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We have covered the Tweetro saga before, which basically amounts to no third party twitter clients being able to have more than 100,000 users.
This forced the developer, LazyWormApps, to pull their well-regarded twitter client Tweetro from the Windows 8 Store, as a free, ad-supported client would just not be financially viable with such a small user base.
The app has now returned in a premium form for a rather pricy $9.99. Times this by a potential 100,000 users and the total ends up close to $1 million, which should keep LazyWormApps in pizza for some time.
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Lawmakers in 27 states toil under the vigilant gaze of activists 60 and over who propose, and track, legislation affecting the elderly. The first Silver Haired Legislature was formed in Missouri in 1973, according to Felix Nigh, president of the National Council of Silver Haired Legislators.
Twenty-six years later, Silver Haired Legislature chapters are in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Now seniors in New Mexico and Arizona are trying to boost the number of states with model legislatures for senior citizens to 29, Nigh says.
Congress also gets an earful when it comes to issues affecting elderly. Senior advocates belonging to the National Silver Haired Congress see to that.
On the state level, Silver Haired Legislature members are elected by their peers and try to influence bills pertaining to medical care, consumer protection and age discrimination, among other matters. But advocacy isn't limited just to matters affecting those with silver hair.
During the 1999 legislative session, Texas's 116-member Silver Haired Legislature worked at:
"We pass anywhere from 65 percent to 70 percent of our proposals," boasts Nigh, 71, a Texas Silver Hair who's a retired oil company employee. Before the session begins, "we take a bound booklet of resolutions to every senator's office, every representative's office, the governor, the Lt. Governor and the secretary of state. Nigh added, "We start doing that in late September."
Florida has the highest percentage of elderly residents, according the U.S. Bureau of the Census. In 1997, the latest year for which statistics are available, 18.5 percent of Floridians were 65 years old or older. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island tied for second at 15.8 percent.
West Virginia was next at 15.1 percent, then Iowa 15.0 percent, North Dakota and Connecticut 14.4 percent, Arkansas and South Dakota 14.3 percent and Massachusetts 14.1 percent.
The Census Bureau predicts Nigh and his colleagues nationwide will have dramatically bigger constituencies in coming decades.
In 1997, 34.1 million U.S. citizens were 65 and older, according to the Census Bureau. That is projected to grow to an estimated 34.7 million at the beginning of the next millennium, 39.4 million in 2010, 53.2 million seniors in 2020 and 69.4 million in 2030. The tremendous increase from 2010 to 2030 will be driven in large part by the "baby boomers" reaching 65 years of age.
And the rise would be even more impressive if it included individuals 60 years old, the entry age for Silver Haired Legislature members.
Despite having the highest percentage of senior residents, the ride hasn't been smooth for Florida's Silver Haired Legislature the last year or so. Its clout has been weakened by a shift to Republican dominance, instead of senior-friendly Democrats.
In addition Florida, the first state to approve school vouchers, put a lot of legislative energy in 1999 into education, crime and the environment, generally not top priorities for the elderly.
University of South Florida professor Susan MacManus, considered an expert on senior politics, says the Silver Haired Lobby in Florida is waning in importance. "Once they received massive amounts of attention," MacManus, who teaches political science, told the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. "Now they are an afterthought."
That could change dramatically toward the early part of the next century.
The speaker of Rhode Island's 100-member Silver Haired Legislature, Joseph Corrente, isn't looking that far ahead. He's more concerned about his legislature's failure this year to earmark $11 million of Rhode Island's tobacco settlement for health care programs for the elderly.
"We ended up with about $1 million, far short of our expectations," says Corrente, 76. The World War II and Korean War veteran will continue to fight for the needs of Rhode Island seniors, though.
"The old adage is that seniors certainly do go out and vote," Corrente says cagily, "and legislators are aware of that."


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San Francisco Ballet
'Square Dance,' 'Stravinsky Violin Concerto,' 'Who Cares?'
by Jeff Kuo
April 3, 2004 matinee -- War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
"Square Dance"
San Francisco Ballet has acquired that amazing work, "Square Dance." At times ticking over like the finely-tuned engine of a Ferrari and at other times barging at us like a coal-fired locomotive, "Square Dance" is one of those ballets that rockets along at about a million miles per hour leaving nothing but dust devils and flying gravel in its wake. The Balanchine repertory is full of these high carb ballets: "Theme and Variations," "Stars and Stripes," "Western Symphony," "Symphony in C," and so on.
Originally intended to be performed with professional square dance caller (the original was Elisha C. Keeler), calling out the steps but danced to a strictly Baroque score by Vivaldi and Corelli, the ballet was intended to remind audiences of the formal debt owed by early academic dance as much to the social dance forms such as the fete and masquerade as to the court spectacles and allegorical compositions meant foremost as political theater.
Nancy Goldner's program notes reports that when Lincoln Kirstein first suggested omitting the caller, Balanchine objected: "At the time, Balanchine didn't want that, because without the caller, he said, 'Square Dance' would merely look like 'an inferior '[Concerto] Barocco'." Balanchine was wrong – Bart Cook's staging (for whom Balanchine choreographed the Sarabande in the 1976 version) is performed without caller and the orchestra in the pit, with a spaciousness and clarity emphasizing the structural affinities common to both the classroom and the social dance floor.
