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This week's page is one of my personal favorites. The top panel shows a proud Ridley escorting his lady around in the newly-fixed Panhard. It's one of the first panels we finished completely, and served as a reference for the styling of a lot of the other pages. The bottom is a dramatic view of the dragon, the first time we get to actually see it in the book! So, it's a fairly important page to the story and as a reference to the rest of the visual style of the book. I remember having a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to do the bottom panel's background. It had to be something that wasn't too busy or overdone, because the focus needs to be on the dragon. Mimicking the style of trees from the top, but simplifying them down to their base elements, ended up being the perfect solution. And now it's one of our favorites!
We've talked a lot about the fantasy side of the book on this here blog, but not about the history side. So let's remedy that right now!
We wanted Ridley to live through some extraordinary times. And while every era in human history is pretty fascinating, we felt that the early 20th century held a lot of interest for both of us. There was so much happening with innovation in technology, society, fashion, you name it. But, tackling a historical project also means hours of research to make sure our details are correct. Questions like "when exactly were spiral notebooks invented?" (1934, by the way), or "when were crayons available?" (1903!) came up whenever we wanted to put any kind of detail or prop into the story. We both learned a lot, about subjects we hadn't even considered before starting.
Major details, like the car Ridley is driving above, required some more in-depth searching. We had to find a car that would have been available in England in the early 1900s. Panhard et Levassor was an established woodworking and machinist firm before making their first automobile in 1890, and by 1900 they were one of the largest and most modern automobile manufacturers in the world. No wonder Ridley was so excited about it! When we learned about this car, it jumped out to us as a good fit, and also as a gorgeous machine in itself. It was a little hard to find reference for when we were looking, however. Once, I even found an old advertisement on the wall of a hotel in Victoria, and for a long time that was the best full shot of the car we had. Now, it seems like it's everywhere! There was even one up for auction recently (although it's a slightly different model than ours). We ended up finding a video that a car enthusiast had taken during an antiques car show and posted to Youtube as a source of major reference, especially for the engine. Oh well. I guess if we decide to bring it back in another book, we'll have all the reference we can handle!
Last, the good PhDs at Comics Alternative gave us a shout out on their podcast highlighting the January Previews offerings. At about the 1 hour and 4 minute mark, they talk about Beautiful Scars. And yes, we are both nice and heartwarming! Have a listen…


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A long-awaited tribute to,
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales is one of the greatest icons of our time. "Call Me Diana" is a true tribute to the People's Princess and a celebration of the undying love for this remarkable woman. Each spectacular scene, along with twenty original music tracks takes us through Princess Diana's fascinating and emotional Royal journey.
Starting with her untimely death, we travel back in time to witness the shy young woman battling through a broken fairy tale only to emerge as the confident world class superstar she became. Diana empowered women right across the globe. She changed the Monarchy, she fought back against the villains of the piece....the paparazzi, and her legacy will continue to be a positive force for years to come. This long-awaited spectacular musical, "Call Me Diana", will bring tears of joy and unabashed smiles to audiences around the world.

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text: Share: Comments Print November 19, 2012 at 1:23 PM Chatting with GM Adrian Hanauer about Sunday's game, referees, and looking to 2013 Posted by Joshua Mayers Reporters had a chance to chat with Adrian Hanauer, Sounders FC general manager and part owner, after Sunday's playoff game. Here is the transcript of that conversation: * * * (Thoughts on the season?) "I think I'd echo a lot of what Sigi said. We took some positive steps this year, from Open Cup, where we make it to another final and get nipped on penalties, a Cascadia Cup that doesn't go our way on the final day, (advanced to) CONCACAF quarterfinals handily, very well managed throughout that process, and we obviously took another step in the playoffs. I feel like we're becoming more mature as an organization and as a team, but obviously tonight's disappointing and we'll spend the next couple of days doing a bit of an autopsy and figure out what we do from there." (Will it be hard to keep this group together?) "It depends what you call this group. We certainly have the salary cap issue, but we've managed our cap pretty well. As I've said and as happens every year, it will not be the exact same group next year — and soccer's just like that. Players get opportunities, the club gets opportunities and obviously over the couple three months we'll get that all squared away." (Do you have a sense it will be more tinkering than major changes?) "We said before the playoffs started that if we win a championship, we're still going to look holistically at where we're at and try to get better next year and try to put together a team that can win a championship. Certainly knowing that we're not playing Champions League next year in the qualifying stage takes four games out of the equation, which maybe allows you to tinker with the depth a little bit and say, 'OK, maybe that balance shifts a little bit more to the 11, 12, 13, 14 guys that are going to get more and more minutes,' but that's really subtle, and it's based on what opportunities arise. It's hard to just snap your fingers and say all of a sudden now I'm trying to go from 18-deep to 14-deep. The right deals have to fall into place. Again, Sigi said it: We were a little bit of discipline from still being playing or quite frankly having won this series because at 2-0 we can close up shop. But a 3-0 loss in L.A., again, just too deep a hole." (Did you see the Eddie Johnson offside call?) "I didn't. Everybody has told me it was onside. To me, that's a problem. Look, I'm involved at the league level, and I'm as culpable as anyone and as involved as anyone in continuing to improve the refereeing. But key decisions like that change games. The non-call in L.A. changed that game completely and an erroneous offside call here changes the game completely. The penalty changes the game completely. I know the thing that's frustrating for players and coaches is they lose their jobs when they make mistakes and don't win championships or don't convert, and again, I know that's been the frustrating thing for coaches and players is there doesn't seem to be any significant consequences to making game-changing decisions that aren't right." (Majority owner Joe Roth had some strong words about the officiating [Ed note: Expletives were involved]…) "Those are Joe's words. You know look, I'm disappointed. I think a couple of big calls go against us, and if they hadn't, the game is different. At the same time, I'm on the competition committee and all I want to do is make it better so I don't have to live with this on as regular a basis. Look, it's a tough job and they are going to make mistakes, no matter what, until maybe we implement a little bit of instant replay or video review. But again, theoretically, those bad decisions balance out. Didn't feel like it this season for us, but I'm sure there are a lot of teams who feels it wasn't balanced." (Do you immediately switch to offseason mode now?) "I wouldn't say 'offseason mode,' but it's continual evolution and a continual process. It's not like tomorrow morning, we go, 'Oh wow, the season is over! We forgot! Now we need to get to work.' We've been looking at players, looking at contracts, looking at where we go next year. Again, whether we were eliminated tonight or won a championship, it was still going to be that evolutionary process." Comments


text: Rachel Patterson 2 December 2007 Regulation & Industry Elf and safety Rachel Patterson 2 December 2007 Regulation & Industry 314 elf-and-safety Across the country Santa's magical sleigh ride has been grounded because of health and safety, but the immediate culprits are not who you think. It seems a number of insurance companies are worried that the combined effort of riding through towns and villages while waving to children will cause the old man to tumble out of the sleigh and hurt himself. In West Midlands, Santa now must harness himself into his seat. In Northumberland, the town of Alnwick has been forced to forgo the sleigh altogether in favour of a bus. Usually, we blame these kind of frustrating and paternalistic policies on the government and Health and Safety. This time, two private insurance companies demanded that the two towns make the changes or face such high premiums that the event couldn't go on. The companies held their ground, claiming the restrictions "protect him from the speed of his own sleigh," which, incidentally, runs at about 5mph. This may seem odd, until we remember that it's only because of government regulation that the towns have to have insurance in the first place. The insurance industry is now taking cues from a government that encourages a culture of protectionism. The government operates under an ethos of paternalism, that it is better to keep the children indoors than let them outside to skin their knees. Out of this comes a society required to have insurance against hazard and more likely to sue when things to do go wrong. The growing philosophy of people, beginning in America and working its way over here, is that when something goes wrong there must be someone to blame and some financial compensation owed. Because of this, people expect some government or organization to hold them up when they fall, therefore more people buy insurance, more people make claims on that insurance, and premiums increase. And eventually, the regular enjoyments of life, like Santa and his sleigh, become regulated literally harnessed beyond recognition.


