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Yesterday I chatted with Matthew Abraham and David Bevan from ABC Adelaide's aptly named Breakfast with Matthew Abraham and David Bevan. The topic was the previous evening's launch of Brand South Australia, a project that I was admittedly pretty much in the dark about.
After taking a quick glance at the logo and reading a few pages on the positioning I plunged in as most talking-heads do – without a clue as to what I was going to say, but with a hope that it'd at least be entertaining and perhaps a little informative for all involved.
I think it lasted about four minutes, much of which seemed to involve Matthew and David explaining some of the work we've done to their Australian audience (perhaps because they didn't know of our legions of fan down-under) and summing up my abilities as a brander with the exclamatory, "You're evil!" which, given the esteemed reputation I have with myself I can only surmise is Australian for awesome, similar to how Bostonians label everything good as wicked.
So, right back atcha, Matthew and David! Wicked evil!
Anyhow… I shared a couple opinions about the fact that the only thing the logo seems to do well is convey where South Australia is, and if that is the primary reason that people aren't visiting the area then it's doing its job well. I also mentioned that the logo was fine aesthetically.
But what I didn't say is that I don't think that a disinclination to read maps has anything to do with the troubles South Australia has had in attracting businesses and tourists.
There are plenty of towns and regions that most folks can't find on a map, and yet many are stacked with tourists every year. We don't need to know where something is in order to get there. That's what we pay the airlines and taxi cabs for. I'd wager that 99% of the world's population couldn't point to the location of the Sundance Film Festival, but that doesn't prevent Park City from being overwhelmed by tourists and artistic-types every January.
The new South Australia logo combined with the built in "open the door" messaging conveys a lack of understanding about what brands can do. While it is technically true that in order for any international traveler to get to South Australia they will probably have to open at least one door, a lack of understanding about how handles and hinges work has nothing to do with why they haven't beaten a path to the region. (And yes, I know it's a metaphor, thank you.)
Open the Door sounds like a feel-good way to broach the wide ranging possibilities and opportunities of SA, but it's actually pretty damn tired. Googling "open the door" and "slogan" finds about 6.5 million hits. It's the sort of phrase that creative types resort to when they can't come up with a singular compelling reason to engage with their product. It's a lot like how every business considers using some variant of turning dreams into reality or resorting to other time-tested but valueless positions.
The reason masses of people haven't visited South Australia is because no one in the region has come up with a compelling reason for the masses (or a profitable subset of the masses) to do so. Pointing out where it is and that there's lots of stuff to be had in the region that is "Creative. Innovative. Industrious." is neither compelling, nor unique to the region.
It's true. A book on religious perspective published in 2006 states, "Americans have historically proven to be a creative, innovative, industrious […] people." And the same three words in the same order are used to attract high school kids to the film industry, and to reinforce the moral leadership and eco-political realities of the Philippines. Also, for a limited time only, there's a company in Atlanta that apparently would like to put all of Southern Australia to work.
Best of all, in a book called Brass Tacks Tips for Business Owners, a chapter beginning on page 111 starts, "Creative, innovative, industrious managers are a hot commodity these days. The owners of companies know that the quality of their leaders determines the success of their ventures." Replace "managers" with "regions" and there's your brand! Heck, it even comes with a built-in spokesperson. I found Mr. Andropolis on LinkedIn, whose own summary of his skills is right out of Brass Tacks, making him ideal for the job. Well, except for the fact that he lives in Wisconsin. (Still, you're welcome, Perry. And I'll only charge 10%.)
This has all the hallmarks of a brand built by committee. The logo is all about the cartographic location and opportunity (but not conveying what kind, since that would end up peeving some of the stakeholders.) The tagline, "Creativity. Inovation, Industriousness" tries to sell every ingredient of the regional cornucopia at the same time rather than picking what matters most and running with it. And can South Australia truly claim those three qualities more genuinely than Victoria or New South Wales? And if the brand is meant to attract international attention, then how will their claims stack up against similarly positioned heavyweights like England or Switzerland, or even States in the US like California or Arizona? Or Mr. Andropolis?
Brands aren't meant to be built by groups. They're meant to be built for groups once a singular goal is identified. It looks like that singular goal was never found and it led to an aesthetically pleasing but mostly meaningless launch campaign that tries to boldly state "we're for everything and everyone, so come visit us because we're RIGHT HERE!"
If there's good news in all of this it's that most regional brands don't do much better. Since so few regions are willing to take the risks involved in creating meaningful brands that change the behavior of a target audience, it's unlikely that the populace will know that things could've been any different. The citizens appear to be focused on what the logo looks like rather than what it can do for them – and that might be because they haven't been told what it will do, so the only thing they have to take issue with are colors and shapes.
Oh, and maybe a few qualms about the stealthy secession of Tasmania from Australia.
Last, the launch did get a lot of notice and press coverage, and now there are hundreds of thousands more people who know where South Australia is. Assuming that Nathan Paine (Executive Director, Property Council of Australia) is correct and, "The 'where' is important: the geographical misunderstanding that triggered the state's search for a new external identity…" is the reason behind the lack of interest in the region, then it stands to reason we should see a huge uptick in tourism and businesses relocating to the region in the next year to eighteen months. The clock is ticking.
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The duo plays the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on January 23, before hitting the road with a new Australian / European / U.S. tour to promote their new release. Chairlift is here for an XPN Free At Noon on Friday, January 20. There's no better way to start a weekend than with a Live Friday performance, especially with a pop outfit like Chairlift.
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Melons rally comes up short in Area 6
The Senior Melons won two games in the Area 6 baseball tournament, but eventually lost to Holdrege ended their season.
Gothenburg started off the tournament by beating Broken Bow, a team they split with in the regular season. The Melons lost to McCook Saturday but bounced back to take down the #3 seed Minden.Holdrege knocked off the Melons in a loser out contest Monday night.
Gothenburg used quality pitching and timely hitting in their two victories over the weekend.
Melons win in first round
Gothenburg hitters showed patience at the plate last Friday earning 12 walks in their 12-5 victory over Broken Bow in the first round of the American Legion Area 6 Tournament.
Two runners reached scoring position in the first inning but only one Melon scored. Chase Ostergard hit a ball to center field advancing Ross Ostendorf, who had walked, to third base. A passed ball to the next batter allowed Ostendorf to scamper home and put the Melons on the board.
A lead off single was all Broken Bow managed in the bottom of the inning and the Melons were up to bat leading 1-0.
Patrick Messersmith reached base on a fielder's choice in the second inning. With one out, Ostendorf hit a double down the right field line, advancing Messersmith to third on the hit and he ran across home plate on a passed ball third strike.
Ostergard hit a ball between third and shortstop to score Ostendorf from third base.
Bow bounced back with two runs of its own. Back-to-back walks and a single down the third base line scored a runner from second.
A ball back to the pitcher pushed another Bow runner home and the score was 3-2.
In the top of the fourth, Justin Larson reached base on a walk, and Ostergard forced an error to reach base. Levi Walker hit an RBI single to right field scoring Larson from second base. Trey Kolbo singled to center field sending Ostergard home after he had advanced to third.
A wild pitch scored Walker and Kolbo advanced to third after stealing second. He then ran home beating the pitcher covering, scoring the fourth run of the inning.
That would be all the runs needed to beat Broken Bow.
Leading 7-2, the Melons kept Bow from scoring until the bottom of the seventh. Meanwhile they remained patient and scored in each of the last three innings.
In the sixth, walks loaded the bases. Kolbo and Ben Tiedemann scored on another walk and a Bow error.
Drawing two more walks in the top of the seventh, runners scored on two Bow errors and an RBI single by Jeff Rodriguez giving the Melons a 12-2 lead.
