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What I choose to bake on any given day usually depends on four things: how much time I have; which ingredients are already in my cupboard; what I'm in the mood to prepare; and, whether or not my family members are likely to show enthusiasm for the dish I'm contemplating. Even with those limiting factors in play, the inherent freedom of home baking and the creative liberties that it allows make up an enormous part of what I love about the whole process.
It's encouraging to know that just about anyone can combine a bunch of seemingly disparate ingredients and be rewarded with a tasty, and often impressive, result. Taking into account all of the customizing and occasionally fool-hardy recipe tweaking we chronic bakers tend to engage in, that's comforting knowledge, don't you think?
I suppose it's sort of like one's faithful acceptance that a car can be driven to its intended destination even if the windows have been tinted purple, the radio's been replaced by a waffle iron, and the interior's been reupholstered in pink crushed-velvet. Baking is similarly flexible, at least to a certain degree. Just remember, figuratively speaking, not to remove the car's engine and everything should be okay.
When the yen to bake strikes, I try to zero in on a recipe that satisfies that familiar quartet of requirements, yet still leaves room for interpretation. This coffee cake provides an uncomplicated case in point.
About this recipe . . .
Last weekend, with a grand total of about two hours available to me--start to finish--I assembled this yeasted coffee cake (or kuchen, for those of you who prefer to sprechen zie Deutsch!) without any stress or strain.
Adapted from The Grand Central Baking Book, by Piper Davis and Ellen Jackson (lots of good stuff in this beautiful book), the original formula called for three cups of red raspberries and cherries. I had neither of those in my fridge, but I did have a few handfuls of blackberries and blueberries that were almost overripe, so I subbed in a scant two cups of those. The recipe called for turbinado sugar; I didn't have that so I used coarse, moist Demarara sugar instead. (If neither of those happen to inhabit your pantry, just use our old stand-by, brown sugar). The instructions also called for active dry yeast, as most home-baking cookbooks tend to do, but I opted for instant yeast; though harder to find in stores, it's easier to use than active dry (no proofing needed) and, in my experience, more reliable overall.
This baby was thrown together without the aid of a mixer, all in about 20 minutes--no kidding. The dough rose in its baking pan for almost an hour, then it was topped with the berries, sparkly golden sugar, and finally it was drizzled with melted butter. When it emerged from the oven about 40 minutes later, looking like a dream, I knew the planets had aligned perfectly once again. I love it when the world works like that.
Blackberry and Blueberry Kuchen
(For a printable version of this recipe, click here!)
Lightly grease and flour a 9" x 13" baking pan, or use baking spray.
For the batter:
1 and 1/2 cups whole milk (I didn't have whole milk on hand, so I used 1 and 1/4 cups of 2% milk mixed with 1/4 cup of half-and-half)
1/2 cup of light brown sugar, packed
5 oz. unsalted butter (That's 1 stick plus 2 Tbsp.)
2 tsp. instant yeast (Or, 1 Tbsp. active dry yeast.)
3 large eggs, room temperature
3 and 1/2 cups All Purpose flour (Sifting not required, but I always fluff it with a whisk before measuring.)
1 and 1/2 tsp. salt (I used kosher salt.)
For the topping:
1 cup clean, ripe blackberries
1 cup clean, ripe blueberries
1/4 cup Demarara or Turbinado sugar (Regular light brown sugar, loosely packed, can be substituted.)
4 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
Vanilla Glaze:
1 cups confectioners' sugar (Helpful if it's sifted, but not critical. Good idea to have more than 1 cup on hand in case you want a thicker glaze.)
Heavy cream or half-and-half, at least 2 Tbsp. (Have more on hand so you can adjust the thickness of your glaze.)
1/2 to 1 tsp. vanilla extract (The more you add, the more beige your glaze will be.)
In a medium saucepan over a low flame, stir together the milk, brown sugar, and butter until just warm. (If you're using active dry yeast instead of instant yeast, proof it now by adding it into this mixture--once the pan is off the heat--and let it stand for about 10 minutes until it begins to look bubbly. If this mixture is above about 115 degrees when you add in active dry yeast, you might murder it, so be careful. Shoot for about 110 degrees.)
In a small bowl, whisk the eggs just to break them up.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and instant yeast. Pour the eggs and the milk mixture into this, stirring gently, just until combined.
Spread the batter into the prepared pan and cover it with plastic wrap.
Place the pan in a warm spot and let it rise for about 1 hour, until it's doubled. (Don't expect drama; the batter will be pretty flat to start with so even when doubled it won't look that much higher in the pan.)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Once the batter has risen, scatter the berries over the top evenly.
Sprinkle the Demarara/Turbinado sugar all over the top and drizzle the melted butter over that.
Bake uncovered on the middle rack for 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees; then decrease the oven temperature to 325 degrees and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes. The cake is done when it's lightly golden on top and darker golden near the sides.
While the coffee cake is baking, mix together all of the glaze ingredients in a small bowl, stirring until completely smooth.
Let the kuchen cool in its pan, on a rack, for five to ten minutes.
Then, invert it onto another rack or onto a sheet pan, then invert it again so it's right side up on the cooling rack.
Place the cake, on the rack, onto a sheet pan with sides, and drizzle the glaze all over the top with a spoon or whisk.
Really good when served warm, and definitely best when it's extremely fresh.


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Erik Meijer and Gilad Bracha: Dart, Monads, Continuations, and More
Since it's not linked in the video description, here's the link to the Hewitt Channel9 video.
Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI
I am really curious how Win8's UI will deal with pen input, or even better, pen+touch input.
C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith - Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 4 of 4Some background information for one of the slides: Difference between List and Set variance?
Using Microsoft Office on a Tablet PC touch screen
@Kryptos: He says in the video Asus eeepad (more specifically EP121)....Look out for the Fujitsu Q550 battery life double that of this one!
The Fujitsu Q550 uses N-Trig technology instead of Wacom for pen input though. For some people this might be a reason not to buy the Q550.
Using Microsoft Office on a Tablet PC touch screen
4 hours ago, wp7dev007 wrote
As to the demo, this is the ASUS Eee Slate 12" Tablet. I would wait for the Sandy Bridge version which should be coming out soon, but this one features about 4 hours battery life.
Do you have any sources that indicate a Sandy Bridge version will be coming out soon?
Never mind, found something on this page:
Asus tells us it hopes to see this slate's battery life increase with the transition to Sandy Bridge mobile processors, and it apparently has a battery upgrade in the works, too. Together, those changes could add up to roughly six hours of battery life in a future version of the slate, which would be a very helpful improvement.
C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel - Going Bananas
Nice lecture, but I do have a suggestion for Ralf. In approximately the first half of the lecture, I found a few transitions to the next slide or point quite fast. Adding a short pause of a second or so might give the viewer a little bit of room to breathe and process all the information.
Other than that, nice work and I'm looking forward to your next C9 lecture (whenever that may be).
E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer - Perspectives on C++
3 hours ago, staceyw wrote
I do think there is still more discussion to be had on the x= x + 1 problem Erik mentioned on Actor pattern. Do you solve it via convention, static rules, or some other way? Guess would need to list all the use cases and sticky points and toss spegetti at it.
