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Adding Meditation to Yoga Practice
Meditation is a mental process involving focused attention, or calm awareness, which is also called mindfulness. Many forms or styles of meditation exist, but two basic approaches stand out: meditation with a specific focus and objectless meditation. The latter is pure mindfulness, without narrowing attention to any particular sensation, idea, or other phenomenon. Most yoga beginners find this kind of meditation very difficult, although some are drawn to it.
Yoga-related meditation with a specific focus
Beginners should start out with meditation on a specific object. The following categories of objects are suitable for this exercise:
A bodily sensation, such as breathing, which makes an excellent focus.
A bodily location, such as an energy center.
A process or action, such as eating, walking, or washing dishes.
An external physical object, such as the flame of a candle.
A mantra (be it a single sound, a phrase, or a chant).
A thought, such as the idea of peace, joy, love, or compassion.
Visualization — a special form of meditation involving your creative imagination to picture light, emptiness, your spiritual teacher, a saint, or one of the many deities of Hindu or Buddhist Yoga.
Following guidelines for successful yoga-related meditation
Here are some vital tips to assist with meditation:
Practice regularly: Try to meditate every day. If this isn't possible, meditate at least several times a week.
Cultivate the correct motivation: People meditate for all kinds of reasons: health, wholeness, peace of mind, clarity, spiritual growth. Be clear in your own mind why you are sitting down to meditate. The best motivation for meditation (and yoga practice in general) is to live to your full potential and to benefit others by your personal achievements.
Meditate at the same time: Take advantage of the fact that your body-mind is a creature of habit. After a few weeks of meditating at the same time during the day (or the night), you'll find yourself looking forward to your next meditation session.
Meditate in the same place: Choose the same time, same place for the same reason: Your body-mind enjoys what is familiar. Use this fact to your advantage by setting aside a room or a corner of a room that your mind can associate with meditation.
Select an appropriate posture for meditation and do it correctly: Sit up straight, with your chest open, and your neck free. Don't recline while meditating — you fall asleep — and don't meditate on your bed, even in a sitting position. Your mind is likely to associate the experience with sleep. If you're not used to sitting on the floor, try sitting on a straight-backed chair or on a sofa with a cushion behind your back.
Select a meditation technique and stick with it: In the beginning, you may want to try out various techniques to see which appeals to you the most. But after you find a good technique for your particular needs, don't abandon it until it bears fruit (in terms of increased peace of mind and happiness), a meditation teacher advises you to change to a different technique, or you feel really drawn to a different technique.
Begin with short sessions: Meditate 10 to 20 minutes at a time at first. Don't ever force yourself if the timing creates conflict or unhappiness in you. Also, beware of overmeditating. Often, what beginners regard as a "nice long meditation" is just self-indulgent daydreaming. Make sure that your meditation contains an element of alertness.
Be alert, yet relaxed: Inner alertness, or mindfulness, is not the same as tension or stress. Make sure that your body is relaxed by regularly practicing relaxation exercises. The more relaxed you are, the more alert your mind can be.
Don't burden yourself with expectations: Entering meditation with a desire to grow spiritually and to benefit from the experience is certainly acceptable. However, don't expect every meditation to be wonderful and pleasant.
Prepare properly for meditation: As a beginner, don't expect to be able to jump from the fray of your daily activities straight into meditation. Allow your mind a little time to unwind before you sit for meditation. Have a relaxing bath or shower or at least wash your face and hands.
Be prepared to practice meditation for a lifetime: Don't give up if your meditation is not what you think it should be after a month or two. Instead, correct your understanding about the nature of meditation and then, persist.


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Disciplinary actions two posts (dunno how i'd ever missed em in the first place) on twitter-wow'icons or Twiwowcons as I call em... in my head, when all the voices only whisper to me... Ehh..
HERE are the Icons
And they are just adorable. And cute. And then I get to my class Icon.. which is. Ehh which one is it?
Oh Right, imma shaman now.
And well. Ehm
Please don't get me wrong. I really dig her (your avatar is a female nelf, so you are an her. Deal w'it... ALSO Night elf priests? Please. Dwarf priests are the only priests. I'll sponsor a race-change. Once you go shorty you'll never go a-courting.. for another race!)
Whats in a class
The thing about the shaman avatar is two things. one: totems... They don't really play that big a role anymore do they? So I guess the crying one is really fitting. But for me, I don't miss totems. AT ALL. The reason I didnt like shamans playstyle was partly due to those damn totems.
And well. maybe that is it. I just dont have all that much love for totems, so I am not connecting with the avatars.
Or maybe it's the class? I still have my viking LEGO as my avatar. Because once upon a time, it fitted really well with my dwarf death knight (whom the old blog was named after). Before that, I had a dwarf priest (you know... the *real* priest!!) And whenever I see images like this:
But when I see dwarf Shaman pictures... I just wish that dwarf druid would shapeshift!
On top of that (or perhaps because of this) I just cannot see myself as a shaman. I was a librarian who turned into a dwarven priest at night. Later I was a librarian who turned into a dwarf Death knight. And lately I was turned into a beer loving monk dwarf.
The Shaman. Not so much. yet.
I love playing the class in game. I just hope that I'll learn to embrace the class too. For now. The cute and fantastic class Icons, made me realise that I am an class-main-less wow-player. And that made me sad.


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Two things come to mind:
0) Even if it is ignored at your current job, you might get a benefit out of it at a future position.
1) Should a metabolic byproduct hit a rotary air conditioning device its going to hit somebody and they won't like it. Knowing the current best practices on a given subject and having it documented that changes to adapt the local environment to best practices have been suggested but declined is a decent first step in making sure it won't be you that gets the stains.
IMHO working in a dysfunctional organisation makes knowing best practices even more important, not only because of the CYA factor but also because a dysfunctional organisation has a lower chance to have arrived at the same conclusion as the BP than one that has a better decision-making process.
Also, not that you suggested that, but there is also a downside to dogmatic adherence to BP; there are very few things I despise more than "we do that because the BP say so" cargo-cults that are completely unburdened by any understanding why a specific set of BP came into being.


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Saturday marks the year's first full moon, called the Wolf Moon by Native Americans and Europeans alike, as with January's frigid cold and deep snows, the hungry animals came their closest to human settlements.
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In classical mythology, the two are paternal twins, Pollux the son of Zeus and Castor the son of mortal Tyndareus. No wonder the two don't look alike, with brighter Pollux shining orange and Castor white. While the two are linked in mythology and appear together in our night sky, they have no physical relation, as Pollux is more than 50 light years from Castor. Modern-day astronomers have identified other differences. Castor, in truth, is four stars, its light made up of two pair of binary stars circling each other. Pollux, a single giant star, has the distinction of being the largest and brightest star to have a planet orbiting it.
