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Ram Jam: CIU Ready for Intercollegiate Basketball
By Melissa McCutchan
CIU Student Writer
Thursday, Oct. 24, was a night of introductions at Columbia International University. Students, faculty, and staff crowded into Moore Fitness Center for "Ram Jam," a fun-filled introduction of the men's and women's basketball teams, along with the debut of CIU's mascot.
"[Ram Jam] is an opportunity to introduce the team to the student body," women's head coach Tammy Holder said. "It's our chance to show appreciation to the fans and encourage spirit throughout the season."
Fans were on their feet cheering as the teams introduced their players and coaching staff. Finally, the athletics department debuted their new mascot—an energetic ram, who spent most of the evening getting the fans on their feet.
The men's team also scrimmaged Orangeburg-Calhoun Prep Academy in a close and hard-fought game. With 24 seconds on the clock, the Rams tied the scrimmage, 75-75. Tensions were high as the seconds ticked away, until Orangeburg-Calhoun sank a three-point shot that ended the game.
Despite a tough loss, fans and players alike were in high spirits.
"I was really surprised by the student section," men's guard and freshman Alex Fant said. "They were just standing and cheering the whole time."
The athletics department held a drawing for T-shirts, gift cards, and the grand prize: a shofar bought during the last CIU Israel study tour. The shofar is a ram's horn used in Israel as a signaling trumpet and is blown at CIU athletic events.
Students and players alike were in high spirits after the scrimmage, and are eagerly awaiting the start of the official season.
"The fans definitely got our guys pumped tonight," Coach Holder said. "I believe we'll definitely have a home court advantage because of our great fans."
The Rams played the scrimmage without Head Coach Kyle Mendenhall who was rather busy elsewhere. His wife Grace was in labor. The Mendenhalls welcomed their first child, a boy named Hezekiah later that evening.
The men's and women's basketball teams will have their first official games on Nov. 2 as they take on Johnson University, and are looking forward to a strong foundational season.
"We've been working hard," women's guard and freshman KaRa Thompson said. "We want to make sure we set the standard high for the basketball program in the future."
This is the first intercollege basketball for CIU in its 90-year history. Intercollegiate athletics was introduced to CIU in 2012 with men's soccer and men's and women's cross country.


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University of Vermont
2011-12 Online Catalogue
Specific Requirements
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|College of Arts and Sciences
|Women's and Gender Studies
|Eighteen credits including WGST 075. Nine credits must be at or above the 100-level. No more than nine credits may come from any one department. No more than three total credits may come from WGST 191, WGST 192,WGST 297,WGST 298 (internship and independent study). No more than three credits may come from classes also used to fulfill a major. Students should consult the current Sexuality and Gender Identity Studies course listings each semester for a full list of available courses.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Arts and Sciences.
- Departments and Programs: Womens and Gender Studies Program.

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A classic Yorkshire pudding is not difficult to make provided you have the right recipe, the right size tin and the right oven temperature. I find a good solid roasting tin 11 x 7 inches (28 x 18 cm) makes a perfect pud for four people. So, for eight, I double the ingredients and use two tins.
- 3 oz (75 g) plain flour
- 1 egg
- 3 fl oz (75 ml) milk
- 2 fl oz (55 ml) water
- 2 tablespoons beef dripping
- salt and freshly milled black pepper
- Method Make up the batter by sifting the flour into a bowl and making a well in the centre. Break the egg into it and beat, gradually incorporating the flour, and then beat in the milk, 2 fl oz (50 ml) water and seasoning (an electric hand whisk will do this in seconds). There is no need to leave the batter to stand, so make it when you're ready to cook the pudding. About 15 minutes before the beef is due to come out of the oven, increase the heat to gas mark 7, 425°F (220°C), add the dripping to the roasting tin and place that on a baking sheet on a free shelf. After 15 minutes remove the meat, then place the tin over direct heat while you pour the batter into the sizzling hot fat. Return the tin to the baking sheet on the highest shelf (or, if you have roast potatoes on that one, the second highest). The pudding will take 25-30 minutes to rise and become crisp and golden. Serve as soon as possible: if it has to wait around too long it loses its crunchiness.


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TRENTON—Working in partnership with the Township of Weehawken, Union City, the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust, and the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, the Department of Environmental Protection has secured the preservation of a unique 14.4-acre reservoir near the Lincoln Tunnel, Commissioner Bob Martin announced.
The parties executed agreements to preserve the reservoir and surrounding land. Through a memorandum of agreement, Weehawken and Union City will establish a trail around the reservoir for passive recreation. The property, located just blocks from the Lincoln Tunnel, provides spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline.
United Water Co. had owned the reservoir but had not used it for many years. The reservoir, surrounded by a thin strip of land, is located in Weehawken, on the border with Union City. Through its revolving loan program, the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust provided Weehawken with an $8.66 million low-interest loan. The loan was critical to making the agreement happen.
The DEP's Green Acres Program also provided a $2 million grant. Each of the municipalities provided $168,000. The Trust for Public Land played a major role in coordinating the purchase.
The Green Acres Program has had a hand in protecting some 650,000 acres since the passage of the state's first Green Acres bond act in 1961.
"This cooperative effort among the State of New Jersey, the Trust for Public Land, Union City, the Township of Weehawken and United Water preserves that largest remaining piece of open land in the upper portion of North Hudson County," said Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner. "This keeps a major piece of open space in a densely populated portion of the state available to the public, preserves the character of the surrounding neighborhoods and enhances the quality of life for everyone."


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|Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
|High School:
|Torrey Pines High School
|Middle Blocker/Outside Hitter
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Career Highs
Aces: 4 vs. Colgate (9/4/09)
Digs: 16 at Columbia (10/30/10)
Kills: 19 at Dartmouth (9/26/08)
Total Blocks: 9, several times (most recent against Yale 11/6/09)
Junior • 2010
Co-captain with Miyoko Pettit ... Led the team with 2.35 kills-per-set average and finished third with 190 total kills ... Finished with 13 aces, 102 digs and 55 total blocks ... Collected seven kills, five digs and four blocks against Fordham Sept. 10 ... Had eight kills and four blocks at Stony Brook Sept. 11 ... Tallied nine kills, four blocks and an ace at Dartmouth Sept. 24 ... Picked up 11 kills five digs and two blocks, hitting .435 for the match, in 3-2 win at New Hampshire Sept. 28 ... Collected 10 kills against Dartmouth (Oct. 1), nine kills against Columbia (Oct. 8) and 12 against Cornell (Oct. 9) ... Registered 16 kills against Princeton Oct. 15 and again vs. Brown Oct. 23 ... Put down 17 kills and added nine digs and four blocks at Cornell Oct. 29 ... Had career-high 16 digs to go along with 10 kills at Columbia Oct. 30 ... Collected 12 kills against Penn Nov. 12 and put down 14 kills to go along with 10 digs and four blocks in 3-2 win over Princeton Nov. 13.
Sophomore • 2009
Appeared in 22 matches, starting 21 … First on the team and in the league in blocks with 92 (1.11) … Second on the team in kills with 233 (2.81) … Ranked sixth in the Ivy League in hitting percentage (.298) and tenth in aces per set (0.24) … Recorded double-digit kills in 13 matches, with a season-high 16 kills against Princeton (Nov. 13) … Registered a career-high nine blocks against Yale (Nov. 6 ) … Recorded 12 kills, five blocks, and four aces during win over Colgate (Sept. 4) … Had 13 kills and netted five blocks in win over Stony Brook (Sept. 5) … Posted seven blocks, including three solo, hit .480 with a match-high 14 kills in contest against UConn (Sept. 8) … Recorded 13 kills, one ace, and four digs against South Carolina (Sept. 12) … Recorded 11 kills in match against Holy Cross (Sept. 22) … Posted 11 kills, three blocks and three digs against Dartmouth (Sept. 25) … Recorded seven kills and three blocks at Dartmouth (Oct. 2) … Collected a match-high 12 kills and netted a match-high five blocks against Cornell (Oct. 9) … Recorded 11 kills, a career-high eight digs and a match-high three blocks in win over Columbia (Oct. 10) ... Registered 12 kills, a match-high eight blocks and five digs in win against Princeton (Oct. 16) … Posted seven kills, a game-high seven blocks and three digs in contest against Penn (Oct. 17) … Registered 16 kills, five blocks, and three digs in match against Columbia (Oct. 30) ... Recorded eight kills, five digs, a match-high four blocks and three aces in a 3-0 win over Cornell (Oct. 31) ... Registered 12 kills and a career-high nine blocks in competition against Yale (Nov. 6) … Posted a match-high 10 kills, four digs, four blocks and served up two aces in 3-0 win against Brown (Nov. 7) … Registered seven kills and five blocks in 3-2 win over Penn (Nov. 13) … Collected 16 kills, three digs, three blocks in contest at Princeton (Nov. 14).
