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In the land of music games, it's an undead week for Rock Band Unplugged with "Black Sunshine" by White Zombie and "She's Not There" by The Zombies. But while things are all quiet on the Guitar Hero front, the console version of Rock Band gets the following tracks. As per usual all songs are $1.99:
- "Mony Mony"— Billy Idol
- "Rebel Yell"— Billy Idol
- "Don't Stop"— Fleetwood Mac
- "World Turning"— Fleetwood Mac
- "She's a Genius"—Jet
- "I Won't Back Down"— Tom Petty
- "Runnin' Down a Dream"— Tom Petty
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LAREDO, TX - Two separate indictments have been partially unsealed following the arrest of seven Texas residents on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine and marijuana with the intent to distribute, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Two sealed indictments were returned by a grand jury on August 28, 2012.
The first indictment alleges the Drug Trafficking Organization transported five kilograms or more of cocaine since 2008. The indictment alleges members of the organization transported cocaine and/or drug proceeds to and from Mexico to Houston, Texas, and Miami, Fla., on a regular basis. Those arrested today for their roles in this conspiracy include Salvador Rodriguez-Fajardo, 37, Juan Ramon Ibarra, Jr., 30, Laura Rodriguez, 41, Ricardo Garza, 39, Alberto Sauceda, 38, and Moises Andrade, 20, all of Laredo, Texas.
If convicted of the charges in this indictment, these six face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison and a possible $10 million fine. The United States is also seeking a money judgment in the amount of $2,408,204.
The second indictment alleges that Roberto Garcia, 27, of Houston, conspired to possess 100 kilograms or more of marijuana with the intent to distribute that substance from September 2011 to the date of the indictment.
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If you have a garden, chances are you appreciate nature in all its glory. But sometimes nature gets in the way of our desires to cultivate.
Deer browsing, rabbit munching, squirrel digging, bird pecking, mole trenching and resident vole feasting have all come up in the last two weeks. I have no silver bullet for any of these problems. but I do have some practical approaches to offset the shared use of our gardens.
Squirrels are notorious for taking one bite of a tomato and then throwing it on the ground. In some cases providing a water source will temper this behavior; if it doesn't, a barrier is the most assured prevention.
Wrap your tomato cages with chicken wire to prevent access, leaving a section that can be easily opened by you for harvest. Providing a water source for the birds also will help deter them from pecking your ripe tomatoes.
I have used shade cloth similarly to keep birds from pecking tomatoes. Just wrap the lower parts of the cages up to about waist height.
The most frustrating thing about rabbits in your perennial garden is that they don't seem to eat what they destroy. They cleanly slice off the stems of flowers, leaving the remains where they fall.
What's the point? The old remedies like sprinkling baby powder or blood meal around your plants seems to work but you have to reapply after rain and heavy dew.
Hot pepper wax spray deters anything with an excellent sense of smell. I have rabbits about this year, and they nibbled my young pole beans the other night. I wrapped chicken wire around the bed and so far so good.
Decoy crops like soybeans and red clover, favorites of rabbits, can deter them from eating your favorite garden crops. But, really, the best and most practical defense here is to create a barrier.
The question of field mice and vole damage has come up a bit lately, and I think part of the problem is that people mulch too thickly, and they pile mulch around the base of trees (which you absolutely should not).
This creates a cozy environment for mice during the winter, with a food source right in house. This time of the year, voles and mice will feed on other plant parts, which is a little harder to deter.
I rely on two healthy, active cats and at least one adult snake that I see around the house from time to time (another argument for getting over your fear of snakes) to keep the mice population in check (and I do live in the middle of a field). You can also use peanut butter and a good old mousetrap.
Deer browsing is a tough one to break. I have an 8-foot fence around my vegetable garden, but everything else if fair game.
They are not supposed to like prickly plants (although they have eaten some of mine). Plants with aromatic foliage, such as Russian sage, the true sages, catmint, and caryopteris, are not favorites.
Deterrent spray products work unless the deer pressure is strong (and they must be reapplied). Some research suggests, too, that using fish emulsion fertilizer deters browsing, especially in the vegetable garden.
Stringing fishing line about chest high and ankle high (about 2 feet apart) around the vegetable garden can deter deer from entering, as well.
The No. 1 pest that plagues many gardeners is the mole. Learning to set a harpoon tap is the most assured way of eliminating the problem, or getting a dog or cat with an affinity for digging.
Here's one approach that sounds promising: ammonia.
Poke holes every 5 feet along the tunnel, pour about a half a cup of ammonia in each and cover. Avoid mashing down the tunnel, because you want the trapped fumes to permeate the entire mole run to chase the moles away (into your neighbor's yard). Or they may just make more new runs in your yard.
Castor oil-based mole deterrent products will deter moles unless the environment is particularly inviting. They love earthworms, so the better your soil the better your chances of having a mole problem.
Grubs can sustain a healthy mole population, but that is not always the problem so be mindful of using grub-control products. Use them only if you truly have a grub problem, which can be determined by slicing up some turf in stressed areas.
If you do have a problem with grubs and moles, look on the bright side…at least the moles are ridding your lawn of grubs.
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The evidence of controlled demolition is overwhelming. As more and more people learn about Building 7, public demand for a new investigation grows. People want the truth.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) September 09, 2013
On the 12th anniversary of 9/11, a new national survey by the polling firm YouGov reveals that one in two Americans have doubts about the government's account of 9/11, and after viewing video footage of World Trade Center Building 7's collapse, 46% suspect that it was caused by a controlled demolition. Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper, collapsed into its own footprint late in the afternoon on 9/11.
The poll was sponsored by ReThink911, a global public awareness campaign launched on September 1. The campaign includes a 54-foot billboard in Times Square and a variety of transit and outdoor advertising in 11 other cities, all posing the question, "Did you know a third tower fell on 9/11?"
Among the poll's findings:
- 38% of Americans have some doubts about the official account of 9/11, 10% do not believe it at all, and 12% are unsure about it;
- 46%, nearly one in two, are not aware that a third tower collapsed on 9/11. Of those who are aware of Building 7's collapse, only 19% know the building's name;
- After seeing video footage of Building 7's collapse:
➢ 46% are sure or suspect it was caused by controlled demolition, compared to 28% who say fires caused it, and 27% who don't know;
➢ By a margin of nearly two to one, 41% support a new investigation of Building 7's collapse, compared to 22% who oppose it.
"The poll shows quite clearly what we already knew. Most people who see Building 7's collapse have trouble believing that fires brought it down," said Richard Gage, a member of the American Institute of Architects and founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, the campaign's major sponsor. "It simply doesn't look like a natural building collapse, and that's because all the columns have been removed at once to allow it to come down symmetrically in free-fall. The evidence of controlled demolition is overwhelming. As more and more people learn about Building 7, public demand for a new investigation grows. People want the truth."
