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On April 25-26, 2008 the Government of Liberia through its Permanent Mission at the United Nations in New York and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, co-sponsored a symposium on Liberian National Identity: Rebuilding the National Archives, National Library and National Museum.. The symposium took place at the Schomburg Center on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, New York.
On Friday April 25 participants were welcomed by Co-Hosts Dr. Dawn Cooper Barnes, Coordinator of Liberia Archives Project on behalf of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Liberia at the United Nations in New York and Howard Dodson, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Dr. Barnes, in her welcome remarks, shared a West African spider story in which the moral clearly expressed the reason for the gathering. The moral of the story was that no individual has a monopoly on wisdom and, as such, it was necessary for each invited participant to contribute his or her expertise and experience as the group attempted to identify key recommendations to the Liberian Government in its quest to re-vitalize the National Archives, Museum and Library of Liberia. Mr. Dodson described the mandate of the Schomburg Center which is to research and preserve the history and culture of Africans and their descendants throughout the world. He re-iterated his commitment to assist the Liberian people in their effort to re-build based upon a conversation with Her Excellency Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia almost two years ago when she was newly elected.
1.(L-R) Dr. Dawn Cooper Barnes, Coordinator of the Liberia Archives Project; Ambassador M. Nathaniel Barnes; and Mr. Howard Dodson Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, chat during a break at the symposium.
2. Group photo of some of the participants in the symposium.
1.(L-R) Dr. Dawn Cooper Barnes, Coordinator of the Liberia Archives Project; Ambassador M. Nathaniel Barnes; and Mr. Howard Dodson Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, chat during a break at the symposium.
2. Group photo of some of the participants in the symposium.
On Saturday, April 26 presentations were made by Dr. Verlon Stone of Indiana University; Dr. Walter Hill, Senior Archivist, The National Archives; Dr. Angel Batiste, Area Specialist, African Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress; Dr. Danielle Taana Smith, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dorothy Davis, President Photos by Griff Davis; Doughba Caranda II, Liberia Legacy Foundation; Dr. Umaru Bah, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Morgan State University; Wokie Weah, Vice President, National Youth Leadership Council and Lawrence Palmedo, The Cultural Preservation Fund.
During the Closing Plenary, participants came up with key recommendations to present to the President Sirleaf based upon their deliberations. Several urgent recommendations were communicated to President Sirleaf immediately after the symposium pending the preparation of an in-depth report.
In addition to the presenters, participants included Ambassador M. Nathaniel Barnes, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations; Herbert Brewer, University of Maryland and Morgan State University; Dr. Yuusuf Caruso, Microfilm Project, Africana Librarians Council, Columbia University; Dr. Svend Holsoe,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Univerisity of Delaware; Peekoo Alfreda Lewis, Liberia Legacy Foundation; Faye Mame Ngor, Direction des Archives du Senegal; Philomena Bloh Sayeh, Department of History, University of Liberia; Catherine P. Sheehan, S.W.A.A. –Liberia; Dr. William Siegmann, Brooklyn Museum; Counselor Christiana Tah, Montgomery College; Bennett Yalartia, Senior Policy Advisor to the Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Liberia to the United Nations; Roberta Yancy, Public Affairs and Development, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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English Literature Of The 19th Century:
First Or Pre-victorian Period--1800-1837
Walter Scott
Lord Byron
Thomas Moore
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Leigh Hunt
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Even more than the passionate, erratic Byron the mild, philanthropic Shelley was the poet of revolt against the laws and forms of his age, yet he had much less influence in this direction. So refined and ethereal was his spirit, that his voice was lost on the multitude. But his poetry, apart from his philosophy, has been more and more admired by the best judges as time has passed on, and the later poets have resorted to him for instruction in their art. His lyrical faculty is almost without parallel in English poetry. Far beyond the light drawing-room songs of Moore, Shelley's lyrics, "The Skylark," "Ode to the West Wind," are buoyant and free and carry the spirit above the solid earth of every-day fact into the pure ether. He was a master of language as well as of melody. Beautiful and inspiring as is his poetry at its best, his life was a sad tragedy, full of grievous errors and useless rebellion.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, the eldest son of a wealthy baronet. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, but carried away by the infidelity of the French philosophers, he 'published a tract on "The Necessity of Atheism," and was therefore expelled from the University in 1811. The wild and fantastic poem, "Queen Mab," privately printed in 1813, expressed more boldly the same opinions. At the age of nineteen the impulsive Shelley, partly out of pity, married Harriet Westbrook, a girl of sixteen, daughter of an inn-keeper, and was denounced by his family, though his father granted him a moderate allowance. The youthful couple wandered on the Continent, but the marriage proved unhappy, and they were separated after the birth of two children. Be-fore his first wife died in 1816, Shelley found more con-genial companionship with Mary Godwin, who, as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, had been trained in opposition to the ways of the world.
In 1818 he published "The Revolt of Islam," a poem which, under another title, had been prohibited by the authorities. It is a declamatory narrative, showing the triumph of his philanthropic theories over the tyranny and hypocrisy of established religious systems. The courts deprived Shelley of the custody of his children, and he went to Italy, where, during his few remaining years, he produced his best poetry. In "Prometheus Unbound" he attempted to solve the great problem of human free will, as suggested by the "Prometheus" of AEschylus. Shelley was a profound Greek scholar, and an ardent Platonist. His Prometheus is the personification of resistance to universal tyranny and priestcraft, which he always regarded as imposed on men by extraneous force, and not arising from internal causes. His strongest drama is "The Cenci," founded on one of the horrible stories of revolting crime in the Italian Middle Ages. In the elegy, "Adonais" (1821), he lamented in noble Spenserian verse the untimely death of the poet Keats. In his last poem, "Hellas," he ex-pressed his hope of a grander and better golden age than that of ancient Greece. His death was singular and melancholy. While he was returning in a small yacht from Leghorn to Spezia, the vessel was caught in a squall, and Shelley, with two companions, perished. The poet's body was afterward cast on the shore, and was buried. But two weeks later Byron and a few friends burned it on a funeral pyre in the ancient manner.