Freshman • 2008
Appeared and started in 25 matches ... Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... All-Ivy League honorable mention... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week five times ... Second in the Ivy in blocks with 87 ... Second on the team in kills with 245 ... Led team and was third in the Ancient Eight in hitting percentage (.345) ... Posted double-digit kills 12 times, including 19 at Dartmouth Invitational (Sept. 26) ... Registered nine blocks against Cornell (Oct. 17) ... Recorded a hitting percentage of .786 on 14 attempts against Georgia Southern at Best Western Invitational (Sept. 19).
Before Harvard
Two-year player and starter for Torrey Pines ... First-team All-San Diego County, first-team CIF and first-team all-league as a senior ... Union Tribune All-Academic first-team ... San Diego Hall of Champions in 2007 ... North County Times All-County first team .. Falconer MVP Award ... Team California Challenge All-Tournament team ... San Diego Senior All Star ... Team captain in 2007 ... Led the San Diego County in blocks in 2006 ... Wellesley College Book Award ... Rotarty Club of Rancho Sante Fe Commendation ... Part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Young Women's Organization ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Mother, Elizabeth Peterson '82 played volleyball and rowed at Harvard ... Uncle Chris Peterson '79 rowed and played volleyball for the Crimson as well ... Father, Henry, was a member of the lightweight national championship crew at Penn in 1967 and competed on the Canadian National Championship crew in 1966.


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Happenings in the insect world
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: March 22, 2012
Two ladybugs, aka lady beetles, circled their little house, a 1.5-inch plastic container punctured with air holes. Up. Down. Down. Up. In a way, they seemed like hamsters on a treadmill.
I don't know how long they'd been in the container, but they were anxious to leave. If you're a ladybug, a house is not a home without aphids.
Members of the California State Grange distributed these tiny containers of ladybugs at the California Agriculture Day on Wednesday on the State Capitol grounds. Grateful little kids excitedly exclaimed "Ladybugs! Ladybugs!" Their parents murmured "Yes! Yes! Great for the garden."
And that's exactly what we did with ours.
We had a red rose bush just waiting for them.
We removed the lid, tipped the container, and the two ladybugs raced out, right to an all-you-can-eat buffet of juicy aphids.
If you're yearning for your very own ladybugs, be sure to attend the 98th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 21. The statewide UC Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) traditionally gives away ladybugs at the entrance to Briggs Hall.
The UC Davis Department of Entomology, housed in Briggs Hall, will be hosting cockroach races, termite trails, maggot art and honey tasting and scores of other activities. This year, due to popular demand, Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen will be doubling the amount of honey. (Check out last year's entomological photos at Briggs Hall and at the Bohart Museum of Entomology.)
Meanwhile, the good folks planning the campuswide Picnic Day invite all to attend. They wrote on their website: "This family friendly event is free for all to come and experience the richness of diversity and achievement at UC Davis and the surrounding community in the areas of research, teaching, service and campus life."
And experience the wonderful world of ladybugs!
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Go Lakeshow!!!
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What are you doing here?
Phife, good to see you. A bunch of cool people here. Great to see it.
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Posted September 10, 2008 - 12:58 AM
Sorry...you know it's all love though...
This is like the best part of every Lakers board I've ever been on...and that's saying something.
I see this board taking over soon...very soon.
Impeachment: Imminent
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Posted April 04, 2011 - 09:10 PM
I may be back to posting a bit more regularly. What's up again?
Hey! How are you and the family?
You were right about JaMarcus and I was right about Quinn.
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You were right about JaMarcus and I was right about Quinn.
Posted April 04, 2011 - 09:24 PM
JaMarcus had the potential to be a good QB in the right system, but he was too damn lazy and never put in the work to be a good player.
I knew Quinn was going to be a bust.
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^ I completely agree with your assessment on JaMarcus, but on Quinn, I actually thought he would at least be decent to solid, but man oh man, he's horrible as well, complete bust indeed.
Does Mando still post on here?
Remember when he said McFadden was going to be a bust? I miss the old CR days.
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Posted April 05, 2011 - 03:51 PM
^ OF COURSE I remember, hahahaha. and yeah, well, he still posts here, but extremely rarely. Like one to three posts at most every month and a half or so so yeah, not much, but before that there was quite a period where he was somewhat active here. Recently though, over the past year or so or more, a lot of his posts have been extremely negative and hateful to the site and to most of the posters. I think he even got suspended once or warned. His buddy Spooky got banned.
We talked via text last night after I posted in this thread.
Spooky probably still lurks TLN. I'm going back to CL next season now that KB24 became the admin.
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By Sharon Begley
NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - When Tanner Martin, 17, developed excruciating back pain last year, he was sure he needed an X-ray to find out what was wrong. So was his mother, who worried that the pain might indicate a serious injury that could cause permanent disability.
But Konnie Martin was no ordinary parent. As chief executive officer of San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center in Alamosa, Colorado, she is at the center of an experiment, known as value-based insurance, that could transform American healthcare.
One of the central features of a value-based system is a financial "stick." If patients insist on medical procedures that science shows to be ineffective or unnecessary, they'll have to pay for all or most of the cost.
In Tanner's case, when he and his mother went to the medical center, they were invited to watch a short video first. The best approach to back pain like Tanner's, it explained, is stretching, strength-building and physical therapy; X-rays and MRIs, according to rigorous studies, are unlikely to make a difference. If they insisted on the X-ray, they would have to pay $300 on top of the basic cost.
They passed on the imaging, knowing they could change their minds if Tanner's condition worsened. After three weeks of therapy, his back was as good as new.
"My assumption was that a back injury was always severe, needing intervention," Martin said. "I was very misinformed about the need for imaging."
The additional cost when patients choose procedures that research shows are unlikely to help their condition is a key element of San Luis Valley's two-year experiment in value-based insurance, the premise of which is that a mix of financial carrots and sticks can steer patients toward medical services that will help them and away from ineffective or unnecessary ones.
Healthcare policy wonks have been studying value-based insurance for a decade. For some consumer groups, the concept raises concerns over whether it will deter people from treatment when certain procedures are needed. But the idea has gained momentum since the passage of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, which includes provisions to control healthcare spending that now tops $2.7 trillion a year in the United States. About one-third of that is attributed to wasteful or ineffective care.
Among the provisions is one that allows state Medicaid programs to adopt value-based designs, as two, in Michigan and South Carolina, have. At least one private insurance plan sold in an "Obamacare" marketplace has done so as well. .
In addition, Obama's Affordable Care Act encourages doctors and hospitals to form Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which are paid more under the Medicare program for older Americans if they control costs while also providing quality care. Some 4 million Medicare enrollees are now in one of the nation's nearly 500 ACOs, and private insurance plans are adopting them as well. Medicare now penalizes hospitals if a patient is re-admitted for the same condition within 30 days.
Advocates of value-based insurance say that while focusing on the "supply side" - hospitals and doctors - is a good start, healthcare spending reforms must also involve the "demand" side: patients.
"A belief that supply-side-only programs will be the answer to all our problems is crazy," said Dr. Mark Fendrick, director of the University of Michigan's Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and professor of internal medicine.