Come Sunday, the moon is roughly 10 degrees west of Regulus, the heart of Leo the lion, and the next night the two are even closer. Regulus marks the end of the proverbial Sickle of Leo, which looks like an inverted question mark, Regulus being the dot at the bottom. The sickle outlines the lion's head and mane, while its body stretches out behind, a bright triangle of stars making up the lion's rear. While only the 21st brightest star, Regulus is right on the ecliptic, the imaginary line of the sun, moon and planets' path around earth. This placement earned it a place among the great stars of antiquity as one of the Four Guardians of the Heavens, the others being Aldebaran, Fomalhaut and Antares.


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Full Cast Announced for Paul Giamatti-Led HAMLET at Yale Rep, 3/15-4/13
Yale Repertory Theatre presents Paul Giamatti in HAMLET by William Shakespeare, directed by James Bundy, at the University Theatre (222 York Street), March 15-April 13. Opening Night is Thursday, March 21, at 7:30PM.
The cast also includes Mamoudou Athie, Gerry Bamman, Chris Bannow, Jarlath Conroy, Austin Durant, Lisa Emery, Robert David Grant, FeliciTy Jones, Patrick Kerr, Marc Kudisch, Erik Lochtefeld, Michael Manuel, Brooke Parks, Paul Pryce, Tommy Schrider, Mickey Theis, Charlie Tirrell, Nicholas Tucci, Harriet Weaver, and Remsen Welsh. The musicians are Michael Compitello, Brian Ellingsen, Christopher Scanlon, Bill Solomon, and Maura Valenti.
HAMLET features original music composed by Sarah Pickett, set design by Meredith B. Ries, costumes by Jayoung Yoon, lighting by Stephen Strawbridge, sound by Keri Klick, fight direction by Rick Sordelet, vocal coaching by Grace Zandarski, movement coaching by Erica Fae, dramaturgy by Dana Tanner-Kennedy, and stage management by Geoff Boronda.
Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti returns to the Yale Rep stage as the Prince of Denmark in HAMLET, Shakespeare's harrowing tragedy of corruption, betrayal, and madness. Haunted by a ghostly revelation that his father, the King, was murdered, Hamlet puts into motion a vengeful plan that will have devastating consequences for his family and the kingdom.
Tickets for HAMLET range from $20-96 and are available online at www.yalerep.org, by phone at (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street). Student, senior, and group rates are also available.
Please note: Hamlet is Yale Rep's 2012-13 Will Power! production. The run includes four 10:15AM performances available only to high school student groups. All four 10:15AM performances are sold out. Teachers are encouraged to consider one of the regular performances (contact: Ruth M. Feldman at email@example.com or 203-432-8425.)
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MAMOUDOU ATHIE (VOLTIMAND) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Iphigenia Among the Stars and Fox Play. New York credits include Reality Sandwiches at Dixon Place, The Wedding Reception at Columbia Stages, as well as various workshops and readings with Youngbloods, La Mama E.T.C., NYU, and Freedom TRain Productions. Regional credits include The Zoo Story, Tripolitania, Becoming Sylvia (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company). At Yale Cabaret he was seen in The Yiddish King Lear, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and Fatal Eggs. He is co-creator of As You Like It with D.I.Y. Shakespeare with the Big Babies. Mamoudou previously studied at the William Esper Studio.
Gerry Bamman (LORD POLONIUS) Previous Yale Rep appearances include Shakespeare's Measure for Measure directed by John Madden (1980) and the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Rip Van Winkle, or The Works (1981). He received OBIE and Drama League awards and a Drama Desk nomination for best featured actor for his performance as Richard Nixon in Nixon's Nixon. He was a founding member of the Manhattan Project, one of the foremost experimental theatre companies of the 1970s, directed by Andre Gregory. His Broadway credits include Enemy of the People earlier this season (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Merchant of Venice, Uncle Vanya, Execution of Justice, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Cherry Orchard. His film work includes Runaway Jury, Two Family House, Passion of Mind, Home Alone and its sequel, Lorenzo's Oil, The Secret of My Success, The Bodyguard, True Believer, Pink Cadillac, and-awaiting release-A Secret Promise and Nous York. His television credits include many appearances on Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU.
Chris Bannow (OSRIC, PLAYER, SAILOR, SOLDIER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Cloud Nine, Iphigenia Among the Stars, and Petty Harbour. His regional credits include A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Company); The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Speech and Debate (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); The Winter's Tale and Three Sisters (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy). Film: Not Fade Away. Chris is a founding member of Special Sauce Co. and D.I.Y. Shakespeare. He grew up in New Haven, received his BFA from Boston University, and will serve as Associate Artistic Director of the 2013 Summer Cabaret.
MICHAEL COMPITELLO (PERCUSSION) is guided by his passion to create new art through collaborations with composers, performers, actors, and artists in all mediums. Currently Visiting Lecturer in Percussion at Cornell University, Michael has worked with composers David Lang, John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick, Helmut Lachenmann, Alejandro Viñao, and Marc Applebaum on premieres and performances of new works and has performed as a chamber musician and soloist in diverse locations such as the Darmstadt Summer Course, the Banff Centre, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Kurt Weill Festival. From 2009 to 2010, Michael performed and studied contemporary chamber music with the Ensemble Modern and the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, Germany, on a Fulbright Grant from the U.S. Department of State. In fall of 2012, he was lecturer in percussion at UMass Amherst.
Jarlath Conroy (GRAVEDIGGER, CORNELIUS) is making his Yale Rep debut. His Broadway credits include The Seagull; The Weir; The Iceman Cometh; On the Waterfront; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Visit; Ghetto; Macbeth; and Comedians. His Off-Broadway credits include The Coward, A Man of No Importance, Pigtown, A Life, Our Lady of Sligo, A Couple of Blaguards, Gardenia, the American premiere of Translations, and The Matchmaker. His regional theatre credits include The Homecoming; Da; The Steward of Christendom (Barrymore Award); Juno and the Paycock (Helen Hayes Award); Henry V (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Faith Healer; Molly Sweeney; Twelfth Night; Ah, Wilderness!; The Plough and the Stars; and A Christmas Carol. At the Royal Court: Cromwell and Hamlet. He has also directed productions of True West and Human Resources. His film and television appearances include True Grit (2010), Putzel, The Art of Getting By, Across the Universe, Kinsey, Stay, Day of the Dead, Heaven's Gate, Law & Order: SVU, NYPD Blue, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Beat, Summer, and A Marriage: O'Keeffe and Stieglitz.
Austin Durant (HORATIO) previously appeared at Yale Rep in American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Death of a Salesman, and Passion Play. His other credits include War Horse (Lincoln Center Theater); Anna Christie (The Old Globe); A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre); The Illusion, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Berkshire Theatre Festival); The Fantasticks (Mum Puppettheatre); Othello, Jelly's Last Jam, Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama); The Who's Tommy and The Mystery of Irma Vep (Yale Summer Cabaret). His television credits include Person of Interest and Nurse Jackie. He received his BA from Temple University and his MFA from Yale School of Drama. Austin is a 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellow.
