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How to Change the Notes Master in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint lets you create notes pages with a reduced image of your PowerPoint slide, and any notes that go along with the slide. When printed, notes pages are formatted according to the Notes Master. Be sure you add page numbers to your speaker notes. That way, if you drop a stack of notes pages, you can use the page numbers to quickly sort them back into order.
To change the Notes Master, follow these steps:
1Choose ViewPresentation ViewsNotes Master.
The Notes Master opens.
The Notes Master contains two main placeholders: one for your notes text and the other for the slide. You can move or change the size of either of these objects, and you can change the format of the text in the notes placeholder. You also can add or change elements that you want to appear on each handout page. Also notice the convenient placement of the header, footer, date, and page number blocks.
2Click Close Notes Master tab.
PowerPoint returns to Normal View.
3Print your notes.
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For every dad (and mom) out there that keeps his car spotless, there�s no two words scarier than these two words � road trip.
The annual summer tradition conjures up nightmares of spilled sippy cups, floors covered with French fries and mustard stained upholstery.
Face it, children � those little people in the back seat � know how to wreck a car�s interior.
Growing up in era of station wagons, my Dad kept his car so perfect that it would put even the best detail shop in town to shame. The only time he yielded on his �no food in the car� rule was during summer vacation as we cruised along to the beach and he watched the three of us in the backseat warily as munched away.
Invariably, one of us dropped an ice cream cone or spilled a soft drink and I have to give him credit, he did his best to not get too upset.
If only Evette Rios, the lifestyle expert at Bissell had been around back then, she could have saved everybody in our car a lot of trouble.
Now she�s not a miracle maker, she can�t keep your kids from endlessly asking, �Are we there yet?� but she did recently offer up some great road trip survival tips.
Clean the car ahead of time
�No one wants to spend hours coopered up in a cluttered, messy car,� she says
So where do you start? She recommends clearing out any trash and clutter.
Then wipe down the dashboard, cupholders and even take some time to wash the windows.
Keep the kids busy
Load up a small bin or car caddy with activities to keep you little ones occupied. Bring along coloring books, markers, crayons, toys and games. And even on vacation kids can do a few chores � and one of them can be to put items back in the bin when they are done playing with them. This will help keep the car neat and clutter-free.
Keep it clean
Most road trips involve at least a few drive-through stops. It�s probably a good guess that more damage gets done to the interior of a car on a long trip than any other time � from overturned juice boxes to condiments that end up everywhere except on the burger. Keep wet wipes on hand for quick clean-up.
And Rios has another suggestion that could be a lifesaver, or at least an upholstery saver: Keep a tube of white non-gel toothpaste in the car. Rub it on the stain and then wipe away with a damp cloth.
Pet Protection
If your family vacation includes the family dog, remember to include a bath mat or even an old shower curtain to protect the seats from muddy paws.
Dont� Trash It
Keep a few trash bags in the glove compartment to use for fast food wrappers and other garage away.

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The Facts In The Case Of The Departure Of Miss Finch (2007)
Michael Zulli made his debut in comics in 1986 with 'Puma Blues', a tale of ecological responsibility, written by Stephen Murphy. He also contributed stories to Steve Bissette's horror anthology Taboo, as well as several 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' stories in the early 1990s (collected 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Soul's Winter'). He became known for his work on the epic 'Sandman', written by Neil Gaiman, in which series he drew 'The Wake' in a beautiful pencilled style.
The Last Temptation (1995)
With other writers, he has drawn the 'Sandman' spin-offs 'The Dreaming and Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold' and 'Seekers' (DC Vertigo, 1996). For Dark Horse, and with Gaiman, he drew 'The Last Temptation', a fantasy tale about rock star Alice Cooper (1995), 'The Facts In The Case Of The Departure Of Miss Finch' (2007). He also did a couple of 'Grendel' stories. Zulli furthermore illustrated the J. Michael Straczynski novellas 'Delicate Creatures' and 'Midnight Nation', published by Image/Top Cow.
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UPPER MONTCLAIR, N.J. – The York College baseball squad dropped an 11-1 decision to Montclair State University in a non-conference contest on Tuesday afternoon in New Jersey.
The Spartans fall to 23-8 overall while the Red Hawks improve to 16-14 for the campaign.
The Red Hawks jumped on Spartan starter Elliot Mortimer (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) for a pair of early runs in the bottom of the first inning. The Red Hawks loaded the bases with a pair of hits and a hit by pitch. Mortimer then walked Phillip Scott with the bases loaded to push in the game's first run. Nicholas Martins then lifted a sacrifice fly to score Montclair's second run.
York got on the board in the top of the second as Derek Pitzer (York, Pa./Dallastown) singled to open the inning. He moved to second when Colin Porter (Hanover, Pa./South Western) singled to left. After a strikeout, Scott Steffy (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) walked to load the bases. Montclair starter Nick Listro then balked to move each Spartan up one base as Pitzer scored from third.
The Red Hawks broke the game open in the bottom of the third as they plated four runs on four hits in the inning. That big inning gave the Red Hawks a 6-1 lead.
Montclair tacked on a run in the fourth and three more in the fifth to take a 10-1 advantage. The Red Hawks closed out the scoring with a run in the eighth.
Listro earned the win for Montclair as he went five innings, allowing a run on five hits with three walks and a strikeout. He improves to 1-1 with the win. The three Montclair relievers that followed him allowed just three hits with four strikeouts and a walk as the Red Hawk bullpen was outstanding.
Mortimer suffered his first collegiate loss as he falls to 5-1. He threw three innings, allowing six runs on six hits with two walks and a pair of strikeouts. The Spartan bullpen was not very good as three York relievers combined to allow five runs on eight hits with two walks and four strikeouts in five innings of action.
Ryan Long and Juan Perdomo led the Red Hawks with three hits each. Long was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI while Perdomo was 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Jayson Stolz added a hit and two RBI while Connor Abreu contributed a hit and two runs scored.
Porter banged out three hits to pace the York offense. Pitzer was the only other Spartan with multiple hits as he was 2-for-4 with a run scored. York finished the game with eight hits. Steffy had York's lone extra base hit with his leadoff double in the seventh.
The Spartans have lost three of their last four games as they have played six games in the last seven days. York will now have off until Saturday when they host Southern Virginia in a non-conference doubleheader. The Spartans and Knights start game one at 1:00 pm on Saturday.


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The Fair \ Fair Map and Areas \ Folk Arts
The Folk Arts Area presents demonstrations and classes in traditional Maine arts in its tents and open areas. Exhibits in the tents include: woods crafts, such as canoe building and porcupine quillwork; domestic arts, such as quilting and basket making; and rug hooking, among many others.
The Maine Folk Traditions Tent features traditional music and dance from Maine's rich heritage. The ever-popular bean-hole beans are served at noon each day of the Fair.
The Folk Arts open area offers fairgoers the chance to try international folk dancing and offers a community countradance as well.
Our Blacksmith Shop allows quality demonstrations of blacksmithing at the Fair and at other events throughout the year. During the Fair, a number of demonstrations will showcase the different skills and talents of Maine blacksmiths in creating traditional farm and home implements.


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Portions of this collection are stored off-site at Collections Deposit Library and the Library Storage Facility. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.
Mathematical Association of America Records, 1916-present, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
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The Brussels Faculty of Engineering (in short "Bruface") is an initiative of two universities located in the centre of Brussels. The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) jointly offer a broad spectrum of fully English-taught Masters programmes in Engineering.
Enjoy your visit, and feel free to contact us if you need further information. Our staff will get back to you as soon as possible.
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The 22-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore walked around Manhattan topless earlier this week to protest Instagram's nudity policy, and tweeted photos of her adventure.
Scout Willis tweeted pictures of herself wearing a flowered skirt and not much else as she flounced along the streets of New York Tuesday, pausing at a bodega to check out some flowers.
One caption read, "Legal in NYC but not on @instagram." Another read, "What @instagram won't let you see #FreeTheNipple."
Instagram's basic terms of use include, "You may not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content via the Service."
"If you don't like what you see, simply unfollow me," she added.
Asked about Willis' protest, Instagram told The New York Post, "We try hard to find a good balance between allowing people to express themselves creatively and keeping Instagram a fun and safe place."


