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A few years ago, in Wake County, N.C., Kevin Hill wanted to get involved in his community, so he ran for his local school board.
The campaign team consisting of Hill and his wife, with the help of some friends, raised about $6,000; he won the seat in the 2007 election. He's hoping to retain that seat in a runoff election Tuesday, but this time his campaign is a little bigger.
"[It went] from me and my wife to about 300 people," Hill says. "It's been mind-boggling to me that, for a school board race that is nonpartisan, the amounts of money that has been raised."
Those 300 volunteers, who manage phones banks and even a website, have raised a financial war chest of $42,000 to get him re-elected.
In fact, this year's election has been the most expensive school board campaign ever in Wake County. It's not just in North Carolina. All over the country, small-scale, local school board races are attracting big money and big media attention.
Hill's opponent, Republican Heather Losurdo, has raised almost $80,000. Much of that money is coming, not from local residents, but from private interest groups from outside the county and even outside the state.
Like Hill, Losurdo said she too was surprised when the money started coming in to both campaigns from outside interest groups and special interest groups that "don't have a skin in the game."
Thomas Goldsmith, who's covered the race for the Raleigh News & Observer, told weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan that what's at stake is the controversial issue of school assignments. The system dictates where lower-income students from downtown Raleigh should go to school. It was created to help failing schools by equalizing the student population between affluent and low-income students.
"The people in suburbs were increasingly angry about what they felt was the predilection of the board to give all of the good [assignments] to Old Raleigh," he says.
The school board is supposed to be nonpartisan, but Republican candidates swept the board in 2009. Now Democratic candidates want back in. This is one reason, Goldsmith says, that outside groups and donors from both parties have become involved. Even the local Republican and Democratic parties have donated money to candidates.
"The Republican Party, in particular in 2009, saw it as a vehicle to increase the party's reach in other elections up to and including the presidential election," he says. "So this year, the Democrats came back with lots of money."
The campaigns also adopted more of a 24/7 campaign style, Goldsmith says. They responded more quickly to opponent statements, initiated news stories and even brought "opposition research" to news organizations, often characteristics of larger campaigns.
Small, local elections have certainly changed in the past decade, he says.
"[The people involved] are ostensibly part of a scheme or plan to elevate national parties' influence in control in Wake County," Goldsmith says. "In many ways, so goes Wake County, so goes North Carolina."
And So Goes The Rest Of The Country
Just this year, there have been high stakes local-level elections in Colorado, Texas and New Jersey. In all of these races, there are important issues at stake like school vouchers, evolution and school assignment.
Those issues are making little elections very important, says William Howell, the Sidney Stein Professor in American politics at the University of Chicago.
"At the national level ... when you have these polarized parties, it's really hard to make headway on a particular issue," Howell told NPR's Sullivan. "So it's not crazy to think that if what you want to do is advance a particular issue you ought to push at the local level."
Those seemingly local issues, that also have national scope, then get more attention as the local debates grow louder, Howell says. He says that's a strategy now from organizations and interest groups that want to get an issue on the national stage.
"There's a logic to it," he says. "It isn't just that local politics is less polarized than national politics, it's that to make headway at the local level you don't [generally] need big money to do so."
But now, as seen in Wake County, there is big money being put into some local elections. Howell says, however, he doesn't think spending $50,000 or more is going to become standard practice in the future for small elections.
"There are 1,500 school board elections that occur around the country, and most of these continue to be low salient affairs where lawn signs and a collection of friends are going to get you elected," he says.
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SULLIVAN: A few years ago in Wake County, North Carolina, Kevin Hill ran for his local school board.
KEVIN HILL: In 2007, we had a campaign committee of two, my wife and I.
SULLIVAN: He teaches at North Carolina State University and he wanted to get involved. He and his wife made some phone calls, sent out some fliers. He put in $2,000 of his own money and was thrilled when friends threw in some cash too.
HILL: In total of fundraising, I think we raised a little bit, closes right around maybe the $6,000 mark, and that was it.
SULLIVAN: Hill won, and now he's running again, hoping to hang on to his seat on Tuesday. But this time around, his campaign team is a little bigger.
HILL: Yeah. From me and my wife to about 300 people.
SULLIVAN: Three hundred volunteers are now helping to get Kevin Hill elected to the school board. They're managing phone banks, a website and a financial war chest of $42,000.
HILL: It's been mind-boggling to me that for a school board race that is nonpartisan, the amounts of money that has been raised has been raised.
SULLIVAN: But much of that money, it's not coming from local residents, it's coming from party organizations and private interest groups from outside the county, even outside the state. They've spent almost 100,000 more dollars trying to get one or the other elected. That's our cover story today: the influence of big money on little politics.
SULLIVAN: Heather Losurdo was just as surprised as Kevin Hill when the money started coming in. Losurdo spoke with reporter Dave DeWitt from member station WUNC.
