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Dog Training -- Who's Teaching Who?
How Well Trained is Your Pooch?
No matter what type of dog you have, dog training is a must. We must teach our dogs how to behave properly or they will not be very fun to be around.
Obedience training is what comes to mind when the term "dog training" is used. This is where we teach our beloved canines to sit, stay, come, heel, drop, and lie down. With these simple commands most dogs can be acceptable members of society. Obedience dog training can be taken further. Some dogs are taught not to beg, some are crate trained, and others learn hand signals or become trained with a clicker or by whistles. Whatever the method, all dogs need at least some basic obedience dog training.
Another type of dog training is protection dog training. This is not for everyone. A lot of this training is military and/or police training. If you are concerned about personal safety and require your dog for security purposes, you need to understand that this cannot be the same type of dog that you take for a walk in the park and have all the little kids come and play with it. Dogs trained for protection are working dogs. Their job is to protect their people and property.
The dog will have to learn attack commands and also when to "hold" and when to go further with an attack. A hold would be when you train the dog to attack, and restrain an intruder. This could mean physically pining them to the ground or up against a wall, building, tree or fence.
Most attack commands are given in German. They are not taught these commands in English. Protection dog training will teach your dog to hurt people if it becomes necessary to do so. It is important to find the right trainer. Be sure the one you pick is very reputable and that they treat the dog kindly during training.
Agility dog training is another kind of training for your dog. This is fun. Unlike traditional dog shows, you can enter a mutt into an agility dog show. These shows, are actually competitions where the dogs show off their speed, agility, and ability to jump. Basic training involves slalom training, running through tunnels, jumping hurdles, and going up and over an incline. Most dogs seem to love agility training. This type of training is best suited to younger, agile dogs. Small dogs with short legs like basset hounds, dachshunds and the like are not well suited to this type of training.
The great thing about this type of truing is that you can start this yourself. Many of the large pet store chains carry a basic agility dog training set. This can be great fun and exercise for both owner and dog. Another type of agility dog training is Frisbee training. This is where you can teach your dog to literally fly and catch the Frisbee. I find it amazing how far off the ground some dogs can get. Before starting any form of agility training, be sure your dog is in good shape and that they do not have any back, hip or joint problems.
Finally there is show dog training. If you have a well pedigreed dog that meets all the standards for its breed you may want to consider showing your dog. You will have to register the dog with the AKC or other registering body. You will need the dog's pedigree. Then you need to find a trainer to work the dog through show routines. Dogs who are show dogs must not mind being groomed and handled often. They will also need to be able to travel well if you are going to the nationals shows. The best advice here is to get a super good trainer. No matter what type of dog you have, there is some form of dog training that will suit their needs.
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The greatest inventor that most people never heard of was Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant who came to America in the latter 19th century and proceeded to invent AC (or alternating current), radar and the radio. He also tried to invent "thought photography." Because brain waves are electrical, he believed ideas could be transmitted from the brain through a mechanical optic nerve and recorded as photographs. Although a wonderful conventional photo exists of his friend, Mark Twain, holding a glowing orb of light in his laboratory, Tesla never managed to make a thought camera by the time he died at age 87.
Now, in a new epoch, Jamie Baldridge may have succeeded in creating thought photographs, but the process is far from instantaneous and the images themselves are as firmly rooted in the 19th century as Tesla's earliest inventions. A New Iberia native and resident of Baton Rouge, Baldridge is the latest in a line of Louisiana photo-surrealists and optical illusionists that includes gothic fiction illustrator J.K. Potter and the late historical surrealist, Clarence John Laughlin. And it's a shame that Laughlin is no longer around because he, of all people, would really appreciate what Baldridge is doing. Though still youngish at 31, he appears to have mastered traditional and advanced digital photography techniques, and if his vision may still be catching up with his abilities, his worldview appears consistent if evolving. It's a world of magic that implies a question: What would everyday life look like if technology had remained in the hands of alchemists instead of conventional scientists?
For one thing, the results would have been more mystical, the product of dreams and arcane rituals. In his largish photo, Annals of Steam, a woman in a Victorian outfit sits at a table where she cuts a pink cord that has crawled in from the bleak, wintry landscape beyond her window. On her head is a machine emitting puffs of vapor, as if Tesla's thought camera had been powered by steam. Up close, the cord has thorns like a rose vine, and it's all very mysterious yet elaborately rendered. In Waiting for Tuesday, a pensive nude sits on a wooden stool, staring at a mouse hole. She wears a conical sorcerer's hat and strap-on wings in an empty room with parquet floors and velvet Victorian wallpaper, and we can only wonder how she ended up there.
A High Wind From Damascus is a large, vertical image of a woman in a long gown, nude from the waste up. She stands in an empty room with a dark cloth over her head, obscuring her face, with some large butterflies clinging to its folds. It's one of those classically surrealist situations in which a bizarre result is presented to the viewer as a mental puzzle. In A Penny Dreadful Opera, another voluptuous, bare-breasted woman appears on a palatial staircase. She wears a kind of pointy bell-jar on her head with a tiara of electrodes, and beyond the magically mysterious elegance of the setting, the viewer may begin to discern a recurring theme of bare breasts and pointy headgear. Baldridge makes no bones about his fascination with the female body, and such exotic headgear sometimes appears in the annals of alchemy. He also acknowledges the influence of Remedios Varo, the great Spanish Surrealist painter and alchemist who expatriated to Mexico during the reign of dictator Francisco Franco.
Other influences appear in works such as Rendering Glue From Bone, a view of a reclining nude on a divan inspired by a similarly titled Max Ernst collage. An alchemical odalisque, she appears with serpentine tubes wrapped around her head and limbs, yet her expression suggests comfort and repose. While such works are impressive, displaying a formidable mastery of materials -- including the arcane Maya digital imaging program used in movies such as The Matrix -- some may still wonder about those conical hats and bare breasts. But visit www.jamiebaldridge.com/Phreno.swf (click on the buttons at the base of the antique mystery machine), and see a much more fully realized vision of high Victorian mysticism, alchemy and eccentrics, a genteel world of magic made ordinary. Even as his vision continues to evolve, Baldridge is clearly emerging as a master photo-illusionist, one of a rare few working in America today.

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It is generally understood in the political blogsphere that the liberal blogs will be supportive of liberal candidates, and likewise conservative blogs will be supportive of conservative candidates. So it is not really surprising that Matt Cunningham over at Red County supports incumbent Congressman John Campbell over his challenger Beth Krom.
Today, I caught Matt doing something right and I figured it appropriate to point it out. In a post regarding Campbell's endorsement of Meg Whitman for Governor Matt mentioned the following at the end of his post in defense of Campbell.
By the way, now is as good a time as any to disclose that I have recently been retained as a consultant to Rep. John Campbell's re-election campaign. I worked with John when he was first running for Assembly in 2000, and I'm proud to be a part of his effort for 2010.
Matt, thanks for having the integrity to point this fact out. While we rarely agree on political issues, it is honorable and respectable to disclose upfront what some would have called a conflict of interest.
At least we now won't have to read the inevitable Art Pedroza rant on the Orange Juice Blog about his breaking the story that you are a political consultant who works for politicians out of context.


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As his family's Broadway Bank was failing, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias was meeting with White House officials, complains Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee. Issa now wonders whether Broadway might have received special treatment due to politics, and he has written FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair asking why Broadway Bank wasn't taken over sooner.
The $394.3 million cost of taking over Broadway represents a loss of approximately 36 percent [of Broadway's assets] to the FDIC. The amount of the Broadway loss, both in dollars and as a percentage of total deposits, is significantly higher than those figures for the other six Illinois banks closed on April 23, 2010. These figures suggest that the FDIC may have waited longer than it should have to act to prevent foreseeable losses in the case of Broadway Bank.
Among the other six failures that day, only one cost the FDIC more than 30 percent of bank assets. Near the conclusion of the letter, he notes:
The Senate financial reform bill (the "Dodd bill") would dramatically expand the authority of the FDIC. As Congress considers the Dodd bill, it is important that the FDIC provides an honest and transparent explanation of how it presently operates with respect to distressed banks so that we may fairly evaluate the Corporation's capacity for additional responsibility.


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An Android app for Nike's popular FuelBand isn't in the works, the company confirmed over the weekend. In response to a frustrated user on Twitter, Nike said it is currently "focused on iOS and web," and then further plunged the dagger by following that up with, "we're not working on an Android app." Whether it will or not down the road remains unclear.
This is another example of big time developers turning their attention to iOS before Android—or exclusively. Jawbone, as The Verge notes, is another example where the developer has yet to release a companion app for Android, despite the company's fitness accessory being recently reintroduced. There are many fitness apps available in Google Play, but nothing directly from companies for certain accessories (aside from Sony's Smart Watch).
This in no way discounts the continued dominance of Android's growing user base, but it does highlight some weird form of OS prejudice in the industry. In the grand scheme, perhaps the lack of a FuelBand Android app isn't the biggest deal, but some users are obviously frustrated.


