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My friend and colleague Steve Arensmeyer sent me this link from the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/03/a-venture-capitalist-searches-for-the-purpose-of-school-heres-what-he-found/), and I wanted to share it with you. It resonated with me, especially as I struggle with finding the courage to do different on a grander scale with my students. And while I want to go "all in" and make the break–TOMORROW, I will wait and trust that I cannot expect that I will arrive at my destination a few days in on this next leg of my forty-year journey. One step at a time. I will leave you with the final two paragraphs of the article. Join the conversation. Your words matter.
"So back to that purpose question. Maybe, in the end, the purpose of school is to help our kids find their own sense of purpose. To prepare them for a life where they can set, and achieve, their own goals, not grind away to meet the needs of some bureaucrat or college admissions officer. Given decades of damage from our testing and accountability strategy, maybe it's time to place our bets on a strategy that puts its weight behind engaging and inspiring our kids . . . and teachers. Imagine what our country is capable of if we figure out how to launch millions of purpose-driven kids into society prepared and energized to their world better through their talents, passions, developing skills, and ability to learn. Kids that are, truly, prepared for life.
Oh, and as for me, I've come full circle. As I reflect back on my past, I was pretty much a hoop jumper. Now, I wake up each morning with conviction. I'm trying things I never would have tried, learning about areas I never paid attention to, making more mistakes in a week than I used to make in a year, and risking failure in a visible way. I'm working much harder than I ever did as a venture capitalist, watching my bank account shrink, traveling non-stop, and not even pausing to ask whether it's fun or not. In searching for the purpose of school, I found my own."
–Ted Dentsmith
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"The Purpose Driven Life" is a book, of course, but, it is also a lifestyle. Some of us have found "our purpose." It is the reason why we get out of bed in the morning. We greet each day with the energy that's neccessary to make a difference. I check my EGO at the door and, reach out, to others, building the "bridges" to help my clients achieve agreed upon goals.


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B. Support Monitoring center software though GSM network.
C. Support signal strength prompts
D. Support memory function
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b) Chinese/Russian is optional
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Entry for the Alpine Winter Series at Innerleithen is live. The three race series doesn't start till Jan 2010 but is sure to sell out quick. The race dates are 30th & 31st Jan 2010, 20th & 21st Feb 2010, 13th & 14th Mar 2010.
Check out the Borderline Events website to enter.
Here's a bit of background info:
Mike Marsden of Borderline Events and Steve Deas of Innerleithen has teamed up with Alpine Bikes to bring you the 'Alpine Bikes Winter Series'
I've known Steve for quite a few years and since the 'Winter Wet & Wild' series of 2005 have had great respect for Steve's track building and design skills. When I first spoke to Steve in August I knew that with our skills combined we had a great chance to bring one of the best Innerleithen Winter Series yet.
This brought me in contact with Bryan Shedden of Alpine Bikes who was happy to show his support along with Trek and Fox to not only bring you some great round and series prizes but by assisting with the costs has managed to keep the price down to just £55 per round.
So here we have the first 3 races in 2010 on three very different courses. You know as well as I do they will not only be a mix but a challenge to the best riders out there. Steve has said that the aim of the courses is fast, flowy and technically challenging with a particular aim at speed!
I know we all love those sections at Inners on some of the original tracks that are just amazing to ride. You can also expect some old sections re-built and some new sections put in to join the best of all the courses and what Innerleithen has to offer.
You can expect bang on timing on each of these weekends courtesy of the SDA.


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The Surfrider Foundation's 6th Annual Celebrity Expression SessionSep 13th, 2011 | By Lindsay | Category: Celebrity Sightings
This past Saturday, the fabulous Pinky Lovejoy, from the Thinking Pink blog, invited me and the Grim Cheaper out to Malibu to do a little stalking of one of her very favorite celebrity events – the Surfrider Foundation's 6th Annual Celebrity Expression Session, an hour-long free surf contest which was taking place at First Point at Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Much to the GC's chagrin, I accepted the invitation which is how the two of us found ourselves heading out to the 'Bu bright and early Saturday morning. Although, as you can see in the above photograph, the word "bright" is somewhat misleading being that the skies were quite grey when we arrived on the scene. The day turned out to be one of the best of my entire life, though, and, in what can only be described as an amazing act of divine intervention, we were not only invited to visit and tour the residence used as the Cohen House on fave show The O.C. (on which the sets from the series were very closely based), but we also spent about five hours at the property! I promise to blog about that INCREDIBLE experience in the very near future, but, for now, on with the Surfrider event!
Joining me, Pinky, and the GC in our morning beach-capade were our good friends, fellow stalkers Mikey, from the Mike the Fanboy website, and Scotty, or as Pinky likes to call us, the Motley Crew. Despite the fact that it started raining heavily while we were waiting for the celebrity surfers to arrive, we had an absolute blast hanging out together. As I have said on numerous occasions, when it comes to these types of events, which involve hours upon hours upon hours of waiting around, it is all about the journey. And I can think of no one else I would rather share that journey with than Pinky's Motley Crew.
The first celebrity to arrive on the scene was Eric Avery from the band Jane's Addiction.
Also in attendance was Jesse Spencer from House (SO cute! Sigh!);
Chad Lowe;
Eric Balfour from The O.C.;
Tate Donovan, also from The O.C. and also my girl Jen Aniston's former main squeeze;
John Slattery, from Mad Men, Desperate Housewives and Sex and the City;
Brian Geraghty from The Hurt Locker;
Ross Thomas from Soul Surfer;
and Krysten Ritter – ALL of whom were so incredibly nice and friendly it was almost unbelievable! I felt like we all truly had a special little moment with each of them. Pinky and I got to chat with Chad Lowe about how much we both enjoyed his brother Rob's autobiography; we joked with John Slattery about his – ahem – shower requests on Sex and the City; Ross Thomas took off his hat and sunglasses in order to provide us with a better photograph; Tate Donovan almost fell over when Scotty quoted several lines to him from Space Camp . . .
. . . and, as you can see above, Krysten and Pinky even spent some time hanging out together in the surf. Amazing, amazing day!
And Mikey managed to snap this super cute pic of me getting his prop "Victor Lang for Mayor" t-shirt from Desperate Housewives signed.
Our main reason for being there, though, was, of course, to see Pinky's sweetheart, Sam Trammell, who plays Sam Merlotte on the hit series True Blood.
Sam spotted Pinky immediately and, of course, came right over to her to say hi. I cannot even imagine if one of my favorite celebrities knew me by name and regularly came up to me at events to say hi! I would absolutely DIE! Heck, if ANY celebrity knew me by name and came up to me to say hi, I would die!!! The kicker was when Pinky told Sam that she had finally found a job, he congratulated her and asked where she was working. The fact that he knew – and remembered – that she had been unemployed the last time they spoke was enough to make me gasp. SO INCREDIBLY COOL! That is Sam autographing some photos for Pinky in the above picture – all of which he signed with "much love" or "xoxoxo". SIGH!
The entire event was extremely low-key and relaxed and all of the celebrities conducted their media interviews right there in the sand.
The surf contest got started at noon and I cannot tell you how much fun it was to watch them all suit up and head out. (As you can see in the photograph on the top left above, Baywatch star David Chokachi was also in attendance, but since I had already gotten a picture with him at the Pedal on the Pier 100 Mile-a-Thon in June, I did not want to bother him for another.)
Before hitting the water, the group posed for a few publicity shots and, thankfully, the GC got right in there among the press photographers and started snapping away. I've taught him well, folks.
Because the GC has gotten seriously into photography as of late, this was one celebrity event that he actually did not mind being dragged to and he managed to snap some pretty fabulous action shots while there.
My favorite being the one pictured above, which reminds me of the movie poster for The Endless Summer. So cool!
Until next time, Happy Stalking and Happy Voting – don't forget to vote for me to be the new face of About Me!
Stalk It: Malibu Lagoon State Beach, aka Surfrider Beach, is located at 23200 Pacific Coast Highway, just north of the Malibu Pier, in Malibu. You can visit the Surfrider Foundation's official website here.