: Guess I was taken aback a little bit was the outside interest groups, special interest groups, that came into Wake County that don't have what's been called skin in the game. Their children aren't in our schools. They don't pay our taxes. They're not in this community.
SULLIVAN: It's Wake County's most expensive school board election to date.
THOMAS GOLDSMITH: I'm not sure where, except for maybe Los Angeles or New York, you would see this kind of spending.
SULLIVAN: That's Thomas Goldsmith. He's been covering the race for the Raleigh News & Observer. Here's some background. The school board's supposed to be nonpartisan, but Republican candidates swept the board in 2009. Now a slate of Democratic candidates want back in. Thomas Goldsmith says what's at stake is the controversial issue of school assignments: where lower-income students in downtown Raleigh should go to school.
GOLDSMITH: The people in the suburbs were increasingly angry about what they felt was the predilection of the board to give all the good stuff to Old Raleigh where I grew up.
SULLIVAN: The thing that's sort of incredible about this race is just the amount of money. But some of this money that's coming in is coming from outside Wake County, right?
GOLDSMITH: Some of it is. And it gets very tricky. But there's a gentleman you may have read about recently in The New Yorker named Art Pope, who is the owner of a big regional variety store chain. He has put money into these races. Another gentleman named Bob Luddy - and these are both Republicans - have put money - has put money in. And we're talking about, you know, tens of thousands of dollars. This is not millions of dollars.
And this year, we had a couple on the Democratic side who also put in tens of thousands of dollars. The Wake County Democratic and Republican Parties have put money in. We have 527s that are getting involved, and the 527s have spent tons of money on mailers, getting increasingly vituperative as the campaign went on.
SULLIVAN: Is that a new thing for Wake County to see in these recent elections, so much outside money into its small local sort of school board county elections?
GOLDSMITH: Yes. I mean, the schools were thought to be good. In fact, when this new board came into power in 2009, they did a survey, and 95%, almost, of parents said they liked their school. The Republican group, which came into power, was largely suburban. They were expressing the feelings of many people who lived outside Raleigh, the old parts, that they were getting less of what they should.
And I think there's no doubt that the Republican Party, in particular, in 2009 saw it as a vehicle to increase the party's reach in other elections up to and including the presidential race.
SULLIVAN: Wow.
GOLDSMITH: So this year, the Democrats came back with lots of money and more of a sort of 24/7 campaign style, you know, responding to anything anyone said, and initiating news stories, bringing us opposition research.
SULLIVAN: Opposition research in a school board election?
GOLDSMITH: Absolutely.
SULLIVAN: I don't know if it's just me, but, you know, I picture school board election, you've got an involved parents scrounging up a couple hundred bucks, asking the in-laws maybe for some, you know, some money to pass out some yard signs and some fliers. I mean, that's not what we're talking about here, is it?
GOLDSMITH: No. The Democratic Party has five paid employees. They have four regional offices. They have phone banks. They have robocallers. I want to say that in District 3, which is this one remaining of nine districts, they're spending $82,000 on get out the vote efforts.
SULLIVAN: How much money?
GOLDSMITH: Eighty-two thousand.
SULLIVAN: Wow. You grew up in Raleigh. You've been a reporter.
GOLDSMITH: Mm-hmm.
SULLIVAN: For many, many years covering a lot of these races. When you covered school boards 10, 20 years ago, was it very different?
GOLDSMITH: Yes, entirely. I mean, I remember covering a school board in Tennessee and a member who was an older lady turned to me and said, now, don't you put that in the newspaper, during a meeting. So these people are much more aware of media environment, and they are ostensibly part of a scheme or plan to elevate national parties' influence and control in Wake County. And, by many accounts, as goes Wake County, so goes North Carolina.
SULLIVAN: And perhaps, so goes the rest of the country.
FERREL GUILLORY: Tip O'Neill's old dictum about all politics is local doesn't really apply in our country much anymore.
SULLIVAN: Ferrel Guillory is the director of the Center on Public Life at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
GUILLORY: We have seen in North Carolina, from my experience, and looking around the South in particular, an increasing involvement of outside the state groups, whether party groups or political groups or fundraising groups, and it's become an element of our national politics now.
SULLIVAN: Just this year, there have been high-stake school board elections in Colorado, Texas and New Jersey. There are important issues in all of these races: school vouchers, evolution and school assignment, like in Wake County, North Carolina. But there's also national party politics at work, which is making little elections very important, according to William Howell.
He's the Sidney Stein professor in American politics at the University of Chicago.
WILLIAM HOWELL: At the national level, within Congress at least, when you have these polarized parties, it's really hard to make headway on a particular issue. And so it's not crazy to think that if what you want to do is advance a particular issue, you ought to push at the local level. And so we see that. And then the other side comes in and tries to counter that, and you have big debates about evolution, about collective bargaining, about how much to spend in schools, which are national in scope. And those are the kinds of local elections that are attracting big money, not the kind of school board elections that remain fixated on the future of the football team at the local high school.
