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Mutant: Year Zero takes you to the world after the great Apocalypse. Humanity's proud civilization has fallen. The cities are dead wastelands, winds sweeping along empty streets turned into graveyards. But life remains. Among the ruins, the People live. You are the heirs of humanity - but not quite human anymore. Your bodies and minds are capable of superhuman feats. You are mutants.
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Here are four lies that are easy to believe when you are depressed and feeling condemned.
These come from Ed Welch's book, Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness:
Do you believe that some things you have done are too bad to be forgiven?
If so, you are believing Satan's lie that the blood of Jesus can only handle little or unintentional sins. The truth is that, through the cross, the judgment for sin has been taken by Christ for those who believe, including yourself if you have claimed faith in Jesus.
Do you believe that it is impossible for the Holy God to love you and even delight in you?
If so, you are believing Satan's lie that God loves you because of what you do. The truth is that he loves you because he is the God who loves, and the sacrifice of Jesus proves it. The cross of Christ expresses God's delight in all who believe, and if you believe that Jesus is the risen Lord, he delights in and loves you.
Do you believe that you have no reason to live?
If so, you are believing Satan's lie that you belong only to yourself. The truth is that you belong to God and you have a God-given purpose. Furthermore, the cross of Christ reveals that God's purposes for your life are good.
Do you believe that these questions are unimportant?
If so, you are believing Satan's lie that our relationship with God is unrelated to our struggle with depression. The truth is that your relationship with God is absolutely necessary, especially now. Your life depends on it.
The question when you are feeling depressed and condemned is: will you believe the lies or will you believe what God has said through the cross?


text: There's a haunted house and woodlice from space. And lots of young people get eaten. The Time Treadmill Ron Miles 12th DoctorBill PottsNardole Jul 30 2018 I got a bit behind again, but I am catching up here. I still need to double up on two days to finish on schedule, so right now I am targeting Saturday and Sunday to do that. Holy cow, a week from now I will be done with this ridiculous project, can you believe it?!? So anyway, let's talk about haunted houses. Knock Knock (TARDIS Data Core recap) When this episode first aired last year, I did not think very highly of it. Upon re-watch, I actually liked it a bit better. I still didn't love it, but it did evoke a kind of 70's haunted house horror vibe that I appreciated a little better this time around. The gist of the story is that Bill, being a poor college-age person in a college town, joins a group of five other students to rent a house together. Being poor college-age kids, all of their options are terrible, and they end up settling on the Generic Creepy House with a Creepy Old Man for a landlord, because that never goes badly. The Doctor helps Bill move her stuff, and then decides to overstay his welcome because he accurately recognizes that the Generic Creepy House is, indeed, creepy. Before long all of the NotBills start getting eaten by the house one-by one, devoured by mysterious alien woodlice that come burrowing out of the walls and floors. Eventually it comes down to Bill and the Doctor facing off with the Creepy Old Man plus the Secret Wooden Woman, who says that the Creepy Old Man is her father and has kept her alive by feeding people to the woodlice. Which, ok, not sure how that works, but cool. And then the big twist: this has been going on for at least seventy years, and the Creepy Old Man is actually the Secret Wooden Woman's son. So mom decides that her continued existence isn't worth the lives of all of these people, and summons the woodlice to devour her and the son, and also to give back all of the housemates that had been devoured that night. They all stagger away into the night, and the house collapses into itself. So yeah, actually a fairly creepy story. I feel like if it had been thirty minutes longer with a hard-R rating it would have had more time to build tension and have a few more inventive deaths before the big reveal, but given the constraints of hourly television it worked pretty well. Still not an episode I would ever go out of my way to watch again, but certainly a damn sight better than most of Capaldi's first season. What do you know, this one actually aged better. What a happy turn of events. STATS: Doctor(s): Twelfth Companion(s): Bill Potts, Nardole Episode(s): Knock Knock Steps Walked: 7,608 today, 3,565,509 total Distance Walked: 4.06 miles today, 1,864.61 miles total Push-ups Completed: 0 today, 6,747 total Sit-ups Completed: 0 today, 1,029 total Weight: 247.38 lbs (five day moving average), net change -59.92 lbs < Previous Post So the Tardis has dresses and likes a bit of trouble? Yeah, I think I'm low-key in love with her. Next Post Failing that, I think I've got some spare eyes somewhere. They're from a lizard, but I'm sure they'll fit.


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Let's begin with a little Fiona Apple.
Now quit yer bouncing and read on.
Our bodies truly are extraordinary machines. I found out from the wonder that is the internet that our noses have smell-memories that remember up to 50,000 scents! That's a lot of smell. And pound for pound, a human baby is stronger than an ox (lazy though…very lazy). Apparently, each of our kidneys contains 1 million individual filters, and these filter an average of around 2.2 pints of blood per minute, and expel up to 2.5 pints a day of urine (yum). Our lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries and laid end to end, they would stretch 1500 miles (that's the distance, as the crow flies, from Dublin to Rome). Nerve impulses to and from our brains travel as fast as 170 miles per hour (but still not fast enough to feel pain instantaneously when stubbing your toe). In an average lifetime, the human body produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools (instead of chlorine, you'd get lots of lovely electrolytes, mucus, blood, antibacterial compounds and enzymes). Our sneezes leave the body at speeds up to 100 miles per hour, and we have a strange penchant for vocalising them. Human beings are the only animals to shed tears linked to emotion and despite how it may seem at times, human hair is virtually indestructible!
That kind of information, despite the fact that we are literally embodying it at this very moment, doesn't mean all that much to us. Our lived experience resonates more with the reality that our body is quite simply our vehicle for getting us around. We use it to express our affections and our violences. We use it to communicate, to think, to work and to act creatively. We spend our days consumed with meeting its needs – hygiene, warmth, food, water, rest etc. We've got exactly one each and they are in various states of disrepair. We spend half our time abusing them and the other half treating them with reverence. We move them in time to music and we sing with them and beat our hands together in appreciation of things. We type and write symbols that we've all agreed on and form words which started in our brains. We walk and run long distances. We sit in metal tubes and boxes that mechanically transport our bodies at astonishing speeds. We sit in the same place staring at computer screens for hours on end. We hug and kiss and have sex or masturbate. We value our bodies' health very highly and experience deep shock when we learn that they are, as all bodies do, breaking down. We look in the mirror and we experience indifference, disgust, insecurity or perhaps, tentative, joy? We stiffen up when angry. We loosen up when drunk. We stretch like cats in the morning and at night. We wriggle our toes inside our shoes. We smell our own armpits. We pound pavements and climb stairs and lift weights and imitate the movements of Wii fit instructors or Davina McCall. We absorb beauty through our eyes, our noses, our mouths and our ears. We taste sweet, sour, salt and bitter. We pray with our bodies. We meditate from our bodies. Our bodies work, work, work at keeping us alive. Our bodies store extra calories as adipose, for rainy days. Our bodies fight infections and diseases, making us hot and achy. They cool us down with sweat when our temperatures rises. Our bodies produce antibodies for our babies, who get nourishment from our milk. Our bodies climb mountains and lie in sunshine and snuggle babies (anyone's baby!) and hold hands. Our bodies seem to vibrate and pulsate with emotion: have you felt your blood boil? Or your heart sing? Our bodies are wondrous, stunning miracles of nature that carry us and are us and reflect our ages and experiences in their very substance. They are instruments of action, of every action, in fact!
And yet, somehow, for some reason, we have come to a place where we're simply not allowed to like those bodies…if they're in any way fat.