Broken Bow used two hits to score three runs in the bottom of the seventh before a grounder to Jeff Rodriguez ended the game.
Justin Larson threw a complete game striking out seven batters.
McCook no hits Melons
Gothenburg struggled against top seed McCook Saturday en route to a 15-0 loss in the second round of the Area 6 Baseball Tournament.
The game was close for three innings. Even through the struggles at the plate, the Melons trailed by only one run.
However over the next two innings, McCook connected for 10 hits to score 14 runs.
The Melons couldn't get any momentum throughout the fourth or fifth innings as they were retired in order to end the game.
Melons edge out Minden
Gothenburg fell behind in the early innings but came back in the third and fourth to beat Minden 5-4 Sunday.
Two singles and a pair of errors allowed Minden to jump ahead 3-0 in the second inning
The Melons responded scoring two runs in the top of the third inning.
A pair of walks and an infield hit loaded the bases for Jeff Rodriguez. He singled to right field bringing home Ostendorf and Larson.
Gothenburg's defense stopped a Minden threat in the third when a ball back to the pitcher caught the runner trying to score from third.
The bases were loaded for the Melons in the fourth inning when Larson delivered a single to right driving in Rodriguez. A sacrifice fly by Ostergard brought Matthies in from third base and Gothenburg went ahead 4-3.
Minden and Gothenburg were both held scoreless until the sixth inning when Patrick Messersmith led off with a single. He advanced to second on a walk, moved to third on a fielder's choice and scored on Levi Walker's single.
Minden only scored one more run in the bottom of the sixth to pull within one run. They threatened in the bottom of the seventh with a runner reaching third base, but a strikeout ended the game.
Gothenburg advanced to play on Monday.
Late inning struggles
Quality pitching had propelled the Melons through the first three games of the Area 6 tournament.
Tired arms and an eight-run first inning by Holdrege closed out the season for Gothenburg on Monday night as the Melons lost 16-8.
Back-to-back doubles from Ostergard and Walker put the Melons on the scoreboard. A single from Kolbo drove in Walker from second base for the second run of the inning.
Holdrege tried putting the game away in the bottom of the first exploding for eight runs with the help of six walks and just two hits.
Gothenburg bounced back and scored five runs of its own in the top half of the second.
The first three batters walked loading the bases before an Ostendorf single scored Rodriguez from third base. Larson walked advancing Jake Matthies home, before Ostergard singled to left scoring Messersmith.
The bases remained loaded when Walker got a free pass to first scoring Ostendorf from third. Kolbo singled to left field sending Larson home before the scoring came to an end.
Gothenburg retired the Holdrege lineup in order before knotching another run in the third to tie the score at 8-8.
Ostendorf singled past the third baseman and stole second base before advancing to third on a passed ball. Larson singled to left driving in Ostendorf and tying the game.
Both teams put zeroes on the scoreboard in the fourth, but Holdrege came to life in the fifth. Two singles and two walks contributed to three runs and Holdrege regained the lead, 11-8.
Larson hit a double to lead off the sixth inning for the Melons, but was thrown out at third eliminating the only chance to score in the last two innings.
Leading 11-8, in the bottom of the sixth Holdrege put the game away scoring five runs.
Five players had two hits apiece led by Larson, Ostergard and Walker, each with a double and a single.
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U.S. stocks fell, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index headed for the worst week since January, after disappointing results from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Treasuries rose and oil hit a five-week high.
The S&P 500 dropped 0.3 percent at 12:10 p.m. in New York. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 0.2 percent as technology shares fluctuated after the biggest selloff since 2011. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index declined 1.4 percent. The 10-year Treasury yield lost two basis points to 2.63 percent while 30-year yields hit a nine-month low. The dollar snapped five days of losses as investor risk appetite shrank.
The S&P 500 has fallen 2 percent this week, after sinking 2.1 percent yesterday on concern that valuations aren't justified as earnings start. JPMorgan, the first major bank to report, fell 3.1 percent after profit dropped on lower revenue from fixed-income trading and mortgages. Consumer confidence rose in April to the highest level since July. China's producer price index declined 2.3 percent in March, adding to signs of weak demand after data yesterday showed shrinking trade.
"You need to shake out some of the speculative money and throw water on the irrational exuberance," Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab Corp. which manages $2.2 trillion in client assets, said in a phone interview. "It's a good reminder that markets don't go straight up. While the long-term is positive we need to have these steps back along the way. We need this kind of pullback."
Equities Pullback
The S&P 500 is down 3.2 percent from a record close on April 2. The Nasdaq, which has lost 6.9 percent from a March high, plunged 3.1 percent yesterday, the most since November 2011. A gauge of Internet stocks had it biggest slide since 2011, while biotechnology shares approached a bear market.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary April index of sentiment rose more than forecast, boosted by further improvement in the labor market that will provide some traction for the economy after a weather-related slowdown.
Investors have been anticipating corporate earnings reports to gauge how much weather effected results. Profit for members of the S&P 500 probably fell 0.9 percent in the first quarter, analysts now forecast, after anticipating a 6.6 percent rise in January. Sales increased 2.6 percent, according to projections.
Analysts have reduced earnings estimates more than they usually do over the last three months, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists led by David Kostin. Average profit forecasts for S&P 500 companies fell about 4 percent in the first quarter, a percentage point more than normal, they wrote.
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The selloff that began last week was sparked by growing concern that valuations may be too high as earnings season begins. The Nasdaq Composite trades at 35 times reported earnings of the companies in the index. That's double the ratio for the S&P 500, which trades at about 17 times earnings.
Wells Fargo & Co. added 1.6 percent after the most profitable bank in 2013 said earnings rose 14 percent as fewer customers missed loan payments. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. tumbled the most in three months yesterday after profit fell short of estimates.
"We can still get decent earnings, but all in all, the total level of earnings will probably not grow as much as expected," Nicola Marinelli, who helps oversee $200 million at Sturgeon Capital Ltd. in London, said by telephone. "Earnings will have subdued growth."
Alcoa Inc. unofficially started the earnings season on April 8. About 54 companies in the S&P 500 are scheduled to report results next week, including Coca-Cola Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Google Inc. and General Electric Co.
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In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people who had lavished generous donations on his organization during the long, benighted tenure of George W. Bush. It was a heady moment: the era of Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales was winding to a close, and Barack Obama was about to assume office, having vowed to rescind some of his predecessor's more egregious assaults on civil liberties.
But Romero wasn't phoning his supporters to share the joy–he was calling to plead for cash after a season (actually, several seasons) of thwarted solicitations. Throughout the spring and summer, would-be donors had explained, over and over again, that they were too busy writing checks to the Obama campaign. By the time Obama mounted the stage to deliver his acceptance speech in Chicago on election night, many had become preoccupied with something else: the implosion of the economy. As Romero worked the phone from his office on the nineteenth floor of the downtown high-rise, around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange, he could feel the aftershocks of the collapse.
"I'll come back, but I lost it all," one longtime donor told Romero.
"I love you guys, but it's gone–all gone," said another.
The most expensive presidential campaign in history and the cataclysmic financial meltdown of the past few months combined to produce a "perfect storm," Romero told me recently. The storm blew a $19 million hole in the ACLU's budget, resulting in a hiring freeze and the cancellation of various projects, followed by the announcement, in January, that 10 percent of the national staff was being let go. Employees with decades of experience were told to clear out their offices; no department was left unscathed.
Founded in 1920, the ACLU boasts a membership of 530,000 and assets of more than $200 million. However dire the economic downturn gets, Romero, who has weathered his share of controversy at the ACLU but also presided over a period of impressive achievements and growth, can rest assured his organization will be around in a couple of years. It's an assumption a growing number of his peers in the nonprofit world can't make. At a forum in New York City in November, Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University, predicted that "at a minimum" more than 100,000 nonprofit organizations would be wiped out in the next two years. Light asked the audience members whether any of them had tuned in to the recent hearing in Washington on the impending nonprofit upheaval. The room fell silent. Light then admitted he'd missed the deliberations as well, because, alas, there hadn't been any. "We should demand a hearing immediately on the state of the nonprofit sector–immediately," he declared.