From what I've understood is that Herb suggests that you design your API in such a way that it allows your users to express as much as possible in a single call or message. In the x=x+1 example, you don't want the user to first send a message to get x, compute the new value of x and then send the new value of x back to the actor. It's probably preferable to have the user use only one message in total to update x. You could think of an "IncrementX" message, or perhaps more generally, a "ModifyX" message which contains a lambda**.
(** Hmm... are C++0x lambdas serializable?)
Bart De Smet: MinLINQ - The Essence of LINQ
So I've watched the video and been pondering about something. Bart, you use Ana instead of Unit (or Return). As you explained in the video, you can define Unit in terms of Ana. So far's everything fine.
The thing I've been pondering about, can you always define Ana for each monad M?
Bart De Smet: MinLINQ - The Essence of LINQ
The problem is that operators are static in C# (Shared in VB), so you are pretty much forced to multiple overloads.
Here's something I found about generic operators written by Marc Gravell and Jon Skeet: http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/genericoperators.html
Bart De Smet: MinLINQ - The Essence of LINQ
Great way to start the year (currently half way through the video).
@Bart: I'm amazed by your simple IE->IO->Amb->IE roundtrip example. It is concise yet clear, demonstrating the importance of orthogonality.
Bart De Smet: LINQ to Z3
Currently watching the video and it's nice so far.
Also, when Bart used the word "aspect" in his explanation of what a monad is, I was reminded of the following paper: On the relation of aspects and monads.
Stephen Toub: Task-Based Asynchrony with Async
Nice video. The stuff about ActionBlock and dataflow programming reminded me of coroutines in Python.

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Rivalry games have a tendency to be consumed by things other than actual play on the field. With the battle going on in the stands -- and in the case of the Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas, in the front offices -- there is a tendency to lose focus on the task at hand.
That is not the case this weekend for Dynamo players and coaches. With their eyes firmly on the playoffs, the Dynamo are concerned with improving their position for the playoffs. Any collateral benefit or enjoyment that comes from beating their in-state rivals would be icing on the cake.
"The rivalry takes a back seat," said head coach Dominic Kinnear. "We want to beat them, and it'd be good to say, 'Yeah, we beat Dallas,' and things like that, but at this point of the season, you'd take three points over winning El Capitán, so to say."
Houston enters the weekend tied with the Philadelphia Union for the third and final automatic qualifying spot in the Eastern Conference and just two points out of first place. Needless to say, at this point, no game is more important than another.
"It's Dallas, and we have an in-state rivalry going, but right now we have a rivalry with every team we're playing, because we're trying to get points," said midfielder Brad Davis. "However, the fans are going to be into it and make the trip, and they're going to want us to beat Dallas, and there's no better time to do it."
Beating Dallas would be for more than just the fans. Despite it not being the most important thing at stake, there is a rivalry between the clubs.
Houston and Dallas have a competitive history on the field. The battles have usually been physical, and each club has enjoyed times on top of the rivalry. Houston has the biggest victory in the series, which came in the 2007 playoffs. The Dynamo rallied from a two-goal aggregate deficit in the second leg of that playoff series, scoring four goals in the final 75 minutes to eliminate Dallas 4-2 in extra time on their way to a second straight MLS cup.
Dallas has won El Capitán in two of the last three seasons -- though they did so without winning a game in the series in 2008 -- and is unbeaten in the clubs' last four competitive meetings. The teams also met twice in February, with Houston winning the preseason opener in Corpus Christi and Dallas taking the Disney Pro Soccer Classic on penalty kicks.
All that history and vigor will take a back seat this weekend, when Houston makes the roughly 270-mile trip north; where priority Number 1 is taking another step toward the playoffs.
"It's just another game," said captain Brian Ching. "They've had our number the past two years, and it's a big opportunity for us to get three on the road. Hopefully we come out and put them under pressure. They've played a lot of games ,and we know what that feels like, so the harder we can make the game on them, the better our chances."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Dynamoexaminer.


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We need a pitch video created for a new consumer electronic device which is related to entertainment. This video will be four minutes max in length and we are planning to use it as the main video for our crown funding campaign in Indiegogo. Only bid if you already have a portfolio which we can see. Bidders who bid without reading the project description will be ignored.
What we provide:
1. We provide a very rough sketch/script that can be used as a starting point. however we are also open for new ideas for the script.
2. We have 3D CAD models for the device which can be used in animations if needed.
3. Prototypes of the device which can be used in the video if needed. These prototypes are bit different from the CAD models above. CAD models represents the production models.
What you provide:
A 4 minute (max) video that will be used as the main pitch video in our crowd funded campaign. This work covers detailed scripting, story boarding, shooting, editing, animations, voice over, etc. Essentially we should be able to just take the resulting video file and use it in our campaign page.
We would like to get involved at each stage of the production process to give feedback. For example, you may first come up with a detailed story board to discuss it with us. Once we all agree, you can start the next step of the video production.
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Craig Casper, 48 - April 11, 2007
Craig K. Casper, 48, of Lexington, died Wednesday, April 4, 2007, from a car/train accident near Lexington.
Services were held on Saturday, April 7, at Grace Lutheran Church of Lexington with the Rev. Megan Morrow officiating. Burial was at the Greenwood Cemetery at Lexington.
Casper was born on Feb. 12, 1959, at Lexington to Nicholas and Bonnie (Darnall) Casper. He grew up in Lexington, graduating from Lexington High School in 1977.
He was united in marriage to Theresa "Terri" Snyder on May 26, 1985, at Lexington.
Casper began working for Precision Bearing while in high school and worked there until 1988. He then worked several places including Big "A" Auto Parts, J&S Oil, which he and his wife later bought and called Casper Oil, Walmart, Orscheln Farm and Home, GPLS, which changed to ELM, and was presently working at Electric Fixture & Supply Company at the time of his death.
He enjoyed attending his sons' activities and was a cubmaster for Pack No. 143 in Lexington. He fixed and worked on cars, even model cars, and worked at restoring his 1959 El Camino. He also enjoyed four-wheeling in the mountains, camping, playing cards and board games, playing catch with a football and shooting hoops with his boys as well as watching NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon, according to family members.
Casper was a member of Grace Lutheran Church.
He was preceded in death by: his grandparents; a father-in-law; six uncles and one aunt.
Survivors include: his wife, Terri Casper of Lexington; three sons—Curt, Eric and Blake, all at home in Lexington; his parents, Nick and Bonnie Casper of Lexington; a sister, Deb (Chuck) Jensen of Columbus; step-grandmother, Irene Darnall of Lexington; mother-in-law and father-in-law, Eilene Wehr-Rath and Hugh Rath of Kearney; brothers-in-law—Doug and Marian Wehr of Lexington and Dave and JoEllen Snyder of Loveland, CO; nine nieces and nephews, one great-niece and one grand-nephew; aunts, uncles and cousins.
Memorials are suggested to the family to be utilized as an education fund for his sons.
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PDN Video Pick: Making Beautiful, Dramatic Video Portraits
Posted by David Walker on Friday June 6, 2014 | PDN Video Picks
Posted by David Walker on Friday June 6, 2014 | PDN Video Picks
At several Washington, DC schools, kids are interacting with infants as part of an innovative anti-bullying program, and Washington Post multimedia producer Brad Horn recently visited Maury Elementary school to shoot a story about it. Instead of approaching it as "a standard news story" with bright TV lighting and talking head administrators, Horn combined intimate interviews of kids talking about their own experiences with bullying and rich, out-of-the-ordinary video portraits.
