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The rest of the cast of disposable archetypes deadpanned about why ''sequels suck'' -- a particularly funny joke, since this one didn't.
Visceral, witty and appropriately redundant...
If you liked Scream there's no reason you shouldn't like this sequel.
The film itself is stuck in a cycle of repetition, with slight variations.
A horror movie balancing gore and terror with personality, humor and a nifty gimmick.
A yum-yum cast of pretties pull off the neat trick of affectionately counting the many ways available to horror sequels to suck, without making a sequel that sucks.
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Not entirely as original as the first film but doing fine in its self-awareness of sequel rules. In addition there are some outrageously exciting scenes. Too bad the two killers are as chatty as the ones in the first part during the showdown.
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Though mildly entertaining and with some inspired moments here and there, the sad truth is that this routine sequel is not clever or witty enough to subvert this "rule" that sequels are always inferior to the original film especially when it comes to horror movies.
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A smash of a sequel concerning the same group of young people mysteriously stalked by a vicious killer. Full of scenes of self-referential-ism and possessing an acute self-awareness that makes it instantly charming, director Wes Craven knows how to spoof the same genre that made him famous to begin with. Neve Campbell is perfect as the lead, with nice, funny supporting turns from a well-rounded young cast. It trips up a little bit here and there on some things, but one could argue that his movie is a tad better than the first, a claim the movie itself humorously labels as near-impossible in most cases. I have to say I think I liked it just a bit more than the first, though.
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DAE think the Foundation wastes a lot of space? We have very large rooms to contain very small inanimate objects, and underground construction is expensive. In my headcannon, it would make more sense if there were rooms with locked drawers in the walls for small items, like the inside of a bank vault. What do you guys thing
Of course we use drawers. We just have to wash them more frequently.
seriously though your headcanon can do whatever; most people seem to think about locked safes embedded in walls, which basically seems to be what you mean, I think
I know I can do anyhting in my head. :) I was just wondering what other people imagined. Also, because no one ever seems to metion drawers.
Sure we do. I have some small items contained in High (or Low) Value Containment Area B or some such, which I imagine as a vault for Safe SCPs that just need to be locked up when not being tested. Even some Euclid items like SCP-911 can go in there.
Not every item calls for interesting containment procedures.
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Of course, of course. I almost alway just say "held in a standard containment cell". Occassionally though I feel the urge to put smaller things in drawers specifically and didn't know if anyone else felt the same.
I picture one or two warehouse facilities that are just row upon row of security lockers. Kind of like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark but more sterile and organized. Those are for all the small-ish, safe-class items that are relatively understood and not likely to get out of hand no matter what the circumstances.
But for a vey large number of items, possibly even a majority, I don't think that the Foundation would want them that close to other objects for fear of "crossing the streams". They give even relatively benign objects their own room for the same reason that cross-testing is very heavily discouraged.
Besides, money is not an object for The Foundation. You can have all the underrground construction you need when you have a vending machine that can dispense gold on demand.
Not to mention an owl that regurgitates precious metals whether anyone demands it or not. (SCP-391)
Now I suddenly want to see an SCP creature that nests in sock drawers.
We've got a few that live in dressers…
We have the cabinet that spontaneously manifests cats…
A number of Safe SCP's mention them being stored in lockers, or site armories, or even people's offices (though that always struck me as dumb, and the tendency for authors to create SCP's solely to claim them as toys for their inane self-insertion avatars is a goddamned cancer).
I imagine very few SCP's merit their own containment sites. The foundation is wealthy and has lots of personnel, but not enough to have a gigantic staff of guards and an individual facility for each SCP. At least in my head canon.
The whole "SCP-whatever is to be stored in Dr. Insert's desk" is mostly a leftover thing from the good old days of the site, it's really hardly ever done any more.
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Hi - I'm looking for any French speaking playgroups / meet-ups or even classes for toddlers (my dd turned 2 in August). I am trying to speak French with her at home (I only just started though) and she has a basic understanding of everyday routines, and is starting to say a few words. But I am kicking myself now as I really should have started from day 1 and just feel I've left it a little late. Also I am the only French speaker in the house (not native, but did French degree then lived there for a few years). I am pretty rusty but I figure teaching her something is better than nothing! Basically I'm after any other form of back-up so she hears as much French around her as possible. Has anyone got any suggestions? We live near to Woking. Thanks in advance!
Hi ClairJS,
I'm French and I live in Bracknell. I run a network of French Speaking parents: we have a group on Facebook "Parents Francophones dans le Berkshire » ". Please join us! We try to meet once in a while so that the children (and their parents!) meet in a French speaking environment. We also have a live blog and a separate resources blog. Please let me know if you're interested and I'll send you the links in a pm.
Thanks! S.
Just to encourage you, OP, I also started late speaking non-native French to my ds - he was 2.2. He is now 4.5 and speaks French pretty well and understands better than I do sometimes. I also wanted to find French environments for him but haven't really found them, we watch lots of DVDs in French, have CDs in French and play on BayM and Genikids in French. 2 is not too late in my experience.
Hi Suki52 - yes please, that sounds absolutely great, do send me the link - thank you!
Chocolatecrispies - that's v encouraging, thank you for letting me know. These first few weeks I have found myself wondering if I will ever get there. So it's good to hear that perseverance pays off. If my dd can get to the point where she's understanding the majority and managing to converse pretty well I'll be delighted.
I'd love links too! My three kids are half French. They understand it, but need more practice than only Papa can provide! We're near Basingstoke.
DGMommy - I just found "Parents Francophones dans le Berkshire" on FB and joined. Looks like they have regular meet-ups - maybe one coming up in the Christmas hols?
I recommend dora l'exploratrice and Mickey mouse clubhouse - just switch the language! Meetups have never worked as well for us as I thought they should as the children don't really talk to each other much (or they use English!) and my ds prefers to talk to me than to other adults.
Hi ClairJS - I'm in the same boat as you and live nr Weybridge. I have spoken some French to my toddler from being a baby, but feel I should have done more. I am now really upping the French. If you find any playgroups/ meet ups I'd be interested!
Hi JJCseventysix - I haven't found any playgroups or meet-ups but I have found someone living in Byfleet who is a native French teacher and she is going to do regular 'fun sessions' with my little one starting in January. She actually has a bilingual son who is the same age so is just going to do 30 mins of nursery rhymes, singing etc with them both once a week and then take it from there. Would sth like that be of interest to you?
I also had someone recommend a Saturday school (1, 2, 3 Soleil) but it's in Maidenhead and is for children who are 3+ years and already fully bilingual. I'm going to one of their open days though in February.
Hi ClairJS,
I have also been looking for a French speaking playgroup in the Surrey area. My daughter is nearly two and we are planning on relocating to France at the end of 2013 when we have finished renovating our house out there. I am very keen that my daughter gets used to hearing French and playing in French so that when we move it won't be too much of a shock for her.
I would be interested in finding out more about the French teacher in Byfleet and the "fun sessions" which she is offering and whether there would be an opportunity for us to join it too!
Hi NellieO - we've had a couple of the sessions now and it's going really well. I'll ask the teacher if I can pass her email address / tel number on to you in a PM so you can contact her direct. My dd seems to have heaps of fun there - she doesn't want to leave at the end of the session!
Hi NellieO - I sent you the teacher's email in a PM. Hope you got it ok.
Hello all!
A few families of the French speaking parents network of Berkshire will be meeting to eat pancakes for the French Pancake Day early February in the Bracknell area. Please pm me if you're interested and would like to come, and I'll send you the details! It is very informal and everybody is bringing pancakes/waffles/beignets and takes leftovers back home. :-)
Also, I post links and info on the Réseau des Parents Francophones du Berkshire page on Facebook: it's a public page so please feel free to have a look.
