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It isn't enough for Shaquille O'Neal to be one of the NBA greats. It doesn't suffice that he's dabbled in rap and acting. No, the former Los Angeles Lakers star had to go and start his own brand of vodka.
In what is either a stroke of marketing genius or a sign of devastating hubris, the booze is named "Luv Shaq." It's also gluten-free and absent of any sugar. Plus, it's coconut flavored.
Bottles, which according to the New York Post will be emblazoned with images of a winged O'Neal, are being produced in partnership with Devotion Vodka. The label is set to launch early next year.
Some Twitter fans are already pledging allegiance to the brand.
"Only thing I'm drinking from now on," wrote user Stephen Brew.
Other celebrity alcohol endorsers now include Pitbull, who raps about Voli vodka in his songs, Snoop Dogg and more. Wonder what Ciroc backer Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sobieski purveyor Bruce Willis have to say.


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Aer Lingus passengers could face chaos over the Christmas holidays as workers at the airline threaten to go on strike.
A dispute over pensions at the Irish national carrier has led to the threat of industrial action in November and December.
Talks between the airline and its main unions have now collapsed with a strike seemingly inevitable according to union leaders.
SIPTU organiser Dermot O'Loughlin told the Irish Independent: "Industrial action is now inevitable over the $1billion deficit in the Aer Lingus/ Dublin Airport Authority pension scheme.
"Officials from SIPTU representing ground staff and the IMPACT trade union, representing cabin crew, will meet with workplace representatives at lunchtime on Tuesday.
"We will serve notice of industrial action and outline what form the action will take.
"This could cause severe disruption to Aer Lingus passengers at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports in the coming weeks, starting in early November.
"This is going to be a serious industrial dispute. The action will be ongoing in the lead-up to and including Christmas. It's going to be ongoing until this issue is resolved."
The paper reports that the action is likely to take the form of a series of work stoppages ranging from one hour to 24-hour-long work stoppages.
The IMPACT trade union also said its members are prepared to down tools as well until the dispute is resolved.
Aer Lingus management said in a statement: "We continue to seek to achieve a fair outcome that improves the pension prospects of affected IASS members in a way that will balance the interests of all parties, including shareholders.
"Aer Lingus remains available to resume discussions with the union groups in order to reach a solution and believes that the LRC is the appropriate forum in which to achieve this solution."

