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Friday, August 06, 2010
Comic stars enter the MindField this September
MindField is the collective name of spoken-word events at the Electric Picnic music and arts festival at Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland from the 3rd to 5th September. This year sees a focus on comics included in the programme too, and guests will include Emma Vieceli, Pat Mills, (both pictured above), Steve Bell, and more alongside bands such as Roxy Music and Public Image Limited! Sounds like quite an event.
Here's the full details from MindField organizer John Byrne (no, not the X-Men artist):
"MindField at Electric Picnic has been described by Channel Four's Jon Snow – one of last year's undisputed stars – as a cross between Glastonbury and Hay-on-Wye and it's difficult to better the great man's take on it.
MindField, presented in association with RTÉ Radio One, is great meeting of minds and voices celebrating the art of conversation, debate and performance with subject matter that ranges from comic books to literature to the politics of the Middle East and all points in between. Essentially, MindField is a three day, seven venue conversation for the nation that will inform, inspire and entertain.
This year, the MindField arena at Electric Picnic has again expanded to seven elegantly decorated tented venues in the midst of parkland trees behind the main stage at Electric Picnic"
And here are the details for our event...
Graphic Content: The Big Comics Chat
Join us in the MindField on (Saturday) September 4th at 5 p.m. for a chaotic and fun-stuffed rocket ride through the inner and outer reaches of the comics and cartooning universes. Our intrepid and esteemed panel will cheerily dissect and debate the "sequential art" scene as it and was: offering thoughts, opinions and recollections on a wide range of topics, including: Classic British comics, Manga, Bande dessinée, Girls' comics, John Major's underpants, the Irish small presses, and much, much more. Masked and caped crusaders may also get an occasional mention…
Pat Mills is affectionately (and accurately) known as the "godfather of British comics". A comic industry legend, he was the founder of 2000 AD, Battle and Action. As a writer he has created some of the UK's most seminal and best-loved comic stories: Sláine, Charley's War, ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock and many more. Among the other credits on his extensive CV are Marshal Law, Metalzoic, The Punisher 2099, Requiem Vampire Knight and Batman: The Book of Shadows.
Emma Vieceli is a freelance artist and writer based in Cambridge. Artist for 2 of the acclaimed Manga Shakespeare graphic novels (and featured in the award-winning Comic Book Tattoo and Marvel's recent Girl Comics amongst other publications), she is currently working on two graphic novel series: one for Oni Press and one for Penguin Books. She also continues to work on her own independent series, Dragon Heir (printed through Sweatdrop Studios).
Steve Bell is one of most original and respected figures in contemporary cartooning. He has produced illustrations and comic strips for many different magazines, including Social Work Today, Punch, Private Eye, New Society, Radio Times, New Statesman, The Spectator and the Journalist. Since 1981 he has written and drawn the daily If… strip in The Guardian, creating such memorable images as - John Major with his underpants worn outside his trousers, Tony Blair with Margaret Thatcher's rogue eyeball, and George W Bush as a chimpanzee. He has had twenty seven books published, including a cartoon autobiography of George Bush called Apes of Wrath, an anthology If… Marches On and, most recently, a Tony Blair self-help guide titled My Vision For a New You. His work has been published all over the world and he has won numerous awards.
Philip Barrett has been self-publishing comics since 2001, including writing and drawing 9 issues of his catch-all title 'Matter' and contributing to numerous anthologies. With Liam Geraghty he has produced 'Gazebo' and 'The Littlest Arsonist'. In 2010 the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry published Philip's 'best-of' collection 'The Human in Me'. He is a co-founder of Edition Book Arts which celebrates the craft of the book and self-publishing. Philip helped get the ball rolling on the regular Dublin Comic Jam and is particularly interested in how good comics are at documenting the collision between the worlds of the fantastical and the mundane.
Mel Gibson is a UK based comics scholar, consultant and Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University. She has run training events about comics and graphic novels for libraries, schools and other organisations since 1993. Her published research has addressed such varied topics as girls' comics, picture books, children's literature, graphic novels and manga.
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6 comments:
- fústar said...
Cheers for the shout out, Lew! Constantly telling comics nerds "No, I'm not THAT John Byrne" never gets boring. Honest...
- Friday, 6 August 2010 at 16:57:00 BST
- Lew Stringer said...
You're welcome John. You've got some great guests there who'll do you proud! Best of luck with it!
- Friday, 6 August 2010 at 17:14:00 BST
- Leeann H said...
One problem: where is 'County Ireland', anyway? :D
- Saturday, 7 August 2010 at 20:51:00 BST
- Leeann H said...
Sorted, Stradbally is in Co. Laois. -_-;
- Saturday, 7 August 2010 at 20:52:00 BST
- Lew Stringer said...
Thanks for noticing that Leeann. That'll teach me to rush a blog. :) I'll correct it. Thanks again.
- Saturday, 7 August 2010 at 21:07:00 BST
- emma vieceli said...
Aww, thanks so much, Lew! ^__^
- Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 15:12:00 BST
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"Are we going to have to fight him every time?" a prominent gay blogger pinged me in late January in response to Governor Andrew Cuomo's latest budget proposal. It's not generating much reaction. The New York Times even shrugged it off, calling it "low-buzz," although "extra-lean." It's Cuomo's third conservative-tilting budget in a row, with cuts that hurt at-risk groups, including members of the gay community.
According to The Empire State Pride Agenda, the proposed budget could include cuts to programs in any of the 54 organizations that are members of the New York State LGBT Health and Human Services Network. In their testimony to the Assembly Ways and Means Finance Committee, the Gay Men's Health Crisis said they were "gravely concerned" about the cuts.
The problem is that funding that was previously marked specifically for the LGBT network has now been lumped into a series of competitive pools, with that total budget being cut by 13 percent. These are steep cuts for the many small-and medium-sized organizations that are providing direct services to the most vulnerable in our community.
I believe the governor when he says he's a friend to the LGBT community. In 2011, he used his political capital to pass the historic marriage equality bill, which would have taken an extra year or two without his push. But his budgets simply haven't been friendly to the disenfranchised. He's refused to raise taxes to properly fund state programs for the poor, the mentally ill and those struggling to afford expensive HIV medications.
But we can't expect the governor to care about issues he doesn't hear any noise about. On both marriage equality and gun control, people stood up and demanded action. State budgets lack the sex appeal of big civil-rights legislation, so the phones don't ring. We can change that by engaging with our state senators and assembly members.
This budget will pass very quickly, so it's incredibly important to call your representatives and tell them to make sure LGBT Health and Human Services are properly funded. There's still time for the governor to back more progressive priorities, but he won't do it if he doesn't hear from us.
Remember, the struggle for equality and social justice doesn't end with gay marriage.
This editorial originally appeared in Next Magazine.
Ryan Davis is a board member at the Ali Forney Center and the Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn.


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NHS laboratories processed 415,497 tests in 2009-10, about 35,000 fewer than the previous year when 450,522.
The drop of eight per cent this year was attributed to heightened awareness of the disease in 2009 following the death of Jade Goody, the reality TV star.
