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Miranda July clutters her speech with a surplus of "likes" and "you knows," conspicuous even for a 37-year-old living in a quasi-bohemian enclave of L.A. These tics are so omnipresent in modern language that they tend to fall into a kind of conversational white noise, but spending time with the artist-author-filmmaker got me thinking about what they actually mean. Coming from July's mouth, it's impossible to ignore that the rhetorical "You know?" is a fundamental signal of insecurity, a sign of a constant quest for connection, recognition, approval. And every sentence fragmented with a "like" — "It's, like" instead of "It is," "She was, like," instead of "She said" — takes an implicit stance against definitive declaration.
But this tendency toward heavily qualified conversation seems appropriate: July may be contemporary art and film's most committed chronicler of neediness and suspended development. Throughout her 15-year career as a working artist, July has explored the mysteries of human communication and connection with a disarming sincerity, all through a persona that's as savvily crafted as they come.
July's name has come to serve as a kind of shorthand for what constitutes "hipster" as much as, say, Zooey Deschanel or Dave Eggers — and like the indie film actress and the author-publisher, there's something about July that inspires the use of words like precious and precocious as pejoratives. Her work — in its faux-oblivious dodging of sarcasm and cynicism, its use of childlike affectation to explore the invisible, mutable line between juvenile and adult, and its often proudly literal stating of anxieties that usually go unspoken — inspires eye-rolling and even bullylike behavior from a cool-kid crowd more comfortable with snark and ironic appreciation. The push against such disaffection is part of July's wider project.
"To me, it's like, otherwise, how do you know if it's good, you know? Unless it's true," July says. We've met for lunch on a Friday in Silver Lake, near the home she shares with graphic artist–turned-filmmaker Mike Mills (Beginners), her husband of two years. It's her last quiet afternoon before a flurry of activity surrounding her new movie, The Future, and "Eleven Heavy Things," a sculpture show she would later install on the lawn in front of MOCA's Pacific Design Center. "I write plenty of stuff that isn't totally sincere, and that's the part I cut out."
The Future, which opens tomorrow in L.A., is July's second feature film as writer, director and star (after 2005's Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won prizes at Sundance and Cannes). It concerns the interwoven dramas of a precocious little girl, a randy single father, an eccentric (yet wise!) old man, a talking cat named Paw Paw and a Los Angeles couple who, faced with the prospect of a small dose of responsibility entering their lives in one month's time, quit their menial jobs in order to live life to the fullest for their last 30 days of true freedom.
As much as these elements might skirt saccharine, indie-film stereotypes, July transcends the familiar, largely by taking an undeclared turn, in the film's second half, into the realm of sci-fi–tinged surrealism. July also has incorporated the visual language of performance and video art seamlessly into the story, exploring highly specific, minutely observed emotions with deep resonance, while at the same time playing with the possibilities of what American indie narrative cinema can be and do.
The Future begins with a black screen, forcing focus on timorous narration from Paw Paw, a wounded stray cat (voiced by July) who explains that his life was saved by a young couple who promised to come back to the "cagetorium" to adopt her when her injuries healed. That couple is Sophie (July), a 30-something teacher at a dance school for kids, and her long-term live-in boyfriend, Jason (Hamish Linklater).
When we first meet Sophie and Jason, they're sharing a couch in their ramshackle railroad apartment, each focused on a Mac laptop, the computers pinning them into their seats. They argue over who should get up and get a glass of water, and fantasize about a combination of gadgets and magical powers that would allow them to turn the tap on and fill a glass without actually having to move.
"You can't really do anything special with your mind," she scoffs. His comeback: "Except stop time."
While this banter is happening, its "spontaneity" scans as unnatural — the kind of precision cuteness that attracts July's detractors like dogs to raw meat. But as with much of what may seem like affectation in The Future's setup — the very existence of a talking-cat narrator named Paw Paw; Sophie's habit of greeting a waking Jason as "Hi, Person"; the "character" of a yellow T-shirt/security blanket Sophie calls "Shirtie" — the film's second-half veer into deadpan metaphysical fantasy casts this exchange in a different light. And ultimately, Sophie and Jason's desperate attempts to delay the inevitable will lead them to carelessly cause senseless, far-from-cute tragedy.
Sophie may be nearing the end of her natural fertility, but she and Jason essentially live like college students, working thankless, low-commitment day jobs. So the impending arrival of Paw Paw is a big deal; it gets the couple thinking about time. They'll soon be 40 and, as Jason puts it, "After 40, you're basically 50, and after 50, it's basically loose change ... like, not enough to get what you really want."
In a queasy limbo between childhood and adulthood, Sophie and Jason are ostensibly free of parental minders but far from ready to do their own minding. As July puts it over lunch, "One friend of ours became a mom. We still think of ourselves, the rest of us, as daughters, but our friend is a mom — you know, like, she graduated. I know people whose parents are dead, and on some level they're still doing things to impress their parents, you know? It's like you don't ever have to stop that."
Sophie and Jason's campaign to make the most of "our last month ever" leads to Jason bonding with a dirty limerick–writing, happily married elderly man whom he meets through the classified rag Penny-saver, played by an actual elderly man whom July met through the Pennysaver while working on a project documented in the book It Chooses You, to be released in November by McSweeney's.
Meanwhile, left a month to pursue her heart's desires, Sophie first attempts to launch a bid for YouTube stardom. When that proves to be a nonstarter, she falls into an irrational affair with older, single dad Marshall (David Warshofsky).
The affair is one element of The Future that went through several iterations via previous July creations. In a short story in July's 2007 collection No One Belongs Here More Than You, "Mon Plaisir," a wife compiles a list of topics that she and her husband do not broach: "Important Things We Don't Understand and Definitely Are Not Going to Talk About." That story foreshadowed July's live performance piece, Things We Don't Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About, which she mounted at the Kitchen in New York in 2007. Every night, July would "cast" a real couple and a single guy in the audience to play the troubled couple and the wife's lover. It gave her an opportunity to workshop some of her less conventional ideas (like the T-shirt and the anthropomorphized cat) before writing The Future's screenplay.
July's scenes with Warshofsky can be painful to watch. The characters have little chemistry, and physically they look as odd together as July and Linklater are an obviously matched pair. But it was important to July that this not be an evenly balanced love triangle.
"I really wanted him to seem so wrong," she says. "In the performance it was often, like, a really cute guy. At that point I was still interested in it as an affair. I think I was just committing to this big relationship [with Mills], and still kind of freaked out, whereas by the time I got to the movie I was, like, whatever."
Though Sophie and Marshall do have sex, physical attraction is clearly not the key motivator for her — in fact, she seems fairly repulsed by his "sleazy" style. One of their dialogue exchanges cuts right to the heart of the affair's appeal:
Marshall: "It would make me very happy to watch you all the time."
Sophie: "If it was really 'all the time,' I wouldn't even have to try!"
Marshall [shaking his head]: "I had you totally wrong. I thought you were more ... independent."
When I ask July what Sophie gets from the affair, she describes Marshall's gaze as "like fame."
"Ten years ago, wanting attention was still shameful and getting it was hard for most of us," July writes in her director's statement for The Future.
Despite her seemingly naive persona, July has always treated her career as serious business. She was born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger and adopted her stage name in high school. She was raised in Berkeley by publisher parents who taught her to be comfortable with intimate expression. "My dad expects, when we talk on the phone, that I'm going to tell him about my internal world," July says. "And if I don't, I've kind of, like, failed a little bit in the conversation. It's a little superficial."
She dropped out of UC Santa Cruz at age 20, in part, she says, to force herself to make art without a net. "That was exciting because whatever I made would be real. It wouldn't be a student thing, it wouldn't be like an internship."
She moved to Portland, Ore., put on plays in punk clubs and hooked up with the K Records scene in Olympia, Wash., performing in the mid-'90s with a band called The Need and recording two experimental solo records. She became a big fish in these proudly countercultural ponds, but she always wanted more.