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PCB Hunt Hits Two Schools
Some Classrooms Closed in Staten Island After EPA Inspection for Pollutant
School officials have closed 10 classrooms in two Staten Island elementary schools as they await test results to see if children and staff have been exposed to PCB-contaminated air, officials said Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency and some local politicians have been pressuring the city to more aggressively confront the issue of aging fluorescent light fixtures suspected of PCB contamination.
PCBs are chemicals that were frequently used in building materials beginning in the 1950s. They were banned in 1978 after they were determined to likely cause cancer, as well as other health problems with reproductive and immune systems.
Eight classrooms at P.S. 53 in Staten Island have been closed while authorities await the results of tests conducted there last weekend by the EPA. At P.S. 36 R, two classrooms have been closed after testing.
The EPA's arrival at P.S. 53 this past weekend was the first spot inspection since the agency, frustrated by what it says is the city's slow approach to the problem, warned it would take action on its own to determine the extent of the problem.
City officials, led by Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, have argued the PCBs don't pose an immediate health risk to students, and removing them from roughly 800 schools would be prohibitively expensive. The city puts the cost at $1 billion.
City education officials insist that the known dangers of PCBs come from ingesting the material, not inhaling it as would be the most likely form of contamination in a classroom with a leaky old light fixture.
EPA spokeswoman Bonnie Bellows acknowledged an inspection was conducted at P.S. 53, and said lab tests would determine "if there were leaks that involved PCB-containing fluids in the past, or currently. Once we have valid sample results we will release them to the public and take appropriate action."
The inspections at the other school, P.S. 36 R, were prompted by a worried teacher who remembered material leaking from a light fixture, the officials said. After samples were taken, education officials chose to close two of the classrooms there.
City officials notified the teachers union those two classrooms would remain closed until they are certain there is no health concern.
"We do not believe there is a health concern that warrants the closure of P.S. 36 R,'' Mr. Walcott wrote in a Friday letter to the teachers union. "We have already removed the affected material from the classrooms.''
A growing number of elected officials are criticizing the Bloomberg administration's handling of the issue. City Councilman Vincent Ignizio, a Staten Island Republican, said the issue is much larger than a handful of schools that have been tested so far. "Would I send my own child into [P.S. 36 R] right now? My answer would be no, not until I see documentation to show that it's safe,'' he said. "I want to see the test results back.''
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The last 2 days on our first 'big' road trip in New Zealand involves a night stay at Kaikora between Nelson and Lincoln. We woke up early on our last day at Nelson and Penny suggested that we take a short walk to the 'Centre of New Zealand'. My aching knee protested but Penny assured me its just a short walk along the backyards of Nelson. Okay…why not.
The center of New Zealand happens to be on the top of a hill that overlooks Nelson. A short and nice walk from Penny place. The view is beautiful. I remember looking over a big section of Nelson on one side and green open spaces on the other. The hills is popular among the locals. Runners, walkers and dog greeted each other as if they have known each other their whole life. Life is good. Really good.
We stayed 2 nights in Nelson with Penny and Mark. We had a really good time. We wished we had more time to look around in Nelson. Time flies when you are having fun, and the next thing we know, we were all packed up and ready to hit the road again. It was already lunch hour, we bid our good byes to the two lovely and remarkable people in Nelson and started our journey to Kaikora for a night stay.
I remember being very tired on the drive from Nelson to Kaikora. Short stops were very frequent. By the time we got closer to Kaikora, even Yang Yang was getting restless. We made more stops when we got closer to Kaikora and was greeted with many sightings of them cute and cuddly fur seals.
The Sierra Beach Front Motel at Kaikora was our refuge for the night at Kaikora. The beach was literally at the doorstep. We did venture out but the strong and cold winds chased our bums back into the room. The TV, lots of food, water and shut eye was a much welcomed order for the evening. The next day, we took a stroll along the beach and enjoyed the fabulous views all around. Its a stunning day to be out in Kaikora.
On the drive back from Kaikora to Christchurch, we decided to do one final detour. We had our fishing rod set driven all the way to Nelson and back and it is only appropriate that we stop for a quick fishing rendezvous at Waimat. Meun loved the idea. Yang Yang would probably enjoy the beach too. As it turns out…. a rewarding detour indeed.
As tiring as this trip was, I have a feeling it is the kick start of a few more trips to come. New Zealand is after all a beautiful country and it is only right that one takes the opportunity to see the country as much as possible while still here. As I am seated here posting this, we have made a few more road trips in New Zealand. I wish I had more time to sit down and promptly blog about them. Having to go through the hundreds of pictures is no easy task, but in good time, more trip reports will be posted !