But charities and ministers warned women they must continue to be vigilant, with about 900 people across the UK dying from the disease every year.
Meanwhile, separate figures showed survival rates for cancer have increased "substantially" over the last 20 years, although in many cases new treatments prolong sufferers' lives but do not cure them.
Elspeth Atkinson, Macmillan Cancer Support's director for Scotland, branded the tests "absolutely vital". She said: "Screening undoubtedly saves lives as abnormalities that are detected early can usually be treated successfully."
On the increased cancer survival rates, she said: "This means there is more need than ever before to support those who are living with the long-term effects of cancer."
The statistics revealed that at the end of March this year 73.7 per cent of eligible women had been for a smear test in the last three and a half years – up slightly on the previous year.
The highest rate of women attending for tests was in the Shetland Islands (81 per cent) but in the Glasgow area the proportion was only 70.1 per cent.
Uptake rates increased in several age groups but the proportion of women aged 20 to 24 who had had a smear test in the last five-and-a-half years fell slightly to 57.5 per cent.
The figures showed 91 per cent of all satisfactory smear tests were negative, with 3.4 per cent showing some degree of precancerous changes.
Miss Goody's death in March last year prompted a 20 per cent increase in the number of Scottish women taking tests. More than 122,000 were processed between April and June last year, the statistics revealed.
A second report showed the proportion of men who survived cancer a year after diagnosis increased from 45 per cent between 1983 and 1987 to 62 per cent between 2003 and 2007.
For women, the increase was from 55 per cento to 67 per cent over the two decades. The largest improvements in life expectancy were for breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, malignant melanoma of the skin and in lymphomas and leukaemias.
However, there was either no improvement or a decrease in survival at five years after diagnosis for cancer of the pancreas, larynx and the head and neck in men.
A Scottish Executive spokesman said: "Cervical screening helps save lives, it's as simple as that. We continue to work with boards to ensure that all eligible women come forward for screening."
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Our Aberdeenshire National Parent Forum of Scotland representatives, Cara Eriksson and Fiona Sawyer, who arranged the event in Aboyne on the Curriculum for Excellence and the Senior Phase, have prepared a report on the Minister for Learning's visit to Aboyne on June 17th 2013, covering:
- who attended on behalf of the Government, Aberdeenshire Council and schools in Aberdeenshire;
- the issues which were put by parents to the Minister and Aberdeenshire Council prior to and discussed during the meeting;
- what was agreed to be taken forward as an action and by whom; and
- news from after the meeting.
The report makes reference to Aberdeenshire's Guidelines for the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence March 2013 and to an extract of Aberdeenshire's CfE Guidelines 7th June 2012.
Whether or not you were at the meeting, please read the report to keep up to date with the situation.
Plus: Parent/Carer questions on CfE and Qualifications Answered
Nationally, over the last few months, parents and carers have submitted questions to the NPFS about Curriculum for Excellence and the new qualifications at Qualifications Plus events and through the NPFS website. Answers to these questions have been provided by Education Scotland, Scottish Government and the Scottish Qualifications Authority: NPFS - Parent/Carer Questions Answered on CfE and Qualifications.
Other NPFS news
For a full round-up of local and national NPFS activity, please see the July NPFS Aberdeenshire Newsletter (makes reference to an exchange of correspondence re space for external exams, and to national NPFS minutes from March).


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June 3, 2008
Keppel FELS to build second semi for Brazil's QGOG
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured a US$385 million repeat order to build a semisubmersible drilling rig for Brazilian drilling contractor group Queiroz Galvao Oleo e Gas (QGOG). This price excludes the drilling and subsea equipment which will be supplied by QGOG.
To be named Alpha Star, the unit will be built at Keppel FELS to the DSSTM 38 design jointly developed by Keppel O&M's technology arm Deepwater Technology Group and Marine Structures Consultants of The Netherlands.
This latest rig is a repeat order of the first semisubmersible, Gold Star, which was awarded to Keppel FELS in August 2006.
Gold Star, scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2009 will support Petrobras' growth plans. Alpha Star may be deployed offshore either West Africa or South America when delivered in the second half of 2011.
Mr Tong Chong Heong, Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer of Keppel O&M said, "The repeat semisubmersible order speaks volumes of QGOG's deepening confidence in us, and the growing acceptance of our proprietary DSSTM 38 design.
The DSSTM 38 semisubmersible is designed to meet operational requirements in the deepwater "Golden Triangle" of Brazil, Africa and the Gulf of Mexico.
The DSSTM 38 is rated to drill to depths of 30,000 feet below mud line in just over 9,000 feet water depth. It is 103.5 m in overall length, with a main deck size of 69.5 m by 69.5 m. Its operational displacement is approximately 38,000 tonnes.
The DSSTM 38 has accommodations for a crew of up to 130. It has both vertical and horizontal riser storage. The eight 3,000 kW Azimuthing thrusters configuration are designed to keep the vessel in position. All configurations comply with the American Bureau of Shipping Dynamic Positioned System (DPS-2) requirements.
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Special Boxes for Special Collections
Meredith Butler, Dean & Director of Libraries Emerita, has been serving as a volunteer in the Library's Preservation Lab since her retirement in 2005. She specializes in the complex construction of drop spine boxes for the rare vellum-bound books in the Elsevier Collection, housed in the M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives. The following exhibit illustrates just a few steps the boxmaking process.
Click on the Preservation Exhibit Archive page to view our previous exhibit, "Albany High School Blueprints".
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Farmers encourage Pres. Trump to start negotiating new trade deals
When President Trump talks trade…
"It makes us kind of nervous," corn farmer Dave Merrell of St. Paul said.
Nebraska farmers see missed opportunity.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could have brought millions to the state. But growers like Dave Merrell are holding Pres. Trump to his word that he'll negotiate better deals.
He said, "I'm being optimistic that Pres. Trump can get some things done."
But the president has other priorities like health care, and key positions like Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representative are still waiting to be confirmed.
At the annual Governor's Ag Conference in Kearney, Gov. Pete Ricketts said, "We have to get rolling on this, if we do bilateral trade agreements, that's a legitimate new strategy for how we can get better deals, but we have to get moving."
Bilateral deals are one on one agreements with other countries. That appears to be Pres. Trump's focus, instead of massive deals like the 12 country TPP.
Steve Censky, CEO of the American Soybean Association said, "With these bilateral agreements, starting first with Japan where we saw the biggest opportunities moving on to other countries like Vietnam."
If that happens, farmers say it could have better results than TPP would have brought.
But they worry the president's push to create manufacturing jobs will come at the expense of agriculture.
Dave Merrell, President of the Nebraska Corn Board said, "I'm really afraid our trade in agriculture's going to suffer at hands of increased trade for other industrial things."
The head of the American Soybean Association says President Trump's approach could result in "so much winning" as the president likes to say.
But with so many unknowns, feelings remain mixed.
Censky summed it up, "Anxiety, uncertainty, but also a case for optimism."
One of the big focuses of the Governor's Ag Conference was branding, and efforts to make Nebraska beef in particular, seen as the best in the world.