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"Fujitsu provides a responsive, agile service combined with market leading technology. Its partner support is of the highest quality and a real enabler for us to do more business more effectively in multiple global territories"
Mike Trevor, Global Business Development Director, Cutter
Founded in 2005, Cutter is one of the leading suppliers of virtualised desktop computing solutions. Headquartered in the UK but working across EMEA, it delivers Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) expertise to both customers and other technology companies. Cutter has established a reputation as a market leader in the design, deployment and support of virtualised desktop solutions by engaging with the leading technology vendors that supply each part of its desktop solutions.
As a small, eleven-man company, Cutter was looking to find a strategic technology partner that would provide ongoing, added-value support as well as desktop to data centre solutions.


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The next government-approved social media platform may be a tool to decode hip hop lyrics.
This article has been updated to correctly state how GSA negotiates with social media sites.
What will be the next social media platform to make it big in government? The answer may be Rap Genius, a four-year-old tool designed to decode hip hop lyrics and that government agencies could use to crowdsource the backstory on policy memos and proposed regulations.
The General Services Administration is talking with Rap Genius about creating a federal friendly version of the website, which has already racked up more than 68,000 annotations to Kanye West's new album Yeezus, GSA's social media lead Justin Herman said Wednesday.
"We want to stop chasing the social media tail and start getting in front of it," he said.
GSA negotiates terms of service agreements with social media platforms that allow agencies to use the sites without fear of violating any federal regulations.
If the deal goes through, government agencies will likely have to maintain accounts on a segmented part of the site so their annotated documents won't be displayed next to links for hip hop songs with profane titles, he said.
Herman was speaking during a panel discussion on social media in journalism hosted by the National Press Foundation.
The U.S. Geological Survey has already set up an account on Rap Genius where several of the agency's policy documents have been annotated by geology enthusiasts. The agency's "popular songs" include Decline in Amphibian Populations in the U.S. and Forecasting the Impact of Storm Waves and Sea Level Rise on Midway Atoll and Laysan Island within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
Rap Genius edits range from translating slang terms into standard English to fleshing out how a rapper's biography may have informed a particular lyric.
The site has previously branched out from hip hop, including "poetry genius" and "news genius," which annotates political speeches and quotes.
Government has mixed crowdsourcing and policy in the past but usually with the goal of developing policy or legislation rather than explaining it. The Open Gov Foundation, which spun out of the office of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., built a tool called Madison that crowdsources edits to legislation. Nextgov is hosting the Madison version of legislation to reform how the government buys information technology.
Agencies have also used IdeaScale to crowd source suggestions for how to improve government programs and policies.
The federal government's presence on social media has increased dramatically in the past few years as more sites adopt federal-friendly terms of service and as agencies struggle to communicate with a social-savvy citizenry.
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I have a customer with the latest Fiery Vue. Everything was working fine until recently. Now at least one computer is having problems.
With PDF documents the options for Booklet, staple, and similar items don't show up when we add those file types.
With the same printer selected as above, MS Office Documents have options for staple, booklet, etc. and MS Office Documents work fine.
Finally the Right-Click, Open with Fiery Vue option is no longer available.
IIRC the customer has Win 7 x64, MS Office 2010, Acrobat Reader 11, Fiery Vue 1.3.7.
Any ideas why?? How can we get things working again??
Note: Uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling Fiery Vue doesn't seem to help. Removing and readding printers along with power cycling the Fiery & copier don't seem to help either.
In addition the customer has recently had a lot of [version] changes to their Command Workstation and other apps recently and I figure "something" is getting in the way of Fiery Vue .... Figuring out which change caused the problem could be a little more difficult.


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One of the most charming destinations in the Massachusetts Berkshires, Painted Porch - country antiques - specializes in the finest country antiques and accessories. All year round, owners Larry and Carol Solomon search the English and French country sides to bring back an extensive collection of unique antique pieces.
This very special shopping experience is located on a beautiful property in Sheffield, Massachusetts just 2 1/2 hours from New York City or Boston. You can wander the rooms of antiques in our 1815 colonial and visualize how the antique accessories or painted furniture might look in your home and then head out to our barn to see even more, including grape hottes, cherry enfilades, painted dressers, a variety of antique store counters or even an early English apothecary from the 1860s. We also have a wonderful selection of Canadaian antique furniture. Only a fraction of our antique inventory is online, so be sure to visit Sheffield and stop by Painted Porch.
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UPDATE - May 30, 2014 -- Verizon Wireless has discontinued its Same Day Delivery service. We offer several delivery options for online and telephone orders, including overnight mail and in-store pickup to meet the needs of our customers with quick and easy methods of delivery.
February 12, 2014 -- Today, Verizon Wireless announced that it is adding 12 additional markets to its Same Day Delivery service, providing yet another delivery option for customers eager to receive their new smartphone, tablet or connected device right away. Now customers in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Diego, Seattle and Washington, D.C., can opt for Same Day Delivery.
In July 2013, Verizon Wireless became the first wireless provider to offer this service with a pilot program in Philadelphia. The pilot then expanded to include New York City, Dallas, Pittsburgh and San Francisco in October.
"We want customers to have multiple options to help them get the most from their wireless experience," said Melanie VanderValk, vice president, national distribution, Verizon Wireless.
The Same Day Delivery service provides an option for customers who order devices – with or without accessories – on the Verizon Wireless website to get their items the day the order is placed. The initiative allows Verizon Wireless to take advantage of local inventory and proximity to enable shipments from company-operated communication stores.
New and existing customers may choose Same Day Delivery when ordering online by 10 a.m. local time Monday through Friday with delivery guaranteed by 7 p.m. local time. The delivery fee is $19.99 compared with the priority overnight delivery fee of $14.99. Sunday through Thursday, customers placing their orders after the normal shipping cutoff times (between 4 p.m. and 12 a.m. local time) will still have the ability to select and receive their orders the next business day.
Same Day Delivery is one of several options for customers who have purchased a device online ranging from standard to overnight delivery to in-store pickup.


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Limited number of Blind Bird tickets available for Sonic Acts Academy 2020
Sonic Acts Academy is a three-day festival of innovative audio-visual and performative art and critical thinking, taking place from 21 to 23 February 2020 in Amsterdam. A limited amount of Blind Bird festival passes are now available for €50.
Sign up for workshops, seminars and guided tours at Sonic Acts Festival 2019
Sonic Acts is pleased to announce a special educational programme for Sonic Acts Festival 2019, with workshops led by artists and theorists including Christina Kubisch and Arie Altena, as well as seminars and guided exhibition tours.
Special projects and Early Birds for Sonic Acts' 25th anniversary festival
As we count down to our upcoming celebratory festival edition, we are proud to reveal a few of the special large-scale projects and performances we have been working on. Early Bird festival passes are available until 31 December.
'Sensing the Shipyard' at Damen Shiprepair
Sonic Acts is currently working together with several educational institutes in the Netherlands and abroad. As part of the upcoming Sonic Acts Academy 2018, we are collaborating with the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague on Sensing the Shipyard: A Sensorial Journey.
What Is Dark Ecology?
RESEARCH SERIES #26 In this essay, which draws on his book Dark Ecology, For a Logic of Coexistence, Timothy Morton — who originally coined the term dark ecology — explains what dark ecology is. He also argues how agrilogistics underpins our ecological crisis and our view of the world.
UNFOLD #3: Reinterpreting the digital
On 1 December, the third public event within the framework of UNFOLD continues with the research line mediation by reinterpretation. The evening will start with the workshop 'Sensory Augmentation and Obstruction', organised by Joost Rekveld and LIMA together with Sonic Acts.
Homage to Dick Raaijmakers at ICMC
After thirty years, the internationally renowned conference on computer music ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) is returning to the Netherlands. On Tuesday September 13 ICMC invites Thomas Ankersmit & Tarik Barri for a special performance of 'Homage to Dick Raaijmakers' and 'Versum' at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.
Looking back on Progress Bar in Amsterdam: More than Music
Looking back on the first four editions of Progress Bar Amsterdam which took place at Paradiso Noord / Tolhuistuin between January and June of this year, the event series' resident interviewer Jo Kali recounts her experiences and positions these nights, which are characterised by the combination of talks and performances, within the contemporary (cultural) landscape.
