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- Apr 2:
- Connecticut lawmakers reach deal on tough gun laws
- Jan 15:
- Newtown parents, residents form group to urge national dialogue
- Jan 5:
- Newtown, Connecticut, struggles with how to handle memorials after shooting
- Jan 4:
- Sandy Hook students return to class at another school in nearby town
- Jan 3:
- Touring new school after Connecticut shooting, Newtown parents thank teachers
- Dec 28:
- Gun group offers training for Utah teachers
- Newtown, Conn., sifts through avalanche of gifts
- Dec 26:
- Newtown marks Christmas amid memorials
- Dec 25:
- Newtown child calls NORAD
- Some in Newtown want action to come of grief
- Routine violent deaths of children that the president feared may already be here
- Israel rejects NRA claims in aftermath of Newtown shootings
- Dec 23:
- Newtown: Parents, gift-givers rethink video games as gifts
- Parents' burden: Lack of resources adds to challenges of caring for the mentally ill
- Dec 22:
- Columbine survivors tell Newtown families 'over time, pain lessens'
- Dec 21:
- Children, teachers remembered in string of Connecticut funerals
- Colorado officials respond to NRA's call for armed cops in all schools
- Dec 20:
- Adam Lanza and Asperger's syndrome reports: Parents of children with syndrome worry about stigma
- Columbine points to a painful road ahead for Newtown
- Colorado to observe moment of silence for Sandy Hook victims Friday
- Connecticut school shooting: Newtown says goodbye in funerals, wakes for students, teachers
- Dec 19:
- Donations flood Newtown after shootings, but not all are going to the right place
- Therapy dogs offer comfort in Newtown after shootings
- Classes resume in Newtown, minus Sandy Hook
- Decisions, actions in wake of Connecticut massacre growing in number
- Dec 18:
- President seeks proposals to reduce gun violence
- Sandy Hook shooting ignited intense feelings for Columbine parents
- Dec 17:
- Connecticut shooting results in locked school doors in Colorado
- Newtown to the media: You're making this nightmare worse
- Funerals for first victims of Newtown, Conn., shooting held
- Debate over guns is not new to Newtown
- Police give all-clear after threat made against Connecticut church
- N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses for tougher gun laws
- Funerals set for three children in school shooting
- Connecticut school gunman Adam Lanza had hundreds of rounds of ammunition
- Sandy Hook staffers hailed as heroes in Connecticut school shooting
- Terry Frei: Columbine survivor Patrick Ireland symbol of strength for Sandy Hook
- Connecticut school shooting: Obama grieves with victims, promises to use power to help
- Dec 16:
- Video: Obama offers love, prayers of nation in Newtown
- Connecticut shooting sparks questions about balance in school safety
- Obama to visit Newtown, Conn., meet with shooting victims' families
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- Mother Jones' guide to mass shootings in America
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- Adam Lanza, Newtown, Conn., shooter, may have had form of autism
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NEWTOWN, Conn. — At the crossroads that marks the center of this three-century-old New England postcard town stands a flagpole that's a kind of barometer. Every day, says Susan Osborne White, who has lived here all her life, "it tells me which way the wind is blowing" — and she calls the local newspaper whenever the flag is lowered to half-staff, to ask why.
No one is asking that now as the flag forlornly hangs over a heartbroken, uncomprehending town of 27,000.
Along streets where every window twinkles with holiday candles, police sirens wailed Friday. Over horse pastures in what was until fairly recently a rural town, helicopters' rotors thudded. In shops, televisions set to news stations blared.
at a TV image of the shooting scene behind him at Newtown Hardware, Kyle Watts gave a pained cry, "I know that place," and shook his head. He's 18 and had gone to Sandy Hook Elementary School, and yet he and others working at the store felt they hardly knew where they were."A week or two ago," he said in disbelief, "we had the Christmas tree lighting. There was singing."
In normal times, this is a place that marks the year with a community tree lighting, an endless Labor Day parade running past the Main Street flagpole in which it's said everyone is either a participant or spectator or both, an annual fund-raising lobster dinner at one of the five volunteer fire companies. It's a place where a benefactress, Mary Hawley, donated the classically designed town hall and the large, red-brick library, both set among towering oaks and maples. Part of one of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn comedies was filmed on a town lake.
It's become a bedroom community for commuters to Manhattan and Connecticut's more toney coastal towns, but it has retained the rural character that was set in 1708 when the colonial assembly of Connecticut permitted 36 men to lay out a new town. Some houses date from that era, but there are typical modern subdivisions, too.