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Women may like Facebook more than men, as evidence by the fact that approximately 60% of the social network's population is female, but for marketers looking for consumers who like their ads, targeting men may be a more effective and cost-efficient approach.
That's according to a new study conducted by marketing software firm Kenshoo and Resolution Media which looked at 65bn Facebook ad impressions and 20m clicks over the course of the last year.
What their study found: despite the fact that they make up a minority of Facebook users (42%), men produce 60% of all ad clicks. They also cost less to reach as well, with the average CPM and CPCs for males being 16 cents and 51 cents, respectively, versus 20 cents and 68 cents, respectively, for females.
Marketers seem to be clued in to the male-female dynamic on the world's largest social network: they're allocating more of their Facebook budgets (53%) to males than they are to females (47%).
That men and women use technology differently is not a surprise. Previous research, for instance, has noted some interesting preferences around tablets and e-readers.
But why are women more elusive than men on Facebook?
According to Viji Davis, Resolution Media's VP of Marketing, the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus stereotypes hold true when it comes to social network. "Females use Facebook for maintaining existing relationships, academic usage and following an agenda more than males do. Men use Facebook for making new relationships more than females," he told Adweek.
Their less-focused use of Facebook apparently makes men an easier target for marketers, which is reflected in the fact that the ad exposure rate for men, at 8%, is much higher than it is for females at 5%.
What should marketers do?
According to Kenshoo and Resolution Media, the ad gap between men and women on Facebook means that marketers should segment their ads by gender. This includes creating separate ads, with different creative, for both groups.
And, as "men are cheap," the firms also have a message for marketers that might be a little bit too eager to reach consumers on Facebook: "Don't overspend trying to reach males given the glut of inventory and lower rates available for targeting men." As for reaching women? It's clear that marketers have some thinking to do.
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That's actually surprising and I would think it would be the other way around.
I wonder if this has more to do with positioning of companies or just a male trend for clicking what they like.


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What's the Frequency, Iasos?
If you've ever had a near-death experience, chances are you've been fortunate enough—depending on how you look at it—to hear music that sounds identical to the blissed-out tones produced by the mononymous minstrel Iasos.
If you've ever had a near-death experience, chances are you've been fortunate enough—depending on how you look at it—to hear music that sounds identical to the blissed-out tones produced by the mononymous minstrel Iasos. In 1989, a scientist at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire discovered that Iasos' music—in particular a piece called "The Angels of Comfort"—bore a remarkable resemblance to the divine strains heard by people as they dipped a toe into that sun-dappled dimension between the present and the not-so-present. Yet that information would not surprise Iasos one bit, because the 66-year-old believes he is an earthly conduit for the musical expressions of a being named Vista, who transmits ideas to Iasos telepathically, which he then turns into song. Iasos, who was born in Greece but raised in California from the age of four, has enjoyed these visitations for some 40 years, during which he's released many albums of enlightened instrumental music and held workshops around the world on the restorative qualities of sound.
A true outsider and in many ways a visionary artist, Iasos is up there with the likes of Vangelis, Brian Eno, and his old pal Steven Halpern as one of the electronic pioneers of what became known as new age music in the mid-1970s. In recognition of his restless spirit, Chicago's Numero Group recently put out
, a selection of tracks from the first decade of Iasos' career that draw attention to the experimental nature and uncanny beauty of his work. For a cosmic voyager, Iasos was surprisingly easy to get hold of—we spoke on the phone—and came across as pretty normal and, as he puts it, "grounded." He lives in Marin County, north of San Francisco, where his daily routine includes meditation, yoga, feeding the local deer, and spending time in the studio making music and visuals.
VICE: Greetings, Iasos! How are you?
Iasos: I'm fantastic! I just came back from a concert in Los Angeles and it couldn't have gone better! It was sold out; standing room only. It was a young, playful crowd. There were a lot of beaming, happy faces. I had quite a time.
Do your concerts always go so well?
The one before, in Portland, Oregon, was even better. You see, I measure the dramatic impact I have on the audience by how much stillness there is when I take a bow to signify that the concert is over. Because if they really get it, they're really zoned out and no one gets up. In Portland it lasted so long it was almost embarrassing. I bowed to signify it was over and then I went to the front of the stage and nobody got up. Then one minute went by and nobody got up, there was silence. Two minutes after, six minutes after… I thought this is too much and walked into the lobby and that broke the spell.
A lot of people will encounter Iasos for the first time through Celestial Soul Portrait, which shines a light on your earlier work. Is there renewed interest in your music?
It's funny you say that. Ever since I started, my close friends have always said, "Iasos, you're way ahead of your time." And now that it's 2013, people are getting interested in music I released in 1975. So it kind of verifies them saying that.
I have to say it's encouraging to hear you talking like a completely normal person. Having seen photos of you and listened to your music, I had the impression you'd be a pretty zoned-out individual.
[hysterical laughter] That's very funny! It's funny that you expected me to be zoned-out. I am grounded and present.
What was your state of mind in 1975 when you were making your first album, Inter-Dimensional Music?
Same as it is now! I'm trying to externalize the musical visions I'm getting in my mind, which are very heavenly and paradise-like. In those days I did it with acoustic instruments that were electronically processed. Nowadays there is all sorts of software to do all sorts of outrageous things with sound. So I'm just taking advantage of whatever technology is available at the time, to get as close as I can to an approximation of what I'm hearing in my mind.
You've devised a kind of "paradise range" for your music, a celestial scale. How did you come up with this?
You don't know the story?
I might have heard it, but it would be good to hear it from the horse's mouth, as it were.
I started learning piano when I was eight years old, and I took flute lessons when I was ten years old. My formal training was only grade school and high school, and after that I was self-taught. I reached the point where I could play flute along with classical music and figure out the chords, so I learned a lot about chords and harmony that way. And then at a certain point in the early 70s I started spontaneously hearing a certain type of music in my mind. I had no idea where it was coming from. It wasn't anything like any Earth music, and it was uplifting and happy and full of love. It was so harmonious as to be unearthly, and it was full of unusual sounds. This was before there were synthesizers.
Iasos and his flute salute the sky at Big Sur, California. Photo courtesy of Numero Group.
When you say "Earth music," what do you mean?
The kind of music you hear on planet Earth. It wasn't like any of it. I had no idea how to create this, and then a voice in my mind said, "You can do this!" And I trusted it, so I started working on it. Then about two years later I had a profound spiritual experience where I was doing automatic writing with this spiritual teacher. Whenever I did this with her she would say, "You will now write with so-and-so"—typically it would be some ascended master, like, "You will write with Hilarian or Saint Germain." And after just a few minutes of writing, I would sense their unique personality. When she said, "You'll now write with Vista," I'd never heard of him, so I just started writing. After a few sentences, I sensed his personality and the instant I did there was a flash of cognition that went through my mind. BLAM! Suddenly I remembered a whole bunch of stuff. I remembered that this being, Vista, had made an agreement with me before I was born. The agreement was that I would incarnate on planet Earth, I would become proficient in music, and then he would transmit musical ideas and later visual ideas into my mind, and I would do my best to externalize them so that other people could benefit from it.