Horn, whose work and advice we featured in our article "Create Smooth Video Tracking Shots on the Fly (And On a Budget)," talked to PDN about some of the lighting and tracking techniques he used to create the Maury School video.
PDN: How did you do the tracking shots?
BH: I used a [Kessler] Pocket Jib.
PDN: Did you operate it yourself?
BH: As a one-man band, I did. But they're big and heavy. You have to be really strong and kind of crazy to do this by yourself. It took all my strength to move the jib around the school once I got it set up. I had to carry everything up three flights of stairs. Then there was set-up time, and I had no idea how to use it. I was having to watch YouTube videos right there in the classroom to figure it out.
PDN: You'd never used a jib? Why did you suddenly decide to use it for this job?
BH: I like to spice things up. I love portraiture. if I want to marry portraiture and video portraiture–video portraits can be kind of static. After a while, you want to try something new. A lot of people use sliders, but they're getting to be cliche–maybe not cliche, but they're so common. I wanted to try something a little different, something cutting edge, and get people to notice.
PDN: What tips do you have for making good video portraits?
BH: You want to get far away with a long lens, to shorten depth of field and blow out the background. Also, pull the subject away from the background. Lighting is key, though. A lot of people are trained to do TV-style lighting: three lights, with even light across the face. It makes people too brightly lit, and it's not cinematic, so I like to do Rembrandt-style lighting.
PDN: How do you achieve that?
BH: I use a Lowel Rifa-Lite eX88, which is pretty big. It's a softbox. Then I have an egg crate that goes over [the] top of it [to control light spill]. I just use one light, and light subjects from the side, so there's a dramatic fall-off of light across the subject's face. One side is noticeably darker.
PDN: The light and color have a rich, dark quality throughout the video in general. How did you get that?
BH: Mostly with the softbox. What took me probably too long to realize was not to mix daylight and tungsten. The tungsten lights are very warm. The trick is to use daylight-balanced bulbs. Then I mess around a lot with saturation: desaturating the dark colors, and saturating the light colors. I also increase the contrast. I'll mess around with color balance as well. A lot of people tend to warm things up, but sometimes I make things cooler. So [the look] is the interplay of a lot of things.
PDN: Were there any other challenges to making this video that aren't obvious from watching it?
BH: There was a whole sausage factory aspect to it. Bringing the Pocket Jib into the classroom, bringing a boy into a bathroom to film him. I had to explain a lot–that boy was bullied in the bathroom. The setting was important– but they're still like, "You're a grown man, bringing a kid into a bathroom." When you have a strong vision, you're going to get raised eyebrows. You just have to fight through it, and get to the heart of the story–in this case, the pain of being a kid.
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Posted by David Walker on Friday June 22, 2018 | PDN Video Picks
Celebrity portrait photographer Frank W. Ockenfels 3 offers a wealth of inspiration, tips and advice in this nine-minute video just released by The Hollywood Reporter. The video is the pilot episode of a series called Magic Hour, which will profile photographers, cinematographers, song writers, set designers and others—"anyone whose life passion is to create," says... More ›
Posted by Holly Hughes on Monday June 5, 2017 | PDN Video Picks, Photojournalism
In preparation for PDN's July issue on Ethics, we asked photojournalist Victor J. Blue to explain what he does and doesn't do to gain access, how he avoids conflicts of interest, his thoughts on fairness vs. neutrality, and the "Define the Relationship" talk he has with his subjects. More ›
Posted by David Walker on Thursday September 29, 2016 | Lighting, PDN Video Picks
Photographer Gerd Ludwig is a lighting master with TTL strobe lights. He uses them in unusual and unpredictable ways to direct the the viewer's eye through his photographs, convey a sense of place, and define his visual style. Yet his strobe lights are all but invisible, blending with available light sources. In this video, Ludwig... More ›


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Storage Visions - FusionIO shows off ioDrive II and ioFX
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | January 6, 2013 - 09:31 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: storage visions, fusionio, ces 2013, CES
At Storage Visions, we checked out new products from FusionIO, namely the ioDrive II and ioFX:
There was a demo running with a pair of ioFX units paired together:
The pair were driving a demo which was streaming 12 uncompressed HD streams, playing back simultaneously, and drawing a continuous 3GB/sec from the storage:
More important was the conversation I had which hinted at bootability coming to these drives soon (albeit only with UEFI due to the demands the FusionIO device driver places on the host system). Also of interest was that ioSphere, the front end manager for FusionIO products, now has a HTTP / web-based interface, meaning administrators can now manage and push firmware updates to dozens or hundreds of ioDrive's simultaneously.
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"Theater is not dead; it is the definition of alive. In these days when you can't even get a real person on the phone to place a complaint with the electric company, what a luxury to have living breathing humans in front of you, fervently believing in a lie in the hopes that you will believe too. Theater is a human necessity. Theater reminds us that we are all alive and that we are all here together. We believe that theater is a delicious treat, a taste of life—which, if you use the proper ingredients, tastes bittersweet, like the kind of chocolate that's actually good for you."
That statement is the manifesto of PinPuppets, a New York-based theater company co-founded by former Northamptonite Susannah Berard Dalton. Her witty, trenchant comedy The Importance of Doing Art was workshopped in the Valley and premiered last month off-off-Broadway with an all-Valley cast. I didn't catch the Big Apple incarnation because summer theater in Western Mass. is so abundant that it's unnecessary, even difficult, to get very far afield. But I often savored those words as I dined on the banquet of nutritious treats throughout the season just ended.
This summer I visited 14 theater companies and saw a majority of the nearly 70 plays and musicals they staged from early June through the end of August (with three troupes in the Berkshires continuing through this weekend) in venues ranging from upholstered auditoriums to experimental black boxes to star-spangled meadows. While some shows are already fading in memory, others persist in images of striking stagecraft, exciting scripts, moving performances and, for the three professional festivals closest to home, admiration of entire seasons.
Chester Theatre Company took a risk last year with a trilogy of connected plays. Building on the remarkable success of that experiment, this year artistic director Byam Stevens gambled on a quartet of literary adaptations and produced the company's most exhilarating season yet—beginning with pride@prejudice, my favorite comedy of the summer. Adapted from the Jane Austen novel of almost the same name by Daniel Elihu Kramer and performed by a versatile cast of five, it was at once a faithful story-theater rendering of the book and a cybernetic deconstruction that incorporated Internet-derived thinkbytes that actually deepened our experience of Austen's world.
Chester's season continued with a three-actor version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and a two-person rendering of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, both of them psychological thrillers that used their very economy to chilling effect, and climaxed with Wittenberg, a satirical prequel to Hamlet that was as profound as it was funny.
The Ko Festival of Performance, the Valley's most adventurous and unpredictable summer treat, molds every season around a unifying theme. This year artistic director Sabrina Hamilton chose "Secrets," exploring the intersection of "the desire to tell with the desire to hide." Three of the shows were solo turns detailing fantasies about secret aspirations or imagined personas; the youth in Ripple Effect, from the Springfield-based First Generation performance project, divulged home truths about identity, culture and nationality; and Stranger Things, from the Ghost Road Company of Los Angeles, contained a creepy and, for Ko, surprisingly straightforward narrative of betrayal and revenge in a geographically and emotionally isolated family.