Lisa Emery (QUEEN GERTRUDE) previously appeared at Yale Rep in The Unmentionables by Bruce Norris. Her Broadway credits include Relatively Speaking, The Smell of the Kill, The Women, Present Laughter, Jackie, Rumors, and Burn This. Her Off-Broadway credits include A Kind of Alaska, Gabriel (Atlantic Theater Company); Mouth to Mouth, Abigail's Party, Curtains (Ensemble OBIE Award), What the Butler Saw (The New Group); Iron (OBIE Award, Manhattan Theatre Club); Distracted (Roundabout Theatre Company); Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts); The Monogamist, Marvin's Room (Playwrights Horizons); and Far East (Lincoln Center Theater). Her film and television credits include The Night Listener, Roger Dodger, People I Know, Unfaithful, A Map of the World, Louie, Law & Order, Fringe, Damages, Third Watch, and Ed. Ms. Emery is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama this spring.
Paul Giamatti (HAMLET) Previous Yale Rep credits include Shakespeare's As You Like It and Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards. On Broadway, he appeared in The Iceman Cometh, The Three Sisters (Roundabout Theatre Company), and Racing Demon and Arcadia (Lincoln Center Theater). His other theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Actors Theatre/Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University) and The Blues Are Running (Manhattan Theatre Club), as well as productions at La Mama E.T.C., Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and Annex Theatre. His film credits include Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, Planet of the Apes, American Splendor (National Board of Review Award, Independent Spirit Award nomination), Sideways (Independent Spirit and New York Film Critics Circle awards, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations), Cinderella Man (Screen Actors Guild and Broadcast Film Critics' awards, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations), The Illusionist, The Last Station, Barney's Version (Genie, Golden Globe awards), Win Win, The Ides of March, Rock of Ages, John Dies at the End, and Cosmopolis. Television credits include John Adams (Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild awards), 30 Rock, and Too Big to Fail (Screen Actors Guild Award, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations). Mr. Giamatti is a graduate of Yale College and Yale School of Drama, where he is a Beinecke Fellow this spring.
ROBERT David Grant (MARCELLUS, CAPTAIN) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Sunday in the Park with George; Cymbeline; Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika; Arcadia; Julius Caesar; and Titus Andronicus. His other credits include Christie in Love, Rey Planta (Yale Cabaret); The Great Recession, The Footage, A Light Lunch (The Flea Theater); and Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Robert received his BA in English from Princeton University.
FeliciTy Jones (PLAYER QUEEN, LADY) previously appeared at Yale Rep in American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, The Winter's Tale, The Master Builder, A Woman of No Importance, Lulu, and The Ladies of the Camellias. Her New York stage credits include the Broadway production of Metamorphoses, and Off-Broadway: The Captain's Tiger (Manhattan Theatre Club), Measure for Measure (The Public Theater), and As You Like It (The Acting Company). Regional credits include The Homecoming, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Lady Windemere's Fan (CENTERSTAGE); The Diary of Anne Frank (Westport Country Playhouse); Enrico IV (American Conservatory Theater); The Odyssey (Goodman Theatre); and Cymbeline (Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre). She is an associate with Lattawork Productions, performing her one-woman school show Me Pluribus Unum. She was an Associate Artist for ten years at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, where she co-wrote and performed in such works as Crusoe, Friday and the Island of Hope, The Green Bird, and Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream (the last two also seen here at Yale Rep). Film and television credits include Julie & Julia, Wonderland, Deadline, Ed, and Law & Order.
Patrick Kerr (FIRST PLAYER, PRIEST, SOLDIER) was last seen at Yale Rep in Rough Crossing. New York theatre credits include The Ritz (Roundabout Theatre Company), Jeffrey (Minetta Lane Theatre), The Devils (New York Theatre Workshop), and The Warrior Ant (Brooklyn Academy Of Music). Los Angeles theatre credits include Steve Martin's The Underpants (Geffen Playhouse), Dealer's Choice (Mark Taper Forum), Light Up the Sky (Pasadena Playhouse), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (South Coast Rep). Films include Tony Scott's Domino, Stuart Saves His Family, and Ed. His many television credits include CSI, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Crossing Jordan, Will and Grace, Seinfeld, Friends, ER, Just Shoot Me, The Drew Carey Show, and Law & Order. He may be best known for his recurring roles as Noel on Frasier and the Blind Guy on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Marc Kudisch (GHOST OF HAMLET'S FATHER, CLAUDIUS) is making his Yale Rep debut. His Broadway credits include 9 to 5 (Tony and Drama Desk award nominations), The Apple Tree, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony and Outer Critic Circle award nominations), Assassins (Drama Desk nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critic Circle nominations), Bells Are Ringing, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Pimpernel (3.0), High Society, Beauty and the Beast, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Recent Off-Broadway: Blue Flower (Second Stage Theater); A Minister's Wife, The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater); Girl Crazy (Encores!); A Little Night Music, The Pirates of Penzance (New York City Opera); and See What I Wanna See (The Public Theater, Drama Desk Award nomination). Recent regional theatre: Tartuffe (Westport Country Playhouse), Golden Age (The Kennedy Center), and A Little Night Music (Los Angeles Opera). Television: Gossip Girl, Smash, Blue Bloods, Sex and the City, Late Night with David Letterman, Break In (Lifetime), As the World Turns, All My Children, and Bye Bye Birdie. Mr. Kudisch is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama this spring.
Erik Lochtefeld (ROSENCRANTZ, SOLDIER) last appeared at Yale Rep in Safe in Hell. He appeared on Broadway in Metamorphoses. Other theatre credits include Melancholy Play (13P), February House (The Public Theater and Long Wharf, Connecticut Critics Circle Award), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Second Stage Theatre), But I'm a Cheerleader (New York Musical Theatre Festival), and Powerhouse (New York International Fringe Festival). Recent regional credits include Candide (Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre), Ethan Frome (Lookingglass Theatre), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford Stage), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Intiman Theatre), How Shakespeare Won the West (Huntington Theatre), These Shining Lives (CENTERSTAGE), The Pillowman and The Glass Menagerie (Bay Area Critics Award nomination), both at Berkeley Rep, as well as work at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, California Shakespeare Theater, Two River Theater Company, McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Television credits include All My Children, Third Watch, and Law & Order.