At the same time "Square Dance" is one of those academic pieces that requires high intensity stage lighting so we can see every position and every beat clearly, it's also satisfying theater. The momentum from its opening featuring 2 demi-soloists to its finale for the entire ensemble is break neck. This is more – and less – than just tongue-in-cheek "Concerto Barocco." What it lacks of the spaciousness and spirituality of "Barocco" it makes up with sheer cheekiness. In the ballet there is even a kind of "Guerra de los Sexos" between Nicolas Blanc with the male corps and Vanessa Zahorian with the female corps – jetes versus echappes (or whatever the correct terminology is…).
If "Square Dance" is "Concerto Barocco" with a Looney Tunes cast, Vanessa Zahorian and Nicolas Blanc were sheer value for money as its Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote leads. In the rather non-Merrie Melodies interlude, Blanc was especially good in the majestically proportioned "Sarabande." Though Zahorian occasionally had difficulty projecting the de rigueur outsize ballerina personality during moments of stillness, at every other time her pointe shoes were smoking. The corps got especially high marks for precision, particularly impressive in their ability to land from multiple beats as one. Megan Low and Joanna Mednick, who opened the piece, looked especially smart.
Richard Bernas conducted the equally smart sounding orchestra featuring violinists, Roy Malan, Janice McIntosh, Marianne Wagner, Craig Reiss, and cellist David Kadarauch.
"Stravinsky Violin Concerto"
I think it was Pierre Boulez who identified Stravinsky as one of early modern music's great 'simplifiers' (as Schoenberg was one of its 'exaggerators'). Boulez said something like: Stravinsky's music is situated in the place between violence and irony, which are the two faces of 'simplification.' [Classical music people out there, help me out if I got it wrong.] This might have been said of Balanchine's "Stravinsky Violin Concerto."
In this dense and oddly proportioned work, there is a nervous tension between dancers and the music – unmistakably symbolized by the striking way the ballet opens with its five soloists standing completely still facing the audience. They remain that way while the violin soloist races on until we begin to wonder if Balanchine is playing one of his choreographer's jokes on us. The rest of the ballet catches us up in such moments.
Though never boring to watch, it seemed to me Lorena Feijoo and Yuri Possokhov were spectacularly miscast. Their "Aria I" pas de deux seemed so intent on untangling the Gordian knot of the choreography, that their sense of the concerto's high strung tension seemed diluted. Mysteries seemed to multiply. Julie Diana and Vadim Solomakha fared much better in their performance of the sexy and dangerous duet of "Aria II." It may change the way I see their fresh young faces in the future.
The violin soloist was Roy Malan accompanied by Richard Bernas and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
"Who Cares?"
What "Square Dance" does for the American frontier, "Who Cares?" does for Gershwin. Only uglier – but that's a fault only of the corps costumes, both men and women – something of a gawd-help-us – especially the tall girls corps' fluorescent yellow-green tutus with the faux cheerleader skirts.
The men fare little better in their dark slacks and red necktie belts which make them resemble cartoonish Lotharios swanking about some B-movie salsa room. Looking over Arlene Croce's 1970 review in "Afterimages," I believe that the costumes are accurate to the 1970s staging – but for all their allusions to Astaire and Chanel, I find that the only good thing one can say about them is that in a world of ignorance and uncertainty, I find them oddly bracing – they give you the feeling that not much really matters.
In the ballet's first section, the corps look (in addition to bracing) quite smart in their dancing. Chidozie Nzerem, especially, in the all males' pas de cinq, "Bidin' My Time," a sort of Gershwin-does-"Raymonda" Act III. I'd like to see Nzerem front and center more often. His compadres were Garrett Anderson, Brett Bauer, Steven Norman, and Pablo Piantino.
The soloists, who take over from "The Man I Love" to the finale, looked simply delicious: Tina LeBlanc was costumed in a pink-lavender tutu, Sarah Van Patten in a light pink one, and Rachel Viselli in peachy-orange. Ruben Martin did alright in his lavender shirt and salsa slacks.
As other have pointed out, from "The Man I Love" to the end of the ballet, the ballet features an Apollo-like cast of a central male dancer (Martin) dancing with three female dancers (LeBlanc, Van Patten, and Viselli). Though "Who Cares?" is not always staged with this reference to "Apollo" (for instance, it is not in the excellent Balanchine Celebration video), when it is, Balanchine's take on classicism is clear. The ballet "Apollo," with its games and role playing, is almost tiresome in its sustained belief of the perfectibility of art. "Who Cares?" answers "Apollo's" query from a different tack. Again quoting Croce: "To the question 'What is classicism?' Balanchine responds with a blithe shrug and a popular song." More Croce:
The music is the same parade of Gershwin hits that has been going on ever since the beginning only now with the lights blue and the stars out, we listen more intently. If this is a musical-comedy world, it's the most beautiful one that was ever imagined. (Croce 1970)
Tina LeBlanc was, as they say, pretty in pink ("Fascinatin' Rhythm"), Sarah Van Patten was a charmer in "My One and Only," and Rachel Viselli a convincingly Terpsichorean Adele ("I"ll Build a Stairway to Paradise") to Ruben Martin's Astaire-as-crooner ("Liza").
Daniel Waite was on the piano and Richard Bernas conducted the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra except, perhaps, for the trombones who sounded wa-a-ay out there.
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We're happy to have Johnnie Alexander with us today sharing a devotional and an excerpt from her book, Where Treasure Hides.
Monuments. Memorials. Museums.
I spent two weeks in May visiting New York City and Washington DC, two cities steeped in history and culture.
We visited several landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the Empire State Building. Our first evening in the nation's capital, we walked from our hotel to the Washington Monument and then made the circuit of the surrounding memorials—those erected to honor great men and to remember those who died sacrificed their life in times of war.