There was theme implicit in the strong, varied season at New Century Theatre, the Valley's premier hot-weather stage, which began its third decade this year. All four of producing director Sam Rush's shows were family-centered stories. Painting Churches found an elderly couple confronting advancing age and their daughter dealing with her parents' denial; Dinner with Friends looked at a pair of marriages splintered by divorce; Distracted examined a family grappling with a child's attention deficit disorder in a quirky, fragmented, uniquely theatrical style that mirrored the disorder itself; and Superior Donuts gathered together a family of individual lost souls. PaintBox Theatre, New Century's young-audience adjunct, delivered a trio of mischievous takes on traditional tales that upended conventions and delighted kids and grownups alike.
Into the hills
Unlike those three festivals, whose seasons I devoured in total, I was only able to sample the menus at the Berkshire theatres, where I found a mixed plate of sweet and sour. To dispose quickly of the latter: One Slight Hitch, a new play by comic Lewis Black at Williamstown Theatre Festival, wasted a great premise with sitcom cliches; Best of Friends, at Barrington Stage Company, wasted an astonishing real-life story in TV-movie format; and Red-Hot Patriot wasted the irrepressible Tina Packer, Shakespeare & Company's founder, in a floundering impersonation of the irrepressible columnist Molly Ivins.
Of the Berkshires' drama and comedy offerings, respectively, I most admired the Berkshire Theatre Festival's world-premiere Dutch Masters (see below) and Shakespeare & Company's As You Like It, a giddy, inventive staging overlaid with depth and shadow. Two rumbustious frolics in S&Co's Rose Footprint tent theater—the Commedia dell'Arte Venetian Twins and EveryActor, a dizzy encapsulation of the Everyman morality play—were good for a whole season's worth of guffaws.
Barrington Stage bookended its summer with two yummy musicals: Guys and Dolls, the Runyonesque romp through a Times Square that never existed, and The Game, a smart, tuneful swirl of sexual intrigue and deception. BTF opened with Michael Weller's Moonchildren, a comically edgy portrait of the just-pre-Vietnam generation, and closes this weekend with Tennessee Williams' "serious comedy" Period of Adjustment, in which three dynamic tragi-comic performances—by Rebecca Brooksher, Paul Fitzgerald and C.J. Wilson—overcome the script's flaws.
A thematic thread running through a surprising number of plays was that most insidious and intransigent of American ills, race. Beginning, appropriately enough, with Race, by David Mamet, which played at Hartford's TheaterWorks early in the summer. The four-character drama revolving around an accusation of sexual harassment, while rather formulaic, dug through the layers of guilt, hypocrisy and rationalization that infect so many cross-race encounters.
For me, the high point of the season in the drama category came with Dutch Masters, a new play by Greg Keller at BTF. This high-pressure collision of race and class ripped away our culture's all-too-thin veneer of tolerance and featured what was, for me, the outstanding male performance of the summer: Amari Cheatom as a young black man torn apart by resentment, rage, yearning and grief. Compared with Dutch Masters' brutal truths, Best of Enemies, at Barrington Stage Company, was a feel-good snapshot of race relations, based on the amazing-but-true story of a desegregation drive co-led by an African-American activist and a Ku Klux Klansman. While I found it fascinating but thin, audiences appreciated it so much that it's being revived next month.
Race played a supporting role in two other shows this season. In New Century's Superior Donuts, the young man who comes to work at the rundown donut shop on Chicago's South Side is black, but his redeeming effect on the fed-up old white stoner who owns the place has more to do with the youngster's healing enthusiasm than with bridging a racial gulf. That odd-couple relationship was beautifully portrayed by Johnnie McQuarley and Rand Foerster.
The grumpy park ranger in Shiloh Rules, played by Susan Duncan, who tries to keep order among the women taking part in a Civil War battle re-enactment, has a few choice opinions about the Southerners' unreconstructed denial of the war's roots in slavery, as well as the Northerners' liberal condescension. That show, Pauline Productions' second performance in the rustic outdoors of Goshen's Three Sisters Sanctuary, was another sweet-and-tart highlight of the season.
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Arresting images of sets, lights and costumes also linger, adding to the summer's savor. In The Game, Jeff Croiter and Grant Yeager's lighting carved multiple locations out of Michael Anania's multipurpose set, which was magically both simple and sumptuous, and Jennifer Moeller's Baroque-era costumes were simply sumptuous. The set for Ghost Road Company's Stranger Things, made entirely of white-painted wooden pallets, framed the play's lethal tension in a bleak latticework. At Williamstown Theatre Festival, Thomas Lynch created Three Hotels on separate continents with a series of vast sliding walls.
A season's worth of eloquent sets and lighting effects transformed Chester Theatre Company's compact stage—from the bookcase maze in pride@prejudice to the thin light filtering through a ghostly wall of shutters in Turn of the Screw. At Shakespeare & Company, Kiki Smith's all-white, period-neutral wardrobe put a new spin on Romeo and Juliet, as did Arthur Oliver's lively Jazz Age outfits for As You Like It. And Daniel D. Rist painted show after show at New Century Theater with subtle, evocative lighting.
Theater is above all a communal event and an ensemble art. But individual performances can't help but leap out at the attentive spectator, and here are some of the ones that grabbed my attention—most of them, as it happens, by women:
Allison McLemore, as the governess who may or may not be going mad in The Turn of the Screw—a performance of such sustained power, passion and subtlety that it left me breathless. Kelly Curran as Rosalind's cousin and confidante Celia in As You Like It, pulling that sidekick character out of the shadows with a lively, smart performance that made me want to see her as Rosalind.
At the Ko Festival, Laurie McCants wrapping the poems of Emily Dickenson around memories of her literary mother; Martha Kemper winding the passion of Joan of Arc into an appreciation of a passionate teacher; and Kali Quinn spinning secret family histories into the fantasies of a rock wannabe. At New Century, Sara Whitcomb as a querulous but marbles-intact elder (and with a pitch-perfect Boston Brahmin accent) in Painting Churches, and Stephanie Carlson in a hilarious turn as a twitchy OCD paradigm.
Myra Lucretia Taylor, fiery and fearful as the mother of a homicidal dictator in Going to St. Ives at Barrington Stage. Su Hoyle, loose-limbed and goofy in Hampshire Shakespeare Festival's Taming of the Shrew and fiercely austere as a Confederate ghost in Shiloh Rules. Haerry Kim as several generations of Korean women (and men) in Face, her solo excavation of sexual slavery at the Berkshire Fringe. Starla Benford as the Nurse in Shakespeare & Company's Romeo and Juliet, who (before she left the show in mid-run) not only nailed the character's bawdy humor but rescued her from parody with a healthy dose of grit.
And finally but magnificently, two young men playing old men: Dan Morbyrne as King Lear in Serious Play's stripped-down adaptation of Shakespeare, bringing more subtlety, gut-level emotion and raw power to the role than many a grizzled elder; and Rylan Morsbach, reprising his astounding turn as a 100-year-old clown in Scaramouche Jones (see "The Standing O" in this issue's StageStruck).
People in the dark watching people in the light. Performers enacting a private reality while drawing their energy from the auditorium's collective breath. The mysterious compact between actors and audiences, a shared understanding that without each other we don't exist.
If music be the food of love, as someone once observed, the PinPuppeteers remind us that theater is food for the soul. This summer's box of chocolates was, for the most part, sweet, delicious and nourishing.


