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Gangnam Style singer Psy leads Oxford Union dance
South Korean musician Psy, whose song Gangnam Style has been a worldwide phenomenon, has led Oxford Union students in a mass dance.
During his packed address in the prestigious university debating chamber, he turned on speakers and gave a rendition of his famous horse dance.
Hundreds joined in with his moves, made famous by a YouTube video of the track, which has had over 650 million views.
Psy, 34, said it was "like a dream" to speak at the society.
The singer is the first Korean pop artist to score a UK number one and hopes his success will start a new wave of Korean acts having success in this country.
But he told students that he had been surprised by the rapid success of Gangnam Style and he now felt the pressure to do the same with his new work.
The Oxford Union is one of the most famous and prestigious student societies.
It was founded in 1823 to provide a forum for free speech at a time when the Oxford University banned all discussion of politics and religion.


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*For the first time in a reeeeeally long time July actually felt like a very generous dollop of Summer! Parks, picnics and frozen desserts in abundance.
*Busyness finally gave way to some time to rest and see my lovely Husband who somewhat lost out recently. It's amazing how you can miss someone who lives in the same house.
*This lovely couple got hitched! It was a beautiful day and so much fun to finally get to put all my months of craftiness into action. Looking forward to sharing some more of that with you.
*With hot weather comes thunder storms, which I've surprisingly enjoyed falling asleep to. Perhaps the best part is waking up to a calm, stillness in the morning. I think I need to make more time for that stillness in my life.
*Literally never thought I'd be glad to see a nineties revival filling the shops but I have to say I'm loving it! It's just flashback after flashback. Caught up in this nostalgia, even sparkly high heeled jelly shoes seem quite appealing.
*I love the book of Ecclesiastes and was pretty pumped to hear that's what we'd be going through in July. Another great chance to do some sermon artwork and some brilliant sermons to listen to. Check them out here.

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Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus had to sit out Thursday's Spring Training game because his arm was too sore from a tattoo he had gotten.
"It's on fire," said Andrus, who got a tattoo that took nine hours to complete as a tribute to his late father. "No more tattoos."
Andrus could not move his arm to even throw because of soreness, and Rangers manager Ron Washington said the team may have to prohibit players from getting tattoos in the offseason "if this is what it does to you."
Andrus is expected to play for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic this weekend. The Rangers play their Spring Training games in Surprise, Arizona.


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On Friday January 22, at 8:09 p.m., a North Precinct police officer came across a parked stolen car in the 8500 block of N.E. Milton Street in Portland.
The officer pulled over and kept an eye on it until a person got into the car and drove away. The officer was following, as the car pulled into the Madison Suites Hotel at 3620 N.E. 82nd Avenue of Roses, at which point the officer initiated a traffic stop, assisted by a Canine Unit sergeant.
The suspect backed up into the police car, which struck the officer who was outside the car. The suspect then tried to drive out of the lot, and rammed into the Canine Unit vehicle.
Unable to escape, the suspect bailed out of the stolen car and ran off, but was quickly caught and arrested after a brief area search. Officers subsequently examining the stolen car found a gun inside it. The arrested suspect was subsequently identified as 24-year-old Justin Joseph Panek.
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The Garland year
Marshall Ann Heflin Bourgeois and Allen Penniman both recall "going to an upscale club on Airline Highway in the early '60s, where we saw Phyllis Diller, Vic Damone, Ray Anthony & His Bookends and Jerry Van Dyke (all big stars back then).
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Container gardening gaining popularity among those with smaller spaces
Gardeners around the world can barely contain the excitement of container gardening, which has gained popularity in recent years as an attractive and easy alternative to large garden beds for a number of reasons.
The movement towards movable gardens comes as no surprise considering the number of gardeners with limited time and space as well as those gardeners that do not own land.
Not only can several small or medium sized containers be moved from one home to another, they can also be moved to safety during a storm or to allow for changing sun and moisture needs.
Additionally, traditional garden plots can take a lot of time to prepare, the ground needs to be cultivated, leveled or terraced, and possibly enriched with compost.
Once planted, the back-breaking work of weeding a large garden plot takes even more time.
Using a container can be as simple as mixing potting soil with compost, filling the container, planting and watering; weeding is rarely necessary.
Containers do not need to be large, pricey or even originally produced for a garden, instead gardeners can plant in anything from a clean vial to an old bathtub.
Upcycled items often make the most visually appealing containers, so try planning a succulent garden in an old, rustic, little, red wagon.
Tool boxes, crates, tires, canisters and hundreds of repurposed items have been used as containers for gardens everywhere.
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Smart Recovery, meeting for addictions, 7 p.m., Focus on Friends, 509 W. Trenton Ave.
Henry County Genealogical Society, meeting, 7 p.m., Edwin Wood Memorial Library, Deshler; topic: Finding and Recording Church Records of Henry County.
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Big Brother 10 Recap: The Final FourMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Big Brother's nominations in the final four are a curious subject - who Dan chose to nominate as the Head of Household could mean little with Power of Veto capabilities as the only thing that matters.
However, if Dan, as HoH, wins the Power of Veto, he can decide who is on the block, but not how the one safe non-HOH votes.
In any case, last night's Big Brother 10 episode featured a bizarre competition that will likely swing some jury votes if little else.
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A female contortionist, a bathtub full of dirt, a diamond, an ostrich, boxing gloves, a giant hot dog, a wolf-like creature, a space ship, a Caesar statue, a waterfall, and a cracking egg with IT written on it.