Ladies, just stumbled across this thread. I can highly highly recommend Chattertots Francais.
It's a local French language class based in Englefield green which has been introducing little ones (6mths-5yrs) to French for almost seven years now. However new classes have been introduced in Virginia water just this last week as well as more classes in Englefield green. My sons and
I have been going for 4.5yrs and it's fab. Just toddler fun, in French. Songs, stories, games etc. there are free trial sessions available at the moment. Contact via Facebook page Facebook.com/chattertotsfrancais for more info.
Hi the. Not too sure if I am too late to ask something on this but I am english and my partner is french. Our daughter is 3months old and we want her to be bilingual. We are guildford based and I'd love to get the contact for the class in by fleet. Would you be able to send it? Thanks!
Hi Everyone
I just read this thread and apart from Dannifurniss who posted recently, I am not sure if the people are still around...Anyway, I have just arrived in guildford after three years spent in Middlesex and I have just created a facebook group called Familles francophones de Guildford (surrey). If you would like to discuss and/ or meet up , please join the group!
I am looking for a Francophone Playgroup for preschool children. I am French and I have a 1 year baby boy. Did any mum found one near Basingstoke?
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Not sure how active this thread is these days but thought I'd give it a go. I was also hoping to find other mums in the Farnham/surrounding area for some French speaking play dates. My daughter is 2.5 and understands French and speaks a fair bit but English is the dominant language at the moment and as it's only me speaking French to her I realise I need to push it a little more to succeed! If anyone is keen to meet up do get in touch.
We have a 1 year old and a French Au Pair who speaks French to her but we would love to meet up with some other french speaking children for play dates. She doesn't 'talk' much yet but our au pair will obviously speak French to the little ones.
Hi I have a Parisian au pair who's been here for 2 weeks. I would like for her to attend some playgroups to make some friends and gain some confidence. We are Croydon based. Do any of you know anything local to here?
linguatastic - I'll definitely check out your FB page!
My son is 3.5 and I have a little girl due in mid March. Any play date groups for French speaking kids in the Hampshire/Berkshire/Wiltshire area?
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This blog was created to demonstrate the effective of the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) for teaching French. These videos are not meant to and could never replace formal training in the methodology. This blog focuses on one grade 3 Core French class. Most of these students have never had French before. One boy comes from French immersion. EMAIL ME FOR THE PASSWORD TO VIEW VIDEOS firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are looking for my resource blog, please click the link below.
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I had to get cross with a boy today who would not stop touching a heavy wooden plaque that was hanging on the wall behind him. If it had fallen, it would have caused him serious damage!
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Great lesson on numbers Sylvia. Things are coming together with the boys. The progress is impressive. You are keeping me on my toes and giving me so many ideas on fabulous lesson plans. Keep them coming. I will experiment as well and let you know if something great pops up in my classes that's works well. Will stay tuned. Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Thanks Elaine. Here is a PP I use to practice numbers with my students:ReplyDelete
Then there's Juli Powers' fabulous "Comptimon chanson":
Thanks Sylvia for the pp on numbers. I also have Julie's CD. We had her at our school last winter. The kids love her. I did your mon,ma,mes etc.. with pencils and erasers today. I used a boy beside me in a chair for son sa ses. When I reviewed again, I put a girl in the chair and asked the kids if anything would change. About half the class said "Oui". We were able to work in "Ca ne fait rien" and talk about the gender of the pencil and the eraser. Not sure it all took, but a little review next week will be interesting.ReplyDelete
Just realized that you do not have any girls in your class. Do you ever see a problem with this in an all boys school? I am going on the idea of out of sight out of mind. Sylvia, I feel like a leech sometimes, but you are a font of information and experience. I have been teaching many years and this program has rejuvenated me. After class today a grade 5 student told me what she was doing on the Thanksgiving weekend. The only word she needed was Foire. Ca c'est fantastique! A favour stp: Do you have a lesson on "y". The kids find this easy on paper (grade 8 not doing AIM)but they do know some gestures because I cannot help myself in transferring AIM into grade 8 (here and there). I just don`t think `y` has been internalized. Any suggestions....Only do this when you have the time. Thanking you in advance. Your energy is incroyable.ReplyDelete
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I am so glad that you are finding the videos useful... it sounds like a very successful class you conducted with the mon/ma/mes. I love that idea of having a girl go up and saying "Ca ne fait rien!". Unfortunately, I can't do that!
I love teaching boys... their energy is perfect for AIM!
For "Y" I just say "Le mot Y remplace le mot "là". And I give tons of examples like. "On peut dire 'Je veux aller là' ou 'Je veux Y aller'; "On peut dire 'Tout le monde doit retourner là' ou 'Tout le monde doit Y retourner' etc.
(I don't actually formally teach Y anymore bcz I don't do the play Comment Y aller anymore and I only teach up to gr. 4. so I probably won't be doing a video of it!)
Oops I mean I teach up to gr. 5.ReplyDelete
Sylvia, I lost my first comment to you so this will be short. Thank you for a lesson on `Y`. I will use this. Merci. I have been watching the interactions on aim language learning forum. you are a hit. These videos are what everyone has been craving. You are filling the need and quelching a gazillion questions with your videos. Targeted lesson are the best! Thanks again Sylvia.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the nice comments, Elaine! I'm always eager to "Spread the AIM word" and help out teachers in any way possible.ReplyDelete


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The stage was set for Sachin Tendulkar to make an impact with the bat in his farewell series, a series that has generated hype only because it happens to be the Little Master's last. But it was another Mumbai batsman who stole the show and how!
Rohit Sharma (127 not out) became the second Indian batsman this year after Shikhar Dhawan and 14th overall to score a century on debut and with Ravichandran Ashwin (92 not out) helped India finish on a strong note, having taken a daunting 120-run lead against the West Indies after finishing on 354/6 at the end of the second day of the first Test.
Rohit did not waste a lot of time in the 90's, hitting two successive boundaries off Coterell to get to the magic figure, bringing a six-year long wait to an end. He had nearly made his Test debut against South Africa two years ago, till a freak injury just before the toss ruled him out.
Rohit was ably assisted by Ashwin, who scored his fourth half-century and the pair added 198 runs for the seventh wicket without being separated. Neither batsman took any undue risks and barring a period of play where Rohit seemed to be struggling to get his focus back immediately after getting past 50, neither of the pair looked like he was in any discomfort.
While Rohit played the backfoot punches, pierced the cover region and even danced down to hit a six, Ashwin drove, flicked and picked the gaps with ease to help India finish strongly after a disastrous first session.
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The duo added 73 for the sixth wicket before Dhoni, his feet planted at the crease , edged one from Best to Denesh Ramdin behind the wickets, leaving Rohit to forge that great partnership with Ashwin. Batting became a little easier at the fag end of the day when the West Indian fielders started to tire and the new ball was taken.
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I used to think that it was okay that some people didn't read. Whatever, that was their life choice, not everyone is into reading. I mean, of course I wanted to everyone to be into reading because I love it, and I want to everyone to experience the awesomeness of reading like I do, but when it came down to it, people could do what they wanted.
Since then, I've changed my mind. Now, I think, yes, everyone should read. I don't care what people read, I just want people to read, something, ANYTHING. I believe wholeheartedly in the quote by Frank Serafini about how there's no one who doesn't like to read, there's just people who haven't found the right book. There are billions of books out there, of all genres, and I'm sure that somewhere out there, you can find books that you enjoy, at your reading level and within your interests.