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The International Red Cross met twice with senior Canadian officials in Kandahar to deliver veiled but insistent warnings about torture in Afghan jails a year before Canada acted to protect detainees... undermine the federal government's claims that diplomat Richard Colvin was a lone voice raising vague concerns about torture....
But the new memos show that the insistent concerns were specific to Canada's military mission in Afghanistan and made directly to senior Canadian officials, not transmitted through a single diplomat.
Two further high-level Red Cross meetings about torture took place in Ottawa and Geneva around the same time with Canadian officials.
...Three high-ranking generals, including former general Rick Hillier, described his allegations last week as "ludicrous."
But the new memos show that Colvin's concerns were in fact shared by a respected humanitarian agency that pushed the diplomatic envelope to get the ear of Canadian officials. The International Red Cross by convention is allowed to raise specific concerns about torture only with the national government of a country.
...That meeting spawned a second more detailed discussion at Kandahar Airfield on June 2.
...The Kandahar meeting was followed by a more high-level meeting on June 12, 2006, in Ottawa involving the international agency's delegation head for the U.S. and Canada as well as the agency's legal adviser from Washington.
A series of meetings with Canadian officials, culminating in a "high level meeting" in Ottawa, and yet MacKay clings to the lack of credible information, Colvin a lone wolf. Foreign Affairs now admits to meetings on the torture question, in OTTAWA, and yet we're to believe that MacKay was "never briefed". Oh, for the love of god, you're either a gigantic dolt or a bald faced liar. It was so bad, that the relationship with the Red Cross became strained, and they relayed to Colvin their aprehension to share information because of "CANADIAN political pressure". The only pressure that would matter to the Red Cross would be from the HIGHEST of office.
Another vein that went directly to Foreign Affairs, today's confirmation that all of Colvin's correspondence, did in fact make to the MacKay's office. SO, you have high level diplomatic meetings on two continents, continually warnings to the military as well as consistent correspondance coming from the field into your office, and MacKay was unaware, only vague acknowledgement of problems in the theatre, nothing specific to Canada. Speechless.
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Black Swan (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus has a black feather growing out of his shoulder. That's normal, right?
After getting chosen to play the lead in Swan Lake, Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) struggles with her inability to capture the black swan side of her character and pushes herself to find the darker aspect of her nature. With her neurotic mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), her unreasonable director, Leroy, (Vincent Cassel) piling on the pressure and a new upcoming dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), seemingly waiting to swoop in and take the role at any sign of Nina's weakness, the pressure is building and this talented ballerina's mental state begins to crumble.
Well Aronofsky isn't here to fuck about is he? From his indie hit Pi, through the shockingly memorable Requiem for Dream, the beautiful The Fountainand the Oscar darling The Wrester he's placed a stamp on the movie world and has become one of the most exciting directors around. Now with Black Swan he takes us somewhere else and it really does show a director who's utterly unafraid to make the movie he wants to make and more incredibly his audience seems to grow despite the less than friendly almost anti box office themes he tackles. All that alone is enough to praise this director but we're here to talk about Black Swan right? So let's do just that.
Black Swan was a weird one. For starters everyone seemed to have seen it. Over Oscar season people I know that never go to the cinema got up and went for this movie. There were genuine conversations about it in the office I work in (which trust me is an anomaly), and this wasn't just movie enthusiasts, this was everyone. Black Swan seemed to have caught people's attention and what's even stranger (and actually sort of refreshing) is that they responded positively to it. This movie, this dark, sort of scary, sort of twisted, emotional, intelligent, not straightforward movie about obsession, fear, paranoia and generally making the audience feel uneasy, had everyone on its side and there wasn't a giant robot, superhero or a cute girl falling over a telephone cord in it once. Now that truly is a breakthrough right?
Natalie Portman truly did deserve every award she got and many more. Her performance takes everything we love about Portman and just slightly fine tunes it for the movie's uneasy atmosphere. There's something going on behind her eyes in this one that totally sells the situation and we get to absolutely feel every bit of anguish this dancer is going through thanks to how Aronofsky decided to construct the movie. Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey totally sell the pressure/evil in the movie and their negative criticising presence is felt every time they enter a scene and as for Mila Kunis, it's great to see her in a role like this and Aronofsky always keeps the audience on their toes about how we should feel about her. All of these performances come together in Black Swan and each and every one of them add to the unease of the unfolding of Nina's struggles to deal with her performance. To say more would be slipping too far into spoiler territory and honestly I think Black Swan sort of demands the viewer's own personal take on the twists, turns and turmoil of Nina Sayers, so story wise I'll wrap it up there.
On a personal note I have to say that while I was in awe of Black Swan and still am, especially with the mood it generates and sustains, I sort of come away from it clean and it didn't really stick with me. Don't get me wrong, the movie had me in the palm of its hand throughout and I felt every beat. Even on second viewing I really liked the sense of knowing the outcome and really concentrating on certain moments and scenes while keeping my take on the end in mind, but even on this rewatch I still sort of left the movie with nothing to delve deeper into. It could be that Aronofsky has presented a near perfect complete picture or maybe I'm just happy with what I felt the story was about and don't feel the need to dissect further but either way even though I really liked the movie it wasn't one that wove its way into my head and stayed with me.
Visually speaking Black Swan is a purposely gritty film so yes that means grain but what an atmosphere this adds. The dim, quite natural colours add to the movie's realism and with skin tones being the only things glowing (mainly Natalie's rosy cheeks) it's left to the lighting of the movie to take the lead. The general look of the film is quite warm. There's an orange glow to a lot of scenes and when the coldness of Nina's situation is at its peak and everything gets a bit paler you feel the counterpoint. In some of the dance scenes the spotlighting can really make the image look incredibly striking, especially the final Black Swan performance moments with Nina dancing in and out of the darkness of the stage.
I'm quite looking forward to getting around to watching the Blu-ray version at some point soon as I'd be interested to see if the feeling of softness on this DVD is quite so apparent in HD but that said, this DVD feels like a good representation of the big screen experience of Black Swan really it's only the standard definition formats limitations that let it down.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 track is a powerful and absolutely effective affair. It's thanks in large part to the strength of the classical musical throughout but its emotional highs and lows are made all the more effective with the subtle and forceful sound effects that fill out the ambience of the movie. Rustling feathers, weird little noises and a generally odd sounds slither into the track or full on creep you out and their varying power is always striking. The range of the track is quite astonishing with layer upon layer of sound building to generate the desired unease in scenes.
Countering that is the silence and a lot of the time the silent scenes, with their realistic acoustics, over emphasis of atmospherics and general creepiness are as effective as the fuller moments. With these more talky moments, small things still pop up. Rear speakers make a simple opening door feel ominous, whispering can be a real unsettling affair and even the tapping of little ballerina feet can make for unease. Add to that the little snippets of music that come and go without any other reason than to beef up the atmosphere and this really is a track that's importance to the film is handled brilliantly.
Sadly the only extra here is a digital copy of the film, so a bit of a disappointment.
Black Swan is another fantastic film from Darren Aronosky with a stunning central performance from Portman that is absolutely captivating. The DVD release is a featureless let down but the visuals and especially the audio are great so it's not all bad news.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I had a brief look at this before I sent it on an couldn't believe how little of the disc's space had been devoted to the main feature. It comes in at less than 4GB on a dual layered disc, which only uses around 6GB even with the Digital Copy. I didn't watch it all, but the scenes I sampled didn't impress me all that much. Maybe there is truth to the conspiracy theories about distributors making DVDs look worse to make BD look better...
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 16th May 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Audio Decription English
Subtitles: English HoH
Extras: Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis
Genre: Drama
Length: 103 minutes
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Glad to see this brought up again. As the selector of DVDs for our system I will be purchasing retail editions of these films. If it means a slightly longer wait to receive then so be it. There are several reasons for this.
1. The retail version will have the bonus materials (Danielle if B&T is stating otherwise on TS3 they are incorrect). It's probably true that the majority of our customers do not look for this material, however I believe that it is our responsibility to offer the best product available (and that will not be the rental version).
2. Cataloging. I try as much as possible to keep the bib records of what amount to basically the same film to a minimum. Sometimes that is just plain unavoidable. I think we have no fewer than 4 bib records of Forrest Gump for example. But do you really want two different bib records of the same film on your catalog immediately? Heck, our customers get confused when they see two records now--one for the Blu-Ray and one for the standard DVD. Imagine the confusion when there are 3 records to choose from (rental, retail, Blu-Ray). Which one do we put on hold now? The less confusion the better.
3. Future purchases. How long to you think that rental edition is going to be available for purchase? 3 months perhaps 6? I assure you it will not be long. Why bother purchasing and cataloging a rental copy that's going to be an "out of print" item in less than 6 months (see reason #2).
4. Price. I'm willing to wait a short amount of time if need be to purchase at the sell through price. We already did this with VHS. It's just not worth the cost. Most public library users are happy to wait a little while for their product if they need to. These actions by Paramount and Fox will unfortunately just make them wait a bit longer. I do understand companies like Paramount who are toying with the idea of getting more front end money on their product. I do think though it is a step backwards. Why take us back to a pricing structure to the days of VHS? The success of Redbox is in part to blame here-and perhaps the ease of making copies--yeah-I'll say it-lots of people go to Redbox or even us, your local public library, for their "ripping" source. I don't like it but it's the truth.
I spoke to my rep at Midwest Tapes earlier. It is my understanding that Fox and Paramount will not provide them with retail editions to sell at this time. To satisfy the demand of their customers that want the retail editions they will be finding a 3rd party source to meet the demand. This is why Midwest Tapes cannot supply a retail edition at the same time as the rental edition even if they have the exact same street date. MT may actually have to wait themselves to purchase that retail copy from another source on street date and then provide it to us. In fact they actually do this for some of the music CDs that they provide that are sold exclusively through Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Starbucks, etc.
Ah yes, some more things for you to think about before selecting those rental editions (and adding those "gift" DVDs when they come in).
Best regards,
Myles Jaeschke
Tulsa City-County Library System
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To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com'
Subject: [Videolib] Paramount and 20th Century Fox releasing rental and retail versions of DVDs
Paramount and 20th Century Fox are starting to release new DVDs in two versions, rental
and retail. The rental version will release on street date with no extras and special features.
The retail version release with the special features will be delayed it looks like anywhere
from 3 to 8 weeks after the street date. In the case of Paramount, the price for the rental
version seems to be about $10 more per dvd.
We don't like either choice. We either have to buy a version with no extras and possibly higher cost, or make our customers wait a significantly longer period of time.
We are wondering what other libraries, particularly public libraries, are going to do.
Until we get direction from management level, we are going to buy retail and see what happens.
Tom Causey
Senior Librarian
Tampa Hillsborough County Public Library
900 N. Ashley Dr.
Tampa, FL 33602
(813) 276-2754
(813) 273-3708 (fax)
During this ongoing drought, every drop of water counts.
Learn how you can cut water use at http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/water/conserve
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I've been dealing with a low supply problem since 5 weeks (my lo is now 3 and a half months). I was given a nipple shield from the start and not told it could effect my supply as well as his latch.
I have been pumping after each feed for about the last 2 months and have just stopped as I was really dreading each feed and not enjoying breast feeding at all because of the pumping.
I've been seeing a lactation consultant through out and have been on pills to help increase supply.
I think we've finally cracked it because he's not needed any top ups for two nights now (tonight will be the 3rd night!) which is really exciting for us!
My problem now is that nursing has been painful since weaning off the shield (two months ago) and I attempt at each feed to get him latching deeper but he just does a couple sucks and then pulls off... or he starts on a deeper latch and then just turns it into a shallow one. I've tried different holds, and re-latching but they haven't worked.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated, my poor nipples are sore and blistering and feeding isn't the special time that I would really love it to be.
I go a couple feeds that don't feel so bad, and then they become sore and blistered again.
Thanks for your time,
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Here is my first Custom of 06'Remeber that scene in "The Empire Strikes Back",when that Poor TIE Pilot is sent Hurdleing, On Fire, through Space after his Fighter is Destroyed by an Asteroid. Well this is that Guy. LMK what you think.
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Water scarce below ground as well as above, council told
For those currently hoping the city of Big Spring might be sitting atop a hidden, plentiful aquifer of ground water, much like an oasis amid drought-stricken West Texas, Parkhill, Smith & Cooper Engineer Butch Davis laid those hopes to rest during Tuesday night's meeting of the city council.Davis, working under contract with the city to develop a emergency water supply plan, said the Crossroads area — much like the rest of the Permian Basin — is just as parched and dry underground as it is above."Water is a topic all over the Permian Basin that everyone is talking about and everyone is concerned about," Davis said. "Our initial review of the city's resources showed the water district does provide all of the water for the city. The city does have a limited number of irrigation wells that are used for the golf course, the sports park and various other places, but it's a very small supply and if you look at the ground water resources in the Permian Basin, they are very limited."There is really no major water source underneath the ground in the Big Spring area, so you are highly dependent on the surface water that the Colorado River Municipal Water District supplies and the ground water they are bringing in with their new Ward County and Winkler County project."Davis said the news wasn't all bad, however, as some of the irrigation wells could be useful should the pipes delivering water from the Colorado River Municipal Water District go dry."We have identified that there are some irrigation wells that, in an extreme emergency, could be piped into the distribution system or the water treatment plant to provide an emergency water source," Davis said. "It would be a very limited water source, not nearly enough to provide basic water needs we feel we would like to have. It might supply enough to flush toilets and provide basic sanitation services for the citizens. Looking at trying to do some permanent emergency connections is very expensive, so our next step is to maybe look at some emergency connections we could do in short order that would have a lower price tag. However, we have some plans in place."Officials with CRMWD have estimated surface water supplies will last until December 2012, when the last reservoir — Lake Ivie — is expected to be depleted. Efforts to increase the amount of groundwater — specifically from wells located in Ward County — being delivered into the CRMWD system are under way, with completion of a second pipeline expected to be completed in January of 2013.Contact Staff Writer Thomas Jenkins at 263-7331 ext. 232 or by e-mail at email@example.com