Michael Manuel (GUILDENSTERN, SOLDIER) is happy to return to Yale Rep, where his credits include Summer and Smoke, Edward II, and Search and Destroy. He was most recently seen in Eurydice at South Coast Rep. Michael has worked in regional theatres across the country but spends the bulk of his time in Los Angeles, where he has worked with the Mark Taper Forum, Cornerstone, A Noise Within (Dramalogue and LA Critics Circle awards), Geffen Playhouse, Upright Citizens Brigade, Interact Theatre Company (LA Weekly and Ovation awards), Pasadena Playhouse, Main Street Players, About Productions, Parson's Nose, and Impro Theatre. Some of his television and movie credits include Without a Trace, Medium, National Treasure, Los Americans, and the upcoming feature Wins a Lot. Michael is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
BROOKE PARKS (OPHELIA) is a member of The Acting Company at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where her credits include Helen of Troy and Andromache in Troilus and Cressida; Princess of France in Henry V; Doctor Kaya in The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; Mariana in Measure for Measure; Marullus, Brutus Decius, and Titinius in Julius Caesar; Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice; and Viola in Twelfth Night. Her other stage credits include Helena in A Midsummer Night?s Dream, Georgette in The School for Wives, Antoinette in A Flea in Her Ear, Ermengarde in The Matchmaker (A Noise Within); Sylvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Hilda in The Autumn Garden and Giulia in The Vize (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Ms. Parks is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where she played Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Rossignol in Marat/Sade, Arkadina in The Seagull, and Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town.
PAUL PRYCE (FORTINBRAS, PLAYER KING) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has appeared in Iphigenia Among the Stars, Twelfth Night or What You Will, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, Othello, Fox Play, and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. He has toured the U.S. in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and has worked extensively in theatre in New York City over the last seven years. His other credits include and The Game Room, Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Island (Yale Cabaret); the world premiere of Pre-Disposal by John Prescod, Pecong featuring Tony Award-winner Lillias White (National Black Theatre of Harlem); and Harry The Hunk On His Way Out (Cherry Lane Theatre). Paul is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, where some of his credits include Carnival Messiah, Jesus Christ Superstar, and MANtalk. In Trinidad and Tobago he produced and starred in the Caribbean classic Smile Orange (2011) and last summer produced Rum and Coca Cola.
CHRISTOPHER SCANLON (TRUMPET), based in New York City, is a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, South Florida Symphony Orchestra, Shrine Big Band in Harlem, and a founding member of the Blink Ensemble. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Springfield Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Miami Symphony, Symphony in C; as principal with the Boston Lyric Opera, Singapore Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, Opera North, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. As a soloist he has performed with the Garden State Philharmonic and Spectrum Symphony of New York and recorded new music with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Callithumpian Consort. As a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, he received the Roger Voisin Award and has also performed at Artosphere, Spoleto USA, Banff, and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Scanlon studied with Mark Gould, Marie Speziale, and Thomas Rolfs.
Tommy Schrider (LAERTES) previously appeared at Yale Rep in the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Bossa Nova and RoBert Woodruff's production of Battle of Black and Dogs. His New York credits include War Horse on Broadway; Macbeth (Theatre for a New Audience); Septimus and Clarissa (Baruch Performing Arts Center/Ripe Time); Close Ties (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Acts of Mercy, St. Crispin's Day (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); She Stoops to Conquer, Pigtown (Irish Rep); RACE (Classic Stage Company); as well as productions at Abingdon Theatre Company, Culture Project, 37 Arts, among others. Regional theatre credits include productions at South Coast Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Willamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Portland Center Stage, Virginia Stage, Hangar Theatre, TheatreWorks, and Pioneer Theatre Company. International: Andrews Lane, Dublin. Film and television credits include The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, Person of Interest, Medium, Numb3rs, Law & Order, Whoopi, and As the World Turns. He received his MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program.
BILL SOLOMON (PERCUSSION), a Hartford-area percussionist, performs with Ensemble Signal, having appeared at Tanglewood, Miller Theatre, June in Buffalo, Eastman School of Music, Guggenheim Museum, Merkin Hall, Cleveland Museum of Art, EMPAC, and (Le) Poisson Rouge with Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Irvine Arditti, Charles Wuorinen, and others. He performed the solo vibraphone part for Pierre Boulez's Répons in collaboration with the Lucerne Festival, IRCAM, and Ensemble InterContemporain with Mr. Boulez as conductor. His ensemble and festival appearances include Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Talujon Percussion, Vigil Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra, Bang on a Can Marathon, Sebago-Long Lake Chamber Festival, Percussive Arts Society International Conference, Pixelerations, Music with a View, Tune In Festival and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. His recordings can be found on the Mode, EUROArts, Cantaloupe, Naxos, New World, Capstone, Tzigane, and Equilibrium labels, as well as Philip Glass's soundtrack to the documentary Project Rebirth.
MICKEY THEIS (BARNARDO, PLAYER, SAILOR, GENTLEMAN, SOLDIER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Vieux Carré, Blueberry Toast, and The Bachelors. Yale Cabaret credits include Cowboy Mouth, This: An Interview Project, reWilding, Secret in the Wings, and Clutch Yr Amplified Heart Tightly and Pretend. Mickey is a former member of Motel Motel, a band with which he toured internationally and recorded The Big Island (2010) and New Denver (2008). He holds a BA in literary studies from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.
CHARLIE TIRRELL (FRANCISCO, SOLDIER, ENSEMBLE) is making his Yale Rep debut. Theatre credits include A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage); Uncle Vanya, The Front Page (Long Wharf); Much Ado About Nothing, Sherwood (Elm Shakespeare Company); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shadow Box, La Cage Aux Folles, Jekyll & Hyde, Oliver, Annie (Warner Stage Company); 1776 (Goodspeed Musicals); A Few Good Men, The Dresser (Thomaston Opera House); Twelve Angry Men (Torrington Civic Theatre); Johnny Guitar (Seven Angels Theatre); four productions of The Music Man as Harold Hill; as well as various staged readings for Berkshire Playwrights Lab and Aglet Theatre Company. He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.
NICHOLAS TUCCI (MESSENGER, SOLDIER, ENSEMBLE) is making his Yale Rep debut. His theatre credits include Dead, Therefore I Am and Mala (Last Lion Productions); The Three Musketeers, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, The Tempest, Macbeth (Elm Shakespeare Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream (ArtFarm Theater); Epilogue (Bailiwick Theater); and Criminality (Keyhole Players). His film credits include You're Next, The Worst Year of My Life, Sick Day, Currency Rising, Undocumented, Choose, Breast Picture, The Red Machine, A Hatful of Rain, War Cry, and Gandhi at the Bat. He is a graduate of Yale College.
MAURA VALENTI (HARP) is currently based in New Haven. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, she also holds a Bachelor of Music with Scholastic Distinction from The Juilliard School, and her principal harp teachers have been Nancy Allen, June Han, and Rebecca Flannery. Maura enjoys a diverse career as an orchestral musician and as an enthusiastic member of the new music community. She has performed with the critically acclaimed new music ensembles NOVUS NY and Ensemble Moto Perpetuo, and most recently, has been heard as a member of the Connecticut-based experimental music quartet Large Objects. In December 2012, Maura co-founded Orchestra Sempiternam, an ensemble committed to using music to unite, to heal, and to work to affect meaningful change in the wake of unfathomable tragedy.
