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I finally took Dawn's recommendation and bought some Charlie's Soap Laundry Powder. I'd been wanting to switch to a natural detergent for a while, but I put it off because I had a large bottle of All Free & Clear that I didn't want to go to waste. Once that was nearly used up (I gave the leftovers to my sister), I placed my order for Charlie's.
I've been using it for about a week now and so far, so good. I didn't want blab about it on my blog until it passed the cloth diapers test, but it did so and with flying colors. I was a little surprised by how clean the diapers were. I've actually been reading some of the product reviews on their site and many people rave about how clean it got their cloth dipes, so I guess I'm not the only satisfied customer. 😉
Charlie's Soap Laundry Powder "is made with a unique blend of biodegradable coconut-based detergents and high-grade, completely soluble, Green River washing soda."
It's reasonably priced too. The size I ordered does 80 loads at 16 cents a load. (And they seem to have thrown in an extra bag for me too – maybe because I'm a first-time buyer? I'm not sure, but I'm not complaining.) You can buy a larger size too that equals out to 10 cents a load. Charlie's also sells an all-purpose cleaner, though I like to make my cleaners myself.
The bag says "Leaves nothing but the good old-fashioned sweet smell of clean. If you want flowers, go pick some." 🙂 I like that. I give Charlie's two thumbs up. 🙂

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After attending a flurry of public meetings from Moose Pass to Seldovia and just about everywhere in between consultants working on the Kenai Peninsula Borough's updated comprehensive plan wrapped up their whirlwind tour of the Kenai Peninsula this week.
The consultants, representing the Portland, Ore., firm Cogan Owens Cogan, have spent the past three weeks crisscrossing the borough in order to gather public opinions for the plan, which was last updated in 1992. An updated plan is set to be completed next fall and is intended to guide borough policy through the year 2015.
On Wednesday consultants Matt Hastie and Susan Roberts dropped in on the weekly Kenai Chamber of Commerce luncheon, where they heard a number of comments on what direction the public would like to see the borough move in during the next 10 years.
Hastie asked chamber members about what, specifically, they'd like to see emphasized in several different areas of the plan, including land use, environmental protection, population issues, the economy, transportation and public services. What he heard back included a wide range of ideas and comments on everything from water quality monitoring on the Kenai River to building a road to Point Possession.
Kenai Mayor John Williams raised the Point Possession road issue during a discussion on economic development. He said the best way to spur the borough's economy would be to streamline the transportation corridor between the peninsula and the rest of Southcentral.
"We need faster and better access to the bigger city," Williams said.
The mayor said that building a road to the northern tip of the peninsula would allow a proposed high-speed ferry to shuttle cars and people between the peninsula and Anchorage cutting down significantly on the time it takes to travel between the central peninsula and Anchorage.
"That would put us within 80 driving miles of Anchorage," Williams said.
He said plans already are under way to design and build such a ferry, and the borough needs to get on board with a road as soon as possible in order to grow the economy.
"If we could tie ourselves to Anchorage through that quick transportation corridor, you would see a tremendous amount of economic development in the whole Cook Inlet corridor," he said.
According to Hastie, the goal of Wednesday's meeting like some 43 other meetings held throughout the borough in the past three weeks was not to settle on any concrete plans for the future, but simply to hear from local citizens on things they'd like to see included in the plan.
"A lot of what comes out of these meetings will feed into discussion of future issues," he said.
Wednesday's meeting with the chamber was one of two on the consultants' itinerary. Following the Kenai meeting, Hastie and Roberts drove south for an evening meeting in Kasilof. Their final stop came Thursday in Seldovia, where they met with community and business leaders before heading back to Portland today.
Hastie said the meetings of the past three weeks are a first step in the process. He noted that a telephone survey, as well as another round of public comment, will take place between now and the release of a final plan, which is expected by late 2004.
"We're still in the information gathering stage," Hastie said.
A lot of input is needed because the updated plan will be used as the cornerstone of borough policy for the next decade. As such, a lot of work and time has to go into formulating a plan that takes into account a wide variety of perspectives and comments, Hastie said.
"It's not just a matter of filling in some numbers and slapping a new cover on it," he told the chamber.
Other comments recorded Wednesday in Kenai focused on the health and future of the area's most important watersheds, namely the Kenai River.
"The Kenai Peninsula is dependent on various watersheds," said Jim Fisher of Soldotna. "How will the plan help with the maintenance and enhancement of those riversheds?"
Fisher suggested that any comprehensive plan should include an emphasis on water quality monitoring throughout the borough, and in the Kenai River in particular.
Other suggestions for the updated plan given Wednesday included placing greater emphasis on working with Kenai Peninsula College, formulating a boroughwide animal control policy and looking at ways to partner with the area's Native communities.
Hastie said he'll take all the comments back to Portland, where Cogan Owens Cogan will begin to compile the data and work on a first draft of the new plan.
Once a draft is completed, Hastie said the firm will return to Alaska to get more comments before issuing a final plan.
"This is by no means the end of the public process," he said.
To borough's current comprehensive plan can be downloaded at www.kpbcompplan.com.
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Mantry Food Subscription Box Review – May 2014
Mantry is a subscription box that describes itself as "the modern man's pantry." Each month they ship your gourmet food in their signature wooden crate.
Mantry kindly sent me this box to review.
The Subscription Box: Mantry
The Cost: $75
The Products: The Modern Man's Pantry: a Food of the Month Club that helps you discover American artisan food.
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This month's theme is Campfire Cookout.
Each box comes with a fold out card detailing each of the producers behind the food included and where they come from.
Just Cook Herbed Coffee Rub – Value $8.50
Vermont Smoke and Cure Summer Sausage – Value $7
This coffee rub is delicious – but a word of caution if you are sensitive to caffeine like I am: do not use it for late dinners! (Both my husband and I were awake at 3 am the other night wondering why we couldn't sleep when it dawned on us that we had eaten caffeinated burgers!)
Broadbent's Hickory Smoked Country Bacon – Value $7.50
Bourbon Nib Brittle – Value $13
We've received bacon from Mantry before and it's always amazing, so I'm excited to try this batch!
Soberdough Brew Bread – Value $8
La Fundidora Fuego Salsa – Value $9
I should have been surprised based on the name – but this salsa is spicy! A little goes a LONG way for me!
Verdict: This month's box has a value of about $53. I think I say this in all my Mantry reviews – but this is definitely not a box for a great retail-value. It is however I think a great curated box, and a really well-packaged way to discover new brands across the country. And of course I think it makes a great gift – both the food and the presentation are fantastic.
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On Saturday 27th March Master Parm Rai started the seminar, which was attended by 33 participants who include Master Jamie Moore & Master Leyton and held at the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Of the remaining students there were 6 International Instructors, 20 Black Belts and the rest were gup students ranking from 8th Gup to 1st Gup. These participants travelled from far and wide with a contingent of 7 coming from the Nations Capital, Canberra, which is over 1,300 kms away.
Each day started with warm-ups, core strengthening, and drills, some of which were new to those in attendance and I believe will now form part of the Instructors training regime.
Master Rai over the two days covered a majority of the 24 tuls up to and including Tong-Ill performed by Master Moore & Sabum Burn. Also the three Masters performed Hwa-Rang for participants.
Throughout the seminar Master Rai commented on the high level of knowledge of those in attendance but did emphasise that more power was required within the movements. In doing this Master Rai covered the use of core strength and in particular utilising the bodys engine or hip to generate the power required with each technique, along with focusing on sine wave and acceleration of movements.
On the final day Master Rai was presented with an Akubra Hat (which is an Australian Icon) as well as a Boomerang as all in attendance wished that as a boomerang he will return to Australia, to impart some more of his Taekwon-Do knowledge for us all.
For anyone who has the opportunity to attend a Seminar conducted by Master Rai, I highly recommend it.
On behalf of those in attendance I would like to thank Master Rai for passing on some of his wealth of knowledge to us, and to Master Moore for inviting Master Rai to Australia.
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Leslie Kern and Eric Williams Help Launch Resistance to Church-State Breech
The following are remarks made by Leslie Kern and Rev. Eric Williams at the North Congregational United Church of Christ in Columbus, Ohio on September 8, 2008 as part of the announcement of formal legal complaints to the IRS against the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) for their organizing of the "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" on September 28. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend yesterday and record these remarks, which I can now share with you.
September 28 is the day on which the ADF has encouraged leaders of religious organizations to specifically endorse or oppose political candidates for office — despite the agreements these organizations have entered into with the federal government in which they agreed to not meddle in elections in exchange for never having to pay a dime in federal taxes. The ADF and these renegade churches want to keep their tax-exempt status while breaking the promise they've made to stay out of a political system they refuse to pay into.
Leslie Kern began by introducing the primary goal of the day at hand:
OK, let's roll. My name is Leslie Kern. This press conference represents a legal confrontation of the Alliance Defence Fund (the national legal infrastructure of the religious right — approximately 40 lawyers on staff and 1200 lawyer volunteers nationwide). A confrontation by two constituencies, working in tandem — the clergy group that filed the IRS complaints against the World Harvest Chruch and the Fairfield Christian Church in 2006, and former IRS executives including a former Commissioner, a former IRS Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility, and a former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations.