For one thing, they say, patients who know they're on the hook for care that won't benefit them are less likely to badger their providers.
"If someone goes to the doctor and really wants antibiotics for a cold or an MRI for back pain, it can take more time to talk him out of it than to order it," said Dr. David Downs, medical director of Engaged Public, the Denver research and consulting firm that designed the San Luis Valley study.
Starting in 2014, Engaged Public will scrutinize the two years of data from San Luis Valley to see what effects the novel plan had on healthcare costs and outcomes.
The success of value-based insurance's disincentives is far from assured and has some worried over the extent to which procedures would be considered off-limits.
"We have reservations about financial obstacles that might keep patients from getting care they need," said Joyce Dubow, senior healthcare reform director at AARP, the research and lobbying group formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons.
AARP is a partner in Choosing Wisely, a program in which medical specialty groups identify procedures - more than 200 so far - that do not benefit patients, according to rigorous scientific evidence. The list is a benchmark for discouraged procedures in value-based insurance plans.
"We don't want people getting medical procedures they don't need," Dubow said, "but we don't see Choosing Wisely as a vehicle for benefit design. Many of the items on the list are equivocal and not 'never' procedures."
Proponents say they do not impose financial disincentives when the benefits of a procedure are subject to debate, as is the case with screening mammograms. And doctors can use their judgment on when a procedure makes sense. While CT imaging for an uncomplicated headache is not necessary, says the American College of Radiology, it can be used for patients with particular medical histories.
Value-based insurance can also pose issues of perceived fairness. Employers have hesitated to introduce the program for fear that "employees will be upset if medical services they think they need come with additional costs, but their colleagues' (treatments) do not," said Downs, as when an X-ray for a broken leg is covered but one for back pain is not.
The very idea that some diagnostic tests and treatments might not help patients comes as a shock to many Americans.
The Choosing Wisely message is difficult to convey to the many patients who "think that when it comes to medical care newer is better and more is better," said Dr. Yul Ejnes of Brown University's Alpert Medical School. "So when patients have more skin in the game (in terms of cost), they're more likely to ask, do I really need this?"
San Luis Valley Health is self-insured, and the experiment involves only its 725 covered employees and dependents.
The experiment puts medical services in green and red "buckets." Green is for procedures that should be encouraged because they are cheap and effective, like vaccines. Red is for expensive ones that, research shows, are usually unnecessary, ineffective or even harmful. They include endoscopy for heartburn, surgery for enlarged prostate and the imaging tests that Konnie Martin's son declined.
Engaged Public President Chris Adams had been turned down numerous times by insurers and employers who said consumers would not understand value-based designs with financial disincentives. "It's hard, educating people that there are unneeded, ineffective medical procedures," he said.
In 2003, Adams tried to interest a small Colorado insurance company in offering policies that use financial carrots and sticks to steer patients to high-value care. "They said, you can't explain this to consumers," he recalled. "A healthcare policy wonk would love it, but consumers won't understand it."
The San Luis Valley experiment, which runs through the end of 2013, may indicate whether the idea's time has come.
Two years ago, Lee Alsbaugh-LeSueur was taking a fistful of pills every day - anti-depressants, medication for sleep apnea, drugs for chronic pain. But with the decision aids that go with the red-bucket program, she learned about other options. Eating a healthier diet and exercising more helped her sleep better, which lifted her depression.
"After 20 years as a nurse, I thought I knew everything," said Alsbaugh-LeSueur. "But obviously, I don't." She tapered off the meds, which have side effects, is feeling better and is incurring lower medical costs.
As additional provisions of Obamacare take hold starting in 2014, more patients are likely to have value-based plans, experts say.
Under the 2010 law, employer-based insurance must cover at least 60 percent of medical costs. As a result, high-deductible policies, which have become very popular with employers because they require families to pay five-figure medical bills before insurance pays a penny, may well fall short, said analyst Sam Glick of management consultants Oliver Wyman, part of Marsh & McLennan.
"Employers can't keep shifting costs, or they won't have a qualified health plan," he said, and that may push more to try value-based insurance.
One appeal to employers: Value-based insurance design can be a scalpel, not a sledgehammer like high-deductible policies. With the latter, said Mike Thompson, a benefits expert at PricewaterhouseCoopers, "employees use fewer medical services, but many of these services are necessary. Value-based insurance design can get the incentives right."
Obamacare also gives states more room to experiment with Medicaid, the joint federal-state healthcare program for the poor. Over the summer the administration issued a final rule allowing states to incorporate significantly more financial carrots and sticks in their Medicaid plans, and they can require patients to shoulder the highest co-pays for procedures on the Choosing Wisely lists, said Michigan's Fendrick.
"Our goal," he said, "is enrolling every American in value-based insurance."


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NEW YORK (AP) — Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Bette Midler doesn't stand up to greet her audience. She chooses to remain reclined.
"I'm not getting up," she says by way of warning. "It's my house, you get up. Only don't. I just had the carpet cleaned."
You mustn't take any offense. Midler is playing the wondrously snooty super talent agent Sue Mengers in a one-woman show that opened Wednesday at the Booth Theatre.
Even if you have no idea who Mengers is, an evening with Midler is always special and her apparent joy in playing this role makes it even more so. In "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers," Midler swears a blue streak, makes vicious fun of Hollywood and never has to stand up.
Set in 1981 and written by John Logan, the work is a straightforward biography of the rise of a chubby Jewish girl with a heavy German accent who grew up in New York and turned herself into a mover and shaker in Hollywood.
Her clients included Candice Bergen, Mike Nichols, Michael Caine, George Segal, Dyan Cannon, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Rod Steiger, Peter Bogdanovich and Gore Vidal, among others. (She likes to call all A-listers "Twinklies.")
As she freely admits, Mengers, who died in 2011, landed clients by threats, deception, cajoling, promises, guilt and doggedness — anything, really.
"We're all headhunters in my business. Every star's a potential client and if I don't steal them, someone else will," she says. "I was persuasive, I was funny. Most of all, I was ferocious. To me 'no' always meant 'maybe.'"
Over 85 minutes, Midler — rarely letting a manicured foot hit her carpet — lies on her elegant couch — speaks to the audience, gossiping furiously as she waits for a call from Barbra Streisand.
Joe Mantello directs with something of a challenge: A seasoned pro in Midler and yet a character who doesn't really move off the couch. So he expertly paces the whole thing like an audience with a blousy, foul-mouthed queen.
Midler wears oversized, tinted glasses and constantly scrapes at her silky straight bob, colored a heavenly hue only the rich can get away with. She's wearing an aqua caftan with sparkly embellishments and alternates smoking a cigarette and a joint, sometimes having both lit at the same time.
This warning appears on the curtain as the audience files in: "This play contains profanity, smoking, alcohol consumption, drug use, and gossip." Here's another warning: Know who Michael Ovitz is.
Logan and Midler have tried to re-create the essence of Mengers and that means a familiarity with distant celebs like James Coco and agents like Ovitz is mandatory. Gossip isn't gossip unless you know the players, darling.
Logan, a Tony winner for "Red," has woven his monologue well and the transitions are seamless. Stories about Ali MacGraw and Gene Hackman take up larger sections, with the obligatory detour into Mengers' childhood tucked in.
The script works best when Midler is lecturing us about how the business of show really works, particularly her "Five Golden Rules," including Never Blow a Deal on Money.
And one of the best bits is not even in the script — Midler picks out a gentleman from the crowd during each show to fetch her a silver box with pot, and later picks on him again to carry a decanter of high-priced booze to her. Each time, he must take off his shoes. ("I'd ask you to join me, but that might encourage an unhealthy familiarity," she tells him.)
Not having ever been invited to Mengers' home — and for good reason since, she says flatly, "all my guests have to be famous" — we'll take Scott Pask's luscious Beverly Hills set, complete with enclosed palm trees, recessed lighting and the reflected light from a swimming pool. ("It's out there somewhere," Midler says dismissively.)
