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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. stock market ended Tuesday sharply higher, with the S&P 500 closing at a record. Investors bid up prices after mildly positive manufacturing data and better-than-expected car sales boosted confidence.
The S&P 500 SPX, -2.33% ended the day at session highs, gaining 13.18 points, or 0.7%, to 1,885.52, a record. Consumer discretionary and technology sector stocks led the gains on the benchmark index.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.05% finished the day up 69.05 points, or 1.6%, at 4,268.04. After today's gains, the tech-heavy index overtook the benchmark for year-to-date gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.24% closed up 74.95 points, or 0.5%, at 16,532.61.
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"The ISM data were within the range of expectations, car sales were pretty good, so it is not surprising to see markets go higher. But there is another factor -- we are in the earnings sweet spot right now, and as companies start reporting in the next couple of weeks, they will start beating lowered expectations," said John Canally, economist and investment strategist at LPL Financial.
"About 94% of all the gains on the S&P 500 come during the period of 2 weeks before the earnings season and 4 weeks of actual earnings season," he added.
U.S. manufacturing companies expanded in March at a slightly faster pace compared to the prior month, a survey of executives found. The Institute for Supply Management manufacturing index edged up to 53.7%, slightly below the consensus forecasts. Any number over 50% means more companies are seeing an expansion of business instead of a contraction.
Separately, the final Markit PMI for the U.S. in March was unchanged at 55.5, down from 57.1 in February. Any reading over 50 in the purchasing managers index indicates growth.
Car sales top expectations; Ford rises 4.6%
U.S. car sales surged to an annualized rate of 16.4 million in March — the highest rate since November and above analysts' forecast of 15.8 million.
Chrysler Group, a unit of Fiat SpA, was the first to report, saying its March sales jumped 13% to 193,915 vehicles for its best March since 2007.
Ford Motor Company's F, -2.22% U.S. vehicle sales rose 3.3% last month, the best March in eight years. Sales turned higher mid-month, the car maker said Tuesday. Sales figures topped analysts' forecasts. Shares in Ford rose 3%.
General Motors Co. GM, -2.83% March numbers, delayed by a computer system glitch, came in late, but strong, up 4% from a year ago despite a raft of recent recalls. Analysts had expected an increase of 1% or less.
Meanwhile, GM CEO Mary Barra was making news in Washington, where she's being grilled by a House subcommittee on why the company hadn't recalled cars it knew a decade ago to have a potentially fatal flaw with their ignition systems. See MarketWatch's live blog from the hearing.
Among individual stocks, shares of Intuitive Surgical Inc. ISRG, -5.28% jumped 11%. The company said Tuesday it received clearance for its da Vinci Xi Surgical System from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
NVIDIA Corp. NVDA, -6.75% shares rose 4.1% after the company was upgraded to a market outperform rating from market perform with a price target of $26 on Tuesday by JMP Securities.
Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, -4.54% shares rose 2.7% even as the company reportedly agreed to pay $57 million to settle a lawsuit related to plans back in 2011 to refocus the business on services and products.
Apollo Education Group Inc. US:APOL shares closed 2.7% higher, but dropped more than 4% in aftermarket after the for-profit education group's quarterly results. The company's adjusted earnings per share were better than expected, but revenues fell short of estimates, while existing and new enrollment continued to slide.
In other financial markets, Asian markets closed mixed, European stocks closed broadly higher after purchasing-manager reports confirmed the euro zone remains on a path to economic recovery. Metals prices GCM4, +0.00% were mixed, with gold prices falling and copper gaining. Crude oil CLK4, +0.00% settled lower. The dollar strengthened against the pound sterling and weakened against the euro.
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Assassin's Creed III is an impressive looking game with tremendous scope. But while it gets many things right, it falls short of greatness.
For the first few hours of Assassin's Creed III I couldn't quite decide if I was enjoying myself.
That's not necessarily a bad sign, though it's not a great sign either.
For one thing, the game starts off slow.
There's an origin story within an origin story, and while that makes for some neat twists, I still found myself wondering when things would really pick up pace.
Get on with it already, I'd like to actually play the real protagonist of the game (because no, you don't start off as Connor.)
So how does Assassin's Creed III stack up against the rest of the franchise and against other major releases this Fall?
To be honest, it's a bit of a mixed bag - definitely a step up for the franchise, but not a step quite far enough.
I'm about halfway through the game so far, and while it continues to improve as I play, certain aspects of the game remain disappointing.
We'll take a look at what Ubisoft gets right and what they get wrong with their latest action adventure title - a game that I do like, by the way, and in some ways like very much, but that I still find comes up short.
Halfway Toward Good Combat
Combat is certainly a step up from previous Assassin's Creed games, though it has a long ways to go before I'd call it "great."
In short, the combat is both fun and unsatisfying.
The reason for this paradox? That's a bit complicated.
The fights tend to be quite visceral but the AI is often simply terrible.
Sometimes they'll all go for you at once, and sometimes they'll just stand around while you slaughter them one by one. Occasionally an enemy will simply stand there, all by himself, not doing anything at all until you kill him.
The system of parrying and responding with critical combo moves is extremely simple and while it's all impressively fluid I wish there were more depth.
It's still fun, mind you, because those critical combo moves look really cool, but there's so little skill involved for an action title that I can't help but feel disappointed.
For all its appearance of action combat, it really boils down to just parrying all the time and making sure to use your attack button right afterwards.
If the parry window were smaller this could easily be remedied. Timing would become important - maybe even aiming. If the AI wasn't so mind-bogglingly stupid it could be even better.
As it stands, however, combat is a nicely animated experience that lacks any real depth. For a game that spends so much time in combat, this is a real shame. There's promise here, potential even, but ultimately only the shell of a great mechanic.
Worse still are the quick time events. I do not want to press X and then press Y a second later when a wolf charges me. Just let me fight the wolf like I would any other attacker for goodness sakes.
Halfway Toward Good Stealth
Fortunately there are many stealth elements in Assassins' Creed III as well, including both optional missions that require you to go through a sequence undetected or without killing anyone as well as required stealth missions that result in desynchronization should a guard see you even momentarily.
It would be better if the entire game allowed and rewarded you to play in stealth mode. Dishonored did a great job of presenting us with an assassination game that gave players a wide range of choices between stealth, non-lethal, and hack-and-slash. Assassin's Creed III goes partly in that direction, but never quite far enough.
Still, there's plenty of gratification to come from dive assassinations or the vicious rope dart and its capacity to hang an enemy.
Of course, since in most instances you could just as easily murder all your foes in melee combat, the stealth component feels unimportant. It would be much more gratifying if those enemies really posed a threat, if the only way to get through a mission was to sneak or at the very least take out some of the badguys surreptitiously prior to all the hacking and slashing.
It would also be nice if the AI could detect you more easily, and if the interface gave more clues as to whether you were at risk of being spotted or heard.
In other words, there are some good stealth elements here, but Ubisoft never goes quite far enough to make them truly matter. And the UI overall feels like it could convey more information more easily than it does, though you do warm up to it slowly.
A Compelling, Jumbled Story
The game's story isn't half bad, even if its treatment of the American Revolution is a bit garbled. That garbling of history is basically necessary in a game like this.
Halfway through, I'm still not sure quite what to make of Connor's relationship to the separatists, or what role the Templars are really playing.
I think this is partly due to not being all the way through the game yet, and certainly that's my hope.
As it stands, Connor's faith in the colonists is horribly placed. The British are portrayed in a pretty negative light, but there's no salvation for Connor's people waiting at the hands of the Americans. Quite the opposite.
I admit, this all has me intrigued. I'm prepared to be deeply annoyed if the story takes us down any number of very historically bizarre paths, but I think this could also lead to some very nice twists.
And while we do verge on "noble savage" territory from time to time, it could be much worse.
There are also a number 0f historical events you participate in, such as the Boston Tea Party or the Battle of Bunker Hill among others.
For the most part I find myself enjoying my time spent in the story, even if there are too many cutscenes and too much voice-acting for my taste. It's not a game that deserves huge praise for writing or acting, but it isn't bad by any means and can be quite good at times.
Don't come looking for great depth or an escape from stereotypes, archetypes and various other irritating conventions, but then you weren't going to play this game for a break from this sort of thing to begin with, were you?
The City and the Forest
The busy streets of Boston feel more fully realized and more lived in than any of the previous metropolises. The graphics are quite lovely, both in towns and cities, on the open water, and especially in the lush forests of the New World.
Without a doubt, this is one of the best looking games to hit consoles this generation, and while that means the occasional dip in frame-rate, it also makes for a really excellent level of immersion.