SULLIVAN: Are you saying that there are organizations that want to push a particular agenda, but if they can't get it done at the federal level, that they will then go down, not even just to the state level, but all the way down to the local level to get their issue across?
HOWELL: Yes. Yes. I think that that's right. There are state-level initiatives to try to effect change that occur precisely in the aftermath of federal failure. Immigration reform, right? So the Republicans are talking about this a great deal, about how they're going to back the building of a fence or not.
SULLIVAN: Right.
HOWELL: Governor Perry is talking about, right, having to - the states having to step in where the federal government failed. And that has to do with government initiative, state governments. But it also plays out among interest groups who want to affect the composition of state governments, want to affect the composition of local school boards. Teachers unions play a big role in national politics, but they also organize and try to affect the outcomes of lots of local elections.
And there's a logic to it. It isn't just that local politics is less polarized than national politics. It's that to make headway at the local level, you don't, as a general matter, need big money to do so. That said, there are moments when both sides converge and square off, and it attracts national attention. And the more attention that's paid to the local election, the more incentives both sides have to pump money into it because they want to show that their side wins.
SULLIVAN: Is this where we're headed now, where we're going to have to spend - you're going to have to spend $50,000, $100,000 on campaigns in order to become a member of a school board?
HOWELL: I don't think in the main that that's going to be the case. There are 15,000 school board elections that occur around the country, and most of these continue to be low salient affairs where lawn signs and a collection of friends are going to get you elected. And a willingness to serve is going to put you in good stead. That said, again, I think what we can expect is increasingly showdowns where they reach stalemate at the national level devolving to the local level. And we'll see these things increasingly flaring up around the country. That isn't to say that it becomes sort of standard practice.
SULLIVAN: William Howell and Ferrel Guillory at UNC both agree that if your school board election is getting hot and you can't muster the 50 grand, there's always your school's PTA. It's still taking volunteers. And national party politics don't seem to have filtered down to bake sales yet. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Anyone watch him play? Could he be a Leo? Seems to have all the measurables, power, and speed.
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A day of nonviolence
The execution of Troy Davis. 10 years of war in Afghanistan. The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. In the face of so much death and war, reflecting on nonviolence can often seem futile or idyllic.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending "Gospel Nonviolence," a retreat sponsored by Chicago's Catholics for Nonviolence and led by Ken Butigan of Pace e Bene. The day was spent focusing on Jesus' messages of nonviolence and served as a good reminder that nonviolence is not a passive or utopian worldview.
Butigan quoted the following excerpt from the book Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Fortress Press): "If God is what you turn to when all else fails, violence is certainly a god." We certainly seem to be living in the midst of a "religion of violence," but instead of worshipping violence, Jesus called for a revolution of love – a call he made to people who directly experienced violence and injustice. Instead of responding to oppression with fear, hatred, or deception, Jesus offered a fourth strategy of unconditional, selfless love.
We explored the meanings of passages from the gospels such as the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus' order to "put down your sword," and the famous "turn the other cheek" passage. From each of these examples we were able to see how Jesus spoke in the context of his culture to encourage nonviolence as an active form of resistance and as the preferred option for combating oppression.
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Mac baseball going to 'blow you out 4-1' in 2013
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BEIJING, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After the 18th CPC National Congress convened, the media attached great importance to new urban construction, an issue that concerned the public after it was listed in the national strategic plan. Due to such policy, China's real estate industry will step back from its "Golden Times" after years of fast development and several rounds of strict government controls, which will bring brand-new opportunities for development.
It is widely believed that the "Golden Times" for China's real estate industry have come to an end due to the monetization reform of housing, demographic dividends, fast GDP growth, and loose monetary policy. However, along with the implementation and continuous promotion of new urbanization policies, the demands for housing inventory will expand greatly, and the largest rigid demand in history is expected to awaken, so that the real estate industry may enter another boom period, namely the "10-Year Silver Times".
As the data listed in the Development Trend of China's Real Estate Market in the Next Ten Years (2011-2020) released by China Index Academy showed, in the next 10 years, China's urbanization ratio will on average rise by 1.1% per year, and people will need another 15.7 billion square meters for living, 8.19 billion of which will be needed by first-time buyers, accounting for 52%.
In addition, Haitong Securities released a report showing that from 2012 to 2021, another 592 million square meters of living space will be added to housing demand because of urbanization, which is equivalent to 61% of sales volume for commodity houses in 2011.
Third-tier cities will become the market with the most potential. As a report released by First Capital showed, second- and third-tier cities in central and western China and third-tier cities surrounding the first-tier cities will benefit from urbanization.