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Flower Girls, Queens and Rangers
May 3, 2016
'It's all right, Will.' His deep voice cut through the fear that filled Will's mind. 'It's over now.'
But Will shook his head, horrified by the rapid train of events.
'Halt, I missed…twice! I panicked and I missed!' He felt a deep sense of shame that he had let his teacher down so badly. Halt's arm tightened around him and he looked up at the bearded face and the dark, deep-set eyes.
'There's a big difference between shooting at a target and shooting at a charging Wargal. A target isn't usually trying to kill you.' Halt added the last few words in a more gentle tone. He could see that Will was in shock. And no wonder, he thought grimly.
'But…I missed…'
'And next time you won't. Now you know it's better to fire one good shot than two hurried ones.' Halt said firmly. Then he took Will's arm and turned him toward the campsite under the fig tree. 'Let's see what we have here,' he said, putting an end to the subject.
pp. 4 – 5, Ranger's Apprentice, Book 2, The Burning Bridge, John Flanagan, Philomel Books, 2005.
Apprentice Will had made some mistakes, some grave ones, but the master Ranger, Halt, reassured him, steadied him, encouraged him and breathed promise and hope into Will's wounded, discouraged, defeated mind. It's a good way to go about doing things.
How one is treated matters a whole heck of a lot. In my mind, the process is just as important as the "getting there."
After 3 weekends, My Fair Lady just ended at the Garfield Center for the Arts downtown, and I had the privilege of having a small role. One thing that Eliza said was that she felt, even though she was just a flower girl, she felt like a queen when she was with Colonel Pickering because of the way he treated her. Will, (in the YA series that has grabbed me by the throat to keep reading till I get to the end), felt like a real ranger; again, because of the way his master treated him. Reading the quote in Book Two today reminded me of how we all felt like stars – real "kings and queens" in that play. Yup. It was loverly.


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This lesson focuses on shape, color, and space, and deals with proportion and facial features without the stress of attempting to create a realistic face. Because the shapes are torn, not cut or drawn, the lesson automatically lends itself to what I call "ish-ness" (named after Ish, the wonderful little book by Peter Reynolds). The "rules" for the activity are simple: start with two predominant colors, include all face parts, don't overlap the shapes, and use no scissors or pencils. After listing these on the board, I ask students what they think "predominant" means. If no one gets close, I define it for them as main, as in "two main colors" ... and stress that it doesn't mean that they can't use other colors as well. Just before they start, I ask them to think about whether they want their piece to be symmetrical or asymmetrical, reviewing the meaning of the terms.
Students use a 12x12 sheet of black construction paper for their background, and each table has an assortment of colored construction paper to choose from. As they work, I encourage creatively-used shapes for different facial features, and remind them of the ongoing collage rule of putting glue on the back of the colored pieces, not on the background. I also remind them to tear any straight edges that may have made their way to the piece. Generally with collage work, I don't even get the glue out until after students have torn several shapes and started arranging them on the background. I encourage them to get all their shapes defined first before gluing anything down.
After a walk-around, where students can take their time looking at everyone's art work, I go through the pieces one by one and we identify as a whole group what the two predominant colors are, and whether the piece is symmetrical or asymmetrical. I also point out how lines have been created between the applied shapes, in the negative space.
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Ishaan: Sapno Ko Awaaz De
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Ishaan: Sapno Ko Awaaz De is an Indian Teen drama created by Red Chillies Idiot Box which aired on Disney Channel India from 15 May 2010 to 27 March 2011.[1] for Disney Channel India. It is a musical teen drama that focuses on a 15-year-old boy named Ishaan and the choices that he makes between music and his friends.
|Ishaan: Sapno Ko Awaaz De
|Teen drama
|Written by
|Jaydeep Sarkar
|Directed by
|Iqbal Rizvi
|Opening theme
|"Sapno Ko Awaaz De"
|Country of origin
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Running time
|25 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Red Chillies Idiot Box
|Original network
|Disney Channel India
|Original release
|15 May 2010 –
27 March 2011
Ishaan wants to be famous. Ishaan has to leave his school because of a fee paying problem and joins the school of which he won against the 'Karma Yatra' where every one hates him. On the other hand, Kabir is thrown out as the lead singer of their band as he was trying to win the competition by offering bribes to the judges, and Ishaan, after becoming the friend of the band members, becomes the lead singer too. After rejecting the chance to be a solo superstar, Ishaan and his friends try to make it big on their own. The group soon learns that success comes with a price and with strong competition in the form of "Baby Shasha" — the superstar! When faced with choices that could jeopardize his friendship with others, Ishaan makes the toughest decisions of his life. Ishaan also has a love interest, Shyla (Anisa Butt).
- Tapasvi Mehta as Ishaan Sharma
- Anisa Butt as Shyla
- Kishan Savjani as Ron
- Ayaz Ahmed as Pulkit
- Farhina Parvaz as Munmun
- Rohan Shah as Mandy
- Nakul Sahdev as Kabir
- Sheena Bajaj Purohit as Himani
- Bharti Kumar as Twinkle
- Sana Khan as Sara
- Priyal Gor as Tara
- Nikita More as Lara
- Neville Bharucha as Sunny
- Deval Trivedi as Bubbles
Song listEdit
- Sapno Ko Awaaz de
- Dhink Chak
- I'm the ONE
- Dil Ka Hai Jo Haal (acoustic)
- Dil Ka Hai Jo Haal
- Khwaab Ye Kal Ke
- Owwa Owwa
- O JD O JD Aaj To Tera Birthday Hai
- Sapno ko awaaz de (rock version)
- Naya School
- Ishaan Is Impossible
- Bhage Shyla
- Mun Mun Ka Sapna
- I'm the ONE (Ishaan version)
- My Name Shah Shah
- Chor Ho Tum
- Dhumtara
- Dhumtara (rock version)
- Jeetenge Aaj Bhi
- Say Cheese
- Pyaari Yaari Dosti
- D.I.S.C.O. (bonus track by Bappi Lahiri)
- ^ Disney Channel To Presents A New Tween Musical Drama,Ishaan – Sapno Ko Awaaz De, Indian Television, 5 May 2010


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Design a vehicle that moves using rubber band power, then test it on the track before adapting and customising the vehicle to make it goes further or faster! How much weight can it carry?
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Two states and a handful of cities do not a country make.
Ran across an interesting article in the Boston Globe titled "The Democrats' demographic dilemma."
The punch line of the article:
Democrats have carried the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, an unprecedented run.
But, Democrats are confronted by the "wasted vote phenomenon".
They roll up huge margins in blue enclaves, but political polarization and demographic sorting control the electoral map.
Here are a few highlight snippets from the article …
"Islands of affluence"
Clinton's 3 million-vote edge came from but 420 of our 3,100 counties.
The 16 percent of counties supporting Clinton accounted for 65 percent of U.S. GNP, and their median home price was 60 percent higher than in counties carried by Trump.
Studies have found that there's a direct correlation between the percentage of "underwater" homes and counties that voted for Trump.
"Think-alike communities"
We are "increasingly sorted into think-alike communities" defined by ethnicity, education, and economic status.
The Democrat's economically ascendant counties, largely urban, are geographically isolated islands of the relatively privileged surrounded by the less educated and more aggrieved who must dog paddle to survive.
And so geography (and the electoral map) mirrors demography.
Our echo chambers
92 percent of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat in their core social, economic, and political views.
94 percent of Democrats are to the left of the median Republican.
Two-thirds of consistent conservatives and more than half of consistent liberals say most of their close friends share their political views.
The Author's Rx (for Dems)
"The Democratic party must become a credible force for betterment in the lives and minds of more Americans, no matter who or where."
Sounds like one of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals …
Rule #11: Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem.
See our prior post Another Chicago flashback … for the rest of Alinsky's "rules".
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text: "Under Salim Nourallah's production, the music's so taut, it bounces like a trampoline and jumps with the same sense of adventure. And the guitar work… well, Miller rightly says Bethea has hit a career peak; whether he's twangin' or rockin' or both it's nothing less than sterling throughout." That's all from a great new interview with Rhett. Enjoy! – frank