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The second FIFA World Cup matchup for Group D was a completely different showing than the first, with England and Italy giving controlled performances with quick, calculated attacks on goal. Ultimately Italy came out on top, as their slow, steady pace gave them the win and the second place spot in Group D behind Costa Rica for the 2014 World Cup.
Both teams came out of the gate strong, though Italy settled into a more paced style of play, with slow, controlled passes in the middle. England preferred quick, accurate passes up front to work their way into the box. The speed of England's younger class seemed to confuse the Italians, who had no answer for the likes of Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge early on in the game.
The Italian strategy worked first, though, when Claudio Marchisio caught a pass and buried it in the lower left corner from 20 yards in the 34th minute. Italy did not have long to celebrate, as three minutes later Sturridge equalized on a perfect back post cross from Wayne Rooney. The two teams headed to the locker rooms for half time with a goal each.
The second half showed the superiority of the Italians' play, as they were able to continue their slow, steady pace, while England began to show fatigue before conceding another goal and eventually the win. Andrea Pirlo was once again Italy's World Cup maestro, and Mario Balotelli played the gong, crashing it spectacularly in the 49th minute. Antonio Candreva sent a cross to the back post right to Balotelli, who headed it into the net in a mirror image of England's first half goal. "Mad Mario" claimed his 13th goal in 31 caps for the Italian side before heading to the bench in favor of spitfire Ciro Immobile.
England continued to attack, but their passes and crosses became more erratic as time ticked by. Jack Wilshere came in for Jordan Henderson as the Three Lions pushed forward, desperate to snatch another equalizing goal from Italy. There could not have been a better chance than Rooney with the ball at his feet, 15 yards from the goal line, but the striker's dry spell continued when he put the ball just wide of the near post.
A senseless foul by Daniele De Rossi on Adam Lallana gave England another shot from close range, but Steven Gerrard's free kick flew over the cross bar. Italy nearly scored again and widened the gap as the game approached 90 minutes, but Gary Cahill saved his team with a spectacular slide to knock the ball out of bounds. Sterling was shown a warning in the 91st minute, and England was unable to convert in the remaining four minutes of stoppage time, ending the game with a 2-1 score in favor of the Italians.
Though England tired out toward the end and lost some control and focus, the second game of the day for Group D was far better than the first in terms of possession and attacking. England's younger, faster style worked well early on, but they could not keep it up for the full 90 minutes in the heavy Brazilian heat. Italy's slow, methodical play and steady control throughout the game earned them the win and, if they hold off Uruguay and Costa Rica, could give them the top advancing spot in Group D for the 2014 World Cup.
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Cairo Streetfights Deepen Egypt's Divides
No place for the Muslim Brotherhood. "We are heading towards civil war."
CAIRO — A bloody Friday here revealed two apparently irreconcilable countries: an Egypt that backed its army in dissolving the country's democratically elected government; and an Egypt of Muslim Brotherhood supporters furious at how they have been thrown from power.
The Brotherhood launched a campaign of civil — and at times violent — disobedience in the wake of the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. Streetfighting between the Islamic group and its enemies, who include the Egyptian Army, left at least 30 dead around the country, medical officials told the Associated Press.
But with the armed forces and police deployed in the streets,it was hard to imagine the Brotherhood protesters taking back power for Egypt's now jailed president Mohammed Morsi.The events of the last week had left the Muslim Brotherhood outcasts, ostracized by the rest of the country and convinced their legitimate rights had been stolen.
Before Morsi's ouster, the Brotherhood and their opponents had existed within the framework of a democratic process established after the toppling of dictator Hosni Mubarak two and a half years ago, now that system was broken. The military was seeking to arrest their leaders and whatever words of reconciliation were whispered, the Islamist movement had been humiliated and left outside the tent. It is hard to imagine a peaceful and stable Egypt emerging quickly from the mess, that there could be reconciliation between their sides. Egypt's first effort to build a lasting democratic political system after Mubarak appears to lie in ruins.
Military and police officers spoke on Cairo streets with disdain for the Brotherhood, arguing they had carried out the people's will. Anti-Morsi demonstrators, whose political rallies gave the army the political cover to dissolve Morsi's government, hoped the Brotherhood would be banned again, as it had been before the 2011 revolution.
On Friday, the Brotherhood lashed out at its opponents, sending mobs of people into downtown Cairo. Thousands rushed across the October Sixth Bridge in an attempt to confront the anti-Morsi protesters in Tahrir Square, the country's symbol of revolution; a number exchanged gunfire with the anti-Morsi protesters before retreating. Other Brotherhood loyalists surrounded the nearby state television building. They raced on their missions in a fast gait waving Egyptian flags and flashing victory signs like a mad cavalry brigade before just as suddenly pulling back. They had answered those they believed wanted to destroy them.
They could not overrun downtown Cairo, but neither would they disappear. In the city's north, earlier in the day, the battle was bloodier and left a more bitter taste. Here thousands marched on Morsi's suspected jail in the military's Republican Guard headquarters. By the confrontation's end, there were four killed and 100 wounded. Any hope there was a space for them in this new Egypt had been shattered.
The protesters had started out from their rally in Nasr City, where the Brotherhood's supporters had been rallying for a week, setting up tents and mats for sleeping. Here, their leaders wanted for arrest hid among the masses. And the faithful started their march to Morsi's suspected jail.
Mohammed Shalby, a 38 year old carpenter, walked besides his cousin Mohammed Sobhy. They discussed their willingness to die for God.
They chanted the word peaceful, peaceful as they approached the driveway entrance to the Republican Guard Headquarters.
"We want to see Dr. Morsi, let us see him," the crowd shouted. Tear gas was fired. And shots rang out. It was unclear who fired police or the military's presidential guard. One bullet hit his cousin in the neck and the other in the heart. A group lifted Sobhy's body.
Shalby refused to abandon his position in front of the military headquarters nestled among the grey shoe box like high rises. He pushed forward. He swore they could overrun the security forces despite the shooting. But their leaders held them back.
Hours later he visited his cousin lying in a coma, his chest heaving as a respirator breathed life into him.
Shalby stood in the dark by the hospital and prepared to go back to the frontline. He didn't expect his cousin to be alive when he returned next and he wanted the same fate for himself.
"I am going there to die," he said, welcoming the thought of a bullet. "I am afraid we are heading towards civil war but I will defend my rights."
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After watching clips from Kick-Ass, based on Mark Millar's violent, brash graphic novel, we want the special edition DVD now. Director Matthew Vaughn melted our faces, in a good way, by showing all of Hall H footage and a special trailer that kicked all sorts of ass (pun intended).
Internet speculation has been high on Vaughn's follow-up to Stardust: Will he capture the tone, the look, of the comic? Is Nicolas Cage letting his hair do all the acting as the murderous father of his 10-year-old assassin? Those who couldn't attend need not worry; Vaughn delivers and the footage we saw makes us even more excited for the film.
Vaughn was joined on stage by Red Mist, aka McLovin', aka Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), and the film's co-writer Jane Goldman (Stardust). Vaughn wasted no time getting to the clips.
John William's Superman cue entitled "The Planet Krypton plays over the New York City skyline as a winged superhero wannabe stands at the top of a very tall building. Kick-Ass asks, via voiceover, why no one has done the whole homegrown superhero thing before. The guy with the wings then swan dives like a hero, the crowd below cheering him until he crashes into a cab. He's dead.
And that wasn't Kick-Ass, as he tells us via more voiceover, introducing himself with the help of the taxi cab's license plate, which reads the hero's name.
After much geek clapping from the packed crowd, the second clip begins and it's hilarious. Kick-Ass, now as his Clark Kent alter ego Dave Lizewski, asks his friends why more people want to be Paris Hilton than they do Superman or Spider-Man. ("Yeah, I don't get it," his buddy responds. "She has like no t@#%.")
Kick-Ass' first day on the job ends horrible and horribly funny, as he tries to put the justice on two carjackers. He gets one good hit in, and then takes a knife to the gut. Bleeding everywhere, limping away from the scene of a truly epic fail, to add insult to injury, a Lincoln crashes into the superhero and sends him tumbling over the roof of the car and onto the street. And, yes, more fanboy laughter ensues.
Following that quick scene (all the clips take place in the first act of the film, by the way) Hit Girl and her dad, played by Nic Cage, are then introduced. Dad's giving his little girl a lesson in how best to take a .9mm shell to the chest. He informs her, with a smile and with care, that the bullet will knock her off her feet a bit but her Kevlar vest will absorb most of the blow.
Cut to a wide shot of an 8-year-old girl in a pink coat standing opposite her pops and on the receiving end of bullet, one that does to her all the things her dad said it would. The crowd laughs, it is funny, in that "I shouldn't be laughing at this" sorta way. Dad wants to fire two more rounds, daughter says he can if he promises to take her out for ice cream. Dad, reluctantly, relents, reloads and takes aim again.
The final scene is that which will turn little cute Chloe Moretz into the coolest child actor since pre-teen Dakota Fanning. Moretz, sporting full Hit Girl attire, comes to Kick-Ass' aid in a room full of junkies. She comes to the situation sporting a spear with a very sharp blade for turning bad guys into amputees and corpses. Which she does, flashing a kiddie smile every time.
The highlight of this scene was when a thug comes out of the bathroom, surprised to see most of his crew dead or dying, and flips a butterfly switch blade on the kid.
"Oh I have one of those too," Hit Girl smiles, proving her point. She flips the blade around in her hand, the thug gets nervous, and then gets dead quick when Hit Girl slices the knife through the air and into her target.
It's awesome, again, in all sorts of so-wrong-it-has-to-be-right ways.
A montage happy trailer cut for Comic-Con kicks in and pours on the cool and funny, further cementing the not-for-kids tone the previous clips established. We see Mark Strong as the villain Hit Girl, her father and Kick-Ass are both after. We see Hit Girl's silenced pistol get caught in the cheek of some poor goon and then see said pistol obliterate said cheek.
Basically, Hit Girl owns this trailer, especially when she reloads her double-guns without letting go of them, by sending the clips into mid air and letting them slide into her guns while running at bad guys.
It plays cooler than that reads, trust me. In fact, the entire panel needed to be seen to be believed. Vaughn revealed that the movie is still looking for a distributor and that if a studio was interested in picking up the picture, then the studio could not PG-13 this very, very hard R movie.
One of the best panels of the Con and it's only Thursday. Studios, a room full of 6000 fans geek'd all over this thing. Make it happen, please.


