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Missouri House members plan to advance legislation that seeks to address a student transfer law requiring unaccredited school systems to pay for students who want to attend better-performing schools in nearby districts.
A House committee could vote on a measure this week, and leaders say the student transfer measure could be debated by the full House next week. Legislation passed the Senate in February.
Republican House member Rick Stream says there likely will be changes to what the Senate approved. He says the changes could involve the tuition paid by sending school districts, charter schools and attempts to prevent borderline districts from slipping.
The deadline to pass new legislation is May 16.

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Attending Xaverian High School before his graduation into higher education where he elected to join the Pace University Lubin School of Business and at their university became accomplished in obtaining his Bachelor of Science in the field of Computer Science, Vincent "Vinny" Parascandola was clearly destined for great things from the very moment he wrapped his hand around that diploma.
Beginning his professional career in the year of 1986, Vinny Parascandola joined the Irving Trust Company as the Systems Analyst, before jumping in to a wide range of exciting jobs in the pursuit of securing an established and fulfilling life career. Leaving after two years to join Prudential Insurance as one of their agents where he stayed for another two years before leaving again to another position at a different firm, Vinny started to get a taste for a faster pace, deciding to push himself to take life to the highest level he could manage, Parascandola took a leap into the deep end and joined in the team at The MONY Group.
Starting out his time at The MONY Group first as a Financial Professional before getting promoted up and up to Sales Manager, then Managing Director, and finally Field Vice President in the year of 1998 where he stayed for seven loyal years, Vinny got a chance to get involved in the life he had always craved. In May of 2005 he was presented with an offer that he simply could not refuse, and he left his job at The MONY Group to take a step into greater territory as the Executive Vice President of AXA Equitable.
Working at AXA Equitable, Parascandola soon proved himself vital to the best interest of the team and after only two years working as the Executive Vice President, Vinny was promoted to the role of President over the Advantage Group. As a man obviously destined for greatness though, Vincent didn't stay for very long in that role before yet again being promoted repeatedly till he earned his current title as the official Senior Executive Vice President of the entire company at AXA Equitable.


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Arm-Wrestling Show Coming to AMC
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AMC has green-lit a new reality show about the world of organized arm wrestling, the network announced today. (Let's not call it "competitive" arm wrestling — all arm wrestling is competitive.) King of Arms will spotlight five wrestling clubs from around the country as their members hit the road in search of additional arm-wrestling glory. The show will be paired with the second half of this season of The Walking Dead, which means AMC is really really into this idea. Can't be worse than Low Winter Sun.


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It's the Tuesday before Christmas, which means it's time for a hallowed holiday tradition here at Shorpy: The Office Xmas Party! Which has been going on for 92 years now. Will Clarence in Sales ever get up the nerve to ask out Hermione from Accounting? Is there gin in that oilcan? Ask the bear.
Washington, D.C., 1925. "Western Electric Co. group." There are enough little dramas playing out here to keep the forensic partyologists busy until Ground Hog Day. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
I totally wanna party with this crew. I've always loved the Roaring-Twenties era, and the show Boardwalk Empire is doing a great job with the fashions and the music. I think Nucky Thompson needs to sprinkle a little Xmas cheer on this group. Volstead Act be damned!
This could be the Sgt. Pepper album just before The Beatles stepped into the shot
Every time I see this, my eyes go to the young, very handsome man who is looking over the shoulder of the rather portly guy on the right side of the photo. Balding men didn't have many options, then, like they do now, but I rather doubt that the premature balding kept all the young ladies away from him!
I wonder which of these men were veterans of WWI?
That exotic woman sitting in front of the desk in the lower left STILL seems distracted by something just out of camera, and the woman in front of her is still watching her carefully.
It's a wonderful photo worth our annual holiday attention!
Wade in NW Florida: if he looks like anybody of that period, it would most likely be Eddie Cantor, not Al Jolson.
First, Dave, you have cured my holiday depression. I found this during a post-Xmas hangover and there are no words. I was instantly addicted to your site. Thank you.
Second, if there is anyone out there with connections to the BAU I would like you to seriously consider imposing yourself on that relationship and get them on it. I'm dying for a more complete story. You must be too if you're reading this. You know who you are. Pick up that phone and give him/her a call.
I just love this photo. There's so much to analyze. Saw it last year for the first time. Here we all are, another year older. That would include those in the picture, in a macabre sort of way.
Those three objects in front - Maybe just spur-of-the-moment party silliness?
Is that Al Jolson in front of the "Traffic signal" bald guy? He's peering out just a bit from behind the guy with the vest and holding his glasses. 1925, the timeline is right. :)
I hope this re-posting will bring new fans. Merry Xmas,everyone!
This photo has taken on a level of immortality that few others can hope to achieve. A Photograph for the ages that will always be appreciated and admired. A Tradition is born! Thanks to Dave and all that visit here; hopefully someday your office pictures will be shown here and we can all marvel at how far we've come in so short a time.
Tiny Tim said it best so I shan't repeat it but that is my wish for one and all.
If Dave would produce an annual Shorpy Christmas card I would buy a few boxes, and I'm sure others would as well. Cards with this photo would be seen in every business cubicle in the country and quite a few places around the globe. It says Merry Xmas for me.
This picture is as familiar to longtime readers of this blog as our own family photos and as evergreen as that Christmas Tree was before it was cut down. One can imagine so much here, for example that as soon as the photographer finishes with his duties, the Volstead Act will be violated by most of the people in this room (there are a few who look as if they might disapprove), and the usual office party shenanigans will occur, some of which might have consequences in the months to follow even if they all swear that what happens at the Office Party stays at the Office Party.
Ooooo -- Roaring twenties office party, bathtub gin. Oooooo -- I think I just threw up in my throat a little bit.
from the top 3rd from the left. I'm in love.
Oh wait.
As she is my grandma!
"The gal sitting on the floor behind the Oil can has had a drink or two already, and she is plotting mischief. I can see it in her eyes! Was she the good time that was had by all?"
Its good to see this one again. I just keep looking at the people and see more than a few that would have been great company. I hope everyone, viewers, commenters, Dave and webmaster Ken has a great Holiday Season in the company of friends and loved ones.
A quick flip of the door confirms we are in room 504 of the ion Department.
Could not have been more then a dollar in 2011 money
Must have been last minute!!!
The gal sitting on the floor behind the Oil can has had a drink or two already, and she is plotting mischief. I can see it in her eyes! Was she the good time that was had by all?
Having just spotted the drug paraphernalia on the left - the scale, the packaging materials, the kimono-wearing parrot - our undercover coppette in mid-pack has whipped out her official police hat and ignoring the cries of "that baggy's not mine!" is about ready to haul the whole gang downtown. A bust like this baby was sure to bump her upstairs and away from all these dreary office parties.
How did she get it?
It's the butler in the pantry!!!
I have never, ever seen so many guilty people in one photograph.
Unbelievable that it was not staged. But it obviously wasn't.
I love this photo and we're going to test the limits of the reply counter. Merry Christmas everyone and have a grand new year!
There is no question that many secret alliances and not-always discreet hook-ups probably took place during and after this festive celebration 86 years ago. Luckily for those involved, there were no surveillance cameras, cell phone cameras, tape recorders, security guards, texting devices or other pesky snooping devices that could cause the merrymakers a permanent record (and deep lifetime regret) of their missteps. They were the roaring 20's when people gathered their rosebuds where they may and parties were for having the best time you could have. I'm betting many of these revelers took their sweet and sordid memories of that night to their graves.
All this tableau requires (perhaps) to make it complete, is a large paper bag on the floor stuffed with goodies, including the obligatory pair of turkey-feet protruding upward in a festive fashion.
Best of the Season to All in the Shorpyverse Continuum!
Always noticing something new, frinstance,
The object on the scale, seems to have some heft to it based on how far the scale dial has moved, maybe a cast iron toy?
The young fellow on the far right, Candy Cane in his right hand but whats on his left hand? Looks like it's slipped inside of something, a toy holster maybe?
I love the woman sitting on the floor next to the desk looking away. At first glance you think; boy she looks tired, and then you look again and you see how beautiful she really is. She is just stunning. I also find it interesting with the commentary just how similar our comments in the office were to the ones posted on this site. We too made up stories about these folks. I love this photo. Thanks for sharing it.
colorize this!
I can't believe, in 90+ comments on this remarkable photo, that not one person pointed out the extension cord running from the ceiling light fixture to the tree. I think the answer to the comment about how and when these folks died is: a few minutes after this photo was taken, in a horrible electrical fire.
Ok, a lot of the men look like mafiosi with the big-lips guy in front being the capo. The two guys at the right, top, are hit men.
I'm still using the exact same desk as the one in the photo; my wife purchased it from McGill university when they replaced the professors' desks in the mid 1960s.
Adolf (second from right at very top) has quite the leer going on. Peter Sellers could imitate him well. Mystery Lady could have been even more beautiful. I imagine her long hair flowing and her prominent features brought out even more with an expert's touch.
What is Stogie Man carrying, besides his eyeglasses? I also wonder who took this photo. It obviously took some arranging, with the piling up of people.
Excellent, almost spellbinding picture! I come here about six times a day just to visit it. I wonder who lived the longest, and what year they all died and how? Yes, I'm a morbid one.
and in the zoomed out view, I thought the gent at the far right might be the office troublemaker and that the folks wrapped him up in Christmas lights for his just deserts. Alas and alack, when you go in for a closer look, it's simply the ravages of time taking their toll on the negative.
[This batch of plates has water damage along one side. - Dave]
The gent at the back is, indeed wearing the miniature street signal (it has 4 arms to the signal so not a railway signal) on his head. Firstly, the only thing behind him is a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall, certainly nothing that the signal could be perched on. And, secondly, if it was sitting on something, it would not be sitting at the angle it is.
I'm wondering -- in today's world there is usually at least one person at an office party of that size who gets a little too inebriated and winds up making photocopies of their nether parts for distribution to all. Was there a way to do the same thing using a mimeograph machine or whatever other copying technology existed in 1925? Would the tipsy individual first have to draw their naughty bits on some special copy medium? Our grandparents sure had a lot of hardships to deal with.
If CBS could give us Rudolph, Shorpy can give us Western Electric.
just wandered in from the Sergei Eisenstein film that was shooting on the set next door. She's on a break between takes of the Odessa Steps sequence.
The mademoiselle standing in front of the woman wearing the Policeman's hat could have been Billy Wilder's inspiration for his casting Jack Lemmon in drag.
These people are denizens of another universe that, no matter how many photographs we study or books we read, we will never fully understand because we didn't live in it and never will.
These are people who knew how to navigate themselves in the distant world of 1925. All of these people were born at the beginning of the last century and were brought up by people from the 19th century.
If a modern young person were to be suddenly transported here without preparation he would find it completely disorienting and possibly quite frightening, because of so many technological and cultural and social differences between now and then.
My god, this is by far the ugliest group photo I've ever seen! Both girls and guys look like winners from the Walmart Ugly Photo Contest.
I'm pretty sure Mr. Semaphore head isn't actually wearing that thing on his head; it's behind him. What is alarming is the second head growing out of his chest. The heads seem to be in agreement to lurk.
With a bouffant, no less? Over there, on the scale!!
The gal with the candy cane, to our left of the much-ballyhooed oil can chick, seems to be presaging late '60s hairstyles.
And yes, the balding dude in the rear with the traffic semaphore on his head wins the covert group-photo clown award in spades.
I loved this picture.
But the lass in front of the desk, looking stage right, is memorable. I think I've seen this picture before.
Then I noticed the dates of the previous comments. 2208? Surely two years cannot have gone by so quickly.
[To say nothing of the 198 after that! - Dave]
So many hotties, so many dorks.
That's the most bedraggled Christmas tree I've ever seen. It has more tinsel than needles.
There are some SERIOUS sexual crosscurrents and hot vibes in this picture! Amazing!
Nor Joan Holloway, but this sure conjures up thoughts of Mad Men, 45 years earlier. I burst out laughing when my eyes scanned to the guy in the back with the stop and go-go item on his head! Maybe THAT is the flavor of the evening? More GO than STOP? This is the roaring 20s after all and these are certainly modern women..
Yes, this picture and your readers' comments may be my very favorites to date!
Shorpy is doing reruns for the holidays.
Merry Christmas.
This year, I think the Black Widow has pretty much just had it with that place.
Stink-Eye isn't looking at the Black Widow. She's disapproving of something messy on the front of the desk.