On a hot afternoon in New York, I stood at Ground Zero, my fingers tracing the engraved names of strangers who had died on September 11th. A little over a week later, I was at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. Venus shone bright in the night sky, a distant white circle, while soft yellow lights shimmered in the shallow pool beneath each of the Memorial's cantilevered benches.
A display at the Holocaust Museum honors those who are known to have risked their lives to protect others from Hitler's cruel regime. The names of these courageous individuals are grouped by nationality. Sometimes a picture puts a face to the name.
So much history. So many names.
I ponder this question:
Why we are so compelled to build monuments to the past.
The drive to never forget not just significant events but also significant individuals goes beyond a desire to show honor. It's not just desire, but a deep and intense need to engrave our history into marble and stone for those who come after us.
Perhaps the earliest fulfillment of this need occurred when the earth's inhabitants attempted to build the Tower of Babel. God didn't appreciate their efforts and confused their language.
But in later times, He encouraged the building of memorials such as in this passage from Exodus:
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, saying, "A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation" (Exodus 17:14-16; ESV).
Hundreds of years earlier, the patriarch Jacob, of his own volition, erected a memorial at the place where he had dreamed of a ladder reaching to heaven:
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. He called the name of that place Bethel" (Genesis 28:18-19a; ESV).
Pondering all this leads to other questions:
What are the memorials of my life? Who or what do they honor?
What do I pray my children and grandchildren never forget?
What will be my legacy?
My words and actions build a monument that's added to daily. My hope and desire is that it honors God.
An excerpt from where treasure hides...
An excerpt from where treasure hides...
Where Treasure Hides
Johnnie Alexander
Chapter One
August 1939
The stringed notes of "Rule, Britannia!" grew louder as the crowd quieted, eyes and ears straining in their search for the violin soloist. The patriotic anthem echoed through Waterloo Station's concourse, and as the second chorus began, sporadic voices sang the lyrics. Travel- weary Brits stood a little straighter, chins lifted, as the violinist completed the impromptu performance, the last note sounding long after the strings were silenced.
Alison Schuyler gripped her leather bag and threaded her way through the crowd toward the source of the music. As the final note faded inside the hushed terminal, she squeezed between a sailor and his girl, murmuring an apology at forcing them to part, and stepped onto a bench to see over the crowd. A dark-haired boy, no more than seven or eight, held the violin close to his anemic frame. His jacket, made of a finely woven cloth, hung loosely on his thin shoulders. The matching trousers would have slipped down his hips if not for his hand-tooled leather belt.
Either the boy had lost weight or his parents had purposely provided him clothes to grow into. Alison hoped for the latter, though from the rumors she'd heard, her first assumption was all too likely. She stared at the cardboard square, secured by a thick length of twine, that the boy wore as a cheap necklace. The penciled writing on the square numbered the boy as 127.
Other children crowded near the young musician, each one dressed in their fine traveling clothes, each one labeled with cardboard and twine. Germany's castaways, transported to England for their own safety while their desperate parents paced the floors at home and vainly wished for an end to these troublesome days.
"Now will you allow him to keep his violin?" A man's voice, pleasant but firm, broke the spell cast over the station. The children fidgeted and a low murmur rumbled through the crowd. The speaker, dressed in the khaki uniform of a British Army officer, ignored them, his gaze intent on the railroad official overseeing the children.
"He better," said a woman standing near Alison. "Never heard anything so lovely. And the lad not even one of the king's subjects. I'd take him home myself—yes, I would—if I'd a bed to spare."
Alison mentally sketched the tableau before her, pinning the details into her memory. The officer's hand resting on the boy's shoulder; the official, a whistle around his neck, restlessly tapping his clipboard with his pencil; the dread and hope in the boy's eyes as he clutched his prized instrument. The jagged square that tagged his identity.
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[This chapter continues Book 2: Rivals] Jen sat across from Biff in her office. All afternoon she'd recited status updates and action items as her intern Biff frantically took notes. As evening descended they were finally done. "Thanks for coming in on a Sunday," she said giving Biff a grateful smil


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More than 100 health-care workers from Broward and Dade counties met Friday to discuss one of the most difficult ethical issues of the decade: how to deal with the terminally ill.
``The controversy used to be settled by the grim reaper - death,`` said James McCartney, director of The Bioethics Institute at St. Francis Hospital in Miami. ``But now technology leaves all that up to us.``
After three hours of discussion, it became clear that the majority of health- care professionals present accepts brain death - the point at which the brain stops functioning while the heart still beats - as the equivalent of death.
``If you accept this, there is no such thing as a brain-dead patient,`` McCartney said. ``Because when the brain is dead, the body is not a patient, it is a corpse.``
But McCartney and other experts agreed that the difficulty for health-care professionals is not in diagnosing the condition of terminally ill patients, but dealing with them and their families.
McCartney said the purpose of the seminar was to have an exchange between ethics scholars and health-care professionals in South Florida to better deal with the terminally ill.
``Everyone - doctors, nurses, patients and pastoral counselors - has different ideals, and sometimes those ideals conflict,`` McCartney said. For example, a doctor is taught to preserve life at any cost, while an individual may long instead for a dignified death.
Cynthia Comeau, assistant director of nursing at St. Francis Hospital, said relatives of terminally ill patients have sometimes refused to accept death and prolonged an unpleasant demise at great expense to themselves. She said just one intravenous feeding, which is usually given every two or three hours, costs $533 at St. Francis.
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I spend quite a bit of time perusing sites like Producer's Web to see what topics on selling insurance are trending among my peers so that I can be timely with the information I provide.