And then Rev. Eric Williams explained the motivation for filing a formal complaint with the IRS:
Welcome. On May 5th of this year the Alliance Defense Fund sent me a letter, inviting me to preach on September 28. The ADF is calling the day "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," and on this day the ADF is encouraging me to commit tax abuse from that pulpit. I don't accept this invitation.
In this letter the ADF advised me that "the sermon is intended to challenge the Internal Revenue Code's restrictions by specifically opposing candidates for office whose political positions conflict with Scriptural truth. In so doing, it is our hope to recapture the rightful place of pastors and churches in American life." I don't trust this advice.
Contrary to its words of encouragement, I understand that the ADF hopes that many religious leaders will accept their invitation to preach in support of or in opposition to an electoral candidate, that many will be investigated by the IRS, that they will be found guilty of tax abuse, and their congregations will be fined, penalized or stripped of their tax exempt status under charities law.
As a result of its Pulpit Initiative the ADF is hoping to have many high-profile violations in hand in order to challenge the constitutionality of the Internal Revenue Code's restrictions against religious and charitable organizations that are supporting and participating in electoral politics.
The ADF is hoping to restore the religious bully pulpit to electoral politics. We say no. Not with the support of our tax dollars!
The ADF is seeking to legislate its own particular brand of religious values and practices through the ballot box. We say no. Not at the expense of our religious liberties!
The ADF is attempting to tear down the wall that separates church and state. We say no. No, because that wall is the levy that guards our nation from the hurricanes of religious extremism. It is the fencerow that helps all citizens to become and remain, in words and actions, good neighbors to each other. It is that historic mile marker erected by our nation's founders that guides faithful patriots of each new generation, who seek and secure for everyone our inalienable rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The rightful place of religious leaders and communities of faith in American life is not in electoral politics, not in misusing tax exempt dollars to support or discredit candidates, not in abusing the power of the pulpit to tell others who to vote for, not in distorting and misrepresenting the historic role of religion in public life, and not in undermining our religious liberties by replacing our nation's democratic principles with their sectarian creeds.
Instead, the rightful place of our religious leaders, of all religious communities and charitable organizations, is out of the way of electoral politics and into our communities, our neighborhoods, our houses of worship, our homes — bringing help and healing, providing education and ecnouragement, advocating justice and opportunity, offering reconciliation and renewal, and celebrating faith and hope and certainly God's love.
Now if you are interested in hearing a lively sermon on church and state, one that is completely non-partisan and entirely legal, one that raises up the historic role of faith and religion in democracy, then I invite you to join me and the members of North Church, here, on Sunday morning, September 21st at 10:30 AM. Or better yet, if you would like to hear your own faith leader's thoughts, invite her or him to join the many clergy across the nation who have committed themselves to preach that weekend in support of separation of church and state.
We continue to gather names of clergy who will speak out on September 20th or 21st, and we are still inviting all people of faith or personal conviction to add their names to this letter of complaint to the IRS. Please email your name, title and date to email@example.com.
The biggest threat to religious liberty in America, in American life today is not the government. The real threat comes from religious organizations like the ADF, acting through the government to impose their own creeds and codify their own practices into law or public policy.
Today I am one religious voice, and together we are many faithful voices, speaking out and asking our government to protect our liberties. Will you stand with us to say "no" to the ADF Pulpit Initiative, and will you sign with us this letter of complaint in order to preserve the separation of church and state, in order to secure the foundation of our democracy, and to protect the religious freedoms of every citizen?
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
If you would like to listen to these remarks as an audio podcast, click here.
There was more to this news conference than I have shared here, more than Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the Washington Post have included in their coverage. I promise to post more speeches, documents and evidence of ADF's First-Amendment-Busting behavior tomorrow.


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August 11, 2014
Arlington International Racecourse rises like a mothership from the Northern Illinois suburbs, training track bordering Route 53, streamlined grandstand glinting in the light. As a 13-year-old raised not far from there I used to twist in the backseat of our family station wagon, begging my dad to drive a little slower — stretching for a chance to see the horses.
We rarely passed Arlington in the morning hours, so my first memories are the golden tan of an empty dirt oval, fly-away wraps flapping on clotheslines, children of backstretch workers playing soccer in the summer sun. Because of this place I was moved to chronicle a sport I now hold dear, preserving the stories of great-hearted Thoroughbreds and those who care for them. In those early days Arlington was like a magnet, and I was unmistakably drawn.
Fifteen years later, rides in that coffee-brown Oldsmobile a distant recollection, I returned to my home track to write about Richard Duchossois — the larger-than-life figure who runs the racetrack with a regimental hand. I wanted to preserve the legacy of a man the racing world knows simply as "Mr. D," who at 92 still leads track operations on a daily basis, pushing his team to create what they all term the "Arlington experience."
I had another reason for coming home, a grim one. In Illinois, where a difficult political climate has progress at a standstill, financial rewards are small and fields are dwindling. The last round of purse cuts at Arlington was announced June 12 due to a sharp drop in all-sources handle, and no one knows what will happen at the Northwest oval when Mr. D is gone. With the state racing industry in turmoil, I think I had to visit while my place of memories still endures. When you really get down to it, maybe I just needed to feel what I felt back when I only wanted to see the horses.
Because the magic is still here. Every season in the middle of August, my home track rolls out its signature contest — that sprawling spectacular called the Arlington Million (gr. IT). A 10-furlong event won twice by the great John Henry and captured through the years by the best turf runners of our sport, the Million lures top contenders from across the nation and around the world. And when they all converge on a plush green oval beneath these hulking stands, for one afternoon, at least, everything is as it ought to be.
The apron at Arlington terraces gradually down from the clubhouse in a gentle series of white concrete steps, and when it is still dark you can walk in through the silence of the vast cool building, push your way against the brass bar of a giant glass door, and emerge on those steps to the rhythmic sounds of the morning. Jingling tack. Falling hoofbeats. Riders crooning to their charges as they gallop down the lane. The racetrack itself seems so large and the clubhouse feels so massive, it could come across as overwhelming to someone new. But those who make their living here say this place has always held a comforting sort of vastness. This is where they belong.
Arlington is more than an entertainment venue where horses race in constant circles and discretionary income may be bolstered — or diminished — at the mercy of a mutuel ticket. For 130-some trainers, about 30 jockeys, and more than 1,100 backside employees including exercise riders, hotwalkers, and grooms, it is home — and Richard Duchossois is the master of the house.
Every morning by 8:00 a.m., Mr. D arrives at Arlington. He wears a perfectly tailored suit, a crisp shirt with cufflinks, and a luxurious tie, his black dress shoes always shined to a military standard. In the old days he used to get around by helicopter but now he takes the steadier route, driving himself — despite his age — from Hill 'N Dale Farm, the home he shares with wife Judi about 20 minutes away in Barrington Hills.
In a volatile Illinois racing industry, Duchossois is the lone constant. Those who work for him alternately marvel at his dedication and tremble beneath his rule. Not much escapes his impeccable attention to detail. On every desk in the executive wing of his immaculate business department sits a simple plaque, its inscription a nod to the chairman's military roots: "Don't Expect What You Don't Inspect." He may have never expected to own a racetrack, much like he never planned to join the Army in 1942 when he was 20 years old. But in his way of life, once he jumped in, he inevitably took command.
"I hadn't turned 21 yet when I became a captain," he said. "I was 23 when I became a major. But there were a lot of people who would have just as soon been a buck private and had someone else tell them what to do… it depends upon what you want to be, and you can be whatever you want to be if you really make your mind up to do it.
"Some people are going to make it, and some aren't. Some love challenge; some want to be led — they aren't leaders. That doesn't mean they're good (or) bad… it means we're all a little bit different."
Mr. D was born Oct. 7, 1921. A graduate of Morgan Park Military Academy on Chicago's South Side, he said his upbringing helped forge him into the corporate leader he became.
"I think, to a degree, it's how you grow up," he said. "Having gone to a military academy in high school, I learned competition. I learned challenge. I learned discipline. I learned how to be focused."
After marrying his high school sweetheart, Beverly, and having been taken away from his studies at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va., Duchossois found himself headed out on the first of five major European campaigns. He landed on Utah Beach a month after the invasion, served at Normandy as a tank commander under General George Patton, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
Just months ago, he returned to the site of those battles for the 70th anniversary D-Day remembrances as part of a delegation of American veterans organized by the National World War II Museum. During his visit, the French government presented him with their highest award — the Legion of Honor. He already had a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
For almost 60 years Duchossois didn't speak about his war experiences, but he began to open up a little while ago. Maybe the waning years led him to reminisce, or perhaps he sensed the need for young people who were raised in a different world to hear his story and respect the ethos of that era.
On Sept. 15, 1944, attempting to cross the Moselle River between Germany and France, Duchossois' Third Army tank company engaged in heated battle and a shot from a German soldier blasted across his side. The bullet damaged nerves in his back, causing temporary paralysis. He was initially lined up with others marked for dead at a field hospital, but someone must have caught a glimmer of the fighter in his eye — he was moved to treatment, and recovered. Four months later, a grenade fragment hit him in the face. Perhaps those wounds gave him an iron-willed survival instinct — in the years that followed he withstood quadruple-bypass heart surgery, cancer, and a recent hip operation.
"I was extremely fortunate that almost the entire time I spent in the Army, I was responsible for something, I had a command of some sort," Mr. D recalled. "When you have those responsibilities, you're so busy taking care of the things you have to take care of, that you don't have time to think about yourself and 'what if,' so you just go on.