HARRIET WEAVER (ENSEMBLE) is thrilled to be making her professional theatre debut. She is in her final semester at Yale College, where she has performed in thirteen undergraduate productions, and majors in theater studies. Harriet trained at Circle in the Square Theatre School in the summer of 2011.
REMSEN WELSH (PLAYER) is happy to return to Yale Rep, where she previously appeared in Liz Diamond's production of The Winter's Tale and was an understudy for Bossa Nova. Her other stage credits include The Library Project, VaudeVillian (A Broken Umbrella Theatre); A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf Theatre, understudy; New Haven Theater Company); and The Hundred Dresses directed by Lara Morton. She also worked exclusively with Wilhelmina Models in New York and was featured in a children's music video.
James Bundy (DIRECTOR) is in his eleventh year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first ten seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than thirty world, American, and regional premieres, six of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with the award for Best Production of the year, and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. During this time, Yale Rep has also commissioned more than forty artists to write new work and provided low-cost theatre tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven through Will Power!, an educational program initiated in 2004. In addition to Yale Rep, he has also directed productions at Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. A recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle's Tom Killen Award for extraordinary contributions to Connecticut professional theatre in 2007, Mr. Bundy currently serves on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for nonprofit theatre. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. He is a graduate of Harvard College; he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Yale School of Drama.
Sarah Pickett (COMPOSER) previously served as composer and sound designer for Yale Rep's production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and also designed the sound for Death of a Salesman and Richard II. Her other theatre credits in sound design and/or composition include Zero Hour, Pericles (Yale School of Drama); Max Out Loud, The Bacchae (Yale Cabaret); Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, The Cure at Troy, Of Mice and Men, Shakespeare's Will (American Players Theatre); The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, All My Sons, The Importance of Being Earnest (PlayMakers Repertory Company); The Winter's Tale (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Gypsy (Drury Lane Oakbrook); We are Proud to Present... (Victory Gardens); Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women's Project); Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Othello (Theatre for a New Audience); No Child... (Capital Repertory Theater and Hangar Theatre); The Santaland Diaries, Red (Portland Center Stage); To Kill a Mockingbird (Dallas Theater Center); and Italian American Reconciliation (Long Wharf Theatre). She received her BFA from Syracuse University, her MA from Cornell University, and her MFA from Yale School of Drama. She is a faculty member teaching sound design and music composition at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
MEREDITH B. RIES (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus (Yale School of Drama); Cowboy Mouth, The Fatal Eggs (lighting design), Brainsongs, Underneath the Lintel, Hong Kong Dinosaur, Dorian Gray (Yale Cabaret); The Animals (production design, National Headquarters Films); bobrauschenbergamerica (Chicago Fusion Theatre); The Dome (Prospect Theater Company); and Better Angels (Polybe + Seats). Props credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Merchant of Venice (The Public Theater); An Oresteia (Classic Stage Company); Animals out of Paper and Len Asleep in Vinyl (Second Stage Theatre Uptown). Meredith has also worked with Lincoln Center Theater, Elevator Repair Service, and Target Margin Theater. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
JAYOUNG YOON (COSTUME DESIGNER) is from South Korea. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she designed the costumes for Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights and Titus Andronicus. Yale Cabaret: Cowboy Mouth. Her other work in the U.S. includes Beneath the Skin (Hybrid Theatre Ensemble), The Ophelia Project (Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation), The Crave (Prism Theatre), and Anon(ymous) (Galvin Playhouse). Her work was featured in the 2011 Prague Quadrennial Scenofest Student exhibit and in the Young Designers' Forum at USITT 2010. She has worked in various play, opera, and dance productions as an assistant costume designer through The Juilliard School Professional Intern Program. She holds a BFA in costume design from Arizona State University.
Stephen Strawbridge (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Mr. Strawbridge's work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at most leading regional theatres and opera houses across the country. Internationally he has designed the lighting for major premieres in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Vienna. Recent work includes January Joiner and Satchmo at the Waldorf for Long Wharf Theatre; Azimuth for Pilobolus Dance Theatre; Madame Butterfly for Los Angeles Opera; Strange Interlude for The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC; Athol Fugard's The Train Driver and The Blood Knot, both directed by the author at the Signature Theatre in New York; and Krapp's Last Tape with Brian Dennehy at Long Wharf. He has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design, and Lucille Lortel. He is co-chair of the design department at Yale School of Drama and resident lighting designer for Yale Repertory Theatre.
KERI KLICK (SOUND DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Sunday in the Park with George, Petty Harbour, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Jib, and Twelfth Night or What You Will. At Yale Rep, she was the sound engineer and assistant sound designer for Three Sisters. Yale Cabaret credits include Trannequin! A New Musical and Rey Planta, among others. Keri was the sound designer and composer for The Dwight/Edgewood Project in 2011 and 2012. Originally from Queens, New York, Keri is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, where she earned a BM in studio production and a BA in performing arts management. Her undergraduate credits include Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Confession, and The Rocky Horror Purchase Show (P.A.C.). She is the artistic director of a non-profit organization called The Global Sound Project, which seeks to promote the study of ethnomusicology and to bridge cultural gaps through the sharing of everyday sounds. The Global Sound Project was the recipient of a 2011 Impact Award. theglobalsoundproject.org
Rick Sordelet (FIGHT DIRECTOR) Broadway: over fifty productions, including Disney's The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, and Aida. More than fifty productions all over the world, including Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and La Scala in Milan. Stunt coordinator for the films The Game Plan starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche, and Hamlet starring Campbell Scott. He served as the chief stunt coordinator for Guiding Light. Rick sits on the board of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and is a company member of Drama Dept. He teaches at Yale School of Drama, The New School for Drama, and The Neighborhood Playhouse; and he is the author of the play Buried Treasure. Rick is a proud recipient of the Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Foundation. He is married to actress Kathleen Kelly and has three children: Kaelan, Christian, and Collin.
GRACE ZANDARSKI (VOCAL COACH) has been a member of the Voice and Speech faculty at Yale School of Drama since 2002. Her vocal coaching credits include Mike Nichols's recent production of Death of a Salesman on Broadway; The Comedy of Errors, The Master Builder, Romeo and Juliet, Three Sisters, and The Winter's Tale at Yale Rep; as well as productions at the Signature Theatre Company, The Public Theater, New Victory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, and BAM. Grace also serves on the faculty of Fordham University. She has taught master classes for the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and The Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab. She was named Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework in 1998. In addition, she continues to work as an actor and director. Acting credits include the McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and American Conservatory Theater. Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BA, Princeton University.
