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Alicia Keys Wants You To Star In Her Music Video For "A New Day"
Out with the old…in with "A New Day."
After marrying Swizz Beatz and having her adorable baby boy Egypt, Alicia Keys is back in the studio working hard on the follow-up to her 2009 album, The Element of Freedom. At the end of June, the R&B diva dropped her newest single, "A New Day," and now she's taking things one step further.
The singer took to Twitter recently to announce the launch of an interactive Instagram campaign that may land you a starring role in her new video. "I released the song 'A New Day' and I couldn't wait to see what your replies were on Twitter and Facebook, so I've been on there all day," she says in the video below while in what looks like her studio. "Your positivity, your zone, just the way you're feelin' me is so crazy and exciting! This is what I've been building towards. I had this really fly idea…I wanna know what 'New Day' means to you. I want you to Instagram what a new day feels like for you. Whatever it means to you, I want you to share."
She then invited fans to share their photos on Instagram with the hashtag "#AKNewDay." The best photos will be featured in the video for "A New Day." It's that simple.
"I love this song 'A New Day,' because it's about new beginnings, fresh perspectives, it's about removing anything from your life that's holding you back. It's about living your life to the fullest," she said. "It's about personal revolutions in our own lives and global revolutions in the world. It gives me chills! Now it's your turn."
Check out the video below. And, if you're ready to shine with Miss Keys, act fast! The submission deadline is Wednesday, August 1.


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KANKAKEE, Illinois - Michele Bachmann's Hair Spray Across America Bus Tour found itself in Kankakee, Illinois, the home of Johnny Appleseed Instant Apple Sauce.
She was greeted by a group of well wishers who wished her presidential campaign well as they stood in the pouring rain.
Bachmann thanked them all and told them that she will show them that the American people are ready to see a woman sitting at the head of the table in the dining room at the White House.
The crowded cheered and clapped although the clapping was somewhat muddled by the torrential rain.
Bachmann said that she knows that the American people are tired of having men run the country ever since the days of George Washington and before him Abraham Lincoln.
The crowd looked at each other in sheer puzzlement. A male voice hollered out, "Hey Michele Washington came before Lincoln!"
"Sir, there are old women and young children present here, and I will thank you to stop using such vulgar, nasty, potty-mouthed language."
"Bite me!" Came back the retort from the same gentleman.
"Sir, I have a question." Bachmann asked as she wiped the rain from her sideburns. "Are you perchance a Democrat?"
"Kiss my ass, bitch" Came the reply.
"Okay then," Bachmann remarked, "He just answered my question didn't he folks?"
One little elderly lady with wet blue hair replied, "Ah no Miss Michele he really did not answer your question, I think he kinda more or less called you a bitch and told you to kiss his ass."
And on that note Michele Bachmann got on her bus and her 'Hair Spray Across America Bus Tour' headed east towards Indiana and the land where the little Hoosier bird is on the protected birds list.

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Talkshow host Oprah Winfrey took the unusual step Wednesday of denying rumors that have circulated for weeks that she is gay.
Winfrey released a statement and addressed the issue in her keynote address to the Promax convention in Chicago. "Since my appearance on the 'Ellen' show there have been rumors that I'm gay," Winfrey said. "I've addressed this on my show but the rumor mill still churns."
The rumors began when syndicated columnist Liz Smith wrote that one of the biggest and longest-running TV stars, "an icon and role model to millions," is contemplating coming out of the closet. "Apparently, people assume that it's me," she said. "It's not."
This past week, rumors have surfaced that Newsweek would be doing a coming out interview with Winfrey similar to the one Ellen DeGeneres did with Time magazine. Winfrey said that rumor is also untrue.
While it's unusual to issue a statement denying such whisper campaigns, Winfrey said several "legitimate" news organizations had called her office about the rumors in recent days, and some, including a New York daily, planned to write stories. A couple of other news organization, including E! Entertainment TV and a Toronto paper, have run stories on the rumors already, sources said.