"The first play that I did, I was probably just as into making the poster and putting the ad in the paper as writing the play. Those activities were part of the reason to make this stuff," she recalls. "Maybe it seems sort of self-promoting, but to me it was like, well, on the other hand, isn't it kind of silly to just expect people to show up to this?"
Ten years ago, July was best known as a video artist. Her 2001 short Getting Stronger Every Day, starring Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, plays today as a vague aesthetic precursor to The Future. July also was renowned as a small-batch film distributer, having launched a project called Joanie4Jackie, which compiled short films made by women and created an infrastructure through which they could be sent around the country, chain-letter style.
When July talks about "attention" being "shameful," in one sense she's referring to the '90s indie-punk ethos that shunned "selling out," putting the nebulous notion of "cred" ahead of "mainstream" success.
"I always felt a little bit outside of that," July says. "Just the fact that even my short movies always seemed, in a way, less experimental than they could have been. I always had a feeling like, 'Well, there is weird stuff I'm trying to get across here, but it would be so pretentious to do that in, like, an extra weird way. That was my idea of, like, good politics — anyone should be able to watch this and feel like it's relevant to them. I never didn't want to make it be sort of grand, you know?"
But she's also talking about another kind of "shame." As a former counterculture feminist, July is fascinated by the way the Internet has created new venues for young women to express themselves — and a little dispirited by the fact that so much of that "expression" seems to amount to exhibitionism cheerfully geared toward a predatory male gaze. She's particularly curious about the wave of YouTube videos featuring young women dancing alone in their bedrooms.
"The whole thing of dancing on the Internet — I don't know what I would think of it if I was a young person now, but back then we would have all been, like, 'Oh, that's degrading,' or, 'Is this going to be empowering enough?' " July contemplated reaching out to these video-making girls, to see if she could connect their less-than socially conscious use of YouTube to "the Joanie4Jackie fantasy that I had. [I was] trying to figure out how to directly be, like, 'You're so close to making movies, you're obviously using cameras, you're doing it alone. I get wanting to be in it.' Yes, we [are] all making movies in our bedrooms and sharing them. It's just not quite what I pictured."
July's complicated feelings about this YouTube trend led to the subplot of The Future, in which Sophie, to compete with a younger colleague, attempts to create her own series of dancing videos. July also started the process of making the old Joanie4Jackie movies available online.
But when given the opportunity, July's sense of feminist responsibility did not compel her to conquer Hollywood just because that door was open. "My worst nightmare was being yet another woman who just makes one movie, you know?" she says. But after the success of Me and You, though she took what she refers to as the "obligatory" meetings with studios and production companies, "It was just so clear to me, like, 'Oh, that would be the route of total ruin.' "
Her ambitions were still vast — maybe too vast for the mainstream film industry. Rather than capitalize on the buzz for her first film to swiftly make another, she was determined to use her sudden higher profile to get projects in other media off the ground.
"I was actually as calculating as the next person, just not in that path," July admits. "I was, like, 'OK, now I'm going to get a good literary agent, and get a good book deal that I never would have gotten before this movie.' And you know, like, make [my audience] wider, which is what I always wanted."
July acknowledges that her undisguised hunger for attention, funneled into multiple, different types of art about a hunger for attention, can be "very embarrassing. One thing about being so self-generating and having not been discovered at, like, 25 by somebody else — there's no way to hide that I wanted this."
I ask her if she feels famous. "Well, I guess not like a real famous person, you know?"
Does anyone ever feel that way, I wonder? Even if Angelina Jolie understands that she's the most famous person ...
July interrupts. "But to her she's, like, 'Weird Angie.' She still feels really bisexual and freaky."
July acknowledges that, to some degree, her current life offers that attention that she's always desired — and she's had to actually interrogate that desire. "There was a period of time when I was doing press for the first movie, where it seemed like, 'Maybe the momentum of this will just get to a certain, like, speed and I just won't even have to be a person anymore.' Is that what happens? Is that what being famous is? You don't have to have, like, that Sunday where you're depressed and, like, not knowing what to do? And of course that so wasn't true that it seemed, like, newsworthy to me."
July says she's 5"5', but with her rail-thin frame she seems smaller, even fragile. It's a midsummer Monday morning, and she directs a cadre of burly men assigned to install her show "Eleven Heavy Things" on the lawn outside MOCA's Pacific Design Center on Melrose. When our photographer starts snapping photos of the artist in action, she pauses to fuss with her hair while checking her reflection in the window of my freshly washed Honda. Later I notice that her pants — slate gray slacks with elastic at the ankles — are being held up by a large safety pin, gathering excess fabric at her right hip.
July's fine art credentials pre-date and outweigh her indie film stardom. The MOCA show is not just a way to capitalize on buzz surrounding her new movie but also an honor backed up by a body of multimedia work going back to the 1990s. She first attracted the attention of the international art world via her full-length performance works, Love Diamond (which premiered in 1998) and The Swan Tool (2002), combinations of theater, live music and video projection, which she referred to as "live movies." In 2002, she had two works in the Whitney Biennial; she was invited back in 2004 with her interactive web project learningtoloveyoumore.com, through which July and collaborator Harrell Fletcher gave visitors "assignments" to make their own art. By that point July also was developing Me and You and Everyone We Know.
"Eleven Heavy Things" was created originally for inclusion in the Venice Biennale in 2009. Because Venice is, as July put it, "one of the more poor biennales," once they extended an invitation, July needed a backer. She turned to Jeffrey Deitch — then a powerful New York gallerist, now the director of MOCA in L.A. — who referred July to Rob McPherson, the L.A.-based fabrication artist whose La Paloma Studio has created pieces for Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and many others.
The Venice Biennale, July says, is "the biggest show in the world, and yet, in my world, no one is ever going to see it. So I tried to think of a way that people would take pictures of it. And I thought, well, if they're in it, they'll be, like, 'Take a picture of me with this thing.' So [the pieces] are all interactive, and the people end up having, like, captions under them."
The final public work under the Deitch Projects banner, "Things" was installed in New York's Union Square last year. With both artist and benefactor now based on the West Coast, they plotted to bring the show to L.A.
"Our first idea, once we realized there was nowhere at MOCA that it could go, was the Americana [in Glendale], because that's where there's people gathered," July recalls. "It's like, "OK, you think you're a fake little city? Here's the public art in the city square.' They were game with it, but then we found out the grass there is only 1 foot deep. It doesn't actually connect to the Earth."
When Deitch suggested the Pacific Design Center, "Initially I was, like, 'What'? That place is so weird, and not beautiful," July told me over lunch. "But I don't want all the real things to happen in New York." By the day of installation, July had fully embraced the rolling lawn in front of the museum. "I'm into it now — there's kind of a Last Year at Marienbad feel to it."
Five of the 11 objects are podiums inscribed with what seem like intimate confessions turned slogans. Three of these are lined up, in ascending order of height, recalling the furniture of a medal ceremony — except, instead of winners, the words inscribed on them suggest they're meant to display "the guilty one," "the guiltier one," "the guiltiest one." Bolted to the ground, begging to be stood on, the podiums realize July's goal of affixing captions to her spectators; the artwork is only finished when the viewer interacts with it.
The remaining six pieces invite both interaction and photography in a different way. Flat constructions, with holes or openings suggesting a place to put one's head or limbs, they recall carnival facades — the pre-Photoshop headless standups that allowed one to be photographed trying on the persona of a strongman or bikini babe — but they ask the participant to try on ideas instead of personalities.
Some of the flat works are meant to be stood under, functioning in photographs as textless cartoon thought bubbles. In contrast to the declarative statements made by the show's other pieces, these are much more open-ended and evocative, with each mining a different type of romantic desire.