There are some overlaps between "I'll Eat You Last" and "Lucky Guy," the stage biography of journalist Mike McAlary, starring Tom Hanks. Both require some knowledge of the world they are showing and both look sadly on a lost time that was more freewheeling and fun.
"I guess that's what's changed about Hollywood most. We used to laugh more. Honey, we used to have fun," Midler says. "Trust me, you'll miss me when I'm gone."
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Maybe Clint Eastwood is a closet Obama backer who duped the GOP into thinking he's supporting Romney.
How else to explain the bizarre, distracting, pace-breaking, mood-altering, prime-time act Eastwood put on at the Republican National Convention Thursday night?
At a minimum, his long-winded and often rambling routine involving an empty chair representing Obama skewed the timing of the evening and forced Romney's acceptance speech past the 11 p.m. hour.
The 82-year old actor Academy Award-winning actor/director (whose later work, especially his 2008 "Gran Torino," I happen to love) seemed simply out of it for most of his too-long time at the podium.
His "performance," with hair askew and an ill-fitting suit jacket either showed his years or the results of a Jack Daniels warm-up. It's getting bad reviews. Mostly because it was so odd.
Equally odd, however, was the wholly enthusiastic audience reaction to anything and everything Eastwood said.
At one point, for example, talking to the empty chair (Obama), he referred to U.S. troops in Afghanistan and asked, "Why don't you bring them home tomorrow morning?"
The audience roared its approval despite the fact that (a) former GOP nominee John McCain had the same audience cheering his position against a quick or date-certain withdrawal from Afghanistan and (b) Romney agrees with Obama's timeline for withdrawal.
Eastwood also pretended Obama was speaking back to him, at least twice suggesting Obama was telling both he (Eastwood) and Romney to go f—k themselves.
"I can't do that to myself," Eastwood said.
It was a strange note in a convention focused on family values.
The Associate Press reports Romney aides were wincing backstage.
Eastwood, a former GOP mayor of Carmel, has long backed Republican candidates and presidents even though he supports gay marriage and is a staunch environmentalist.
But his big "surprise" appearance, intended to fire up the GOP faithful, turned out to be a misfire.


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Overcoming the fear of death
Overcoming the fear of death
Hey folks,
I always like to think that I have finally made my peace with the thought that my life is finite, that I'm going to die eventually and vanish into eternal nothingness. Indeed, this is what I experience throughout my daily life as I'm usually too distracted by many different things to think about the whole issue more thoroughly. And that is exactly where the problem lies. Every once in a while, on a quiet evening or late at night, I try to imagine this scenario, that I will cease to exist. I don't think there is anything that scares me more than the thought of death. It normally keeps me from sleeping because I'm too afraid that I won't wake up the next day. Neither religious, nor spiritual concepts do or could provide me with any comfort, because I'm aware that they are mere wishful thinking, driven by this very fear. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not sad or depressed because of it, I simply have no idea how I should handle this paralyzing fear.
As far as I know, many of you have been able to successfully overcome your fear of death, so I figured I should ask you guys for advice.
RE: Overcoming the fear of death
I'm not trying to be flippant. I think this play is amazing.
(The paralysing fear you describe, I suffered from when thinking about being eternally alive. It would scare me out of my wits and leave me covered in cold sweat).
"E se non passa la tristezza con altri occhi la guarderò."
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Oddly enough the process of decay really helped me. I realized that being a part of the carbon cycle is wonderfull. The implications of this cycle means, that all the atoms that make up the person that is me, merely changed forms from creatures that came before me.
I am apart of nature, the earth, and the universe. I have a small amount of time to be me, but I will be apart of life in a different way when I die.
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Every time you go to sleep, you die, and someone else wakes up in your body with your memories to only have it happen to them the next night
To all people in general:
1. You're going to die.
2. It's going to be terrifying- the basic instinct of all creatures to survive will flare up.
3. It's going to be painful- as the body quickly shuts down, and the brain rapidly fires.
4. It's going to be depressing- when you realize how much of your life was wasted.
Accept it. Just live the life where you come to the point in thinking "I've done pretty much all I've wanted to. Living has gotten... boring."
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RE: Overcoming the fear of death
There is only one thing that makes me not fear death, and it is the result of death. I will probably be filled with fear and regret my past when I am in the process of dying (assuming I die slowly in a hospital bed), and perhaps when I get older.
Yet right now, there is one thought that makes me not care about it, the process of dying won't last forever, and when it ends, I will suffer no more and I will have eternal peace. In a twisted way, I look forward to it. I think my coping mechanism works too well.
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(04-02-2013 05:14 PM)poolboyg88 Wrote: Every time you go to sleep, you die, and someone else wakes up in your body with your memories to only have it happen to them the next nightWay to go, poolboy, way to go. And in the personal issues and support section, too. Good on you!
"E se non passa la tristezza con altri occhi la guarderò."
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RE: Overcoming the fear of death
Fearing death. Can't say I haven't thought about it. You wouldn't be human if it didn't run across your mind.
Now, don't think I'm being funny or mocking because I'm not...
What did you not fear before you were born, that you fear after your death.
You didn't exist with fear before and you won't when you cease to exist... it's possible your fear might be more of dying rather than being just nonexistent.
Might not be what you are looking for.
Maybe just thinking about how you were before you were born might help even out your angst.
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. ~ Albert Einstein
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(04-02-2013 04:59 PM)Vosur Wrote: Hey folks,No woo from me right now... But I suggest you start a serious meditation practice. Nothing ever comes easy, if you want to be good at something, you have to train for it!
If you do it right, you may get into a state of dis-identification. In this state all your brain parts of ego and identity will shut down. There will be awareness, but for a time, there will be no Vosur. If anyone in the room would call for Vosur, nobody would respond.
After the feeling passes, you will know what is it like not to exist. There will be awareness that things go on independently, they happen - the strangest thing - even if you are not there! You will find it very strange, but not that bad, not bad at all. It's hard to explain, you have to experience it. There is no nothingness, not at all! Just some parts of existence decide they will not call themselves Vosur anymore. That's the closest I can describe it.
Anyway, when I'll die, I want to be as conscious as possible. I want to watch my brain shutting down, I want to sit at the first line munching popcorn when that happens. That's gonna be some final test of my theories! I just hope I can get my life and world projects done until then, that would be wonderful.
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(04-02-2013 04:59 PM)Vosur Wrote: Hey folks,
When I was young, I had some nights like that over a period of weeks or months, off and on. I don't remember how it stopped.
Cut to present. I now become sad at the thought of no longer existing, but not fearful. Sad because of all the things I will never get to see, experience, learn. I do become fearful at how I might die, but have resolved to take my own life if it it becomes unbearable, and that is a comfort.
I think you may just have to sit with it until you arrive at peace with the idea of going to sleep and just never waking.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.
RE: Overcoming the fear of death
(04-02-2013 04:59 PM)Vosur Wrote: ...I simply have no idea how I should handle this paralyzing fear.
hmmmm, I would suggest that being prepared for an untimely death helps. Making amends with estranged family, enemies etc. I have life insurance. Not so much as to tempt the mrs with but enough to pay things off if I'm suddenly gone.
I also feel like I've lived a full life. I've done a lot of things that I wanted to do and enjoyed doing and feel content that I've made the most of my life and it has been great!
Perhaps you need a bucket list? You know, do some shit that you can always look back on and say -I did that just because and it was crazy but worth it.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has named their student-athletes of the month for both December and January. Men's Basketball and Women's Wrestling were well represented as Eddie Piccinini and Julia Salata were named for the month of January, while Brian Hewitt and Sam Klingel were named for February.
Eddie Piccinini (Orlando, Fla.) helped the Tornado men's basketball team ride a nine-game winning streak and an eight-game conference win streak. In eight games during the month, Piccinini shot 40 percent or higher in six of them. He topped the charts at home in a win against Barton College when he scored a season-high 30 points where he shot 7-of-11 from the field and hit 4-of-5 from three-point range that night. During January, he averaged 18.1 points-per-game and shot above 40 percent from short and long range. Over that time he also registered 4.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and a little over one steal per game.