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The critically acclaimed Elephant Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of Timothy McNeil's The Twilight of Schlomo. The Twilight of Schlomo explores how our simplest choices sometimes have far-reaching effects for those around us, and how redemption might never be too far away. This is the final chapter in Timothy McNeil's Hollywood Trilogy which includes Los Muertos and Anything. The production will opened on January 11th, 2014, at The Elephant Space Theatre.
Richard's troubled past is catching up to him. A former not-quite-successful stand-up comic, he faces a deep mid-life crisis as his distant step-daughter arrives unexpectedly with shocking news, and his neighbors reveal dangerous secrets through his thin apartment walls. As those around him threaten his solitude, Richard uses weed, blow, and acidic humor as armor, wrestling with his own personal truths and discovering who he still wants to be.
The Twilight of Schlomo features Jonathan Goldstein as Richard, Lilan Bowden as RFK, Nikki McCauley as Lydia, Danny Parker as Jackson, Kelly Hill as Galina, Vera Cherny as Galina.
Founded in 1995, the Elephant Theatre Company has long been a Los Angeles creative mainstay. Mounting World Premieres, West Coast Premieres, and Los Angeles Premieres, the company and its Co-Artistic Directors David Fofi and Lindsay Allbaugh are committed to fostering new and groundbreaking works. Featuring the plays of artists such as Timothy McNeil, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Kevin King, Mark Roberts, Kate Fodor, Tony Foster, Louis Douglas Jacobs, and Tom Stanczyk, the Elephant Theatre Company has won and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Garland, LADCC, Ovation and LA Weekly and has been described as "superb" and "gem-like" by the Los Angeles Times and "piping-hot" by Variety. Voted Favorite Theatre Company to see and to work with in BackStage for the last three years, the Elephant continues to grow and solidify its reputation as one of the best Los Angeles theatre companies. The company recently announced a partnership with New York's LAByrinth Theater Company.
When: Opened Saturday, January 11th and plays Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, through February 9th.
Where: The Elephant Space, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, 90038
How: Tickets are $22.50 in advance, $25 at door, and previews are $15. For tickets go to www.plays411.com/schlomo or call 323.960.4442.


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Fabric Photo Mat from a Pizza Box
Covering a photo mat with fabric is a simple way to add color and interest to a photo display. You can easily cover the mat that came with your frame or, if you'd like to have some extras to swap in and out (perhaps seasonal or holiday colors) and don't want to spend money on more mats - order a pizza!
I used the clean side of our pizza box (the top), but you could certainly cut up a cardboard box or use foam board. And, of course, you can use a pre-cut mat which isn't expensive at chain craft stores, but can be pricey at framing shops.
What You Need
cardboard, foam board or pre-cut photo mat
pre-cut photo mat to use as a template (optional)
spray adhesive
glue (pretty much any kind)
x-acto knife
self-healing cutting mat
1. (If you're using a pre-cut photo mat, skip to step #3.) Trace photo mat template onto cardboard. If you don't have one to use as a template, use a ruler to draw one to fit your desired frame.
2. Cut out your cardboard mat. I used scissors for the outside and an x-acto knife for the inside so the inner edges would be clear and straight.
3. Cut your fabric so it's about an inch to a half inch larger than your mat.
4. Spray one side of your mat with spray adhesive following the instructions on the can. It's quite tacky so put a newspaper or something under it. I used the other half of my pizza box. (You could also try using Mod Podge or glue here instead.)
5. Invert your mat onto the wrong side of the fabric. Then turn it over and smooth it out if you have to. If you don't want your hands to get any adhesive on them, you could also hold the fabric with both hands and place it on top of the mat. This can be a little trickier, but certainly works.
6. Apply glue to the outer edge of one side of your mat. I used the only glue I could find in the house - a gel school glue. I think you could use many different glues and even tape in a pinch. Although not shown in the photos, I used a Q-tip to evenly distribute my glue and form a thin layer.
7. Repeat step 6 on all four outer sides.
8. Where two ends meet (photo #7) I snipped the fabric a bit so it didn't bunch up. There are surely fancy ways to make this look nice, but I promise it doesn't matter - no one will see the back!
**ALTERNATIVE TO STEPS 6-8: You could also just trim your excess fabric as close as you can to the outer edge of the mat with scissors, an x-acto knife or a rotary cuter without folding it over the edge (which will not be visible). I remembered this after I'd done it. Either way is easy and works.
9. Using your X-acto knife (you could also do this with scissors), cut a diagonal line close to one of the inside corners of the mat and continue diagonally to the opposite corner. Repeat for remaining two corners. Note: If you love your fabric and want to preserve as much as you can, first cut out a rectangle of fabric in the middle, leaving about 3/4's of an inch around the mat edges and then cut your diagonal lines in the corners from there.
10. Apply a thin layer of glue to the inner edge of your mat and adhere your fabric by pulling it tightly and sticking it down. (You'll need to trim the fabric ends a tad so they're not longer than the mat.) If you didn't cut your diagonal line in the fabric close enough to the corner to create a smooth right angle when both sides are pulled up, you can adjust that now.
11. Once you've glued all four fabric flaps, allow to dry (15-30 minutes depending on your glue). Place inside photo frame and insert your photo.
Fabric Considerations: I chose a solid color so it wouldn't compete with the photo. A small-scale print would also work nicely. If you want to use a larger print I would consider using a black and white photo or using adhesive to mount your photo to a white background and creating negative space between your photo and the mat. Also, if you do use brown cardboard, chose a medium to a dark fabric as the cardboard may show through white or light fabrics.
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The particulars escape me, but I remember clearly when I was punished while in my first-grade classroom.
The particulars escape me, but I remember clearly when I was punished while in my first-grade classroom. I really don't remember what I did to cause me getting punished, but my tiny, precious first-grade teacher put me kneeling in the corner of the classroom.
I was completely and utterly embarrassed. As a first-grader, I didn't know those words, but I knew one word that described how I felt: mad!
After a few minutes, Miss. Achee, that wonderful teacher I loved with all my heart, told me I could return to my seat. Well, I'd show her. I stayed right where I was — kneeling in the corner. No amount of coaxing could persuade me to return to my seat. Oh, boy, was I mad. I was determined to show Miss. Achee who was boss. Little did I know I was just making it worse for myself.
Eventually the recess bell rang. I left my corner and went with the other children out to the schoolyard to play. My stubbornness didn't sit well with my classmates. They laughed at me. I think I learned a lesson that day. Don't try to best the teacher. It'll never work. But, I still did one thing I had always done. I still liked Miss. Achee. You would have had to know her. She was extra special — soft spoken, a great teacher, and she let me sleep in class. When I started first grade I was still taking a nap every day. We used to play outdoors in those days, and we played so hard we usually were ready for a nap by afternoon.
One day while I was getting ready to drift off to la-la land, I heard Miss. Achee tell the other students to be quiet because I was sleeping. What a comforting thing to hear. She really cared about me. Did I feel like one special little kid that day, or what?
Those feelings continued through all my years in elementary school. In second grade I got sick and was put in the teachers' lounge to rest until it was time to take the bus and go home. There were very few phones back in those days and probably even fewer cars, so the only thing I could do was stay at school and be pampered until the dismissal bell rang.
I can recall teachers coming in to check on me. I thought my face was red because I was sitting close to the heater, but when I got home, Mama checked my temperature, and I really was sick.
In third grade, another wonderful teacher asked me and about five boys to stay in the classroom at recess time. She wanted to talk to us. Actually, she wanted to see if we had cheated. I, like an idiot, had memorized some of my work because I had been home sick a few days and didn't want to not know my lessons when I returned to school. So, having my answers word for word as they were in our books made it appear as though they had been copied. I explained and she believed me. I never did find out if the boys had cheated or if they had some explanation of their own.
During one of my fourth-grade classes, my teacher pulled my hair. I had long, black hair back then and didn't appreciate her pulling it. I guess I was failing even then, but I had no idea my grades were not good. She failed me for the year. I didn't like her before; I liked her even less now. I cried all summer, and in the fall when I returned to school Mama insisted I return to her class and not go into the alternate fourth-grade class. It wasn't long before I realized I needed to fail that year. I didn't know the lessons well enough. I knew I deserved to fail.
Many years later, I met the teacher again. She told me many of her students felt as I did. I'm glad she didn't apologize because that second year in fourth grade was a wonderful turning point for me. I needed to repeat the subjects.
Fifth, sixth and seventh grades found me with three teachers in each grade. Every one of them was first-class, and right here and now I will say that it was these teachers who made my high school years so interesting. They gave me a good foundation for learning, and it stood me in good stead during those more difficult high school years.
I never got punished again after that little episode in first grade. So, I guess I did learn something from the experience.
Irene C. Michel, a native of Terrebonne Parish, is a columnist for The Courier and Daily Comet. She can be reached at 876-3252 or email@example.com.