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Māori language student Peter Calder explains why, for a Pākehā, learning te reo is a great adventure and a small gesture.
In hindsight, it seems glib, even faintly patronising, and I've stopped saying it. The classic mountaineer's response – "Because it's there" – seems more apt. But I hardly need to make either response, because these days, the question seldom comes up. This year, in some centres, Māori-language beginners' courses were so oversubscribed that those on waiting lists, some as long as 300, would have to wait until next year or beyond.
Clumsy attempts
I have lost count of the number of times I have begun the process of trying to develop some command of the first language spoken in these islands. I dabbled at university and, later, at teachers' college in the 1970s. I tried to make myself inconspicuous at the back of the hall during the lunchtime kapa haka sessions at the first school I taught at, praying that no one would notice my clumsy attempts to imitate the fluid grace of those in front.
Several attempts at night class followed, notably in 1990, when I made it something of a personal project to mark the sesquicentenary of the Treaty of Waitangi. But then, and each other time, my commitment teetered and then toppled.
Looking back, I think the reason for that was a sort of cognitive dissonance that, I suspect, most Pākehā – supporters and opponents alike of more widespread use of te reo – feel when they step into te ao Māori: I found myself in a world that was familiar to me, yet full of unknown elements. My ignorance made me uneasy, despite the warmth of the welcome that greeted my desire to learn.
A few years ago, I signed up again. It was hardly the boots-and-all commitment of full-time, full-immersion, but this course, of two two-hour sessions a week, felt pretty full-on. They carved through the material; I had to do homework, assignments, exams. In year two, speaking English in class was discouraged; in year three, it was, at least technically, forbidden, although the teachers responded kindly to the pleas of this sexagenarian slow learner for the occasional explanation in te reo Pākehā.
Most weeks, one way or another, we found ourselves having to address the class, at moderate length, in Māori. Mostly we stumbled; often we fell; always we got back to our feet and stumbled on, taking strength from our classmates' cries of encouragement.
I didn't find it hard. I found it bloody hard. I have learnt several other languages (all European), but learning Māori was a challenge of a different order. Grammar and sentence structure did not obey the rules I was used to; the passive voice ("The fish was caught by me") was commonly preferred; many concepts were not easily understood as I continued to think in translation, as it were, trying to approach Māori as if it were just English with different words.
Add to that the declining capacities of the ageing brain to absorb new information, and it felt like I was really up against it. I could still remember French and Latin vocabulary and grammar I learnt at 13, but would forget Māori words and phrases I had learnt the day before.
Yet slowly, I began to come up with phrases, then sentences. I could sometimes say what I wanted to say, even if it meant making up my own words. This led to hilarious moments: "whare mate" joins the words for "house" and "sick" in a way that I thought would do service as "hospital" but if I had been to more tangi, I would have known that the whare mate is where the tūpāpaku (the body of the deceased) is laid out.
"Rakiraki" means duck; "rakuraku" guitar. I won't forget those words in a hurry because I once proudly told the class that I can play the duck. The laughter that greeted my howler made my cheeks burn, but not for long, because it was so affectionate. If there is one surefire way to endear yourself to everyone in a Māori setting, it's to laugh along when you're the joke.
Beyond the blunder, and even beyond the occasional glimmers of competence, I noticed I was learning something other than the language. Gradually, I began to get a sense that a Māori perspective on the world, on society, on each other, on life, death and love, was – sometimes subtly, sometimes hugely – different from my own. An example: the preposition used for past time is the same as the one for "in front of you", and for future, "behind you"; the past you can see, but the future lies, unknown and unseen, behind.
It may seem a small point, but it is one of many I met and meet daily. "Aroha" cannot be rendered by a single word in English, because the concept, I suspect, simply doesn't exist in exactly the same way for English speakers: yet it is so central to the notion of being Māori that you will virtually never hear a song that doesn't contain the word.
Solemn occasions
Here, in short, was a world hiding in plain sight, and inhabited by the people of this, and no other, land. And, like someone driving north or south on a high-speed motorway, not seeing the old, parallel road, hidden behind trees a few hundred metres to east or west, I was pretty much unaware of it.
The protocols of hospitality, the conduct of meetings, the respect accorded to old people, the tolerance shown to kids running around on solemn occasions, the utter unthinkability of being welcomed without appointing one of your number to reply in thanks: none of these can you learn from a book. At some time, you have to stand in that world, and the language is the key to the door leading to it. The phrase in the karakia that we said at the beginning of each class – "toku reo, toku ohooho" ("my language [is] my awakening") – had more force than I'd realised.
We are frequently assailed with the many reasons why we should not learn Māori: no one elsewhere speaks it; the language is dying; our kids should learn Mandarin or Spanish; all you need is English.
But apart from English, Māori is the only spoken language that, with minimal effort, you can get to use daily in Aotearoa New Zealand. Free resources abound, online, on TV and in educational institutions. You can speak it a bit at home and then venture out into the world.
Te reo Māori is part of what makes us what we are. It's in our street and place names, in the stories of our mountains and rivers, in our dialect of English, in our public documents.
Expression of respect
Learning language so you can order a cup of coffee on the Left Bank or in Red Square is noble, though it will prove a poor return on the investment of your time. And it's true that no Māori speaker will have trouble understanding me if I ask in English for a cup of tea.
But I have studied and continue to learn the language because it deepens my sense of who I am. I can trace my ancestry to Yorkshire and Cornwall and Lincolnshire and it strikes me as interesting, but it doesn't feel familiar to me the way a barbie or a pohutukawa-fringed beach or a haka do. When I'm in England, the locals seem like a very foreign bunch indeed.
I am a specific kind of descendant of the tribes of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, utterly different from the ones who ended up in the US or Australia or Canada, with whom I also sense no commonality. My identity – Pākehā, which I proudly write in the ethnicity box on forms – is defined by its contradistinction to the identity called Māori. I am what I am because Māori are what Māori are.
In short, learning te reo grounds me more firmly as a New Zealander. But it seems worth adding that it's also a long-overdue expression of respect for a culture that has been endlessly and generously accommodating to me and my forebears. As a nation, we pay lip service to the idea of biculturalism, but, in my experience, few Pākehā have the faintest sense of what it means. Māori have been living biculturally, year in, year out, for more than two centuries.
For a Pākehā, learning te reo is a great adventure and a small gesture: it says, in a quiet voice, steadily growing in volume: "Yes, at last, I have noticed you are here. I see you. And I'm going to try harder to pay attention."
This article was first published in the July 14, 2018 issue of the New Zealand Listener.