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When Frank Lutz Jr. and his fellow World War II veterans took part in an Honor Flight last week, not even a government shutdown was going to stop them from seeing their memorial.
"They took the barricades down and threw them up on the lawn," said Frank, an 86-year-old Navy veteran. "The park rangers just watched and didn't do a thing. I don't think they would have arrested us all in wheelchairs.
"That was our memorial, it didn't belong to them," he continued.
Frank, of Morris, was one of 91 veterans on the Oct. 2 Honor Flight Chicago that flew from Midway Airport to Washington, D.C. Frank served in the Navy from 1943-45, repairing submarines.
Honor Flight takes WWII veterans to see the World War II memorial that was built in 2004, CEO and co-founder Mary Pettinato said. Flights are done from April to October. The last trip this year is scheduled for Oct. 30.
"It's not for financial reasons," she said. "It's a chance to be honored with their fellow veterans."
When the memorial was constructed, most of the veterans were in their 80s and it is difficult for them to take such a big trip, Pettinato said. Honor Flight makes the trip easy and smooth for them. It includes their flight, a guardian for each veteran, wheelchairs, transportation, meals and entertainment. There also are doctors and nurses on the flight as a precaution.
While in D.C., they also visit other sites, all at no cost to them.
Frank's guardian on the flight was another veteran and his son-in-law, Charles Sparrow, who served in the Vietnam War.
On the first day of the government shut down, Oct. 1, an honor flight trip went through the barricades anyway and then Pettinato said they were told not to come Oct. 2.
The veterans took a vote to go anyway.
"They said, 'We stormed the beaches of Normandy, survived typhoons in the Pacific. Do you think we are going to not take a chance to see the memorial built for us?' They said, 'We will go no matter what, they can arrest us,' " Pettinato said.
When they got there, she said the park rangers honored their right to assembly and took the high road.
More than a week since the trip, Frank and his wife Beverly said they are still on cloud nine from the experience. Beverly did not attend, but has been living through Frank's stories.
And she is the reason her husband received the honor: Beverly read about another veteran who had taken the Honor Flight.
"He gave a beautiful description with a number and I thought I'm going to call for my husband," she said.
Frank left his house at 3 a.m. for Midway Airport and got back at about midnight.
"It was great, marvelous," he said. "It was just the best thing I've done."
When the veterans landed in D.C. and when they landed back home, they were greeted by military men and women and emergency responders saluting them.
"When we got off the plane, there were rows and rows of sailors in white uniforms and rows and rows of marines on the other side and air force, army and the coast guard," Frank said.
At the airports and the memorial, there were thousands of people thanking the veterans and shaking their hands. On the bus each veteran received a mail call, just like they did when they were in the service. The men and women received mail from government officials, sports teams and people from their hometowns. Included in Frank's were letters from Saratoga School students.
"It was so organized," Frank said. "They really took care of us veterans."


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|WA Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for February to April 2004, issued 15th January 2004
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The Bureau's seasonal rainfall outlook for late summer to mid-autumn shows no strong swings in the odds towards wetter or drier conditions in Western Australia. The chances of above average seasonal falls are generally close to a neutral 50%. This outlook is due to the fact that Pacific and Indian Ocean temperatures have a varying influence on Australian rainfall during summer and autumn.
For the February to April period in WA, the chances of above median rainfall are between 40 and 55% (see map). So with climate patterns like the current, about 5 seasons out of 10 are expected to be wetter than average over the State, with about 5 out of 10 being drier.
Outlook confidence is related to the influence of Pacific and Indian Ocean temperatures on seasonal rainfall. During the February to April period, history shows this influence to be moderately consistent through most of WA (see background information).
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December's value of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) was +10, a strong rise from the 3 recorded in November. The rise in the SOI was in part caused by below average air pressure over northern Australia associated with a strong onset to the monsoon. The approximate SOI for the 30 days ending 12th January was +2.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King Lady Tornado softball team dropped two games to the Lenoir-Rhyne University Bears on a very dreary Friday afternoon. The guests defeated King 4-3 and 4-2 to drop the Lady Tornado to 2-6 on the season. Octavia Lewis-Rand hit her first collegiate home run in game two while she and Christina Melcher led the team with two hits, each.
GAME ONE: Lenoir-Rhyne 4, King 3 (F/8)
The Bears and Lady Tornado went to extra innings after the hosts tied the game in the bottom of the sixth. Down 3-1 going into the bottom of the sixth, Christina Melcher (Orlando, Fla.) scored from second when Fallon Thomas (Bristol, Va./Virginia H.S.) hit a fly ball down the left field line and skipped beyond Brittany Corsen's reach.
Octavia Lewis-Rand (Columbus, Ga.) was brought in to pinch hit and for the second time off the bench this season the freshman delivered a base hit, a single to right center that tied the game 3-3.
In the top of the eighth, King put runners on first and second with the international tie break runner rule going into effect added to an intentional walk to Holie Jarman. After a weak ground out to Cassie Ringstaff at third moved runners the second and third, Katie Carpenter grounded deep in the 5-6 hole for an infield single and scored Elder from third to give the Bears a 4-3 lead.
King sent their 5-6-7 hitters up to the plate and had the tying run at third base with one out, but Fallon Thomas was pegged at the plate when LRU shortstop Chelsea Long fielded a grounder and sent in a perfect throw that led to the tag out at the plate.
Hannah Light (1-3) took the loss by allowing four runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five. Christina Melcher led the team going 2-for-3 and a pair of singles.
GAME TWO: Lenoir-Rhyne 4, King 2
The Bears took a 1-0 lead into the sixth inning before adding three more runs on a single by Katie Carpenter and a sacrifice fly by pinch hitter Ashley Oliver. They also capitalized on a wild pitch by King starter Morgan White (Suwanne, Ga.) that allowed the team's fourth and final run to score.
King had been held to just one hit coming into their final at bat but began to heat up with three hits to begin the inning before knocking out LRU starter Brandi Hole (3-1) out of the game. Octavia Lewis-Rand led the inning off with a towering home run over the left field wall to defuse the shutout and get King on the board. The homer was the freshman's first of her collegiate career and team's second of the season.
Freshman Jordan Johnson (Marion, N.C.) then singled into left field and advanced to second on a passed ball by Hole. Two batters later, junior Stephanie Rodriguez (Lake Mary, Fla.) roped a liner off of second baseman Ciera Cockerham's glove, allowing Johnson to score and half the Bears' lead.
Lenoir-Rhyne then went to the bullpen and brought out game one starter Maryann Hoskins to finish off the Lady Tornado. Hoskins struck out Melcher and Hannah Smith, both swinging, to end the game, 4-2.
With two losses to the preseason No. 28 team in NCAA Division II, King falls to 2-6 on the season. They will play the USC Aiken Pacers on Monday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in doubleheader action.


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The Augusta softball team won four of its final six games during a five-day stretch to close the regular season with a 12-8 record.
While that's not a bad record, coach Ray Aguirre was hoping for better.
The Orioles split with Clearwater, by beating the Indians 5-2 with Sidney Dey on the mound in the opener, then losing 3-2 in the nightcap.
"This is one of those times where you wish you knew how to get the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde out of them," Aguirre said. "We played like champions on Saturday, and we were just here [Monday].
"Person for person, they're one of the best teams I've ever had. They just don't know how to go out and destroy a team. They just won't do it," Aguirre added.