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Dr. Keith Ostrosky Celebrates Strong Evolution of Dental Hygienists
March 6, 2013 - St. Paul, MN
Dr. Keith Ostrosky, a general dentist, praises the developments of the dental hygiene field, as described in a new article from Dentistry IQ. The piece discusses a new workshop designed by the ADHA, titled Dental Hygiene in a Changing World: Empowering, Supporting & Developing Your Career.
The workshop was created to help dental hygienists work on leadership skills, and to prepare these individuals to use these new abilities to navigate an evolving professional landscape. Those in attendance learned how to capitalize on their newfound leadership abilities in order to take advantage of new career opportunities, thus helping them to bring their careers to the next level.
The attendees, who graduated between the years 1981-2012, were from a range of age groups. Most participants were somewhere between 20 and 60, which each demographic fairly equally represented. More than half of the program's participants had earned an Associate's degree, while about one-third held a Bachelor's degree. Twelve percent had obtained a Master's degree, and 75 percent were actively working in a position that requires a dental hygiene license. Most were employed by general dental and group practices.
Program participants gave a variety of reasons as to why they wanted to attend the workshop. Dr. Keith Ostrosky was impressed that many noted their interest in expanding opportunities beyond clinical private practice; others said they sought guidance in obtaining advanced degrees. Concern about the physical limitations of clinical dental hygiene, as well as the desire to move into non-traditional careers such as public health or research were other reasons.
The seminar opened with a session titled A Look at the Current Landscape which offered an overview into the current and changing landscape of the field, as well as a list of skills that all dental hygienists should obtain in order to improve their professional lives. Debra Bachman Zabloudill, who founded the Learning Studio, delivered the keynote presentation. She noted that career mapping includes creating a mission statement, as well as developing goals and objectives.
Upon exploring the characteristics of successful dental hygienists around the United States, attendees are now better able to apply those qualities to their own personal career maps. They are also able to chart their path of growth and development.
Dr. Keith Ostrosky supports this educational seminar, and encourages dental hygienists to take on a strong leadership role. He states, "By expanding the duties of dental hygienists it will become much easier for people to gain access to dental care."
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A file with the BRL file extension could be either a MicroBraille file or a Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD file, but chances are good that it's the former.

MicroBraille files store dots that can be used by braille-to-speech programs and braille embossers. Similar to Braille Ready Format files (BRF), they're often used to store digital publications for people with visual impairments.

I don't have any information on what Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD files are used for, but the software that creates them, BRL-CAD, is a 3D solid modeling program, so the files themselves probably store 3D data of some kind.

How To Open a BRL File

MicroBraille files with the BRL extension can be opened using CASC Braille 2000. This program supports other braille files too, like those in the BML, ABT, ACN, BFM, BRF, and DXB format. You can open the BRL file with Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) too.

Note: Both of the programs just mentioned are available as demos, so while you can open and read BRL files with either of them, not all of the programs' features can be used.

BRL files that are Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD files can be created with, and I'm assuming opened by, as well, the modeling program called BRL-CAD.

Tip: If your BRL file seems to be in neither of the formats I just mentioned, use Notepad++ or another text editor to open the BRL file. Although it's not at all true for either format mentioned above, many types of files are text-only, meaning no matter the format, a text editor may be able to properly display the file's contents. This may be the case for your BRL file if the programs above won't open it.

Another reason to use a text editor to open your BRL file is to see if there's any descriptive information within the file itself that can tell you what program was used to create it, and therefore what program may be able to open it. This information is often in the first section of the file when viewed with a text or HEX editor.

Something else to remember if you can't open a BRL file is to make sure it's not really a different file type that has a similar file extension, like a BR5, FBR, or ABR file. These are commonly confused with BRL.

If you find that an application on your PC does try to open the BRL file but it's the wrong application or if you would rather have another installed program open BRL files, see my How To Change the Default Program for a Specific File Extension guide for making that change in Windows.

How To Convert a BRL File

The Braille 2000 program itself cannot convert a BRL file to any other format, so I don't know if there exists any software that can.

If BRL-CAD does in fact let you open your Ballistic Research Laboratory CAD files, you may also be able to convert it to a new format. The option to export a 3D model is usually a common feature in those types of applications, so I assume BRL-CAD includes support for that too. However, because I haven't tried it myself, I can't be 100% sure


