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For the best possible display, this portrait should be professionally framed.
A frame is not included with this artwork!
Approximate Measurements
54cm x 39cm ≈ 21¼" x 15¼"
This painting is all about hard work. The harvest has come in, and it's time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Everyone works hard in the effort, as their village depends on this grain production for both their own food, as well as a commodity to be traded with other villages.
This painting is by (Zhang Qing-Yi) from Huxian County in the Shaanxi Province of China.
The artist used "shui fen" (paint powder and water - similar to gouache), on thick paper to create this painting.
If you get a piece of mat board cut for you, this Chinese painting will fit nicely in a standard 18" x 24" frame. If you want really wide matting, you could even use a 22" x 28" standard picture frame. You should probably get the matting cut professionally, but you can probably handle the rest yourself. Please see our step by step guide to framing Asian art if you want some tips.
This style of folk art was born in the 1950's just after the Revolution (when Chairman Mao took power). The art developed independently in Huxian (Hu County) in the Shaanxi Province for many years (the same Province where you will find the Terracotta Soldiers).
Things changed drastically when the Cultural Revolution came to pass in China. Within a few years, art was only acceptable if it portrayed some form of socialist propaganda, or showed some form of working together in pursuit of Mao's Communist ideals. This propaganda art seldom provided any pay for the artist who were instead forced into working hard in the fields as peasants on communal farms to survive.
As the last of the Cultural Revolution sputtered to a stop with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, freedom began to slowly ring again when Deng Xiao-Ping took power. Deng Xiao-Ping brought China out of the dark ages, and away from "Maoism" and Communism (one of the greatest leaders in Chinese history in my humble opinion). By the 1980's, freedom to once again practice 3000 years of artistic tradition emerged. Chinese folk art was finally allowed to be what it was meant to be, a way to freely express various scenes of daily life and snapshots of Chinese village culture.
According to Chinese Government statistics, there are now more than 2000 folk artists in Southern China. Sixteen of these artists have been recognized as the "Famous Masters" of Chinese folk art by the Chinese Cultural Arts Bureau. These sixteen artists were recently honored by China Post with the issuing of a set of commemorative postage stamps. Of these sixteen masters, we represent three of them: Pan Xiao-Ling, Cao Quan-Tang, and Zhang Qing-Yi.
A lot has changed in the folk art community of China since I first started selling these paintings about 4 years ago.
Chinese folk artists have become rather famous, and sought after for exhibitions around the world. Recently these artists formed a labor union of sorts, to ensure that they receive a handsome sum for all of their paintings. Most of them have been able to improve their station in life through the sale of their artwork. One of these artists once said, "We've become good little capitalists, just like President Nixon dreamed of".
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Gary's random little things about China:
When crossing a street, or merely making your way down the road, there is a certain law of physics that comes into play: When two forces meet, one must yield.
Here is the general yielding scheme in China:
Cars yield to big buses and trucks.
Bicycles and cars mingle and narrowly avoid each other. When push comes to shove, the bicyclist knows he will lose the fight. But the car driver knows that the bicycle will scratch his car when he runs it over, and will only yield on that premise.
Cars will not yield to, but are required to avoid pedestrians. When you hit a pedestrian at low speed, it does very little damage, and unlike a bicycle, will almost never scratch your car. Therefore pedestrians are given a smaller margin.
Note: Regardless of green or red stop lights, it is against the law to come to a complete stop when making a right hand turn in China (no matter how many pedestrians are in the way). The rule is "honk and avoid, then continue on your way".
Motor scooters yield to no one, not even when they are being driven on a pedestrian-filled sidewalk. Motor scooters zip around like they have nothing to lose - this may be true, as smaller motor scooters require no license of any kind and are very cheap.
If you are driving on the wrong side of the road, or going the wrong way on a one-way street, you do not have to yield to anyone, no matter what kind of vehicle you are operating.
Cars will yield (not by choice) to pedestrians crossing the street in numbers greater than 10 (it is best in China to invite 9 of your friends for an outing if you plan to cross a lot of streets).
In lieu of yielding, drivers are required to honk at pedestrians. I swear to God, this is the law! It's a safety issue: If you are passing a pedestrian that is walking on the side of the road, you are required by law to honk at them to let them know you are there.
Note: All streets in Chinese cities, sound like a New York traffic jam 24 hours per day with all this "safety honking".
I have not been able to find a traffic law that states you must yield to ambulances. And in practice, very few drivers do.
When two large vehicles come face to face on a narrow roadway, and neither can pass, neither will yield. They will sit there, honking at each other for a while. After several cars are lined up behind them, they will decide that they should have yielded earlier, and start to back up. This is to the great dismay of all the cars behind them who will honk in unison. This could go on for an hour or more. It ends when a police officer arrives, tells both drivers what idiots they are, issues tickets to both of them, and then systematically makes the situation worse by insisting that all the smaller cars turn around (rather than back up) by making 162-point turns in the small roadway. Eventually, two of the cars will hit each other, for which both drivers will be cited and fined on the spot.
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Choice-free: The Obama-Shaheen market
Here is how New Hampshire's so-called "health insurance exchange" under Obamacare will work when it comes online Jan. 1. Granite Staters who need health insurance and have not found it through an employer or the actual marketplace will come to this government-created "market," where a grand total of one insurer will offer plans. Every one of the plans offered by the single participating insurance company will have to provide government-mandated minimum coverage that starts at $498.79 a month. This is "choice" under Obamacare.
In a real market, people can choose from a wide variety of providers who offer a wide variety of options. New Hampshire used to have that kind of health insurance market. Regulations destroyed it.
In addition to the numerous coverage mandates dictated by the Legislature, the state tightly restricts the ability of insurers to charge prices that reflect the actual risk posed by a customer. That was the result of a 1994 "community rating" law sponsored by then-state Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. At the time, insurers charged people different rates depending on how much of an insurance risk they were. That is what insurance does. In 1994, New Hampshire had the second-lowest health insurance costs in the nation. Then came community rating, which forced insurers to base their rates largely on geography, not risk.
At least 21 insurers immediately stopped offering coverage in the state. New Hampshire's insurance costs rocketed from the second-lowest in the nation to the second-highest. It was a colossal disaster, and it remains the law.
Now comes Obamacare, with its "exchange" in which insurers must offer mandatory minimum coverage at prices determined by the government. Of the state's few remaining insurers, only one is willing to offer coverage under such rigid regulations.
In 1994, a young, healthy Granite Stater seeking private health insurance was able to choose from among 26 insurers. In 2014, a young, healthy Granite Stater seeking private health insurance through the Obamacare "exchange" will get to choose from only one insurer.
This is New Hampshire's health insurance market as Jeanne Shaheen and Barack Obama have shaped it.