ERICA FAE (MOVEMENT COACH) is an actor and theatre and film maker whose recent play, Take What Is Yours, was developed in residencies and/or readings at New Georges, IRT, New York Theatre Workshop, and the New Ohio Theatre. It premiered at 59E59 Theaters and is currently touring. Fae's original work has also been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, The Culture Project, HERE (where she was a resident HARP artist), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. As filmmaker, Fae's Christine 1403 won Best Short at Salento, and her performance in it was awarded Best Actress at the BAC Film Festival/Brooklyn Museum. Numerous additional film credits include Synecdoche, New York; The Savages; Little Children; and Please Give. She teaches Grotowski-based physical training at Yale School of Drama and The New School and will be teaching a Master Class for the Siti Company this April. She is also co-founder of anecdota with Jill A. Samuels, making theatre and film inspired by visually poetic storytelling mined from historic and physical research.
DANA TANNER-KENNEDY (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Sunday in the Park with George and Fen. She recently served as Dramaturg and Associate Artistic Director for the 2012 Summer Cabaret, and she is a Managing Editor of Theater magazine. Other dramaturgy credits include Urge for Going (The Public Theater); Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer, Dinner with Friends (Westport Country Playhouse); Psychos Never Dream (Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas); Romeo and Juliet and Othello (Shakespeare Dallas). She spent five seasons in the education department at Dallas Theater Center, serving as Associate Director for two, and interned in the literary offices of Atlantic Theater Company and The Public Theater in New York.
GEOFF BORONDA (STAGE MANAGER) is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Fox Play, Much Ado About Nothing, Eurydice, Blacktop Sky, and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. His other theatre credits include Dear Elizabeth, A Doctor in Spite of Himself (assistant stage manager, Yale Repertory Theatre); Rent, Altar Boyz (Papermill Theatre); Beautiful Star; and The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead (Triad Stage). He received his BFA in technical production from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Yale Repertory Theatre is dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics and has produced well over 100 premieres-including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists-by emerging and established playwrights. Eleven Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Established in 2008, Yale's Binger Center for New Theatre is an artist-driven initiative that devotes major resources to the commissioning, development, and production of new plays and musicals at Yale Repertory Theatre and across the country-including this season's Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi, Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl, and Bill Camp and RoBert Woodruff's new adaptation of In a Year with 13 Moons by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Professional assignments at Yale Repertory Theatre are integral components of the program at Yale School of Drama, the nation's leading graduate theatre training conservatory.


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Reading 3: The Treasurer's Account Book
The following information is taken from the Treasurer's Account Book For School District No. 21 Gage County, Nebraska, one of the items in the Museum Collection of Homestead National Monument of America. On the inside cover of the account book is written "Commencing on the first Monday in April 1871 Philip Gascoigne, Treasurer." All the records below are the receipts or amounts of money paid to the treasurer for the Freeman School. Entries marked "state apportionment" reflect that, in the early 1900s, the state of Nebraska began to apportion (provide tax money) to the school districts to help with supplies and other expenses.
Receipts for year ending April 5, 1875
Receipts for the School Year from June 24, 1895 to June 29, 1896
Rec. for school year from June 29, 1896 to June 28, 1897
Receipts for 1939-1940
Receipts for 1942-1943
Questions for Reading 3
1. Based on the income and receipts recorded in the Treasurers' book, where did the Freeman School get its money?
2. Based on the memories of people interviewed in Reading 2, what might be meant by "received from all sources" in the receipts for 1875? What might be meant by the 1919 entry, "From Miss Dennehy Receipt of Box Supper"?
3. Although expenses are not listed, what expenses would the school have needed to pay for?
4. Create a time line for the activities at the school using the account book. What kinds of activities were held at the school? What activities seem to have been held on a yearly or monthly basis?
5. Does the treasurer's account book support or contradict Mr. Scheves' statement in Reading 2 that the Freeman School, "has always been a community center"?


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Press the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN and press the On/OFF until the phone RESTART.
Note: this will not remove your activation lock or Apple ID. This will delete all your data including your contacts, picture, vides etc. and sets back to factory default settings.
To erase your iPhone tap Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings
On older iphones with HOME button:
Erase your device with recovery mode
If you've never synced with iTunes or set up Find My iPhone in iCloud, you'll need to use recovery mode to restore your device. This will erase the device and its passcode.
Power off your phone.
Connect your iOS device to your computer and open iTunes.
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(While your device is connected, force restart it: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. Don't let go when you see the Apple logo — keep holding until you see the recovery mode screen.)
When you see the option to Restore or Update, choose Restore.
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You might need to enter your passcode and Apple ID password before you erase all content and settings.
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If something isn't working right, try restarting iPhone, forcing an app to quit, or resetting iPhone.
Restart iPhone. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears. Slide your finger across the slider to turn off iPhone. To turn iPhone back on, hold down the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Force an app to quit. From the Home screen, double-click the Home button and swipe upwards on the app screen.
If you can't turn off iPhone or if the problem continues, you may need to reset iPhone. Do this only if you're unable to restart your iPhone.
Reset iPhone. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
You can reset the word dictionary, network settings, home screen layout, and location warnings. You can also erase all of your content and settings.
Reset iPhone settings. Go to Settings > General > Reset, then choose an option:
Reset All Settings: All your preferences and settings are reset.
Erase All Content and Settings: Your information, and settings are removed. iPhone cannot be used until it's set up again.
Reset Network Settings: When you reset network settings, previously used networks and VPN settings that weren't installed by a configuration profile are removed. (To remove VPN settings installed by a configuration profile, go to Settings > General > Profile, then select the profile and tap Remove. This also removes other settings or accounts provided by the profile.) Wi-Fi is turned off and then back on, disconnecting you from any network you're on. The Wi-Fi and "Ask to Join Networks" settings remain turned on.
Reset Keyboard Dictionary: You add words to the keyboard dictionary by rejecting words iPhone suggests as you type. Resetting the keyboard dictionary erases all words you've added.
Reset Home Screen Layout: Returns the built-in apps to their original layout on the Home screen.
Reset Location & Privacy: Resets the location services and privacy settings to their factory defaults.
Force quit an application: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button on top of iPhone for a few seconds until a red slider appears, then press and hold the Home button until the application quits. On iPhone 3GS or later, you can also remove an application from the recents list to force it to quit.
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lol @ the squirrel prank linked on that page
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lol @ the squirrel prank linked on that page
Seriously, am I the only person wondering where these things are landing and who gets to clean up that mess?"
1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat waz invisible, An he maded the skiez An da Urf, but he no eated it.
2 The Urfs wus witout shapez An wus dark An scary An stufs, An he rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stufs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz cats can seez in teh dark An not tripz ovr nethin. an Ceiling Cat sayz u mus hav da moneyz 2 git da milkz.5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. Teh evning An morning was teh first day.