Julie Salata (Canton, Mich.) has worked her way to a No. 1 ranking at the 170-pound division coming into the WCWA National Championships. She defended it by defeating No. 2 Brittany Roberts of Oklahoma City University in come-from-behind fashion, by decision (4-5, 1-0, 1-0). Salata finished the WCWA National Championships in fourth place overall at the 170-pound class, finishing 3-2 on the day. In her semifinal bout, she lost to eventual champion Justine Distasio (Simon Fraser) by decision (1-0, 1-0). She won her first two matches, including a win over nationally-ranked Brittany Jones (Missouri Valley) and one pin.
SAAC also named their athletes of the month for December, representing the best athletes over the winter break. Brian Hewitt was named Male Athlete of the Month as the Tornado men's basketball team went 3-1 over the break, falling only top No. 3 Lincoln Memorial. Over the three-game span, Hewitt averaged 13.8 points per game, and shot 43 percent from three-point range. His best game was in the team's loss to LMU when he scored 23 on 6-of-11 from deep and 8-of-16 from the floor. Sam Klingel was named Female Athlete of the Month, going 3-2 in competition while maintaining a No. 2 overall ranking in the 116-pound weight class. Among her wins, she defeated No. 1 Gabby Henry of the Cumberlands with a pin in the second period.


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Brian Voelcker, Shân Willis, and Russell Stevens in Mario Frattis surprise-twist play Sister, at La MaMa through June 4.
Mario Frattis grip on our 15 minutes
By JERRY TALLMER
In a hospital room in Milan, Italy, a son and a daughter are having an argument over what men want and women want. The son is 20, the daughter is 39. She has been badly beaten up by some man or other with whom she has spent the night, or part of it. Her aggressiveness and casual promiscuity is what drives her young brother crazy. His heated exchange with her now is parallel to a discussion he has earlier had with their mother, in which he was startled to discover that the mother, too, once had sexual urges of her own.
THE SON: Who sent those flowers? The bastard who beat you up?
THE DAUGHTER: No. He is not the type to send flowers.
SON: Who is it then?
DAUGHTER: I dont care.
SON: Maybe you know. Im sure you know
DAUGHTER: Why are you so jealous? Of Mommy too, I bet. Think for a moment. If Mommy, your mother, were in bed with someone, what would you think? Would you be jealous?
SON: No. But I prefer not to think about it
Mario Fratti, who wrote the above lines and put them into a 1994 play called Sister, which, after exposure in several countries abroad, is at La MaMa through June 4, likes to make people think about things just like that mommies or sisters in bed with someone, for instance.
Pirandello once said Luigi Pirandello is, of course, one of the gods of any playwright who happens to have been born in lAquila, Italy, one hour from Rome Pirandello once said: My only purpose in life is to force an audience to talk about my plays for at least 15 minutes.
Which is my dream too, said Mario Fratti the other morning in the museum books, prints, posters, statuary, photographs, bric-a-brac, what-have-you that is the tiny apartment in the West 50s of this city where hes lived since forever.
Playgoers may well be talking for at least 15 minutes after the turnabout at the very end of Sister, a twist that might just bring to mind a certain shattering moment in Roman Polanskis Chinatown.
It was from a dramatist of some note that Fratti in his capacity as journalist learned something else about playmaking.
It was when I was interviewing Arthur Miller in the café at Broadway and 55th Street. He told me he had five or six plays in a drawer that nobody will ever see. And he said: A good playwright starts at the end of the play so he knows where hes going. Thats how I started with All My Sons, he said.
And thats how Fratti started here.
Its the son in Sister the 20-year-old who gets the worst jolt.
And its all based on a real family, said Fratti. A family back in Italy, where I grew up. The son and I were kids together to the age of 20. He hated his sister for her promiscuity until he found out something so shocking that he changed completely in his behavior, from always saying: My sister is a whore to becoming very loving of her.
I love drawing an audience in one direction and then hitting them by surprise, said Mario Fratti.
The actors who make it happen at La MaMa are Eleanor Ruth as the mother, Shân Willis as the daughter, Brian Voelker as the son, and Russell Stevens as a male presence, all under the direction of Pamela Billig, who 15 years ago mounted a couple of other plays by Fratti. She has moved the locale of Sister from New York, where I wrote it, to Milano.
Mario Fratti and his beard and his dome and his smile and his genial high intelligence have been around this town a presence at theatrical productions large and small maybe five nights a week, maybe more for lots of years. He writes criticism and news for America Today and for Musical!, a Milan magazine and, surprise, they pay me! As a reviewer, Im always positive. I always stress whats good. Could be the actor, could be the writing, could be the set. If the plays no good, I ignore it. I meet too many young playwrights who are discouraged.
Best play hes seen this year? Awake and Sing, Clifford Odets, 1935.
Fratti himself, as noted, writes plays. Last time we talked he had 40 being done around the world. And now? Oh, my God, I dont know. Probably 81. Sometimes Im embarrassed at how many.
One of them, the 1976 Passionate Women, which had flowered out of Marios youthful days as a reporter observing Federico Fellini at work, so to speak because you couldnt tell he was working on La Strada and other masterpieces at Romes Cinecitta, became in turn the seed of the 1982 Tony-winning (and lately reprised) Broadway musical Nine.
Another Fratti comedy, of more recent vintage, Erotic Adventures in Venice, poked fun at, among others, the Mr. Banana of Italian politics, TV billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, who just a couple of weeks ago was at last ousted as Prime Minister in an election that ended closer than a whisker.
A billionaire and a clown, Fratti said now, who brainwashed the Italians for 10 years. His undoing was his gaffe: I am greater than Napoleon, greater that Churchill, greater than Jesus Christ! The reason theyd voted him in is because like Bush, you know he promised to reduce taxes for the rich.
Playwright Fratti with a half-laugh: Even my brother, an accountant in lAquila, voted for him, I think, only because he was promised no taxes on the house.
Are you going to write a new play about Berlusconi?
No. I only write about subjects who deserve it. My newest play is about Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. And about the three Venezuelan generals who were paid by Washington to kill him, and the incredible competition between those three generals.
What few critics have detected is that basically all my plays have as background the class struggle. In Milano I wrote a play called The Cage, and one critic said: What surprised me was that all these characters are right, none of them are wrong.
As in Renoirs Rules of the Game, where someone says: And the terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons?
Yes, and even in this play, this Sister, all three characters are right. Pirandello called his plays Naked Masks. My principle is: Everyone wears a mask. Youre forced to lie to survive. This is the human condition today. Basically Im an atheist and a Marxist, but if I tell this, Im ruined.
He did not look like man about to be ruined, or who could easily be ruined.
Im 79 now, and finally my city is accepting that fact. He passed across a new book from Italy, Storia del Teatro entro Abruzzi, by Franco Celenza. Theres 10 pages about me in here, which means I exist. My parents both lived to be 94. Good genes. Half a beat. So theres a danger I can write some more plays.
Well take that risk.
SISTER. By Mario Fratti. Directed by Pamela Billig. Through June 4 at La MaMa E.T.C., 74-A East 4th Street, (212) 475-7710.
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Devon Allman has been riding a wave of success with Royal Southern Brotherhood, a band that debuted last year with their self-titled studio album, which has subsequently produced a flurry of worldwide touring and attention. That recent accomplishment has allowed the guitarist/singer/composer to finally create a solo album, featuring an eclectic mix of rock, blues, soul, and a whole lot of charm and heart. Essentially, after over a decade of work as an artist trying to define his own path outside the shadow of his famous father, Gregg Allman, the man has suddenly found himself straddling two artistic paths, which both provide the outlet to explore his own talented voice. Turquoise, the debut solo album, created during a rare-Royal tour break, is an excellent 11-track work, consolidating the musician's artistic strengths, while managing to sustain a consistent theme of purpose, creativity, and soul-searching throughout its entire sonic journey.