Boston is absolutely brilliant, the most convincingly realistic depiction of that city and time in a game that I've played.
I love the costumes, the hats, the great attention to detail. I'm less fond of running into Samuel Adams or Benjamin Franklin as this just throws the ridiculousness of the plot into sharp focus, but I suppose I'm just being picky on that point.
The big, mostly open world is fun to explore.
There are all sorts of animals to hunt and tasks to complete.
You can swim or hop on your ship and go fight naval battles, or you can travel to the big city and run across rooftops, find perches at the top of steeples and court houses, or follow any number of side-quests or the main story.
The one thing I still can't really get into with the Assassin's Creed III games is the modern component. This may be the basic crux of the entire plot, but I still think it's pretty dumb. You take this grand historical landscape with all this delicious, immersive stuff going on and then you shatter it entirely by zapping us back to the present. It's disappointing every time.
Side-Quests Add Hours Of Content and Exploration
Speaking of side-quests, there's all sorts of ways to stay busy in the game aside from the main plot.
You live on your homestead, where you train to become an assassin, but while you're there you can do any number of other things. Set traps for rabbits and deer, or go find settlers on Settler Missions, who will then produce new goods for you to craft or trade.
The crafting system is simple but the addition of a trade component makes it much more fun than it would be otherwise. This can be a good way to earn money for various upgrades like new outfits, weapons, and consumables.
Between finding new vantage points, trinkets, settlers, and the myriad other side missions both small and large, the game is absolutely brimming with content. Perhaps this is its best feature - there's so much to do, and it always (or almost always) manages to be fun and a bit addictive.
Adding new settlers to your homestead and unlocking new weapons, crafting items, and natural resources all gives the game a bit of a strategy element. I half expected to find that I could build and place buildings, start a copper mine, or plant crops at my discretion. Maybe even levy some taxes and do repairs after a natural disaster...
Rooftops and Tree Branches
David Thier put this quite nicely in his official review of the game:
"Assassins's Creed has only ever been about one thing. You peer around the city looking for something tall. You find a steeple, a dome, a minaret, a belltower, you grab on to a ledge or a window and you start to make your way up. One jump at a time, moving steadily, plotting your course. The noise and slashing on the street grow more distant as you make your way up. At the top there's a weathervane, a peak, a small piece of wood. You climb it. Low strings play as the camera sweeps out to reveal a vast city in front of you – your character is still there, but he seems small in front of the seething story of stone and sky."
Assassin's Creed III carries on this tradition.
The running-across-rooftops and tree-branches mechanic is quite fluid, perhaps even too fluid. It's never hard to run from branch to branch. The only real challenge is in reaching certain hard to access areas.
That may be the problem, however. I wish there were more obstacles and more challenges that made this free-flowing system more risky. Broken shingles, weak branches - anything to make the choice of going topside a bit more difficult to make.
But when you do make it to the top of that massive tree or the cross at the perch of a steeple high above Boston, the view is grand. I can't help but enjoy taking it all in, and even the more familiar setting feels grand and lovely from way up high above it all.
Naval Warfare Is Great
So far, I find the naval warfare component quite good actually.
It's not easy, but it's also not particularly gimmicky.
Naval missions require a whole new skill set to accomplish.
Ducking incoming cannon fire requires good timing; turning the ship is an appropriately laborious task, and lining up to fire across enemy decks or at an enemy fortress is an awkward feat, and strangely rewarding when done successfully.
In other words, the naval warfare is where some real skill comes into play. If only more of this concept were transferred over to the actual combat we'd be in good, fighting shape.
And like every other aspect of the game, you can upgrade your ship, adding canons and other useful components to make it sturdier and more resilient.
What to expect in Part Two
I plan to cover the third quarter of the game as well as its multiplayer gameplay in Part Two, with a final installment that sums everything up and gets into spoiler territory with the game's story and ending.
I'm big about completing lots (if not all) of the side missions, finding all the little vantage points, and basically synchronizing the hell out of the game, so I'm not going to race through it. I haven't raced through it thus far either and since I find the exploration in the game to be quite a lot of fun, I don't plan to race through it going forward.
Many things, from graphics to exploration, are done quite well here, but combat is important in an action game, and it doesn't quite hit the mark it needs to hit. Stealth would be greatly improved if the combat had higher stakes as well.
More to come.
What are your thoughts?
This review is of the Xbox 360 version of the game.
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Things to do in Birmingham
Thinktank Planetarium
Thinktank redefines the concept of a science museum. Think of it more as a way to discover the world around you and the life you lead. From steam engines to intestines, this exciting museum has over 200 hands-on displays on science and technology including a digital Planetarium and outdoor Science Garden. http://www.thinktank.ac/
Cadbury World
Cadbury World is a visitor attraction created and run by the Cadbury chocolate company. Uncover a world of chocolate delights and enjoy a fun-packed day out for all the family. Experience the magic, making and history of Cadbury confectionery, and treat yourself to the wonderful sights, smells and tastes of the place where chocolate comes to life. http://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/
Bull Ring
Birmingham bullring is located in the centre of Birmingham city and comprise of a large selection of shops , restaurants and cafes. http://www.bullring.co.uk/
Sarehole Mill
Built in the late 18th century, it was a favourite haunt of the young JRR Tolkien, who played here after his family moved to Birmingham in the late 1800s. It's said the mill and nearby Moseley Bog provided inspiration for the Shire – home to Bilbo, Frodo and Samwise Gamgee in Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Travel 5 miles south of the city on bus 11A, 11C or 11E to reach the mill. There you'll see pulley wheels, sack hoists and lots of worn beams. Then look out for little folk with furry feet. http://www.bmag.org.uk/sarehole-mill
Jewellery Quarter
The Jewellery Quarter has become a tourist attraction in its own right, attracting thousands of visitors each year from all over the world – contributing to the attraction of Birmingham. Visit Birmingham.
It is also frequented by journalists from all over the world, keen to visit this historic developing area. The fabulous reviews they write are testament to their love of the area. http://www.jewelleryquarter.net/
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. http://www.bmag.org.uk/
Ikon Art Gallery
Ikon is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art venue located in Birmingham, UK. Free entry. http://www.ikon-gallery.org/
Birmingham Central Library
The Library of Birmingham is located at Centenary Square, the city's most important public open space in the heart of Birmingham city centre's Westside. The new Library is next to and physically connected with Birmingham Repertory Theatre (The REP). Other important cultural venues including The ICC, Symphony Hall, NIA, Town Hall and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are located very close by. The site has excellent public transport links and is on a major pedestrian route (it is estimated that up to 13 million people walk past the site annually). http://www.libraryofbirmingham.com/
The Electric Cinema
Topped with its art deco sign, this is the oldest working cinema in the uk (screening since 1909). Enjoy a mix of main stream and art house cinema while being able to enjoy a drink as it has a licensed bar. https://www.theelectric.co.uk/
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Due to reopen in September 2013 after a two-year redesign, the 'Rep' will have three performance spaces – the Main House, the more experimental Door and a new 300-seat studio theatre (as part of the new library development next door), presenting edgy drama and musicals, with an emphasis on contemporary work. http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/
Aston Villa Stadium Tour
On the Aston Villa Stadium Tour you get to nosey around the dressing rooms, sit on the manager's bench and see a slice of life pitch-side. http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/StadiumTours
National Sea Life Birmingham
Located in the heart of the city, SEA LIFE Birmingham will transport you into an amazing underwater world. Come nose-to-nose with sharks and prepare for astonishingly close views of everything from humble starfish and seahorses to graceful rays. To get any closer you'd have to get wet!! http://www.visitsealife.com/birmingham/


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Charley, awesome gesture. Makes a person rethink trying to make the all mighty dollar vs helping out a fellow enthusiast.
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Gaviotas: Village of Hope
We first learned about Gaviotas, the legendary sustainable Colombian village, in 2004, while working in our home state, New Mexico. The two of us helped found a group called La Mesita, "the small table," composed of three educators, a renewable energy scientist, a water-rights attorney, and a community organizer. We decided to start a project that would involve teenagers in organic agriculture and renewable energy in Ribera, a rural village in the north of the state. We believed that reviving northern New Mexico's agricultural and cultural traditions could help the region confront both its environmental crises, like unsustainable water use, and its deepening social problems, such as rural drug abuse and teen pregnancy.
A member of our group brought us a copy of journalist Alan Weisman's book, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World.
"This is what we're trying to create," she said. "This village proves it's possible."