6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh ceilingz of waterz, with waterz up An waterz down. An he maded hole in teh Ceiling.7 An Ceiling Cat doed the skiez with waterz down An waterz up, An stuff.8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so evning An morning was teh twoth day.
9 An Ceiling Cat gotted all no waterz into ur base, so no waterz wus not wetted An Ceiling Cat hadz teh dry placez cuz cats dusnt lieks to get wet,10 An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urths and waters oshunz, so tehre.
11 An Ceiling Cat sayed, wants grass An stuff! so tehr wuz seedz An stufs, An fruitzors An vegbatels.12 An Ceiling Cat sawed that weedz ish teh good stuff, so, letz tehre be weed. (and catnipz 2, so wen i makes kittehs they can getz hai.)13 An so teh evning An the morning of the threeth day.
14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the firmmint for dividing day from no day.15 So tehre, lights everwaer, like chrissmass, wai.16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two greate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day.17 An Ceiling Cat screweth tehm on firmmint, with big nails An stuff.18 An Ceiling Cat sawed it wus the goodz, so wai.19 An so teh evning An the morning of the furth day.
20 An Ceiling Cat sayed, letz teh waterz brings forht the loots An stuff, An phishes, An burdies, that flyeths over the no waterz An swimmeths in the waterz.21 An Ceiling Cat created big fishies An see monstrs, which wuz like big cows, except they not mooed, An other stuffs that gives the mooves, An Ceiling Cat wuz plezed.22 An Ceiling Cat sented them hais, An stuff, so letz u be happy An stuff. And0 sed all u aminals An burdiez An fishz go has baby aminals An brrdz An fishz An dont worry i wont watch u has sexxes, cept 4 SUPRIZE BUTTSECKZ!!!!!!!23 An so teh evning n the morning of the fifth day
24 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has mor living stuff, mooes, An creepz, An otehr animuls, so tehre.25 An Ceiling Cat doed moar living stuff, mooes, An creepies, An otehr animuls, An did not eated tehm.
26 An Ceiling Cat sayed, letz us do peeps like uz, becuz we ish teh cute, An let min has dominion An stufs becuz tehy has can openers.
27 So Ceiling Cat createded teh peeps ish like him, can has can openers he did tehm, min An womin wuz created, but he did not eated tehm.
28 An Ceiling Cat sented them hais, so teh ballz An teh multiplyers, An haz teh dominion on teh waterz, no waterz An teh firmmint, An evry thingz An stuff.
29 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Yo, Beholdt, the Urfs, I has it, An I has not eated it.30 For evry createded stufs tehre are the fuudz, to the burdies, teh creepiez, An teh mooes, so tehre. an Ceiling Cat sayz u mus hav da moneyz 2 git da milkz. 50$ plez
31 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthx bai.
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An often visited port on Southern Caribbean and Panama Canal itineraries, Cartagena, Colombia has been able to reverse a reputation of narco-terrorism in its Andean regions and in recent years has experienced a surge in safety, credited to tough measures by President Alvaro Uribe after his election in 2002 and by his successors in recent years. This has resulted in a resurgence of tourism with an increase in cruise calls.Though normally called, simply Cartagena, the city's full name is Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena of the West Indies), as the Spanish wanted to distinguish this, one of their empire's most important Caribbean ports in South America, from the city of Cartagena in the region of Murcia by the Mediterranean in southeast Spain.
Cartagena, Colombia, founded in 1533 by the Spaniard Pedro de Heredia has more than one million inhabitants and its culture is a mixture of Indigenous, Spanish, African and Caribbean influences. Its highlight is the 16th century walled city, with its compact historic core, a UNESCO World Heritage site with well-preserved colonial buildings that make it an open-air, living museum. A must-see here is the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas, one of the most imposing fortresses built by the Spanish in the 17th century to protect Cartagena from pirate attacks. Visiting the fortress, also a UNESCO World Heritage site, with its impressive fortifications and labyrinth of tunnels, it is easy to imagine having time-traveled to the era of the real "Pirates of the Caribbean."
One usually gets the same feeling just simply strolling along the old city's streets, flanked by colonial houses with ornate, overhanging balconies, and seeing such points as Las Bovedas, constructed in the 18th century to serve as military dungeons but now housing boutiques and cafes. Other points of interest include the cathedral, the Iglesia de Santo Domingo, the city's oldest church; the colonial Casa del Marques de Valdehoyos, the home of a wealthy Spaniard who made his fortune in slave trade (South American Liberator, Simon Bolivar once recuperated from an illness in this house); the Teatro Heredia, on Plazuela de la Merced 5, considered among the most beautiful theaters in South America and dating from 1911; the well-preserved Palace of the Inquisition, an excellent example of colonial architecture that served as headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition in the 17th and 18th centuries; and the Church of San Pedro Claver, honoring Claver, a Jesuít priest who ministered to slaves.
Still other points of interest include two squares, Plaza Bolivar, named in honor of Simon Bolivar and a great place for a stroll, people-watch and sightsee (it is surrounded by the cathedral, the Palace of the Inquisition and the Museo del Oro y Arqueologia or Gold Museum); and La Plaza de los Coches (Coach Square), the old slave market. An interesting museum well worth a visit is the Gold Museum, fronting the Plaza Bolivar and across from the Palace of the Inquisition, with exhibits of pre-Columbian pieces.
Popular excursions sold onboard ships, in addition to walking tours, horse and carriage excursions and combination bus and walking programs in and around the old city, include a tour to the Botanical Gardens in the village of Turbaco, programs to the mud baths at Totumo mud volcano, culinary tours featuring a cooking class, and full-day excursions to the Rosario Islands with opportunities to swim, catch some rays and enjoy a typical Colombian lunch.
Local flavors not to be missed include such Colombian dishes as "tortilla de huevos criolla" (a delicious omelet with ham, cheese, chopped onions, tomatoes and corn), "ajiaco," a chicken stew with potatoes, peas and carrots, and, of course, Colombian coffee -- the one that "Juan Valdez" picks -- it is delightful to sample while in Cartagena and also pick up a few bags to take home for gifts and good souvenirs. Other excellent souvenirs of a visit to Cartagena include handicrafts, embroidered tablecloths and other items, and leather goods, not to mention, if your budget allows, beautiful emeralds.
Cruise lines that visit Cartagena include Carnival, Celebrity, Crystal, Holland America, Princess, Royal Caribbean, Seabourn, Star Clippers and Windstar.
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White House slaps down Sanford on stimulus plan
WASHINGTON — White House Budget Director Peter Orszag on Monday rejected South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's request to use up to $700 million of his state's economic stimulus funds to pay down state government debt.
Sanford thanked the White House and said he would send the Obama administration another, "more narrowly tailored" request Tuesday to use stimulus money to reduce his state's debt.
