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New Fiesta Range - Red & Black Editions
mogwai replied to D13 HPD 95's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI am looking at getting the Red Edition as my new car when I change in September. Is the Red edition a time limited special edition? What is the current lead time for a factory build?
Managed to get £8100 in the end.
Just done the valuation on WhatCar.com and that suggests £8,300.
Valuation On My Fiesta Titanium
mogwai posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI am just in the process of getting a new car as I am at the end of my current Options agreement. I have been down to the dealer I got it from to see what they would offer me and for the spec below they have offered £7,500 Fiesta Titanium 3dr 1.6 60 plate (October 2010) Midnight Sky Titanium X Pack Full Dress up Kit. 2,200 Miles. I was expecting the offer to be at least £8,500 as this is what I got for my first fiesta with the same spec. What do you guys think of this figure?
mogwai started following Ideas On Source Of Interior Rattle and Valuation On My Fiesta Titanium
Ideas On Source Of Interior Rattle
mogwai replied to mogwai's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubThis is my second Mk7 and the first one did not do this.
Ideas On Source Of Interior Rattle
mogwai posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI am having an issue with my mk7 3dr Titanium this being a rattle that seems to be coming from the passenger side rear quarter panel. I have tried pressing in various places to see it just needed to be clicked back into place. Has anyone else had the same issue and managed to solve it?
Harder Start The Car In The Evening
mogwai replied to mogwai's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubIn both locations it parked flat. In the morning it will have been stationary for about 16 hours. In the evening when I get in it to drive home it will have been stationary for about 8 hours.
Harder Start The Car In The Evening
mogwai posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHi, I have Fiesta Mk 7 1.6 Titanium. Which I picked up in October last year. I have now started having a strange issue with starting it in the evening to drive home from the station. In the morning I can start the car easliy by just turning the key and not using any accelerator input. However in the evenings I have to use the accelerator to start the car. Has anyone got any thoughts on what is going on? Regards mogwai.
Sea Grey
mogwai replied to mark t's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubSea Grey got removed in September. I think the Bluetooth and usb where made standard when they introduced the new Sony Stereo. I wanted a Sea Grey when I ordered my new one a couple months ago and as I couldn't have sea grey I went for Midnight Sky.
Midnight Sky - What Colour Is It?
mogwai replied to GP57's topic in General Ford Related DiscussionsHere is photo of my new Fiesta Titanium in Midnight Sky.
Fiesta Mk7 Sony Head Unit
mogwai replied to jamham92's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubThe only thing that I know about it is that you can now only have it on a Titanium when ordering a new car. As far as buying it afterwards I have not seen any mention of it.
Bluetooth Phone Compatibility
mogwai replied to graham_holly's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubMy HTC Desire works.
New Colour
mogwai replied to Kaz W's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHere is a pic of my 10 day old Fiesta Titanium
No Spare Wheel For Fiesta Titanium
mogwai replied to minko's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubIs there a particular reason you don't want to get the spacesaver wheel? I have it for my Fiesta and have had cause to use it twice and the car drove fine with it eventhough I have the 17' Titanium X Pack alloy's on the other 3 corners.
New Titanium
mogwai replied to Kaz W's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHave you got the 17' wheels on the new one and did you have the normal Titanium wheels on the last one? When I first got my Fiesta I thought it was wandering a bit, I think that it was just tramlineing a bit. Once I was used to the car it didn't seem to happen anymore.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Business groups are pushing the U.S. Congress to pass legislation in the next nine days to prevent tariffs from rising on auto parts, tires, jewelry and other goods from developing countries under a trade benefits program that expires on July 31.
It remains unclear, however, whether lawmakers will act before they adjourn for a month-long August break, industry and congressional aides said.
The Generalized System of Preferences program waives U.S. duties on thousands of goods from developing nations to help create jobs in those countries.
The GSP program saved American companies an estimated $750 million in taxes on about $20 billion of imports in 2012.
More than half of U.S. imports under the program came from three countries - India ($4.5 billion), Thailand ($3.7 billion) and Brazil ($2.3 billion) and were followed by Indonesia, South Africa, the Philippines, Turkey, Angola and Russia.
"Not only will expiration adversely affect more than a hundred developing countries who use GSP, but it will hurt their U.S. customers," Laura Baughman, executive director of the Coalition for GSP, said in a statement.
The top GSP imports in 2012 were ferro alloys used in steel production ($1 billion), motor vehicle parts ($938 million), radial tires ($883 million), gold and silver jewelry ($748 million) and crude oil ($664 million), according to the U.S. Trade Representative's office.
Lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives have offered legislation to reauthorize the program through September 2015.
"I hope we can move this bill through Congress quickly and get it signed into law so that U.S. manufacturers can continue to receive these important benefits," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat.
"Given the sluggish state of economic growth in this country, we should not allow this program to expire," said Senator Orrin Hatch, the senior Republican on the panel.
House Republicans want a clean bill free of any amendments and are therefore pressing the Senate to act first.
The quickest course would be for the Senate to pass the bill by unanimous consent, but that requires getting a commitment first from all 100 senators not to offer any amendments that could block passage in the House.
"Senator Baucus is working with his colleagues in both chambers to find the best way to get it signed into law," said a committee aide.
Congress has failed in the past to renew the GSP program before its expires, but has renewed it retroactively in those cases.
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Keep an upholstered ottoman 18 inches from a sofa or chair, so you can easily put up your feet, and make sure the height is consistent with the surrounding seats. If you get a tufted ottoman, consider the depth of the tufts — especially if you expect to eat on it. Crumbs will find their way into the tufting and are not always easy to get out. Round coffee tables aid circulation, especially where there are many available seats, as in this example. If not every seat can reach the table, make sure there's another surface at hand. Using a vintage object for a coffee table adds a bit of history — a story — to a room, and is one of my favorite things to do. Make sure the piece is stable and all the connections are secure. If you need to refinish the piece, ask the vendor precisely what it's made from, as this will help in the refinishing process. Another consideration is how it will sit on your floor or rug, and if it will damage those surfaces. Splintered table legs or rusty metal bases can scratch or stain the flooring. Secondhand stores sometimes leave those areas unrefinished, so be sure to check.
First think about what you need your coffee table to do for you, or what your room is missing, then pick a table that provides the solution. Before buying a table, mark the footprint with painter's tape so you can see the scale of the piece in the room and how that affects the surrounding furniture. If you have a very large room and a large coffee table, you can break up the scale of the table by flanking it with pairs of ottomans or benches, as in this example. When there's a party, they can be moved out of the way for better circulation, but for everyday use these extra seats help connect the sofa at one end and the pair of chairs at the other end. Be sure to use a pair of ottomans — not just a single one. When you have two sofas or any larger seating arrangement, a big coffee table might seem like the obvious solution. But also consider a pair of matching coffee tables. They will keep the focus off one large piece of furniture and let your eye move around the room more easily. One classic coffee table size is 48 by 24 inches, so you can plan on that when thinking about your furniture arrangement. A large coffee table is often double that: 48 inches square.
On the other hand, perhaps you want your space to look cozier (and you need some storage). Stash baskets, trunks and old suitcases under simple legged coffee tables to ground spaces that are otherwise too open. Solid tabletops usually have a very square corner. If you have little kids or the circulation is tight, allow extra space at the ends so it's easier to get around the corners without hitting your shins. Go for color with an upholstered coffee table, as it will draw people to the surrounding sofas and chairs. Top it with a tray to hold books and other items. Choose your fabric wisely, since people may want to put up their feet (and shoes). Outdoor fabrics can be smart; steer clear of linen and fabrics with high amounts of rayon or viscose. Take a swatch home and test it out with dirt, red wine or whatever you think your coffee table will encounter, to make sure your fabric choice can handle it all.