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If you've never asked yourself this question, today is the day.
With every day that goes by, you are either moving TOWARD your dreams or away from them. If you're moving away from your dreams and goals, then you are committing to your fears. If you're moving towards them, you are committing to your dreams.
A lot of times people feel they need to wait until they are 'ready' to start experiencing their highest desires. What if I told you that waiting until you're 'ready' is a belief, sometimes a limiting one, that can be overcome with enough courage.
What if I told you there was no such thing as 'ready'? What if there was only making the decision to start and figuring out a way to get it done?
A lot of people feel challenged with this because they don't know where to start.
Take John for example. John wanted to retire in 10 years but he didn't know if he had enough money. So, in working with John, the first place I started was not with how much money he had saved, but with WHY he wanted to retire?
This is a little known secret, but most people within 2-5 years of retirement end up with an empty feeling because there are only so many games of golf and cruises they can go on. (This empty feeling and lack of activity causes our bodies to deteriorate and our minds to decay.)
The reason I asked why John wanted to retire was to see if there was a desire to simply stop working altogether OR was he simply unhappy with his current career/lifestyle choice.
See, as humans, we can get so busy and caught up IN our own world that we never work ON our world.
What I mean by that is we don't spend enough time designing the life we would love to live and possibly never retire from.
After hearing John's answer, it was evident that he did not want to simply quit and do nothing in 10 years but after 20 years of working in a job he hated, he figured in 10 years he would have just enough money in his investments to quit and do nothing.
Most people have never thought they can have a life so well designed and filled with activities we enjoy that simply retiring so we can do nothing seems silly.
Let me tell you, it is real and it is possible. If you are struggling to design your life so that you have all the financial abundance you need to live the life you want, I would love to help you create your map to freedom with a FREE 60 minute Breakthrough Session.
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Broward High Schools
Last week's best Broward high school performances
Romilaire Ambroise scored the game-winning goal as the Deerfield Beach boys' soccer team (19-2-4) beat archrival Monarch 3-2 for the District 12-5A title.
Jacaira Allen, Dillard, girls' basketball: The BCAA Big 8 Girls' MVP had 21 points, 18 rebounds and 10 steals to lead the Panthers, (23-1, ranked No.9 by USA Today) over Flanagan 47-34 for the title.
Javier Silva, Cypress Bay, boys' soccer: Silva made the clinching save in a penalty shootout as the Lightning beat St. Thomas Aquinas 3-2 (10-9 in penalty kicks) for the District 13-5A title.
Lexi Dubrueze, North Broward, girls' soccer: Dubrueze had two goals and an assist to lead the Eagles (19-3-1) over Benjamin 5-1 in the Class 2A Region quarterfinals.
Mikiah Harrigan, Flanagan, girls' basketball: The 6-2 junior standout had a game-high 20 points and 20 rebounds to help the Falcons (19-6) upset Class 7A No.1 Nova 60-50 in the BCAA Big 8 girls' semifinals.
David Moya, Archbishop McCarthy, boys' basketball: Moya scored a game-high 20 points to help the Mavericks (16-5) beat Archbishop Carroll 75-74.
Malik Morrow, Calvary Christian, boys' basketball: Morrow had a game-high 14 points to help the Eagles rally past St. Andrews 52-50.
Antonio Vrankovic, Pine Crest, boys' basketball: The 6-11 senior tied Brandon Knight's school single-game-scoring record of 55 points and added 17 rebounds in a 87-65 victory over Taravella.
Andrew Valverde, South Broward , wrestling: Valverde swept the 113-pound weight division to help the Bulldogs beat Flanagan and Fort Lauderdale.


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News from the papers - Sept 21st
European stocks rallied after the biggest drop in a week as Greece described its debt talks as "productive" and investors speculated the Federal Reserve will provide more stimulus. The cost of insuring Italy's debt rose to a record after Standard & P
Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. chief executive officers are squared off in court today to resolve a dispute that may pose the biggest threat to Google's Android mobile software, now running on more than 150 million devices.
Irish exploration company Petroneft has reported revenue of €15.9 million for the six months ended 30th June 2011. There is no equivalent figure for the same period last year but revenue for the full year ended 31st December 2010 was €5.2 million. Th
The cost of insuring against a default on German and Italian government debt jumped to record levels as Italy's downgrade signalled Europe's debt crisis is spreading.
German investor confidence fell to the lowest in more than 2 1/2 years in September as Europe's debt crisis and a global slowdown damped the outlook for growth.
Eight offshore banks are under federal grand jury investigation for facilitating tax evasion by U.S. citizens as part of a probe the Justice Department said has dealt "fabled Swiss bank secrecy a devastating blow."
Germany's lower house of parliament must in future approve each payment made by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) or changes to the fund, the German newspaper Bild has reported.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is to invest $200 million (€147m) at its Grange Castle biotechnology manufacturing facility in Clondalkin, Co. Dublin.
Indian based global IT services company, HCL Technologies is to establish a software delivery centre in Dublin and create 80 information technology jobs over 3 years.
Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado said a breakup of the euro area shouldn't even be discussed, when urging governments to help Greece, according to a Bloomberg report.
The International Air Transport Association has raised its 2011 forecast for global airline profits by 73 per cent because of stronger-than-expected demand in Europe and the Middle East.
The ISEQ index of Irish shares fell 0.8 per cent at the open this morning. Declines in the ISEQ Index were led by CRH, Kenmare Resources and Elan Corp..
There are colourful photos of the Dublin football teams rapturous homecoming in all the papers but the euro crisis and macro economics continue to dominate the agenda in most papers this morning.
Italy's credit rating was cut by Standard & Poor's on concern that weakening economic growth and a "fragile" government mean the nation won't be able to reduce the euro-region's second-largest debt burden, say reports this morning.


