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How to Host Your Own Fantastic Fest
Chances are that, even if you adore movies, you've never been to a film festival before. And if you have, you've probably never been to a film festival like Fantastic Fest before. For eight days in Austin, Texas, Tim League and the Alamo Drafthouse play host to a selection of richly rewarding but slightly off-center films from every corner of the known universe. Maybe you've heard of it, and maybe you're totally jealous.
That's okay! The spirit of Fantastic Fest is all-inclusive, and I'm here to help. If you can't make it down to Austin, there's no reason why you can't make Fantastic Fest happen in your living room. Here's everything you need to host a killer one-night Fantastic Fest at home, in no particular order.
5. The Films
While Fantastic Fest has a reputation as a safe haven for outlandish horror and sci-fi, there's actually a ton of dramas and comedies there too. For a one-day fest, pick five films, varying countries and genres - don't go all-foreign and don't go all horror. Throw in a documentary or a whacked-out romance. Play unpredictable. This will truly get your guests into the spirit of the fest as they won't know what to expect from one film to the next.
You can choose some off-kilter favorites of your own, ones you know your guests haven't seen (for the most part), or you can use this handy guide to all of the past Fantastic Fest films that are currently available to be streamed online. Spread them out with roughly an hour break between films, and leave a two-hour block of time after sundown for the next item on the list.
Also, and this is important, NO TALKING OR TEXTING. If anyone needs to do this during the party, let them excuse themselves. If you really want to get into it, play one of these Alamo bumpers before every film.
4. Karaoke
I'm not sure how and when Fantastic Fest's second most popular activity besides movie-watching became karaoke, but there you have it. Perhaps it's a general appreciation of all things Japanese, or maybe it's the convenience of the Highball, the Drafthouse's adjacent nightclub, which features private karaoke rooms and live-band stage karaoke (and sometimes offers both at the exact same time). Somewhere during the night of your fest (I suggest right before your final film), fire up a karaoke machine and spend a couple of hours belting out Bon Jovi and Bon Iver to anyone who will listen. If you're not ready to sing, it means you haven't gotten drunk enough. Please see Number Three.
3. Beer
If you're going to fill your fridge (or get a keg) for the fest, make sure it's Texas' own Shiner Bock. I realize I sound like a commercial, and I don't even like beer, but this is a hugely important ingredient. Shiner flows like honey-colored water throughout the festival, and by the end of the day, everyone is in a loosey-goosey buzz that makes funny movies funnier and scary movies scarier. Without beer, it's not Fantastic Fest.
2. The Preshow
You get a show before the show at the Drafthouse, and unlike the multiplexes, pimping new ABC sitcoms and diet cola commercials, the Alamo Drafthouse pre-show consists of video oddities of every imaginable configuration. You might see a vintage cartoon followed by a hopelessly outdated PSA followed by a 1980s hair-metal music video. The geniuses who create this stuff are the beating heart of the Drafthouse brand. Keep the preshow visually interesting and entertaining, but not so engrossing that anyone will groan when you turn it off. Many set-top boxes include YouTube integration, so build a playlist there and fire it up between shows.
If you want some classic Drafthouse standbys, here are a couple of suggestions...
1. Friends
We all have a circle of friends that we socialize with, but in the case of your own homegrown Fantastic Fest, expand that circle. This is a time when you'll make new friends and learn more about acquaintances than you ever thought possible. Include the guy from your office who really, really liked The Dark Knight Rises and wouldn't shut up about it. Call up the girlfriend you haven't had coffee with in a year. Text a friend of a friend and invite them to join in. By the end of the night, if you've replicated Fantastic Fest successfully, you'll have made a half dozen new pals that you suddenly can't live without. Even if no one agrees on any of the films, they'll all have had a good time.
If you have a patio or a deck, don't allow anyone to stay inside between films. After every movie, usher everyone to the patio and talk for an hour before firing up the next flick. Heck, you don't even have to talk about the movie you just watched, just take the conversation outside. Some fresh air and a change of scenery will get you ready for the next film without glazing over, and the one-hour breaks will become just as much of a highlight as the films are.
Now, if you really want to replicate the true feeling of Fantastic Fest, do this at home for eight days in a row. Do not sleep in your own bed. Eat queso with every meal. Get the flu then recover. Empty your bank account. Then, when all is said and done, get excited to do it all over again in exactly one year. That's hard-core.
(Photos by Jack Plunkett)
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STOCKTON - Pacific Storage Co. traces its roots to a Gold Rush-era tannery that stood at the head of a channel leading to the San Joaquin Delta.
STOCKTON - Pacific Storage Co. traces its roots to a Gold Rush-era tannery that stood at the head of a channel leading to the San Joaquin Delta.
That tannery received tree bark and animal hides as its raw materials and for decades was a major leather producer. But as the industry shifted to Asia, which was able to make leather less expensively, an unused portion of the block-sized tannery was dedicated to storing farm commodities, such as wheat and onions.
Thus Pacific Storage Co. was born in 1928. It became a Bekins moving agent in 1933, and soon, the business of moving and storing household goods and office furniture and equipment replaced the produce and grain.
Today, the company continues to evolve, focusing more and more on the handling, storage, digitizing and shredding of documents.
It sold its moving business in the Stockton-Modesto market two years ago to a longtime manager but continues to provide moving services in Sacramento and San Jose, which accounts for a little over a third of its business.
"Our main focus now in Stockton and, really, throughout Northern California, is records management," said Greg Tudor, Pacific's president and chief executive.
The company holds about 1.5 million document storage boxes in inventory in six warehouses in Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto and, most recently acquired, Fresno.
Pacific leased a 35,000-square-foot warehouse in Fresno after acquiring a document shredding business there last year.
"Our goal is to want to really grow in the (Central) Valley of California. So that's where our focus is as we go forward," Tudor said.
Its store of documents is digitally catalogued and carefully stored. Pacific said it can quickly retrieve any document or file. Medical records, in particular, are available around the clock, any day of the year, with delivery in an hour and a half, he said.
Especially sensitive materials can be held in a 400-square-foot media vault in Sacramento, where computer discs and tapes, and critical paper records, can be held in a controlled climate behind four-hour-fire-rated walls.
Despite the promise of a paperless society, Pacific's paper documents storage is growing as fast as it was six years ago, Tudor said. But the fastest growth is in shredding services, due to increasing concerns over privacy and security.
"That part of the business is growing dramatically," he said.
Pacific counts a wide variety of businesses among its 1,200 customers, and while the medical sector is increasingly digitizing its records - and demanding more shredding services as a result - records management remains a dynamic, growing trade.