Sanford also accused President Barack Obama of playing a "game of good cop, bad cop" by allowing the Democratic National Committee to begin Monday airing a TV ad criticizing the governor for opposing the $787 billion stimulus, which the president signed last month.
Orszag, responding to a letter Sanford sent to Obama last week, said the $787 billion stimulus bill Obama signed into law last month doesn't allow governors to use money intended for other purposes to instead make debt payments.
"During this severe economic downturn, Congress and the president wanted to provide states and localities with emergency funding in order to prevent the layoffs of teachers, police officers and other vital public servants," Orszag wrote to Sanford.
After citing two specific clauses of the stimulus law, Orszag said:
"Congress has not authorized the executive branch to waive any of the above statutory requirements governing the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. Accordingly, states' spending . . . must satisfy the statutory requirements."
South Carolina Senate Democratic leader John C. Land III thanked Obama on Monday and accused Sanford of "playing political games while our state suffers."
South Carolina's unemployment rate is 10.4 percent, the nation's highest after Michigan.
A clause in the stimulus bill, crafted by Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 Democrat in the House of Representatives, authorizes legislatures to seek stimulus funding if governors fail to do so by April 3.
Republican legislators in the state's GOP-controlled General Assembly have advanced a measure to accept South Carolina's share of the stimulus money.
Clyburn praised the White House decision.
"South Carolina's needs are numerous," Clyburn said. "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides sufficient flexibility for states to address those needs as they see fit. I hope the (state) legislature will move forward with plans to draw down recovery funding to meet our needs."
Sanford, who confronted Obama over the stimulus plan in a Dec. 1 meeting of the then-president-elect and 46 governors, last week became the first governor to reject some of the stimulus money. Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry then followed suit.
"We appreciate the White House's response, as it represents a far more constructive form of dialogue than did the DNC attack ad now running in South Carolina," said Joel Sawyer, Sanford's spokesman.
"It's time for the president's game of 'good cop, bad cop' to end, and therefore we again ask him to end these ads so we can engage in a productive dialogue on the merits of our request," Sawyer said.
Election buddies McCain, Graham part ways over earmarks
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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday defended his agency's changes in the year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, dismissing criticism of a lengthier and more extensive permitting process as mere "Washington noise."
Appearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Salazar stressed that the U.S. is committed to offshore oil and gas development when it's done safely.
A plan to streamline the permitting process, championed by Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, got the backing last week of President Barack Obama, who called Saturday in his weekly radio address for easing the way for more domestic oil and gas production, particularly in the offshore Arctic and National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Begich and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, are pushing for increased offshore production in the Arctic as a source of oil that will keep the trans-Alaska pipeline running. Alaska's senators have been meeting repeatedly with the president and White House officials in recent months to find ways to cut through red tape to move projects forward in the state.
"The past year has been evidence that (streamlining the permitting process) is needed now more than ever," Begich told the committee Tuesday. "I was glad to hear the president talking about ... the need to coordinate between the many different federal agencies."
Murkowski told Salazar that she remains concerned that the U.S. is about one-third of the way toward the levels in new exploration and production that existed when the administration imposed an offshore drilling moratorium after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, 2010, and the subsequent oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico.
"It should be our goal to ensure our offshore industry is working safely," she said. "But that requires that it be working."
But Salazar pointed out that until a few months ago, he and the director of the new agency that oversees offshore drilling, Michael Bromwich, weren't confident in the well-containment systems being developed by oil companies.
When they were confident, they started issuing permits again, Bromwich said. Since then, permits for 14 deepwater wells have been issued. Another 53 have been granted in shallow waters since last June, Bromwich said.
"We couldn't really grant deepwater permits until there was containment capability," said Bromwich, the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. "That didn't happen until February. The notion that it's taken us a very long time to permit deepwater applications is really not true."
Both men also took issue with legislation passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate that shortens the time that federal regulators have to consider applications to drill. That legislation, Salazar said, would "pull out the rug from what it is we're trying to do: safe development of oil and gas in America's oceans."
That doesn't mean the transparency of the process — keeping applicants informed of the status of their permits — can't be improved, Bromwich said.
But oil companies also must recognize that there's a new regulatory regime, Salazar said. Although he told the committee his department has a "good relationship with industry," it "doesn't mean we should be dictated" to about standards, a reference to accusations that before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, oil and gas interests were too cozy with the Interior Department's old Minerals Management Service.
"Obviously, there's tremendous expertise that we listen to," he said of industry advisory groups. "But at the end of the day, it's our independent judgment that has to come to bear on these recommendations."
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The Ravens have an enviable kicking situation with kicker Justin Tucker and punter Sam Koch.
After beating out Billy Cundiff as a rookie last summer, Tucker connected on 30 of 33 field goals. That included four kicks from 50 yards or beyond. Plus, he hit the game-winning field goal in double overtime to defeat the Denver Broncos in an AFC divisional round playoff game.
A former Pro Bowl alternate, Koch had a career-high 47.1 average and a 40.8 net last season.
So, acquiring competition to push them in training camp isn't an easy bit of salesmanship for the Ravens.
"It will be pretty tough to find competition for those two guys right now," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "There aren't too many guys that want to come here and kick or punt. I don't think they see it as being a very fruitful opportunity. But, we will find somebody to help us – somebody that wants a chance to kick or punt in the National Football League. I'd like a guy who could do both, if possible – punt and kick. You'd love to have a lefty, so you can see how hard that is to come across. But, we will get the best guy we can."


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In the England-India stenchfest thread last week, Furball asked how many bowlers had had a series in Australia this century that stood up to Anderson's. Cribbage posted a link from statsguru but because I am better than him I have improved this query and sorted by series.
Bowling records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo
What's my point? Sure this is a pissweak Australian batting line-up, but given the expectations of how our guys would go, it is quite something. Bresnan second on the list, Anderson third, and Tremlett fourth, if sorted by average. Sort by wickets taken and Anderson and Tremlett stay near the top as well, but obviously Anderson has an advantage over most on that one because he played five games; at the same time that tells you what an effort it is to maintain an average like that, over five Tests, a series length no other fast bowler has dealt with in the last year or so (since the last Ashes basically).
I always tend to take bowling averages with a pinch of salt; I certainly don't think Bresnan had a better series than Steyn did a couple of years back. Nonetheless, if you want to know why we won three games by an innings, this is a good place to start.
Anderson and Tremlett are gonna destroy India at home tbh.


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The theorem of Zariski-Fujita says the following: Given a line bundle $L$ with base locus $B$ on a projective variety $X$. If $L_{|B}$ is ample on $B$, then $L$ is semiample, i.e. $L^{\otimes m}$ is generated by global sections for some $m>0$.
Does this remain true if we only assume $X$ is complete?