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Abi-who???? You probably are only familiar with the small Texas town of Abilene through songs – Sheryl Crow wrote one about Abilene. Buck Owens, Brooks and Dunne, and Trisha Yearwood all sang songs about the town. Johnny Cash, George Strait and even Bob Dylan also sang about Abilene – in fact a total of 33 songs mention this small town for some reason. I can't honestly say if I've ever been to Abilene – it's smack in the middle of nowhere, somewhere between Ft. Worth and Ft. Stockton with a population of 115,000. Think of the movie Giant with James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor to imagine the terrain. I think I probably once passed through Abilene when I drove from Austin to Lubbock to visit a college boyfriend. That was one very long drive. If you ever do find yourself in Abilene looking for a charming place to stay – consider the Sayles Ranch Guesthouses – which is an enclave of B&Bs located in the Sayles Historic District.
Recently the owner of the Sayles Ranch Guesthouses, Terry Browder, contacted me about the newest addition to their accommodations – The Cotton Eye Joe. Terry completely remodeled this guest house and thought that Cote de Texas readers would enjoy seeing it. I agree! I hope you like it as much as I do and find lots of inspiration to use for your own projects.
Abilene, Texas – smack in the middle of Texas ( look for the red "A") Texas is so big that it takes a day or two of long driving hours just to leave the state. The Sayles Ranch Guesthouses make a great stopping place if you are driving out to California or Colorado or New Mexico.
BEFORE: I think the owner Terry Browder did a great job remodeling this typical small, older house from the 1930s. The house is only about 1600 sq ft. but with the changes in the raised ceilings and removed walls, the house seems larger now. Above is how Terry found the living room - carpeted, with a low ceiling and faux fireplace. The first thing he did was expose all the hardwoods hiding underneath yards of moldy carpet. Next Terry painted the floors in different patterns. All the sheetrock also came down. This room had its ceiling raised to the rafters – and the effect this change made is phenomenal. The living room looks entirely different now, larger and more architecturally interesting.
AFTER: The exact same view! Here is the main living area today with its painted wood floors and raised ceiling covered in beadboard. Hard to believe it's the same space! The dining room is off to the right – the wall between the two rooms was removed. I love that root table with the oversized urn on top of it. Large accessories look so much more "today" than collections of smalls. And I love the map over the fireplace. Notice the great lantern – Terry says it is an antique from Belgium that he found in a West Texas store!!!
The sheet rock was removed from the walls exposing the original shiplap wood walls which were they sanded and painted. I think they look beautiful! The map of Texas is hanging on a garage door rail which hides the flat screen TV. I love the cowhide rug and the tufted leather couches. The house has a western atmosphere for sure – but it's a very sophisticated western theme. Notice how Terry put old books in the faux fireplace for added texture and interest. The windows are covered in wide wood shutters.
BEFORE: The living room from the other side of the room.
AFTER: The same view as above. Notice how the diagonal pattern painted on the wood floor visually enlarges the space. I really like that old Prison Rodeo sign. It is hard to believe, but the Texas Prison System really used to put on rodeos and as little kids, we would go to the Prison Rodeos at the old Houston Coliseum. I doubt that today the prisons still let the inmates participate in rodeos outside the prison walls.
The front bedroom – all three bedrooms have walls papered in old Texas deed documents dated from 1890. Terry was lucky to find a cache of these documents which have a wonderful patina. The deeds were written with india ink in archaic script. Amazing! Terry updated an old log bed by painting it glossy white.
BEFORE: The dining room – exposing the hardwoods underneath the carpet. This was taken before the sheetrock was removed. It looks so much better with the shiplap wood walls than with the sheetrock.
AFTER: In the dining room, the Victorian furniture is upholstered in an old 1870s quilt bought at a nearby garage sale. Inside the chairs are upholstered in burlap and monogrammed with the Sayles Ranch Guesthouses initials. The quilt upholstery is a great idea to copy.
Another view of the dining room – again, the heavy dark wood furniture was painted white to lighten up the decor. Notice the table made of a painted white pedestal and oval glass top.
BEFORE: Past the dining room is the very plain kitchen, then the breakfast room.
AFTER: the kitchen was totally remodeled. Notice the floor was painted in the traditional quilt pattern called Tumbling Blocks. What a great idea!
The cupboard on the left is an old English piece found at a garage sale and the backsplash is a 150 year old prayer rail from an English church. By the stove, notice the wall is made out of broken white china. The hood is made of old tin ceiling tiles.
AFTER: In the small breakfast room, Terry lined the walls with the backs of old books. The insides of the books went on the shelves and in the fireplace in the living room. Ingenious.
In this bedroom, Terry painted the floors in the traditional quilt pattern Pinwheel.
In the master bedroom, an old hooked rug was used to slipcover the iron rails on the canopy bed. Again, wood furniture was painted white, and the floor was painted in another diagonal pattern.
BEFORE: The bathroom was black and white and pink.
AFTER: On the walls, Terry used old tin ceiling tiles that came from an 100 year old grocery store in the little town in Oklahoma where he grew up. I love how the glass sink tends to disappear.
If you ever find yourself in Abilene, Texas and in need of a charming place to stay, be sure to call Terry Browder of the Sayles Ranch Guesthouses at 325-669-6856. Ask to stay in the Cotton Eye Joe, although all the guesthouses are just as cute as this one. To visit their web site, go HERE.
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What Does Election 2012 Mean for Wall Street?
Lawrence McDonald, former Lehman trader and author of "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," joins Markets Hub to discuss how Wall Street is likely to view a second Obama term. Photo: AFP/GettyImages.
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Workshop on Users, e-Research and Web 2.0Claire SRoss1 February 2010
Despite it only being the launch of the Centre for Digital Humanities today, we have been active for a good while now! One of the most recent outtings was to Oxford.
A couple of weeks ago, Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and I were in Oxford for the NeSc Workshop on Users, Usability and User-engagement Based on e-Research, and Web 2.0. It was a really interesting couple of days. For my notes on the sessions hit my blog here.
The speakers sparked a lot of discussion about the influence and impact on web 2.0 on research infrastructure and how web2.0 changes the way we reach users, build relationships and support user activities. A great aspect of the workshop was produced from a web slam, were each of the participants has 60 seconds to tell the group what web 2.0 tools they utilised and why.
Lots of people use google exclusively, twitter, facebook, flickr, ning… all of the usual suspects. From the slam it looked like the 90:9:1 rule of participation applies to social media. 90% of users are lurkers who don't tend to contribute, 9% of users contribute from time to time, and 1% of users account for almost all the social media action.
After this was a great round up discussion which looked at some of the key questions that came out of the two days of talks.
- Internet has changed the way we think. Are we no longer critical thinkers?
- What are we willing to pay for data what are we willing to pay to participate data what do we do with the deluge?
- What counts as real?
- Comes back to Quality authority trust. And personal/professional reputation
- Saturation point in data?
- squirreling behaviour interlinkages between different environments need to be looked at
- digital makes other activities that we care about easier – context is king
- Should questions get more specific to deal with data overload?
- Easier searches what's free open to me – look at those first. paid journals are going to be last point of call
- Too much noise you lose shared cultural experience?
- Sheer amounts of data is impacting research practices – producing new questions methodologies and users and identities
- When do you stop?
Lots to think about; I will particularly pondering about if there is too much data noise do you lose the shared cultural experience? Has the internet and the quick and easy approach that web 2.0 has brought us, led us down a path to mediocrity, are we no longer critical thinkers, do we all now have superficial thoughts? I hope not.