One of the most prevalent items I see is from guys and gals that want to figure out how to use social media to start selling insurance.
The vast majority of chatter centers around different strategies that an agent can use on Facebook, Twitter and Linked In to drive leads for your agency.
While success can certainly be had using these mediums and the methods that others have developed, it's been my experience that the road to success in the social media arena is long and hard for insurance agents.
They all take a consistent and concerted effort to pull off – an effort that needs to be continuously repeated. As soon as you stop, it's done. Plus, you have to walk the fine line of mindset.
There is a fine art to taking someone from the social mindset into the buying mindset, which is the process you have to go through if you want someone to become interested in talking about their insurance from a social media platform.
Those are points I don't hear many people talking about because usually the ones starting these conversations are people who sell social media marketing services.
My advice is that if you are going to engage in this type of marketing, make sure that you put things in place to directly measure your results. You should be able to tell exactly how many leads you generated from each social media outlet and exactly how much money you made selling insurance to those leads.
Otherwise you really don't have any idea how affective your social media campaigns have been or are performing…
Having said all of that, I want to introduce you to a concept that I don't see anyone else in the insurance space talking about – social signals.
If you are not familiar with that term, a social signal is basically the Facebook "Like" button, Google +1 button and any other social media sharing button that you can put on your website.
These social signals have become a double whammy for online insurance marketing that can have an enormous, direct impact on your ability to start selling insurance by marketing online.
For the rest of this article, I'm going to lay out three reasons why these social signals are absolutely huge and how you can leverage them to your benefit pretty quickly (depending on where you are already at with marketing online).
Reason #1 To Use Social Signal Now:
The first and most powerful reason to use social signals on your website is what we call in the online marketing space "the viral co-efficient".
Here's what that is:
Each time someone uses a social sharing button on your site – whether that's the Facebook like button or Google +1 button or any other social button for that matter…
It gets posted to the news feed of the person who clicked it, which means all of their friends see that they just "liked" your website.
A fair percentage of that person's friends will click on the post going back to your website because people usually have the same interests.
This generates free traffic to your website. Also, many of these people will click a social sharing button on your site – thus posting to their news feed and broadcasting your content out their friends.
If you content is interesting, engaging and or helpful enough to people, it can really mushroom and make your content spread virally across the web.
Any content that "goes viral" starts this way. And that's the viral co-efficient in a nutshell. It's a way to generate free traffic to your website. If your website is doing a good job of selling people, you can pull leads and appointments from this free traffic.
Reason #2 To Use Social Signal Now:
This next one is a bit more abstract and is going to take some background explanation before most of you understand it, so bear with me as I lay the framework for this reason…
It really has to do with psychology. Dr. Robert Cialdini wrote a book called "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion". If you haven't read this book yet, you need to right away as it will have a profound impact on how you market and sell insurance both online and in person.
In his book, Cialdini discusses research he conducted over a twenty year period – the majority of it in selling situations where he had infiltrated different organizations like car dealerships.
From all of his research, he distilled down what he calls six "weapons of influence" that trigger automatic responses in people's brains. When a sales person or marketer utilizes these weapons properly, he or she can effectively persuade their prospect.
One of the most powerful weapons he discusses is that of social proof. The most commonly used method of social proof over the last 100 years is the testimonial.
However, social signals have become an extremely powerful method of social proof that you can use on your website to start persuading people and selling insurance more frequently.
Think about it – if you land on a page that has 75 people that "like" it versus one that has zero, which one are you going to trust?
Of course it's the one that already has been confirmed as likable!
Reason #3 To Use Social Signal Now:
Once you have a website established, your prime objective is getting traffic to that site so you can generate leads and sales off of it. That's really the only reason to have a website, in my opinion…
The Hold Grail of traffic is organic search – getting free clicks to your site from Google, Bing, Yahoo or any of the other search engines when people type in a keyword phrase you are targeting.
In order to obtain organic traffic, you have to go through a process called search engine optimization or SEO for short. This is a combination of doing things on your page and off your page that make the search engines like your website and thus rank it higher.
The goal being to get your website onto the first page of the search engine, preferably into the #1 – 3 slots for most traffic.
Up until recently, the biggest off page factor in search rankings was links coming back to your website. The sites with the most links, the most relevant links and the most high quality links would rank the highest.
However, Google found out that many businesses were manipulating their ranking algorithms with aggressive, paid link building – and they don't like that.
So they've been going through round after round of algorithm updates to penalize the businesses that engage in that practice.
One of the newly implemented ranking factors that is playing a huge role now is social signals.
Sites that are using these social signals and have a fair amount of them on their pages are ranking higher than sites that don't use them.
Social signals are basically the new backlink in the SEO arena. If you are looking to increase your organic traffic, then you MUST implement social signals.
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By Rebecca Hahn. (Atheneum, 256 pages, $17.99, grades seven and up.)
Chloe spins the wool and shapes the thread that is a life; her older sisters measure the thread and cut it where it ends. Together, they are the three fates: Their handiwork is your destiny. They cannot interfere with mortal lives; their job is only to know. But when a beautiful young girl appears at their doorstep, her village ravaged, her family gone, the sisters cannot help but become invested in her future — a dangerous attachment that threatens to overturn the whole world. More than a fairy tale, Rebecca Hahn's otherworldly novel is a haunting meditation on what makes us human.
By William Alexander. (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 272 pages, $16.99, middle grade.)