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This week brings lots to catch up on.
1) Midterm elections went down, and TIME has the data, the shockers, and the not-so-surprising facts.
2) The directors and stars of the hottest new films (McConaughey, Jolie, Rita Ora, and even Jon Stewart) give an inside scoop.
3) The worlds of art and architecture collided in this week's magazines, and here we've collected the most stunning examples.
4) It's November already, and Bonnie McCarthy of This American Home has all the best advice to kick off your holiday plans.
Happy Reading!
Next Issue Picks
My Nude Photos Were Stolen, and I'm Fighting Back
Actress Gabrielle Union was celebrating her wedding when she got the news that would change her life. Alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and many others, her private, naked photos had been stolen and posted on the internet.
Sorrow on the Mountain
How the shocking avalanche that killed 16 expedition workers unfolded on Mount Everest—changing life on the mountain forever.
All-Day Energy: It's Possible
Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year—and the most tiring, according to a poll of Dr. Oz The Good Life readers. But starting now, these tips will keep you fueled without sugar, constant coffee, or that 4 p.m. crash.
Midterm Elections: Mitch's Majority
There was a lot of talk about a crisis in the Republican Party after it failed to dislodge Barack Obama in 2012. But on Nov. 4, an electorate that believes the country is on the wrong track rebuked the notion of Democratic inevitability. What kind of mandate does that create?
Reader Picks | Bonnie McCarthy's Guide to Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, Any Way You Wish
Three feasts, three ways. In addition to menus and recipes, I loved the ideas for new holiday traditions (create a wine capsule!), elegant toasts, and mixing up cocktails. In a word: Inspiring. Don't miss the darling pie-shaped to-go boxes on page six.
25 Unexpected Things to Be Grateful for Right Now
Ready to get your grateful on? Oprah's got it covered. A couple of my personal faves: "It may be possible to lose weight while you sleep" and "Bushy eyebrows are in."
The Ultimate Guest Room
If guests are coming over the river and through the woods this Thanksgiving, this checklist may come in handy. Think motion sensor night-lights and Wi-Fi passwords on laminated note cards. In the same issue, don't miss DIY money saving solutions for fabulous floral centerpieces.
Etiquette: Giving & Thanking
Ben Schott's turkey day game plan covers everything from timing to dress code, etiquette, seating plans, playlists, and kitchen-cabinet policies. Advice includes, "No scented candles!" and "Keep jokes short and stories shorter. Listen and laugh." Tweet worthy.
Cover Stars
In Conversation with Jon Stewart
What do you do after 16 years turning The Daily Show into an American comic institution? If you're this comedian, you might spend a summer making a movie about torture.
Team Rita
Insta-famous, super authentic, and on the verge of her major U.S. music debut, British "it girl" Rita Ora has officially arrived.
Woman of the Year
Director, humanitarian, Oscar-winning actress, newlywed, mother of six, and now honorary Dame—how does Angelina Jolie do it? A chronicle covers her life from the set of next month's Unbroken to a refugee camp to couch-potato time.
10 Moments That Changed My Life by Matthew McConaughey
The Interstellar star on lucky breaks, past mistakes, and what he's learned from marriage and fatherhood.
Art & Architecture Unite
Great Heights
In an issue focused on sharing the inspiring homes of top collectors, this story shows off an airy Chicago duplex that's been splendidly updated with a trove of creations by artists from Picasso to Koons.
Artful Finnish
On a remote island in Finland, mega-collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz have established a breathtaking creative oasis. Take a look inside this family retreat-turned-art colony and sculpture park.
Art as Life
In the remote San Juan Islands, an artist and an architect collaborate on a minimalist hideaway dedicated to creative pursuits.
Peak Performance
In the hands of a Texas decorator, a centuries-old chalet in the Swiss Alps becomes the ultimate holiday retreat for her family—and a showcase for her eclectic collection of global finds.
Get Active & Get Outdoors
Walk This Way
An inn-to-inn trek along the California coast proves you don't need to rough it to enjoy a great autumn day hike. Plus, more hikes with rewards, from Scottsdale to Puget Sound.
Chasing the Chubasco
After a wave-starved summer, Hurricane Marie sent a barrage of swell toward Southern California, creating some of the biggest and best waves the coast has ever seen.
My Whistler
How can a place so sprawling and immense also be so intensely spiritual? Call it the Whistler dichotomy. Or, like one writer, call it home and you'll understand.
Know How: California Dreaming
In the Southern California city of Santa Barbara, narrow roads twist into the coastal mountains and promise sea-to-sky climbs with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.