Just looking at my family, you can see how diverse reading tastes are. I mostly read YA fiction and dabble in a bit of adult and nonfiction. My dad reads mostly nonfiction. My mom likes adult thrillers and mysteries. My brother will read anything as long as you literally hand it to him. My sister likes books based on movies, or fun MGs, or even better yet, fun MGs that have a movie adaptation. We definitely don't all read the same thing, but we all read. I've come to believe that reading books is extremely important, and I'd almost say necessary.
One reason is that through reading, I have the opportunity to enter into someone else's experiences and thoughts. I don't think there is anything that is more powerful than a book in helping people step into someone else's shoes. I have lived so many different lives, often very different than mine, through reading.
I know that it's possible to learn about other people's experiences through TV or documentaries or YouTube videos. But I think that books are much more effective at doing this. Often, especially in fiction, you are forced to take on the perspective of the main character. Even in nonfiction, you're reading from the perspective of the author. You are thrown directly into that person's perspective, and you are tied to it through the words that you are putting into your brain. The most obvious example of this would be first-person fiction. You are privy to the very inner thoughts and feelings of someone who is not you.
How amazing and powerful is that?
How amazing and powerful is that?
The power that books have in connecting you deeply to someone else's experiences is so incredibly important. First of all, when you have internal access to someone else's lives and experiences, or another place in history (depending on what the book is about), I think it is almost impossible not to develop empathy for that person.
Not only are you drawn into creating a personal connection with the characters, author or situations you read about, but you become a participant in those experiences yourself. When you read, you don't experience things second-hand like you do when you watch things happen on TV. Through the characters or author, you are participating directly in the author/character's experiences. I'm sure you've probably heard people talk about getting lost in the world of a book, or feeling like the characters or world was real. In a really good book, I forget who I am and where I am. I am completely taken over by the lives of who or what I'm reading about.
As a result of that deep, personal connection with the world of the book, empathy for the characters in the book is almost inevitable. You know exactly how it feels because you basically experienced it yourself.
Of course the most important thing is that in the end, it's not just empathy for the characters or the author. In the end, it's empathy for people, for humans in general. It's empathy for the people around you in your life.
Of course the most important thing is that in the end, it's not just empathy for the characters or the author. In the end, it's empathy for people, for humans in general. It's empathy for the people around you in your life.
First, characters help give you an understanding of other people's perspectives and experiences, and then you can apply that to your own life. You can begin to understand and feel for other people, because you are now able to share in what other people experience, or know what other experiences are like. You can realize the multitude of other experiences outside of your own. This is also why I think it's also incredibly important to read diversely – to read books with characters that have different abilities or skin colour than you, or books about places other than where you live.
Of course, it doesn't stop with empathy. Books also have power to open your mind to so much. Learning is a huge part of why I love reading. I love learning. Learning is important for moving the world forward, for helping to get rid of prejudices, to help realize past mistakes and move beyond them.
There is so much to be discovered through the world of books, both fiction and nonfiction. In fiction, learning comes from what I've already talked about in regards to empathy and other people's experiences. Fiction also helps you to learn about the essence of who we are as humans. I could tell you about countless YA books I've read that have taught me about what humans are like and the strength people can have through so many situations. And in both fiction and nonfiction, there is so much to learn about everything, every topic you could imagine. Different countries, different places, different people, science, history, conflict... the list goes on.
I know that nowadays there is an infinite amount of information available, thanks to the internet. But I think what makes books unique is that personal connection I've already talked about, that connection between you the reader and either the characters or the author. There is something deeply intimate about reading a book, that creates an inner personal experience and connection that just can't be achieved in the same way anywhere else.
I know that nowadays there is an infinite amount of information available, thanks to the internet. But I think what makes books unique is that personal connection I've already talked about, that connection between you the reader and either the characters or the author. There is something deeply intimate about reading a book, that creates an inner personal experience and connection that just can't be achieved in the same way anywhere else.
In order to truly learn empathy and other things about the world, it is definitely necessary to read widely, and diversely. I admit that I'm not the greatest at this always. I often like reading inside my comfort zone, who doesn't? I'm working on it, though. The world is a huge place, and it encompasses billions of stories. Why should you limit yourself to learning about one specific, particular experience? Reading should not only be about identifying with experiences similar to your own, but also about learning about experiences vastly different from your own. Every time I read a book about something so very different from my own life's experiences, it causes me to step back and think.
That's another thing that books do – they make you think. Or I think that's what they should do, anyway. If you're reading diversely, about people's experiences, then you end up thinking about those experiences and the implications of them in regards to your own life. Books have opened my mind to so many new ideas, or opened up different perspectives on old ideas, or they've forced me to re-examine my own thoughts and make me ask myself why I think a certain way. Or they've made me think about human experiences. I think about different things, depending what book I'm reading, but they make me think.
So of course, I think you should read. I think reading helps people empathize, learn about the world, and think critically. My mind is blown open a little bit more each time I read a book. I think if everyone read books, widely and diversely, the world would be just that little bit of a better place.
Also, I love reading, and I want everyone to love it as much as I do. Just don't stop looking for that "right book". And whatever you do, please, please read.


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Isabel Macdonald, Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite
While he railed against "illegals," undocumented immigrants tended to his estates and prize horses.
Eric Alterman, Kabuki Democracy: While a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Even with supermajorities in both houses of Congress behind them, American presidents cannot pass the kind of transformative progressive legislation that Barack Obama promised in his 2008 presidential campaign. Here's why.
Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater's Black Ops
Internal documents reveal the firm's clandestine work for multinationals and governments.
Dana Goldstein, Grading 'Waiting for Superman'
The celebrated film tells a familiar story about unions and schools—but misses what's new.
Christopher Hayes, Deficits of Mass Destruction
The Iraq War was never really about weapons of mass destruction, and the fight against the deficit is not actually about fiscal responsibility. It's a shell game for gutting the welfare state and redistributing wealth upward.
Melissa Harris-Perry, The Misunderestimation of Sarah Palin
As American life becomes more and more like reality television, could product placement of a candidate become the surest route to the presidency?
Thomas Geoghegan, Ten Things the Dems Could Do to Win
Why the party needs to have a plan, keep it simple—and do something for the base.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, No to Oligarchy
While the middle class disappears and more Americans fall into poverty, the wealthiest people in our country are using their wealth and political power to protect their privileged status at everyone else's expense.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- State officials say someone hacked into the Department of Revenue, exposing about 3.6 million South Carolina tax returns.
Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday about 387,000 credit and debit card numbers were also exposed, and 16,000 of those were unencrypted. State officials are urging anyone who has filed a state tax return since 1998 to call a toll-free number to determine whether their information is affected.
State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel said the Secret Service notified officials earlier this month, and the investigation is ongoing. Officials say the problem has been fixed.
Haley said the attack came from an international computer address.
She said the state will pay for a year of identity protection service for any affected taxpayer. Officials did not yet know what that would cost.


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Dec 6, 2017 · bdaily.co.uk
Bezant, an AIM-quoted gold and platinum development company, has raised £550k before expenses through a conditional placement of just over 110m new ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each.
This is at a price of 0.4 pence per share, arranged by Peterhouse Corporate Finance Limited, and a subscription for over 27m new ordinary shares at the same price, with certain existing and new institutional and other investors.
The net proceeds of today's (December 6) fundraising is to provide additional working capital for the group whilst it pursues a revised development funding strategy.
Edward Nealon, chairman of Bezant, commented: "It is with disappointment that we have been unable to raise the required level of equity funding from the capital markets to progress our Choco Project into full-scale commercial production.
"We fundamentally believe that the project remains an attractive and high-quality asset and are confident that we will, in due course, be able to secure the requisite development funding from an alternative source to enable us to recommence production."