As much as the sentiment of the pieces employing language recalls July's various written works, it's these vague, indescribable shapes that most clearly bear her aesthetic signature. Brightly colored, amorphous and/or morphing shapes have been the most constant visual idea of July's work, from the shorts Getting Stronger Every Day and Nest of Tens to the scene in The Future that July calls "the T-shirt dance," in which Sophie is merged with the symbol of her desire for protection, creating an undulating yellow blob that allows July to physically become a shape herself.
"To me those shapes were always spiritual, kind of, in a very mundane, unspeakable sort of way," July says. "They were abstract in those [video] pieces in a way that could just be like that, but in the movie, when you're watching that scene, it's satisfying to me aesthetically, but you also have the whole story of how you got there."
The largest such piece in "Things" is Double Pink Shape, a bubble gum–colored cloud with space for two heads — a feminine fantasy of beauty and comfort and intimacy, engineered to be shared.
Another, Lace Shape, resembles a wedding veil that July copied out of a book given to her by her friends Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, who designed the dress and veil in which July was married. The bride-to-be, fighting a flu at the time, painstakingly hand-painted the piece on the eve of her wedding.
July met Mills at Sundance in 2005. She was there supporting Me and You; he was there with his first film, Thumbsucker. "RES magazine had a party that we were both, like, honored at, or whatever," July remembers. "And we both knew a little bit about each other. I remember walking up to him and going, 'Hi, I'm Miranda July,' which I never do."
In her director's statement for The Future, July describes talking cat Paw Paw as a device through which she could "describe the bittersweet vertigo of true love. Which is the thing that got me thinking about mortality in the first place."
When she met Mills, she was for the first time confronted with the notion of being with someone "for the rest of our lives," and the terrifying reality of what that meant.
"I remember saying to him one day, 'We're doing all these [creative] things, but in the end, we're going to end up having been the main experience of each other's lives.' And feeling for the first time that that was true. I wasn't saying that romantically — it was kind of, like, sobering. Like, try as I might there's going to be no single experience that's as big as that one. That's daily, and for so long.
"I think for a little while, I thought I was at the end of my life because of that," July admits. "And then, that the only thing that was proof that that wasn't true was that we hadn't had kids yet. You know? And that was apparently going to be a whole chapter. But we weren't trying to have kids, we were actually trying to make these movies."
Beginners and The Future, the couple's nearly simultaneously birthed "children," are, unavoidably, companion pieces — and not just because both have talking animals.
On the most basic level, they're both about the passing of time, the realization that the clock is always running out and life is happening right now. More specifically, they're both about a similar type of arrested development and contemporary, late-30-something fear of commitment, with a key difference. Where Mills contrasts his young lovers and their inward-gazing anxiety with a previous generation whose relationships were constricted by external forces, July creates a fantasy world in which the narcissism of her characters burns through the barrier between their inner lives and the external world in ways that actually alter space and time.
It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to say that both of these directly, unabashedly sentimental films are about the July/Mills marriage. When I interviewed Mills about Beginners, he was open about many autobiographic elements but downplayed the notion that the relationship between Ewan McGregor and Melanie Laurent's characters portrayed his own marriage. "The love part is much more normal fiction," he said in May. "It's not me and my wife, Miranda, it's not anything that I've actually done, really."
July tells a slightly different story.
"I remember reading Beginners a few times before I was really in my own [screenwriting phase], and then being, like, 'Oh, whoa, I don't think I should keep reading this because I gotta be in my own world.' And we both kind of agreed on that, that, like, to pull this off, we'd have to be more private."
When I say it seems that nonetheless there are some similarities between the two films, July nods. "Yeah, for sure. I mean, I'm amazed there's not more. I hadn't read [his] script in years when we were both kind of 'go,' you know? And I remember, because we have the same agent, I emailed my agent, saying, 'You know what, you're the only one who's read both our scripts. Can you tell me right now if there's anything that's going to be really bad that we both did?' And there was actually one scene — his stayed in, and mine I cut out after I shot it — that I thought was a little, like, similar, and revealing about us, because it was like something from our life. I won't say what it is."
But she maintains that it's not the relationship that colors the work so much as that their individual interests, aesthetics and instincts led to the relationship. "Occasionally we get into, like, 'Well, where did this come from, this thing?' We both have evidence from before we met that we were into that thing. And that's why we came together. That's why we like each other."
When "Eleven Heavy Things" opens to the public on a Saturday evening in late July, Mills, wearing a beard and a Western hat like the Jesse James of Silver Lake, laughs with friends as his wife runs around, gamely posing with her pieces for rabid fans with cameras, most of them youngish women. She seems bubbly and hyper "on." It is the only art opening I've ever been to where there's no booze. Instead, there's an ice cream truck.
But wait, it gets twee-er: I can't resist chatting to a tall, lanky young man wearing a handmade unicorn suit. He hands me a business card with the name "Lemonade 'Unicorn' Steiny." (He swears "Lemonade" is his given name.) I ask him why he's here, wearing a unicorn suit, and he answers only the first half of the question. "I think Miranda's work is awesome, just across the board," he gushes. "It's about human experience. It forces people to get together and share things and be, like, 'This is awkward!' "
I ask him if having a horn on his head is an impediment to "sharing."
"It can be. People die. But it's part of my job."
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What else is part of your "job"?
"Demystifying my culture."
I'm there with someone I've just started dating. He and I stand underneath the pink cloud and are suddenly swarmed by onlookers armed with cameras. Miranda joins the crowd, beaming at us, and jokes, "You know that this means you're legally married." The forced intimacy of the scene reveals Lemonade's, uh, critique, to be spot-on, and at the same time, it's a powerful practical demonstration of July's key preoccupations — the piece that isn't complete until it pushes the spectator to perform, the rush of fame that confuses attention and love. It's also the kind of heightened moment that The Future is full of: contrived, hyperreal and unshakably, emotionally true.
And this, I realize, is the sly miracle of Miranda July and her work: She begs to be written off as a pretentiously precocious, delusional woman-child whose work is chiefly interested in what the Twitterati would brand as #firstworldproblems, whose prototypical uber-fan wears a unicorn suit. And yet everything she does is so guileless and direct, her affectations so often giving way to an ability to find the vulnerabilities in the average armor of cynicism. She sees your jaded defense mechanisms and renders them mundane. She dares you to roll your eyes. She knows the tougher you want to pretend you are, the harder you'll be hit when that fucking talking cat breaks your heart.


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D&M Holdings is a leading manufacturer of home entertainment devices, and the company has adopted Gracenote's combined VideoID and MusicID platform for all future products. Because VideoID-DVD and MusicID are built upon the same platform, the new system ensures a seamless deployment by consumer electronics manufacturers already using MusicID, which comprises millions of devices in the market.
"D&M Holdings is known for technology expertise and the highest quality home entertainment systems, and VideoID-DVD is perfectly in line with our product strategy," said Bernie Sepaniak, CTO of D&M Holdings Inc. "Managing media collections at home is one of the core challenges for customers, and the Gracenote media recognition platform not only simplifies the process, but gives them the most accurate and comprehensive system for CD and DVD recognition right inside their devices."
Gracenote MusicID Expands Further into Home Electronics
For the past 10 years Gracenote has developed MusicID and its Global Media Database into the largest database of music information ever created—with comprehensive data on more than six million CDs and links to rich information such as lyrics, artwork, reviews, biographies, and more. Using patented technology and sophisticated algorithms, MusicID connects digital music devices with Gracenote's Global Media Database, making it easy for consumers to organize oftentimes thousands of music files on a host of consumer electronics devices in the home, the car and beyond.
MusicID is used inside more home entertainment devices than any other music recognition system, including audio devices from Bose, Gibson Audio, Philips, Yamaha and others. The company's most recent customer, Magic Home Entertainment, is using Gracenote MusicID, Playlist and Cover Art in its moodSeer system, enabling CD and music file recognition, sanctioned cover art and automated playlist generation—three increasingly important services as consumer music collections grow into the thousands. The moodSeer system brings instant gratification to the music aficionado, where they can pick music to suit their mood in any room, enjoy speed of thought access to any track in their collection, and control their music from anywhere in the home, wirelessly.