"I wanted to get back to my men. I had trained them, I had brought them overseas, we'd been fighting all the way through… I can't say that I was fighting 'for God and country,' I was fighting because that was my job and those were my people."
Those core military values of discipline and loyalty drive his business approach to this day. These are his people now — the horsemen, the track employees, even the customers.
"I think it's a culture of the track," he said. "We have to make our people feel like they are a part of Arlington. Arlington isn't run by someone they don't know and they don't see; it's important for all of our executives to be out there in the morning, to be on the backstretch, and by example they will follow, because they are part of the team."
While that culture has remained strong through the decades, Mr. D also realizes how imperative it is for a high-level executive to keep up with the times.
"I'm 92 years old; people don't live the way I live," he remarked. "And I have to recognize how the younger people live and what they want. I'm three or four generations ahead of the customers, and we probably have the youngest overall average customer of any track in the country."
When Duchossois returned to Chicago in 1946 it was not to work in racing, and the concept of the modern-day Arlington was not even a glimmer on the horizon. Instead, he followed his father-in-law into the railroad freight car manufacturing business. He became CEO of Thrall Car Manufacturing Company in 1952, and turned what was a modest operation into the second-largest freight car manufacturer in the world. Next, he developed the privately held Duchossois Group, an organization comprised of businesses in the consumer products, technology, and service sectors. The company, still controlled by the Duchossois family, is valued at more than $2 billion dollars.
The prospect of becoming a racetrack owner never even came up until Mr. D lost his first wife Beverly, with whom he had four children, to cancer in 1980. Within a few years his Arlington era would begin, but it would still be a while before the racetrack became his passion.
Richard Duchossois first dabbled in equine ownership because of his younger son Bruce — he purchased a show horse for him as a bribe in hopes of boosting the boy's middle school report cards. In the early 1960s Duchossois and Beverly bought an old dairy farm that they converted into Hill 'N Dale, the eventual home of Duchossois' Thoroughbred operation — which started when one of his fellow horse show parents suggested they go in on a racehorse.
By the late 1970s Duchossois was breeding and racing a sizable band, and had helped form the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association. By the 1980s and early 1990s he was the state's leading breeder and was already working with track owners to push pro-racing legislation before the state General Assembly. His most significant involvement, however, began in 1983 when he took a trip to Louisville on the First Saturday in May. There, the course of Arlington's future was set.
"I'd never been to a Kentucky Derby, and after my wife died I went down to see what a Kentucky Derby was like, not because of a love of horses, not because of a love of racing; I just wanted to see what it was like," Mr. D recalled. "I ran into Arlington's former president and vice president and they were putting together a syndicate that was going to buy it. They asked if I'd join it and be one of the members, but I wanted no part of a racetrack."
That was before the first race. By the fifth, the two former Arlington executives, Joseph F. Joyce and Sheldon Robbins, convinced him he should be a part of the group.
"In those days, you know, I was single, and I was drinking," the chairman said with a grin. "I said, 'No more than 10 percent, that's my limit.' I didn't even know what 10 percent meant in dollars and cents, but that was the limit."
About a month later, when it was time to finalize papers at the lawyer's office to purchase Arlington from then-owner Gulf and Western, it turned out Duchossois was the only investor with significant capital. He put up $17.8 million of the reported $19 million to buy the track.
"I got down there and no one had any money, so we had to buy the whole thing," Mr. D recalled. "But then I gave each of them 4.9 percent for $100 each, and they later brought in a friend of theirs (Ralph Ross) who put $1 million into the track, and that's how I got in racing."
He turned complete management over to Joyce and Robbins and immediately they began to clean up the facility and improve the racing program. Arlington was on the decline at the time, a place where mostly hardcore horseplayers came to gamble — where losing tickets littered the floors of a cavernous grandstand and stoopers sidled along sifting through the remnants in pursuit of accidentally discarded winnings. Duchossois had a better vision: the Disney World of racetracks.
"Women didn't want to bring children to the track because it was unsafe; it was a bad thing to do," Mr. D said. "We knew nothing about running a racetrack, it was our first experience, but we thought we ought to take a new look at it and run it basically on the same principle that we run all of our other companies.
"If we don't have people buying our product, we don't have a business, and the only way we're going to be able to satisfy the customer, satisfy our expenses, is to treat the customer just like we want to be treated."
On July 31, 1985, an electrical malfunction set off a five-alarm fire at Arlington. More than 150 firefighters from 17 surrounding communities tried to bring the blazing spectacle under control. After unsuccessfully battling the fire from the horsemen's lounge, its place of origin, all the way to the grandstand, they could only stand back and watch it burn.
On what was a foggy morning, Mr. D took his helicopter over to inspect the damage.
"By then it was blazing and everybody was running around saying, 'Oh, we can't let the grand old lady burn,'" Mr. D said. "My feeling was, I hope it goes all the way to the ground. Because at that point in time, when I saw it, there was absolutely no way you could rebuild the track like that without having it been a rebuilt burned out structure. It just couldn't be done. We would be continuing an old, worn-out mode of doing business, instead of building new in the modern-day style."
The fire, 26 days before the fifth edition of the Arlington Million was scheduled to be run, put the track's signature race in serious jeopardy — or so members of the media and the racing population thought. The remainder of the Arlington meet was shifted to Hawthorne, but Mr. D and his team would not be deterred from running the big race at its original site. The Miracle Million was born.
"We had done our advertising, horses had made commitments to come over," Mr. D said. "We had a commitment to run the thing. I think it was still smoldering when we started putting together a team to clear away the rubble and build a tent city."
Four previous editions of the Arlington Million had caused a stir in the racing industry — a purse double the value of the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) at the time, tremendous international participation from the start, and the two wins by the great John Henry punching up the emphasis. But when Lord Derby won the Miracle Million with a horse called Teleprompter before a crowd of more than 35,000, Mr. D recalled, "We instantly became a news item throughout the world."
For the first time in history later that year, a racetrack received the sport's highest honor. A special Eclipse Award was dedicated to Arlington, "In recognition of the indomitable spirit of the officers and staff for a 'Miracle.' " The track would win two additional Eclipse Awards, in 1988 and 1990, with Mr. D eventually taking home the Eclipse Award of Merit in 2004. He was also given Canada's similar honor, the Sovereign Award, in 1988.
"We said 'We've got to keep that up; we can't let the people down that have praised us.'" Mr. D recalled. "My partners … wanted their insurance money so I bought them out, and with Jim Thompson — who was governor at that time — I told him if we could get legislation that would allow us to rebuild and get our license back again, we would build one of the finest tracks in the country."
Between the time Mr. D. and his partners signed the papers and finalized the sale on Aug. 18, 1983, until the fire, "I don't think I was here eight times," he said. "And that was within a year and a half, only just to see what the racetrack was all about. When they would say 'We've got the PPs,' I'd say, stupidly, 'What are PPs?' and they'd say, 'past performances!' That shows you how much I knew at that time and I had no desire really to know."
The fire and the Miracle Million changed all that.
"From then on I was completely involved, because I was single, and as it was burning, I visualized it would be rebuilt," he said. "There was never any question in my mind."
Duchossois built the track to cater to women, figuring that if Mom can let Grandpa take the kids to the track in the afternoon, it has to be safe and clean, a place to have fun. And if Grandpa is doing that, well, maybe Mom will come — another customer and potential bettor. The new facility opened June 28, 1989 — a six-story, 700,000-square foot clubhouse and grandstand.
"That's why there's the playground area, the pony rides, the petting zoo," Mr. D said. "It's a family affair. You can see the racing live out in front — you can walk by the hot dog stands and the mutuel lines and on the balcony you can see the paddock and look at your horse and get back in time to buy some more mutuel tickets and go out and watch the race live or see it on a monitor. We try to take care of the customer because he's the one that is paying the bill by buying the mutuel tickets, and if we forget that, we shouldn't be in business."
The Arlington Million still keeps Illinois racing in the spotlight, attracting international competitors and the biggest crowds of the year. It is an event everyone on the national scene relates to, a major option for talented turf runners and a potential goal each season heading toward Breeders' Cup competition in the fall. Last year the race was captured by Ken and Sarah Ramsey's homebred Real Solution — a multiple grade I-winning son of their prolific self-made stallion Kitten's Joy — who earned victory for the Kentucky owners after the nail-biting disqualification of South African shipper The Apache.
Today the International Festival of Racing, anchored by the Million, also features the $500,000 Secretariat Stakes (gr. IT) for 3-year-olds, the Beverly D. (gr. IT) for older fillies and mares, and the $400,000 St. Leger Stakes, a distance race for 3-year-olds and up — all run on the lawn. The Million has attracted starters from Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, South Africa, South America, and the United Arab Emirates. Horses bred in Argentina and Brazil have also participated for U.S. connections.
"It gets good coverage in the European market," Mr. D said. "If it gets good coverage over there and we have good horses running here, they're advertising us. It brings buyers for horses over here; it keeps our name out in front. "
Arlington's big day is not without critics. For local horsemen it is frustrating to watch a significant portion of the purse account head out of state — and sometimes out of the country — when the showcase events are won by horses not based in Illinois. But Chris Block, vice president of the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and a longtime member of the Illinois racing and breeding scene, said he recognizes the need for the International Festival of Racing to remain as robust as ever.