"As I've said, I appeared on Ellen's show because I wanted to support her in her desire to free herself — and I thought it was a really good script," Winfrey said. "I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay."
While Winfrey is risking that some may think that she protests too much, a spokeswoman for GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) said Winfrey is "courageous" and did not seem to be making the denial out of fear.
"I think it's an unfortunate byproduct that when straight people support gay and lesbian causes, they themselves are perceived to be gay," said Liz Tracey, GLAAD's associate communications director.


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PHILADELPHIA - June 16, 2013 --A police cruiser crashed into a tire store in Northeast Philadelphia.
The crash happened around 2:00 a.m. Sunday at the Goodyear store in the 2300 block of Welsh Road.
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The crash caused significant damage to the store.
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The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publication date: May 16th 2017
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
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There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets.
Caden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome. The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. Will she choose a Nice or the Bad?
Both Caden and Dylan are living in the outside world for the first time. They are well-trained and at the top of their games. They have to be – whoever the girl doesn't choose will die.
What the boys don't expect are feelings that are outside of their training. Feelings that could kill them both.
At first it sounded like any typical spy movie/love triangle (It kind of reminded of This Means War with Reese Witherspoon!), but than you finish the blurb and it got so much more interesting!
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The high cost of being a Kremlin critic;
Russia turns up the heat on Belarus
Edited by Amanda Azinheira and Kaitlyn Johnson
March 6, 2017
February 2:
Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., an outspoken critic of the Kremlin, has been admitted to a Moscow hospital intensive-care unit after another suspected poisoning. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Kara-Murza is in critical condition, on life support, and has been placed in a medically-induced coma. His wife, Yevgenia Kara-Murza, says his symptoms mimic those he endured in 2015, which he believed at the time to be the result of a deliberate poisoning in response to his political activism. Mr. Kara-Murza is a coordinator for Open Russia, an NGO advocating for democracy in Russia, and has openly called for the U.S. to levy additional sanctions on the Kremlin in response for its human rights practices and foreign policy activism.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of prominent Russian opposition politician and blogger Alexei Navalny, the BBC reports. Navalny had accused the Russian government of violating his right to peaceful protest and a fair trial - charges which the ECHR has upheld, ordering the Kremlin to pay him approximately $67,000 in compensation.
The decision is an important symbolic one for Navalny, who plans to run for president in the next Russian presidential election. However, impediments to his candidacy remain; Navalny is currently embroiled in the retrial of a contentious 2013 court case surrounding embezzlement charges which he claims were fabricated and politically motivated. If he is convicted on those counts, Navalny will be barred from running for president.
Kommersant reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a new decree dismissing sixteen generals from their posts, and removing two others from active military service. The generals were dismissed from the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR), the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), and the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS), respectively. President Putin simultaneously named two new Deputy Ministers of the MChS, and appointed a third official, Oleg Kamshilova, to be the Crimean prosecutor. The reason for the sudden reshuffle remains unclear.
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Hostilities in eastern Ukraine have sharply increased, reaching fighting levels not seen in Ukraine since early 2015. The Washington Post writes that Adiivka, a small town outside of Donetsk, has been devastated by multiple-launch Grad missiles as well as 152mm and 122mm shells, all of which were banned two years ago under the Minsk II agreement. Yevhen Deydey, a Ukrainian commander, has predicted a continued escalation of hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
Relations between Russia and Belarus have soured, with Russia taking new measures to secure the common border between the two countries and, according to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenko, leverage its oil and natural gas to compel Belarusian cooperation. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports that these Russian shows of strength come in response to a recent Belarusian policy change allowing for visa-free entry for citizens of some 80 countries, including the U.S. and EU, who remain in the country for 5 days or less.
Belarusian officials are scrambling to defuse the tensions. President Lukashenko has denied that Belarus is considering withdrawing from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) or the Eurasian Economic Union (EES) - two critical, Russian-led arrangements among former Soviet states. However, the Belarusian president has confirmed that his country's membership in those organs has cost it dearly, with Belarus losing $15 billion to date as a direct result of its membership in the EES.