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Rice linebacker Cameron Nwosu and running back Turner Petersen will pay tribute to the school's football history with a change in jersey numbers for the upcoming season, the school announced Tuesday night.
Petersen will wear No. 26 in honor of All-American King Hill, and Nwosu will wear No. 57 in honor of O.J. Brigance, the school's career tackles leader.
"We have made an effort for our players to embrace the great history here at Rice and a part of that process is to learn more about the players who have worn their numbers in the past," Rice head coach David Bailiff said. "These two men are tremendous examples of the expectations we place on any young man who comes to Rice. They were outstanding players at Rice who have continued to be outstanding representatives for Rice throughout their professional lives."
Hill earned All America honors in 1957 after leading Rice to a Southwest Conference title and a berth in the Cotton Bowl. In a 7-6 upset over No. 1 Texas A&M in 1957, Hill had a pair of interceptions and scored the Owls' only points.
After his senior season, Hill was the No. 1 pick by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1958 NFL draft.
Brigance was a two-time All-SWC linebacker and career leader in tackles for the Owls during his career from 1987-90. He went on to win a Grey Cup in the Canadian Football League with the Baltimore Stallions in 1995 and a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens in 2001.
After he retired as a player, Brigance joined the Raven's front office as director of player development. Brigance was diagnosed with ALS in 2007 and is actively involved through his "Brigance Brigade" (brigancebrigade.org), which raises awareness and money for ALS research and patient services.
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Greencastle, Ind. - DePauw goes after its fifth win in the last six games and looks to snap Wabash's four-game win streak in the Monon Bell series when it hosts the Little Giants at 1:07 p.m. on Saturday on Nick Mourouzis Field at Blackstock Stadium.
The teams are meeting for the 120th time and 82nd for Monon Bell possession.
The Tigers, 4-5 overall and 4-4 in North Coast Athletic Conference play, have won four of their last five after opening the season 0-4 and are coming off a 24-13 win at Hiram. The Little Giants are 8-1 overall and 7-1 in conference play after last Saturday's 35-17 loss to Wittenberg.
Saturday's game will be televised live to a national audience in high definition by AXS TV.
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Q: When I go to remove the linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) ubuntu tries to install them along with a couple dependencies before it then removes one of the 3 different packages it installs. Should I just not install them at all or allow it to install the dependencies because they are needed for the newer version to work?
A: You should not need the linux-restricted-modules packages at all unless it contains specfic drivers that you require, excluding fglrx of course. The important thing is to make sure the there is only one fglrx.ko kernel module under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ This is the sole reason for removing the linux-restricted-modules package, as it will copy a new fglrx.ko into your modules directory on each boot.
- Q: So even if it says I don't need to remove linux-restricted-modules, I should do that anyway? It's been bugging the hell out of me, always reverting back to 8.21.7 no matter what I did.... So the best thing would be to remove the restricted modules?
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Good Afternoon, I Have an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M in a notebook (Compaq Presario R4060), I'm trying to configure the ATI card on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy), I follow the steps described in this wiky, but when the notebook initiates, it remains in a black screen of where it is not possible to be acceded to the terminals, I am new in linux, if somebody knows as to fix this please it helps me, Thanks.
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Our first �What do you Say� centered on a controversial editorial published July 10 in the New York Times headlined, �The Decline of North Carolina.� It sharply criticized the North Carolina General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory for what it characterizes as a dismantling of North Carolina�s national reputation for moderation, education and tolerance.
Our question for readers was: Is the Times right or wrong in its assessment? Here�s what Times-News readers had to say.
Disagree with the NYT
I would like to make a few comments on the points in the New York Times article.
I do not need anyone from the bankrupt state of New York and the near-bankrupt New York Times telling the people of North Carolina how to vote and how to run our state. As a taxpayer I am proud of the people of North Carolina for voting to put this state on a path to reduce wasteful spending and corruption in our state government.
Public education in North Carolina has never been ranked in the upper 50 percent compared to other states. Thanks to the poor programs set up solely by the Democrat Party. I ask you to read the studies that have been conducted on pre-kindergarten students. They do not score any higher than students who do not attend pre-kindergarten programs. Please look at the total dollars that have been spent on education that go to administrative positions in Raleigh and the local school districts. The dollars could be better spent by paying good teachers who get results.
Tax policy: North Carolina is one of the highest taxed states in the country, thanks to over 130 years of wasteful and corrupt spending by the Democrats.
Unemployment: North Carolina, under 100 percent Democrat control, has overpaid millions of dollars in fraudulent claims and has put our state into a debt of over $2.5 billion to the broken federal government in control of the spend-crazy Democrats.
This state has the fifth-highest unemployment rate in the country. The Democrats have been in control for over 130 years. Do not blame Republicans for low wages and high unemployment.
Abortion clinics: Why should taxpayer pay for abortions? When the taxpayers are forced to pay for abortions, partial birth abortions should not be performed and the abortions that are performed should be conducted in a safe facility.
Voter ID: Under Democrat control, North Carolina had 32,000 dead voters registered to vote. Voting machines in Guilford and other counties had to be shut down during the November 2012 election due to votes being cast for every candidate being recorded as only votes for Obama.
Reputations that took years to build: The two immediate previous Democrat governors have been under numerous criminal investigations and Easley was convicted of a felony. Then take a hard look at previous vice presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. John Edwards, who was a great example for the progressive Democrat party.
I say hogwash and the NYTimes should mind its own business.
I have been complaining about the fact that NC lags behind all other states in attracting businesses, tax reform and burdensome regulations for over 20 years. Finally this state elected a different party, and finally we are starting to get some results.
What was so great about the way the Democrats were running the state? We were in deep financial debt, education was so-so, as always. There was little choice in schools as charters schools were capped at 100 for the state. The UNC system was under investigation for cheating. People were without high-paying jobs except in Raleigh and Charlotte because we could not attract any big businesses due to our oppressive taxes and regulations. What was there to love?
And how in the name of heaven did the New York Times get the opinion our great state is suddenly intolerant? The largest decline of tolerance I have seen in my life time comes straight from Washington D.C. and the current administration.
Agree with the NYT
I have lived in North Carolina for close to 50 years and I have been proud of the record of progressiveness. The current state government makes me sad. Devolution is occurring every day.
Thank you for publishing that article!
Pay attention North Carolina! We keep this up unemployment will continue to rise � what company is ever going to relocate here? Our elected officials are making a deliberate choice to underfund education and it is only a matter of time before we see property values plummet and crime statistics rise.
I am in agreement with everything stated in the New York Times editorial. It is a shame that those people elected to represent all their constituents in North Carolina instead have chosen to act in a mean-spirited way to reverse all the positive measures enacted under previous administrations.
This attempt to remake North Carolina in such a narrow view of what they perceive as their mandate is disgraceful and will backfire in the long run.
Rather than create a progressive, economically attractive area that encourages new or expanded business, North Carolina will become the state business avoids or flees because its residents will not have the education required to support today�s industry.
Young people and those with the desire for a better life will flee this state in droves and we will lose the brightest and best to those states where the state legislators are not determined to disenfranchise anyone that does not agree with their narrow views.
It is a pity that the Republican Party and its elected representatives cannot conceive of a world where conservatives, moderates and liberals can all have their voices equally heard and represented by those in government.
Yes, in my opinion the editorial is absolutely correct. North Carolina has for many years indeed been a forward-looking state of moderate, progressive and compassionate leaders from both parties. The current state political majority party seems to have lost its way in terms of compassionate and forward-looking legislation and leadership and now seems primarily to represent the wealthy and powerful ultra-conservative, excessively ideological interest in our state and nation. Excessive, short-sighted ideological leadership from either political party can in the long run only be bad for our state and its citizens and will tend to lead us backwards rather than forward into the difficult challenges of the future.