"It's still very much a small town in its heart. People really know each other," said Dan Cruson, the town's historian who has written a number of books about Newtown.
Sandy Hook is a section of town where the first grist mill was built along the rocky, rushing Pootatuck River. Other mills followed, and manufacturing grew in Sandy Hook. "It's always had its own identity," Cruson said, and in recent years it has been revitalized with smart restaurants and shops in Sandy Hook's center.
Every year, the local Lions Club raises thousands of dollars with a charity event along the river: Thousands of numbered yellow rubber ducks are sold for $5 each, then dumped in the swift current for a "race," the winner of which might get a big screen TV or a weekend in Manhattan 60 miles away.
In the crowd watching and cheering and at events like the fire department's lobster dinner, "everyone knows everyone. All of Sandy Hook is so tight," said Watts.
Maybe the school shooter was recognized when he entered and didn't seem a threat because he was known, he and others at the hardware store speculated. "You would never think ...," he said, leaving the thought incomplete.
The closeness has another dimension, of course.
"Everybody in town is going to help out. ... All of the churches are open tonight," said his co-worker Francis Oggeri, who's 22.
Scudder Smith agreed. "I was just down at the firehouse. Restaurants were sending in food," said Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee, the weekly paper that has published since 1877.
He said Newtown is "getting bigger than the little country town that I grew up in. I've been here 77 years.... But it still has the feeling between neighbors that it always had."
The Bee had closed this week's edition — with front-page reports on the schools "performing at or above target," on vandalism at a cemetery — when the first word of the shooting came in.
"We've been putting everything on our website. We were the first ones down there," Smith said. "We've had calls from Turkey, all over Europe."
A police scanner alerted the newsroom, and reporter Shannon Hicks said, "I listened long enough to figure out where this was unfolding and headed out." Her photo of terrified children being led across a school parking lot appeared around the world.
Said Hicks: "It's a good town. We have our issues" — squabbling over the local budget, police news and the like — "but this is not the kind of thing that's supposed to be one of them."
Standing by the cluttered antique wooden desk of the publisher, she looked down sadly. "I've already heard comparisons to Columbine," she said.
Folks here want to tell about the town that was here for 300 years before Friday's attack.
At the Bee, they mention how Halloween brings out so many children to Main Street houses — one was made into a "princess castle" this year, another for years had a three-story web and giant spider in front — that the paper has used clickers and counted more than 2,000 kids some years.
They mention the homely, simple things that might counter the horror.
"We have two garden clubs, and they get along, they don't hate each other," said Susan White, who checks the flagpole every day.
She laughed but then grew more serious, mentioning that her father was on the school board that authorized the building of the Sandy Hook school. "That was my school," she said.
She recalled a ceremony marking an award her mother recently received for work on a 75-year-old scholarship fund in town. "It was a Norman Rockwell moment."
And was this a Norman Rockwell town?
"We've got our ups and downs, but we're a very real town. 'Norman Rockwell' sounds like we're perfect ... but we're not very different from any other town," she said.
And now, she added, "People will stick together. They have to."


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The Ken Watters Group: Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure is trumpeter Ken Watters' first recording for Summit without his brother, trombonist Harry, in the starting lineup, but Ken has found an able replacement on the front line in friend and former Big Apple roommate Joel Frahm. Frahm is a fast""rising post""bop saxophonist, and it's a pity he's not used more often; as it is, he's heard only on Watters' compositions "April Third (tenor) and "Pathfinder (soprano) and the Allman Brothers' "Jessica (again on soprano). Watters makes up in part for Frahm's absence by complementing his own engaging tunes with a brace of well""known standards ("Stella by Starlight, "We'll Be Together Again ) and covers of three pop / rock classics ("Jessica, Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now, James Taylor's "Fire and Rain ). This is Watters' working group, and it shows; the quartet is tight, and everyone is meticulously in sync. Beyond that, however, there's not much to report, as no one has anything particularly fresh or stimulating to impart even though the session is marked by a substantial level of professionalism. Watters fares best on the slower""paced numbers ("Horizon, "Both Sides Now, "We'll Be Together Again ) while pianist David Marlow acquits himself well on two extended solos ("Stella, "Fire and Rain ). Watters has assembled a dependable, well""ordered quartet, and we certainly can't undervalue that; neither, on the other hand, can we award high marks for boldness or intensity. Southern Exposure is a solid, well""played session that hasn't quite enough muscle to subdue its able""bodied competition.