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Keesha and Jerry use their guesses too early. Dan waits until two objects are left – a blueberry and the hatching egg with "IT" written on it.
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Dan Gheesling decides to take Michelle from the jury house to try and win her over. He opts, however, to lie and tell the current house guests that he decided to go alone. Another curious move by our man Dan.
Dan's Nominations didn't really matter tonight, and he knew that. With only four guests left in the game, the only challenge that matters is the Power of Veto, because they control the one vote inside the house.
Recognizing this, Dan used the nominations to get on Keesha's good side. He nominated Jerry and Memphis Garrett. In Keesha's mind, it was a nice gesture, but in reality it was a hollow one. Good move from Dan.
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Fergie: Lunch with Josh Duhamel After Flapper Video Shoot!
Fergie shows off her growing baby bump as she leaves Gladstones after having lunch on Tuesday (June 4) in Malibu, Calif.
The 38-year-old pregnant entertainer was joined for her meal by hubby Josh Duhamel, 40.
The day before, Fergie was spotted in 1920s flapper era clothing on the set of a music video, presumably for her song "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody" from The Great Gatsby soundtrack.
"Loved making this song 4 @bazluhrmann.Go behind the scenes on #ALittleParty from #GatsbyMusic!" Fergie tweeted, along with a pic of her from her youth dressed as a flapper.


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I am planning to facilitate / tour guide two informal runs during Rails Conf 2013: Tuesday morning and Thursday morning.
Tuesday - 7am 5 mile Waterfront loop! Paved trail along the Portland waterfront…no better way to start the day! We will meet at the Steel Bridge pedestrian access that is shown on the far right in this picture.
Thursday - 7am Wildwood Trail Run! This is a great way to see more of what Portland has to offer. Pick any distance you like as the route will be an out and back. We will meet at the Portland MAX (light rail) Zoo station served by a short ride on both the Blue and Red MAX lines from downtown Portland. Trail shoes are not required, but if it is raining there can be a little bit of mud. Think sunshine! http://www.yelp.com/biz/wildwood-trail-portland
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Like many other seniors in the area, we enjoy walking or bicycling the streets of the neighborhood in an effort to get a little exercise and fresh air.
Moving at this slower pace enables us to become more aware of our surroundings, such as the duck that was not quite quick enough to avoid the automobile traffic, or the latest real estate sign.
Even though we have no intention of buying a house, it seems almost impossible to walk past those signs or pass up reading the accompanying brochures.
Preliminary information from a survey of parents of children in Roane County elementary schools is interesting enough to share.
The survey was done by the schools sending home the survey form which had been put together by Kingston Rotary Club's Ralph Best.
The data analyzed so far comes from the Kingston Elementary and Midway Elementary schools and there is rough consistency in the answers.
A late June Supreme Court decision in United States v. Alvarez is a victory for free speech and common sense.
The Supreme Court in a 6-to-3 vote struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a crime to falsely claim military honors. The Court concluded that the act violated the First Amendment by criminalizing lies without a showing of fraud or other criminal conduct.
Last week, Ruby Jean Boyd celebrated her birthday. To her surprise, her son, Alvin, flew in from California to be with his mother on her special day.
He took her to Knoxville and called Reggie Bazel and his wife to join them at a special restaurant, where the food was delicious.
She really enjoyed her day and was really blessed. We wish you more happy birthdays, Jean.
Alvin flew back on Sunday. Reggie and Jennifer were happy to have been a part in Jean's celebration.
Don't need to mention the heat. Each of us has felt the enormous heat, especially our farmers who do most of their work outside. Helping animals find some shade is a challenge to anyone trying not only to find some place for the many cows, little calves and horses that will suffer from the extra heat out in their pastures with little or no place to go to find shade in the near 100-degree heat every day and little or no rain in sight.
Oppressive heat is upon us.
I spent several years in the deserts of Arizona, so I know a thing or two about extreme heat.
Out there, we left oven mitts hanging next to certain outside doors because the afternoon summer sun could make door knobs dangerously hot.
Summer there was like winter here: it was the time you stayed in, took it easy and tried very hard not to over exert yourself.
With summer temperatures consistently above 100 degrees out there, we learned to take it in stride, even though we longed for cooler days.
As you no doubt know, gentle reader, the incumbent superintendent of schools, Toni McGriff, is in process of leaving that post.
As regular readers know, we did not approve of her selection, and subsequent events have proven that position correct, at least in the eyes of most responsible citizens.
Happy birthday, Karen.
Sunday. July 1, is our daughter's 57th birthday. But we will not celebrate it with her.
Her name is Karen Farmer Beard, and she was abducted and murdered in Kingston on Jan. 15, 1991.
Some of the individuals who are responsible for this hideous crime are still walking the streets.
Roane County Detective Greg Scalf tells me that Karen's case is now classified as an open homicide investigation. If you have any information please call Detective Scalf at 717-4709.
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RUNWAY: Dolce&Gabbana SS18There was a lot to digest at Dolce&Gabbana's latest runway show, from the ornate set decorations to the hodgepodge of clothing to the disparate cast. The two designers behind the label once again leaned on their Italian heritage and this was manifested, in part, by offering religious prints on clothes. This predilection to religious regalia seems to explains why the designers are so sanctimonious, continuously alleging other designers and houses of copying their designs. However, when you look at this collection and their previous ones, it's clear that they too borrow from others. Frankly, it's how the industry works, that's how trends are set: a design is so interesting that it spreads like wildfire through the industry.