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Posted on 09. Nov, 2011 by Sara Glaser.
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Livebloggers, Tweeters, Collaboration at Opportunity Green
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Michael Liskin.
This is my traditional meta-post of real-time events during the Opportunity Green Conference Check back periodically for additional info, and… Follow @oppgreen on Twitter for official OG updates and live […]
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Ranked 4th Globally in #green–Nominate @oppgreen for a Shorty Award!!
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by opportunity.
Movies have the Oscars, music has the Grammy's, and literature has the Pulitzer. Now, Twitter has the Shorty Awards. In its second yeard, the Shorty Awards are emerging as a […]
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Interview with OppGreen 2009 Speaker, Adam Lowry, Chief Greenskeeper of Method
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Susanna Schick.
Adam Lowry (being throttled by Eric) is the Chief Greenskeeper and co-founder of method. He founded method in 2000 with Eric Ryan, because he was tired of writing white papers […]
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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by Chathri Munasinghe.
This post is a collaboration between Mashable's Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell's "10 Ways" series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. […]
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Opportunity Green welcomes Yann Arthus-Bertrand for the screening of HOME
Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by Chathri Munasinghe.
Opportunity Green had the privilege to partner with the French Consulate and American Cinematheque in the screening of HOME, a film by French director Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Held at the […]
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Opportunity Green's Top 10 Eco Twitterers To Follow
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We scoured through hundreds of tweeps in the green space to find the best eco twitterers. Whether your focus is eco-fashion or clean tech, check out Opportunity Green's list of […]
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Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
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SEATTLE -- A pilot and a flight attendant at Alaska Airlines are celebrating National Kidney Month in a very inspiring way.
"Once we close that door, we have to rely on the person sitting next to us to save our life, literally."
That's what these women do every day they go to work, as Alaska Airlines employees. But now Capt. Jodi Harskamp is going above and beyond the call of duty for her friend and flight attendant Jenny Stansel.
"Just last March 10 -- one year to the day -- was my very last day at work. I had to take a passenger seat on the way home I was so sick," Stansel told Q13 News.
For 15 years, Stansel has struggled with kidney disease brought on by lupus.
"She sent out a company-wide email after she went on medical leave saying, I need a kidney, preferably O positive. She set up a Facebook page and like, literally, would walk around with applications in her purse to hand out to baristas, 'Hey, are you O positive? Do you wanna fill out an application?" Harskamp said.
Harskamp decided to give it a try. And as it turned out, she was Stansel's match.
The two moms, both based in Anchorage, Alaska, will have their transplant surgery Monday at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
"I have just been really excited. Some days, I have to calm myself down," Stansel said.
Both women understand the risks, but they anticipate a smooth ride.
"There's a small chance that I will never return to flying if my remaining kidney does no pick up the slack for my removed kidney," Stansel said.
But "I've always said that my job is risk assessment, that's what I do for a living, and I have determined that the reward in this is far greater than the risk. I'm gonna lose a kidney and she gets to live -- it's a pretty fair trade-off."
Both women hope that by sharing their story, they will inspire others to consider donating, too.AlertMe