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Nylon turf bonded to a thick rubber tile for a 6' critical fall height.
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SYNLawn Oceanside Turf Stackables are a convenient way to add the look and feel of natural grass to any space as a handy portable grass tile. Nylon turf bonded to a thick rubber tile great for play areas and common spaces. Certified by the International Play Equipment Manufacturers Association (IPEMA) for a 6′ critical fall height.
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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's state television has broadcast images of the crown prince meeting with top opposition leaders one week after reconciliation talks were suspended.
Shiite opposition bloc al-Wefaq released a statement Monday after the face-to-face with Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa saying that it hoped the meeting would result in concrete steps.
A participant in the talks, who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the situation, said no foreign diplomats attended the meeting that took place at the prince's palace. Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
It was the first time in nearly three years that a member of the ruling family met opposition leaders.
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Thanks to regulations that support the Americans with Disabilities Act, most California library buildings have been designed or renovated to include ramps, desks and water fountains that comply with height regulations for wheelchair users, and restrooms with accessible stalls. However, to make our services truly accessible, we need to find creative ways to improve our day-to-day interactions with users who need unique accommodations.
In this workshop you will learn how to
- Communicate comfortably with users with disabilities,
- Find resources to help assess and respond effectively to the needs of your local disability communities,
- Locate ideas and sources for different types of accommodations—both free and inexpensive, as well as more sophisticated, and
- Develop policies and procedures for effective and equitable services for users with disabilities.
Workshop Description: Through discussion as well as individual and group exercises, this all-day workshop will provide participants with opportunities to share their knowledge and begin developing plans for establishing or improving services for library users with disabilities. The instructor will provide a full range of tips and tools that can be applied immediately in the workplace: sample guidelines for service, sources of local information about people with disabilities, tip sheets for working with people with different types of disabilities, and information about and sources for assistive technologies. Participants will explore the life experiences of people with disabilities, gain an overview of the disability rights movement, and discover practical ideas for library accessibility.
Preliminary Course Outline:
- Who Are We Talking About?
- How many people in the U.S. have disabilities?
- How is a "disability" different from a "handicap"?
- Respectful language
- It's the Law - And It's the Right Thing to Do!
- Federal and state laws that regulate services for people with disabilities
- Library guidelines and publications
- Accommodating Unique Needs
- Responding to specific requests
- Simple tools can provide practical solutions
- With more resources you can do even more cool stuff
- Nothing About Them Without Them
- It is essential to involve people with disabilities in planning for services
- Taking the next steps
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Vermont's popular fish and wildlife summer course for teachers and other educators will be held July 14-19.
The hands-on field course that gets educators out into Vermont's streams, forests and wetlands with some of the state's leading experts takes place at the Buck Lake Conservation Camp in Woodbury.
Now in its 28th year, "Fish and Wildlife Management for Educators," is a one-week, three-credit graduate course taught by Vermont Fish & Wildlife and other Agency of Natural Resources staff through the University of Vermont.
"Wildlife resources are important to all Vermonters in one way or another," says Fish & Wildlife's Education Coordinator Alison Thomas. "If teachers can get connected with the outdoors and in turn expose their students, then many of these youngsters will be able to make informed decisions about Vermont wildlife and their habitat needs when they become adults."
"This course is unique in that it helps teachers from any discipline, whether it is math, language arts, physical education, or history, to improve their instructional strategies and make their lesson plans more relevant to their students," says Thomas.
Tuition is $770 for the week — books, food and overnight facilities are included. A limited number of partial scholarships are available. A course description and schedule of activities are available from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department's website at www.vtfishandwildlife.com under "general education." You can also contact them by calling (802) 371-9975 or emailing email@example.com.
Buck Lake Conservation Camp in located east of Route 14, north of Woodbury Village.


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The Shimano PD-R540 uses the same SPD-SL cleats and retention system as the more costly Dura Ace and Ultegra level pedals, but it cuts costs by using a body shape that the others once used, but have since moved away from. And while it may lack in the extraordinary sleekness of Dura Ace and Ultegra, it offers the same stable, wide cleat platform, low stack height, and great cornering clearance SPD SL pedals are known for. And it does so at a nice price.
It uses a chromoly steel-spindle, aluminum pedal body, and composite cleat retention bar. The spring tension is adjustable via a 2.5mm hex bolt in the top of the retention mechanism and the settings are visible through a small window on the back so you can make sure that each pedal is adjusted to match. Each pedal runs on two sets of ball bearings. There's a plastic plate atop the pedal so any cleat rub will wear the plate without damaging the rest of the body. The pedal comes with the SM-SH11 floating cleat (the one with the yellow wear tabs). It is designed for three degrees of float from center, in both directions. Stack height is 14.3mm
The Shimano PD-R540 Pedals come with a pair of cleats and mounting hardware for standard three-hole applications.
- SPD-SL cleat type
- Cleats included
- Adjustable spring tension
- 14.3mm stack height
- CroMoly spindle, aluminum pedal body, composite cleat retention bar
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First clipless
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
First pedal and I really dig them. They are easy to adjust and I would recommend as a first pedal. Not sure about how they compare with other pedals in regards to weight but again it is a great learner tool.
Not bad for price
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
Not my favorite pedal but gets the job done and works just fine.
I seem to have a hard time twisting out of the pedal. Any suggestions?
Great Pedals for the price.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
For the price they can't be beat since they come with the ($18) cleats too. Sure, they are a bit heavier than the more expensive versions of Shimano pedals, but they work perfectly. Clip out tension is adjustable over a wide range. Even at the lightest tension they are secure until you want to clip out, then you're out quite easily.
Good Beginner Pedal
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have Dura Ace pedals on my road bike, but got a pair of these to keep on my stationary bike. It lets me use the same shoes and position and keep money in my wallet.
My sisters first clipless
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
If you're looking to get into your first pair of clipless road pedals, this is a great option. Economical and burly. Chances are you'll decide you're comfortable enough being attached to your bike that you want to upgrade long before you'll actually need new pedals. There's no reason these couldn't run great for years.
Very nice pedals
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I bought these pedals for a Winter Beater road bike. Very nice pedals and an excellent price. Thank you Competitive Cyclist for the excellent customer service and wonderful help. I'm very happy with my purchase.
good for first timers
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
this a great pedal to begin with, a bit heavy but I've had them for about two weeks now and i think they're good. when you become a borderline pro racer is when you should start to worry about how much things weigh
Great Pedals
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I bought these a few days before my first race and they are great. Also, they were very easy to learn to use. I've since put around 300 miles on them and they're doing awesome.
My old pedals.
Good pedals.
Do they compatible with Northwave Evolution S.B.S. Shoe - Men's?
Yes, these pedals will work with and road shoe designed for 3 hole cleats.
Great Starter Pedals
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Great pedals; easy to clip in and out of (from a beginner cyclist's perspective). I think these pedals are are the best bang for your buck in terms of pedals. Sure, the weight and body are a little on the budget side, but when you're paying less than $50 for them, I consider these a must for the beginner cyclist.
Very functional
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
They're really easy to clip in and out of. I'm a first time clip-in user, and it was really easy to get used to them. Additionally, the pedals are big enough to use with normal shoes if you're casually riding your bike to a friend's house and don't want to wear clip-in shoes.
Best Value in Pedals
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I wound up with a set of these after breaking my Look knockoffs. These were the cheapest pedals my LBS had in stock, and I'm glad they did.
The Good:
--Compatible with the ubiquitous SPD-SL cleat, so spares (both pedals and cleats) can be had quickly in a pinch.
--Excellent support base, especially for my gunboat-sized feet.
--CHEAP; light pedals are great, but there are better places to put your cash than pedals (COACH) if your goal is to go fast.
--Smooth clipping in and out, complete with tune-able release tension.
The Bad:
--Heavier than the pedals further up the Shimano food chain, but such is the cost of budget components.
I raced on these until I got a massive raise at work one year. The Ultegra and 105 pedals have a slightly better support base, but unless you're pushing a couple kilowatts on a regular basis you're not going to miss it. Buy 'em, ride 'em, and enjoy the time on bike!
Are the PD-R540 compatibale on my indoor...
Are the PD-R540 compatibale on my indoor spinning bike (BodyCraft SPX) ? I have Shimano PD-105 on my road bike, so my shoes with these clips would work.
I can't say, for sure, whether they'll work, but the best way to check would be to take a pedal off your road bike and see if it will thread onto the crank on your spinning bike. A quick Google search did find several people who put standard-threaded pedals onto their Bodycraft bike, but you might want to check to be sure.
Solid pedal
These were my second pair of clipless (still getting used to the naming scheme of pedals) and these were a fantastic upgrade. I moved up from Crank Bros. candy, and the larger platform makes things just seem more substantial, from when I decide to stand up and hammer it, or just clipping in. I would definitely suggest these.
I got these pedals on a bike, but I need...
I got these pedals on a bike, but I need some cleats to attach to my shoes. I have Shimano MTB shoes that I'd like to use in the meantime until I can get some road shoes. Will my Shimano MTB shoes accommodate cleats for these pedals, and what kind of cleats do I need to get to be compatible with these pedals?
The cleats you need for these pedals are included in the cost. they are a SPD-SL cleat.
That being said the SPC-SL cleat is only compatible with 3-hole mounting bases. Shoes compatible with this cleat have three threaded holes in a triangle pattern.
The shoes you have likely only have a two-hole SPD pattern and will NOT be compatible with this pedal.
You options are to buy a standard SPD pedal for your road bike or get a dedicated set of pedals and shoes for your road rig.
Good Pedals
I love these pedals. They are easy to clip in and out of and work great.
I haven't ridden with clipless pedals yet....
I haven't ridden with clipless pedals yet. I want to get some because I do a couple of long (30 mile +) rides per week. But I also use my bike for short trips to the store or the beach. I don't want to have to wear bike shoes every time I use the bike. Will the "other" side of the clipless pedal accommodate my sandals or sneakers?
No, the back side of this pedal is not intended for use at any distance. I recommend looking at the PD-A530 SPD Dual Platform Bike Pedal, it is a combo SPD (2-hole) road pedal plus a platform on the flip side. Another good choice is the PD-M324, it is also dual platform but has a more traditional design to it. The PD-M324 is available on Real Cyclist: http://www.realcyclist.com/roadbike/Shimano-PD-M324-SPD-Dual-Platform-Pedal/SHI0099M.html