"It may seem like kind of a boring business, but it's really exciting to me," Tudor said.
Contact reporter Reed Fujii at (209) 546-8253 or firstname.lastname@example.com.

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George Eliot
A mans a man,
But when you see a king, you see the work
Of many thousand men.
A womans rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal.
A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
Shed make them newly, being what she was.
And rank for her meant duty, various
Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.
Command was service; humblest service done
By willing and discerning souls was glory.
Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.
But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
And knows no disappointment.
Conscience is harder than our enemies,
Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours,
Whisperings, wooings,
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that loves aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright,
For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
From some unknown afar.
Death is the king of this world: tis his park
Where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain
Are music for his banquet.
For strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength
In furthest striving action.
For thoughts are so greatarent they, sir?
They seem to lie upon us like a deep flood.
His years with others must the sweeter be
For those brief days he spent in loving me.
In travelling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools pleasure.
It was in the prime
Of the sweet spring-time,
In the linnets throat
Trembled the love-note,
And the love-stirred air
Thrilled the blossoms there.
Little shadows danced,
Each a tiny elf,
Happy in large light
And the thinnest self.
Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world?
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
O that grave speech would cumber our quick souls
Like bells that waste the moments with their loudness.
One height
Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light,
And he could hear its multitudinous roar,
Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore.
Our growing thought
Makes growing revelation.
Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summers dead,
And all sad sounds are natures funeral cries
For what has been and is not.
Speech is but broken light upon the depth
Of the unspoken.
The devil tempts us not; tis we tempt him,
Beckoning his skill with opportunity.
These gems have life in them: their colors speak,
Say what words fail of.
The human heart
Finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
They the royal-hearted women are
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
Tis God gives skill,
But not without mens hands: He could not make
Antonio Stradivaris violins
Without Antonio.
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young,
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans; some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords; the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp which streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reasons lamp.
What if my words
Were meant for deeds.
When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bees swinging chime,
Because the one so near the other is.
You love the rosesso do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valleys would be pink and white,
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once.
Over the sea, Queen, where we soon shall go,
Will it rain roses?
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
A book which hath been culled from the flowers of all books.
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
A man deep wounded may feel too much pain to feel much anger.
A mans a man; but when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a womans life, and exalts habit into partnership with the souls highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills; to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness.
A womans hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
A womans lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Animals are such agreeable friendsthey ask no questions. They pass no criticisms.
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier, who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command which he must himself obey.
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church-steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
But certain winds will make mens temper bad.
But for tradition, we walk evermore to higher paths by brightening reasons lamp.
Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother.
Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness.
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went beforeconsequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
Dont let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
Dont seem to be on the lookout for crows, else youll set other people watching.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
Friend more divine than all divinities.
Friendships begin with liking or gratituderoots that can be pulled up.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Growing thought makes growing revelation.
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless,nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
Hate is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
I have been a great deal happier since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I could not have my own will. Our life is determined for us; and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do.
I like to read about Moses best, in th Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think whatll come of it after hes dead and gone.
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.
Ignorance, says Ajax, is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
In every parting there is an image of death.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music? to feel its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of your soul, the delicate fibres of life where no memory can penetrate, and binding together your whole being, past and present, in one unspeakable vibration; melting you in one moment with all the tenderness, all the love, that has been scattered through the toilsome years, concentrating in one emotion of heroic courage or resignation all the hard-learned lessons of self-renouncing sympathy, blending your present joy with past sorrow, and your present sorrow with all your past joy?
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talentalmost like a carrier-pigeon.
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
It is a wonderful subduerthis need of love, this hunger of the heart.
It is difficult for a woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but dont carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
It is hard to believe long together that anything is worth while, unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
It is in those acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look around with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say the earth bears no harvest of sweetness, calling their denial knowledge.
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more trees.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Joy is the best of wine.
Leisure is gone,gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
Life is like a game of whist. I dont enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,the ties that have made others dependent on us,and would cut them in two.
Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Theesee Thee weeping over them, and saying, Ye will not come unto me that ye might have lifesee Thee hanging on the cross and saying, Father, forgave them, for they know not what they dosee Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the dominion of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
Love supreme defies all sophistry.
Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,when each is sure of the others love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.
Man cannot choose his duties.
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but womans heart has holier idols.
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.
Mirahs was the sort of voice that gives the impression of being meant, like a birds wooing, for an audience near and beloved.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Nature repairs her ravages,repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
Nemesis is lame; but she is of colossal stature, like the gods, and sometimes, while her sword is not yet unsheathed, she stretches out her huge left arm and grasps her victim. The mighty hand is invisible, but the victim totters under the dire clutch.
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
One couldnt carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Ones self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property, which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.
One soweth and another reapeth, is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Our deeds are like children born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Children may be strangled, but deeds never.
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
Our life is determined for us; and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do.
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiæ of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
Steady work turns genius to a loom.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words.
Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.
That beneficent harness of routine, which enables silly men to live respectably and happy men to live calmly.
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
That is the bitterest of allto wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
The best part of a womans love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burkes grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger, or the hem of her robe.
The devil tempts us not; tis we tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
The dew-bead gem, of earth and sky begotten.
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
The idea of dutythat recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of selfis to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
The mothers love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
The world is great; the stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.
There are * * * robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world; and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,that does not make a man sing or play the better.
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that,to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
Tis what I love determines how I love.
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion: a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timidtoo timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Veracity is a plant of Paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other; for images are the brood of desire.
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
We hand folks over to Gods mercy, and show none ourselves.
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurtsnot to hurt others.
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it; and even his bad grammar is sublime.
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender womans face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at ones finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
When you see fair hair, be pitiful.
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
Who shall put his finger on the work of justice, and say, It is there? Justice is like the kingdom of God: it is not without us as a fact; it is within us as a great yearning.
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
Your words bring daylight with them when you speak.
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Framingham Man Arraigned for Unlawfully Issuing State Inspection Stickers to Untested Vehicles
Authorities allege Bicalho conducted tests on a different motor vehicle and then used the results from that test to issue a passing inspection sticker to the vehicle that came in for the inspection. This practice, known as "clean scanning," undermines the purpose of the emissions inspection process, can cause increased air pollution, and is illegal. Authorities allege Bicalho, a licensed state inspector, issued false inspection stickers at ZE Carlos Auto Repair, located at 243 Howard St., Framingham, or at a nearby restaurant at significant mark-ups, on at least four occasions without conducting an inspection on those vehicles.