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), normal office fires caused the failure of a single column, starting a chain reaction that brought Building 7 down. More than 2,000 architects and engineers have signed the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition that questions NIST's explanation of the building's collapse.
"Even the government's own computer model disproves its theory. It looks nothing like the actual collapse," said Tony Szamboti, a mechanical engineer from the Philadelphia area. "Not only that, they refuse to release the data that would allow us to verify their model. In the world of science, this is as bad as it gets. I'm glad most people can look at the collapse and see the obvious."
The ReThink911 campaign calls for a new investigation into Building 7's collapse, as well as the destruction of the Twin Towers. The YouGov poll and the ad campaign were financed with more than $225,000 in donations from thousands of supporters.
Visit ReThink911.org to download the full poll results. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 1194 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 27th - 29th August 2013. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all US adults (aged 18+).


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The Douro Valley Portal aims to promote active tourism in the vast landscape known as Douro Valley. The region is located in the North of Portugal, extending from the city of Porto to the eastern border, where the Port wine production activities and the unique scenery sculpted by the Douro river and its tributaries are highlights not to be missed.
All information here is geo-referenced and classified according to its level of interest for tourists in order to help you plan your visit. This Portal allows you to locate the main attractions that the region has to offer and browse the places of interest, itineraries and events that regularly take place (inDouro).
Using the geographic application, geoDouro, you can see the location of all of the information presented and you can add these locations to your itinerary, you can update your location and you can search any place on the map.
With three World Heritage Sites recognised by UNESCO, there is no shortage of reasons to visit the Douro Valley, one of the most stunning landscapes in all of Portugal.
In the Historic Centre of the city of Porto you will find remarkable buildings lining the riverbanks. Many of these buildings are directly linked to the production of wine and bear witness to the urban development that this production has provoked over the years. On the opposite bank of the river you will find the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, a hive of commercial activity with the famous Port wine cellars.
Following the river Douro upstream, you reach the Alto Douro Wine Region. This is a land of traditions, a place of enchantment and mysticism, a great stretch of land where Nature reigns in perfect harmony with the inhabitants that have shaped the valley slopes and organised the land into vineyards. Each of these vineyards can be accessed by winding roads that pattern the landscape. There has been evidence of wine production for more than two thousand years in the region but it was only in 1756 that the Demarcated Douro Region was created and wine production in the region was organised and became internationally recognised. It was the first region in the world to be demarcated and it is a land where traditions and modernity go hand-in-hand. This combination is still evident today in the traditional harvest that is still done by hand and the squashing of the grapes by foot and the most modern vinification processes that accompany these traditions.
Further to the East in a picturesque region where the river Douro meets the river Côa, Prehistoric Rock Art can be found in the Côa Valley, a large archaeological heritage site that has been preserved for thousands of years. It is a unique example of Man's first creations of symbolic expression and the beginning of culture that dates back to the Palaeolithic time.
The course of the Douro river winds through the valley, carving its way through the rock and rushing furiously towards the sea. The construction of dams has made the river navigable and nowadays cruise liners are a common sight. In the wine region, the train follows the Douro river along the majority of its stretch, giving its passengers a privileged view of the stunning landscape.
In addition to its wine, this region's fertile soil also yields other plant life in the form of olive trees that produce high quality olive oil and almond trees that fill the valley with colour and perfume in the months of February and March and produce the almonds that are used to make several traditional sweet treats. Farming is common in most villages which results in flavoursome dishes made from traditionally cultivated produce. Roast kid goat and veal are some of the main dishes in the region but those passing through cannot miss the wide range of smoked meats, artisanal cheeses and typical desserts.
Memories of days past are held within this vast landscape, carved in stone or forged in different shapes and forms. The first men from the Palaeolithic period, the Romans, Arabs, Visigoths and the Suevi all left traces that are spread across the region. Each era in history has left behind proof of its existence that has been preserved over the years. From the Middle Ages we have the Catholic temples, from the very smallest to the most extravagant in all its splendour.
With the beginning of wine production, the nobility moved to the region, building grand manors and palaces that today open their doors to tourists and visitors. Many of the vineyards that produce the most succulent fruit in the valley are found on the valley slopes and they also offer accommodation to passersby. Any of these would be ideal for a romantic getaway, offering new sensations for all the senses. In the quaint villages you can also find wonderful examples of rural tourism with a local and unique character.
Despite the changes that the famous Port wine brought to the region, the Douro Valley has maintained its rural character and traditional roots with its handicrafts and religious customs. The Valley is renowned not only for its beauty but also for its friendly inhabitants who work the land and welcome those they find there exploring the region.
Stunning landscapes that yield produce and wines of excellence, a unique cuisine rich in homemade products, a history that makes you dream of days gone by and a warm welcome that makes you want to return. These are the reasons to visit the Douro, but living these experiences is much better than listing them. Come and discover the Douro, come and live the experience!
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Craigslist isn't just for anonymous sex with strangers you locked eyes with earlier at grocery store olive bar or or unloading your flea-infested mattress on some unsuspecting rube who just can't believe his good fortune at finding a mattress at under $100 — it's also for doing good deeds, like returning lost engagement rings to their distraught owners.
New York's NBC reports that resident butterfingers Jill Fink was reunited with her missing engagement ring thanks to the efforts of concerned citizen Michelle LaPlante, who put up fliers (!) and a post on craigslist's lost-and-found page after finding Fink's ring languishing in an Upper West Side park. Fink said she had taken her ring off to put suntan lotion on one of her two-year-old twins, and forgot about it in the cacophony of protest that ensued. She said she realized she didn't have the ring only when she was going to work the next day and, thinking she might have left it at home, she searched her apartment frenziedly until realizing in a sickening flash of hindsight that she'd left the ring at the park. Bummer.
Had Fink returned to the park, she might have seen the helpful little note LaPlante left about finding the ring, but, oddly, the original story makes no mention of Fink going back to the park for a look around, and it would seem pretty cynical of her not to retrace her steps. Luckily, a gumshoe receptionist in Fink's office perused craigslist, found LaPlante's notice, and single-handedly restored balance to the force.
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Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is different. But in addition to authors, live music, cupcakes, scavenger hunts, kids events, art tables, readings, barbecues, contests, and other fun stuff, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online.
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Independent bookstores are not just stores, they're community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.
In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
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The Senate's bipartisan legislation will modestly reduce the flow of foreigners coming into the country in years to come by widening legal immigration channels but cutting off the flow of illegal migration, according to an analysis prepared by the liberal Center for American Progress released Wednesday.
The CAP analysis is a rejoinder to tabulations done by groups opposed to the immigration measure, which have posited that the plan could lead to as many as 30 million more people becoming permanent US residents during the next 10 to 15 years than might have without the reforms.
These calculations are "an attempt to scare the public," write the authors of the CAP report. "In reality," they argue, "approximately 150,000 fewer people will enter the country each year under the Senate plan."