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Bring prime ribs to cool room temperature (about 1 1/2 hours out of the refrigerator). Make sure you know the weight of the roast.
Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
Season roast extremely well with salt and pepper. Place in roasting pan, fatty side up, and place in oven. Cook until desired degree of doneness is reached (resist the temptation to open the oven door a lot). For rare meat, the roast should take about 20 minutes per pound. When you're within half an hour of your estimated finish time, remove the roast from the oven, and plunge a quick-read thermometer into a fleshy part of the meat near the center (don't do anywhere near a bone). We like to stop cooking the roast in the oven at 115 degrees; this is extremely rare, but the roast will continue to cook as it stands outside the oven (the temperature should go up 5 to 10 degrees). If you remove it at 120 degrees it will be rare, and at 125 degrees it will be medium-rare; we wouldn't recommend going much higher than that.
Place the roast on a cutting board, uncovered, and let it rest for 15 minutes.
When ready to serve, simply cut the meat away from the bone in one enormous chunk. Then, cut the "filet" of meat into slices and serve immediately. Cut through the bones (you'll have 5), and serve them separately.
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It is similar to the old western quickdraw cuts. Big tension as the two gunslingers square off, then you see them draw with maybe a cut to the guns firing, or even cutting away to a long shot or background scenes while the gunshots echo. They cut back to the two still standing there, guns pointed at each other...then eventially slowly of their guns falls from their hand and he slumps over. Or maybe blood starts to spread from the wound or month before that (depending on the rating of the show/film). Usually done either so you can't tell which one fired, or just whose a better shot at the climax. Or so that you have them stand off and what really happened was a third party shot one first.
Something like that is at least as old at the 1950s.
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With that having been said, I suppose it's not really a cliche but entitlement is very annoying in characters. You see that a lot with characters that have a higher social status or are rich. Often they think they're better than everyone else, and while it does parallel real life I find it to be extremely distasteful. Fortunately you get the "rich farmer girl" who is very humble and sweet. Those almost make up for it.
For my own entry, I suppose you could consider characters who get overly embarrassed to be cliche. I've recently begun to watch a bit of anime again and I'm finding this to be an irritant currently. I can sympathize with getting embarrassed in situations where you've made a very obvious error in front of a group of people, but getting embarrassed all the time about little implications and imagery of "embarrassing" things isn't OK even as a teenager. Maybe a bit of this stems from how Japanese culture tends to take romance and other such feelings more seriously than we do in Western cultures, but it irks me. Imagery of nudity or romantic situations shouldn't cause boys to turn red and get embarrassed and stutter. Heck, even with females that annoys me. I've certainly never experienced it or met anyone else who did. I let that slide a bit when the situation is actually tense or romantic, but when both parties aren't on the same level it also annoys me. Especially since it's always the female portrayed as being confident and mature, while the male is portrayed as being timid and embarrassed.
Maybe I'm just a manly man though.
Edit: Actually, I have to address the samurai standoff. That's actually not limited to samurai. You see this a lot with Mexican standoffs where both gunmen fire, and then pause, and then one of them (or both) falls. Another example is when two characters punch each other at the same time, and then pause, and then one or both fall.
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Well I cant particularly say I hate it. But I read the light novel to Sword art online, and I didnt think it was all that great. Felt theres alot better stories and characters (with development) out there. But all I hear about the anime is praise on how good it is? I admit I havent read any of the side stories to Sword art online. But I felt the main story was rushed and pretty bland.. So unless the side stories are so good, I guess I'm sorta confused to why people think its so great.
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In this thread, we only discuss about the cliche, not an anime in its entirety.
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What is it? Animes having unoriginal 'Transformers'-like machines
Worst Offenders: Well, most of the anime I'm going to post are epic, but it's still annoying after a while: Evangelion, Code Geass, Eureka Seven, and one more that I forgot the name of it.
What makes it popular: Well, Idk really, probably the idea got innovated.
Reasons I hate it: It gets annoying seeing similar-as-hell machines in completely different anime.
Is the hate really worth it? Probably not, as the anime were all awesome, but animes should have SOME original ideas.
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Optimus Prime's face has a Gundam look to it. And yes, the RX-78-2 Gundam could pass for Optimus Prime's son, or something like that.
Shockwave and Soundwave are somewhat similar to some of the bulkier Zeon mechas.
But otherwise, yeah, Transformers aren't that much like anime mechas. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any anime mecha that looks like Megatron or Starscream.
Honestly, it would be neat if anime did something like Transformers. Where the mechas are living beings themselves. Maybe a plot where these living beings are essentially turned into slaves and forced to fight in human wars as their mechas.
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Transformers: Masterforce (late 1980s Japanese continuation of the original series) did something like that with the robots as shells for their human pilots. Not all the robots, since that was also the series that had robots hide in human shells.
But then Transformers also borrowed the VF-1S from Macross to become Jetfire. The original Transformers toyline was a mix of various other toylines repackaged and given a story about the robots, rather than the drivers (several of the toys had originally had tiny driver figures). The American idea was to have it be about the robots rather than about humans driving large mecha like the Japanese had been doing for over a decade at that point.
And there have been lots and lots, and lots of Transformers storylines and series in Japan. Just there generally isn't any other show that using the mecha as the living beings instead of the human pilots.
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Brave Series are the closest thing to Transformers, with a good reason.
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Anyway, it's nice that most people here don't generalize and accuse mechas in anime being rip-offs of Transformers .
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Young characters who take to long to adapt to their situation or try to remain rigid in their beliefs when there's just no room for it. I understand that these characters don't want this situation and that they feel they've been forced into a bad place, but they know better. They're old enough to get over it, in most cases. In Macross I felt like the child character was perpetually stupid in some respects. Amuro was a very realistic character, but I felt like his whiny phase was poorly timed. Just as well, with his father being a military scientist and him studying his designs like he did I don't fully understand how he manages to remain so pacifistic. Especially when you consider where Amuro ends up down the road I don't really see where that phase came from.
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Lolli for loli :D
Depending on the type of shoes you are wearing, I assure you, it's entirely possible. Whether it's the texture of the floor/ground or the shoes are too big or have awkward soles....seriously, it could be just about anything.
I find that amusing...because it's like "hey...um the villain doesn't really care, you know?"
But I think they put it in to show how pissed the character saying it is. Basically stating, "I am going to kick your ass now and show no mercy".
(why not just say that, then? XD)
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For the final show of New York Fashion Week, Ralph Lauren broke free from the pack and went down South America way for his Español-flavored spring collection. Jessica Alba, for one, was excited by it, sitting next to Olivia Wilde taking pictures and mouthing "so chic" to a consultant seated behind her. There was lots to be excited about, between the gold embroidered toreador pants, tooled leather jackets and the serape blanket wrap tops, not least of which were the cha-cha-cha accessories: colorful bead jewelry, stencil cut-out leather belts, python and lizard hobos, blanket stitch platform sandals. Not sure if he had Argentine Marxist revolutionaries on the brain, but the berets and the studded motorcycle mailbags lent a fab Che Guevara air.
Francisco Costa always pushes the boundaries of engineering and fabric with his designs for Calvin Klein and this collection proved to be no exception to the running architecture lessons. Shiny conical shapes were the theme this time out (as opposed to cubes, which he has achieved in the past), and the results were dresses that managed to look like the Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao. Among other cool effects, he worked suiting in black and white double-sided fabrics that winked the contrasting side at the exposed, inside-out edges. Add a platform pump with a crushed gold heel and you're set to head to Frieze.