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - Greenberg Traurig was a politically well-connected law firm long before Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist who pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion, joined it about six years ago.
Lawyers for the firm represented George W. Bush in the weeks after the disputed 2000 election. Its partnership ranks include high-powered lawyers like John Scalia, the son of Justice Antonin Scalia.
The firm has weathered scandal in the past. In the 1990's, it raised money from a German executive for political candidates, violating a ban on soliciting foreigners. It later paid $77,000 to settle with the government.
But no crisis has been as potentially toxic as the one involving Mr. Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to defrauding clients of tens of millions of dollars and enticing government officials with bribes.
His actions have threatened the firm's very existence by leaving it vulnerable to malpractice claims, according to several outside lawyers who have followed the case.Continue reading the main story
Among some employees of Greenberg Traurig and others doing business with it, there have been suspicions that the firm was aware of Mr. Abramoff's wrongdoing, which it has repeatedly denied.
Greenberg Traurig rushed to distance itself from Mr. Abramoff, appease his clients and work closely with prosecutors. In the process it has earned praise for its cooperation from Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, kept alive the possibility of suing Mr. Abramoff for its losses and negotiated financial settlements with most of Mr. Abramoff's victims.
"They have taken the new approach that most corporations or institutions take in today's world, which is just completely cooperate with the investigation," said David Schertler, a former federal prosecutor who practices at Schertler & Onorato in Washington. "Once they find out about some wrongdoing, they completely distance themselves from the person that was doing it." He added that for Greenberg Traurig, "that does seem to have been pretty effective."
Top executives at the law firm are not talking about the strategy it has pursued to manage the crisis. The firm has only issued a brief statement, which read in part: "Almost two years ago, Jack Abramoff revealed to the firm conduct we found unacceptable. The firm demanded and obtained Mr. Abramoff's immediate resignation. This week's developments validate that action."
Greenberg Traurig was founded in 1967 in Miami. It has expanded rapidly over the past 10 years, growing to employ 1,500 lawyers in more than 25 offices, the largest now in New York, not Florida. Last year, according to American Lawyer magazine, the firm took in more than $700 million in revenue.
When top executives at the firm learned from a recruiter in 2000 that Mr. Abramoff might consider leaving the Washington office of Preston Gates & Ellis, another law firm, they jumped at the chance to woo a rainmaker. Mr. Abramoff and five colleagues made the move to the lobbying arm of Greenberg Traurig, where they proceeded to bring in millions of dollars in revenue for the firm.
There were some apparent oddities about Mr. Abramoff's business practices at the firm. For example, Michael Scanlon, who worked closely with Mr. Abramoff and pleaded guilty in November to conspiring to bribe a member of Congress, at times used an office at Greenberg Traurig, although he was never a firm employee.
Several participants in the criminal case have said that the firm, at a minimum, turned a blind eye to the work the pair did. A spokeswoman for the firm denied that accusation.
One of those participants in the case said that suspicious financial dealings ran rampant in Mr. Abramoff's corner of the firm, and that other employees of the firm knew it. "Expense reports were just completely fabricated," said the participant, speaking on the condition of anonymity because Justice Department officials have asked all participants not to comment on the case. Prosecutors have given no indication that they are investigating Greenberg Traurig, and the firm has been credited for cooperating with the investigation.
Greenberg Traurig lawyers moved swiftly to distance the firm from Mr. Abramoff once news of his work became public. (Partners at the firm have consistently said they learned of questionable activities by Mr. Abramoff from newspaper articles, in particular one in The Washington Post in early 2004.)
Mr. Abramoff was ordered out of his office in February 2004, and the firm hired a prominent criminal defense lawyer, Henry F. Schuelke III of Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler in Washington, to conduct an internal investigation into how Mr. Abramoff had operated. Sensing its own legal liability, the firm began contacting clients who had been misled.
The risks of client claims were substantial, said Brett G. Kappel, a partner in the Washington office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease who focuses on lobbying and legal ethics as well as campaign finance laws. "They would have had a contracts claim, a malpractice claim," Mr. Kappel said. "They would've had multiple claims."
Among the clients the firm approached was Tyco, which has since reached a settlement with Greenberg Traurig to be repaid $1.5 million of about $1.8 million it spent while working with Mr. Abramoff on a tax loophole issue in Congress.
As he was trying to get Tyco to hire him in May 2003, Mr. Abramoff suggested that the company hire GrassRoots Interactive to help. Ultimately, Tyco did -- unaware, company officials said, that it was really paying Mr. Abramoff himself.
According to Mr. Abramoff's plea agreement, he "falsely advised" Tyco that GrassRoots Interactive "had no relationship with Abramoff's law and lobbying firm, even though G.R.I. was controlled by Abramoff."
George J. Terwilliger III, the lawyer representing Tyco, said Greenberg Traurig informed the company about the scam shortly after firing Mr. Abramoff. He also said the firm, "under very difficult circumstances, did the right thing, from making the disclosure to acknowledging its former partner had wronged one of its clients."
Greenberg Traurig also headed off potential claims by reaching financial settlements with clients including the Mississippi Choctaws, an Indian tribe that had hired the firm to lobby on its behalf. The tribe praised Greenberg Traurig's conduct on its Web site, saying the firm had "acted honorably."
The statement continued, "That settlement fully and fairly resolves all of the tribe's claims for recovery of funds arising from Mr. Abramoff's misconduct."
Mr. Abramoff took in about $1 million a year in compensation from Greenberg Traurig. But he supplemented his income, according to documents summarizing the charges to which he pleaded guilty, by many millions more. Mr. Abramoff persuaded clients to hire companies that he or Mr. Scanlon had established -- in some cases without disclosing the personal connection -- and those companies then charged the clients millions of dollars in fees.
Mr. Abramoff received as kickbacks about half of the profits from a company set up by Mr. Scanlon. For example, Mr. Abramoff received $6.4 million from one Indian tribe client from June 2001 to April 2004 and $11.5 million from another tribe from March 2001 to May 2003. The money was used "for their own personal benefit and not for the benefit of their clients," according to the criminal charges against Mr. Abramoff.
So far, one tribe, the Louisiana Coushattas, has filed a lawsuit against the law firm.
After its internal investigation, Greenberg Traurig quietly dismissed several people who had worked with Mr. Abramoff. And when the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on the widening scandal in November, Fred Baggett, a partner in the Tallahassee office of Greenberg Traurig, went.
"Based on Mr. Schuelke's investigation, the firm has made disclosures to clients affected by Mr. Abramoff's activities, worked out resolutions with a number of affected clients and hopes to work out resolutions with still other affected clients," Mr. Baggett's prepared statement reads.
The statement was clearly appreciated by Senator McCain, the committee chairman. "I know this chapter in the firm's history is embarrassing and painful in many ways," Mr. McCain said in his prepared remarks. "But I want the record to reflect that, consistent with their professional obligations, Greenberg Traurig and its counsel have always been responsive to the committee's requests, always made themselves available to answer questions, and have always conducted themselves with dignity and professionalism in these trying circumstances."
Prosecutors were also apparently satisfied with the cooperation they received. When the plea agreement between prosecutors and Mr. Abramoff was announced last week, it included references to Greenberg Traurig that cast the firm as an unknowing victim of fraud, not a participant. That will help the firm defend itself against any angry clients and also strengthen any claims it chooses to bring in the future, outside lawyers said.
According to the government, Mr. Abramoff made his own firm a victim when he wooed a wireless telephone company as a client in 2001 and persuaded it to pay $50,000 to a foundation he established instead of paying Greenberg Traurig. He never told the firm, which lobbied on behalf of the company without a retainer agreement, of the payments.
"In this case," said Mr. Schertler, the former federal prosecutor, "they were able to make the case that they did not facilitate the conduct and it was done unbeknownst to them."Continue reading the main story


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text: So I have my service related website, about 2 years old, was doing really well. Optimized for my area locally. Did an xrumer campaign a month ago, gave it a decent boost. Site already had about 1000 backlinks to it. Did a 100k blast to it. Well Sept 01st I made huge changes to the site. Did a complete redesign, most of the original linking structure was changed. In fact I had about 87,000 useless pages on the site that werent even in the index. Mostly just pages that all said the same thing except the city names were changed. The homepage was ranking for all the keywords... not the inner pages. 2 days after making the major site change my site dissappeared. It's still in the index and has been for 2 weeks since it dissappeared. I have a few random terms i rank front page for, but for the most part its all gone. Gbot continues to add new pages to the index, but none of them are ranking at all... they are all about 200th result. These are for keywords that have a total index result of about 29k and less! So am I penalized? My friend said he thinks its the fact that gbot keeps looking for the 87k pages that no longer exist and thats why I dropped out. So what do you think, result from xrumer blast? Or my bad mistake? And how long should I expect to not show up for any of these EXTREMELY easy terms?


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OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Review
In the world of computing, everyone likes a computer that can start up and shut down quickly. The ability to boot into your system as fast as possible allows you to start the tasks you set out to do that much quicker, not to mention the older you get the greater the chance is that you'll forget what you wanted to use the computer for in the first place! The sweet spot is about 30 seconds or less. It is possible with conventional hard drives, but very hard to attain this "golden" 30-second time. With the speed of SSDs, it should be easier, but there is only one way to tell and that is to test it out. To run these tests, I used a stopwatch to calculate the number of seconds it took from pressing the power button on the case, to having a fully-functioning desktop. For the shut down test, I timed from the click of the shut down button in the start menu, until power was off to the system.
Windows start-up and shutdown are things that are tangible and you can see the response and drive speed. The Vertex 3 was measurably quicker than the earlier drives during start-up, while delivering comparable shut down times to the SSDs. In this age of instant gratification, this drive delivers.


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When was the last time you had taken advantage of Direct Mail or did you kick it to the curb like a one night stand? Direct Mail is NOT DEAD it's just not taken in the proper advantage for the best results.
I always observe my mail within my mailbox and the only direct mails from dealerships are for service. Service this and service that but what really turns me off is the unattractiveness & plainness of the mail piece. I am 32 years old, conservative but also am a wife & mother of 2. Why in the world do I just want a mail piece that is black, blue and white?
With this in mind to answer the question above you will see my point from this article. There are many insights on how you can approach Direct Mail and properly market it to your existing or future customers THE RIGHT WAY!
You are an Automotive Dealership with a DMS / CRM that holds all the valuable information you need. Why not take advantage of every piece of data? IT'S THE GOLDEN KEY to your business! Within that system you have a large range of information to help you take your first step into creating and distributing Direct Mail to the right crowd the right way!
What information does your DMS / CRM hold?
- Name
- Address
- Vehicle Purchased
- Vehicle Traded In
- Service Records
- Gender
- Age
- Etc
*If your business doesn't update your DMS / CRM, Hire someone to help you keep it maintained & data updated. Accurate data helps a business succeed in marketing!
AGE & GENDER are very important to the list above. Why? The reason why is that age ranges & gender can tell a lot about that specific individual. Hip, Conservative, Traditional, Family, Professional, Business Owner & the list goes on. Every individual is different however you can break it down by category.
A woman wouldn't want black, red and white colors however what would be more appealing to them is more neutral colors & if they were 20-30 years old they would be more apt to view the Direct Mail piece if it had more pinks, yellows or even pastel colors. Men in their 20-30's would be more apt to view the Direct Mail piece if it was Black, Red, Green & or blue. I think you get my point.
By looking deeply into this data you can go off on searching for a Direct Mail Company. Once you compile a list of companies you can start by asking them these very important questions!
- How do you retrieve the data? (Always read the fine print!) Make sure your data is secured and will not be distributed to any of your competitors.
- Do they look at the data we discussed at the beginning of this article? This is a good question to be asking them during the demo of which data is being pulled! If they just talk about the name and address you may want to research a few more companies. Never go with the first one and if it is "TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE"….. Then it's not the right company to go with! Lots of false promises. Just drill them with questions and get a list of testimonials so you can reach out to them directly. Not just the testimonials get a good list of about 25. Yes 25 seems like a lot however you want to ensure your marketing dollars goes to making a profit.
- How do they target the customers? Many Direct Mail Companies just go off the list by Name & Address! Be careful as you are basically throwing money out the door. Anyone can go off a list that has a name & address! During demos you can tell when they research further into the data and go off the actual customer's data in depth. Targeting is a great way for business success. I wouldn't send a Happy Birthday Card to a Funeral…. (RIP DIRECT MAIL) If there is a more upper class neighborhood you would want to stick with something more eloquent. This goes into my next bullet point.
- Do all the Direct Mail Pieces look the same? Big NO NO! This is where you get shot in the foot and your precious Direct Mail Piece gets tossed in the big bin "THE TRASH CAN"…! Having the same plane old Direct Mail Piece sent out each and every time let alone being sent to the wrong crowd can again be tossed in "THE TRASH CAN"..!
- Does the Direct Mail have personal written notes? *Companies can take your actual handwriting and print it on the card) Taking this step, as it may cost just a bit more, can show the customers you had taken the time to personally write up a message for them! Handwritten cards & letters seem to have alleviated over the course of years as the wild Internet, Email & Social Media has taken over.
- Do they keep track of the returned Direct Mail or do you? If you do please be sure to have someone within your organization to update the addresses within your DMS / CRM data base. It's no good if you don't keep it updated. Reach out to your BDC Department with the list of returns and call the contact numbers to correct the incorrect mailing address.
- Do they blast the entire list all at once or certain groups at a time? The reason I mention this is I have seen many dealership blast an entire data base with direct mail which flooded the service department causing angered customers & walk outs. Always be sure to do about 50-100 at a time to help alleviate the tension within the service department. Taking this step will help with the Service Manager & their team to ensure the best service visit experience. Having a great customer service experience helps with your CSI scores!
- Do they offer you a list of which customers the Direct Mail pieces were sent too? This is always good no matter if you have the data at your fingertips but having a small list of each group they send it too can be very helpful for you as a manager / business owner or your Service Manager. Keeping track of that data can be beneficial to see if the Direct Mail Company is worth the cost.
Finding a company that can work with data to help target your marketing efforts by Direct Mail is a chore however it will be worth every penny spent!
All views & opinions are solely based upon the author only: Jennifer Schrader