Augusta settled for a split at Rose Hill Saturday as part of a rainout makeup doubleheader. The Orioles won 8-0 with Dey on the mound and came up one run short in an 11-10 thriller in the nightcap.
In the season's final game, Clearwater scored a run in the second and fifth innings for a 2-0 lead. Kelsi Sears scored a run in the top of the sixth to pull Augusta within one. With two outs in the top of the seventh, Megan Burkett lined a clutch single to score Jenna Lynch for a 2-2 tie.
But in the bottom of the seventh, Clearwater got runners on second and third after an Oriole error, and got one final hit to drop right in front of right fielder Jacie Gorges in right field for a walk-off win.
In Game 1, Dey allowed just two hits and two walks while striking out three Indians in a complete-game win. Destiny Williams had a triple and a run for Augusta. Taylor Williams had an RBI?and a run. Kalie?Robinson was 3-for-4 and Katy Nordman had a double and an RBI.
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Spring Break: Alternatives to Beach Partying
By Danny Messinger | Published
College students hiking along the Atlantic coast, picking up litter, isn't an image that the words "spring break" typically conjure. But that's exactly what nearly 70 students from Michigan Technological University have volunteered to do.
Now in its fifth year, Michigan Tech's Alternative Spring Break program provides students an opportunity to experience an inexpensive, nontraditional break from the books. With both service and adventure trips offered, the program has seen a substantial increase in the number of participants in recent years, says Rachel Wussow, interim director of student activities.
This year, some students will canoe the challenging waters of the Buffalo National River, embark on an alpine skiing adventure in Utah and backpack the Smokey Mountains.
Other trips are designed for students who are interested in donating their spring break to a service project.
"We have one trip where students travel to Puerto Rico to help local community members," says Wussow. "The cool part is that our students stay at a university there, and then we offer to host Puerto Rican students here at Tech. We get a really one-of-a-kind chance to share with other students what makes Michigan Tech so great."
A trip to Florida's Everglades trails will provide other students a chance to help the environment.
"A group of students are going to the Everglades to work with exotic plants, perform clean-up on the trail system and remove debris from a sea-turtle nesting beach," says Wussow.
The trip also offers a chance for current students to network with Michigan Tech alumni. When Brenda Rudiger, director of alumni relations, heard about the trip, she recognized an opportunity to involve regional alumni.
"We'll be hosting a networking event, an outdoor picnic-style dinner on the beach for trip participants and alumni from Florida," says Rudiger. "It's the first time we've done something like this, and we're excited to see how it turns out."
The benefits of these alternative spring breaks are two-fold, says Wussow.
"The students really get to showcase their leadership skills," she says. "Participants come back as more effective volunteers—in our campus community, on next year's trips and in the future."
For additional information, please contact Rachel Wussow at 906-487-1963 or email@example.com.
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David Freese hits grand slam; Aramis Ramirez 2 HRs, 6 RBI
ST. LOUIS -- David Freese waited a long time for this curtain call. He was impressed with the patience of St. Louis' fans.
Freese hit a grand slam for his first homer of the season, and the Cardinals used a five-run first inning to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 on Friday night.
"That's the biggest thing about this, you want to join the fun," Freese said. "Fortunately enough, I haven't done squat this year and we've got a heck of a record."
The Brewers made it close on a pair of three-run homers by Aramis Ramirez off Jaime Garcia before losing for the 13th time in 15 games. The bottom four spots in the lineup were a combined 0 for 15.
"Nice to see Rammy get a couple," Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. "I think he's been swinging the ball really well and hasn't had much to show for it."
The Cardinals had five hits and a walk while batting around against Wily Peralta (3-4) in the first, but the right-hander was still in the game when Garcia (5-2) was chased with one out in the sixth. Milwaukee got one hit in 3 2/3 innings against three relievers, with Edward Mujica working the ninth for his 12th save in 12 chances.
"The bullpen did a great job, they picked me up basically," Garcia said. "I didn't do my job."
Ryan Braun reached on a leadoff single in the eighth, but was caught stealing for a double play after Trevor Rosenthal struck out Ramirez. Carlos Gomez then popped up a bunt to end the inning.
Freese entered with a .209 average, four RBIs and a .287 on-base percentage, struggling to find his stroke after starting the season on the 15-day disabled list with a back injury from chasing a foul ball in spring training. He batted .293 last year with 20 homers and 79 RBIs, the first time he played more than 100 games in the majors.
Freese didn't think failing to produce in his hometown made it any tougher, mentioning numerous helpful suggestions. He thought the best advice came from those who told him to just be himself and forget about his numbers.
"You hear the crowd when it went out, that shows how much they care about their team," Freese said. "It's cool to come out here every day. That curtain call was definitely probably more special than the home run."
Peralta said Freese hit a changeup that was supposed to be down and away but hung over the middle. The Brewers thought Peralta had some bad luck earlier in the inning.
"We hit three ground balls in the first inning, they're outs," Roenicke said. "They hit ground balls, they're hits, so you get a little frustrated.
"I don't want to say that's why he made the bad pitch to Freese, he just got one up and Freese did a nice job of hitting."
Matt Holliday had two hits and two RBIs for St. Louis, which has won 13 of 16 and leads the National League at 27-14. Allen Craig had three hits and a walk and leadoff man Matt Carpenter had three hits and scored twice.
Ramirez lined a pitch into left-field stands in the fourth for just his second hit in four starts, and cleared the wall in center in the sixth for his third homer of the season. It was his 26th career multihomer game and left him with 32 homers against the Cardinals, tied with Adam Dunn for second-most among active players.
The first inning has been by far the Brewers' best this season. They had outscored opponents 35-9, the most runs in the majors and fewest allowed.
Peralta appeared to have a good shot at escaping the inning down just a run when he struck out Jon Jay for the second out. Jay entered with a .440 career average against Milwaukee, and Freese had been in a season-long slump with just one extra-base hit and one RBI this month.
Freese then hammered a 1-1 pitch to straightaway center with a stroke reminiscent of the 2011 postseason when he was World Series and NL championship series MVP. Freese made a curtain call responding to a sellout crowd, but struck out his last two trips against Peralta.
Jay got an RBI single in his second trip to make it 6-0 in the third.
Garcia retired nine in a row on 28 pitches before Norichika Aoki slapped a single to open the fourth. Braun walked with one out and Ramirez cut the deficit in half, lining a 3-1 pitch into the left-field seats.
Garcia was charged with six runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings.
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Roenicke called his first team meeting of the year Thursday after getting outscored 10-2 in consecutive losses at Pittsburgh. ... Roenicke plans to rest Ramirez every third game or so for now while the veteran, who returned in early May from a left knee sprain that knocked him out a month, regains strength and form. "I don't think I can't say that in a week from now, I can leave him out there and not worry about. I know I'm not there," Roenicke said before the game.
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We're opening up the Gladstone August 19-31 to Volcano Theatre as they stage A Synonym for Love, that opera that travels (with the audience) throughout the hotel!
In order for the opera to move successfully, every single ticket sold will be specifically assigned to one of the three main characters in the show. Each audience member will follow that character for the entire performance, making, in effect, three audiences that weave through the hotel.