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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1998 | 2:15 a.m.
CARSON CITY -- Nevada voters Tuesday told the Legislature to do something it hasn't done since 1977, complete the session in 120 days.
The constitutional amendment was approved Tuesday by nearly 70 percent.
Voters also took the first to two steps to allow marijuana to be used to cure illnesses or relieve pain. In Colorado and Washington, medical marijuana measures passed, but one in Arizona was rejected.
There were 10 questions on the ballot and seven passed.
Rejected was Question 8 to bounce the lieutenant governor from the job as president of the Senate where he or she steers the course of debate.
Also turned down were Question 6 to allow a tax break on property that conserved water and Question 7 that would have imposed a sales tax on items purchased from local government stores.
There was overwhelming approval for Question 5 to limit the length of the Legislature, which in 1995 and 1997, both lasted 169 days.
Senate Majority Leader William Raggio, R-Reno, a leading proponent, said leadership has already set a timetable to conduct its business within the 120 day limit. There will be deadlines for each house to pass its bills, except in certain cases. And committee actions must be taken by certain dates.
The 1997 session cost a record $15.5 million, and this is expected to reduce the cost several million dollars.
Although opposed by most law enforcement officer, Question 9 on medical marijuana handily won passage 58-41 percent. But it must be approved again at the 2000 election before it is written into the Constitution. It is patterned after the California initiative, which has run into trouble from federal law enforcement officials.
But the Justice Department has agreed to take another look at the possibility of allowing a government-supervised use of marijuana as a treatment for certain sick people. This would be a major reversal of the policy of the department, which since January has filed suit seeking to close at least six California "marijuana clubs" that supply members, including disease sufferers, with the drug.
Other amendments approved by the voters included:
--Question 1: changed the Constitution to resolve a conflict when competing issues appear on the election ballot and both win. The one with the most votes is considered victorious.
--Question 2: Removed the state Judicial Discipline Commission from under the authority of the Nevada Supreme Court and put it under the Legislature. The commission was given more independence in setting its rules and has the authority now to open investigations without waiting for a complaint.
--Question 3: The Legislature is now empowered to allow district judges to hold court outside the county seat. The impetus for the change came from Nye County where the population center of Pahrump is more than 100 miles from Tonopah, the county seat. But this could apply in Clark County to such places as Laughlin and Mesquite.
--Question 4: An advisory ballot issue whether Nevada Day should be changed from Oct. 31 to the last Friday in October so there will be a three-day weekend. It will be up to the 1999 Legislature to change the law, if it wants.
--Question 17: The Nevada Constitution will now have the so-called "scarlet letter" on term limits. It requires Nevada's Congressional delegation and state legislators to push for term limits for Congress either through a constitutional amendment or a constitutional convention. Those who did not follow this direction would have a notation placed beside their names on election ballots.
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Gujjubhai the Great – Melbourne
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Popular Gujarati comedy movie Gujjubhai the Great will be showcased in theatres across Australia. Premier Tickets is proud to be the online ticketing partner for the movie.
The film is a comic drama based on the super-hit series of Gujjubhai stage-plays. Directed by Ishaan Randeria, the movie stars Siddharth Randeria, Swati Shah, Dipna Patel, Jimit Trivedi and Alekh Sangal in the main lead. The film was released on 18th September 2015 in India and would be showcased in Australian theatres for the first time ever.
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Where – Lido Cinemas
Level 1, 675 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn 3121
Timings - 9:00 PM
- Siddharth Randeria as Hasmukh Gandhi
- Swati Shah as Pramila Gandhi
- Dipna Patel as Tanisha
- Jimit Trivedi as Bakul Buch
- Alekh Sangal as Montu
- Sunil Vishrani as Inspector Aakash Jhala
- Khatera Hakimi as Soniya Kapoor
- Dharmesh Vyas as Bade Bhai
Hasmukh Gandhi believes in leading an enjoyable & stress-free life. The happy go lucky Gandhi lands into serious trouble when his daughter Tanisha introduces him to her boyfriend Montu. Montu is a charmer and the entire Gandhi family falls for him. Hashmukh however views him as a trickster and wants to expose him. Hashmukh finds another match for Tanisha in the form of Bakul- a simple and shy guy who Hasmukh feels would genuinely take care of his darling daughter. He is however cornered as no one in the house including his wife Pramila approves of his choice.
Here is where there is twist in the tale! Hasmukh now decides to transform the simple hardworking manager Bakul into a cool Gujju. With this begin a series of maddening events that go totally out of control leading to a hilarious situation with unexpected consequences. Enjoy the cat and mouse game between Bakul and Montu! Will Bakul actually manage to win over Tanisha?
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Episode 52 finds Neil and Dario discussing the ICA and School of Film & Television season Crossings, a programme of films, talks and events focused on the theme of migration. The season took place from June to September and looked at how cinema represents the stories of those who seek to leave their homeland for a new land, through choice or through necessity. Full details of the project can be found here.
Two films coming under the Cinematologists spotlight in this episode. The 2016 documentary Fire At Sea directed by Gianfranco Rosi and set on the Italian island of Lampedusa and John Akomfrah's provocative and poetic essay doc The Nine Muses, from 2010. These films were screened at the Newlyn Filmhouse and The Poly in Falmouth respectively.
The focus of the chat between Neil and Dario looks at the representation of migration and migrants and refugees in cinema and whether these films are 'preaching to the converted', amongst other topics.
Thanks to Dr. Laura Canning (SoFT) and Nico Marzano (ICA) for inviting us to do this episode. Thanks also to Kingsley Marshall and Mark Jenkin for helping host the Newylyn event with Neil.
AUDIO NOTE: Please excuse some of the peaking issues in the inserts, and some of the low volume audio in the post film Q&A sections. Still on the learning curve as a recorder and editor. NF.


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This workshop will explore how 'the need to be an individual versus the need to belong' is an existential core dilemma of being human. How do we resolve this dilemma and find a balance and what is the price we sometimes pay to belong? We will look at the Gestalt concepts of confluence and isolation and how separateness and belonging are linked to our sense of self, how we relate to others, identity, difference and culture. "Being a complete individual, ignoring all the demands of family and friends, means complete loneliness and risking the destruction of self, which comes from complete isolation. Being nothing but a member of the group means giving up being a person and becoming an empty space." Rowe, D. (1988) Beyond Fear. Fontana Paperbacks.
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On a 26-acre farm a couple hours' drive from Mumbai, hundreds of black-and-white Holstein-Friesian cows laze around, dining on seasonal greens and listening to a custom playlist of rap, pop, classical and devotional music.
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Stone-grilled seafood and lobster cheese fondue Dinner Buffet at Café Rivoli
Café Rivoli presents Stone-grilled Seafood and Lobster Cheese Fondue Dinner Buffet to treat guests with rich cheeses, the freshest lobster and seafood from now till 28 February 2017.
The grilled to order Stone-grilled Seafood on the buffet table is highly recommended by Ken Chan, Executive Chef of the Hotel. Various seafood including tiger prawn, mussel, spider crab leg, brown crab and scallop will be served on the hot stone with a selection of sesame and lime sauce, mint and pineapple yoghurt, pomelo and ginger sauce or the Thai basil and tomato sauce.
Lobster Cheese Fondue is also one of the dishes that cannot be missed. Chef Ken presents the cheese fondue with cheese sauces of Gorgonzola, Cheddar and Mozzarella. Guests are recommended to taste the Boston lobster with the three different tempting sauces.
Besides the highlighted delicacies, Café Rivoli also features other specialities include Sashimi (Salmon, Tuna, Herring, Octopus) and Sushi, Seafood Platter (Lobster Platter, Brown Crab, Mussel, Golden Whelk, Crab Leg and Prawn), Steamed Shrimp with Chinese Wine and Glutinous Rice in Bamboo Basket, Grilled Lamb Rack with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary, Sauteed Lobster with Braised E-fu Noodles and Abalone Sauce, daily carving, Chinese dim sum, Indian curry and many others to satisfy different taste buds.
To perfect the dinner, a selection of colourful desserts are prepared for diners! Café Rivoli serves Lemon White Chocolate Raspberry Terrine, Jasmine 70% Chocolate Cake, Lychee and Aloe Vera Jelly, Giant Baked Alaska, Movenpick and Dreyer's ice cream, Chocolate Fountain and more to give guests a sweet evening.
Serving Times
Daily from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Promotion Period
From now till 28 February 2017
Adult $558 Child $358 (Monday to Thursday)
Adult $618 Child $358 (Friday to Sunday, Public Holiday and Eve)
*Prices are subject to 10% service charge
Buffet Highlights
- Selected Sashimi (Salmon, Tuna, Herring, Octopus, etc)
- Seafood Platter (Lobster Platter, Brown Crab, Mussel, Golden Whelk, Crab Leg and Prawn)
- Stone-grilled Seafood
- Lobster Cheese Fondue (Cheese Sauces of Gorgonzola, Cheddar and Mozzarella)
- Steamed Shrimp with Chinese Wine and Glutinous Rice in Bamboo Basket
- Sauteed Lobster with Braised E-fu Noodles and Abalone Sauce
Other Specialities
- Salad Bar
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CHICAGO – It is Chicago where New York City native Harry Wood is debuting his first play, entitled "Roast," through The Comrades theater company at the Greenhouse Theater Center. The comic drama, about a gathering of stand up comics and relatives to "roast" – rather than eulogize – a deceased fellow comedian, is a World Premiere that runs through August 18th, 2019. For tickets and more information, click here.
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Interview, Audio: Haroula Rose, Creator of 'Tribeca: TV' Finalist 'Lost & Found'Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 10, 2017 - 10:10am
CHICAGO – The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival was not all about film. Besides showcasing Immersive and Virtual Reality programming, this edition of the festival opened up submissions from independent television pilot creators for the first time. One of the four finalists that were accepted to the "Tribeca: TV" portion of the festival was "Lost & Found," created and directed by Haroula Rose, who is from the nearby Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood, Ill.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Advance TV Premiere Passes to FOX's 'The Exorcist' With Geena DavisSubmitted by HollywoodChicago.com on September 10, 2016 - 11:30am
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening TV premiere tickets up for grabs to the new FOX series "The Exorcist" starring Geena Davis! Our winners will enjoy free concessions at this premiere!
Film Review: 'In a World...' Reveals a Voiceover of Heart, HilaritySubmitted by PatrickMcD on August 16, 2013 - 7:26pm
CHICAGO – One the most familiar movie clichés is the sonorous voice that intones "In a world…" to begin a movie trailer, and then extols the virtues of that upcoming feature. Lake Bell, who wrote, directed and stars in the new movie, "In a World…,' creates a delightful and gentle satire of voiceover artists and their journeys.
Interview: Actress Lake Bell Writes, Directs 'In a World...'Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 14, 2013 - 5:44pm
CHICAGO – Lake Bell is a recognizable and successful character actress, having prominence in television ("Boston Legal") and films ("It's Complicated"). For her latest film, she wrote, directed and starred in a gentle parody of the voiceover profession, especially the intoned voices that narrate movie trailers, "In a World…"
TV Review: A&E Mini-Series Remake of 'Coma' is LifelessSubmitted by BrianTT on September 3, 2012 - 9:17am
CHICAGO – When I heard that A&E was airing a remake of Michael Crichton's wonderful slice of '70s health care paranoia "Coma" (based on the book by Robin Cook), I thought, "That makes perfect sense." With our current national focus on what's going to happen to us when we get sick along with the continued health issues of the aging Baby Boomer generation, a "Coma" remake was a great idea.
Blu-Ray Review: 20th Anniversary of Powerful 'Thelma & Louise'Submitted by BrianTT on February 17, 2011 - 10:31pm
CHICAGO – Can you believe that Ridley Scott's "Thelma & Louise" is twenty years old? Me neither. Well, almost twenty. It's really going to be two decades old in May and it's next year's Oscars that will mark the 20th anniversary of its win for Best Original Screenplay and other multiple nominations including Director and nods for both of its leads, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. All three lost to the wave of "The Silence of the Lambs" but it's easy to see now that it was probably a close vote total for at least one of the two ladies.