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DIFFERENT RULES A federal raid aimed at undocumented immigrants in Long Island last month angered local officials who objected to the lack of warrants.
Correction Appended
LONG ISLAND officials protested when federal agents searching for immigrant gang members raided local homes two weeks ago. The agents had rousted American citizens and legal immigrants from their beds in the night, complained Lawrence W. Mulvey, the Nassau County police commissioner, and arrested suspected undocumented immigrants without so much as a warrant.
"We don't need warrants to make the arrests," responded Peter J. Smith, the special agent in charge in New York for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the agency that conducted the raids.
His concise answer helps explain the friction that the Bush administration's recent campaign of immigration enforcement has caused. Last week, immigration officials announced that they had made more than 1,300 arrests across the country over the summer when they went looking for gang members. Since the raids were carried out under immigration law, many protections in place under the American criminal codes did not apply. Foreign residents of the United States, whether here legally or not, answer to a different set of rules.
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Guess it depends on which one you love and/or play more. I think both are expensive to mod but equally worth it since it breathes new life into the machine entirely. Seeing some pictures online, I can't help but feel the Lynx I has a better LCD screen, though I can't say for sure since I've never owned one personally.
Must have Lynx games?
Posted 05 March 2018 - 10:32 AM
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2600 - 7800 - 800XL - 130XE - Lynx - Jaguar
Posted 18 March 2018 - 07:34 AM
Here we go:
Blue Lightning
Chequered Flag
Robotron 2084
Ninja Gaiden
Zaku with one big disadvantage: It's hard to find and everything else than cheap!
There are many more excellent titles, but this selection should help to build a fine collection.
Edited by TeddyGermany, 18 March 2018 - 07:37 AM.
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Posted 22 March 2018 - 12:18 AM
No i bought the lynx from a local game shop after i traded in $100 worth of my junk. Ive looked into doing the mcwill mod, but cost too much to do. If i do the mod im torn between doing it to my lynx or my game gear??
Having done the Lynx mod myself it wasn't that bad. It was probably more time consuming to recap it, remove the stuff you don't need for the backlighting, and replacing the regulator and diode for the power circuit area to make sure that wouldn't be a failure point anytime soon. But the GG is a different story. There is quite a few SMD parts that have to be removed, and a few SMD parts to be added back in. I do have the kit for my GG but haven't struck up enough courage to tackle it yet. Thinking maybe this weekend, but no these mods aren't for the beginner or faint of heart.
See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.c...owercollections
Posted 26 March 2018 - 10:06 PM
Super Asteroids/Missile Command
Chips Challenge
STUN Runner
Crystal Mines II
Battlezone 2000
Also, I have the McWill mod and it is excellent. It truly makes a huge difference and breathes new life into the machine. Another great addition is the RetroHQ SD card by SainT. You could just get that and call it a day if you don't want a physical collection.
If you do want a physical collection, the GOAT Store has some great prices on the most common titles (NIB). I've had great luck with them vs. eBay or forums.
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Posted 12 April 2018 - 01:53 PM
If you can contact the author to see if about getting one...
I highly recommend getting the home-brew "Weltenschlächter" from Luch soft!
See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.c...owercollections
Posted 23 April 2018 - 03:16 PM
Just so I know what is bad about Hard Drivin'? I loved the arcade.
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About Sweet Appam
Appam is the favorite dish of Lord Ganesh and is a common prasadam for Sankashti and Ganesh Charthurthi (so also is Nevri which I put up earlier). In fact there are families that have for generations followed the custom of preparing and offering specific items as prasadam during Ganesh chathurthi.
Apart from the festive nature of the dish, appam is also prepared at home as a snack. It is generally prepared with Split black gram Dal and rice, although sometimes Bombay Rava is used instead of rice. Although both these varieties are prepared from fermented batter and hence require advance planning, the variety of appam I am describing here can be prepared instantly. I am putting up this recipe since it is very easy to prepare and very sacred to the Lord.
What you need to have:
– Branded wheat Atta 100 grams
– Bombay Rava/Semolina 60 grams
– Molasses/Jaggery 125-150 grams
– Fresh grated coconut 50-60 grams
– Cavendish Banana (extra ripe) 1
– Almonds a few
– Resins a few
– Water – 275 ml
– Cooking soda(optional) a pinch
– Salt a pinch
Ingredients of Sweet Appam
What you do with what you have:
1. Grate coconut, almonds and keep it aside.
2. Crush Molasses/Jaggery, peal cardamom and cut resins.
3. Mix crushed Jaggery, grated coconut and pealed banana in the mixer/blender and grind it to a smooth consistency adding sufficient quantity of water.
4. Empty the mixture in a bowl and add wheat atta and semolina to it. Add remaining water to bring it to the consistency as shown in the image below.
5. Add cut resins, grated almonds and pealed cardamom to it. Add a pinch of cooking soda and salt to the batter.
Ready sweet Appam batter
6. Stir the batter. Place Appam griddle on medium flame and add pure ghee to it.
7. On heating add little batter in each mould and close with a lid. After about a minute or 2, turn upside down with a spoon/blunt knife and cook the other side. You may add some ghee if you prefer.
Appam cooked in the Griddle
8. Transfer it to a bowl and serve it with amul butter or pure ghee. Appam is ready.
Ready to serve sweet Appam
What to remember:
– I have shown griddle without any oil/ghee, since the photo would glare and there will be no clarity.
– Please do not overheat and burn the dish to avoid turning bitter.
– If kids love the dish we can serve it for tiffin/lunch box as well.
How long it takes: 30 minutes