Answering the question of how many new immigrants the Senate plan will bring to the US is central to its prospects. Estimates of new Americans not only touch on the cultural fears of some conservatives and economic fears for some job-seekers but also to the hopes of businesses, who want more entrepreneurial and scientific talent. The new CAP figures suggest that liberals are no longer willing to let conservative groups dominate the conversation.
"You have people like [Republican Sen.] Jeff Sesisions and Numbers USA putting out these wild estimates," says Phil Wolgin, a senior immigration analyst with CAP. "Here's the reality: We're taking what has been a chaotic system of unauthorized entry on top of legal entry, and we're moving unauthorized [immigrants] into legal streams."
Not surprisingly, the dueling studies show starkly different assumptions about how to calculate the future flow of immigrants.
For example, CAP does not count the estimated 11.1 million undocumented immigrants currently in the US and who could achieve legal status (and potentially permanent residence and citizenship). It argued that those people are already in the US and thus aren't "new" to the immigration stream.
Furthermore, they don't account for the more than 4.5 million prospective immigrants who are waiting in family- and employment-based backlogs. CAP argues that because those people have already been cleared to receive permanent residency – but are waiting for their turn in a sometimes years-long line to get a green card – they don't count as "new," either.
The Senate bill would clear the family- and employment-based backlogs before any undocumented person is allowed to achieve permanent residency.
What CAP does do is add the new ways for foreigners to become US residents under the bill (such as a new "merit-based" system) while subtracting reduced or eliminated visa programs (like the diversity visa lottery). That would boost legal migration by some 500,000 new residents per year, CAP estimates.
Then, CAP attempts to account for how the new immigration system – which includes new border-security and employment-verification measures – would affect illegal immigration. Citing a February analysis by two University of Minnesota scholars, CAP argues the US would slash illegal immigration down to just 10 percent of the average 680,000 illegal immigrants who entered the country annually from 2002 to 2009.
Thus a 500,000 increase in immigration, minus a massive dip in illegal immigration, equals a relative decline in overall migration levels.
"The Senate bill provides a coherent and controlled admissions process that will ensure that those entering the United States come through orderly channels," according to the analysis.
Other groups question many of CAP's assumptions.
Numbers USA, low-immigration advocates who are battling the bill tooth-and-nail, bases its estimates on both undocumented immigrants currently in the US and prospective immigrants waiting in backlogs that the Senate bill would clear, arguing that these people would formally be allowed to enter the US workforce and compete more directly with American workers.
Those two categories alone will expand US immigration by 15 million during the next decade, Numbers USA says. And that doesn't include the regular stream of 500,000 legal immigrants admitted each year. Add that up over 10 years – and assume that these immigrants will bring over family members – and the number could bulge another 10 million or more.
Indeed, determining how many newcomers might come to the US is devilishly hard – whether you are an advocate for paring back or expanding legal immigration.
Immigration skeptics like Senator Sessions and Numbers USA can't say with much certainty how many family members new US residents would bring with them, for example.
And CAP acknowledges that its baseline of 680,000 annual illegal border-crossers requires nuance. That number excludes the high immigration years from 1999 to 2001 but includes the extremely low years of illegal immigration due to the recent US recession. "Without reform, we would expect future unauthorized immigrant flows to rebound from the lower Great Recession period. This estimate should be taken as a conservative one," CAP states.
But that number doesn't include how many illegal immigrants left the country, whether through deportation or voluntarily, each year. If that is factored in, the net annual illegal migration from 2002 to 2009 plummets to about 183,000. In 2008 and 2009, it was actually negative.
Moreover, counting illegal immigrants who leave the US raises the question of how to handle net legal migration -- how many permanent residents die or leave the country in a given year, for example. That quickly spirals into another host of challenges and complex calculations.
"In many ways," Mr. Wolgin says, "it's the best calculation we can make."


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Everywhere I turn, I am seeing green smoothie recipes. Green smoothies have filled my blog reader and my Pinterest wall. My girlfriend first jumped on the green smoothie bandwagon and I shortly followed behind her. We would chat in the mornings, trying different fruits, different ratios, and then deciding the order that everything should go into the blender for the perfectly blended drink. Yes, our conversations tend to be quite fascinating only to us. That being said, I became hooked on green smoothies and I feel so much better about my day if I have had one of these in the morning.
That being said, I did not want to spend our entire grocery budget on green smoothie ingredients or run from store to store to get ingredients that I couldn't find at my usual store. Sure, I want to be healthy, but I also like to stay under my grocery budget. I decided to create my own version of this smoothie using ingredients I could find at ALDI Supermarket.
I always hate to list prices for items because they can become out-of-date by tomorrow, but I do want to share with you the rough cost of the items I found at the store.
Flat Leaf Spinach (9 ounces)- $1.69
Vanilla Soy Milk (half gallon)- $2.39
Mandarin Oranges (3 pounds)- $2.49
Fage Greek Yogurt (17.6 ounces)- $1.99
Bananas- $.45 per pound
Frozen Strawberries (2 pounds)- $3.49
It is hard to estimate the price per smoothie because items like the yogurt go quickly while other ingredients (like the fruit) can last for a couple of weeks for me. Regardless, I love that I can make one of these green smoothie creations on my budget and not have to shop for more obscure or expensive ingredients.
Why would anyone ever want to drink a green smoothie? It is packed full of fruits and vegetables that can be the perfect workout treat or a fun way to start your day. I worried that the smoothies would taste like spinach, but the spinach blends right into the fruits and I can't taste it all once it has been blended well. As a busy mom trying to get my kids on the bus every morning, I don't make eating breakfast a priority. Doesn't coffee count as a healthy breakfast? This smoothie is helping me do better about putting good things in my body while we are getting ready for the day.
A few years ago, I decided to make the investment into a blender that would really last after burning up my blender every summer making the kids slushies and other frozen treats. My Krups blender is going on its third year with me and has been one of the wisest investments for smoothie creations in my kitchen. If you use your blender often, I encourage you to get one that has some power behind it especially when blending ice and frozen fruits like this smoothie.
After trying different variations of layering, I find the spinach pulls in the best when it rests in the middle. On the bottom I pour my soy milk, my Greek yogurt, my frozen strawberries, and my ice. Next I put in my layer of spinach. I add a banana and a segmented orange or clementine to the top. This seems to be the best technique for smooth spinach blending for me. You may want to experiment in your own blender and see what works best for you.
This smoothie makes a really giant smoothie for me and one small smoothie for my daughter for our breakfast in the morning. When my daughter brought home her, "sh" words from her kindergarten class, my husband handed it to me and proclaimed that I have officially brainwashed my children. She thinks her green smoothie is a "sh…ake."
I love this child.
You will love this smoothie. I hope it transforms your morning as much as it has transformed mine!
- 1 cup vanilla soy milk
- ½ cup plain or vanilla Greek yogurt
- 4 ice cubes
- 5 frozen strawberries
- 2 cups fresh spinach
- ½ a banana
- 1 orange or clementine, peeled and segmented
- 1 tablespoon honey (optional, but can help add sweetness)
- Place ingredients in your blender as listed.