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As an occasional feature on TELOSscope, we highlight a past Telos article whose critical insights continue to illuminate our thinking and challenge our assumptions. Today, Matt Applegate looks at Yvette Biro's "The Intellectual Film: Eisenstein's Plan to Film Marx's Capital" from Telos 39 (Spring 1979).
It is difficult to think of what cinema is in the present, and indeed, what cinema might be in the future, outside of large studio systems, box office opening numbers, and global profit intake. Even so-called "independent" films often circulate in a virtual minor league of the Hollywood studio system, vying for wide release. To be sure, cinema's thorough commodification both limits its potential for aesthetic experimentation and makes it easier to equate it with other forms of media. When cinema becomes secondary to the metrics of profit, its distinct aesthetic qualities are subordinate to its function as a product comprised of moving images and sound. Moreover, as film moves away from celluloid and toward digital formats, one is compelled to ask what makes cinema distinct as visual technology is homogenized. This is not to say that cinematic experience and practice are bankrupt aesthetic qualities or that film is doomed to devolve into an indistinct mesh of CGI and user-generated websites like YouTube and Vine. Rather, as Yvette Biro suggests in her "The Intellectual Film: Eisenstein's Plan to Film Marx's Capital," the horizon of cinematic thought and practice is perhaps best imagined by examining the relation between ideology and cinematic aesthetics.
Published in 1979, Biro's article is written from a different socio-political vantage point than our own. For Biro, the political dimension of film is perhaps the most important component of its ideological and aesthetic capabilities. In this short but powerful article, she gives a reading of Sergei Eisenstein's proposal to film Marx's Capital in a non-linear and non-narrative style. Hailed as the "Father of Montage" and acclaimed worldwide for his films The Battleship Potemkin and October, Eisenstein was an avowedly communist filmmaker in content and theme. October was produced for and screened at the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917. In 1939, Eisenstein was awarded the Order of Lenin and Stalin Prize for a biopic of Alexander Nevsky—popularly known as Prince Alexander of the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire—and his defeat in the invasion of Novgorod. While Eisenstein's film on Capital was never produced, it stands out for Biro precisely because of its potential to mobilize image and sound toward the conceptual and practical development of communism simultaneously. Eisenstein's project is, at its origin, an attempt to juxtapose the banalities of capitalism on screen toward the production of a monumental event beyond it—the abolition of capitalism itself.
Eisenstein's plan to film Capital is not necessarily characterized by its nationalist ties to Soviet Russia. It is rather characterized by its potential for innovation and genre. The most detailed source material for Eisenstein's project was a manuscript that emerged from Eisenstein's estate, published in the Summer 1976 edition of the famed art criticism and theory journal October. Largely a list of scattered notes and references to earlier films, Biro insists that the document reveals a groundbreaking methodology that is based on the structural elements of montage: "on the one hand Eisenstein is confronting the traditional practice of 'narrative film,' whose only aim is to show us pictures of everyday life; on the other he is stating the innermost goal of his life's work, which was to elevate film to the heights of abstract, generalized imagery" (154). Here, Eisenstein's proposed project was to mirror the profuse yet uneven development of capital with image and sound, but also to challenge its hold over everyday life by repositioning the images and sounds of capital, thus reinventing social, political, and economic relations. The complexity of the project lies precisely in rearranging, and thus reorienting, the banalities of life under capitalism in a revelatory style. By Biro's description, filming Capital would be an attempt to change the syntax and language of cinema by mobilizing montage toward the cinematic expression of dialectics. Banal images of a woman cooking would be placed alongside images of the stock exchange, for example, or perhaps they would be overlaid onscreen, and in this way transcend themselves toward a fuller consciousness of exploitation.
Moreover, the dialectical operation of montage is formative of the film's proposed generic innovation on Biro's account. Contra the progression of a linear narrative and obvious plot structure, the film's associative unfolding of images would elevate film to a mode of conceptual thinking. Where the film was to become an intellectual performance, it would become an "intellectual film," and in this context, instruct the viewer in the operation of the dialectical method. Indeed, Eisenstein affirms this understanding of the project at the conclusion of the document:
The most important tasks in a cultural revolution are not only dialectical demonstrations but instruction in the dialectical method, as well. Given the available data on cinema, such tasks are not yet permissible. Cinema does not possess those means of expression, since there has been, until now, no demand for tasks of that sort; only now do they begin to be defined.[1]
Eisenstein proclaims the innovation of his own methodology in this passage, clearly, but he also proclaims the revolutionary potential of film. The juxtaposition of banal and monumental imagery on screen would ideally manifest a productive antagonism beyond it, fulfilling Eisenstein's didactic program. It was thus in the proposal to film Capital that Eisenstein was intent on mobilizing the revolutionary potential of film as a communist potential, easily contrasted to the thorough commodification of cinema in the present.
Biro takes the proclamation for film's revolutionary and conceptual traits thus to be a sign of Eisenstein's genius, arguing that he should be considered alongside figures like "Pasolini, Godard, and the American Experimentalists" (162). Yet, she concludes her essay with a claim that underscores the connection between film and politics that is just as important as the distinct aesthetic qualities of the medium. The importance of Eisenstein's project is revealed precisely because "film has the means to become the most powerful medium of communication ever," and to do so without thinking its potential to radically alter the world as such would be to our detriment (162). In this way, to imagine what the future of film might be, especially as emerging media enhances and alters cinematic expression, is to attempt to think at an absolute remove from commodification and the bottom line. Clearly not an argument to make film for film's sake, Biro's article is powerful in the contemporary moment precisely because it compels the reader to think otherwise and imagine modes of aesthetic production that alter the world without reifying the capitalist mode of production.
1. Sergei Eisenstein, "Notes for a Film of 'Capital,'" trans. Maciej Sliwowski, Jay Leyda, and Annette Michelson, October vol. 2 (Summer 1976): 26.