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Official: 1 adult, 4 kids killed in Georgia fire
NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — A woman and four young children died early Saturday as a fire engulfed a home in west Georgia, and authorities said only an 11-year-old girl who was woken by her mother escaped. The woman died trying to save the remaining children.
Firefighters were alerted at 1:17 a.m. Saturday to the blaze at the single-story home in Newnan, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. Georgia state Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens ruled that the fire was accidental and appeared to have originated in an electrical panel in the home's den area, said Glenn Allen, the commissioner's spokesman.
The fire killed Alonna T. McCrary, 27, as well as her 5-year-old daughter Eriel McCrary and 2-year-old daughter Nikia White, according to Allen. Two other children — Messiah White, 3, and McKenzie Florence, 2 — also died. Allen said the two were sleeping over at the home.
A fifth child, 11-year-old Nautica McCrary, escaped the burning home and was taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. Allen said she has since been released.
Newnan police Chief Buster Meadows said the older girl's mother was able to get her safely out of the burning house.
"The mother woke her up and told her to run," Meadows said. "There was someone outside who she ran to, and the mother went back after the others. Neither her nor the other four children made it out."
By the time firefighters arrived, Meadows said, the house was completely engulfed in flames.
Neighbor Jemeka Beadles said McCrary's running back into the home was a testament to the kind of mother she was.
"She did what any woman would do in that situation," Beadles said.
Beadles said Eriel had recently graduated from pre-kindergarten. "Her mom had just put all her little graduation pictures on Facebook with her cap and gown on," she said. "It seems unreal, it just seems so unreal."
McCrary's cousin, Tamara Terrell, said she had lived in the house for nearly four years before McCrary moved in. Terrell cried as she sat with others across the street and recalled having problems with the home's gas and electrical system before she moved out in January. Terrell said McCrary moved into the house the next month.
But landlord Glenn Marlowe, of Moreland, said, "There was never an electrical problem in the house, period." He said he hadn't owned the home for very long and couldn't provide additional information.
Coweta County property records show that the landlord's wife, Peggy Marlowe, has owned the house since March 2011. Tax records list her as the owner of six residential properties in the county, including the house where she and her husband live in Moreland.
Firefighters found the charred remains of a smoke detector inside the home but it was unclear whether the device worked, Allen said.
The burned house was still surrounded by yellow tape 12 hours after the fire. Its brick walls were charred and the roof had gaping holes exposing the rafters. Soot covered a car parked in the driveway.
Before noon, friends and relatives had started a makeshift memorial of items left beside the mailbox. Neighbors tied a cluster of balloons— one reading "We Love You" — to the mailbox and left candles, teddy bears and a small cross. A pair of bicycles, one pink and one purple, also had been left near the growing memorial. One neighbor used spray paint to write a Bible verse on a blanket, then left it on the lawn.
Neighbors said the fire devastated the close-knit community, but they vowed to stay strong for the surviving child and for one another.
"We're country folks. We did a lot of things together — raised our kids together, played together, we cry together, we eat together," Belinda Beasely said. "We don't have that much, but we learn to love each other and appreciate what we got."
Associated Press writer Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., contributed to this report.