Nikel and Nikel Materiality
RESEARCH SERIES #25 Nikel is a small Russian mining city near the border with Norway. It was founded in the 1930s after enormous quantities of nickel were found nearby. At the time the area was Finnish. An infrastructure for mining the nickel was built in the 1930s with help from Canadian companies.
Dark Ecology Programme Update - Commissioned works
The third edition of the art, research and commissioning project Dark Ecology will take place between 8 and 12 June 2016 in the border zone between Norway and Russia, with events scheduled in the Pasvik Valley and Kirkenes (NO) as well as in the surroundings of Nikel (RU). A group of more than 50 artists, researchers, curators, writers and organisers, will travel from Northern Norway to North West Russia.
Sonic Acts Academy publication now for sale
In context of the Sonic Acts Academy, Sonic Acts published a 64-page 'zine', which contains a beautifully designed and printed collection of short essays, manifestos, statements and visual contributions that provide invaluable insights into the exploration conducted and during the Academy.
Looking back on first edition Sonic Acts Academy
The first edition of Sonic Acts Academy has ended. We look back proudly on an opening night with performances at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, five workshops and two days of presentations celebrating today's artistic practices at de Brakke Grond, and an invigorating line-up at Paradiso that had visitors dancing into the early hours.
Progress Bar: Brood Ma, Fis, ITAL TEK, Lafawndah & PYUR
On Saturday 26 March, we will bring you yet another Progress Bar filled with a lively mix of talks, performances and a clubnight. This edition will feature performances by Lafawndah (Warp, US), Brood Ma (Tri Angle, UK), Ital Tek (Planet Mu, UK), FIS (Tri Angle, NZ) and PYUR (Unsigned, DE).
Progress Bar in Amsterdam!
We're thrilled to announce that Sonic Acts, Viral Radio and Lighthouse will present a special season of Progress Bars in Amsterdam. Starting with the first event on 16 January 2016, Progress Bar is a night for cutting edge thinking and dancing that presents a lively mix of talks, screenings, performances and a club in a single night.
Dark Ecology Journey: First Journey Report
We are back home from a successful second Dark Ecology Journey. Over the course of five days, we travelled with a group of more than 50 artists, researchers, curators, writers and organisers to Kirkenes in Northern Norway from where we took a bus to Murmansk in Russia, to Zapolyarny and Nikel, and back to Kirkenes.
Sonic Acts Academy: Early Bird Tickets Available
Get your early bird tickets for the Sonic Acts Academy 26-28 February 2016 now. The Academy will take place every two years, alternating with the bi-annual Sonic Acts festival. The Academy is offering thought-provoking new perspectives on the research into art, the research needed for art and especially research through art.
Sonic Acts & EYE on Art: Weather Report
Following the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, on 15 December Sonic Acts and EYE on Art will host a Dark Ecology inspired evening on climate change. The programme explores the subject from the perspective of Dark Ecology. Included are works from EYE's collection as well as contributions by artists who are part of the 2015 Dark Ecology Journey.
Sonic Acts Commission Dolmen by Mario de Vega in Berlin
From 9 to 20 December 2015, Mario de Vega's Dolmen will be presented by singuhr-projects at Meinblau Projektraum in Berlin. This installation was commissioned by Sonic Acts in collaboration with donaufestival and was first presented in the context of The Geologic Imagination, the 2015 edition of the Sonic Acts Festival.
Call for Applicants: #Additivism Workshop
3D printing promises to become a widespread material language, allowing anything that can be stored as a digital template to be realised. During the 2-day #Additivism workshop Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke explain how 3D fabrication can be thought of as the critical framework of #Additivism: a movement that aims to disrupt material, social, computational, and metaphysical realities through provocation, collaboration, and 'weird' / science fiction thinking.
Save the Date: Sonic Acts Academy
From 26 to 28 February 2016, Sonic Acts hosts a new research-oriented programme at the intersection of art, music and science at several locations in Amsterdam. Over the course of three days, Sonic Acts Academy will invite artists, theorists, and scientists to expand on their research through lectures, concerts, film programmes, work presentations, masterclasses and workshops.
The Geologic Imagination: Lectures, Interviews and Recordings
RESEARCH SERIES #19 To get you in the mood for the upcoming Dark Ecology Journey, Research Series #19 includes recorded lectures, excerpts of live performances, sound recordings and interviews made during the 2015 festival The Geologic Imagination. With contributors such as Timothy Morton, Jana Winderen, Espen Sommer Eide, BJ Nilsen and Karl Lemieux, Raviv Ganchrow, Ele Carpenter and Graham Harman.
Interview with Mark Williams on the geological record
RESEARCH SERIES #18 Sonic Acts was very happy to welcome Mark Williams to the 2015 festival 'The Geologcic Imagination'. After his lecture on the fundamental changes in the earth systems, Williams talked to Sonic Acts' Liesbeth Koot and Menno Grootveld.
Interview with Morton Subotnick: The computer as a performer-composer-conductor tool
RESEARCH SERIES #22 In October 2013 Morton Subotnick performed Silver Apples of the Moon, with visuals by Lillevan at Kontraste Festival in Krems (Austria). After the concert Arie Altena sat down with him to discuss his particular approach to electronic music.
Vertical Cinema at Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
Vertical Cinema is in Melbourne for its Australian premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). A special feature within the MIFF film programme, Vertical Cinema will be screened twice at Deakin Edge theatre in Melbourne on 14 August.
Otto Piene's The Proliferation of the Sun at Stedelijk
After the impressive performance of The Proliferation of The Sun (1967) by ZERO artist Otto Piene during the Sonic Acts Festival 2015, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Sonic Acts present the performance again in honour of the opening of the exhibition ZERO: Let Us Explore The Stars on Friday 3 July.
Interview with Don Foresta
RESEARCH SERIES #14 In June 2014 Sonic Acts invited research artist Don Foresta to give two presentations in the Netherlands. Before his lecture presentation at STEIM in Amsterdam, Arie Altena sat down with him to talk about his experiences, working with Nam June Paik, Woody and Steina Vasulka, and other pioneers of video art, and his involvement in the first experiments with network art.
Dark Ecology Critical Writing Academy
On 9 and 10 October 2015, Dark Ecology and Fridaymilk will organise a two-day Critical Writing Academy, in Murmansk, Russia. This workshop is aimed at emerging and mid-career writers, critics, bloggers, theorists and journalists in arts and culture from the Barents Region


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DURHAM — This time the Oyster River High School boys ice hockey team left nothing to chance.
CJ Jerry had a hat trick and an assist as the Bobcats advanced to the quarterfinals of the Division II tournament with Wednesday's convincing 8-2 win over No. 10 Pembroke Academy/Campbell (PAC).
No. 7 OR (9-5-5) scored four goals in each of the first two periods to build an 8-1 lead, which forced the final period to be played with running time.
PAC (8-10-1) tied up OR in early January, part of a four-game stretch in which OR played each game to a 1-1 draw.
"We knew they had a short bench," said OR coach Griffin Richard. "We also learned quite a few lessons how we have to play. Their goalie is very aggressive and likes to come out and challenge. We wanted to get the puck to the net and have a presence once we got there."
OR will play No. 2 Spaulding (15-2-1) Saturday at the Rochester Arena at 7 p.m. The Bobcats won there last Saturday, 1-0, thanks to 46 saves from Brennan Young. The Bobcats are 1-0-1 vs. the Red Raiders this season.
OR outshot PAC, 47 to 12, drawing first blood at 2:56 of the first period when Patrick McDonough's nifty pass from the left circle set up Jerry's first goal.
OR scored three more times to lead 4-0 after the first period during which they outshot PAC 20 to 1.
Cooper Smith knocked in Griffin Sperry's rebound, Jerry scored with a pretty shot from the left circle into the right corner, and McDonough was rewarded for his hard work in front with a goal after he had two chances in close stopped by PAC goalie Nick Berube (39 saves). Jerry and Trevar Delisle earned assists.
Young had six saves in two periods of duty for OR. John-Mac Mroczka stopped four shots in the third period.