Not everyone believes the fallout will be quite so cataclysmic–historically, the nonprofit sector has proved surprisingly resilient, even growing during some recent recessions–but the scale and scope of the current downturn is clearly different. And its reverberations will likely extend far beyond the world of high-profile advocacy organizations like the ACLU. From the arts to education, soup kitchens to housing organizations, nonprofits perform an array of functions that shape the texture of daily life in communities across the country, often by helping people whose situations were precarious even before the economy crashed. Now, with foundations watching their endowments shrivel, many individual donors maxed out and states across the country staring at massive budget deficits, nonprofits are scaling back their services at the very moment when the need for them is escalating.


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Now a Perth festive tradition, Phil Cunningham is once again calling his musical pals together and re-opening his Christmas songbook.
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World famous accordion player and composer, Phil Cunningham emerged with Silly Wizard and has played with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Relativity, Altan, Paolo Nutini, Mark Knopfler, and Dolores Keane.
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Eddi Reader was brought into the limelight with Fairground Attraction and their single 'Perfect' and parent album First of a Million Kisses which both topped the British charts. However, it has been her subsequent solo albums which signalled her increasing ability to assimilate different musical styles and make them all very much her own. From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings to life all forms of song and what sets Eddi apart is the depth and quality of the emotional performance.
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Karen Matheson has captivated audiences around the world and sold over a million records as the lead singer of the best-selling, internationally-renowned Celtic supergroup Capercaillie. Performing here as a solo artist, she has released three albums incorporating traditional and
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John McCusker is one of Scotland's foremost traditional musicians; winner of the BBC Radio Folk Musician of the Year in 2003. John McCusker started playing the fiddle at the age of seven, joined The Battlefield Band at 17, and has also worked as a producer for Eliza Carthy and Kate Rusby.
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Over the last few years, Kevin has managed to build up a following across parts of the UK from supporting artists ranging from the likes of Union J to Deacon Blue. Perhaps this says a lot about Kevin's music, appealing to many age-groups and styles.
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Sorry for making a thread all about me, but some stuff just must be vented. In about a month or so, I shall be moving to a pathetic hellhole of an apartment. White walls, small layout, stinky carpet. The whole lot of shit. I can't even fucking believe it. I may even have to disband my musical act, Gotengo, due to noise laws. And my bedroom will be shared with Mecha (should be hell) and it has a view of a GRAVEYARD. Pleasant. This should piss me off beyond belief.
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Roberta Flack has been singing in a way that plucks at the heartstrings since 1969, when she recorded the breakthrough song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." She followed that hit with many, many more, including, "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You."
Flack has released more than 15 albums during her career. On her latest, Let it Be Roberta, she sings her own distinct versions of songs by her fellow travelers through the 1960s and '70s: The Beatles.
"There's a lot of great music in the world, and The Beatles are certainly responsible for a whole bunch of it," Flack says. "I love the stories the songs tell. I love the simplicity — the fact that they're so accessible. When I got ready to do this album, I had to smack my hand and say, 'Keep going!' I just got so involved."
Here, Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with Flack about the new album, living across the hall from John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and a fateful performance of the Beatles classic "Here, There and Everywhere."
Roberta Flack has been singing in a way that plucks at the heartstrings since 1969.
ROBERTA FLACK: (Singing) Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words...
SIMON: She had many, many more hits, including "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Where is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You." Roberta Flack has released more than 15 albums during an outstanding career. Her latest is called "Let it Be Roberta." She sings her own distinct versions of songs by her fellow travelers, The Beatles.
FLACK: (Singing) Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be...
SIMON: Roberta Flack will join many other great musicians and stars at the funeral of Whitney Houston in New Jersey later today. We spoke with her a few weeks ago from our studios in New York about this new Beatles album and asked why Beatles?
FLACK: Well, you know, the obvious answer, Scott, is why not, you know? There's...
SIMON: Let it be, yeah.
FLACK: ...there's a lot of great music in the world. And when I considered how I started, made the transition from the classroom - I was a teacher - and to the little stage in the clubs that I worked in in Washington, D.C., the music that was on the radio was not mine. It was the music of the Beatles. I love the simplicity, the fact that they're so accessible. The thing that just overwhelms me is how these young musicians were able to write so deeply and so intensely and to be so correct that here we are talking about it all these years later. People all over the world know the songs - and they still know them.
THE BEATLES: (Singing) You come on flat top, he comes groovin' up slowly, he got juju eyeball, he wantsâ¦
FLACK: (Singing) Holy roller, he got hair down to his knees. Got to be a joker, he just do what he please, yeah.
A lot of what I did with the Beatles song on the album has this universal love kind of undertone. When I did "Come Together," at the end of "Come Together," we had children sing: People all over the world, come on.
FLACK: (Singing) Come on, people all over the world, come on...
Every day almost I would find out something different or something new, something fresh, about the music. But it was really kind of interesting making the final choices - I'll put it to you that way.
SIMON: Well, how did you make the final choices?
FLACK: Well, painfully. I decided to put "Here, There and Everywhere" on the album because it is a beautiful song and it is a song that shows my early posturing as a performer, as a soloist, a pianist, singer, in a great situation - Carnegie Hall. I had studied classical piano for years and years and years, and even after that continued to study. And my real ambition was to be a concert pianist and to play Schumann and Bach and, you know, Chopin - the romantics. Those were my guys. And I'm recalling the joy that I felt, and at the same time I'm very misty-eyed, because I was really sad that I had not reached my goal, which was to play at Carnegie Hall. I got there, but I got there by playing songs like "Here, There and Everywhere," "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." So, it was not difficult to make the decision to put that song on the album.
SIMON: Let's listen to a little bit of you, Carnegie Hall 1972, if we could, "Here, There and Everywhere."
FLACK: (Singing) Here, making each day of the year, changing my life...
I was so young. It was so personal. I was so sensitive. And at one point, my voice cuts off - I say there...you know, like, there. I can't say there. I say there.
FLACK: (Singing) There is something there. There, running his hand through my hair...
By the time I get to the end, I'm screaming love never dies, you know. I think you have to be innocent to a certain degree to be able to do that, to really let it out.
FLACK: (Singing) Well, baby, it's love never dies, watching their eyes and hoping I'm always there. Let me help you here, there, here, there, here, there, and everywhere.
SIMON: That is a startlingly wonderful version.
FLACK: I'm glad you like it. It still makes me very emotional when I hear that.
SIMON: There's a picture of you on the CD cover of - well, a picture of you and Yoko in later years and then a picture of you, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, looks like it would be late '60s, early '70s. How well did you know them? Do you have memories?
FLACK: Oh, yeah. I lived right across the hall from him.
SIMON: I guess I didn't know that. Well, those big New York apartment buildings, you know.
FLACK: Well, it's the famous Dakota. I moved in in '75, as did they, and we wound up right across the hall. So, one might say that I had the privilege of hearing him play. I heard, you know, little pieces of music coming through.
SIMON: You mean in the mid-1970s Roberta Flack could overhear John Lennon and Yoko Ono playing music, and I assume, given the volume of your voice, they used to tell their friends that: you'll never believe it, we can listen to Roberta Flack at night.
FLACK: Probably.
FLACK: (Singing) I thought the sun rose in your eyes, and the moon and the stars were the kiss you gave to the dark and the endless skies, my love. To the dark...
SIMON: What difference do you think the music the Beatles did and the music that you were singing and made to people?