"The way the state of racing is in the industry right now, it's a catch 22," the trainer said. "We give away a lot of money on that day. Sure, it's tough on the purse account. But I believe we need that to keep Illinois racing in the spotlight nationally — and we hope that with the passage of legislation, not only will Illinois racing grow, but the Arlington Million will grow and that whole day will be even stronger internationally, and locally."
Ah, legislation. Ever since he took over the track, Duchossois has battled a state government that runs hot and cold — but mostly cold — toward horse racing. In 1998 and 1999, he actually shuttered the facility, bringing racing at Arlington to a complete halt when state legislators in Springfield refused to grant tax relief on the track's pari-mutuel handle. In 2000, a merger with Churchill Downs Incorporated brought the track to a stronger front (Duchossois and his son Craig both sit on the CDI board as significant shareholders), but the struggles continued.
Duchossois turned to his military roots in 2006 to hire former Marine Corps Colonel Roy Arnold as the track's fourth president since its reopening in 2000. Arnold came with a 30-year military career but no experience in the horse racing and gaming industries, and began his tenure at a time that would have tested the mettle of even seasoned racetrack operators.
In 2006 and 2007 when concerns over equine safety raged, the track spent $11 million to put in a state-of-the-art synthetic racing surface, but public response was not positive — wagering figures continued to drop. Arnold resigned abruptly in 2010, and Duchossois promoted 17-year Arlington veteran Tony Petrillo to current general manager in his stead.
During that time came legal battles over the Illinois Horse Racing Board Equity Trust Fund, about $142 million kept in escrow — an account created in 2006 when legislation was enacted requiring area casinos to pay a 3% impact fee surcharge to the state's tracks and horsemen. Even as they made the payments, casino operators vehemently fought the requirement, taking their argument all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court refused to hear their case, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the racetracks, and in 2011 the money was released. But that money is almost gone, and the Illinois horsemen are desperate for a new revenue stream. Like almost every other racing jurisdiction in America, they're hoping that slots can help get them the cash they need.
"We haven't gotten the slots at the racetrack and we're running out of the impact fee money," Block said. "So we're in a very, very contentious part of the season right now, in racing and breeding, that if we don't get something passed here shortly, everybody's very fearful of how the future's going to go here for Illinois."
Even as recently as January, dramatics in the House and Senate kept racing officials and horsemen on edge before Gov. Pat Quinn signed an eleventh-hour, three-year extension that allows advanced deposit wagering — the source of about one third of the Illinois Racing Board's annual budget. Without the ADW allowance, the IRB would have been forced to reduce oversight of racing in the state, likely leading to a severe restriction of racing dates. Thanks to the extension, at least for now, racing carries on.
Still, capital improvements to Arlington are needed. And the statehouse is, at the moment, not inclined to finance them. Now the industry-wide zeal for synthetic tracks has dwindled, and the track can't make the investment to replace the surface with dirt. This is yet another on the list of issues that cause tempers to flare between horsemen's groups and Arlington officials, and still those who train here have an unmistakable affinity for the place. It is, said 11-time leading Arlington trainer Wayne Catalano, "the most beautiful track in the world."
Chris Block is a ground-level expert on this friction between the state government and the people in the racing industry, his family's very livelihood constantly in jeopardy as a result of the political issues. The situation carries on as it has for years — racetrack pushing to remain viable and relevant, state supporting casino and riverboat gaming to the exclusion of a struggling industry. A push for expanded gaming would bolster the state of Illinois racing and secure the future.
"We've passed the bill twice and it's been vetoed twice and we're now in probably the most important era in Illinois racing," Block said. "With the revenue from the impact fee running out this year, we're going to be done with that and purses are going to dramatically drop or there's going to be a contraction of racing. If a gaming bill doesn't pass by January of next year, which is a lame duck session, if we don't get that done, there's going to be a major change to the face of Illinois racing starting in 2015."
Even Mr. D has not been immune to the constricting Illinois breeding industry, where only about 350 foals will have been born this year. Hill 'N Dale, his 600-acre farm, stands three stallions — Cashel Castle, Chicago Six, and Iron Deputy — and also boards outside mares and foals along with the seven mares and their foals that are owned by the track chairman. In its heyday, Hill 'N Dale was home to about 100 mares and produced around 65 foals per year. This season the farm has 50 mares and foals combined.
"This is the climate we're in right now and for a guy like myself and my family, it's scary," Block said. "We're fully invested in Illinois racing with a farm here and 25 broodmares that all foal in Illinois. Without a program, we're in big trouble. And we're not up for relocating anywhere. We're here."
Heydays of the local greats at Arlington were coming to a close by the end of the 20th century, and Earlie Fires — that weathered but still charming old jock who won more races there than any other rider — was among the last to hang up his tack. He didn't ride as many horses at the end of his storied career, but every once in a while he would pose for a picture with fans on the path outside the paddock and at the time it meant something, like being a part of history.
Walking down that same path to the green and white awnings that shade the jockeys' room brings to mind other top riders who once hung their tack here, who made this place their own. Eddie Arcaro was three times leading rider, taking his first meet in 1934 and returning in the '50s to snag two more; Bill Hartack duplicated the feat, collecting a trio of titles from 1955-57. The next year, Bill Shoemaker tied for that honor with Lois C. Cook. Then there were Eddie Delahoussaye, Pat Day, Mark Guidry, and Rene Douglas, all of whom carried the torch into the modern era but are now retired.
Chris Emigh came up through the end of that era. Now he plies his trade in a colony that over the years has become even more tight-knit. Sitting in the backyard behind the jockeys' room at Arlington, the Louisiana native remembered why he came here — and never left.
"We had to move every six months on the Louisiana circuit, and I'd just had my first child, so, you know — who likes to move every six months?" he said. "Here in Chicago we had three racetracks at the time, and Arlington is such a beautiful track. Even on the backside, every race still to this day, it's like 'Wow, this is what I dreamed of as a kid,' looking at the giant grandstand and all the people… it was a good move and I've had a good career by coming here."
It was across town at Hawthorne that Emigh experienced an encounter with Mr. D that stays with him to this day. He and his mount were winging along in a minor stakes race worth $50,000 when the horse, one of Duchossois' runners, took a bad step. The foundation went out from under him, legs sprawling, Emigh flying. The jolt of the dirt landing at accelerated speed and contact with another horse behind them did damage to the jockey's shoulder, putting his career on hold as he dealt with the injury.
"I remember Mr. Duchossois came into the first aid and my shoulder was hurting pretty bad and he checked on me," Emigh recalled. "I went to the hospital; he called and wanted to make sure I was okay. And then a few days later he called me at home and he said, 'At that point of the race, I wanted to let you know you were riding a winning race, and it's not anything your fault, and I'm going to pay you the $3,000 winning share of the race.'
Emigh said he'll never forget that gesture, has never encountered anything like it since then.
"Because I was out a week, and you know when jockeys get hurt and you're out, you're like, 'I've got to pay the bills,'" he said. "It's not like he went and told everybody that, he just did it for me. And I've ridden a lot for Mr. Duchossois and I have won some for him, and he's just a class act."
When asked if he thought about leaving his work at the track as his legacy, if he knew how much gestures like that meant, Mr. D didn't seem to put much value on the idea.
"I never even thought of having a legacy," he said. "You do what you have to do and you do the best job you can. Sometimes it isn't good enough, but you keep trying. I don't think many people live so there's legacy back there. That's just something the authors write about."
On Memorial Day weekend this year, Mr. D invited True Patriots Care Foundation to engulf the racecourse — infield, entrances, tote board — with more than 2,000 American flags. Viewed from the press box, the East infield display spelled out "Never Forget." The chairman's lost comrades in arms would have approved.
Last year, Mr. D changed the timing of the national anthem, traditionally sung before the first race. There weren't enough people at the track by then, he said, not enough to honor America. And so at his insistence, the playing of the national anthem was moved to before the fourth race. The crowd is larger then.
Arlington mainstays like Chris Block recognize the importance of the countless simple touches Mr. D has put on this place.
"When you think of Mr. D and all his businesses, there's only one thing everyone knows about — he's Arlington Park," Block said. "That's who he is. And those floors won't be near as clean and those flowers won't be near as pretty when he's gone."
I thought about that when I left Arlington this time, walking out under theme park-like signs that proclaim "HAVE A GREAT DAY, THANK YOU FOR VISITING," and I lingered a while to set the feeling in my soul. I wanted to preserve the memory of what the track is today — good and bad, imperfect as it may sometimes be — with Mr. D still at the helm.
A slight breeze was blowing, and American flags picked up the motion. As the runners moved toward the track for the last race, they passed through a tunnel beneath a life-sized statue of The Bart and John Henry battling it out in that epic first Arlington Million. A clear-pitched bugle played the call to the post, and I could see Mr. D leaving the paddock in the waning twilight.
He was walking out to watch the horses run.
Claire Novak
Claire Novak, online features editor for the Blood-Horse, has melded her love for human-interest journalism and the equine breed into a successful Turf writing career. Since her first freelance article on racing was published at BloodHorse.com in 2005, her byline has appeared in the New York Times, ESPN The Magazine, and on ESPN.com, among others. She is the winner of the 2011 Eclipse Award for Feature/Commentary, the 2013 Joe Hirsch Memorial Award (feature/advance division), and the 2008 Louisville Metro Journalism Award for Sports Writing. She lives near Lexington and, when not writing about racing, can often be found jumping with her Thoroughbred, Bob.