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Skill development for OSY
On December 12, 2016, 25 out-of-school-youth (OSY) IPs got their certificates for completing the six-month residential programme of the Palawan Conservation Corps (PCC), a non-government organization catering to OSY through the conduct of several trainings for skill development such as capacity building, environment conservation, organic farming, alternative learning system, among others.
During the graduation ceremony held at the Rural Agricultural Centre in Puerto Princesa, PCC Executive Director Cherry de Dios lauded the graduates for finishing the programme. She also expressed her gratitude to PSFI for its indelible support to the developments of IPs.
Jomar Reyes, the batch valedictorian, commended PSFI for opening opportunities to enhance their skills. He further expressed that what they gained in the programme will help them provide for their family needs.
The partnership between PCC and PSFI started in 2015. A total of 44 OSY IPs have graduated since.


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Karla Kane Releases New Folk-pop Single, "King's Daughter's Home For Incurables,"
"I don't know if this machine can kill fascists, but maybe annoying them's alright for now…"
The Corner Laughers' lead singer/songwriter Karla Kane releases the second single, "King's Daughter's Home For Incurables," off of her upcoming debut solo album, due out October 6 on Mystery Lawn Music (US)/Gare du Nord Records (UK). The song is an enchanting and epic mix of the sincere and the tongue and cheek, full of timely political references, intriguing symbolism, and a wistful melody that takes listeners from the shores of California to the lush green fields of the English countryside. It's a gentle rallying nudge for dreamers and would-be artists and activists to stand up for what they believe in, in whatever ways they can.
Ken Anderson and Rebecca Hall, of the acclaimed folk duo Hungrytown, contributed banjo and backing vocals to the authentically folky arrangement.
As the title track for her debut solo album, Kane wanted the song to set the scene for the entire record with rich imagery and playfully clever lyrics woven throughout each piece of melodic fabric. The title was inspired by a historic Julia Morgan-designed building in Oakland, CA, called the King's Daughters Home For Incurables, which is now used as a mental-health facility. A prolific architect, Morgan designed hundreds of buildings in California, but this one stood out. Kane explains, "I was attracted to the name for its odd mixture of whimsy, grandiosity and pathos. To me, 'King's Daughters Home For Incurables' sounds like a place where people who feel overwhelmed by the current state of reality might take refuge."
About Karla Kane
Karla Kane is best known as the lead singer/songwriter/ukulele player for California band the Corner Laughers. They have released four albums, plus two more with the side project Agony Aunts. Her first solo release, King's Daughters Home For Incurables, is due out this October on Mystery Lawn Music/Gare du Nord. Kane has performed alongside members of Fountains of Wayne and The Soft Boys, Martin Newell, Hungrytown, and Allen Clapp (The Orange Peels). Her music has been featured in retail stores including Old Navy, Victoria's Secret and American Eagle and played on the BBC, CBC and radio stations throughout the U.S.. Kane has received multiple awards including Twirl Radio's Twirly Award for album of the year 2009/10 and runners-up in 2012 and 2015, and best album of the year (2015) in Discussions Magazine and Goldmine Magazine.