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Manchester United are being linked with a contentious transfer move for Real Madrid midfielder Nuri Sahin.
The Turkish international is currently plying his trade on loan at Liverpool, scoring three goals in four matches in all competitions for the Reds.
Brendan Rodgers intimated that he'd be interested in bringing the player to Anfield on a permanent deal after the 5-2 win against Norwich last weekend, but had to admit that availability and price would be two factors which affect the potential length of his stay on Merseyside.
That could all change if Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson attempts to make in January though, with the Daily Stay claiming the player could be in the plans of the Red Devils as part of a swap-deal for Javier Hernandez.
The same report mentions a number of players from Madrid who could be on the Old Trafford radar, with Kaka, Sergio Ramos, Raul Albiol and Raphael Varane all named as part of a potential deal.
It's a move for Sahin that would cause most controversy though, with the 24-year-old appearing to be well settled at Liverpool under the style of Rodgers.
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Who hasn't spent at least a few daydreaming moments fantasizing about spending money? Not just a few hundred bucks either, but huge, irresponsible sums of money, all on completely unnecessary luxury items? Most of us probably have, but sadly, reality tends to intervene. Just as we're settling into a meditation about a chartered plane jetting us off to Aruba, the memory of that unpaid and overdue $250 phone bill intrudes and throws cold water on the fantasy.
If one were to make a completely uneducated guess as to what something like the aforementioned scenario would cost, $1 million would probably be a common conjecture. However, it's 2011 now, and $1 million isn't what it used to be. However, that's in part because a lot of people simply don't know how far $1 million can go, and the amount of time and effort that it would take to spend it. For all the grousing over the rent, doctor's bills and car payments, it would be hard to blow through $1 million just on those average expenses.
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On Life, Baseball, and a Decade of Introspection
By: Noah Frank
If you've spent any significant time on the internet, reading newspapers, watching television, or simply existing in the world outside of your home the past week, you have no doubt been subjected to countless rehashings and reduxes of this generation's national tragedy, as everyone from the President to Al Michaels gave his or her two cents regarding the events that took place in New York, Washington and a field in Pennsylvania 10 years ago. For whatever reason, be it altruistic or self-serving, many people, especially those in the public eye, feel the need to tell the world what that day meant to them. Hopefully this tale will help in the way in which those are intended, by providing perspective on where we were then, where we are now, and how we can continue to learn and grow from the hardships in each of our lives.
Ten years ago, I was working my first baseball job. A lowly intern, just graduated from high school in the Bay Area, I had no idea how lucky I was to be working for my hometown team, the Oakland Athletics. While the Seattle Mariners were running away with the American League West on their way to an astonishing 116 wins that season, a very solid Oakland team got even stronger with the acquisition of Jermaine Dye from the Kansas City Royals shortly before the trade deadline. That team would go on to win 102 games and the American League Wild Card, earning a rematch with the Evil Empire, the hated New York Yankees, who had ended the upstart Athletics' season in the opening round of the playoffs the year prior.
As the regular season wound towards its conclusion, I began preparing to leave the house for the first time, my freshman year at UC Santa Barbara to begin in late September. In my third-to-last day of scheduled work with the team, the A's jumped out to an early six-run lead to back Barry Zito, who took a shutout into the ninth in an easy, 7-1 win over the visiting Texas Rangers. After transcribing some post-game quotes, I headed home as I always did, winding my way north from Oakland, around the mouth of the Caldecott Tunnel and through the Berkeley hills to my parents' house, another night in the books.
Little did I know, but there would be no final two days of work. I awoke, as many on the west coast did that Tuesday morning, to frantic relatives, to confused silence in front of images of a smoking building, to a second plane hitting the second tower, and to my country's perceptions, politics and fears shifting forever. Most of the final parts of the fallout came later, not instantly within the moment. I was still prepared to go to work that day, but I never did. Nobody did. For reasons that I suppose I understand more now than I did then but still fail to fully accept, there would be no baseball for the time being (it would turn out to be a week). Everything was suddenly on hold— oh, and by the way, enjoy your freshman orientation.
So, off I went to college. I remember the first moment in which I began to feel normal again was watching the team in Game 1 of the ALDS on television in Isla Vista, when my A's rolled into Yankee Stadium and conquered Roger Clemens. I began, slowly, to reconnect. Another road win in Game 2 and, suddenly, they were coming home with two chances to put the Bronx Bombers away. Still, it felt somewhat distant, somewhat remote. I wasn't able to see anything in person, as I had all season. It was closer to watching events like those that had unfolded a couple of weeks prior, through the television.
Then came Game 3. Nearly all of that game is forgotten to most, save one play, the gravity of which I think is sometimes lost in the annals of baseball history. Prior to that play, in the top of the fifth, Jorge Posada had deposited a ball on top of the out-of-town scoreboard in left-center field, one of the shortest home runs available to hitters in a normally pitcher-friendly Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. That was the only run of the game as the contest entered the bottom of the seventh. Then, with two outs, Jeremy Giambi poked a single to right field, and was standing at first when Terrence Long pulled a Mike Mussina offering into the right-field corner. Giambi— who was not the slowest
man in the American League, thanks to Bengie Molina— thundered around second and third, chugging for home as the potential game-tying run. Shane Spencer's throw from right field missed cut-off man Tino Martinez, and was bouncing slowly towards home plate, losing momentum with every hop. Suddenly, Derek Jeter appeared out of the ether, more than 100 feet out of position, gathered the ball with his mitt, transferred it seamlessly to his open hand, and flipped it to the catcher Posada, who slapped the tag on the back of Giambi's knee immediately after the outfielder crossed home plate.
Of course, that last part is open to discussion. All that matters is that home plate umpire Kerwin Danley called Giambi out, as baseball's rulekeepers are wont to do when a defender makes a spectacular play. Anyone who works in baseball will tell you: the tie, most certainly, does not go to the runner. The A's never recovered, losing that game and the final two of the series, as the Yankees went on to what seemed to be a predestined World Series appearance, dispatching that 116-win Mariners team in just five games in the ALCS.
But the title would not come. The team that had won three straight World Series, and four in five years, was beaten in the unlikeliest of ways. It wasn't the story it should have been. It was far better.
When the Yankees beat Arizona Diamondbacks closer Byung-Hyung Kim not once, but twice with game-tying or game-winning blasts at the Stadium, it seemed almost inevitable, a foregone conclusion, that this series would be theirs. Sure enough, they led Game 7, 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth. With the ball in the trusted right hand of the greatest closer in the history of the game, the Hollywood ending was undone by players who the average baseball fan has probably forgotten: Jay Bell, Tony Womack and Luis Gonzalez. With a couple hits, a timely error, and a
jam-shot floater that drifted heroically over the outstretched mitt of, fittingly, a leaping Derek Jeter at shortstop, the Diamondbacks saved baseball from a scripted fate, giving the rest of America the greatest World Series in years, decades, maybe ever. With all due respect to the '91 Twins and the '86 Mets, it was certainly the most electrifying Series since Bill Mazeroski beat— who else— the New York Yankees with a home run in Game 7 all the way back in 1960.
I remember feeling that the burden that was lifted as the Yankees lost was almost as fulfilling as a championship for the A's would have been. I can't honestly say that I knew it at the time, but there was certainly the sense that this was the end of the Yankee dynasty, of a half-decade of dominance in the sport, the spawning of a new age of baseball. Yes, New York had suffered from 9/11, but there was almost a self-righteousness to New Yorkers' ownership of the event, as if the other two planes were less significant, as if the rest of the country was not as deeply affected by the events. It is the same smugness that leads many of us around the rest of the country to our general distaste for many things associated with our nation's largest city.
Ironically, it was the nation of fans coming together to celebrate the defeat of the quintessential New York team that sent off celebrations and led to a marked feeling of relief, personally. The good guys had not won, but neither had the bad guys, and sometimes that was good enough.
Still, I had become disenchanted, to a degree, about the idea of a career in professional sports. What difference did it all make in the grand scheme of things, if people I'd never met, who knew nothing of my life my beliefs, could send planes crashing into buildings based on some misguided ideological principles and bring it all to a halt? While I had experienced my baseball catharsis, I had never gotten the chance to mend professionally.
As such, I did not become involved in baseball again on a professional level until 2008, three years after I had graduated from college. It wasn't until I had the chance to see the working world first hand once again that I fully understood the value in professional sports, that the outlet they provided was more than just a simple, temporary escape, but a way for us to come together as cities, and even as a nation.
Nevertheless, it is not inappropriate to ask another question after the last ten years: has baseball learned anything? The sport has enjoyed nine different champions in the last 10 years, but for every small market playoff success story like Oakland, Tampa Bay, or Minnesota, there is a lack of progress in the real issues of the differences between the haves and the have-nots. Baseball is beautiful because it rewards those able to outsmart over those who simply outspend, but only to a certain degree.
It is bit bizarre that Moneyball— the story of the haves, the have-nots, and the evolution of baseball's front offices as a result of those Oakland teams I was privileged to be a part of— makes its way to the big screen as the pennant races heat up. Of course, the Yankees still own the biggest payroll and best record in the American League, while Oakland is coming off a disappointing season that leaves A's in a perpetual state of rebuilding, still waiting for a decision from Major League Baseball that will allow them to seek a more prosperous future.
Until then, the A's (as well as the Tampa Bay Rays and others) will rebuild; they will make do with what they can. Their motto— Green Collar Baseball— is akin to Oakland native Van Jones' Green Collar Economy. It's a play on words, sure, but also more than that. It is a different way of looking at a team and trying to measure success by building something sustainable. Meanwhile, the men in pinstripes, the mark of bankers and other money men, continue to try to outspend in order to succeed.
Then, of course, there is the issue of steroids. We watched some of the great players of our generation dragged into courtrooms in the twilights of their careers. Gone were the fearsome sluggers, effortlessly swatting roundtrippers out of ballparks across the country, replaced by broken, hunched over shells of those titans, nearly unrecognizable.
Alas, we cannot change the free-market nature of baseball. But, thankfully, the sabermetric movement has broken through in the sport, and those who cling desperately to out-of-date methods and analysis are dying out. At the same time, we reconcile that the accomplishments of our larger-than-life heroes— McGwire, Bonds, et. al— were not as glorious as we may have originally thought them to be. But they were still great players, and we will continue to be able to enjoy watching the very best in the sport now, and into the future.
We cannot go back and change our tainted past. We can only hope to learn to learn from our mistakes, to forgive, but not forget. By remembering what went wrong, hopefully we can educate the next generation to avoid our same mistakes. Sometimes it's more important to fight the good fight than to achieve certain victory. For even in the individual victories of a single game, or a division race, or even the World Series, life always goes on. And hence, following our great losses, there is always hope for the future, in baseball and in life.