The New York Times is right in its assessment! I am truly saddened to see what is happening with the acts of our legislature and governor. For years we have been proud of our education system. Especially our public schools. We have cared for our professional teachers. We didn�t have to have tests to determine the teacher�s ability. We cared for our state employees with adequate pay raises so that we could keep them working for us. We cared for our unemployed by helping with unemployment benefits. Are we going to force our unemployed on to the welfare rolls?
The legislatures of the past we not perfect, but they cared enough to get the job done. Former governors like, Hodges, Kerr Scott, Robert Scott, Holshouser, Martin, and Hunt helped bring North Carolina to be the beacon of greatness. I hope that we can come to our senses by the next election to make some changes to put us back on the right track.
The N.C. Legislature has been like the proverbial �bull in a china shop,� dismantling and destroying much of the progress that North Carolina has made in the past. While I haven�t always agreed with North Carolina�s stance on some issues I didn�t feel the suppression of citizens that is so evident today.
Several things come to mind. First, I recognize the economic challenges we face but believe that many of the positions being taken by the Legislature will cripple rather than strengthen the state. Drastic education cuts reduce even more the pool of qualified applicants to fill the ever increasing demands for skilled workers. Second, our tax laws are a burden on businesses and citizens. I support fair taxes and have no issues as an individual and business owner with paying them. I fully accept that for the good of the whole I must do my fair share. I am frightened by the attitudes towards women � �I know what�s better for you than you do yourself.� The dogged pursuit of imposing ultra-right-wing morality on the citizens is alarming � an imposition which is in direct conflict with the majority opinion of the citizenry.
I�m a native of North Carolina and have lived here continuously for the past 33 years. I am a contributing member of this community, attempting to give of my time and talents for its betterment. I am alarmed at the direction our legislature is taking the state. So, yes, I do believe the NY Times article was a fair assessment.
The New York Times is largely accurate in its summary of the radical Republican agenda in Raleigh. If Gov. McCrory wants to keep any stock as a �moderate� he needs to reign in these shockingly extreme and ideologically driven policies. The NY Times� characterization of this radical agenda as a �demolition derby� is on target, and it could have gone farther. Notably absent in their editorial is any mention of the Republican roll back of environmental protections, the outright grab of Asheville�s water plant, the sudden dissolution of advisory boards and packing them with like-minded right-wing radicals, etc. The Republican leadership should be ashamed of its actions and the shameful notoriety it has brought on our state. How rational conservatives can stand to be associated with this kind of extremism is baffling. In 2014 the voters will hold the Republicans accountable, but how many thousands will needlessly suffer in the meantime is the question. This radical Republican agenda is taking months to wreck what took decades to build. The New York Times� headline �The Decline of North Carolina� is sadly accurate.
I think the New York Times is absolutely right on its assessment of the criticism of State Republican leaders in North Carolina. And by the way, they left out another important detail. The governor decided his cabinet needed a pay raise while cutting everybody else�s benefits.
What the Republican majority North Carolina Legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory are doing to our lovely state almost leaves me speechless! It feels to me like most of what is happening in Raleigh is retribution for the years the Republicans were not the majority party. What is that old saying about �absolute power�?
What they have done and are doing is shameful. All the areas of cuts stated in the New York Times will leave North Carolina in an absolute state of shambles.
Being a former educator, I am particularly horrified by all the cutbacks that have been made in education. One of the most outstanding programs we had for finding the best teachers available has been junked. The Teaching Fellows program was an excellent way to obtain top quality people in the classroom. Now it is gone.
Eliminating the Teaching Fellows is just one of many examples of how the Republicans have played havoc with our quality of life , all in the name of cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy.
Now the entire country is looking askance at North Carolina, not as a leader, but as an example of what not to do to make their state a better place to live and work.
With respect to the McCrory administration along with the majority Republican lawmakers who seem determined to take away unemployment and other benefits from those in North Carolina who seem to need it most, I would like to say the following.
If taking away such benefits has been tried in the past and has proved that it helped the working class and other non-wealthy citizens and led the state toward betterment for its people, then it is probably a good idea to require more responsibility from those people who are receiving these benefits by trying harder to provide for themselves.
However! If we have no history that this approach has been tried successfully or not at all, then there is great reason to believe it may be a ploy by the more wealthy to gain more wealth at the expense of the poor and not pay their fair share. If that is not the case, then perhaps there is some justification in trying some of these approaches using great care that no one is being left out of the supposed benefits if it succeeds; or, if it fails, that no one is hurt in the process of trying.
I am a progressive type person, believing that we must continue to improve ourselves rather than to unjustifyingly step backwards.
I will be closely following the McCrory administration and state lawmakers with respect to these events in hopes that the right decisions are made.
I must say I totally agree with the New York Times article which accurately describes how our wonderful state is at risk of becoming one of ridicule and embarrassment. North Carolina has for the past number of years been a desirable, progressive state that attracted people from all walks of life. Now that the devastating measures taken by Gov. McCory and the Republicans � are taking our state back 50 years, most reasonable people will do their best to steer clear of North Carolina. This is most unfortunate and our governor needs to take notice of the legacy he is creating.
A very concerned North Carolina gal.
I am very sad to see what the Republican legislature and our new governor are doing to the reputation and institutions which have in the past allowed our state to stand for the fair and just treatment of all our citizens. I am ashamed that we can no longer be proud of our state and thanks to this article in the New York Times, the whole world knows of our shame. What new businesses would want to move here?


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Anne Hathaway & Christian Bale Hold Hands In New 'Dark Knight Rises' Video!
Will there be a love connection between Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle and Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne in 'The Dark Knight Rises'? Footage of the filming suggests yes!
Plot details of the highly anticipated Dark Knight Rises are hard to come by — but we found a small clue in a video of the movie being filmed! Although there's no sound, it's clear that Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle and Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne hold hands and walk together! Do we see the sparks of a romance?
Filmed in the U.K at Wollaton Hall, we seems to be looking at the site of Wayne Manor — Bruce's rebuilt home that was burned down in the first movie.
We also know that Selina Kyle's alter-ego is the anti-hero Catwoman who may or may not be at odds with Bruce's Batman. That should make their relationship interesting!
The Dark Knight Rises also stars Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard. It will appear in theaters in July 2012.


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OurGroceries needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 291 designs submitted by 72 freelance designers.
We are a start-up based in San Francisco, CA. OurGroceries is both the name of our company, and also the name of our first product: an application for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry smart phones, plus a web interface. It is a free application that allows households to synchronize and simplify day to day grocery list tasks. Our apps are designed to be simple, easy to use, and shared.
Our company makes applications for people who use their mobile phones to help them connect with family members and organize their lives.
The OurGroceries application allows users to share the responsibility for preparing their household's grocery list, and often the grocery shopping itself. It is for people who want to simplify, and who enjoy a foodie lifestyle and don't necessarily see grocery shopping as a chore.
We need a company logo for OurGroceries, and a corresponding icon that can be used for the OurGroceries application (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry). Together, the logo and icon will form our brand.
Our website is http://www.ourgroceries.com for more information about the application. The iPhone App Store listing for OurGroceries is here:
Our current app icon is a crop of the same photo used in the website's banner area: a collection of orange slices viewed through dozens of water droplets. We like the "orange slices" concept as a starting point but we'd like to see other design concepts as well. We want something bold, bright and colorful.
Our users use OurGroceries for many shared lists: To Do lists, gift ideas, favorite wines, etc. Accordingly, the icon should not show a shopping cart or traditional iconography associated with grocery shopping apps. Other shopping list apps in the App Store already use such iconography – we need to stand out from that crowd (search for "shopping list" in the App Store to see what's out there).
http://icondesign.dk/ is an example of a visual style that we like for app icons.