With the sequel to last year's "Ambassador," National Book Award winner William Alexander brings readers back to outer space — where Gabe Fuentes, ambassador of Earth, is trying to navigate a galactic diplomatic crisis: The ruthless Outlast are threatening to take over the entire galaxy. But Gabe, a hero to root for and the anchor of the novel's complicated plot, has more on his mind than saving the civilization — back on Earth, his dad has been deported from the United States to Mexico, and all Gabe really wants to do is find him.
By Margi Preus. (Amulet Books/Abrams, 335 pages, $16.95, middle grade.)
It's 1853, and 13-year-old Yoshi dreams of someday becoming a samurai — an impossibility, given that he's just a servant. But when Commodore Perry's British ships arrive at Edo Bay, asking for the long isolated country to open its ports, Japan is thrown into upheaval, and Yoshi embarks on an epic adventure that will lead him to places (and people) he never could have imagined. A sure-footed tale of friendship and intrigue, the companion book to the Newbery Honor-winning "Heart of a Samurai" brings history to life.
Margi Preus will read at 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at Addendum Books, 478 S. Cleveland Av., St. Paul.
By George Saunders; illustrated by Lane Smith. (Random House, 84 pages, $22, all ages.)
Kindhearted, bizarre and delightful, Saunders' profound — and profoundly witty — fable tells the story of a girl named Capable who lives in the goat-herding town of Frip. Hordes of bright-orange creatures called gappers attach themselves to the goats, and every day Capable and her neighbors must remove them. But one day, the gappers switch their strategy, and Capable finds herself alone — and surrounded by neighbors who can't be bothered to help. Fifteen years after its release, this new edition has never been more relevant.
Saunders will read at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at Macalester College. Presented by Rain Taxi Review and Common Good Books. Tickets are $5.
By David Oppegaard. (Flux, 312 pages, $11.99, grades nine and up.)
Mack Druneswald, 18-year-old slacker and possibly the most affable arsonist in literary history, has a firebug in his chest: Since his mother's recent death, roving through the night setting fires has become less a hobby than a compulsion — which, Mack would be the first to admit, is less than ideal. More ideal: his unexpected relationship with an impossibly cool college girl who has her own set of issues to deal with. This darkly comic coming-of-age story with tremendously likable characters also packs a serious emotional punch.
Oppegaard will read at 7 p.m. Dec. 9 at Bad Weather Brewing, 414 W. 7th St., St. Paul.
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MIPTV 2003 attendance dips 11 per cent
PARIS: The concern over the Iraq conflict saw a drop in attendance for the 40th anniversary edition of MIPTV (International Television Programme Market) . The Cannes event which took place from 24-28 March attracted 9,104 delegates. Last year the figure was 10,200.
An official release informs that 2,705 companies from 89 countries and 2,336 buyers gathered to do business during this year's market. There were 1247 exhibiting companies. This was a slight improvement from last year when there were 2,686 companies from 92 countries including 1205 exhibiting companies.
As per feedback received from international delegates, the television market provided the perfect environment to generate lucrative deals. Many participants noted that they had more time to spend with their clients and thus consolidated their partnerships. They also noticed an increase in the overall level of quality of production being shown at MIPTV.
The release states that since seeing formats were still high on broadcasters' agendas, the genre has now entered a new phase of growth, culminating in cross-genre concepts which incorporate other non-format production elements taken from drama, sitcom or factual entertainment. With a feast of original programming on offer and catering to the ongoing demand, the UK's Action Time signed a multi-format deal with the pan-European production company Europroducciones.
MIPTV saw BBC Worldwide, German channel ZDF and ORF sign a major co-production deal for the landmark series The Natural History of Europe., Arte, Southern Star, & Associes and Tele Images have joined forces to produce a documentary Operation Aquapolis.
In addition Tiburon TV confirmed a license agreement with Distraction Formats for the scripted comedy Camera Caf' and IDTV's new drama format Finals was signed as a development license by Channel 4 (UK). The ultimate format extravaganza came in the form of Eurobest, the European finale of Endemol's Star Academy which was hosted during MIPTV 2003 and broadcast live by TF1. The show welcomed special performances from Tom Jones, Mariah Carey and Atomic Kitten, who graced the Grand Auditorium stage in the Palais des Festivals.
TF1 extended its output agreement with Carlton International, with the deal covering TV movies from Carlton America. ZDF Enterprises and Discovery Communications extended their programming and production joint venture until 2005.
MILIA, which also celebrated its 10th anniversary and ran alongside MIPTV 2003 from 26 - 28 March had over 1300 professionals from 53 countries. MIPTV 2004 is scheduled to take place on 29 March to 2 April, preceded by MIPDOC which will run from 27 to 28 March.
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Rome and Home: The Cultural Uses of Rome in Early Modern English Literature
Ancient Rome had a pervasive hold over the early modern imagination and its influence can be discerned in a variety of sources, discourses, and practices during the period. Episodes from Roman history provided the inspiration for numerous plays and narrative poems, as well as offering an effective means of interrogating such political and philosophical positions as republicanism, absolutism and stoicism. Roman history also provided a host of good and bad exemplary figures, as well as highlighting the dangers of civil war and political factionalism. Roman authors like Seneca, Juvenal, Horace, and Terence also had a considerable influence on the development of various literary genres during the period and many historical and political works were influenced by both the style and content of such commentators as Cicero and Tacitus. The influence of ancient Rome also had a bearing upon English national identity. The myth of the translatio imperii, as promulgated in the histories of Geoffrey of Monmouth, was often appropriated in propaganda as a means of legitimising England's imperial ambitions. James I also set out to refashion himself as an Augustan ruler whose iconography owed much to the resonance of imperial Rome.