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has created works for leading dancers from the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet. Other commissions include Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Youth America Grand Prix, Opera North, Staten Island Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, ChoreoPlan , National Choreographers Initiative, E-moves at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse, the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, and the Vassar Repertoire Dance Theatre. During David's dance career, he performed with Chicago's Boitsov Classical Ballet, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ballet Theatre of Chicago, and in Indiana University's production of "Don Quixote," directed by Susan Jones of the American Ballet Theatre. David also had the honor of performing alongside Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Doctor and The Patient" at the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival. In recent news David will be choreographing for Lloyd Knight, principal dancer of Martha Graham Dance Company, and Ask La Cour, principal dancer at New York City Ballet, for his original series "New York Duets". In 2017 he will be a resident choreographer at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
is an award-winning choreographer, dance educator, speaker, and social media expert based out of both New York City and Philadelphia. He currently works as Ballet and Contemporary faculty at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway, and manages the contemporary dance department at Greenwich Ballet Academy. He has choreographed for numerous organizations, held the position of Artistic Director of Alaska Dance Theatre, hosts the Pas de Chát: Talking Dance podcast on the Premier Dance Network, and runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer. Barry began his professional career with Houston Ballet. The following season he joined Pacific Northwest Ballet, where he danced leading and featured roles for seven seasons and worked as a delegate for the American Guild of Musical Artists. As a Principal with Ballet X, Barry spent 4 years traveling the nation as a Principal Guest Artist.
As a dance-maker, Barry has been commissioned by the Columbia Ballet Collaborative at Columbia University (NYC), CelloPointe (NYC), Uptown Dance Company (Houston), and the Men in Dance festival (Seattle). In 2014, he was selected out of over 60 international applicants to choreograph at the National Choreographers Initiative. He was a finalist at both the McCallum Theatre's 18th annual Choreography Festival and the 2nd annual Visions Choreographic Competition. Mr. Kerollis has also received an Outstanding Choreographer award at Youth America Grand Prix. Beyond these achievement, Barry has created works for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Alaska Dance Theatre, Pulse Dance Company, and four works for Pacific Northwest Ballet's annual Next Step choreographers showcase.
, winner of a 2014 Princess Grace Award for Choreography, is a New York City-based choreographer and dancer. Born in Savannah, Georgia, she was trained at the Boston Ballet School and joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal in 2000, earning her soloist promotion in 2003. At the invitation of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon she moved to New York City in 2009 to join his company Morphoses. Ms. Lamb, who began choreographing in 2005, has won the National Choreographic Competition of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2009 as well as, in 2013, First Prizes in Milwaukee Ballet's Genesis International Choreographic Competition and Western Michigan University's National Choreographic Competition. She was named winner of the Banff Centre's 2014-15 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award; and in 2014 she was honored with a New York City Center Choreography Fellowship. Her movement style and theatricality have been profoundly influenced by the choreographers whose work she danced during her performing career, including George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, and Shen Wei. Since moving to New York she has also created leading roles in new works by contemporary artists such as Pontus Lidberg, Luca Veggetti, Matthew Neenan, Adam Barruch, Shannon Gillen, and Emery Lecrone.
is a native of Guam. She started her dance training with ballet, jazz, and hip hop under the direction of John Grensback and Bettina Sanzotta. While living on Guam, she attended summer intensives at Houston Ballet and Boston Ballet. At the age of 16, she moved from Guam to New York City to continue her classical training at Ballet Academy East. In 2007 she received a scholarship to be a trainee with Richmond Ballet and in 2009 received an apprenticeship with Charlotte Ballet (formerly North Carolina Dance Theatre) under Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride.
Caili joined BalletX in January of 2013 and has had the opportunity to originate roles in new works by Matthew Neenan, Nicolo Fonte, Trey McIntyre, Jodie Gates, Gabrielle Lamb, Adam Barruch, Yin Yue, among others. She has also toured nationally with the company to the Vail International Dance Festival, Vail Dance Festival, ReMix at New York City Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Fall for Dance Festival, SummerStage, and the Joyce Theater. She has choreographed for Konverjdans and First State Ballet Theatre. She, along with two other dancers in the company, were featured in Chris Kasper's music video, "Raven and the Rose". Prior to joining BalletX, she spent three seasons with First State Ballet Theatre and performed with Opera Delaware.
began her training at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under Marcia Dale Weary and became a scholarship student at the School of American Ballet in New York. At the age of 16, she was selected by George Balanchine to join New York City Ballet. During her 15 years with the company, Ms. Wingert danced over 25 principal, solo, and featured roles in productions that include Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coppelia, Orpheus, Symphony in C, Jewels, Who Cares?, Stars and Stripes, The Nutcracker, The Four Temperaments, and Mozartiana; Jerome Robbins's The Concert and Antique Epigraphs, and Peter Martins's The Sleeping Beauty. A principal and soloist with numerous nationally acclaimed companies, her film and television credits include George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (Time-Warner), PBS Great Performances: Dinner With Balanchine; Dance in America: Balanchine — Serenade and Western Symphony; Peter Martins's Concerto for Two Solo Pianos; and Live From Lincoln Center: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
As one of a small group of artists selected by the George Balanchine Trust to set his choreography, Wingert she has traveled throughout the United States, setting and staging the Balanchine repertoire for Butler University, Indiana University, Baltimore School for the Arts, Joffrey Ballet Chicago, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, to name a few.
Wingert is currently head faculty at Manhattan Youth Ballet. She has been a guest instructor for many companies and schools including Princeton University, Harvard University, University of California Santa Barbara, Dance Theater of Harlem, Jessica Lang Dance, Kyle Abraham: AIM, Sarasota Ballet, and Ballet Met, and Interlochen. She joined the Juilliard ballet faculty in 2017.
has a BA degree in Women's Studies from Columbia University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. On faculty of The Ailey School for over 20 years, she also served as Co-Director of the Junior Division from 1996-2001. She is a ballet professor at Marymount Manhattan College since 1998 and was awarded the Teacher Recognition Award in 2008. Trained in both classical ballet and Horton technique, she began her professional dance career at the age of 16, performing with Dayton Ballet, Hartford Ballet, The Feld Ballet, Joyce Trisler Danscompany, Alabama/Ballet South and Connecticut Ballet. Her musical theater credits include The King and I for Papermill Playhouse and Maine State Music Theater, Funny Feet, An Off-Broadway Musical at the Lamb's Theater and Brigadoon for New England Lyric Operetta. Ms. Comendador is an established costume designer and has designed for dance companies such as, Ailey II, Colorado Ballet, Complexions, Connecticut Ballet, Montgomery Ballet, ABT II, Philadanco, The Limon Dance Company, and Morphoses. She is also a Teaching Artist in costume design for American Ballet Theater's 'Make a Ballet Program
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As our recent heatwave showed, summertime is really, truly here. With the summer heat comes a whole slew of wonderful, cooling foods available in your garden, at your neighborhood farmer's market, or at a You-Pick farm.
As I've mentioned before, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) encourages eating local, fresh fare. So, it's essential to sculpt your summer diet around what you have available near you. It's also important to focus on the health of specific organs and eating specific types of foods as the seasons change.
Heal Your Heart and Small Intestine in Summer
Each food has different qualities and benefits, so what you eat and when you eat it is an important part of natural healing. In summer, we focus on heart and small intestine health, encouraging you to enjoy seasonal foods that benefit these organs. Seasonal foods that are perfect for summertime wellness include:
Red apples
Red grapes
Melons (as they come into season)
Brussels sprouts
Garlic/Garlic Scapes
Leafy greens
And so many more! Summer is a time of abundance, so be sure to add seasonal foods to every meal you can.
Five Simple Strategies for Adding Fresh Foods to Your Summer Meals
You may see foods you've never tried at your local farmer's market this season. If you haven't eaten outside of your comfort zone, I'm hoping you will experiment with seasonal foods throughout summer. Here are five quick and easy ways you can add more fresh fruits and vegetables to your daily meals:
Enjoy a stir fry. Include foods like bitter melon, garlic, onion, zucchini, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and leafy greens in a quick stir fry. Adding some fresh fare to your stir fry can not only make it taste much more delicious, but any new flavors you add will also meld with the whole dish – making it taste less experimental and more like you're eating at a high-end restaurant.
Leave a little room for dessert. Instead of going straight for the ice cream, eat fresh fruits for dessert. Watermelon, berries, seasonal melons, and grapes are all incredibly refreshing and can add a little zest to the end of your meal! If it's just too hot to eat fruit, try a smoothie by throwing fresh fruit and frozen fruit into the blender. You'll be surprised how delicious and refreshing they taste!
Skip salty snacks. With the kids of summer vacation, it's easy to go straight for bagged chips, pretzels, and other salty snacks. However, you might be surprised what your kids will pick to munch on when you have a healthy supply of grapes and apple slices, cut up watermelon, fresh berries, and snap peas to enjoy. Even a little cucumber salad with a vinaigrette dressing and hummus may hit the spot. Try stocking up on fresh fruits and veggies in place of salty chips and see if you and your child make healthier choices.
Hydrate with fruit. When you are sick of drinking water all day long, and it's too hot for tea, try hydrating with fresh fruit. Watermelon and grapes are fantastic options.
Toss together a summer salad. Making salad can seem like a chore, but it's really pretty simple in the summer. You can just chop up a cucumber or put whole snap peas in a bowl. Add some feta, red onions, and/or garlic or garlic scapes and a little bit of vinaigrette, and you are serving up a salad! You can also go fruity with summer salads and do a strawberry salad with some lettuce and vinaigrette. With so many fruits and vegetables to choose from, summer salads can be a simple and delicious way to add more fruit or veggies to your diet.
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Simply put, there are some moments in your life when you are just blown away. Something, someone, or an idea, might hit you in the face with utter disbelief to keep you feeling human. It's a common phenomenon that doesn't seem to happen too often these days in the automotive scene. Mainstream motorsport gets duller by the year, show cars that were once big in the wow factor are slowly dying off and tried and true combinations take place over trial and error.
During a pit walk at Phillip Island during the Topstage Composites Vic Time Attack Challenge, that moment of disbelief hit me so hard in the face, I nearly dropped my camera, coffee, and doughnut. I think not for the fact of what I was seeing, but for the fact that it was almost so sacrilege, I thought never in my life would I see it completed.
The disbelief in question was the sight of this particular Mazda RX-7 FD sitting among a stable of BYP Racing Hondas. That in itself should have been the giveaway that I was looking at no ordinary Mazda RX-7, but rather one that BYP Racing had cooked up in their deep dark lair, west of Sydney.
Yes, that's right. This Mazda RX-7 was built by BYP Racing. Why is this so significant you're wondering? Well, BYP Racing are a Honda tuning workshop and haven't been known to dabble in the Wankel tuning world… So instead, a plan was hatched to install a K20A engine into this particular example, that is owned by Adrian Pazman.
A client of BYP Racing, Adrian is not new to the Honda tuning world, having owned a very potent B16A turbo Honda Civic, that makes its way around Wakefield Park in 1:05.4. With the proof evident that Hondas can cop a beating, but having owned Mazda RX-7s in the past, the team at BYP Racing pitched the idea of a K20A-swapped RX-7 when Adrian was ready to move into another rear-wheel drive platform. It had the reliability box ticked, wouldn't upset the weight balance a great deal, however, an N/A K20A engine wouldn't be enough, so from the get-go, a turbo setup was also planned.
An RX-7 was purchased that had a damaged engine, and the BYP Racing team set to work immediately fixing the issue so that the engine could be sold as an engine conversion package. In the meantime, a factory K20A engine had its valvetrain upgraded to handle boost and in it went bolted to an S2000 gearbox for the initial dummy fit. Things at this stage were extremely promising as everything lined up surprisingly well. Oh, and the RX-7 received a nickname, too — Rhonda.
Daniel from Impossible Fabrication was enlisted to tackle everything that required a welder. Engine mounts, gearbox, manifolds, and more were made by him and the workmanship is excellent. To get the K20A working in a rear-wheel drive configuration the factory manifold had to be mated to an S2000 unit as to have it forward facing. After that, Daniel fabricated a K20A turbo manifold for the application, mounted the Garrett GTX3076R turbo and downpipe. Considerable modification had to be carried out to the factory Mazda subframe too, which required new mounts for the K20A engine. Mated to the custom and now high-temp coated turbo manifold is a Precision 46mm external wastegate that would soon be plumbed into the exhaust system, complete with V-band clamp for easy removal.
Fabrication didn't stop there as you can imagine and when it came to mounting the front-mounted intercooler the team decided that for this application a V-mounted unit would work best. Rob from Speedfab produced a beautiful and well thought out setup that has minimal charge piping. Custom ducting was made for the aluminium radiator, along with custom aluminum radiator piping to aid in the hunt for reliability. Another touch you can't see under the vehicle is the custom made three-inch titanium exhaust system. There's one muffler and plenty of lobster-back welds — it sounds as good as it looks and the entire system only weighs 4kg in total!
Once everything was in place, plumbed in and coated in matching black heat paint and wrinkle coating for a more factory-like appearance, the team had it strapped to a dyno for its initial run and check. On the stock bottom end, and with wastegate pressure of only 16–17psi, it produced a stonking 310kW at the rear wheels tuned with a Hondata Kpro ECU. Now in its current guise, power is up at around 330kW.
Handling wise, the BYP team installed a set of GAB SS coilovers and Cusco front and rear sway bars. Braking has been taken care of with a Brembo Evo X upgrade kit, which includes a set of two-piece 355mm discs. For the street and initial testing, Adrian decided on a set of 19-inch Advan RZ wheels wrapped in Federal RSRR tyres to complete the combo.
Inside the cabin, things have been kept fairly minimal with the addition of a Buddy Club fixed back racing seat, Nardi steering wheel, Type R gear knob, and an AIM MXl2 gauge cluster. We can't get over how awesome Rhonda has become over a very short period of time, and we're excited to see how it develops with further testing. Once again the BYP Racing team have done a fantastic job with a wild, unique, yet fairly simple time attack combination. Sorry rotary owners, in this application the K20A has our vote!