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Creedence Clearwater Revival founding members and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stu Cook and Doug "Cosmo" Clifford have been on quite a ride. Following their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cosmo and Stu launched their Creedence Clearwater Revisited project in 1995 to once again perform live in concert the hit songs -- touchstones of a generation. Since then, the legendary rhythm section has been thrilled by the outpouring of affection for their new band. World tours and a platinum selling albumRecollectionfollowed. The astounding response to the band has been driven in part by new generations of fans that, as Cosmo says, "weren't even born when the music came out."
While, as udiscovermusic.com recently commented, it is the "rhythm section Doug Clifford's drums and Stu Cook's bass that is a hallmark of Creedence Clearwater Revival," the boys did not take assembling the rest of the new group's players lightly. "In the beginning Cosmo and I decided that if we could find the musicians that could capture the sound and recreate what the music was about, we'd do it," recalls Stu. As fans around the world can attest, Stu and Cosmo found the right players. Lead guitarist Kurt Griffey brings crowds to their feet and the front of the stage with his solos. He as recorded and toured with other notable musicians including members of the Eagles, Foreigner, the Moody Blues, Wings, Lynyrd Skynryd, Santana and Journey. On lead vocal and rhythm guitar is Dan McGuiness. The purity, power and range of Dan's soaring voice hits right to the heart. Multi-instrumentalist Steve Gunner rounds out the group. As Cosmo puts it, "Gun provides live all the overdubs that were on the records. - keyboard, acoustic guitar, percussion, harmonica and the high harmonies."
In 2013,Classic Rock Revisitedcritic Jeb Wright wrote about a Creedence Clearwater Revisited concert he attended. "The true test of any concert is how the music makes you feel. On this night, this writer walked away with a wonderful feeling, having just witnessed timeless, historical music, performed to perfection. Creedence Clearwater Revisited not only looks to the past, performing iconic songs, they bring them to the modern day, reminding us all of the true importance of this music."
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Despite the first really hot evening of the summer, the culmination of actor Perry Fenwick's London 2012 storyline attracted a healthy audience for BBC1
Monday 23 July was quite a day for the Olympic torch as it was borne through the streets of London by the likes of Michael Owen, Andy Murray, Sir Patrick Stewart… and Billy Mitchell from EastEnders.
But while the torch attracted thousands of spectators regardless of who carried it, Billy – aka actor Perry Fenwick –had the biggest audience of all, as a peak of 7.9 million viewers tuned in on BBC1 and BBC1HD at 9:25pm to see him carry the flame through Walford in a live section of the soap.
Last night's EastEnders double bill centred around Billy's moment in the spotlight, with the 8:00-8:30pm episode featuring the residents of Albert Square gathering for the arrival of the torch, and the second instalment, from 9:00pm to 9:30pm, showcasing the run.
Both episodes attracted fairly typically-sized audiences for a Monday edition of the soap, avergaing 7.6m viewers (a 35.1% share) and 7.3m (30.9%), respectively – impressive considering the country had been bathed in sunshine for the first time this summer and the smell of barbeque was on the breeze.
Certainly, EastEnders' slot competitors didn't fare so well. Between 8pm and 8:30pm BBC2'sUniversity Challenge was watched by 2.2m (a 10% share), with ITV1's Countrywise garnering 2.9m (13.2%), Phil and Kirsty's Location, Location, Location on Channel 4 pulling in 1.1m (5.1%) and the first half of Channel 5's Megastructures, about London's Olympic stadium, watched by just 600,000 viewers (2.4%)
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Save Mart launched ClickCart at its Modesto store on Pelandale Avenue about a month ago, and has since expanded to two other Northern California sites. The plan is to roll it out to more than 20 stores in the company by the end of the year.
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The Cellular Connection, a premium Verizon Wireless retailer, is opening its doors Wednesday at three area stores in St. Marys, Ridgway and Brookville. Grand openings are starting at 10 a.m., with the stores featuring all of their Black Friday sales on "White Wednesday," a term which District Manager Abie VanAlstine created in anticipation of Black Friday.Refreshments will be provided at the event, as well as a radio remote broadcast from the St. Marys store and ribbon-cutting ceremonies.The St. Marys store is located along the Million Dollar Highway next to the Dollar Tree store, while the Ridgway store is situated at 143 Main St. and in Brookville at 301 W. Main St. near Subway."We decided to open our stores here because this area is an underserved market. We have a request from Verizon to come in," explained Justin Goehring, co-owner of The Cellular Connection chain.While the stores are a separate channel of Verizon, they will carry a full lineup of Verizon Wireless phones and a vast array of accessories, as well as provide efficient customer support and services.In addition customers, can make payments on their Verizon accounts at the store and upgrade or change their calling plan and account information.Goehring emphasized that while the store is charged a fee for making payments, those will not be passed onto customers. Other fees waived at the stores are for early upgrades and the $10 fee for customers who purchase a new phone and wish to have their contacts and photos transferred to their new device. "We are doing this to preserve the customer and encourage their return business," noted Goehring. The 1,000-square-foot St. Marys store includes a seating area, phone display and accessory wall. The Ridgway store is the smallest of the three."This area is a heavily dominated Verizon market. In rural markets, we are the corporate store. Our pricing is competitive from the corporate standpoint," Goehring said. "There is less competition when you do things right. We want to get the customers the right phone for their needs."For more on this story, see the Nov. 23 edition of The Daily Press.


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The Secret of Oprah's Success
Her biography. But not the one in Kitty Kelley's book.
Oprah Winfrey is the world's most famous talk show host. She's also the world's most powerful media mogul. The stock and trade of the talk show host is confession; the mogul would prefer to disclose nothing. Ah—but the mogul's profits flow directly from a cargo cult of total public divulgence, as pioneered by the talk show host. What possible right to privacy can this woman still claim?
Such is the apparent logic behind the new and very blockbuster Oprah: A Biography, in which Kitty Kelley, through 800 or so torturous pages, shames the Everywoman persona of the host with the increasingly Keyser Söze-like person of the mogul. Kelley herself is playing a double game here, of insinuation with the reader and keepaway with the libel lawyers. Lady authoress stands aloof as others run at the mouth about the Oprah Gail Lee who long since left them behind. Much of the book is stenographic transcription, block quotes from soured ex-acquaintances; peering over Kelley's shoulder, we're at liberty to question whether Oprah is gay, skin-bleached, and so chronically dissembling that her most famously revealing public utterance ("I was continually molested from the age of nine until I was fourteen") is a lie.
But along the way to cataloging her every queenly hypocrisy, Kelley gets the essential ecology of Oprahdom wrong. After all, is anyone really shocked that the life story of America's favorite mother-confessor reads like a biography of John D. Rockefeller? Of a driven, insecure, money-obsessed collector of slights, a harborer of contempt for ordinary people, ordinary things? It's all-too-plausible that Winfrey is more To Die For than The Color Purple—a woman whose personality toes that uniquely American line where pluck crosses over into a full-blown psychosis. "She's shut down," reports a guest who appeared on the show. "There's a sheet of ice between the person and the persona." OK, but why the surprise? Keyser Söze has always provided the yin to Everywoman's yang. For 25 years, Oprah hasn't just been selling the warm smile; she's also been selling the sheet of ice.
Reading Oprah, one notices how neatly the woman's life maps onto the history of de-segregation. Winfrey was born in 1954, the same year as Brown v. Board of Education. She was, thanks to the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, one of six black children chosen to integrate the high school in the wealthy Milwaukee suburb of Fox Point. The following fall, having rejoined her father in Tennessee (not, it turns out, her biological father, but therein lies another tale), she moved to East Nashville High School, as part of its first integrated class. Of her early and precocious rise in television, she has admitted, "I was a classic token." By 22, she was co-anchor of a local 6 p.m. news broadcast in Baltimore.
