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Larus armenicus
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Amir Ben Dov (Israel)
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|Larus armenicus adult, 15 December 2010, Maagan Michael, Israel. Picture: Amir Ben Dov.
Mirror on P9 and P10. Head streaking concentrated in the lower hind-neck. Black on inner-web of P10 does not reach to the underwing greater primary coverts.


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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Students at Benson Polytechnic High School are out thousands of dollars in tools after thieves stole them from a locked shed behind the school.
"This is the lowest form you can do," said teacher Tim Hryciw.
Hryciw said sometime between late Wednesday night and early Thursday, somebody cut through a fence and busted inside a locked shed to steal power tools worth $8,000-$9,000.
"I'm heartbroken," said Hryciw. "We have nothing now."
What makes the theft even worse is the fact the tools are used to build tiny homes for the city's homeless.
KGW reported last May on the efforts by students to build the homes.
"What kind of low life are you that you steal from the kids?" Hryciw asked. "These are kids who build for the homeless."
Hryciw says his tech-geometry class' goal was to build a half dozen tiny houses by the end of the school year. That goal is looking less and less realistic.
"It's beg and borrow and the kindness of whoever will help us out."
Hryciw says the district is insured, but he is worried district leaders will not make it a priority to replace the stolen tools.
If you have any information about the case you should contact the Portland Police Bureau.

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Lennon, although a one-time LSD and heroin junkie, a multi-millionaire working class hero who spurned his lower-middle-class roots, a man accused of supporting the IRA, spied on by the CIA, who famously said woman is the nigger of the world, and aligned himself with every radical cause going, has surprisingly become the ultimate compromise figure. His sincere belief in the power of "Peace and Love," his embrace of all the counter-cultures that together make up the majority, the anodyne idealism of such songs as Imagine and Woman, and the fact that he was a white male who sometimes liked to get loaded and get his rocks off, makes him appeal to everybody from Oasis's loutish Gallagher brothers to the editorial committees of Japanese high school textbooks who see profound truth and linguistic simplicity in his song lyrics.
If initial popularity is anything to go by, fellow Beatle Paul was by far the better songwriter with hits like Yesterday, Let It Be and Hey Jude to his credit. However, it was John who was the public persona and voice of the Beatles. After they split up, Paul wrote "silly love songs" and lost touch with the cutting edge of creativity that had defined the Beatles, while John produced ever more challenging music like Jealous Guy, Mother, and Mind Games. It almost seems as if he held his best work back until the Beatles split so that he wouldn't have to share the royalties.
As the '60s ended, John more than anyone became the symbol of that revolutionary decade, so that when Mark Chapman pumped 3 bullets into him on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, it wasn't just the dollar millions of the Lennon estate that passed into Yoko Ono's hands, but also custody of a spiritual legacy that embraced everybody who lived through or was influenced by the 60s.
From the early days of their relationship the enigmatic, unsmiling, twice divorced Yoko was reviled. Paul in particular had trouble tolerating her.
"I've always thought," John later accused, "there was this underlying thing in Paul's Get Back. When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line 'Get back to where you once belonged,' he'd look at Yoko."
But Yoko got her man, and later got Paul into hot water by reputedly tipping off the Japanese authorities when he visited Japan with some marijuana in his luggage. More importantly she became the catalyst for the song with which Lennon's name is now forever linked, thus getting her first firm hold on his legend.
"With us it's a teacher-pupil relationship," John told an unbelieving world. "That's what people don't understand. She's the teacher and I'm the pupil. I'm the famous one. I'm supposed to know everything. But she taught me everything I fucking know."
Although this shows a marked lack of gratitude to the likes of Lonnie Donegan, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Dr Arthur Janov and a host of others who all influenced the Lennon mind-set, no one can deny Yoko's part in Lennon's most famous song, Imagine.
The simple list of instructions in the songs lyrics stems directly from Yoko's instruction paintings, where the viewer is requested to imagine a conceptual function. In a recent BBC survey these lyrics were voted the most popular of all time although very few people actually believe in their message of abolishing private property, national states, and religion.
Ono has tightened her grip on the legacy to such an extent that she can now with impunity send the ghost of her husband out to work in Cup Noodle commercials or use his music to promote Nike, a company notorious for paying superstars like Michael Jordan more to endorse its footwear than the entire work force who produce the shoes. In doing this she has faced little opposition. John's son by his first marriage, Julian signally failed to exert any moral authority over the legacy when his own mildly promising career petered out in mediocrity, and as for Sean, despite being weaned by house-husband John, he is very much his mother's child.
In fact, the only challenge recently to Yoko's cozy control and exploitation of the Lennon legend was from the recent parole hearing of Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman. His release after 20 years in jail would have given the media a new and much juicier focus point to view Lennon's legacy. It would also have allowed an exploration of the forgiveness and redemption implicit in Lennon's Christ-like message of love. As Lennon himself said: "It's the most violent people who go for love and peace."
With the threat of losing control in this way, it was no surprise that Yoko moved Heaven and Earth to have Chapman's parole refused.
"It was so cruel. So unjust," she wrote in a sob letter to the New York state parole board. "My husband did not deserve this. He was in no way ready to die. He was feeling good with the prospect of doing a concert tour after making the album which became his last."
The court promptly rejected the application, partly out of fears for Chapman's life, and instead of a media circus focused on Lennon's killer, we had the opening soon afterwards of the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, an event that would otherwise have been overshadowed.
Located in a site inside Saitama's impressive new Super Arena, the Museum claims to be the only one in the World dedicated to Lennon. About 50 minutes out from central Tokyo and costing 1,500 yen to enter, it features staff dressed like elevator girls and 130 items from the life of Lennon, including old guitars, handwritten lyrics, Johns Japanese JCB credit card, and several pairs of spectacles. The most interesting exhibit, however, is the slanted view it presents of Lennon.
Although married twice, only John's second wife ever appears. The brief period of sanity that John experienced in 1973 when he broke away from his mother fixation on Yoko and started to behave like a proper rock star again, is trivialized as the "Lost Weekend" and attributed to John "cracking up." Worse than this, almost every song lyric is construed to refer to Yoko in some way.
There are also some serious omissions from the exhibition. For example, there are no samples of Cup Noodle or Dydo Coffee, two products with which the name of John Lennon is now intimately connected thanks to the business acumen of his widow.
Near the end of the exhibition, you enter the "Quote Temple" with screens running karaoke subtitles to the songs being played, and various quotes from Lennon's career on a giant white block and glass wall. Unfortunately instead of incisive gems of Scouse wit, these are mainly sappy, Yoko-centric ditties like, "East is east and west is west/ The twain shall meet/ East is west and west is east/ Let it be complete."
The final stop is the museum shop where you can buy a notebook for 700 yen, a T-shirt for 3,200 yen, and a framed lithograph of his lyrics for 38,000 yen. On every piece of merchandising are the words "John Lennon is a trademark of Yoko Ono Lennon," just so we don't forget who the owner is.
Now there is no John Lennon without Yoko Ono. With the opening of this museum she has tightened her grip even further on his legend, but as John once said, "Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law, it's nine-tenths of the problem."
Tokyo Journal
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The state Rifle and Pistol Association says its membership has "nearly doubled" to more than 41,000 in the past year — a period, not coincidentally, that goes back to passage of the SAFE Act gun control law.
"This is an extraordinary jump, and when you factor in the clubs and other organizations that are also members, we are a force to be reckoned with," NYSRPA President Tom King said in a statement. NYSRPA claims that in addition to being the nation's oldest National Rifle Association affiliate, is now the largest — surpassing the Texas affiliate. (How ya like us now, Rick Perry?)
More the NYSRPA release, which includes a rather broad paraphrase of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial remarks about "extreme conservative" candidate who have "no place" in the state:
King cites the passage of the NY SAFE Act as the primary reason for the exponential increase in membership. "The NY SAFE Act is one of the most egregious assaults ever perpetrated on the Constitutional Rights of New Yorkers and people are fed up. I would point out that the governor recently said that advocates for the Second Amendment, traditional marriage, and the right to life, have forfeited their right to residency in this state. This is simply outrageous, and while we are strictly a Second Amendment advocacy organization, I can appreciate other organization's consternation at such hubris."
The NYSRPA is currently in the process of litigating against the NY SAFE Act. "We had a recent decision in the Western NY federal judicial district that bodes well for our cause," King. "The court ruled that the seven round limit on magazine capacity violated the Second Amendment and this decision has left the door open for a favorable ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court. Said King, "NYSRPA has already spent over $450,000 in legal fees and is prepared to bear whatever cost is required to defeat the NY SAFE Act. To quote the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 'we shall overcome'."
A spokesman for Cuomo declined to comment.