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7 Ways to Earn Money From Your Art
If you want to make a living as a visual artist, you have to accept the truth that selling your artwork does not cut it. It is not enough to rely on art collectors and clients, you have to diversify to survive while doing what you love best.
Creating your art is one thing you are now good at, but it does not mean instant financial success. Before diving into the art market, you need to know how to monetize your art. You also have to critically evaluate your skill sets. You can't just accept public speaking if you have stage fright, but you can explain your creative process by recording a video and uploading it on YouTube.
Diversify your revenue streams through these:
Sell Prints
Most people think that only photographers sell prints of their artworks. Illustrators, painters, installation artists, sculptors, and even a paper artist can also make money by selling high-quality prints of their artwork.
This gives some fans the chance of taking home a part of your art though they do not have the money to purchase the original. Additionally, you can increase the chance that more people will see your artwork. This can create noise in your career and add to your popularity.
Teach in Workshops
You might love teaching, but planning a full course is a daunting task. If you like engaging students and sharing your skills, teaching in a workshop is a perfect way to supplement your income. Workshops are not limited to just certain artists, though it is most popular among photographers.
Speaking Engagements
If you are into public speaking, then you can accept speaking engagements as a guest lecturer in universities, corporate events or seminars.
This can also compliment your workshop gigs. If you don't know where to start, you can look for local organizations who are interested in what you do. It does not have to be art organizations, other groups may also be interested. If you are into animal photography, you can entice animal rights groups.
Be an Online Influencer
If you don't know yet the power of social media, then you have been living under a rock. Build a fandom on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms. Collaborating with diverse companies also helps. You can start with art supplies and even partner with fashion brands.
Create YouTube Videos
Aside from the fact that potential buyers can find you, you can spark interests by sharing your creative process online.
You can discuss how you get your inspiration, how you started your career, how it helps the community, various techniques and much more. Add to that, you can also earn a commission from recommending the products you use for your artwork.
Write an eBook
If you are not keen to take tutorial videos, you can write an eBook about your craft. Whether your topic is about the basics of your art, a specific medium, or a specialist approach, you can write about it and publish online. Add t that, you can add your book to your credentials.
Earn Royalties
Ever heard of stock photos? How about selling your art in various stock images such as in Shutterstock and Getty Images. You can submit illustrations, vector graphics, or your photos while you are doing your artwork.
Whatever you want to try, remember that you do it professionally since you are extending your brand as an artist. Think out of the box and choose the best path that will take you to your bigger goals.