The charges stem from an investigation by the Massachusetts Environmental Crimes Strike Force (ECSF), an interagency unit that includes prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office, Environmental Police Officers assigned to the Attorney General's Office, and attorneys, investigators and engineers from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). The investigation also included an undercover operation conducted by State Police assigned to the Attorney General's Office, technical data from MassDEP's Vehicle Check Program, information from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and assistance from the Framingham Police Department. The case initially started with a motorist's complaint to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, which was then referred to the MassDEP Strike Force.
Each of these alleged false inspections involved an on-board diagnostic (OBD) emissions test. The OBD test is a simple test in which an inspector plugs the scan tool from an inspection workstation into the vehicle's OBD connector, and the workstation's computer queries the vehicle's computer for the status of the emissions control system monitors. Authorities allege Bicalho did not conduct an OBD test on the motor vehicles that were subject to the test as required under the Enhanced Emissions and Safety Test Program. The Enhanced Emissions and Safety Test Program is an important part of the state's effort to protect air quality.
A Middlesex Grand Jury returned the indictments against Bicalho on June 11, 2009. Bicalho was arraigned yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court. Bicalho is due back in court for a pre-trial conference on July 13, 2009.
As a result of the charges, the RMV has initiated the process of revoking Bicalho's license to issue vehicle inspection stickers.
The ECSF is overseen by Attorney General Martha Coakley, MassDEP Commissioner Laurie Burt and Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian A. Bowles. The ECSF investigates and prosecutes crimes that harm the state's water, air, land or that pose a significant threat to human health, safety, welfare or the environment.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Andrew Rainer, Chief of the Environmental Crimes Strike Force. Pamela Talbot, who directs the MassDEP Strike Force, worked with lead investigators Steve Spencer and John Flemmi on this case. Craig Woleader from MassDEP's Vehicle Check Program provided technical expertise regarding the OBD analysis.
Members of the public who have information regarding a potential environmental crime are encouraged to contact the MassDEP Environmental Strike Force Hotline at 1-888-VIOLATE (846-5283) or the Attorney General's Office at 617-727-2200.


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Upcoming meetings in February for Community Boards 2 and 3
ACommunity Board 3
Mon., Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m., C.B. 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St.
Human Services, Health, Disability, & Seniors / Youth & Education Committees
Tues., Feb. 8, 6 p.m., C.B. 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St.
*Cabrini Hospital move of specialty clinics from Polyclinic building on Second Ave. to Cabrini East Village on E. Fourth St.
Housing, Land Disposition, Zoning, & N.Y.C. Housing Authority Committee
Tues., Feb. 8. 6:30 p.m., Project Renewal, Kenton Hall, 333 Bowery
*Ryan-NENA Community Health Center Project: preliminary plans for development of site at 321-325 E. Third St.
*Presentation by Cooper Union of modification to plans for new academic building at 41 Cooper Sq.
*Common Ground: update on plans for the former Boys Club site at 133 Pitt St.
* Community facility bonus allowances and negative impact on C.B. 3 area to be addressed by Community Assistance Unit of the Mayors Office, The Department of Buildings, and N.Y.C. Planning Commission
Parks, Recreation, Cultural Affairs, Landmarks, & Waterfront Committee
Thurs., Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m., Casa Victoria, 308 E. Eighth St., between Avenues B and C
Street fair issues and events: approximately 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
*Review of C.B. 3 guidelines for amplified sound time restrictions
Non-Street fair issues: approximately 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
*Recommendations for Coleman Park reconstruction
Community Board 2
Parks, Recreation & Open Space
Wed., Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m., Metro New York Developmental Disabilities Center, 75 Morton St., Activity center room
*Parks Department presentation of design for refurbishing Washington Sq. Park
Joint Social Services, Homeless & Senior Services and Youth
Thurs., Feb. 3, 7 p.m., C.B. 2 Board Office conference room, 3 Washington Sq. Village, first floor
Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee
Thurs., Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m., N.Y.U. Silver Building, 32 Waverly Pl., Room 501
Waterfront Committee
Mon., Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m., Metro New York DDC, 75 Morton St., Activity center room
*Gansevoort Peninsula discussion and presentation by New York Sailing
*Presentation by Pier 40 marketing organization (Bay Area Economics)
Environment Committee
Mon., Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m., C.B. 2 Board Office conference room, 3 Washington Sq. Village, first floor
*Gansevoort Peninsula marine waste-transfer station proposal
Traffic & Transportation Committee
Tues., Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m., N.Y.U. Waverly Building, 24 Waverly Pl., Room 570
*Proposed parking regulation changes on small sections of W. 12th, Horatio, Washington and West Sts.
Business Committee
Tues., Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m., Metro New York DDC, 75 Morton St., activity center room
Public Safety, Public Health Committee
Tues., Feb. 8, 7 p.m., C.B. 2 Board Office conference room, 3 Washington Sq. Village, first floor
*Annual review of the Sixth Police Precinct
Executive Committee
Wed., Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m., Metro New York DDC, 75 Morton St., Activity center room
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Rediscovering the Community of Creation
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With his characteristic rigor and perceptiveness, Richard Bauckham embarks on a biblical investigation into the relationship between human beings and the rest of creation. Bauckham argues that there is much more to the Bible's understanding of this relationship than the mandate of human dominion given in Genesis 1—which, he writes, has too often been used as a justification for domination and exploitation of the earth's resources. Instead, Bauckham considers the ecological perspectives found in the book of Job, the Psalms, and the Gospels, all of which, he determines, require a reevaluation of the biblical tradition of "dominion." Bauckham discovers a tradition of a "community of creation" in which human beings are fellow members with God's other creatures and true reconciliation to God involves the entire creation. Short, reliable, and engaging, The Bible and Ecology is essential reading for anyone looking for a biblically grounded approach to ecology.
1 Stewardship in Question
2 Putting Us in Our Place
3 The Community of Creation
4 Where the Wild Things Are
5 From Alpha to Omega
"In this book Richard Bauckham brings his characteristic clarity of thought and attentiveness to textual detail to matters of theology and ecology. Ranging well beyond the accounts of Genesis 1-2, Bauckham presents the rich, complex and multilayered ways in which the Bible speaks about humans, animals and the rest of creation. Bauckham's analysis suggests a lively and life-giving set of prescriptions for how humans might engage and even enhance creation without violating its God-given integrity."