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I don't think there is a wrong way to celebrate, as long as you know what you are celebrating.
Beltaine is one of the largest festivals. It is so huge that Christianity couldn't even get rid of it. Most people call it May Day now. Just like Samhain, the veil is thin. It is the opposite of Samhain (in terms of balance).
My daughter loves Beltaine. It is right up there with Yule for her. In the night we have a fire with music and dancing and generally some form of alcoholic beverage. We start off the morning with nothing but fresh fruit of every kind. If I had time the night before, it will be paired with fresh bread (bannock) and butter. My daughter loves making wreaths and necklaces with flowers "sewn" into them. To make this easy for small hands, I use craft store "fuzzy sticks" or what used to be known as pipe cleaners when I was a kid. This way she can twist it up, or braid it, and tuck flower stems into the openings. You can also use your flower crafts to decorate doors and windows. My husband always puts one in the car.
My husband and I cook a "feast" and invite the nature spirits to share in our celebration. We have cakes and such specifically for them. I always leave one place setting open and unused during all festivals as a welcoming spot for the spirits and ancestors that may join. The idea is to make them happy so that they look kindly on you and your year may (hopefully) be prosperous with their help/blessing. When inviting in, it's always important to have wards or protections up to prevent ones intending harm from entering. This is another reason for the flowers.
Themes are fire, flowers, and protection primarily. Fertility is always a theme in the early half of the year, so that's a given. But I try to create more definition between Ostara and Beltaine by focusing on protection/blessings with the later.
But, just to be clear, I'm not Wiccan. Wiccans celebrate the sabbats but they did not originate with the religion, they are far older traditions from Northern European and Celtic pre-Christian cultures.


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Chaps close out season with win over rival Odessa College
Published 6:49 pm, Thursday, March 1, 2012
In a year where the word roller coaster doesn't even describe what the Midland College men's basketball team has gone through, the Chaparrals made it their mission to end this season on a positive note against rival Odessa College.
Playing with a lot of energy and determination, the Chaps put an end to their season by beating the Wranglers 70-63 at Chaparral Center.
The Chaps would have loved to have been in next week's Region V Tournament in Lubbock, but they will have to settle with an 18-10 overall record and a 6-8 mark in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference.
There will be time to ask all the what if questions, but for now the Chaps will have to settle for a victory against one of their biggest rivals and against an Odessa College team (23-7, 8-6) that will be heading to the Region V Tournament as the WJCAC's No. 4 seed.
"I thought it was great effort," MC's first-year coach Chris Craig said. "For all intents and purposes, we weren't playing for anything as far as the season standings, but it speaks volumes about our guys in my opinion. It shows their character, toughness and pride that they came out and played for Midland, for the college and for the athletic department. It was great to see them compete at such a high level tonight."
Kelvin Agee and Melvin Tabb each had 15 points to lead MC, Anthony Norris had 13 points and Majok Majok added 10.
"I think everybody wanted to go out there and play hard," said Agee, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard from Niagara Falls, N.Y., who also had eight rebounds "That's probably one of the hardest we've played for a complete 40 minutes. We got after it on the offensive boards, and in the first half everybody was getting an even amount of shots and we weren't being selfish. When you play like that, you're going to win."
The Chaps also did a good job of dominating the glass, out-rebounding the Wranglers 50-31, while defensively MC held OC to 38 percent shooting.
OC's big two of Derrick Barden and Matthew Hunter each had 14 points to lead the Wranglers, but that paled in comparison to the 48 combined points they had in a 78-65 victory over the Chaps Feb. 6 in Odessa.
"The last time we played these guys, they really turned the corner off their ball screens and we couldn't keep them out of the paint," Craig said. "By no means did we did a great job tonight but I thought by trapping them in the second half kept them out of the paint."
MC had a 33-30 halftime lead and led by as much a 51-38 in the second half.
The Wranglers made a late run to cut it 65-63 with 2:26 remaining, but two free throws by Colan Wesby and a 3-pointer from Agee sealed the win for the Chaps.
Craig said he pleased for his sophomores — Tabb, Majok, Agee and Tre Bowman.
"They leave here on a positive note, while for some of our freshmen this was a good to end this season on a good note going into next year," he said.
Agee said what made it more satisfying was that this win came against a rival.
"I know Hunter was looking forward to it and was saying, 'We're going to get you' and stuff like that," Agee said. "Any time you're playing a rival, you want to play hard and try to get the win.
"As a sophomore, being to leave on a good note is a good feeling. I wanted people to know that I left it out there tonight."
For at least this night in a season that turned into frustration and disappointment, the Chaps can savor one night of celebration and feel good about themselves.
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Odessa College (23-7, 8-6) — Jaamon Echols 2-9 0-0 6, Derrick Barden 6-14 1-1 14, Jalondre McLanahan 1-6 2-2 4, Deonnte Breedlove 0-0 1-2 1, Kewyn Blain 1-6 1-1 3, Brandon Williams 2-3 1-1 5, Damal Donaldson 4-7 0-0 8, Javontay Baynes 4-6 0-0 8, Matthew Hunter 5-14 4-5 14, Daniel Held 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-65 10-12 63
Midland College (18-10, 6-8) — Colan Weasby 1-5 2-2 5, Willis Nicholson 2-7 0-0 4, Tre Bowman 1-3 1-2 3, Kelvin Agee 5-12 3-6 15, Majok Majok 4-9 2-2 10, Anthony Norris 6-10 1-2 13, Brandon Lucas 2-8 0-0 5, Melvin Tabb 5-10 4-6 15. Totals 26-64 13-20 70
Halftime — MC 33, OC 30. 3-point goals — OC 3-11 (Echols 2-3, Barden 1-4, Hunter 0-4), MC 5-16 (Agee 2-3, Weasby 1-4, Lucas 1-5, Tabb 1-1, Nicholson 0-1, Bowman 0-1, Majok 0-1). Total fouls — OC 19, MC 13. Fouled out — Donaldson, McLanahan. Rebounds — OC 31 (Barden 5, McLanahan 5), MC 50 (Agee 8). Assists — OC 10 (McLanahan 5), MC 12(Agee 3). Turnovers — OC 11, MC 18.
Next game: Odessa College vs. Ranger College, NJCAA Region V Tournament, Lubbock, 5 p.m. Thursday, March 8