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Amid a flurry of measures along the Russian-European Union border designed to strengthen and reinforce that boundary, Latvia has built the first 14 miles of what will become a 120 mile fence separating its territory from the Russian Federation. Sputnik reports that the fence will be, at its lowest points, approximately nine feet tall. The Latvian government has allocated the equivalent of $6.8 million for the construction of the next 37 miles of fence in 2017. Additionally, the country's 2017 budget provides for the construction of a similar fence along its shared border with Belarus. These new measures come amid Norway's recent construction of a gated fence at its border checkpoint with Russia, and the Estonian government's approval of a plan to fence off its portion of the border with the Russian Federation.
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I have an interesting problem. I've had a linux server (Fedora) running in my home for a while now, and it's running SSH over a non-standard port. I've been able to ssh/putty into it from all my other machines, within and outside of my home network, without issue.
However, I just installed SL on my main laptop, and I'm not able to to SSH from it to my home server from outside my network. Inside my network it works like a charm. I've tried doing it from multiple outside networks (work, school, Starbucks) just to verify it wasn't a network issue on their end.
I figure it's gotta be something on the client side obviously. I've already disabled SELinux in the /etc/selinux/config file, but other than that, I'm kinda stumped. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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so, if i understand it well, you are able to login from outside to you home linux server from other devices using SSH. But from this particular laptop, you cant?
SELinux has nothing to do with this. Have you been altering IPtables (firewall) on your laptop?
Please, try verbosive ssh login and post here what this says:
Posted: Apr 21 2013, 12:20 AM
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That is correct. I'm unable to ssh into my home network from the outside, but only from this particular machine. The output from ssh -vvv wasn't very enlightening. I replaced my ip address and the port number with x's:
I'm doing some tweaking with my local firewall, but there shouldn't be any outbound rules preventing the ssh connection from going out. I'll let you know once I've tested it from an outside environment again.
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I reconstructed my iptables rule file and it still doesn't work from the outside. My firewall script for my SL laptop is as follows:
What's also weird is that when I go to check the status of the iptables service, it outputs my rules rather than just a generic message saying it's running or not running:
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Derek Jarman and the Memory Palace Of Life
by Matthew Cheney
Derek Jarman
University of Minnesota Press ($18.95)
Derek Jarman
University of Minnesota Press ($18.95)
Tony Peake
University of Minnesota Press ($24.95)
Derek Jarman died in 1994, leaving behind him one of the most important bodies of work of any artist or filmmaker of his generation, an oeuvre that challenged orthodoxies of sexuality, politics, and aesthetics. Though best remembered for such films as Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, Jarman was also a prolific writer, particularly as a diarist. The University of Minnesota Press has been reissuing many of his published works in uniform paperback editions; additionally, they have reprinted Tony Peake's 1999 biography of Jarman.
Though very much of its time, Jarman's work has sustained its power and relevance long beyond its creator's death. Having found meaning and pleasure within the bohemian, anti-establishment world of the late '60s British avant-garde art scene, Jarman never hesitated in presenting an identity for himself that was defiantly queer. At first, this was not a political identity. In his 1992 memoir/journal/manifesto At Your Own Risk, Jarman wrote that "I danced the sixties away but I didn't see that as hedonism; it was a REVOLUTIONARY GESTURE — you should have seen the way the other students reacted to two men kissing in public. I believed we could bring change with individual actions, it wasn't linked to any conventional political blueprint. One person in one room quite cut off could change the world." During the early 1970s, Jarman attended many of the meetings of the Gay Liberation Front, but though he enjoyed the more pranksterish elements of their activism, Peake quotes him as saying he "disliked these well-meaning rather lonely people laying down the law … there was an element of joylessness about it." His early films were proudly queer (a label he came to prefer to "gay"), but their queerness was in service to their countercultural core. Jubilee (1978), his second feature-length film, was an anarchic vision of an apocalyptic England (or an apocalyptic vision of an anarchic England) full of punk rockers. With the arrival of AIDS and Thatcherism in the 1980s, though, Jarman would become radicalized, his bohemian individualism and sense of humor evolving into furious, confrontational queer communalism.