Everything and the kitchen sink was shown here, from well cut suits thrown on to a table to be bedazzled with shiny things or covered in eye watering patterns while oversized outfits that seemed wholly out of place among the well tailored pieces. As for their kitschy tee's that opined a boycott of the brand elicited only one reaction from this review: don't threaten me with a good time.
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Wednesday , December 06, 2017 - 10:00 PM
March 25, 2003 ~ December 2, 2017
Tyler Jay Shuler, 14, of Lexington Park, MD, (formerly of Layton and Willard, UT), passed away in his sleep on December 2, 2017, at his home surrounded by his loving family.
He was born on March 25, 2003, in Layton, UT, to Michael Jay Shuler of Sandy, UT, and Susan Marie Drinkard of Lexington Park, MD.
Though tragically young at death, Tyler squeezed many more years worth of vitality and experience out of his time than his 14 years of life would suggest. Tyler was born in Utah, where he lived for most of his life. By the time he was two, Tyler went around with a near perpetual smirk on his lips and a mischievous twinkle in his eye. If the family had any secrets before he could talk that secret died shortly thereafter. Tyler would gladly talk to any stranger in the store, on a plane, or at a playground and promptly lay the family's soul bare with his life story and the story of as many other family members as he could squeeze into a conversation.
Tyler's skills varied widely. They included but were not limited to: imitating flatulence with his limbs, great mathematical abilities, making his parents laugh and freaking out his siblings with his zombie impersonation. Tyler had his eye set on becoming a doctor and loved his time spent at the Utah Military Academy (UMA) in Ogden, UT, where he was a Naval Sea Cadet. He was an avid soccer player, enjoyed gaming with his friends, had a great sense of humor and enjoyed playing the flute. He was great with his younger cousins, who all adored him and couldn't wait to play with him.
Tyler had a special spirit and left a meaningful and unforgettable impression on his family and friends. Though he will be sorely missed, Tyler's memory will be a cherished treasure we will carry for the rest of our lives. Until we meet again dear Tyler.
In addition to his beloved parents, Michael and Susan; Tyler is also survived by siblings, Michael and Katlyn Shuler; step-brother, Kota Olmas; and half brother, Keean Shuler; grandparents: Jay and Kate Shuler, Rose Page, James Drinkard, Amaury Taranto and Marta Molisani; great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clark; step-parents, Priscila (Michael) Shuler, Jeff Emmert; and his mother's fianc^, Doug Heiser. He is also survived by his aunts, uncles, and cousins, including: Michelle Drinkard (children, Jack and Violet), Amy and Lowell Krusinger (children: Brie, Gavin, and Jude), Jennifer Shuler, Devan and Jorianne Shuler (son, Leo), Dustin and Shaylynne Shuler (children: Ember, Oswyn, and Luna), Crystal Shuler, Jordan and Stormy Shuler (son, Desmond). He is preceded in death by his grandfather, Bill Page; great-grandfather, Winifred L. Tom Clark; and uncle, Ben Clark; and great-grandparents, Hal and Carolyn Shuler, Jim and Mary Lou Durrant.
Family will receive friends on Friday, December 8, 2017, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Myers Mortuary, 205 S. 100 E., Brigham City, UT, and on Saturday, December 9, 2017, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., with the Funeral Services at 12 noon at the Willard Peak Chapel, 665 W. 7615 South, Willard, UT.
Interment will follow at Willard Cemetery in Willard, UT.
A Memorial Service will be held at a later date for friends in St. Mary's County.
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Animal Buddies are different types of creatures that aid Donkey Kong and his friends on many of their adventures against the Kremling Krew and other villains. They are found in Animal Crates.
Animal buddies
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
- Rattly the Rattlesnake
- Squitter the Spider
- Clapper the Seal
- Glimmer the Anglerfish
- Quawks the Parrot
- Expresso II (In the Game Boy Advance remake only)
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
Donkey Kong 64
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Beta Animal Buddies
Possible Animal Buddies
Though these animals have never been confirmed as Animal Buddies they have nonetheless been helpful in their appearances.
- Krochead (Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Donkey Kong Land 2)
- Ghost Rope (Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest)
- Nid (Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Donkey Kong Land III)
- Nibbla (Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!)
- Squid (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)


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This morning when I read this news, I decided to write an article about it.
"Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers for sexual resemblance".
Islamic women should not touch cucumber, bananas, carrots and zucchini. So far this is the short list. The question is what is wrong with touching certain foods? What if women touch these and even eat them? According to an Islamic cleric women may think about sex while consuming these foods.
One Islamic cave man may think that way; 'women touch certain foods can think of sex', as if men do not. It is even funny to hear about it, but people take this serious? Are you kidding me? Why this is even considered a news? I guess pure entertainment, while you drink your tea or coffee reading it with a smile on your face.
In my case, I laugh a lot. This reminded me another pathetic piece of news;
Al Qaeda's enforcement of an absurd Islamic law that grocers can not display cucumbers and tomatoes in close proximity.
Here is the a but why question here:
But why always Islamic men think that women obsess with sex?
Therefore they need to enforce banning women to not even touch foods.
Let's face it women cook more throughout in history right? Traditionally Islamic men do not cook at home, women cook and serve to them. So how come always women think about sex while even cooking? Is this the women thinking or men thinking?
Can you really imagine an ordinary Islamic woman who want to make a salad, she goes to grocery shopping and sees tomatoes next to cucumbers. Will that make her arouse? Let's assume she puts the cucumber between two tomatoes on the counter in her kitchen, will that remind her a face or something else? Don't you think this Islamic man have a tendency of thinking below the waist? While he was living in Europe expressing his lovely thoughts on women thinking (it is not clear in the article how he knows what women think, but that is not important issue I guess) and trying to prevent them from sin. Obviously thinking about sex must be sinful according to this man.