Since this opera is character-specific, we thought we'd get to know the cast a little more:
Emily Atkinson | Soprano
Emily Atkinson is an American singer based in London. She earned a degree in music education from the Crane School of Music in New York before studying singing at the Royal College of Music, London. Emily has been heard on BBC Radio 3's 'Early Music Show' as an oratorio soloist with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge and Florilegium and on 'In Tune' with her vocal quartet The 1607 Ensemble, with whom she has also appeared at several festivals throughout Europe.
She has sung solo roles in Handel's Messiah and La Resurrezione, Bach's Mass in B Minor, St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, and Haydn's Die Schöpfung and is a regular soloist with London's Sweelinck Ensemble for their Bach cantatas series. A highlight of working in London has been the opportunity to perform several recitals of baroque chamber music at the Handel House Museum, in the very room where the great composer once rehearsed.
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Cameron Herdt
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|Lake Country Lutheran
2012-13 Season (Freshman): Competed in six rounds...Averaged an 86.83...Shot a season-low 83 during the opening round of the Northern Athletics Conference Championships (Oct. 15)...Recorded an 84 during the first round of the Culver's Edgewood College Fall Classic (Aug. 31).
High School (Lake Country Lutheran): Was a Midwest Classic Conference and regional champion...Advanced to the WIAA State Tournament in golf his senior year...Named All-MCC three times in golf and Second Team twice in football...Averaged 39 his senior year...Earned varsity letters in football and golf.
Personal: Son of Mark and Lisa...Has one younger brother, Kyle.


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Criminals, beware: TNT has ordered a second season of its hit docu-drama "Cold Justice." The show, which ranks as one of basic cable's Top 5 new unscripted series of the year, follows former prosecutor Kelly Siegler and former crime scene investigator Yolanda McClary as they attempt to solve long-cold murder cases in small towns across America.
The show is produced by Wolf Films and Magical Elves. Dick Wolf ("Law & Order," "Chicago Fire"), Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz ("Top Chef," "Fashion Star") and Tom Thayer ("Hitchcock," "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee") are executive producers.


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With so many titles to choose from, Netflix Instant's library can be overwhelming. So we bring you this biweekly column as a tool to cut through the clutter by highlighting some now streaming titles that pair well with the latest theatrical releases.
Looking to The Grand Budapest Hotel, Veronica Mars and Grand Piano for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of crime-centered cinema, from madcap murder mysteries to female-fronted detective tales, and chilling psychological thrillers.
The Grand Budapest HotelWes Anderson's latest centers on the affable and antagonizing Gustave H, the consummate concierge of the titular hotel. When one of his former lovers dies under mysterious circumstances, Gustave calls on the help of his loyal lobby boy Zero to spirit away the inheritance she left him, and then clear his name. Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saorsie Ronan, Willem Dafoe and Jeff Goldblum star; Wes Anderson directs. Read our review here.
Who says murder mysteries need to be dramas? If you want a dash of suspense with a healthy helping of laughs, you'll love these three crime comedies.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) Inspired by the comedy noirs of Hollywood's Golden Age, this animated (in part) adventure pairs a cantankerous private eye with a cartoon rabbit named Roger, when the latter is suspected of murder and the former is hired to clear him. Combining live-action actors with colorful cartoon characters, this film is an astonishing feast for the eyes and imagination. Plus, it's still a hell of a lot of fun. Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd and Joanna Cassidy star. Charles Fleischer, Lou Hirsch, and Kathleen Turner lend their voices. Robert Zemeckis directs.
Charade (1963) For something more classically old school Hollywood, give this charming and unconventional romance a whirl. Audrey Hepburn stars as a widow whose husband's murder makes her a target for three treasure hunting scoundrels. When a dashing Cary Grant appears and offers to play hero, she's soon swooning. But should she trust him? Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy co-star; Stanley Donan directs.
Clue (1985) This is the movie all movies inspired by board games should aspire to be. You know the characters, Professor Plum, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard and Mr. Green. But can you figure out who killed Mr. Body? Played for laughs, this whodunit is stuffed with gags and boasts an incredibly funny cast. Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Martin Mull and Michael McKean star; Jonathan Lyn directs.


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How To Lose Friends & Alienate People (US - DVD R1)
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Starring: Simon Pegg
Released: 17th February 2009
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MGM Home Entertainment has announced How To Lose Friends & Alienate People which stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Megan Fox and Jeff Bridges. The comedy will be available to own from the 17th February, and should retail at around $27.98. The film itself will be presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include audio commentaries with director Robert Weide and star Simon Pegg, and a making of featurette.
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People follows the escapades of Sidney Young (Pegg), a small-time aspiring British celebrity journalist who is hired by an upscale magazine after catching the attention of Clayton Harding (Bridges) during an event by creating a ridiculous scene with the help of a wild pig. Turning in a new direction, Sidney begins his descent into success and re-establishes himself from lonely outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Fox), and enters into a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen (Dunst) that will either make him or break him.
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10 Science Fiction TV Spin-offs That Are Great in their Own Right
Soon enough, we're going to be watching spin-offs of The Vampire Diaries and Once Upon a Time, proving that too much of a good thing is never enough. Spin-offs often seem like pointless cash grabs — but there have been some fantastic exceptions. Here are 10 science fiction and fantasy spin-offs that actually rule.


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Ireland, Finland, and Egypt are the latest countries to "summon" Israeli ambassadors for discussions on Israeli settlement expansion plans. They join Brazil, Australia, Spain, France, Britain, Sweden, and Denmark.
I understand that, as a matter of protocol, an ambassador must show up when summoned. But is it okay for the ambassador to wear a bag over his head?
The Egyptian government told Israel's ambassador that the building of new housing units is inconsistent with the concept of land for peace. But Israel can build the 3,000 housing units in question and still have plenty of land left to offer if Palestinian representatives ever become genuinely interested in a meaningful peace.
To be sure, land that Israel plans to build on is seen as necessary if the Palestinians are to have a contiguous state. But "land for peace" doesn't necessarily mean a contiguous Palestinian state for peace. Nor did "land for peace" ever mean that the amount and whereabouts of the land in question would be fixed indefinitely, without regard to demographic developments and Palestinian behavior.
The dogs bark but the caravan goes on.


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Huawei set to leapfrog Ericsson ... if the sums add up
Estimated eight per cent revenue growth is half earlier prediction
Chinese telecoms kit maker Huawei could be set to leapfrog market leader Ericsson after it estimated 2012 revenue will jump eight per cent year-on-year to 220.2 billion yuan (£22.4bn).
The Shenzhen-based company released unaudited results yesterday in which it said it expected profits to surge 33 per cent from 2011 to reach 15.4 billion yuan (£1.6bn).
Interestingly, the majority (66 per cent) of its income today comes from outside of China. Region-by-region, EMEA accounted for 77.4 billion yuan (£7.9bn) this year, China for 73.6bn (£7.5bn), Asia-Pacific for 37.4 billion (£3.8bn), and the Americas contributed 31.8 billion yuan (£3.2bn), according to Huawei's estimates.
The firm's CFO Cathy Meng, daughter of reclusive founder Ren Zhengfei, said she expected revenue this year to grow by 10-12 per cent.
The figures are impressive given Huawei's well-publicised dressing down by US investigators last year, who branded it and Shenzhen neighbour a national security risk and urged potential customers in the country to source their kit from elsewhere.
The vendors have also been shut out from national broadband projects in Australia and India.
Although rivals Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks haven't yet released their year end results, momentum appears to be with Huawei.