All of us took turns tearing through the book, spellbound by the story of a visionary man named Paolo Lugari and the remarkable group of scientists, students, Guahibo Indians, and cowhands who had succeeded in creating a resilient community amid the barren soils, shifting politics, and sporadic violence of Colombia's eastern savannahs.
The book's stories of innovation and perseverance inspired us as we moved forward. Our project convened scientists, educators, farmers, builders, and youth for a six-week, hands-on institute, where participants taught permaculture and organic farming, helped build an off-the-grid, energy-efficient house, and handcrafted a working wind turbine. The pilot project ran for two summers, but we were unable to maintain funding, and our colleagues went their separate ways.
It wasn't until five years later that the authors of this piece had the chance to visit Gaviotas. We had wondered if it held clues that could have moved our New Mexico project forward. Then by coincidence, the two of us ended up in Colombia at the same time.
We contacted New York Times correspondent Simon Romero, a fellow New Mexican who had grown up near the site of the La Mesita summer institutes. Romero had long wanted to report on Gaviotas. With his help, we arranged a one-day tour with Lugari.
Village of Surprises
The night before our visit, we all met up in the busy city of Villavicencio, gateway to the region of savannah known as los llanos. Over steaks and Colombian pilsner, Paolo Lugari captivated us with impassioned conversation that ranged from subjects like the brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci to the failure of Western education.
He was just as energetic the next morning at daybreak in Villavicencio's tiny airport as he pointed out the black Gaviotas dot on a wall map, and told us to expect the unexpected.
"In Gaviotas," he said, "one lives in a state of perpetual surprise."
Ninety minutes later, we began to understand what he meant, as our tiny Cessna airplane descended over Gaviotas. We'd read Weisman's account of the village's reforestation projects—Caribbean pines had created shade and soil that nurtured the regrowth of hundreds of species of native flora and fauna. But nothing prepared us for the sight of 20,000 acres of dark green trees bursting impossibly from the acidic savannah soils.
A small group of Gaviotans met us on the airstrip and invited us onto a broken-down minibus, towed by a tractor that ran on biofuel produced in the village. The tractor hauled us into the forest, where the Gaviotans demonstrated how they collect pine resin with little more than an axe and a plastic bag. Between the pines was their new fuel crop, African palms. But the Gaviotas palm plantings looked nothing like the massive, monocropped rows of palms we'd seen outside Villavicencio. Gaviotans mimic nature by keeping the forest diverse, one palm to every 10 pines, interspersed with fruit trees and native plants.
The bus headed past a full-sized dirigible, constructed on-site to monitor forest fires, and into the village. There we watched children pump drinking water from depths of over 100 feet. The award-winning Gaviotan sleeve pump has allowed residents to stop using the contaminated shallow water sources around the village.
We paused at the community kitchen, which produces hundreds of meals a day using an energy-efficient stove that burns wood thinned from the forest. We then followed Lugari into one of the resident's simple homes, so he could show us the passive cooling system and demonstrate that water from the bathroom faucet was scalding hot, thanks to the rooftop solar water heater the Gaviotans had manufactured themselves.
The longest stop on our tour was in the economic heart of Gaviotas, its pine-resin processing and packaging factory, which now generates almost 80 percent of the community's revenue. Here, cartloads of resin are brought from the forest and distilled for use in making varnish, paints, and adhesives. The entire factory runs on renewable energy. Steam used for processing the resin is created in a boiler fueled by sustainably harvested wood, while the generator and tractors operate on African palm oil or recycled vegetable oil from Bogotá mixed with pine turpentine. Many of the residents' motorcycles run on a gasoline and pine-turpentine mix.
We kept our eyes open for some lesson we could bring back to New Mexico, a secret to Gaviotas' success. Our first clue came from an offhand comment we overheard in the factory. Lugari asked a foreman how work was proceeding on a project to use byproducts from the resin processing to pave the muddy roads. The foreman gave an inconclusive report.
"Excellent," said Lugari. "We'll proceed A.V.V."
"A.V.V.?" we asked.
"Allí vamos viendo," he explained. "We'll see what happens as we go along."
The response seemed nonchalant, but it represented an approach that has been fundamental to the village's longevity. Everywhere we looked, we saw examples of how the Gaviotans had encountered obstacles, gone back to the drawing board, and "surprised" themselves by discovering a way to adapt. The very building in which we stood, for example, had been a solar hot-water panel factory before shifting markets and government policy forced Gaviotans to search for a new product. Gaviotans' efforts to grow their own food had led them through experiments in hydroponics, use of organic fertilizers, and African goat-herding. The beautiful glass and steel building that was once a fully functioning hospital was converted into a research laboratory and then a water-purification and bottling plant.
It became clear to us that most of the successes at Gaviotas were not a result of brilliant planning but of a trial and error process, replete with wrong turns and detours.
Gaviotas showed us that there is not an orchestrated march toward a finished product—there is only the process, the unpredictable evolution of strategies and ideas.
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The Flow of Ideas
Back in Bogotá, we looked for more clues to Gaviotas' success as we met with Dr. Jorge Zapp, the 67-year-old scientist who served as unofficial technical director of Gaviotas in the 1970s and 1980s.
After leaving Gaviotas, Zapp spent years as a technical evaluator for the United Nations Development Program, and we asked him how Gaviotas had influenced international development projects elsewhere in the world.
Zapp said Gaviotas never had a formal plan for disseminating solutions or technology. But ideas flowed in and out of the community through "natural diffusion." He rattled off a list of appropriate technologies pioneered in Gaviotas and adopted in projects "from Patagonia to Maine." There was the double-action water pump, a simplified cement and chicken-wire building technique, and pioneering work in low-cost hydroponics. Gaviotan solar water heaters have been installed atop buildings across Colombia. A brick-making press—not invented by Gaviotans but proven viable when they used it to build their factory, hospital, and homes—became a key tool in the reconstruction of cities across Latin America leveled by natural disasters.
But the real lessons of Gaviotas aren't about technology. "What was spread in large part," Zapp said, "was that people learned to believe in their own abilities."
Gaviotas demonstrated to the world how effective it is to involve ordinary people in creating their own technologies and solving their own problems.
Case in point: A Peruvian government official visited Gaviotas in the early 1980s and took note of the village's nutritional program, which provided a daily glass of fortified milk to each child. The official brought both the idea and Gaviotas' collaborative approach back to Lima. Instead of creating a top-down government program, he helped mobilize poor mothers to prepare and distribute the milk themselves. The program ultimately empowered thousands of women through the popular movement known as Vaso de Leche. The nutritional practice spread, and with it the Gaviotan emphasis on community participation.
Zapp's experiences at Gaviotas led to a turning point in his work. He left what he calls the "priesthood of science," in which experts deliver knowledge to "the masses," and committed his life to helping people develop their own solutions. In Zapp's definition, development means renewing one's faith in the collective intelligence of humans.
Making Space for Creativity
We came away from our visit to Colombia with a new understanding of what it looks like to address environmental and social problems in a sustainable, inclusive way.
Lugari made it clear that Gaviotas is not something you can replicate. He'd visited organizations and ecologically friendly towns around the world. But none combined all the essential ingredients he feels are necessary for sustainability. Security concerns, shifting national politics, and financial constraints have hamstrung efforts to create larger versions of Gaviotas elsewhere in the savannah.
We spoke with Alan Weisman, who confirmed Lugari's assessment. Weisman has received thousands of inquiries about Gaviotas from professors, energy experts, high schools, international NGOs, and even a dance company in Oregon. "People constantly tell me," Weisman says, "that the place just gives them hope." But Weisman knows of no one who has started a Gaviotas replica.
Lugari never intended for Gaviotas to serve as a blueprint for sustainable development, or even a clearinghouse of appropriate technologies. Instead, he wanted to show the world that it was possible to live sustainably by drawing on local resources, or as he describes it, living within the "economy of the near." And he has done so by staying faithful to two principles: allowing space for adaptation and creativity, and ensuring that everyone, not just "experts," is involved and empowered.
To realize our New Mexico vision, we'll need to embrace Lugari's principles and release our grip on our plans. We are now exploring ways to collaborate with others and expand our summer institute into a year-round "school." We envision a place where youth work with community members and create their own new strategies and technologies, searching for the imaginative "surprises" that our own little corner of New Mexico so desperately needs.
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Instantly Interesting: Flags as Wall Art
Flags in any context are inherently powerful imagery. Often immediately recognizable even from a distance, they are designed to convey information graphically and therefore, can pack a powerful content punch, inspiring reactions based on memory, allegiance and context. So, It's no surprise that bringing them indoors and into the decor mix as wall art adds the visual version of a power-up to any room — a bold wow of color, pattern, design, history, and texture all in one.