—Stephen Fowl, Professor of Theology, Loyola University Maryland
"Bauckham has a made a valuable contribution to the debate about how ecology relates to the Bible, especially the move from ecological inter-dependence to creation as a community of crucial and meaningful inter-relationships."
—Norman Habel, Professorial Fellow, Flinders University, South Australia
"… an excellent text for a class in ecotheology or Christian environmental ethics."
—Nathan Babcock, Pastor, Bismarck First Church of Christ, Stone-Campbell Journal (Spring 2013)
"… a superb choice for lay people, pastors and Bible college students ..."
—Christina Richie, Boston College, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
"Bauckham has forced us to reconsider again the question of stewardship and the place of humans in the community of creation. He carefully explores a range of biblical texts that highlight God's care of creation and the place of humans in that community."
—Review of Biblical Literature (August 2011)
"Overall, this is a very successful book which demonstrates the Bible's relevance to a vital issue."
—Stephen Finamore, Evangelical Quarterly
"A great resource ... on Christianity and the environment."
—Brian C. Dennert, Themelios (2011, 36:3)
"Extremely significant in its thesis and compelling in its execution, The Bible and Ecology even has a touch of humor here and there."
—Bruce Longenecker, W.W. Melton Chair of Religion, Baylor University
"Without question the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Bible's understanding of ecology and humanity's place in God's community of creation. The book is accessible to general readers and is an indispensable source for scholars. It should be carefully and widely read."
—Reviews in Religion and Theology (2012, 19:1)
Richard Bauckham was, until 2007, Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and is now Professor Emeritus at St Andrews. A fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is the author of many books including Jesus and the Eye-Witnesses (winner of the 2009 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing) and Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World.
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If you are into sharks, you can find a plethora of shark games online or for your gaming platform. You can even find shark games that are board and card games of all types, including educational games for young children. Of course there are also shark games based on cartoons in various formats. Besides all of the shark games you can also play
Burrito Bison as one of the most famous angry bird type shooting game.
Word games are a popular genre for shark games. "Word Shark" is a game suited for children in the 1st and 2nd grades. Consonants are on tiles that the kids try to add to the a word ending on a mat to make a word. If they cannot create a word with that consonant, the tile is returned to the pile. This game is made by Teacher Created Resources and it is intended for a classroom as it has 10 two-sided mats for players, 58 vowel tiles and 92 consonant tiles.
There are other education shark games that are used to teach younger children. "Quiz Shark" is a game that uses a quiz format to teach many subjects. It is an interactive game that uses multiple choice questions or true/false questions using custom cards that you can create for the game. This game is made by Educational Insights and it is designed for use in the classroom.
"Shark Attack" is one of many shark games and it features a large shark trying to devour smaller fish that race around the board trying not to be eaten. The last fish left is the winner. This game is for 2 to 4 players and it is for the pre-school crowd. "Shark" is another board sharks game that is a stock trading game. The players may buy and sell stock shares before and after their turn at rolling the dice to see which company he can affect and what region on the board he can put their company marker. The game ends when all of one company's markers have been used.
Another of the many shark games is "Sharks with Lasers." It is a mechanical action card game in which the players are trying to pass the exam to become a MIA officer. MIA stands for Mysterious Intelligence Agency and players must overcome their fears to pass their entrance exam into the agency. Another game you can play is
Winx Club Game. Its a great sport game for all kind of ages.
There are several video shark games in the form of Flash games that can be played for free online or there are several video games for many platforms that can be purchased either online or wherever video games are sold. "Shark Attack Deathmatch" is an inexpensive game that can be downloaded from the Internet for the XBox platform. "Jaws Unleashed" is another XBox game. It is a video game designed from the well known "Jaws" motion picture.
Some of the Flash shark games include "Shark Bait," which has players trying to eat fish and avoid divers who will capture them. When the shark eats a squid, the divers turn into steaks that the sharks can eat. "Shark" is another fish eating game, but in this one the player must avoid the toxic bubbles as they try to eat the fish. There are some medic fish that can help prolong the shark's life if it does hit the toxic bubbles.
"Miami Shark" is the title of another the Flash shark games that can be played for free online. In this game, the shark isn't eating fish, it is eating people on Miami Beach. The shark can also pull down helicopters into the water to eat people. There are also New York Shark and Sydney Shark very similar to this game but covers another area. The Medieval Shark Game is also from the same character but back in the medieval time. There are many more titles for shark games online. Just do a web search on the top of the website to find them.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake has hit off the coast of western Indonesia, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-6.0 quake hit Saturday at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles). It was centered 88 kilometers (55 miles) southeast of Sinabang, a town on the east coast of Simeulue Island, which lies off the west coast of Sumatra island.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
In 2004, a massive earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. Most of the deaths were in northern Sumatra's Aceh province.


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Win or lose for Barack Obama, this election is on track to weirdly settle several highly controversial political issues. Here are some rather bold and not-so-bold predictions about the future:
1. All-white parties are over. The Republicans have managed to maintain their role as one of the two major political parties almost exclusively on a voting bloc of white people, and specifically white men. As one Republican apparatchik put it to Ron Brownstein about the Romney-Ryan strategy to win almost entirely with white people, "This is the last time anyone will try to do this." By 2016 the country will be even less white, and before then expect a major push within the Republican Party to come to some kind of agreement about immigration reform. Should they fail to do this, they will practically forfeit the next election when all their primary candidates rush to the right, and Hispanic voters react with appropriate disinterest.
2. We are stuck with terrible gun laws. The most evident feature of this year's election was the sheer number of mass shootings that took place during it, yet the bipartisan consensus that just about anyone should be able to buy any kind of assault rifle at any time remained as resilient as ever. The Democrats do not have the stomach to tackle gun control, and I don't really blame them. At this point it's hard to see how sane gun restrictions will ever make it back on to the political agenda.
3. The gays are getting married. This is probably the last election you're going to hear any kind of firm anti-marriage equality rhetoric from a national politician who aspires to the presidency. By the next cycle we will have had four (but really eight) years of a president who believes same-sex marriages should be recognized. It will be difficult for a Republican candidate to get through a primary without opposing marriage equality, but even harder for him to win national office without your basic first-term Obama wink and a nod to the fact that, well, yeah, I'm just saying that for political expediency. The Defense of Marriage Act is about to vanish into irrelevance, Don't Ask, Don't Tell has fallen without the entire U.S. military dropping their weapons on the battlefield to make out, and 51% of the country supports gay marriage, with most of the 41% opposition quieting down as they realize they've lost this one.