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him/her to be enrolled concurrently in both high school and Rose State College courses for the semester listed. The
tuition waiver for high school seniors and juniors will cover the per credit hour tuition cost for up to six credit hours.
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Kistler-Morse Microcell strain gauge weighing sensors transform a silo, tank, or other vessel into a scale. This bolt-on technology provides continuous measurement of bulk material in in storage vessels. The sensors are highly sensitive, thermally stable, semiconductor strain gauges that bolt directly to the support structure of a vessel, making them easy to install, retrofit, and maintain. The vessel becomes a weighing system as the sensors continually measure changes in the compression of each support member and provide an electrical output directly related to material weight. These strain gauge sensors are not fooled by side build-up, angles of repose, or air pockets.
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Ecnomiohyla rabborum
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Language: English
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|Ecnomiohyla rabborum Mendelson, Savage, Griffith, Ross, Kubicki & Gagliardo, 2008
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Frost, D.R. 2013. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.6 (9 January 2013). Electronic Database. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html.
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|Critically Endangered A2ace; B1ab(iii) ver 3.1
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|Mendelson, J.R. & Angulo, A.
|Hoffmann, M. & Cox, N.A.
Listed as Critically Endangered because of a drastic population decline, estimated to be more than 80% over the last three generations, inferred from the apparent disappearance of most of the population, possibly due to chytridiomycosis. The species also qualifies as Critically Endangered because it is only known from one location, its extent of occurrence is less than 100 km² and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat in El Valle de Antón, central Panama.
|Range Description:
|This species is found in the mountains in the immediate vicinity of the town of El Valle de Antón, in both Coclé and Panama provinces, central Panama, at elevations between 900 and 1,150 m asl (Mendelson et al. 2008). All currently known sites (3-4) are on the Pacific versant, but it is possible that this species may be found on the Atlantic slope near Altos de Maria. It is suspected to be endemic to the vicinity of El Valle (Mendelson et al. 2008).
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|This species was uncommon in the region during field surveys in 2005-2006, although one or two males could be heard calling each night during that time. After the detection of chytrid fungus in the region, the species is much less common. Calls are no longer heard at known localities, but in December 2007, one individual was heard in deep forest on Cerra La Gaita (Mendelson et al. 2008).
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|A forest canopy dweller, this species inhabits tropical premontane forests. Individuals are most often found in primary forest, but can also occur in secondary forest (Mendelson et al. 2008). Active at night, males call throughout the year, but there appears to be a peak of reproductive activity at the onset of the rainy season (mid-March to May). Eggs are deposited just above the water line on the exposed wood or bark inside tree holes. Clutches range from about 60-200 eggs. The males remain at the hole in attendance of eggs and tadpoles, while females disperse soon after oviposition (Mendelson et al. 2008).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
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There are no reports of this species being utilized.
|Major Threat(s):
|The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has been reported for the area where this species is known to occur (Mendelson et al. 2008). Only one individual has been heard since the chytrid fungus was detected in 2006 (Mendelson et al. 2008; J. Mendelson pers. comm. September 2009). There is some ongoing forest clearing within the species' range for the development of luxury holiday homes, although it has not yet reached critical levels (J. Mendelson pers. comm. September 2009).
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|This species has been one of several to be collected for captive breeding efforts at the Valle de Antón (a total of five individuals, including one female; J. Mendelson pers. comm. September 2009). So far, however, attempts at breeding have not produced positive results (J. Mendelson pers. comm. September 2009). Local herpetologists continue to conduct surveys regularly (J. Mendelson pers. comm. September 2009).
|Mendelson, J.R. & Angulo, A. 2009. Ecnomiohyla rabborum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T158613A5241303. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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'All of my dark socks are gone," my husband groused the other morning as he was trying to get dressed for work.
He tossed a handful of unmatched socks onto the bed in disgust.
"None of these is related. Did he take them?"
"I didn't think he liked your socks," I answered. "Have you seen my black fleece?"
"Not since she was home last weekend."
Our children might be living away from home these days, but that doesn't mean they have stopped stealing our stuff.
Their predilection for gratuitous borrowing gives a whole new cast to the term "empty nest."
Before our son moved away in late August, he went shopping for new clothes for the first time in years, stocking up on a few pair of pants and some decent shirts he could wear for his office job.
I know I picked up some things for him at CVS, as well as new sheets for his apartment, but apparently he also went shopping around the house.
Other than the socks, other missing items include dental floss, laundry detergent and a lot of office supplies from my study.
He should have taken a hammer. Over the years, our hammer collection has multiplied in the toolbox until we have about 10 of them.
Instead, he bought a new hammer in New York and lifted the Scotch tape from home.
Last week, it took me 20 minutes to discover that it was gone. Having finally found the time to sit down and write a couple of notes that should have gone out weeks ago, I was in no mood to get sidetracked because the envelopes wouldn't stick on their own.
The small blue tape canister that lives on my desk was nowhere to be found, and I couldn't even track down the extra roll of tape I had unearthed in my daughter's top drawer the last time I needed it.
Apparently, there is a tape shortage in New York City, and so ours had to be imported.
I did find a box of 500 multi-colored paperclips. Unfortunately, the post office frowns on using a hot pink paperclip to secure an envelope.
The stapler and the good scissors are safe, at least until my son comes home for a visit, but I can't say as much for anything else.
His sister blew in from college for the weekend two weeks ago with a hamper full of dirty clothes, a backpack full of homework, and T-shirts she didn't want at school.
When she left, the clothes were clean and folded, the homework was partly completed and the T-shirts, for some reason, had been replaced with a stack of T-shirts her brother had outgrown.
She also took back a bag of freshly picked McIntosh apples, a supply of toiletries to last the rest of the semester, trail mix and extra towels for the gym.
"Where's all the yogurt?" my husband asked the next morning.
"Wasn't she going to take some with her?" I asked.
"Well, yes," he said. "But I didn't think she would totally clean us out."
At her suggestion, she and I had an official earring exchange, which I found far preferable to her usual kamikaze approach to my jewelry box.
But I really love my long purple cardigan, which she not only swiped, but had the nerve actually to wear back to school.
I had hoped to trade it for the gray cardigan that went with her to Washington, D.C., this summer. (Washington, D.C., where the July temperature climbs above 100 degrees in the shade. No wonder she needed a sweater.)
I liked that gray cardigan. It was comfortable. It was warm. It even made me look vaguely like a functioning adult, which is more than I can say for much of my wardrobe.
But I will never see the gray cardigan again. She knows I want it back, and so it will live in the dorm for the rest of the winter, when it will come back home hidden at the bottom of a suitcase.
And now it will have a friend, the long purple cardigan hanging next to it in the extremely narrow compartment that passes for a closet in her forced triple dorm room.
I'm sure they'll be very happy together. I can only hope they tell the black fleece to phone home.
I miss it.


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LONDON (AP) — When Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." Here are some of her works:
— "The Grass is Singing" (1950): A tragic novel in which a white woman has an affair with a black man.
— "The Golden Notebook" (1962): A groundbreaking novel that was an early inspiration to feminists.
— "The Memoirs of a Survivor" (1975): A dark novel, set in a world falling apart, which Lessing described as an attempt at autobiography.
— "Under My Skin" (1994): The first volume of her autobiography describes herself as a young girl, watching her parents sitting side by side in front of their house in the Rhodesian countryside, their faces tense and full of anxiety.
—"Mara and Dann" (1999): A fable set in the distant future, thousands and thousands of years after a great ice age has destroyed civilization.
— "On Cats" (2002): A book on the subtleties of feline existence.