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Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Network of France Won the Contract from Fiji to Tonga
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Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Network of France won the contract to lay a submarine fibre-optic cable system from Fiji to Tonga, which is expected to be in service by June 2013.
The contract was signed this by Robert Bolouri the Interim Managing Director of Tonga Cable Ltd and Michel Bouvard the Vice President Operations of Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Network, at the Tonga Communications Corporation office, Fasi. Tonga Cable Ltd. awarded the contract to Alcatel Lucent after evaluating the bidders, which included Huawei Marine Networks of China, NEC of Japan and TE Subcom of the United States.
Paula Ma'u, the Secretary for Communications and Information said, that the total project is worth US$34 million, and Alcatel won the bid by US$18.9 million. He said that the total allocation for the laying of the cable was US$26.2 million, and the remaining fund would be used to finance the setting up of a e-internet communication system for government ministries.
The US$34 million project is jointly funded, 20% by TCC and 80% by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Michel told Matangi Tonga that the laying of the 827-km submarine cable from Fiji to Tonga should be completed in 14 months. The construction of a landing station for the cable system is expected to be completed in August this year, in Sopu.
He said that work had started in Fiji with a survey to determine the cable route. The survey would also specify the type of cable they would need to manufacture for the project.
"Once we specify the type of cable, whether it is a deep water cable or a shallow water cable, we will start its production in France and airfreight it to Fiji. Our cable ship will be ready in Fiji to lay the cable. Because we are based in Noumea we will be able to carry out any maintenance that will be required on the Tonga cable," he said.
"The submarine fibre optic cable will connect Tonga to the Southern Cross Cable, which is the main trans-Pacific link between Australia and the United States. This link will significantly boost your internet connectivity and substantially increase the availability of broadband services and high speed internet access," he said.
"We are a very strong company in the Pacific and we are not new to the region because we have successfully laid quite a few submarine cables connecting Sydney and Hawaii and one from New Caledonia to Australia, and we are very keen to do a very good job for Tonga," said Michel
Robert Bolouri said that after nearly two and a half years of working on this project it had come to the critical point of signing the agreement. He said they were very happy that Alcatel-Lucent received the contract. "They provided substantial response to our requirements and they are familiar with this region.
"Alcatel has a ship in this area and their presence is helpful in the future. We are hoping in about 14 months or sooner, the cable would be operational and people will start to receive and use efficient and cheaper communications."
In January, it was made known that when the service comes into full operation it would have a total capacity of 320Gbits, which is 6,000 times more than the 50 to 55Mbits full capacity of the current satellite network that is currently available in Tonga.


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What is the Erasmus+ Generation Declaration?
A concrete set of proposals that reflect the Erasmus+ Generation's vision of the future Erasmus+ programme beyond 2020.
How is the Erasmus+ Generation Declaration being created?
The 34 Erasmus+ discussion leaders are drafting the declaration as you are reading this!
The discussion leaders, each representing one programme country and the international dimension of Erasmus+, moderated the online discussions and got feedback and ideas from the Erasmus+ Generation on the future of the programme beyond 2020. Now, during the drafting process, the discussion leaders will continue to consult the Erasmus+ Generation here on the Meeting Point.
Which topics will the Erasmus+ Generation Declaration address?
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Robin Roberts Breaks Down: 'I Didn't Know If I Could' Return To 'GMA'
It's been quite the emotional journey for 'Good Morning America' host Robin Roberts. On Thursday, Feb. 21, she sat down with the ladies of 'The View,' where she got choked up about the fears she had throughout her fight with cancer and MDS.
She already fought off breast cancer, so when Robin Roberts was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a disease of the blood and bone marrow, she put on a brave face and fought back. Just 174 days after her bone marrow transplant, she returned to Good Morning America, showing she was healthy. Sitting down with The View on Thursday Feb. 21, she revealed that she had fears about the possibility of not being able to return to her TV home.
Robin first took time to explain to the women of The View how she prepared to come back, and what her plans were. Whoopi Goldberg then asked the ABC host if there was ever a time she thought she may not be able to return to that chair she loves so much. This, is what moved Robin to tears.
After a pause, and a moment of closing her eyes and composing herself, she told Whoopi and the ladies, "I didn't know if I could come back."
She explained that she worked really hard, and began getting into the schedule of waking up before 4AM to get her body ready.
"Not that I wouldn't want to, but I didn't know if I could — if it was something that was going to be possible," she said of her return.
Luckily for us, it was possible and she's now back at the desk, where she belongs. She admits that she will be taking it slow, though. For example, she's interviewing Michelle Obama on Feb. 22, in the afternoon, then flying to Los Angeles to do Oscar coverage. So, to rest before her crazy weekend, she will not be on GMA tomorrow morning.
We are so happy to see Robin healthy and back on our TVs in the AM. Robin will be on ABC's 20/20 on Friday, Feb. 22 for a look inside her emotional journey — one that the network wanted to air before her return, but she asked they wait so she could show the world she was doing great.
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The Voice Recap: A Subdued Second Evening
Night two of blind auditions was far less intense than night one.
Welcome back, my musically inclined friends! We return like Pavlovian dogs for night two of The Voice's grueling blind audition process. In case you were wondering, this episode was far less intense than Monday's. There was no harrowing musical number, and the whole experience was only an hour long, which I feel is some kind of victory. It started with a brief montage explaining the understandably confusing point of The Voice and stark images of Carson Daly, chortling like a young Falstaff in a somber undertaker's jacket. Carson was in a satirical mood this evening.
This was followed by a commedia dell'arte–like scene in which Adam and Blake talked about hazing the new judges. Then, however, they did not haze the new judges. It is these types of dramatic jokes that keep me coming back — they really do.
Tanya Reynolds, "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
Tanya described herself as "country to the core." She was wearing cowboy boots and lived in Nashville, so we understood immediately that this was not just an empty threat. Such cultural signifiers usually mean that she will be a foregone conclusion of modern-day–Huey Long Blake Shelton's, but this was not to be. In fact, everyone turned around for Tanya, who sounds like a huskier Dolly Parton, except for Blake, who sat there solidly with his chair pointing to the wall. Shakira made quite a point of her country credentials, even saying at one point, "I reckon that you want to join team Shakira," and it worked! Tanya did pick Shakira, but she still seems depressed at the end, more depressed even than when she was while talking about the desultory hell of the Nashville music biz. Perhaps she missed Blake.
Josiah Hawley, "Sunday Morning"
Josiah usually works as a male model to pay the bills, and as such, is quite a good-looking man and had his shirt unbuttoned to his navel. He sang "Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5. He sang it slower and a fair bit lower than the original (Adam Levine happens to be quite an acrobatic vocalist). Adam turned around for the man (as did Blake and Usher), but he also said, "There were parts that were not working for me," in a very faint and negative tone and so it is hard to say why he turned around in the first place. Josiah ends up going with Usher, who slow-clapped and also danced to his own song in celebration. Usher is a fun guy.
Midas Whale, "Folsom Prison Blues"
Midas Whale is a duo from Idaho that sings sing folk music and wears elaborate suits. Do you get that Midas Whale is an allusion to the phrase "might as well?" How do you feel now that you know that? Before they auditioned, impish Carson Daly showed Midas Whale images of themselves on a very prominent Sprint tablet (where did he buy it?) and Midas Whale seemed vaguely bemused by this liberty. Eventually they sang Johnny Cash while accompanying themselves on an accordion and a guitar. I don't know, everyone; I just don't know. They gave a fine performance, although the harmony slightly overpowered the melody for my taste, but no one asked me. All four judges turn around and try to convince Midas Whale (might as well, do you get it?) to go with them. Midas Whale speaks a brief spate of Spanish to Shakira, but eventually goes with Adam. I guess we will be seeing a lot of these people.
Abraham McDonald, "Best Thing I Never Had"
Abraham may have won a karaoke contest on the Oprah Winfrey show, but in his Voice audition, he had some pitch and control problems, and no judges turned around for him. Abraham was incredibly gracious when this happened and said, "I think they give some great advice and not everyone's going to love what you do." Nice guy! Even Genial Wordsmith Carson Daly, surrounded by Abraham's many female relatives, told him that "all us ladies don't understand" why Abraham was not picked to be on the show. Oh, Carson. He should win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
On the commercial break, something amazing happens. It's revealed that Carson Daly is going to host the Today show for an entire week sometime soon, apparently while wearing a gigantic diamond earring. He is truly the Gloria Vanderbilt of network television. I am so excited I am going to die.
Cathia, "No Me Doy por Vencido"
Cathia is a 19-year-old from the Bronx. She sings a very difficult song in Spanish with a lot of melismas, and the judges really like it. Although she calls Usher "Ursher" at one point, she ends up going with Shakira, after Shakira maintains she can take Cathia global. I like Cathia! She might go far.
Sarah Simmons, "One of Us"
Who doesn't remember this song? It's a song redolent in modern meaning, because the only person God can call is the pope, maybe, in Rome. (Hello, Francis!) Sarah, sporting an odd ring that stretched all the way up her finger, did a great job and sounds a bit like if Adele and Courtney Love had a baby. All four judges turn around, but Sarah ends up going with Adam, as the last singer of the night usually does this.
One wonders, of course, what Cee Lo and Christina Aguilera were doing during this hour of their lives. Was Cee Lo buying non-domesticated foul for his smoking room? Was Christina Aguilera wearing a muumuu, drinking a high-ball, and reading The Secret? I'd certainly like to think so, but it is unknowable.