At WJZ-TV, Winfrey was paired with anchor Jerry Turner, a snow-capped local legend who still fancied himself a journalist in the Cronkite mold and who squirmed through her every malapropism and mispronunciation. (These Kelley serves up with a bit too much relish.) Demoted to the morning beat, Winfrey covered a cockatoo's birthday party and famously burst into tears reporting from the scene of a Baltimore fire. The station moved her to daytime, the graveyard shift, to let her contract quietly play out. By the time she left Baltimore five years later, in 1983, she owned the city, but only the city; her show, People Are Talking, had triumphed locally but failed in national syndication. When Winfrey, as Kelley tells it, "packed up her five coats of Mano Swartz Fur and headed for Chicago," it was not at all clear that professional advancement, much less a historic apotheosis, awaited her.
Why did Winfrey, to understate it wildly, triumph in Chicago, when everyone predicted disaster? "There's no way you can make it in Chicago up against Donahue," the Baltimore station manager told her. "It's his home base. You're walking into a landmine and can't even see it." Winfrey studied her predecessor ("I used to watch Donahue to figure out how to do it," she has said), the better to discard him. She took Donahue's baby, the issue-oriented talk show, and made it more confessional and more lurid, centered around taboo subject matter and carefully staged, highly personalized confrontations. Out went the Edward R. Murrow pretensions, in came micro-penises, 30-minute orgasms, transsexual moms. She crushed him in the ratings. Forced to play catch-up, Donahue cross-dressed and wrung the obligatory confessionals from his guests. It hardly mattered. As the woman herself noted, "The difference between Donahue and me is me."
All stars craft and market their brand; Oprah commodified her biography. But this only raises the question. Why did a black woman with a hard-bitten back story triumph in the '80s when an earnest New Feminine Man with grad-seminar airs did not? What social need was served? Here we should notice a second fact about Oprah's biography: how perfectly it maps onto the classic trajectory of her generation's angst and eventual triumph.
1968 is the signal year; it was the landmark year of self-discovery for both Oprah Winfrey and her birth cohort. It was the year of Nixon's election and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy; and it was the height of Haight Ashbury and the student protests. In 1968, Oprah Winfrey ran away from home, conceived an out-of-wedlock baby, and experimented with recreational drugs. In her telling, this is of a piece with a deprived childhood in which, as she recalls it, she never wore a store-bought dress, and to ward off loneliness, read the Bible to her father's barnyard pigs. Whether this is true, merely fanciful, or some high-polish bullshit—relatives remember her as a "petted and indulged" child—who can say? But the generation gap was playing out in her home along a fairly mainstream pattern. Oprah was a hippie; her father disapproved. "No child of mine was going to wildflowers in her hair and light that Hindu incense," Kelley quotes Vernon Winfrey. "Maybe the tie-dyed dashikis and bell-bottom pants enchanted her, the sandals and the beaded necklaces. Maybe the hippie life looked fun, fashionable."
Oprah, of course, was both a poor black child (if not the Topsy caricature she would have us believe) and the popular kid, in peace-sign earrings and a baggy sweater, at a mostly white high school where it was, as Winfrey has said, "hip to know a black person." It's unclear to what extent the teenage Winfrey was a '60s wild child, to what extent she was exhibiting the "tangle of pathologies" of the black underclass, and to what extent she was acting out, sexually and with drugs, because she had been abused. And that is the point. In the maelstrom of 1968, being a pregnant runaway did not exactly put one at odds with the American mainstream. A teenage pregnant runaway African-American hippie from a broken home led by a no-nonsense patriarch—Winfrey's wasn't a textbook case; she was a sociological Rubik's cube. And yet her Summer of Love ended typically. Her father disciplined her.
The hybrid life allowed Winfrey to speak one moment as if she were the caged bird, the next as if she'd grown up on the Upper West Side. (In 1981, she addressed the graduating class of Goucher College, a predominantly white liberal arts college, by saying: "Because unlike our mothers, we know that by the time we are middle-aged we have more than a 50 percent chance of never being married, divorced, widowed, or separated. So there's no denying the obvious. We have to take care of ourselves." Our mothers? Oprah Winfrey's mother was an unmarried teen; her half-brother died of AIDS; her half-sister died of a drug overdose.) Like many young black teens, Winfrey succumbed to a tragic stereotype, of drugs and an unwanted pregnancy. Like many '68ers, Winfrey peered into the abyss then recoiled back into normalcy.
After her infant died, only a few months after childbirth, she dropped the dangle earrings, put her hair in pigtails, and announced herself to the high school drama coach by telling her she, Oprah Gail Winfrey, was going to be a "movie star." The teacher introduced her in turn to James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones, which Winfrey performed in churches throughout Nashville; and thus began her career of dramatically enacting works of black literature. Throughout high school, she competed in state and national "forensic" competitions, performing selections from Johnson and from Margaret Walker's Jubilee. In college, she played the part of Coretta Scott King in The Tragedy of Martin Luther King, Jr. "All my life I have done dramatic interpretations of black women. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer are all part of me," she has said. And yet she has also said, "Blackness is just something I am. I'm black. I'm a woman. I wear size 10 shoe. It's all the same to me."
From an early age, along the way to pleasing white audiences who wanted the uplift without the guilt, Winfrey learned to make her blackness both integral and incidental to who she was—quite a deft maneuver. "I grew up a little Negro child who felt so unloved and so isolated," said Winfrey. "The emotion I felt most as a child was loneliness." This is classic Winfrey. Racism is invoked, if as a picturesque antique ("little Negro child"), only to be abstracted into an emotion, an affect. (Or worse, a self-help bromide: "We got it all wrong," she has assured us. "For years we've talked about the physicality of slavery—who did what and who invented that. But the real legacy lies in the strength and courage to survive.") The Oprah Winfrey Show repurposes everything—up to and including the Holocaust—as an individual struggle, the most proper response to which is the engagement of an internal coping mechanism, and finally, self-discipline that, if executed properly, culminates in personal triumph.
As a defense against poverty, racism, and rape, and against the total and often violent dis-esteem of the wider culture, it is no wonder black women develop a defense mechanism—a kind of self-reliance on steroids—that looks nowhere but inward for the beginnings of solace and renewal. (I'm thinking of Marguerite in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in the depth of her inner exile; or Celie's letters to God in The Color Purple.) The genius of Winfrey was to take this, strip it of its historical specificity, recast it and standardize it, and offer it up as a template for mass self-understanding. Donahue had respected the intelligence of women watching daytime television, addressing them as capable people who wanted to engage big-think issues, issues that preoccupied Donahue himself, such as the nuclear standoff or consumer rights. (Ralph Nader was his most frequent guest.) The women in Oprah's audience are not addressed as mothers, wives, citizens, employees, or (god forbid) activists. They are addressed as selves. In the early aughts, the sociologist Eva Illouz sorted the show's episodes by theme. "The Failed Self" is its most common subject, followed by "The Assaulted Self," with "Broken Relations" coming in third.
The breakdown of the black conjugal family had preceded the breakdown of the white conjugal family by at least 100 years; it is one of the most toxic legacies of slavery. In the '70s, divorce rates surged. To the losers in this new culture, of a far more porous family structure for whom life often appears as a series of nonbinding commitments, and for whom the home is no longer necessarily a bulwark against the warlike relations of the outside world, Winfrey had a readymade language, a survivor's language of ennoblement through adversity in which the self is a final asylum in a world where nothing else can be trusted.