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Eugene Laverty won the race , Sykes third
Sylvain Guintoli fourth at Jerez.
Jerez WSBK : Tom Sykes world champion Briton Tom Sykes, won the Championship this Sunday, eni FIM World Superbike 2013, after the first race in Jerez . The driver of the ZX -10R Kawasaki Racing Team, took third place adequate position for the top and end of its fifth year in WSBK on a first world title .
Sykes is the way the first driver to win the coronation Kawasaki WSBK, with over twenty years since the title of Scott Russell in 1993.
However, the victory in the race returned to Eugene Laverty , author of a fantastic final round in which the Irish defeated Marco Melandri by outside the Italian in the final corner . Both drivers escaped early in the race and Melandri had expected the penultimate lap to go on the offensive in Turn 6 , before undergoing an attack against any beauty which confirmed the victory for Laverty and the constructors' title for Aprilia .
Jerez WSBK : Tom Sykes world champion, Sylvain Guintoli finished fourth in isolated position without being able to disrupt Sykes while Toni Elías and Davide Giugliano ( Althea Racing Aprilia ) completed the Top 6 being less competitive in the race that they were for practice and qualifying. Also included in the Top 10 Chaz Davies , Leon Camier , Xavi Fores and Mark Aitchison . Jules Cluzel and Sylvain Barrier, who made his debut with BMW Motorrad WSBK GoldBet after winning the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup , took the eleventh and twelfth places.
Results 1 Jerez race :
1 . Laverty (Aprilia ) 21 tours/92.820 km in 36'00 .919 Vit. average 154,634 km / h ; 2.Melandri (BMW) 0218 3. Sykes (Kawasaki ) 6681 4. Guintoli (Aprilia ) 9327 5. Elias (Aprilia ) 20.446 6. Giugliano (Aprilia ) 27.633 7. Davies (BMW) 28,621 8. Camier (Suzuki) 29.548 9. Fores (Ducati ) 29.964 10. Aitchison (Kawasaki ) 36 981 11. Cluzel (Suzuki) 37 008 12. Barrier (BMW) 43.179 13. Badovini (Ducati ) 47 260 , 14. Neukirchner (Ducati ) 52 154 , 15. Lanzi (Ducati ) 52.912 , 16 . Sandi (Kawasaki ) 54 414 , 17 . Fabrizio (Honda) 1'02 .109 , 18 . Parkes (Yamaha) 1'02 .568 , 19 . Iannuzzo (BMW) 6 towers RT . Haslam (Honda) .
Superstock 1000: victory Guarnoni
Winner home two weeks earlier at Magny-Cours , Jeremy Guarnoni won a second consecutive victory on Sunday in Jerez, during the final round of the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup. The pilot of the MRS team Kawasaki this time successful solo breakaway to win with a little more than four seconds ahead of Leandro Mercado .
Romain Lanusse , Alessandro Andreozzi and Markus Reiterberger were meanwhile fighting for the last spot on the podium, which went to the young French . Kevin Calia managed to take sixth place for the second race in the category , finishing ahead of teammate Niccolò Canepa , who has secured the title of Vice- Champion with a lead over Guarnoni issue. Tough day, for Lorenzo Savadori , 24th at the finish after falling twice at the beginning of the race.


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Montecito JOURNAL | Montecito's Emerging Movie Makers
J.J. Kandel is another MUS boy (what was in that water?). He arrived in Santa Barbara in the mid 1980's and attended Crane Country Day School before moving into the Montecito Union School District. After graduating from MUS, he went to Santa Barbara Middle School (there's something in the water there too), and then Santa Barbara High School (okay, okay). Unlike most of his classmates however, J.J. didn't go to college; he knew what he wanted to do and didn't believe didn't believe a college degree would be all that useful. He had been studying acting in Santa Barbara, but after spending six months in Los Angeles, headed for the place where real actors go: New York City. He wanted to do live theater, on stage, in front of an audience; and New York was the only place for that.
In New York, J.J. is both president and producing director at Throughline Artists, a non-profit that produces a theatrical festival at a small theater on East 59th Street between Park and Madison Avenues that has been going on for seven years. His first screen role was as a sentry in the six-time Oscar winner, Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
"I worked with a friend who was involved in [Hurt Locker] at theater retreat in upstate New York," J.J. says during a telephone conversation from his home, speculating on he got the role in the first place. The "friend" is a screenwriter who also happens to be Mark Boal's brother. Mark Boal was the writer-producer of Hurt Locker. "His brother, Chris, has seen my work at this retreat," recounts J.J. "They had some passing emergency with some cast members and sent out a mass e-mail looking to fill some of the roles and I responded."
J.J. spent a week in Jordan filming his brief role in Hurt Locker, and worked directly with Kathryn Bigelow during the filming. "She must have liked me," J.J. says, "because she hired me for her next film (Zero Dark Thirty). I'm assuming that she asked for me, because I got a phone call asking if I'd be interested in doing a line in this movie. The casting director, who I knew, said if I wanted the part I'd have to get a visa. I had to sign a bunch on things, got a visa, got on a plane again and went to India.
"It's a very nice scene," he continues, "It's at the beginning of the movie and I'm one of the CIA case officers that works at the embassy there in Islamabad. The character is credited as J.J., so there's J.J. playing J.J."
When asked weather he could sing of would consider a role that required singing, such as Russell Crowe in Les Miserables, he responded that he doesn't really sing and that "the idea of doing musical theater terrifies me. But," he adds, "if it scares me, there's a good chance I'm going to find a way to so it, just for that reason. But the idea certainly does terrify me a bit."
J.J.'s mom, Joyce, is a writer, his dad, Bob Kiken, is a Santa Barbara oral surgeon. As a side note, while attending MUS, J.J. wrote and directed and performed in an onstage skit with some of his classmates, including MJ publisher Tim Buckley. "I remember; in those days, in my early days of producing," J.J. says with a laugh, "I would put on little shows for the dinner guests. Little did I know what I was doing; it's just what I did and Tim was enrolled in one of them." For the record, Tim doesn't sing, and he whistles out of tune.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Robert Half International Inc. Thursday said its fourth-quarter profit rose sharply because of robust revenue growth and lower costs.
For the three months ended Dec. 31, the company RHI, -2.69% said it earned $49.7 million, or 28 cents a share, up from $4.8 million, or 3 cents a share, a year ago. Analysts had forecast, on average, earnings of 26 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call.
The Menlo Park, Calif. staffing firm said revenue for the period rose 46 percent to $754.2 million from $517.7 million last year. The consensus view was for $725.2 million in sales.
"We estimate that 17 to 20 percent of our consolidated revenues related directly to Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance work," said Chief Executive Harold Messmer Jr. in a press release. "This broad-based improvement was particularly noteworthy in our Accountemps and OfficeTeam staffing divisions."
Lower cost of revenue, which fell more than 2 percentage points as a percent of the top line, and a year-ago charge also contributed to the outsized bottom-line growth.
RHI, which reported results after the markets closed, saw its shares add 51 cents to close at $29.60.