4. Abortion. Haha just kidding! Of course abortion won't be settled. However, at the same time, if you look at the national careers of Senate candidates like Todd Aiken and Richard Murdouck, and see how both these guys went from sure-fire wins to imploding gasballs of national renown by simply opening their mouths, then you can at least see the template as to how this issue will eventually fail Republicans. Whenever conservatives talk about getting Roe v. Wade overturned, I like to point out to them that this probably be the worst thing to ever actually happen to their party, so galvanizing would it be to certain corners of the left. This has been a sure-fire hit for so long, it would be like the dog chasing the car and not knowing what to do if he actually caught it. Moreover, as we've seen with Aiken and Murdouck, whenever you're talking about rape, you're losing. While pro-life sentiment will remain the norm, don't count on too many more nominees who've been arrested multiple times outside women's health clinics.
5. The president can bomb basically whoever he feels like. The Bush-Obama national security consensus got not even a whisper of resistance from the Romney campaign, which, when it disagreed with the administration at all, only pointed out that we should be willing to bomb more stuff. Obama's aggressive approach to anti-terrorism made him invincible to a Republican foreign policy critique—the Bush-era and Cold War claim that Democrats are weak on defense—yet that doesn't make it a particularly good policy. The drone program in Pakistan, especially, should worry anyone who also thought it was a bad idea to spend a few trillion dollars trying to convert Iraq into a Heritage Foundation paradise. Even for those of us who supported Obama, it will be imperative in a theoretical second term to speak up about the folly of using robots to blow up threatening croppings of military-age males in a part of the world where anti-American sentiment already runs extremely high. Yet it is also difficult to see how the next Democratic nominee for 2016 will feel any differently.


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The price of oil slipped to near $93 a barrel Friday ahead of quarterly growth figures for the world's biggest economy.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June delivery was down 62 cents to $93.02 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.21 to close at $93.64 on Thursday after the U.S. Labor Department said the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week by 16,000, suggesting that layoffs have declined.
Traders turned slightly cautious ahead of first-quarter U.S. economic growth figures due later Friday. Economists expect to see a significant improvement from the anemic 0.4 percent growth rate reported for the October-December quarter.
But analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said the result "is unlikely to allay market concerns after a recent run of disappointing data indicates some decline in growth momentum." Recent reports have suggested that manufacturing is starting to weaken. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes dipped in March.
Still, if prices hold near their current level, the Nymex contract would record its largest weekly gain in 10 months, while narrowing the gap to the Brent contract to less than $10 a barrel.
"This is somewhat surprising given that U.S. crude oil stocks continue to be at just short of a 23-year high and U.S. oil production has meanwhile achieved a 21-year high," said analysts at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. "Without new U.S. pipeline capacities — which will not be available until the end of the year — any further narrowing of the price spread is difficult to justify."
Brent crude, which is used to price oil from the North Sea used by many U.S. refiners, was down 54 cents to $102.87 a barrel on the ICE futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Gasoline fell 1.14 cents to $2.7992 per gallon.
— Heating oil declined 1.32 cents to $2.8666 a gallon.
— Natural gas lost 0.5 cent to $4.162 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.


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The Sims, a label of EA, today announced a significant milestone, reaching 100 million units sold worldwide. The first The Sims game was sold in 2000 and has gone on to become the best-selling PC game franchise of all time, sold in 22 languages and 60 countries
As a special thank you to players of The Sims, visit TheSims2.com today to download a complimentary outfit for your Sims.
"At this milestone, we want to thank players of The Sims everywhere for making The Sims such a worldwide phenomenon," said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims Label. "The Sims has been an interactive experience for people around the globe to explore their passion for creativity and we're thrilled to be a part of that.
If you're struggling to comprehend what 100 million units of The Sims looks like then EA has kindly offered some fun facts to help.
1. 100 million copies of The Sims lined up end to end would line the perimeter of the Wembley football pitch over 115,000 times.
2. 100 million copies of The Sims lined up end to end would stretch the distance between Land's End and John O'Groat's over 200 times.


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Mark J. Mannis, professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science and director of the UC Davis Eye Center, has received the Castroviejo Medal from the Cornea Society for his significant contributions in the field of cornea and anterior segment surgery. The medal, named in honor of Ramon Castroviejo, the father of modern corneal transplant surgery and the inspiration for the founding of the Cornea Society, is the society's highest honor.
"The Cornea Society Board of Directors is truly honored to be able to give the 2014 Castroviejo award to Mark Mannis. He is not only one of the contemporary giants in the field of cornea and external disease, but he is one of the nicest people around," said Cornea Society President Christopher J. Rapuano.
"He has been a mentor to an entire generation of cornea specialists as a fellowship director and department chair, but also in his leadership positions within the Cornea Society. The field of cornea and external disease is a better because Mark has been one of our leaders for many years," Rapuano said.
Mannis specializes in corneal transplantation and treating external diseases of the eye. He also has conducted research on antimicrobial agents and growth factors that affect corneal wound healing, skin diseases that affect the eye, visual rehabilitation after corneal transplantation, and the artificial cornea. He has authored more than 130 publications and six books on topics related to corneal surgery and disease, and has served as a board member and president of the Cornea Society and as program director for the World Cornea Congress, which is sponsored by the Cornea Society. He is a former editor of Cornea: The Journal of Cornea and External Disease, the society's peer-reviewed journal, and continues to be a frequent contributor.
Mannis completed his cornea fellowship at the University of Iowa with Jay H. Krachmer and his residency at Washington University. He received his medical degree from the University of Florida and attained a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University. Mannis is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, American Ophthalmological Society, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Pan American Association of Ophthalmology, Eye Bank Association of America, Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology, California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, and the California Medical Association.
Founded in 1975, the Cornea Society is an international society that promotes the exchange of information in cornea and external disease. With more than 700 members worldwide, the society fosters the exchange of information through scientific meetings, communications and its peer-reviewed journal. For more information, email email@example.com.


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Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Every so often collegiate athletics is graced with prodigal talent.
Matt Barkley. Kevin Durant. Tiger Woods.
These phenoms had record-setting freshman campaigns in their respective sport, and the 2011-12 season saw similar results, this time on a different landscape.
Enter Katy Krshka, a fresh-faced 18-year old from Yukon, Oklahoma. Her specialty?
Riding a horse.
Krshka entered the collegiate atmosphere as one of the most sought after equestrian recruits in the nation. She boasts a stellar amateur career, finishing Top 3 in both categories at the American Quarter Horse Youth Association World Show last summer.