While Jarman was alive, and in the years immediately following his death, he tended to be celebrated or denounced for the didactic qualities of his art. Tony Peake's biography both demonstrates and suffers from this, for though the book is well researched, comprehensive, and even-toned in its presentation, it was nonetheless a product of Peake's friendship with Jarman, and so his assessment of Jarman's individual works is not as useful as his narration of the events and contexts of Jarman's life. Of Jarman's most popular and accessible film, Peake said that, "for all its many fine and subtle qualities, Caravaggio exudes a whiff of staleness, even flatness." Peake makes a point of noting that a year after it was released, Jarman himself watched the film again and said he thought it was "too assured."
This is a telling moment in the biography. What disappoints some of the more doctrinaire Jarman fans about Caravaggio is its complex and sometimes contradictory presentation of sex and politics. Especially in his post-Caravaggio work, Jarman was a determinedly didactic filmmaker, but his intuitions were more artful than his public statements, and his films were always more layered than he said they were.
In one of the best studies of Caravaggio, a monograph for the BFI in 1999, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit discuss "Jarman's willingness to sell himself short for the sake of being immediately recognized and applauded by a particular audience" — the audience being militant gay men and AIDS activists. "That willingness undoubtedly helped make him famous," they say, "but it also had the unfortunate result of bringing him a fame that was a tribute to his limitations rather than to his very real talent."
"Limitations" seems to me the wrong word, though, because the films themselves easily overcome their original didactic intent, and Jarman's fame (or infamy) was a useful weapon against prejudice and injustice in England in the 1980s and early 1990s. The rhetoric was neither subtle nor nuanced, but it was fighting against lifetimes of repression, a legal system that was explicitly discriminatory, a public that seemed convinced plagues only kill perverts, a media environment that thrived on sensationalism, and a disease that was daily killing scores of people in midst of life. In At Your Own Risk, Jarman wrote, "I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface."
At the end of 1986, Jarman learned for certain what he had suspected for a while: he was HIV positive. This fact would shape the rest of his work profoundly, adding a new urgency to it, a new anger, and, at last, an elegiacal lyricism both heartbreaking and inspiring. It is from this time that most of his books were published, because in addition to wanting to use his art to goad a better society into being, his awareness of how little time he likely had led him to try to fit in as much as he could. That he did so while suffering the effects of his illness and medications testifies to his extraordinary will to live. "I'm hanging on to life for dear life," he wrote in his last diaries, collected posthumously as Smiling in Slow Motion. "I would rather be alive than dead, I'm too curious about the here and now."
Jarman's first book, Dancing Ledge, was published in 1984. It introduced the style that, with variations, would be common to most of Jarman's autobiographical books from then on: a collage of short sections, often journal entries, well illustrated with stills from the films, pictures of his paintings, snapshots. The progression of this style, though, is generally toward the less and less mediated — the sections in Dancing Ledge and Kicking the Pricks (1987) mix dates and titles, while Modern Nature (1991) appears as a journal with daily entries arranged in monthly chapters for January 1989 to September 1990. At Your Own Risk melds both styles, giving us chapters named for decades (1940s to 1990s), and within those chapters sections that are sometimes dated and sometimes not, with fragments of journal entries, conversations, reminiscences, newspaper stories. Its polemical purpose and death-sentence urgency make it feel more revealing, less shaped and curated, than the earlier books. Smiling in Slow Motion picks up where Modern Nature left off, providing edited versions of Jarman's journals from 1991 to his death.