We gathered these successful examples of flags pressed into service as wall art from our House Tour archives and I think they hit home the concept of instant interest; from oversized and centrally placed to very small and subtle, you can't deny that that they are always an interesting, bold (and yes, often beautiful) addition to the interior design of any room.
Shown above; top row, left to right:
• Steven Arroyo's Think Tank
• K & R's Seaside Retreat
• An Englishman in New York House Tour
• Emily Henderson's Super Stylish Design Star Digs
• Sonia & Mike's "Quaint & Cozy" Loft
Bottom row, left to right:
• Lisa and Dan's Breezy Landing Pad
• Sael's Spanish Style in Silverlake
• Briana's Salvaged Sanctuary
Images: credits in individual posts linked above


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Supreme Court has not yet given an answer on Obamacare.
Don't you just hate it when you accidentally leave your gun in the Presbyterian bathroom?
Wildfires in Colorado threaten popular tourist destinations.
Alex Trebek suffered a mild heart attack over the weekend.
'Partying teens' may be cause of bosque fire.
Haters gonna hate, Slater's gonna slate.
Cranberry growers worry about upcoming nutritional changes in schools.
Former Truth or Consequences police officer under investigation after marrying a pregnant 15-year-old.
New shoe-thievery trend involves stealing left and right display shoes from different stores.
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Area Obituaries
Leila Belle Bauer, 91, of Jackson died July 14, 2006 at a local health care facility.
She was born July 20, 1914. She was a former resident of Citronelle. She attended First Baptist Church of Jackson. She was a member of the TEL Class, the Garden Club of Citronelle and was valedictorian of her senior class. She had worked as a division manager with Sears.
Survivors include one son, Jimmy (Jean) Schott, Madison, Miss.; one daughter, Peggy (Joseph) Sellers, Jackson; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was July 18 at 10 a.m. at Pine Crest Cemetery in Jackson. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson directed.
Gladys W. Dyess, 92, of Grove Hill died July 9, 2006 at the home of her daughter, Barbara Bradford in Mobile.
She was born April 16, 1914. She was a native of Zimco. She was a member of Grove Hill Baptist Church. She was a retired nurse practitioner and dietitian from Grove Hill Memorial Hospital. She loved her hometown of Grove Hill and the people very much.
Survivors include three children, Curtis (Jean) Wayne, Mobile, Morris (Ruth) Dyess, Grove Hill, Barbara Jean (Alton) Bradford, Mobile; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was July 11 at 11 a.m. in the Magnolia Lawn Cemetery in Grove Hill with Rev. Maurice Dyess officiating. Lathan Funeral Home of Grove Hill directed.
Active pallbearers were Jeff Bradford, Charlie Busher, Dennis Powell, Terry Mathers, Wayne Wilson and Jimmy Wilson.
Georgia Wilda Garrick, 81, of Grove Hill died July 11, 2006 at a family's residence in Grove Hill.
She was born March 10, 1925. She was a native of Thomasville. She was a member of the Grove Hill Baptist Church. She was a retired secretary with the State of Alabama Highway Department of Transportation.
Survivors include one son, Kenneth James (Melinda) Garrick, Jackson; one daughter, Esther (Ward) Edge, Grove Hill; one brother, W.L. Megginson, Mobile; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
The service was July 13 at 11 a.m. at the Grove Hill Baptist Church. Burial was in the Grove Hill Cemetery. Lathan Funeral Home of Grove Hill directed.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Pilots for Christ-Monroeville Chapter.
Louise Horton Johnston, 80, of McIntosh died July 12, 2006 at an area hospital.
She was born May 2, 1926. She was a native of the Winn community. She was a member of Sims Chapel United Methodist Church. She was a retired bookkeeper with Ciba Corporation.
Survivors include her mother, Gwendolyn F. Horton, Winn; three daughters, Sheryl McDonald (Wilson) Smith, Mobile, Sandra Johnston (Larry) Wilson, Leroy, Jo Ann Johnston (Robert) Hagood, Jackson; one brother, Winston Horton, Jackson; four sisters, Jeanette Booth, Cantonment, Fla., Polly Johnson, Grove Hill, Faye Bumpers, Pam Ryser, both of Winn; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Gordon Johnston, her son, Dwain "Butch" Hillary McDonald, her father, Glover Wade Horton Sr. and her brother, Glover Wade Horton Jr.
The service was July 15 at 10 a.m. at the chapel of Lathan Funeral Home in Jackson. Burial was in Sims Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson directed.
Active pallbearers were her four grandsons, Brannon Crenshaw Wilson, Adam Johnston Wilson, Kyle Condie Wilson, Robert Lee Hagood III and John Troy Phillips, Wilton Kimbrough Bailey, Johnny Nell Johnston and Josh Ryan Johnston.
Marguerite Payne, 80, of Jackson died July 16, 2006 at a local hospital.
She was a native of Grove Hill. She was a member of Peniel Baptist Church. She was secretary of the Jackson Rescue Squad. She was a housewife.
Survivors include her husband, Arnell C. Payne, Jackson; one son, Garrie L. Wheat III, Jackson; one daughter, Betty Jo Rikard, Jackson; two stepsons, Van G. Payne, Jackson, Randy F. Payne, Fulton; one stepdaughter, Margaret A. Dailey, West Virginia; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two grandchildren, Kimberly Payne and Jason Payne.
The service was July 19 at 11 a.m. at the Peniel Baptist Church in Jackson. Burial was in the Peniel Baptist Church Cemetery. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson directed.
Active pallbearers were Kevin Wheat, Kent Payne, Daniel Robertson, Jay Price, Randy Bedwell and Gil Thomas.
Joe William Phillips Sr., 86, of Laton Hill died July 14, 2006 in Waynesboro, Miss.
He was born Feb. 28, 1920. He was a member of Laton Hill Baptist Church. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He was a native of Koenton. He was a retired farmer and cattleman.
Survivors include his wife, Helen Phillips, Laton Hill; one son, Joe Phillips Jr., Laton Hill; four daughters, Jackie Parnell, Linda Godwin, Sandra Phillips, all of Laton Hill, Carolyn Williams, Fruitdale; four sisters, Ossie Mae Taylor, Millry, Dorsey Shoultz, Semmes, Fannie Jane Loper, Jackson, Lonie Reynolds, Laton Hill; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren.
The service was July 15 at 5 p.m. at the Laton Hill Baptist Church. Burial was in the Laton Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Lathan Funeral Home of Chatom directed.
Mattie Lucille White, 80, of Coffeeville died July 15, 2006 in Jackson.
She was born March 18, 1926. She was a member of Center Point Baptist Church. She participated in St. Jude's Bike-a-thon for over 20 years. She was a retired school bus driver.
Survivors include her husband, Lewis White; one son, Rayford (Marie) White, Jackson; one daughter, Cecilia (Bobby) Brunson, Jackson; one brother, Tollie Edward "Sam" Mott, Wetumpka; five grandchildren, Kevin and Greg Brunson, Cliff White, Christy and Bama Beverly; six great-grandchildren.
The service was July 17 at 10 a.m. at the chapel of Lathan Funeral Home in Jackson. Burial was in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Chilton.
Bobby Earl Bennett, 69, of Fulton died July 13, 2006 at Crowne Health Care in Mobile.
He was born April 12, 1937. He was a former diesel mechanic.
Survivors included his mother, Azalea Bennett, Thomasville; three sons, Edgar D. Bennett, Dickinson, Charles Michael Bennett, Marion, Warren Neal Bennett, Fulton; one brother, Jack Bennett, Fulton; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was July 15 at 2 p.m. in the Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. Billy Cardwell officiating. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
James Bettis, 79, of Thomasville died July 9, 2006 at Mobile Infirmary.
He was born April 17, 1927. He was a member of the Southwest Alabama Elks Lodge. He was retired from the former McMillian Bloedel paper mill.
Survivors include four sons, James Otis Golsby, Robert Bettis, Willie (Tammie) Bettis and Bernard (Vandora) White of Thomasville; six daughters, Necie Larkin, Lela Bettis, Detroit, Mich., Wendy Bettis, Brenda (R.B.) Washington, Pamela (Ulysses) and Paula (Bryant) of Thomasville; 23 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; special friend, Gloria White, Thomasville.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Rosie M. Bettis.
The service was July 15 at 2 p.m. at New Hope #1 Baptist Church with Rev. James G. Curry officiating. Burial was in New Hope #1 Baptist Church Cemetery. Thomasville Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Active pallbearers were Jimmy Mosley, Willie F. Mosley, Linzey Coston, Rossie Coston, Kendrick Coston and James Lanier.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Southwest Alabama Elks Lodge.