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I see it every day, in the matter of gender, one invariably blames the other. I suggest we not get caught up in that and start being responsible for our own actions.
Jane Caro Is Outing Outrage
Despite the inflammatory times we live in, I don't do outrage. It's pointless. That being said, if I see something outrageous, I will call it out.
Aziz Ansari: The Modern Double Standard
The Aziz Ansari situation is beyond just that. It speaks of the larger issue, in how we're quick to blame women and excuse men.
Cult of Immortality: There Is Nothing Special about Celebrities
It seems we can be forgiven after all for weeping over the deaths of celebrities we never meet. We mourn our own fragility, faced with the reminder that nobody can live forever.
Trump's surprise win over Clinton is a shock to the system, but it proves how far we truly stand back in righting equality.


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New Springer show is a collaboration between Paul Pierce and Allen Levi
"Kudzu Covers the South." That's the on-air slogan for WKDZ, a Columbus radio station at the center of the action of the Springer's original musical comedy opening November 8.
KUDZU, The Musical takes place in Columbus during a massive flood on the Chattahoochee River in the summer of 1954. The setting is a tiny radio station – WKDZ – Kudzu Radio – which has scheduled a broadcast of its popular Vine Time Variety Hour just as the river gushes into the flood plain.
When all the other radio stations are knocked off the air, WKDZ becomes the community's sole lifeline during the disaster. Since the station broadcasts from the third floor of Shipley's Mortuary and Life Insurance Agency, the broadcasters, musicians and live studio audience are safe from the flood. So the station's owners, Preacher T.J. Allred and his wife, Jackie, decide to go ahead with the big show even as the storm rages outside.
Kudzu, The Musical features Southern legends, tall tales, rural humor and local news – woven together with the Lost Dog Report, Recipes and Home Remedies, a call-in show called Ask the Preacher and WKDZ's popular mystery series, Frank Cutter: Phenix City Private Eye.
Legendary Georgia songsmith, Allen Levi, has written original bluegrass, country, blues, gospel and comedy tunes for the production.
Kudzu's playwright and director, Paul Pierce, collaborated with Levi to produce a musical comedy that explores life in the Chattahoochee Valley in the 1950's – an era in which Phenix City was in its "Sin City" phase, when Digger O'Dell buried himself alive, when the Goat Man made frequent visits, when Eddie Owens Martin was working out his Pasaquoyan visions, when the textile mills, RC Cola and Tom's Peanuts were still humming, when mysterious blue fireballs danced on the surface of the river, when UFO's were commonly reported and when Jim Crow laws were being challenged.
"The idea for this started back in the 1990's when Allen and I first got to know each other," Pierce said. "I began meeting regularly with a group of local historians and folklorists like Kaffie Sledge and Cathy Fussell and collected local legends, tall tales and, well, weirdness. Then I spent months at the library going through newspaper archives and began distilling it all into one very weird evening in 1954.
"After I wrote the first draft of the script, I invited Allen to write original songs and jingles for this mythical Southern radio station. He delivered some brilliant tunes. We workshopped the show in 1995 and even toured it a little in the Southeast. Last year when the Springer decided to revive the show and give a full professional treatment, Allen and I decided that the script and the score could use some improvements. As Allen said, 'We're both better writers now than we were twenty years ago.' So this is a fresh take on the story and Allen has written four amazing new songs for the show. We are excited to share our work this November."
The cast is led by a Springer stage veteran Keith McCoy, who plays Preacher Allred, the owner of the station. Allred's no-nonsense wife, Jackie, is played by Chelsy Cutwright. Ned Bridges plays Joe D. Wood, the station's general manager and announcer and Debbie Anderson is Joe's wife, Charlynn, who is also a singer and musician in the studio band. Kerry Phillips plays Ken Kines, the bandleader and the orchestra is completed by Justin Balew, George Miles and Steve Thompson.
Kudzu, The Musical will be performed in the intimate Dorothy McClure Theatre (aka, "The Dot") at the Springer Opera House with a set that resembles the Chattahoochee riverfront. The show opens November 8,9,10,15,16,17 at 7:30 pm and November 11 and 18 at 2:30 pm. To reserve tickets, call the Springer box office at 706-327-3688 or visit springeroperahouse.org