- Visuals Director, Photographer: Anne M. Eberhardt
- Multimedia Producer: Scott Tracy
- Designer: Kimberly Reeves
- Editorial Consultant: Joe DePaolo
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New York Venture Capital Association Announces Speaker Lineup For INGENUITY 2012
Oct 22, 2012, 10:24 ET from New York Venture Capital Association
Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, Headlines Strong Cast of Speakers at NYVCA's Annual Event
NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New York Venture Capital Association (NYVCA) announced a talented lineup for its annual INGENUITY conference on November 7-8, 2012. The invitation-only event will bring together more than 500 investors, entrepreneurs and other key members of the startup community for a day of pitches, keynotes and networking.
The conference will consist of three panel sessions focused on exits, the cloud and promising New York-based startups. Keynote speaker Tim Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of AOL, is joined by a strong speaker lineup that includes:
- Mike Richter, former professional hockey player for the New York Rangers and Partner of Environmental Capital Partners
- Bob Pittman, Chief Executive Officer of Clear Channel Communications and Chief Executive Officer of CC Media Holdings
- Michael Barrett, Chief Revenue Officer of Yahoo! and former Chief Executive Officer of AdMeld
- Dan Porter, General Manager of Zynga New York
- Wiley Cerilli, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of SinglePlatform
- Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CloudFlare
- Tom Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bankrate, former CEO of GovWorks, and Geocities
- Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
In addition to the aforementioned speakers, the New York-based startups panel will feature homegrown talent such as:
- Scott Meyer, CEO, Evidon
- Are Traasdahl, Founder & CEO, TapAd
- Jack Welde, Founder & CEO, Smartling
- Paul Gollash, Founder & CEO, Voxy
- Guillaume Gauthereau, Co-Founder, CEO Totsy
- Jonathan Glick, CEO, Sulia
"The NYVCA has amassed a talented crop of speakers that boasts a wealth of experience on both the investor side and the startup side," says Bob Greene, Partner at Contour Venture Partners and Co-Chair of INGENUITY 2012. "We are excited to hear from industry veterans as well as locally-grown talent in a setting that will showcase the most promising early-stage companies and investment opportunities."
Last year's event drew more than 500 attendees and 75 presenting companies, and anticipation for INGENUITY 2012 is even higher. "We've already observed a large uptick in early interest around this year's event as compared to this time last year," remarked Danny Schultz, Co-Founder and Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures and Co-Chair of INGENUITY 2012. "The success INGENUITY enjoyed in 2011 resulted in a lot of positive buzz and has folks within the startup and venture capital communities very excited for this year's presentations and discussions."
In addition to the speaker sessions, attendees will enjoy presentations from 30 local emerging companies over the course of the two-day event. "The companies that have been selected to present this year represent some of the most promising early-stage investment opportunities in the New York area," says David Pakman, Partner at Venrock and INGENUITY 2012 Co-Chair. "One of the best things about INGENUITY is the opportunity it presents for investors to not only learn about the hottest startups, but to spend time networking with entrepreneurs whose companies have already endured a competitive vetting process. The time the NYVCA puts into selecting the presenters really helps to distinguish high-potential companies from the pack, making this a worthwhile event for all involved."
About INGENUITY 2012
INGENUITY is the New York Venture Capital's flagship event and will be held at New World Stages on November 7-8, 2012. Additional information, including registration details, can be accessed here: http://www.nyvca.org/events/ingenuity-2012/.
About New York Venture Capital Association
The New York Venture Capital Association (NYVCA) is a community comprised of the leading Venture Capital and Private Equity professionals in the New York area. Membership is by invitation only and the focus remains on bringing together the most successful partners for firm creation and growth over the next decade. Additional information about the NYVCA can be accessed by visiting its homepage here: http://www.nyvca.org/.
Contact: Kim Racciato, +1-212-404-6920
SOURCE New York Venture Capital Association


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1. Re: Rendering to H.264 Baseline ProfileTim Kurkoski Aug 24, 2010 3:05 PM (in response to Top Branded Clothing)
All MPEG-based formats have limits built into each Level. Profiles also impose limits, but not on the practical settings like frame rate and frame size. The Levels section of the Wikipedia article on H.264 provides a good overview for that format.
A simplified explanation is that each level has a maximum bitrate, and your bitrate is determined mostly by the combination of frame rate and frame dimensions of your video. In other words, if you use a slower frame rate you can use larger frame dimensions. Pixel aspect ratio doesn't enter into the picture, it's just a flag set on the file to tell the application how much to stretch the pixels.
I did some empirical tests in After Effects CS5 and found that 920x300 @ 30fps is within the limits and of H.264 Baseline 3.0 so you shouldn't have any problem with that frame size/frame rate combo (or a slower rate). However, the Output Module dialog does show a constraint warning the first time you OK the H.264 settings. If you OK the Output Module settings dialog and reopen it the warning will go away. You shouldn't see it again unless you reset your preferences. (This erroneous warning is of course a bug, which I have filed. Thanks for bringing it up.)
Worth noting that Adobe Media Encoder makes the limits for MPEG4-based formats somewhat more opaque, since it avoids the elaborate dance that After Effects has to do with comp values + output module settings. If you want to know where the limits for a particular MPEG4/H.264 level is you can expriment with the settings there. When you set one of the values too large for the level, AME will give you an error.
If you're not using After Effects CS5, please let us know which version you're using and what indication you're given that the render won't work. (ie., What error message do you get or how does the render otherwise fail?) Not that the H.264 limits are any different, but how you get there may be.
-=After Effects QE/Adobe Media Encoder QE
2. Re: Rendering to H.264 Baseline ProfileDave LaRonde Aug 25, 2010 2:11 PM (in response to Tim Kurkoski)
Here's a question, Tim:
When rendering to H.264, does AE allow multipass encoding, as a compression application can when converting a file?
3. Re: Rendering to H.264 Baseline ProfileTim Kurkoski Aug 25, 2010 3:07 PM (in response to Dave LaRonde)
Hi Dave,
No, After Effects doesn't allow multi-pass encoding to any export format. It's a limitation in the rendering pipeline that feeds frames from the comp to the encoders. It's been that way from the beginning in After Effects, since long before multi-pass encoding was common, and it's something we'd like to fix in the future. That said, please don't hesitate to file a feature request about it. The more feedback we get about a particular feature the more likely it is to happen.
Now I'm going to conditionally contradict myself: yes, you can write two-pass files from After Effects, if you use Adobe Media Encoder. AME does allow two-pass encoding to H.264 and other formats, and it will even do so from an After Effects comp (fed to AME via Dynamic Link). Just open AME first, add your After Effects comp, and set the format and encoding options as desired.
An aside: if you haven't tried After Effects CS5 yet, I encourage you to do so to experience the big improvements we've made to encoding and decoding, and also Dynamc Link. All three areas received significant polish and love for the Adobe CS5 video applications.
I hope that helps answer your question, Dave. If you have other questions about encoding from After Effects that aren't related to the OP's question, please start a new thread.
4. Re: Rendering to H.264 Baseline ProfileDave LaRonde Aug 25, 2010 3:34 PM (in response to Tim Kurkoski)
Now, THAT'S a complete answer.
I've always assumed that since a lot of the AE code was written long before there were long-gop codecs, it couldn't do multipass encoding. On the Creative Cow, I encourage people to render lossless from AE, then use a different application to encode for various delivery codecs. You never know when you might need the same animation in ProRes, Motion JPEG and mp4/H.264. Just render once in AE, I say.
5. Re: Rendering to H.264 Baseline ProfileTim Kurkoski Aug 25, 2010 3:48 PM (in response to Dave LaRonde)
While the basic shape of After Effect's rendering pipeline hasn't fundamentally changed in a long time, the encoders that actually process the rendered frames into the different formats have changed significantly over the years. Especially in CS5, so I encourage people to encode directly to MPEG-based formats directly from After Effects, granted that it fits their workflow and they don't need two-pass encoding. The results should be quite good.
Your advice to render once out of After Effects to a lossless format is smart for people who have expensive renders (ie., long render times due to heavy effects or processing). Rendering once is what many users do anyway, since After Effects isn't often the end of their workflow chain and there will be an additional encode at a later time.


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The Cherokee
Phoenix and Indian's Advocate
Wednesday September 30, 1829
Vol. II, no. 26
Page 2, col. 5a
This day we commence publishing a series of Essays, signed William Penn,
on the claims of our red brethren to justice and good faith from our government.
The subject is important, and we hope the constituted agents for the transaction
of business with the Indians, or in relation to them, will conduct their agency
on honorable principles. Should any rule of proceeding be agreed on, which
we should be ashamed to offer to Great Britain as dishonorable, a reproach must
attach to the office by whom or by whose authority such a proposition may be
made. Let the rule of holy writ, which all agree is a good one, "As you
would that men should do to you, do you even so to them," govern all our intercourse
with these tribes, and our nation will be respected for its equal justice.
But if a scheme of mere speculation and cupidity be our course, our policy and
our example may be urged against us by another nation, with whom we may hereafter
be treating, and the blush of shame for our conduct may confound us. But
what is of infinitely more consequence than all this, is, that He who judgeth
among the nations, and who abhors the oppressor, will be offended; and in his
providence he may say to us, "The measure that ye met to other shall be measured
to you again."