Marion L. Bradford, 76, of Vestavia Hills died Saturday, July 15, 2006 after an extended illness.
He was a member of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church. He was a successful architect in Alabama and Florida for over 45 years. He graduated from Auburn University and was an avid Tiger fan. He served his country in active duty in the US Army. He was also elected to the House of Representatives at the early age of 24 from Clarke County.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Doc and Sybil Bradford and sister, Mary. He is survived by his wife, Becky Bradford, his sons, Barry Bradford of Chattanooga, TN, Reggie Billingsley, Randy Billingsley and his daughter, Pam Winks, his grandchildren, Cameron Bradford of Chattanooga, TN, Baxter Billingsley, Sheldon Winks, Abbey Billingsley, Madison Billingsley, Benton Billingsley, Bradford Billingsley and Lilly Billingsley, his brother and sisters, Ralph Bradford of Saraland, AL, Mary Lovell of Atlanta, Joann Holliday of Mobile, AL and Betty Franklin of Mobile; AL; brothers-in-law, Ken Lovell, Norman Holliday, and Gerald Franklin, and daughters-in-law, Becki Bradford of Chattanooga, TN, Dana Billingsley and Lori Billingsley and numerous nieces and nephews.
A loving husband, father and grandfather, he will be greatly missed by all of them and by his many friends. The family would like to sincerely thank New Beacon Hospice for all their support and attentiveness, especially Cheryl and Vanessa.
Visitation was Tuesday, July 18 at 11 a.m. and the service was at noon at Ridout's Valley Chapel in Homewood.


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Two women who survived Cleveland kidnapping plan book
Cleveland kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus will collaborate on a book about their years of imprisonment with two Washington Post writers.
Two of the three Cleveland women who survived years of imprisonment after being kidnapped by school bus driver Ariel Castro will collaborate on a book about the ordeal with two Washington Post writers.
James Wooley, a lawyer for Amanda Berry, 27 and Gina DeJesus, 23, said in a statement on Monday that the book will be "a story, above all else, about human dignity and human survival."
The third kidnap victim, Michelle Knight, 32, is planning an appearance on the "Dr. Phil" syndicated TV program hosted by celebrity counselor Phil McGraw. The interviews will air November 4, 5 and 6, according to the show.
Berry, DeJesus and Knight, along with Berry's 6-year-old daughter, managed to escape from Castro's run-down Cleveland home last May after about a decade in captivity. The girl had been fathered by Castro.
Their story captured worldwide attention and Castro was found hanging in his prison cell in September, a month after pleading guilty and being sentenced to life imprisonment.
Washington Post writer and Cleveland native Mary Jordan said in a statement that she and her husband, Washington Post colleague Kevin Sullivan, will work on the book with Berry and DeJesus. Jordan and Sullivan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their articles on conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system.
The lawyer Wooley said Berry and DeJesus were interested in countering "inaccuracies" that have been told about them.
"Our clients have a strong desire for privacy, but it is a reality that confronts them every day," Wooley's statement said. "Gina, Amanda and their families have decided to take control and are now interested in telling the story of what happened to them."
Knight, the first woman kidnapped by Castro in 2002, had been the only one of the three to testify at Castro's sentencing after he had agreed to a life term to avoid a death sentence. She said she was the "most hated" victim in the house and suffered the most abuse at Castro's hands, according to a statement from the "Dr. Phil" show.
"Michelle Knight's story of horror and courageous survival almost defies description and has changed me like no other in 12 years of doing the show," Phil McGraw said in a statement. "Her dark journey from victim to victor is beyond compelling."


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Mobile, Ala., thinks it's got a lot going for it. Apparently Airbus agrees.
Mobile, Ala., thinks it's got a lot going for it. Apparently Airbus agrees.
The European aircraft maker broke ground there in April on a plant to build its A320 craft – the only place in the Western Hemisphere where it will build commercial planes.
It didn't hurt that the generous incentives were involved. The state of Alabama, the city of Mobile, and Mobile County provided more than $160 million in cash and non-cash incentives, said County Commissioner Connie Hudson, who was commission president during the Airbus negotiations.
Locally, incentives often come in the form of infrastructure improvements. But the city has $35 million invested in a huge steel mill and the county $50 million, said Mobile Mayor Samuel Jones.
No fluke
So, it was no fluke that Mobile landed the $600 million Airbus plant that will bring more than 1,000 jobs. The average wage will be about $50,000, Jones said.
In addition to Charleston, the Alabama port city would be a good location for Wilmington to emulate in its economic development efforts, economist Jay Garner said when he spoke to the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce in April. Garner was Mobile's economic development chief from 1985 to 1994.
Foreign money
Mobile has landed other huge heavy-industry investments, much of it from overseas, Jones said. And much of it is connected to its port facilities.
In fact, shipbuilding and the deep water port – 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico – are at the center of the area's economy. The port is deep enough to accommodate the huge ships that now transit the Panama Canal.
Austal USA expanded its ship-building operations for the Navy, increasing its work force to more than 3,200 now from 100 in 1999, said Leigh Perry-Herndon, vice president of marketing and communications for the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce.
In 2010, ThyssenKrupp Steel opened a $4.5 billion plant and employs 1,750, according to the chamber, lured by improvements to the port.
Though Mobile's metro area is larger than Wilmington's, the cities have common traits. Both are ports, and both suffered major economic losses – Wilmington with the exit of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and Mobile with the closure of an Air Force base. Both came back, but the Wilmington area lost two major projects to other areas as Caterpillar and Continental Tire decided to take their plants elsewhere.
Key to success
So, how does Mobile do it?
It offers a one-stop shop for economic development and a regional approach, Jones said, adding that the city and Mobile County contract with the chamber to provide economic development services.
Corporate prospects "tell us that we work exceptionally well together as a team – federal, state, county, city, development board and the chamber," said Hudson. "We are not off doing our own thing. I hear that over and over."
Since efforts were consolidated under the chamber in 1989, development has taken off, Jones said.
But the area's growth came out of economic disaster as the World War II-era Brookley Air Force Base closed in 1969, costing the area 17,000 jobs.
The recovery took 25 years, Perry-Herndon said. Interestingly, what is now known as the Brookley Aeroplex will be home to the new Airbus facility, its 9,600-foot-long runway a particular attraction.
Behind that recovery is a well-oiled machine.
The chamber operates on a five-year plan "with benchmarks, metrics that we as a chamber put out there that we are going to do," Perry-Herndon said.
Alabama Power also plays a major role in attracting growth, Perry-Herndon said. The company offers a wide selection of economic development services, including building and site selection and labor force analysis. "They are almost always at the table," she said.
The chamber's efforts continue even after the deal is closed, she said.
"There's a good deal of trust, a good deal of continuing to manage the relationship, especially when you have elective offices that change," Perry-Herndon said.
The port is central to just about everything in Mobile.
Perry-Herndon attributed much of the port's growth to a move in the 1990s that turned the Port Authority director's post from a political appointment to one that is selected by the port's board.
"That has made a huge difference in the community," and now actions are in the best interest of the port regardless of who is in office, she said.
Staying the course
"Mobile has worked very effectively in sustaining their economic development initiative," Garner said, founder of Garner Economics, an Atlanta site selection and economic research company.
They "make sure that the private and public sectors have a well-funded and well-supported economic development program.
"As a result they have had effective staff leaderships and a very proactive program to attract targeted industries.
"There's a common denominator in most communities who have successful economic development organizations," Garner continued. "It's usually not fragmented," he said, citing Jacksonville, Fla., and Austin Texas as other examples.
"Even if it is fragmented," as is the case in Charleston and Savannah, "they are still working in a collaborative way."
Perry-Herndon echoed that need for groups and political bodies to work together.
"I think this community understands and trusts the work of the economic development team," she said, "and our goal is not only to bring new investment but to increase the wealth of the community.
"We are playing to our natural strength. It has allowed us to say no to some things that wouldn't be good for the community."
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OCHOG put kickstands up for charity
Members of the Orange County Harley Owners Group have kicked off their raffle sales for their 23rd annual Charity Poker Run Social Rally & BBQ scheduled for July 21.
This year they have selected Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County as their charity recipient. The ride will kick off at Moroney's Harley-Davidson on Route 300 in Newburgh, with registration beginning at 9 a.m., and will finish with a barbecue, 50/50 raffle, prizes, and music at Thomas Bull Memorial Park on Route 416 in Montgomery. Donations are $20 per hand to ride, and raffle tickets are $10. Many bikers have stepped up to support, and to win the money drawing prizes of $1,000, $500 or $250.