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Light Rooms from our House Tours
Our Room For Color contest isn't just for big, bold walls and bright swathes of color. This year, we're making sure you know that light hues aren't the absence of color, but a statement in their own right. Light hues can create calming oases or dramatic contrast, and these House Tour rooms showcase how different whites can be.
1. Marina Replicates Her Boston Home
2. Michael's Laid Back Cottage
3. Warren & Mimi's Highly Personal Architectural Home
4. Chris' Industrial "Dreamer's Dream" Loft
5. Matt & Leah's Modern Menagerie
6. Julie & Jesper's Musical Scandi-Canadian Nest
7. Douglas & Matthew's Modern Apartment
8. Greg & Grey's Skylit Studio Loft
9. A Bright & Beautiful Bungalow From An Ohio Trio
10. The Browns' Cottage Novella
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Regarding Sunnyview, the issue is not the care patients are receiving. They are getting good care.
The issue is not that the present commissioners want a new office building. The issue is not that the process of selling Sunnyview is going too fast.
The issue is that Sunnyview is going bankrupt. It's that simple. It's operating in the red, in a deficit. Bankruptcy is next.
I believe Commissioner Bill McCarrier, who is a man of honor, is trying to avoid this.
Is bankruptcy what opponents of the sale want? What McCarrier says he will do, he will do.
What part of this don't the opponents understand? They should call me, and I'll attempt to explain it.


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Irish production company Sónta Films have signed a deal with First Run Distribution to screen their award winning film 'Men At Lunch' in the U.S.
'Men at Lunch' is the untold story of New York's greatest legend and one of the most iconic images of the 20th century - Lunch atop a Skyscraper - taken on the 69th floor of the Rockefeller Building in the autumn of 1932.
Commissioned by TG4 with funding from the Broadcast Authority of Ireland and the Irish Film Board, the documentary premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2012 and has screened at festivals around the world including the prestigious Toronto Film festival, DOC NYC & IDFA.
The documentary had a theatrical release in Ireland and Canada. Men at Lunch also won 'Best Irish Language award' at the 2013 Irish Film and Television awards.
Commenting on the U.S. distribution deal, producer Eamonn Ó Cualáin said, "We are delighted with the reaction the documentary has had all over the world.
"First Run Distribution specialize in documentaries and we feel that their experience will help us reach a wider audience in the US. To have a documentary film in US theatre's is a dream come true for us."
Founded in 1979, First Run Features is one of America's notable distributors of documentaries and foreign films.
"Seán and Eamonn have crafted an amazing film about a fascinating, untold story of the American immigrant experience, one that also encompasses the history of photography, the birth of modern architecture and construction, the upward growth of New York's skyline, and indeed the building of America," said First Run's Vice President, Marc Mauceri.
"We're proud to be working with them to bring "Men at Lunch" to audiences in North America."


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The Chat Prince will be continuing his summer sabbatical. Today will find him on I_95 between Charleston and DC with the load of bootlegging wine.The rest of you have fune. Just six more weeks until MoCool!!!! Here are the times when the fun gets started: at 4 p.m. Eastern Time; 3 p.m. Central Time; 2 p.m. Mountain Time; 1 p.m. Pacific Time; 9 p.m. in the UK; 10 p.m. in Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden; 11 p.m. in Finland and Israel; 6 a.m. Monday in Sydney and environs; and 8 a.m. Monday in New Zealand. I believe these are all corrected for standard time changes. If I am off, let me know. Please let me know when the time changes in your neck of the woods so I remember to make the appropriate changes.
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Leading a healthy lifestyle is important in preventing back pain and injury. Some key practices are having good posture while sitting and standing, exercising on a regular basis, utilizing proper lifting techniques, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding smoking as nicotine can weaken your spine. Following these steps will help keep your spine in line and help you stay on a path to good physical fitness.
Tired of eating plain veggies? Look for new ways to increase your vegetable intake. Try adding finely chopped, shredded or pureed vegetables to any recipe. Vegetables such as broccoli, tomatoes, onions and mushrooms make tasty additions. They can be added to casseroles, rice dishes, sauces, omelets, soups and pasta.
Got yogurt? Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, found in most yogurts containing active yogurt cultures, have been linked to health benefits in some studies. These benefits include improved resistance to infection. Yogurt is also an excellent source of protein and calcium.
Choose plain low-fat cultured yogurt mixed with fresh fruit for a snack or a dessert.
Do you think that age 65 is too old to be lifting weights? Not true!
Weight training is one of the secrets of aging gracefully. Weight lifting can help you reduce your risk of falling, improve your balance and coordination, increase everyday functioning and help maintain a healthy weight. These benefits don't require heavy lifting. Use weights that are light enough so that you can do about 10-15 repetitions of an exercise for each muscle group. Aim to do muscle-strengthening activities on two or more days of the week. If you are not sure what to do, ask a qualified fitness trainer.
Do you enjoy hitting the dance floor? According to our fitness experts, dancing can burn some fun calories! For a 150-pound person, ballroom-style dancing can burn about 225 calories per hour, and faster dancing can burn about 325 calories per hour. Whichever style you like, dancing is good exercise!
Have you considered giving yoga a try? Our fitness experts say it's a gentle way to tone, increase flexibility and improve circulation. Yoga can also help you with body awareness, breathing and stress. Check out a class at your local fitness or wellness center. There are several types of yoga. They require various levels of skill and physical conditioning. Speak to the instructor to make sure that the class you pick is right for you.
Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables is good for your health. It helps to sample new ones regularly to see which you like the best. To get started, purchase at least one fruit or vegetable this week that you've never had before. Suggestions include star fruit, radicchio, papaya, persimmon, arugula, endive, bok choy, snow peas or prickly pear. You may not like the first one you try, but eventually you will find some winners.
Please pass the cruciferous vegetables. This vegetable family includes kale, cauliflower, broccoli, and brussels sprouts. You might already be familiar with their ability to fight cancer. But cruciferous veggies, as well as dark-green leafy and deep-yellow orange vegetables, may also have a protective role with other diseases, such as cataracts, heart disease and stroke. Try to include this group of vegetables in your diet at least two to three times per week. They are best when raw or lightly cooked.
There has been debate about whether multiple sets (2-4) of a strength-training exercise produce more strength gains than doing only one set. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, more sets are better. However, if time tends to be an issue, completing even one set can be beneficial, especially if you choose a weight that causes you to reach muscular failure—the point at which you cannot perform any additional repetitions with proper form. So, the bottom line is that both quantity and quality will produce the best results from your strength training.
Did you know that low-sodium soy sauce might still contain more than
500 milligrams of sodium per tablespoon? That's one-third of the recommended daily intake for many people. Remember—a reduced-sodium food, while often better than the original, is not always a low-sodium food.