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Computer Information
Questions regarding computer technology are outlined in the admitted students' guide, as well as the Moritz website.
Local Banks
Open a bank account in Columbus, if necessary. If you wish to have your excess financial aid funds available before the start of classes, arrange for Direct Deposit through your Buckeyelink Student Center. Here are addresses and phone numbers to a few local banks near the law school.
- Chase – 1698 N. High Street, (614) 248-2620
- Huntington – 235 West 11th Ave., (614) 480-0058
- PNC- 1980 N. High Street, (614) 297-5420
- US Bank – 1739 N. High Street (in the Ohio Union), (614) 298-8038
Books and Class Schedule
First-year students will automatically be registered for classes and will have access to their class schedules (including assignment to particular sections) by Orientation. Once a student has a schedule, textbooks for the term may be purchased. Please see below listed bookstores in town that will provide Law School textbooks.
Barnes & Noble The Ohio State University Bookstore 1598 North High Street (614) 247-2000 http://ohiostate.bncollege.com/
In years past the cost of first-semester textbooks for 1L's have ranged between $500 and $800. Expect to spend that much or more on your books. Some textbooks are also available for purchase online.
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Your BuckID is your official university I.D. Many departments use BuckID as a means to grant access to their information and services. Your BuckID is a necessity of every day campus life. The libraries use BuckID to allow you to check out library books. The Office of Information Technology (OIT) requires BuckID to purchase discounted software. Always remember to carry your BuckID with you at all times on campus.
The opportunity to obtain your University I.D. in Drinko Hall at the Moritz College of Law during Orientation is not an option due to timing conflicts. We ask that you visit Room 3040 in the Ohio Union (open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm), to obtain your I.D. You may be asked to show your tuition bill as proof of enrollment. Therefore, please print a copy of your bill through your Buckeyelink Student Center and take it with you.
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Florida prosecutor clears FBI agent in 2013 shooting tied to Boston bombings
An FBI agent who fired six to eight gunshots and killed a man being questioned last year about his connection to a suspect in 2013 Boston Marathon bombings has been cleared of any wrongdoing, officials said on Tuesday.
The agent's actions were justified to defend himself and a Massachusetts state police officer after the man threatened them in his Orlando apartment last May, according to separate reports issued by Florida State Attorney Jeff Ashton and the U.S. Justice Department.
"A complete review of the investigation leads me to conclude that criminal charges against the special agent of the FBI are not warranted," Ashton wrote in a letter to FBI Director James Comey.
Ashton's findings echoed the FBI's account of the shooting death of Chechen immigrant Ibragim Todashev, 27, who the agency has said suddenly attacked and injured the FBI agent during the interrogation.
Todashev was an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the April 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
At the time of his death, Todashev was being questioned about his suspected involvement in a September 2011 triple murder case in Massachusetts that law enforcement officials believed was linked to Tsarnaev.
After a long interview with law enforcement officers, Ashton said Todashev was writing a statement about his involvement in the triple murder when he suddenly threw a coffee table, striking the agent in the head and causing him to fall to the ground bleeding.
Todashev then ran to the kitchen while the agent and police officer pulled their weapons and he returned holding what they described as a pole – the metal handle of a broom stick – over his head.
The FBI agent shot Todashev three to four times as he approached the police officer, according to Ashton. Todashev dropped to his knees, then sprang toward the officer in a low-angled lunge. The agent then fired three or four shots, killing Todashev, Ashton said.
The Massachusetts police officer whom Todashev was lunging for when he was shot by the FBI agent said he had feared for his life.
"There's no question in my mind that if he had gotten a weapon from us, if it hadn't turned out the way it did, we might not be here today," the officer said.
The prosecutor said the entry angle of the bullets alleviated his concern about Todashev being shot in the back because it confirmed the account by the police officer, who had not seen the autopsy.
Ashton said there was no evidence the agent, who was aware of Todashev's training in mixed martial arts, acted with malice or committed intentional misconduct.
U.S. prosecutors also cleared the FBI agent of wrongdoing in findings released on Tuesday.
"Todashev ignored commands to show his hands, armed himself with an approximately five-foot long, hollow, metal utility pole and charged back" toward the FBI agent and police officer, a report by the Justice Department said.
But the leader of a Muslim civil liberties group said the Florida prosecutor's inquiry did not exonerate the agents "of any negligence or wrongdoing on their part which could have avoided the death of a suspect in questioning."
"The prosecutor's review was limited to a very narrow review of whether the officer was justified to use lethal force during the seconds he pulled the trigger," said Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa-based branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The FBI account of the shooting has also been questioned by Todashev's father, who said his son was unarmed.
Shibly has said his organization's independent review concluded that Todashev, who was in the United States legally, was shot seven times and received a major wound, possibly a bullet hole, to the back of the head.
The CAIR investigation also found blood splatter and other physical damage at the scene that pointed to Todashev being shot while he was lying on the ground, Shibly added.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died on April 18, 2013, after a gunfight with police that took place several days after the April 15 bombing attack, while he and brother Dzhokhar, now 20, were trying to flee the city. The younger Tsarnaev was wounded and later arrested and is awaiting trial on charges that could result in the death penalty if he is convicted.


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A Phase 3 Study to Compare Efficacy and Safety of Masitinib to Dacarbazine in the Treatment of Patients With Non-Resectable or Metastatic Stage 3 or Stage 4 Melanoma Carrying a Mutation in the Juxta Membrane Domain of C-Kit
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01280565
Recruitment Status : Unknown
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Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : January 21, 2011
Last Update Posted : October 8, 2015
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Masitinib is a novel TKI that potently inhibits wild type (WT) c-kit and its activated form, mutated in the juxtamembrane region (JM c-kit) PDGFRs, the intracellular kinase Lyn, and to a lesser extent fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3).
Pre-clinical data suggest that masitinib is a strong candidate for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma carrying a c-kit JM mutation.
|Condition or disease
|Metastatic Melanoma
|Drug: masitinib Drug: Dacarbazine
|Phase 3
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|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|200 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Activecontrolled, Two-parallel Groups, Phase 3 Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Masitinib at 7.5 mg/kg/Day to Dacarbazine in the Treatment of Patients With Non-resectable or Metastatic Stage 3 or Stage 4 Melanoma Carrying a Mutation in the Juxta Membrane Domain of C-kit
|Study Start Date :
|January 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|December 2017
|Experimental: masitinib
Drug: masitinib
masitinib 7.5 mg/kg/day
|Active Comparator: dacarbazine
Drug: Dacarbazine
dacarbazine IV bolus at 1,000 mg/m2 once every three weeks
- Overall Progression Free Survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: at week 6, 12, 18, 24 and every 12 weeks until progression or death ]
- Overall Survival (OS) [ Time Frame: at week 6, 12, 18, 24 and every 12 weeks until death ]
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient with histologically or cytologically confirmed non-resectable or metastatic stage 3 (non-resectable IIIB or IIIC, AJCC TNM staging system 7th edition) or stage 4 melanoma
- Patient with detectable c-kit JM mutation confirmed by DNA or RNA sequencing, which is expected to be mainly found after screening of mucosal or acral melanoma or melanoma on skin with chronic sun-induced damages (defined by a microscopically marked elastosis involving the skin surrounding their primary melanoma)
- Patient with measurable disease according to RECIST
- Patient with ECOG ≤ 2
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient with other malignancies from which the patient has been continuously disease-free for < 3 years, with the exception of melanoma, cervical carcinoma in situ, basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, ductal or lobular carcinoma in situ of the breast
Patient with active brain metastases are not eligible. Patients with treated brain metastases are eligible if :
- presence of 3 brain lesions or less
- lesion(s) diameter is ≤ 2 cm
- radiation therapy (gamma knife) was completed ≥ 4 weeks prior to baseline
- surgery was completed ≥4 weeks prior to baseline
- lesions assessed by follow-up scan (or MRI if MRI performed before brain therapy) ≥ 1 month after brain therapy are considered under control at baseline
- Patient refractory to dacarbazine defined as patient presenting a disease progression after 3 months of dacarbazine therapy.
- Prior treatment with a tyrosine kinase c-kit inhibitor
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01280565
|Contact: Jean-Jacques GROB, MD, PhD
|+33 (0)4 91 74 47 14
|Hôpital Sainte Marguerite
|Marseille, France, 13274
|Contact: Jean-Jacques GROB, MD, PhD
|Responsible Party:
|AB Science
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01280565 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 21, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 8, 2015
|Last Verified:
|October 2015
Keywords provided by AB Science:
non-resectable or metastatic stage 3 or stage 4 melanoma carrying a mutation in the juxta membrane domain of c-kit
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Nevi and Melanomas