Track Listing: Jessica; Cooler on the Horizon; Both Sides Now; Stella by Starlight; We?ll Be Together Again; April Third; Fire & Rain; Pathfinder (51:12).
Personnel: Ken Watters, trumpet, flugelhorn; David Marlow, piano; Roy Yarbrough, bass; Jay Frederick, drums. Special guest Joel Frahm, saxophones.
Style: Straight-ahead/Mainstream

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Pretty Little Liars Preview & Photos: Caleb Joins the Girls in Taking Down "A" in Episode 2.15
Pretty Little Liars returned tonight with a red herring. Only instead of 'A' being the one pulling the strings, it was the girls doing the scheming. Aria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer have finally reached their breaking point and it's clear they're prepared to fight back.
In the winter premiere of Pretty Little Liars, it appeared that Emily was at war with the rest of her friends as all the girls worked on their community service as a result of last summer's arrest. The first half of the episode focused on Emily feeling like the weakest link in the chain, sounding like the odd one out since she wanted to make a deal with 'A'. 'A' was definitely paying attention and offered to make a deal with Emily. But Emily revealed that the girls had set up the whole situation and weren't actually fighting. Instead, they were setting up 'A' to get caught by all of them. Unfortunately, the rendezvous didn't go exactly as planned and 'A' managed to excape, but he/she dropped a valuable clue: his/her cell phone. It may be busted, but 'A''s cell phone is one of the best clues the girls have managed to accumulate in their quest to learn 'A''s identity.
Meanwhile, Ezra and Aria told Aria's parents about their relationship, which shocked them. Caleb returned to town, which made Hanna happy, but her father also arrived to announce that he and his new family would be moving to Rosewood, which didn't please Hanna at all.
A new episode of Pretty Little Liars will be airing next week on January 9. In the episode, titled "A Hot Piece of 'A'", the girls want to get to the information on 'A''s cell phone, but need Caleb's hacking skills to accomplish that. Hanna, of course, isn't really on board with the plan, because she doesn't want Caleb to get involved in the 'A' situation, especially since she can't tell him the whole truth. But the girls quickly realize that 'A' has a helper, and Hanna is forced to ask Caleb for his help so they can learn the truth.
Hanna is also preoccupied with putting together a surprise party for Caleb at Spencer's lake house. But will the party end in disaster?
Watch sneak peek below for the January 9 episode of Pretty Little Liars, beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC Family. Use the arrows above to navigate through some photos for the episode. Below the sneak peek is a trailer for the next episode (warning: it's pretty spoilery).
Keep an eye on our Pretty Little Liars season 2 spoiler page, for upcoming episode spoilers and links to trailers and sneak peeks.
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Disclaimer: Some of the images on the scroll are inappropriate (although if you really want to see images of people having a flatulence war, images of bare bottoms and few bare, feminine tops, will probably not bother you much), so for the sake of people who have no intention of watching nearly naked people farting at each other, you'll have to actually click the links to see the images.
Have you ever found yourself innocently watching Youtube videos, but slowly, surely find yourself creeping into the weird part of Youtube through the continuous clicking of related videos? I had a moment like that, except it was on Google, and a combination unholy search strings. I was eventually led to this article about Japanese fart scrolls.
Apparently, Waseda University uploaded a scroll from the Edo period of Japan called 屁合戦 (Hegassen), or "The Fart War". Naturally, since we live in the age of the Internet, this spread like wildfire. Seriously, if you run a simple Google search for "Japanese Fart Scrolls," you'll find tons of hits, and that's only in English!
For those of you who don't wish to look at the scroll, here's a summary of what it contains: people farting. I mean farting everywhere. Uprooting trees with their farts, making people levitate with their farts, exploding small buildings with their farts, blowing away cats with their farts, etc. In one image, a group of people try to use a table turned on its side as a barricade to protect them from the flatulence, but the farts of their enemies burst right through the table!
Aside from having an immature laugh at these scrolls, I think they teach us two very important things.
1.) The Japanese have been wacked for centuries. And here I thought they were "normal" until their defeat in WW2. Guess I was wrong.
2.) Fart jokes are funny, and they always have been. When someone farts, we laugh whilst holding our noses. You can't tell me that you're too mature to laugh when someone unexpectedly lets one rip.