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Iris Brooks
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As both a musician and writer I have been drawn to Asia like a magnet for many years. It is not merely the exotic sounds of the hypnotic instruments that lure me in, but a more all-pervasive aesthetic, incorporating space and grace in the sounds and intent as well as in movement, calligraphy, flower arrangements, tea ceremonies, and landscape scrolls. I am one of many Americans who has been sucked into an East-West vortex where the music (both traditional and new) of many Asian countries, acts as sustenance as well as a resource for creating something new.
Composer/performer Skip La Plante, who is also the co-founder of Music for Homemade Instruments says: "For some of us, Asian music is about as fundamental to our lives as arithmetic. As a composer I function much as a librarian. I have a large collection of instruments and knowledge of a variety of musical traditions—specifically how these traditions organize sonic events. I can take whatever I feel like off the shelf and apply it to whatever the situation is." And yet La Plante is rarely playing traditional music verbatim; he is more interested in creating his own pieces and instruments. While he has studied Indonesian gong-making technique, he prefers suspended refrigerator vegetable bins, which sound surprisingly gong-like.
Similarly, composer Barbara Benary—who is the artistic director of the Gamelan Son of Lion ensemble, playing new American pieces on her own homemade Indonesian gamelan instruments—speaks of becoming "bimusical" (or "multimusical") a term she borrows from ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood. This is evidenced as she casually picks up a Chinese bowed erhu to blend in a new American work for Indonesian gamelan (percussion orchestra). Composer R.I.P. Hayman who has traveled to most Asian countries and amassed an impressive collection of recordings and instruments adds that he is still digesting musical material which "arises in surprise" in his work.
In interviewing a sampling of two dozen American musicians heavily influenced by Asian musics, similarities began to emerge. I was interested in their motivation, not just what musicians are doing, but why. Regardless of the musical traditions they have pursued, most mentioned the early recordings and concerts of classical Indian music by Ravi Shankar and/or Ali Akbar Khan as their first window into Asian music. Jai Uttal was so mesmerized by an Ali Akbar Khan concert that he immediately dropped out of college to study with the master. Several musicians mentioned the impact of Asian films, such as Pather Panchali, by Indian director Satyajit Ray (with whom Ravi Shankar often collaborated) or the work of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and one spoke of an abundance of National Geographic magazines as an early inspiration.
Not all Americans intrigued by Asia want to play traditional music(s) or use traditional techniques. Raphael Mostel does not believe music is a universal language. "Traditional musics are many languages and many dialects. What led me to create the Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble: New Music for Old Instruments, was the desire to compose a new kind of music, taking basic elements which all people have in common so that the music would be equally understood (or misunderstood) everywhere in the world. Truly universal."
References to an older generation of American composers with one foot in Asia include Henry Cowell, Colin McPhee, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. Their influence was particularly felt regarding stylistic as well as philosophical ideas with new attitudes about space and time. Percussionist Glen Velez-for whom Cage wrote a 1989 composition for tambourine – recalls a visit at Cage's house. "He told me if you look at the sky, it is a blank canvas and he asked, looking at the pinpoints of the stars, 'why are they there?'" But the minimalist connection was also cited with LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, Phil Corner, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Richard Teitelbaum—who has written music mixing Tibetan Buddhist chant with breath, brainwaves and synthesizer and another piece for Japanese Noh flute, saxophones and sampler – teaches a course at Bard College about the relationship of these composers to the Asian musics that influenced them. While George Harrison may be Ravi Shankar's most famous student, other rockers also listened to and studied Indian music including Jimi Hendrix, Mickey Hart, and the Grateful Dead. In the jazz world John Coltrane, Don Ellis, Yusef Lateef, Miles Davis, and Charles Lloyd are important regarding a modal presentation and improvisation, a deconstruction of Indian music, and the role of meditation.
For some, the role of spirituality is expressed through music á la Asia. This may be manifest by adherence to a strict tradition—kirtan, devotional Hindu singing from North India and Japanese Buddhist shakuhachi flute repertoire in the Meian style, thought to represent the simplest form of blowing shakuhachi as a spiritual practice. American Krishna Das speaks of music as a doorway and sings as a devotional practice. "Chanting is a part of every spiritual path. It's about adoration of the beloved; it's all about love," he explains. Others create an original hybrid form as Jai Uttal has done with his Pagan Love Orchestra, mixing a Western pop sensibility and colorful orchestration with devotional songs.
Some Americans master an Asian instrument such as Steve Gorn playing the Indian bansuri flute. Although he plays with Indian musicians where he is accepted on the concert stage in India, he also takes the instrument into new settings. He plays bansuri in a pop context with Paul Simon, in jazz with Jack DeJohnette, in world music with Simon Shaheen, and in new American music with Glen Velez. "My personal feeling is I am a Westerner and bring that background to my work. I want the Indian stuff to flourish in other contexts," says Gorn.
Composer Lois V Vierk was drawn into the world of the Japanese court gagaku (literally elegant music) through an initial study of Japanese dance. The way the body moves and breathes was the initial pull for her, followed by the combination of strength and elegance in the music. "The hichiriki is so powerful – it's the loudest instrument in the world per cubic centimeter," volunteers Vierk, who was commissioned by the Lincoln Center Festival to write "Silversword" (1996), for gagaku orchestra. She is most interested and influenced by the slow unfolding of Japanese court music. "The nuances are not just decorative; they have meaning and that taught me a lot about phrasing," she adds.
American instrumentalists also look to incorporate techniques from Asia. American players of gamelan music such as composer/clarinetist Daniel Goode incorporate repetitive elements, circular breathing, and drones into their own work. Vocalist Lisa Karrer says: "While rehearsing for The Pink, composer Tan Dun taught me the rudiments of Peking Opera style. As a result I sometimes employ those attack, sustain, and decay methods in my own vocal compositions. Likewise in my work with Javanese composer Tony Prabowa, my singing has been informed by his filigree-like vocal lines, which emerge from the traditional Javanese style." For Karrer the impact is larger than technique. "By learning and playing this music my sense of psychological and physical time has changed and shifted."
For percussionist Glen Velez performance practice is also about more than learning specific techniques. With Azerbajani music he heard what was appropriate with density and space—how much to play and when not to play in an ensemble situation. "It let me see what was successful in a traditional setting and taught me about the sound values of a culture." Composer/performer David Simons incorporates a variety of traditional techniques such as a Balinese kotekan (interlocking melodies) and gong cycles along with North Indian concepts of tala (rhythmic cycles) and tihai (rhythmic ostinati repeated three times to end on the first beat of the cycle) in his compositions. "For at least 25 years I've considered the combining of music cultures (East-East, East-West, and other unholy marriages) to be a frontier worth exploring, with endless possibilities. Just one example: using Indian santur technique with chopsticks on a Chinese zither tuned to an Indonesian scale playing rhythms of the Ewe tribe from Ghana West Africa." Simons also notes that nothing takes place in a vacuum, pointing out that Asians have been migrating to the New World for centuries and culturally intermingling.
Sub-genres of pop music are a fertile place for influences going East to West and West to East such as Bangra/hip-hop Tuvan/blues and Qawwali crossover. Nowadays Americans don't have to study Asian instruments in order to have their sounds available. Modern-day samplers and synthesizers contain patches with sounds of biwa, koto, sitar and gamelan. And while some Americans have made journeys East to soak in the culture on a visceral level accompanied by years of disciplined practice, others are instantly accessing Asia via the Internet, CD ROM, recordings, films, and MIDI patches.
As a nation of immigrants, Americans celebrate multi-culturalism. It has become as natural to play a raga on a sitar (or guitar) as a Mozart string quartet. And why not? With an ear towards Asia, musicians and composers are blending new sounds, styles, and structures in an ever-broadening and changing American sound palette. It's part of the process of keeping American music and culture vital.