- Pulse or use the ice crush feature on your blender to break down the ice and frozen fruit.
- Blend well.
Have you jumped on the green smoothie bandwagon? What are your tricks and ingredients for making your signature green smoothie?
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Asia Society-Supported Group Kampung Halaman Receives White House Award
Kampung Halaman, an Indonesian non-profit organization that fosters the use of audiovisual media in community- and youth-centered projects, received an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) in Washington, DC yesterday. Asia Society, in partnership with the Asian Cultural Council, was instrumental in bringing the group to U.S. government officials' attention.
18-year-old Muchamad Fajar Ismail of Yogyakarta was at the White House to receive the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama on behalf of Kampung Halaman, which was recognized for its effectiveness in developing learning and life skills in young people by engaging them in the community-based media and art program.
Kampung Halaman came to the attention of the White House through Asia Society's special report, Making a Difference Through the Arts: Strengthening America's Links with Asian Muslim Communities. The report, which launched in August 2010, offers examples of the diverse ways in which cultural development and exchange in and with Asian Muslim communities have created successful projects by drawing on culturally grounded knowledge and strategies. The report offers concrete strategies exemplifying best-practices in seeding and cultivating cross-cultural connectivity. The report goes on to offer case studies of organizations within Asia's Muslim communities, including Kampung Halaman.
Kampung Halaman's website states, "Youth should be the most important members of the communities in this world, as they are the keys to the success of the regeneration process." The organization aims to recognize young people, particularly those between ages 17 and 25, as potential agents of change, and recognize them as crucial "social capital" in the communities where they live. Respect for cultural, religious and ethnic differences are among the core principles of Kampung Halaman — in fact, pluralism and multiculturalism are primary issues addressed in the media that students produce. Muhammad Zamzam Fauzanafi, a visual anthropologist who is one of the group's founders, explains that although the videos have a strong aesthetic quality, the discussions that the videos produce are more important than the visuals.
"These young people are learning how to use creative thinking to work as a team, to solve problems and to express themselves constructively. These are exactly the kinds of skills we want them to have to be able to succeed in school, in work and in life," said Asia Society's Rachel Cooper, Director of Cultural Programs and Performing Arts.
Kampung Halaman was the sole international awardee this year, along with 12 youth programs from across the United States. Mr. Fauzanafi and Mr. Ismail's participation at the White House ceremony was made possible by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Asian Cultural Council. The highest honor such programs can receive in the United States, the awards are administered by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The award honors community-based arts and humanities programs that make a marked difference in the lives of their participants by improving academic scores and graduation rates, enhancing life skills, developing positive relationships with peers and adults, and expressing themselves creatively.


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We gave up a tremendous amount of civil rights after 9/11 when people were killed and we all got scared. When the major cities in this country start having gangs out powering police again we will get some sanity in our gun laws again.


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Customer has a Fifty/CL. Trades it in for a Sig:X. Likes it but misses some of the CL vibe - of course - 3 channels, 100W, KT88s, etc, etc...
Here's my shot at getting the Fifty/CL vibe happening on the Sig:
P.S. The Sig is definitely more "dense" in the low mids than the CL. Keeping the Bass low decreases the low end density while turning the Depth up enhances the CL low end resonance (speaker reaction). It may seem counter-intuitive...well, yeah, it is counter-intuitive. C'est la vie (all knob settings refer to the clock face hour hand):
Rhyrhm Channel
Gain I – 12
Gain II – 5
Master – 10
Treble – 1
Middle – 11
Bass – 12.30
Presence – 4:30
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If we adopt a CMS, what else should we have in place before choosing one, assuming we should have one at all? What kind of problems will it not solve for us? I am with a small private college (under a thousand students) with limited human and financial resources. Most of our staff and faculty are 50ish, and not Web-savvy.
Our current website is built and maintained in the traditional way with Dreamweaver. We want to empower people to create their own content, and I wonder if there is some way other than a CMS so that they can have the basic necessary permissions to do so.
I'd love to hear from anyone who has been through this decision making process or could point me in the direction of how to find out more about how to create such a process.
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Hey Erik,
We went with OU Campus from OmniUpdate. And Yes it has solved many of our Contribute problems. There is no extra software for publishers to purchase and IT to install and/or maintain. It offers some additional tools that Contribute didn't offer (like a link checker and site wide search and replace).
We just launched it a few months ago so obviously we don't know everything about it and there have been a few bumps along the way (there's no such thing as a smooth migration) but overall we are pleased with it.
I'm going to crash the Michael party. I'm in this exact situation. Our site is managed via Dreamweaver on the developer end, and Contribute on the user end. The entire site is several thousand pages large by now, but we're surviving because we've written dozens of what I call "mini" CMS web apps in house to handle various content issues. For example, we've got web apps to manage news and calendars, faculty profiles, academic programs and catalog info, various forms and applications, etc.
But there are still many, many static pages out there. We require at least one person in each department that has a website to use Contribute to manage these static pages. They take a training class that I teach before getting access. I will say that Contribute comes with a number of headaches, but since we implemented the Contribute Publishing Server 6 months ago things have become a little easier (certainly not pain free though - the client app is very quirky and the whole system can be unstable at times. This is definitely not a product Adobe cares about too much).
So I've been in the process of evaluating CMS's for over a year. I haven't seen anything yet that knocks my socks off, but I know we'll need to transition at some point. Using Wordpress on a small scale has been a good experience and we've become adept at customizing and extending it as needed. But for a campus-wide CMS, since I know almost everything out there will offer the basic mechanics of editing pages, I'm mostly concerned about usability for the sake of our users - and this is where most CMS's fall down. Overly complex and not intuitive. Major training required. I'd kill for a CMS designed by Apple (no, not iWeb). So many enterprise software makers seem to forget to hire interface designers (*cough* Blackboard *cough* but that's another rant entirely).
A CMS will not be a silver bullet for content strategy. Whether you have a static site or a CMS, you still have to deal with process, workflow, accountability, policy, training, etc. Some bells and whistles like flagging pages older than a month for review are nice. But overall, I'm definitely not looking forward to the process of converting our site from static to CMS. That's going to be a major project, and of course my project whiteboard always tends to be full. What we'll likely end up doing is moving to a CMS one department at a time, chipping away at it for a year or two. And I'm going to propose that we actually start pruning the site, removing as many pages as possible before starting. There's a lot of old clutter floating around.
*sigh...* Onward.
Thanks for crashing the Michael party and for a really articulate review of this whole process. I think we will also approach the transition to a CMS one department at a time. And I imagine that, for us, content strategy will be harder to grasp than choosing a CMS or other technical issues.
Some in this thread are sold on particular CMS solutions. Have you found any that didn't "fall down" in the area of user friendliness?
I also would like to know if you build your own web apps or are using third-party ones; I would love to have something like that for catalog information. I have been using regular expressions for this purpose, but I'm not good enough at Grep to write really good ones.