This special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies will explore the influence of ancient Rome upon the literature and culture of early modern England and the related issues it provoked. We therefore welcome proposals for articles that consider any aspect of this subject; topics for discussion may include (but are not restricted to):
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Truro to host Mi'kmaq Heritage Hockey Classic game
Heritage Day on Monday will honour the heritage, culture, and important accomplishments of the Mi'kmaq community.
In the lead up to the provincial holiday, Mi'kmaq chiefs and council will face off against federal and provincial politicians and staff from Nova Scotia in a two-game hockey challenge called The Mi'kmaq Heritage Hockey Classic – Bury the Hatchet.
The theme, Bury the Hatchet, was chosen to honour a ceremony held in 1761 that saw the signing of the Halifax Treaties, which marked the end of more than 75 years of hostility between the Mi'kmaq and the British.
Renowned Millbrook artist Alan Syliboy created the logo for the event, while a Mi'kmaq elder hand-crafted three traditional hockey sticks.
A stick will be left at each rink as a legacy of the games and the third stick will serve as a trophy awarded to the winning team of the series, in Millbrook.
The first game is Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre, followed by a game at 10 a.m. Monday at the Rath Eastlink Community Centre in Truro.
The games will begin with the singing of the Mi'kmaq Honour Song, and will be performed in Truro by the Samqwan Boyz.
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The yen rebounded from a 2-1/2-year low on Tuesday after Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari's remarks that excessive yen weakness could have a negative impact on the country sparked profit-taking in heavy bets against the Japanese currency.
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Keen to tackle the deflation that has dogged Japan's economy for years, Abe wants the cautious Bank of Japan to adopt a 2 percent inflation target – something the central bank is expected to consider when it meets later this month.
Inflation in Japan fell 0.2 percent in November from a year earlier, after a 0.4 percent decline in October. A weak currency, brought about by aggressive monetary easing would help boost inflation, analysts say.
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NEW YORK, NY, Dec. 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Navigators Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAVG) announced today that its preliminary estimate of losses relating to Superstorm Sandy ranges between $18 million and $25 million, net of reinsurance and the effects of reinstatement premiums.
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CRITTENDEN, KY (FOX19) - AirCare rushed two children and one adult to local hospitals following a two-vehicle crash in southwest Kenton County.
The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Bracht-Piner Road.
Police say that the accident involved a pickup truck and a second vehicle with three passengers.
AirCare was called to the scene. Two children were flown to Children's Hospital and one adult was flown to University Hospital. Authorities say the driver of the pickup was uninjured.
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We've been offline for a few long weeks, and are now finally back with a brand-new website! Let us introduce ourselves, the Vagrant Workshop. We're a small group of independent game designers driven by dedication to quality. We trust in our products and enjoy great designs, both mechanically and visually. Our main way of publishing books is DriveThruRPG, where we offer high-quality print and PDF books (okay, just one printed book at the moment, but we're working on more!).
Our games have been around for quite a while. The latest addition to that line is BARBAREN! - The Ultimate Macho Roleplaying Game, a tongue-in-cheek approach to fantasy gaming (best read with Arnold Schwarzenegger's heavy accent in mind). The next game coming up is Vampire City, a gamemasterless roleplaying game focusing on those ever-popular creatures of the night. Vampire City is a truly collaborative experience--a chance for players to build a compelling story together, even while pursuing contrary interests!
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And Remi? She's devastated. Because now when the trash can is found pulled over on the kitchen floor we don't beat the dog. So her feelings are, we have to find him - AND FAST!
I think this video goes to show that at the end of the day, no matter how devastated you are about your Poppie's dog, a girl eventually just needs a moment away from the cameras. It's a hard life.
Also on our list of things to do in Texas? Celebrate my Granny's birthday at Cotton Patch. That's right, I said, Cotton Patch. Doesn't that just sound sophisticated? Oh, yes indeedy, it was.
I feasted on FRIED catfish. And FRIED okra. And french FRIES. (I should be dead by now. Obviously, God has more work for me to do. I digress...)
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Polish International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumna Małgorzata Górska was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 19, 2010. Górska, an environmental activist from the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, won the award for her successful campaign to halt the construction of a highway that would have cut through the Rospuda Valley, one of Europe's last patches of undisturbed wilderness and home to a variety of wildlife and endangered bird species.
The Goldman Environmental Prize comes with a $150,000 cash award and is informally known as the "Green Nobel Prize." The Goldman Prize Committee said that Górska was " was "instrumental in fostering a citizens' movement (…) to protect the Rospuda Valley from construction." Górska took part in an IVLP project entitled "Balancing Environmentalism and Transportation" in 2008.
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WHY would ANYONE want to kill one of these beautiful creatures????????/
CULTURE MATTERS: The Cougar Fund hosts discussion
JACKSON HOLE, WYO – What's the first thing you think of when you see the animal pictured above? Maybe ten percent of people will respond with something "Westernly" witty like, "BANG!" or "Makes a good target." The majority of the population questions the need to kill mountain lions for sport. At least that was the prevailing thought on May 9 at a Game & Fish meeting to discuss hunting quotas for the upcoming mountain lion season.
The Cougar Fund will host an evening of discussion concerning conservation in the 21st century and how wildlife management policies need to change with the times and better reflect the voice of non-hunters.
"There is a disconnect between the general public and the paid government officials who decide the fate of our wildlife species," says Cara Blessley Lowe, co-founder of The Cougar Fund and moderator of the evening's talk. "And game agencies aren't set up for the participation of the non-hunter in their version of 'wildlife conservation.'"