Shelley, as a man, was mild, benevolent, temperate, his person was extremely delicate and refined; his poetry was full of tender, spiritual harmony; his diction choice and transparent; his power of imagination inexhaustible, carrying the mind far beyond the original idea, and introducing a perpetual interchange between the type and the things typified. In contrast with the serene philosophy of his real temperament he was too apt in writing to exaggerate the horrible and repulsive, and to use a fierce declamatory tone, which marred his early work. Posterity has learned to reject these extravagant outbursts and to dwell upon his sweet, graceful and ethereal lyrics as the true expression of his genius.


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Irish, Spartans ready for battle this weekend
Heather VanHoegarden | Wednesday, September 15, 2004
It's a rivalry where the last five games have been decided by 10 points or less. Notre Dame-Michigan State is usually not a disappointing game, and no one knows that better than former Spartan quarterback and Irish coach Tyrone Willingham."What I would say is that Michigan State believes that it plays its best football against Notre Dame," Willingham said at his weekly press conference Tuesday. "That belief has been passed on going back probably many, many years, that they just feel like that is a game they play great in."The Irish are preparing for a second straight physical battle, after Saturday's matchup against Michigan."I would say that, without question, those two ballgames will be two of the more physical ballgames you play, especially the Michigan State game," Willingham said. "As you mentioned, I have history with that game. You know what's said in the locker room, you know what they think, what they want to do in that particular game."Against Michigan, the Irish were able to match the physical play of the Wolverines with their size and strength, especially on defense. Linebackers Mike Goolsby, Derek Curry and Brandon Hoyte stepped up, making play after play and getting the defense fired up. Goolsby led the group with 14 tackles, Curry contributed six, including one sack and Hoyte registered nine tackles. Goolsby acknowledged the defensive line on Monday as one of the keys to holding Michigan to 56 yards on the ground."The front-four just played tremendous for us," Goolsby said. "There were times where as a linebacker I'm trying to get into my gap and there was no gap because they had everything closed up. They clogged everything up for us. Those front-four rotating in and out did a great job for us."Willingham was also pleased with his defense and its ability to stop the run."The luxury it gives us is it really forces the opponent into one dimension in this game," he said. "Any time you can force an opponent into one dimension, then you can kind of slowly take apart that other dimension. In the game of football, it is important that the dimension that you take away be the run."As far as the Michigan State team that the Irish face, Willingham said he was impressed with its front seven on defense. The Spartan defense gave up 263 yards on the ground and 93 yards in the air to Central Michigan last week, but only seven points. Willingham, however, said he is concerned with the Spartan front line."The phase I started with this week was their defensive phase, defensive team," Willingham said. "I was extremely impressed with their front seven, really thought it could be the best front seven that we've seen so far this year. That should be saying a lot because I think Michigan's group is highly touted in terms of their skill, their size, their ability. But I was really impressed with Michigan State's defensive front seven."On the Notre Dame side of the ball, quarterback Brady Quinn said he is ready to make improvements since the Michigan game in which he was 10-for-20 for 178 yards in the air."We try to be tough critics and looking at the tape there were a ton of things that obviously I missed out there, and I could have played better," Quinn said. "With our offense there were some things that we could have tightened up with the running game and passing game to put more yardage on the board."


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Treasury Yields at Almost 3-Week Low as Existing-Home Sales Drop
Treasury 10-year note yields traded at an almost three-week low as an unexpected drop in existing-home sales in June boosted bets the Federal Reserve will maintain monetary stimulus to support the economy.
Two-year notes yielded 0.302 percent before tomorrow's $35 billion sale of the debt, compared with an auction yield of 0.430 percent at the previous offering in June. The U.S. is also selling five- and seven-year notes this week. Ten-year yields had climbed to the highest since August 2011 this month after Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in June the central bank could reduce asset purchases this year if policy makers saw a sustainable economic recovery.
"Housing is one of the data points that isn't following the Fed's script," Aaron Kohli, an interest-rate strategist in New York at BNP Paribas SA, one of 21 primary dealers that trade with the Fed. "There really isn't a lot of conviction going into month-end in terms of things like what the Fed is going to do."
The U.S. 10-year yield was little changed at 2.48 percent at 5 p.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 1.75 percent note due in May 2023 traded at 93 21/32.
The yield dropped earlier to 2.46 percent, almost the lowest level since July 3. It fell 26 basis points during the past two weeks, the most since the 10-day period ended Aug. 31.
The 30-year yield declined one basis point to 3.55 percent after touching 3.53 percent, the least since July 5.
Volume, Volatility
Treasury trading volume at ICAP Plc, the largest inter-dealer broker of U.S. government debt, was $192.8 billion, versus $364 billion on July 17, the highest level since July 5. The 2013 average is $318.2 billion.
Volatility in Treasuries as measured by the Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate MOVE Index was at 72.62, the lowest level since May 24. The figure is down from 117.89 on July 5, the highest since December 2010. The one-year average is 64.7.
Purchases of existing homes fell 1.2 percent to a 5.08 million annualized rate, the National Association of Realtors reported today in Washington. The median forecast of 79 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 5.26 million pace. The pace of the demand was the second strongest since November 2009 following May's downwardly revised 5.14 million rate.
"It's existing-home-sales data that are coming in lower than expected -- last week we had permits and starts coming coming in very weak also," said Larry Milstein, managing director in New York of government-debt trading at R.W. Pressprich & Co. "With the recent numbers, which have been a bit weak, the belief is the Fed is not going to be tapering in September. That's been supporting the Treasury market."
Notes Auctions
Demand weakened at the previous two offerings of two-year notes. The bid-to-cover ratios, which gauge demand by comparing the amount bid with the amount offered, at the May and June auctions were 3.04 and 3.05, the two lowest since February 2011 and compared with a 3.54 average at the 10 previous auctions, Treasury data show.