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Any European club manager who thought he could convince stars such as Didier Drogba or Samuel Eto'o to opt out of the African Cup of Nations, which kicks off on Sunday in Ghana, was delusional. For African players the tournament is more than just an opportunity to show off their talent and pick up a nice medal - it is a chance, almost a mission, to uplift their people.
"Many Europeans don't understand how big this tournament is," says Reading's Cameroonian defender André Bikey. "To Africans this is as big as the World Cup. In England you have cricket and rugby and other sports but in Africa football is everything. For us players it's a chance to give some joy to our people - our people don't care what we do at our clubs, only what we do for our countries is important."
The former Sierra Leone player and manager Leroy Rosenior strikes a similar note. "For Africans, representing our country means much more than it does to England internationals. When we go out on the pitch we're playing not just for money or our own reputations but for our families, our communities, for everyone. We're also very concerned about the legacy we leave, and letting people down is not a legacy anyone wants to leave."
First held in 1957, the tournament predates its European equivalent but none of its 25 previous editions has stimulated as much interest as this one in Ghana. Not only have 16,000 journalists from all over the world been accredited for the event - more than double the number who attended the 2006 version in Egypt - but organisers have suggested that the four cities staging matches could welcome up to one million visitors over the next three weeks.
Previous Nations Cups have suffered from tiny attendances at matches not involving the hosts but this time, with six of the 16 competing countries being West African neighbours of Ghana, many of the visiting teams will be followed by throbbing throngs of supporters.
Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali and even the underdogs Benin have reportedly sold official allocations of 3,000 tickets and are expected to be followed by many more who hope either to find tickets on arrival or, given that two of the four stadiums being used have capacities of less than 25,000, simply savour the atmosphere in the host country. Demand for flights to Ghana from Senegal has been so high that the country's president, Abdoulaye Wade, has made his jet available to travelling fans.
The influx is a boon for the country's hotel owners, with prices in the capital climbing above $300 (£152) per night. Even the Ghana team has been gazumped - when the Black Stars returned from a training camp in Abu Dhabi this week they were told that the Accra hotel they had arranged to stay in no longer had any rooms, a more lucrative offer having been received while they were away.
Meanwhile in Sekondi, the small coastal venue for several of the group matches, schools and other civil buildings have reportedly been vacated to serve as temporary accommodation.
With the standard of football consistently rising across the continent, this year's tournament is considered to be the most open to date. The holders, Egypt, and regular threats such as Cameroon and Nigeria will again be strong while Mali, Morocco, Senegal and, in particular, Ivory Coast are awash with gifted players. But the favourites are the hosts. On 11 previous occasions the tournament has been won by the host nation and, though shorn of their injured captain Stephen Appiah, they have the quality to go all the way and win the competition.
"Playing at home does bring a lot of pressure, even for great players like Michael Essien," said Marcel Desailly, the Ghana-born defender who was part of the France team that won the World Cup on home soil in 1998.
"The challenge facing [the Ghana manager] Claude Le Roy is to assimilate the pressure and channel it into a positive force. If he can do that and they get off to a good start, Ghana could be unstoppable."


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1963, in U.S. postal ZIP code, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, no doubt chosen with conscious echo of zip (v.1).
"move rapidly," 1852, of echoic origin. Related: Zipped; zipping. Zip gun "homemade pistol" first recorded 1950.
"zero," 1900, student slang for a grade of zero on a test, etc.; of unknown origin; cf. zilch.
"to close or fasten by means of a zipper," 1932, back-formation from zipper. Related: Zipped; zipping.
Denoting a sexual encounter that is brief and passionate
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The hunt for the new radio home continues… and so does the search for new skills I can parlay into a little "transition income." For that matter, maybe launch a new series on Netflix…
…maybe that's a reach.
I decided limiting the search to opportunities in Fresno was, well, too limiting. So… on the road we go.
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Thank you, Darren. I appreciate your very kind words.