Into that final asylum Winfrey chaperoned a generation of American women, organizing the self's power—to confess, first; then to industriously introspect; then possibly, to improve; but most of all, to never to exit itself. And here we approach the final genius of Winfrey's enterprise. The so-called "Quiet Revolution" of the 1970s drew women into the economy along new patterns of aspiration. As sociologists have described it, work, for women, went from being a shameful necessity to a search for personal identity and societal worth. That some women in the '70s were attending traditionally male universities and entering via graduate schools the traditionally male professions, levied a new tax on the self-esteem of women staying at home. As the 1980s began to take off—the words yuppie and Oprah enter the lexicon at exactly the same time—so too did the idea that a lucrative career defined self-worth. More power careers were open to women as the economy gravitated toward high end services. Women had entered not only the economy but the economy of self making.
It's no accident Winfrey's show comes on at 4 p.m., at just the moment an afternoon sags and the desolating powers of a wasted day are most acute. "I am the instrument of God," she has said. "I am his messenger. My show is my ministry." The woman who comes on at 4 to minister, to shepherd and rescue the dying day, brings with her an extraordinary life story, a biography that, by power of historical association, with slavery and Jim Crow, hallows the self's contest against unreliable husbands, fathers, siblings. But her gift extends further: The drama of self-ownership so central to the literature of black women is Winfrey's Trojan horse. Even as she introduced the adversities of her friend Maya Angelou to an overwhelmingly white and middle-class audience, the press was reporting on her astonishing moneymaking prowess, as inseparable from the brand image as her origins in poverty. (She made $31 million in 1987; the figure is now easily 10 times that.)
It's great work, if you can get it. Win your viewers' trust, offer them asylum from an increasingly pitiless and negligent world, ennoble their suffering with the halo of Civil Rights, then tell them, over and over, that, as Winfrey herself identifies the show's abiding message, "It doesn't matter how victimized any of us have been, we're all responsible for our lives." Wounding them with the spectacle of your own success, against every deprivation, you then engage them in a decades-long circus of self-help as therapeutic catharsis and healing. "My intent always is to own myself and every part of myself I can," she has said of Harpo, her own production company. "Owning myself is a way to be myself." The up-from-slavery theater jock and the baby boomer extraordinaire now speak as one.
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The fingerprint sensor in the 5S is interesting, but I wonder how accurate it will be in the real world; on top of that, with all the NSA news, I'm not particularly keen on Apple reading my fingerprint all the time. Supposedly, applications don't have access to it and it's not stored in the cloud, but I have little to no trust for companies.
The biggest news for me is the fact that the iPhone 5S has a new chip - the A7 - which has the honour of being the first 64bit chip inside a smartphone. iOS7 and first party Apple applications are all 64bit, and Xcode obviously supports it. While this obviously future-proofs the platform for more RAM, I wonder what other motives are involved here. ARM desktops and laptops, perhaps?
I doubt 64bit will provide much benefit today, but you have to hand it to Apple: at least they're done with the transition before it's even needed.
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Apple's release pattern has been to introduce a new iPhone, then a new iPad with an improved version of the processor and graphics with the iPad.
If Apple is going to have the iPad Mini go with a Retina display, then why not have an iPad Pro with a 4K display and A7X processor with a 12"-14" screen?
You'd ideally want to put more than 4GB RAM, probably 8GB into it to be able to handle huge amounts of video and data.
This looks like Apple preparing for the future, and it may be sooner than we think.


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NCAA hits UNC football with 1-year postseason ban, loss of 15 scholarships and probation
The NCAA infractions committee has hit North Carolina's football program with a one-year postseason ban, a reduction of 15 scholarships and three years of probation following an investigation into improper benefits and academic misconduct.
In a ruling Monday, the committee said the school was responsible for multiple violations, including academic fraud and a failure to monitor its football program.
The school had already imposed several penalties, including vacating all 16 wins for 2008 and 2009, reducing nine scholarships over the next three academic years and putting the program on two years of probation.
School officials appeared before the committee in October.
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Leah O'Connor Wins Third-Straight Steeple at Big Ten Championships
Four Spartans make it on the podium on day two of competition.
MSU Track & Field Wins 10 Medals at the Big Ten Championships
Spartans add six medals to close out the final day of competition at the conference meet.
MSU Track & Field Travels to 2014 Big Ten Outdoor Championships
Spartans head to Purdue University to compete against conference foes on May 16-18.
Spartans Add Two Regional Qualifiers at GVSU Last Chance Weekend
Jaelynn Pryor (400-meter hurdles) and Hannah Sailar (pole vault) punch ticket to NCAA Regionals.
MSU Track & Field Concludes Split Weekend Competition
Spartans turn in several strong performances at Tennessee Relays and Don Klienow Invite.
Collegiate Bests
200m - 25.47
300m - 40.34
400m - 55.35
500m - 1:13.24
60m Hurdles - 8.83
100m Hurdles - 14.85
400m Hurdles - 57.33
NCAA East Preliminary Round Qualifier
OUTDOOR: Placed second in the 400 meter hurdles at GVSU, posting a career-best time of 59.00 seconds; Finished ninth in the 400 meter hurdles (1:02.78) at the Big Ten Championships, qualifying for the NCAA East Preliminary Round ... Competed for the Spartan 4x1, 4x2 and 4x4 relay teams
INDOOR: Finished sixth in the 200 (25.84) and eighth in the 400 (56.44) at the Alex Wilson Invitational ... Third-place finisher in the 600 (1:34.93) at the GVSU Big Meet Invite ... Competed on the 4x4 relay team at the Big Ten Championships, helping the Spartans finish sixth with a time of 3:37.78
Second-team USTF CCCA All-American
NCAA East Preliminary Round Qualifier
OUTDOOR: Competed in the 400m hurdles and 1,600m sprint medley relay at the Raleigh Relays, posting a first-place 59.45 and second-place 4:00.54 respectively ... Competed in the 200m and 4x400m relay at the Spartan Invitational, posting times of 25.05 and a first-place 3:45.30 respectively ... Ran a 59.13 in the 400m hurdles at the Drake Relays ... Competed in the 4x400m relay and the 400m hurdles at the Big Ten Outdoor Conference Championships, posting marks of 3:41.47 and 1:00.52 ... Competed in the preliminary rounds of the 4x400m relay and 400m hurdles at the NCAA East Preliminary Round, posting marks of 3:36.39 and 59.20 respectively ... Competed in the 4x400m relay at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, posting a time of 3:37.82.
INDOOR: Earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors ... Part of the 4x4 relay team that took second place at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and broke the school and previous SPIRE institute record with a time of 3:36.34 ... On the 4x4 relay that placed seventh at the Alex Wilson Invitational in a time of 3:39.04 ... Finished 14th in the 400m dash at the SPIRE Invitational with a career best time of 55.35 ... Finished second in the 500m run at the Notre Dame Invite in a time of 1:13.24 ... On the 4x400m relay that took second at the Notre Dame Invite in a time of 3:42.54.
NCAA East Preliminary Round Qualifier
OUTDOOR: Won the 400m hurdles (60.34) and placed third in the 4x400m (3:42.50) at the Raleigh Relays...Finished second at the MSU Spartan Invitational in the 400m hurdles (59.79)...Placed 18th at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships in the 400m hurdles (59.12)... Ran a time of 59.93 in the 400m hurdles to place third at the Jesse Owens Track Classic ... Clocked a season-best in the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.75 and ran on the third-place 4x400 relay team that finished with a time of 3:40.79 at the Polytan Invitational...Competed in the Drake Relays, posting a time of 1:00.84 in the 400m hurdles...Placed third in the 400m hurdles at the Big Ten Championships with a time of 57.33...Qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round, finishing seventh in the 400m hurdles with a time of 58.03...Represented the Spartans at the NCAA Championships, running a time of 59.12 in the 400m hurdles.