It was more of the same in the second frame, which included three goals in the final five minutes.
Jerry completed his hat trick at 6;55 from McDonough and Rye Morrill.
That was followed by PAC's first goal at 8:16, Mike White's slapper from the right point that beat an apparently screened Young.
The Bobcats closed out the period with three goals in a span of 3:46.
Ian Elmslie scored his first varsity goal, Sperry notched his team-leading 20th and Jordan Petrovitsis stuffed one in at 14:05 to make it 8-1.
In addition to Jerry's four-point night, also notching multiple points were Patrick McDonough (goal, 2 assists), Sperry (goal, assist), Petrovitsis (goal, assist), Smith (goal, assist) and Morrill (2 assists).
"It was a good statement game," Richard added, "to go out there and put pucks in the net."
Trevor Roche scored Pembroke/Campbell's second goal with 35 seconds to play from White and Chris Lowry.
Looking ahead to Spaulding, Richard said, "It was a good game (last Saturday). My goalie played an outstanding game. He made 46 saves and was there at every turn. We played a really good defensive system.
"It's a small arena, so you have to play well on defense, very disciplined and mentally ready," he added.
Oyster River, 8-2
Pembroke/Campbell (9-9-1) 0 1 1 — 3
Oyster River (9-5-5) 4 4 0 — 8
Scoring: First period: O-Jerry (P. McDonough) 2:56; O-Smith (Sperry) 6:04; Jerry (Un.) 10:00; P. McDonough (Jerry, Delisle) 12:11;
Second period: O-Jerry (P. McDonough, Morrill) 6:55; P-White (Rainville) 8:16; O-Elmslie (Petrovitsis) 10:19; O-Sperry (Pelletier, Smith) 13:35; O-Petrovitsis (Morrill) 14:05;
Third period: P-Roche (White, Lowry) 14:25.
Goalies: P-Berube (47 shots, 39 saves); O-Young (7, 6), Mroczka (5, 4).


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The amazing thing about this most elemental of ingredients is just how easy it is to make at home. I did just that for first time a couple of years ago and it opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. If cream alone could be transformed by some strange alchemy into butter, what else might I make?
If you've bought anything like a nut butter lately, you'll know what a pricey proposition that can be. Make it organic and double the price. So why not make nut butter at home? The possibilities are as endless as the diversity of nuts available. Almond butter seems like the obvious choice, so I decided to try something a little more out of the ordinary.
What about walnuts? Raw walnuts have a hint of tannic bitterness, and I wondered if toasting the walnuts would take the edge off. To smooth it off even more, and add a bit of buttery creaminess, I mixed in a handful of cashews. The result is a deliciously different nut butter, perfect for a just toasted piece of dense nutty German bread, such as those made by Mestemacher.
Easy Walnut Butter
makes approximately 2 cups
3 c walnuts
1 c cashews
1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Spread the walnuts and cashews evenly on a baking sheet. Toast for five to seven minutes, or until colour is slightly darkened and nuts are fragrant.
3. Blend for threee to five minutes in food processor, or until creamy smooth.
Toast your favourite bread, spread lavishly and enjoy a bite of healthy and delicious goodness


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The Great Depression altered countless lives and maybe some for the better. Bob Bondurant was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1933. Bob's father owned a car dealership that sold fast cars in nearby Chicago; very fast cars—Cords to be exact.
The Depression caused Mr. Bondurant (and Cord) to fall victim to hard times when he lost his business, telling the family, we're going to move as far west as we can. They moved to Westwood Village, near Beverly Hills, when Bob was 3 years old. Bob's father bounced back, becoming a surgical instrument sale representative once in California.
Certainly Bob's life was altered for the better as he was a bona fide Californian now going to Union High School in Westwood. More importantly, he was in hot rod country that flourished 365 days a year rather than the "Windy City" area whose average temp was 49 degrees F.
"I was always into cars and motorcycles. My dad took me to Gilmore Stadium when I was 7 to watch the races and that got me interested in racing. I delivered the Hollywood newspaper on my Schwinn bicycle," Bob begins. "I did a jump on my bike and the springer fork came off and I went end-over-end, put the fork back together, and rode home. I talked my mom into letting me get a Whizzer motor bike. I paid for it with my paper route money. The Whizzer got me into two wheels and from there I got a 125cc James two-stroke motorcycle. It was really cool because I could do wheelies with it. There was a Harley motorcycle shop near where I lived and they wanted to ride my James motorcycle and do wheelies with it. I said, 'OK if you let me ride your Harley', there was a vacant lot and we made an oval out of it which had some jumps. That's how I learned to ride motorcycles," Bob laughs.
"A buddy's mother would go to the movies every Thursday night. She had a Chrysler. He called me asking, 'Do you know how to drive?' Oh sure! I was riding motorcycles but I hadn't driven a car yet. I learned to drive in my buddy's mom's Chrysler," Bob chuckles.
"I talked my mom into letting me get a '32 Chevy roadster when I was in junior high; at 14 you could get a Junior Operating License. She said, 'You can't do that.' I told her it didn't work. A buddy had a car so we towed it with a rope around a corner to my house and the rear wheels came off. The only thing wrong with it was the head and manifold were off. I had it running in two days. Me and my buddies drove all over in that thing. I bought it for $40."
Rods and a Custom
Bob acquired the ultimate for any hot rodder, a severely chopped '34 Ford three-window coupe: "I found a chopped-and-channeled '34 coupe on a used car lot and I went drag racing with it at Santa Ana. It was boring because you'd run down the dragstrip—that part was great, but then it took a half-hour before you got to do it again."
Bob later had a '40 Ford he drag raced at Santa Ana, but Bob, ever the hot rodder, was ready to slow down the pace a bit with one cool street cruiser, a tail-draggin' '41 Ford custom. "It had Edelbrock heads and intake manifold, plus a light flywheel; it was a sleeper.
"We moved near Pasadena to La Cañada by the Angeles Crest Highway. We used to go to my aunt's house for Christmas dinner and my cousin had a big four-door Jag Mark VII. I took his Jag up the mountain road—it handled really well, much better than my Ford. He talked me into going to a sports car race at the Santa Barbara airport course. I'd never been to one before and I really liked watching them race.
"My mom and dad had divorced, then mom died when I was 16. I moved to Bishop, California, where I was living with my Aunt Ella.
"There was a road on the outskirts of Bishop off Highway 2 where there was a dirt oval track that ran jalopy races. I was taking my buddy around the track and said, 'This is really great isn't it?' He didn't answer. He'd fallen out of the car! I got a Model A roadster body and frame from Economy Auto Wrecking in Bishop and put it together. I lived in Bishop about a year."
After graduating from high school, Bob dug ditches and unloaded furniture trucks at Bekins Van Lines, then later on, sold Corvettes to finance his racing. "I even tried selling insurance once, but that was boring."
Dirt Trackin'
When Bob was 18 he started racing motorcycles at Carrell and Culver City Speedways: "In those days you didn't have brakes; you went faster without brakes on the bikes. I was going with a girl who I liked a lot, but she said, 'If we're going to get married you're going to have to stop racing motorcycles. It's either me or the motorcycle.' If you put it that way, I have to race."
Bob made the big bucks—$8 a night because he was in the novice class. He was going to a motorcycle shop in Glendale where Don Bachtold worked—he was a top motorcycle mechanic. "Bachtold built a special motor and said, 'Why don't you take that little motor out of your bike and put this one in'? I raced an Indian 101 Scout motorcycle at De Anza Park in Riverside. I checked the board to see where I qualified; I wasn't on the Novice board. I said where am I? 'You qualified Expert, you were the quickest.' I had learned how to ride the bike by now. I raced that bike for a long time."
Turning Point
Bob raced motorcycles on a regular basis, but he didn't want to be on a first-name basic with his orthopedic surgeon like many he raced against. Of course since Bob was an experienced dirt racer he could have picked up a used Midget or Sprinter and gone that route. But that was during a period when fatalities were commonplace … it was a dangerous business. Always in the back of his mind was going to Santa Barbara to watch the sports cars races, so Bob decided to try racing sports cars.
That's the Motor?