An average of 17 analyst estimates by Bloomberg predicted that market leader Ericsson will report 2012 sales of 226.9 billion kroner (£21.9bn, $34.8 billion), which would see its Chinese rival take its place by revenue.
Although 70 per cent of Huawei's revenue in 2012 came from carrier sales, it has the advantage over its near rivals of a growing handset business and a burgeoning cloud computing biz which Meng believes will be "huge" area of opportunity in the next five years.
Ericsson, by contrast, recently pulled out of a mobile phone joint venture with Sony.
Nokia Siemens Networks, meanwhile, said it had a record quarter of profitability in Q3, but with revenue standing at €3.5bn (£2.9bn) and previous quarters of €3.1bn (£2.6bn) and €2.9bn (£2.4bn), it is likely to remain a distant third in the telecoms equipment market.
Doubts remain, however, about Huawei's estimates for 2012 and 2013, given that its widely reported prediction for last year back in April was revenue growth of 15-20 per cent – a far cry from the eight per cent estimated now.
The firm's enterprise business – which grew 25 per cent in 2012 – also fell well short of the stellar 57 per cent growth predicted by an exec last year, according to Wall Street Journal.
To be fair to Huawei, CFO Meng apparently admitted at a Beijing press conference on Monday that certain execs were not able to get their annual bonus due to such failings.
That conference was the first of its kind by Huawei and shows the firm is trying to be more transparent in its dealings.
However, many will probably take with a pinch of salt any similar bold financial predictions for 2013, and wait until the firm's KPMG-audited 2012 report in April before deciding how well it did last year. ®


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Faith in Our Future
I recently had a significant birthday, one of those that as a young person I never imagined having. Of course like everyone else I always wanted to live a long life; I just didn't know how it would feel along the way. It reminds me of the old saying "if I knew I was going to live so long I might have taken better care of myself". As I am now finding, it's never too late.
It's always a good idea to have a health check-up and personal check-in around such an event. A doctor's visit soon had me meeting with a physical therapist where I learned that some of my severe neck/body pain came from something as simple as how I hold myself. I learned I need to hold my neck and shoulders straight, which I find easier said than done. I remember and then I forget, remember and then forget again. It's so easy to slump in front of the computer or TV, or lead with my head during those long walks that I intend to have more of. Over the years, lazy posture can become a bad habit that has long term consequences. So my doctor's orders were simple and clear: "Stand up straight, eat better and move more".
It occurs to me that this might be a metaphor for our community and country as well. Bad habits of indulgence over generations, a lazy posture of blaming others for our situation, and short term profit making as if time would never catch up with us have all contributed to the situation we find ourselves in today. And just like my personal health, there are no magic bullets to bring immediate relief.
So, what does "standing up straight, eating better and moving more" look like in today's world?
For government at all levels, it means living within its resources – not promising the public a silver bullet that can give us greater benefits for less sacrifice and involvement. It took the wisdom and courage of our forefathers to create and protect the living democracy we have enjoyed through the years. It will take courage and hard work by all of us to sustain our democracy over time.
For civic and community-based organizations, it means inventing and re-inventing themselves, engaging young people's imaginations, focusing on the things that build and sustain trust and motivate positive action. It means creating a world that rewards sacrifice for the common good; that measures our success not by how much we have, but how much we give. It means rewarding those who can show impact and quantify their outcomes.
For businesses and corporate groups, it means investing in their own communities to address a whole host of issues that government was held responsible for in the past. They must be prepared for the fact that it won't be cheaper, easier or quicker for the private sector to do the job right. It means that business associations will need to use their influence to help create opportunity and wealth for everyone who is willing to work hard and try harder. A growing gap in incomes is never good for a working democracy.
For faith-based groups, it means balancing their role of professing their faith and serving the members with a prophetic voice of raising the moral issues of the day, never an easy balance to reach. In recent years the faith community has been the foundation for much of the work of feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and ministering to those who have lost their way. But the harder work lies ahead where difficult decisions will have to be made as government programs get cut and outreach budgets will clash with member benefits.
For schools and universities it means placing a much greater focus on managing and holding accountable their own work force, teaching citizenship and responsibility with the same commitment as science and the humanities. They must be about empowering young people and adults to become involved and committed citizens, building and sustaining the freedom that democracy guarantees. We must always remember that unless we educate our citizenry in the ways of democracy we could lose the freedom or ability to pursue our dreams.
We are all exhausted from the politics of conflict and big money, the win/lose mentality where everything gets promised but little gets delivered, where every decision is predicated on raising money to support re-election, instead of insuring a good quality of life over lifetimes and generations. We must focus on getting more people involved in our democracy instead of having a relatively few people paying for the one they want for themselves.
Dr. Vincent Harding, a respected author and civil rights leader has said our collective actions apply to our current national spiritual and moral crisis: "We are citizens of a country that we still have to create -- a just country, a compassionate country, a forgiving country, a multiracial, multi-religious country, a joyful country that cares about its children and about its elders, that cares about itself and about the world, that cares about what the earth needs as well as what individual people need."
It's a simple process of remembering, forgetting, and recommitting again. It's a practice that requires discipline and a strong commitment toward embracing change. Most of all it requires that we believe an investment today will pay off in the future. We must have faith in our future – enough to pay now even if we don't see the changes coming as soon as we might like. Even if they don't come in our lifetime, we must have faith that our actions now will make a difference in the lives of our children, their children and the generations to come.
If we believe in the future, we must take care of the precious things we love. We must take the long view when the short view is easier and less threating. We must work for others in a way that nurtures ourselves. We must keep learning and growing and be willing to try new things. We must trust our young people and embrace surprise as a practice. We must face our fears of failure and celebrate our successes.
We must do what we can with what we have in the time that is given, knowing that is all that is required of us. But we must act. In every season, we give thanks for our freedom to make things better by our personal efforts. But just like eating better, moving more, and standing up straight, it is an effort that must be sustained over a lifetime.


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Mathematicians are notorious for being sticklers when it comes to requiring absolute proof before accepting any statement. Their reputation is clearly expressed in a story told by Ian Stewart in 'Concepts of Modern Mathematics':-
An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field.
'How interesting' observed the astronomer, 'all Scottish sheep are black!' To which the
physicist responded, 'No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!' The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, 'In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.'
Taken from 'Fermat's Last Theorem' by Simon Singh
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
Lol, I read the book too, it was very interesting, but it was a long time ago
I also think that the name of the book is Fermat's Enigma not Fermat's Last Theorm.
I have a copy of the book and mine is called 'Fermat's Last Theorem', but it's not unfeasible that the the book was published under multiple names.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
I love that ganesh. I think it's cool the mathmatician thought about the side of the sheep that was being viewed. That surprised me.
igloo myrtilles fourmis
John, try to get 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and also 'The man who loved only numbers' by Paul Hoffman. The latter is about Paul Erdos (pronounced Airdish), known as Uncle Paul, one of the greatest Mathematicians ever born, his life and his idiosyncracy. Both fall in the must-read category for Mathematics lovers
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
Also, 'The Equation that could not be solved', about the insolubility of the quintic, symmetry and Galois theory....(Galois was fascinating)
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
-Bertrand Russell
And don't forget the general proof of Matiashevich for unsolvarility of Diophantine equations from power >9!!!
IPBLE: Increasing Performance By Lowering Expectations.
I think that was awsome of how different scientists behave
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