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Anderson, Alford lead UCLA past Colorado 92-74
LOS ANGELES (AP) Kyle Anderson had 22 points, seven rebounds and 11 assists, freshman Bryce Alford scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half on four 3-pointers, and UCLA rallied from a 12-point first-half deficit for a 92-74 victory over Colorado on Thursday night.
Jordan Adams had 17 points and seven rebounds and Travis Wear shot 6 of 6 for a season-high 13 points for the Bruins (19-5, 8-3 Pac-12), who remained in second place in conference action behind Arizona (23-1, 10-1), which plays at Arizona State on Friday night.
Josh Scott led Colorado (18-7, 7-5) with 20 points. Askia Booker added 16 points and a career-high 12 assists and Xavier Johnson had 14 points and nine rebounds.
Alford made three 3-pointers and Adams added five points during an 18-5 run that gave the Bruins a 68-58 lead with 10:21 remaining, and they were on top the rest of the way.
The Bruins are 5-1 at home against league opponents and 3-2 on the road while the Buffaloes are 6-1 at home and 1-4 on the road.
Colorado entered having won three straight and was 4-3 since losing Spencer Dinwiddie for the season with a knee injury last month. The Buffaloes are 15-1 at home with their only loss a 69-56 setback to UCLA on Jan. 16 in the Buffaloes' first game without Dinwiddie, the team's leader in scoring, assists and steals when he was injured.
The Buffaloes cut UCLA's 10-point lead in half before Anderson scored five straight points to make it 81-71 with 5:01 left. Colorado wasn't closer than seven points after that and the Bruins pulled away by scoring the game's final 11 points.
The Bruins shot 7 of 10 to begin the game and led by as many as eight points before Scott scored nine points during a 28-8 run that gave the Buffaloes a 33-21 lead.
Four straight points by Anderson triggered a 15-5 spurt that enabled UCLA to draw within two points before a dunk by Scott as the first half ended put the Buffaloes on top 40-36.
Colorado shot 16 of 29 in the first half while the Bruins were 15 of 30. Anderson, the only Division I player in the country averaging at least 10 points, eight rebounds and six assists, had nine points, six assists and three rebounds in the half. The 6-foot-9 sophomore entered averaging 15.1 points, 8.7 rebounds and 6.7 assists.
Colorado's Wesley Gordon, averaging 6.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and a team-leading 1.7 blocked shots, sat out his second straight game because of an injured ankle. The freshman forward has started all 21 games in which he's played.


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Former Martin Family Property to become Public Park
The Felix E. Martin Jr. Foundation has made a gift of the former Martin House property to the City of Greenville. The beautiful 5-acre property situated at the corner of East Main Cross Street and Martin Street has been given to Greenville for use as a public park to be known as the Martin Grounds. In addition to the property, the Martin Foundation will also provide $70,000.00 in funding for initial improvements to the new park as well as $15,000.00 in funding for park maintenance over 5 years.
The Park will feature a custom designed 20 ft. x 20 ft. gazebo, which will have a beautiful view of downtown Greenville and the surrounding areas. The park and gazebo will be open to the public. Parking for Martin Grounds will be available at the lot located on Chatham Lane and close to the Morgan Park Pool.
Ed DeArmond, Mayor of Greenville, said "the addition of these five acres and the construction of a unique gazebo, prominently placed at the apex of this property, will greatly enhance the beauty and usefulness of the park as a whole." The City of Greenville plans to develop the park over the summer and, subsequently, have an official dedication/ribbon-cutting ceremony of "Martin Grounds" this fall. Administrator Ben Van Hooser added "this white gazebo may be for years to come the site of choice for outdoor weddings."
Kathy Jacobi, president of the Felix E. Martin, Jr. Foundation said "The Foundation is very happy that this unique property will be available for everyone in Muhlenberg County to enjoy – it's a great spot to enjoy a beautiful day." The gift supports the Foundation's mission to enrich the lives of the citizens of Muhlenberg County – both today and for generations to come.


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Jumping into council priorities and the fire department situation will be first order of business for Jeff Helfrich, Randy Holmstrom, Gail Lewis and Mark Storm, the newest members of Cascade Locks City Council.
The quartet was appointed Monday by Council Members Lance Masters, Eva Zerfing and Tom Cramblett.
Holmstrom served on council from 1999-2006, and Lewis and Helfrich ran for council in 2010.
The new council members will be sworn in at a special meeting as early as next Tuesday, according to Paul Koch, the city's interim city administrator. (At least one of the new appointees is currently out of town, and Koch said he is working to firm up the schedule; see the Oct. 29 edition of Hood River News for details.)
Cramblett, Zerfing and Masters are the remaining three members following the Sept. 20 recall election that put former Mayor George Fischer and former council members Tiffany Pruit, Kevin Benson and Don Haight out off office.
"They stayed with the open, transparent approach," said Koch in response to the actions taken by existing council members throughout the appointment process. "You may disagree with what they did, but they kept it open and stayed with their plan to do so."
Ten of the 11 applicants were interviewed Oct. 19 and Oct. 24 in open session. Also applying were Cindilee Baseman, Glenda Groves, William Logue, Bradley Lorang, Richard Randall, Michael "Cody" Steelman and Bobby Walker. (Logue did not appear for an interview.)
The next scheduled council meeting will be Nov. 14. The newly formed council will nominate and vote in one of its members to serve as mayor; the new mayor will serve through December 2012, finishing the term started by Fischer, who was elected in November 2010.
Also on the agenda will be the fire and emergency services department, Koch's contract and the current list of council priorities.
The fire department is currently led by Chief Zerfing, on a volunteer, part-time basis. A bare-bones crew of volunteers is staffing the department, after most of the volunteers either quit or took a leave of absence in July and August following the resignation of former chief Jeff Pricher.
Koch said he will present the council with the set of priorities adopted in early August by the former council. The new council can adopt the priorities, revise them or start over, according to Koch.
The top two priorities as they now stand are resolving the fire and emergency services department crisis and revising the city budgeting process.
Koch said the council members and appointees know that the city has been preparing for a budget process to start in January with two community meetings.
He added that all council members, current and newly appointed, have agreed to undergo a council training regimen, to start next month.
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Meditation and yoga are forms of mental exercise practice to help one find inner peace and strength. The whole idea is to free your mind of outside distractions while concentrating on deep breathing to help increase your feeling of peace and self awareness. To effectively practice meditation you need to be able to drown out the outside sounds of family, television and whatever other noise is a part of your life. Find a quiet place where you can be alone to sit quiet and practice your deep breathing. Breathing in and out, taking and releasing deeper breaths with each breath. One thing you will want to do before you begin your meditation or yoga session is to set a timer for the length of time you want your session to last. There are many timers that are designed specifically to be used for meditation and yoga sessions. They come with pleasant sounding alarms or even Tibetan gong sounds so you are not startled when it announces the end of your session. One such timer is the Enso Clock.
The Japanese word Enso means "circle", and it is a symbol found in calligraphy that means enlightenment, elegance, strength and the void. The symbol for Enso is a single brushstroke that when written it is done in a clockwise motion from left to right. Some artists close the circle while others leave it slightly open. In Buddhist paintings the symbol of enso means the moment when the mind is free enough to create a feeling of peace in the moment. When a person is attempting to reach their inner peace the last thing they want to do is to have to watch the clock while they are meditating or doing yoga. The Enso clock will give you that freedom. This simple timer is designed to countdown the time during yoga or meditation. Preset the desired time on the clock and it will slowly paint the enso circle as time passes and will alert you with one of four selectable sounds when time is up. The enso clock can also be used as an alarm clock to wake you in the morning. It will wake you with chosen pleasant sounds instead of the loud annoying beep beep of regular alarm clocks. This alarm can awaken even the deepest sleeper with its peaceful sounds. The Enso clock is an indispensable tool for meditation and yoga practice.