Direct bidders, investors and dealers outside of the primary-dealer network bidding directly to the Treasury, won 7.8 percent of the June offering and 12.6 percent of the May sale, the two smallest awards since July 2012. The average at the past 10 sales was 23.9 percent.
The Treasury Department will auction $35 billion of five-year notes on July 24 and $29 billion of seven-year securities the next day.
Looking Long
"There are three bond buybacks, and at the last bond auction dealers didn't buy any bonds," Thomas Tucci, managing director and head of Treasury trading in New York at CIBC World Markets Corp. "Guys are looking at the long end of the market to outperform this week."
The Fed buys $85 billion of Treasuries and mortgage debt each month as part of its quantitative-easing program to cap borrowing costs. Policy makers have held the benchmark interest-rate target at zero to 0.25 percent since 2008 to support the economy. The central bank will purchase as much as $1.75 billion of Treasuries maturing between February 2036 and May 2043 today.
Tighter financial conditions as a result of rising yields over the past two months were "unwelcome," Bernanke said in response to a question from the Senate Banking Committee in Washington on July 18.
Trimming Odds
Investors see a 60 percent chance that policy makers will keep the federal funds rate at 0.25 percent or lower by December 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The 10-year yield climbed 81 basis points from the close on May 21, the day before Bernanke said the Fed could trim stimulus in its "next few meetings," to the close on July 5 after a report that day showed U.S. employers added more jobs in June than economists forecast.
Foreign investors, the bulwark of the U.S. government bond market as it more than doubled in size during the financial crisis, are adding Treasuries at the slowest pace since 2006 amid the worst rout in four years.
Holdings by non-U.S. investors rose 1.9 percent through May, down from 5.2 percent a year ago, data last week showed, as foreigners owned less than 50 percent of Treasuries outstanding for the first time since March 2012. Overseas central banks cut the amount of bonds held for them by the Fed during the second quarter. The Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index fell 2.4 percent, the most since 2009, after Bernanke said he might slow asset purchases as the economy improves.
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I've been so bad about tracking this summer. I have been exercising quite a bit more than in previous summers, but my eating...has been...well...a bit out of control! I just love me some ice cream!
It didn't help that we took a 10-day vacation to the beach and then another 5 day vacation to the Six Flags. Eating on the go is so hard! Especially when you are surrounded by scrump-dilly-ious ice cream. Everywhere! (Mama discovered Maggie Moo's. Uh-oh!)
Today is a new day, though. No more vacations scheduled, and my kids are taking swim lessons at the Y so I have no excuse for not getting my daily workout. Now, if I could just stay away from that darn ice cream! Mama don't like moderation.
On to topic #2... I've got a problem I'm hoping some of you can help me with. No, not the sister-wife thing again (although I'm still taking applications). This is serious, Mane! Family stuff. Trouble in the tribe. Stuff is broken, and I don't know how to fix it.
*insert big, big sigh and deep breath here*
It's about our pastor. He did something horrible to my family, and I'm having a hard time getting past it. No one was harmed mentally or physically, but the potential for harm was there. Our family could have been destroyed by what he did. Literally!
But we survived. The truth really did set us free! No scars, just lingering apprehension.
Let me back up by saying that our pastor is a good man. He is extremely humble and very devout in his beliefs. We stood beside him when there was some serious division in the congregation because we believed in him. When the opportunity to reciprocate rolled around, though, he did not. Instead, he acted on the words of a malicious stranger with whom he had no relationship. Basically, he didn't know her from Adam's house cat; yet, he chose to side with her without even so much as telling us there were even any allegations!!!
I know it's confusing. I'm sorry, but it really is the stuff Jerry Springer thrives on. Like I said, though, it all turned out okay. My family persevered.
Our pastor apologized profusely. I really do believe that he is truly sorry. And I have forgiven him. Like I said, he's a great man who made a mistake. We all make mistakes. We are human!
Still...I cannot bring myself to get past it. I've gone to church a couple of times since then, but my heart was not with me. I feigned warmth, but I was really uncomfortable. A place that always felt like home to me is now full of strangers!
Everything has changed. While the rest of the congregation is oblivious to what transpired, I still feel extremely uncomfortable in church. I've avoided the actual service each time we've been since then. Instead, I just hang out with my kids in Children's Church pretending that they really need me by their sides.
I'm so sad. And I'm so confused. I do not want to continue skipping Sunday service. I did not grow up in church, and vowed that my children would. I want them to know God. Right now, though, we are in limbo. Not going. My kids are turning into vegetation on the sofa. We've got to get our groove back!
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The only reason this show isn't Trope Overdosed is that it makes an effort to be fresh and unpredictable. Mad Men is well-constructed, engaging, and steeped in sophisticated social commentary. If you can, imagine a Joss Whedon series without the action or the Speculative Fiction. Indeed, you'll recognize several actors and writers from Whedon productions, and the pilot is eerily similar to the unaired pilot of Firefly. Fair warning, Mad Men is dark, and frequently upsetting. It's a challenging show, full of literary references and Genius Bonus (it helps if you lived through the events, of course). And if you dislike modern feminist critique, you may feel alienated. One tip: feel free to laugh. There's black comedy at every turn. My uncle worked in just such a company, and found the show to be painfully accurate. It's uncompromisingly anvilicious in its depiction of the blithe, ingrained sexism whose legacy is still very much with us, and the general lunatic decadence of mid-twentieth-century corporate culture. For me, an American two generations removed, it's a history lesson, but I've also found plenty to empathize with—Peggy's struggle, fresh out of college, to break into a professional world she does not in the least understand, and Don's difficulty accepting the privileged life he knows he doesn't deserve.
I agree on every level. This is one of the best shows I have seen in my life.
I disagree heavily on the Don part, but like the rest of the review however. Sidestepping his marriage, why doesn't he deserve what he's got at Sterling Copper? He is a fricking evil genius!
I'm not sure where the Joss Whedon reference is coming from, but I can get behind the rest of what you're saying. One note: you don't need to dislike feminist lit-crit to feel a little alienated by the show. Indeed, that's much of the point; it works very hard to make modern viewers deeply uncomfortable.