FLACK: Gave them a chance to say, yeah, that's my life. I had a lady walk up to me once and she said, Ms. Flack, I need your autograph and I want to tell you that I met my husband with your song. He proposed to me. He learned to play guitar and to play "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," and he stood under the window of my dorm and screamed my name and sang it the best he could. And she's standing there with this guy and two children. And I say, aw, how nice. And this is your husband. She says this is my second husband.
SIMON: Enough songs for a second album, you think?
FLACK: Yeah. They've asked me to do one already. I'll probably include "Golden Slumbers," "All You Need is Love," "Blackbird," "Penny Lane." So many.
SIMON: Well, we'll look forward to that too. Ms. Flack, thanks so much. Pleasure talking to you.
FLACK: Thanks for having me.
FLACK: (Singing) Darling, please, believe me...
SIMON: Roberta Flack, joining us from New York. Her new album, "Let It Be Roberta," is out now. To hear more songs from Roberta Flack's new album, you can come to our website, NPRMusic.org.
FLACK: (Singing) Believe me when I tell you, I'll never do you no harm...
SIMON: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Here are my thoughts about designing icons in Adobe Photoshop:
- many respected icon designers consider Illustrator better tool to design icons - http://blog.turbomilk.com/ . I do not own or know Illustrator, but I'm pretty good at Photoshop, and I found that it can be tweaked to create icons fast and easy too.
- the best way to design icons (even in small sizes) is vectors. In Photoshop, they are made with Shape and Pen tools. My personall approach is to create vectors in solid colors (one vector in each layer) and then apply various layer effects, such as gradients and strokes.
So, what can be done to make Photoshop the best icon - designing tool?
First of all, have a plug-in to save icon files from photoshop files, such as IconBuilder from http://iconfactory.com/software/iconbuilder/
It is a good idea to have template file to start with. IconBuilder comes with Essential folder, including some of such templates (first picture shows one of them).
In View menu, go to Show and enable Grid. I also recomments that you assign keyboard shortcut to that command - you will need to show and hide Grid often. To customize shortcuts, go to Window menu - Workspace - Keyboard shortcuts (Photoshop CS2+ only).
Go to Photoshop Preferences - Guides, Grid and Slices. Set gridline to 1 pixel, and subdivisions to 1.
Now when you work with your design in large zoom (1200% zoom in my screenshot) you will see the grid where each line is a pixel. It is not helpful in 100%-200% zoom, so use your brand new keyboard shortcut to hide the grid.
The last tweak is - go to View manu again, make sure Snap is enabled and in Snap To menu, Grid is enabled.
Now, whenever you use Shape or Pen tool to draw vectors, they will automaticaly align to pixels. The result - your vector-based icons are looking great and sharp even in small sizes. If you want to draw a vector in the middle of a pixel, simply hide the grid - and Photoshop will stop aligning to it.
a very quick example - I used pen tool to create 3 vectors...
...and then applied stroke and gradient to each layer...
... and here is how it looks at 100% zoom. Not the best icon, I know :) but this rough example took 20 seconds!
That's all, and good luck! May the world see better icons with your help :-)
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Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, Die
Die Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder (Scottdale, Pennsylvania, 1914, 894 pages, large size) was first published in 1914. Until the publication of this big hymnal, the Hutterites had nothing that would compare with the Ausbund, the hymnal of the Swiss Brethren, in fact no printed hymnal of any sort. It is true that prior to the 18th century the Hutterites had a great number of manuscript hymnals in which their innumerable Lieder were collected. Rudolf Wolkan {Lieder, 165-69) describes 21 such codices in European libraries, to which he adds three more which he could not reach. In America the Brethren have a few such codices too, some of which have become extremely difficult to read with the passing of time. But no hymnal was ever declared "official" and nothing had ever been printed. It must be assumed that in former centuries most of the hymns sung at Hutterite services were learned by rote and handed on to the next generation by word of mouth. It was therefore almost a daring enterprise when Elder Elias Walter (1862-1938), then of South Dakota but later of Standoff Colony, near Macleod, Alberta, decided to prepare a printed hymnal. When he received the approval of the brotherhood the publication became a semiofficial undertaking.
In his preface Elias Walter reports briefly about the sources from which he compiled the book: (1) a codex with 165 hymns, written sometime before 1600 (275 leaves, well preserved, title page missing); (2) another codex with 140 hymns, written about 1650 in Slovakia (400 leaves, again title page missing) ; (3) a third codex of 390 leaves, of which the first 60 are missing, containing 80 hymns (the time is that of Ehrenpreis, 1650-1660, the writing good but the paper, slowly falling apart). Many of these hymns are incomplete, although a century earlier they were said to have been known in full to the Brethren. Most likely even today many more codices are available than these three, but they are hidden in some of the 120 Bruderhofs in America and not easily found. Elias Walter arranged his book chronologically, though he did not always keep this plan, and the order is often quite confusing. The book begins with a hymn by Felix Manz (martyred in Zürich in 1527), Mit Lust so will ich singen, present in two of the sources named. Next follow hymns by Jörg Wagner (martyred 1527), Michaei Sattler (1527) (a hymn of 50 stanzas), Leonhard Schiemer (1528), Hans Schlaffer (1528), Balthasar Hubmaier (1528), of whom one hymn is printed, a supposed second was not available; two hymns go back to Jörg Blaurock (whom Walter reports as martyred in 1529, although the Geschicht-Buch gives 1527 as the date of his martydom); five hymns come from Ludwig Haetzer (died 1529). Of special interest is the discovery that the hymn, Sollst du bei Gott dein Wohnung han, which was customarily ascribed to Haetzer, is here (28-9) printed as deriving from Schiemer. It is this hymn whose fifth stanza was often quoted, Ja, spricht die Welt, es ist ohn Not dass ich mit Christo leide .... We may trust the manuscript and assume that the tradition was incorrect (see Mennonitisches Lexikon II, 230). Of Hans Hut's known four hymns two are printed here.
And so the volume proceeds through the hymn collections of the early times year by year. Elias Walter wrote a brief biographical sketch for each hymn writer, sometimes also listing his other works. Many of these hymns are extremely long (over 100 stanzas). Some of the Brethren were very productive, writing 30, 40, and even 50 hymns. Many of these hymns are anonymous; they could be identified only by reading the acrostic (where the initials of each stanza put in order reveal a name or message, a technique used mainly by brethren in prison). Walter points to this device whenever he decodes it. Three fourths of all hymns could thus be ascribed to individual authors; the rest may be assumed to have been composed collectively by groups of Brethren.
Rather famous among these hymns is the Väterlied, describing the work of the forefathers, the Vorstehers of the brotherhood. It was begun by Georg Pruckmaier (died 1585), who wrote 75 stanzas, and then continued by others until 1639, with a total of 105 stanzas. On page 877 it is still later continued by other loyal writers up to the year 1734, with a total of 18 more stanzas. At the year 1605 the Botschkai Lieder attract our attention (author unknown), describing all the horror of the attack of Turks, Magyars, and Tatars on the South Moravian colonies (158 stanzas, 804-812). The last part of the hymnal contains a number of hymns by the last great bishop of the brotherhood, Andreas Ehrenpreis (died 1662); one hymn is about his death. Close to 100 hymns are versifications of Biblical stories, which, however, are not quite as popular as the more personal hymns.
Not all these hymns are strictly of Hutterite origin. In fact A. J. F. Zieglschmid discovered that at least one is of Jesuit origin. But the Brethren are used to all of them, accept them, and are loath to change anything.