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text: Neurology News: New Concussion Guideline from the American Academy of NeurologySmolinsky, MikeNeurology Now: April-May 2013 - Volume 9 - Issue 2 - p 13–14 doi: 10.1097/01.NNN.0000429062.40420.51 Departments: The Waiting Room In Brief Article Outline Neurology News: New guideline on sports concussion from the American Academy of Neurology. Signs and Symptoms of a Concussion SOME OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THE AAN'S NEW CONCUSSION QUICK ... What the New AAN Concussion Guideline Says Over the past few years, newspaper headlines containing the word "concussion" have become disturbingly common. Much of the time, coverage has focused on professional athletes. But concussion—which can occur when force is applied to the head, with or without impact—affects people of all ages. Among 15- to 24-year-olds, sports are second only to motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of concussion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than one million athletes experience a concussion each year in the United States. In response, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has released an evidence-based guideline for evaluating athletes with concussion. This new guideline, which replaces the 1997 AAN guideline on the same topic, has been endorsed by a broad range of athletic, medical, and patient groups, including the National Football League Players Association, the Child Neurology Society, the National Association of Emergency Medical Service Physicians, the National Association of School Psychologists, the National Athletic Trainers Association, and the Neurocritical Care Society. "Among the most important recommendations the AAN is making is that any athlete suspected of experiencing a concussion immediately be removed from play," says co-lead guideline author Christopher C. Giza, M.D., with the David Geffen School of Medicine and Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and a member of the AAN. "We are recommending that concussion be assessed in each athlete individually. There is no set timeline for safe return to play." Figure Extra caution should be taken with athletes of high school age and younger, as evidence shows that they take longer to recover from a concussion than college athletes. "If in doubt, sit it out," said lead study author Jeffrey S. Kutcher, M.D., a sports neurologist with the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and a member of the AAN. "Being seen by a trained professional is extremely important after a concussion. If headaches or other symptoms return with the start of exercise, stop the activity and consult a doctor. You only get one brain; treat it well." However, while an athlete should immediately be removed from play following a concussion, there is insufficient evidence supporting absolute rest, according to the authors. The guideline was developed by reviewing all available evidence related to concussion in sports published between 1955 and June 2012. In recognition that scientific study and clinical care for sports concussions involves multiple medical specialties, a broad range of expertise was incorporated in the author panel. The authors analyzed more than 9,000 scientific studies to develop the guideline, and at least two authors independently analyzed and graded each study on the strength of its evidence. Visit http://bit.ly/SwSWbF for the complete collection of Neurology Now articles on concussion. The AAN's new app, Concussion Quick Check, can help coaches and athletic trainers quickly recognize the signs of concussion. Available for the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices, the app can be found in the iTunes store or the Google Play store. A mobile version is available at aan.com/concussion.—Mike SmolinskyBack to Top | Article Outline Signs and Symptoms of a Concussion Headache and sensitivity to light or sound Changes to balance, coordination, reaction time Changes in memory, judgment, speech, or sleep Loss of consciousness or a "blackout" (happens in less than 10 percent of cases) Back to Top | Article Outline SOME OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THE AAN'S NEW CONCUSSION QUICK CHECK APP Common signs and symptoms of concussion What to do if the athlete appears to have a concussion When it is okay for the athlete to return to the game Where to find a neurologist near you State laws on concussion The AAN new evidence-based guideline for diagnosing, treating and managing sports concussion Back to Top | Article Outline What the New AAN Concussion Guideline Says Figure Among those sports evaluated in the studies, the risk of concussion is greatest in football and rugby, followed by hockey and soccer. 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March 15, 2004
Agreement on Rents Maintains Affordability for Existing Tenants
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced an agreement between the owners and tenants of Independence Plaza North (IPN) on a plan to keep rents affordable at the 1,332-unit Mitchell-Lama development in Lower Manhattan. The agreement calls for a rent structure for when the development leaves the Mitchell-Lama program, which protects residents who might otherwise have been vulnerable to large rent increases. The development is expected to buy-out of the program in June of 2004.
"Former HPD Commissioner Jerilyn Perine was instrumental in bringing the two parties together to ultimately reach this agreement, and this resolution will keep rents affordable for tenants, thereby relieving the anxiety that comes with the sale of the development," said Mayor Bloomberg. "This agreement is a win-win because it preserves affordable housing for New Yorkers, especially in neighborhoods where they might otherwise be priced out. Our housing plan, which will build or rehabilitate 65,000 units of affordable housing in our City and includes $50 million in capital improvements to Mitchell-Lama developments that cannot afford conventional financing, strives to balance the needs of tenants, building owners, and those we want to encourage to develop additional housing."
"We are pleased to announce another important step in maintaining affordable rental housing for New Yorkers," said Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) First Deputy Commissioner John Warren. "Preserving the City's stock of middle income housing is crucial to making New York more livable for our hard working families and more attractive to new businesses."
"I have always respected the fact that Independence Plaza is home to over 3,000 New Yorkers. That is why I pledged to work with the tenants association and City officials to craft a fair and equitable plan with as little disruption as possible to IPN residents," said Laurence Gluck, owner of Independence Plaza North.
"We were pleased to arrive at a settlement with Mr. Gluck; however, this is only the first step," said Independence Plaza Tenants Association President Neil Fabricant. "We are absolutely determined to maintain the long term survival of the vouchers."
Terms of the Agreement:
Existing tenants will be protected from rising rents when the building leaves the Mitchell-Lama housing program: the agreement presumes that as many as two-thirds of the tenants in the 1,332-unit complex will be eligible – based on household income – for "enhanced" vouchers provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Many Mitchell-Lama developments, including IPN, currently receive federal assistance that make them eligible for special federal Section 8 Rental subsidies known as "enhanced vouchers." These vouchers are made available to households earning up to 95% of area median income, which is $59,600 for a family of four, thus insulating those tenants from large rent increases. Tenant share of the monthly rent for those tenants with "enhanced vouchers" is capped at 30% of income or their current rent whichever is greater, with the voucher paying the difference between that amount and the market rent as determined by an appraisal approved by HPD.
The agreement negotiated by the Independence Plaza North Tenants Association on behalf of all residents of Independence Plaza secures the right of the non-voucher tenants to remain at the development without having to pay market rents. For these tenants, many of whom have resided at Independence Plaza for more than two decades, their rent will increase as follows:
1. For the first nine years, rent will increase annually in accordance with the annual schedule established for rent increases by the City's Rent Guidelines Board (RGB). Effectively, this gives the tenants the same rent increases as those apartments presently under the rent stabilization system. In the current year, the approved increase is 4.5% for one-year leases, and 7.5% for two-year leases.
2. In the tenth, eleventh and twelfth years of the agreement, the rent of the non-voucher tenants will be increased by the amount of the RGB schedule, plus an additional three and one-third percent (3-1/3%) each year.
3. In year thirteen and subsequent years, annual rents will increase as scheduled by the RGB, plus one percent.
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The British Council has released a free sports-themed, hidden object and word game app for the iPad. In LearnEnglish Sports World, players have to find the hidden sports objects and earn medals while learning about sporting events – just in time for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The game features 290 sports objects, categorised in 36 Olympic and Paralympic sports events, hidden in a beautifully illustrated sports scene. LearnEnglish Sports World has a unique twist – in addition to finding objects, players need to recognise and correctly spell the hidden sports objects to earn medals. Clues are available to help users identify and learn about various sporting events, and detailed information about the events is provided in the app.
LearnEnglish Sports World is aimed at English learners, as well as sports and casual game fans.
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A great way to prepare for watching a spectacular summer of sport. Learners of English will find the audio pronunciations and translations particularly helpful.
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I Love Memphis mural on Cooper Street
By Barb Elder
If you have recently traveled south on Cooper Street and glanced at the parking lot across from Bluff City Sports under the Trestle Art, you've probably noticed a bright splash of orange and huge black and white lettering covering the retaining wall that use to be riddled with graffiti. Inspired by ilovememphisblog.com, a series of 10 murals are being painted throughout Memphis this summer to stir up pride in our beloved city. According to the Memphis Business Journal, these murals are being funded by the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City of Memphis, and the UrbanArt Commission. With artists donating their talents and the use of a simple color scheme, the price of each mural is kept to a minimum. Thanks to local artist Brandon Marshall and everyone involved with the project for gifting CY with this new public art!
Support the homeless at Memphis City Council
By Jacob Flowers
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center invites you to the Memphis City Council Chambers (125 N. Main St) on Tuesday, June 7 from 3:30-6:30pm to join us as we call out to our elected officials to support and fully fund the Mayor's Plan to End Homelessness, federally and locally. In the coming weeks, both Mayors will go before the City Council and County Commission to present their funding requests for the plan, and the needs of our brothers and sisters are great. We need your help to remind our leaders of just how important funding of this plan truly is.
We will also be calling on the Council for a percentage of jobs to be set aside for the homeless and graduates of the Shelby County Drug Court to do blight demolition, board ups, and yard work that the city needs done. We can provide jobs for those who have little chance of getting them and curb blight at the same time.
Au Fond and El Diablo close their doors
By Barb Elder
Change is one of the only things you can count on, and recently in Cooper-Young we have seen change come once again to the businesses on one of our main thoroughfares. Ben Vaughn, owner of Au Fond Farmtable and El Diablo taqueria on Cooper St., closed both restaurants this May. We wish Ben well, and we will miss his contribution to the CY community.
Free Men's Health Summit coming June 11
By Jeff Hulett
The Church Health Center's 4th annual Men's Health Summit will be held from 8:30am to 2pm on Saturday, June 11 at the UT Student Alumni Center, 800 Madison Ave. This free event will show men how to live a healthier life through prevention and awareness and will focus on hypertension, diabetes, and patient empowerment. You can register by calling 901-830-9886, but limited space is available. For more information, call 901-261-8833.
For a full listing of Church Health Center events, classes, and activities, many of which are free to the public, visit churchhealthcenter.org.
Ways to participate in Japan relief efforts
By Barb Elder
In the May issue of the LampLighter, one of our articles featured the story of a Japanese Cooper-Young resident, Asuka Taga Yow, and all that she is doing to mobilize our community in support of those in need in her home country. Although we may not hear much about Japan on the news these days, nearly three months after the earthquake and tsunami the needs in this part of the world are still overwhelming. For anyone interested in learning more or getting involved, don't forget that Asuka will be hosting a table at the CY Community Farmers Market (1000 S. Cooper) the first Saturday of every month from 8am-1pm to raise awareness, take donations, and sell origami creations and T-shirts. Thanks to your help, Asuka has already raised $675 through her Farmers Market table and yard sale in May. All money that she raises will go entirely for Japan relief. While we kick back and enjoy the Memphis summer, lets not forget those hurting and in need in Japan.
Wacky Wednesdays at the Brooks provides free summer activities for kids
By Barb Elder
According to a recent newsletter, each week in June and July, the Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park will be showing a children's film and hosting an open studio from 10am-noon. Children of all ages and their adult friends can drop by the Open Artworks Studio and create a variety of artwork using many different materials. They can also watch a multitude of films made just for kids. Museum admission and all activities are free.
Otherlands to host benefit for Shelby Farms and the Greenline
By Karen Lebovitz
Otherlands is soliciting 8×10 framed photos of the Greenline and Shelby Farms Park from the community. You can bring these photos to us with all of your contact info on the back so that we can return them to you at the end of the show. We want to plaster the walls of Otherlands in June with great images of this fantastic asset we all love to love.
Then, on Saturday, June 18, starting at 8pm we will be hosting a benefit for Shelby Farms and the Greenline featuring the Dan Montgomery Band and The Magic Kids. Tickets are $10 or $5 for current park members. If you don't have a membership, you can join at the door and get in at the member's price. For more info check the events on the Shelby Farms Park Facebook page and respond that you are attending.
Habitat for Humanity opens ReStore
By Lauren Hannaford
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis is holding their grand opening of the ReStore, located at 7130 Winchester Road, on Thursday, June 9. The ReStore offers new and gently used household items and building supplies for sale, and accepts donations of items such as furniture, appliances, books, cabinetry, windows, hardware, lumber, tools, flooring, lighting, and toys. The ReStore does not accept clothing, mattresses, or used carpet. All donations are tax-deductible.
Joe Davidson, manager of the Memphis ReStore, says, "The ReStore is not only a green alternative to disposing of unwanted items, but it's also a great way to support Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis." For more information about the ReStore, call Joe Davidson at
901-737-8673 or visit memphisrestore.com.
Local artist Nick Canterucci opens The New Frontier at Odessa
By Barb Elder
In a recent press release, local artist Nick Canterucci announced that there will be a public artist reception to celebrate his show, The New Frontier, at Odessa (2613 Broad Ave) on June 17, from 6-9pm. Canterucci is a self-taught artist who has collaborated with many artists within the Ann Arbor and Memphis art scene. He's been a fixture at many CY artist invitationals and did a successful show with Karen "Bottle" Capps in early 2006. In late 2010, he released his first solo show in 30 years at Odessa. On June 17, Canterucci will return to Odessa to showcase his new body of American Folk outsider art.