Jambands.com sat down with Allman to discuss his recent success with the Royal Southern Brotherhood, and the story behind the debut solo album, too, which also features his RSB bandmate Yonrico Scott on drums and percussion, and Myles Weeks on upright and electric bass. Allman is an intelligent and perceptive conversationalist, with a refreshing and mature outlook, that helps engage the listener on several levels, something that can be said about his recent work, as well, which, along with the decade-plus odyssey of his band, Honeytribe, help define a unique artistic vision—famous son, or not.
RR: I was pleasantly surprised with your debut solo album, Turquoise. Not that I was surprised that you could pull it off, but that there doesn't appear to be a weak track at all. It is a very consistent work with a lot of heart and variety and some fairly moving material, as well.
DA: I can't thank you enough. That's music to my ears because when you're in there making a record, you're so close to it that you don't know. There might be some things that are moving you, but you don't know how it's going to be taken, so I appreciate that.
RR: Besides the fact that it's your solo debut, is it your most personal work to date?
DA: I think it's always been part of me to open up, but I would say that, yeah, it's pretty to-the-point and transparent and you know what's making me happy or making me sad, so, yeah, I think it's definitely my most personal work.
RR: Why do you think, at this particular time, you were able to create this album?
DA: I don't know. This wasn't something that was planned out. It wasn't like, "oh, it's time to make my most personal thing." I think that I'm at a point in my life where a lot of the goals that I had initially set for myself, in terms of personal and business and career, I had hit, so it was kind of like a big breath of fresh air: I know who I am; now, I am ready for the whole next set of goals. There's a lot of different vibes going on in there from celebration to melancholy. The one thing that really hit me was this blues theme of home that runs through the record. At the beginning of the record, I'm young and ready to run out the door—"get me out of home." And then, by the middle of the record (laughs), I'm saying, "I wanna come home; that's the only thing I want more than anything in the world." So, just like anything, I think we're all a product of our years and our experiences and our decisions. I'm just at a real good place.
RR: You mention the passage of time in a few lyrics, and it also plays a part in the continual theme of the entire album. Did you think about that when you were sitting down and going through the construction of Turquoise?
DA: I did not, actually, so it's funny how some very basic elements of our lives like our home, or our home base, and time, our currency of life, end up being the strongest themes on the record. I think that that makes sense—those are common denominators for anyone to relate to, so, yeah, man, it's a real life record, I guess.
RR: You've worked with groups in the past, and with one that has recently exploded onto our scene, so when did you decide you wanted to create a solo album?
DA: I think having been under a good bit of healthy pressure to come to the table with my best songwriting to be included for the Royal Southern Brotherhood record made me really dig and go, "O.K., I want my songs to stack up next to Cyril Neville's without there being any kind of dip in heart or quality. That means I have to bring the most pure version of myself and my stories that I can to the table." I felt like I did that with "Left My Heart in Memphis" and "Nowhere to Hide" that I brought to the Royal record, which I completely wrote myself. They weren't co-writes. As soon as I heard the playback on those, it gave me the confidence to think, "You're not just an aggressive blues jamband. You're a writer, too, and you really ought to just take your next turn, and turn down the writing path, and really put your best foot forward in writing songs."
Clapton did that in a certain juncture in his career, and I've really started to want to mirror, not the stylistic, but the career moves that somebody like Clapton took. Obviously, he's an amazing, world-class player, but he has these amazing records in his discography. I just decided right then and there. I had the confidence—these personal or laidback songs of mine? They need to be magnified into a whole album.
RR: Confidence is the key word, and you mentioned that Royal may have provoked you into that feeling in a very positive way, which also circles back to what I felt about the solo album—there is confidence on the songs; you are telling a story in an unrushed, patient manner, and it sounds like a record you want to spend time with. How much confidence did you also gain from touring with the members of RSB?
DA: Well, any time you shake up your house, you're going to have new perspective and you're going to see other people's takes on approach and touch and things of that nature. When I went from being a quarterback for twelve years to being an equal member of a team, it definitely makes you look over your shoulder at your brother and say, "Oh, that's cool; that's a nice approach." And that can be from anything from a tempo thing to a feel to a touch to a groove. I think we've all effected each other in a very positive way.
But the confidence thing is, I don't know, you play in the sandbox for ten years, and then somebody says, "Oh, we think you're good enough to jump onto the beach," and you do it and nobody's kicked you off yet—this is good. (laughs). There's a bit of, for sure, validation there. "All right, this is a side of me that I need to start believing in; it exists."
RR: Let's discuss two areas: the genesis of the solo album and the importance of Jim Gaines in the production of Turquoise.
DA: Sure. I'll touch on Jim Gaines first. I was a fan of Jim Gaines for the last 20 years. I'm a record geek. I know what Jim Gaines did before I ever stepped into a studio with Jim Gaines. I probably knew his discography better than him—meaning: he's a rock star in my eyes. So, when I walked in and made the record with him with Royal Southern Brotherhood, he just became like an uncle to me. He was like the cool football coach that you wished you had because you had the asshole one. He would absolutely dig in and find your strengths and magnify them. He was very, very good at that. The comfort level working with him was instant. As we were wrapping the record, I told him that the whole idea of the Royal Southern Brotherhood family from a musical and a marketing and business sense was that we would put out Royal records every year and a half to two years, but in the interim, we each would drop solo records. We have such a cool working relationship and I love him like an uncle and he agreed right then and there: "You call me and we'll make time and we'll make that record."
I've got to say that it was very unconventional. I was wrapped up in touring the world with Royal, so I wasn't at home in the studio cuttin' demos, and sending them off to the label for approval and management for helping me mold the ones that were chosen for the record or the producer. In fact, my record label, Jim Gaines, and my management company were all quietly—they later revealed to me—really freaking out. They had heard nothing of what was going to be on this fucking record. They started to show hints of it, and then I started throwing them a couple bones just because I didn't want to totally freak them out, so they heard a couple demos the week before I went in. They at least knew the area that I was going. That wasn't by design. I wasn't trying to be deceptive. I had no time. There was just no time to do this. I had in my head the songs that I wanted to do. I hoped and prayed that they'd come out good and that there was some kind of cohesion, some kind of linear thread that would tie it all together, and thank God that there is because that wasn't by design either. Thankfully, I think that all these little babies make a nice family, and that's the Great Creator right there. Anytime, you're going to have Yonrico Scott play drums on your record and Jim Gaines producing it, you're headed (laughs) in the right direction right off the bat.
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Coming to Europe? Fancy booking and managing your flights from your BlackBerry 10 smartphone? You can now with the new easyjet application that arrived in BlackBerry World the other day. Free to download, the app allows users to not only browse and purchase tickets, but you can also make adjustments afterwards which may come in rather handy.
There is also the option to track flights so you can sure that your plane is running on time - neat. With a simple login screen, checking your bookings is always only a few seconds away. I'm off to Mobile World Congress later in the month and there is every chance I will be flying easyjet. It should prove the perfect time to put the app through its paces.
The easyjet application for BlackBerry 10 is another one that has been ported over from Android. However, it doesn't feel like an Android app. In fact, if I hadn't of mentioned it most people probably wouldn't even know. If you are using easyjet for business or a holiday grabbing the BB10 app is a must.


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This is another in the series of mystery photos from the Overson Photographic Collection. After processing over 5,5000 photos, I have determined that Margaret Godfrey Jarvis Overson was the primary photographer, but that photos were also taken by her father, Charles Godfrey DeFriez Jarvis and likely by her daughter, Eva Margaret Overson Tanner. There were also a number of contributed photos and as shown here, copies of earlier photographs from a variety of photographers. These photos were taken primarily in and around St. Johns, Apache, Arizona. But some came from Utah and a few from California and other states and even other countries.
The earliest photos appear to have been taken in the 1840s or 1850s. Some were taken from that time to about 1900, with the majority being taken from around 1900 to 1920. Some of the photos date into the 1940s with one or two taken just before Margaret Overson died. There are family photos that date into the 1950s but these are not included in this collection.