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The Replacement Killer
Michael Pye's protagonist goes on a murder spree in order to acquire new identities.
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ichael Pye's ''Taking Lives'' is -- let's say it right up front -- a maddening book. It promisingly revisits thematic concerns that enlivened Pye's admirable 1996 historical novel, ''The Drowning Room,'' yet shoehorns them into a thriller format that gives the author surprisingly little room in which to maneuver.
Pye's subject in both books is the protean nature of the persona we present to the world. In ''The Drowning Room,'' he traces such changes through the travails of one Gretje Reyniers, forced to reinvent herself continually (and with bawdy vigor) as she moves from penniless orphanhood in the 17th-century Netherlands to shrewish success as a landlady and prostitute in colonial New Amsterdam. Society's perceptions of her as ''whore, businesswoman, mother'' don't even begin to cover the whole catalogue of Gretjes she can produce when necessity demands.
''Taking Lives'' portrays a similarly slippery character, also Dutch and also, as the novel opens, making the move from Old World to New. Martin Arkenhout, a ''blond, tall, white, lanky'' 17-year-old on a student exchange program, is hitchhiking in Florida with a New York University freshman, Seth Goodman, when Goodman is maimed in a hit-and-run accident. Impulsively, Arkenhout finishes him off, then reports the death to the authorities -- with a twist. He says that he is Goodman and that it was Arkenhout who died. His motive? A vague disgruntlement with his parents (''They think they can park emotion like a car until it's needed'') and an eagerness to ''take up a new life, know people he shouldn't know, invent himself.''
Not surprisingly, Arkenhout's masquerade, which is never quite credible to the reader, proves unsustainable. But it isn't long before he acquires another identity -- by killing again. This goes on for almost 10 years, in various countries, until Arkenhout turns up in Portugal in 1996 as a British art scholar named Christopher Hart. What he doesn't know is that his latest victim is a novice art thief whose clumsily conspicuous crime will attract unwelcome attention.
Pye doesn't make much of a case for Arkenhout's ability to handle his victims' variety of ages and accents convincingly, beyond sketchy references to his mastery of ''art English and plain English, and bar English and dinner party English.'' The bulletin-like report of Arkenhout's decade-long murder spree that begins the novel feels problematic too -- until we learn that it's being provided, in an unsettling spirit of kinship, by one of Arkenhout's intended victims, a London-based museum curator named John Costa.
Indeed, Costa, who is of English and Portuguese descent, offers his own tale of frangible identity that runs parallel to Arkenhout's. His journey from England to Portugal to find Christopher Hart and the stolen paintings coincides with his ailing father's return, for the first time since 1953, to his native country. And the old man's death, soon afterward, opens up questions about why he left Salazar's Portugal in the first place, lending the book a note of political intrigue.
To sex things up, Costa -- trapped in a moribund marriage -- is attracted to the female lawyer handling his father's estate, who in turn begins an abrupt affair with Hart/Arkenhout. A further complication: the local investigator inquiring into Arkenhout's murder spree is also the man who can tell Costa the truth about his father.
Unfortunately, this whole web of coincidences feels heavily stage-managed. Pye shows no special flair for psycho-killer portrayal, and his noirish flourishes -- cooler-than-thou dialogue, pleasure-me-now sex -- lack heat. There is a homoerotic nerve that starts twitching persuasively whenever Arkenhout is cruising a potential victim, but it inevitably goes slack whenever said victim has breathed his last.
What keeps the reader going? Pye has an enjoyably sour wit, whether he's depicting feeding time at an alligator farm (''a snap and a flurry and the flesh is all gone'') or explaining a newscaster's peculiarly ''intense look that comes from speaking words she didn't think or write.'' His Dutch, Floridian and Portuguese landscapes readily shimmer to life. More important, his urgent focus on the fragility of the self commands attention, as do Costa's thoughts on ''how reason hides reality.''
Ultimately, however, Pye seems to have chosen an inappropriate vehicle for his psychological investigations. The logistics of Arkenhout's survival (acquiring cash-card security numbers, for instance) are glossed over, and too many plot points fail to cohere. A long-after-the-fact explanation of Arkenhout's murderous impulse comes out of left field, and Arkenhout's own declaration of purpose -- I take people's lives and I use them better than the previous owners ever could'' -- rings just as false, for even he must realize that within a year or two each of his new lives has been botched. To the reader, this seems like the exposure of a delusional villain, yet Pye appears to take Arkenhout at his word.
The heroine of ''The Drowning Room'' provides a far richer case history in which to explore the malleability of personality. Arkenhout's all-too-literal taking of lives appears strangely unimaginative by comparison.
Michael Upchurch's novels include ''Passive Intruder'' and ''The Flame Forest.''
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ACC, SEC football coaches competitive on golf course
GREENSBORO, Ga. — It was relaxing and fun right up until the moment it wasn't.
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The Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge — an annual golf tournament held at the Oconee Course at Reynolds Plantation in rural Georgia — was supposed to be a calm, lakeside outing, a chance for coaches and former players from the ACC and SEC to get together on a sunny afternoon, have a few laughs, spend some time in a quiet setting away from football and unwind after spring practice and the NFL Draft.
It was all those things until the final hour. That was when the competitive juices kicked in and what started out as a hit-and-giggle scramble for some general scholarship money became a legitimate grind-it-out golf tournament.
The mood changed on the 15th tee, a par-3 where Chick-fil-A set up a hacky-sack contest to kill time during a backup. That was when South Carolina team captain Steve Spurrier — whose partner Sterling Sharpe had just hit his tee shot into Lake Oconee — turned to the group behind them and said, "Who's leading?"
At the time the leaders were Paul Johnson and Jon Barry of Georgia Tech, who were tied at 9-under with Miami's Gino Torretta and Al Golden. Upon hearing the scores, Spurrier fumbled with his visor and grumbled something that sounded like "Let's go Sterling" as he stomped off the tee.
The Ol' Ball Coach then proceeded to make three 15-foot putts in a row to get his team to 10-under. "We played the last three holes four-under (par)," Spurrier said after holing the final putt for a birdie on 18. "Now we just gotta wait and see what happens I guess. We might have a playoff."
And they would have if Torretta hadn't hit a deft chip to three feet on the final hole, setting up Golden — who used a chest-anchored long putter that the USGA hopes to ban in a few years — for the final putt to win by a shot.
"That's it then," Spurrier said after Golden rolled the 3-footer in to get Miami to 11-under. "We came close."
The ending was not without controversy, though. Team Miami hit a drive into a plugged lie in the dry area of a water hazard on the 17th. After Golden played the ball, Torretta placed his ball in the hazard in a clean lie. That prompted Paul Johnson, who was playing alongside them, to say, "That is bulls***. You can't go from a plugged lie to a clean lie."
Since the official Rules of Golf don't even recognize a scramble as a legitimate form of competition and no local rule existed to cover the situation, local pros deemed that Torretta was within his rights to play the unplugged ball. The resulting par proved to be the difference.
Johnson was not pleased, and if the whole thing hadn't been so typical it would have been hilarious.
"This is a great event for a great sponsor and it's supposed to be a time to relax and get away," Nick Saban said after finishing his round with former Alabama Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram. "I love playing golf. It's one of my favorite activities outdoors and it was great to spend time with Mark and some of the coaches that I don't get to see very often."
Most of the participants felt the same way. Gus Malzahn and Bo Jackson had a rollicking good time playing with Dan Mullen and Fred McCrary — Jackson and McCrary needled each other nonstop the entire round — and Hugh Freeze had a blast with Sean Tuohy, whose wife Leigh Anne of "The Blindside" fame, followed them every step.
But they still wanted to win.
"I don't how relaxing this thing is when it gets near the end," Clemson coach Dabo Swinny said after he and his partner Steve Fuller finished 9-under and in third place. "It can get pretty competitive."
Indeed it can. Some things can't be turned on and off, no matter how comfortable the setting.
Score Winnings
1. Miami (Al Golden, Gino Torretta) -11 $125,000
2. South Carolina (Steve Spurrier, Sterling Sharpe) -10 $65,000
T3. Georgia Tech (Paul Johnson, Jon Barry) -9 $50,000
T3. Clemson (Dabo Swinney, Steve Fuller) -9 $50,000
5. Virginia Tech (Frank Beamer, Dell Curry) -8 $35,000
6. Alabama (Nick Saban, Mark Ingram) -7 $25,000
7. Wake Forest (Jim Grobe, Riley Skinner) -6 $25,000
T8. Auburn (Guss Malzahn, Bo Jackson) -5 $21,667
T8. Miss. State (Dan Mullen, Fred McCrary) -5 $21,667
T8. Ole Miss (Hugh Freeze, Sean Tuohy) -5 $21,667
11. Ohio State (Urban Meyer, Jeff Logan) -4 $20,000
12. North Carolina (Larry Fedora, Roy Williams) -2 $15,000
13. NC State (Dave Doeren, Tom Gugliotta) -1 $15,000
14. Syracuse (Scott Shafer, Jim Boeheim) +2 $10,000