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Why Shares of Big Lots, Inc. Jumped
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of Big Lots, were up as much as 15% today on a strong first-quarter earnings report.
So what: The closeout retailer said earnings from continuing operations came in at $0.50, beating estimates at $0.44 as the company recently closed down its Canadian stores and exited its wholesale business. Revenue increased just 1.1% to $1.28 billion on a 0.9% comparable sales growth. Still, that was better than expectations of $1.26 billion. Gross margin slipped 110 basis points in the quarter, forcing profits lower as costs outgrew sales.
Now what: Looking ahead, management lifted full-year EPS guidance to $2.35-$2.50 from a previous range of $2.25-$2.45, and against the consensus at $2.38. Comparable sales growth was also forecast at 1-2%, which should help profitability improve. Shares seemed to spike not only on the raised guidance, but also on signs that the company made the right decisions in shutting down the Canadian and wholesale businesses. For a company still in transition and absorbing the costs from shutting down those operations, its P/E near 20 seems pricey, but after today's report Big Lots is clearly moving in the right direction.
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Whether continuing working on a design project, rehearsing with the orchestra, practising for a basketball match or running the Junior Chess Club, there will always be something on offer to engage the pupils and enhance their experiences. For boarding pupils, access to such activities will be extended both in the evenings and at weekends as part of the Residential Programme.
For almost all of the list of activities given below the expertise and facilities will be available on site. For a few we will seek the help and experience of local experts off-campus and, particularly for our charity and community service, we shall engage with the wider community. Depending on demand we shall offer as wide a range of activities as we can and shall expect pupils to add to this list and become involved in the activities programme from the outset, not just as participants, but as leaders too.
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I love a luxurious cashmere sweater. I found a perfectly cozy one to wear around the ranch–snatched from my boyfriend's closet. The term "boyfriend sweater" takes on a whole new meaning when said boyfriend is six-foot-six. It's a supremely masculine piece: a thickly ribbed charcoal-colored sweater with a mock turtleneck. He says it might be by Gucci, but he's not sure because he cut off the tag long ago. On me, it's a "boyfriend sweater tunic".
This could quite possibly be my new favorite piece of clothing. I've gotten into the everyday routine of pulling it over a long-sleeved tee with my black leggings. Temperatures are chilly here when we wake up but it gets pretty warm around noon, which is usually when I peel it off. The sleeves are far too long, though. I have to roll them up, which makes them look like giant cuffs. Because the weight of the knit is so heavy, I don't think it looks very stylish that way but I do it anyhow.
"I looooove this sweater," I purred, as I curled up in the chair next to him this morning with a mug of hot tea.
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text: Economics of Addiction Written by: Editorial Staff Last updated on March 20, 2019 For a number of different and complicated reasons, drug abuse has steadily moved into the mainstream of American life. Risky consumption of alcohol and dangerous substances is not just the business of celebrities, the homeless, and the disenfranchised, as it was long believed to be; now, legal and illegal drugs are widely distributed to people across different demographics, income brackets, and backgrounds. Understanding the economics of addiction sheds new light on how what was once the purview of the black market has now become a public health pandemic. Economics and Addiction Economics, explains the American Economic Association (AEA), is the study of many things: of how people use resources, for example, or the study of how (and why) people decide to use their resources in the way they do, to get the things they want. Generally, economics involves studying wealth, finance, and banking, so much so that people often believe that economics is nothing more than dealing with money and stocks. In reality, says AEA, the field of economics helps researchers see patterns and trends in history, and make predictions for the future based on the headlines of today. Addiction, says Slate magazine, is a tricky concept for an economist to study; economics is based on cause-and-effect logic, but the essence of substance abuse is "quintessentially irrational." People who are addicted to drugs or alcohol continue their abuse, even with the knowledge (or past that point of comprehension) that what they are doing is financially and medically dangerous. Instead, like a problem gambler, they expect the reward to outweigh the costs. Whatever happens, the theory goes – health issues, loss of a job or family, going bankrupt – it's worth it, because of the chemically-induced highs that warp and twist the brain's pleasure centers. But such is the power of economics that there exists documented cases of drug users terminating their consumption, as and when their circumstances dictated. Business Insider writes of how 20 percent of US servicemen in the American war were addicted to heroin; but upon their return home, the number of soldiers who continued taking heroin was "shockingly low." The psychiatric researcher who was appointed by President Richard Nixon to study the widespread abuse of heroin among American soldiers, told NPR that only 5 percent of the returning soldiers relapsed to heroin use in the first year; or, to put it another way, 95 percent of the servicemen who used heroin in Vietnam did not resume heroin use upon returning home. The writer in Slate magazine points out that the decision to start using heroin (to cope with the stress and horrors of the Vietnam War) and the decision to stop using heroin (or, at least, to try to stop) were "rational responses to circumstances," which is at the heart of economic science. Behavioral Economics Psychology Today picks up the point when it talks about "behavioral economics," which is where the realities of human behavior are looked at through the lens of the traditional interpretation of economics. When deciding the best possible outcome, most people will weigh the costs against the benefits, and this is the crux on which economic theory is based. People tend to know what they like and what they don't like, and will never go back and forth between two opposite wants (usually sticking to their preference every time). Rational people can control their urges, and they can say no to impulses that provide a short-term benefit but will eventually hamper long-term goals. These assumptions make up the principles of economic theory, which economists, statisticians, and scientists use to predict human behavior in the real world on a mass scale. Even the nature of democratic governments is based on this: Give people as many choices as possible, and they will choose which one they like the best. The behavioral economics mentioned by Psychology Today, on the other hand, takes the stance that human beings do not act in such logical ways. For a lot of people, the clinical self-control to deny their base desires and wants at every turn is not worth the hassle. Everyone is influenced by context, and when faced with the unknown that can come tomorrow or a year from now, many people will settle for the tangibility of the short-term benefit instead of the vague long-term reward (that may or may not materialize). A recovering alcoholic feeling the temptation to relapse is such an example; another might be a person deciding whether or not to take a drug for the first time, balancing the knowledge of the dangers of drugs against the peer pressure to do something ostensibly fun and exciting. The Psychological Economics of At-Risk Populations The behavioral economics school of thought tries to understand what makes people tick on this level, in the same way that a cognitive behavioral therapist will try to understand what makes a client think and act in harmful ways; that understanding will shape a treatment plan. Similarly, behavioral economics can prove helpful in devising expectations and treatments for how and why people with mental health disorders that impair impulse control (for example, those caused by substance abuse, bipolar disorder, or ADHD) will gravitate toward outcomes that offer immediate gratification. One demographic that a behavioral economist might look at is that of teenagers and young adults. Science magazine writes of a presentation made at a meeting of the Society of Neuroscience, where a group of research posited that teenagers have brains that have to work overtime to control behavior, which can lead to more impulsive reactions to challenging situations compared to children or adults. To that end, a study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs looked at the relationship between three indicators of socioeconomic status (income, family wealth, and parental education) and substance use (smoking, alcohol consumption, and marijuana consumption) among young adults. The study surveyed over 1,200 people between the ages of 18 and 23, and found that those who were children from families of lower socioeconomic status smoked, a connection that researchers attributed to demographics and social roles. Study participants who came from families with a higher socioeconomic status were associated with alcohol and marijuana use in their young adulthood beyond a threshold for which demographics and social roles could account. The researchers conducting the study concluded that young adults with better socioeconomic backgrounds "were most prone to alcohol and marijuana use." How Heroin Crossed Borders Tech Times warns that "middle class, suburban white adults in their early 20s" are at risk for a drug that is infinitely more dangerous than alcohol and marijuana. The JAMA Psychiatry journal referred to this as "the changing face of heroin use in the United States," because of how prescription painkillers – many of them derived from the same opium-based chemical compounds as heroin – have become so easily obtainable and so widely demanded. Throughout the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies threw exorbitant sums of money at doctors and marketers to make drugs like oxycodone (sold under the brand name OxyContin) and hydrocodone (brand name Vicodin) the go-to medications for anything from chronic cancer pain to sports injuries. The companies were aware that the drugs wore off sooner than advertised and instructed sales representatives to impress on doctors to simply prescribe stronger doses. In this way, an entire generation of Americans was introduced to powerfully addictive drugs that were chemically similar to heroin. Historically, heroin had always been seen as the poison of inner cities and poor urban areas, with a researcher telling Newsweek that in the 1940s, it was popular to think of heroin as a "dirty, low-class kind of drug." In the 1940s, however, there were no pharmaceutical corporations aggressively (and insidiously) pushing prescription medications on people desperately craving pain relief, who were willing and able to pay good money to get it. Today, buying a bag of heroin is no longer something that a homeless, poor person does under a bridge. In an example mentioned by The Economist, it is something that Cynthia Scudo, a young grandmother from the suburbs of Denver, did when she repeatedly took too much oxycodone for a hip injury. The New Heroin User More than half of the heroin addicts in America are women, says The Economist, and 90 percent of them are white. A study out of Washington University in St. Louis also notes that "most first-timers are in their mid-20s." This marks almost a complete change from the demographics of heroin users from even just a generation ago. Most of heroin's new customers don't start off looking for heroin. Unlike the old stereotype of heroin users, the members of this socioeconomic class are well-educated, and have good social and mental health structures in place that would preclude them from actively seeking a dangerous drug. But at high doses, even the most beneficial of prescription medication becomes an expensive habit on its own. Cynthia Scudo had to resort to selling her OxyContin pills to buy heroin, which gave her an even more powerful blast of painkilling euphoria. "As if from nowhere," says The Economist, the mother of eight and grandmother of eighteen, who worked full time and was in good shape became addicted to heroin. "Heroin crosses all borders," she told CNN, "all