The Orange County HOGs are showing they care about the community they live and ride in by supporting the children and mentoring services throughout Orange County. Riders and event day volunteers are needed.
For more information, call the Orange County HOG president, Snipes, at 629-7941 or John at 234-0803.


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Walmart, CVS, Best Buy Ditch Glenn Beck (Plus Five More Companies)
Posted: August 17, 2009 04:35 PM
by James Rucker-Founder of ColorOfChange.org
Big news today. We've confirmed that eight more major advertisers have pulled their support from Glenn Beck's show -- Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank, Broadview Security, and Re-Bath.
Overall, twenty advertisers have now ended their support of Beck. We're going to keep the pressure on Beck's remaining advertisers this week, and we'll let you know how you can help.
From the press release we're sending right now:
Eight more Glenn Beck advertisers, including Wal-Mart -- the world's largest retailer -- have confirmed to ColorOfChange.org that they pulled their ads from the controversial Fox News Channel broadcaster's eponymous show. Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck.
Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck's show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Previous companies who pulled their ads include ConAgra, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Men's Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Roche, SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, and State Farm Insurance.
"We are heartened to see so many corporate citizens step up in support of our campaign against Glenn Beck," said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. "Their action sends a clear a message to Glenn Beck: Broadcasters shouldn't abuse the privilege they enjoy by spewing dangerous and racially charged hate language over the air. No matter their political affiliation, hate language doesn't belong in our national dialogue."
"Walmart [sic] today confirmed the retailer pulled ads from the Glenn Beck show on August 3rd," said David Tovar, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart, in an email to ColorOfChange.org.
"While advertising on Fox is part of our communication plan, we had not requested time on Glenn Beck's show specifically," said Carolyn Castel, Vice President of Corporate Communications for CVS Caremark, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We have instructed our advertising agency to inform Fox to ensure Glenn Beck's program is not part of our advertising plan."
"Our position is simple," Castel continued. "We support vigorous debate, especially around policy issues that affect millions of Americans, but we expect it to be informed, inclusive and respectful, in keeping with our company's core values and commitment to diversity."
In an email exchange with ColorOfChange.org, Lisa Svac Hawks, Director of Public Relations for Best Buy, stated that any advertisements for Best Buy that were placed on Glenn Beck's show were done so in error. Svac Hawks pledged that Best Buy will correct any mistakes made.
"We did not specifically place our ad on the show," said Amanda Borichevsky, a spokesperson for Travelocity in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We buy ads in bulk and then they are placed somewhat randomly. However, we have now specifically asked that our ads do not appear during this show."
"We reviewed our commercial schedule, and based on your feedback, we've put any programming featuring Glenn Beck on our "do not air" list," said Aziz Mottiwala, Senior Marketing Manager for Allergan, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "This means that you will no longer see any Restasis ads during programming featuring Glenn Beck. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention."
"Ally advertises on a broad spectrum of programs to reach our potential customers," said a Customer Care Representative for Ally Bank. "Our advertising is not an endorsement of editorial content on any program. We have ceased to advertise on the Glenn Beck program."
In a phone conversation with Dwayne Sigler, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Broadview Security Systems, Sigler told ColorOfChange.org that Broadview's advertising is bought based on network, not particular programs, but that "given the considerations, we have requested of Fox News not to include us in the rotation that would have our commercials running on Glenn Beck's show."
"...We are no longer airing our commercials on the Glenn Beck Show..." said Mary Beth Mayer, spokesperson for Re-Bath, in a phone message to ColorOfChange.org.
As the list of advertisers who don't want themselves associated with Beck continues to grow, our campaign is also getting major media attention, which helps send a strong message to Fox and to Beck's remaining advertisers. Last week, our campaign was mentioned in several media and advertising industry publications, on MSNBC, in the New York Times, and by Stephen Colbert.
Thanks to everyone who has stepped up and joined this campaign (there are more than 145,000 of you now) -- this wouldn't be possible without your voice. What we've achieved so far is incredible -- it's rare for a campaign directed at a TV show's advertisers to be this successful.
But we won't stop here. We're going to continue reaching out to Beck's remaining advertisers, and we'll keep you informed on how you can help us escalate the pressure.
James Rucker: Walmart, CVS, Best Buy Ditch Glenn Beck (Plus Five More Companies)
Kanye claims he's publishing the book because he often gets misquoted, and he's trying to combat that. This is actually a wise move; eliminate the middle man of media and take your marketing and public relations into your own hands and you can be a totally free artist. The book itself, which isn't actually about ensuring Kanye gets accurately quoted and seems more concerned with GIANT BRIGHT LETTERS and quick-hitting, almost-clever proverbs, is goofy and inoffensive. It would be a perfect toilet book and just another piece to add to Kanye's collection of bizarre and unpredictable career moves. One more thing to add to the legend he seems bent on creating for himself.
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Lindsay Lohan: 'Playboy' Photos Are 'Very Tasteful'
Lindsay Lohan attends the Lana Gomez Art Show at Roseark on Friday (November 11) in Los Angeles.
A few days before, the 25-year-old actress checked in and out of jail as part of her 30-day sentence. She was released in less than six hours due to overcrowding.
Lindsay's Playboy feature was recently confirmed by her rep, who told Access Hollywood that she'll be on the cover of the mag's January/February issue.
"The pictorial is absolutely fantastic and very tasteful, and will be accompanied by an interview that will let readers see another side of Lindsay," the rep added.


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Creating white horses and other figures on hillsides is as old as the mists of time, with one such carving in Uffington, Oxfordshire, dating back 3,000 years.
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Ben "the Butcher" Diamond, one of the most terrifying figures on primetime television, is about to get smacked around by an even more menacing force. This can't end well.
Yes, the second season of Miami Beach native Mitch Glazer's stylishly cinematic Starz network period drama, "Magic City," set and filmed in South Florida, is ready to make you sweat.
The critically lauded series, a precisely rendered depiction of late-1950s Miami Beach glamour that looks as if it sprang from the pages of old Playboy magazines, can, of course, be counted on for steamy sex and kink. The politics of the era, with Castro seizing power in Havana, are also a hothouse of intrigue.
But what gives "Magic City" its tension and substance, what it does better than any other show on television, and better than many movies, is perfectly calibrated, cold-blooded menace.
"The stakes are higher, more desperate," Glazer says of Season 2, which premieres at 9 p.m. Friday. "There's a body count, literally and emotionally."
In the soapy whirl of Jewish gangsters, entertainers, call girls, police and politicians at the fictional Miramar Playa hotel, where owner Ike Evans (series star Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and mobster partner Ben Diamond are locked in a Faustian battle for control, bad things are always about to happen to good people. Bad people, too. And nobody is better at bad than Danny Huston, a Golden Globe nominee for his cold-blooded portrayal of the Butcher.
Until now.
Season 2 of "Magic City" will be distinguished by the appearance of James Caan, the one-time Sonny Corleone of "The Godfather," as Sy Berman, Ben Diamond's boss from Chicago. Sy knows how to get things done.
"I'm pretty much Meyer Lansky. They are bringing me in to crack some f---ing heads, " Caan recalled with a laugh in an interview during the Season 2 filming last fall. "Ben — Danny Huston — is having trouble with his wife, with his business. I come in to straighten things out."
Caan said he was encouraged to take the role due to a longtime friendship with Glazer, but there was something else.
"It's quality," he said of the script, which puts him in half of the eight Season 2 episodes. "I'm sure I wasn't in their budget."
Creating a character that would be plausible in standing up to a "sociopath" such as Ben Diamond takes a certain kind of actor, Glazer says.
"I've known Jimmy Caan for a while. I know how powerful he is. There was no way Sy Berman was going to be anything but terrifying," Glazer says. But even the seasoned Glazer was "knocked back on my heels" watching Caan apply intuitive tweaks to make Sy flesh and blood.
"He's a very surprising and spontaneous actor," says Glazer, recalling one scene in particular between Caan and Huston. "He does the script as written, but he adds this physicality. He's jabbing his finger into Ben's chest, or he's grabbing him by his wrists. It was jarring to see, but it was fantastic."
On a show that has a knack for casting — supporting players include Olga Kurylenko (star of Terrence Malick's latest film, "To the Wonder"), Tony Award nominee Yul Vazquez and former "Sopranos" tough guy Michael Rispoli, as well as Glazer's wife, Kelly Lynch — Oscar-nominee Caan is its most high-profile actor yet. But perhaps not for long.