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Whenever I talk about going to lower energy usage, a percentage of people shout out something like "But that would mean going back tothe stone age, to lepers walking the streets and people throwing their feces out the window on our heads!!!" I think it is fair to say that variations on the "without power, life would be intolerable" is a common assumption.
Part of the thing that bothers me about it is that I don't think it is true. I've spent a lot of time studying history, and I don't think the lives of all of those in human history who preceeded us were intolerable. I am extraordinarily fond of useful things like antibiotics and nutritional knowledge, but those are things that can be had in societies where *individuals* don't necessarily have access to high technologies.
I've met a lot of people who lived all or much of their lives with very little power, and seen their homes, and I have ample visual evidence that often life can be quite graciously lived with little or no gas, electricity, and other inputs. The critical difference between a life lived graciously with little, and one without is the realm of how resources – whether land or fossil fuels or whatever – are used collectively. Thus, I'd like to propose what I think is an important and useful distinction – between public use of energy and resources and private use of energy resources. The former, I would argue, is essential to maintaining a good life, the latter is not.
People who have access to neither private resource nor public resources tend to be at a distinct disadvantage in terms of significant quality of life issues. Without public energy for things like clinics, the transport of food and goods, the importation of medicines, etc… life can be highly functional, but often is very vulnerable to disaster, either personal (disease, injury, loss of land or income), or public.
On the other hand, people who have few private energy, technonogy or natural resources, but have access to public ones often have extremely high quality of life, assuming that natural resources enable them to feed themselves and produce some tradable extras. There are parts of India, Cuba, Georgia, etc… where there is power for public buildings (some schools, hospitals, etc…), collective transportation (buses, trains, communally owned cars and taxis) and where energy is expended wisely on importing or making certain energy intensive goods that require (or are much eased by) the use of fossil fuels – but only on the ones that are demonstrably and significantly a public good. For example, money and energy are spent on power to pump water for the community well, or on vaccinations, but not the subsidy of personal transport or private electrification, generally speaking.
It is no accident that the places where a high quality of life and low levels of personal energy consumption coexist are often former or present Marxist cultures and economies, with strong cultural incentives towards the creation of a collective good. That said, however, it is not impossible for capitalist economies to also determine that personal good and collective good are the same – we have done so in time of exigency in the US, for example. What is required to do so is a fundamental belief in the value of cooperation – the idea that enriching your neighbor, even at the cost of one's private wealth, makes you richer, not poorer. And of course, this is true, although we rarely believe it as a first thought.
It is lovely, of course, to have private energy resources, assuming that they are sustainable, but it generally isn't necessary for high quality of life. In quality of life evaluations, people in Kerala or Vanuatu were generally about as happy with their status, possessions and lifestyle than most Americans were, even though most of the people of Kerala or Vanuatu many lived at extremely low levels of consumption. There are some exceptions, of course, but neither life-span nor happiness seem to correlate all that closely with private energy consumption – that is, we know that we can be both happy and live decent lives with very low levels of personal energy consumption. We also know that radically lowered levels of energy and resource consumption can be terribly stressful – if there are no public supports to prevent people from being cast onto their own resources.
The last century has represented the vast degradation and abandonment of the commons and of public resources in the developed world in favor of private resources. While theorists like Garrett Hardin have attempted to portray this as natural and inevitable, other social critics have argued that in fact this is a consequence of intensive natural resource consumption and the privatization of most resources – as Vandana Shiva points out, the tragedy of the commons is in many ways the tragedy of private property. Only when most people rely on their own, private resources, and only the poorest people are left to make use of the commons does no one have an investment in managing and protecting the commons.
Fossil fuels and the notion of infinite resources have done more to damage the public sphere than anything else. The laundromat, the water fountain, the public library and the idea that cold beer lives at the pub down the road have been, in many respects, abandoned – and are now held in contempt. But the future of reduced energy consumption involves a radical reconsideration of what must be held privately – because we will lack the time, energy and resources to provide every household with private renewable energy sources – this has been established. We cannot survive on a planet where everyone has a private car – we know this.
The distinction between public and private is important because we have limited resources, and limited time. If we put our resources primarily into lifeboat building (as Richard Heinberg puts it), building independent, free-standing households in which everyone has one of everything they need, we may not have enough resources remaining to be able to afford to build public structures that would fulfill the needs of many more people. If, on the other hand, we begin to think in terms of public requirements and private requirements, we have another tool to help us distinguish between what is necessary and what is pleasant to have. We have a lot of trouble with this distinction.
Given limited time and resources for most of us, the critical question becomes "how can we make our need for X" resolvable in some communal or public way, rather than leaving each of us to find personal solutions. For example, the American model is already pretty much "everyone has their own private water source from a well or resevoir." In rural areas, where houses are far apart, this may make some sense. In towns and cities, however, much of Africa and Asia gets its water from public wells, pumped with electricity. Doing so is obviously somewhat less convenient than having running water in your house, but a public well in your neighborhood obviates the great problem of power loss in many communities. Even if we aren't willing to give up the private water supply immediately, the community manual well means you are not waterless in a crisis. One or several communal wells can be pumped by stand alone solar units, and even in hard times, water will be available. Not everyone can afford a solar pump for their well – but most towns can afford one for their public school and at other critical junctures where people could get water in a crisis.
We may not be able to afford to reinsulate all buildings – but we could super-insulate community shelters that would serve people in periods of intense heat and cold when the power was out – and that could also have solar panels or wind generators to allow people to do laundry, have lights, and get together for community activities all the time.
It is a commonplace that most westerners have many more of nearly everything than their community needs – everyone has their own vacuum cleaner, their own lawn mower, their own 2 cars – even if they only need 1 1/2 cars, they don't share. Even people who want to conserve are often uncomfortable entering into a shared relationship with others, and find negotiating such things intimidating. But public resources are different – they are *for* sharing. And creating them means enabling people to do without in a private sense – that is, as the price of energy rises, those who can't afford cars or washing machines are least damaged if their needs can, tosome degree, be met through local, public infrastructure, by say, public buses and laundromats.
We're all going to build our lifeboats to some degree. But thinking in terms of how you can soften the blow by creating public resources, and public energy sources, means prioritizing community based resources that enable both personal conservation and collective security. Public resources provide a safety net, potentially a better, richer community, allow us to allocate scarce resources towards other things. They encourage inclusion, and keep the poor and the disabled, the elderly and the especially vulnerable from being deprived of their most basic needs. Since peak oil means that almost any of us could join the poor, that only makse sense.
Thinking in terms of public energy also enables us to do more, if our governments will not cooperate. In most cases, I suspect those public resources are going to have to come out of our own pockets. And that's another argument in favor of public resources – 20 of us can put that well pump in, 50 can arrange to have the physician's assistant come to town one day a week, 150 can fund the volunteer ambulance corp, and can probably continue to do so even if things get rough.
We probably will not be able to do these things if we're stretching our personal and economic resources thin by trying to maintain our private consumption *and* build public resources – that is, if you are still trying to maintain the personal car, you may not be able to afford to help create the taxi service. While there are exceptions, I think it would behoove most of us, in most cases, to choose public resources over private, even at the expense of some inconvenience to ourselves, and when we think about the importance of power and resources, to distinguish between the two.