OK! And how do you picture Vista?
When you reach that level of consciousness, form is optional and flexible. There's no particular form. However, I sense his unique personality, his soul, his heart.
Can you communicate with him at any time, or is the connection strongest when, say, you're working on music?
I invite him when I work on music and I invite him to influence me when I'm doing live concerts also. It's more a one-way thing where he transmits ideas to me, although there have been a few wild exceptions where I asked for something and got it really immediately in a very dramatic way that blew me away.
What happened?
Once before a concert I was backstage tuning in to Vista and I said, "Vista, I would love to experience your energy more vividly than usual." To my surprise, maybe two and a half seconds after I put out that telepathic request, suddenly—BZZZTT!—he transmitted an unbelievably concentrated beam of visual patterns from his third eye into my third eye. Now, imagine 30 hours of the most glorious visuals you've ever seen, continuously flowing and changing and evolving and undulating and morphing. And then imagine squeezing all that into about one second.
Sounds like an intense LSD trip.
I wouldn't say it was similar to that. This was very concentrated.
How receptive was the Los Angeles music industry to the records you were putting out in the mid to late 70s?
That's a joke. They weren't receptive at all. Before my first record came out, I remember going to big record companies like Columbia Records in San Francisco to play them the music I wanted to release, and they would laugh at me because they couldn't get it. This was before new age music existed. They couldn't see a new success formula in music that would work. They only knew success formulas that were already working. So they'd laugh at me, saying, "Where's the beat? Where's the catch? Where's the lyrics?" They didn't understand it at all. That's all fine, I did it in an alternative way.
When you heard of other people making similar music to you in the 70s, did you reach out to them, or did they get in touch with you?
Well, I live in Marin County, and the new age sort of started in America, and in America the new age started in California, and in California the new age started in the Bay Area, and in the Bay Area the new age started in Marin County, so I was in the center of the vortex. I had a lot of friends in Marin County who were spiritual teachers, and friends who were musicians and friends who were visionary artists, all in the new age field.
Have certain life events informed your work, or has the music of others influenced you at all?
It had very secondary, minor effects. For example, I like Jimi Hendrix; I like his magnificent ability to weave melodies. I like the rhythms in Santana. I like the lush textures in Martin Denny's music. I like the classical chords in Ravel and Debussy and Respighi. There have been some influences, but over 90 percent of it is what I'm getting internally.
Do you keep abreast of modern electronic music? There's a lot of new new age-style music floating around these days.
I'm very ignorant about it except for what people share with me. I'm not looking for it because I'm too busy creating my own. I don't need that external influence as I'm getting ideas internally.
Did you listen to Brian Eno or Vangelis in the 70s? They were your contemporaries in the world of progressive electronic music.
I heard their music and I like Vangelis—some of his stuff is heavenly. He covers a wide range emotionally, whereas I'm focused only on the blissful part of it. Eno was very creative and very spacey. I don't especially resonate with it, but I respect him very much as a musician.
Do you fear death?
Well, my girlfriend asked me the same question and I gave her the same answer: part of me does and part of me does not. The physical body has its own consciousness and it's programmed to stay alive no matter what, so my physical body has an extreme fear of death. But my soul does not fear it at all because I know it's from where I came from in the beginning, a wonderful, loving space. So part of me is afraid and part of me is not afraid at all and they both coexist happily together.
The Numero Group compilation Celestial Soul Portrait is out now, as is Iasos' new single "Smooth Sailing Over Enchanted Lands." Dive into iasos.com for a world of pure bliss and positivity.
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Entering street level, and bordering the pool (unfinished); we reached the wooden porch is the main entrance to the house. There we find a living room of 60 m2, a modern kitchen with central island and a bathroom with shower.
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Extracurricular programs are an integral part of the educational experience and play an important role in the growth and development of young men and women. York High School offers a variety of extracurricular opportunities which enhance the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual experience of all students.
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- Foster school spirit, parent and community involvement, and an appreciation of service to others.
- Develop, in IHSA extracurricular programs, the attitude and foundational skills necessary to be competitive at the lower levels and highly successful at the varsity level.
As a member of a York team or activity the student represents the school at competitions, in the classroom, and in the community. Students are expected to follow the policies set forth in the York Agenda Planner in order to participate in athletics or activities, including but not limited to: Bass Fishing, Chess Team, DECA, Drama, FCCLA, Individual Events, Law Team, Math Team, Scholastic Bowl, Science Olympiad, Student Council, SkillsUSA/VICA, Urban Arts and Young Politicians.
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|Amateur Musicians
|Chris Gemkow
|Thursdays - 3:20-4:30pm - A155
|Kara Dollaske & Lisa Julian
|2nd Tuesday -7:15am & 3:15pm - CCRC
|Amnesty International
|Katie Trent
|Mark Golebiowski, Amy Thompson
|Wednesdays - 3:30-4:15pm - CCRC
|Autism Club
|Elizabeth Gallivan
|Thursdays - 3:15-3:45pm - C246
|Auto Club
|Ron Robak
|Tuesdays - 3:30-5:00 pm - A172
|Bass Fishing
|Don Kasper
|Tuesdays (in the spring)- 3:20-4:00 pm
|Best Buddies
|Amy Burton & Samantha French
|Bible Study
|Jill Heaton
|Thursdays - 7:00am - C240
|British Culture Club
|Laura Olson
|2nd & 4th Friday - 7:15am - A334
|Challenge Day
|Laura Pfau, Kristina Fitzgerald
Thursdays (twice per month) - 3:30pm - C171
|Chess Club
|Jeremy Paschke
|Mondays - 3:15pm - A368
|Chinese Club
|Yi Hua Marie Chou
|Thursdays (various) - 3:15pm - A228
|Dave Lyons
|Thursdays (twice per month) - 7:00am - A239
|Becky Marianetti
|As Announced
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|Thursdays - 7:15-7:35am - A250
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|Tamra Carl
|Fridays - 7:10-7:35 - A294
|Lindsay DiTomasso
|Mondays - 3:30pm - A396
|W. Albert, R. Marten, L. Goldsmith, S. Marik, A. McDonough, L. Foss
|Tuesdays (once per month)-7:15am - A123
|Fine Arts Week Committee
|Chris Gemkow
|Tuesdays - 3:15-4:00pm - A155
|Flags/Color Guard
|Rachel Riley
|Mondays, 6:00-9:00pm - Black Box
|French Club
|Suzanne Hamidi, Lindsay Wyffels
|Future Diplomats of America
|Michele Carlson
|Tuesdays - 7:10-7:40am
|Garden Club
|Ronnie Rayan
|Wednesdays - 3:20-4:00pm - A373