So, that's my interesting bit of insight for the day. Don't try that stuff at home!


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A resident of Barrington, Elizabeth Walter has expressed her talent over a wide range of media, including: etching, silkscreen, block print, engraving, wood cuts, oil painting, and water colors.
Her early experiences in the field of art include: participation in the scholarship art lecture program at the Art Institute of Chicago for six years and illustrating for W. T. Grant Company. Amongst her many other credentials, she co-chaired the Art Awareness Program at St. Anne's School in Barrington. The purpose of this program was to familiarize children with the great art masterpieces throughout history. In 1984 Ms. Walter was asked to teach art to the students. She started the art program for Kindergarten though eighth grade at St. Anne's School, which she taught for five years. After that, she was an instructor at Kaleidoscope School of Art in Barrington. Elizabeth also has been a featured artist in various galleries over the years.
In addition, she has written a book, Barefoot in the Rubble, which is about her childhood experiences in Yugoslavia where she spent almost three years in Communist concentration camps.
For more than six years since her book came out Elizabeth has been speaking and book signing in different parts of the U.S. In 2002 she spoke at the University of Wales. She was named the American Legion Auxiliary 1998 Woman of the Year for writing her book.
Elizabeth firmly believes that: "Art belongs to everyone; we all have been artists in some point in our lives. Children can draw before they can write."
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Book Signing – Cora Cooks Pancit
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I had a book signing at Barnes & Noble for the picture book I illustrated called Cora Cooks Pancit, and it was a blast!!!
Barnes & Noble sold out of the books they ordered for the signing, and then they sold 12 of my own copies that I brought in as backup. There was a line when I began the book signing and different people there the whole two hours. How fun is that!
We brought a big pot of pancit and Casey handed out samples while I signed. The recipe for pancit is in the book. It's a Filipino noodle dish with chicken, veggies, shiitake mushrooms, garlic, soy sauce, and ginger – quite yummy.
The story is about a lil' girl named Cora who wants to help her mom cook but is always given the little kid jobs like licking the spoon. One day when her older brother and sisters are out, she gets to be Mama's assistant chef and help with all the important cooking jobs. She wears her grandpa's red apron and uses his pancit recipe. At dinner that night, she anxiously waits to see if her family likes her cooking. It's a warm and family-oriented picture book. It's available at bookstores and on Amazon. Hope you check it out!
Amiah, our friend's daughter, wanted to spell her name for me. What a cutie.


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"This crowd-pleasing snack has been a tremendous hit both at home and at work," reports Billie Sue Ebinger from Holton, Indiana. The fun crunchy bites have a sweet cinnamon-toast taste and just a hint of saltiness that make them very munchable.
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Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 178 calories, 9 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 304 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.
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taste somewhat like a mini cinnamon rolls. taking to work for a morning staff meeting.
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I have made these several times for gifts at Christmas time. The teachers love them and so do neighbors that we have gifted! The kids don't like me to give them away though! Quick, easy and DELISH!
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I have been making these for years now. There is no one that does not like these sweet/salty treats. When I go to my friends house her kids look forward to the pretzel lady coming.
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A closer look at Bill Owens' big committee assignment
Owens, a Democrat from Plattsburgh, will be a minority member, but he's likely to be heavily courted by lobbyists from all corners of the country. He represents New York's 21st Congressional District, a vast region which includes most of the North Country.
"In truth, I was a bit surprised when it happened," Owens said. "Obviously, I was very happy, but surprised nonetheless that it happened this early on in my career in Congress."
Bill Owens said he sought out membership on the Appropriations Committee but didn't expect to get appointed. The appointment was formalized by the House Democratic Steering Committee on Jan. 4.
Owens said he will now have more influence on federal spending.
"I think that for a number of reasons, that's very helpful to the district," he said. "It allows you to have input on virtually every issue that is going on in the government today. It continues my ability to help on Armed Services in Fort Drum. It continues my ability to help with [agricultural] issues, with the border, with schools and education - virtually everything that impacts people in the district comes before this committee. So in terms of getting a broader based view, and having a broader impact, I thought this was very important that I at least seek this opportunity."
Jack McGuire is a political science professor at SUNY Potsdam. He said he thinks Owens got the assignment because his district is leaning Democrat more so than in the past, and Democrats want to hold onto the seat.
"So how can you hold onto that seat? Put somebody on that committee who might be able to serve the district well," he said. "And so I think that's part of the reason Bill Owens is now serving on that committee."