INDOOR: Placed third in the 4X400m relay with a time of 3:39.90 and clocked a 56.07 in the 400-meter dash at the Big Ten Indoor Championships ... Posted a time of 25.77 in the 200-meter dash and a 56.73 in the 400-meter dash at the SPIRE Invitational...Finished fifth in the 400-meter dash (56.22) and was a member of the team that won the 4x400m (3:39.79) at the Indiana Relays...Won the 300-meter dash (40.34), placed sixth in the 60m hurdles (8.83) and finished first in the 4x400m at the GVSU Bob Eubanks Open...Placed seventh in the 500-meter (76.12), fifth in the 60m hurdles (9.07) and won the 4x400m (3:42.63) at the Notre Dame Invitational.
NCAA East Preliminary Round Qualifier
OUTDOOR: Opened the outdoor season with a first-place finish time of 1:02.51 in the 400m hurdles at the Spartan Invitational ... Also placed third in the 100m hurdles, recording a season-best time of 14.85 (Spartan Invitational) ... Helped the 4x400m relay team finish third at the Indiana University Outdoor Invitational, recording a time of 3:48.86 ... Also placed second in the 400m hurdles, posting a time of 1:01.87 and finished fifth in the 400m, recording a season-best time of 57.05 ... Set a season-best time of 59.84 in the 400m hurdles, placing third at the Jesse Owens Track Classic ... Helped the 4x400m relay team earn first place at the Lyle Bennett Open, recording a time of 3:48.94 ... Represented the Spartans in the 4x400 and the 400m hurdles at the Big Ten Conference Champion and NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round.
INDOOR: Recorded a season-best time of 26.17 in the 200m at the Kentucky Indoor Track & Field Invitational ... Placed second in the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.00 ... Set a season-best time of 56.74 in the 400m at the GVSU Big Meet ... Also, recorded a season-best time of 8.96 in the 60m hurdles ... Was a member of the fifth-place 4x400m relay team that recorded a time of 3:44.46 at the Big Ten Women's Indoor Track & Field Invitational.
High School: Letterwinner in track, basketball and cheerleading at Jackson High School in Jackson, Mich. ...All-state selection in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010...As a freshman, placed fifth at states in the 200m hurdles and third in the 4x400m...Won the 4x400m sophomore year at states and finished fourth in the 300m hurdles... Placed third in the 300m hurdles and fifth in the 100m hurdle at states in 2009...Won the 300m hurdles at states senior year.
Personal: Born on June 6, 1992...Daughter of Thomas and Julie Pryor...Majoring in kinesiology.


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A cuddle that is the direct result of a victory in some sport or board game, usually between close friends. The cuddle can take place on a couch or sofa, beds are usually off-limits because they are not public enough, and the whole point is to demonstrate affection to others while also bragging about a well earned victory.
Me and Steve had a Victory Cuddle in the lobby after we crushed the competition in a Euchre tournament.
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International Opportunities
For information on how to apply as an international student and for the International Student Handbook, visit the page for prospective international students.
Visiting Research Students and International Exchange programs
Visiting research students at Queen's
A student who is registered in a graduate level program at their home university may register at Queen's for non-degree study to join a research group. Upon receipt of the requisite application which includes a letter of approval from Queen's, the recommendation of a research supervisor and the Department Head, such a student can be accepted by the SGS as a Visiting Research Student (VRS) at Queen's University for a period up to one year. These students may be assessed student activity fees but not tuition fees. They must be insured under the UHIP and cannot enroll in courses. Contact Darlene Homer at the SGS office for further information and the application documents for the VRS program.
It is the responsibility of any international visitor to Queen's to be aware of and meet any Canadian immigration requirements. More information is available on the Queen's University International Centre website.
International Exchange Programs at Queen's
The University has a robust program of international exchange, involving bi-lateral agreements with about 150 universities in 45 countries.
Graduate students may participate in exchanges to other universities in order to expand their areas of study and research. These exchanges are most often the result of research collaborations between Queen's faculty and those from other universities.
Because of the reciprocal nature of student exchanges, tuition is often waived at the host institution, however students continue to pay tuition to their home university. Students are responsible for all other expenses such as travel, fees related to non-academic services, accommodation and for incoming exchange students at Queen's, UHIP payment.
Students who wish to go on exchange should work closely with their supervisor, or graduate coordinator, to find out if the exchange will contribute to them making progress on their academic program.
Current Queen's graduate students indicate their participation in exchanges outside of Queen's by first completing an Off-Campus Study form (PDF*, 46 KB). These forms are available through the School of Graduate Studies and its website.
Cotutelle Program
A cotutelle program is a dual doctoral degree program between two universities: the student completes the full degree requirements at two universities (common dissertation) and if successful, receives two separate degrees. Cotutelle programs afford several opportunities: to enhance doctoral training, to foster international research, to enable student mobility, to develop global networks and experiences. Doctoral students at Queen's may be able to engage in international cotutelle studies, depending on their academic program, supervision and plan of study. Students registered in a doctoral program outside of Canada are invited to consider Queen's as a destination University for cotutelle studies.
Students in a cotutelle program are registered as full-time students at two institutions. They have a supervisor at both universities who are fully committed to mentoring the student in collaboration with each other. Students are subject to the admission requirements (including language requirements), degree requirements and the regulations of both universities and they spend research and study time at each institution. One comprehensive/candidacy examination and one thesis defence is held in accordance with the framework agreed upon at the start of the cotutelle program. Normally, a cotutelle option is possible when there is an existing or developing collaborative research project/program between researchers (i.e. prospective supervisors) at two universities.
A Cotutelle PhD Agreement (pdf 104KB) must be completed and signed by the participating universities to confirm the terms (e.g. registration, payment of tuition, etc.) and a schedule of study (e.g. periods at each institution, the location of the thesis examination). A detailed research proposal with a schedule for completion of all degree requirements is also required.
If you are a Queen's student considering a cotutelle experience, discuss this option with your supervisor to explore the possibilities. The relevant Associate Dean at the School of Graduate Studies should be contacted to review the cotutelle program framework and a Cotutelle PhD Agreement must be completed and signed prior to commencing a cotutelle program of study.
Queen's students completing a cotutelle PhD program with a partner institution in France may apply for France-Canada Research Fund (FCRF) Cotutelle Scholarships:
If you are a prospective student or Queen's is your target partner institution, please contact a potential supervisor. Consult program websites to investigate potential senior supervisors.
Brazil & Latin America (CALDO)
Queen's welcomes graduate students from around the globe and to help you find the graduate program you are looking for - http://www.caldo.caCALDO can help.
is a consortium of nine of Canada's leading research universities and serves as a single point of contact to assist students in applying for graduate studies, and facilitating the identification of a faculty supervisor. CALDO's partnerships with funding agencies primarily in Latin America provides access to these specialized services for many highly qualified scholarship recipients.
As a CALDO member, Queen's University is pleased to participate in the Brazil – Canada Science Without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) Doctoral Scholarship Program. We have over 120 graduate programs to choose from, please refer to the Graduate Opportunities page to learn more and how to apply (grad opportunities).
Latin American Partnerships promote student mobility, faculty exchange, research collaborations and opportunities for students to pursue graduate studies in a wide range of programs in top tier universities. Visit the CALDO website to learn more (CALDO)
China - China Scholarship Council
The China Scholarship Council is a government agency in China which provides scholarships to students for doctoral and postdoctoral studies abroad.
Queen's University has signed an agreement with the CSC and with specific Chinese universities to be a preferred host institution for CSC scholarship holders. These scholarships will be awarded to students across all graduate programs, particularly those in physical sciences, applied science and life sciences.
Who is qualified to receive a CSC PhD scholarship? A citizen of China, studying in China or abroad
In order to apply for the CSC scholarship, a student normally must first have received a formal offer of admission from Queen's University.