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Wed, 12 December 2012
We catch up wish Sylvie, Stephanie and Randy as they recover from the various ailments that kept us away from our microphones for so long. We start by talking about what we plugged in to while we were immobilised, and move on to some big news in Geekdom that we missed such as…
The Blu-Ray version of Season 1 and 2 of Star Trek The Next Generation, Sherlock BBC season 2 on Blu-Ray and Netflix, The Young Indiana Jones and why you should get your set NOW if you want one.
We go into the big shifts in the Science Fiction world recently, like Disney purchasing Lucasfilm (Star Wars, Indiana Jones). We take positive and negative sides of the issue and discuss good and bad points of one of the biggest franchises of all time being bought by the largest children entertainment company in history.
Other side-topics include: Geriatric Indiana Jones, errors in Star Wars past (including the 'Han Shot First' issue), ET, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I Dark Overlord, and much more…
Direct download: That_Geek_Podcast_Episode_6.mp3
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Sat, 8 December 2012
This broadcast is all about Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework. Sylvie and I delve as deeply as we can into the book, discuss some controversial parts, and answer many, many questions directly from readers. There are also a few serious behind the scene moments, and tales of scenes that were cut entirely. The best thing about this episode? You guys. This e
pisode exists because there was a serious demand for it, and you gave us some fantastic questions. So many, in fact, that we'll do another Q&A about Broadcast 7 if we get a few more.
MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't read Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework, then you're going to want to skip this episode entirely. We take the gloves off and get right into the details.
Thank you for supporting this book, and for listening to Crewcast Radio. We're having so much fun, and there's so much more to come!
Direct download: Spinward_Fringe_Podcast_Broadcast_24.mp3
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Wed, 5 December 2012
In this mini-episode, I talk about the hiatus we've taken, when we're coming back and what we'll be doing when we do. I also play some Bif Naked and almost get into a religious argument with myself about the Holidays.
Want to know what happened to us and the plan for the near future? Here it is!
Thank you for listening!
Direct download: Crecast_Radio_Network_Update_2012.mp3
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Sun, 18 November 2012
In this special episode of the Spinward Fringe Podcast, I announce the release date of Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework (that's November 21, 2012), and a SPECIAL SURPRISE for everyone who takes the time to listen. I talk about what this book means to me and thank the people who made it what it is, as well as the folks who have supported me for so long.
You'll also find the details on where you can get the book, what formats it's available in, and info on the collected Rogue Element Trilogy in print.
Thank you so much for your support over the years, and I hope you enjoy listening as well as reading.
Direct download: Broadcast_7_Release_Podcast.mp3
Category:Crewcast Radio: Spinward Fringe Shows -- posted at: 4:34pm EDT
Wed, 14 November 2012
Stephanie, Sylvie and Randy talk about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). We go into what it is, what it's like to write 50,000 words in a month, what it takes, and, since all three of us are veterans of the event, we impart some helpful advice.
For a basic tour of NaNoWrimo, the events, where to go to sign up, and a few interesting insights into a writer's brain, this is a great episode.
So far, Sylvie is behind in her word count, and Randy is joining the "Oh Shit Brigade" off with a bang by joining NaNoWriMo on the 15th of November, half way in to the event. That's a promise to writer 50,000 words in the second half of the month. We'll get an update on his progress next episode!
Thank you for listening!
Direct download: That_Geek_Podcast_Episode_5.mp3
Category:That Geek Podcast -- posted at: 12:00am EDT
Sat, 27 October 2012
This is the good stuff! Things start off with a Broadcast 7 update Sylvie and I (Randolph Lalonde), talk about finishing Broadcast 7 and some of the notes that typically get passed between a writer and their editor near the end of a project.
We also discuss some of Jacob Valance's journey from Broadcast 1 to Broadcast 7 (without spoiling anything in Broadcast 7). We shed a little light on which characters are largely focused on in this book, and discuss some of the benefits of writing a series, as well as final polishing required to finish Broadcast 7 off.
We take a moment to answer the question; "Do I need to read the Expendable Few to know what's going on in Broadcast 7?" and we continue on to talk about the language and style in that book.
The topic of the discarded draft of Broadcast 7 comes up right before we talk about National Novel Writing Month a little. There are a few nuggets in here, and some insider peeks at what writing this book was like.
Thank you so much for listening, the new season of The Spinward Fringe Podcast will begin as soon as the release date for Broadcst 7 can be announced, so keep an eye on this feed!
Direct download: Spinward_Fringe_Podcast_22_REDO.mp3
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Tue, 23 October 2012
We go around the table multiple times, throwing different horror movies at each other so they can be discussed, poked fun at and examined. A bunch of funny stories about our experiences with horror movies are shared, and we have a fast paced, enjoyable discussion.
If you're looking for a plethora of recommendations for horror movies, or just to hear about some of your favourite flicks, then this is the episode.
Some flicks we talk about: Final Destination, Halloween, Shaun of the Dead, Night Of The Living Dead (WATCH IT HERE FREE! LEGALLY!), Saw, The Human Centipede, and many, many others!
A good time was had by all, even if we were a little dizzy after going around the table so many times.
Direct download: That_Geek_Podcast_Episode_4.mp3
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Fri, 19 October 2012
In this, the last solo episode of the first season of the Spinward Fringe Podcast, I take you through updates on Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework, the Spinward Fringe Role Playing Game, The Sons Of Brightwill, future Spinward Fringe Broadcasts, what I think about starting a completely different series of books in another genre, re-edits and so much more! I also talk about seeking an agent, and getting a TV show on the air.
Thank you for listening!
Links to things I mentioned: Horns, by Joe Hill. and Old Man's War and Redshirts by John Scalzi. The Facebook Page, and The Spinward Fringe Group on Goodreads.
Direct download: Spinward_Fringe_Podcast_Broadcast_21.mp3
Category:Crewcast Radio: Spinward Fringe Shows -- posted at: 10:25pm EDT
Wed, 17 October 2012
Sylvie, Stephanie and Randy merrily bounce through our planned topics with a broken track counter that keeps telling Randy they're over an hour into recording. They start off talking about the shows they're NOT watching, asking questions like:
Are the Networks watching YOU?
How do you find your favourite shows without cable - LEGALLY?
Is Once Upon A Time better than LOST?
Is TV successfully making the transition to the INTERNET?
They eventually dig into the topic of comic book heroes on TV, in the movies and spend equal time on the ones that did well, and the ones that didn't. That leads to a review of the new Spider-Man movie, some nerd rage and coverage of many more flicks leading to to Iron Man, where many things changed.
With Stephanie nearly delerious from sleep deprivation but bolstered on tea, this gets interesting, even a little ranty!
Our theme tune this week is Pinball Spring, provided by Kevin MacLeod, of incompetech.com. We're thankful for his genius!
Spread the word if you like what you hear, geeks are much more fun when they share!
Thank you for listening!
Direct download: That_Geek_Podcast_Episode_3.mp3
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Sat, 13 October 2012
Sylvie and I dig into the nitty gritty of our work on The Expendable Few and Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework after I provide a fairly significant update on the progress. There's still no release date, but we're closer.
Next we get into questions from email and from the Facebook Page, where I answer questions about Alice, her role in Broadcast 7, and Sylvie answers questions about her own writing. There's new stuff you've never heard before in this episode, and the Spinward Fringe community played a big part in determining what content ended up in this broadcast.
This week we play Dragonfly by Universal Hall Pass, please check them out if you like what you hear.
Other links from this Broadcast include: Neil Gaiman's post about Entitlement Issues post, Iron Sky, the official Spinward Fringe Facebook Page, and the Goodreads Forum.
Thank you for listening!
Direct download: Spinward_Fringe_Podcast_Broadcast_20.mp3
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Marching On — A General's Tales of War and Diplomacy, By Gordon Sumner, Jr., USA (Ret)
(Red Anvil Press, 2004; 150 pp., $19.95 — ISBN 1932762205).
This book is such a good read that I had trouble putting it down. Lt. Gen. Gordon Sumner has written a fascinating series of vignettes of his life in the Army in three wars, starting in World War II.
Sumner spices his book with stories about the real heroes he admired and the phony "heroes" who admired themselves. He speaks with great admiration of Gen. Abrams, former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, and of General MacArthur. (A whole chapter is devoted to MacArthur.) But he is kind to the phonies: he lets them off with less condemnation than they deserve.
Along the way, he uses plain language that any veteran will appreciate, but not every journal will print.
Sumner points out that, as Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, he realized the critical importance of the Panama Canal. His superiors asked him to speak in favor of giving away our Canal. Heavy support for the giveaway would have been provided by such testimony from the Chairman, Inter-American Defense Board. He was offered a fourth star if he would testify for the giveaway. Sumner declined the bribe, testified against the giveaway, and retired from the Army.
Every book has some errors; this book is no exception, but the only error I could find is the statement that "the Democratic Senators who voted for the (Panama Canal giveaway) treaties were all voted out of office in the next election." That's not literally true, but it can be called "true in spirit": of the Senators running for re-election, a majority of those who supported the giveaway were defeated in 1978 and again in 1980, while no Senator who was steadfast for holding the Canal was defeated in either year.
Don't miss this book.