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Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
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Start with one issue in the list to the left. Choose something that's important to you. With nearly constant federal overreach, there's an endless litany of acts that need to be nullified. But, focusing – issue by issue – is a strategy that works.
Once you've picked an issue to work on, take a look and see the status of legislation in your area. During the "off-season" when legislatures are out of session, it's good to get acquainted with bills that may have been introduced in the past too. Also, review the model legislation provided, which is the best combination of a move forward to nullify unconstitutional acts, and the ability to actually pass.
Next up is action. While there may be specific actions, phone calls, events, and the like for your area, there's a general rule of thumb on what needs to be done. a) Get model legislation in the hands of your state and local legislators b) Call them back after a week or two to find out if they've decided to support or introduce the bill c) Find others to do the same….
There's strength in numbers! You cannot nullify an unconstitutional act on your own. But, you can take action that will help create a domino effect. Invite your friends to join you, and together we'll push forward for liberty!
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An 18 page document packed full of ideas, strategies, campaigns and more. Get some great tips on what needs to be done to build a successful nullification campaign. There is no one formula or model that will yield a successful state nullification effort. Many of the organizing ideas and solutions contained here may be practiced by any campaign anywhere anytime.


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New year means start of new laws in Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — A handful of new laws will take effect with the new year in Hawaii, affecting a range of things including public records, abandoned vessels and athletic trainers.All or portions of 16 bills will take effect Jan. 1.The public records bill, SB2858, creates a process for government agencies to be able to appeal decisions by the Office of Information Practices if the office orders records released when requested by the public or media. The law stems from a 2009 state appeals court decision in a case brought against the office, or OIP, by the County of Kauai.In that case, the courts allowed the county to appeal an OIP decision requiring disclosure of minutes from a closed meeting. The change is intended to bring the state's law in line with the legal opinion.HB2589 clarifies the responsibility for disposing of abandoned boats. The bill is something the Department of Land and Natural Resources had wanted because it was tired of being contacted by other agencies to remove abandoned vessels, regardless of whether they were on state lands, said Ed Underwood, administrator of the department's Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation.Counties voiced concerns with the additional responsibility and costs they might incur. That law was to take effect either July 1 this year, if counties had access to boat registration and other records, or Jan. 1, 2013.SB155 is aimed at regulating athletic trainers. The Legislature found that Hawaii was one of only a few states to not regulate athletic trainers. The portion of the law taking effect Jan. 1 requires that certified athletic trainers be registered with the state.Louise Inafuku, president of the Hawaii Athletic Trainers Association, said she had heard anecdotally of situations involving trainers who were not certified but she said the problem was that there was no state agency for people to report any such concerns. She said that was one of the biggest reasons for this bill.


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Star Wars: These are the 'unknown' actors we were looking for
Pip Andersen and Crystal Clarke plucked from (relative) obscurity
Just when we were starting to suspect the next instalment of Star Wars would be a celeb-only affair, two relatively unknown actors were announced as cast members.
Open auditions for an unnamed film that everyone knew was Star Wars: Episode VII were held across the UK and the US late last year searching for two beautiful young things to play lead roles.
After a number of casting announcements made no mention of the auditions, it seemed like Disney and Lucasfilm had failed to find any new talent for the roles, but the studios said yesterday that the open calls from over 60,000 applicants had turned up two aspiring actors.
Crystal Clarke, an American currently studying in Glasgow in the UK, already has some stage and screen acting experience, but won't be seen in a feature film until next year. She has a small role in The Moon and The Sun, based on a fantasy novel of the same name, which also stars Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt, Fan Bingbing and Kaya Scodelairo.
The male role has gone to Parkour professional Pip Andersen, who is a member of the pro freerunning team Storm Freerun. Andersen was seen in action in a Spider-Man themed ad for Sony Xperia in 2012 (video below).
The movie's producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said the studio was "delighted" to have added Crystal and Pip to the cast.
"The Star Wars universe has always been about discovering and nurturing young talent and in casting Episode VII we wanted to remain absolutely faithful to this tradition," she said.
Over 37,000 people showed up to the open auditions and another 30,000 submitted applications online, the studios said.
The casting call was for the characters of "Rachel" and "Thomas", who are supposed to be 17 and 19 to 23 years old respectively. Aside from physical characteristics, Rachel was described as a "street smart" orphan who has been "forced to make her way in a tough, dangerous town" using "humour and guts to get by".
Thomas was to have grown up "without a father's influence" and would be able to "understand you can't take life too seriously".
Since Jedis are well-known for their dubious, frequently absentee parentage, it seems like a fair bet that either character could turn out to be the starring user of the Force for the new trilogy and/or the offspring of Han Solo and Princess Leia. Both Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are slated to return for the movies, but since the grave is no bar to them showing up as shimmery Jedi ghosts, they could theoretically be the parents of orphan Rachel.
However, given that we know that Ford broke his ankle during filming – and presumably Jedi ghosts aren't doing too much running around – the odds are better that the Thomas character is the Solo offspring. Perhaps that father's influence he's so sorely missing could be just about to show up in his life…
Disney and Lucasfilm are, of course, saying nothing about the plot, but they will admit to having wrapped up their location shoot in Abu Dhabi. They also said that filming would be taking a two-week break next month to adjust the production schedule so that Ford can recover.
"Harrison is doing well and is looking forward to returning to the set soon. Shooting remains on track to wrap in the fall with the film scheduled for release on December 18, 2015," the studios said. ®


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So, I saw that this game was under 4GBs on the PS Store and decided to set up my second Vita card with my JPN PSN account. I get it installed, try to log in with my Sega ID, BAM, 1.5GB update..... Fuuuuuuuuuuu-I guess I'll have to wait until I get a new memory card to play this game on the go. :(
Yeah, don't bother if you're looking to play PSO2 "on the go". This game is fun, but being completely honest, it's the worst game ever for a handheld. I have no problem with always-online for PC games, but the fact of the matter is, the Vita version 1) requires you to be connected to WiFi. Always. 2) will boot you from the server if your vita goes to sleep, so don't leave it idle or turn off your vita idle timer and 3) is better on PC anyway so why would you play it on the Vita if you have to pretty much be at home to play?I dig the game a lot, but the Vita version is frustrating.


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Now I don't claim to be one of the greatest spellers in the world, especially as I get older…but the teabaggers really need to learn to use spell check or discover the website Dictionary.com. This post from TPM is about the new Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots, I think he put this press release out because somebody whispered the words "court martial" into his ear. But of course, the really funny part is the first part of the press release, from TPM
In a press release sent this morning that misspelled the president's first name, Stein wrote that in recent days his group had been "attacked by many people calling us traitors." And he declared:
Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots in no way supports a military uprising or anything to that subject, further more we recognize Barak (sic) Obama as the Command-in-Chief and we do not support disobeying orders that are lawful with Constitution, and will continue to follow orders given to us….We do understand that there is a time and place for expression and the military work place is not one of them.
Come on now, he doesn't even know how to spell his Commander-in-Chief's name? It seems to be a common denominator with the teabagger group, remember the Flickr page devoted to their prowess at making signs?