Smiling in Slow Motion lacks the energy and brio of some of the earlier books, but it is an important document not only for Jarman aficionados, but for anyone interested in the history of AIDS and society in the West. Most of the entries in the book are not interesting in and of themselves, and even close readers of Peake's biography will at times be overwhelmed by the parade of jotted names and events. But it is easy to forget now what AIDS meant then, and what it was to live day by day as a man sentenced to the disease's slow, painful death in a society where privileges of race and class do not allay the fact that your sexuality and illness make your very existence into a cause for public disgust. Now, people of means in countries with solid medical infrastructures can often live with their HIV status as a chronic condition, and public tolerance of certain expressions of homosexuality has progressed remarkably — enough that Jarman's writings can serve not only as a valuable reminder of how many people fought and died before the present moment was achieved, but of what it meant to be one of those people: to live and fight and die.
It would be a tremendous mistake, though, to reduce Jarman's importance to his death. What Smiling in Slow Motion also gives us is an account of the daily life of a creative person, someone whose creativity was not limited to one mode. Jarman fought against all sorts of odds to maintain his artistic vision and also to create a community of fellow artists. He never had large budgets for his work, and though visual art and writing don't require major investors, film is an expensive medium. Jarman reduced the expense in many ways, since he began not as a filmmaker but as a painter, and his initial interests were not those of even the most frugal narrative filmmakers. He worked as a set designer on Ken Russell's The Devils, which gave him an entry into the world of movies, but his own film aesthetic grew from experiments with an inexpensive super-8mm camera. He developed extraordinarily expressive techniques with his super-8 films, using the medium's limitations as a tool to create lyrical imagery full of grain and gauze. His first three feature films — Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee, and The Tempest (1979) — were all made on 16mm and then blown up to 35mm for exhibition, a process that affected both the qualities of their images and their cost. He spent nearly a decade trying to raise the money to make Caravaggio, his first film shot on 35mm. That experience seems to have inspired him to create the cinematic equivalent of mixed media, and so War Requiem (1987), The Last of England (1989), and The Garden (1990) all incorporate multiple gauges and stocks, including video. Jarman's last three features, Edward II (1991), Wittgenstein (1993), and Blue (1993) were all shot on 35mm, but they still exhibit minimalisms of mise-en-scene that, while forced on Jarman by limited funds, provide intensely focused meanings. In the last years of his life, Jarman was going blind, and Blue was Jarman's ultimate attempt to fuse the personal, political, and aesthetic. Peake writes,
He had long wanted to make on celluloid the sort of statement about AIDS he had been making with paint. Two things had defeated him: the impossibility of visualizing an unseen virus and the difficulty of avoiding sentimentality, almost inevitable in any realistic or semi-realistic treatment of the subject. With no image, simply a field of blue, and a complex soundtrack that mingled poetry with an account of losing his sight and coping with the general disintegration of his body, he had found what seemed to him the perfect way of addressing his own concerns while taking his audience on an elegiac journey toward immateriality. What had started as an homage to Yves Klein had, after many years and many incarnations, become a film about its maker.
Because he lived his art, and because his art was his life, and because he was before anything else a visual artist, Jarman's least compelling writings are his film scripts. The University of Minnesota Press has recently added to their Jarman offerings with Jubilee: Six Film Scripts, which presents one produced script and five unproduced ones. These are historically and biographically important, but they are less interesting even than most screenplays in that the unproduced scripts are so drastically incomplete — they can only give us the barest glimpse of what might have been. Jarman typically used his scripts as springboards and general blueprints, not stone tablets carved with marching orders. The words are full of imagery, but that is no substitute for the images he would have created (or, in the case of Jubilee, did create). Peake's summaries of the unproduced films will be adequate for all but the most obsessive readers.
Jarman knew that books of his films were reductions, and for some of his major works he created books that included a version of the script along with ancillary materials to make the book an expression of its own. It's a shame these have not (yet) been reprinted, because Derek Jarman's Caravaggio provides not just the script, but extensive commentary by Jarman and evocative on-set photographs by Gerald Incandela; Queer Edward II is a multitextual presentation of the script alongside Jarman's commentary interspersed with mottos of queer supremacy ("heterosexuality: an exercise in cultural narcissism"); and Wittgenstein contains both Terry Eagleton's original (realistic and traditionally biographical) script for the film and then Jarman's shooting script with production photographs on the facing pages. These books give us screenplays as intentional art objects, and stand as works separate from the finished films.