I thought that it was rather ineffective in its portrayal of the society of the time. It is a contemporary drama in fancy dress. I expected a lot more of this show than it delivered, given the hype. The story is very slow and quite conventional. Some works do a lot when nothing is overtly happening — this show wasn't one of those. Try it by all means, but if you find it is dull initially, that might be the time to leave it.
I have no idea how it is remotely similar to Firefly.
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T20 Finals Day: 4/1 Anyone Scores A Century!
William Hill rate Somerset as their 15/8 favourites to win the Friends Life T20 tomorrow, with Hampshire 2/1 second favourite. Hills have a host of final days specials, it is 4/1 that anyone scores a Hundred, 14/1 a Hat-trick is taken and 100/1 that 36 runs are hit in an over. Hills are 5/6 that on the day any team will score 177 or more and offer 10/1 that any of the three matches end in a Tie.
"T20 final's day should be a cracker, Somerset have been heavily backed but the final day specials give you a bet that runs for three games and we expect to beat last year's record turnover," said Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.
8/11 Lancashire, 11/10 Leicestershire
4/5 Somerset, 1/1 Hampshire
Winner Friends Life T20: 15/8 Somerset, 2/1 Hampshire, 3/1 Lancashire, 4/1 Leicestershire
Final Day Specials:
Hat-Trick Taken: 1/66 No, 14/1 Yes
Final Day Century: 4/1 Yes, 1/7 No
Final Day Highest Team Score: 5/6 176 or less, 5/6 177 or more
Final Day Highest Scoring Over: 5/6 21 or less, 5/6 22 or more
Final Day Highest Individual Score: 6/1 Under 50, 6/4 51-74, 11/8 75-99, 4/1 100 or more
Final Day Any Player To Take Five Wickets In An Innings: 8/1 Yes, 1/20 No
Final Day Any Match To End In A Tie: 10/1
Final Day Six x Six In An Over: 100/1


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BD photographers in Dallas, Houston, or Austin?
Posted 26 October 2008 - 01:26 AM
Posted 26 October 2008 - 10:21 AM
| Originally Posted by JaimeLynne
Hey Ashli! I would probably be interested in sharing a session with you Keep me updated with your plans, OK? It would be awesome to do this with someone I "kind of 'know'" from here . I'm not on here as much as I used to be so please feel free to PM/Email me! I really want to do this for M.
Ack! Just saw you're doing this with Jeremy (a male photog.) - NO OFFENSE to his work (actually haven't seen ANY samples!!!) but I've discussed this with FI and I just don't think he would be comfortable with me using a male photographer... and honestly I'm not sure I would either. However if you decide to go with a female definitely keep me in the loop! I have an awesome pad that we could possibly use - and of course there are some amazingly swanky hotels around D-Town hehe
Also, I can't remember her name but there was a photog. on these boards located in Arizona or NM I think (??...??) who I was really interested in! I was thinking of maybe taking a "girls weekend roadtrip" out there because I think it would be less suspicious. However, if I could find a good one in Dallas I'd totally be open!!!
I just bought a Playboy bunny outfit for Halloween that is ROCKIN'!!! Fi is totally flippin over it, and I got some ideas on the types of stuff he may be in to so I'm really excited to do this for him!
That "bunny" outfit sounds awesome! I've been discretely asking FI about what kind of lingerie he thinks is sexy because he has specific taste and we dont shop for lingerie all that often
On a side note - I saw the DFW Meet-Up like the day after it happened I was bummed because I would have totally joined for some margaritas! We have lots of new DFW brides so we should plan to get together sometime!
Posted 26 October 2008 - 12:27 PM
| Originally Posted by ErinB
Jamie - you might be thinking of Kristie that did Morgan's wedding and Saraha's BD. She's in AZ but we know she travels!
| Originally Posted by DallasAshli
Yes - I will definitely keep everyone posted about a Dallas BD session! There are several ladies that would be interested!
That "bunny" outfit sounds awesome! I've been discretely asking FI about what kind of lingerie he thinks is sexy because he has specific taste and we dont shop for lingerie all that often
On a side note - I saw the DFW Meet-Up like the day after it happened I was bummed because I would have totally joined for some margaritas! We have lots of new DFW brides so we should plan to get together sometime!
I'm sorry you missed the meetup! Lisa, Rachelle & I had a great time together!
It would be fun to do another one - would love to meet ya
~ Jaime & Martin ~
"Rain or Swine! 2-0-0-9"
We had 24 people attend our wedding in Las Caletas, Mexico on May 24th, 2009!
We all stayed at The Marriott in P.V., and Honeymooned at The Royal Plantation in Ochos Rios, Jamaica!
Posted 26 October 2008 - 12:38 PM
| Originally Posted by Kat81
I used Jeremy! He was great. Let me know if you want to see a few of my pictures.
Posted 31 October 2008 - 07:42 AM
| Originally Posted by *Casey*
I would love to see them! Did you post them on another thread?
Posted 03 November 2008 - 12:12 AM
The most important thing when choosing a boudoir photographer is to make sure you use a female photographer for your boudoir bridal session if you think your fiance's reaction might be less than enthusiastic if he finds out another man saw you in your undies or less. The last thing you want to happen is to have your grand surprise backfire. Some men can get territorial about this. If you think he'd be OK with you sunbathing in the nude without him, then he might not really mind.
The next most important thing is to find someone who you really, really like their boudoir work.
- Ask to see examples if there are none on their wedding website. Not all wedding photographers will feel comfortable or know how to pose a woman to show off her curves in a soft and feminine way while keeping it classy and elegant. Some of my male wedding photographer friends say they don't do this kind of work because their wives would not like it. So, please don't automatically assume your wedding photographer can do your BD pics.
- Also, the post-processing of boudoir portraits is (or should be) quite different than an ordinary photo. Not all photographers are equal in their retouching and airbrushing skills.
I hope this helps. I do this kind of work and these are some of the things I tell my prospective clients when they call wanting more information. I don't care if you book with me or someone else, I just want you to please do your homework before you book with someone.