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How To Slice an Avocado
Have you ever received a salad garnished with perfect, fanned-out slices of avocado and wondered how the chef managed to do it without making a squashed mess? Slicing an avocado is a simple technique that requires minimal knife skills and just a few seconds of your time.
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If the only thing you've done with an avocado is mash it into guacamole, then the thought of creating smooth, even slices of avocado may seem daunting. But the technique couldn't be easier — it just requires a sharp knife and a gentle touch.
One of the main issues in slicing avocado flesh is that it is easily mashed and squished. It's hard to handle without getting your hands full of slippery green glop that gets over everything. The trick to avoiding this is simple: Slice the avocado while it's still in its shell and then gently scoop the slices out with a spoon. It's so easy!
You can also do exactly the opposite with equal ease: Run a thin metal spoon (a larger soup spoon is best) between the flesh and skin of an avocado half to loosen it and then pop the intact avocado half out onto a cutting board. From there you can slice and dice to your recipe's specifications.
If you don't know how to remove an avocado pit, then visit our post on how to remove an avocado pit with a chef's knife.
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- Remove the pit: Slice the avocado open vertically and remove the pit. (For more details see How to Remove the Pit from an Avocado)
- Slice the avocado inside the skin: Using just the tip of the knife, slice into the avocado flesh, making sure to not pierce the skin. Follow the natural curve of the avocado using the tip of the knife. Repeat until you have cut through the entire avocado. Slices can be as thick or as thin as needed and can go either vertically or horizontally. You can also slice the avocado in both directions, cross-hatched, to make cubes.
- Scoop out the avocado: Gently work a spoon between the flesh and the skin of the avocado. Following the curve of the avocado with the bowl of the spoon, scoop the slices out of the shell.
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- Switch to a paring knife for slicing the avocado if that feels more comfortable than using the larger chef's knife.
- You can also scoop out the entire avocado half, still whole, using your thin soup spoon and then use it whole or slice it on a cutting board.
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So you're committed to improve your home and you've decided to purchase new window shutters. Where do you begin? Danmer Custom Shutters strongly suggests you use these 8 important questions to help guide you through your shutter shopping experience.
Are the shutters custom made for me?
Make sure your shutters are hand-crafted to your exact speficications, including color, finish and size to ensure your shutters fit your window flawlessly and match your décor. Danmer's genuine custom shutters are made from the ground up to fit your size and shape of window, and made to match your décor…no exceptions!
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There will always be homeowners who insist on wood shutters. But one alternative you should ask for is Thermalite™ Shutters. Unlike wood shutters, Thermalite will NEVER peel, crack, warp, burn, or discolor. They don't lose tension so they work perfectly for many years. And the water-based finish insures safety with no harmful toxic effects.
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The Contractors State License Board regulates California contractors, while investigating over 20,000 complaints each year. Ask any shutter company about their installers: Will the person who installs your shutters be licensed, bonded, insured, factory trained and certified? Do they have a minimum 10 year track record installing shutters? Danmer's license is #574304 and we've NEVER had a complaint filed gainst our installers with the CSLB.
What's The Right Shutters For My Home Environment?
The Thermalite™ Shutter Insulating System was created to reduce energy consumption in your home, insulating your windows up to 3x better than wood shutters, keeping your house warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. Thermalite is made of a non-toxic material that's flame retardant, water resistant,and produces very low VOCs.
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Danmer Custom Window Shutters are manufactured and assembled right here in the USA. We believe that investing in your home is an investment in rebuilding America. Other companies will also claim that their products are made in the USA, but in reality many are only assembled in the USA from foreign manufactured parts. Danmer shutters are produced here in the USA using safe and reliable materials.
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I had some incredible years playing at Michigan. And that was because of my teammates, the staff, the fans, the tradition. I'm so thankful for my Michigan experience and wanted to share a new venture I'm working on with the Michigan faithful. It's called Merit.
Merit is cause design. We create fashionable products that help disadvantaged youth get to college by donating 20% of your purchases to fund college scholarships. In addition, it's important for us to provide resources and opportunities for underserved youth to gain college admission. Therefore, we've launched FATE (Day 1 Recap), our very own education program with Detroit's Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, preparing the next generation to embrace their education and become world class citizens.
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Want the homemade look for your kid's costume, but don't have time to DIY? Pick one of these beautiful costumes, made by Etsy artists. by Lauren Passell
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Polly wants a cracker… and a Butterfinger… and some candy corn…
Turquoise Parrot Costume, $50, available at thumbelinaworkshop.etsy.com
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She'll be a force to be reckoned with (or at least cuddled) in this totally sweet triceratops hat. Don't worry—the horns are filled with soft polyfil, so hurtful headbutts will go the way of the dinosaurs. Bonus: it's adjustable and comes in a sweet range of colors (Who says there weren't pink dinosaurs?).
Triceratops Hat, $34, available at tizzydee.etsy.com
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A Dino Tale
This dinosaur tail will make him really feel like a mean, green reptile. Perfect for stomping around and saying "rawwwrrrrghhhh!"
Green and red dino/dragon dress up tail, $40, available at humbleluna.etsy.com
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The Very Little Mermaid
This tiny mermaid tail will make a big splash on Halloween. (No need to buy the coconut bra just yet.)
Mermaid Tail and Headband Set, $35, available at mamamegsyarnshoppe.etsy.com
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More adorable than ferocious, this dino (or dragon) cape is the perfect thing to adorn your kid on Halloween as he darts from house to house in search of candy. Totally customizable in with your kid's favorite color combo.
Dinosaur Cape with 3D Scales, $40, available at pipandbean.etsy.com
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The Modern Princess
There are plenty of ways you could go with this pretty pink hat, but we think if your daughter really is a little princess, she'd make an adorable Kate Middleton for Halloween.
Hot Pink Rosette Fascinator, $40, available at cocorosecouture.etsy.com
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It's the Cat's Pajamas
Cheers to a cute black cat costume that isn't unlucky! Comes with handmade black cat ears and a black tutu skirt with removable white boa tail.
Black Cat Costume, $30.50, available at sweetthingskids.etsy.com
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Prince Adorable
He may burp at the dinner table or take off his pants in public, but in this sweet Prince Phillip costume (remember Sleeping Beauty?) he'll be a classy little prince. Matching crown available separately ($20).
Prince Phillip Cape, $30, available at saflower.etsy.com
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Social Butterfly
These glittery wings are super durable and won't crack if bent. And while we love this red, gold and bright robin's egg blue, you can have a custom pair made in just about any color combo imaginable.
Butterfly Wings, $50, available at barbedlotus.etsy.com
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We're Hooked
Your little one is sure to find some treasure while trick-or-treating in this sweet pirate girl tunic and bloomers set. Matching sets available for little pirate brothers, too!
(Pirate Girl Tunic, $39.50, available at raegun.etsy.com)
For the kid who can't decide if she wants to be Super Cupcake Girl or Protector of Horses, this double-sided cape will make dress-up twice the fun. Choose from a variety of colors and patterns, like stars, shields, jewels, initials (and of course, cupcakes and horses.)
Double-Sided Superhero Cape, $24, available at kjeane76.etsy.com
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You've Got Sunshine
This sunny baby cap will put a smile on anybody's face. (Even on a cloudy day.)
Crocheted sunflower hat, $42, available at hatandcoldcrochet.etsy.com
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Easy Being Green
Contrary to what Kermit the Frog once said, it is easy being green—at least in this sweet frog hat and diaper cover. Perfect for a Halloween costume or baby's first photo session.
Baby Frog Hat & Diaper Cover, $35, available at jamieinthesky.etsy.com
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Tutu Cute for Words
This sweet tutu is for good witches only. We love the classic satin hat (with glitter) and the fact that it comes with its own trick-or-treating sack.
Witch Tutu, $49, available at bellabowgirls.etsy.com
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane...