|Hispanos Unidos
|Lorenzo Rubio
|Thursdays - 3:20-4:30pm - A235
|Leslie Stipe
|International Club
|Veena Kaniyaly, Ms. Denise McGowan
|Every other Wednesday - 3:15-4:00pm - A390
|Drew McGuire
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|Italian Club
|Loredana Manfredini-Verrilli
|Thursdays - 3:30pm - A227
|Japanese Culture & Animation
|Tim Albert
|Tuesdays - 3:30-5:00pm - A354
|Key Club
|Brianne Kennedy-Brooks
|Tuesdays - 7:00-7:30am - A290
|Latina Dreamers
|Diane Oliveros
|Wednesdays - 3:10pm-4:30pm
|Law Team
|Amy Mueller
|Thursdays - 3:15pm - 5:30pm - A250
|Math Team
|Nancy Mordini, Linda Lahti
|Varied Practice Times - Check With Coaches - A270
|Military History Club
|Justin Riskus
|Thursdays - 3:20pm - A332
|Jennifer Shackleton
|Mondays - 3:15pm - A337
|Model UN
|Adam Gearing
|Thursdays - 7:00-7:30am - C277
|Mural Club
|Renee Kuharchuk
|Mondays - after school - A143
|National Honor Society
|Julie Feldkamp-Pradhan, Heather Saylor
|Thursdays - 7:15am - Auditorium
|Power Club
|Matt Monken
|Rebecca Marianetti/Kathryn Gusloff
|3rd Thursdays - 3:15pm
|Michele Carlson
|Fridays - 7:10-7:40am
|Record Club
|Chris Gemkow
|Fridays - 7:00am - 7:35am A155
|Scholastic Bowl
|Andrew Bendelow, Elizabeth Wall
Monday - 3:11pm - A341
Friday - 7:00am - A333
|Science Olympiad
|Elizabeth Ferhati, Jeff Drach, Jeremy Paschke
|Wednesdays - 3:15pm - A368
|Sketch Comedy Club
|Josh Green
|Skills USA
|Ken Ross
|Tuesdays- 7:00am & 3:15pm- A170, every 2 weeks
|Spanish Club
|Joe O'Malley, Eduvijes Martinez
|Every other Tuesday - 3:10-4:10 - A213
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|Kevin Martin, John Forsythe, Mark Golebiowski, Gabe Johnson, Kate Dowlinger
|Mondays - 3:15-4:15pm - A250
|Sheila Fleming, Matt Moran
|M, T, TH, F - 10:37-11:27am - A323
|Vintage Club
|Laura Olson
|1st & 3rd Fridays - 7:15am - A334
|Yoga Club
|Elizabeth Munn & Jessica Noble
|Thursdays - After School - Yoga Studio
|York Dance Company
|Michelle Scurlock
|M & F - 6:45am-7:30am - C183
|York-Hi Journalism & Media Club
|Kim Lampa, Ceci Bylina
|York Music Outreach
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|Young Politicians
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A Spanish school in one of the oldest barrios of Buenos Aires? In a building modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy? Superb teachers? Small class sizes? Discover more reasons why Ailola Buenos Aires is the language school in Buenos Aires for you!
We don't want to brag, but Ailola Buenos Aires might just have the best location of a Spanish school in Argentina! You'll find us on level 3, in office #10, in the captivating Palacio Barolo. Once the tallest building in the city, this pristine historic palace located at 1370 Avenida de Mayo was modeled on the cosmology explained in Dante's Divine Comedy – there's a purgatory, a heaven and a hell. But don't be scared – it's just one of the many unique design concepts common in local architecture! To top things off, we promise our brave staff will look after you.
A smooth ride up to level 3 in the famous Palacio Barolo lifts, across freshly polished floors, to the entrance of office #10. Inside, you find:
You've made it to Ailola Buenos Aires. ¡Bienvenido!
If you're not at our Spanish school in Buenos Aires, you're bound to be wondering through the cobblestone alleyways of nearby Montserrat. European in name and nature, this historic barrio is home to some of Buenos Aires' most important monuments, plazas, museums, and pedestrian shopping strips. And if Barolo Palace wasn't enough, nearby you'll find the famous Casa Rosada presidential palace, and Avenida 9 de Julio, the widest avenue in the world. To top it off our Spanish school in Buenos Aires is a stone's throw from lines A (Stop "Lima") and B (Stop "Avenida de Mayo") of the city's subte (underground), as well as dozens of bus lines that'll take you just about anywhere in the city!
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Black Friday and holiday shopping deals are not just about electronics. This year, the best clothing deals are showing up super early, and we've round up five of our favorites. For women, Tory Burch's Lila Jacket is a great find and that too with 50 percent off.
As we noted in our Black Friday apparel predictions, these sales start super early. This year, the season's best clothing deals are showing up earlier than ever, and we've rounded up five of our favorites. Save $45 on a Cabela's windbreaker, grab a pair of Quiksilver jeans for just $16, and take 50% off a Tory Burch leather jacket.
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Xi Jinping, China's Next President
When U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden visited China last August, he spent many hours bonding over tea with his Beijing counterpart, Vice President Xi Jinping. At one point in their talks, Xi told Biden that his father—a former vice premier—and relatives had suffered during China's chaotic Cultural Revolution, a candid acknowledgment that things had gone horribly wrong during the country's bad old days. The official Chinese interpreter apparently was so flummoxed by Xi's comment that he never translated it into English, according to an informed source. Such eyebrow-raising candor is rare among Chinese apparatchiks. But "Xi communicates quite easily with foreign leaders," said one European diplomat who met him last year, "He's quite critical about the Cultural Revolution, saying there were mistakes made. I found that striking."
Xi, the heir apparent for China's top party post and the presidency, is the first among equals in a younger generation of Chinese leaders poised to take center stage during the Communist Party's massive transfer of power this year. The fresh crop of mandarins is more outspoken, individualistic, and self-promoting than the old crew. They are the nation's first "modern" politicians and pose a startling contrast to the elder generation of gray, straitlaced bureaucrats. But the fact that Xi and his colleagues are more personality-driven means they are less predictable—and more likely to make waves at home and abroad.
Right now Sinologists are scrutinizing who's up and who's down in China because the coming succession will signal a profound generational shift. The so-called Fifth Generation of officials, led by Xi, will move up in what's slated to be the biggest political turnover in the history of the People's Republic of China. During this autumn's 18th Party Congress, more than 60 percent of personnel will change within the 370-member Central Committee. This leadership game of musical chairs also means key players in the nation's economic and financial administration, foreign policy, public security, and military operations "will be mostly newcomers after 2012," says Brookings analyst Cheng Li, who specializes in Chinese politics.
Such a massive transition is rare in China—it's happened only three times since 1949. The first, during the 1960s, ended in purges, widespread persecution of intellectuals, and the anarchy of the Cultural Revolution. The second in the late 1980s unraveled when top leaders disagreed over whether to use force to disperse youthful protesters in Tiananmen Square; bloodshed followed. The most recent shift, when current party head Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin in 2002, was an impressively stable transfer of power. But that was the Communist Party's only succession plan that went according to script.