The Lieder has become "the" hymnal of the brethren. It is used daily at the prayer hour, and at all services on Sundays, holidays, and other occasions. One is amazed that these stanzas, often quite unwieldy, can actually be sung. Often they bear little connection with the worship service as such, and even their original meaning of three or four centuries ago is not always understood. But they are sung in many cases simply out of deference to tradition. The preacher "lines" the hymns, that is, he reads one line at a time, and then the congregation sings it according to melodies familiar to all. (There is no notation.) Only the preacher has a hymnal at the service, but most brethren know the texts by rote.
The singing of these hymns also deserves a few remarks. All hymns are sung in unison, not in parts, and they are overloud, almost shrill, with strained vocal chords. Zieglschmid, who discusses this kind of communal singing in a footnote in the Klein-Geschichtsbuch (580, n. 3), points out that according to an old report the Mennonites in the Molotschna also used to sing "über alle Massen grell und laut aus der Kehle gepresst." It is possible that this (not too appealing) method has its origin in 16th-century conditions when Brethren imprisoned for their faith wanted to communicate with other brethren in the same place but in different rooms. At least some sources mention such overloud singing at a quite early date (1536). A reference is also made to Isaiah 58:1, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet" (Lasst uns schreien, dass uns der Hals kracht, in the Worms translation).
In later years some brethren expressed dissatisfaction with some parts of the Lieder book, and a new edition was brought out in 1953, in which 75 hymns were omitted, mainly those which contained versifications of Bibles stories. There was some grumbling, however, by others, since many liked the book as it was composed originally.
In the meantime, the late A. J. F. Zieglschmid began a thorough study and revision of this book. He found a great number of mistakes, inaccuracies, and false readings. Many hymns had been "zersungen," i.e., the words were changed and the meaning was lost, often even a whole line was omitted, and so forth. Moreover, he distinguished between genuine Anabaptist hymns and others which were adopted from outside, as was mentioned above (a Jesuit hymn). Thus he compiled a new, revised, purified and corrected edition, to which he added a number of Hutterite songs unknown at the time of Elias Walter, for instance, the versification of the entire Psalter by Wolf Seiler (died 1550). The Lieder contains 48 of his hymns (see Wolkan's note 1 in Geschicht-Buch, 257). The result of this scholarly work is a manuscript of nearly 4,500 sheets, still unpublished and deposed at the Mennonite Historical Library of Goshen College. It is yet uncertain whether the Hutterian Brethren will accept this "revision" or not, when a need for a new edition arises.
Elias Walter edited a smaller hymnal, the Gesangbüchlein, Lieder, besonders zum Auswendiglernen für die Jugend in der Schule geeignet, meistens aus alten Handschriften gesammelt und herausgegeben von Elias Walter (n.p., 1919, 525 pp., octavo). In 1930 a second edition of this hymnal was produced, printed in Macleod, Alberta, with 480 pages. In 1940, after Elias Walter's death (1938), a third edition was brought out under the title, Gesangbüchlein, Lieder fur Schule und häuslichen Gebrauch, herausgegeben von den Hutterischen Brüdern in Kanada (n.p., 1940, 591 pp., octavo). In neither of these editions is any reference made to sources, authors, or historic backgrounds. Thus the Gesangbüchlein has become more a popular hymnbook for school and family singing, and as such is a real favorite. Among other hymns it contains also the old (most likely not Hutterite) song, "Das goldene A-B-C." It contains Lutheran and pietistic hymns, but no old Hutterite hymns.
See also Hymnology
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 89.
Wolkan, Rudolf. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder. Macleod, AB, and Vienna, 1923.
Wolkan, Rudolf. Die Lieder der Wiedertäufer. Berlin, 1903. Reprinted Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1965.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der Hutterischen Brüder. Philadelphia, PA: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, 1947
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Friedmann, Robert. "Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, Die." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 Sep 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lieder_der_Hutterischen_Br%C3%BCder,_Die&oldid=105627.
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Friedmann, Robert. (1957). Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, Die. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 September 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lieder_der_Hutterischen_Br%C3%BCder,_Die&oldid=105627.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 339-340. All rights reserved.
©1996-2018 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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NEW YORK — Le Colonial has been open less than a month, but the new Vietnamese restaurant on East 57th Street already seems like it'll be the uptown Indochine.
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Le Colonial is the brainchild of restaurateurs Jean Denoyer (La Goulue, Le Comptoir), Jean-Francois Marchand (Le Comptoir, Le Relais), Jean Goutal (Tapas Rouge) and Rick Wahlstedt (Punch), who've been friends for years and wanted to create a singular environment together.
The four partners pulled in designer Greg Jordon to transform the townhouse into what a Vietnamese club might have looked like during French colonization at the turn of the century. That means lots of palm tress in the main floor dining room, which has tile floors and high tin ceilings dotted with period lamps; white lacquer walls decor- ated with mirrors and wooden louvered shades over fake windows. The lounge upstairs is a completely different settlement. You can't really belly up to the bar — which is only about 10 feet long — but one could easily spend the evening nestled in cushy rattan chairs and sofas scattered in small conversational clusters set on faded Oriental carpets.
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Configure your Arch Linux machine so you can connect to it via the serial console port (com port). This will enable you to administer the machine even if it has no keyboard, mouse, monitor, or network attached to it (a headless server).
As of Arch Linux 2007.x, installation of Arch Linux is possible via the serial console as well.
A basic environment for this scenario is two machines connected using a serial cable (9-pin connector cable). The administering machine can be any Linux or Windows machine with a terminal emulator program (PuTTY or Minicom, for example).
The configuration instructions below will enable GRUB menu selection, boot messages, and terminal forwarding to the serial console.
- 1 Configuration
- 2 Making Connections
- 3 Installing Arch Linux using the serial console
- 4 Troubleshooting
Configure console access on the target machine
GRUB2 and systemd
If you configure the serial console in GRUB2 systemd will create a getty listener on the same serial device as GRUB2 by default. So, this is the only configuration needed for Arch running with systemd.
Edit /etc/default/grub
1. Edit the GRUB_CMDLINE_DEFAULT="" line to start the console on /dev/ttyS0
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8"
2. Add a serial console section
# Serial console
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=38400 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"
3. Rebuild the grub.cfg file
grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Now you are done. After reboot getty will be listening on device /dev/ttyS0 with settings 38400 8N1 and systemd will automatically start a getty session to listen on the same device with the same settings.
Without GRUB2, systemd only
This step is not needed if you have configured GRUB2 to listen on the serial interface. If you do not want GRUB2 to listen on the serial device, but only want getty listening after boot then follow these steps.
1. To start getty listening on /dev/ttyS0 use systemctl
systemctl start firstname.lastname@example.com
You can check to see the speed getty is useing with systemctl, but should be 38400 8N1
systemctl status email@example.com
2. To have getty listening on /dev/ttyS0 every boot create this symlink
ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@.service /email@example.com
Now after reboot getty will be listening on device /dev/ttyS0 with settings 38400 8N1
GRUB v1 and No systemd
1. Edit the GRUB config file:
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add these lines to the general area of the configuration:
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
terminal --timeout=5 serial console
Add the console parameters at the end of your current kernel line:
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
For example, the kernel line should look something like this after modification:
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/md0 ro md=0,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 vga=773 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
terminal --timeout=5 serial console line is added to your menu.lst grub configuration, your boot sequence will now show a series of "Press any key to continue" messages. If no key is pressed, the boot menu will appear on whichever (serial or console) appears first in the 'terminal' configuration line. The lines will look like this upon boot:
Press any key to continue.
Press any key to continue.
Press any key to continue.
Press any key to continue.
Press any key to continue.
Press any key to continue.
Press any key to continue.
2. Edit the inittab file:
vi /etc/inittab
Add a new agetty line below the existing ones:
c0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 linux
3. Edit the securetty file:
vi /etc/securetty
Below the existing ttys, add an entry for the the serial console:
4. Reboot the machine
Making Connections
Connect using a terminal emulator program
Perform these steps on the machine used to connect the remote console.