According to the recent situation of housing sales, some buyers with rigid demand for improved housing have already actively purchased houses in several third-tier cities, and many developers have also begun to arrange their development plans in second- and third-tier cities, showing that the real estate market is recovering. Zhang Minhua, Director of the Department of Investment Strategy & Research of the Global Personal Banking Service Division of Citibank, forecasts that the real estate market within China will remain stable with a growth of 9%, and the stocks of leading real estate enterprises may even rise 20%. In addition, Moody's also has revised its prospects for China's real estate industry from "negative" to "stable", and even predicts that the sales status and financing channels will continue to be better in 2013.
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Everyone knows that data volumes are growing exponentially. What's not so clear is how to unlock the value all of that data holds. Enterprises are struggling to figure out how to store, manage and derive any real business value from Big Data.
Part of the problem is that traditional databases just aren't suited for mining Big Data insights. Legacy systems were designed decades ago, long before Big Data was a trend.
Enter Apache Hadoop, an open-source framework that enables the processing of large data sets in a distributed environment. With Hadoop, applications can be run on systems composed of thousands of nodes with thousands of terabytes data.
Gartner estimates the current Hadoop ecosystem market to be worth around $77 million. They expect that it will grow to $813 million by 2016. However, despite a few big-name backers, Hadoop is still relatively unproven in enterprise settings. Critics argue that while Hadoop works great as a processing platform, it's not all that good with queries. The add-ons Hive and Pig both help with this, but Hadoop still isn't quite a fully mature platform.
These startups intend to change that.
What they do: Provide data science solutions for Hadoop and Big Data
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
CEO: Joe Otto, who previously ran Worldwide Sales for Greenplum, which is now part of EMC.
Founded: 2010
Funding: Alpine Data Labs is backed by a $7.5 million Series A round of funding from Sierra Ventures and Mission Ventures, along with EMC and Sumitomo Bank. The company is in the process of closing out a Series B round, which is expected to raise between $10 and $13 million.
Why they're on this list: While there are a ton of Big Data tools entering the market, many companies still struggle to gain actionable insight from their mountains of data.
According to Alpine Data, part of the problem is that it's much too difficult to get real insights out of Hadoop and other parallel platforms. Most companies don't know what to do with massive datasets, and few have gotten any further with Hadoop than batch processing and basic querying.
Alpine Data set out to simplify machine-learning methods and make them available on petabyte-scale datasets. Their tools make these methods available in a lightweight web application with a code-free, drag-and-drop interface.
Alpine Data leverages the parallel processing power of Hadoop and MPP databases and implements data mining algorithms in MapReduce and SQL. Users interact with their data directly where it already sits and design analytics workflows without worrying about data movement or complex code. All this is done in a web browser, and Alpine Data then translates these visual workflows into a sequence of in-database or MapReduce tasks.
Alpine Data's visual environment helps teams collaborate and quickly create and deploy analytics workflows and predictive models.
Customers include AT Kearney, Havas Digital, Zion Bank, Kaiser Permanente and CareCore
Competitors: SAS dominates this market, but other startups are moving into this space too, including Platfora, Skytree, Revolution Analytics and Rapid-I.
2. Cloudera
What they do: Provide a Hadoop-based Big Data Platform
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
CEO: Mike Olson, who was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, an embedded database company that was acquired by Oracle in 2006. After the acquisition, Olson spent two years at Oracle as VP for Embedded Technologies.
Founded: 2008
Funding: Cloudera has raised $140 million in venture capital to date. Its investors include Accel Partners Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and Meritech Capital Partners.
Why they're on this list: Big Data is hot, and Cloudera is the pioneer that first developed a Hadoop-based platform for Big Data. Moreover, they're sitting on a mountain of VC cash and have a solid management team.
Cloudera lets users query all of their structured and unstructured data and have a view beyond what's available from relational databases. Cloudera recently released Impala, a new open-source interactive query engine for Hadoop that enables interactive querying on massive data sets in real time.
Customers include CBS Interactive, eBay, Expedia, Monsanto and Samsung.
Competitors: EMC Pivotal, Hortonworks, MapR. Intel recently joined the market as well, but it's too early to tell how serious they are about this space.
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Had previously purchased a WeatherTech cargo liner but wasn't overly thrilled with it. The rear edge was a tad high for my two labs and their hair would get underneath the liner; especially on the sides. The Kurgo Cargo Cape was a very easy install and I like the fact that it also covers the back of the rear seats and has a zipper in case you need/want to fold one of the seats down. It slides a little towards the rear sometimes when the dogs exit my Terrain, but I also haven't tried to secure it totally with the included velcro strips. Seems to be a good product for the price and I would recommend it to protect your cargo area; especially if you have pets that ride back there.