The Appropriations Committee was established in 1865. It sets funding levels for federal child care and educational programs, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and more.
McGuire said Owens should expect more attention from lobbyists. That's because the Appropriations Committee decides how much funding individual bills will get.
"So in terms of the entirety of all the funding for all of the different programs, departments, bureaus, agencies - it goes through the Appropriations Committee," McGuire said. "And so all of the trillions of dollars that fund the federal government are overseen, in at least one aspect, by the Appropriations Committee, which Bill Owens sits on."
The committee is an exclusive one, meaning Owens had to relinquish his membership on the Armed Services, Small Business and Agriculture committees. McGuire said because Appropriations is so powerful, it wouldn't be fair for its members to sit on other committees at the same time.
"It's a way in which to mollify, or to keep members in the House happy," he said. "And to not concentrate power too much in the hands of the few."
McGuire said traditionally, members of the Appropriations Committee are known for "bringing home the bacon." In other words, its members are able to negotiate funding items that benefit their home districts.
"You can rest assured that there's going to be a lot of the proverbial ornaments hanging off of the Christmas tree," McGuire said. "In all likelihood, he'll serve on different conference committees that are dealing with appropriations bills, and often times in the conferences, that's where you're going to see different little riders, if you want to call them riders, or little bits of pork that are put into the bills. I would imagine that some of that will come back to his district."
But Congress renewed a ban on earmarks this past fall, and Owens said 99 percent of the pork that used to be attached to appropriations bills has gone away. He said his goal is to make sure his district receives a proportional amount of federal funding, especially as Congress prepares to make spending cuts.
"I want to make sure that we, in the 21st, are getting the things that we need and a fair shake in this appropriations process," Owens said.
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McGuire stressed that the appointment is a big deal for Owens, who is still a relatively fresh face in Washington. But Owens himself seemed to downplay it.
"Clearly, I'm honored that the leadership in my caucus felt that I was a person who could do this job," he said. "And I think it reflects on my attitude, generally, that I'm always trying to search out the facts. I don't usually overreact to things; sometimes I'm criticized for that. But I'm really trying to understand what's the issue, what are the facts and how do we make a good decision."


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The British playwright described his most popular play in 1941 as an "improbable farce in three acts" which only took six days to write.
Dr. Anne Beck, director and assistant professor of theatre, says, "This play has a wide appeal with sophisticated humor and wit."
"Blithe Spirit" takes place in the living room of successful novelist Charles Condomine, played by ENMU senior John Moore and his wife, Ruth, played by ENMU student Heather Maez.
The Condomines have invited their friends, Dr. and Mrs. Bradman, to join them in a séance led by the village medium, Madam Arcati, played by ENMU student Jennae Pinnell, whose methods Charles will study for his new novel, "The Unseen."
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Today I want to invite you to take stock of all that you have been able to experience in your yoga practice. This can be looked at in several ways.
1. How was your mind with regard to the practice, when you began, and now? Just notice what differences there may be. Are they subtle differences? That is great. Slow and steady changes are actually preferable here in most instances.
2. How does your mind work with your present daily life? Does it seem the same as when you first began yoga? Are you doing something different, or it is just naturally happening on its own?
3. How do you feel emotionally in your yoga practice? In your daily life compared to when you first started yoga? Are there changes?
4. What other differences are there in your own experience of the practice of yoga, and in daily life? Have you made other changes in your life since you started practicing yoga? Are you able to be steady, consistent, kind, or patient in ways you were not before? Are these subtle changes or big ones?
This is really about noticing your own experience. But if you are seeing differences, or changes, have you noticed an appreciation that comes with noticing?
I, personally, feel a great appreciation. Not just for my practice, and the gift of yoga, but also for my own body's ability to do this work, and to grow on so many different levels. I feel grateful that this is a way to experience the healing and development of my body, and that this can be shared instead of being a lonely process. This sense of gratitude for the process and the possibility is something that I seem to take stock of every day. How this has worked in your life, and your opinion of what it is that makes the body to adapt and strengthen, relax and change really matters. See how you experience this and notice how your appreciation might encourage you to move forward in your practice (give you motivation), in the encouragement of others, and in a growing sense of shared experience, or in some other way. Just see what your own experience invites you to do.
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Yogic Concept of the Day: Notice what is appreciated about the practice and my experience of it, and how I feel encouraged to act in accord with this appreciation.