1. Install minicom:
pacman -S minicom
2. Start Minicom in setup mode:
minicom -s
3. Using the textual navigation menu, change the serial port settings to the following:
Serial Device: /dev/ttyS0
Bps/Par/Bits: 9600 8N1
Press Enter to exit the menus (pressing Esc will not save changes).
4. Remove the modem Init and Reset strings:
Under the 'Modem and Dialing' menu, delete the Init and Reset strings.
5. Save the setup:
From the main menu, choose 'save setup as dfl'.
6. Exit Minicom:
From the main menu, choose 'Exit from Minicom'.
7. Connect to the target machine:
While the serial cable is connected to the target machine, start the Minicom program:
8. Exiting Minicom
To finish the session, press 'ctrl-A' and then 'X'.
Screen is able to connect to a serial port. It will connect to a standard 9600 speed port without options.
screen /dev/ttyS0
A different baud rate (e.g. 115200) may be specified on the commmand line.
screen /dev/ttyS0 115200
If needed, see the section "WINDOW TYPES" in the screen man page for details on setting other connection parameters.
Serialclient[1] is a client for serial connection in command line in your shell. Install it doing:
pacman -S ruby gem install serialclient
Then, you can use like this:
serialclient -p /dev/ttyS0
Windows Options
On Windows machines, connect to the serial port using programs like PuTTY or Hyper Terminal.
Installing Arch Linux using the serial console
1. Connect to the target machine using the method described above.
2. Boot the target machine using the Arch Linux installation CD.
3. When the bootloader appears, select "Boot Arch Linux (<arch>)" and press tab to edit
4. Append
console=ttyS0 and press enter
5. Systemd should now detect ttyS0 and spawn a serial getty on it, allowing you to proceed as usual
Ctrl-C and Minicom
If you are having trouble sending a Control-C command through minicom you need to switch off hardware flow control in the device settings (minicom -s), which then enables the break.


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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government statement says the Cabinet has approved a plan to recognize some unauthorized Bedouin Arab encampments and move others to urban areas.
A leading rights group criticized the program.
About 30,000 Bedouins live in shantytowns in Israel's Negev desert. Bedouin say they've owned the land for decades, but Israel contests that. It's concerned about unauthorized Bedouin building in that area.
According to the proposal, Israel would compensate Bedouins who move. Those who do not move after five years would lose their ownership claims. The statement did not say how many would be told to move.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel called the plan "racist." It charged Monday that Israel would displace Bedouin citizens while promoting new communities for Jews.
Israel's parliament must approve the plan.


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Yellow Pages Sues Seattle For New Law Letting People Opt-Out Of Getting The Phone Book
from the is-that-a-first-amendment-issue? dept
The complaint... asserts that the ordinance enacted last month violates the First Amendment, which prohibits government from licensing or exercising advance approval of the press, from directing publishers what to publish and to whom they may communicate, and from assessing fees for the privilege of publishing. The suit also claims that the Seattle ordinance unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce and violates the privacy rights of Seattle residents...Now, I'm a pretty big First Amendment supporter, but I'm not sure how a bar on dropping a phone book on someone's property -- at their request -- is a free speech violation. Perhaps I'm missing something? In the meantime, the group actually says that it's not against letting people opt-out, and is actually creating a website to let people do just that. It just doesn't like this particular law.
The Seattle ordinance unfairly singles out the Yellow Pages industry with regulations and fees that are not imposed on other media, including discriminatory license fees for the right to publish and unprecedented "advance recovery fees" that previously have been limited to toxic or hard-to-recycle materials. The ordinance also mandates that publishers turn over consumers' private information to the City of Seattle and imposes obligatory cover language dictated by the city government.


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Does China heed Britain's wooing?
An indispensible partnership. That is how David Cameron and his Chinese hosts have agreed to dub their new relationship - forged at what the prime minister today called "warm and successful" meetings in the Great Hall of the People.
Speaking to a lunch of 500 UK and China-based business leaders, he risked speaking a few words in Mandarin designed to sum up the foundations of that partnership - translated the key phrase was "in both sides' interests"
This morning Mr Cameron began a day in Shanghai in a London black cab - the firm that makes them is now owned by the Chinese. He wants not just to secure more investment in Britain but to sell British products here, from building hospitals to sports cars to - unlikely as it may sound -exporting pig semen, worth an eye watering £45 million a year.
Are the Chinese noticing all this wooing? Business leaders insist they are, but one nationalist newspaper said today that their visitor should acknowledge that the UK is not a big power in the eyes of the Chinese. The editorial in Global Times concluded: "It's just an old European country, apt for travel and study."
The prime minister is out to prove them wrong.


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Volunteer Josh Tutterow has coached dozens of Special Olympics athletes over the past five years and, while all have enriched his life, one is extra special: Burke High School student Duane Jenkins.
The 18-year-old first started participating in the city of Charleston's therapeutic recreation programs last summer and was among 1,000 athletes competing in the Special Olympics South Carolina's Mid-Winter Games at The Citadel this weekend.
When Jenkins was only 13 months old, he was in a house fire that burned him over 85 percent of his body.
Doctors didn't expect him to survive and, while he did, the fire was life-changing. He lost his nose, ears and hearing, his forearms and his toes.
Tutterow recalls Jenkins' arrival to play bocce and wondered how he would be able to roll the ball. He was stunned when Jenkins didn't hesitate, picking up the ball and rolling it. That was just the beginning. Jenkins has since bowled and played basketball.
"For all the physical obstacles he has to overcome, he is an awesome athlete," said Tutterow, who is 26 and works at Benefitfocus.com. "His bravery and desire is really inspiring for me. ... He's a great kid, too."
To Tutterow, Duane embodies the oath of the Special Olympics athlete: "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
Duane's aunt, Lashon Jenkins, who has cared for him since his mother died nearly three years ago from a fall while suffering from pneumonia, said Special Olympics has been a perfect fit for him and has given him a needed outlet.
"Duane loves sports. He's a diehard Dallas Cowboys fan. He loves wrestling. He thinks he's (pro wrestler) John Sina. He's very athletic. Anything he sees other boys doing he tries to do himself. He's very motivated and driven."
She added that Duane has never let his disabilities or appearance get him down.
"Most kids don't understand that he's severely burned, so they'll just stare at him, but that has never bothered him. ... Duane doesn't care that he has a disability. He's a strong-willed, happy-go-lucky kid and Special Olympics is making him even stronger."
And yet Duane's story is among hundreds that put life into perspective.
Sue Maner, vice president of communications and programs for SOSC, said this weekend's games were the largest held at The Citadel with a total of 1,400 participants, including 1,000 athletes and 400 coaches and unified players. She added about 400 people attended as volunteers for the games.
She thinks the increase is due to several factors, including more of an effort to get into schools and fundraising events that support Special Olympics.
Locally, those events include the Bocce Bash on Daniel Island in April, the Dunleavy's Pub Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day on Sullivan's Island, Special Olympics Gala at the Daniel Island Club in November, and the SOAR 5K on Folly Beach in September.
"Every time you do an event with our name attached we get more attention, but the money raised also allows us to have more athletes here because our big expense is hotel rooms," Maner said. "We house the athletes for two nights and Charleston hotels are not cheap. And we feed everybody."
She added that most of the $125,000 budget for the Mid-Winter Games goes for hotel rooms.
"People may not realize that we have a big financial impact on the community, as well. That influx of money doesn't include all the family members coming down and staying in hotel rooms," said Maner.
The local games are only one of three in South Carolina. The biggest and oldest, begun in 1968, is in Columbia in early May, and the other is in Greenville in mid-October.