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Jesus Ceja thinks beer drinkers have had enough of the extremely strong and hoppy brews that some companies make, so he's planning to do something different.
"It's a job to drink one of those big heavy triple IPAs and all that," he said, as he sipped a pilsner in the tap room and brew house of Carneros Brewing Company, which opened Saturday. "It's all about enjoying the beer and the hop varietals we have and the beautiful beer we craft."
The brewery, adjacent to Ceja Vineyards on Highway 12, is starting with a line of five beers, all relatively light in alcohol but large in flavor. None even reach 6 percent alcohol by volume, an unusual lineup in a modern microbrewery, where beers routinely soar to 8 percent and beyond and powerful India Pale Ales lead the lineup. Even his IPA is just 5.8 percent alcohol and has a more subdued hop flavor than many similar brews, particularly on the hop-crazy West Coast.
Brother Pedro Ceja, a partner in the business, said Carneros Brewing will take a lesson from the family's wine business, aiming for a product that is harmonious with food.
"A lot of the IPAs that are on the market, they are not food compatible, because, I think, once you drink about half a glass, you saturate the palate where you are unable to taste the nuances, the beauty of the dish," he said. "And so we want that balance, that compatibility of the glass and the plate."
The lighter style also stems partly from Jesus Ceja's background as a longtime brewer at Anheuser-Busch, maker of Budweiser and other mainstream beers. In his own brewery, he wants to find a middle ground between the mild, mass-market beers he used to brew and the more challenging beers made by other craft producers.
"You have individuals who like hardly any flavor, it's basically water, and you have people who like these triple IPAs, you need a spoon to drink this stuff. ... But the majority of the people want something that is clean, that is drinkable, that can pair with food. The key to our beers is that they are not over the top."
The brewery is unusual in other ways as well, starting with who owns it.
Ceja is one of five brothers who came to California from Mexico with their parents, migrant farm workers. While Jesus Ceja was building a career in the brewing industry, older brothers Pedro and Armando were building a wine business in Carneros, one of only a handful of Latino-owned and operated wineries in the United States.
"A lot of people would like to say it is an American dream, but the dream of empowering our families, it is truly a universal dream," Pedro Ceja said. "What is very American, and what I love, is the American opportunity, the opportunity to empower our families."
The brothers teamed up again to create Carneros Brewing on family land. Since the word "carneros" is Spanish for "rams," the brewery's logo features five rams, representing the brothers, although only three of them live nearby and have a direct hand in the brewery.
As with the family wine business, the wives and kids of the brothers are deeply involved as well, including Jesus Ceja's daughter, Itzli Ceja, who will manage the taproom.


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Claymore Chapter 123
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Still no spoilers? :confused:
I am dreaming of something back with Claire / Priscilla, but realistically it's probably going to be another downer where 3 abyssals talk about killing and eating everybody, but nobody dies and just fight during 20 pages.
Mmmh .. well, Cass or Roxanne might bite it. If we're lucky...
Hope I'm wrong though, and that it's going to re-ignite a so far sluggish and dragged-out arc (while the end of the Org should have been something downright Epic).
I mean where is the fun in having a new chapter thread starting on page 10 because we spent 10 pages talking about a fake spoiler. :heh:
This one looks like the real deal. It seems that thanks to Cynthia's and Yuma's youki synchronization Helen and Deneve awaken and fight Hysteria that way. Clare is also mentioned but I'm not sure whether it's referring to her form when she fought Rigaldo or that she really awakened.
Wonderful, I'm about to go to sleep and this turns up >_<
It's certainly not as game-changing as the last one, but it's probably better in it's own way....I was about to ask if Helen and Deneve fully awaken, but with Claire brought up, I find it highly likely that it's just going to be a partial awakening like she did and, basically, what Miria did just now; just them going berserk really.
It won't really change nothing, but I can see why they would still try; this could just be the kind of distraction for the others to escape. The question is, how long can they hold off?
If this spoiler is true, really the only thing seemingly will be exciting is imagining what they would both look like, though we'll probably get other snippets that surprise us.
Both Helen and Deneve are powerhouses - Helen's will probably be akin to Cassandra with a touch of Riful (rubbery arms but with powerful hits), Deneve will probably be stronger especially with thanks to her regeneration.
Yeah, I'm betting this spoiler is probably it.
If Helen and Deneve awaken they really will be very strong,but the 3 monsters should still have an huge advantage since they were 3 of the strongest n.1s.
Also i'm not so sure that even if they awaken they can change a lot the situation,afterall even if they become A LOT stronger,what's the point if your opponent is so much faster than you?
Imo the only solution is if Miria awakens since she is the only one that can face Histy's speed...
It doesn't matter one bit how strong Helen and Deneve can be after the awakening,Histy is simply too fast for them anyway.
Imo the best they can do is buy some time (especially thanx to Deneve's crazy regeneration).
Even with Helen and Deneve awakened,without awakened Miria (or Claire) there is no way that the rebels can defeat Histy UNLESS (and this is not impossible at all) Histy herself understimates too much her opponents and does something stupid.
Spoiler looks better than the last at the very least (on cell so cant translate it with google translate, so I'm basing this off Goorals comment).
Not sure I wanna know Helen and Deneve's awakened forms though, especially after Hysteria and Cassandras forms (and the shrimp twins)... and while Roxanne's looks better than the others it still isnt quite as awesome as the 3 Original Abyssal Ones.
Oh, if this spoiler is legit I find it a bit odd it didnt describe Helen and Deneves forms... all other true spoilers that talked about a first time awakening I recall described the forms. A bit odd this one doesnt...
At least that was my train of thought last post... :heh:
google translate says that spoiler is chinese. Anyway here is what google translate says, it really doesnt make much sense but will post it anyways until someone can do a better one.
Person in charge told the circle of hair, I need your strength.
Wake up half of the head immediately, she looks like a pig sound smooth.
Claire wake her legs half extended her hair, copy and imitate hysterical leg.
She intercept hysterical, right when she killed curls.
Hysterical that she play tired. Leader of her attack
Leaders were cut off, but she used her hair as a shield to absorb the hit.
Two swords power and heal yourself. See leaders wake up half later, she asked
Cynthia and her synchronized.
Helen laughed, and asked to do the same Uma, Uma is very hesitant, but Cynthia told her
Do not worry, she will help her.
Helen Sword and half are awakened.
Next chapter in March.
Maybe you will interpret it differently than me: [cut google translation]
Also, if "curls" is Ana then we might finally have a first victim since... like ever?
It would make a difference if only for the fact they would be much harder to kill. Deneve even as a Claymore "wouldn't die even if she was killed" and Helen was always super lucky (so even if she was hit then in non-lethal spots). However, them awakening via soul-link would make Yuma and Cynthia completely vulnerable so if Yagi went that way he would have to explain why weren't they attacked by Hysteria (or how come the rest of Claymores managed to protect them from an ZAO). So in general I agree that overall it shouldn't make much of a difference since two of them powering up would be at the cost of two of them powering down.
Anyway, I hope that Yagi won't go this way since Alicia and Beth needed years of training, practically they were being trained since they were infants so Yuma and Cynthia accomplishing it on their first try (and not with their twins but Claymores with bodies and minds almost completely unfamiliar to them) would be just too much for me to buy.
Yeah a translation i can read and not have to guess from other posts
But someone else uses their "hair" to defend themselves after "curls" dies and that would only make sense if it is anastasia assuming the translation is good :confused:
Hmm... it cant be Helen, Deneve, Cynthia or Yuma (and whomever intercepts Hysteria when "curls dies" since are are named later. By process of elimination "curls"could also be Miria (i think whom intercepts "curls" so it likely isnt her and likely "leader" too and did she just awaken her legit like Clare, if so next ch we have 3 half awakened fighting her while partially awakened :rolleyes::eyespin::heh:), Tabitha (god i hope so), Dietrich, or Nike (or the twins if they showed up) yet none seem like a curls to me either. So who is it :eyespin::heh::eyespin:
Maybe curls is Rigado but that wouldnt make sense either since Hysteria was mention prior.
Well if it is Anastasia then those whom said she'd die due to how difficult her hair is to draw where right. :heh: Odd that yagi would kill off a character that just got a cover page and has such a useful and unique power though when he spared so many other useless characters. but then again I'm noting to think anyone has died this arc until it is confirmed by a corpse due to Miria, Audrey, Rachel, Nina, and Raftela all "dying" too :rolleyes:
Sorry but no, when you obtain a speed like Histy that is IMMENSELY greater than anyone else (with Miria as the only exception....that btw is stil a lot slower than Histy),than yes,SPEED IS INDEED EVERYTHING.
The numbers of warriors opposing Histy is absolutely irrelevant for her since if she wants she can basicallykill everyone in a few instants.
Forget about keeping up with her speed,the rebels can't even SEE her when she attacks,lol........and even if Helen and Deneve awaken, there is absolutely NOTHING that they can do to defeat Histy,NOTHING.
All Histy has to to is begin targetting the normal warriors and killing them like insects,if she wants she could also target Cinthya and Yuma that they would be completely vulnerable (not that it makes any difference for her,since they can't see her attacks anyway,lol).
Like i said,there is absolutely nothing that Helen and Deneve can do to DEFEAT Histy even if they awaken,all they can do is buy a bit of time for the others.
....also i'd like to point out that Histy was one of the strongest n.1s in history,do you really think that she towers over "normal warriors" (like Helen and Deneve) just for speed???
Lol,she has A LOT more than speed,it's just that speed seems her only strong point just because it's at an absolutely crazy level.
Infact i said that they could buy some time,BUT buying some time and defeating Histy are two COMPLETELY different things.
@malak while I agree speed is just about the most important factor in this series you're making a mistake in assuming Helen and Deneves ability to track Hysteria wont improve once they fully awaken... especially with Miria also running about with awakened legs distracting and supporting the two.
They ability to track and counter Hysteria will be as strong or weak as Yagi wants it to be but just going by how much Clare improved by awakening Helen and Deneve should get really strong and fast too (at least strong enough to hold her off till x happens and possibly defeat her if Miria figures out how to defeat her traction)... and dont give me the teresa inside Clare makes her unique excuse that is just one intrupretation that not everyone else agrees with.
Feel free to believe it but dont force your opinion on us either, I reject your reality on that matter and substaitute my own where awakening doesnt equal a 100% of warrior form but 100% is when they reach the start of there next level of power. It was literally proven to be the case for everyone when Cassandra went from weaker to ~ the same as Roxanne to being able to defeat her with ease.
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text: 4 of the next 5 are at home and they include games against all of our divisional opponents. This is our time to make a stand coming up. This is where we separate ourself in the division and where we stake our claim for the stretch run in December. As it stands right now every team we play in the next 5 weeks has a losing record except the ratbirds so it's critical that we win these games because December gets a whole lot tougher. We can't afford to look past any of these games coming up because 1 slip up and we can find ourselves out of first place in the division.