Now, in the run-up to the 2012 transition, the party is composed of two increasingly competitive coalitions, referred to as "populists" and "elitists." The populists, led by President Hu, rely on a powerful nationwide network of cadres in the Communist Youth League; their policies aim to ameliorate the growing gap between China's have and have-nots, which is most pronounced in China's impoverished western regions. Elitists are known for their free-market economic views and favoring coastal export industries; they include many "princelings" like Xi who are offspring of former high-level cadres.
The unusual nature of this rivalry was evident in the way Xi became heir apparent during the 17th Party Congress in 2007. To ensure continued political dominance by the populists, Hu had handpicked a different heir, Li Keqiang. But the elitist camp objected to Li, hoping to find a compromise candidate with greater neutrality. The choice was determined by a secret intraparty poll among grassroots and senior cadres, says political commentator Li Datong, and it turned out that Xi "got the highest vote." (Li Keqiang wound up being tipped to become premier in the reshuffle.) It was a face-saving solution, and a unique one: Xi essentially won a popularity contest.
In some ways, Xi has been on a leadership trajectory his entire life. He was born in 1953 as a classic "princeling," growing up as a child among the serene pavilions and heavily guarded crimson gates of Zhongnanhai, the compound where senior Chinese leaders reside. His father, former vice premier Xi Zhongxun, is best known as the architect of China's wildly successful and quasi-capitalist "special economic zones," launched more than three decades ago in the era of Deng Xiaoping's market-based economic reforms. But life wasn't without its perils for the Xi family. Xi senior was purged three times under Mao Zedong and spent 16 years in detention, much of it in solitary confinement, during the 1966–76 Cultural Revolution. (According to unconfirmed Chinese media accounts, Xi's half-sister died during the Cultural Revolution, prompting one of the few episodes when he publicly shed tears.) Xi "recognizes the injustice and the travesty of leftist totalitarian ideology during the Cultural Revolution," says author Robert Kuhn, who has written about China's top leaders and has met Xi. "But you don't see bitterness."
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Xi was 9 years old when his father was first detained. Several years later, he joined millions of other urban youth "sent down" to rural communes for a stint of manual labor. "He was one of the first youth sent to the countryside," says Kuhn, "Ironically, it was good for him. It gives him some distance from the princeling label. In general, princelings don't fare well in the public perception."
Far from the comforts of Beijing, Xi arrived in hardscrabble Liangjiahe village, in Shaanxi province in January 1969, lugging "a whole box of books" with him, remembers current Party Secretary Shi Chunyang. Within five years, Xi had joined the Communist Party and embraced life on the farm. Learning that peasants in a neighboring province were using biogas to fuel their stoves, he traveled there to buy up the requisite hardware and transported it back to Liangjiahe. The sight of a princeling working with pig manure so impressed his rural comrades—or so the story goes—that they made Xi their village party head and recommended that he be allowed to attend university, "which was unheard of at the time," recalls one retired official who knew Xi in the '80s. Farmers gathered to bid farewell to Xi, and he set off to study chemical engineering at Tsinghua University, China's MIT. After his departure, Xi kept in touch with some of his peasant comrades, sending money to one who'd broken his leg. Later, when asked about his rural experience, Xi responded, "It was emotional."
Mao's death in 1976 ushered in an era of reforms, and Xi's family was back in favor. In a move that supported his own political ambitions, Xi served as personal secretary to Defense Minister Geng Biao, a former subordinate of his father. He then worked his way up through provincial postings, where he was known as the guy who got things done. During a 17-year stint in Fujian—right across the narrow strait from Taiwan—he coined the slogan mashang jiu ban ("do it now"), boosted cross-strait trade, and bonded with Taiwanese executives. He even reportedly became golfing buddies with a retired Taiwanese official. As a vice mayor of Xiamen in 1987, he impressed visiting politicians by wearing a casual windbreaker instead of a Western-style suit, and riding in a minibus instead of a chauffeur-driven car. "He was unusually easygoing, warm, and down to earth," recalled one of the visitors.
Xi's reputation continued to grow when, in 2002, he moved to Zhejiang, a province known for entrepreneurial wheeling and dealing. The thriving nature of Zhejiang's private enterprises—comprising nearly three quarters of the province's GDP—impressed then–U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during a 2006 visit. Paulson met Xi and declared him "the kind of guy who gets things over the goal line." American author Kuhn recalls that when he met Xi, "he had a real spark."
Xi also struck Biden and other Americans as a leader with whom the U.S. can work—a standing that's bound to serve him well this month when he embarks on his first official trip to the U.S. For his part, Xi recently remarked that "our commitment to the development of the Sino-U.S. cooperative partnership should never waver in the face of passing developments."
"By no means can we let relations again suffer major interference," he said.
The biggest trick of Xi's presidency could be balancing a friendly relationship with Washington against China's complex domestic politics, in which nationalistic voices play a burgeoning role. Already, analysts believe he's had to counter the perception that he's too pro-Western; they point to a 2009 visit to Mexico in which Xi went off-script to slam countries trying to pressure Beijing, at the very moment when Washington was prodding China to revalue its currency. Complicating matters, Xi will need the support of China's generals "to consolidate his power," says China analyst Willy Wo-Lap Lam. "This means the generals will have an even bigger say in foreign policy. [And] we've already seen many examples showing the generals aren't too happy with a closer relationship with the U.S."
Will Xi be able to bridge the rifts within his own party? His princeling roots and free-market prowess make him appealing to the elitists, while his years on the farm make him more acceptable to the populists, many of whom spent their careers in the hinterland. Xi's also perceived to be clean; at least twice he's cleaned up after provincial corruption scandals that ensnared his predecessors. He's seen as a leader whose Cultural Revolution experiences taught him the importance of humility and adaptability. "These are his strong points," says Brookings analyst Li. "He's also more spontaneous and less calculating than many of his peers." And his image is "helped tremendously" among ordinary Chinese by his wife, superstar People's Liberation Army singer Peng Liyuan, who is possibly more famous than her husband.
But Xi is hardly invincible. China faces alarming levels of inflation, a risky property bubble and massive local-government debt. Xi and his new team will face a steep learning curve—and his status as a compromise character means he lacks the institutionalized political backing that some of his rivals can mobilize. "Xi lacks his own people in senior positions in the party," says Li. "In some ways, he's very much on his own."
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The city in San Bernardino County was founded in the 19th century by Seventh-day Adventists and most still shun tobacco, alcohol and meat.
The McDonald's would be just the sixth fast-food restaurant allowed in town.
A group of residents, health care professionals and educators is now working to officially declare Loma Linda a healthy community to keep it from being overrun by fast-food operations.


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Secret Beach and Roy Guerrero Trail is a 3.5 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Austin, Texas that features a river and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
dogs on leash
kid friendly
mountain biking
trail running
wild flowers
Great little trail and visit to Secret Beach.
A little trashy and not much to see.
Lots of birds, clean well maintained trail, saw a few white tail deer. The views would be nicer if not so much trash everywhere. When I went there was very little water in the creek/river.
Good just got lost for some reason haha
great for running or biking with a nice hidden beach on the river. Very nice getaway inside Austin.
Great place to get away and be. Watch out for poison ivy!
Great place to get away with a short commute.