Another aspect of Special Olympics that people may not realize is the opportunity the nonprofit seizes to check the health of athletes, such as vision and dental checks.
Dr. Carlos Salinas of the Medical University of South Carolina dental school had a brigade of dental students and residents on site performing oral health screenings, fitting athletes with mouthpieces and giving instruction on proper dental care.
Salinas said the screenings typically find issues in about 10 percent of the athletes. More severe cases, including an abscess one year, are immediately sent for care.
Salinas has been bringing students to the local games since 2001 and calls it's a "wonderful experience."
"It's very important not only for the athletes, but for the parents and coaches to understand that oral care is integral part of the health of the individual. It's also important to teach my students and residents that oral care is for everybody, even athletes with disabilities.


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A Carthage man has been sentenced to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to home repair fraud.
Attorney General Jim Hood says 47-year-old
Alvin Dennis Hall pleaded guilty to one felony count of home repair fraud.
Officials say Hall had contracted with a homeowner in Madison for the construction of a concrete slab, for which he was paid $10,000.
Hood says the investigation revealed that Hall did not do the work, despite the efforts of the homeowner. Finally, the homeowner hired and paid another contractor to do the job.
The sentencing order requires that Hall serve one year in prison, along with two more years for two unrelated felonies, after which he will be released on the condition that he pay full restitution.
Hall will be on supervised probation for five years after getting out of prison. He was ordered to pay full restitution to the homeowner.
Hall was convicted under Mississippi's home repair fraud statute, which provides criminal penalties for anyone who enters into a home repair contract and promises to do work which he or she does not intend to do or knows will not be done.


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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's finance minister says his country won't let business concerns get in the way of fresh sanctions against Russia, should they become necessary.
The European Union has threatened to impose a third round of sanctions against Moscow unless Russia uses its influence to stop the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.
Companies in Germany — Europe's biggest economy — have warned that they face losing billions of euros in business with Russia if sanctions are stepped up.
But Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says that while further sanctions "will likely affect us...they won't stop us from doing what needs to be done."
Schaueble told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday that "the worst thing would be if we allow for international law to be broken."


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SETTING: Set of game show called "Make it Juuuust Right!" in front of the Three Bears' house
Goldi:Hey everybody! Welcome to another episode of "Make It Juuuust Right!" As always, I'm your host, Goldi. I don't go by Goldilocks anymore, but you already know that. Now, lots of you have written in wanting to know how I got started in the makeover show business. So, my producers and I decided it was time to go visit my old friends, the Three Bears. THAT'S where we are today-at the Three Bears' House! Come on, let's see what they've done to the place, and let's see if I can make it juuuuuust right!
(Goldilocks goes in through the front door of the Three Bears' house.)
Ha! They're locking their door now.
(Goldilocks looks under the mat, picks up the key, unlocks the door and enters the kitchen.)
I hope I can have a reunion with the bears. How fun would that be?! Now let's see...
(Goldilocks starts to rearrange things. She sees three bowls of porridge on the counter.)
Well, this isn't right! They're still eating regular porridge! This is no good! They need some Eat-Right Porridge!
(Goldilocks dumps out the normal porridge and replaces it by pulling out a cylindrical container out of her canvas bag. She pours green guck sloppily into the bowls.)
Aaah! That's better! Lower carbs! Fortified with protein and vitamins from bean mold! They'll love this. Stick around. We'll be right back with more Make It Juuust Right!
SETTING: Woods
(Bear Family is walking back home.)
Papa Bear:Are we almost done with this walk, Mama, because I'm hungry!
(Papa rubs his stomach.)
Baby Bear:I'm so hungry, I could eat a gallon of berries, and a buffalo, and a turkey, and...
Mama Bear :We're almost done.
Papa Bear:Well, bad things happen when we go out on walks.
Baby Bear:Yeah! Remember when that weird blond girl messed up our place?
Mama Bear:Well that won't happen again. I locked the door.
SETTING: Dining Room of the Three Bears' house
Goldi:OK, we're back. And it looks like they haven't changed the living room much. This needs a few touches. Let's see...
(Goldi goes over to Papa Bear's chair.)
This settee needs some beaded throw pillows. It could also use some potpourri spray disinfectant. Phew!
(Goldi throws pillows and sprays the chair. Goldi then goes over to Mama Bear's chair.)
This needs firmer cushions and less frills.
(Goldi removes a cushion and tears the lacey fabric off Mama's chair. Goldi then goes over to Baby Bear's chair.)
I don't need to do anything with this chair. It's juuuust right!
(Goldi sits in it.)
And we'll be back with more "Make It Juuuust Right" after this short break!
SETTING: Outside the Three Bears' House
(The Bears walk up to front door.)
Baby Bear:Hey dad? Why are there tv cameras in front of our house?
Mama Bear:And why is the door open? I locked it on the way out!
Papa Bear:And the kitchen smells like... Human!
(They all look at each other and shake their heads.)
The Three Bears:Goldilocks.
Baby Bear:Somebody call the cops!
SETTING: The Bedroom
Goldi:Welcome back! Let's see if the Bear family upgraded their mattresses.
(Goldi hops on Papa Bear's bed.)
Oww! What's under here, sheetrock?
(Goldi hops on Mama Bear's bed.)
Whoa, no good! No support! This will definitely lead to lower back pain!
(Goldi hops on Baby Bear's bed.)
Ohh! THIS is nice! Luxury, comfort, durability, and support! Juuust right! Wow, I feel real tired now.
(Goldi yawns.)
Well, that just about does it for today's episode of "Make It Juuuust Right." (Yawn.) I'm just gonna... curl up here for a while... It's been a long...
(Suddenly the Three Bears come bursting into the bedroom.)
The Three Bears:Ah HA! Goldilocks!
(Goldi wakes up.)
Goldi :Hi guys! I've missed you!
(Goldi gets up and tries to give them all a hug. They deny the gesture of goodwill.)
Mama Bear:No, no! You're not gonna to get away with this again!
Baby Bear:You broke into our HOUSE!
Papa Bear:Grrrr...
(Papa Bear moves closer to Goldilocks.)
SETTING: Inside Papa Bear's stomach Pitch BLACK with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling
(Goldilocks clicks a hanging light bulb on. We hear dripping noises.)
Goldi:Well, this place could use a little work... Let's see... It's kind of dark, so we'll need more candles. And it's a little smelly, but it's nothing that some fresh flowers wouldn't fix.
(We hear a huge burp. Goldilocks shakes around from the burp, as if in an earthquake.)
(Papa Bear, politely covers his mouth and finishes his belch.)
Papa Bear:Excuse me! Aah, juuuust right!
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The Bruins lost a game to Pittsburgh 3-2 Saturday, and lost Nathan Horton to an avoidable injury in the first period at TD Garden.
The forward was injured during a fight with Penguins winger Jarome Iginla and did not return to the game.
Coach Claude Julien offered no update on Horton, who seemed to be favoring his left wrist or hand as he skated to the dressing room. Horton was holding onto Iginla's sweater with his left hand as he fell, and then he reached for his left hand with his right as soon as the linesman stepped.
It was Horton's second fighting major of the season. Considering his importance to the Bruins and his recent history of head injuries, Horton might've been wise to avoid a fight that didn't seem to be inspired by anything — or at least anything Iginla was willing to reveal.
"Horton, he's a tough competitor and it's just kind of one of those things," said Iginla, who scored the go-ahead goal in the third period for Pittsburgh. "We were all kind of our there and battling and jawing and it wasn't much … it was over pretty quick. I see he didn't come back. I don't know if his shoulder [got hurt] when he fell or what, we fell down pretty quick. …
"It wasn't a long personal thing or anything, it kind of just happened."
The Bruins had already scratched Milan Lucic, so they played most of the game without two of their bigger forwards.