"I went to the Cal Club (California Sports Car Club) and said I wanted to go racing. 'Do you have a license?' 'No.' I handed them $5, they handed me a Competition License and said, 'Now you can go racing.' There were no driving schools then," Bob laughs. He bought a British two-seater Morgan Plus 4 with four cylinders that put out 68 hp and raced it for a year, graduating to a Triumph TR2 with a blazing 90 horses stock.
You're right, that's "tea bagger" stuff … but wait! There's a definite correlation between Dan Gurney's budding start and Bob's. Both raced Triumphs and both raced Corvettes, which got the attention of wealthy car owners who put them in their Ferraris and Maseratis.
When Bob stepped up to the Big Bore crowd and purchased a '57 Vette with a fuel-injected, 190hp, 283 ci that had been successfully raced by Arcadia resident Jerry Austin, that's when his racing career took off.
Bob was racing at Riverside Raceway when the crank broke in the Vette. He didn't have the money to fix it but his motorcycle mechanic friend Don who built the hot motor for his 101 Scout came to the rescue. Bob happened on a used car lot where Don was working.
"I hadn't seen Don in a few years and told him I'd parked the Vette because I didn't have the money to fix it. He said you buy the crank and I'll put the motor back together, and for every race you win I won't charge you. (How's that for motivation?) He put the motor back together and it ran strong. We started winning races. In those days there were as many as 35 Vettes on the track at the same time. There was a lot of fiberglass flying."
Bob won 18 out of 20 races in 1959 in the '57, which smartly won Bob the "B" Production Championship and "Best Corvette Driver of the Year" in 1959. That's when other car owners took notice of Bob's driving ability.
The pair needed money to race so Bob and Don went to work for Peyton Cramer who owned Dana Chevrolet in South Gate, known for its high-performance Corvettes, as well Camaros. "They had a used car lot there, Don worked on the cars and I sold used Corvettes."
Dick Guildstrand of Guildstrand Motorsports in Burbank was the manager: "Dana was number one in sales on the West Coast because we were racing," Guildstrand states. "The whole difference was the crowds who gathered around the Corvette with Dana Chevrolet on the door at the races and who sold cars. The other dealers weren't racing like we were. We had a meeting with Peyton Cramer and he wanted to go to Le Mans in 1967 and I said we gotta get one of the new L88s." (That was the 427 with solid lifers, aluminum heads—just one bad-glass, 500-horse Vette capable of 170-plus mph down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans.)
Look for the Burning Ferraris
"I had never been to Europe before so it was exciting to be able to race there," Guildstrand continues. "We get off the plane at the Paris-Orly Airport and there was just a small diesel truck but no trailer and an Opel waiting for us. We barely got the spare parts in the truck."
Guildstrand and Bob decided to fill the Corvette's tank with essence (fuel) and drive it to Le Mans. "It wouldn't idle under 70 mph. We're blasting down the road in a red, white, and blue Corvette with the side exhaust pipes making a huge amount of noise down a lot of dirt roads. Of course we're blowing dirt up in the air from the exhaust so you could see us coming. One little Gendarme (French police officer) was standing on a box directing cars at this traffic circle and saw us coming right at him in a cloud of dust … you can imagine the noise. We damn near blew him off the box but he gives us this great big French salute. (The two Yanks didn't realize the French national colors are blue, white, and red, which might have had something to do with the salute.)
"We got there two days before the race and the GT 40 Ford guys opened up their great big trailers and let us use the machine shop to make stuff and weld … they had a huge effort."
Bob knew the circuit well, having raced Le Mans in 1964, winning the GT Class in a Ford Daytona Coupe with Dan Gurney. Guildstrand asked Bob how to tell when he was approaching the Tertre Rouge corner at the end of the long (4381 feet) Mulsanne Straight at night. Bob says, "Look for the burning Ferraris."
Guildstrand set a record of 171.5 mph down the Mulsanne. After 13 hours their lone Corvette packed it in with a broken wrist pin. "We still finished 17th, we were that far ahead," Guildstrand laughs.
What Belts?
Bob's first entry into Formula 1 was one that almost took his life in the ill-fated ATS Grand Prix Car he was about to drive on one of the deadliest tracks in racing—Monza. ATS was formed by disenchanted team members who broke away from Ferrari, including Phil Hill.
Over the years 52 drivers and 35 spectators have lost their lives on the 3.6-mile track. Bob was told that the high-speed corner, Curve Grande, was taken flat-out. Of course it would take some laps before he would build his confidence not to lift.
Many Formula 1 drivers felt it was better to be thrown clear than be in the car when it crashed; in fact belts weren't mandatory until 1972. Masten "Kansas City Flash" Gregory, another American who drove in F1, once stood up in the seat of his car and jumped out just before impact. Gregory was at Monza instructing Bob on the difficult course.
"I decided that when I went to Europe, I was somehow going to get a testdrive in a Formula 1 car. It turned out to be the ATS at Monza, Italy. If I did well on the testdrive, I'd be driving the car the following year.
"I figured the ATS wasn't as fast as the Ferraris and after a few laps I began taking the corner flat-out at 150 mph. They gave me the signal to pull in and I decided to take one more lap."
As Bob went through the corner the rear axle broke sending him off the course backward and down a ravine. He was thrown out of the car. After he regained consciousness, Bob crawled out of the ravine, saw the hole in the hedge where the car went through—it was sitting with the windscreen and rollbar sheared off. (You can judge by this account how quickly the safety crews got to Bob.) He was flown to England to receive medical attention.
"If I'd been strapped in the car I would have been decapitated. Do you wear belts or not? I read later the axles were the weakest part of the ATS." In Bob's case, not wearing a belt saved his life.
What Was That?
Formula 1 came to the United States on a course steeped with racing history dating back to 1956: Watkins Glen. Located in the Catskills of New York, the Grand Prix was held at the "Glen" in 1961 and continued until 1980.
It was in October 1965 that Bob drove a V-8–powered Formula 1 Ferrari for the North American Racing Team entered by Luigi Chinetti, the U.S. Ferrari distributor. This comes under the heading of "this stuff doesn't happen today!" Instead of being kept at the track garages, the Ferrari F1 cars were at a Chevy dealer in town. When the transporter to take Bob's car to the circuit didn't arrive, it was decided that Bob should drive the Ferrari to the track.
Bob must've pinched himself: it was one thing to cruise the streets in his hot rod, but in a Formula 1 Ferrari! Bob had never driven a Grand Prix Ferrari at all, and now he was about to go cruising not only through town, but out through the countryside to the track in a full-blown F1 car. How many sharing the road with Bob that day did double takes to make sure they saw what they thought they saw? "What a great feeling," was Bob's comment on the occasion.
The Scottish World Champion, Jim Clark, was on the pole with a time of 1:11.35 around the 2.3-mile circuit. Bob's time was 1:12.9, which put him on the outside of the seventh row next to Jochen Rindt from Germany (Rindt was killed at Monza in 1970).
It's important to note that Bob was driving an eight-cylinder Ferrari while the factory drivers had V-12s. Bob had a faster qualifying speed than Pedro Rodriguez at 1:13.0 in the 12-cylinder Ferrari. During the race it started to rain; it was cold with 40-mph winds. (But this was Formula 1, it's supposed to rain, be windy, and cold.)
After 12 laps Bob moved up to Eighth from his starting position of 14th on a completely wet track. With the wind, plus rain, Bob's goggles were blowing off his face; the elastic strap had stretched and at one point his goggles blew down around his chin with the wind gusts. Being new, he was unaware the drivers carried spare goggles around their neck. Bob had trouble seeing but by turning his face into the wind, the goggles would stay pressed against his face as long as he kept one finger on them while shifting with his other hand and grabbing the steering with his knees.
The veteran F1 guys were spinning out; Bob being a newcomer to F1, but a seasoned dirt-tracker, weathered the storm, so to speak. Jack Brabham spun, Rindt spun twice, Bob worked his way through the spinning field driving a masterful race considering his handicap, and finished Ninth. Graham Hill won the event in a BRM.
What Now?
Twice, Bob was badly injured, not from driver error, but from mechanical failure. It could happen again, if it did and the results were worse, how would he make a living, Bob wondered?