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Dümmen USA Confetti Garden
Dümmen USA saw a need in the early 2000s for a simpler, easier way for growers to produce and sell mixed variety containers. Introduced to the industry in spring 2007 after extensive testing, and available for the spring 2008 consumer gardening season, RED FOX Confetti Garden combinations have consistently been viewed as innovative, timesaving, profit-increasing products.
Two of the original Confettis are still top sellers even going into the fifth season: Purple Cleopatra and Hot Pink Jazz. Now featuring up to 29 different mixes, Confetti Garden has combinations that appeal to a broad array of gardeners.
An Array Of Choices
The line is split into five sub-series: Confetti Garden Aloha features Aloha calibrachoa; Duo Confetti Garden features Sweetunia, Potunia and/or Surprise petunias; Duo Confetti Garden Potunia features Potunia petunias; Trio Confetti Garden Empress features Empress verbenas; and Trio Confetti Garden Mix features three different genera. All are extensively trialed and tested prior to launch, and grower customer input has been instrumental in guiding the development of the line.
Confetti Garden combinations are available to growers as either unrooted or rooted cuttings. Unrooted cuttings are delivered directly from Dümmen owned and operated production greenhouses in El Salvador. Growers receive Confetti in a Box, with everything needed to get started with 400 Confetti Garden mixes, including stick tags. Rooted cuttings are delivered as liners–ready for transplanting–from rooting station partners in the Northeast, Midwest and West regions, as well as Canada.
With either approach, growers receive all the components for their combination planters together in one location at the same time. Planting combination containers with Confetti Garden liners saves time on the planting line, and it makes giving instructions to the planting crew simple and easy. It also results in the correct look for the finished container.
Confetti Garden liners are grown to assure an explosion of growth when transplanted in the finished container, requiring minimal manipulation by the grower. Complete cultural and production guidelines are online at DummenUSA.com, under the Services section.
New For 2012
An innovative program underway for the 2012 season is Dümmen's True Grower Guarantee. For orders of rooted cuttings of Confetti Garden Trio products, all three genera will be rooted in the liner–or it's free. Late or substituted orders are also free. Dümmen is confident in its production and logistics capabilities now that its new Las Mercedes production site in El Salvador is running at full speed with 50 acres of greenhouse and 1,500 skilled associates producing cuttings.
Capturing Consumers
Working closely with its design agency, John Henry Company and Summit/Janor, Dümmen offers eye-catching point-of-purchase merchandising aids to accelerate sales for growers and their retail customers. From artfully designed pots and banners to a dedicated consumer microsite with QR code support on hangtags, Confetti Garden products can be supported at the retail level. See the materials in your 2012 spring catalog or visit DummenUSA.com for more information.


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Kasabian 'You're In Love With A Psycho' by WIZ
Playfully toying with the idea of alter-egos and affectionately illustrating the idiosyncratic relationship at the heart of the band, WIZ is back with another epic video for Kasabian. And, yes, one of those alter-egos is Noel Fielding.
It's also something of a departure for a director renowned for placing pop stars in serious roles in big cinematic scenarios, Kasabian included. The film references are all present and correct, but You're In Love With A Psycho is seriously comic, even cartoonish.
Featuring appearances from Stephen Graham as well as Noel Fielding, this take on One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest is scurrilously tongue-in-cheek, and full of sight gags. It even includes a touch of the Marx Brothers, with Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno and Fielding engaging in their version of the famous mirror scene from Duck Soup.
The band contribute wholheartedly to an ensemble that sees a gang of patients clamouring for the affections of their nurse - a more alluring version of OFOTCN's evil Nurse Cratchit – before breaking out in a suitably demented dance routine. Great stuff.
- Director
- Producer
- Cecily Barber
- Production Company
- My Accomplice
- Executive Producer
- Jamie Clark
- Production Manager
- Mavreen Brown
- 1st AD
- Dan Gibling
- Director of Photography
- Adam Suschitzky
- Focus Puller
- Nathan Mann
- Nelson Oliver
- Art Director
- Lucie Red
- Wardrobe
- Susie Couthard
- Make-up
- Bebe Newson
- Editor
- Elise Butt
- Editing company
- Trim Editing
- Colourist
- Simone Grattarola
- Grading company
- Time Based Arts
- Cast
- Noel Fielding, Stephen Graham
- Cast
- Stephen Graham
- Director's Representation
- Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK
- Commissioner
- Mike O'Keefe
- Label
- Sony Music


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NAFTA's Commission On Environmental Cooperation 'Dying A Slow Death': Ex-Director
Previous posts on this blog regarding fish farms saying they operate under the strictest laws in the world can be found in the index to this site and include the posts to Nancy Greene Raine from earlier this year. The point is that Marine Harvest, Cermaq and Grieg Seafood, and others, don't operate under the strictest environmental laws in Scotland, Norway, Chile and Canada and other nations. And, once the claim is made, they lobby behind the scenes for getting rid of the laws, as is happening in Canada.
See: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1880129387856188740#editor/target=post;postID=890992371737194469;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname.
These are the new aquaculture activities regulations that DFO wants to bring in: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/management-gestion/aar-raa-proposition-eng.htm.
These are the new aquaculture activities regulations that DFO wants to bring in: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/management-gestion/aar-raa-proposition-eng.htm.
In Canada, in particular, the laws have been weakened for several years, including the Fisheries Act, the Canada Environmrntal Assessment Act, and now the NAFTA agreement council looking into complaints about the environmental damage of in-ocean fish farms has been neutered in Canada by the federal government.
"This institution [Commission on Environmental Cooperation] doesn't have the tools it needs to do anything effective," said Geoff Garver, who headed the organization's enforcement branch from 2000 to 2007 and served on its public advisory board until recently. "It's dying a slow death.""
The complaint against fish farms: "Canada has also been accused of harming wild salmon stocks by allowing viruses from fish farms to spread."
In a letter to the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, the Environment Ministry said this about the salmon complaint: "We do not intend to engage in or recognize as valid ... any further consideration of this submission."
"Ecojustice has written the commission off, said Koehl. "Given how this has all played out over the last decade, we don't have any confidence in their petition process.""
So, in Canada, in addition to the fisheries and environment laws being substantially weakened with respect to fish farm pollution, diseases, chemicals and other issues, the federal government is bringing in 'aquaculture activities regulations' that allow the industry complete control over sewage, environmental damage and other discharges.
And, now, has refused to take action on fish farm sewage and diseases in the NAFTA panel that it set up.
Fish farms, despite claims to the contrary, don't operate under the strictest environmental laws in Canada, or other countries, where, in particular, environmental damage has been so great in Norway where the companies come from they no longer have new areas to site farms, and in Chile, widely acknowledged to be the dirtiest fish farm country in the world, where, sadly, the pristine Patagonia region is being tapped for more farms. News reports that companies want the new leases because pollution and disease in other areas means they need totally new areas that have never been farmed where they can spread out into.
Fish farms want to be in BC because our coastline is fjords – which don't flush – just like Norway where it is acknowledged that 7 of 10 lice chemicals no longer work, and the industry puts out more untreated sewage than the entire human population of 8 million people.


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Lecturer in US Politics and Foreign Policy, United States Studies Centre (jointly appointed with the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney)
Dr Gorana Grgic is a jointly appointed Lecturer at the US Studies Centre and the Department of Government and International Relations. Gorana has been affiliated with the Centre since 2011. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate units in US politics and foreign policy, world politics, ethnic politics and international organisations at the University of Sydney. In 2012 she was awarded the FASS Dean's Citation for Excellence in Tutorials, and in 2013 the FASS Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer in US foreign policy at the University of Western Australia in 2016 and 2017 in conjunction with the Perth USAsia Centre.
Gorana's first book, Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations (Routledge, 2017), stems from her doctoral research, which explored the link between political liberalisation and ethnic conflicts. During her doctoral candidature (2010-2013), Gorana was a Research Associate for an ARC Discovery Project "Political Institutions, War, and Peace: Global and Regional Dynamics" (CI: Assoc. Prof. Ben Goldsmith).
She has been a regular political contributor for ABC News 24 and Sky News, and has written for and contributed to a number of domestic and international media outlets. In between her undergraduate and postgraduate studies, Gorana worked for the UNDP in Croatia. Between 2011 and 2014 she was a part-time producer and journalist for SBS Radio.
Gorana was awarded PhD in International Relations at the University of Sydney in 2014. She holds a Master of International Studies degree from the University of Sydney, where she graduated in 2010 and was awarded the Hedley Bull Prize for Postgraduate Coursework. Gorana graduated summa cum laude from the University of Zagreb in 2008 and holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree with a major in Macroeconomics. Her undergraduate degree was partially completed at the National University of Singapore.
Gorana is teaching the following units in academic year 2018:
There is hardly a region from which the United States has been able to extricate itself as quickly, after having exerted a substantial military footprint and having played a major role in the...
Centre lecturer Gorana Grgic co-authored (with Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Dimitri Semenovich and Arcot Sowmya) this article published in the journal, World Politics.


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Iranian-American actor Dominic Rains took home the Best Actor award at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival for his role as Osman in the crime drama Burn Country, alongside Melissa Leo and James Franco. Rains is also known for his roles in Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and The Taqwacores (2010).
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Angiogenesis inhibitors are drugs that prevent the development of new blood vessels, says the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Also known as anti-angiogenics, such drugs halt the blood supply to tumors in the treatment of different cancers. By cutting off the oxygen and nutrients transmitted through blood, the drugs disable the tumors from growing and spreading. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a number of angiogenesis inhibitors for cancer treatment. These drugs are known to have side effects.
Examples of FDA-approved angiogenesis inhibitors for cancer treatment include bevacizumab (Avastin) and ramucirumab (Cyramza), both administered through injections into veins, notes the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Other angiogenesis inhibitors include everolimus (Afinitor), lenalidomide (Revlimid) and pazopanib (Votrient), all of which are in pill form for oral administration. These drugs usually combine with other treatments against cancer, such as chemotherapy.
Some widespread side effects of angiogenesis inhibitors may range from high blood pressure and rashes to low blood count, diarrhea and fatigue, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Medication may accompany these side effects that vary depending on the drug and patient. In rare instances, bleeding, heart attacks and heart failure, and blood clots might occur. Very rarely, patients using angiogenesis inhibitors experience holes in the intestines, or bowel perforations, that need surgery to repair.