Christian Watchman


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While Redbull and Converse have worked tirelessly over the last couple years to support new independent music, Scion has proved committed to supporting ultra-niche artists from subgenres like grindcore, dubstep and moombahton by taking on a label-like role, providing their artists with record releases, videos and tour support.
"The media featured on ScionAV.com truly embodies the spirit of an independent lifestyle," says Jeri Yoshizu, Scion sales promotion manager. "ScionAV.com is providing bold, unique and daring entertainment content through music, video, streaming radio and more to targeted audiences across an adaptable digital platform."
We spoke to one of our favorite Scion-backed groups, D.C.-born, L.A.-based DJ-producer duo Nadastrom, who will perform at the Yost Theater tonight.
O.C. Weekly (Lainna Fader): What's your earliest musical memory?
Matt Nordstrom: I remember walking across the street to my neighbor's house with Thriller under my arm. I was like, "Yo, you gotta hear this album!" Except I probably didn't say "Yo" because I was really young. Another early one is I remember being in school and I traded actual mixtapes with this girl who was a couple grades above me and she introduced me to the Beat Street soundtrack. I think I was in kindergarten at the time. I remember everyone actually picking on her at one point–she was kind of a nerd–and everyone was hounding on her. But she introduced me to Beat Street and I will forever be grateful.
Dave Nada: My older brother Brian–he's about four years older than me–he was the one that was always into music and I remember him blaring hip-hop and rap music really loud when I was super super young. Like old, pre-Run DMC, old Grand Master Flash, stuff like that. And he'd blare it so hard and got it stuck in my head. That, and basement parties with my mom and my aunt and uncle would throw. They'd play a lot of Latin music–cumbia and old folk stuff–and they'd pull out the guitar and get wasted. As I got older, in grade school, I had an allowance, and the first tape I actually bought was NWA. No, it was Eazy-E. Eazy-E's Eazy-Duz-It–my first musical purchase with my own money. It was all downhill from there!
When was the first time you ever snuck into a club underage to see a DJ spin?
Matt Nordstrom: You know what? I never did. I was kind of a square like that. But I remember when I turned 18 going to Tracks in D.C. That was my first taste of the nightlife as a kid.
Dave Nada: Oh man, I can't really recall. Probably my fault because my brain is a mess by now. I can't remember the first DJ night or rave I ever went to but I started going to punk rock shows when I was thirteen or fourteen with my older cousin Jason, who was a skater punk dude that was into all kinds of music. He was basically my path to get into anywhere at the time. I remember some of the early raves I went to were these huge rave parties at Nation. That's where I got my first taste of drum & bass, house breaks songs all under one roof with a thousand kids rolling their faces off. That was my first exposure to DJ culture and underground electronic music.
Matt Nordstrom: Actually, the reason why I ended up at Tracks that night was because of my buddy Will, and he had a fake I.D., but he couldn't get in!
You guys used to have your own DJ night–why did that get shut down? What happened?
Dave Nada: Good question! We don't know. We did this party at this spot–which we won't say the name of–and a friend of ours was bartending there and she got offered a Wednesday night party and she asked me if I wanted to do it. I thought it'd be so much fun to do it with Matt because at the time, we were just starting to become friends and we shared a lot of the same taste in music. We were like, 'Yeah, let's do this weird, left-field party," and we did it every Wednesday and it started to grow and snowballed into something cool. But for some reason, the club owner ended up pulling the plug. I guess maybe they weren't making as much money as they hoped to. But who knows. Either way, it led to us making records, so we can't be too mad.
How did the end of your party lead into Nadastrom?
Matt Nordstrom: We were gonna look for a new spot but we couldn't think of any that had a decent sound system that could handle the kind of music we wanted to play–or would be cool enough that would let us play what we wanted to play. Both of us were sort of stuck a little musically, so we started trading stuff back and worth, showing each other what we'd been working on. Next thing you know, we finished our first EP, and sent the tracks to Dave Switch who had heard one of them and was interested in them. He called us up and asked us if he could put out an EP of our stuff and of course we said yes. We're such huge fans of his. It was kind of like, "Well, looks like this is going well–better than our night was!" So it just went on from there.
How long do you think it took you in your journey of making music to get to that point where you had your own recognizable vibe, that people just hear a song and know it's you?
Matt Nordstrom: Both Dave and I have been making music for … how many years?
Dave Nada: I wanna say … 2007?
Matt Nordstrom: Together, yeah, but individually we'd been involved in writing music for ten or fifteen years.
Dave Nada: I started playing in punk bands and touring and putting out records whe I was nineteen. So up until the mid-2000s I was doing that, until I started DJing, and getting serious about it. I started making records and doing production around the same time so we kind of met half way with Nadastrom.
You've done so many high profile remixes. What was it like doing remixes for artists like Waka Flocka Flame? What remix were you most proud of to have done?
Dave Nada: That was actually through the label. It's weird–sometimes managers and A&R guys, you'll catch their attention, sometimes. I was approached about doing a remix for Waka Flocka's "No Hands" and they wanted a crazy, wild club remix. Something really rowdy to go along with the vibe of the original. They sent me the parts and I tried to do my best.
Matt Nordstrom: I'm pretty partial to two or three. Our remix of Designer Drugs and our remix of Melee, a track called "Bombay," and our Alex Clare remix.
Dave Nada: My personal favorite is actually our remix of the Death Set's "Can You See Straight." Everything that Matt just mentioned is a favorite, but I think the one I'll never get sick of is the Death Set one.
You've been touring with Skrillex–when did you meet him? How's it been working with him?
Dave Nada: "We're taking a little three week break while Sonny [Skrillex] goes to Europe and then we're restarting the MotherShip tour in December. We were on the road for two months. We had met him about a year ago when we both moved out here to L.A. from D.C. through mutual friends like the 12th Planet guys. We just kept catching each other and he became a huge fan of the Moombahton sound so we kept in touch. We ended up doing a tour together out in Australia with DeadMau5 and Chuckie and Skrillex. He's one of the nicest, most genuine dudes we've ever met and when he asked us to be part of the MotherShip tour last summer, we said, "HELL YEAH!"
You've said that Moombahton helped you realize there aren't any rules in making music–what did you mean?
Dave Nada: It reminded us that there are no real limits. As producers, we try not to limit ourselves to a certain sound. Moombahton is so flexible–it brings in so many different cultures and sounds–so when we make music, we never try to sound like any one thing. We just try to pull from everything that inspires us, and that's what Moombahton has reminded us.
How–and why–has Scion been so supportive of your music?
Matt Nordstrom: They've always been so incredible open to new and different things. They approached us about doing this EP a few months ago and we just spit some ideas at them and they were like, "Great, everything sounds amazing, do it." We did some really different things with it, broadened the scope of what Moombahton really is, and they were so supportive of it.
Dave Nada: They're been super open to what we want to do and how we wanted to drive the concept of the EP. We've worked with them in the past and it's always been such a good relationship. They love the Moombahton sound and they were able to give us this platform so that we were able to give out the music for free. We were able to do videos too. It's been a great, great working relationship.
Why do you think they're so drawn to the type of music that you make?
Dave Nada: We've known a couple of the guys–we've actually toured with one of them–for a long time. They're DJs and producers themselves. As they're working with Scion audio-visual, even they're given a new platform to curate and pull some of their favorite artists as well. They're friends who make good music. They did a great job of pushing dubstep when it was starting to get pretty big here a couple years ago in L.A. Because they're artists themselves, they're just gravitating to interesting, refreshing new music.
What do you think the most important evolution in dance music has been?
Dave Nada: Our buddy who does the Moombahton Massive parties with us is sitting here with us right now, and he just pointed at his laptop. Computers–that's really it–technology has driven dance music and blurred the lines between all of these genres. Not just in dance music, but in electronic music in general. Kids are growing up with Internet access and iPods so there's no boundaries so to speak anymore. A lot of artists are growing up that way. I mean, look at Skrillex, for example. He's known for dubstep but he used to be in a hardcore band and now he makes all kinds of bass-driven music and it sounds like everything. Kids are feeding off of that and learning off of that. Genres are just fading away; the lines are just getting blurrier and blurrier, and technology is responsible for that.
Matt Nordstrom: Yeah, absolutely! The simplicity of the way you can do music these days is pretty phenomenal. There's a lot of arguments about technology dulling things down–or giving you too many options–and that argument can go on for eons but it's really help push music in new directions and helped kids make so much new music. It's just made music so interesting.
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A native of East Austin, Texas, June H. Brewer (1925-2010) was one of the first African-American women to apply and be admitted to the graduate school at University of Texas at Austin in 1950. Having received her bachelor's degree from Tillotson College (now Huston-Tillotson University) and her master's degree in English from Howard University, Brewer attained her PhD from UT Austin in 1963. In addition to teaching English at Huston-Tillotson for 35 years as the first endowed professor, she was also the chair of the English department and the founder of the non-profit organization, Borders Learning Community, which sought to rectify the racial achievement gap in standardized testing. Brewer researched African-American women writers, receiving numerous awards for her scholarship and community service, such as the National Women of Achievement Connie Yerwood and the NOKOA Outstanding Educator awards.
Comprised of four audiotapes, the June H. Brewer Oral History Collection, 1992, chronicles Brewer's experiences growing up in East Austin as well as her educational background. Additionally, the collection illuminates Brewer's views on the English discipline, pedagogy, and her research.