Lying in the hospital bed with broken bones didn't break his desire to get back on track, in more ways than one. Bob formulated a plan to open a high-performance driving school. After all, he tutored the likes of actor James Garner during the filming in 1966 for his role in Grand Prix, and enjoyed passing on what he'd learned driving race cars to Rockford (who became a gifted race car driver in his own right), and the other actors in the film.
School Days
Bob realized his dream, opening the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving at Orange County Raceway on Valentine's Day 1968 with a Vee-Dub van (minus the peace signs and daisies), a Datsun 510, and a Formula V for starters.
In the interim, Bob did get back on track (or the horse so to speak), knowing he had a growing business to fall back on should anything catastrophic happen again, entering a Can-Am race June 1970 driving a Chevy Lola T160.
When Ontario Motor Speedway opened in 1970, Bob moved his school to the $25 million complex, but the track's troubled management forced him to then move to Sears Point, north of Frisco, which he outgrew, then finally to Firebird International Raceway in Chandler, Arizona. Bob's fleet has grown to 200 race-prepared Cads, Vettes (naturally), open-wheel Formula cars, and karts.
Bob competed in 36 different events after his crash up to 2004, which included Daytona, 24 Hour of Le Mans, Nurburgring, Germany, and the Sebring 12 Hour. At 62, Bob grabbed a Third place podium finish at Road Atlanta in a Saleen Mustang in 1995.
Bob's massive 60-acre complex in Arizona is designed to show students the fastest and safest way around the 1.6-mile road course. Since Bob has never stopped racing (he still enters vintage events), he still has some sneaky moves his experienced instructors have never seen before.
Bob is living a hot rodder's fantasy; he can race anytime he damn-well pleases and the only red lights in his mirrors are the cop cars on the track taking his Law Enforcement training class. Bob is definitely the kid who owns the candy story!
Bob learned to drive in his buddy's mom's Chrysler that they sorta borrowed. The next thing you know, he's driving a Cobra down a dark straightaway at 190-plus mph in France, not once, but for hours. Bob might've thought, if just for an instant, if the guys at the Piccadilly could only see me now! Bob should be an inspiration to anyone who has a dream … he followed his.


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ROCHESTER — The man assaulted at the Rochester Inn earlier this month is now blind in one eye because of the incident, said Assistant County Attorney Dorothy Walch.
The suspect in the case, 24-year-old Clifford Gagnon, formerly of Milton, remains held on $25,000 cash bail after his probable cause hearing on Wednesday.
Gagnon was charged with felony second-degree assault in connection to the Feb. 14 incident at the Rochester Inn, after which the 49-year-old victim was flown by helicopter to Maine Medical Center. The victim, who suffered a fractures to his skull, was in critical condition, and had been put in induced coma at the medical center.
Walch said on Wednesday that because the victim suffered detached retina in his right eye due to the assault, he is now blind in that eye.
Since the assault, the victim was brought out of the coma and was able to speak to police about the incident. During his testimony at Rochester Circuit Court, Police Detective Andrew Swanberry said the victim had no recollection of the assault, but speculated that he was assaulted from behind.
Despite Gagnon's defense attorney arguing "We have no idea what happened in that hotel room," Judge Daniel Cappiello found probable cause in Gagnon's second-degree assault charge, and maintained his bail at $25,000 cash only.
"There's too many things that add up to point to evidence against the defendant," said Cappiello.
During the hearing, Walch questioned Swanberry about what the police learned about the incident during their investigation. Swanberry said that Gagnon told police that he had walked the heavily intoxicated victim to his hotel room, to make sure he was all right, and then closed the door to the room. Then, "almost instantaneously," Gagnon said he heard yelling, and after returning to the victim's room, he found the 49-year-old man injured in a pool of blood.
Swanberry said that a witness who was in a nearby room told a different story. That witness told police he heard three loud "thumps" from the victim's room, and then saw Gagnon come out of that room and close the door.
Another witness reported hearing Gagnon say words to the effect, "(The victim) got jumped and it looks like I did it," Swanberry testified.
According to a police affidavit, Gagnon was also asking the tenants of the Rochester Inn to call for help because the victim got "jacked up."
Through questioning by Walch, Swanberry also testified that another witness said Gagnon approached her a couple hours before the assault, asking for advice. Gagnon allegedly was considering "jumping" or "getting" the victim because the victim owed him money.
After Wednesday's probable cause hearing, Gagnon's case was bound over to the Strafford County Superior Court, where a grand jury will consider indicting him on the charge.


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'Mama' review: Mother lode of horror
Starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Directed by Andres Muschietti. (PG-13. 100 minutes.)
Jessica Chastain has become a good excuse to see any movie, and this is for two reasons. The first is that it's a pleasure to watch her development. She has been consistently capable, usually brilliant and often quite different from role to role, and she's different in "Mama," too, playing a black-haired rock chick who discovers her maternal side under highly unusual circumstances.
The second reason comes under the category of quality control. Either through luck or intuition or exquisite taste, she only seems to appear in high-quality movies. Apparently, this even holds for "Mama," a horror picture released in January, and it's really worth taking a moment to appreciate that: "A horror picture released in January." That is usually the equivalent of saying, "It's going to be awful, and it's going to be awful." But in fact, "Mama" is skillfully made, and although Chastain is the best thing in it, she's not the only thing in it.
She plays the bass player in a rock band, and she has the bass player personality in this one: not a hotshot, not trying to be cool, just cool without trying. She lives with her boyfriend and has black fingernails, and in her first moments onscreen she is celebrating that a pregnancy test has come back negative. Yet kids will soon enter her life, two girls, and oh, do they have troubles.
The girls, little children, are discovered in the woods, having survived for five years under rugged conditions. Their parents are dead, and so their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Chastain). assume custody. What the young couple doesn't know is that the girls had a guardian in those woods, a supernatural "mama," who is evil, needy, irrational and, most importantly, jealous. Mama doesn't want to lose those kids, and she doesn't want any new mama getting in the way.
Here and there, "Mama" contains flashes of action, and throughout it's apparent that some climactic confrontation is inevitable, and yet the movie is mostly about the characters. "Mama" gets its effects, not by threatening to show you something hideous, but by getting under your skin and into your head. Moreover, like the best horror films, it has a reverberation beyond the circumstances of the movie.
Though by no means a sophisticated examination of motherhood, it's nonetheless some kind of hysterical expression of thoughts surrounding the subject and afloat in the public mind. In "Mama," Chastain is not the archetypal average person you usually find in horror films. She is someone quite specific and therefore more recognizably real-world to us - thus more anomalous and interesting in a horror context. She is a no-nonsense modern woman with a career on her mind who doesn't want kids and has no real reason to like these kids in particular. Yet we see her opening up to the experience, not in some corny, sentimental way, but in the forthright way such a woman would.
That's probably what attracted a major actress to this role; and it's what "Mama" offers us that lesser horror movies don't.
Director Andres Muschietti is cinematically literate - in one example he borrows a flashbulb effect from Hitchcock's "Rear Window" - and he has visual panache. Much of the movie is surprisingly beautiful. Muschietti also casts the movie well, down to the faces of the featured players, who are just a little more vivid than usual. And he somehow knows how to get successful performances from children.
But, speaking of children, one caution. How was this movie rated PG-13? Ten minutes into the film a father puts a gun to the head of his little daughter. Think that might be a disturbing sight for children? Come on, folks. Get serious.
Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic. E-mail: email@example.com


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SEO: Predicting the Payoff
SEO is a critical component of marketing for every website. There are many tips and techniques that are widely available that can help you increase the chances of getting a high ranking for the search keywords and phrases that are central to your marketing strategy. Everyone knows that a higher ranking is better, but exactly how high does your ranking have to be to generate significant traffic for your website? Is it possible to predict how much traffic you can generate for a given search phrase and ranking?
It is well known that you can use a resource such as the Google Keyword Tool to estimate monthly traffic for a keyword. Once you have that number, the question becomes: given a particular ranking, what percentage of those searches will result in a visit to your website? You can't really create a reliable, comprehensive search phrase strategy without this critical piece of information.