Nice trail that connects to Lady Bird trail among others around the center of Austin. Great fun to ride or hike the disc golf course.
Pretty easy with mostly wide flat trails. A couple of steep drops on the ridge by the creek bed. Nice for a family bike ride.


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1. Find a suitable place for the unit to be mounted. The easiest location is at the bottom corner of the windshield. But if you want the unit concealed, good places are on the inside of the bumper or under the plastic window scuttle.
2. Locate the battery and feed the wires through from where the unit will be placed.
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7. After installing you need to update your system, so remember to make a note of the units MUF number, the vehicle registration and the vehicle mileage.
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Lisa and I spent the most of a Saturday morning with the most beautiful and charming young lady who was full of wit and insane facial expression. At times it was hard to focus on the photograph because I was laughing so much at this wonderful young lady. Blair is from Louisiville, Ms and along with her natural beauty and fantastic smile she is very athletic, playing fast pitch softball and basketball.
There is no doubt that they came prepared for the day. The pictures speaks for itself. I'm tellin' ya we had a good time!
Blair couldn't wait to get her shoes off. True southern gal. I think Daddy raised her right.
Ok. I teased you with the wit and facial expressions so here are a couple of candid shots. I think Dad was aggravating her.
They finally gave her her cell phone.
On of the most beautiful smiles I have seen
Blair and her family were wonderful to work with. I know they got up early to make the drive from Louisville for this session. There are plenty of fantastic pictures to choose from. Its all in her beauty. All I did was capture it. Thanks for including us in this time in her life. We hope to see ya'll again in the fall when we can go back out and take some more with the fall colors in full bloom. We'll meet you in your neck of the woods next time!
Benge Family at the Lake
We almost called it off. The rain was in and out and the day was going to be overcast but we decided to make a go of it and use the great big soft box offered up to us by the overcast clouds in the sky. We dodged the rain and ended up having a wonderful time with this family photo session. Johnnie and Bonnie traveled from Birmingham for a family visit and the photo session. It was a pleasure to meet this wonderful family and spend some time with them. Of course you can not see the family yet but I started off with this shot because I liked the composition. The focus is on Brody with a beautiful expression and surrounded by love.
I think they all enjoyed taking their shoes off for this shot. This is always one of my favorite shots. Brody was surely having a good time.
This sweet couple came from Birmingham for a visit. Little did they know that I was going to carry them out in the rain and shoot a few pictures of them. Johnny hung in there like a real champ and humored me and my camera through the whole session. Brody enjoyed walking with Dad and Mom. He was a real trooper.
One final shot. I wasn't going to put this on the blog but these two had such a good time. We were close to the water and they found these miniature frogs that they picked up and showed everybody. Both of them! Much appreciation goes out to this family who took the time to spend with us on this drizzled morning. I believe we Waltzed Between the Raindrops (Steely Dan) during this session and stayed pretty dry. I hope you all enjoy the pictures. There were so many good shots that it was hard to pick a few for the blog. Hope you capture a glimpse of the time we spent together. It was our pleasure to shoot this session for you. We hope to do it again some day.
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Plus: Tori Spelling is holding out for a hero.
"I'm already planning on it — practicing the rocking-chair-and-rifle routine." —Ben Affleck on readying for his daughters' dating lives [Today show via People]
"I am good at it. However, my scope as an actor is limited. Whenever it comes to debased, dysfunctional, hostile, violent characters, I'm very good — though that is not my nature." —Werner Herzog on not being a debased, dysfunctional, hostile, violent character [Guardian UK]
"I play a make-believe captain of a make-believe spaceship. Responsibility is only what you place on yourself." —Chris Pine on not feeling the pressure to be an awesome Captain Kirk [Men's Health]
"There's probably a lot of writers out there in the audience, so if you have any ideas, we're open." —Tori Spelling and her husband want to escape their reality-television show with a script by ... anyone [Female First]
"I found myself in the company of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, who had really quality music, much more so than mine. I'm sure there are people scratching their heads, going 'Wow, how is she still around?'" —Mandy Moore on having never recorded a quality song, until, she hopes, now [Female First]
"My new thing is that I always take my bubble baths wearing a tiara … I am a grown-up who bathes in a tiara. One that I got from Disneyland." —Jennifer Love Hewitt on being a princess [Maxim via Fox]


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Given the MTV WV Reality Show Buck Wild discussion across the internet and mainstream media, I'm thinking about my own poetic portrayal of WV. I think my little Rand Poem offers more insight into the persons, places and things that are WV.
Have a read and if you are curious about this little town take a look at the: Google Map of Rand, WV.
Rand Poem
for the Block Project
By Crystal Good
Living in a time warp
Stuck between an 18k gold dome, a pot hole
River water breading champions/like rabid packs of dogs.
Unincorporated/ Person/ Place/ Thing
Rand, Dub Vee
People wave and call it a community,
Sending charcoal smoke signals, We Are Here!
It's the safest and scariest place you'll ever know
Poor they say, but you won't go hungry, Amen.
Paper plates serve the best food you'll ever eat.
Rand, West Virginia, where time stands still……………..
just long enough for the Sheriff to pass
And the Mountains so high you can't help but look to God
This is an outsider's village, inside the segregation zone.
No one can ever really leave Church or Starling Drive.
It don't matter if your Daddy's house gets foreclosed/ you make it on national TV
It's a place you call home (even if its collect, they will accept)
Life is simple. You're expected to visit your Mamma/ to wash and wax your car/ dodge and stay alive.
Good ole boys with oil on hand busy with not much to do. Lemonade a quarter, December barbecues pick up games and I can run faster than you.
Whatcha heard? It's true. Somebody's Auntie is always talking about you know who!
Mayberry on crack, ya' that too, cause Rand got pimps and prostitutes.
From Athens to Bluefield to Clemson. Davidson, Emory, Glenville, Harvard, Kenyon, Marshall. Nine avenues dream university so YOU can too.
Baby Jesus walks everywhere saying, "Hello, hello have a nice day!"
As the sirens sound and the good people all shelter in place/ with fishing poles/ rolls of duck tape, just beneath the sign that reads,
Home of NFL SUPERBOWL Great.
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1 the internet reflects the thoughts, behaviour, ideas, opinions, desires and activities of a valid sample of the world population.
2 it is universally relevant and will become more so over time. 1/3 of all users are from lesser developed countries providing greater insight than ever possible prior into these countries.
3 new interests, ideas and innovation appear in this media, real-time
4 by watching human behaviour (search patterns) we can identify weak signals that are the early warning radar blips for new disruptive innovation, trends and ultimately, new markets.
5 current technologies are unable to accurately discern these weak signals because they generally attempt to digest with increasing depth, breadth and insight the entire mass of data (content rather than behaviour)
6 by observing human behaviour patterns we can more easily see weak signals represented by changes in habitual behaviour
7 changes in search term/subject volume is a leading indicator of weak signals when captured at the microscopic level,
8 qualification of possible weak signal involves triangulation of leading indicators with usage frequency distributions of raw information sources..,newsgroups, blogs, etc.