socioeconomic groups." Changing Economics Thanks in large part to pharmaceutical companies bombarding consumers with prescription medication, the economics of addiction have seismically shifted, and how the country has treated those drugs (and the people who use them) has changed as well. When heroin use was primarily the domain of impoverished men of color, says The New York Times, politicians and public polls called for long prison sentences (often heavily skewed based on race) and firmly believed that addiction was a matter of moral failing. But as heroin use and prescription painkiller abuse infected picturesque suburbs and countryside towns – where the population is mostly white – the harsh tones of the 1970s and 1980s are a distant memory. Now that drug abuse has demonstrably spread across different economic categories, there is an almost reflexive impulsive to call addiction a disease, to promote treatment instead of jail time, and to do away with terms like junkie in favor of patient. In this new era, white families, writes the Times, who are often wealthier, more educated, and better connected, are seeking "a gentler War on Drugs." It is a luxury that the former generation of heroin addicts did not have. Deeply Embedded Of course, not all white Americans are wealthy, and those who live in small towns scattered across the country are not immune to the siren song of opioids and other drugs. In places where the primary line of work is manual labor – farming, mining, timberwork, or construction – workplace injuries are commonplace, especially in declining industries, where employees are asked to work longer hours and take on more tasks before their jobs are outsourced. In places like these, writes The Guardian, people are usually poor and poorly educated. When their doctor gives them a bottle of prescription painkillers, they may think nothing of taking more pills than they were told to. They find they like their painkillers so much that they start forging prescriptions and faking injuries to get more drugs, which they then sell (either to people they know or online) to keep their own habit going. The pills eventually run out, but there is always a supply of heroin to replace the medication. In small towns like Kutztown, Pennsylvania, which had a population of just over 5,000 in 2010, "heroin is everywhere," according to a local paramedic speaking to NPR. Addiction to opioids, whether legal or illegal, "is deeply embedded" because of how smugglers transport their products from bigger cities, where a saturation of heroin has made organized crime rings target lower-income regions (with less law enforcement and public scrutiny) for their operations. As a result, says NPR, every single demographic has been targeted. Racial Socioeconomics of Addiction According to The Atlantic, it is because of how heroin dramatically redrew the borders (and income brackets) of addiction that the medical community and politicians have joined together to declare the epidemic a public health crisis. In fairness, more is known about the science of drugs and the psychology of human behavior (and behavioral economics) to understand that treating drug abusers like criminals does not solve any problems. Furthermore, the diminishing returns of the War on Drugs has forced legislators to think of new, progressive ways to treat an ever-evolving problem. But when it comes to discussing the socioeconomics of addiction, the topic of race is the elephant in the room. The Atlantic wonders if the legal system is casting a kinder eye towards this modern generation of heroin users – most of them white Americans – while still banging the gavel down on drug users who are of an ethnic minority and, thus, more likely to be economically disadvantaged. Is it possible, asks the Atlantic, to compare the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s – inextricably linked to poor, inner city black Americans – with the mushroom cloud of heroin and opioid abuse of the early 21st century without looking at race? The Crack Cocaine Epidemic Issues of race continue to dominate the conversation of who uses drugs in America more, and what happens to those people. White Americans are more likely to use illegal drugs, points out The Huffington Post, but black Americans are three times more likely to spend time in jail for their drug crimes. The statistic comes from Human Rights Watch, which explains that police are often directed to concentrate their drug busts in low-income communities, which are, more often than not, inhabited by people of color. Another statistic comes from TIME magazine, which quotes a study from Duke University that found that black youths are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white youths, even as young black Americans "are actually less likely to use drugs, and less likely to develop substance abuse disorders" than white, Native American, Hispanic, and interracial people. The disparity can trace its origins to the days of the so-called "crack cocaine epidemic" of the 1980s, when underground manufacturers found themselves unable to keep up with the surging, mainstream demand for cocaine. Dealers resorted to using basic household items and anything they could get their hands on to cut new batches of cocaine. As the product became chemically impure, its price plunged (partly due to the abundance with which it could be produced), making the new menace affordable to low-income, inner city people – most of whom were African-American. As a response to the boom (which, by 1986, most Americans considered the biggest problem in the country), laws were written that targeted the communities where the crack was being sold and consumed but largely left the manufacturing operations untouched. The result, writes the Los Angeles Times, is that for decades, black Americans accounted for over 80 percent of federal convictions related to possessing crack cocaine. In truth, however, the laws "tended to punish blacks more severely than whites," by enforcing longer prison sentences for violations stemming from crack cocaine than violations stemming from powdered cocaine, which was mostly used by white Americans. Poverty and Addiction Scientifically, however, there is no significant difference between the two forms of cocaine, the effects they have on users, and the related crimes that are associated with their consumption. However, since impoverished African Americans were connected with the initial explosion of crack cocaine, the taint has persisted. The assistant chief of the Los Angeles Police Department has blamed the legacy of crack cocaine for "changing the architecture" of low-income communities in his city. To that point, Reason magazine notes that a majority of the people arrested in 2012 for drug-related offenses were African Americans from low socioeconomic backgrounds; they did not finish high school, and most of them did not have a college degree. Among the adults, most had no health insurance or a home of their own, and 41.8 percent were unemployed. Reason adopts a libertarian perspective when talking about the intersection between economics and addiction. The magazine argues that it is poverty that has drawn such deep divisions in American society, condemning some drug users to a lifetime of shame and legal persecution, and bestowing sympathy and treatment on others. Even beyond race, Reason argues that women of color are often given much harder sentences for drug-related crimes than men, largely due to such women having even lower income and education rates than their male counterparts. A separate finding by The New York Times reports that women who don't attend college are 30 percent more likely to be victims of sexual assault than women who do attend college (and may thus be from a higher socioeconomic background). Low-Income Women and the Economics of Addiction Women, in general, tend to have more risk factors that may influence the development of a substance abuse problem; indeed, the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women writes that women who suffered abuse in their childhood and teenaged years are at greater risk for arrest and incarceration, due to "entrapment into crime by abusers and by gender, race and class oppression." Young women running away from abusive home environments, for example, are often forced to live on the streets and turn to prostitution for survival; and to that point, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs finds "a high prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse" among street prostitutes, many of whom escaped families where drug abuse was present. Instead of assuming that substance abuse causes prostitution, the researchers writing in the journal theorized that "both prostitution and substance abuse are the behavioral translations of these women's endless cycles of victimization," in addition to an expression of depression, helplessness, poor self-image, and psychological paralysis. Another article in Reason puts it another way: the correlation between being poor and getting caught for doing drugs is much stronger than the correlation between doing drugs and committing drug-related crimes. It is a sad reality that substance abuse is prevalent in families that are below the poverty line. Approximately 20 percent of people receiving welfare admitted to using some kind of drug in the year prior to the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program asking them if they had. The Fix writes of how a person who makes less than $20,000 a year has a 66 percent chance of relapsing into a cocaine habit than someone who makes $70,000 a year; a person in the latter income bracket can afford to take time off work, receive long-term and private rehabilitation, and can pay for children and dependents to be looked after while receiving treatment. Homelessness and Addiction A yearly income of $20,000 is on the low end of the spectrum for a lot of people, but there are those who can only dream of making that much money. The American Public Health Association writes of how people who are homeless are subject to a number of mental and medical health concerns, chief among which are issues of substance abuse. A 2016 article published in the journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence looks at some of the very complex socioeconomic circumstances that can contribute to homelessness: Poverty Discriminatory housing policies Prison sentences Mental health problems Drug use The US Department of Housing and Urban Development found that 20 percent of the country's homeless population could be diagnosed with a severe mental health illness, including schizophrenia, major depression, or depression, all of which could contribute to, exacerbate, or be exacerbated by both a homeless status and a substance abuse problem. In the same way that addiction itself crosses multiple socioeconomic categories, the cross section between homelessness and addiction also spans a variety of economic demographics. As far back as 1989, The New York Times wrote about a homeless shelter in the South Bronx neighborhood, where "the vast majority" of residents had been employed until very recently before becoming homeless. A Columbia University anthropologist told the Times that 70 percent had been employed within the previous year, and nearly three-quarters of them were addicted to drugs or alcohol. Similarly, a survey of homeless people in 24 cities found that between 25 and 30 percent of them had active jobs but were still without a place of their own to live. The Reality of Addiction Drugs, writes the Times, are expensive, and people hooked on drugs – whether through a family history of addiction, a mental health problem, a stressful job, a failing marriage, or an addiction that starts from prescription painkillers – will sometimes work for no other reason than to fund their habit. Eventually, as they usually do, the drugs catch up. The director of homeless rehabilitation program in Washington, DC, told The New York Times that an addict can spend up to $200 a day on crack cocaine or $150 a day for heroin. They are inevitably fired from their job, evicted, or both, and resort to living on the street as they sell drugs, steal, or beg, usually to scrape together whatever they can to buy more drugs. The National Alliance to End Homelessness writes that in January 2015, there were 564,708 homeless people on any single night across America. The causes of homelessness are complicated and myriad; by a similar measure, so are the causes of drug addiction. The misguided policies of the War on Drugs opened the doors of a black market that has called people across racial lines, tax brackets, and urban, rural, and suburban regions. It has compelled policymakers – some of them who ran for president, like Chris Christie of New Jersey – to publicly address the reality that, regardless of background or upbringing, drug addiction can happen to anyone. Tweet Share Pin It Email