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Maz Saleem is the daughter of Mohammed Saleem who was murdered by the white supremacist Pavlo Lapshyn. You can follow her on Twitter @CampaignerMaz
Maz Saleem says she has no faith in the police or media investigation into the killing of Mohammed Yasser Yaqub on Monday, and that the public needs to pressure the authorities into providing genuine answers.
A New Year and a new police killing. A 28 year old married father of two was shot dead by police on Monday night in what seems to be a premeditated planned operation by West Yorkshire Police. Officers bought an Audi car to a halt at a slip road on the busy M62 motorway in Huddersfield. Mohammed Yasser Yaqub was shot dead through his windscreen.
This is truly a horrific incident and no matter what Yaqub has been accused of nobody has the right to take away a life. It seems as though it is fine for those in power to kill people on our streets. I want to know why the armed officers involved in the shooting were not wearing body cameras. After all this appeared to be a well thought-out operation.
Mohammed Yasser Yaqub was shot dead without any warning, arrest or trial. Yet the trashy tabloid frenzy has begun to demonise and character assassinate him without any evidence, apart from the small amount West Yorkshire Police have given out so voluntarily.
Media sensationalism
Sensationalised media headlines into Mohammed's death accusing him of being a "major drugs baron" feels like a trial is taking place now actively in the media. A trial in which he is already been found guilty, in which he has had no fair representation or voice. Because he has been shot dead by West Yorkshire Police.
How can a dead man defend himself? We hear the same old story that the "victim was to blame" and he was "armed" and "dangerous." Many will feel that there will be a massive cover-up and will doubt if the Independent Police Complaints Commission will be investigating this case with integrity or honesty. The IPCC itself is made up of ex-police officers.
This killing brings back echoes of Mark Duggan's case where his character was assassinated by the media. He was a gangster; he had a gun; the police shot him and there's nothing to see here; move along. The IPCC at the time of Duggan's death briefed by the police told the media that Duggan had fired at police officers. He hadn't. Mark Duggan's case also tells a story of police failings, from the outset to this present day.
The media at the time of Duggan's death made an uproar about the gun, which was allegedly thrown by Duggan from the car in the moments before he was fatally shot twice by police. Despite the fact that two witnesses who testified said they saw police remove a gun from the cab before Duggan was shot. Many believe the gun was planted. The inconsistencies in the police account showed their version of events to be inconceivable and scandalous.
No justice, no peace
Whatever Mohammed Yasser Yaqub was the police cannot take life; even in error there is absolutely no justification for his death whether he had a firearm or not. Who do you believe?
Our very own "democratic" government which upholds British values allows such killings on our streets. Over several decades in Britain hundreds of people have lost their lives at the hands of the police, but never have we seen any officers face the very laws they are supposed to implement. As with Mark Duggan there will be no justice.
Injustice requires those who are killed to go quietly into the night and be stripped of their humanity and dignity. The state and all its agencies provide cheap excuses, they dismiss the pain of the family and have no sympathy for the life they have taken. Their voice maybe silent but we can speak up for them. Over 300 protested after Mohammed's death to demand answers, not lies.
Injustice thrives when we fail to speak up. We need to continue to challenge the powers that killed Mohammed Yasser Yaqub on our streets. This will be a long struggle but today it's him and tomorrow it could be you. No justice, no peace.
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True Story: Awhile back (during a period of time when I was not an active Stampin' Up! demonstrator) I had the AWESOME opportunity to work at The Stamps of Life booth at a scrapbooking/stamping expo. It was SUCH a fun day chatting with fellow stampers and enabling them to take Stephanie Barnard's designs home with them! At the beginning of the show Stephanie had taken me aside and asked me to remember if customers asked for a design she didn't have and let her know at the end of the show. So…I made sure to tell her that there was a lady looking for a hippo stamp. She gave me a look like "Really?", I nodded yes, that the lady's young daughter was set on a hippo birthday party and the lady was DESPERATE to find a hippo stamp! (Parents, we've ALL been there, right?!?)
Fast forward six or eight months and I was so surprised and delighted to see the darling stamp sets hippo2stamp and solids4hippo and their coordinating dies come out!! Of course they had to come live with me! I am delighted and in love with how cute my little girlie hippopotamus is!!
And she painted her nails special for this card 🙂 Are you dying with me?? Cuteness overload!!
And now, forever more, just in case someone asks me if I happen to own a hippopotamus stamp set, I will be able to say "Why Yes…Yes, I DO!!"
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Dies: Envelope Line Die (Retired) by Stampin' Up!
Tools: MISTI; Shin-Han Twin Touch Marker CG0.5 (for face)
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Over the past 8 or 9 years I have on occasion made reference to the book "eProcurement: From Strategy to Implementation." Written by Dale Neef, this book's enduring insights continue to reflect a prognosticative reach and relevance that transcends both time and technologies.
From his prediction that despite the overwhelming benefits of implementing an eProcurement solution, 75% of all initiatives are doomed to fail, to the utilization of meaningful reference material to support his positions, Neef's book should still be required reading for any procurement professional.
That being said, and specifically relating to today's topic, have a long look at Chapter 11 (Guiding Principles for Developing an E-Procurement Initiative), which touches on everything from "Executive Sponsorship and Participation" and the importance of a "Strong Change Management Program," to effectively "Involving Suppliers and Vendors." In short, Neef highlights the benefits of eProcurement, identifies the challenges associated with implementation and then prescribes the solution.
For this reason, COUPA's latest white paper "Seven User Adoption Strategies That Will Guarantee e-Procurement Cost Savings" is an interesting read as the company is attempting to provide a non-branded view of the same benefits, challenges and solutions presented by Neef almost a decade earlier.
Don't get me wrong, there is a vast difference in scope between Neef's work and what the vendor is providing in terms of detailed guidance. However, and while obvious, the seven strategies or points outlined in the paper reflect an awakening on the part of the vendor community that technological bells and whistles mean very little if a company fails to gain key stakeholder buy-in both internally as well as externally.
In the end, what makes the COUPA paper a worthwhile read is that it gets people thinking about, and viewing eProcurement through the much broader lens of active engagement and relationship building. From this perspective, one can only ask what took the vendor community so long to catch-up with Neef?