Oklahoma State head equestrian coach Larry Sanchez knew he had to have Krshka, a fellow Oklahoman, on his squad. She could be an immediate contributor on a program that lost several key seniors the previous year.
"Katy is from Yukon, Oklahoma so I got to watch her develop into the rider she is today," Sanchez said. "I knew that she would be great for our program and did what i could to keep her on Oklahoma. I was really looking forward to the start of her college career."
Krshka made her way to Stillwater in August and worked her way into the starting lineup, becoming an immediate contributor. She won her first event in the opening matchup of the season, helping the Cowgirls to a 13-10 victory over the Baylor Bears.
A tough fall season saw the Cowgirls drop to 2-4, but the Pokes rattled off ten-straight victories. During that span Krshka went 9-1 in horsemanship.
The freshman standout was the only Cowgirl to compete in both horsemanship and reining this season.
Krshka finished the regular season with a team-high 16 wins and five MVPs. She also led the team in winning percentage in horsemanship, prevailing in 82 percent of her head-to-head competitions.
Her accomplishments continued in the postseason as she helped the Pokes win their second Big 12 Championship in four years. She went 3-1 in the championship, including key wins in horsemanship against Kansas State in the finals and Texas A&M in the championship matchup.
Oklahoma State was ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation and the Cowgirl western team entered the National Collegiate Equestrian Association National Championships as the second seed.
Krshka continued her dominance at the national championships, winning four head-to-head matchups to lead the Pokes to a berth in the western national finals.
She finished the season with 23 wins to lead the team. Her individual honors included First Team NCEA All-American, All-Big 12 and the November Big 12 and NCEA Rider of the Month.
"I could not be more proud of Katy's contribution to the team this year," Sanchez said. "It is rare to see a freshman have the success that she had. I look forward to the next three years."
She will compete in numerous amateur competitions this summer, including Stars and Stripes/The Big A in Conyers, GA and the American Quarter Horse Youth Association Built Ford Tough World Show in Oklahoma City.
"She is a very determined girl with an awesome work ethic and it really pays off," senior team member Rachel Houchin said. "
(She is) extremely humble for how well she does."
Krshka enters her sophomore campaign as a team leader and the Cowgirls will rely on her for her winning edge.
"I had a great season competing with my teammates and can't wait to defend our Big 12 title next year."
If history of freshman success is any indication, the Big 12 record books could soon be rewritten by one certain underclassman in Stillwater.


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PotterCast 195: Edible to the Point of Delicious!
May 16, 2009
Today we have for you the 195th episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, online for your listening pleasure. Sue's News kicks off this week with information about the July 7th release date for both the Half-Blood Prince Soundtrack and Deathly Hallows paperback, filming of Shell Cottage scenes in Wales, the LEGO J. K. Rowling, more casting rumors for the Deathly Hallows films, and a Potter Puppet Pals LeakyCon announcement. Melissa, Sue, John, and Frak then speak more about what we have planned for you at LeakyCon 2009, which takes place in Boston, MA next week. Register here before it closes! Up next, Bit-by-Bit returns with the Quartet discussing the twentieth chapter of Deathly Hallows, Xenophilius Lovegood. Finally, the show wraps itself up with a few questions from the UStream audience, talk of the upcoming PotterCast Summer tour, new MyLeaky features, the Wizard Rock People's Choice Awards Nominations, and much more. To listen, just hit the "Play" button on the right side of the page (
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"Edible to the Point of Delicious!"
- Casting rumors surround Miranda Richardson and Bill Nighy.
- J. K. Rowling in LEGO form.
- "That's just one side of me."
- Potter Puppet Pals to perform at LeakyCon.
- "In the castle."
- A rundown of programming at LeakyCon.
- Bit-by-Bit is all about Xenophilius Lovegood.
- Tickle me Elmo.
- Update on the John Noe Chipotle Alliance.
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- Register for LeakyCon 2009 now!
- LeakyCon 2009 has a Twitter too!
Producer: John Noe
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LeakyCon 2009: A Harry Potter Conference in Boston
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The Emergency and Trauma Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital is a leader in the treatment and care of injured children. We are the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Missouri and Illinois verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
At the state level, the Emergency and Trauma Center is a designated Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center by the states of Missouri and Illinois.
ACS trauma verification means that St. Louis Children's Hospital has met the highest standards set for a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, and has taken the hospital to another level of expertise and the highest level of preparation to care for injured children. Our goal is to continually pursue excellence in all aspects of pediatric trauma care.
For more information, call 314.454.5437 or 800.678.5437 or email us.
What is the American College of Surgeons (ACS)?
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that began in 1913. The ACS works to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient -- before, en route and during hospitalization. It does so by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.
What is ACS verification?
The ACS Consultation/Verification Program helps hospitals to evaluate and improve trauma care. It provides an objective, external review of a trauma center's resources and performance. A team of trauma experts completes an on-site review of the hospital. The team assesses relevant features of the program. These include commitment, readiness, resources, policies, patient care, and performance improvement.
Ready to respond
An essential component of a trauma center is to anticipate and be ready for the needs of the critically injured child 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week. Thorough evaluation and treatment must be provided in a timely manner. The operating room and trained staff must be immediately available. Because children are the focus at St. Louis Children's Hospital, all training and education, as well as equipment, are pediatric specific.
Following the guidelines prescribed by the American College of Surgeons, a comprehensive system to immediate and definitive care for the injured child was established. Trauma Services works to continually improve critical elements of trauma care such as:
- Access to the system
- Pre-hospital care
- Field Triage
- Acute hospital care
- Rehabilitation
- Injury prevention
- Burns
Approximately 58,000 patients are seen in the Emergency Department each year; approximately 1,500 of those cases are injury-related, from minor to severe including head injury, burns and orthopedics.
What is a pediatric trauma center?
A Pediatric Trauma Center is distinguished from other facilities in that it guarantees the immediate availability and dedication of specialized pediatric surgeons, anesthesiologists, physician specialists, nurses, pediatric resuscitation equipment and an available operating room on a 24 hour-a-day basis.
What requirements must a Level 1 pediatric trauma center meet?
The publication from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient, has been used as a guide for the development of trauma systems in the United States. The State of Missouri has utilized this guide in establishing the Trauma Center regulations (19 CSR 30.40.410-440). For designation as a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, pediatric surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, and trauma program managers from various regions of the country provide a rigorous on-site review in order to ensure compliance of these regulations. St. Louis Children's Hospital has been a designated Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center since 1981 in the state of Missouri and since 2011 in the state of Illinois.