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Figure 3 Proportional enrolments in public higher education by race and level of study, 2009
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Figure 6 Enrolments in public institutions by nationality and qualification level, 2009
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Figure 7 Enrolments of foreign students by qualification level, 2000 and 2009
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The distribution of foreign students by region is as follows:
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So working out was tough? I'm not talking about what your former drill sergeant coach made you do to work out - I'm talking about actually playing the sport. I forgot you were only a special teamer though, so don't have a clue what playing an American Football game is like. I don't have a clue either, but I'll bet my left testicle I can out run any 300lb man. You don't seem to realise just how far a soccer player will run in a game compared to a football player - and there aren't any breaks!
Training for football would definately be a lot tougher than soccer though. Trying to remember exactly when to inject HGH and when to inject EPO must be tricky - and you have to put up with your balls shrinking! I'd definately rather skip all that and play a non-contact sport.
It's not a good thing. I don't understand why there is such an aggressive culture amongst soccer fans. I far prefer watching rugby/cricket live and sitting/standing with opposing fans, having civil conversations with them.My wife's brother lives in Seattle and came down for the game wearing his Sounders scarf and security wouldn't let him sit in our section.


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JULY 5th – JULY 7th 2012, UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL
Amphithéâtre du Cœur des Sciences (SH-2800)
Université du Québec à Montréal, 200 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Since Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) there are few images in the contemporary aesthetics of the corpse as significant as the transmediatic and truly global figure of the living dead. After a decade marked by the "death" of zombies in movies (the 1990s), the creature has returned more eagerly (and hungry) at the turn of the millennium. And it has now invaded the most diverse aspects of our global iconosphere.
Symptomatically it is a new medium, the video game, that has somehow launched the revival of this figure which has never fully integrated the Gothic literary tradition. The success in 1996 of The House of the Dead and Resident Evil marked the comeback of a creature that would eventually recontaminate the big screen. In the aftermath of September 11 and in the shadow of the SARS pandemic, a true "zombie-mania" began. The Zombie Movie Database ZMDB lists over a hundred films produced between 2002 and 2009, and more than twenty productions are planned for 2012.
In the wake of M. Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), a curious "zombie literature" (the label exists now in several online catalogs) emerged, with such viral effects as the amazing bestseller of S. Grahame-Smith, who literally zombified the canonical Jane Austen classic (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 2009). Comics, the medium that had previously been instrumental in the mythopoetic transformation of the modern zombie, were in turn invaded by the new wave with the now famous saga of R. Kirkman The Walking Dead (2003-) in an unprecedented zombiephile frenzy that is now feeding the other major postmodern media, television. We are also seeing a plethora of critical studies analyzing this figure that had been so far relatively disdained by the academic institution.
Following this invasion of "zombie studies", the time has come to confront the living dead question. This first international conference on zombies will try to analyze this amazing and viral figure in all spheres of our culture.
Organizing committee
Samuel Archibald, Université du Québec à Montréal
Antonio Dominguez Leiva, Université du Québec à Montréal
Barry Keith Grant, Brock University
Tanya Krzywinska, Brunel University West London
Denis Mellier, Université de Poitiers
Shawn McIntosh, Columbia University
Bernard Perron, Université de Montréal
Claudia Boutin, Université de Montréal


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Adventures by the Book, in partnership with Micato Safaris and Kahala Travel, is pleased to present a unique opportunity to experience Africa through the eyes of renowned wildlife artist, author, and safari expert Fred Krakowiak. Join us at the prestigious Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery to meet the author in an intimate setting, where you may enjoy South African wine, light appetizers and a stunning art exhibition which includes some of the author's Africa-inspired pieces.
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An amazing chronicle, in words, photos, and paintings, of artist Fred Krakowiak's love affair with Africa and its awe-inspiring wildlife.
"The pages that follow are colorful threads of life on safari…they form a brilliant tapestry emblazoned with life on this exceptional continent. As you move through the pages, I encourage you to value and respect the animals for the amazing creatures they are. Allow yourself to feel humbled by them. Listen to their wisdom. Strive to hear the language they speak, the messages they communicate about the magnificence and frailty of life. Shut your eyes to see."
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On 7 and 8 June, the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, Gen. Håkan Syrén, visited Tallinn, upon invitation by the Chief of Defence of Estonia, Brig. Gen. Riho Terras.