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Ultimately, Jarman's oeuvre is a testament to perception and memory, the twin capacities of mind and body that allow us to make something of life. Among the many haunting entries in Smiling in Slow Motion is one for Boxing Day of 1992:
My doctor Mark, telling me he was leaving to do research, said: "I have good news for you, you have survived your doctor!" Everything has gone so quiet in the last four months I feel as if I have survived myself and most of my friends. Do I make a list here just to remind myself? Peter, Terry, Howard, David, Tom, Karl, Ken, Patrik, Billy, Robert, Tommy, Paul — most of them in their twenties and thirties — all had a bright future snatched from them. As I record their names I wonder where, or on what words, my pen will stop. It should be "Amen".
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Battlefield 1 server rentals get new features
by PG Neon on 05 Jan, 2017 - Comments Off on Battlefield 1 server rentals get new features
DICE has some good news for those thinking of renting Battlefield 1 servers, or those who already rent a server: the program will be getting new features very soon.
The biggest new addition will be a separate Admin Control Panel on all platforms. This will make it easier to kick/ban players, add players to a preferred VIP list, and more.
Other features include password protected servers, new gameplay options (such as turning off Behemoths, spawning on Squad leaders only), and more.
The new updates will be rolled out in the near future. DICE also stated that they will look to "improve the overall flows on how to find and populate a rented server."
Unlike previous games in the series, Battlefield 1 servers are rented out directly by EA — there are no third party server providers this time.
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Get Into the Groove
Jazz things up a little with the annual Tri-C JazzFest.
By Jen Jones Donatelli
As home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland is known for attracting stellar musicians—and the Tri-C JazzFest only serves to boost our city's cred on the music scene. Now in its 37th year, the popular festival is ready to rock this town yet again from June 23-25 with high-profile performers like Diana Krall and 22-time Grammy winner Chick Corea.
Amid the jam-packed performance lineup, there are plenty of unforgettable experiences on tap inside PlayhouseSquare. Help Tommy LiPuma blow out his 80th birthday candles at his "Big Birthday Bash," where fellow jazz legends like Krall, Al Jarreau, Dr. John, and others will pay musical tribute. You can also attend the CD release party for Dominic Farinacci (a former Tri-C student who was discovered by Wynton Marsalis at the festival). Or perhaps you'll pre-game with a minty mojito at Ohio City's Johnny Mango before heading over to enjoy the catchy Afro-Cuban beats of Cubanismo.
For those who'd rather funk out in the fresh air, there is plenty of fare to keep you entertained at the free Outdoor Festival. Between two stages (one of which sits underneath PlayhouseSquare's super-sized chandelier), 18 bands are slated to keep jazz aficionados moving and grooving throughout the weekend. (For the first time, Euclid Avenue will be completely closed down between 13th and 14th Streets, so there will be no shortage of space to dance the day away!)
Also new this year is "Keyed Up," an upbeat kickoff event highlighting the Cavaliers Scream Team, Shaw High School Marching Band, Chardon Polka Band, and stilt walkers and giant puppets from Parade the Circle. You can even sign up to be part of the "Big PHAT Line Dance"—giving you carte blanche to enjoy the caloric-yet-craveable food truck fare nearby.
Don't want to miss a thing? Snag a festival pass for $250, which will cover preferred seat admission to all nine concerts, as well as an opening night party.
It's sure to be groovy, baby.
Jazz Around Town
Why limit your love of jazz to the festival when there are lots of great venues around town? Sneak in a show at one of these local favorites.
Brother's Lounge: Head to the west side to check out this historic club—where you can catch anything from big bands and 80s covers inside the music hall to jazz quartets and acoustic acts inside the wine bar.
BOP STOP at the Music Settlement: Between its Lake Erie views and recent nod as one of Fox 8's "Buzz List: Nightlife Spots," what's not to like? Donated to the Music Settlement in 2013, the BOP STOP has quickly become a go-to spot for both established and up-and-coming musicians.