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Monday, May 02, 2011
The Wedding
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Merci beaucoup!!!ReplyDelete
Carol, your 'Sofre Aghd' table looks gorgeous and so does your dress! B:-)ReplyDelete
I knew you could not resist doing a post on this very elegant, and just as I imagined it to be, very Texas wedding. That house looked like part of the set for "Dallas."
And you looked sooo beautiful.
It seems to run in the family.
Congratulations to the bride and groom.
Paula K.ReplyDelete
The souvenir the bride presented to the guests was their L O V E !
Charming, Carol! It looks like it was a beautiful day. I'm glad you got a photo of you in there, too! Congratulations to the lovely couple.ReplyDelete
This lucky couple chose the right "auntie"!!! Gorgeous details throughout - and lovely photos to remember them by! Such a lovely, lovely wedding. I heard there was another wedding this weekend, but it could not possibly compare to the intimacy and beauty of this one!ReplyDelete
Everything/everyone looks gorgeous! The house too is perfection! So unique. It looks edible!ReplyDelete
OH, so glad y'all had good weather. Today (Monday it is in the 50s...crazy Texas weather). I agree with everyone that you looked springy and lovely. Whata very handsome bride and groom and what a attractive and meaningful table you presented them. Is that a their home? because oddly enough I think I have been to that place for a friends wedding myself...am I wrong? Thank you for giving us a look and sharing this family time with us.ReplyDelete
Oh, Carol - I wish you had a better picture of you up there... you look adorable! Love the dress and hair and happiness. Love the table you created and your niece's dress too. And the peony bouquets. And the setting. What a fabulous and gorgeous wedding!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous bride, gorgeous table (I'm in awe - you are seriously multi-talented!), love your dress, and your concise description of the marriage process got a loud cackle from me! Great to catch up on your posts after being away, and to re-live Easter in Paris and Venice. Thanks!ReplyDelete
THANK YOU for all your kind comments!ReplyDelete
The Wedding was held at The BARR MANSION in Austin where everything is ORGANIC not just the strawberries.
The bride provided most of the items for the Persian wedding table - I got to set it up and add the rose petals...
Amy, I wish we'd had you playing the harp...
Peter I did find some MACARONS in Austin but not enough to add to the Persian table.ReplyDelete
Still it was a surprise.
what a lovely Bride. Congrats to the Happy couple. Looked like a fun wedding and reception. You did a great job on the table.ReplyDelete
OH My God !! its Beautiful Wedding really fantastic this post for wedding. nice flowers and beautiful pair. perfect posting i love it .....ReplyDelete
What a beautiful wedding. Carol, you are so talented. Loved all the pictures and what a table you prepared. Cute dress, too!ReplyDelete
The sunlight on the beautiful stone work (dentil moulding, brackets, floral medallions, etc.) surrounding the quinticential gorgeous Parisian blue door is just stunning, Eric. This neighbourhood always reminds me of Bel Ami...with Georges prowling the streets formulating his plans to secure fame and fortune.ReplyDelete


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My brother brought me a h/d that has a cracked controller board.
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Your Self Employed Hidden Paycheck – Little Things Add Up (Part 2)
In Your Self Employed Hidden Paycheck – How to Pay Yourself More with Less (Part 1), I showed that my 2008 hidden paycheck from being self employed was $23,606. Here is how the numbers add up. We're talking about items my family gets direct benefit from, but can be attributed to the business and are taken as small business tax deductions. If you are self employed your family also gets paid in "stuff" that employees normally buy after they get their paycheck, but you can buy before you take your paycheck. The business purchase of this stuff, instead of you personally constitutes a hidden paycheck.
Most articles found on the web and elsewhere focus on self employed taxes and the tax savings aspect. Like the $6,610 savings I made last year in self employed taxes. But this article focuses on the hidden paycheck produced by legitimately buying goods and services used for you business that also has personal benefits.
Make sure you check with your CPA before you take any of these deductions since your situation is most certainly different.
My Self Employed Hidden Paycheck items for 2008:
Self employed health insurance – First, the big one. As an employee, it's not deductible even if you pay the whole thing. Being self employed, it's entirely deductible. I spent $5,068 last year.
Cell phone – I have five lines for my family. These cost $179 a month after subtracting the kid's lines, although all are necessary to my business and my sanity.
Home/business phone – Working from home allows me to write off my phone ($45/mo) and my long distance VOIP line with BroadVoice ($35/mo).
Internet – My Internet at home costs $50/mo. Who could run a business without that?
Lunches/dinners out – Meeting with clients and prospects over lunch or dinner is a relaxing way to build business. Even after the 50% deduction, I spent $129/mo.
Party leftovers – My client party at my house had 146 clients and prospects last year. In Berks County, it's a mortal sin to run out of food, so I ended up with a steak, shrimp, appetizers and alcohol left to freeze. Although extremely hard to estimate, I would say safely about $500 total was the value of what we ate later in the year with family and friends.
Travel – I have a lot of clients near San Jose, California where I used to live, many began as close friends. Traveling there three times last year to see them and the clients they refer is like a vacation for me. Since I stay with my mother-in-law (who I just love), I only spent $2,772 on three trips last year.
Vacation – When many people go on vacation, they work part of the time and deduct part of the cost. I didn't last year, so my business deductible vacation was $0. This can be a significant amount as we will see in a future article.
Home office deduction – Working from home allowed me to take $3,484 last year off my taxable income. Think of it as the business paying part of the electric, mortgage, pool maintenance, and everything that goes into maintaining a house divided by the square footage used for your business.
Per diem meals – I found this little known tax deduction works for me because I stay at my mother-in-law's house when I visit my clients in CA. Per diem meals is a daily rate based on where you travel allowed for deduction where you don't need a receipt. California is $59/day and I spent 47 days there last year. So I get to take $2,802 as business expenses.
Office supplies – With two teenagers in school and various Boy Scout projects, we use extra office supplies such as paper, toner, and notebooks. Maybe it's not worth mentioning at only about $200 a year, but it illustrates that there are probably things you haven't thought of yet.
Auto mileage – If you routinely stop at the grocery store, department store, or friend's house on your way home from a client or meeting, you have saved yourself a trip and pocketed the mileage. Make it a habit and it is money your household is getting without spending. With .55 cents a mile, that was around $1,294 last year.
Computer equipment – Who could run a business without a computer? It also serves as my personal entertainment, shopping aid, and correspondence tool. We tend to buy a laptop about every year for either my husband or me and give the older one to our kids or assistants. Patrick's MacBook and all its software, cases and parts was $2,052. Yes, we bought other computer stuff, but I'm only counting here what we would have had to buy for the family (and unable to deduct) if we weren't self employed.
Telephone equipment – Between dropping my Ipaq and being a woman with the 'no pockets' problem, I need to upgrade my cell phone nearly each year. Without extending my contract, it cost $299. At home we have a TalkSwitch PBX which died after 5 years and we replaced it for $826.
NOW, a big disclaimer, I do not do taxes! I work with an excellent CPA who specializes in self employed taxes. She is a tremendous help to me. I then pass onto my self employed clients whatever they are missing. So if you have any questions regarding whether something is business deductible in your situation, ask your CPA. I am only helping to stimulate your brain and get this stuff recorded in the first place. You can't count it if you don't track it.
How do you figure your hidden paycheck? Comment now.
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Congrats jeffjoe!!! Zpops I chose the same answer as you did, but Alas! It is B. So, why in the world the answer B is correct one? There was no mentioning of other animals or people lives in the text! Proves my point about the contoversy of the LSAT.
The question is from LSAT the Ofiicial Tripleprep Volume 1.
Funny, i liked B myself but then lost confidence when i saw ZPOPS rule it out. lol. either way, this is not a real LSAT question because you could make arguements for B, C or E (at least in my opinion.).