The event will feature four prominent speakers including co-founder and acclaimed nature photographer Thomas Mangelsen who said, "I was told that the role of the Wyoming Game & Fish Department is to provide hunting opportunity. If you're not interested in killing an animal there is no box to tick, so essentially your voice pretty much goes unheard."
"Killing, Cougars, and Compassionate Conservation: The Future of Wild Animals" 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at Mangelen's Images of Nature Gallery at 170 N. Cache St. The event is free and open to the public. Contact The Cougar Fund at 733-0797.
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it is sick way the hell do they kill cougars for as it is not the animals foult it is the humans foult. and cougars is a animal that is on the way to exintions and it is bad really bad to kill any of them . pot a stop to the hunting of cougars.
All wildlife is held in the public trust, and agencies of the state should exercise fiduciary duty to that trust. F&G agencies in most states work not only against the public trust by catering to hunters, but also against the fiscal well-being of the state. Wyoming, for instance, ignores both the science of cougars' impact on habitat and stream health, but also the number of people involved in outdoor recreation and their associated expenditures.
According to the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, Wyoming had 140,000 people hunt in WY, and those hunters spent $289 Million. Fishing though, accounted for 303,000 anglers, and $464 M. Wildlife watchers ponied up numbers of 182,000 participants that spent $350 Million.
Mountain lions are probably not an animal that wildlife watchers expect to see, other than in a lucky glimpse. However, scientific studies show that cougars contribute to riparian health, maintaining (or restoring) habitat for songbirds, butterflies, native fish, and multiple other species. As the habitat improves, there is increased draw for fishing and wildlife watching. Even hunting improves, for those actual hunters who care to leave the vehicle and road surface and get out where wild animals live.
F&G departments that allow trophy-hunting of apex predators are part of the nation's system of iron-triangles that cater to the few, at the expense of the vast majority, including future generations that will live in an impoverished world because petty bureaucrats lacked moral fibre to do what is best for the environment, and ultimately, us.
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Slow cooked corned beef, made into reubens.
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We've all outstayed our welcomes at bars and restaurants from time to time, but some places have pesky customers who have been there for ages. Literally. At these 13 creepy joints, the spirits extend well beyond a nice whiskey list. They include murdered cowboys, slain prostitutes, victims of serial killers, and even the dude who shot Alexander Hamilton. Here are rap sheets for some of America's greatest places to drink with the dead.
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Poogan's Porch
Charleston, SC
Although it would be adorable, Poogan's Porch isn't actually haunted by a canine poltergeist. The restaurant's namesake went to the light long ago, but the same cannot be said for Zoe St. Amand, a spinster schoolteacher who died in the building in the 1950s. Zoe is apparently a fan of rotating place settings around the tables and forging food orders, as well as hurling bar stools at the staff and busting open doors when she's pissed off. If only Poogan were there to calm her down.
Old Town Pizza
Portland, OR
Owner Adam Milne is ostensibly the man in charge of this pizza joint, but it's Nina who really runs the show. The ghost has been hanging around the place for a century, and it is not for sentimental reasons. Nina was a sex slave who entertained clients at the Merchant Hotel, where Old Town Pizza now stands atop the city's infamous Shanghai Tunnels. Missionaries came to town and promised to rescue her if she gave up the pimps, which she readily did. Only those guys weren't too pleased about it, and decided to throw her down the elevator shaft as punishment. She supposedly scratched her name into a brick on that elevator shaft, which is now part of a booth, and today frequently appears to watch the patrons eat. If you smell any faint perfume or spot a ghostly chick in a black dress, you've just met Nina.
New Orleans, LA
In a city like NOLA, haunted buildings are a dime-a-dozen. And while Muriel's doesn't boast the most horrific backstory, it's seen some dark deeds. In the late 1700s, Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan bought the burned-out mansion and restored it to its old charms. Then, in a classic future-ghost move, he bet the entire house in a poker game, which he lost. Because he couldn't bear to leave the place, he killed himself on the second floor, right around where the Seance Lounges stand today. Jourdan spends most of his time there -- he pops up as a shimmery light rather than a complete ghostly form, but he still knocks on the brick wall with the gusto of a full-fledged apparition. And he's got company. Paranormal investigators picked up the voice of a woman in the Seance Lounges, and there's definitely another poltergeist in the Courtyard Bar who's big on smashing glasses. Once they all complete their nightly shenanigans, they presumably enjoy a nice dinner at Jourdan's reserved table, which the staff sets with bread and wine each night.
Tonic Room
Chicago, IL
Plenty of patrons could tell you about the weird mists that show up in selfies they snapped, or the ghostly gangster they swear they saw at the bar, but nothing will scare you more than the Tonic Room's actual history. Members of the Irish North Side Gang frequented the bar in the 1920s before clearing out to make way for the American chapter of Golden Dawn. For those unaware, Golden Dawn is not a forgotten easy-listening jam: it's a secret society that's big on ancient Egyptian symbols and also human sacrifice. In fact, a girl who went with her father to one of these Golden Dawn meetings in the '30s swears she witnessed a ritual killing in the Tonic Room basement. After the murder cult left, a dude named Frederic De'Arechaga turned the space into an occult store in the '60s. He claimed to be a male witch, because of course he did.
One if by Land, Two if by Sea
New York, NY
Many places brag about having ghostly hookers or conmen, but only this NYC spot boasts the spirit of noted Alexander Hamilton-murderer Aaron Burr. The restaurant actually used to be his carriage house back in the day, and everyone thinks he's stuck around with his daughter, Theodosia, to haunt the living. They routinely knock things over, creep down the stairs, and generally pester the patrons -- though they may have additional partners in crime. A parapsychologist who's visited the place claims there are really 20 ghosts there, all from different time periods, including a Ziegfeld Follies girl who might just high-kick you in the back.