There is a variety of counsel and opinion on this topic, not all of it consistent. For instance, one website, which provides research, training and educational services exclusively for the publishing industry, states the following rule of thumb:
"When your website or landing page turns up on page one in Google, you're getting 100% visibility..But what happens when your landing page ends up on page two or three? We estimate that you're getting about 32% Google visibility on page two, meaning only about 32% of users ever click through to page two, and a meager 7% visibility on page three. If you're on page four or beyond, you simply don't have a chance of being seen by your potential customers."
The authors cited no source for this rule of thumb, or explanation of how they developed it. There are a number of other rules of thumb about click distributions floating around on the web, which are entirely inconsistent with the above. I'm not going to dwell on these here; I'd rather get right to the data I believe is the most credible and useful.
SEO Click Disributions – The Best Data Avaliable
There have been several eye-tracking studies that have been done over the past few years, all of which produce consistent results. Perhaps the best-known among them is a study that was performed at Cornell University that showed the following:
Source: SEO Researcher
This data tells a far different tale than the rule of thumb cited above: the first three ranks get 80% of the clicks, and the first page gets 98.9% of the clicks!
You might object, and I would agree, that this data is derived from an eye tracking study, not actual searches, and would thus compel some caution on extrapolating the results. Fortunately, there is some actual data available. In 2006, AOL leaked some data on over 36 million queries. The data was analyzed by Richard Hearne, and the results are as follows:
These results, by and large, are consistent with the Cornell eye-tracking study, in that the first page attracts an extremely high percentage of the clicks. The first three ranks garner 63% of the clicks; the top 10, 90%; the top 20, 94.5%. Here are the percentages for ranks 1-21, 31, and 41:
Viewed another way, an improvement in rank from second to first will almost quadruple the number of clicks. The number one ranking produces as many clicks as ranks two through eight combined. The drop-off in clicks is enormous by the time you get to the second page; a rank off 11 produces only .66% of the clicks; in comparison a rank of 10 produces more than 4 times as many, and the number 1 rank more than 60 times as many!
This click distribution has also been confirmed by an independent set of search data analyzed by Enquisite, a firm that specializes in search optimization software. Based on a proprietary data set of 300 million searches, the first page grabbed 89.71% of the clicks; the second 5.93%; the third, 1.85%, the fourth, .78%; and the fifth, .46%.
Since there are several methods that have produced highly similar results, there is a high degree of confidence that this data provides a reliable foundation on which to base an SEO strategy.
Implications for SEO Strategy
- The ranking you can achieve for any given search phrase depends on a number of factors, including how well you optimize your pages for the search phrase, your page rank, and the amount of competition. If you opt to compete for high volume search phrases with a lot of competition, you have to realistically weigh the chances that you can make the first page.
- A better option may be to pursue a long tail strategy, in which you set your sights on achieving a number one ranking on lower volume search phrases with lower levels of competition. This strategy necessarily involves multiple keywords in order to generate significant volumes of traffic for your website.
- But perhaps the best option of all, made possible by this data, would be to pursue a mixed strategy. The increase in traffic you can expect from improving your ranking for any particular search phrase can now be predicted. You can therefore weigh the incremental increase in your website traffic for an entire portfolio of search phrases, and allocate your efforts in a way that will optimize your ROI.


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ACLU Claims Women Denied Right To Marry Inmates
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit on behalf of several women who claim their fundamental right to marry was denied when their weddings could not be performed at a Missouri prison.
The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday claims a new policy at the Jefferson City Correctional Center requires all visitors to fill out a form disclosing their Social Security numbers. It says the women were unable to marry inmates because Cole County Recorder of Deeds Larry Rademan refused to provide his Social Security number. As a result, the lawsuit says, Rademan was not allowed into the prison to witness the inmates' signatures on their marriage applications.
The Missouri Department of Corrections declined to comment about the policy, citing the lawsuit.
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This is the Earl of Cromer's (first British Viceroy of Egypt) account of why the
British took over Egypt. It is also a good example of Political Imperialism - i.e.,
we don't really want the damned place but if we don't someone else will grab it and the
whole balance of power will be mucked up....Egypt may now almost be said to form part of Europe. It is on the high road to the Far
East. It can never cease to be an object of interest to all the powers of Europe, and
especially to England. A numerous and intelligent body of Europeans and of non-Egyptian
orientals have made Egypt their home. European capital to a large extent has been sunk in
the country. The rights and privileges of Europeans are jealously guarded, and, moreover,
give rise to complicated questions, which it requires no small amount of ingenuity and
technical knowledge to solve. Exotic institutions have sprung up and have taken root in
the country. The capitulations impair those rights of internal sovereignty which are
enjoyed by the rulers or legislatures of most states. The population is heterogeneous and
cosmopolitan to a degree almost unknown elsewhere. Although the prevailing faith is that
of Islam, in no country in the world is a greater variety of religious creeds to be found
amongst important sections of the community.In addition too these peculiarities, which are of a normal character, it has to be
borne in mind that in 1882 the [Egyptian] army was in a state of mutiny; the treasury was
bankrupt; every branch of the administration had been dislocated; the ancient and
arbitrary method, under which the country had for centuries been governed, had received a
severe blow, whilst, at the same time, no more orderly and law-abiding form of government
had been inaugurated to take its place. Is it probable that a government composed of the
rude elements described above, and led by men of such poor ability as Arabi and his
coadjutators, would have been able to control a complicated machine of this nature? Were
the sheikhs of the El-Azhar mosque likely to succeed where Tewfik Pasha and his ministers,
who were men of comparative education and enlightenment, acting under the guidance and
inspiration of a first-class European power, only met with a modified success after years
of patient labor? There can be but one answer to these questions. Nor is it in the nature
of things that any similar movement should, under the present conditions of Egyptian
society, meet with any better success. The full and immediate execution of a policy of
"Egypt for the Egyptians," as it was conceived by the Arabists in 1882, was, and
still is, impossible.History, indeed, records some very radical changes in the forms of government to which
a state has been subjected without its interests being absolutely and permanently
shipwrecked. But it may be doubted whether any instance can be quoted of a sudden transfer
of power in any civilized or semi-civilized community to a class so ignorant as the pure
Egyptians, such as they were in the year 1882. These latter have, for centuries past, been
a subject race. Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs from Arabia and Baghdad, Circassians, and
finally, Ottoman Turks, have successively ruled over Egypt, but we have to go back to the
doubtful and obscure precedents of Pharaonic times to find an epoch when, possibly, Egypt
was ruled by Egyptians. Neither, for the present, do they appear to possess the qualities
which would render it desirable, either in their own interests, or in those of the
civilized world in general, to raise them at a bound to the category of autonomous rulers
with full rights of internal sovereignty. If, however, a foreign occupation was inevitable or nearly inevitable, it remains to be
considered whether a British occupation was preferable to any other. From the purely
Egyptian point of view, the answer to this question cannot be doubtful. The intervention
of any European power was preferable to that of Turkey. The intervention of one European
power was preferable to international intervention. The special aptitude shown by
Englishmen in the government of Oriental races pointed to England as the most effective
and beneficent instrument for the gradual introduction of European civilization into
Egypt. An Anglo-French, or an Anglo-Italian occupation, from both of which we narrowly and
also accidentally escaped, would have been detrimental to Egyptian interests and would
ultimately have caused friction, if not serious dissension, between England on the one
side and France or Italy on the other. The only thing to be said in favor of Turkish
intervention is that it would have relieved England from the responsibility of
intervening.By the process of exhausting all other expedients, we arrive at the conclusion that
armed British intervention was, under the special circumstances of the case, the only
possible solution of the difficulties which existed in 1882. Probably also it was the best
solution. The arguments against British intervention, indeed, were sufficiently obvious.
It was easy to foresee that, with a British garrison in Egypt, it would be difficult that
the relations of England either with France or Turkey should be cordial. With France,
especially, there would be a danger that our relations might become seriously strained.
Moreover, we lost the advantages of our insular position. The occupation of Egypt
necessarily dragged England to a certain extent within the arena of Continental politics.
In the event of war, the presence of a British garrison in Egypt would possibly be a
source of weakness rather than of strength. Our position in Egypt placed us in a
disadvantageous diplomatic position, for any power, with whom we had a difference of
opinion about some non-Egyptian question, was at one time able to retaliate by opposing
our Egyptian policy. The complicated rights and privileges possessed by the various powers
of Europe in Egypt facilitated action of this nature.There can be no doubt of the force of these arguments. The answer to them is that it
was impossible for Great Britain to allow the troops of any other power to occupy Egypt.