9 using algorithms from financial trading systems, effective trend analysis can help point out which are real signals and which are merely anomalies
10 once a weak signal is identified accurately, deep mining and text analytics can be precisely targeted to observe and truly understand the new market, innovation or behaviour pattern
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Good evening, subscribers. The great thing about doing politics the way Stephen Harper did it is that everyone — fans and foes alike — knows what to expect. Justin Trudeau came to power on a wave of hope/change sentiment, which means he can't avoid disappointing people.
That moment may come sooner than he hopes. Tasha Kheiriddin argues the PM is caught in a no-win scenario over pipelines: The fragility of the economy obliges him to approve at least one controversial pipeline project — probably Trans Mountain — but he can't do it without alienating many of the former NDP voters who put him over the top last year. "Recent scuttlebutt says that cabinet will give the project the green light. Which would be music to the ears of those in the NDP/LEAP manifesto crowd, who would use this development to bolster their appeal to left-of-centre voters feeling betrayed by the purportedly green PM."
Dougald Lamont looks at World Bank Chief Economist Paul Romer's recent epic takedown of neoclassical economists — the people who didn't see the 2008 crisis coming — and argues that the collapse of expertise in economics and politics is driving the rise of know-nothing nativist demagogues like Donald Trump. "People may believe no one — or anyone — which leaves an opening for 'strongmen' (or women) who proffer big, vague promises backed by the tough-guy ethic of a protection racket: Vote for me and no one gets hurt."
Finally, the Tyee's Steve Burgess riffs on Stephen Harper's new gig with the global law firm Denton's — where he's just one more obsolete ex-PM on an overstuffed payroll. "Apparently Dentons is collecting ex-Canadian PMs, like porcelain figurines or Star Wars lunch boxes."
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TEXAS - Texas added 33,100 jobs in April — more than any other state — despite the federal payroll tax increase, U.S. spending cuts and a global slowdown.
The state also added the most jobs nationally — 326,100 — over the last 12 months, the Texas Workforce Commission reported.
"Texas was the No. 1 state again in job creation," said Jason Frederick, a senior economist for BBVA Compass bank.
Construction has been Texas' fastest-growing industry in the last year, adding 41,500 jobs. That made the state No. 2 for the most construction job gains in the last 12 months, after California's 44,800 jobs, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.
Trade, transportation and utilities created the most jobs (16,000), followed by professional and business services (8,000). Government — state and local — also added 4,700 jobs in April and 19,300 jobs over the last year, bucking the national trend.
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The rescue is gratefully accepting much-needed donations of Science Diet and Purina One dog foods, paper towels, laundry detergent, bleach, cleaning products, blankets and comforters.
Heart of Niagara is a not-for-profit companion animal rescue organization based in Niagara County. Its mission is to protect the health and welfare of abandoned, unwanted and homeless animals. To date, the rescue has adopted out about 400 animals. It operates solely on donations and the generosity and support of the public.
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Canadian David Hearn hopes to build off breakthrough PGA year
David Hearn looks at it as a growing pain.
Sure, it was heartbreaking to miss a chance at a career-defining moment last year at the John Deere Classic, but the Brantford golfer figures the way it played out will only make him stronger in 2014 and beyond.
"I think it will help me," the 34-year-old said while in Ontario this holiday season to visit family and friends prior to the resumption of the 2013-14 PGA Tour season next month. "I learned a lot that week — how my body would react to being in that situation, mentally where I'm at. I think you just have to learn from all situations."
He certainly got an education in competing in pressure-packed situations last July in Silvis, Ill. There, Hearn notched a key par on the 18th hole to put himself in a playoff with Zach Johnson, one of the bigger names on the tour, and youngster Jordan Speith.
What followed was a roller-coaster five-hole playoff that was true five-star entertainment for all Canadian golf fans. When Hearn lipped out with a makeable birdie putt on the fourth hole of that playoff, it opened the door for Speith to become the first teenager to win on tour since 1931. Hearn had to settle for runner-up status, denying him a trip to the British Open the following week as well as a two-year extension to his PGA Tour membership.
Of course, there are many examples of players who have to go through the lowest of lows to reach the pinnacle of the sport — think Mike Weir, and his 80 playing with eventual winner Tiger Woods in the final round of the 1999 PGA Championship. Four years later, Weir was a national hero when he captured The Masters.
Hearn's close call was a sign that good things are in store.
"It's taken a while, but I feel my game is at a level where I know I can come out and have a chance to win a golf tournament," he said.
The results suggest he is on the right path. He went out and cashed paycheques in his final five events of the 2013 season following the near-miss in Silvis. Included was a top Canadian result — tying for 44th — at RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey and a made cut and a tie for 47th after an opening-round 66 at the PGA Championship near Rochester.
After a very respectable season with seven top-25 showings in 26 events, Hearn earned a full card on the PGA Tour for a fourth consecutive season in 2013-14. He opened with three made cuts in four tries in the 2013 portion and also took home $197,500 with a tie for eighth at the World Cup of Golf, an unofficial tour event, in Australia.
"I don't think the expectations are much different (this season)," Hearn said. "Week to week, I expect to play as well as I can. One of my goals — and I had it last year, too — is to play in the tour championship at the end of the year. I think that's a great goal. It rewards good play throughout the season."
To do that, Hearn will have to be in the top 30 in the FedExCup standings after the first three playoff events. He missed out last year, coming in 53rd.
But this year, he has more experience to fall back on — including that one flirt with the winner's circle that sure gave him a sense of what it will take to get there one day.
When he gets going next month at the Sony Open in Hawaii next month, he'll also have the benefit of having more than a few rounds under his belt at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, an advantage he'll continue to enjoy as the tour swings to the west coast.
"I feel like I'm just getting to the point where I'm really starting to learn the courses," Hearn said. "Some guys have been out there 15-20 years and they know the courses extremely well. Now, I've done this a few times and I' getting familiar with them."
Five Canadians carry PGA Tour status into the first full-field event of 2014 — the Sony Open in Honolulu, Hawaii from Jan. 9-12.
But just how much we'll see them all remains up in the air.
Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., leads the way after his breakthrough showing at the Presidents Cup in October following a strong 2013 tour season. He sits 36th in the world golf rankings.
Brantford's David Hearn also should play a full campaign after easily retaining his card in 2013. He's 138th in the rankings.
Next up is Brad Fritsch of Manotick, Ont., who regained his card for the second year in a row with a dramatic surge in the final round of the Web.com Tour finals. But he had back problems late in the 2013 season and then withdrew again in the 2013-14 opener after making the cut with a 64 at the Frys.com Open. He also withdrew from an unofficial event in Australia this fall in an effort to get healthy for 2014.
Meanwhile, veterans Mike Weir of Bright's Grove and Stephen Ames of Calgary have top-50 career earnings exemptions.
Weir has struggled with his play and with injuries in recent years, while Ames has missed more cuts than he's made the past two years.
Ames also will be eligible for the Champions Tour on April 28 when he turns 50, meaning he can play at home when that circuit touches down in Calgary Aug. 29-31 for the Shaw Charity Classic.