Music Box Supper Club: From the rooftop to the riverfront, this venue makes the most of its prime perch on the West Bank of the Flats. Start your evening at its Rusty Anchor restaurant, then catch a show from its diverse lineup of local and national acts.
Nighttown: With a variety of dining rooms and intimate performance settings, Nighttown has topped Cleveland's jazz scene since 1965, and it only gets better with age.
Take 5 Rhythm and Jazz: Small bites and big sound are the earmarks of this live music venue known for tapas and tunes. As a nod to JazzFest, they'll be hosting a "Straight Ahead Jazz Weekend Salute to Jazz" on June 24th and 25th.
Wilbert's: More than 90 Grammy winners have taken the stage at this Downtown favorite, which is close to Progressive Field and The Q. Jazz is among the many genres enjoyed here, which include everything from reggae to rock.


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Royal Bank of Scotland has neglected its technology for decades, the state-backed bank's boss admitted on Tuesday after a system crash left more than 1 million customers unable to withdraw cash or pay for goods.
Reuters reports that the problem for three hours on Monday, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year, raised questions about the resilience of RBS's technology.
'For decades, RBS failed to invest properly in its systems', Ross McEwan, who became CEO in October, said.
'Last night's systems failure was unacceptable ... I'm sorry for the inconvenience we caused our customers', he said, adding he would outline plans in the New Year to improve the bank and increase investment.
The news agency also reports that a former trader for Royal Bank of Scotland who was fired for allegedly trying to manipulate the London interbank offered rate (Libor) has dropped a wrongful dismissal case against the firm.
Tan Chi Min was sacked from his Singapore-based role as head of delta trading for the bank's Global Banking and Markets division in November 2011.
RBS admits decades of IT neglect after systems crash
Ex-RBS trader fired over Libor drops wrongful dismissal case
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A. Wayne Glowka
Professor of English
Dean of the the School of Arts and Humanities
Academic Degrees
B.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., English, University of Delaware
Teaching and Scholarly Interests:
Old English, Middle English, Old French, history of the English language, lexicography, metrics, Texas Revolution
Recent Scholarship:
Editor of "Among the New Words" for American Speech, the quarterly journal of the American Dialect Society (1997-2008).
Translator of Wace's Le Roman de Brut: The French Book of Brutus (Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), 2005.
The Texiad: An Epic of the Texas Revolution (KDP and CreateSpace 2012) a rhyme-royal epic on the Texas Revolution.
"Reinhardt University is a wonderful place to pursue studies in the arts and humanities amidst the beauty of the north Georgia mountains. Our small classes and devoted faculty make the Reinhardt experience special and personally meaningful."
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— They Cite "Great Education at an Affordable Price, Personable, Intelligent Professors and Amazing Diversity; "Walking Across Campus Is Like Trekking through the 7 Continents" —
FLUSHING, NY, August 23, 2010 – Once again, Queens College has been named one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review. The renowned education services company features QC in the new 2011 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 373 Colleges. Only about 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship college guide.
Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Senior VP / Publishing and author of The Best 373 Colleges, "We commend Queens College for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book. Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 28-member National College Counselor Advisory Board."
The guidebook surveys most colleges every three years. QC students participated in a new survey last fall.
"We put great emphasis on student satisfaction at Queens College," says its president, James Muyskens. "Providing a high-quality education in a welcoming atmosphere that encourages personal growth and professional success is paramount to our mission. That's why it is very gratifying to know that our students have such positive things to say about their experience with us."
Among the comments and phrases the students used to describe QC were:
● "a warm, welcoming atmosphere"
● "an amazingly diverse campus"
● students who "live together in harmony"
● "understanding, extremely intelligent and personable" professors who "are always
willing to meet students outside the classroom" for discussion and "push you to reach
your full potential"
● "so many activities to attend and clubs to join"
● "The Summit (new Queens College residence hall) is amazing!"