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The Ramayana goes online
The digitisation project of the unique 17th century Mewar Ramayana manuscript is finally complete and it will be accessible to the public at several city venues from this month
For the first time in the country, several museums and institutions have come together to make a rare manuscript available on the public domain, so that it can be accessible to everyone, for research and educational purposes.
(Above and below) Pages from the Mewar Ramayana, which has been collaboratively digitised
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), British Library, Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery and other private collections painstakingly worked together to digitise the Mewar Ramayana, one of the finest existing illustrated manuscripts of the Hindu mythological epic. Started in early 2011, the project was completed recently, and will go live on March 21.
The manuscript was commissioned by Rana Jagat Singh I of Mewar (1628-52), and was completed during the reign of his successor, Rana Raj Singh, in 1653.
However, only 149 folios (out of a total 701 folios) are held in different collections in India and 555 folios are with the British Library. 23 of these folios are with CSMVS. Now, all of them will be available together for view on the web in the form of Turning The Pages (TTP) technology.
"This is a unique collaborative project which accomplished all its objectives. Believing in the principle of universalism, we at the CSMVS, acknowledge the need to disseminate knowledge, expertise and resources through professional and virtual networks in addition to the circulation of material objects.
This is our first collaborative project with the British Library and we wish to do similar kind of projects in the future. We thank Jamsetji Tata Trust for the support," informs Sabyasachi Mukherjee, director general, CSMVS.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. -– Steptoe & Johnson has announced that Philip D. Vasquez, BBA, JD, LLM, has become Of Counsel to the firm.
Vasquez joins the firm's energy law team working out of the firm's Southpointe, Pa., and Houston, Texas, offices. Vasquez will assume leadership of the firm's International Oil and Gas Practice.
Vasquez joins the firm after spending the last four years as an independent International Legal Consultant advising U.S. energy interests seeking energy development opportunities in Latin America, Central Asia and the Middle East. Vasquez recently acted as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Mines of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan concerning legal issues arising in the development of that nation's oil and gas resources. He also has substantial experience with energy development transactions in Mexico and South America.
Prior to pursuing his legal career, Vasquez was the Senior Petroleum Land Manager for a Fortune 500 oil company overseeing the acquisition of millions of acres of land in the Appalachian Basin. After transitioning from land work to the practice of law, he participated in the examination of oil and gas titles necessary for the exploration and development of the Dallas-Ft Worth Airport facility for Barnett shale gas production.
Vasquez has worked at the highest levels in the U.S. government. In 1998, he was appointed by the President of the United States to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology. While with the U.S. Department of Energy, Vasquez assisted in supervising all aspects of U.S. oil and gas policy, as well as energy research, technology and development. He also represented the United States at international energy events and functions. Following his work with the U.S. Department of Energy, Vasquez was appointed by the President to advise the Secretary of Defense on energy issues in Latin and South America.
"Philip's governmental service and the relationships he has formed within the U.S. and abroad elevate him to the role of trusted advisor to international companies that require practical working knowledge of how to safely and productively address lucrative evolving energy development opportunities both within the United States and around the world," said Russell L. Schetroma, mid-continent energy team leader. "His experience will allow the firm to create opportunities not only in the Marcellus, Utica, Bakken, Eagleford and other U.S. shale plays, but also in the ever-evolving shale oil and gas discoveries in Europe, Asia and around the globe."
"Philip is a welcome addition to the firm. His experience in international transactions will bring new depth to the predominant energy team in the region," said Susan S. Brewer, CEO of the firm.
Vasquez is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (BBA), the University of Houston Law Center (JD and LLM) and the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the Institute for Energy Law and the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL). Vasquez served as the President of the Victoria County Bar and the Mexican-American Bar Associations of Texas. He chaired the Bi-Lateral Working Group Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)-United States Dept. of Energy. He was named "Friend of Venezuela" by the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce in 1999. He is also active in the Boys and Girls Club of America and the YMCA.
Steptoe & Johnson is a business-focused firm with strengths in energy, labor, employment, and litigation. It comprises more than 230 lawyers resident in 11 locations throughout West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Texas.
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My God there's a lot of tat out for the Wii! If you're into your musicals however, and fancy a bit of a sing along and dance in your living room, then you might want to look into this one. There are plenty of show tunes on the disc including "Just Can't Wait To Be King" from The Lion King, "All That Jazz" from Chicago, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins, and "The Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Show. For all this to be yours, you're looking at spending £7.99 over at Play, which'll save you almost £2 on the next best offers coming in from The Hut and Zavvi.


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Explore Ball Fields, Skate Parks and More
Play a pickup game of soccer or tennis. Take Fido for a long walk. Bring the kids for an afternoon of skateboarding. Or even enjoy an outdoor performance. Palm Desert parks and recreation areas offer plenty of options for families, athletes and people of all types – all year round.
City Parks in Palm Desert
From Palm Desert's Civic Center Park – featuring 72 acres of fields, courts, paths, public art, an amphitheater and three swimming pools – to community parks throughout the city, Palm Desert takes its parks seriously. Palm Desert city parks include:
Cahuilla Hills Park
The starting for many Palm Desert hiking trails, this natural park offers tennis and much more.
Cap Homme / Ralph Adams Park
Located in south Palm Desert, you'll find hiking trails and more here.
Civic Center Park
Palm Desert's largest park offers something for everyone – including the Palm Desert Aquatic Center, an amphitheater, sports fields, tennis and pickleball courts, skate parks, dog parks, a rose garden, picnic areas and more.
Cook Street Sports Complex
Baseball and softball fields are the highlight of this sports-oriented park.
Freedom Park
Pickleball, volleyball, basketball and soccer are just a few of the sports you can play at this spacious park.
Hovley Soccer Park
Full-sized fields and plenty of equipment make this the perfect place for soccer players and fans.
Ironwood Park
Scenic views and walking paths make this park at the edge of town a lovely place to relax.
Joe Mann Park
Take your pooch to the dog park or enjoy the other features at this community park.
Magnesia Falls City Park
Picnic or play at this community park behind Palm Desert Middle School.
Palma Village Park
Playgrounds, courts and paths are just a few of the amenities at this central Palm Desert park.
University Neighborhood Park & Dog Park
Visit this Palm Desert park for a pet-friendly good time.
Washington Charter School Park
Open to the public when classes are out, this park includes open fields and a tot lot.
View an interactive map and learn more about Palm Desert parks on the City of Palm Desert's government website.
Parks & Monuments
Once you've explored Palm Desert's parks, take a trip outside the city to nearby state and national parks like the stunning Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, located on the south side of the Coachella Valley, where you'll find one of the steepest mountains in the world.
No visit to the Palm Springs area is complete without a tour of the Joshua Tree National Park, full of gold mining history, 19th century homesteads and, of course, plenty of distinctive Joshua trees.
Learn more about Palm Desert's parks and other outdoor recreation areas with an online Palm Desert Vacation Guide, or contact Palm Desert Visitor Services for personalized help.


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Fastballs of the Oakland A'sJuly 10, 2009
I love Fangraphs.com's Pitch Type Linear Weights.
You can read about them here.
Basically, they measure the effectiveness of a pitch in terms of how many runs it prevents per 100 pitches. Zero is average, and the higher the number, the better the pitch.
We often talk about fastball effectiveness as purely correlated to velocity. However, if you took 100 guesses as to who's had the most effective fastball in baseball this year, I'll bet you wouldn't get it right.
It's Tim Wakefield.
Santiago Casilla has the fastest fastball of any pitcher who's pitched on the A's this year, at 94 mph. However, the pitch actually is 2.22 runs below average per 100 pitches, third-worst of the A's pitchers.