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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're in Part 3 of CLEAR THE AIR - the latest series at STSA that calls everyone who may have walked away from God to reconsider the reasons for which they did so.
In this week's message we address the notion of "God of the gaps" and the relationship between science and faith (which might surprise you a bit) . We discuss why we Christians and the Church should be the ones who embrace science and discovery the most.


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It all went black – and a bit red, maybe – within seconds.
The staffroom phone rang at 3.45pm on a Monday and, being a) in its vicinity and b) already too knackered to exercise a little forethought, I picked it up. At the other end of the line was a polite woman conducting a survey: you know, the kind that requires responses like 'Agree', 'Neither agree nor disagree', 'Disagree more than a bit, but not enough to to have issues" and so on. I agreed to participate.
Usually, I'm a polite respondent. Back then I was a full-time teacher. The two, I'm ashamed to say, did not always go together in my case. Having cold sweats and palpitations at the sight of post on the doormat ("Envelopes? I haven't got time to open f*****g envelopes!!") is a pretty good signpost that You Are Entering The State Of Idiocy-by-Sleep-Deprivation.
So, as I said, I was a full-timer caught on a Monday afternoon. A rather bad Monday afternoon, as it happened, because my then-headteacher had introduced a(nother) clutch of pointless initiatives that would do nothing to improve the quality of teaching or learning. Ones that would make me not just more than most people's idea of full-time, but even more full-time than before, but not so full-time that I couldn't allow myself a ten-minute nap. Twice a week. An afternoon made worse, because I was trying (honestly) to answer questions using a scale fundamentally unsuited to those of us left with the retentive powers of a guppy after one day at work.
And if that wasn't burden enough, because the survey was about… attitudes towards headship. As I recall, my responses went from 'Four asterisks' to 'Five or more asterisks and an ampersand' up to 'Several words in succession consisting entirely of symbols'. Like I said, black. Some red, perhaps. Why the ire? Why the infliction of crazed ranting on an innocent Mori employee by one who knew, but wasn't being, better? It's all (well, much of it – I have to bear some of the culpa) up there; in the Head, son.
If you've read other posts, you may well have a cumulative picture of me as a tad unimpressed by headteachers. I've referred to them in the contexts of bullying and of cheating. (I've yet to tackle out-and-out fraud, but it's only a matter of time: I have the examples.) When I entered teaching, I had no strong feelings either way about putative headship. The longer I stayed, the more negative my opinions became. Come the Monday afternoon survey, I'd long decided that I'd rather have my eyeballs removed by five asterisks and an ampersand than risk becoming the type of person exemplified by my boss.
My experience of working for headteachers has followed a similar trajectory. In my probationary year I landed a job at what turned out to be an extremely supportive school – one that, to no small extent, was as it was because of its wonderful headteacher. This fantastic woman retained a substantial teaching timetable and, as a result, took account of the realities of the classroom when making decisions. Staff meetings were weekly affairs, with the agendae decided by – brace yourselves – the staff. Discussions were frank and fearlessly so. And no-one, but no-one, had to run around with three colours of Post-It-Note stuck to their forehead, because the leader was showcasing their way with kinaesthetic and visual learning styles in a sixty-seven-part lesson. In short, I was working under a head who understood that every teacher also mattered, and that staff deserved be treated as sentient, intelligent adults – not toddlers or lab mice.
Those were the days, my friend; I thought they'd never end. Silly me.
Since then, I have worked in schools led by one variety or other of maniac. The type, for instance, whose identity has become so fused with that of the institution, that it's impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. Or the type who, having alienated all of his or her own friends, thinks their success is measurable by how many of their staff end up friendless too. Or the type who gauges 'productivity' by how little time employees spend with their own children; by the in/frequency of their bowel movements (could go either way, that one, depending on how you feel about shitting bricks); by whether they cross the quad at that slightly accelerated speed seen in Pathe newsreels etc. etc. Or the type who, I suspect, has blackout blinds on their windows and sleeps in a box of unconsecrated polystyrene beads in the office. More than once, I've encountered the 'variety-pack' head, who contains all of the above.
Most of these individuals assumed that their staff aspired to be like them. Or them. They conducted business on this basis, solipsistically threatening dissenters with the removal of promotional opportunities as if they were vital organs. One told me that, if I continued refusing to carry out a very stupid instruction, I'd "never be trusted with something important again". The fact that "Result!" wasn't the correct answer became apparent when the conversation lurched to an emergency stop, followed by the hiss of something either inflating or deflating.
Several of these headteachers were graduates of the NPQH course and, from what my erstwhile colleagues tell me, they are the ones who now routinely threaten dissenters of any degree with capability procedures. To be offered a place on the NPQH, candidates have to undergo considerable psychometric testing. If anyone out there has experience of these tests – particularly if you helped to devise them or know what kind of pervert person is being sought – do leave a comment. This is not a cunning ploy to further covert aspirations to headship; I hope I've convinced you of my unfitness for, and aversion to, the role. Plus, by and large, I don't regard Zanu PF as a model of good governance. It's just that I suspect the emphasis of these tests is on the 'psycho' element, and not in a healthy way. If I've got that wrong, I'd like to be told, so that I can shift the blame from the course onto other shoulders: the pressures placed on heads by successive governments, and the individuals who choose to respond to said pressures in the most rotten of ways.
The NPQH hadn't been invented when I worked for my first headteacher. I doubt she'd have been accepted onto the course, had she ever applied. But she was a huge part of the reason why, unlike so many fledging teachers these days, I wasn't carried out of the profession on a stretcher, with a terminal case of the screaming abdabs.


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Personally, I feel that resolutions are silly things to make. With the start of the new year everyone does reflect back and think of ways to further improve before jumping back into the whirlwind that is life. Call me a hipster for not wanting to call these planned directions "resolutions", buuuut I'm not calling these things resolutions. These are things that I am going to actively work to improve upon for my well-being indefinitely.
So, during the winter break, I've taken time to assess myself. I've looked at how I engage with work, school, myself, friends, family...and I've realized a few things. As humbling as this is to type out, I know I will be glad to someday (hopefully!) see the progress and steps I've been taking towards becoming a better human. I'll just hit on one giant tender area in this post.
*deep breath* okherewego
"Love your neighbor as yourself"
This line came to mind repeatedly yesterday morning as I was taking some time to reflect and pray.
Sometimes verses pop to mind and play in my head over and over like a broken record.
"Love your neighbor as yourself"
I've been realizing I am so unkind and unloving to myself. If I treated others the way I treat myself, I would have no friends. I always find faults. When others compliment me, I realize that I usually shoot them down (I've realized this is SO rude, I don't like it when people do that to me, why on earth would I think my friends are ok with me not accepting the nice things they say?) Nothing I do measures up to my own standard. I see all the "blaring" things that should be tweaked, be it my body image, the level of academics, even silly things like hobbies...it's a never-ending list. I nitpick and find errors in everything I do. I hang on to mistakes I make. It's perfectionism, and it's not healthy. It leads to those stressful situations I've blogged about before.
This is no way to live. Depressed because I don't live up to my own arbitrary standards?
This must change.
I should reevaluate what my standards are and who I let give me validity. My validity should not come from me or any human (though I do need to accept myself), but my validity comes first from God himself. He says that he loves me, and therefore I should love everyone (including me). He says that I am his creation.
Part of my moving forward plans (*ahem* not resolution) is to focus more on those validations rather than what I perceive.
Beyond even the treatment of others, this made me realize, if I cannot accept myself, warts and all, how can I fully be able to accept others just as they are?
This fight against my negative flaw-seeking mentality will not be an easy one. But by making small changes in my perceptions and with God's help, I hope to reshape my views and become a more loving, gracious person.
It's cliche, but 1 Corinthians 13 is how I hope to treat everyone, including myself:
I strive to:
- be patient
- be kind
- not envious
- not boastful
- not rude
- keep no records of wrongs