When it became apparent that some foreign occupation was necessary, that the Sultan would
not act save under conditions which were impossible of acceptance, and that neither French
nor Italian cooperation could be secured, the British government acted with promptitude
and vigor. A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and
its position in the world have imposed upon it. English history affords other examples of
the government and people of England drifting by accident into doing what was not only
right, but was also most in accordance with British interests.
Source:From: The Earl of Cromer, Modern Egypt, 2 Vols., (New York: Macmillan, 1908),
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Celebrating the service of America's military children
By Staff Sgt. Michael Hughes, 180th Fighter Wing Ohio National Guard April 28, 2017
SWANTON, Ohio - The men and women who serve in America's armed forces have often been called heroes for their courageous acts and warrior ethos.
These men and women in uniform know that our nation's biggest heroes can come in the smallest sizes and make the biggest sacrifices -- our military children.
April is designated as the Month of the Military Child, underscoring the important role military children play in the armed forces community. The Month of the Military Child helps raise awareness about the unique struggles military children face, builds resiliency to help them cope with those challenges, and celebrates their sacrifices, which often go unrecognized.
These children face all the same challenges of other children growing up, but they also face the added struggle of parents who might deploy to distant locations, even combat zones, for long periods of time, missing major milestones such as birthdays, school recitals and sporting events. These sudden changes can be times of great upheaval for military children and can have varying impacts on children, often depending on their age.
"The hardest age is probably elementary age," said Alina Fuller, director of psychological health at the 180th Fighter Wing. "That's when children really experience that sense of loss and fear because they can't pinpoint their own coping skills. Their stability seems to be more fractured at that age."
Fuller said older children are usually better equipped to cope with the impacts of deployments because they have established peer groups and are more independent.
"Each deployment is going to be different because children experience the deployment at different ages and different levels of maturity," said Judy York, Airmen and Family Readiness Program manager at the 180th Fighter Wing.
York and Fuller agreed that Airmen often underestimate the impact a deployment has on their children, especially when deployments are short.
"Any time Airmen are gone for 30 days or more, they're adapting to their environment," York said. "At the same time, their family is adapting to them being gone."
While the absence of a parent might seem like the most challenging part of a deployment for children, York said the sudden return of a parent can disrupt the routines a child has developed while their parent is deployed because children become accustomed to their living situations and need time to adapt to the changes a homecoming reunion can bring.
"That first two weeks back is going to be euphoric and exciting, but eventually you're going to start feeling agitated and your kids are going to get annoyed with you," Fuller said. "That's normal. The family has to adjust to the new situation. You have to re-navigate the relationships when you return because the other parent has been the sole caregiver for so long and the sole source of authority."
York suggested Airmen allow their children the time necessary for them to adjust to life before taking on a disciplinary role again. Strong communication skills between parents can also help military children cope with changing situations after a parent has returned.
"Children can sense tension and stress in their parents which can have a big impact on kids," Fuller said. "It's important to normalize the emotions associated with the adjustment period after returning home from a deployment. It's just a part of military life. If you can laugh about it and take pride in getting through the ugly parts, it makes it easier."
York recommended parents bring their children out to the base for the different AFRP programs because the programs are designed to help children and spouses cope with the impacts of deployments.
"Kids come out to the hangar and they say goodbye to their parent, so they associate the space with their parent leaving," York said. "Whenever we can do something to help associate the space with fun we're creating positive memories of the space and building resiliency."
"Bringing them out to the wing where they can see other kids who are in the same boat as they are helps them feel a little more comfortable and not so alone," said Master Sgt. Brittany Wolfrum, 180FW command support staff and a mother of three. "They're able to relate to each other and support each other."
A wide variety of programs are available to help military children cope with the unique challenges they face. These programs help military children meet each other, allowing them to share their experiences and emotions with other children experiencing the same things. Family retreats sponsored through the chaplain corps and summer camp programs such as Camp Kelly's Island sponsored by Ohio Military Kids are just a few examples of programs designed to build resiliency in military children.
"If military children aren't celebrated with their peers, if they aren't connected with other military children, then they don't know how to identify each other," Fuller said. "Camps for military kids and other programs help children connect with each other and help them build comradery."
"They get to do fun things together and have that camp experience, but they're having it with somebody else who has been in their shoes," York said.
The push to build resilience among military children and celebrate their sacrifices has not always been a part of life in the military. York began building the AFRP at the 180FW in 2001.
"When I came in after 9/11, our Security Forces Squadron was activated," York said. "I was learning along with them because I had no previous experience. I spent a lot of time learning everything I could and experiencing the challenges they were facing."
"There's been a huge culture shift," Fuller said. "When my husband was in the Navy, we didn't have these programs. There's a lot more awareness and recognition of what military families go through, especially the children. We've come a long way in a short amount of time."
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appears too much evidence that the radius of curvature under the
Pangaean land mass at least, did increase around the time of the break
up of Pangaea, and such an increase would itself provide the initial
force for rifting. The subsidence of a land bulge would also lower the
land relative to the sea and there is fossil evidence of wide
incursions of the sea on to the land soon after Pangaea broke
apart[51]. A change of planetary proportions from the pre-separation
pear shape, to the now rotational oblate spheroid, is in keeping with
observations above.
nick c:
Creation of something from nothing presents a big problem.
There is no known physical principle, no known physics law, no known physics theory, and no known physics equation which remotely suggests that planets and stars cannot gain mass via collection of sub-sub-sub atomic [quanta].
bdw000 wrote:nick c:
Creation of something from nothing presents a big problem.
I agree.
And yet, since this problem applies to THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, I feel that I have to concede the possibility.
substance wrote:bdw000 wrote:nick c:
Creation of something from nothing presents a big problem.
I agree.
And yet, since this problem applies to THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, I feel that I have to concede the possibility.
We`ve already discussed that in the dinosaur thread. There is a difference between creation and expansion, though Planets could grow (expand) even without new material being created, although science looks less and less precise in my view opinion and I wouldn`t be surprised at all if after all there is some means to create matter...
rennurerof wrote:The Saturn Sun hypothesis is intimately connected with the Electric Universe. One of the main tenets in this hypothesis is that planets are created inside stars, especially brown dwarfs - i.e. creation ex-nihilo...
When mathematicians dismiss the physics principles of "every effect must have a preceding cause" and "no creation ex nihilo," we can understand why modern physics and cosmology reads like science fiction.
rennurerof wrote:The Electric Universe and the Expanding Earth theories are not mutually antagonistic, they are actually synergistic.
nick c wrote:Creation of something from nothing presents a big problem.
nick c wrote:Totally incorrect! "ex nihilo"
rennureof wrote:While your objections might be reasonable if you subscribe to an Einsteinian universe of nothingness, they do not apply in the aether based universe as described, where 'matter' at the sub-atomic and atomic levels are simply swirls of aether particles energized perhaps by electrical potentials. The aether is an acceptable proposition in the EU:
This inexcusable philosophical muddle over matter and mass has given rise to violation of the fundamental physics principle of no creation or annihilation of matter. It has allowed a miraculous cosmological creation story to gain currency, known as the 'big bang.'[14] Notions of 'vacuum energy' and of particles 'winking in and out of existence' in the vacuum of space are similarly miraculous. The simple fact is that we have no concept of why matter manifests with mass.
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nick c wrote:"I don't want to get into any debates on the aether or such..."
"What is a 'swirl of aether particles' made of? Is it matter or not?
It seems that you are just using some fancy jargon in an attempt to slip 'creation ex nihilo' in the back door of EU theory
Again, correct me if I am off base here, I am not a physicist."
"If the Expanding Earth theory can be accomodated with out invoking some exotic mechanism for matter creation, that could be interesting reading. Some have suggested this, can anyone elaborate? If so, I have even more questions "
rennureof wrote:"Thus the relationship between mass, gravity, and electrical energy, and why matter creation would occur more often inside gravitationally dense bodies. Far from being a case of creation ex-nihilo, creation actually would then be occurring exactly where the aether particles and energy are the densest."
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