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Director Michel Hazanavicius met me at the Bradbury building in downtown L.A. It's the location of a key scene in his audacious new movie The Artist, which takes place just at the moment when talking pictures supersede silent films.
"It's mythic," said Hazanavicius of the era during which Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were stars.
In the scene shot here, a dashing film star reminiscent of Fairbanks bumps into his lovely young protégé on the building's remarkable staircase. He's on his way down; she's on her way up.
On the way down is precisely where George Valentin, played by French heartthrob Jean Dujardin, finds himself. He's unable to adapt to the newfangled talkies and his career is about to be ruined. Like so much else in The Artist, the location at this moment is a loving reference to cinema — the Bradbury has appeared in dozens of movies, most famously Blade Runner.
The Artist is itself a silent film, and black and white. But in spite of what might seem to be two formidable barriers to mainstream popularity, it's generating some of the strongest Oscar buzz of the year. Hazanavicius convinced producers to invest in The Artist based on the strength of two domestically successful comedies he directed about a 1950s French secret agent.
"That's one of the most difficult parts of the entire process," he sighed. "So they said yes, but it was a very shy yes."
The Artist was shot on classic old Hollywood back lots, as well as historic locations, including the Orpheum Theater. And the cast includes some great American faces, including John Goodman and James Cromwell, who you might remember from Six Feet Under and Babe.
"My goal was not to be in a silent picture," Cromwell confessed to NPR. Contemporary screen actors like to use their voices, he said, and use tricks incommensurate with silent film. For example, "You keep your eyes wide open, always, because you don't want to blink. Because when you blink, the director's going to cut away from you. So you betray as little of your inner life through your face as possible, and everything is done by the dialogue."
Acting in a silent movie, for Cromwell, was liberating.
"It's all on your sleeve," he said.
Making this film turned out to be liberating for another of the film's stars-- a scruffy little dog named Uggie. Because The Artist is silent, Uggie's trainer could bark commands, so to speak, whenever necessary while the cameras rolled.
"Usually he has to wait for the actors to stop talking," Hazanavicius grinned. "Maybe that's why the dog is so good in the movie."
In fact, Uggie won this year's "Palm Dog" for canine acting. It's just one of a heap of awards The Artist has accumulated, including the prize for best (human) acting at the Cannes film festival. The Weinstein Company, which won a bidding war to release the film in the United States, is banking on The Artist carrying off even more prizes, of the golden Oscar-shaped variety, at the Kodak theater come February.
This week two movies are opening that tap into nostalgia for old films. One is the latest from Martin Scorsese and we'll hear a review just ahead. The other is a black-and-white silent film from an obscure French director. In spite of the silence, "The Artist" is generating a lot of talk, including talk about Oscars.
NPR's Neda Ulaby met the director at a landmark in downtown Los Angeles where part of the movie was filmed
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: This 1920s movie palace is a faded fantasia of Art Deco design. Underneath the swooping marquee stands the director with a difficult name - Michel Hazanavicius. He's lanky in blue jeans and bright yellow sneakers.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS: So now we're facing the Orpheum. It's a theater on Broadway, I think. Yeah, that's it - on Broadway, downtown.
ULABY: Today, it's a downtown stretch of grimy storefronts selling knockoff purses and cheap jewelry.
ULABY: But with a flourish, Hazanavicius transports you back in time to a dazzling Hollywood premiere, 1927, the era of Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks.
HAZANAVICIUS: It's so mythic.
ULABY: The movie "The Artist" follows the decline of a dashing silent film star. Imagine Fairbanks with a whiff of Rudolph Valentino. He's playfully virile, with a pencil mustache. But the newfangled talkies leave him behind, even as his lovely, tap dancing protege blossoms into a new screen darling.
ULABY: Director Michel Hazanavicius thinks every director secretly yearns to make a silent film. It's cinematic storytelling at its purest. And "The Artist" is immersive in the same way great radio can be. There's a sense missing. Your brain fills it in.
HAZANAVICIUS: So you do it with your own imagination, with your own ghosts, your own life, your own sounds, your own reference. So it makes the movie much more yours in a way.
ULABY: I saw "The Artist" with someone who swore later he could remember what the actors sounded like. The film is critically adored. It's a smash in France and the lead won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. Still...
How difficult was it to get people to finance a silent, black-and-white movie.
HAZANAVICIUS: Yeah, that's one of the more difficult parts of the entire process.
ULABY: What helped Hazanavicius was the fact that back at home he'd made two hit comedies about a French secret agent.
ULABY: If you're ever bored one night at home, it's worth checking out the "OSS 117" movies. They happen to star the same two leads as "The Artist," so producers signed on reluctantly to Hazanavicius' wild dream of filming a black-and-white silent movie on location in Los Angeles.
HAZANAVICIUS: They didn't say no exactly but it was a very shy yes.
ULABY: "The Artist" was shot on classic old Hollywood back lots, as well as historic locations here. The cast includes some great American faces, character actors like John Goodman and James Cromwell, who you maybe remember from "Six Feet Under" and "Babe."
JAMES CROMWELL: My goal was not to be in a silent picture.
ULABY: Cromwell says most actors prefer to be heard. They're accustomed to using their voices and acting in ways that work in contemporary film.
CROMWELL: The trick is to always come under in the performance and do very, very little with your face. Your face - you keep your eyes open always because you don't want to blink because when you blink, the director's going to cut away from you. So you betray as little of your inner life through your face as possible and everything is done by the dialogue.
ULABY: Acting in a silent picture meant rediscovering how your face and body could express your character.
ULABY: Of course, music also does a lot of the emotional heavy lifting in a silent film. Director Michele Hazanavicius played it as the actors worked, to set the mood. Now, as he ambles down a particularly noisy Los Angeles street, he says it was a real benefit not to have to worry, say, about sirens.
HAZANAVICIUS: What's great with a silent movie is that kind of sound, it doesn't - it's OK. You can shoot.
ULABY: The mechanics of silent film production was also a blessing for one of the film's other stars, a scruffy dog whose trainer could bark orders while the cameras were rolling.
HAZANAVICIUS: Usually he has to wait for the actors to stop talking. He could really talk to his dog during the shooting. And maybe that's why the dog is so good in the movie.
ULABY: So good, the dog actually won a special award.
HAZANAVICIUS: La Palm Dog, which is a pun on La Palme D'or on La Palm Dog. I think it's a bone or something.
ULABY: If Oscar watchers are right, Hazanavicius may take home the movie world's biggest bone of all, the Oscar for Best Picture.
Neda Ulaby, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.