Glazer confirms that he has a "great part" written for a longtime friend, Bill Murray, the versatile Oscar nominee who starred in Glazer's holiday movie "Scrooged." (Glazer also did some rewriting on the script for "Charlie's Angels" at Murray's request.)
Glazer is reluctant to reveal details, saying the character's place in the historical story arc of "Magic City" is in the distance. And sometimes, competing interests and projects intervene.
"Have we talked about it? Yes. Is there interest on both sides to do something? Yes," Glazer says. "Over my life, he has been incredibly supportive and excited by some of these notions. It would be my dream. Talk about a surprising actor!"
Another unanticipated casting coup came in the large form of Carol City rapper Rick Ross, who appears as Butterball, the uncompromising numbers-runner at a Liberty City bolita (a Cuban gambling den), who joins forces with Ben Diamond.
A chart-topping rapper from his first album, 2006's "Port of Miami," to 2012's "God Forgives, I Don't," Ross is a big fan of "Magic City." He took DVDs of Season 1 on tour with him, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the careers of old-time mobsters such as Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, Glazer says.
When Ross' people called the set to inquire about a visit, former Rolling Stone magazine writer Glazer's response was immediate: Who's Rick Ross?
"When he called, there was an [excited] explosion in the office, but as a function of my age — I'm friends with guys in the Eagles, OK? — I didn't know anything about Rick Ross," Glazer says with a laugh. "But I got up to speed."
Once he laid eyes on Ross, Glazer knew he had to find a way to write him into the show. Ross, he says, was a total professional. No entourage. No attitude.
"He was wonderful," Glazer says. "You could see the charisma of the guy. He's certainly a great-looking character."
South Florida's source of traditional acting talent has been a godsend for "Magic City," Glazer says.
Local stage actor Avi Hoffman was "amazing" in Season 1, and his role has grown "immensely," Glazer says. Other "great finds" cited by Glazer are Todd Allen Durkin as an assistant district attorney ("He's a fantastic, wonderful actor") and Karen-Eileen Gordon as Ike's secretary (She's incredible," Glazer says).
Other more-famous new faces in Season 2 include Esai Morales, as imposing anti-Castro organizer Carlos "El Tiburon" Ruiz, and Sherilyn Fenn, as a strip-club proprietor with ties to the Butcher.
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Where: Starz
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danny Huston, Olga Kurylenko, James Caan, Yul Vazquez, Rick Ross
Get daily updates on South Florida entertainment and things to do at SouthFlorida.com and on Twitter at @BenCrandell.


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i recycled my daughters mario t shirt that got ti small. i shirred the waist and the leg holes. i am not going to finish the edges, they won't fray. i didn't even add seam allowance. a person could if they wanted to. i put to add seam allowance on the pattern pieces, but it depends on the material and look/finish you are going for. i think that the pattern is around a size 7, that is what she wears normally.
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i had such a hard time uploading the pattern i forgot some details. the measurments on the pattern are what they actually are so if it doesn't print correctly you can reproduce it at the same size advertised. don't shirr too close to the edge or the elastic will pull the material under the face plate. the seam allowance that i used is techniqly 1/2 the foot width, which is not reflected in the pattern itself. i think that is everything.
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British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
quite good isnt it.
Why, yes
It is a good song. I wonder if I can allow myself to look forward to the album now, having found their last couple of albums to be decent but somewhat disappointing despite having some great moments.
Please please don't get my hopes up!
The last album was dreadful. The one before pretty bad, but not AS bad.
they really do split opinion don't they. I think Valhalla Dancehall
is their finest hour to date ! I think they improve with age. Can't wait to hear the latest offering.
In that case, you'll be pretty gutted if the next album's good, then?
- LOLpop this'd this
I like the single a lot
nicely understated and they've dropped the daft rock bombast, which is good. Have heard the album is similar and not too long (c.40 mins).
There have been some really good stuff on the last couple of albums but also a fair bit of dross. Hopefully this one is more consistent.
From the sounds of the demos for the songs on the album
It'll be a good one! Some great tracks on there. Interested to hear what the proper production will do for it.
Have to agree re the general comments on the last two albums,
really inconsistent and, in the case of Vallhalla, far too rambling. Fingers crossed for this one.
shame to see any advance hype on this
being eaten up by all the recent releases. This is a great lead single. Never could understand how so many think they've dipped in quality. I feel like they've now made 4 great albums and are about to release a 5th. Amazingly consistent and they're not that different from the first two so not sure how you like those and not these. Valhalla got Who's in Control?, We are Sound, Luna, Living is so easy, Cleaning out the rooms, Stunde Null...the great songs are endless on that and all very BSP.automatik this'd this
No, first two great but the second too patchy.
Despite my comments above I do prefer Valhalla to DYLRM though.
Definite krautrock feel to it
Reminded me of Fujiya & Miyagi. Bodes well for the new album.
I've always felt BSP have a great album in them and this is really promising as a lead track.
Admittedly I said the same about DYLRM? and that turned out to a boring, bland tediumfest but hopefully this time...
- Lambchops and red_weather this'd this
except for the Zeus EP
that was really really good too
lovely sounding song, sounds a touch different from anything they've tried before too
while we're here though, gotta stand up for DYLRM? - basically as good as Decline to me, never understood the "boring, overblown rock" comments. It's full of energy and cool lyrics and one of the prettiest songs in ages in No Need To Cry.
yeah, I feel like it gets a rough ride
it doesn't really deserve, aside from a couple of songs it's great.
Agree on No Need To Cry as well.JaguarPirate and Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
If I'm honest, I actually remember literally nothing about it.
So it might be better than I think it is. Although the fact that I can't remember how a single song on the album goes doesn't bode well.
- colinzealuk, JaguarPirate, and Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
It's a really great album
Nice mixture of the more epic bits of Valhalla with (especially towards the back of the album) some really beautiful Open Season esque stuff. Quite compact too, which should please anyone annoyed by the sprawl of Valhalla.
less sprawl would definitely be good.Icarus-Smicarus and urbanfox this'd this
then you should like Open Season
which had very little sprawl. Decline was sprawling as well. I've always thought that was one of the characteristics of the band people liked.
Anyone seeing BSP on this tour
they're planning on doing two sets per gig, both before and after supports, so worth getting there early
Oh nice.
I wasn't gonna bother seeing them in Belfast on this tour but they're playing a great little small venue so I've been tempted. If they're doing 2 sets then I'm gonna have to go.
BSP have just tweeted that the album will be streaming on
the Guardian website from noon today.
It was leaked yesterday.
I continue to be amazed by how they do it.
Yeah so
My initial reaction is disappointment, but we'll see. Monsters of Sunderland and Spring Has Sprung seem to be the highlights so far but there's nothing here I love yet.
- CrispinAlexander and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
well the first and bits of the second do hold up
but christ this new one is incredibly boring
BSP are one of my favourite bands
But I was bored listening to this album. And I was really looking forward to a quieter, meditative record along the lines of the lead single, which suggested more of a Yo La Tengo sound.
I'll give it plenty more chances, but it's still a shame.
Had a listen last night, nice enough but not a lot to get excited about, the first track is really nice though.
Valhalla was all over the place and a disapointment too. I think this will be the first of their 'proper' albums I don't buy.
British Sea Power's Decline
is super terrific, but they are in danger of being my next Band of Horses (who had super-terrific debut but now no longer have any interest in new releases).
I can't think of many bands as totally consistent as BSP. Maybe I'm lucky that I didn't get into them until Open Season (due to not listening to much 'indie' music until then mainly) so Decline isn't as totemic for me as a lot of people, but each album does a great job of having its own distinct feel whilst still feeling totally BSP. Besides, this one is a major grower - give it a few spins, and Hail Holy Queen, Loving Animals and Radio Goddard will never leave your head.
Hmm, from the sounds of this it's definitely a listen to stream before buy job, which is not something I though I'd have to say about BSP.automatik this'd this
I don't buy it.
Every album since Decline gets trashed on these boards and they're all great. Does no one here like their soundtrack work? They've always been a band that straddles pixies post punk and more pastoral, prettier stuff. They've always straddled that line better then anyone. I'm actually excited to hear its a more meditative, slower record.
I'm gonna say this before I check out for westcoast bedtime
In those 4 seconds per song transition entering the tracks into iTunes...gave me very surprisingly positive vibes regarding this record.
And my 40-second album evaluations are pretty darn accurate.