I like to ask sane readers where do you think this man belongs to?
(please do not reply if you are a fanatic religious insane person) – a bit redundant
1- A cave, somewhere in a desert that does not grow cucumbers, bananas, carrots and zucchinis around.
2- A mental institution, until he learns foods are simply eatable objects he can not possible read women minds.
I used to think people can learn, grow out of their fears, learn from their mistakes, can change. I would even go further to say people can behave better if they are in the right environment.
Unfortunately there are a lot of bad examples out there. Nothing you can do about them; they insist on staying as delusional as they could be.
May I suggest a traditional Turkish recipe CACIK to Islamic women then?
Lebanese called this dish 'tzadziki' and Greek says 'tsatsiki' mezza.
Turks consume cacık all the time, it is healthy and delicious.
All you need a handsome cucumber, a cup of yogurt and water.
Peel the skin of cucumber. Then diced the cucumber in very small pieces. Some prefer shredding it.
If that makes you happy, go ahead.
In a large deep bowl put a cup of plain yogurt.
Mix well with shredded cucumber. Add 1/2 cup of water and stir until water dissolve and cacık is thicken.
Add salt for taste , you may decorate with dried mint on top.
Chill in refrigerator before serving.
In Turkish you may say "Afiyet olsun".
It would be a nice gesture if any female neighbor of this guy serve this dish for him with a smile.
"Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers for sexual resemblance"
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SOURCE: Janet Moyer Landscaping
February 13, 2014 12:00 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 13, 2014) - With the official announcement that California is now in a "drought emergency", Janet Moyer Landscaping (JML) in San Francisco is advising its clients and home gardeners on a variety of simple yet efficient ways to reduce water use in the garden. The company specializes in addressing the unique challenges of urban gardens.
"While Governor Brown is calling for voluntary reduction in water use from all Californians, this may become a mandate in the future," says Janet Moyer. "We all want to do our part to conserve, but it can seem daunting, especially with all the measures we've taken over the years to reduce daily water consumption."
She points out some practical ways homeowners can still do this:
1. Choose plants carefully. Natives and arid-climate plants typically require substantially less water to thrive.
2. Remove weeds and unnecessary plant material that compete for water.
3. Use less fertilizer to slow growth and reduce the plants' water requirements
4. Apply adequate mulch (up to 3 inches) to reduce the evaporative effect of wind and sun. Be sure to keep mulch away from the trunk of plants.
5. Use a SMART irrigation controller to minimize excess water use and maintain good health in the garden.
6. Install drip systems that water only areas that need it.
7. Reduce irrigation gently to minimize the effects on plants.
8. Monitor the garden for signs of over-or under-watering.
9. Use shade cloth to protect sensitive plants and move containers to the shade. Use glazed containers and mulch to help retain soil moisture.
10. Utilize specialized polymers to hold water in the soil.
11. Sand decks instead of power washing them.
12. Consider replacing natural lawn with artificial turf. Today's modern turf material is very realistic in appearance and easy to maintain.
About Janet Moyer Landscaping
Founded in 1990, Janet Moyer Landscaping is an award-winning, full-service landscaping company based in San Francisco, CA. It has designed and installed more than 600 unique and customized gardens in San Francisco's varied terrain. The company specializes in the creation of custom residential landscapes that address the unique challenges posed by San Francisco's climate, significant grade changes and architectural constraints. Owned and managed by Janet Moyer and Michael Hofman, JML applies sustainable practices to its residential landscape design, installation and maintenance services. In 2013, JML was a sponsor of the Garden Bloggers Fling held in San Francisco, and in 2012, the company received an "Outstanding Achievement" award from the California Landscape Contractors Association. For more information, visit www.jmoyerlandscaping.com or call 415-821-3760. Become a member of the JML community at http://www.facebook.com/janetmoyerlandscaping
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Last Of The Posts
April Book Covers
Martha in the Mirror Justin Richards Castle Extremis – whoever holds it can control the provinces either side that have been at war for centuries. Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don't have long to find the answers – an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more...
Snowglobe 7 by Mike Tucker Earth, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The polar ice caps are melting. In a desperate attempt at preservation the Governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes across the world. The Doctor and Martha arrive in Snowglobe 7 in the Middle East, hoping for peace and relaxation. But they soon discover that it's not only ice and snow that has been preserved beneath the Dome. While Martha struggles to help with an infection sweeping through the holidaymakers the Doctor discovers an alien threat that has lain hidden since the last ice age. A threat that is starting to thaw.
The Many Hands by Dale Smith Edinburgh, 1759. The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard. That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died… It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.
Which Part Did You Prefer From Revenge Of The Slitheen?
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Sunday, 7 October 2007
Third Dimension: the Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who 2007
'The book has been, as usual, complex to prepare,' said Telos' David J Howe. 'As well as the text, which Stephen James Walker has painstakingly prepared, we have an 8 page colour photographic section as well. Therefore the availability date has slipped slightly from October to November. We're confident that the title will be as warmly welcomed as the first two books looking at the new series of Doctor Who.'
Below is a brief synopsis of the book.
Third Dimension is a comprehensive episode guide to Series Three of the new Doctor Who, following the ongoing adventures of the Doctor.The full build-up and background are revealed, from the aftermath of Series Two and the departure of Rose Tyler right up to date, detailing all the major news stories, press releases, casting announcements and critical response.The spotlight is then turned on each of the 13 episodes in turn, plus the Christmas special 'The Runaway Bride', with in-depth coverage, including all the facts and figures, behind-the-scenes details, press and fan reaction and detailed and insightful analysis.