I thought it would be a good idea to look at the A's pitchers' fastballs this year, and examine who has used the fastball effectively and who hasn't, and what (if any) correlation the Athletics' fastball velocities have with their fastball effectiveness.
We'll start with the most effective fastballs and go down. All effectiveness ratings are standardized per every 100 pitches, so starters don't have more extreme values than relievers.
1.) Jeff Gray (Velocity: 90.2 mph; Effectiveness: 5.83 runs above average)
Now this isn't really fair. Gray's only thrown 2/3 of an inning this year. In his brief appearance last year in the majors, it was 2.58 runs below average. Gray does get good movement on his fastball, which actually usually sits closer to the mid-90's.
Obviously, we need more data to conclude anything about Gray's fastball.
2.) Craig Breslow (Velocity: 90.1 mph; Effectiveness: 4.03 runs above average)
Here's the big surprise. Breslow's a pitch-mixing lefty, with a slider, curve, and changeup complementing the fastball, which isn't all that impressive on it's own.
He has had good success with the fastball over his career, and he's added some velocity this year which has helped him even more.
I would suspect that Breslow's fastball is difficult to hit because batters only get to face him once a game, and they have to look out for the other three pitches, which he uses a lot.
Breslow only throws the fastball 59.7 percent of the time, which is a below-average rate. It could be that he just sneaks it by them while they're looking for something offspeed.
Breslow's ability to mix up his pitches makes him a very effective lefty reliever, and he's certainly proved to be an excellent pickup for Oakland.
3.) Andrew Bailey (Velocity: 93.4 mph on four-seam fastball, 89.4 mph on cut fastball; Effectiveness: 1.74 runs above average on four-seam fastball, 1.26 runs above average on cut fastball)
Bailey's pitches are all really tough to hit, as his across-the-body motion is deceptive and his pitches have both velocity and movement. His curveball and slider are even more effective than the fastball.
Bailey's regular fastball rides up and in on righties, and his cutter rides up and in on lefties. Both pitches feature a ton of late movement, and induce a lot of empty swings and weakly-hit balls.
4.) Kevin Cameron (Velocity: 89.0 mph on four-seam fastball, 88.2 mph on cut fastball; Effectiveness: .93 runs above average on four-seam fastball, .71 runs above average on cut fastball)
Cameron is sort of similar to Bailey, but he has a few disadvantages.
He's older.
He throws softer.
Hitters have little to worry about besides the cutter, as his breaking ball is nowhere near as good as Bailey's.
That said, Cameron, who throws a ton of cutters, has excellent movement on the ball to go with decent velocity, so the pitch rates above average.
5.) Brad Ziegler (Velocity: 84.3 mph; Effectiveness: .14 runs above average)
Ziegler is a soft-tosser, but his low arm angle creates a ton of run and sink on his fastball, so hitters just pound it into the ground. It doesn't get many swings and misses, so it's not an incredible pitch, but it's effective.
6.) Josh Outman (Velocity: 92.8 mph; Effectiveness: .13 runs above average)
Ziegler and Outman highlight the problems with the scouting consensus. A lefty that throws 8.4 mph harder than a righty is considered to have a "better" fastball than the righty, but here, Outman and Ziegler are basically equal.
Outman throws hard, especially for a lefty starting pitcher, but ultimately, it's his slider and changeup that give hitters fits, while his fastball rates as just average-plus.
To his credit, Outman understands that, and only throws the heater 59.5 percent of the time.
Hopefully, his velocity will return after Tommy John surgery.
7.) Michael Wuertz (Velocity: 90.7 mph; Effectiveness: .09 runs below average)
I profiled Wuertz's excellence in this article, and I mentioned how he's sort of a backwards pitcher. Despite his decent velocity, he throws his fastball just 34.7 percent of the time, instead throwing his plus-plus slider a whopping 60.7 percent of the time.
There's not much special about Wuertz's fastball, other than his tendency to eschew it: it's got average velocity, average movement, and average effectiveness. It's good enough to complement his slider and give Wuertz the best FIP on the team, and that's good enough for me.
8.) Dallas Braden (Velocity: 87.9 mph on four-seam fastball, 82.5 mph on cut fastball; Effectiveness: .18 runs below average on four-seam fastball, 2.57 runs above average on cut fastball)
This is interesting.
Braden added the cutter this spring, and it's obviously very slow, but it's also very effective, worth over twice as much as Bailey's incredible cutter.
Braden's four-seamer has below-average velocity, but he spots it well and keeps it down in the zone, so it doesn't really hurt him though.
Braden throws the four-seamer 55.6 percent of the time, and only throws the cutter 9.8 percent of the time. I'd suggest that he throw more cutters and fewer four-seamers, as the four-seamer is his only pitch that rates below average.
9.) Vince Mazzaro (Velocity: 92.8 mph; Effectiveness: .30 runs below average)
Mazzaro's a sinker-slider-curve-change pitcher.
In the minors, scouting reports had his sinker as excellent, his slider as okay, and his other two pitches as below-average.
So much for the scouting reports.
Mazzaro's slider and curve have been excellent, his changeup very good, and his sinker has failed to impress big league hitters.
For a sinkerballer, Mazzaro's 41.2 groundball percentage is unacceptable: sinkers need to induce 50 percent or more grounders.
Of course, the pitch has only been marginally below-average, and Mazzaro deserves credit for noticing the success his offspeed stuff is having: he's only thrown the fastball 62.5 percent of the time.
10.) Sean Gallagher (Velocity: 91.2 mph; Effectiness: .47 runs below average)
Another pitch-mixer, Gallagher threw his heater just 54.8 percent of the time in the majors this year.
As you can see, his fastball was a bit below-average, but unlike most of the other pitchers so far, Gallagher was much worse with his curve and change then his fastball. His slider (ironically considered his worst pitch) did rate above-average, however.
It's dangerous to make too much of 14 1/3 innings, but it is troubling that Gallagher's .47 runs below-average rating is actually the most effective his fastball has ever been. His curve and change have usually been much more effective than they've been in 2009, however.
Since Gallagher's velocity is about average, it makes sense that his fastball effectiveness is somewhere near average as well.
It's clear, however, that Gallagher needs his curve and change to be much more effective, because his fastball doesn't look like it's ever going to be enough by itself to make him a good big-leaguer.
11.) Trevor Cahill (Velocity: 89.2 mph; Effectiveness: .84 runs below average)
Now we're starting to move into below-average territory.
A pitch within .5 runs of zero is generally about average. When you get close to a run below average, the pitch is squarely in the average-minus range, bordering on being minus.
This is particularly problematic for Trevor Cahill, who uses his fastball, a two-seamer, 74.2 percent of the time.
When you throw a minus pitch 3/4 of the time, you're not going to get good results, and Cahill certainly hasn't. His 5.80 FIP clearly indicates he needs more minor league time.
Given the hard downward movement on the pitch, Cahill's groundball percentage of just 48.0 percent is a further indictment of the fastball. Yes, 48 percent is a bit above-average, but it's far below where it should be for a guy who throws 74.3 percent sinkers.
With Cahill's arsenal, his GB% should be up near 55, but it's not. He needs to follow Mazzaro's example and rely less on the sinker, because it's clearly not working for him.
12.) Edgar Gonzalez (Velocity: 89.9 mph on four-seam fastball, 86.8 mph on cut fastball; Effectiveness: .97 runs below average on four-seam fastball, 4.64 runs below average on cut fastball)
I've never been a fan of Edgar Gonzalez.
I understand the decision to let him be the last guy in the bullpen, though. I'd rather have Gonzalez there than a top prospect (like, say, Henry Rodriguez) who wouldn't get many innings.
That said, Gonzalez clearly is still the same filler guy he always has been.