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100 Year Anniversary of When Women Took Over Umatilla
You might be surprised to find that a group of women staged a political coup at a card party and took over Umatilla's local government. It happened 100 years ago when a large group of women for a card party, but instead created a plan to vote their husbands out of local office according to sources. They were unhappy with the way the town was run and so Gladys Spinning, Florence Brownell, Anna Means and Stella Paulu created a plan to change it. They knew that not many people voted because it was a "good ol boys club" and that candidates for office did not have to declare themselves and write in votes were counted. That allowed for a sneaky write in strategy that the men never saw coming until after the votes were counted.
The office of Mayor was won by Laura Stockton Starcher who was the wife of the current Mayor of the time. The other four women who planned the coup, Gladys Spinning, Florence Brownell, Anna Means and Stella Paulu, were voted into the 4 open spots of the city council. The council was very successful after the election and "improved water and electrical services, approved funds for street and sidewalk projects, organized city cleanup weeks, new railroad crossing signs, founding a town library, replacement of the city's American flags, institution of monthly garbage collection, planning for future community projects, and the appointment of a city health official during a 1918 smallpox epidemic".


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A scare for students on the southern campus of the University of Trinidad and Tobago as exams are disturbed by the sound of gunfire.
Newscenter 5 understands the operations of the Tarouba facility were disrupted during the incident yesterday.
Sketchy reports say it was a shootout between police and two suspected criminals just behind the UTT.
Reports say the two men have been taken into custody and arms and ammunition were recovered at the scene.


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Speaking at NDC 2018!
I had the good fortune speaking about Iconic Character Design in media at this years Nexon Developers Conference! Thank you to the event organizers and the Pangyo gaming community for being such welcoming and wonderful hosts. It was an awesome experience, and I look forward to the next time we meet.


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Double Feature
Something Wild
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Something Wild
Charles "Charlie" Driggs (Jeff Daniels) is a recently promoted, divorced, suit and tie businessman from the suburbs, who deep down longs for some adventure beyond the manicured lawns and responsibilities of his business world. Melanie Griffith is devilishly charming and sexy as Audrey "Lulu" Hankel, the woman who spots the "closet rebel" in Charlie's button downed persona when he tries to skip out on his lunch tab, and offers him a ride – "ready or not, babe?" – that in reality, is a scheme to cast him as her husband in order to snow her mother, and hometown friends at her class reunion. Ray Liota brings a smoldering sense of danger in his breakout role as Ray Sinclair, an ex-con and Lulu's former husband, who crashes the class reunion with bad intentions. Jonathan Demme gets wonderful performances from his cast, and reminds us that "it's better to be a live dog than a dead lion," in this revved up-road trip-rom-com-thriller, that's held up as much more than something quirky, it's Something Wild.
Marc Edward Heuck discusses Something Wild on the New Beverly blog.
Kim Morgan discusses Something Wild on the New Beverly blog.
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- Jonathan Demme
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- Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
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- 1986
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- Running Time
- 114 minutes
Married to the Mob
Michelle Pfeiffer shines as a Long Island wife sick of her hit man husband's gangster life in Jonathan Demme's offbeat screwball comedy Married to the Mob but complications ensue when she becomes the object of affection for both the local crime boss (Dean Stockwell in an Oscar-nominated performance) and an undercover FBI agent (Matthew Modine). An excellent ensemble cast gels to create a deliciously funny flick but Mercedes Ruehl almost steals the show as a vengeful, frizzy-haired mob wife.
"A mix of goofy ethnicity, romance and self-discovery, Married to the Mob is an offer you can't refuse." – Rita Kempley, Washington Post
"Amazingly, for all its hip anarchy, it's finally an oddly old-fashioned slice of entertainment. Preston Sturges might have approved." – Geoff Andrew, Time Out
"Fresh, colorful and inventive, Married to the Mob is another offbeat entertainment from director Jonathan Demme. The enormous cast is a total delight, starting with Pfeiffer, with hair dyed dark, a New York accent and a continuously nervous edge. Matthew Modine proves winning as the seemingly inept FBI functionary who grows into his job, and Dean Stockwell is a hoot as the unflappable gangland boss, slime under silk and a fedora." – Variety
Check out a collection of stills & lobby cards for Married to the Mob on the New Beverly forum.
The British Film Institute's Monthly Film Bulletin reviews Married to the Mob. Read it on the New Beverly blog.
Marc Edward Heuck discusses Married to the Mob on the New Beverly blog.
Ariel Schudson discusses Married to the Mob on the New Beverly blog.
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Starring
- Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin
- Year
- 1988
- Rated
- Country
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 104 minutes


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UPDATE 1-Alpine skiing-Immaculate Shiffrin wins slalom gold for U.S.
* Shiffrin wins record-equalling third successive slalom gold
* Swiss Holdener finishes distant second
* Swede Hansdotter takes bronze medal
* Championship ends with men's slalom on Sunday (Adds details, quotes)
ST MORITZ, Switzerland, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin won a record-equalling third successive world championship women's slalom title with two blistering runs on Saturday to secure a first gold medal for the United States at this year's event.
The 21-year from old from Vail, Colorado matched the accomplishment of German Christl Cranz who completed her treble in 1939, finishing a staggering 1.64 seconds ahead of home crowd favourite Wendy Holdener of Switzerland.
Stunned by the victory margin, Shiffrin jumped with joy on her skis after crossing the finish line and received a rousing ovation from the 25,000-strong crowd.
"I've had lots of challenges and lots of amazing days and today was a really good day," Shiffrin told reporters.
"I am very happy to go home with two medals."
It was a second podium finish for overall World Cup leader Shiffrin who also took the silver medal in Thursday's giant slalom.
Swede Frida Hansdotter climbed from fifth to third with a strong second run before Holdener, second after the first leg, lit up the fan zone in the finish area with a gritty run which edged her ahead by 0.11 seconds.
But any hopes of an upset the Swiss might have had were extinguished by a nerveless run from Shiffrin on a challenging course, which several pace-setters failed to complete on icy snow.
It was also a second medal of the championships for Holdener who won the combined event last week.
The 31-year old Hansdotter was happier with her result than the performance and heaped praise on Shiffrin.
"She is unbelievable," said the Swede after capturing her third world championship slalom medal, having taken the 2013 bronze in Beaver Creek and the 2015 silver in Schladming.
"She is so young and talented but it's unbelievable how good she is skiing.
"Today was a fight with icy and aggressive snow conditions and I am not really satisfied with my skiing but for sure I am with the bronze."
The championship ends with the men's slalom on Sunday when Austria's World Cup winner and overall leader Marcel Hirscher will be the hot favourite to complete the double after winning Friday's giant slalom.
(Writing by Zoran Milosavljevic; Editing by Ed Osmond)