Managing the content on 900 web pages is not a small task, and a CMS will most definitely help you (more importantly, it will help your departments) to keep the content on your institution's website accurate and up-to-date. The important thing to consider in this discussion is "whose content is it anyway?"
It's the individual departments' (academic or operational) content, and there isn't any need to modify anyone's job description for them to keep their own information up-to-date. After all, when they distribute a flyer about a departmental event or meeting, or write an email message to send to a particular list of recipients about something they are doing, there is truly no difference between that function, and the function of posting that same information (that they are creating anyway) on the institution's website.
I have dozens of departments (mostly administrative and clerical support personnel - non-techies) editing, creating and maintaining content on their areas' website, and they feel empowered and proud of their contribution by using the CMS to 'get it out there' for students, faculty, staff and the public.
The most important factor in 'choosing' a CMS is - will my users actually 'use' it?...or, will they feel overwhelmed by the technical nature of the 'web posting' task before them, and forward the request over to you for completion (which won't improve your situation at all). I am happy to report that our selection of a CMS has been universally adopted and I don't have to re-train the "once-per-semester/year" users, because our solution is so easy to use.
We've used several CMS products (open source, locally-hosted and remotely-hosted), and through that entire process, I ultimately decided to put my recommendation behind the OmniUpdate OU Campus CMS.
As a one-man-web-shop, I could no longer provide reasonable turn-around times on web requests from the institution, and a CMS provided a streamlined, workflow-controlled, permission-based environment in which I could provide individuals with the ability to manage their content, without turning them loose to wreak havoc on the branding, accessibility and usability of the website.
The intuitive and simple editing processes that are in place in OmniUpdate's OU Campus provide users with a very simple interface to use, yet the system is enterprise-ready in its ability to scale to your environment, and flexible in its ability to provide both you (as the web admin) and your users a straightforward method of managing your content just about regardless of where it is hosted, or on which platform. I've even spoken with colleagues who are using OmniUpdate's OU Campus CMS to manage content within their own vendor-provided portal environments, because it does so in a much easier and more powerful way than that which is provided within those environments.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about our nearly 5-year old OmniUpdate implementation, and about how I will never consider another CMS ever again.
Hi, Justin,
I have to respectfully disagree with some of what you said, in practice if not in principle:
It's the individual departments' (academic or operational) content, and there isn't any need to modify anyone's job description for them to keep their own information up-to-date.
I guess that depends on each individual college. What's really important here is that ownership of information does not fall neatly on departmental boundaries. Take financial aid content, for example. Most colleges have a Financial Aid department, but content related to financial aid appears everywhere from Enrollment/Admissions to Bursar to individual program offerings. In order to maintain consistency of message on all these different pages, it's really important that someone be directly responsible for maintaining that consistency, regardless of where it resides on the site.
CMSs can provide good ways to make this easier, but if it's not in someone's explicit responsibilities it's too easy for each person to assume the next one is taking care of it. And you're lucky if a prospective student calls to ask why information is inconsistent instead of just moving on to the next site.
Hey Michael,
That's a good point that you make, and maybe I'm fortunate to work with a group of people who are anxious to ensure that their information is accessible, up-to-date and accurate, and who are willing to put forth the effort to manage their department's web content.
From a basic operational and functional perspective, if an administrative support person is responsible for providing clerical support for that department (including distributing information related to that department's function to campus constituencies), then editing that department's web content is simply a natural extension of the scope of their job description.
The way that I have provided an overview of the function of a Web CMS to my colleagues in academic and operational department administrative support roles is to explain to them that the college website is simply another method of communication available to their department to help them get the word out to potentially-interested parties. I have also told them that, due to the fact that I am not the creator or curator of information about what they are doing in their area, it doesn't make any sense (operationally) for me to be 'creating' information about 'their' department, especially when they are already doing that on a daily basis.
When I have explained that fact to the administrators, deans and other managers of those areas, they have - in almost every case - agreed that use of the Web CMS to assist them in informing their constituencies about their department and its functions on the campus is definitely within their scope of responsibility from an operational standpoint, and it is typically at that time that they assign one of their administrative support personnel (or even a student worker) to be the custodian of their web content from that point going forward.
I have to ditto Justin's posts. We are a small campus and until recently I was the primary web person - meaning that departments would send me web content changes and complain because it took so long for me to implement those changes. We decided to go to the distributed ownership model, select and implement a CMS, split out our content into an intranet and Internet, do a complete redesign, and edit a lot of content from the previous website while we were at it. It was a huge project. I would not do it again that way, BUT eventually we were left with an external website that was much more manageable. We do suffer from the change in culture where each department is responsible for keeping their content up to date. We have early adopters and resistors - and I could name each person who would fall into both categories, way before we went live with the new site!
I still assist departments with posting occasional content. I make recommendations about how the department's web section should be organized. I create and maintain all our user accounts and do the training. But the CMS we chose (also OmniUpdate's OUCampus) is very user-friendly. Most of our users catch on quickly and only occasionally ask for referesher training. Sometimes our web-savvy users find ways around our style guide and I have to reign them in and ask that they remove the purple font, animated gifs, etc. But I had that issue before we went to a CMS solution.Now, two years after implementation, I find my role shifting from that of content poster to offering best practice ideas to departments. I'll be glad to communicate my experience with you privately if you'd like.
It sounds like your approach in CMS implementation was reasonable, but you said you would not do it again that way. What would you do differently?
If you haven't already, audit your content. If you are able to migrate any of it it a CMS it will be a good chance to clean up your site. I forget the final numbers but we had something like 80,000 pages and less than 25% of them were being linked to. There was a lot of old content, test pages and, in some cases, people using the web server for file storage.
We have a decentralized model and that presented a few extra headaches during the migration. Not all publishers are created equal so some pages had badly formed titles, headers, missing alt tags, html in the metadata, etc. When we tried to import them into a CMS that likes good, well formed code we got more than a few problems.
We have a webteam of two but thankfully for the first week or so after we launched we were able to "draft" a few of our more web savy staff to help so were we able to get the top level pages and sections up and going quickly.
So my top advice would be...
1) If you migrate, use it as a chance to audit your content and trim the fat
2) Have some people you can call on for extra help. There are only so many hours in a day and no automated migration is going to be 100% accurate.
3) Know that it will be a lot of work initially but it will pay off in the long run. A good CMS will help you maintain web standards, cut down on waste, and eventually let you focus more on development and less on babysitting users.
We just implemented our system in March and it is still fresh in my mind so I you have any questions feel free to contact me.
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BEAUFORT — University of South Carolina Beaufort Nursing students and faculty spent their Saturday morning repainting the inside of The Recovery Center, an outpatient day treatment facility in Beaufort.
"Whenever we had evaluations based on our nursing students' experience assisting in the recovery center, one comment in particular became common place — the décor needed updating," said Joy Lauerer, USCB nursing instructor. "It was clear this was a project we could undertake as a cohort that would benefit everyone."