*if Al Gore hadn't invented the internet, I would have*
Will probably get slaughtered for this
but when the other fella starts singing my heart sinks a little bit - felt like this on all their albums. First impressions on the new album - pretty good, liking the wonky brass (not Abi Fry!)
hah, complete opposite for me - he's responsible for most of my favourite BSP songs
Blackout, The Land Beyond, No Lucifer, Down On The Ground, A Trip Out, No Need To Cry, Mongk II, Cleaning Out The Rooms ... what a lad
Good songs all of them
His voice is just too wafer thin for me - would prefer Yan to do em all
How Will I Ever Find My Way Home?
One of the best.
Once More Now
Probably my second favourite BSP song (behind Lately obvs) these days.
Other reviews are great
Q reckons it's their best, Mojo calls it Mesmeric and there's a great Incendiary review that seems to really understand the band who praises it. Clearly it deserves more then quick dismissal which is becoming the du jour of the DiS crowd.RockyORourke this'd this
FWIW I intend to listen to this album with an open mind.
Based on the both the lead track and the fact that plenty of time time has passed since the disappointment of DYLRM?, I'm actually thinking about how good the first two albums were looking forward to it and hoping they can get back to some kind of form.
I do find it a bit odd how you're accusing anyone who's said anything vaguely negative as being dismissive.
Sometimes people think things you like are shit. Deal with it.
But they do regularly get dismissed out of hand as being
'shit since the first album' which whether you like the following albums or not, clearly isn't the case. That's why I think people get annoyed..
I think we're starting to go too far the other way with this whole 'instant review' outrage
I'll give this more time because it's a band I adore, but you are still, y'know, allowed to have an opinion after one listen.
Better than DYLRM.
Whether it surpasses Valhalla I'm not sure yet, requires more listening. Doesn't get anywhere near OS or Decline. Still best UK band of the last 10 years regardless.
Hey so yeah I'm really enjoying this.
Not really as good as the first 3 but probably better than Valhalla - not as many highlights but more consistent and never sounds like they're trying too hard - and not far off DYLRM I think. The production and general mood of it reminds me a lot of Open Season.


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Fall: February 1
Applications are evaluated together after the deadline has passed.
APPLY ONLINE to this graduate program.
A program application is also required.
Number Required: 3
Letters of recommendation should be obtained from evaluators familiar with the applicant's academic or clinical experience/competencies, particularly college/university faculty
members and work supervisors.
Applicants who were not Psychology majors as undergraduates require the following
courses: in the Agency/Community Counseling Track, Introduction to Psychology; and in the Elementary/Secondary School Counseling Track, 1) Introduction to Psychology and 2) Abnormal Psychology.
A baccalaureate degree in a discipline related to the Social Sciences is appropriate.
Applicants are asked to submit two essays, each 1-2 pages in length double-spaced, that indicate their goals and objectives for obtaining
a master's degree. The following questions are to be addressed:
1) What are your three major life goals and how do you plan to achieve
them? 2) Why do you want to become a counselor? This statement is evaluated against the
program's mission.
The GRE/MAT is required. It is expected
that the scores, whether GRE or MAT, will be at the 50th percentile or above.
The program evaluates all components of the GRE, but gives
somewhat more weight to the verbal and writing score.
Minimum TOEFL score or range of scores needed
to be accepted:
600 paper-based, 250 computer-based, or 100 internet-based.
Applicants who pass the initial application screening will
be invited for a group interview with members
of the faculty between February and April. The interviews
will be used to obtain additional data related to admissions
criteria (e.g., clarify questions raised by the candidate's
application) and to assess the communications
skills that are associated with success in counselor training.
A resume is required.
Courses from an accredited institution may be transferred
into the program if they were completed less
than five years from the date of admission to the program;
have not been used to complete another degree; and
are relevant to the field of Counseling Psychology.
The maximum number of credits a student may transfer
is 9.
Number of Didactic Credits required Beyond
the Baccalaureate: 60
Required Courses:
CN PSY 5492: Theories of Counseling Psychology
CN PSY 5511: Counseling in the Schools
CN PSY 5691: Diagnosis in Counseling Psychology
CN PSY 5519: Group Counseling
CN PSY 5526: Multicultural Counseling
CN PSY 5565: Professional Issues in Diverse School Settings
CN PSY 5566: Professional Issues in Agencies
CN PSY 5579: Introduction to Couples and Family Counseling
CN PSY 5591: Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling Psychology
CN PSY 5593: Career Counseling and Development
CN PSY 5694: Introduction to Assessment
CN PSY 5698: Counseling Psychology Laboratory I
CN PSY 5699: Counseling Psychology Laboratory II
CN PSY 9085: Advanced Counseling Techniques
CN PSY 9185: Master's Internship in Counseling Psychology
CN PSY 9285: Master's Internship in Counseling Psychology
CN PSY 9387: Practicum in Counseling Psychology I & II
ED 5325: Introduction to Statistics and Research
ED PSYCH 5541: Concepts in Human Development
One 3-credit elective
Internship: An internship is required. Students are expected to complete
280 direct client contact hours at a training site approved by the
program (total internship hours = 780). Students seeking school certification complete their
training in a school setting, whereas agency/community counseling
students complete their training in a community mental health
setting. Students receive individual on-site supervision
and faculty supervision as a part of their training experience.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
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The comprehensive
examination is designed to provide students
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ability to integrate and apply both their
didactic and practice-oriented academic
experiences. Students
are eligible to complete the comprehensive
examination after all of the required coursework
has been completed. The exam consists of one broad question with multiple sections, which requires a response in a four-hour period of time. Questions
are designed to assess a combination of
theoretical and practical knowledge, as
well as legal and ethical issues.
The comprehensive examination is given during the Spring semester each year. The exam is offered on a Saturday afternoon in one of the computer laboratories located on Main Campus. Faculty members who are not responsible for writing the question or scoring the responses proctor the examination.
Faculty members
rotate on an annual basis with regard to
writing the comprehensive examination question
and scoring the responses. They independently score each examination response
using a 5-point Likert scale. All responses
are graded anonymously. Any student(s) who
writes an exemplary response receives a "pass
with distinction."
The scores from
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students receive a mean score. In the event
that there is great variation between the
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the student and one faculty member fails
the student), a third faculty member scores
the response and determines whether or not
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Students who fail the written aspect of
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an oral examination in order to pass the
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Counseling Psychology Program
Ritter Annex, 2nd Floor (003-09/10)
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091
Dr. Gregory M. Tucker
Program Coordinator:
Dr. Portia Hunt
Graduate Chairperson:
Dr. Joseph DuCette
Department of Psychological Studies in Education
The Counseling Psychology Program offers
students advanced study in the areas of Agency/Community
Counseling and Elementary/Secondary School
Counseling. The program is designed to facilitate
the development of the student as a competent
practitioner and researcher. Students are
trained to become professionals who are capable
of entering into relationships with clients
with an integrated theory of counseling, understanding
of the counselor's role, knowledge about ethics
and cultural diversity, and an ability to
promote client change.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 4 years
Students are able to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m. Students are able to complete
the degree program on a part-time basis (8
credit hours or less per semester).
Counseling Psychology Program
Ritter Annex, 2nd Floor (003-09/10)
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091
The program encourages interdisciplinary training experiences. Students are required to complete elective coursework designed to enhance their professional development.
The program offers training in either
Agency/Community Counseling or Elementary/Secondary
School Counseling. Faculty research interests
are varied and focus on topics such as addictions,
social policy as it applies to urban populations,
supervision and training, diversity/multicultural
issues, and health psychology.
Graduates typically engage in careers
as agency/community counselors or elementary/secondary
school counselors, or use their degrees to
pursue doctoral training in a field related to Counseling Psychology. Students in the Elementary/Secondary School Counseling Track
are eligible to apply for the Pennsylvania
school counseling certification (Educational
Specialist I) at the time of their graduation
from the program.
Students in the Agency/Community Counseling Track are license-eligible (Licensed Professional Counselor-LPC) upon graduation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania once they complete the post-degree
requirements specified by the state licensing board. Approximately two additional years of post-master's work experience is required prior to sitting for licensure.
Students may complete up to 9 credits prior to admission to the program.
With the exception of practice-related coursework,
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Assistantships are available. Students who wish to apply for an assistantship should submit an application to Dr. Jan Price Greenough, Graduate Programs Office, 150 Ritter Hall Annex, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Applications are found on the College of Education website at http://www.temple.edu/education/pdfs/assistantship-application.pdf.
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Try this approach so that you don't end up with lines that are too short: http://seanterrill.com/2011/11/11/a-more-accurate-approach-to-draft-system-balancing/
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Quote from: tschmidlin on January 18, 2012, 11:14:09 PMNice, send us to your blackout page Yes, that is what I did. On purpose. That. Sorry about the politics. It really was unintentional.