This collection is open for research use.
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Norwich City's Chris Hughton feels 10-game bans for racism would set example
Chris Hughton wants 10-game bans for players found guilty of racial offences within the game.
Although Hughton, the only black manager in the Premier League, believes that there have been considerable improvements since his playing days, he admits to being concerned about the recent high-profile cases within the game.
The way to deal with perpetrators, the manager believes, is to administer harsher punishments.
"If there was a set ban for offences [of a racial nature] then it would be clear," Hughton told the Daily Telegraph.
"Ten games. It's a big chunk of the season. It would make it clear."
On the improvements in the game over the last thirty years, Hughton said: "When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so', I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level'.
"Sometimes it could be a whole section of a crowd shouting something at me or just one individual saying something when I was getting the ball for a throw-in. I said things back. Ultimately, there wasn't too much you could do about it.
"I did feel lonely. When we played at certain stadiums and I was the one getting abuse - nobody else - of course I did feel isolated."


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ahahah old jokes... learned this around 4 or 5 years ago...
obviously the 27 paid account for the 2 that the bellhop took, the missing 3 dollars are the ones that the guests were given back :P
well done :)
I love how she keeps on telling the riddle, completely ignoring his responses.
yep that's what happens with gals... they're so determined to find you dumb founded even at the cost of their dumbness!!
LOL nice
The clerk kept it.
That was what I finally had to say when I was 8 and was told this. I was able to explain it, but I just sounded so precious to the adults who knew better than there was no answer.
I always loved when people come to me with that "problem". But now that I read the the "follow-up" section in Wikipedia's article I cannot wait for the chance to give that answer instead.
yeah well that's all well and good, but... WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MISSING DOLLAR!? :)
I took it! Satisfied?
I do remember an old problem in one of Marilyn vos Savant's columns, when she claimed there was no solution:
You have 50 coins and ten envelopes. How do you put all the coins into the envelopes so that each envelope has a different number of coins in it?
I looked at it, and after less then a minute came up with two different classes of solutions.
If every envelope must contain at least one coin then it is impossible. This condition was probably assumed by the author but not phrased in the question - since the problem is that of "integer partitions" where we partition a positive integer into a sum of positive (i.e. nonzero) integers.
yes, if every envelop needs coin, then it is impossible.
easy :)
Place 41 coins in one envelope.
Fold this envelope, place it and a coin inside the next envelope.
Rinse and repeat.
muahahaha... outside of the box thinking is fun.
Excellent solution... You deserve a cookie!!
I agree--the two classes were nested envelopes and empty envelopes, neither of which was illegal according to the original statement of the problem. Adding more coins might work--but it did specify 50 coins.
outside the box thinking or inside the envelop thinking :P
It should also state that I am not allowed to put additional coins in there. But yes, at any rate, it's trivial (0,1,..,7,8,14).
I also like the solution with the folded envelopes.
and of course stipulate that you cannot cut coins up either :)
One empty envelope is okay. Two isn't, because the problem specifies a different number of coins in each envelope. But then, you don't have a problem putting 50 coins in 9 envelopes in the standard fashion, so one is enough.
Not a mathematician, but I've always found this "puzzle" annoying. I mean, it's so obvious what's wrong and there is absolutly no twist in it. Very boring...
How to drive someone (especially a cute girl) who thinks she's found a cool math riddle for you and is enthusiastically trying to tell it to you crazy: Blurt out the answer before she gets the first sentence out of her mouth and tell her dismissively that you've heard it a million times before.
C'mon guys, at least humor her. This is why people hate nerds.
Since when do people hate nerds?
Well, other than high-school, where everyone hates everyone.
at our high school it is standard to be a nerd. some more so than others (like deriving the true formula for the period of a pendulum as part of a lab write-up for a freshman physics class? and then showing how it approximates the given formula?)
Yes--see tomorrow's version...
I'm gonna bookmark this page. I think of it as sort of tired-old-joke inoculation. 5 yrs from now if someone tries to spring this joke on me, I'm covered.
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I love the part where the blonde should just shut the hell up
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Hey all,long time reader nearly first time poster
I just wanted to know what experienced priests have to say about healbot or grid?
I can't decide which is better in terms of healing.
And sorry for my bad english ;D
I love Grid. It is amazing. That is all.
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You know what is better than drinking a beer? Brewing your own beer. And then drinking it. And then... Drinking another beer. And then, punching somebody in the snout! That's what!
ur starting a flame war xD and u'll get alot of diferent opinions from your fellow priests around hereOriginally Posted by Elune
anyway, grid is grid, nothing compares the best addon ever created
I haven't used either extensively but I know people who use Grid or Healbot, some prefer grid others healbot, so its mostly preference choose the one your comfortable with.
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Grid does a pretty neat magic trick. Turns wow into whack a mole. I like it when i'm healing.
So does Healbot. The thing with these two mods are relatively the same: They help increase healing productivity. Healbot is a probably just as customizable as Grid, I believe it takes less memory (but I don't remember correctly), and they both do the Exact same thing. The main difference I have seen with Healbot and Grid is the Debuffs. You don't need to get more mods in order to show all the debuffs in healbot. The only suggestion I have to you is to try out both, and stick with the one that you like the most.Originally Posted by Sleeves
Forget the whole Healbot vs. Grid debate and just use VuhDo.
I use nameplates to heal, the when the lil bar over someones head gets low, I use my heals on them.
Is this a troll or do you really do this? o.OOriginally Posted by Mr_BoMyJangles
Nameplates have something like 15-25 yards range. Healing range is 40 yards. Go figure.
And of course nameplates don't show anything besides health (buffs, debuffs, etc.)
You know what is better than drinking a beer? Brewing your own beer. And then drinking it. And then... Drinking another beer. And then, punching somebody in the snout! That's what!
I use Healbot and have no problems with debuffs, so not sure what they are talking about. Healbot doesn't seem to show the debuffs in my group, so I just check my default UI party screen.
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Grid's ok. Easy to use, lot of options.
If I was a Blizz server technician, I'd hijack a server and use it to download porn 24/7. Guess why the instance servers always are full B]
Grid + Clique
I really hate to sound dick (I lied, I love it) but you dont need addons to heal instances at lvl 30, people use grid to heal raids, where space on your screen becomes alot more of an issue. If you want to use grid at that level you can, but its not really needed
i just love grid for the organization, even when im on another character raiding i keep it open just to see whose alive who has threat whose getting healed all that fun stuff.
i just use grid, its simple enough on its own and has lots of built in customizable features that you can play around with, anything that you would get on top of it would be pure preference (such as clique).


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned insurer PICC Group has wound back expectations for its proposed Hong Kong listing, securing pledges from a group of mostly domestic investors for its up to $3.6 billion IPO, the biggest in the city in two years.
The long-awaited offering is now set to be priced on November 30, but the underwriters have revised down the company valuation and IPO size, underscoring the tough environment for capital raising, sources with direct knowledge of the deal said.
People's Insurance Company (Group) of China (PICC), one of China's largest insurers, is tapping the Hong Kong equity market at a time when IPO volumes in the financial center have tumbled more than 80 percent. PICC will be the biggest Hong Kong IPO since another insurer, AIA Group Ltd (1299.HK), raised $20.5 billion in 2010.
The company secured $1.35 billion in commitments from 16 cornerstone investors as varied as Chinese utility State Grid Corp STGRD.UL, the country's leading gold miner Zijin Mining Group (601899.SS), defense contractor Spacechina CNAST.UL and China Life Insurance Co Ltd (2628.HK) (601628.SS), the sources said.
The list is still subject to last minute additions, sources said.
U.S. insurer American International Group Inc (AIG.N), which had been in talks to invest in the IPO, dropped out because of PICC's valuation, one of the sources said, despite a lower valuation than in some early estimates. AIG was not available for immediate comment.
"The seller (PICC) is pushing the envelope on valuations," the source added.
French reinsurer Scor (SCOR.PA) and Tokio Marine Holdings (8766.T) are among the global companies who have committed to buy PICC shares. The two companies could not be reached immediately.
The price range for the IPO was set at HK$3.43-HK$4.03 per share, valuing PICC at 96 billion yuan to 113.2 billion yuan ($15.4 billion to $18.2 billion) before the IPO, Thomson Reuters publication IFR reported, citing four sources familiar with the matter.
That is lower than the 130 billion yuan valuation initially sought, IFR added.
PICC is offering 6.9 billion primary shares, or 16.7 percent of its enlarged capital, aiming to raise 19.18 billion yuan to 22.6 billion yuan. Proceeds from the offer would be used to bolster its capital base.
A record 17 banks have been roped in to sell the offer, which is being marketed to global institutions.
IFR previously reported the IPO had been expected to value PICC at $20.8 billion to $30.5 billion, or at 2-2.5 times the 2013 price to book value and at a 2013 price to earnings ratio of 10.5-15, according to pre-deal research reports.
Asian insurers on average trade at around 15.9 times forward price to earnings, Thomson Reuters data shows.
PICC's listing comes at a time when the volume of new offerings in Hong Kong has plunged, with IPO activity likely to shrink to its lowest since 2008 as investors shun new deals due to volatility caused by Europe's debt troubles.