As a result, the nursing program solicited paint and material donations from Lowe's and Home Depot, as well as a flooring donation from Gilman Floors in Bluffton. Properly equipped with what they needed, nursing students and faculty painted the once-pink interior to that of a coastal blue.
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Marion Walls | KF19 | Tanzania
I'd like to celebrate Thanksgiving with you, the Kiva community! I'd love to cook dinner for us to share but this is the thing: I'm in Tanzania right now. (I'm a Kiva Fellow, serving with Tujijenge and Barefoot Power.) So I'm enlisting your help with getting the food to the table. It'll be easy! I've chosen a familiar Thanksgiving menu:
Turkey with Pan Gravy
Nut Loaf (*vegetarian option)
Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Corn
Seasonable Vegetables
Coffee or Tea
And just to be certain we end up with the same meal as each other, I've provided step-by-step instructions (with full-color illustrations from Tanzania!) for you to follow. You can't go wrong… So let's get cooking!
1. Set the oven temperature to "moderate" heat, i.e. be sure to let the charcoal burn down!
2. Cook the Bird till the juices run clear, and the skin is nicely browned. (Turkeys proved elusive – here's rooster from Bagamoyo instead…)
3. Pick, peel, and roast nuts for the nut loaf. Cashews are abundant here, but feel free to use any nuts growing locally near you.
Oh! I almost forgot to decorate the table!
4. Peel the potatoes – don't be shy with the quantities! (My neighborhood chip-vendor goes through 3 of these 250 lb sacks every day!)
5. Roast the corn to perfection, then spice it up with peri-peri (chilli) and lime juice.
6. Finely chop a selection of greens, and saute each individually.
7. Fix the desert of your choice. We're not big on pie here, and the electricity quit (again) so the ice-cream has melted… but cake is a winner at all celebrations!
8. Brew coffee or tea – we grow them both here! Our coffee is world-famous for quality and flavor, but we export most beans to you. We usually use instant powder ourselves, or more often drink tea.
I hope you've cooked up a feast!
Happy Thanksgiving from Tanzania!
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When courage is not enough
Before the Eden Park Bledisloe Test in Auckland at the weekend the All Blacks reverted to their own haka, Kapa O Pango. It's one the squad created themselves and they seem to draw on it when they want something special. The crowd sense it and so does the opposition.
This was always going to be a tough night for the Wallabies, for if it's not hard enough playing the All Blacks at their most threatening fortress, doing so when your preparation has been disrupted and theirs was near-perfect requires the most Pollyanna of all optimistic thinking.
One of the hallmarks of this All Black team is consistency, in both selection and tactics. Such consistency builds momentum, week to week, producing performances that snowball on each other – 27-19 the other week, 22-0 last week.
Subtle changes enhance previous tactics and confound an opposition scrambling to play catch-up.
Subsequently, when a stable team like the All Blacks meets an emerging and relatively disrupted team, the performance gap can seem near-impossible to close.
This scenario sums up where the Wallabies and All Blacks sit at present. It is stability v instability, confidence v uncertainty. And forced and unforced changes to the Wallabies squad, and particularly the starting team, only magnify such differences.
Take the All Blacks' use of Sonny Bill Williams. In the first Test he was used primarily as a decoy, whereas in this encounter he emerged as a first-choice attacking option, creating havoc through his size, speed and skill.
Watching him play such a dominant role makes you lament that he is now off to Japan to play less rugby, at a lower standard, while earning significantly more money than playing for the world's best team in the world's toughest competition. There's something wrong, illogical and perhaps unsustainable about that scenario.
Aussie rules and rugby league don't share such a conundrum. Their best get paid the top dollars to ply their trade in Australia, in the toughest competitions in the world in their sports. The TV dollars have followed. Such a luxury is not afforded the Australian Rugby Union, a victim of rugby's global appeal.
SBW's absence will weaken the All Blacks – but not by much – and it won't help the Wallabies because we don't play them again until late October.
It would be easy now for the Wallabies to feel blue. Rightly, they still mark their card against the All Blacks, even though it may not be useful for the All Blacks to do the same against us.
In fact it's possible they have no peer at present and should judge their performance only against their own stellar standards.
The Wallabies, however, should take pride in the courage, if not the clarity, of their display. Persistence and an insatiable irritation must propel them from here.
New Zealanders should enjoy this team and this era for it is special, but it won't last forever. It never does, even though it may be difficult to see it ending any time soon. The Springboks may be their only real measure this year, but that remains to be seen.
The Springboks will also be the measure of exactly how the Wallabies lie compared to the rest of the world. Victory against them will show there is more right than wrong in this regime. A loss will tighten the screws.
One thing is clear, however, and that is that the Wallabies are playing catch-up with the best. As is the rest of the rugby world, I might add. The temptation when you play catch-up is to always look for new ways of doing things. Sometimes however, the solution is to just do the same and simple things better.
Selecting Quade Cooper was a move in the right direction but the Wallabies can't expect such a move to work immediately. They must be patient and build a team over time.
The place to start would be to identify the World XV or potential World XV players in the squad and build the team around them.
This might mean sticking with some players through thick and thin, hoping that after the erratic may come the genius.
The final gesture of Kapa O Pango looks like a throat-slitting action. When the All Blacks first introduced this haka they were challenged about it and emphasised that it was not throat-slitting but rather the drawing of hauora; the breath of life into the heart and lungs.
Either way, as an opponent and as a spectator it makes sense. They play a cutthroat game and take your breath away.
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"i now set down to address you a few lines. I intended writing you before this but was prevented. I have nothing but meloncholy new to relate to you, there have been several dreadful accidents lately. On Thursday 29th of July we had a severe squall accompanied by thunder and lightning. A party of youn men, consisting of Rufus Ingraham, youn Harleston, Bull, also 3 negroes had gone out on a fishing excursion; they were on there way home when the squall overtook them near Castle Pinkney [Castle Pinckney was a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government by 1810 in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.] and capsized the Boat. Several boats went to their assistance and were enabled to save bull and Harleston but meloncholy to relate, Ingrahama and the 3 negroes were drowned.
It evoked a great excitement as you may suppose, rewards were offered for the body of I and they were 2 days looking but to no purpose, it is supposed the bodies must have been taken by sharks as 2 were caught a few days afterward, one measuring 14 feet 9 inches and the other 10 feet. A fur Cap was found in one and a Negroes Skull in the other. I think Mrs I ought indeed dread water works, more even you recollecto she had a sister drowned much about his age. he was quite a promising youth, I understand; he helped to support his mother with his salary. I met him the morning previous, looking quite well. He was rather handsome.
The same afternoon a young girl, by the name of Heckley was struck DEAD by lightning standing by a window, eating a piece of watermellon her mother was lying on the bed in the same room, was not injured but the part of the house that was struck very much shattered. We know not the day or the hour. Mrs Cohens house in Broad St was also struck but not much injured.