(trying to raise the boudoir photography bar)
Posted 03 November 2008 - 12:55 AM
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 02:25 PM
A new boudoir blog started by Will Tompkins is addressing many interesting and important issues about this popular form of photography. Recently, he posted about photographer gender and how it is often one of the first questions he faces from a new client. Once a client gets to know a little about him and how he works, any apprehension she may have had is greatly minimized or gone entirely. Of course, beautiful images are created and she's delighted! I'm happy to say, I have the same experience with my clients.
Most of the best boudoir work I've seen, by the way, has been done by male photographers. There are a few exceptions to my personal observations, of course. Jules Bianchi does some boudoir photography that I like very much. And there are certainly other female photographers in various parts of the country that do this type of photography well. But, on the whole, I tend to prefer what a skilled male photographer can accomplish with a boudoir session. Just being honest, here. It should go without saying, unfortunately, that being male, in no way guarantees anything. Regardless of gender, most boudoir work I've seen is disappointingly boring, of poor quality, or just plain bad.
What is unfortunate, as I commented on Tompkins' blog, is that some female photographers will play on that initial apprehension about the photographer's gender in their marketing. I wrote:
"Many female photographers play up the idea that their clients will be more comfortable with a woman as their boudoir photographer.â€
In a subsequent post, Tompkins responded:
"I've seen those ads, too, and like a lot of ads, they say one thing and mean another. In this context, "more comfortable†is a marketing euphemism for "safer†that exploits fear—the fear that a male photographer is somehow, I don't know, genetically incapable of treating a woman with dignity and respect while creating great boudoir images of her? Nonsense!â€
The good news is that these tactics don't work on everyone. Most women (and their husbands/boyfriends) can identify professionalism and integrity when they see it — and they know mediocre boudoir shots from really good boudoir pictures. It takes a great deal of trust to work with a photographer of ANY gender, for ANY photography that can be thought of as meaningful. Boudoir, is one of those genres that require several skill sets:
RAPPORT. A photographer must be able to connect with and find common ground with his subject. A comfort level must exist.
SENSITIVITY: This goes along with rapport, but is essential in boudoir photography. A photographer must be aware of his subject's feelings, moods, and concerns.
PHOTO LIGHTING: So important! Lighting, natural or studio, is everything when it comes to boudoir. It's the way a photographer initially sculpts, enhances, and provides the image viewer's eyes with those visual messages of "touch†and texture. There are no shortcuts to this. A photographer either knows how to use photographic lighting correctly and consistently, or he's just hoping it works out.
POST PROCESSING: Yup. Photoshop. I've seen really, really bad Photoshopping on boudoir images. I've seen no Photoshopping on boudoir images. Both do a disservice to the client. But quality Photoshop work is a MUST for quality boudoir. Boudoir isn't about recording the up-close reality of lines, blemishes, and less than smooth skin. Boudoir is about finished photographs that reflect how the client feels about herself, when she's feeling incredible. It's about how her guy sees her through HIS eyes when she's looking hot! Post processing the images is the other half of photography in boudoir. The picture's only half done when it's initially taken.
PERSPECTIVE: When a photographer has an understanding about how women want to be photographed, it's a great thing. This comes with years of experience and an ability to communicate on several levels with women. If the photographer has a male perspective to add to that, it can be an even greater thing. Many women want their pictures to reflect how they feel about themselves on a sexy and sensual level, but they also want to know their pictures will be the hottest thing their guys have ever seen. As a male photographer, I feel I can bring that extra perspective into the mix — I know exactly what a guy means when he says his girl looks hot.
So, don't misunderstand. I'm in no way arguing that a male photographer automatically makes a better boudoir photographer. But, I am responding to the occasional marketing ploy put forth by some female photographers that THEY are better for their clients because of their gender. I think a photographer's gender is not nearly as important as how that photographer relates to women — and how skilled that photographer is at delivering excellent boudoir photography.
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The dam has broken. No matter what our opinions might be of it, gay marriage is becoming a fact of life. On the heels of recent decisions by either judges or legislatures in Hawaii, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kentucky, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas, Idaho and Oregon, a judge in Pennsylvania today struck down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage. That's the fourth court victory for gay marriage advocates just this month. And this one, complete with a long and forceful opinion, was issued by a Bush 43 appointee whose appointment to the federal bench was approved by none other than Rick Santorum. (Judge Jones also wrote a long and stirring opinion against teaching creationism in public schools in Kitzmiller v. Dover). That makes 19 states where gay marriage is either legal or has won a recent court victory.
There is simply no putting this genie back in the bottle. Some of those overturns may be reversed by higher courts. Some may be turned over to referendums again. But even those are unlikely to pass. As I said when the Republican Party was pushing a wave of anti-gay-marriage amendments in 2004, their urgency was because they could see that they were losing support. It was then or never. The tide stopped in 2012 when Minnesota turned back an amendment in a tough battle. Now it has turned and is roaring back out to sea. California's Prop 8 would not pass now. Some of the redder states would be able to keep it illegal, but even there, support is crumbling. Within ten years, gays will be probably be able to marry almost everywhere in this country. Maybe even less. This issue is basically dead (although, as I argued with the Brendan Eich case, I would prefer that people not gloat about it).
There is one question that sill lingers in mind however: whether this issue will haunt the Republican Party down the road. I've spoken of this before:
Back in the 1970′s, the GOP stepped back from their previous support for civil rights to support the so-called "Southern Strategy": an effort to woo segregationists from the Democrats. The idea was not to embrace segregation, per se, but to jump on racially sensitive issues like welfare to build a power base in the South.
While it managed to get a few politicians to defect (Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond), it never really helped their electoral prospects. In Presidential races, they won the whole country in 1972, lost the South in 1976 and 1980, won the whole country in 1984 and 1988, split the South in 1992 and 1996. It was only in the mid-90′s that the South turned and, by that point, no one gave a crap about segregation issues. The turn was over economic issues. And by 2008, Barack Obama was able to dominate the South in the primaries and compete in the general election, winning three states.