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A deposit of £30.00 per room per night is required to confirm your booking and is payable by either bank transfer (bank account details will be provided at the time of booking) or by making payment over the phone with a debit/credit card. All major credit cards are accepted, including American Express.
Bookings made within one week of arrival are to be paid for in full at the time of booking.
Unless alternative arrangements have been agreed, rooms are available for check-in between 2pm and 6pm on the day of arrival.
We ask guests to vacate their rooms by 11am on their day of departure.
Our award-winning breakfasts are served between 8.30am and 9.30am. An earlier or later breakfast time is available on request.
Bank Holidays
There is a minimum two-night stay on a Bank Holiday weekend.
Christmas and New Year
While Victoria House is open throughout the Christmas and New Year period, rooms must be booked from either 24th December (for a minimum of two nights) or 26th December (for a minimum of one night). Continental breakfasts only will be served on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
To ensure the comfort of all guests, Victoria House is non-smoking throughout the property. A surcharge will be applied for any additional cleaning costs incurred as a result of guests smoking in their room.
Cancellation Policy
In the event of cancellation, our refund policy is as follows;
- more than 28 days prior to the date of your stay, your deposit is fully refundable, subject to a £10 charge to cover administrative costs.
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- 14 days or less prior to the date of your stay, your deposit is non-refundable.
Cancellations made on the day of arrival, or early departures, must be paid for in full.


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All upcoming winter and Christmas Quest will be written here, so bookmark this page if you want :D.
[1] Place an ice decoration
Rewards: 50 XP and 150 Coins
[2] Hatch an Ice Hybrid!
This auto completed for me
Rewards: 50 XP and 50 Food
[3] Harvest a Lucky Lettuce or Mountmelons.
Rewards: 50 XP and 50 Food
[4] Hatch a Mythic Ice Hybrid!
This auto completed for me
Rewards: 50 XP and 250 Food
[5] Collect from Ice Habitats three times!
Rewards: 50 XP and 50 Food
[6] Have an adult Merry Monster.
Reward: 50 XP and 10 Diamonds
This auto completed for me
[7] Place three Snowflake Decorations!
The snowflakes cost 26,000 coins
Rewards: 50 XP and 15 Diamonds
Bonus social quest appears at this point
Winter Wonderland: Social
Spread the news of your Winter Wonderland! Visit 7 Neighbours!
Reward: I think it was 50xp and 100snacks
[1] Unlock the Winter Shop Early! Harvest Royal Radishes or Plumpkins!
Rewards: 50 XP and 50 Food
[2] Get early access to the WinterShop! Hatch one of Becky's Monsters!
The monsters are: Shadefin, zephyr, bayou, Voltleaf or Dimspike
Rewards: 50 XP and 50 Food
[3] Get access to the Winter Shop! Place a Monster Inn!
The Monster Inn cost 350,000 coins (decorations)
Rewards: 50 XP and 50 Food
[4] Access Winter items early! Collect from 12 Habitats!
Rewards: 50 XP and 80 Food
[5] One more step to unlock the Winter Shop! Hatch a Mythic Limited Monster!
The list of mythic monsters is snowstorm, merry, harvest or gratitude
Reward: 50 XP and 80 Food
(Thx to Tommy)
[1] Harvest Baby Banans or Egg-Plants 5 times.
Rewards:? XP and ? Coins
[2] Place a Snowy Sleigh decoration.
Rewards:50 XP and 200 Coins
[3] Hatch a mythic monster (simply hatch mythic fire).
Rewards:50 XP and 200 Coins
[4] Collect from 8 Habitats.
Rewards:50 XP and 200 Food
[5] Have a Level 10 Christmas Monster.
Rewards:50 XP and 240 Coins
[6] Hatch a Mythic Limited Monster.
Rewards:50 XP and 100 Coins
(Thanks to Elocina)
[1] Hatch a Gift Monster!
Rewards: 50 XP and 100 Food
[2] Harvest Nimbus Grapes or Golden Guavas 3 times
Rewards: 50 XP and 100 Coins
[3] Place 3 Holiday Decorations (take 3 Socks per 100 coins)
Rewards: ??
[4] Hatch a Mythic Monster (Use fire)
Rewards: 50 XP and 100 Food
[5] Collect from a Surprise Habitat (You don´t have to wait, you can collect everytime from the new Habitat)
Rewards: ??
[6] Evolve your Gift Monster to one of its Adult Forms
Rewards: 50 XP and 150 Food
[Bonus] The New Gift
Get the NEW Adult form of the Gift Monster!
Rewards: 50 XP and 150 Food
The quest depends on which habitat you bought before.
Thanks to Nozomi and BesoConchita
You need to do the quest in order to get decoration rewards :D. All quest rewards are 150 food and 50 XP.
Unlock Plant Presents, Monster Mistletoe, and SnowPlant.
[1] Harvest Bluff Broccoli or Toadshrooms 5 times
[2] Harvest Baby Bananas or Egg Plants 3 times
[3] Harvest Plumpkins or Royal Radishes
Unlock Earth Presents, Earth Cookies, and SnowEarth
[1] Place two earth Decos
[2] Hatch an Earth Hybrid
[3] Collect from Earth Habitat 5 times
Unlock Fire Presents, Fire Pointsettias, and SnowFire
[1] Hatch a Mythic Fire Hybrid
[2] Harvest 3 'red' crops (Toadshrooms worked)
[3] Place 2 Fire decorations
The 3 decorations for The Gift Monster quest… are socks the ONLY decoration that counts? It would really help if it showed you getting credit within the quest, such as 1/3 decorations. I mean that's really pretty basic to a quest interface.
I had all the socks before this quest came available. Now it will not give me credit for having them, and they can no longer be purchased. Can anyone help? It is still a quest.
I just bought two fire poinsettias and it cleared the task for me.
I know this is a stupid question but here goes: I evolved my gift monster to it's old adult form. It asked if I wanted to try for the new form for five diamonds. I paid the five diamonds and now have a gigantic gift box monster in his box. How do evolve him further? go to level 10? Obviously he's an 8 right now. Also any tips on getting the Origin? thank you
Are the snow flake decorations gone? I'm trying to find them to finish the quest, but they aren't there anymore! Anyone else having this issue. Or am I just too late?
Darn. Ok thanks!
Question, I picked fire Christmas habitat when u were able to pick one. Now that we can buy them I want to know is, when plant Christmas habitat is upgraded does it allow 5 monsters to live in it and a Max of 4000 coins too like fire or is it different? I don't want to buy diamonds to purchase plant Christmas habitat if it won't be worth my time when upgraded? Thank u for taking the time to read and respond to my question.
For the Earth Surprise Quest, are there specific "earth decos" it's referring to or just anything earth related?