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People should get tested for TB by their doctor or local health department if they:
- have spent time with a person known or suspected to have active TB disease
- have HIV or another condition that weakens their immune system
- have symptoms of active TB disease
- are from a country where active TB disease is very common;
- live where active TB disease is more common such as a homeless shelter, migrant farm camp, prison or jail, or some nursing homes)
- inject illegal drugs
There are two kinds of tests that can be used to help detect TB infection – the Mantoux TB skin test and special TB blood tests.
A positive TB skin test or TB blood test only tells that a person has been infected with TB bacteria. It does not tell whether the person has Latent TB Infection (LTBI) or active TB disease. More tests, such as a chest x-ray and a sample of sputum, are needed to see whether the person has active TB disease.
Mantoux TB Skin Test
The Mantoux TB skin test is performed by injecting a small amount of fluid (called tuberculin) into the arm. After getting the injection, the person must return within 2 to 3 days to have a trained healthcare worker look for a reaction on the arm.
Special TB Blood Tests
The special blood tests (interferon-gamma release assays, or IGRAs) measure how the immune system reacts to the bacteria that cause TB. Since they are relatively new, few health departments offer these blood tests. The PDPH does not currently offer this test, but can recommend providers that do. The T-SPOT® TB test is an example of a special TB blood test. Learn more about IGRA tests.
Testing for TB in BCG-Vaccinated Persons
BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guérin, is a vaccine for TB disease. Many people born outside of the United States have been BCG-vaccinated. BCG vaccination can cause a positive reaction to the TB skin test, even if they don't have TB. This might complicate decisions about prescribing treatment. The special TB blood tests are not affected by prior BCG vaccination and are less likely to give a false-positive result. Learn more about the BCG vaccine.
Most health care providers can refer people for TB testing. If you do not have a primary care physician or insurance, we provide low-cost exams, testing and diagnosis at our health centers.
If a patient tests positive for TB, he or she may be referred by the doctor or health care facility to the Tuberculosis Control Program to receive free treatment and services. In all cases, the TB Control Program maintains the patient's confidentiality.


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The White House currently has more fans than the Washington Redskins -- Facebook fans, that is.
As young people start using Facebook as their primary communication tool, look for more agencies to experiment with social media for interacting with citizens.
White House Fans: 327,592A well-traveled site, as to be expected, the White House's Facebook page has plenty of information on administration doings and links to presidential appearances and statements — not to mention lots and lots of comments.
Marine Corps Fans: 83,144The Marines' site is hugely popular — but staid and quiet following the Marines' clampdown on Facebook and other social media earlier this year.
Army Fans: 49,416Probably the most heartfelt of government Facebook sites, the Army's far-flung members and their families can connect with one another and share stories and experiences.
CDCFans: 21,257The Centers for Disease Control seems to have successfully created an engaged and voluble audience while working to fulfill its mission of providing credible, science-based health information.
State Department Fans: 16,386The department offers lots of information about Secretary Hillary Clinton's travels and other diplomatic ventures, in addition to voluminous links to embassy pages. But discussion areas are surprisingly quiet.
NASA Fans: 7,768NASA provides an eclectic mix of items pointing to official announcements, with some offbeat stuff thrown in, and a talky fan base of knowledgeable — and sometimes scary — science nerds.
NASA JPL Fans: 6,536NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the space agency's center for robotic missions to the planets and beyond, a natural attraction for an energetic audience that isn't far behind the agency's main site.
Library of Congress Fans: 6,520The hugely informative site about Library events and its collections is devoid of any public feedback and interaction.
Air Force Fans: 3,011A recently created site, the Air Force's Facebook site seems destined for great things based on the reactions it has already received.
Environmental Protection Agency Fans: 2,608It carries a lot of the EPA's announcements, but it's also actively trying to build a community among the environmentally minded public.
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Doesn't it seem a little creepy and odd that the government has accounts on facebook? I would think that the U.S. Government has better things to do with their(our time; we pay for it!) time. There are bigger issues to tackle then this.
FBI has 8,870 fans:facebook.com/FBI.
sarah palin has 874,000 fans
The Department of Veterans Affairs has three different Facebook pages. Each page highlights a different Agency within the Department or an entitlement program like the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. The Post-9/11 GI Bill Facebook page is currently the most popular VA Facebook page with nearly 5,000 fans and growing. See the link below to visit the Post-9/11 GI Bill Facebook page and other VA Facebook pages.
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Terrance Stewart enters his 17th season as the head men's golf coach at UNCG in 2017-18. Stewart has been at the helm of the program since August 15, 2001.
In his 16 seasons leading the program, Stewart has led the Spartans to 12 top five finishes as a team and 21 individuals finishing in the top 10. UNCG has been one of the top teams in the Southern Conference over the last five years, finishing fifth place or better each season, including in the top three for four straight years, including three second-place finishes. UNCG also has picked up 21 All-Southern Conference selections during his tenure and has had four SoCon Freshman of the Year honorees in the past five seasons.
Last year, the Spartans posted their third straight second-place finish at the SoCon Championships and placed three in the top five of the individual standings for the first time in program history. Freshman Jonathan Brightwell tied for the individual lead at the SoCon Championships and became the fourth UNCG SoCon Freshman of the Year in the last five seasons. Junior Josh Stockwell and sophomore Bryce Hendrix tied for fifth overall at the SoCon Championships. Additionally, Brightwell, Stockwell and Hendrix all earned First Team All-SoCon honors, giving UNCG three All-SoCon players in the same season for the first time in program history.
In 2016, the Spartans finished second overall at the 2016 SoCon Championships in Pinehurst, finishing just one shot out of the top spot. Junior Jake McGlone and senior Taylor Coalson earned All-SoCon accolades while Bryce Hendrix was named the SoCon Freshman of the Year. McGlone became the second UNCG golfer to earn an at-large bid as an individual into the NCAA Tournament, appearing in the Franklin Regional hosted by Nashville.
In 2015, the Spartans also came perilously close to winning the SoCon Championship as they finished in a tie for first place at Pinehurst. UNCG fell in the first team playoff hole and narrowly missed out on an NCAA At-Large bid.
The 2014 season was the best season in UNCG men's golf history as the Spartans finished third in the SoCon Championships and received an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, the first in program history. UNCG travelled to Auburn University Club and finished seventh overall in the regional, just two strokes out of a top-five showing, which advances to the NCAA National Championships.
For the first time in program history, UNCG earned an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament, playing in the Auburn Regional. The Spartans finished in the tie for seventh place overall at the Regional, one-shot out of the top six, which qualifies to move on in the event.