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Leather is manufactured mostly from the skins of the animals. The process of converting the skins of the animals into leather is known as tanning. Rawhide is used for this tanning process where it is changed into rough leather. The rawhide is nothing but the skins of the animals like buffalo, cow or deer which is prepared by removing all the flesh and fat over them. It should be dried neatly before given for the tanning process. The tanning process involves some chemical treatments which will change the nature of the skin. The tanning process will remove the moisture inside the skins and binds the fiber inside the skins together. With this process the leather will get some unique properties like water proof and restrict fungi and bacteria's entering them. The chemical used for this tanning process is mostly obtained from the animal fats or vegetables and mineral salts.
The above explained method is the way of manufacturing the leather. Some more methods are out there, but common method is the tanning process only. Now we will see where this tanned leather will be used. This tanned leather will be used for manufacturing leather cases, leather purses, men leather bags, ladies bags, corporate bags, travel bags, bags for personal uses etc. Now we can see some of the tips you have to follow to keep your leather products or bags clean and safe. The leather products must be always kept from the sunlight. Cotton soft clothes are preferred for the cleaning process. The clothes should not leave the liquids in the leather while cleaning. So the wise thing here is you should check the cleaning clothes in some hidden parts of the bags. After getting successful results we can try those clothes outside the bag also.
Leather bags often reflect your status in the societies especially for ladies; the bags are identity of their personality. Bags which suits every occasions are available in the market. The bags should be chosen so that it suits your wardrobes the best. If you want to have a plain bag or one with printed one is up to you, but the plain ones will be better .The classic handbags will match every occasion or moods, also the color should be a neutral one so that it will fit for any outfits. A lot of websites out their offering customers their unique collections where you can go for a look to find the one that suits you. But most of the websites will not offer you what they have shown in their sites. So go for premium sellers who have a historical selling record. Unique products will come from old sellers only not from someone who is new to the industry.
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Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution (OSEE)
By: John C Moore and Peter C De Ruiter
333 pages, b/w illustrations, tables
In ecosystems with many species, food webs form highly complex networks of resource-consumer interactions. At the same time, the food web as itself needs sufficient resources to develop and survive. So in fact, food web ecology is about how natural resources form the basis of biological communities, in terms of species richness and abundances as well as how species are organised in communities on the basis of the resource availability and use. The central theme of this book is that patterns in the utilisation of energy result from the trophic interactions among species, and that these patterns form the basis of ecosystem stability.
The authors integrate the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystem energetics, and stability, and in so doing attempt to dispel the categorisation of the field into the separate subdisciplines of population, community, and ecosystem ecology. Energetic Food Webs represents the first attempt to bridge the gap between the energetic and species approaches to ecology.
1: Approaches to studying food webs
Section I: Modelling Simple and Multispecies Communities
2: Models of Simple and Complex Systems
3: Connectedness Food Webs
4: Energy Flux Food Webs
5: Functional webs
Section II: The Dynamics and Stability of Simple and Complex Communities
6: Energetic Organization and Food Web Stability
7: Enrichment, Trophic Structure, and Dynamic Stability
8: Modeling Compartments
9: Productivity, Dynamic Stability, and Species Richness
Section III: Dynamic Food Web Architectures
10: Species-based versus Biomass-based Food Web Descriptions
11: Dynamic Architectures and Stability of Complex Systems along Productivity Gradients
12: Food Webs Dynamics Beyond Asymptotic Behavior
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Well, my dear Gentle Reader, I am off to foreign climes. I'll be traveling from May 15 ~ June 7 in France. The first half will be work, and the second half vacation. I'll be checking in online, periodically, but mostly unable to respond to anything until I get back.
If you would like to see me while I am there, I will be in St. Malo for Etonnants Voyageurs Festival May 18 ~ 20, and then in Epinal for Imaginales Festival May 23 ~ 25.
When I'm not at panels or eating, I can probably be found at the Calmann/Orbit booth signing and chatting. I'd love love love to see you!
Etonnants Voyageurs Festival in St. Malo
* Signing in the Libraire L'Atlante (we thingk) Booth 84 *
May 18, Saturday
2:15 pm Panel: "Le Retour des vampires" = "Vampires are back"
Maison de l'Imaginaire
May 19, Sunday
4:45 ~ 5:30 pm Panel: "Gothic Girls"
Nouveaux Mondes, Room 2
May 20, Monday
9:00 am Breakfast with Fans
Café L'Univers, Grande Terrasse
Imaginales Festival in Epinal
* Signing in the La Bulle du Livre (the main festival room) *
May 23, Thursday
10:00 am Panel: "coup d'envoi des Imaginales", which means "Welcome to Imaginales!".
Espace Cours
Ken Scholes, Lucius Shepard
May 24, Frday
4:00 pm Panel "All kinds of creatures"
Magic Mirrors 2
May 25, Saturday
9:00 am Breakfast Kaffeklutch
Noon ~ 1:00 pm "La fantasy urbaine, réenchanter notre époque" or "Urban Fantasy, how to re-enchant our time".
Magic Mirrors 2
4:00 pm Q&A/Reading: "Meeting Gail Carriger"
Magic Mirrors 1
5.00 pm Panel: "Femmes et Fantasy, du faire-valoir à la femme" or "Women and Fantasy, from a foil to an action woman"
Magic Mirrors 1
May 26, Sunday
6:00 pm Panel: "One for the Road"
Magic Mirrors 1
Your Moment of Parasol . . .
Your Infusion of Cute . . .
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Your Writerly Tinctures . . .
Guest Agent Sara Megibow: Is the Agent Pitch Session an Effective Tool or Could it use a Tweak?
Waistcoats & Weaponry ~ The Finishing School Book the Third: Rough draft done. Read through time.
Etiquette & Espionage ~ trade paperback available in the US October 13, 2013.
Curtsies & Conspiracies ~ The Finishing School Book the Second: Release date November 2013. My ARCs have arrived, contest to come.
Manga ~ Soulless Vol. 3: (AKA Blameless) Available serialized through YenPlus. Print edition Nov. 19 2013.
Prudence ~ The Parasol Protectorate Abroad Book the First: Delayed. Why? Begin rewrite in 2014.
BIG FAT SPOILER ALERT on the Parasol Protectorate series! Really, DON'T READ THE BLURB ON AMAZON if you haven't read the other books first!
The Omnibus hardback editions are limited run through the SciFi Bookclub only.
The manga editions available in print.
Most short stories available in ebook form world wide!
The first Finishing School book ~ OUT NOW, The second Finishing School book ~ Nov. 5, 2013
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"My hands are perfumed with her delicious limbs, and I cannot wash off the scent. And every moment the thought comes across me of those mysterious recesses of beauty where my hands have been wandering."
~ Reverend Charles Kingsley, 1840 (AKA the author of The Water Babies)