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Horse Lovers Puzzle
Created by David Janelle, with Creative Crafthouse, this beautifully crafted picture frame puzzle is perfect for someone special. The 22 puzzle pieces include endearing scenes and images connected with romance or special feelings, though those happy feelings might not last long once the pieces are removed!
Made with: assorted hardwoods
Includes cherry stand
Puzzle Measures 7½"h × 7½"w × ¾"d
Item #56356
To see more by this artist, follow this link.
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About the artist:
Originally from Maine, David earned both BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine. Working for a number of companies in manufacturing engineering and mfg management David learned how to make things economically while dealing with a myriad of issues at the same time. He has made guns, weapon systems, motors, resolvers, DIY showers, circuit boards, heavy machining, and more as various assignments along the years. He became involved with puzzles in 2003 when he needed work and quickly learned that there was a business opportunity dealing with something he loved. Over the next ten years or so David studied classical puzzle books, communicated with novice and professional puzzle designers and developed the techniques and equipment necessary to design and fabricate fabulous puzzles in his Florida workshop. David enjoys running, fine wines and the study of Thai language and culture.
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Three Miller Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (1 Teaspoon Small Hand Foods Grenadine)
1 Dash Lemon Juice. (1 Dash Lemon Juice)
2/3 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Cognac Park V.S.O.P.)
1/3 Bacardi Rum. (3/4 oz Rene Alambic Rum)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
In Harry McElhone's book "Barflies and Cocktails", a drink with these ingredients is called "The Three Mile Limit", referring to the distance a ship had to be from shore to evade the long arm of the law. McElhone also notes, "This cocktail was invented at Harry's New York Bar, Paris, by "Chips," Brighton, the popular Bartender. One of the effects of the Volstead Act, people get busy when outside of the three miles."
While, "The Three Mile Limit" is a fine, if somewhat literal, name for a cocktail, it doesn't really roll off the tongue. You can certainly imagine that name being shortened rather quickly to, "The Three Miler". What happened for Craddock to rename it "The Three Miller", we will never know, but it is a rather better name than either Three Miler or Three Mile Limit.
The cocktail itself is of the mostly booze sort, which, aside from the Super Extra Dry Martini, has largely gone out of fashion with modern drinkers. Probably, if someone were to ask me for this in a bar, I would make something like: 1 1/2 oz Brandy, 1/2 oz Rum, 1/2 oz Lemon, 1/2 oz Grenadine. Or if they were young, maybe even, 1 oz Brandy, 1/2 oz Rum, 3/4 oz Lemon, 1/2 oz Grenadine, 1/2 oz Simple Syrup. But either way, we're getting pretty far from the almost all booze of the original formulation, which I even found a bit hard going, basically a glass of cold Brandy.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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After Ashley Zachmeyer fell pregnant, doctors warned her that the chances of her baby surviving were slim. But although the odds were against her, the expectant mom made the decision to to fight for her unborn child. And as her pregnancy progressed, doctors were amazed by what was happening before their eyes.
Zachmeyer works for a medical company and lives with her husband Jeffery, a truck driver, in Dallas, Georgia. The couple both attended South Paulding high school in Douglasville and announced their engagement in September 2016. The couple were married soon after, on March 18, 2017. But the wedding wasn't the only cause for celebration.
Indeed, the pair was also expecting their first child and discovered this when Zachmeyer was seven weeks pregnant. She was stunned, because she had been told that it wouldn't be possible. "I had been diagnosed with something called P.C.O.S., Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which led to infertility. My husband had also been told there was a slim chance of him having kids as well," she shared on the Today.com forums.


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Finale: "Farewell, Auschwitz" from "Out of Darkness" (2016)
Jake Heggie, composer
Gene Scheer, librettist
Commissioned by Music of Remembrance
"Out of Darkness" was commissioned by Music of Remembrance (MOR) in 2016 from the internationally acclaimed team of composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. The two-act opera is a powerful portrait of survival that conveys the vastness of the scope of the Holocaust through emotionally rich depictions of those caught in its grasp. The first act, titled "Krystyna," tells the true story of Krystyna Zywulska, whose daring poems became anthems of defiance among her fellow prisoners in Auschwitz. Act Two, "Gad," explores the fate of homosexuals during the Holocaust through the experience of Gad Beck and Manfred Lewin, two idealistic young lovers in 1930s Berlin whose lives and love were torn apart under Nazi rule.
"Farewell Auschwitz," the finale from the world premiere performance of "Out of Darkness," took place on May 22, 2016 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, and on May 25-26, 2016 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
"Out of Darkness" is MOR's fourth commission with composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. Learn more at www.musicofremembrance.org.
Performers in this video: Catherine Cook, mezzo- soprano; Caitlin Lynch, soprano; Michael Mayes, baritone; Robert Orth, baritone; Ava Pine, soprano
MOR Instrumental Ensemble: Mikhail Shmidt, violin; Robin Peery, flute; Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Walter Gray, cello; Jonathan Green, double bass; Jessica Choe, piano.
Conducted by Joseph Mechavich; Directed by Erich Parce
Founded in 1998 by pianist Mina Miller, Music of Remembrance (MOR) fills a unique role throughout the world by remembering the Holocaust through music. With concert performances, educational programs, recordings, and commissions of new works by some of today's leading composers, MOR honors those of all backgrounds who found the strength to create even in the face of suffering, and those who had the courage to speak out against cruelty. We tell stories that communicate urgent lessons for today, and we look beyond the Holocaust itself to the experience of others who have been excluded or persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, gender or sexuality.


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Obituary for Janice J. Prigge
- Name: Janice J. Prigge
- Home Town: Calabash, NC
- Date of Death: 06/23/2018
- Birth Place: Elizabeth, NJ
- Birth Date: 05/23/1936
- Service Date: 06/28/2018 at 10:00 AM
- Service Place: St. Brendan The Navigator Catholic Church
Janice J. Prigge, 82, of Calabash died June 23, 2018. She was born on May 23, 1936 in Elizabeth, NJ, to Anthony Piechocinski and Genevieve Godlewski Piechocinski. She was strong-willed, soft-hearted and she had a way of making every child feel loved. Each grandchild felt like her favorite.
Surviving are her son Stephen Prigge (Jackie) of Calabash; daughters, Christine Hine (Richard) and Jennifer Poignonnec of Wilmington.
A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10:00 AM, Thursday, June 28, 2018 at St. Brendan The Navigator Catholic Church.
On-line condolences may be sent to www.brunswickfuneralservice.com.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 2202 Wrightsville Avenue, Wilmington, NC 28403.
Brunswick Funeral Service, Shallotte
If you wish to sign the Guest Book for Janice J. Prigge, please click here.


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Wake up!
It's The One Year Anniversary of Lulu's Vintage Blog!
Lulu's Vintage Blog, "The Retro Retreat for the Fashion Elite" is celebrating its 1 Year Anniversary today!
During the past year I have created 690 posts on vintage items ranging from telephone purses to paper dresses
When I started my blog I wanted to do something different from any other blog that I had seen. I wanted to be a sort of personal vintage shopper and run my own vintage magazine, scouring the internet for the best men's and women's vintage clothing and accessories. Initially I would post one vintage item, but then I found that that wasn't challenging enough so I started to post three similar vintage items (and on occasion more than three). It has kept me busy but I have really enjoyed doing it. (To learn more about my blog click on About Lulu's Vintage)
I want to thank all of you my dedicated readers! I hope that you have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy Lulu's Vintage Blog.
Thank You!
This post was originally published on January 24, 2007.