Overall issuance in the city is little changed so far in 2012 from 2011 at about $38 billion, but the year has been a dismal one for IPOs, down more than 80 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Most of the activity has been from so-called block deals that target institutional investors, including a $6 billion offering of AIA Group (1299.HK) stock in March and a $2.5 billion sale of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398.HK) shares in April.
PICC and companies including Future Land Development Holdings Ltd will test investors' appetite for IPOs in coming weeks with nearly $5.2 billion of deals.
Founded in 1949, PICC is China's first nationwide insurer and has 2.42 million institutional insurance clients and about 130 million individual insurance customers, more than the entire population of Japan.
The company is controlled by China's Ministry of Finance, which has an 88.7 percent stake, while the National Social Security Fund holds the remainder.
China International Capital Corp (CICC), Credit Suisse Group AG CSGN.VX, Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) won mandates as sponsors of the deal.
The list of banks also helping to underwrite the IPO includes Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N), Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and UBS AG UBSN.VX, as well Chinese firms such as ABC International and BOC International. ($1 = 6.2326 Chinese yuan)
Additional reporting by Jing Song of IFR and Clare Baldwin; Writing by Denny Thomas; Editing by Tim Dobbyn and Richard Pullin


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Patricia A. Santo Bowman
Kenai resident Patricia A. Santo Bowman died Friday, Oct. 7, 2005, at her home. She was 53.
A memorial Mass will be held at 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14, at Peninsula Memorial Chapel, 5839 Kenai Spur Highway, in Kenai. Father Richard Tero will officiate.
Mrs. Bowman was born April 27, 1952, to Jack and Lucretia Santo in Cleveland, Ohio. She was raised as a Catholic and attended and graduated from Shaker Heights Catholic High School in 1970.
She lived in San Francisco and Phoenix before moving to the Kenai and Soldotna area April 19, 1986. She enjoyed arts, crafts, cooking, reading and camping.
"When she was younger, she was a great ice skater through high school and had aspired to become a professional ice skater," her family said.
Mrs. Bowman was preceded in death by her husband, Peter Bowman; and her parents.
She is survived by her daughter, Jaclyn M. Hall of Kenai; sister, Kathy Gallucci of Ohio; brothers, Jack Santo of Ohio and Tom Santo of Mentor, Ohio; and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins throughout the state of Ohio.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. Bowman's memory for Jaclyn's higher education to Jaclyn Hall, 1303 Kiana Lane, Kenai, AK 99611.
Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.
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The CIPR's industry-leading one-day social media conference returned to the offices of MSN UK, London, on Thursday 11 July 2013, with the view that social and digital media are no longer a specialist area of public relations but at the forefront of how current practice is evolving.
'Share This Live' featured pragmatic case-study sessions and in-depth panel discussions covering topics including 'Online crisis management', 'Social commerce', 'Mobile media', 'Understanding social capital' and more. The conference opened with a keynote address from Tom Standage, Digital Editor of The Economist and Editor-in-Chief of Economist.com.
The conference was led by an expert panel of speakers from top UK and international brands including The Guardian, Adobe, Microsoft and Confused.com, as well as leading international social and digital media agencies: Ketchum, 33 Digital, Ruder Finnand VCCP, amongst others.
'Share This Live' was curate by the authors behind the CIPR's best-selling book, 'Share This: The Social Media Handbook for PR Professionals'. 'Share This Too', the follow-up publication,was published in September 2013 by Wiley.


text: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:11:47AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:12:57PM -0400, Valerie Aurora Henson wrote:> > In the default mode for ext3 and btrfs, fsync() is both slow and> > unnecessary for some important application use cases - at the same> > time that it is absolutely required for correctness for other modes of> > ext3, ext4, XFS, etc. If applications could easilyl distinguish> > between the two cases, they would be more likely to be correct and> > fast.> > > > How about an fpathconf() variable, something like _PC_ORDERED? E.g.:> > Before we add any new fpathconf varibale we need a reall (f)pathconf(at)> syscall so that the fs driver can exposed it's characteristics, having> to replicate that information to glibc especially for something required> for data integrity is a receipe for a desaster.I think a real pathconf() is a great idea, regardless of the solutionfor this exact problem. Anyone want to beat me to the patch? Ireally need to be working on union mounts right now.-VAL


text: Duke Energy Duke Energy Customers To Pay More As Nuke Plans Scrapped By News Service of Florida • Aug 6, 2013 Flaglerlive.com Florida customers of Duke Energy should expect to pay more next year for nuclear projects, even as the company reduces its planned nuclear footprint. Meanwhile, Florida Power & Light, which has recently completed upgrades of two nuclear facilities, will lower the amount it collects for nuclear projects. For a homeowner who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours of power a month, that will save $1.17.


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I just saw a short report about the Bieber paternity suit. Apparently the Beliebers (or at least some of them) are now tweeting death threats against the woman who's accused him of fathering her child. They showed even showed some of the tweets. Selena Gomez has gotten similar on-line threats.
I realize they're likely just over-reacting teen fans, but someone needs to explain to them that a)no matter how you feel, death threats are out of line and b)you could potentially be facing legal action if you keep it up.
And, of course, c) you're making yourself look like an idiot, because he's not your boyfriend or your future husband--he doesn't even know who you are, so he can't possibly be cheating on you and you have no reason to be jealous (this would apply more to the Selena Gomez thing--I could see a fan being annoyed that someone might be slandering a person he/she admired, though being annoyed and issuing death threats are two quite different things).


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Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club weekly meeting, 7 a.m., The Prospector Hotel. Details: 789-4354.
Eaglecrest Board Hiring Committee meeting, 10 a.m., Finance Conference Room, Third Floor, 105 Municipal Way. Details: Angela, 586-5240.
Baby-Parent Time, noon-1:30 p.m., Bartlett Regional Hospital administration building classroom. For parents and their infants up to 1 year old.
Pinochle Games, 1 p.m. every Thursday, Juneau Senior Center. Details: 463-6175.
Craft 'N Gab, 1 p.m. every Thursday, Valley Senior Center. Details: Judy, 789-6918.
Board and card games at Polaris House, 2-4 p.m., 1705 Anka St. No. 1, next to the Gastineau Human Services campus. Details: 780-6775.
Kids Bead Circle, 4-6 p.m., Spirit Beads, 217 Fifth St. Details: 463-3220.
International Humanitarian Law and the Third Geneva Convention open forum presented by the American Red Cross, 5:30-7 p.m., American Red Cross, 3200 Hospital Drive, Suite 203. Details: 463-5713.
"Current International Broadcast Bureau Initiatives Worldwide" by Seth Cropsey, Director of the International Broadcast Bureau, 6 p.m., Dimond Courthouse.
Adult Bead Circle, 7-9 p.m., Fireweed Place, 415 Willoughby. Details: 463-3220.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 7 p.m., 8445 Duran St. TOPS is a nonprofit weight loss support group. Details: Susan, 790-3422.
Friday, May 21
Low Impact Exercise, 10 a.m., Juneau Senior Center and Valley Senior Center. Details: 463-6175.
Native Women's 12 Step Talking Circle, noon-1 p.m., "The Little Brown House" next to the ANB Hall.
Art As You Like It, 1:30 p.m. every Friday, Valley Senior Center. Details: 463-6175.
Gamblers Anonymous meeting, 5 p.m. every Friday, Assembly Building, 211 Fourth Street Suite 102.
Water Walking, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Augustus Brown Swimming Pool. Low-impact water exercise class. Details: 586-5325.
Popcorn and a movie at Polaris House, 7-10 p.m., 1705 Anka St. No. 1, next to the Gastineau Human Services campus. Details: 780-6775.
Tlingit and Haida Indians of the City and Borough of Juneau bingo, 7:30 p.m., 3235 Hospital Dr. Details: Danielle, 463-5680 or 463-5690.
Saturday, May 22
Douglas United Methodist Church Plant Sale, 8:30 a.m.-noon, 1106 Third St., opposite the Douglas fire hall. Details: Debra, 789-3236.
JYFL Cheerleading Clinic, 8:30 a.m.-noon grades K-3rd, 12:30-4 p.m. grades 4th-12th, Riverbend Elementary gym.
Second Resurrection Lutheran Church Bicycle & Helmet Give-Away, 9-10 a.m., Resurrection Lutheran Church, located at 740 W. 10th Street. Event is designed to benefit children and adults unable to afford their own equipment. Details: Jeff, 789-9048.
Girls Scouts' Year End Celebration and Bridging, 10 a.m.-noon, Dzantik'I Heeni Middle School Commons. Details: 586-1710.
Saturday at the Garden: Spring Primroses, 11 a.m.-noon, Juneau Community Garden Shelter, 05669 Montana Creek Road. Details: Pamela, 586-5080.
Tlingit Language Circle, 2-4 p.m. every Saturday, Naakaani Room at the Goldbelt Hotel. Gather to speak Tlingit, share stories and learn from one another. Details: 790-4990.
Family Bead Circle, 4-5:30 p.m. every Saturday, Juneau-Douglas City Museum. Details: 586-3572.
L'Ecole de Ballet, 7 p.m., Juneau-Douglas High School Auditorium. Details: Charlie, 790-3041.
Sunday, May 23
Kids' Rotary Park Run, noon, Rotary Park. Details: Shelly, 790-2566.
"Here's to Song" Alaska Youth Choir 10th Anniversary Celebration concert, 3 p.m., Juneau-Douglas High School auditorium. Details: Heather, 321-5673.
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