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"I do not know, nor did I ever have anything in common with any of them, nothing except a knowledge of Greek, and the year of my life I spent in their company."
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"I had a feeling of déjà vu, when, the next afternoon, Julian and answer the door exactly as he had the first time, by opening it only a crack and looking through it warily, is if there were something wonderful in his office that needed guarding, something that he was careful not everyone should see."
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Reviewed By Michael N (KERRVILLE, TX) Reviewed for a 2012 Ford Focus —10/2/2012 3:57 PM
The custom auto cover arrived in 1 box and was very easy to install. The antenna, in the middle of the Ford Focus roof, also was a piece of cake, taking no more than 4 mins to upgrade with the extra pieces provided. The Ford Focus is very close to the ground, so passing the wind guide rope from one side to the other takes a bit of practice, other than that I am very please with the product. Now we will see how it holds up to the Texas heat. Thank you.


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Mukwonago, WI (PRWEB) November 13, 2012
Award-winning steakhouse Carnevino, already a popular restaurant destination in Las Vegas, was looking to make an immediate impression for diners at its newest location in Hong Kong. The goal was to create a high-end luxury steakhouse accented with details inspired from vintage racing motifs. To turn this vision into reality, Carnevino's designers utilized wire mesh from Banker Wire, giving the décor key metal finishes that fit perfectly with the race-inspired machine aesthetic.
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About me (aka MAG)
Hi, thanks for stopping by. Let's get the MAG thing out of the way… M.A.G. are my initials. I go by this handle because Mark Anthony Galluzzo takes way too long to type.
I trained at the prestigious NYU film school and have since been shooting films and videos in New York, L.A. and London for clients such as MTV, Lions Gate Films, HBO, Showtime, Saturday Night Live and the BBC.
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Geothermal Heat Pump System for New Student Housing Geothermal Project
From Open Energy Information
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|Project Title
|Geothermal Heat Pump System for New Student Housing
|Project Type / Topic 1
|Recovery Act – Geothermal Technologies Program: Ground Source Heat Pumps
|Project Type / Topic 2
|Topic Area 1: Technology Demonstration Projects
|Project Description
|The proposed geothermal heat pump system is estimated to reduce annual electricity usage by 400,000 kilowatt-hours and annual heating fuel usage by 12,000 MMBtu resulting in annual utility cost savings of approximately $135,000. The recurring utility cost savings will help the University offset the cost of retaining at least 2 to 4 of its facility management staff at a time of severe operational budget cuts. In addition, the system will reduce the new building's carbon footprint by approximately 1,600,000 lbs of CO2 per year. The project will also create 6-7 engineering jobs worth $650,000 and 16-38 construction jobs worth $1.5 million. The project will drive the need for specialized and skilled workers in the design and construction community and lead to investment in training and education of the local workforce.
|New York
|Install a geothermal heat pump system to provide heating and cooling to the planned 200,000 SF, multi-story, 500-bed new apartment-style student housing to be constructed at the University at Albany's Uptown campus. The proposed geothermal heat pump system will provide approximately 500-tons of cooling and 5,250,000 Btu/hr of heating. The project also includes ongoing maintenance, operations and continuous commissioning to optimize system performance and ensure that the system operates per original design intent such that estimated energy and cost savings are realized.
|Awardees (Company / Institution)
|University at Albany
|Awardee Website
|Partner 1
|Dormitory Authority of State of NY
|Partner 2
| NYS Energy Research and Development Authority
|Funding Opportunity Announcement
|DOE Funding Level (total award amount)
|Awardee Cost Share
|Total Project Cost
| $5,572,500.00
|Principal Investigator(s)
| Indumathi Lnu, University Energy Officer, University at Albany
|Targets / Milestones
| The project includes soil testing and test wells to assess geotechnical properties and thermal conductivity value and a financial analysis to evaluate the geothermal heat pump system against conventional HVAC systems using Life Cycle Costing Analysis. If the project is determined to be technically feasible and financially viable, geothermal heat pump system will be designed, engineered and installed using a design-bid-build process to provide heating and cooling for the new student housing. The system will be commissioned during the design and constructive phases and annually for a minimum for 3 years post-construction by an independent third party to ensure optimum performance. The system will be operated and maintained by the University. The University will collect and submit to DOE and other interested parties the system performance data for a minimum of 3 years post-construction. The University will actively disseminate project related information to the campus community and other external entities for a minimum for 1 year post-construction.
|Location of Project
| Albany, NY
|Large GHP system that will provide strong educational opportunity for students. Application has strong data gathering component.
|Funding Source
|American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
|EERE Geothermal Technologies Programs[1]


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Al Gore won an Oscar with a documentary that used bar graphs and pie charts to illustrate climate change and the fate of the Earth.
Six years after Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," a new film, "Chasing Ice," goes beyond the data and the diagrams to document the disappearance of the world's glaciers with time-lapse photography.
Nature photographer James Balog has been capturing the grandeur of glaciers and ice floes since 2007. He started the Extreme Ice Survey the same year, which is considered the most wide-ranging photographic study of glaciers.
What started as a video record of Balog and his team's Arctic excursions instead turned into "Chasing Ice," a chronicling of the effort to capture and consolidate time-lapse photos over months and years of vanishing polar landscapes.
The film is released in large U.S. cities on Friday with a national rollout later in November.
Balog came to the idea of illustrating the changing ice floes with time-lapse montages while shooting single images of glaciers for magazines like National Geographic.
"It was pretty evident to me that single frame could only take you a very little distance into telling the story of that ice. I started to get the idea that I would be coming back and repeating some of these camera positions in years to come," Balog told Reuters.
"And yet after I got done editing the film for the story ... I realized maybe time-lapse would be better than just revisiting these sites over and over again."
The composite images, which are made up of still photographs taken every hour or so over the course of months, show how much glaciers have shrunk. Balog and his crew were equally floored by the images they had captured.
"We were really stunned especially right in the beginning, but now, six years into this, we're still stunned when we see these pictures and see how the landscape has changed. It's bringing to life something that is otherwise invisible, otherwise really unimaginable," he said.
"Chasing Ice" won the audience award for best documentary at the 2012 SXSW festival, and the documentary cinematography award at the Sundance festival in January.
Although climate change was rarely mentioned in the recent U.S. presidential election campaign, the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy in the U.S. Northeast has placed the environment back in the headlines.
Balog and "Chasing Ice" director Jeff Orlowski both made it clear that their film was not intended as a political statement.
"That wasn't the goal. But based on the response to the film, based on how much people are resonating with it, we're really curious to see how far it can go to influence this issue," Orlowski said.
Balog argued that the climate change debate needs to rise above partisan lines.
"This is a universal issue that has profound implications for the health and wellbeing and safety of everyone on the planet. We can't avoid it, we have to deal with it."
Reporting by Lindsay Claiborn, editing by Jill Serjeant and Matthew Lewis


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Driving north on Highway 17 as you're leaving Sault Ste. Marie you immediately enter the most beautiful and rugged landscape in all of Ontario. The highway follows the contour of Lake Superior, snaking its way between the shoreline and the base of a weathered mountain range formed millions of years ago.
The North Shore sports dozens of incredible bayfronts, some so shallow you can walk hundreds of feet out before the water covers your head, some so deep a few feet from the shoreline that swimming is truly hazardous. Having stopped for a walk along a beach of fine white sand, you might travel another kilometer or two down the road and find instead a sea of smooth river stone, or a sheer cliff hundreds of feet high plunging directly into the water at its base.
Our store is located on Pancake Bay, named many years ago by fur traders who often made their last stop here before a final day of paddling to Sault St. Marie. It was on the shores of this bay that they used the last of their flour and sugar to make a meager meal of pancakes, knowing that fresher food and a well-deserved rest were only one more day away.
There are three stores at Pancake Bay: Agawa Indian Crafts, The Canadian Carver and The Campers' Store. They are open from the beginning of May until the end of October. Each season, tens-of-thousands of travellers stop in to visit. Some are old friends that we see year after year. Others are cross-country travellers or international visitors stopping in for the first time. Some people come for the ice cream, some for gas. The odd camper drops by for a complimenatry coffee and a little conversation.
Season: Our stores are open from the beginning of May until the end of October.
Hours: Our summer hours are a bit differnt than our spring/fall hours. As a general rule, we're open every day from 8am-9pm from June to the end of August, and every day from 8am-7pm in May, September and October.
Services Available: We have just about everything a person needs for camping, hiking, fishing, hunting, gift shopping, or driving. Our services/ammenities include a(n):
- Rest Area
- Hunting and Fishing Licence Office
- LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario)
- ATM Machine
- Full-Service Gas Station
- Propane Exchange Service
- Internet Service
- Complimentary Tea and Coffee
- Complimentary Air Service
- Firewood and Ice
- Gift Shops
- Smoked Fish
- Groceries
Gerry spends most winters visiting native craft co-operatives and individual craftspeople to ensure that the Agawa can offer a wide variety of high-quality aboriginal art and crafts. We stock genuine birch bark canoes, wolf and bear hides, and some incredible artwork. The Globe and Mail calls this store "a virtual treasure trove of gifts for the entire family." Visitors who have travelled the length and breadth of our country often declare that Agawa Crafts is unique among gift stores in Canada. (We think it is, too!)
If you can't find what you're looking for in the store, chances are we've got what you're after somewhere on the shelves in our warehouse. And if it's not there either, find Gerry and tell him about it! Don't be surprised if you're back the following spring to find five varieties of your item waiting for you under the counter in the office!
Next door to Agawa Indian Crafts, you'll find The Canadian Carver. Here's where we stock the shelves with Canadian-made wood carvings, woodcraft, paintings, lithographs and home décor for your cottage and home. There are waterfowl decoys that look so real we often catch children poking them to make them honk or quack! On the walls you'll find original pieces of artwork, candle holders, limited edition prints, and artwork cards. We have hand painted traditional drums and some breath-taking taxidermy. The Canadian Carver is truly a must-see!
Just across the parking lot from The Canadian Carver is the Campers' Store. It's the best place for miles to properly outfit a camper, hiker, kayaker, fisherman, hunter or plain old travel bum. June and Gerry make sure that you'll have plenty of flavours of ice cream to choose from, that the produce will be fresh, and that the firewood will be all bundled up and ready to burn. We also offer a nice selection of home decor and supplies for many of the local cottagers in the area, as well as a gift area. With real anitiques on the shelves, and rough sawn lumber shelving and counters, the Campers' Store is a fun mix of contemporary product, with an old general store feel.