He's gotten surprisingly good results from his offspeed stuff, but his fastball is well below-average in terms of velocity and effectiveness.
He rarely uses the cutter, but it obviously gets crushed on the rare occasion he throws it.
Gonzalez is what he is: a junkballer who fits best in a trash-time bullpen role or as a Triple-A rotation guy.
13.) Russ Springer (Velocity: 90.7 mph on four-seam fastball, 84.6 mph on cut fastball; Effectiveness: 1.05 runs below average on four-seam fastball, .15 runs below average on cut fastball)
Like Braden, Springer throws a cutter that is much slower than his four-seamer, but the cutter is much more effective.
Springer tends to work very high in the zone and rarely gets grounders. He's lost .8 mph on the four-seamer from 2008, but you need every bit of velocity you can get to get away with being a high-fastball power pitcher.
Springer appears to have lost that edge, and is paying dearly for it, with a 2.83 run drop in fastball effectiveness.
Springer's cutter, once a plus-plus pitch (3.14 runs above average in 2007) has lost 2 mph in two years, and has seen a dramatic drop in effectiveness since then. He throws the four-seamer or cutter nearly 90% of the time, so with both pitches rapidly losing effectiveness, the 40-year-old Springer appears to have little left in the tank.
14.) Brett Anderson (Velocity: 92.0 mph; Effectiveness: 1.37 runs below average)
Anderson and Cahill are often talked about together because they are both 21-year-old highly touted rookies who have struggled.
However, their problems are much different.
Scouting reports indicate that Cahill throws harder, although Anderson's fastball has come in much faster than Cahill's this season. While Anderson's heater has been even worse than Cahill's, and he has a similar GB% (48.3), Anderson, ever the student of the game, adjusted his approach.
He only throws the fastball 53.5 percent of the time, throwing breaking pitches nearly every other pitch. Since his breaking stuff rates well, Anderson's approach has allowed him to survive in spite of some bad luck on balls in play. Cahill's actually had great luck on balls in play and still can't generate a decent ERA.
Anderson isn't an ace right now, but I'm far more confident about his ability to meet his potential than Cahill's. That's not an indictment of Cahill (who I still have high hopes for) as much as praise for Anderson, whose uncanny aptitude (he's the son of one of the most reputed college pitching coaches in history) should allow him to eventually harness his underrated stuff and become a frontline starter.
15.) Dana Eveland (Velocity: 88.6 mph; Effectiveness: 1.45 runs below average)
Like Anderson, Eveland doesn't overuse his below-average fastball (he throws it 56.4 percent of the time), but his slider, his primary second pitch, has been crushed (5.75 runs below average).
When your two best pitches aren't working and you don't have good control, you belong in the minors.
Eveland's fastball rated much better last season (.31 runs below average), but he also threw it 1.5 mph harder. As with Springer, it seems the drop in velocity has really hurt Eveland's effectiveness, although it should be noted he was even worse with the fastball from 2005-2007, when it went about 90 mph.
It's the slider that's taken the biggest hit, and with similar usage and velocity, it's tough to understand why.
Unless Eveland regains his fastball velocity and slider effectivness, he's not likely to have much more of a big league career.
16.) Gio Gonzalez (Velocity: 91.5 mph; Effectiveness: 2.17 runs below average)
He's finally starting to get it.
Last year, Gonzalez's good fastball and big curve got hammered.
This year, he's added 2 mph of velocity, but the fastball is still ineffective.
The curve, however, has taken a big step forward. At 2.23 runs above average, it somewhat mitigates the damage caused by Gonzalez's fastball ineffectiveness.
Gonzalez is still learning how to control himself on the mound, as his emotions often got the best of him in the past. Finally starting to get that under control, he can now focus on controlling the baseball instead of his emotions, and he's starting to throw more strikes.
As Gonzalez continues to develop, his fastball is going to gain effectiveness. I've said it before and I'll say it again: He's got a very real chance to be a big league ace in 2011. Gonzalez just might be the next Johan Santana, albeit with a wicked curve and good changeup instead of a wicked changeup and good slider.
17.) Santiago Casilla (Velocity: 94.0 mph; Effectiveness: 2.22 runs below average)
The hardest thrower of all of these guys ranks 17th of 19 in effectiveness. That should tell you all you need to know about velocity not being everything.
Casilla's slider and change rate well-above-average, and he might want to try to throw them a bit more, as his 65.5 percent fastball usage is a tad high. If he throws, say, 50 percent fastballs, 35 percent sliders, and 15 percent changeups, Casilla could regain his effectiveness.
Right now, however, his fastball (which rated about average in the past) is really killing Casilla's ability to consistently retire hitters.
18.) Dan Giese (Velocity: 86.4 mph; Effectiveness: 2.93 runs below average)
Giese is trying to be Wuertz, as he threw 53.2 percent sliders in his brief time in the majors this year.
While his slider is only marginally less effective (2.13 runs above average to Wuertz's 2.59), Giese's fastball is 4.3 mph slower and 2.84 runs worse.
That's why Wuertz is excellent and Giese is a journeyman.
To be fair, there are worse big leaguers than Giese, who does a good job locating his pitches.
Only a few 86-throwing righties can survive in the majors, and most, like Ziegler, have some sort of sidearm/submarine delivery and get a bunch of grounders. Giese is a conventional overhand pitcher, and he's a flyball guy, which just doesn't work all that well with an 86-mph fastball, no matter how good your control is.
19.) Jerry Blevins (Velocity: 88.6 mph; Effectiveness: 3.70 runs below average)
A pretty useful reliever from 2007-2008, Blevins got crushed this spring, kept on getting hammered in some early-season big-league action, and has merely been decent in Triple-A.
Blevins' fastball sat around 91 mph the last two years, and rated as a plus pitch, especially coming from his low-three-quarters arm angle.
The scouts aren't always wrong about velocity: with a 2.5 mph drop in fastball velocity this year, Blevins has struggled mightily. His other pitches have lost 2-5 mph as well.
When a 25-year-old suddenly loses 2-5 mph on all of his pitches, he's probably hurt. If Blevins is hurt and he's not telling anyone, he may be putting his career in jeopardy, as pitching through a major arm injury only makes it worse and harder to repair.
If he isn't hurt, and he's just lost his stuff, that may be an even worse sign, because that's not easy to fix.


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by Janet Gilmore
The winter solstice, coming this weekend, means the days will be getting longer. I don't mind winter, but I really mind the sun setting at 4:30 in the afternoon.
The solstice is also our wedding anniversary (Dec. 21, 1985, to be exact). Yes, we got married on the longest night of the year in 1985. Let the snickerers titter if they will; our wedding night was much more of an adventure than any newlyweds would expect from a wedding night that does not take place in a whitewater raft. Here is why:
Earlier that day at my parents' house, we had stepped before Judge Michael Liss, who was to marry us. He was one of the judges in Montgomery County who had a regular job during the day. He was a hairdresser. He began, "It's good to see some older folks here today because youth and agility combined with age and ability are the nucleus of any successful endeavor."
I looked at Hugh, my almost-husband, and he looked at me.
We managed not to laugh.
The judge continued, "Janet and Hugh, you must never keep your eye on the 'i' in the word 'united' because if you concentrate too much on the 'i' in 'united,' then 'united' could become 'untied.'"
Then I thought he said, "You must always keep your eye on the 'we' in 'wedding.' If you remove the 'we' from 'wedding,' it becomes '…dding.'"
"…Dding?" I whispered to Hugh, who stared straight ahead, his upper lip twitching.
Judge Liss said much more; we agreed with everything; he proclaimed us husband and wife, and our families burst into applause.