Saturday, 6 October 2007
Calling The Shots Signings
- Friday 5th October – Cinema Store, Central London On Friday 5th October Graeme will be appearing at The Cinema Store, Upper St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9NY. The nearest tube is Leicester Square. The signing takes place between 6.00 and 7.00pm. To order signed copies of the book call the Cinema Store on 020 7379 7838.
- Saturday 6th October – Tenth Planet, Barking On Saturday 6th October Graeme will be appearing at Tenth Planet, Unit 37a, Vicarage Field Shopping Centre, Barking. The shopping centre is near Barking overland and underground stations – see www.10thplanetshop.com for details. The signing begins at 11.00am. To order signed copies of the book call Tenth Planet on 020 8591 5357.


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An early Easter and a late spring combined to make for a chilly Eggstravaganza 2015 on April 4 at the Mansfield Community Center. Sponsored by the Mansfield Community Playground Committee, the event is a fundraiser for the playground planned for behind the existing community center. The Mansfield Town Council recently voted to approve town assets to help build the playground.
Initially, the Committee intended to build the playground exclusively through fundraising. "We received about three years ago a grant from the Jeffrey P. Ossen Foundation," explained Maggie Ferron, general coordinator for the Playground Committee. The Ossen Foundation committed $200,000 to the playground. But when fundraising efforts fell short of the goal after three years, the Foundation "didn't want to give us money that wouldn't be spent," explained Ferron. After the Committee held a meeting with the mayor and town manager, the Council "unanimously voted to give us the $132,000 that we were short," said Ferron. Additional funds raised between now and the planned October, 2015 ground breaking, "will be used to offset the town money," said Ferron.
The Eggstravaganza offered approximately 3,000 eggs, filled by volunteers from UConn. An egg hunt in a damp, but snow-free, skate park was held in three different waves: 0-3 years; 7-10 years; and 4-6 years. There were also crafts staffed by volunteers, a bake sale and a visit by the Easter bunny.
The playground, designed with the input of the community's children, will "be inclusive of all children in our community, including those with physical, cognitive, and neurological disabilities," according to the project's website. Donations are still being accepted, and the committee is still seeking volunteers for the build. "We need volunteers for everything from building the playground to overseeing construction teams to helping with artwork to distributing lunch to providing childcare—construction skills are not required," reads the website. For more information, go to http://mansfieldcommunityplayground.org/. You can also follow the project on Facebook.


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O.K. Corral (building)
O.K. Corral
Tombstone Historic District
Allen Street frontage
|Tombstone, Arizona
|31°42′48.5″N 110°4′8.7″W / 31.713472°N 110.069083°WCoordinates: 31°42′48.5″N 110°4′8.7″W / 31.713472°N 110.069083°W
|NRHP reference #
|Significant dates
|Added to NRHP
|October 15, 1966[1]
|Designated NHLD
|July 4, 1961[2]
The O.K. Corral (Old Kindersley[3]) was a livery and horse corral from 1879 to about 1888 in the mining boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in the southwestern United States near the border with Mexico.
Despite its famous association with the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the historic gunfight did not take place within or next to the corral on Allen Street, but in a narrow lot on Fremont Street, six doors west of the rear entrance to the corral. The lot was between Harwood's home and C. S. Fly's 12-room boarding house and photography studio.[4]
The 1957 film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral made the shootout famous and the public was incorrectly led to believe it was the actual location of the altercation. Despite the historical inaccuracy, the corral is currently marketed and advertised as the location of the shootout, and visitors can pay to see a reenactment of the gunfight. The corral is now part of the Tombstone Historic District.
At the time of the gunfight on October 26, 1881, the O.K. Corral and Livery was one of seven liveries and corrals in the city of about 5,300 residents,[5] excluding Chinese and children. The others included the Dexter Livery (owned by John Dunbar and Johnny Behan), Pioneer Livery, Tombstone Livery, West End Corral, P.W. Smith Corral, C.N. Thomas West End Corral, and the Fashion Stables,[6]
The O.K. Corral was owned at the time by "Honest John" Montgomery and Edward Monroe Benson.[7] Most residents of the town did not own a horse; when they needed to go out of town, they rented a horse from one of the liveries or corrals. The corral and livery also cared for transient stock, and provided buggies, carriages, and wagons with teams of horses. As of 1886, they also rented an 11-passenger excursion coach.[8]
The corral and buildings were completely destroyed by a fire that burned almost all of the western business district on May 25, 1882.[9] The rebuilt corral began to gain attention from the American public in 1931, when author Stuart Lake published an initially well-received biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, two years after Earp's death.[10] Published during the Great Depression, the book captured American imaginations. It was also the basis for the 1946 film, My Darling Clementine, by director John Ford.[10] After the film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was released in 1957, the shootout became known by that name and the corral became wrongly fixed in the public's consciousness as the location of the shoot out.
According to testimony after the shootout, the outlaw Cowboys who fought the Earps and Doc Holliday went from Dexter's Livery Stable, where they had left their horses, to Spangenberg's gun shop on Fourth Street.[11]:181:185 Wyatt Earp saw them inside and later said he thought they were filling their cartridge belts with bullets. The Cowboys then walked over to the O.K. Corral where witnesses overheard them threatening to kill the Earps. Citizens reported the threats and the armed Cowboys' movements to Tombstone City Marshal Virgil Earp.