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New Trends in HERA Physics 1999: Proceedings of the Ringberg Workshop Held at Tegernsee, Germany, 30 May - 4 June 1999
G. Grindhammer, B.A. Kniehl, G. Kramer
Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 1, 2000 - Science - 466 pages
Experts on elementary-particle physics, both theorists and experimentalists, met to present their latest results on the various aspects of HERA physics, specifically, the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA and the collaborations at LEP and the Tevatron were presented. The topics included: proton structure function; polarized ep scattering; final states in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), with special emphasis on jet production at low x, power corrections in DIS, soft particle production, and instanton effects; photon structure function; photoproduction of jets and hadrons; heavy-flavour and charmonium production; elastic and diffractive ep scattering; and new physics at HERA.
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COONABARABRAN, Australia | January 13, 2013
Officials in Australia said they have ordered evacuations in New South Wales as bush fires destroyed two homes and parts of the nation's largest observatory.
Record-breaking high temperatures and wind gusts have spawned hundreds of bush fires across the country for approximately 10 days, destroying large swaths of farmland, some homes and thousands of heads of livestock, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The latest victim of a bush fire near Coonabarabran is the Siding Spring Observatory, though officials at the Australian National University, which operates the site, said the extent of the damage to the Anglo-Australian Telescope -- the nation's largest -- is unknown, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Sunday.
"I fear a lot of damage has been done ... even if not the wholesale destruction we faced in 2003 at Mount Stromlo Observatory," said Brian Schmidt, a Nobel laureate and ANU astronomer. "Tomorrow will tell and then will come the long, slow process of recovery.
All staff at the observatory evacuated safely, the Herald reported.
Cooler temperatures overnight aided New South Wales firefighters in containing some bush fires throughout the country, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
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The Benefits of Volunteering
Volunteering not only gives back to the genealogy community, it allows you to gain experience. There are many opportunities in your local area to give a supporting hand, while you, too, further your research skills.
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This gratifying occasion will increase your knowledge of Alaska diversity with the integration of the past, present and future in harmony.
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The Cultural Experience varies from year to year, but includes direct exposure to Alaska Native and other cultural worldviews.
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Former NBC News Anchor Tom Brokaw Diagnosed with Cancer
It was just announced that NBC's Tom Brokaw has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow.
"I remain the luckiest guy I know. With the exceptional support of my family, medical team and friends, I am very optimistic about the future and look forward to continuing my life, my work and adventures still to come," the 74-year-old news correspondent shared in a statement.
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Mexico took a 2-0 win over Canada on Thursday night to get its Gold Cup back on track and keep Canada's slide going.
Raul Jimenez scored the game's opening goal just before the break, and Marco Fabian added a second early in the second half to give El Tri its second win of the year.
The first half had a familiar feel for both sides, until Jimenez got Mexico on the board. El Tri dominated possession and largely controlled the run of play, while the Canadians were clearly focused on staying organized defensively and trying to find a goal through quick counterattacks.
The stylistic differences led to a fairly tame opening 40 minutes of the match, with neither side really doing enough to deserve to be in front.
But in the 42nd minute, a deflected cross at the top of Canada's box led to a chance for Fabian, who skipped past two defenders and forced a save from Canadian goalkeeper Milan Borjan. While Borjan manged to keep Fabian out, his save gave Mexico a corner, and El Tri took full advantage.
The initial ball in was flicked to the middle of the box where Jimenez was waiting to head home the opener and send his team to the break a goal to the good.
Ten minutes into the second half things got worse for the Canadians. Fabian was slipped into the space between two Canadian defenders and went down in the box. A contentious penalty was awarded and he made no mistake with his spot kick, giving Mexico a 2-0 lead.
The second goal brought Canada out of its shell a bit, but Mexico's ability to hold the ball when in possession and to pressure the ball defensively kept Canadian chances at a minimum.
The win leaves Mexico with three points from two matches, and leaves Canada still searching for its first point after opening the tournament with a loss to Martinique.
Earlier in the night Panama topped Martinique 1-0 and earned a spot in the knockout rounds, with Mexico and Martinique set to square off for Group A's second spot in the group-stage finale for both teams.
For Canada, the final match of group play, against Panama, is a must win for the team to have any chance of advancing as one of the top two third-place teams.
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A true polymath, Don Paterson is a poet, writer, musician, and editor. He's previously recommended some recent favorites, and we've shared his deeply funny aphorisms. The good people at Back Pages Books shared with us a few videos from his recent reading for Rain.
"Why Do You Stay Up So Late" (including Paterson's subtle revenge on one of his critics)
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I was standing in line waiting to buy kombucha at Green Life, my city's beloved organic grocery store.
The guy in front of me had a few small items. His total came to $14.38.
As he pulled out his debit card, the cashier asked, "Would you like to round up to $15 and donate the rest of that money to this month's charity?" She shared the name of the local organization where the money would go.
He said yes.
This local charity idea has been going on for years. Each month the grocery store picks a cause and asks for donations at the check out line.
Until this particular day, however, the question posed at check out has always been:
"Would you like to donate anything to our local charity this month?"
The new strategy intrigued me.