A few days ago the Steam boat Macon, which has been running all the Summer to the toland??? Boiler burst, just as she had landed her passengers scalded 4 negroes & the engineer, who died the day after. The negroes have got better, the providences of God have been very awful this summer everywhere.
There has been a dreadful fire in Wilmington during a thunderstorm a house was set fire to by lightning. The fire raged, the whole time during the storm, what an awful scene it must have been. Ancrum Berry was among the principal sufferers. There has also been a dreadful storm of rain at the North, it rained for 4 days without ceasing, bridges, factories, mills and ??? have been floated away, in one place houses were swept away, one with 14 persons in it. it occurred in Vermont. Mrs Keith sailed yesterday for the north............................


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NEW YORK — Recently, writer John August watched a DVD of "Big Fish," the 2003 film directed by Tim Burton for which he wrote the screenplay.
He says it was an enjoyable but odd experience.
"I kept wondering, 'Why aren't they singing?'" recalls the 43-year-old screenwriter with bemusement. He has been working on adapting the material for the musical stage for the past nine years — four more than it took him to write the film.
There are now songs — plenty of them — in August's book for "Big Fish," a collaboration with composer Andrew Lippa and director-choreographer Susan Stroman that opens Sunday on Broadway.
One of the most highly anticipated musicals of the season, the $14-million "Big Fish" is one of the many stage musicals hoping to extend the life of the movies on which they are based.
If the producers are willing, some of the films' writers try to make the transition — August, Woody Allen with "Bullets Over Broadway," Andrew Bergman with "Honeymoon in Vegas" — and some do not. Veteran librettist Tom Meehan is adapting "Rocky," for example, not Sylvester Stallone. Marsha Norman has adapted "The Bridges of Madison County," not Richard LaGravenese.
And as more and more films are becoming Broadway source material, the graveyard is littered with musicals in which screenwriters have proved incapable of separating themselves from their original scripts to meet the demands of the stage.
Although the book is often blamed for an unsuccessful show, whether it's by a
screenwriter or not, such high-profile failures as "9 to 5" and "Ghost" call attention to pitfalls for a theater outsider who created it for a different medium.
A number of Broadway-bound musicals adapted by their respective original writers have run into development trouble. After postponing its announced Toronto tryout last year, Bergman's "Honeymoon in Vegas" is in its world premiere engagement at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. Barry Levinson's adaptation of "Diner," with music by Sheryl Crow, appears to be in limbo after numerous postponements.
"The temptation is to be very literal to what you did before because that's what worked," August says. He didn't watch the movie or refer to the script while he was working on the musical.
"I didn't want the choices to be made for the wrong reasons. The right choice was to look for those moments that could be transcendent because they were onstage, not because they could be translated from film," August says.
"Big Fish," based on a novel by Daniel Wallace, is a bittersweet family drama about Edward Bloom, a blustery Southern fabulist who spins heroic tales of encounters with a witch, a mermaid, a giant, a werewolf, and assorted freaks and evildoers.
At first, these fantastical stories enchant his son, Will, but eventually he becomes estranged. Sandra, the mother and wife, tries to help bridge the gulf between father and son when Edward is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
August remembers a test screening of the film in Orange County in 2003, when he approached the producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks and told them the characters "sang" to him. "I think we should try to turn this into musical, but I don't know where to start," August says.
That was not entirely the case. He'd written "Corpse Bride," an animated musical, and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" for Burton. Even in the film of "Big Fish," he'd written lyrics for a Danny Elfman tune, "Twice the Love," sung by the Siamese twins Ping and Jing.
But August had never before written a musical for the stage. "I had a pretty good sense of the vocabulary for it but had not been steeped in it," he says.
Cohen and Jinks, who won the Oscar for "American Beauty" and are lead producers on the musical, put August together with composer Andrew Lippa ("The Wild Party," "The Addams Family"). For the first five years, the two hashed out the parameters of the musical, throwing out scenes and characters from the film without hesitation.
Lippa says that August's attachment to his screenplay was "very little."
Ultimately, the musical would retain less than 5% of actual dialogue from it.
"What's remarkable about John was that he'd already spent five years with these characters and yet he was very open to fleshing them out," Lippa says. "He wasn't used to collaborating, but he was very aware that he couldn't write scenes the way he was used to writing them."
Among the first and most crucial decisions was to have Edward, who ages from 16 to 65 in the show, played by one actor, two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz. In the film, the character was divided between Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney.
Likewise, Sandra, who in the film was played by Alison Lohman and Jessica Lange, is here performed by Kate Baldwin. The creative team believed they could get away with it not only because of the acting talent involved but because audiences come to the theater willing to suspend disbelief.
How best to take advantage of that was a lesson he learned, August says.
"In movies, everything is a photograph, even if you're being abstract," the screenwriter says. "In theater, it's more representational. That corner of the garage is the whole Bloom house. Your brain gets more excited to fill in the details. This works very well for a story about a storyteller because it's all about suspending disbelief and going along for the ride."
Greasing the wheels of that ride is Stroman, who signed onto the project two years ago after being presented the material by August and Lippa. One of the acknowledged masters of the musical form — she's also directing and choreographing "Bullets Over Broadway" this season — the Tony-winning director was exacting in that every beat had to be "theatrical," says August, adding that she found fault with a traveling salesman number written for Butz.
"She said, 'There's nothing 'Big Fish' about it, give me something larger than life,'" August says.
August and Lippa, knowing that Stroman had filled her chorus with a number of strong, tall women, came up with a splashy USO number that sends Edward off to save the world from an evildoer.
The challenge came in the double-track nature of the musical: the linear story of a man facing death and reconciling with his son and the fantasy sequences that could threaten "to float away" if not moored to the central story.
"The present day always had to be pushing forward, how they were to come together," August says. "The fantasy numbers had to help answer that question or complicate that question. We had to integrate those two worlds without 'cut to' or post-production to rely on. But the limitations of stage force you to resolve those problems with the most interesting answers."
One way they were able to do that was by keeping Will, played by Bobby Steggert, in the fantasy sequences, a grounded character whose presence tips off the audience that he is trying to comprehend his father's stories to understand the man himself.
It was also this character who underwent the most substantive change between the tryout in Chicago and the beginning of previews in New York.
There was a sense among the creative team that the beginning of the musical was flawed. The contentious relationship between father and son got "too heated, too fast," says August about a song, "This River Between Us," which paralleled a wedding scene at the beginning of the film in which Edward marginalizes Will at his own wedding by telling a long story to the assembled guests.
"Will, whose wife is pregnant, needed a song that spelled out why he was acting in the way that he was, that was an insight into his character," August says.
In the basement of the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, Lippa and August sketched out a new scene and song, "Stranger," that expressed Will's inner torment about Edward as he himself was facing fatherhood. In thinking about his child, he could resolve to understand his father in a more positive way.