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Im developing a squad to follow and protect my hero in my next battle.
Im also including a pair of taser-armed mouse droid-like things, and I was wondering if it was possible for them to redshirt for hero? After all, the redshirt ability asses it as "one friendly unit" but does this include creations?


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'"At the end of the day, Dom will be taking a little bit of a salary cut to go to Detroit, and the Sabres didn't get quite what they wanted for possibly their best player ever," Winter said. "There's no way that Darcy can say seriously that he's happy for what he got. He traded away one of the greatest players ever to play the game."'
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28 Weeks Later (UK - DVD R2)
Scott McKenzie tries his best not to use the z-word while reviewing this sequel...
28 Weeks Later begins with a small group of people hiding out in a cottage from the infected people outside. It's not long before the infected attack and the survivors are quickly picked off one by one. Only Donald (Robert Carlyle) escapes unharmed, but his survival is at the cost of his wife, who he had to leave behind. This sequence is set some point during the time of 28 Days Later and during the credit sequence we fast-forward six months to a time when the virus appears to have been eradicated from the United Kingdom and the US army is beginning the repatriation process. Donald is reunited with his children, who were out of the country during the outbreak, but their arrival sets off a chain of events that can only lead to re-infection for everyone in London.
Set in the same world as 28 Days Later, this isn't a direct sequel to its predecessor. Taking the Romero route, we get the story of a different set of characters that are thrown into a similar situation. The strong theme of this movie is family and we see how the infection affects the father, mother and children in different ways. In actual fact, the events of 28 Weeks Later are more of a sequel to the pre-credits opening sequence than to Danny Boyle's original movie. The setup has more in common with Land of the Dead, whereby the oasis created by the powers-that-be becomes their prison when the bad guys arrive, but the motivations of the central characters are very different.
The writer-director team of 28 Days Later, Alex Garland and Danny Boyle, have returned as executive producers on this sequel and handed the reins over to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. They haven't exactly taken a step back though, with Boyle lending a helping hand as second unit director on some sequences. Composer John Murphy's haunting music makes another appearance to ensure there is clear consistency in the composition of the two movies.
The opening sequence sets a standard that continues throughout the whole movie. For the first few minutes we're introduced to the characters, their relationships and how they are struggling to deal with the situation they've found themselves in. Then, almost without warning, we're thrown into a very fast-paced and brutal action sequence. This is a template for the main body of the movie, which switches from characterisation to action at the halfway point, and it is the action that sets 28 Weeks Later apart from its lower-budget predecessor. Once we have invested just enough emotion in these well-developed characters, they're suddenly running for their lives from the infected and the people who are supposed to protect them.
Where 28 Days Later focused primarily on keeping the audience in suspense, the sequel is more of a straightforward survival action movie. The combination of handheld camera work, great special effects and that score make for some of the most exciting sequences I have watched in a long time. Two words: helicopter massacre. Watch 28 Weeks Later and you'll know what I mean. As a Brit, it's also good to see a proper action movie set in one of our cities. We're all so used to seeing New York or LA get trashed, it's refreshing to witness somewhere more familiar get firebombed.
The action isn't at the expense of character development. The characters are all well fleshed-out in the relatively short running time, in particular Robert Carlyle's character, who has to deal with the guilt of leaving his wife at the same time as welcoming his children into their new home. We also get to see how the virus affects members of the family, with one particular infected person being more than just a flesh-eating madman.
28 Weeks Later is better than its predecessor. There, I've said it. I love 28 Days Later, as do many of the writers on this site, but the larger budget has allowed the sequel to up the ante on the scope and what can be shown on the screen, but not at the expense of putting believable characters in believable situations. 28 Weeks Later does exactly what any good sequel should do— it reminds you what was good about the original but at the same time develops the themes and expands the world inside the movie to make it more interesting and exciting. Unfortunately for Danny Boyle, he's got a lot to live up to if he decides to return for 28 Months Later.
The feature has a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer. 28 Weeks Later has a very similar visual style to 28 Days Later, with shaky camera work and high contrast during certain scenes. The picture is a little grainy at times, which may be intentional in an attempt to replicate the style of the original. I didn't see this at the cinema so I can't say for sure, although it does lack detail in long wide shots. That said, it doesn't get in the way of an enjoyable visual experience.
Dolby Digital 5.1 is the only audio option (other than the Stereo audio descriptive track) and it is as clear as you would expect. The music is very important to the movie and sometimes drowns out the dialogue and effects, but this is intentional to increase tension. During key sequences the music builds as the infection spreads, which is neat and subtle trick. The effects and dialogue are all at the appropriate level in relation to the music so I'd say this is a pretty faithful transfer of the original soundtrack to disc.
A commentary track is supplied by the director and his co-writer/producer Enrique Lopez Lavigne. They go into a lot of detail about the making of the film but their conversations never drop into a blinding level of technicality. They state that they wanted to create a vision of London similar to the setting of Alfonso Cuaron's Children Of Men and discuss their collaborations with Alex Garland on the screenplay and Danny Boyle on the filming of key sequences, most notably the opening scenes.
Two deleted scenes with optional commentary are included, but as is almost always the case their omission was necessary to keep the story moving along. The 'Making of' featurette includes a lot of talking head interviews, most interesting of all are the discussions from Danny Boyle about the alternative ideas they had for a sequel. They may not have chosen to produce it, but I'd love to read the screenplay for the Escape from New York-esque story of SAS troops trying to get the Prime Minister out of London during the first outbreak.
'The Infected' featurette is a spotlight for the extras and the choreographers who planned their intricate movements. 'Getting into the Action' shows the filmmakers talking about the fact that 28 Weeks Later is more action-focused than its predecessor, and their intention to use handheld cameras to give the impression of a 'horror documentary'. In addition to the theatrical trailer, this decent set of extras is rounded off with two episodes of 28 Days Later: Aftermath, an animated comic book written by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland that goes into more detail about the genesis of the virus and the first outbreak.
28 Weeks Later is better than its predecessor. There, I've said it again. Whether you're into action, horror, suspense or just want to see London get firebombed, this is the movie for you. The transfer is as good as you would expect and the extras provide interesting details about the making of the film and highlight the obvious passion everyone has involved for the project, which makes me even more excited about a possible sequel. And I didn't even use the word 'zombie'.
Review by Scott McKenzie
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 10th September 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Feature Commentary, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary, Code Red: The Making Of 28 Weeks Later, The Infected Featurette, Getting Into The Action Featurette, 28 Days Later: Aftermath - 2 Animated Comic Books, Theatrical Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Walker, Catherine McCormack
Genre: Action, Horror and Thriller
Length: 101 minutes
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You can ride the same road over, and over, and over again, and it's still special. And so it was again this morning, my first "regular" Tuesday/Thursday morning ride after last Wednesdays tragic accident in which Joy Covey lost her life. I spent a lot of time these past few days dealing with that, and wondered how I'd feel this morning. Well, it felt good to ride. We talked a bit about the incident when we were in the area, but it wasn't the focus of the ride. I think it's reasonable to be able to separate riding from anger, and we did.
A number of us out there this morning, including Todd, Eric, Kevin (pilot), Zack, Jan, JR, Karl and… Karl's friend who works with him at REI… Chris? It was Thursday so we rode up through the park, made a bit easier by it being one of those rare times when the lower gate was actually open for us. No records broken today, but I'm feeling better than I have for quite some time, despite not riding last Tuesday & Thursday, and despite a pretty easy 40 mile ride last Sunday.
There are some mornings I'm not looking forward to Kings Mtn, but once I get into it, things change. It's always there, waiting for me. My roads. They're reliable. They challenge me, they bring me incredible views, they keep me young. As long as I can keep on riding, I remain young. I plan to keep on riding.