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Lake Haven, Monte Hewett Homes' newest community in Milton, certainly has had a flurry of activity since the sales center opened in early October. Buyers continue to come to this prime location to guarantee their pre-sale spot and have the best choice of homesite.
Monte Hewett Homes will be building more than 25 new homes in this community, and construction on the first of these homes has already begun! Buyers will be able to choose from large lake, cul-de-sac, corner and wooded lots. Inside the homes, you'll find stunning, open living spaces, keeping rooms, home offices, mud and laundry rooms, private studies, high ceilings and even rocking chair front porches. Homebuyers may also choose to include a fourth and fifth car detached garage that is perfect for extra storage and vehicles.
Outside of their new home, residents will enjoy relaxing near the five acre lake complete with waterfall and surrounded by mature hardwoods.
Crabapple is one of the most highly sought-after North Fulton locations due to its convenience to Milton, Roswell and all of the local shops and restaurants in the Crabapple area. Children will also attend top schools including Summit Hill Elementary, Northwestern Middle and Milton High.
Hurry in today to reserve your spot! For more information, visit the Monte Hewett Homes website or call 678-460-0711.


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Student accused of shocking another student
Student accused of shocking another student
Police and school officials are looking into an incident in which a Carlisle High School student allegedly used a stun gun on a classmate.
The Des Moines Register reports the incident happened Friday afternoon when one student used a self-defense Taser on another student during the last period of the school day.
Carlisle Police Chief Jason Doll says officers were called to the school to examine the student who was shocked. Doll says the student was not seriously injured. No charges have been filed in the incident.
Superintendent Bryce Amos says school officials consider it a serious school violation and will be conducting further investigation. He says school sanctions could follow.
Officials did not identify the students involved.


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Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIV - Free Report) , or Aimco as the real estate investment trust (REIT) is popularly known, has recently completed its secondary offering of approximately 11.8 million shares, including the partial exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters. Citigroup Inc. (C - Free Report) acted as the sole book-running manager for the offering.
Aimco raised net proceeds of about $318 million from the equity offer. The company intends to utilize about $150 million of the proceeds to redeem all the outstanding shares of its 'Class T Cumulative Preferred Stock', $65 million for redeeming all outstanding shares of its 'Class V Cumulative Preferred Stock', and the balance for redeeming 'Class Y Cumulative Preferred Stock'.
Aimco expects the secondary offering to result in modest earnings dilution in the recent quarters until the full redemption of preferred stocks, following which funds from operations (FFO) is expected to rise steadily. Funds from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, are obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income.
Aimco currently expects FFO for second quarter 2012 in the range of 39 cents to 43 cents – down from its earlier guidance of 40 cents to 44 cents for the quarter. Adjusted FFO (AFFO) for fiscal 2012 is presently expected in the range of $1.24 to $1.34, compared to the earlier expectations of $1.21 to $1.31 per share.
The simultaneous issue of common shares and redemption of preferred stocks is anticipated to reduce the cost of capital and increase annual cash flow by approximately $16 million. The projected debt and preferred equity to EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization) ratio for fourth quarter 2012 on an annualized basis is currently expected to be 8.2x compared to the earlier projections of 8.7x, while EBITDA coverage of interest and preferred dividends is expected to be 2.15x (up from 2.0x).
One of the largest owners and operators of multifamily apartments in the U.S., Aimco has a diversified portfolio of conventional, affordable and student housing communities. The company has a strong portfolio of Class 'B' and Class 'C' properties primarily catering to the middle-income market.
We maintain our long-term 'Neutral' rating on Aimco, which currently has a Zacks #3 Rank that translates into a short-term 'Hold' rating.
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text: Building anything today—from a soda bottle to a digital transformation—starts with making a model. Alan Trefler, founder of Pegasystems, explains what changes are needed to do it well. The buzz words of contemporary business sometimes seem to demand that managers discard everything they know and start from scratch. Not so, says Alan Trefler, founder of software company Pegasystems. In this wide-ranging discussion with McKinsey's Barr Seitz, Alan explains what he sees as most important in executing a successful transformation: thinking "end to end"; realizing that change is a continuing process; and providing a "modeling environment" that makes it easier for the business side to work with IT to drive change and mitigate risk. Video Thinking differently about transforming the business One of the principles we think is most critical in transforming a business is the concept of end to end. You can't start something on the front end but drop it in the middle. You need to think about how you're going to tie together the execution of the transformation with the customer experience. The other way you need to go end to end is across the different channels so that something can start in one channel and be completed in another. Companies will fail in their transformations when their plans don't anticipate multichannel capabilities for any of their processes. Making change a core competency Everybody talks about agility these days and they're all trying to achieve it. But some of it feels a little desperate, in my opinion. Lots of companies are opening up offices in Silicon Valley because they took a look at what some of the business leaders were doing and said, "Boy, you know, we need to tap into that." But the reality is, if they can't bring that capability into the core way that they think about customer engagement, then those offices and that effort are, frankly, not going to work out. To make change a core competency, you first need to realize that change is not a one-time thing but is something that will have to continue. Great leaders say, "We don't expect that we're going to change and be done." Part of creating this kind of culture is understanding that change is not something delivered to you by a bunch of IT people. Change is something that really needs to be owned by the whole organization. And the business people need to be able to get their hands dirty, actually, and drive the change. Building a learning culture You need to get people who are committed to change and are prepared to rethink what they are doing. Then you need to put them into an environment where they can quickly model what they want to achieve and test those models in real-life situations—not write specs that go off to India to be coded and then appear late. This culture of change is less worried about specs and more worried about continuous improvement, rapid cycle times, and real-life experience. Creating a 'modeling environment' for business people If somebody is building pretty much anything today—a new soda bottle or a piece for a car—folks start by modeling it in a CAD-CAM1 1. Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing. system to define the shape and the structure. You can turn somebody who's not a scientist loose on one of those models and the computer software will make sure that whatever it is they model can really be produced. Now, with 3-D printing, you can go from idea to the creation of a model to the specialization of that model to actually building it. How does that compare to computer software? We still have people writing this stuff by hand, debating whether one computer language is better than another. We think this needs to be turned completely inside out. You need a modeling environment that's designed for business people to participate in, that can protect them from mistakes, that creates a sandbox in which they can work with more technical people but feel like they're actually in control of many of the key elements that they care about. That's how we see organizations building the technology base for agility into how they work. Building on strengths for a successful transformation The notion that during a transformation you have to put your business at risk or throw away what you're doing to renew your business may be true in some cases. On the other hand, those are the sorts of projects that we see disastrously fail. In the vast majority of cases, businesses should take the things they do well and find out how to build on them. We believe in this concept called wrap and renew, in which you take certain parts of your infrastructure as given and build aggressively on top of that, based on the desired customer experience. The way you evaluate your strengths has got to be a combination of empirical analysis based on observation of the customer base and a rigorous look at the competition. Being able to do that analysis with a high level of objectivity is completely central to doing the proper selection. Working with existing tech during a digital transformation Something that we see commonly in the industry is that an organization will have multiple back-end systems, and they want a coherent, unified way to engage the customer. It will take them years or maybe a decade to fold those back-end systems into their preferred one. What we recommend is you take the system you like the best and model key system elements—customer definitions, account definitions, transaction definitions—around the way that system works. Then you "teach" the other systems how to work with the main one through a model that is smart enough to know how to make the right process or data-transformation adjustments. Being able to regenerate the code anytime the model changes is what makes a model living and complete. What's interesting is that whereas years ago, model-driven technology really couldn't get you very far, today you can have systems where not a single line of code needs to be handwritten.