By happenstance, our wedding day was the shortest day and longest night of the year. And the coldest.
I wanted to do something special, so I booked the bridal suite at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in center city for our wedding night. I booked the entire package: champagne, newspapers delivered to the room, flowers, free parking. None of them materialized.
When we arrived, we were told that the bridal suite was occupied, but they had a nice large room for us. Fine. Up we went; I hung some Christmas lights I'd brought with me around the room. I looked at my new husband with desperate love and desire. We began to undress. We stopped. There was no heat in the room.
Hugh called the front desk. "There's no heat in our room," he said. "This IS my wedding night, and I WOULD like to take my overcoat off. Can you send someone up to turn the heat on?"
"Of course, sir, right away."
We got into bed with our coats still on, waiting for the bellboy to arrive. I stayed under the covers for 20 minutes, making small talk with my new husband, when the bellboy knocked on the door. He fiddled with some knob on the wall, said the heat would come on soon, smirked and left.
We lay around waiting for the heat, but there wasn't any. "Let's go get something to eat while the room is warming up. It should be nice and warm when we get back."
We walked to the Astral Plane restaurant on Lombard Street near the Bellevue. It was a cool place — meant to simulate eating under a falling parachute, I think. At least there was an open parachute hanging from the ceiling. Whatever. "We just got married!" we bragged to the maitre d'. "May we have a table near the back of the restaurant?"
"No," he said. "That's reserved."
"Uh, okay, may we have a table?"
"Yes, I think we can seat you."
We looked around the empty room. A heavily bearded man in a long spangled black evening dress sat alone at a nearby table. He was the only other customer.
After dinner, we walked back to our hotel room. We had some heat. Enough heat.
But a loud clanging woke us at about 4 a.m. "What's that?"
"Sounds like a fire alarm."
We called down to the front desk. There was no answer.
We felt the bottom of the door and it was cool, so we opened the door a crack and looked out. There was a young blonde girl, a sloshed Rapunzel, in a long white dress weaving down the hallway, her shoes in one hand and an open bottle of champagne in the other.
"Is there a fire?"
"Oh, I don't think so…" she slurred.
"Do you hear the fire alarm?"
"Oh, that? That's nothing," she said.
We closed the door. We called the front desk again. Still no answer.
"Are we going to believe her or get the hell out of here?"
"Let's go."
We got dressed, left our room, found the fire escape, which was on the outside of the building, and ran a quick cold 14 stories down to the ground floor.
The lobby looked like the Titanic on its unfortunate last night. Women in long gowns and jewels with bathrobes thrown over them, men in silk pajamas with fur coats casually worn over, all clutching small, expensive things to their chests. People were milling around, in no rush to evacuate the building, greeting their friends after a long soirée.
What was going on?
Hugh and I had never heard of the Assembly Ball before that night, but we learned that it's a Philadelphia tradition. Many old families with streets named for them were in the lobby of my honeymoon. No wonder the Bellevue was so crowded.
We eavesdropped as well as we could in our tired, frozen state and found out some merry prankster had set off the fire extinguishers, which triggered enough dust to set off the fire alarm. If there was a sprinkler system, it didn't go off that night.
We sat in the lobby, ordered drinks and people-watched for an hour or so, then went back upstairs to sleep. The next day we drove home to begin married life with a Christmas tree in the trunk, hope in our hearts and dark circles under our eyes. People assumed (tee-hee) that we newly-weds had been up all night.
They were right.


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In an effort to dramatically cut energy use at one of the country's premier academic and research institutions, NSTAR and MIT are teaming up to launch the single most aggressive efficiency project in NSTAR history. Dubbed "MIT Efficiency Forward," the program has a goal of cutting electricity use by 15 percent over three years through innovative programs, substantial student, faculty, and staff engagement, and the piloting of new technologies and approaches at MIT. The long-term partnership is a first-of-its kind for both the Institute and the utility and establishes a new approach for sustainable solutions. In the three-year period, the target energy savings is 34 million kilowatt-hours; that's equivalent to the amount of electricity used by more than 4,500 Massachusetts homes in a given year.
"What we are launching with MIT is a bold new plan for confronting climate change and a proposal to officially establish energy efficiency as the 'first fuel' in Massachusetts," said Tom May, NSTAR Chairman, President and CEO. "Aggressive goals require aggressive action, and MIT is demonstrating its leadership in campus sustainability once again. They are taking advantage of every energy-saving tool NSTAR has available and I'm confident the results will be a model — and an inspiration — for all other customers to follow."
Energy efficiency is one of several key strategies being implemented at MIT to demonstrate leading approaches for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions both locally and globally. The Institute has already begun to utilize combined heat and power generation, sustainable design and construction, and significant commuter-benefit programs, among other strategies. NSTAR predicts that over the three years, MIT Efficiency Forward will provide MIT with savings over the lifetime of the projects completed in excess of $50 million through a combination of sustainable new construction, major renovations, and both electric and gas incentive programs to promote new synergies. The company will work with MIT to conduct heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, and lab systems improvements, and lighting fixture and control upgrades, in addition to other steps.
"MIT Efficiency Forward will capitalize on one of MIT's core strengths: the passion of our faculty, staff and students to tackle the world's most challenging problems," said MIT President Susan Hockfield. "Through this exciting new program, right here on the MIT campus, we will pursue one of the major opportunities to reduce energy consumption: finding smart, sensible, economic approaches to energy efficiency. Our participation in the program signals that the solutions for today's climate and energy challenges will come not only from our research laboratories and classrooms, but also from practice-based management innovations."
MIT Efficiency Forward will also have substantial student engagement facilitated by the program's Student Advisory Group. Building on work coordinated by the MIT Energy Initiative's (MITEI) Campus Energy Task Force using MIT's campus as a living laboratory, MIT Efficiency Forward will offer students and faculty rich research, educational and learning opportunities. In particular, through close collaboration with the MITEI Energy Education Task Force, unique project-based coursework for freshman, sophomore and advanced student teams will be developed to help to advance the goals of MIT Efficiency Forward. An aggressive, sustained campaign to encourage the MIT community to reduce energy consumption will be a key component of the program, and students will help develop approaches to measure, monitor and verify those savings.


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A South Effingham High School student killed in a single-vehicle car accident Tuesday has been identified.
Lacey Danielle Longworth, 17, of Bloomingdale was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Bay Road near Old River Road, Effingham County Sheriff's Office spokesman David Ehsanipoor said.
"Reports indicate the driver was traveling on Bay Road and somehow lost control of the SUV, striking a utility pole and flipping the vehicle," Ehsanipoor said.
The driver, Henry Longworth, was taken by helicopter to Memorial Health University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
Ehsanipoor said another teenage passenger was also taken to an area hospital. The injuries were not life-threatening.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.


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Herbert E. Autrey Jr., 88 of Spring, Texas died May 18, 2013.
He was born Oct. 27, 1924 in Pine Hill. He was a veteran of World War II and sailed with the Merchant Marines. Herbert and his wife, Gloria were the founders of the Full Gospel Lighthouse Church in Pine Hill. After retirement they moved to Texas to be near their daughter. Even in retirement he lived each day to is fullest, volunteering as a faithful member of Generations Church, working in his garden, cheering on his Atlanta Braves and fellowshipping with all of his new found friends in Texas.
Survivors include his daughter, Monica Z. Hale and son-in-law, Albert Clyde Hale, a grandson, Scott Brady Hale and his wife, Melissa Hale; two great-grandsons, Julius Hale, Mason Hale; two sisters, Iona A. Pearson, Marjoria Calloway.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Gloria Autrey, his parents, Herbert E. Autrey Sr., Zina Proctor Autrey; three sisters, Elsie Kent, Kathleen Pearson and Mabel McGilberry.