Just to clarify this point: the Republicans took the South because the South was always conservative. The only reason the South hadn't voted Republican up until the 90's was because of the Democratic Party's century-long history of racist politics. Growing up in Atlanta, I knew people whose family had never voted Republican. When George Allen was elected to the Virginia legislature, he was one of only a handful of Republicans. When the South went red in 1994, Republicans were winning elections in Southern states for the first time since the Civil War. The South was always conservative. They were going to go Republican eventually. It was only Johnson's management of the Wallace faction that kept it blue for so long.
However, the Southern Strategy did have one palpable effect: both on its own and through liberal harping about it, the Southern Strategy alienated black voters to the point where the GOP is lucky to poll in single digits. This is despite a fair amount of conservatism among blacks, who are heavily pro-life and pro-school choice. P.J. O'Rourke said that Clinton's popularity among blacks was because he allowed them to vote for a Republican without throwing up.
In the 40's and 50's, Republicans routinely drew support among black voters in the 20-30% range. If that trend had continued, more than a few elections would have gone differently.
I'm afraid the GOP is going down the same path again with their stance on gay issues. The country is shifting rapidly on these issues, especially among young voters — much more rapidly than it did on racial issues. Huge majorities oppose DADT, including a majority of conservatives. Gay marriage is closing in on majority support and large majorities favor at least civil unions. And barring gay adoption or gay sex simply isn't on the radar for any but the most ardent cultural conservatives. Yet the entire GOP field supports DADT and DOMA, most favor the Marriage Amendment and Santorum favors just about every anti-gay measure you can think of.
Some of this support is in name only — the FMA, for example, has zero change of happening. But their vocal support for these policies is going to come back to bite them and probably not too far in the future. As more gays come out of the closet, as more people have gay friends and relatives, as more gays get married and have kids and as the world fails to end despite this, people are going to remember where the GOP was on this. People with gay kids are going to remember that the Rick Santorum wanted to deny their in-laws and take away their grandkids. People whose lives were saved by gay soldiers will realize they would have died had DADT been in place.
We are going to pay for this crap. And we are going to pay and pay and pay (literally, given the spending habits of the Democrats).
My fears have only strengthened in the three years since I wrote those words. While a number of Republicans have broken ranks — showing much more political courage than any Democrats, incidentally — I still fear that gay marriage will go down in history as a faint echo of the Southern Strategy debacle. A faint echo because the Republican opposition was at least partially built on principle. It was clear in 2004 that many Republicans were uncomfortable with their gay marriage position (you may remember a leaked phone call where Bush talked about how much he disliked taking the position) and that this was, at least in part, a cold political calculus from Karl Rove who thought opposing gay marriage would win a tough election. But most of the opposition was a principled opposition to changing one of the pillars of our civilization.
(The echo should be even fainter because Democrats opposed gay marriage until it became politically safe not to. But Democrats are never held to any standard, let alone the ones that Republicans are held to. Republicans still get beat up over their short-lived Southern Strategy; Democrats are absolved from their century-long embrace of Jim Crow.)
Still, I think the analogy holds. It will not be forgotten that Republicans were the face of the opposition to gay marriage and that the remaining opposition is from Republicans. Will this hurt them enough to matter in an election? There are a lot fewer gays than there are blacks and they are not as unified electorally. But considering how close some elections have been, it's entirely possible that this will hurt us down the road, especially as the young people who support gay marriage today become the political force of tomorrow.


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Astros pounded 12-1 by Colorado in series opener
Astros kiss three-game winning streak goodbye
Rockies hit four home runs, punish Paulino in 12-1 victory
Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, May 12, 2009
DENVER — Cecil Cooper didn't quite remember how many home runs the Astros gave up to the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night. The official count was four, although it could have easily been five if Carlos Lee hadn't made a leaping grab at the wall.
Whatever the case, the Rockies pounded Felipe Paulino at Coors Field, ending the Astros' three-game winning streak with a 12-1 romp.
"They had four or five home runs tonight, didn't they?," Cooper said. "I can't remember how many balls went out of the ballpark. Not a good night of pitching for us and a pretty good offensive night for them."
Missing the command that prompted Cooper to put him back in the rotation, Paulino was pounded on a night when Colorado's No. 8 hitter, Ian Stewart, hit two home runs and Brad Hawpe went 4-for-4 with a home run and five RBIs.
In the opener of a three-game series, Paulino gave up two home runs — to Todd Helton and Stewart — before a crowd of 23,233. Tim Byrdak gave up a grand slam to Stewart, and Russ Ortiz, the man Paulino replaced in the rotation, gave up a two-run homer to Hawpe.
Paulino, who was pulled after failing to retire a batter during the Rockies' five-run fifth, gave up seven hits, eight runs (seven earned) and four walks. He struck out two. By comparison, he allowed six runs (five earned) with 13 strikeouts over 172⁄3 innings for a 2.55 ERA over his first three starts before moving to the bullpen and giving up seven earned runs in three innings of relief.
"No, I don't feel anything different," Paulino said. "It was just a bad day for me today."
The Astros' offense didn't help matters. Colorado righthander Ubaldo Jimenez (3-4) cruised while giving up one run on seven hits with four strikeouts over seven dominant innings.
"He's one of the harder throwers in the league," Lance Berkman said of Jimenez. "He threw me a changeup, and I was like, 'Man, that looks slow.' I look up, and it's 90 miles per hour. So I was like, 'Man, that's most guys' fastball.' On top of that, his ball really moves. I don't think people realize the movement that he has."
Not all the news was bad for the Astros. Berkman returned to the lineup after missing three games with a sore left wrist.
"It felt good," Berkman said after going 1-for-4. "Really, the only time I had trouble with it at all today was when I took some righthanded batting practice. So lefthanded, it felt really good.
"I didn't really notice it. I'm very, very happy — obviously, not with the game, but I'm excited because I don't feel like this is going to linger. I feel like this is behind me."