Stone's Public House
Ashland, MA
Stone's Public House takes its name from original owner John Stone, who was a very bad man according to one paranormal expert. After speaking with the six to seven spirits who allegedly live at the bar, ghost whisperer Ralph Bibbo claimed they told him Stone killed a boarder who won big in a card game in 1845. He then forced the few witnesses to help him bury the guy in the basement, and made them all promise to take the secret to their graves. But they must have felt guilty, because they never went to their graves. Instead, they float around the bar, making occasional ruckuses and silently judging your drink order.
Scarlett O'Hara's
St. Augustine, FL
Deceptively, this place isn't full of Southern belles who need to get over Ashley Wilkes already, but it does involve an 1800s love triangle. The legend goes that George Colee constructed the original building for his fiancee... who ran off with a soldier before he could even finish the place. A few weeks later, Colee was found drowned in the bathtub upstairs. That floor now hosts the "Ghost Bar", where Colee supposedly kicks it. He routinely messes with dudes in the bathroom, and still splashes around at night even though the bathtub is gone. But the staff thinks there's at least one more ghost: he's caused enough problems for the downstairs bar that they wound ropes in front of the liquor shelf, just so bottles would stop crashing for no reason.
Restaurant 1833
Monterey, CA
Previously named Stokes Bar and Restaurant, the historic spot was rechristened to reflect the year it was built. But it still bears the unmistakable mark of Mr. Stokes. James Stokes was an English sailor who decided to trick the town of Monterey into thinking he was a doctor. Despite the fact that he killed most of his patients, people loved this guy -- the governor at the time, Jose Figueroa, even appointed him his personal physician (he died a year later). Stokes was flying high, but then his sons apparently caught him doing very inappropriate things to his daughter, and he promptly committed suicide. He now haunts his former home, along with a later tenant, Hattie Gragg. Together, they throw salt in wine glasses, slam doors, and even whisper, "Excuse me, can you help me?" Stop by for the sea bass only if you dare.
Shaker's Cigar Bar
Milwaukee, WI
At Shaker's, the most famous ghosts are two girls from very different backgrounds. Elizabeth is an 8-year-old who fell from an apple tree on the grounds in the 1800s, and now spends her days giggling in the ladies bathroom or poking her tiny feet out from under the stalls. Meanwhile, Molly Brennan was a teenage hooker in the 1920s who got murdered in the third-floor penthouse for knowing a little too much. People who've stayed in her room hallucinate burning walls and water gushing from the ceiling -- which is significantly scarier than the stuff you normally hallucinate after a few cocktails. But really, you should stay out of the cellar. That's where the "Shadow People" roam, and we're guessing you'd rather not collide with a creepy, fully-formed black body.
White Horse Tavern
Newport, RI
Let us begin this tale like basically every ghost story you told at sleepaway camp: with a pair of drifters. Two men showed up at the tavern in the 1720s looking for a room for the night. The next day, the owners found one dead by the fireplace and the other completely vanished. A specter now chills by the fireplace, daring people to solve his freak death. There have also been encounters with a colonial-looking dude in the upstairs bathroom, and mysterious footsteps all over the place. Coincidentally, there's another White Horse Tavern in New York City with high ghost-hunter interest. It's where poet Dylan Thomas drank himself to death, and he still hasn't learned his lesson, as he occasionally pops up at his regular table.
Casey Moore's Oyster House
Tempe, AZ
Like any haunted house worth its salt, Casey Moore's has several different stories on the poltergeists that spook the grounds. One account goes that a coed named Sarah, who was strangled by her crazy boyfriend on-site, sulks around the dining room tables. Another says the spirit of a little boy, whose photograph was unearthed years ago amid renovations -- prowls the halls. Either way -- you might actually have to believe your buddy when he insists half your shrimp cocktail "just disappeared" when you went to the bathroom.
The Fenton Hotel Tavern and Grille
Fenton, MI
The permanent guests at this 158-year-old mid-Michigan spot are more Casper than Delbert Grady... if Casper was a barfly who loved Jack and died before sexual harassment was a thing. The hotel section -- which wasn't renovated along with the basement -- is still home to Emery, the place's old custodian, who can still be heard clomping around above the dining room. Then there's the gentleman at table 32, who constantly tries to piggyback on customers' orders when unordered Jack & Cokes show up on a regular basis. Servers have reported getting goosed after hours. Glasses have shattered when nobody is around, and some people have reported seeing full specters in the place. Luckily, they're thirsty for booze, not souls.
Seth's Cellar & Bully's at Bullock Hotel
Deadwood, SD
Technically, this tale concerns a hotel, but seeing as specters roam both the Bullock Hotel's bar and restaurant -- and we're talking about ghost cowboys here -- we're definitely counting it. The Bullock Hotel is famously haunted by Seth Bullock, best known as Deadwood's first sheriff, Teddy Roosevelt's BFF, and that guy Timothy Olyphant played on HBO. He's supposedly most agitated when he sees the staff slacking on the job, and is liable to turn on blenders or shout people's names to scare them into shape. If a hard-ass cowboy doesn't freak you out, don't worry -- there're also three horrifying "ghost children" to ensure your stay is traumatizing.
Kristin Hunt is a Food/Drink staff writer for Thrillist. She's never seen a ghost, but she's pretty sure her Irish grandfather's spirit shoves her every time she improperly prepares tea. Follow her at @kristin_hunt.