So when it was my turn to check out, I asked the cashier how this new question was working for her. She leaned over to me and said, "Ohmigod, last month we raised $900 more than our usual amount!"
Now – regardless of how you feel about the politics of raising money in this way – the lesson here is important to you as a business.
People respond to definite calls to action. They respond to CLARITY.
Let's look at what happens in the mind of an average person when you ask the first question…
1 – Would you like to donate something to this month's charity?
This question requires first that you make the decision to do it or not to do it. That's a big decision right there.
But then, you also have to decide what amount you want to give. That's a lot of deciding when you have a long line of people behind you.
I mean, hell, is a dollar is too little? Would that make you stingy?
Or should it be more like $5? Or does that make you a total pushover who just gives money because you can be guilted into pretty much any cause that's out there?
And wait just a minute! Didn't you say yes the last time you were here? (Hey, when was that anyway?)
Too much thinking and your mind will just give in and say, "Screw it. No."
When given too many choices, people will default to not taking action. It's just easier to do nothing than it is to make all those decisions.
Now, let's look at the second question…
2 – Your total is $14.38. Would you like to round up to $15 and give your change to our local charity this month?"
The cashier did the math for you. She didn't make you wonder whether or not you should feel guilty for only giving 62 cents. She gave you a clear choice. Yes or no.
And as it turns out, the results yield a much bigger take for the charity.
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Well, let's look at what the typical solo business owner might tell her prospects.
"Hey, just give me a call. You know where to find me."
"If you know anyone who needs my service, let them know about me, okay?"
This is called a "call to action."
Many people think that the reason they aren't getting clients is because they're charging too much or because their industry is too tough.
But one reason people aren't calling you is that your call to action stinks! It doesn't give clear direction. It doesn't tell people exactly what to do, or when to do it. It just sits out there assuming that if people want to work with you…they know what to do.
Well, they might know what to do.
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And if you know that your product or service is a high level for people and will change their lives, essentially what you're doing is letting them give up on themselves. That's not only bad business – but it's bad service.
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Bahlman Cleaners launches eighth Coats for Kids
Since 2004, Bahlman Cleaners has collected over 1,000 gently worn winter garments for men, women and children who otherwise would be without one, according to owner Janice Pridemore. Bahlman's mission is simple: anyone in the region in need of a coats shall receive one in possible.When Bahlman's first started the drive in 2004, it brought in 300-350 coats. Bahlman Cleaners' Coats for Kids continues to grow each year, but this year donations are lower than usual. However, the cleaners are seeking help from more and more community partners and hope that the results will be impressive.Donations of gently worn coats of any size can be dropped off at Bahlman Cleaners, located at 910 E. Third Street in Sweetwater. The coats will be dry cleaned and distributed to those in need in the community.


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Two menus are shown inside, one is the "Table d'Hote" and the other is à la carte; both are served from 8:30 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. The prix fixe for the table d'hote is $2.50, with cocktails and cordials extra. Cover is embossed with holly leaves and features the hotel logo and an illustration of a ballerina. Cover illustration has an illegible artist's signature. Menu is tied with a dark red tassel.]]>
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Cheeky (UK - BD RB)
Tinto Brass season begins again for Marcus with Cheeky on Blu-ray disc....
Carla (Yuliya Mayarchuk) is looking for an apartment in London for her boyfriend back in Venice. While in the city she meets a a few Brits that share the same sexual drive as Carla does and the the extremely sexual Venetian is finding it harder to stay loyal to her absent boyfriend.
Tinto Brass's world of Cheeky )or original title 'Trasgredire') is immediately one full of sex. As our lead hottie walks through a London park, literally everyone is at it and it's a whole lot more than light sunny day petting too. It's all very fun and light-hearted and despite the graphic nature of it all everything is just handled in a cute, sexually open way. Social feelings towards nudity and sex are acknowledged but really only as a fleeting judgement as opposed to a target of any sort of social commentary.
As we travel on Carla's London adventure, the super attractive blonde abroad earns her "cheeky" title at every turn. As with many erotic tales, she has a shy, insecure, sexually withdrawn nice guy boyfriend that she adores but that doesn't stop her flirting, teasing and outright having sex with nearly all the men and women that cross her path. It's never depicted as a mean thing or to spite her boyfriend, who is still back home missing her. Instead it's just played as fun, light-hearted, driven by raw sexual energy or out of just plain boredom.
There's the odd bit of tension in the various relationships Carla forges and of course with the boyfriend, who's obliviousness to his crazy hot girlfriend's sexuality is pushed to its limits. This makes the airy plot slightly above arthouse pornography but make no mistake this isn't trying to deliver any sort of message. Well maybe it is. maybe it's saying woman are attractive in absolutely all scenarios in life and sex is fun. Maybe it's also trying to say that boyfriends to the attractive women should man up and meet their ladies needs. Not of it really matters, this posed questions are really only here to make the film not just about Carla's sex life. I guess someone has to be ruining Carla's fun somewhere or this would be pretty one note (well more one note than it is anyway).