On April 19, 1881, the city had passed ordinance #9 requiring anyone carrying a bowie knife, dirk, pistol or rifle[12][13] to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town.[14] The ordinance was the legal basis for City Marshall Virgil Earp's decision to confront the Cowboys that resulted in the shoot out.[15]
The Earps and Doc Holliday walked west on Fremont Street, looking for the Cowboys. After passing the rear entrance to the O.K. Corral, they found the Cowboys gathered in a narrow 15–20 feet (4.6–6.1 m) wide lot[16] and adjacent to C. S. Fly's 12-room boarding house and photography studio at 312 Fremont Street.[4][17]:4 The gun fight took place within the narrow lot and on Fremont Street.
The O.K. Corral at 326 Allen Street[18] is within the Tombstone Historic District.[19]
Current status[edit]
Investors from Detroit, Michigan, led by attorney Harold O. Love, bought the O.K. Corral, along with The Tombstone Epitaph, the Crystal Palace Hotel, and Schieffelin Hall in 1964.[20] The Love family continue to own the O.K. Corral today.[21] The corral in Tombstone today is inaccurately advertised and marketed as the location of the actual gunfight.[22] Its association with the legendary gunfight attracts many visitors to the city. They can pay to view a reenactment of the gunfight three times daily on the site of the historic corral.[22] The lot in which most of the gun fight actually occurred is now maintained as part of a living history museum. Fremont Street, currently Arizona Highway 80, where portions of the gunfight actually took place, is open to the public.
In 2004, the town's focus on tourism led the National Park Service (NPS) to threaten to remove its designation as a National Historic Landmark District, a status it earned in 1961 as "one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and '80s." Since this time, however, the community has worked closely with the NPS to develop and implement a new more appropriate stewardship program.
Historical significance[edit]
Although the historical corral wasn't the actual site of the famous gunfight, its association with the legendary gunfight largely contributed to the creation of the historic district and its placement on the National Register.[23] Another O.K. Corral is known to have existed in Globe, Arizona Territory. The O.K. Corral and Feed Stable was opened before November 8, 1879.[8]
External links[edit]
- ^ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ "Tombstone Historic District". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
- ^ Bell, Bob Bose (2006) True West Magazine
- ^ a b Ziegler, Jack (May 5, 2000). "C.S. Fly: Frontier Photographer". Benson News-Sun. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ "882 Census Index of Tombstone Arizona Territory". Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Map of Tombsone". Sanborn Fire Insurance. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ Traywick, Ben. "Wyatt Earp's Thirteen Dead Men". The Tombstone News. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ a b Rose, John. "The O.K. Corral". Wyatt Earp Explorers. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "After the May 25, 1882 fire in Tombstone". Fern Canyon Press. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ^ a b Goodman, Michael (July 30, 2005). Wyatt Earp. p. 95. ISBN 1583413391.
- ^ Weir, William (2009). History's Greatest Lies: the Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press. p. 288. ISBN 1-59233-336-2.
- ^ "The Law in Tombstone". Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ^ Johnson, Paul Lee (July 30, 2012). The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O. K. Corral Obituary (First ed.). Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-1574414509.
- ^ "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Did Tom McLaury Have a Gun". September 05, 2006. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ Douglas Linder (2005). "Ordinances Enforced by the Earps in the OK Corral Shoot-out". Famous Trials: The O. K. Corral Trial. Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ Tefertiller, Casey; Morey, Jeff. "O.K. Corral: A Gunfight Shrouded in Mystery". HistoryNet.com. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ Lubet, Steven (2004). Murder in Tombstone: the Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-300-11527-7. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
- ^ Google place page
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ Eppinga, Jane (2009). Around Tombstone: Ghost Towns and Gunfights. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub. p. 74. ISBN 978-0738571270.
- ^ Love, Bob (2017-06-15). "What History Has Taught Me: Bob Love". True West Magazine. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- ^ a b "O.K. Corral Famous Gunfight Site, Tombstone AZ".
- ^ Bell, Bob Bose. True West magazine.


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Schools scandal: How did $163,000 end up at obscure nonprofit?
State auditors flagged $163,000 paid to the nonprofit Grace of Mercy as among the most suspicious expenditures uncovered in a Seattle School District financial scandal, calling the spending a waste of public money. The nonprofit's director said he gave some of the money back to a former school-district manager at the center of the alleged improprieties.
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Asked about invoices to the Seattle School District that showed him teaching business classes that covered subjects from growth strategies to contracts to using Microsoft Word, David A. Johnson, head of the nonprofit Grace of Mercy, laughed.
"That's crazy. I'm computer illiterate," said Johnson in an interview Thursday.
State auditors flagged $163,000 paid to Grace of Mercy as among the most suspicious expenditures uncovered in a financial scandal that cost Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson her job.
Auditors could not verify that the school district received services it paid the Tacoma nonprofit for, and called the spending a waste of public money. It was the single biggest loss tied to one vendor.
Johnson told The Times he gave half of the money back to Silas W. Potter Jr., the former manager of the school district's small-business center, who is at the center of alleged improprieties that have prompted a criminal investigation. Potter denies that claim.
Grace of Mercy, which was incorporated in 2005 to help homeless and battered women, billed the school district, often for $5,000 a month, for work on behalf of a program run by Potter aimed at attracting more minority and women contractors.
Johnson said Potter promised him a lucrative deal if Johnson returned the money. According to Johnson, Potter said he was going to expand his program to Oregon and would pay Johnson $300,000 to help him.