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|The ZIMBABWE Situation
thoughts and prayers are with Zimbabwe
- may peace, truth and justice prevail.
Comments by Minister Membathisi Mdladlana, the head of the South African observer mission, pre-judging the elections as free and fair, has compromised its impartiality. The MDC has therefore resolved not to engage the SAG mission until someone else leads it.
The people of
The MDC is anxious to engage the South African Government to seek clarification on the issue of the Ministers conduct and behaviour.
The MDC has reversed its decision not to engage with the ANC observers. The change of heart by the MDC follows a conversation earlier this morning between MDC Secretary General Professor Welshman Ncube and his ANC counterpart, Kgalema Motlanthe.
The ANC Secretary General personally assured Professor Ncube that the ANC observer mission would be independent and would have nothing whatsoever to do with the SAG observer mission. He further promised that the ANC observers were under strict instructions to behave impartially, to objectively assess the conditions on the ground and to help Zimbabweans to freely participate in the democratic process.
On the basis of the assurances that have been given the MDC has undertaken to instruct all its party structures to fully co-operate with the ANC observers.
Paul Themba Nyathi
MDC Secretary for Information and Publicity


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Murder suspect Mark Ellson is said to have visited Giuseppe Miceli's house on five separate occasions around the time the coin dealer was killed, a court was told.
CCTV taken from various cameras in the area shows a man, believed to be Ellson, arriving and departing the house, four times in daylight and once at night.
On all but one occasion the man is seen with a laptop bag over his shoulder, and on the other occasion, he is seen leaving the house without it.
A short while later, he is seen to return to the property, and emerge with the laptop case five minutes later.
Last week, the jury heard that a laptop case was seized from Ellson, and a forensic investigation revealed spots of blood on it were Mr Miceli's.
Mr Miceli, aged 71, died of head injuries some time between 11.10am on Friday, July 12, 2013, and 12.30pm the following day, at his home in Bants Lane, Duston.
Ellson, aged 41, formerly of Wellingborough, denies murder.
The jury was shown footage from July 11, when a figure believed to be Ellson is seen visiting a telephone box in Dallington Road at 12.25pm, from which it is said he called Mr Miceli.
The man is then seen going to Mr Miceli's house at 2.14pm, before leaving at 3.39pm, and calling him again from the telephone box at 4.50pm.
The next day, July 12, Ellson is said to have called Mr Miceli from the telephone box at 11.39am, then entered Mr Miceli's house at 2.19pm, leaving at 3.50pm.
Ellson is believed to return to the house again at 4.46pm, and leaves at 5.36pm, without the laptop bag over his shoulder.
He then is seen to go back at 6pm, and leaves at 6.05pm, carrying the laptop bag.
Further CCTV shows a man believed to be Ellson in Bants Lane at 2.40am on July 13.
But William Harbage QC, defending, disputed this.
He said: "It is extremely difficult to tell anything about the person. It is of poor quality and there is only an inference that it is Mr Ellson."
Further CCTV then showed Ellson arriving at Northampton railway station at 6am on July 13, before getting off a train in Nottingham just after 8.30am, and checking into The Cotswold Hotel in the city just before midday.
There, he is said to have paid the £105 bill for two nights' stay with two brand new £50 notes.
He returned to Northampton by train on July 15, and was arrested at 5am the following day.
The trial continues.