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The year 2013 has brought some changes to our group of talented puzzle crafters. Our friend, Olga, left Stave in January to spend more time with her young son and to pursue her love of language. Our talented Samara decided this was the perfect time in her life to explore the world and try some new things. She's been painting a mural for the local library, refurbishing vintage signs and now she's in the midst of creating a floor painting. Thankfully, she's still designing puzzles. You'll be seeing her latest challenge, You're in Luck, very soon, and she's currently working on a puzzle based on a favorite fairy tale. Most recently, Wanita has taken on the fun job of managing our local pottery studio. She's teaching classes and loving it!
Though Olga, Samara and Wanita were difficult to replace, we were lucky enough to find Sarah and Evie to join us in the shop. Sarah grew up in the area but headed west to pursue her education at the University of Colorado. After graduating and spending a few years there, she decided to move back east. Sarah is an avid crafter who particularly enjoys bookbinding. She lives in Hanover, NH., with her kitties Santo and Marco Polo, who is blind. Sarah tries to hear as much live music as possible, loves animals, travel, and sipping cocktails by the lakeside. As you may have guessed by the name of her cat, she has a great sense of humor.
Evie grew up in a neighboring town and after graduating from Keene State in nearby New Hampshire, decided to come back our way to begin her new life. When we first met Evie she shared several beautiful woodworking pieces as well as some amazing drawings and paintings. It was obvious to us early on that she was very talented and just what we were searching for. Evie enjoys the outdoors, spending time at her camp in Northern VT., swimming, gardening, and staying active.
I'm sure many of you remember Meg S. You may even have puzzles with her initials on the back of the clown. Meg started with Stave back in 2004 and over the years became known in the shop for her love of cutting custom photo collages. All those faces can present quite a challenge to the crafter! After the birth of her second son, Meg decided to spend more time at home with her boys. Fortunately she's been able to help us out during our busy times but we've always hoped there would come a day when she would be ready to come back to Stave full-time. That time has come! Meg is now working 3 days a week with plans to join us full-time when school starts in the fall. In her spare time, Meg enjoys gardening, fishing, knitting, and family time. We are thrilled with our new additions and know you will be, too!
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We have another Stave baby on the way! Jesse and her husband, Will, are looking forward to the birth of their first child in August. We can't wait to have another little boy to snuggle and spoil. Will is an avid hockey fan so we know the baby will probably be holding a hockey stick before he can even walk!
Until the next time,


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Where the heck is Andorra? Wasn't that the name of Darren's mother-in-law on Bewitched? Did Agnes Moorehead start her own country? Alright, we're showing our age and, yes, our geography is a bit weak. But what we do know is that dogs don't care where countries are or who's running them--they just want to go with you. And so that's why we've revamped and updated our International Pet-Friendly Hotel Listings section to include a lot more countries and lodgings. So now, if you do decide to hop over the pond with your pooch, or have even more daring travel ambitions, just pick a country and you'll be able to find an pet-friendly hotel immediately. And beyond simply finding lodging, we've also listed each country's pet regulations so you'll know what to expect and be better prepared when you get there.
In the coming months, we'll be providing more information about other aspects of traveling with your pet in foreign countries. It requires a lot of prep and planning but we think you'll find that it's totally worth the effort. For example, just imagine how amazing it will be for you to utter, "Sit, Stay, Heel" in Vietnamese and then watch as your dog tilts his head in puzzlement just like he does when you say it in English. Priceless! So grab your favorite animal, start spinning that globe, and plan your dream trip now.
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Why I talk about eating so damn much.
Confession: I am a very reluctant eating habit/nutrition coach.
I really don't naturally love the topic of nutrition—it doesn't get me fired up, and it took me a really long time to accept the role of nutrition in my personal fitness.
Like, a LONG time.
I was a very stubborn horse that had to be dragged to the water, and had to be dying of thirst before I would drink.
But, at a certain point (and I remember that pivotal moment—it's what I call my 'tiramisu epiphany,' and you can read about it here: The Tiramisu Epiphany), I realized that I could not make any weight loss/fat loss progress without making some dietary changes.
That doesn't mean it happened overnight!
My 'tiramisu epiphany' was in March of 2006. Which means that my personal journey to eating better and in a sustainable way (that causes me little life stress, but still gives me the health and results I desire) started over 10 years ago.
Did it take some time?
Was the time it took worth it?
There was no major diet overhaul; I simply surrendered the illusion that I could 'work off what I ate' and started to pay more attention to what, when, how, and how much I was eating a little bit more.
I made the changes I could tolerate slowly, and began a process of self-education that definitely accelerated once I started working with a personal trainer who provided me with better resources with which to help myself.
So I honestly don't LOVE the subject of nutrition like some people do (which is why they are diet experts with all those credentials behind their names!), but I understand how necessary balanced nutrition is, and the giant role it plays in how we feel, the energy we have, and in weight loss, fat loss, and overall athletic performance.
I don't love nutrition, BUT I do love my clients.
And I love to help others have less stress, more fitness success, and more confidence and independence in their own lives, so talking about nutrition, eating habits, and eating strategies has become a 'necessary evil' of sorts.
It's important for me to share what I've learned, through formal education as well as professional experience and personal practice, because it just might help a client, friend or reader like you to shorten the 'eating habit learning curve. '
Sharing this information might just help you or someone you know to stop depending on the next diet for the solution—from engaging in stressful, restrictive, all-or-nothing approaches, and to make the needed small changes in daily practices that will yield the results we're looking for.
And that's HUGE in my book.
After I surrendered the illusion that I could 'outrun my fork,' so to speak, I also had to learn and come to terms with the fact that my eating habits/patterns were shaped by: a) the messages I told myself, b) unconscious tendencies, c) compulsive behaviors, d) the urge to self-soothe.
Funny that NONE of those things has anything to do with macros or calories, right?
The biggest realization I've had about the subject of nutrition is this: Lasting results only come from conscious eating habit change, which can only happen when we first change how we THINK.
So really, when we talk about eating habits, we're really talking about thinking habits—our thought patterns and beliefs, aka: our mindset.
I talk so damn much about eating because I loathe people getting all hung up on the idea of the 'perfect diet' or that they NEED to go on another kind of diet, or, conversely the belief that they're helpless in creating lasting change in their own lives, that they're powerless over how they eat.
Why do I loathe diets?
Because diets breed helplessness and take away from ownership of our behaviors.
They put the solution outside of ourselves, in someone else's hands, when the real solution can only be found by doing the 'inside job' of changing how we think so we can change how we act.
So when I talk about eating, I'm really talking about thinking—about our attitudes about food, helpful or unhelpful beliefs about our selves.
I'm talking about improving awareness of our self-talk (e.g.: I always, I never, I just can't help myself, nothing works for me, I'm just an 'X' addict, I'm a stress-eater, I'm an emotional eater—any of these sound familiar to you??), so that we can change our truth, and therefore make it possible to choose differently and make more progress with our nutrition.
I talk about awareness and attitudes because they create the possibility for ownership—taking full responsibility for all our own food choices, the chance to be 'the captain of our own ship.'
Yes, we all come to the table, so to speak, with a certain set of genetics, a certain family food history, and whatever adult eating patterns we've developed so far.
But these pieces of the puzzle don't dictate our future—only our consistent choices do that. Only our consistent CHOICES. We are in charge of our choices, especially when we take the time and make the effort to become aware of our self-talk, food history and current patterns of behavior.
In the end, I talk about eating so damn much because it has such a huge impact on our lives, and I talk about mindset and mindfulness around eating because this is what dictates our relative success or limitations.
As Mahatma Gandhi said,
"Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny."
When we are mindful, we are fully in charge of our choices; we can choose to change our minds about ourselves and food, and that's when we can REALLY start changing and making those lasting, impactful nutrition choices.