Procedures for students from China as part of CSC
Queen's University is honoured to receive applications from excellent Chinese students who will be applying for China Scholarship Council (CSC) doctoral scholarships.
Step One
- Visit the website of the graduate program that you wish to apply to.
- Determine faculty member(s) with research interests that match yours.
- You may then contact them by email indicating that you are a potential CSC applicant.
Step Two
- Visit the Queen's School of Graduate Studies website, and create an account so that you may apply online.
- In the section "Financial Information"(where you are asked to list the names of awards outside of Queen's), please specify that you have applied to CSC or you will be applying for the CSC competition. Please also include the deadline date for the CSC competition at your home university.
Step Three
If the language of instruction in your current degree program is not in English, please take the TOEFL or IELTS test, and ensure your test results are sent to Queen's University
Step Four
Collect the required transcripts and reference letters as indicated on the online application.
Step Five
Once you have received an offer of admission from Queen's University, apply to the CSC doctoral scholarship program.
For further information on the CSC, please see http://en.csc.edu.cn
Note: Queen's funding commitment to CSC holders- you will receive funding in an amount equivalent to the international tuition fee. This funding may come from any combination of Research Assistantships, International Tuition Award, Queen's Graduate Awards, Teaching Assistantships, or other departmental resources. Check with the department whether all or a portion of your funding will be paid directly to your tuition fee account or paid to you, and you then pay your tuition.
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I always love any excuse that lets me attend a Baton Rouge Symphony concert so, when publisher David Manship asked me to stand in for him at the Nov. 29 holiday concert, I was more than happy to say yes. The fact that the evening wrapped up with a post-concert champagne reception was simply icing on the cake.
'Home for the Holidays'
You could hear people speculating as Paula Pennington de la Bretonne, looking smashing attired all in red, and conductor Timothy Muffitt gave hints as to who would be performing at the 10th anniversary of the symphony's Irene W. & C.B. Pennington Great Performers Concert Feb. 8. When Paula finally said "Diana Ross," there was an audible group gasp followed by a rousing applause of approval. I can't wait!
Meanwhile, Muffitt promised to have everyone in the holiday spirit by evening's end and he, guest performer Mara Bonde, the Symphony Chorus and the orchestra didn't disappoint. I don't think there was a major Christmas song we didn't hear that night. I had to practically lock my lips to keep from singing along to Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus," "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night," but I managed. Fortunately, they did let us all sing along to "O Come, All Ye Faithful."
'Picture a Perfect World …'
To celebrate World AIDS Day Dec. 1, the HIV/AIDS Alliance for Region II hosted its second annual HIV/AIDS awareness poster contest and fashion show, "Picture a Perfect World without HIV/AIDS." The cocktail-style fundraiser took place a The Office and featured fashions from Time Warp, ElleMarie, Loft 3H, Aristocracy and Noelie Harmon. The style show was coordinated by William Roy with music provided by DJ Otto.
Attendees also got to cast their vote in the poster competition. Students from Baton Rouge Community College's "Intro to Graphic Design" class were asked to create an HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness poster. The winning selection by Thomas Bernard will be HAART's official poster for 2013.
I got to visit with Debbie and Julio Dumas, and son Jonathan, who was one of the models; Heather Kleinpeter, another model; Heather Day; Kristy Davis , who handled emcee duties; Brian Buxton; Corey Tullier and John Deshotel; Leonard Augustus and Thomas Telihard; and Executive Director Tim Young.
Historical holiday
With thousands downtown for the Festival of Lights officially kicking off the holiday season in Baton Rouge, the Foundation for Historical Louisiana rolled out the welcome mat at the Old Governor's Mansion for its annual holiday open house Nov. 30. The mansion looked splendid in its holiday finery, complements of LUBA Workers Compensation.
As the clock struck 5, Santa and Mrs. Claus came Ho-Ho-Hoing down the sweeping stairs and made their way into the East Ballroom, where they visited the younger set and posed for photos. Over in the West Wing, classic Christmas movies were playing, complete with popcorn for munching. There was even an opportunity to get some Christmas shopping done. Some rather unique items from the gift shop were on display in the dinning room.
OLOL holiday
The Camelot Club was decked out for the season as it welcomed members and staff of Our Lady of the Lake Foundation for their annual holiday party and meeting Nov. 28. Welcoming guests were the always smiling John Paul Funes, foundation executive director, and events coordinator Teddie Hessberg, who updated me and Chris and Steve Jackson on the progress of the home she and her husband are building. Once my photo subjects all arrived, it was a quick snap then out the door for me.
Sparkling evening
Before heading home, I popped into Juban's Restaurant, which, just in time for the holidays, had teamed up with Republic National Distributors for a special champagne tasting. Among the lineup of 30 varieties of bubbly were some of my absolute favorites – Schramsberg's Blanc de Blanc and Blanc de Noir, Bollinger Special Cuvee Brute, Piper Heidsieck Brute and Taitinger Cuvee Rose Prestige. They were accompanied by a charcuterie spread that included such traditional such sparking wine companions as caviar and oysters as well as such new friends as delicious made-in-house boudin and sausage. Only in Louisiana …
Loved talking all things sparkling with Joanne and Juan Carrillo, Katrice Albert, Karen and Bill Profita, Paula and Dr. Leon Kraft, wine guys Bret Smith and Mike Smith, and Juban's general manager Scott Callais.
Krewe of Gabriel
Fifteen young women took their formal bow at the Krewe of Gabriel's Fall Presentation Ball Dec. 1 at the Frem Boustany Convention Center in Lafayette. As they were introduced, the debs were presented nosegays of pink roses by their sponsors and received krewe medallions from Commodore Harold Domingue.
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Mixed martial arts media outlets confirmed earlier this week that UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson who arguable was 2012's most captivating fighter is set to take on his next opponent for the Ultimate Fighting Championship's April 20th national FOX card.
Naming his opponent Gilbert Melendez, the final Strikeforce lightweight champion didn't surprise anyone, especially not his trainer.
"Gilbert's been wanting to fight in UFC for a long time," Cesar Gracie, Melendez's trainer told Fox News Latino.
Asked if this is what the fighter wanted when he moved to the UFC, Gracie said emphatically "Yes."
With the recent folding of Strikeforce, many of their fighters and champions are moving to the UFC to finally get their chance to compete in the premier MMA organization.
For Melendez, he had been hoping to put on UFC gloves since the company purchased Strikeforce in 2011.
"To me it was no brainer though because Gilbert Melendez is a top three fighter," said Gracie.
For Gracie, a member of the legendary first family of MMA and whose Gracie Jiu Jitsu gyms attract many of MMA's top fighters, this will be his second student's opportunity to get the UFC lightweight championship.
This past December his pupil Nate Diaz lost to Henderson in what was a decision victory. But that doesn't mean harbors any mixed feelings on his training partner getting a crack at the title he had previously chased.
"After [Nate Diaz lost to Henderson]he said in the post fight press conference that Gil should get the next shot," said Gracie. "The man pushing for this fight the most is Nate Diaz."
He added: "[Melendez's] biggest supporters are the Diaz brothers.
Gracie also reminded Fox News Latino that Nate's brother Nick also gets a title shot against George St. Pierre for the welterweight championship next month.
With two UFC title shots to start off 2013, Gracie's chances of getting that that elusive belt are better than ever.
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Piedad Kuttler, 74, of Benton passed away Monday, April 11, 2011.
She was born Dec. 18, 1936, in Esteli, Nicaragua.