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South Africa Proposes Law to Give State Share of Oil Projects
The South African government has proposed changes to an energy law that would enable it to secure free stakes in all new oil- and gas-production projects.
The planned amendments to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act also aim to secure the state the right to appoint two directors to the board of companies operating new energy projects and to abolish the petroleum industry regulator. The changes, if approved by Parliament, could have repercussions for companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy producer, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), which intend prospecting in South African waters.
The law didn't specify what size stake the state would take in new energy projects and it was unclear how the provisions will work in practice, said Peter Leon, the Johannesburg-based head of Africa mining and energy projects at law firm Webber Wentzel.
"These proposals are extremely negative for the industry while surrounding countries continue to benefit from an exploration boom," he said in an e-mailed response to questions today. "No obvious reason has been advanced for the abolition of the Petroleum Agency of South Africa and the transfer of its all responsibilities to nine regional managers of the Department of Mineral Resources."
South Africa had proven oil reserves of 15 million barrels in January 2011, located to the south and off the west coast near the Namibian border, according to Oil and Gas Journal. International energy companies have becoming increasingly interested in exploring South African waters as new technology boosts their ability to find and pump hydrocarbons from deep underneath the seabed.
"The pressure should be on the government to support the industry," Claude Baissac, the founder of country-risk consultants Eunomix, said in a phone interview from Johannesburg. "We see no sign of that. This draft legislation is hopelessly out of tune."
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The dense and mysterious Aokigahara Forest, located at the foot of Mount Fuji, is Japan's most popular place to commit suicide--more than 100 bodies are found every year and it's estimated that many more corpses lie undiscovered.
Azusa Hayano is a geologist who has studied the forest for 20 years and has found more than 100 bodies in that time. He took a camera crew from Vice.com for a tour of the grim forest.
A quick walk-through revealed abandoned supplies, nooses, suicide notes and bodies.
"I don't know why people kill themselves in such a beautiful forest," Hayano says in the video. "I still haven't found an answer to that."
You can watch the video at the Vice website or check out some of the most poignant parts here. WARNING: Graphic content ahead.


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I'm just leaving Sao Paulo after attending the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. Great conference (people and technical content). I'd like to say more about a number of the other papers, but I'll focus here on the one that won this year's Best Paper Award: Enabling Adaptive Time-based Web Applications with SMIL State by Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman.
The paper presents a very interesting mix of SMIL, XForms and other technologies to enable end-users to customize their experience of content where time dictates the major structure. One example given is of a video bike tour of Amsterdam created by the first author. Fragments of the video content can be identified and tagged with keywords. During run-time, an XForm is used to allow an end-user to select from the available keywords those which they find interesting, and the corresponding fragments of video are played.
This is the type of thinking that will clearly help make video content a first class citizen on the web. There is significant potential for the use of this technology for stream-lining educative experiences as well. Imagine, for example, a 2-hour audiovisual presentation that provides a thorough introduction to a topic, say CSS. But suppose the end-user really needs to know only about setting up borders on tables. By selecting the content, the user can find out what they need to know in 10 minutes. What's more, it is easy to imagine how the technology reported by Jansen and Bulterman could be refined to attenuate the video content download to the selected fragments.
A second example reported in [1] pertains to ad selection within video content. When you download free video for your favorite entertainment, you're going to get ads and you won't have the ability to skip them because otherwise how do people manage to make a living providing you with this free entertainment?? So, sprinkled through the video will be ad slots with default advertisements lined up. But, in addition there will be hotspots on the video where various product icons may appears from time to time, and if the user clicks the icon, then the default ad is replaced with an ad corresponding to the clicked icon. Thus, you could find out what's new at the electronics shop in lieu of an ad for laundry soap or some such.
It's a great example on the technical side of the need for interactive video, but this is because there's huge market potential for this idea. Not only does the user get a more pleasant ad experience with their free content, but the content provider gets to find out what their audience is most interested in, and the advertisers get to find out what content their customers are most interested in. Very Web 2.0.
I encourage you to download and read the paper.


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I woke up this morning to 49 invoice requests in my inbox - not exactly an exciting start to the day (and it's taken me all day to finish them!)
When I started at 9am it was dry, but as the day has worn on it started to rain, and then pour! - I sit in my conservatory for work, looking out onto the garden, so it's not all bad! As i have sat here today - not totally focussed on my work it must be said, I have been watching the changes in the garden that the rain brings. The grass has got noticeably greener as the day has gone on, the chicks are sitting on their perches, fed up with wet feet I expect. and I have watched a blackbird, methodically tilting his head, listening, then diving in for his reward.... a fat juicy worm! He's worked hard in this downpour and deserves his good dinner.
This working from home lark isn't all bad! ;)


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|Reviews for Fanfiction Discursive
| Frodo's sister chapter 1 . 12/31/2014
I don't think fanfiction is a waste of time either. It helps me to become a better writer, and besides I don't spend all of my time on the internet. It would be unhealthy if I did.
| JoMiSm chapter 1 . 3/12/2014
You, person of undisclosed gender, win the internet. Everybody go home.
Just so true, I could cry.
Btw, hello fellow fanfictioner. :D
| RuciliaChrisSpellson chapter 1 . 9/24/2012
Thank you for convincing me that Fanfiction is not a waste of time. I like to read fanfics but I prefer to create my own stories. I think that the worst part about fan fiction is that you have to make your story stand out from the thousands of stories already there.
Anyways, keep on writing!
| cajunghost chapter 1 . 9/20/2012
I argree with you Fanfiction has helped me a great deal and I have met some very interesting pple while doing it.
| stormrook chapter 1 . 9/20/2012
Let's also not forget that one of the most acclaimed plays of the 20th century, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is ostensibly fanfiction of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Very good and acclaimed fan fiction is just called literature. Good writing is never a waste of time.


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From lost to found, class memento comes full circle
ALUMNI | Thanks to the diligence of a UD alumna and the sleuthing of UD's Office of Alumni Relations, a 1959 graduate has been reunited with his long-lost class ring.
In 1961, Richard F. Annand, AG59, lost the ring while working at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa. Fast-forward 50 years to Ocala, Fla. where Phyllis Baker Jackson, EH56, volunteers as a tax preparer and was handed a UD ring by a customer after mentioning to him that she was an alumna.
Jackson contacted the Office of Alumni Relations and asked for help identifying the owner. "The initials are difficult to decipher, but I think they are R.F.A.," Jackson wrote in an email. "The blue stone is imprinted with Phi K T. I hope you can find the original owner."
After some research, the office concluded that the ring belonged to Annand, a brother of Phi Kappa Tau, and called him with the good news. "I never expected to see my ring again, and if it wasn't for Phyllis, I never would have," Annand says. "When you get something like that back, it stops you in your tracks. Here is a part of your past that is back in your life, and you thought it was long gone."
The ring, though worn, was not damaged, he says: "The stone was intact, so I took it to a jeweler and they fixed it right up."
After graduation, Annand worked in large-scale gardening until 2000 and now owns a gardening-tool design and manufacturing company, Longnecker Tools, in Gibsonville, N.C.
Jackson, whose father, Thomas A. Baker, was a professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, graduated with a degree in home economics. The Distinguished T.A. Baker Professorship was established in 2001 by Jackson and her sister, Melissa Baker Spaulding, AS45, from their mother's estate.