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How to play Backgammon
Backgammon playing pieces are known variously as checkers, draughts, stones, men, counters, pawns, discs, pips, chips, or nips.
The objective is to remove (or 'bear off') all of one's own checkers from the board before one's opponent can do the same. The checkers are scattered initially, and may be blocked or hit by the opponent. As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points.
To start the game, each player rolls one die, and the player with the higher number moves first using the numbers shown on both dice. If the players roll the same number, they must roll again. Both dice must land completely flat on the right-hand side of the gameboard. The players then alternate turns, rolling two dice at the beginning of each round.
After rolling the dice, players must, if possible, move their checkers according to the number shown on each die. For example, if the player rolls a 6 and a 3 (notated as "6-3"), the player must move one checker six points forward, and another or the same checker three points forward. The same checker may be moved twice, as long as the two moves can be made separately and legally: six and then three, or three and then six. If a player rolls two of the same number, which are called 'doubles', that player must play each die twice. On any roll, a player must move according to the numbers on both dice if it is at all possible to do so. If one or both numbers do not allow a legal move, the player forfeits that portion of the roll and the turn ends. If moves can be made according to either one die or the other, but not both, the higher number must be used. If the move by one die is not legally possible, but such a move is made possible by the moving of the other die, that move is compulsory.
During a move, a checker may land on any point that is unoccupied or is occupied by one or more of the player's own checkers. It may also land on a point occupied by exactly one opposing checker, or "blot". In this case, the blot has been "hit", and is placed in the middle of the board on the bar that divides the two sides of the playing surface. A checker may never land on a point occupied by two or more opposing checkers; thus, no point is ever occupied by checkers from both players simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of checkers that can occupy a point at any given time.
Checkers placed on the bar must re-enter the game through the opponent's home board before any other move can be made. A roll of 1 allows the checker to enter on the 24-point (opponent's 1), a roll of 2 on the 23-point (opponent's 2), and so forth, up to a roll of 6 allowing entry on the 19-point (opponent's 6). Checkers may not enter on a point occupied by two or more opposing checkers. Checkers can enter on unoccupied points, or on points occupied by a single opposing checker; in the latter case, the single checker is hit and placed on the bar. More than one checker can be on the bar at a time. A player may not move any other checkers until all checkers on the bar belonging to that player have re-entered the board. If a player has checkers on the bar, but rolls a combination that does not allow any of those checkers to re-enter, the player does not move. If the opponent's home board is completely "closed" (i.e. all six points are each occupied by two or more checkers), there is no roll that will allow a player to enter a checker from the bar, and that player stops rolling and playing until at least one point becomes open (occupied by one or zero checkers) due to the opponent's moves.
When all of a player's checkers are in that player's home board, that player may start removing them; this is called "bearing off". A roll of 1 may be used to bear off a checker from the 1-point, a 2 from the 2-point, and so on. A die may not be used to bear off checkers from a lower-numbered point unless there are no checkers on any higher points. For example, if a player rolls a 6 and a 5, but has no checkers on the 6-point and two on the 5-point, then the 6 and the 5 must be used to bear off the two checkers from the 5-point. When bearing off, a player may also move a lower die roll before the higher even if that means the full value of the higher die is not fully utilized. For example, if a player has exactly one checker remaining on the 6-point, and rolls a 6 and a 1, the player may move the 6-point checker one place to the 5-point with the lower die roll of 1, and then bear that checker off the 5-point using the die roll of 6; this is sometimes useful tactically. As before, if there is a way to fully use the moves showing on the dice, by moving checkers within the home board and/or bearing them off, the player must do so.
If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player's opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss. If the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has checkers on the bar or in the opponent's home board, then the player has lost a backgammon, which counts for three times a normal loss
Because this game utilizes dice, this is where most cheating will occur. Players can attempt to manipulate which numbers appear on top after they roll the dice. There are several techniques cheaters follow, including manipulating how the dice settle in the rolling cup, holding one die while only rolling one, or taking a look into the cup before rolling, to see how the dice are likely to fall.
There is a strong element of luck in this game, so it is not entirely unusual for someone to hit a particularly profitable streak. However, players should keep an eye out for cheating behaviour, such as encouragement to raise the stakes (so that they can collect more from you once they manipulate the game) and a suspiciously long series of critical shots. While there is a randomness to the game, keeping an eye out for suspect behaviour can help alert you to potential cheating.
The game's international popularity has made it a great candidate for online play. Like poker and blackjack, backgammon has taken the online casino world by storm and players can find many different sites offering the game online.