Johnson didn't consider the arrangement a kickback, he told The Times, because Potter also said he would get the school district to contribute some of the money to Grace of Mercy.
"I got duped," Johnson said. He cursed Potter and threatened to beat him if he found him. Johnson said he is depressed, struggling financially and facing foreclosure.
Potter vehemently denied that he asked for and received money back from Johnson.
"I never did a kickback to anyone. I didn't promise him a future job. I don't know why he would say that," Potter told a Times reporter who tracked him down in Florida.
District records show Johnson billed the schools at a $100-per-hour rate for working as an instructor, helping contractors with licenses, financial reporting and technology.
In six instances auditors identified, Johnson billed the district for teaching a class but instead attended as a student, according to auditors.
Johnson acknowledged in an earlier interview that he was a student in the classes and his real job was to round up other small-business owners for the training.
According to Johnson, Potter said: "I need you to get people to come to my classes. And I'm going to get the school district to give money to your foundation every month."
The billings of Grace of Mercy between 2007 and 2010 were so unusual that auditors appeared to wonder whether Potter had set up a phantom nonprofit organization. For example, Eddie Rye Jr., listed as a Grace of Mercy subcontractor, said auditors asked him if Johnson really was Potter.
Several factors triggered the auditors' suspicions.
School-district employees who worked with Potter said Johnson was the only personal-services contractor they never met.
And one school employee said Grace of Mercy was the only contractor whose invoices Potter hand-delivered. "This practice was unusual," auditors wrote. Potter also "constantly checked" to see if the invoices were paid, the employee told auditors.
Potter contends he hand-delivered about half the invoices because Johnson brought them to him. He says he checked on payment status only because Johnson nagged him.
Auditors and school lawyers were unable to interview Johnson, whose contact phone numbers were disconnected.
Johnson, 47, said he met Potter in 2006 when Johnson's for-profit company, Allstate Surveillance, was installing security cameras at Cleveland High School in Seattle. According to Johnson, Potter told him, "I like your style. I need your help."
Johnson said he rounded up a lot of people for the training classes, "black businesses, white businesses, lady businesses."
"I'm going to make it up to you when we open up Portland," Johnson recalled Potter saying.
"I took his word," Johnson told The Times, explaining that he was "kind of like a little puppy following" Potter. He said he couldn't explain why invoices from Grace of Mercy billed for instruction. Nor could he explain why signatures on some invoices looked very different from signatures on other Grace of Mercy documents, such as contracts and tax records.
He also couldn't explain why records showed Rye as a subcontractor for his nonprofit on four invoices. Johnson said he never met Rye. "Nobody worked for me. I was the only person," he said.
Johnson said he went looking for Potter last summer, trying to get the money he felt the school district owed him. But he learned that Potter had quit the school district, and so had Potter's boss, Fred Stephens, who is now a deputy assistant secretary at U.S. Department of Commerce.
On paper, Grace of Mercy no longer exists.
In 2009, the Washington secretary of state administratively dissolved Grace of Mercy for failing to file a list of officers. Yet eight months later, Potter awarded the nonprofit a $20,000 contract.
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(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas).
The Kitchen Table
I first imagined a Slow Theatre Movement at my kitchen table. The table is hand built with two 17-inch wide walnut boards cut from the same local tree by my friend at Trappist Caskets. It took a long time for that tree to grow. I sometimes wonder if the table knows it might have been a casket. Now, it's a kitchen table with bread and people around it. A meal. Conversation. The beginning of a play, the beginning of a theatre. I'm aware that everything I've ever thought of has been thought of before but it seems that at this moment in history, the world needs to return to some simpler ways of doing things. An acoustic and manual revolution. And it's time to reclaim time.
Chekhov wrote that the task of a "writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly." Todd London has brilliantly stated some of the problems of American theatre in his books and recent Howlround articles.
I often repeat Buckminster Fuller's famous quote "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
Work towards beautiful solutions.
Sleeping Weazel
In 2011, in Boston, Charlotte Meehan re-activiated her theatre company, Sleeping Weazel, originally founded in downtown Manhattan with her late husband, experimental filmmaker David Hopkins. In its current formation, she introduces the company's mission online and ends with an invitation:
We explore and engage novel approaches to developing, presenting, and exhibiting new art- multimedia theatre, interdisciplinary installations, performance events, music, poetry, and video/audio.
We develop work that crosses and confounds the boundaries of "mainstream" and "avant-garde" as well as boundaries between art forms. Based in Boston and fanning out virtually across the globe, our projects include individual and collaborative productions in the theatre, in DVD, CD, and Vimeo, at readings, audio-theatre concerts, and performance events.
We invite you to join us in shared vision of surprise, spontaneity, and discovery.
In its first year, they highlighted the works of Caridad Svich, Ruth Margraff, Suzanne Bocanegra, Lauren Kelley and others; enacted the Women in Action Festival, and showcased works of the next generation. Ken Prestininzi's Birth Breath Bride Elizabeth was among their first productions. It moved to ArtsEmerson's The Next Thing Festival and received rave reviews.
Model what you want to be.
Tulips and Peppers
The Slow food movement is a global movement committed to food, community, and the environment. Founder Carlo Petrini writes about the day in 1996 he turned off a big-box store lined highway in Italy to eat at one of the many fine restaurants tucked away in the agricultural region it crossed. He ordered peperonata, the famous dish made from the locally grown peppers of Asti. The dish arrived. It looked beautiful, but was tasteless. The chef, his friend, explained that the peppers were now imported from Holland. Each box contained 32 uniform and identical hybrid peppers perfect for export. Their colors were visually stunning and grown more cheaply because of intensive farming methods. Ironically, in what were once the pepper fields they now grew uniform tulip bulbs to export to Holland.