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There is nothing more gladdening to a homesick student's heart than the sight of many, many red-lidded jars…all filled to the brim (layers of protective bubble wrap in between) with handmade Lunar New Year goodies. Even better when said homesick student has spent the week shoveling snow in Ithaca while her relatives flood her phone with picture messages of all the glorious treats she's missing out on. The bastards.
So when she wakes up to find golden, buttery, pineapple jam pastries redolent with cloves, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth, salty-sweet sugee (semolina) cookies, richly fragrant cashew nut sablés, and miniature pork floss (think candy floss, but made with pig) spring rolls in a giant package at her door, she starts to think a little better of her not-so-heartless-after-all family.
Especially when she knows making those mini spring rolls make shoveling snow look like drinking tea (or some such trifle) in comparison. How mini? Pretty darn close to nano—each roll is made from one-third of a strip of wanton skin, about a one-inch square. On that kind of doll's house scale, making them involves tweezers, a teensy paintbrush (for brushing with water to get sticky edges), and a very grouchy cousin who (unwillingly, on my aunt's orders) sacrificed an entire weekend—from sun-up to sun-down—slaving over them.
Like the Russians who measure hospitality by the amount of tablecloth that's showing, Chinese families believe it absolutely necessary to ply visitors with goodies—especially during the New Year when jars upon jars of treats will mass on coffee tables and spill over onto the floor. Treasure chests with mother-of-pearl inlays reveal drawers of preserved fruit (plums, citrus, ginger, nutmeg, jujubes, etc.) and lazy susans laden with yet more treats beckon. There will often be a buffet table laid out for guests—more food than everyone assembled will be able to make a dent in—all due to the belief that if you start the year with plenty, "the months to come will never bring any want."
Obviously, with displays like that, competition among the women of the family to set the most bounteous table is inevitable. Each year, malls organize large-scale food fairs where vendors sell the latest trendy treats from around Asia as well as homegrown innovations (durian-anything, pig candy tartlets, etc.). There is much pride in being able to snag x-treat from y-store after having waited in line for eight hours with fellow devotees. Top boasting rights, however, go to the women who've taken unpaid leave from work to make their own goodies.
My cousin then has certainly earned the right to revel in her domestic goddess-ness.
But personally (with the care package safe in my greedy paws, and my jaws furiously working on those delectable pork floss rolls), I'm thankful I wasn't the one messing with tweezers all weekend. Especially since her entire weekend's work was pretty much demolished in an hour. Then again, guess who has to shovel the driveway tomorrow?


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|Reviews for Static
| Neverlander12 chapter 1 . 4/3/2006
Wow, I can relate to everything but the lost love and the boys. I don't know how my friends would react if they knew the whole truth about me. It's another wonderfully amazing fantastically gorgeous and evocative piece. I'm sorry that you have to feel these things and I sincerely hope that life gets better for you.


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A lot of people think that a vacation from our everyday life means an automatic vacation from our diet and fitness routines, whether we like it or not. But it doesn't have to be that way. Check out these healthy eating and fitness tips in this "survival kit" from Keri Lynn Ford, fitness model and trainer to the stars.
Ford suggests investing in a medium-sized soft-shell cooler. One with multiple compartments makes it easy to organize, especially if you have special dietary needs. Ford recommends one from 6 Pack Fitness. Just check the airline requirements for carry-ons to make sure your cooler fits the bill.
Water weights, like these from AquaBells, weigh very little and can be used for weight-lifting or resistance training, depending on what kind you get. Just fill them up with water to work out and empty them before you leave.
When you're traveling, you'll be in a lot of places where healthy snacks can be hard to find. When it comes to healthy snacks, Ford says "there are three things you want to keep in mind: easy, whole and solid." Bring individual packets of nut butter (larger jars won't get through airport security) to eat with pre-cut veggies, sliced fruits or whole-wheat bread.
This is especially important when traveling with kids. One of Ford's favorites for herself and for kiddos is almond butter with sliced apples, celery stalks or brown rice cakes because the extra fat keeps you full longer. She also loves Funky Monkey snacks, a freeze-dried fruit. Not only are they delicious, but you can use them to make homemade trail mix or mix them into a cup of plain oatmeal (you can get hot water almost anywhere!).
Other suggestions from Ford include baby carrots and hummus, whole-wheat crackers with natural, low-sugar beef jerky, and low-fat string cheese or a serving of Greek yogurt (one that doesn't contain any genetically modified cornstarch). She stresses that you should look for food combinations that provide some sort of carb (like fruit or rice cakes) and a plant- or animal-based protein (nuts, yogurt, etc.) to help stabilize blood sugar.
Ford recommends using zip-close baggies so you don't have to throw away expensive plastic containers. Anything you plan to eat much later can be frozen and the bags will help keep unfrozen foods cool.
You'll also want to layer paper towels along the bottom and between the items to prevent leaks and ensure that condensation from frozen foods doesn't leak onto something else. If you can't find individual packets of things like nut butter or hummus, you can purchase small plastic ramekins with lids.
In addition to our healthy traveling kit, Ford gave us the following advice for healthy traveling:
Keri Lynn Ford is an ACE certified trainer, Mad Dogg certified spin instructor, certified lifestyle and weight management coach, and the creator of Ignite Girls Fitness, an online training and nutrition program. Ford was a University of Delaware cheerleader and has trained celebrities such as Alison Sweeney from The Biggest Loser, Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt. She has also graced the cover of FitnessX Magazine, and the pages of Physique and Fit & Firm. To read more about Ford, visit kerilynnford.com.
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Warburton named As Captain, Lions To Rule?
British & Irish Lions Favourite For Rare Series Victory- Warburton Captaincy Costs Bookies Dear!
William Hill like the look of the British & Irish Lions squad and make them their 8/13 favourites to be successful on the tour. Australia are offered at 11/8 with the draw 20/1. William Hill are 5/2 that the Lions produce a 3-0 victory but it is favourite that we see a 2-1 Lions victory at 7/4.
It is already one nil to Rugby fans , who backed Sam Warburton from as big as 12/1 into 4/9 to be named Captain and the bookies will be paying out a considerable sum.
"At one point Chris Robshaw was as short as 4/9 to Captain the Lions, whilst Sam Warburton was 12/1, anyone who showed faith in him deserved their big payout!" said William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams.
William Hill have installed the British & Irish Lions as their 4/5 favourites to win the first test, with Australia offered at Even money.
Wales are expected to provide the majority of the side, with William Hill offering 5/6 that over half the side are Welsh. Ireland are 5/6 to produce five or more starters, with England 5/6 for three or more, whilst Scotland are 4/7 to not be represented on the field.
"English players look to have paid the penalty for their thrashing at the hands of Wales and the Welsh will almost certainly be the best represented country on the field, when the first test starts," said William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams.
First Test: Evens Australia, 4/5 Lions, 20/1 Draw
Number Of Wales Starters First Test: 5/6 Seven or less, 5/6 Eight or more
Number Of Ireland Starters First Test: 5/6 Four or less, 5/6 Five or more
Number Of England Starter First Test: 5/6 Two or less, 5/6 Three or more
Number Of Scotland Starters First Test: 4/7 None, 5/4 One or more
Which country will have the most starters for the British & Irish Lions team to face Australia in the 1st test: 1/4 Wales, 4/1 Ireland, 9/1 England
Which country will have the most starters for the British & Irish Lions team to face Australia in the 1st test: 2/5 Wales, 7/2 Ireland, 6/1 England, 25/1 Scotland
Series Betting: 8/13 British & Irish Lions, 11/8 Australia, 20/1 Draw
Series Score:
250/1 Lions 1-0
7/4 Lions 2-1
28/1 Lions 2-0
5/2 Lions 3-0
Series Score:
400/1 Australia 1-0
50/1 Australia 2-0
23/10 Australia 2-1
13/2 Australia 3-0