Like with most Erotic tales, you need to either go in as a fan of the genre or be open minded to extreme sexual desires used as the main driver of the film. Tinto Brass is a master at what he does and this ones is one of my favourites of his (that I've seen so far). It's pitched just right. Its extremely graphic but not over indulgent. It pulls no punches with the visuals but is mostly cute with it. It isn't scared to shock as well as entertain. Its sexual but rarely ever sleazy. Beyond all of that it's beautifully shot, has beautiful actresses in it and its sense of humour genuinely put a smile on my face. Cheeky! is a silly bit of fun with pretty much no limits on the visuals side of things. It isn't scared of its sexual content and there's a sense of celebration in that, that's quite a joy to watch.
Brass's framing is all about highlighting all of the right curves and shapes of the female form. Often times heads or full faces aren't even in the frame and its all about a shoulder or a butt cheek or a cheekily placed hand. Being a Tinto film this is pretty lady ass-tastic, filing the frame as often as possible but the director has a skill with his many variations of the theme.
The image is really quite soft and often hazy, there's a bit of wobble to the frame at times and due to the style of the film the image can be quite free from natural light. The best way to describe the image is pretty average and really only a slight step up from a DVD image.
With that said, its a clean, grain free affair and primary colours are all very well presented. Blues and reds are bright and vibrant and can often pop off the screen, skin tones often look really natural and despite the films rather drab appearance at times, these elements hold up. The fairly solid black levels help this along and the less hazy scenes have some great uses of shadow and pure black elements but there's not too many instances of it really.
Moving on to textures and detail, skin (and there's plenty of it to look at) can often show off pimples, goosebumps and even the odd bruise. The closer we get (and we get pretty close most of the time) the better it all looks. The wider shots loses a fair bit of finer detail and faces can sometimes look a bit flat.
The score is that mid afternoon 80s TV drama type cheese and it sounds pretty tinny at that. It drives scenes along at a casual pace and fits the rather silly plot perfectly because it does nothing but inform you all of this explicit behavior is totally harmless.
The dialogue is central and often feels disconnected (especially in the English dub obviously) and the overall audio experience is a generally timid affair with the minor peaks peaks being passionate screams or moans and little else.
The solitary 'Tinto Featurette' (08:17 SD) is basically a sizzle reel of a crew of men filming naked ladies and Tinto telling us the themes of the film like its a deep dramatic tale of love and relationships. Bless 'im. The cast are discussed and Brass's choice and happiness with them but yeah, this is pretty much B-roll footage of the nakedness on set with a voice over.
The only other extra is the Trailer (03:25 HD) which plays basically the whole film's main edited down beats in just over three minutes.
If you like a bit of silly erotica that delivers the explicit images as well as the cheeky fun then Cheeky is pretty much a prime example of the genre. I found this a fun, cute bit of Erotica and it made me grin with it's silliness. The story is pretty typical for the genre but is done well and its got more than its fair share of memorable moments.
The disc looks okay. It's clean, and colourful but the soft haziness stops it excelling really and we end up with a pretty drab underwhelming image. The sound is rather lacking but does its job and the single short featurette is a nice compliment to the film but not really that much to get excited about.
Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Agreed. It hits just the right tone.
Tinto's best work, in my opinion. I could buy this on BluRay and it will be an over priced bluray too.
Italian Erotica at its best.
Italian Erotica at its best.
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 9th February 2014
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: LPCM 2.0 English, LPCM Italian 2.0
Subtitles: English
Extras: Tinto Featurette, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Tinto Brass
Cast: Yuliya Mayarchuk, Jarno Berardi, Francesca Nunzi
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 90 minutes
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If you are a person with normal hearing, can you imagine what the world would be like if there were no sounds?
Suppose you weren't the only one who couldn't hear. Imagine that no other person, nor any creature, had a sense of hearing. All anyone would know about the world would come from what they could see, smell, feel, or taste. We wouldn't know that birds chirp and sing, that the wind whistles in the trees, or that lightning is followed by thunder. We would probably talk using sign language. What other differences can you imagine in such a world?
In some ways, we do live in such a world. For the Universe is filled with "sounds" that we've never been able to hear.
So far, almost everything we know about the Universe we have learned by observing light, in all its forms. We have many different kinds of telescopes—on the ground and in space—for observing the different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.
But there is much more we could learn about the Universe if only we could detect
What are gravitational waves?
We know what gravity is—or at least we know what it does. Without gravity, Earth would stop orbiting the Sun and travel on its own into the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way itself would come apart, because the stars would not hold the galaxy together. In exactly the same way, the moon would stop orbiting Earth and move away in a straight line. And everything that is not held down to the ground here on Earth would just float off into space.
But even though gravity is a common a part of our everyday lives, it is the most mysterious force in the Universe. We still don't understand it very well.