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A millionaire's daughter was today convicted of burglary during last August's riots in London, when she helped looters steal goods by driving them around the city.
Laura Johnson, 20, whose father runs a marketing company, will be sentenced on 3 May.
Described as intelligent and well-educated, Johnson drove the balaclava-clad group around the city and allowed them to put stolen goods from an electronics store in her car.
Johnson was convicted of burglary and handling a stolen television, but cleared of a second count of burglary involving the theft of cigarettes and alcohol from a petrol station.
Figures released by the Ministry of Justice show that till February 1 this year, the number of suspects arrested in connection with the riots was 2710, of whom 89 per cent were male.
Twenty-four of the suspects arrested in London and other cities of England were of Indian origin, the figures show. The riots were sparked following the police killing of 29-year-old Mark Duggan.
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VAN METER, Iowa (AP) — In his tiny hometown, Bob Feller was the farm boy who never forgot his roots.
The flags that defined him — those representing the United States, the Navy and the Cleveland Indians — flew at half-staff on a snowy Thursday morning at the Bob Feller Museum, a day after he died of acute leukemia at the age of 92.
"It's such a great loss. Bob was a guy who was a little bit bigger than life," said museum member Ed Brown, who stopped in to drop off flowers. "He had a lot of pride about being an Iowan and about the game of baseball."
Feller's path toward the Hall of Fame began to take shape at age 16 when he caught the attention of an Indians scout. In 1936, he made his first major league start two months before his 18th birthday, showing off a rocket right arm he claimed was strengthened by doing chores at home.
Soon, every sports fan had heard about "Rapid Robert." They also knew of his "Heater from Van Meter" — hard to say whether they all realized the nickname came from this dot of a town west of Des Moines.
Feller won 266 games in 18 seasons with the Indians despite missing three full years and most of a fourth for service during World War II. He was the first pitcher to win 20 games before he was 21 and was chosen for eight All-Star games.
Elected to Cooperstown in his first year of eligibility, he enjoyed more than half his life as a Hall of Famer.
Feller is still the Indians' career leader in wins, strikeouts, innings, shutouts and complete games, and a statue of him in mid-delivery stands in his honor outside of Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Scott Havick manages the museum, which is filled with artifacts from Feller's youth, time with the Navy and playing days. Among the items: the bat an ailing Babe Ruth used to prop himself up during his farewell at Yankee Stadium in 1948.
Havick said Feller was always proudest of his service during World War II. Feller enlisted two days after Pearl Harbor was bombed — longtime lore always had it as the next day, but the museum says it was Dec. 9, 1941.
"He was the most patriotic person I've ever known in my life," Havick said. "People would ask him, 'What's the greatest win you've ever had?' You would think it would be a no-hitter. He'd say, 'World War II,' without even blinking."
Feller wasn't afraid to speak his mind, either, and his propensity for being blunt was well-known in Van Meter and beyond. But he was also remembered as a gracious man, especially with museum guests, and loved to share his endless stories about the game with anyone who'd listen.
"He had many sides to him. People think of Bob as being a gruff man that was outspoken, but Bob always said that he would speak his mind and you would never have to guess how he stood on a subject," Havick said. "He wasn't the guy you think he is. He was very loyal."
Museum staffer Delores Jones said she got a "hug and a kiss" every time she saw Feller, who'd always who greet guests with a familiar cry of "Welcome to the Wigwam!"
"He just seemed like family. He'd come in and he was always so friendly, and we'd always enjoy him talking and telling the different stories," Jones said. "We loved him dearly."
In Cleveland, fans gathered at Progressive Field to pay tribute.
The center field flag was lowered to half-staff and crews hung red, white and blue banners marking Feller's baseball career and Navy service. Fans placed memorials, including a bouquet of flowers, a bag of sunflower seeds and an inscribed "A" for Feller's wartime service on the USS Alabama, on the base of the statue bearing his likeness.
Gary Schultz of Kent, Ohio, wearing an Indians jacket, stopped by the statue to take a photo.
"He's just the epitome of Cleveland and baseball," Schultz said.
His neighbor, Rich Aber, was renewing his season tickets Thursday and reminisced about meeting Feller at spring training in Goodyear, Ariz.
"The only signed baseball I've got is by Bob," Aber said. "I'm really glad I had a chance to meet him and shake his hand, which was very large and strong."
Among the many star ballplayers who made the journey to Van Meter — a town of about 1,000 people whose claim to fame is Feller and little else — was fellow Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr.
Doerr, now 92, was a close friend of Feller's from their time battling for the AL pennant.
"Bob was just a regular, solid person. He was the same guy, all the time. He gave his opinions and he said what he thought. He didn't hedge around anything," Doerr said in a statement released by the Hall. "He was one of the top pitchers I saw in my time."


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The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, announced today grants totaling $938,000 to 15 theatres, presenting organizations and individual theatre artists in the Philadelphia region.
This year's grants range from a commissioned adaptation of Hemingway's great American novel The Sun Also Rises to the national premiere of Václav Havel's first new play since the time he was President of Czechoslovakia; from the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County starring acclaimed actress Estelle Parsons to local artist Karen Getz's comic ballet about neurotic robots, a new work to follow her sell-out production of Suburban Love Songs. Ten of this year's grants will support world premieres. Five awards went to individual artists.
PTI's grants conclude the 2009 annual grant cycle at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, which provided more than $6.6 million in funding this year to arts and culture organizations and individuals throughout the Philadelphia region.
The following projects have been awarded support:
1812 Productions ($65,000)
To workshop and produce the shared world premiere of The First Day of School, a contemporary farce from suburbia by Billy Aronson.
Arden Theatre Company ($110,000)
To produce Sunday in the Park With George, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, and direction by Terrence J. Nolen, with an inventive visual approach, a cast of 15 and complete original orchestrations to give full dramatic weight to this large-scale musical.
InterAct Theatre Company ($60,000)
To produce the world premiere of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz in InterAct's most ambitious production to date. The play uses the spectacle of professional wrestling to explore Americans' fears of terrorism and globalization.
The Kimmel Center, Inc. ($76,591)
To present the regional premiere of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County at the Forrest Theatre.
New Paradise Laboratories ($30,000)
To develop and create the world premiere of Freedom Club, a sci-fi/historical riff on the American Civil War and a futuristic showdown inspired by the government's raid on white separatists at Ruby Ridge in 1992. The piece will be created in collaboration with Adriano Shaplin and the New York-based Riot Group.
Painted Bride Art Center ($25,000—first-time grantee)
To present Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, a theatre piece compiled by Gray's widow from the known works, the unperformed stories, and the unpublished diaries of the late legendary monologist Spalding Gray, who performed regularly at the Bride. His work will now be part of Painted Bride's 40th anniversary celebration.
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe ($107,000)
To commission and present the world premiere of The Sun Also Rises, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel and created by Elevator Repair Service, a New York-based company internationally renowned for adaptations of well known novels.
Philadelphia Theatre Company ($110,000)
To produce the world premiere of nationally acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's Golden Age, a backstage period work about opera composer Vincenzo Bellini. The production will travel from Philadelphia to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Pig Iron Theatre Company ($150,000 over two years)
To support a two-year investigation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, leading to the creation of new works and a fully-staged production of the play in 2011. This project marks the largest undertaking in Pig Iron's history and follows the acclaim of their revival of Chekhov Lizardbrain in New York.
The Wilma Theater ($110,000)
To produce the American premiere of Leaving by Václav Havel, his first new play in 20 years. The play focuses on the difficulties that a former Chancellor of an unnamed European country confronts shortly after leaving power.
Madi Distefano ($14,520)
To research and workshop Meanwhile…, a two-person quick-change comedy inspired by vintage Crime Noir, which later will be premiered by Brat Productions at the 2010 Philly Fringe.
Sara Felder ($20,000)
To develop and produce the world premiere of A Queer Divine, a whimsical tale of a dancer during a time of war, to be performed in the lobbies of Philadelphia-area theatres and community centers.
Charlotte Ford ($20,000—first-time grantee)
To further develop and produce an absurdist three-person clown play called Chicken, which depicts living with our most intimate terrors, for world premiere at the 2010 Live Arts Festival.
Karen Getz ($20,000)
To develop and produce the world premiere of The AI Project, a comic-actors' ballet that explores human imperfections through the behaviors of artificially intelligent robots.
Thaddeus Phillips ($20,000)
To create, develop and perform Microworld(s), a two-part world premiere solo work that addresses the current economic and climate crises and the need for creative thought about sustainable lifestyles.
"We are impressed by the ambition and scale of these projects," said Fran Kumin, Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. "This year's PTI grants support a broad range of productions aimed at varied theatrical tastes. At one end of the spectrum, audiences will see a revered musical performed with a full orchestra and a large cast; at the other, experimental works created using multi-media and innovative green technology. We are particularly pleased to support five individual artists—a milestone for the Initiative and an indication of the artistry in our theatre community."
"We are proud to support this diverse array of projects that will bring high quality performances to local audiences," said Gregory Rowe, Director of Culture Initiatives and Deputy Director of the Philadelphia Program at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
PTI grants are awarded annually on a competitive basis. Grant recipients are chosen by a distinguished national panel of theatre professionals with a broad knowledge of the field. PTI's 2009 panel included the following professionals:
About The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is dedicated to stimulating a vibrant cultural community in the five-county, Southeastern Pennsylvania region. Established in 2005, the Center houses seven funding initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Through these initiatives the Center supports area artists and arts and heritage organizations whose work is distinguished by excellence, imagination, and courage. Each year, the Center's grants make possible more than 800 performances in dance, music, and theatre as well as history and visual arts exhibitions, and other public programs for audiences in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. In addition to its grantmaking, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage functions as a nexus for the exchange of ideas around artistic expression and cultural interpretation. The Center also produces lectures, symposia, workshops, and publications that engage critical issues in the fields we serve. For more information, visit www.pcah.us.
The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) was established in 1995 to foster artistic advancement and excellence in the region's nonprofit professional theatre. The program represents The Pew Charitable Trusts' ongoing commitment to the theatre professionals that serve, entertain and educate the people of Philadelphia and the surrounding communities. For more information, visit http://www.pcah.us/theatre.
Homepage photo credit: The Wilma Theater by B. Krist for GPTMC.