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1926 Sandfiddler Rd is a single family residence in Corolla, NC 27927. Built in 2004, this property is located on 15,000 sqft lot and features 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and 2,284 sqft of living space. The estimated market value for this property is $390,000.
The surrounding community of Corolla, NC 27927 has a population of 808 residents and 4,422 housing units. Many of the homes in this area were built in 2004 or earlier. The nearby schools are above average and include Knotts Island Elementary, Currituck County High and Currituck County Middle. 1926 Sandfiddler Rd is located in a neighborhood where the median household income is $69,688.


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Bluffton High's football players have high expectations for themselves, and understandably so.
The Bobcats entered this season, their first in South Carolina's highest classification, having reached consecutive SCHSL Class AAA semifinals with only three losses in two years.
Still, they managed to have a better showing than junior safety B.J. Hill anticipated.
Bluffton posted a runner-up finish in its region and advanced to the Class AAAA Division II semifinals, where it lost at Northwestern 44-30 on Nov. 23.
"I think we did better than what we expected," Hill said. "Some people thought we would go 2-3 in the region and not make the playoffs. We took the challenge and we did well."
The Bobcats went through a wild few weeks as the season came to a close.
They entered a de facto Region 8-AAAA title game at Summerville with an unbeaten record and a lofty state ranking. But they quickly fell behind by three touchdowns and found themselves going on the road in the first round of the state playoffs.
After a first-round victory at South Florence, Bluffton fought valiently at top-ranked Goose Creek in a 35-25 quarterfinal loss.
But the season wasn't over.
Goose Creek was disqualifed from the playoffs the following Monday for using an ineligible player, giving the Bobcats new life. They took a 17-7 lead at Northwestern, but couldn't keep up with the high-powered Trojans in the second half.
"It was good for us, when you're a AAA school and you move up to AAAA, and your kids go and battle Goose Creek and outplay them like we did," Bluffton coach Ken Cribb said. "Then you turn around, through all that adversity, and go up to Northwestern and get after that crowd like we did, it doesn't do anything but help your program."
With three semifinal appearances under the Bobcats' belts, Cribb said last week he is moving on to "phase two" of developing the program. Now comes an emphasis on discipline and cutting down on mental mistakes.
Six turnovers cost Bluffton in its loss to Goose Creek. The Bobcats also had several touchdowns called back by penalties at Northwestern. They finished with 13 penalties for 116 yards.
"We've got to become a more disciplined team. We've got to get stronger," Cribb said. "What I mean by 'disciplined' is we've got to make sure we're doing all the little things exactly right, to the point where we don't have penalties and we don't have turnovers."
Cribb said he is implementing a program to develop better leaders in the off-season. The team had its first pre-2013 workout the Monday after the Northwestern loss, with the returners maxing out in the weight room.
Already, Bluffton's underclassmen are talking about what they can accomplish in their second Class AAAA season.
"Now the talk amongst the kids every day is about next season," Cribb said. "They talk offense, they talk defense, they talk personnel.
"I'm pretty pleased with their mind-set. I think their expectations are pretty high. They know now they can play with anybody."


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Call Server: Resource Manager Service Fails to Start
From DocWiki
Resource Manager Service Fails to Start
|Problem Summary
|Since the default log setting is ERROR for the Resource Manager Wrapper, the log file should provide exception details of the failure. The wrapper log file does indicate there is a failure in Resource Manager service startup, but the details of the event are not logged.
|Error Message
|Possible Cause
|The wrapper log was set to the wrong level.
|Recommended Action
|The change is unable to be made from Support Tools, so the change requires manual steps to change this setting. The log file to look for the exception is %CVP_HOME%\logs\orm_wrapper.log.
If the Resource Manager service fails to start, the ORM logs (orm_wrapper.log) collected from Support Tools will show the detailed information of the event.
|Release 7.0(2)
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Scripture: 1Corinthians 9:19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Observation: Paul boasts of his freedom, yet he uses his freedom to choose to be a servant. He sees himself as a slave; he lives as a slave.
Application: God has set me free and given me the power of choice. When I use my freedom to choose to be a servant, I bring great joy to the One Who Used His freedom to choose to serve me by dying for my sins!!!
Prayer: Lord, I am your servant, not because I have no other choice, but because I choose to be your servant in response to your great love for me and the many ways you have served me. Nothing else makes any sense! Amen
Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!


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For business-to-business (B2B) sales leaders, planning has not changed since the late '90s. The highly subjective, rearview approach that's still used today produces targets that are disconnected from the reality of sales performance.
What's going on? Many CSOs simply find it hard to reject the status quo. They continue to:
Overpay for under-performance.
Create what amounts to a "quota lottery" for their sellers.
Rely on guesswork to set quotas.


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Gigabyte GTX 560 OC Review
Just Cause 2 is a third-person shooter that takes place on the fictional island of Panau in Southeast Asia. In this sequel to 2006's Just Cause, you return as Agent Rico Rodriguez to overthrow an evil dictator and confront your former boss. When you don't feel like following the main story line, you're free to roam the island, pulling off crazy stunts and causing massive destruction in your wake, all beautifully rendered by the Avalanche Engine 2.0. In the end, that's what the game basically boils down to — crazy stunts and blowing things up. In fact, blowing things up and wreaking havoc is actually necessary to unlock new missions and items.
- 4xAA
- 16xAF
- Global Settings = High
- Water Detail = Medium
- Dark Tower Time Demo
Higher = Better
With Just Cause 2, the GTX 560 was able to keep up with many of the higher-end cards. Overclocking helped it moderately to almost the power output of the GTX 480.


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...and Ive posted on the forums about my problems with the game, namely that i have yet to be able to play it. (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2329)
I've yet to get a response, aside from a "we're working on it", and ive run out of patience. At least an update would have been welcome but that didn't seem to happen either.
I would like a refund on my purchase of the developer package for this game.


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Funky See, Funky Do
These tiles started out life as "Seconds" and it's easy to see now why they were designated as such. They are Funky with a capital "F".
At this point I really must laugh at the fact that over a 100 years ago they were deemed second quality. They were either going to be dumped or sold at a discount someplace. Then 100 years later I chisel them off the floor and reinstall them. Many of the first quality tiles are probably still not around, and here these poor little tiles are starting a new life.
Some things I've learned about these tiles are a) they are not all 2-inches wide, and b) they are not all a half inch thick. These are the reasons they were deemed "Seconds", I'm sure. Ninety nine percent of them are 2-inches wide, but many of them are not a half inch thick. I've been able to spot the few narrow ones (we're talking an eighth of an inch or less off) and I use them when the grout lines start to get tight. It actually works out well
I was meticulous with the first few rows past the tub area. I laid out all of the tiles ahead of time and made sure they were good. I had to put in a half row on either side of the divider, and that took a lot of time. I used a sliver of half inch cement board to raise the quarter round a little. I'm not thrilled with contrast between the super white, glazed quarter round and the, shall we say, less than white unglazed tiles. I almost ran down to the home center to see if I could find a substitute, but decided against it. I really won't find a match, so why bother.
Once I got past the first few rows the pace picked up, but it is still slow, meticulous work. Laying them free-hand, without the spacers is definitely the way to go. I've had far fewer problems than I had in the tub area. Below is a close up for John. I think it looks good. I really, really like them.