Additionally, the Spartans placed three members on the All-SoCon team in 2014 as freshman Carter Jenkins, sophomore Taylor Coalson and junior Roy Dixon picked up the honors. Jenkins was also named the SoCon Freshman of the Year, marking the second straight season UNCG has been honored after Coalson won the accolades in 2013.
The Spartans rewrote the record books during the year as well; posting new program-best marks for individual 18 and 54 hole scores as well as team 18 and 54 hole scores.
Jenkins broke the UNCG single-round score in just his third career event, posting a 9-under par 63 at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate on his way to a program-best 203 score for the event. Dixon tied the 18-hole effort with a 9-under par 63 at the USF Invitational, helping the Spartans break the team 54-hole record with an 838. UNCG trimmed seven strokes off its previous 54-hole team score at the USF Invitational, including a program-low 273 in round three.
The Spartans picked up their 17th tournament victory in program history in 2014, claiming the Pinehurst Intercollegiate title. Additionally, Jenkins became the 26th career Spartan medalist as he won the Wolfpack Intercollegiate.
Stewart has led eight individuals to top five finishes at the SoCon Championships during his tenure, highlighted by the 2007 individual title won by J.D. Bass. Bass posted a 3-under par 213 (72-73-68) two win the SoCon title by one stroke. Additionally, Taylor Coalson (2013), Ryan Heisey (2010) and Nathan Stamey (2008) posted runner-up finishes in the league championship under Stewart's guidance.
Stewart has coached 16 All-Southern Conference selections in 13 years, including multiple selections in 2006, 2011 and 2014. The Spartans have also placed one player on the five-member SoCon All-Freshman Team each year since its inception in 2009, including current Spartans Carter Jenkins (2014), Taylor Coalson (2013) and Jake McGlone (2013).
The 2011 SoCon Championships saw the Spartans post their best team finish as tournament runner-up just five strokes off the pace. Will Almand led UNCG with a 2-under par fourth place finish while Kyle Sonday (8th), Robert Hoadley (15th) and Andy Knox (25th) rounded out the Spartans in the top 25. Both Hoadley and Sonday earned All-SoCon honors in 2011 as well.
The 2009-10 campaign saw Hoadley earn All-SoCon honors and All-Freshman accolades while winning his first collegiate tournament, the Pinehurst Intercollegiate. UNCG posted two team titles during the season with a remarkable 11-shot comeback on the final day of the Georgetown Intercollegiate as well as the Towson Invitational title where it placed five golfers in the top 12 individually. The Spartans capped the season with a third place finish at the SoCon Championships with a 3-over par score of 867.
In 2008-09, Stewart directed the Spartans to a trio of top-five team finishes during the season. UNCG placed third at the Palma Del Mar while posting fifth place finishes at both the Bridgestone Collegiate and the Towson Intercollegiate. Will Bowman tied for fifth at the SoCon Championship and earned All-Southern Conference honors. He also picked up his first career win during the season, taking medalist honors at the Palma Del Mar Intercollegiate.
The 2007-08 season was a memorable one for the Spartans as Stamey finished second at the Southern Conference Championship with a 1-under par 215. He also became the first Spartan in the NCAA Division I era to earn a spot as an individual in the NCAA postseason and the first Spartan at any level to earn a spot in the postseason since 1981.
In 2006-07, the Spartans finished fifth in the Southern Conference Championship. The team was led by Bass, who won the individual championship with a 3-under par 213, marking the Spartans first individual champion as a member of the SoCon. Additionally, UNCG captured the title at the 2006 Sam Hall Intercollegiate, ending with a six-under-par 845, a school-record 54-hole total. Following the win, the Spartans were named Golfweek's National Men's Collegiate Team of the Week. As a team, UNCG also finished second at both the Cavalier Classic (892) and the Mission Inn Collegiate Invite (874).
In his fifth season at UNCG, Stewart helped the Spartans to seven top-10 finishes, including three top-five finishes in 2005-06. UNCG placed seventh at the Southern Conference Championships and were led by Stamey's fourth-place finish, which earned him second team All-Conference honors.
In 2004-05, UNCG placed fourth at the SoCon Championships, while Jake Lowder and Bass were each named to the SoCon All-Conference team for their efforts during the course of the season. Led by Stamey's first-place finish in the opening tournament of the season, the Spartans took home second-place honors at the Mid Pines Intercollegiate. In a second tourney hosted by UNCG, the Spartans picked up a third-place finish at the Forest Oaks Intercollegiate – what is now UNCG's annual fall Bridgestone Collegiate – in the final tournament of the regular season. Sandwiched in between, Stewart watched as the Spartans posted top-five finishes in five of their other seven regular-season tournaments, including a second-place showing at the 49er Collegiate Classic.
The 2003-04 campaign was a breakthrough season as the Spartans posted a tie for second at the SoCon Championship, which represented the best finish in school history. In March 2004, the Spartans claimed top honors at the Winthrop-Waterford Invitational. The tournament crown for the Spartans was their first since the 1999-2000 season, when UNCG took top honors at the Southern California Intercollegiate. Andy Bare and Bass took home medalist honors in two tournaments each. Bare was named First Team All-SoCon for the second consecutive season while Nick Baker was named Second-Team All-SoCon.
In just his second season, Stewart guided the Spartan squad to a fifth-place finish in the 2003 SoCon Championship. At the time, it was the program's best finish in its six-year history in the Southern Conference.
In his first season at UNCG, Stewart led a very young Spartan squad to a seventh-place finish at the 2002 SoCon tournament. The Spartans' top three performers were all freshmen.
Stewart came to UNCG after a five-year stint at his alma mater, Lenoir-Rhyne College. There, he served as head coach for both the men's and women's golf teams. In that time, he was named the 2001 South Atlantic Conference Women's Coach of the Year and the 1999 South Atlantic Men's Coach of the Year. He led the Bears' women's squad to the 2000 and 2001 NCAA Division II National Championships.
Stewart led the men's team to the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Catawba Valley/Lenoir-Rhyne Cup.
He also created the Billy Joe Patton Intercollegiate that began in 1997, as well as the Bay Medical Intercollegiate that began in 2000. In his five years at Lenoir-Rhyne, four players were named all-conference while two players earned spots in the National Tournament as individuals.
Stewart graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne in 1994 with a degree in Sports Management. He and his wife, Yvonne, are the proud parents of sons Spencer and Thomas. Yvonne received her Master's Degree in Special Education from UNCG in 2003.
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