You already knew you were Supermom, and here's your chance to tell the world. (Or at least the other trick-or-treaters.) Also available for all of the Superdads out there, too!
Superhero Mom Cape, $34, available at babypop.etsy.com
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Tater Tot
Your babe's so adorable, he even looks cute in a burlap sack! Prove it with this totally unique bag of potatoes costume. You can even put your baby's name and weight on the front to double the cuteness. Don't worry about itchy material; it looks like burlap but it's actually made from super-soft material. (And of course, don't make the drawstring around the neck too tight.)
Sack of Taters Costume, $45, available at Taters Mom
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Babies Gone Viking
Is your baby hair-challenged? Problem solved! This soft fleece Viking helmet with lovely, long blonde locks will bring out your baby's inner Norseman. Helmet can be ordered sans braids, or even made in purple (for all you Minnesota Vikings fans.)
Viking Baby Hairdo Hat, $17.95, available at The Green Hedgehog
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What's Up, Small Fry?
If your two favorite things on this earth are 1) Your baby and 2) french fries, then you're in luck with these deliciously adorable overalls, which combine both. Girlify this outfit by ordering with elastic and ruffles around the legs.
French Fry Overalls, $39.50, available at Rae Gun
Kind of Corny
What's Halloween without candy corn? Let your kid bring the sweetness with this fun felt costume. ($27)
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Attack of the Claw!
The costume possibilities for these creepy gloves are endless—they're just begging for your kid to slip them on and start growling. Each sparkly nail is backed with a piece of sturdy wool felt, so the gloves will last through Halloween, hours of playtime, and beyond.
Gloves with Nails, $13, available at Snippet Fairy
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It's a shame to spend money on something that can only be worn once—but this knitted dragon cap will look cute on baby's head all winter long.
Dragon Hat, $32, available at Pedestrian
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We love the homemade look of this crocheted Frankenstein hat. Just pair with shredded brown tee and pants, and the costume's complete.
Frankenstein Hat, $22.99, available at nmelone13
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I Scream, You Scream
All dressed up for Halloween—with a cherry on top! This sweet—in both senses of the word—costume is padded, super comfy, and reminds us of yummy sundaes at the ice-cream shop. ($32)
Ice Cream Costume, $36, available at Laurie's Gift
At the Hop
Our favorite poodle skirts are poofy enough for your girly-girl, but an elastic waistband gives them a comfy, flexible fit. Let's twist! ($24.99)
Magic Dragon
This dragon's way too cute to even think about slaying. It makes a perfect accompaniment to a sibling princess or fairy tale costume, too. ($28)
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Shark Bite
Shark's are frightening in the water but not-so-scary (and even kind of huggable) when they arrive on doorsteps, ready to trick or treat.
Shark, $38, available at Laurie's Gift
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Not only will your baby look freakin' adorable, she'll be free to run and play in this easy-to-wear onesie. Just be sure nobody comes and eats her up!
Sushi Costume, $50, available from Not the Kitchen Sink
The only thing that would make this tiny Flinstones inspired costume cuter would be a felt bone hair clip. Oh wait—it comes with that? Awesome! ($30)
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Little Bo Peep
This super sweet dress is perfect for Halloween or endless dress-up sessions. The little pants underneath the dress make the outfit extra unique.
Little Bo Peep Costume, $70, available at Bella Jean Boutique
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Dogs need Halloween tricks and treats too, and this weirdly awesome costume will make him the coolest pooch on the block.
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The week started off well for the Lady Devils during away games against Emery and Gunnison. On Sept. 11, the girls played Emery, where the Lady Devils won four of the five events for the day.
GCHS senior Brianna Ballard continued her winning streak in the No. 1 singles division, and senior Torrie Lopez scored another win for Grand in No. 2 singles. Freshman Kayla Weston also has yet to be beaten, emerging triumphant in the No. 3 singles match.
Grand's doubles players had mixed results. Junior Jacey Johnson and freshman Brityn Ballard lost their No. 1 doubles match, but junior Madi Stocks and freshman Robin Wilscheidt won in the No. 2 doubles division.
The Lady Devil junior varsity team split their matches, 2-2. GCHS juniors Deanna Irvin and Shalia Harmison won their doubles match, while junior Becca Farnsworth and freshman Brittnee Lewis lost, as did sophomores Rebecca Minor and Cassidy Walker. Junior Kim Lewis won her JV singles match.
Later in the day, Grand traveled to Gunnison, where they swept the competition by winning all five of their events. Ballard, Lopez and Weston played the singles slots again, while Johnson and Ballard and Stocks, and Harmison competed in the doubles division.
Grand's junior varsity team went 3-1 at Gunnison, with Irvin and Farnsworth winning their doubles match. Walker and Brittnee Lewis also won their doubles match, while Minor lost her singles event. Kim Lewis was once again victorious in singles, giving Grand the JV win over the Lady Bulldogs junior varsity team.
Later in the week, the Lady Devils played their homecoming matches against San Juan in Moab. While the competition was tougher, the Lady Devils still rallied and came out with a victory in their last match of the season, 3-2.
All of Grand's singles players won their matches, with Ballard, Lopez, and Weston sweeping the singles slots. However, Johnson and Brityn Ballard lost the No. 1 doubles match, as did Stocks and Wilscheidt in the No. 2 doubles event. Overall, the Lady Devils sent San Juan home with a loss as Grand prepares to move into region play next week.
"I am very impressed by our team," said head coach Brian Ballard. "The girls are really stepping up. They've put in a lot of hard work at practice and they are doing very, very well. Going into region next week, I think we have a pretty good standing. We hope to go in and play well, enough so that all of our girls can go to state. I couldn't be more proud of these girls. They've been playing very well, and their hearts are really in it here at the end."
The Lady Devils will travel to Richfield on Friday, Sept. 21 to compete in the region tournament, which will determine which teams qualify to compete at the state competition. The state tournament is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29 at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City.


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UC-Irvine's Jon Endrikat won the decisive third set over Yale's Ryan Murphy at No. 1 to lead the Anteaters to a 4-3 victory over the Bulldogs. UC-Irvine had won the doubles point by taking two of three matches, and won two singles matches before Yale rallied with three straight wins to force the deciding match. Endrikat's 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 win clinched it.


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Comedian/playwright/essayist Martin (Pure Drivel, 1998, etc.) adds still another string to his bow with this winsome fairy tale of ill-matched love in Beverly Hills.
Martin seems to approach his characters like a surgeon for whom they hold no secrets—not one of those plastic surgeons whose prowess can be seen adorning the minor characters, but an old-fashioned G.P. who still cares about his patients. Mirabelle Buttersfield, who doesn't care that she's stuck in a dead-end job (selling gloves at Neiman Marcus) because she's really an artist, may not know that nobody in the world but herself thinks she's an artist. But Martin knows. He knows that Ray Porter, the Seattle millionaire who's wooing Mirabelle, doesn't intend to make any commitment to her, even though Mirabelle understands the conversation in which he seeks to establish his polite wariness in exactly the opposite terms. And he knows, even if Mirabelle doesn't, that she's worth a hundred of the blow-dried floozies like Lisa Cramer, one aisle over in fragrances, who'd love to be draped on Ray's arm instead. The delicacy of Martin's perception is so appealing that he succeeds in building a novella out of nothing but nonstop explanations of things the characters don't understand: why Ray is drawn to such an unprepossessing heroine in the first place, how his unfailing kindness is different from the love she craves, how she retreats periodically into the terrors of clinical depression, why their romance is doomed even though they love each other. Though Martin's telescope brings each of his heavenly bodies up fascinatingly close, though, it also isolates them each from the others, and there's something chilly in this little fable.
It's more reassuring to think of the author not as surgeon or astronomer, but as a concerned parent who gently heads off every answer readers could possibly have about this bedtime story of loneliness faced and conquered before he finally turns out the light.