The service was May 22 at 1 p.m. at the Full Gospel Lighthouse Church in Pine Hill with Revs. Pastor Truman Todd, Albert Kale and Associate Pastor, Scott Hale officiating. Burial was in the Pine Hill Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Wayne Pearson, Johnny McGilberry, Lynn Baugh, Doanld Morgan, Joe Faile and Joey Vandee.
Condolences may be offered at www.obryantchapelfh.com.
O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.


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Hey guys,
Wondering if any of you could point me in the right direction with a problem with a pc handed to me.
Its an old machine, looks like its been self-built at some point.
When it gets turned on, the cpu and case fan run, the keyboard lights come on, both of the 2 dvd drives light up, and the floppy light comes on (floppy light stays on too).
Hard drive appears to spin as well.
Problem is, nothing appears on the attached screen, and after a few seconds, there is a second long beep from the mobo, silence for about 6 seconds, another second long beep, silence etc etc.
The pc's mobo is a via SV266A, running windows xp on 256MB DDR333 RAM (old i know, but the owner only uses it for checking emails and typing letters etc). The owner of the pc doesnt have the mobo manual, and i cant seem to find one anywhere.
I've tried disconnecting all of the unecessary parts to see if I could isolate the problem (even tried turning the pc on without RAM attached which gave me a different beep code, which I feel was probably telling me no RAM was attached). Have also tried attaching the RAM to different slots.
Any educated guesses as to what the problem is? I'm hoping its just a new RAM module, put have in the back of my mind that its probably a mobo or processor issue.
A puzzled Hammie


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President Obama cancels trip to California for fundraiser amid Syria push
President Obama has postponed a Monday fundraiser in Hollywood as he fights to win congressional approval for a strike on Syria.
White House officials confirm to Fox News the president's Sept. 9 trip to California, which included the fundraiser and a speaking engagement at an AFLCI-CIO convention, was cancelled and Obama will remain in Washington.
The fundraiser, which was to be held at the home of "Friends" co-creator Marta Kauffman, was expected to generate over $1.2 million for the DNC and featured a roundtable "off-the-cuff" discussion with the president for $32,400 a person.
Obama is facing a rocky road to winning approval for American intervention in Syria when the House and Senate take up a use-of force resolution next week.
Although he has won support from congressional leaders and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has already advanced the resolution, many rank-and-file lawmakers remain unconvinced that it's in the U.S. interest to launch missiles at Syria.
As of Thursday afternoon, only 31 out of 435 House members support strikes in Syria, according to The Hill.


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All the boys from One Direction are taking a couple...
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A young girl named Cassidy Anne lived down the street from her best friend Liam Payne. They are only three months apart. They have went to the same elementry school and same middle and high schools. They grew up playing in the huge tree in Liams back yard. Cassidy develops a crush on Liam. Does Liam feel the same? Will they become a couple after a strange night in the tree?
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Here's the issue. it's very odd. I use Remote Potato HD for iPad also I use the web version. Sometimes whath appens, and it's completely random, is that after i record something, or play a recorded tv video, the next time i open remotepotato hd or the web browser, NONE of the recorded tv appear. a remote potato server restart fixes this, but it happens randomly enough to be annoying.if it helps, it doesn't do anything on any of the other files i share that aren't recorded tv (such as movies, they all appear)
i also have my recorded tv saved in a non default location: ie(on the i: drive).. but all my movies are also saved on that share and there are no issues accessing them via remote potato
sometimes.. all of the recorded tv will be missing... other times its only the most recent one.. its very odd
any ideas?
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UK Sales Chart: Mortal Kombat X Claims Victory for a Second Week in a Row
Dropping by 64%, Mortal Kombat X managed to keep first place in the UK last week, with Grand Theft Auto V and Battlefield Hardline holding as #2 and #3, respectively, for a second week in a row.
Elsewhere, the PlayStation 4 version of Minecraft saw a 172% sales increase, bringing the Minecraft PlayStation Edition (includes PS4, PS3, PS Vita) up by 52%. As for new releases, Tropico 5's PS4 debut helped it re-enter the charts at #18, while on the single format charts, it placed in 7th on PS4.
Here's the top 20 selling retail games in the UK for the week ending April 25, 2015, according to GfK Chart-track:
- Mortal Kombat X (down 64%)
- Grand Theft Auto V (down 50%)
- Battlefield Hardline (down 26%)
- Minecraft: PlayStation Edition (up 52%)
- FIFA 15 (down 40%)
- Minecraft: Xbox Edition
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Dying Light
- Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
- Far Cry 4
- Bloodborne
- Disney Infinity 2.0
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Terraria
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
- Forza Horizon 2
- Tropico 5
- Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin
- LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Do you think Omega Quintet will crack the top 20 this week?
[Source: GfK Chart-Track (1), (2)]


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Neilsen poll result catastrophic for PM, Labor
Catastrophic is the first and almost only word that comes to mind in describing today's Nielsen poll for Prime Minister
The poll poses momentous questions for a fractious and ill-disciplined caucus, reflecting not just a calamitous new collapse in support for both Labor and the Prime Minister, but the first signs that
The poll confirms that Labor's recovery at the end of last year has not only stalled but reversed.
The bombardment of bad news and debacles for the government since Gillard announced an election on September 14 makes it difficult to pinpoint any one factor that has caused the change.
But if the election announcement was supposed to crystallise voters' views, this poll suggests that it has done so in favour of the Opposition Leader.
While the poll will send the leadership debate onto a new plane of frenzy, it will also challenge the caucus to consider more broadly how the government proceeds in the next few weeks to ensure that it does not self-immolate.
As damaging as Craig Thomson's arrest, the NSW corruption inquiry, the Nicola Roxon and Chris Evans resignations, the mining tax or even
Labor looks like a rabble, not a government. And it is not clear that who leads it actually matters.
Regaining some sense of self-preservation, if nothing else, will be vital to the future, whatever path that takes.
Rudd has said he will not mount a challenge to Gillard, so the only scenario for a leadership change – an inevitable question raised by the poll – is a collapse in caucus support for the Prime Minister of such a comprehensive nature that it gives her no alternative but to step down.
Parliament is not sitting this week and only the Senate sits next week. MPs and senators do not return to Canberra until March 11.
That is both a help and a hindrance for the government in collectively determining how it responds to this crisis.
Nielsen pollster John Stirton points out that this is the first time since the carbon tax has not been at the front and centre of the political debate that the trend has moved against the government.
We are now just seven months from the election, yet Labor's primary vote is back down to 30 per cent and the trend is down. Gillard's personal approval ratings have slumped to be below Abbott's in net negative terms. She has lost her lead as preferred prime minister.
At the darkest of times over the past couple of years, the Prime Minister's lead over Abbott and polls showing voters' deep dislike of the Opposition Leader have shored up Gillard's position and given Labor some hope.
The devastating news in this poll is that both these things have now changed.
Whatever Labor's problems, the polling numbers show Abbott's softer public persona strategy is working and even the low-lying threat to his own leadership posed by
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Tracey Mitchell
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Tracey Mitchell is a writer & artist in her spare time and a full time thinker, agitator and educator. She has published ''On Edge'' zine, a compilation zine about mental health issues since 2005. She also recently published a zine called Plastics: In Lieu of Cap & Gown about her experience as a university undergrad studying History and Sociology.
Through her paid employment with Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation, Tracey is also an organizer of a zine/comic training in Saskatchewan, where she lives, called Youth for International Development - Do It Yourself (YID-DIY).
Tracey has lots of big plans to publish more zines and contribute to some of her favorite zines in the coming year!