Hawpe, who set a career high with his five RBIs while matching his career best for hits, gave the Rockies a 1-0 lead with an RBI double to left field in the first inning.
Todd Helton made it 3-0 in the third with a two-run homer to right. Lee, whose 10-game hitting streak was snapped as he went 0-for-4, saved Paulino with a leaping grab at the left-field wall to rob Chris Iannetta of a home run leading off the fourth.
Lee couldn't help Paulino, though, when Stewart followed with a home run to right field to give the Rockies a 4-0 lead.
"I battled with all my pitches," Paulino said. "It was a tight zone, and the umpire didn't get me a few calls, but that's not an excuse. It got difficult, and sometimes my pitches stayed up there."
Troy Tulowitzki led off the fifth with a single through the left side. Helton followed with a walk. Then Hawpe hit an RBI single up the middle, giving the Rockies a 5-0 lead. After Garrett Atkins walked to load the bases, Cooper called Byrdak to face Seth Smith.
Two outs later, Stewart hit a grand slam to center.
In the sixth, Hawpe swatted his two-run homer off Ortiz, who would have been out of the inning if second baseman Kaz Matsui had not committed an error on Dexter Fowler's leadoff grounder.
With three consecutive one-out singles in the seventh, the Astros avoided a shutout. Ivan Rodriguez's hit produced the run.
"I thought Paulino threw the ball OK, but he wasn't as crisp and sharp as he had been in the past," Cooper said. "I thought he got squeezed as well, but we just didn't make enough quality pitches."


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South Shore Conservatory celebrates local piano students
Eighteen students from Boston and communities to the south won awards at the 11th annual South Shore Conservatory's Piano Competition.
All first place winners received scholarships to the South Shore Conservatory, where all contestants are students. Every winner was then invited to perform in a winners' concert, which followed the competition.
A total of 24 students competed in the five age divisions, with four students in division one (under 8-year olds), eight students in division two (9-10-year olds), eight students in division three (11-12-year olds) and two students each in the 13-14-year old and 15-18 year-old category.
According to HuiMin Wang, a faculty pianist at the conservatory, students were required to each learn a required piece, a scale, and a self-chosen piece in a contrasting style from the required piece.
Oftentimes, required pieces are written by the faculty themselves.
"We only have one round for our students, and three judges from colleges or music conservatories in the area are invited to give written feedback for our students," Ming said. "It's a great learning experience and is cherished by many supportive Conservatory families. Many have participated many years and it serves wonderfully as a goal of study at the Conservatory."
All participants received a certificate and participation medal. All winners additionally received trophies.
"[It's] a true celebration of music studies!" Wang said.
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Other winners include:
Hillary Jean Gilles and Wilson Lam
Jonah Torres and Ethan Torres
Victoria Anna Milun, Camden Vassallo, Emile Zahr, Devin and Diana Chen
Maria D'Ambrosio and Casey Quinn
Laura Varas and Erin Driscoll
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`Dim Sum' Debt Shows Yuan Opening Amid Hot Money Crackdown: China Credit
HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc, the biggest foreign underwriters of yuan bonds sold in Hong Kong, say they have never been busier even as China seeks to curb inflows of capital to limit appreciation.
Justin Chan, HSBC's deputy head of global markets in Asia Pacific, said the bank has organized 10 conferences outside China to promote use of the currency in world commerce and has "a very strong pipeline" of companies seeking to sell so- called dim sum bonds, yuan-denominated debt issued in the city. Sundeep Bhandari, Standard Chartered's head of global markets in Northeast Asia, said the bank has done 25 similar events in 2010 and is advising a fund that plans to focus solely on the debt.
While Chinese regulators joined counterparts from Brazil to Thailand last week in tightening limits on inflows of funds, central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said yesterday China will push ahead with exchange-rate reforms in the yuan. Issuers are paying 40 percent less to borrow in the currency in Hong Kong than they pay in Shanghai because of demand from overseas investors betting on exchange-rate appreciation.
"China still wants to develop the onshore market by opening it up in a controlled manner," Chan at HSBC, Europe's biggest lender, said in a Nov. 12 interview in Hong Kong. Last week's measures, which included tighter rules on repatriating capital and borrowing overseas, were precautions "to prevent further hot-money flows into China," he said.
Lifting Demand
The yuan may rise 6.2 percent to 6.26 per dollar by the end of next year, the most among the so-called BRIC nations that also include Brazil, Russia and India, according to a Bloomberg survey of 17 analysts. The median estimate is for a 1.3 percent gain in the Brazilian real, a 4.2 percent advance in the Indian rupee and a 5 percent climb in the Russian ruble.
HSBC's Chan said he expects the currency to appreciate 3 percent to 5 percent annually in the next one or two years. He said the yuan may become one of the three major global currencies, with the dollar and the euro, in 20 to 30 years.
The yuan declined 0.16 percent to 6.6488 per dollar as of 1:25 p.m. in Shanghai. The offshore rate in Hong Kong of 6.6075 was 0.6 percent stronger than the onshore. The yuan's non- deliverable forwards reflect bets the currency will advance 2.4 percent in the coming 12 months.
China is allowing greater use of its currency in global trade and investment to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar, after Premier Wen Jiabao said in March he is "worried" about holdings of assets denominated in the greenback. Purchases of U.S. currency to contain yuan appreciation swelled the nation's foreign-exchange reserves to $2.65 trillion in September.
Trade Settlement
The value of international trade transactions settled in the Chinese currency jumped 160 percent from the three months through June to 126.5 billion yuan ($19 billion) in the third quarter, the People's Bank of China reported on Nov. 2. Yuan deposits at Hong Kong banks more than doubled to a record 149 billion yuan in the six months ended Sept. 30, Hong Kong Monetary Authority data show.
"Our clients want to know about the yuan," Standard Chartered's Bhandari said in a Nov. 12 interview in Hong Kong. "I will fly back from London at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and get a Thursday morning flight to Tokyo."
Bhandari declined to give details about the planned fund focused on yuan debt or name its manager. The dim sum bond market has grown 42 percent to 50 billion yuan since July 19, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. said in a report on Nov. 15.