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The much-dreaded, much-anticipated gathering we call the High School Reunion would seem such a surefire source of comedy, drama, and audience empathy that it comes as a surprise how few films and plays have centered on this once-in-a-decade event. Playwright Bekah Brunstetter helps fill this gap in her highly enjoyable World Premiere dramedy Little Man, the latest from The Los Angeles New Court Theatre.
In grand Breakfast Club tradition, Brunstetter focuses on five high school archetypes, while going John Hughes one better by allowing us to see ten years into the futures of The Football Jock, The Gay Nerd, The Popular Girl, The Science Geek, and the Fat Chick.
Not surprisingly, time has wrought changes in each, though not necessarily those their high school yearbook might have predicted back in 2004.
Yes, Prom Queen—or at the very least Prom Princess—Wendy (Jordan Mann) did marry the Stud Quarterback, but her marriage to Jed (David Silavin), Class of 2003, hasn't proven the Happily Ever After matrimony of their dreams, at least not since the birth of their infant daughter.
Stephanie (Marianna Caldwell) may have been the butt of fat jokes back in high school, but no one would dare laugh at the successful, slimmed-down bakery owner she's become. Still, as any triumphant dieter will tell you, past insecurities are less easily lost than excess pounds.
As for musician Andy (Brandon Bales), while the once bullied high schooler could easily have shot one of those "It Gets Better" videos post-Coming Out, life hasn't really gotten all that much better when your major achievement over the past decade is having moved 26 miles from your mom's house.
At the very least, this 10-Year Reunion will allow Andy to reconnect with his straight but equally persecuted best friend Howie (Eddie Vona), that is if he can convince the Peace Corps volunteer turned shoe mogul millionaire to make the flight up from the Argentine ranch he now calls home.
It does take some persuading to get Howie (who goes by Max these days) to revisit his not-so-glorious high school days, but the lure of disproving those who dubbed him Least Likely To Succeed ends up irresistible, and the formerly inseparable duo soon find themselves reunited with onetime classmates who either ignored them or made their life a living hell.
Brunstetter, whose wonderful Be A Good Little Widow generated a pair of Scenie-winning Best Productions in the past year and a half, must surely have attended her 10-Year Reunion, so true does Little Man ring.
Some returnees are back to relive their glory days, life having been less than kind to them once out in the real world. Others have returned to show off just how far they've come over the past ten years and to laugh at their former classmates' hair losses, weight gains, and go-nowhere lives.
And observing this all from either heaven or hell (depending on whom you ask) is the ghost of Golden Boy Mike Strong, his life cut short by a car crash only a few years out of high school, but whose smiling visage casts a radiant light—or deadly pall—over the reunion from its easel perch.
Alcohol gets imbibed in copious amounts, karaoke brings back memories of the Greatest Hits of '04, and through it all comes the perky, amplified voice of Melissa (Josie Adams), whose enthusiasm for All Things Reunion wanes not a tad even as the evening winds to close.
Snagging the rights to the latest from the much-produced, much-published Brunstetter adds a major feather to the cap of the three-season-old Los Angeles New Court Theatre, the brainchild of a half-dozen or so Webster University Conservatory Of Theatre Arts grads with a desire to keep on doing theater in the Land Of Film And TV post-St. Louis, MO, and the playwright's confidence in them more than pays off in this terrific World Premiere production.
Director Kyle Hester has elicited one outstanding performance after another from his cast of six. Bales, Caldwell, Silavin, and Vona could not be better in bringing Andy, Stefanie, Jed, and Howie/Max to multi-shaded life, Vona in particular digging deep into the shoe millionaire's anger and insecurities, and the unseen Adams does as much with voice alone as many actors could centerstage. Best of all is Mann's particularly complex Wendy, the NYU Tisch grad not only finding laughs not already built into Brunestter's dryly comedic script, but playing the onetime Miss Popularity with poignancy and depth—and acting drunk to perfection..
Only one scene didn't work for me, an incongruously surreal flashback involving Howie's parents and several chair-laden staircase climbs whose meaning eluded me. Also, the Howie-Stefanie locker scene would benefit enormously from a move upstage, the better to allow more than occasional glimpses of the two actors between backs of audience heads.
Other than these two quibbles, The Los Angeles New Court Theatre's Little Man easily rivals work being done by older, better-known 99-seat-plan companies.
The in-house design is first-rate all the way round, beginning with scenic designer Joe C. Klug's high school gym set, one which makes impressively clever use of the McCadden Place Theatre's pre-existing quirks. Scarlet Moreno's character-perfect costumes, Johnny Yoder's vivid lighting design, Emily A. Fisher's multiple props, and the uncredited sound design's mix of realistic effects and mood/era-setting pop hits are all topnotch as well.
Little Man is produced by Vona. Adams is assistant director. Josh Gannon is stage manager. The Los Angeles New Court Theatre Board Of Directors is headed by talented twins Nathan Lee Burkart and Alex Burkhart.
I loved Bekah Brunstetter's Be A Good Little Widow so much that I jumped at the chance to see Little Man, and ended up discovering a wonderful young theater company to boot. Funny, absorbing, moving, and entertaining from start to finish, Little Man will resonate with anyone who's even thought about going to their high school reunion, which ought to guarantee full houses throughout its all-too-short two-weekend run.
McCadden Place Theatre, 1157 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood.
–Steven Stanley
October 17, 2014
Tags: Bekah Brunstetter, High School Reunion, Los Angeles New Court Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review