Mrs. Kuttler was a nurse for the health department in Nicaragua, and retired after 22 years from Northrop Grumman, and was of the Catholic faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
She is survived by her husband, Harley Ables of Benton; two sons, Mauricio Kuttler and Carlos Kuttler, both of California; daughter, Carolina Talmon of Benton; three brothers, Abener Valdivia of Nicaragua, Roger Valdivia of California and Oscar Valdivia of Florida; three sisters, Lilly Somarriba, Zoraydia Castillo and Olympia Caraballo, all of Nicaragua; and five grandchildren.
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The shutdown and debt ceiling debates are over — at least for the next 60 days or so. The questions that remain are what did all this mean? And where do we go from here?
Understandably, many have been frustrated by the process, and to many more the goings-on of Washington appeared as nothing more than pure political belligerence.
Depending on one's philosophical perspective, it was naturally the "other" side that was being difficult, but in fact, the debate and the issues at play are more complex.
In this paper on Monday, young Joe Kennedy, who took Barney Frank's seat in Congress, observed, "The media makes it out to be a knock-down, bare-knuckled brawl every day. Everyone here got elected. Everyone here got someone to vote for them. Everyone is genuinely trying to do the right thing for the country."
While he may be a touch magnanimous, there is a larger truth in what he was saying. Congress reflects the country's division on what should come next, and in many ways what's happening is a product of divided government.
After all, it was Winston Churchill who noted, "The beauty of the American political system was that it always did the right thing ... after exhausting every other possible remedy."
Here are a few thoughts on what all this means:
One, the system actually worked. Two always beats one in politics, and in this case, the White House and Senate view was always destined to prevail given those numbers.
The House held a viewpoint and used the tools available to advance that view.
That is nothing to disparage because at least in the American system there is a way for the minority to try and advance its case.
Two, we talk rather than shoot each other in our system of government.
I get it that listening to all that was reported led many to feel like shooting themselves or the television, but over the last 35 years there have been 53 debt limit increases and 17 government shutdowns — and with the exception of a handful of automatic debt extensions all were negotiated. The president clearly held the upper ground and was accordingly dismissive in negotiating, but not doing so was still unusual.
As a country we have differences, and lots of them — but we have sat down and ironed them out for over 200 years, and continuing to do so is vital.
Three, while it may not have been done as we many would like, asking questions is the American way. This is particularly the case on constitutional questions, and many members in the House had them about the president's unilateral decisions in enforcing his own law.
The founding fathers charged the executive branch with enacting whole laws, never parts of it at their discretion. The idea of corporations or members of Congress and their staffs being exempt from a law rubbed many of us the wrong way, and accordingly we fought it.
Finally, it always comes back to the money. Washington is spending at a rate that is unsustainable, and spending problems don't get better with time.
The passage of a "clean" continuing resolution begs its ending date and that's just two months away. At that point we will find ourselves right back in the current impasse because we still haven't resolved the underlying budget issue.
The Congressional Budget Office says in just 12 years there will only be enough money for interest and entitlement spending — and no other federal government spending — without borrowing, cutting or taxing significantly more.
One can argue about the tactics and timing of this particular debate — the nexus here was Republicans' question on whether we can afford another $1 trillion dollar entitlement — but it underscores the degree to which it's past time for this debate.
Unfortunately, the underlying challenges that face our nation debated during this shutdown still stand.
If they are not resolved this shutdown will serve as but a minor tremor to the larger financial shutdown that will ultimately ensue if both the financial and constitutional issues debated over these weeks are not resolved.
We have time between now and that next debate; let's hope we use it wisely.
Mark Sanford, a Republican, represents South Carolina's 1st District in the U.S. House.


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It needn't have been this way.
But when the overlords of Annapolis rendered the Eastport Bridge useless in 1998, the good people of Eastport were in a quandary. That was the occasion for the cannon shot heard 'round the upper reaches of Spa Creek. Revolution was at hand.
Once relations between the two forces had been restored and Eastport commerce saved, the newly formed Maritime Republic of Eastport created an extreme test of athletic competition to celebrate the peace. What happened next is the stuff of legend: The race was born.
Beginning at the westernmost edge of the approach to the bridge (at what is called the Annapolis Yacht Club), the field of entrants runs (or lopes, or strolls) across the span and to the finish at the easternmost edge.
As is their custom, the Maritime Republic of Eastport donates the proceeds to a worthwhile cause. This year, we chose a worthwhile person: St. Mary's High School junior Sarah McMahon. Sarah is fighting a rare form of leukemia, known as AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia). She and her parents, Debbie and Dan McMahon, are expected to be at the race.
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When the third World Baseball Classic begins Saturday with round-robin play, Japan will be aiming for a third straight title, this time without two-time MVP Daisuke Matsuzaka. The semifinals and final will be March 17-19 at AT&T Park in San Francisco. A look at the teams that will be participating:
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The race to win the job to replace the ramp at the Dover Fire Department's Station 2 was initially a three-horse race. But George & Lynch in Dover was left all alone when two of the bidders dropped out.
Dover City Council awarded the contract to expand and replace the Dover Fire Department's Station 2 ramp to George & Lynch Inc. Monday night essentially by default Monday night when two other bidders dropped out of sight.
Dover-based George & Lynch Inc.'s bid of $85,823 was actually the highest of three bids submitted after bids were opened on Oct. 25, according to documents prepared by Dover Department of Public Works Director Sharon Duca.
However, Smyrna-based Kent Construction withdrew its $40,043.50 bid when company officials realized they had failed to include the material cost of concrete in their package, City Manager Scott Koenig said Monday night in City Hall. Thus, they requested that their bid be removed.
The second lowest bidder, Donald E. Reisinger Inc. in West Chester, Pa., did not meet all the requirements of the bid specifications proposed by the fire company and was found to be unresponsive, Koenig said.
"Therefore, the only bid that was submitted and can be evaluated for consideration is the bid by George & Lynch," Koenig said. "The total amount of the bid was $85,823. The budget for this project is $111,925."
All of the money would be reimbursed by the Delaware Department of Transportation's Community Transportation Funds, Koenig said.
The fire department, still known colloquially as the Robbins Hose Fire Co., had requested a ramp enhancement at its Walker Road and Dover-Kenton Road location in order to give it more maneuverability with its fire apparatuses, he said. The Dover Fire Department worked with the Dover Department of Public Works and state legislators to pursue the bid process.
City Councilman Adam Perza asked if the city could ask for an amended bid from Kent C.
Koenig said the city's attorney would advise against that.
"You can't ask them to submit a bid now that the numbers are public," he said. "We have three bids. Only one of them is responsive at this point."
After the meeting, Koenig told the Dover Post he did not consider the awarding of the bid to George & Lynch a matter of default. He was comfortable going with George & Lynch, which had performed work for the city before.
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The Westminster Kennel Club dog show has long been the province of purebreds. But the nation's premier canine event is opening a doggie door this year to mixed-breed competitors: They'll be included in its new agility trial.
Next month's show at Madison Square Garden will also feature three new breeds. They're the chinook, the Portuguese podengo pequeño and the rat terrier.
A press conference Wednesday featured some of the newcomers, plus dogs weaving around poles and jumping through a tire on an agility course.
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Sorry to hear that Amanda..I don't mean to butt in, but things just didn't work out? I can have Lisa give him hell at work if he was mean to you in any way. Let me know...
wow... I thought I knew a lot of folks... there are folks on here I have never even heard of!! if I can get my wheel bearing fixed I am totally down to slap my ratty ass Mk2 in with all yer pretty cars... LOL
Doh! Wrong Scott, Pat. That was Scott Fruehoff (sp?) and you just asked Scott Napier of 719/DATR fame.I just emailed Scott (nuts4ninjas) about the video for you.
Pat, nice pic man! Now sack up!
Put in my new DVs last night, I'm ready to roll.