow. His only furniture, a small square table and a single hard chair, greyed with use. He insisted I sit on the chair while he stood during our interview, and I drank the coffee he brewed just for me from his single tin cup. By the end of that day, my colleagues and I had brought in a spare mattress, sheets,blankets, a pillow, plates and cups. When I won the appeal for food stamps and Black Lung benefits he brought a gift he had made for me to my office, a blue teddy bear stuffed with dried grass. He was a noble man, not a welfare queen.
-a 97 year old woman whose earliest memory was of her legs dangling as she sat at the back edge of the wagon carrying her family west to Nebraska Territory. When I won her food stamps appeal, she invited me to share the first baked potato she had been able to buy in years. She was overjoyed at her stocked pantry and asked me to celebrate with her. She was a noble woman, not a welfare queen.
-a 76 year old recent widow facing eviction after the bank foreclosed on her home by summary judgement. Her husband had handled all finances. They lived on their social security,reduced by his death. When a bank sent her a credit card in the mail,she misunderstood and thought it was somehow related to her husband's insurance pay-out. She used it to but gifts for her grandchildren, which she had never before been able to afford doing; and gifts for the nursing staff and others who had helped he through her husband's illness. Within the first month she had used the entire limit stated and stopped using the card. Then the bills came. Then the demand letters, Then the foreclosure notice. Then the lawsuit. Then the eviction notice. She told no one, ashamed of her naivety and ignorance of financial matters. A visiting neighbor caught her crying one day and called me. I filed an appeal and the bank settled the appeal by agreeing they would not act upon their lien on her un-mortgaged property until her death. She could remain in her home until she died. She was a noble woman, not a welfare queen.
Then, President Reagan ordered the Social Security Administration to remove every disability recipient from the roles and require them to reapply and prove they were still entitled to benefits. He was certain that welfare fraud, and especially disability fraud, were rampant even though studies showed that the welfare fraud rate was a mere 1/4 of 1%. The Savings and Loan fraud was much more of a problem and caused huge economic losses across the country. Today, as then,Wall Street's and the banking and mortgage systems' fraud rate is much higher than any problems caused by safety net recipients; and, with much more severe consequences to the entire world, as we recently discovered. Deregulation of these industries opened up highways for fraud among the investors and their banks, investment houses, and mortgage companies. The impact of President Reagan's off-the-roles disability order?
-a 37 year old blind from complications of untreated diabetes with severe heart abnormalities was removed from disability, became homeless, lost food stamps because he had no permanent address, lost medicare coverage, could not buy insulin or needles, and died from diabetic coma and heart attack. My appeals for food stamps, temporary emergency housing, and restoration of disability benefits were granted in his favor 2 weeks after his death.
When I listen to Mr. Romney, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Riley state how compassionate they are, how those who DESERVE help should get it but through private enterprise not with your hard-earned tax dollars, how BIG GOVERNMENT is creating and increasing the deficit; BUT, THEY WILL NOT RAISE TAXES on the top 2% whose rate are the lowest in 30 years, how they will budget MORE money to buy military equipment but not vote to make the veteran's safety net stronger and call it strengthening the military I want to join Jon Stewart and say these people live on "BULL SHIT MOUNTAIN" where welfare queens threaten their very existence. Human beings of great dignity are using the safety nets, and they deserve government support to put food in their mouths and a roof over their heads as much as those living on Bullshit Mountain deserve tax breaks and government support to accumulate and build their wealth.
President Obama, those who live on "bullshit Mountain" say, stole $716 from medicare to pay for Obamacare. What they don't say is Obama did not cut $716 billion from medicare but saved it through reduced provider reimbursements and by curbing waste, fraud and abuse. Both Romney and Ryan agree their administration will allocate the exact same amount, $716 million from "medicare cuts" to reduce the deficit, as was done in the Republicans' FY 2013 budget, which Ryan authored. While Romney-Ryan bemoan Big Government fraud, President Obama has been busy eliminating it.