Fuck uniformity. Let's have our dirt and our taste back.
Theatre Oobleck
No director. New works. Free if you're broke. Twenty-four years.
Theater Oobleck is a 24-year-old Chicago-based company that changes the rules of engagement in theatre. Their work has received critical acclaim locally, nationally and internationally. In recent years several productions have moved from Chicago to New York for successful off-Broadway runs.
On the company's website it says:
Oobleck has launched 60 productions of idiosyncratic new works, all created and developed by members of the ensemble, working in concert to create a collective vision without an overseeing director.
They have, in fact, no directors. No artistic director. No managing director. None. They quote from an unknown source:
Putting the burden of innovation on the director is like putting the prime minister in charge of the revolution, for the director, insofar as he remains a director, cannot help but defend that kind of theater in which he has a place of importance, suppressing those ancient models of the theater which do not require his services.
Their goal is "to empower ourselves as individuals and as a collective." And because the company invites its audiences in to engage with and change the play while it is in process, they also empower their public.
Audience as company.
On Bread
The playwright and scholar, Andras Nagy, drove around Budapest with a half loaf of stale bread on the ledge of the back seat of his car.
Isn't it stale? I asked.
Yes, he said. But anyone who lived through the war would never throw away bread.
When I was at Iowa for my playwriting MFA, I baked bread at the local co-op. It was copyrighted "artesian" bread, the new thing. Only in the U.S.A would we copyright our bread.
Now, I teach playwriting and bake bread at home. Mark Bittman published this recipe in the NY Times. My version is slightly altered:
3 cups flour (choose the grain you like, grind your own)
¼ tsp. yeast (makes it active)
1 ½ tsp. salt (taste and worth it's weight)
1 1/3 c water (central ingredient/issue of the new world)
Mix. Let rise, covered, 12-18 hours. Shape and cover for two hours.
Heat the Dutch oven at 475 degrees ½ an hour before you are ready to bake. Or find a friend with a brick oven. Or build one. Bake it, break it, eat it.
Making bread is simple and cheap. Every step of it recalls playwriting and theatre practices. This bread requires a long slow rise. Shaping is the final step. Most importantly,
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 in downtown Manhattan as a bread baker's theatre. It is one of the oldest, self-supporting, non-profit theatre companies in the country. An excerpt of Peter's 50th anniversary letter he writes:
Bread and Puppet is based on bread baking and the not-for-sale distribution of bread at moments created by art, and these moments are created in opposition to capitalist culture and habit. Therefore the puppet show is not only a puppet show, but an eating-bread-together event. We ask our hosts not only for performing space, but also for 400 bricks, fire wood, and fire permits to build and use itinerant bread ovens as part of our productions. From the beginning of the Bread and Puppet enterprises we decided to make two types of shows: inside shows meant for the viewers inside, and outside shows for the unrelenting political street. Both types of shows address the urgencies of the day as they come upon us.
Peter creates work as if the world were ending–he was born in Silesia and was a child during World War II. He creates monuments to life, to beauty, to possibility. Brilliantly. Constantly. He is a whirling dervish of theatre making.
But the performances allow the public to slow down. A circus in a field, a performance in a barn. At the end of a processional a great sun goddess puppet comes up over a hill. And always, the puppeteers offer bread. A sacrament.
The world is made sacred again.
How do you live?
I ask every artist I meet how do you live? How do you pay grocery bills, and make theatre, music, art, too? I believe we owe it to each other, and to the next generations, to be honest about this. So many of us are also teachers, housepainters, bread bakers. Some of us have patrons or trust funds. Some of us are broke. What are the "urgencies of the day"? How do we keep making art in an economy that supports commerce but does not speak honestly or openly about money? How do we keep hope?
How do you live?
What is a Slow Theatre?
Slow theatre is a way of making theatre and a way of living.
What's the difference between slow theatre and theatre? Time and resources.
In the commercial world, time equals money but in a creative world time equals possibility. Expansive and expanding realms of imagination.
How do we give people time? How do we share wealth and experience? How do we support the new and unfamiliar? How do we break through old structures, borders, territories? How do we go beyond what we imagined for ourselves and for each other? How do we lift up those who can't go on any longer? How do we give what we most need?
Maybe we can start with bread.
Lisa Schlesinger is an international playwright and theatre artist/activist. Her awards include two CEC Artslink International grants, the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Award, the BBC International Playwriting Competition and a nomination for a USA Artist Fellowship. Her work has been produced in the U.S. and internationally. Her plays and essays have been published in American Theatre Magazine, Performing Arts Journal, Theater Magazine, Best Monologues for Women by Women II, Out of Silence, The American Theatre Reader, and the New York Times. She directs the Playwriting program at Columbia College Chicago.


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"Really? Can't be. Say it ain't so, Steven." That was what many of us said when Mr. Soderbergh declared that he was retiring from directing movies. And for those who had followed, studied, or were inspired by his unique career and creative output, it seemed that this might certainly turn out to be a bit of a joke from a world-class jokester. Well, that indeed appears to be the case, and of course, he never really retired by any stretch of the term (such as with Behind the Candelabra, The Knick, and more). Here is an excellent article on Soderbergh right now one week before the release of his promising new movie, Logan Lucky (written by the decidedly mysterious Rebecca Blunt — is this another Soderbergh joke?).
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