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Enhanced support in ARM RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional significantly reduces initial development time and ensures optimal tools configuration for specific TI processors
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Feb. 26, 2008 – ARM [(LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq:ARMHY)] today announced at the Texas Instruments Developer Conference (TIDC), Dallas, Texas, that the ARM® RealView® family of development tools will provide enhanced support for the Texas Instruments' (TI) DaVinciTM technology and OMAP35xTM platform, including the recently-released DaVinci TMS320DM355 digital media processor and OMAP35x processors. The enhanced support automatically configures the RealView development tools for specific TI processors enabling software developers to rapidly begin developing high-performance applications using supplied example code and project templates. Enhanced debug support provides full visibility and control of the processor's on-chip peripherals as well as automatic placement of code in the processors memory map.
"TI has long relied upon ARM to deliver low risk development tool solutions that provide ease-of-use and optimum performance," said Gerard Andrews, OMAP marketing manager, TI. "With the enhanced support in ARM RealView tools for TI's digital media processors and OMAP35x applications processors, developers will greatly benefit from reduced development times and the ability to deliver high-performance, low-power applications into the rapidly growing consumer, medical and embedded markets."
Developers wishing to create an application for a specific TI processor will be able to download a RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional tool update for their chosen processor. This update will add processor-specific project templates and example code to the Eclipse IDE included in the RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional. The processor project templates automatically configure the compilation tools in the RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional to generate optimal code and automatically lay it out in the processor's memory map including (where appropriate) programming on-chip flash. TI processor-specific debug features provide the developer with full visibility and control of on-chip peripherals in a format that can be directly mapped back to the processor's datasheet.
"ARM is committed to providing its extensive ecosystem of Partners with the resources they need to stay one step ahead of market demands, and with RealView development tools we are able to lend our support to a leading technology company like TI," said John Cornish, vice president of marketing, System Design Division, ARM. "With RealView tool support for the DaVinci and OMAP35x processors, ARM will empower developers to meet the feature and performance requirements associated with efficiently delivering quality products into the mobile and consumer markets."
About RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional
The ARM RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional is a complete, end-to-end solution for software development supporting all ARM processors and ARM CoreSight™ debug technology. This full-featured product enables developers to begin software development, optimization and test ahead of silicon availability, significantly reducing application time-to-market and ensuring the highest degree of software quality.
RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional incorporates the best-in-class RealView Compilation tools and market-leading RealView Profiler enabling applications to easily achieve both high performance and optimal code size. The product includes support for the latest Cortex™-A8 processor and includes the vectorizing compiler for the NEON™ media processing engine, which can increase the performance of multimedia applications in standard C code by more than 200 percent.
ARM RealView tools enhanced support features for TI's OMAP35x and digital media processors will be available in Q2 2008, free-of-charge via electronic download to new and existing RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional customers.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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Plants Vs. Zombies Coming to Android for Free (for a Day)
Buried in a businessy press release from PopCap are two gems: That Plant Vs. Zombies and Chuzzle are coming to Android via the Amazon market-and that they'll be free apps of the day. PvZ for free is quite good. Chuzzle is tomorrow; PvZ "later this month". [PRNewsWire]


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Mexican League | Josh Lueke signs
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:00:06 -0800
Free-agent RP Josh Lueke (Rays) signed with the Delfines del Carmen of the Mexican League Wednesday, Feb. 4.
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Mexican League | Alfredo Despaigne suspended
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:05:57 -0700
The Mexican League announced that it has suspended Cuban OF Alfredo Despaigne for life for using a false Dominican passport to play for the Campeche Pirates. Despaigne is trying to sign as a free agent with a major league club in the United States, and if he is successful the suspension will not matter because there is no joint agreement to honor suspensions with the Mexican League and MLB.
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Mexican League | Japhet Amador joins
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:32:43 -0700
The Houston Astros have loaned 1B Japhet Amador to Los Diablos Rojos of the Mexican League for the remainder of the season.
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Mexican League | Jose Canseco's tryout ends
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:08:32 -0800
Mexican Baseball League officials say OF Jose Canseco has acknowledged that he took a banned substance for which he has no prescription and will not play as expected in the league. Plinio Escalante, president of the Mexican League, confirmed to ESPN Deportes that the banned substance is testosterone. Canseco refused to take a drug test.
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Mexican League | Jose Canseco to try out
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:24:38 -0800
Free-agent OF Jose Canseco, 47, will try out for the Quintana Roo Tigers of the Mexican League.
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Mexican League | Dukes not close to signing
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:53:55 -0700
Bill Ladson, of MLB.com, reports free-agent OF Elijah Dukes (Nationals) said he is not close to signing with the Tabasco Olmecas of the Mexican League.
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Mexican League | D. Sanchez signs
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:11:06 -0800
Noroeste.com reports the Mexico City Red Devils, of the Mexican League, signed free-agent RP Duaner Sanchez (Mets) to an undisclosed deal.
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Mexican League | Jones having successful season
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:40:25 -0800
The Chicago Tribune reports that former MLB OF Jacque Jones is trying to extend his career by playing in the Mexican League. Through 23 games entering this weekend, Jones is hitting .301.
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The teenager was shot multiple times.
The 18-year-old man who was shot Sunday night in the 600 block of North 10th Street in Wilmington died from his injuries, Wilmington police said.
Raequan Dupree Rouse was dropped off at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in a private vehicle about 20 minutes after the 6:30 p.m. shooting near the intersection of North 10th and Campbell streets, police said.
The teenager was shot multiple times. Police were alerted to the shooting by Shotspotter and they received multiple phone calls from neighbors who heard the gunfire.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found multiple shell casings and a trail of blood. Officers quickly cordoned off the area with yellow tape and started combing the area for evidence.
Multiple officers were on scene walking around the neighborhood with flashlights placing evidence markers.
Lt. O.B. Blanton said officers also cordoned off an area around the hospital because whoever drove Rouse to the emergency room abandoned the vehicle there.
Monday morning, the area where Rouse was shot looked just like any other quiet neighborhood. Residents there did not want to talk and most did not answer their doors.
There were no visible indicators police spent hours Sunday evening at the scene, located about a block away from Portia Mills Hines Park.
Sunday evening, a few residents sat on their front stoops and watched as police investigated the shooting. One woman said she did not hear the gunshots, but a neighbor ran over to her home and asked if she had.
Police have not released any suspect information and the case remains under investigation.
This is the second homicide in Wilmington this year. On Jan. 3, Martin Yakimovich, 32, was stabbed and killed on McRae Street.
Shelby Reid Lentz, 19, is charged with second-degree murder in that stabbing. He pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court earlier this month.
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Face the Music
Finally, the Starchild tells his story. Following books by Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss, Paul Stanley is the last original member of KISS to publish his autobiography. Unlike its predecessors, Face the Music is less focused on dishing on his bandmates (though there is plenty of that in the book) and more on Stanley's development as a musician and person. He describes his difficult and at times painful upbringing and how it led him to find refuge in music and performing. He writes at length about the early days of KISS and how the conflict between his stage persona and his true self made it difficult for him to trust and make connections with others. In the end, he finds fulfillment as a husband and father and has resolved much of the inner turmoil that plagued him in his early years. Stanley's book displays a warmth and even joy lacking in his bandmates' books. No KISS fan should miss this one.
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More management changes at Ducati North America, as Dominique Cheraki has taken on the newly created position of General Manager, to help CEO Cristiano Silei in the day-to-day duties of running Ducati's US, Canada, and Mexico operations.
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Walmart case appealed to state Supreme Court
December 12. 2012 10:44PM
MANCHESTER - A second court case challenging the location of a Walmart Supercenter on Gold Street has been appealed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
On Dec. 3, Hannaford Bros. supermarkets and Victory Distributors appealed a lower court ruling that upheld a decision by Manchester aldermen to gate the industrial end of Gold Street. The gating of Gold Street was sought by Walmart as part of its plans to construct a Supercenter at the Gold Street location of the shuttered Associated Grocers of New England warehouse.
Hannaford and Victory have already appealed a separate suit relating to the project - approval of Walmart plans by the Manchester Planning Board. That case has been fully briefed, but justices have yet to hear oral arguments in the case.