"It's a vast improvement from what was on film, I don't know how we could have done it then without a song," says August, who also thinks several of the relationships in the show are stronger than in the film because they have been set to music. "If I could go back and rewrite the movie, there's a lot of things that I would do differently. Because I've had nine more years to work on it."
Given the endless recycling of Hollywood, it's not unlikely that August may one day have a chance if "Big Fish" is a success. After all, film versions of stage musicals are increasingly common these days.
"I'd love to have that chance, but that's probably way down the road. I don't doubt that I will probably be writing some version of 'Big Fish' for the rest of my life, even if it's the Ukraine trapeze version of it."


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Washington DC Nano News - The 20-Minute Markup
authored by Margaret Glass, ASTC
In legislative terms, a markup is a special session held to amend a bill. The National Nanotechnology (NNI) Amendment Act was scheduled for markup in the House Committee on Science and Technology at 11 am on May 7, 2008, in Rayburn 2318. Most of the amendments were related to education, so I thought I should observe this step of the process - even though I'd been warned that it was totally unpredicable how long this process might take. You never know what kind of line you might face at the security gates in Congress, and I had arrived punctually at other sessions only to be without a seat, so I left in plenty of time to get to the committee meeting room. I was there and seated slightly before 11, with time to reread the amendments as I waited for the members to file in. May is still school group visit season in DC and just at 11, a group of 15 8th graders slid into seats all around me. After years of working with kids on the floor of a science center, I had no problem chatting them up, to the mild annoyance of their chaperones. They were from California - Silicon Valley - learned nothing about nano in their schools, but knew a little bit about it from TV, the Web, and popular culture. They were also on a tight schedule, and within 5 minutes were rounded up and herded out the door by their wrangler, who was eager to move onto the next stop (probably lunch). I looked up at the wall clock and was surprised to see it was after 11:20 – still no committee members. Afraid I had screwed up the time, I looked around the room. There were 20 or 25 other spectators like me. Some of them held binders that had "Hearing on the NNI" printed in large letters on the spine. Others had picked up the press materials, and were texting or reading to kill time. Obviously this was the right place and time. 11:30…11:45…12:00…You know when you are waiting for a bus, then give up convinced it's not coming only to have it drive up after you are out of shouting distance? I was positive something like that would happen if I got out of my seat. Now I really wanted to see the markup session, if only to explain why I had been out of the office for so long. Bored, I looked around the room at the décor – the curtains, the upholstery, anything. For the first time, I noticed two inscriptions on either side of the chamber wall behind the podium. "Where there is no vision, the people perish" Proverbs 29:18. Huh? Biblical passages in the House? The other quotation was at least more poetic: "For I dipped into the future, as far as I could see. Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be." Tennyson. Appropriate to a room for deliberating about science and technology, sure. But I was vaguely annoyed that there wasn't an American author selected for these passages. A handful of representatives finally drifted into the room around 12:15. At 12:20, Chairman Gordon gave his opening remarks. A few other members added their verbal support, after which the bill was considered read. Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson, of Texas's 30th District, was given 5 minutes to introduce and explain her suggested amendment: that at least one member of the new advisory panel mandated by the bill should be employed by and represent a minority-serving institution. Ms. Johnson also added specific wording that the Education and Societal Dimensions Program area should include education regarding the environmental, health and safety, and other societal aspects of nanotechnology. Then it was the turn of Mr. Brian Baird of Washington's 3rd District. He added that agencies should provide Internet access from nano research facilities to secondary school students and their teachers, as well as procedures and technical support to use these facilities. Mr. Baird also suggested additional wording to ensure networking and remote access capabilities of nano research facilities Five minutes later, a verbal vote approved the bill as amended and HR 5940 was recommended for the calendar for the full House as soon as possible. Total session time from order to adjournment: 20 minutes! (Not counting 100 minutes of waiting time) What are the implications of these amendments for the NISE Network?
- It is valuable for the Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Task Force to build contacts with historically black colleges and universities and with Hispanic communities. Representation on the Advisory Panel will ensure a concern with products and programs directed to underserved minorities.
- Topics of environmental, health and safety and societal issues of nanotech will continue to provide fodder for forums and public discourse.
- A question: Can science museums and centers provide central locations for remote access to nano research sites for secondary schools and their teachers? Is this a possible expansion path for formal/informal education collaboration?


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Working Long Hours During Treatment
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am a lawyer (out of college only 3 years)- my job demands lots of long and late hours. I recently started treatment for Hodgkin�s disease. I don�t know where to start- do I tell people at work? How can I keep up the schedule? I don�t want to jeopardize my career. Any suggestions?
Rodney N. Warner, JD, Staff Attorney at The Legal Clinic for the Disabled, responds:
Welcome to the club! I was working as an attorney when I was diagnosed with Hodgkins! Only I had a cushy 9 to 5 government job, so long hours weren't an issue for me, Thank God. This link is a good start: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/cancer.html. Are long and late hours an essential function of the job? The only "people" you need to tell is your supervisor, if you want to ask for a reasonable accommodation. How you keep up with the schedule is a medical question, not a legal one. Are you physically capable of working those hours? If not, are those hours an essential function of the job? Can working shorter hours be a reasonable accommodation, or would it present an undue hardship to the employer? Try not jeopardize your career, but don't jeopardize your health either. Any firm that's willing and able to work you to death while you undergo cancer treatment is not a firm you want to work for. If they do say it's OK to work less hours, but require you to work the same billable hours (year end) as your healthy co-workers, that would be an ineffective accommodation and violate the ADA. If you're allowed, let's say, to work 10% less, your billable hour requirement should be 10% less. Does your firm have 50 or more employees? If so, you may qualify for FMLA leave. Talk to a good plaintiff's attorney who does employment law. You can also try to hash this out with these folks. I think any law firm that fires an attorney, undergoing cancer treatment, after he/she requests an accommodation, is just BEGGING to be sued.
Rebecca Nellis, Director of Programs at Cancer and Careers, responds:
This is definitely a hard one and your field is incredibly demanding particularly when you are starting out, but the truth is you have to listen to yourself. You don't have to tell anyone legally unless you need a reasonable accommodation, for instance time off for treatment. But you might want to confide in some people if that would make it easier on you to get up and go to work everyday; this is very much about who you are as a person and how you operate.
Things to consider before telling: do you know of anyone else at your firm who has been through something similar? How did the office react? Was it supportive? Have you reviewed your employee manual? Is there any information on leave banks (people donating there unused time off to colleagues who need it) or flex time? Are there ways you can cutback at all? Or reduce other demands on your time if career is your primary focus? Also, be sure to discuss the work is a high priority with your healthcare team so they can take that into account when structuring/scheduling your treatment. Sometimes day of the week doesn't matter to anyone but you, so be sure to figure out what impact it is having and when the optimum times in your week are, if that is possible. We have a lot of information on cancerandcareers.org that you might find helpful as well.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series, Issues Facing Young Adults After Cancer. View the entire transcript.