During his visit the Chairman had the opportunity to meet with the Chief of Defence and his closest staff, the Minister of Defence and the Undersecretary for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main topics of the discussions and exchange of views were on the military cooperation between the European Union and Estonia, the capability development and the CSDP activities.
Furthermore, Gen. Syrén visited the Ämari Airbase where he got an overview of the Estonian Air Force capabilities. He also had the opportunity to be briefed on the international air-land exercise ''Saber Strike 2012'' and to meet with the Defence Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
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East Ridge/Loft program aims to grow south Washington County arts community
Amanda Hestwood, an East Ridge High School teacher and Loft Theater director, wants "to grow an art community" in the south Washington County area.By: Judy Spooner, South Washington County Bulletin
Amanda Hestwood, an East Ridge High School teacher and Loft Theater director, wants "to grow an art community" in the south Washington County area.
She's off to a good start by giving kids a chance to find out what being on stage is all about.
Youth from every private and public school in the area were immersed in all areas of "the art of theater" all last week in the Loft Theater at East Ridge, with high-schoolers attending morning classes and middle school-age kids in the afternoon.
There was no cost to participants and music, makeup, dance, acting directors, set designers and builders gave their time to the effort, many of them taking vacation to offer their skills, Hestwood said.
All of the 120 kids who attended got a tour of The Loft stage with its cat walks and "fly space," where scenery is stored, showing them the nuts and bolts of how the theater functions including lights and sound board, she said.
The tour was a big hit with the youth, especially Noah Burroughs, of New Life Academy, who attended the classes "to learn and get better." He likes the technical part of theater.
A.J. Hofelman, a Cottage Grove Middle School student, liked the cat walk and is most interested in attending a class on introduction to video.
Most of the youth, such as Cottage Grove Middle School student Elena Double, are interested in the acting side of theater. "I love acting," Double said, "and learning about makeup."
"I like theater and this has been a good opportunity to get tips on auditions," added Lily Piper, a Woodbury Middle School student. "The music part prepares you for the experience."
"I just thought it would be fun," said Abby Feuer, Lake Middle School, who is already taking piano, dance and voice lessons.
Hestwood did some of the teaching herself including getting middle-schoolers involved in an exercise on how actors work in tandem with each other.
After dividing the afternoon class into two groups, she asked them to become imaginary machines by acting out its parts. Kids beeped and whooshed with their voices and made their arms and body's move robotically.
Hestwood stopped them and asked them to connect up with each other by touching or working with the others in their groups.
"You need to find out how what you are doing helps the whole group," she said.
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Our emotional, mental and spiritual reality is expanding by leaps and bounds, as we begin to access a higher truth and greater wisdom.
Humanity is coming of age - we are no longer children, stumbling in the dark, or following others without question. A consciousness level is emerging that will incorporate not just our families, neighborhood and cities, but races, cultures, countries, planets, and even our solar system, galaxy and universe.
As we begin to resonate with the higher frequencies of love, compassion and non-judgment, there will be no scene of fear, separation, limitation or disease. We are in the process of healing and releasing all energies and frequencies which no longer serve us and which cannot exist in the Light Body we are building. As we release all the dark crystals (as Lord Michael calls them) we can fill those vacancies with pure crystalline Light substance. These old imbalanced energies hold the memories of pain, suffering and limitation from our ancient past.
It is time for us to release the misconception or sense of separation: good and bad, light and dark, duality or polarity consciousness. We are here on Earth in a physical body, on the plane of materiality, to experience duality and polarity. It is balance we seek, not the elimination of duality or polarity.
It is time for us to return to a sense of Oneness or wholeness. All creation is an aspect of the Divine Creator, our Father/Mother God. It is also time for you to remember that you are a master. You came to Earth as a Master of co-creation: to build, experience and enjoy the paradise world called Earth. Are you ready to move from being a master of lack, limitation, fear and suffering? It is time to reclaim your heritage as a master of love, beauty, bounty, abundance and joy.
Never since our arrival on Planet Earth, so many aeons ago, have we had so much assistance from the higher realms: Archangels, angelic helpers, masters, teachers, guides and wondrous beings from far distant galaxies. But you must ask and then follow your inner guidance until you find your way back onto that wondrous path of higher awareness and illumination and mastery.
We are all in this together, on this wondrous journey back home. Every victory, every gain you make, smooths the way for those following behind you. My hope is to make your journey a little easier and the experience more joyful.
Love, Light and Blessings Beyond Measure,
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