● "The campus feels safe and comfortable for both commuters and residents"
High Grades for "Campus Life"
The College's "Campus Life" rating also jumped 12 points to 79—higher now than the Campus Life rating for NYU, St. John's University, Hofstra, Cooper Union, Bard College, and all the SUNY colleges. This category is a measure of "how happy students are with their campus experiences outside the classroom" including "beauty, safety and location of campus; comfort of residence hall; quality of food; ease of getting around campus and dealing with administrators; friendliness of fellow students; interactions of different students on campus and within the greater community."
The Princeton Review is also famous for its annual rankings including the much-publicized "Best Party Schools." Queens College makes the top-20 in three categories: "Got Milk?" which lists campuses where beer is scarce; "Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch" (no hard liquor); and "Stone-Cold Sober Schools," a category that is "based on a combination of survey questions concerning the use of alcohol and drugs, hours of study each day, and the popularity of the Greek system."
Queens College: Where Students Meet Their Future
Queens College opened its first residence hall in fall 2009 and it was an instant hit, filled to 100 percent capacity this fall. For more than 70 years, QC has provided a premier liberal arts education to bright, ambitious students. From graduate and undergraduate degrees, honors and pre-professional programs to research and internship opportunities, students can realize their potential in countless ways, assisted by an accessible, award-winning faculty.
Its more than 20,000 students come from over 160 nations and represent over 90 native languages, creating an educationally rich and welcoming environment. Located on a beautiful, 77-acre campus in Flushing, Queens College enjoys a national reputation for its liberal arts and sciences and pre-professional programs. Each year Queens College has been cited by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's 100 "Best Value" colleges, thanks to its outstanding academics, generous financial aid packages, and relatively low costs. More info on Queens College at www.qc.cuny.edu.
For more about Queens College visit http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Pages/default.aspx
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Here you can browse amendments tabled in the House of Lords to the Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill [HL].
The page and line references in the amendments are to the printed copy of the bill as amended on Report in the House of Lords on 7th November 2003 and published as HL Bill 118. You can find the full text of the bill here.
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|Updated 10 November 2003


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Dakota Fanning Half Butchers the Runaways' 'Cherry Bomb'
Pretty painful.
We've learned that Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart sing four songs on the Runaways soundtrack, and today, with Dakota Fanning's rendition of "Cherry Bomb," we get a first taste of what that'll sound like. In a word: bad! Well, not bad-bad — although we almost turned it off after the teenager-y, overpronounced "skoow-uhl / fooh-ul" bit at the beginning, the rest was pretty decent. The juvenile "Mo-om" vocals remain painful throughout, but she gets definite points for effort and enthusiasm. And she's a teenager, so she can't help it. Anyway, here's Dakota's version:
And, to compare, here's the original:
To be honest, our biggest takeaway was that this is a pretty annoying song to listen to, regardless of who's singing it. Thoughts?


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Services performed by Brown-Daub Chrysler Jeep Dodge RAM in Easton, Pennsylvania, include an express lane oil change service, engine tune-ups, front-end vehicle alignments, tire rotations and air conditioner repairs. An associated parts department keeps a stock of vehicle parts for both customer and service center purchase and use.Continue Reading
The express lane oil change service allows customers to receive oil changes without needing to schedule an appointment ahead of time. The service also includes tire pressure checks, break inspections, battery tests, air filter replacements and multi-point checkups.
Brown-Daub also performs required state vehicle inspections. The business has a recall center component on their website where customers can look up their vehicle by Vehicle Identification Number to see if there is a recall in session.
Some personal services provided to customers are free waiting room WiFi, car rentals, free repair estimates from the body shop and a free shuttle service.
Brown-Daub Chrysler's website has both a service request and parts request form. Customers can use the service request form to schedule vehicle services. The form requires contact, appointment and service information, as well as a designation of the type of service needed. The parts request form operates in a similar manner for the acquisition of vehicle parts. The website has a live agent chat feature for those with additional questions.Learn more about Corporations