How did President Obama budget that savings? He used it to pay for Obamacare. He closed the "donut hole" created by Republican's unfunded Medicare Part D. Medicare now provides, free or without co-pay for preventive care and tests for:
-annual wellness visit
-tobacco use cessation counseling
-screenings for bone mass measurement,cervical cancer, pap smear and cervical exam,cholesterol and other cardiovascular screenings, colorectal screenings, diabetes, HIV, prostrate cancer
-flu shot,pneumonia shot,and hepatitis B shot
-medical nutrition therapy to manage diabetes or kidney disease
Full details can be reviewed at http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/65-older/medicare-preventive-services/index.html
President Obama is not stealing from medicare since the funds remain within the budget to increase,improve,streamline and lower cost of services to the government and for recipients. It is Romney-Ryan budget which does steal this amount from medicare to pay down the deficit, so they can justify not fairly increasing taxes on the top 2%. They insist only by cutting the safety net can they reduce the deficit. President
Obama has shown us a better way! Yet, Republicans, led by Ryan-Boehner-Mitchell et al continue a disinformation campaign of massive proportions and block every effort by President Obama to improve our economy, create jobs, rebuild our infrastructure,reduce the deficit, and keep a new and improved safety-net in place. What is truly amazing is how well our president is doing despite these obstructionists.
As my friend Carol Mason wrote me this morning: "Have you read Doris Kearns-Goodwin's book 'No Ordinary Time'"? It is the story of FDR's presidencies during those "unordinary times." President Obama is, I learned, a student of FDR's terms of office. And this "unordinary" time Obama inherited may be why he sought insight from FDR's years and experience.
"…the notion that an intelligent, ethically minded leader of goodwill, planning strategically, moving within a BIG picture, hoping to solve BIG problems, would not be easy to "follow." It's a complicated, interconnected mess of circumstances one must navigate, to lead a country the size and scope of America. Goodwin revealed a level and almost unfathomable scope of information FDR worked with that virtually no other human being had the collective knowledge of. And it was from this unique perspective that he master-minded a strategy and led the tactical charge for pulling America out of the Depression and on the winning side of the Second World War.
"I trust in President Obama's intelligence, his integrity and his desire to make change for the good. And I have seen over time, how his modest behavior, though not flashy enough for some, has–behind the scenes–gotten a lot of things done." Carol and I agree that Obama is easy to follow after all!


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We are Illinois' most interactive haunted house! For an additional $10 (per person being kidnap victim), we will take you or one of your friends are have them become part of the experience. In order to do this, you MUST sign a waiver form. Also, we are now offering a buried alive experience! It is $5 extra at the door.
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A fun little blog about books, hopefully you will find something that inspires you!
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Is this really a children's book? Because I'm a little scared.
Fall is here. I have very mixed feelings about fall. I love fall because of: wearing cute scarves without sweating,apple cider, camping trips where there aren't tornadoes and the color changes. I hate fall because it means that winter is next and I get sick of winter after about 2 weeks.
A sure harbinger of fall for me is re-reading Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree".
The book follows a group of young boys in a small Midwestern town on Halloween night. It's time for trick or treating but one of their motley crew is sick and then goes missing. The mysterious Mr Moundshroud, who lives in the creepiest house ever says he can help the boys find their missing friend.This takes them across time and space and all around the world witnessing the beginnings of what we know as Halloween.They start seeing a funeral in ancient Egypt in a mysterious pyramid. They travel to wild, pre-Roman Ireland to see Druids, they spend time in Notre Dame in France (my favorite scene) and off to Mexico to see the Day of the Dead.There's a very poignant moment at the end that makes you think about how to best live our short lives here on earth and what sacrifices we are willing to make for friends.
Having said all of this, it's not for all kids. There's a lot of talk of death and spooky creatures. I get tingles in my spine when he describes the children's visit to Ireland and to Notre Dame.(Did you ever wonder how the gargoyles get up on those ledges? You find out.It's awesome).So maybe it's just for brave kids and wussy adults?
This book is great for (at least) 3 reasons:
1. Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud is the best name for a Halloween character ever.
2.The descriptions of the autumnal nights are so spot on.You can practically see the dead leaves tumbling down empty small town streets.
3.The kids are detailed and deep characters. They aren't flat and uninteresting.
"Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from underneath each tree and spread..." (Bwahahahaha)
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Your review makes me want to re-read this book. I only read it once and I remember really disliking it (me disliking anything by Bradury? How is that even possile?) Maybe I just happened upon a very bad translation of the book, and I shuold re-read it in English instead. Anyway, thaks for a fun review.ReplyDeleteReplies
A bad translation can ruin a book, it's true! I'd certainly encourage you taking another try, because it is Bradbury after all :)Delete
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