Albert Einstein was a great scientist who discovered quite a number of things about the way the Universe works. Most of his ideas have been proven correct by experiments and observations.
One of his ideas is that objects cause the space around them to curve. He thought that large objects, like the Sun, curve the space around them more than small objects do. Objects moving through space follow the curvature. When space is curved sharply enough--like it is around the Sun—planets, asteroids, and comets moving along the curve are in orbit! If not for the curvature of space, they would all travel straight into space, away from the Sun. And this is what gravity is really about.
If mass curves space, then very large masses moving quickly through space would create ripples in space. Thus Einstein predicted gravitational waves—like ripples on a cosmic pond.
The biggest gravitational waves would be caused by huge events--for example, two huge stars orbiting each other, or a massive star orbiting a black hole, or two black holes orbiting each other.
However, gravitational waves from even these cosmic happenings are very weak by the time they reach us from some far away star system, just as a loud sound that is far away can be very faint. Gravitational waves are very hard to detect, so we have never before been able to measure them. But if we could, they could tell us all sorts of things about the Universe that we could not otherwise know. It would be like getting a whole new sense. It would be like hearing the Universe for the first time, when up until now we have only been able to see it.
The Laser Interferometer (in-ter-fear-AH-
muh-ter) Space Antenna (LISA) is a space mission that will be able to detect some of these gravitational waves, like a huge astronomical microphone. If NASA decides to pay for this mission, it will be launched around 2015.
LISA will place three spacecraft in orbit around the Sun, tagging along behind Earth. The three spacecraft will be 5 million kilometers (3 million miles) apart flying in a triangle formation. When a gravitational wave passes by, these ripples in space gently push the spacecraft around by the tiniest amount imaginable. But the super-super-super sensitive laser beams that connect the three spacecraft (like a spider web made of beams of light) will allow this tiny movement to be measured.
LISA will look for gravitational waves from stars and black holes. For example, the gravitational waves from two black holes orbiting each other could tell us how big (massive) the black holes are and how fast they are orbiting each other!
LISA will help us understand much more about space and how our Universe got to be the way it is--and perhaps even how it will change in the future.


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Boys slide to 3-5 after tourney losses
Plenty of season left, coach says.
The Swede boys basketball team may have lost both games during the Gothenburg Holiday Tournament last week but all is not lost.
Coach Kent Koehn says Gothenburg's 51-45 loss to Ord in the first round and 50-39 defeat by Boone Central in the consolation are now water under the bridge.
"There's a lot of basketball left," Koehn said. "We can chalk the first semester up to inexperience. Now it's time to learn from our mistakes and decide where we're going from here."Ord's players were big and they were deliberate, Koehn said.
"Their big kid in the post (6-foot-5 Nolan Clausen) was really patient," the coach said. "He either got layups or got fouled every time he got the ball."
At the same time, Koehn said his boys were not patient.
"I'm not sure we ever ran a complete offensive set," he said.
The Chanticleers stepped out to a 16-11 lead in the first quarter and were up 22-20 at halftime, fueled mostly by a trio of three-pointers from Ryan Callan.
Then the wheels fell off Gothenburg's offense entirely in the third period.
"We came out completely flat," Koehn said. "And when our offense went bad, our defense followed suit."
Ord pushed ahead in the third period, outscoring Gothenburg 19-7.
"Then we had to spend an awful lot of energy trying to get back into the game," Koehn said.
The Swedes made a surge, sparked by the defensive play of senior Mark Hilderbrand.
"Mark was all over the court," Koehn said. "He was getting his hand on a lot
of passes. When other kids see that kind of intensity, they follow along."
The Swedes held the Chanticleers to a single field goal and eight free throws in the fourth quarter but it wasn't enough to get the win.
Hilderbrand was the leading scorer for Gothenburg with 12 points.
Sick with the flu the next day, Koehn had to watch the 50-39 consolation loss to Boone Central on film.
"That may have affected the team a little," he said, "but it was more about not attacking the zone than me not being on the bench."
The Swedes battled in the first period to take a 16-14 lead but went cold in the second quarter scoring only two buckets and a free throw to trail 29-21 at the half.
"They were passing the ball around the perimeter looking for the long shot instead of attacking the gaps in the zone," Koehn said. "It was one of those winnable games that got away from us."
None of the Swedes scored in double figures. Landen Haake was high point with nine followed by Joel Teahon and Derek Franzen with eight points each.
The Swedes move to 3-5 on the season. After hosting state-ranked Minden Tuesday night, the Swedes will entertain Sutherland Friday night.
The Sailors are 2-5 but Koehn says record mean little between the teams.
"If recent history repeats itself, the first team to 30 will win," the coach said.
In the 2007-08 season, Sutherland won the matchup 35-32. Last year, the Swedes took the game 34-29.
"Every game from here on out is ours for the taking," Koehn said.
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