HSBC said it underwrote 11 issues of yuan-denominated debt instruments this year in Hong Kong, including dim sum bonds and certificates of deposit. Standard Chartered said it has been an underwriter on sales of totalling 8.4 billion yuan in 2010.
Planned Sales
Export-Import Bank of China plans to sell as much as 5 billion yuan of bonds in Hong Kong next month. International Finance Corp., the World Bank's private investment arm, aims to sell about 100 million yuan of five-year bonds in Hong Kong, according to Treasurer Nina Shapiro.
''We like buying offshore renminbi bonds because the regulations are not as tedious,'' said Chia Tse Chern, director at UOB Asset Management, which oversees the equivalent of $10.6 billion and is a unit of Singapore's second-largest bank. ''They want to develop the renminbi bond market and possibly don't want more capital flows into the mainland. So they are allowing the market to be developed out of Hong Kong."
Attractive Returns
Yuan appreciation plus interest-rate payments can translate into annual returns of as much as 7 percent, he said.
The average yield of yuan bonds in the city, including those sold by state-controlled lenders including China Development Bank and Bank of China Ltd., is 1.77 percent, according to data from the Treasury Markets Association, which tracks 23 outstanding issues that have maturities of no more than four years. The average rate in China for one- to three- year bonds issued by government-linked companies is 2.99 percent, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's China Quasi-Government Index.
The yield on China's 3.28 percent government bond due in August 2020 was little changed at 3.74 percent, according to the National Interbank Funding Center. The extra yield investors demand to hold China's 10-year bonds rather than similar- maturity U.S. government debt has widened 63 basis points since June 30 to 101, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Bond Risk
The perceived risk of investing in Chinese debt has fallen this year. Five-year credit-default swap contracts on government bonds rose two basis points to 63 basis points yesterday, CMA prices in New York show. They have declined 11 basis points this year. The contracts pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a government or company fail to adhere to debt agreements.
HSBC's Chan said China won't slow the opening up of its financial market because it wants to make the yuan an international currency. The central bank allowed overseas financial institutions on Aug. 17 to invest yuan funds in the nation's bond market. The Hong Kong units of HSBC and Standard Chartered won the approval last month.
China had approved qualified foreign institutional investors to buy $18.97 billion of assets in China by Sept. 30, up from $16.67 billion of quotas at the end of last year, according to a statement on SAFE's website on Nov. 10. The authorities granted the Hong Kong Monetary Authority a QFII license in October.
Charles Li, the chief executive officer of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., has proposed allowing Chinese companies to sell yuan-priced stock in Hong Kong, where investors are free from the quotas imposed by Beijing on foreign ownership of mainland equities.
"If you want big demand for yuan offshore, you need to create channels for offshore yuan funds to be invested," said Chan. "This will by and large help open the door for capital- account movement."
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Holden, H. and Button, S. W. (2006) 'The teaching of music in the primary school by the non-music specialist.', The British journal of music education., 23 (1). pp. 23-38.
This article reports on an investigation of the teaching of music by non-music specialists in the primary school. In particuilar, it examines attitudes to teaching music, factors affecting teachers' confidence, the relationship between confidence and training, support for music teaching, teaching experience and musical badkground. The non-specialist teachers taking part in this survey were chosen from twelve schools across one Local Education Authority (LEA). The attitudes and views on teaching music of 71 teachers were obtained through a questionnaire survey and follow-up interviews. The findings of this survey show that there is much work still to be done in providing non-specialists with effective long-term training and support to increase their music skills, subject knowledge, and confidence, to enable them to make a more marked difference to children's musical education.
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What matters most to you when it comes to a wireless bluetooth speaker that you can easily take with you when you're on the go? Is it price? Style and looks? Performance? I have to say that for whatever reason, the reigning king of the category seems to be the Jawbone Jambox. Decent sound quality and a nice price point are great, plus it just looks so good (and multiple styles to choose from is a huge plus). When it comes to performance, however, it's pretty hard to beat Bose and I've heard that the Soundlink sounds a bit nicer than the Jambox (this according to an Apple store employee on one of my many monthly visits). On the low-end of the price spectrum, you're probably going to be a bit disappointed with the sound quality (I'm looking at you Veho 360), but if you just need something quick and dirty to get the job done then maybe cheap is the way to go (perhaps if you know you're only going to use it once or twice). Any way you slice it, if you're looking for a nice bluetooth speaker for your iPhone or Android device, look no further cause I've got you covered.
Have you had any experience with any of these speakers or would you recommend something not on this list? There are two other promising portable bluetooth speakers that were just announced at CES 2012 which I did not include on this list since they did not yet have product pages at the time of writing: the Soundfreaq Sound Kick and the ExtremeMac Soma BT (maybe by the time you read this they will be available for purchase).
- Jawbone Jambox – $199.99
- Geneva Sound Systems Model XS – $249.95
- SPAR Zephyr 550 – $160
- JBL On Tour IBT – $149.95
- Bose SoundLink – $299.95
- Supertooth Disco – $169
- Logitech Mini Boombox – $99.99
- Uniden BTS 200 – $99.99
- xqisit xqBeat Box – $170
- Devotec Solar Sound 2 – $99.99
- Veho 360 – $49.95
- Quirky Perch – $N/A
- iLuv Mo'Beats $99.99
- foxL V2 – $229.99
- Creative D100 – $79.99


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MARTIN SKRTEL and Raheem Sterling proved to be the thorn in Arsenal's side as Liverpool ran riot at Anfield. (The Express)
Goalless draws are the flotsam of football; they drift by and are lost in the ocean of events. This one was greeted with a vast rolling cheer, the kind that comes with championship-deciding performances. It would be greeted by a thin smile in the manager's office at Stamford Bridge. This has been quite a week for Jose Mourinho. (The Independent)
Garry Monk's audition to become Swansea's next manager got off to the perfect start with a handsome 3-0 victory over local rivals Cardiff in a frenetic south Wales derby. (Daily Mail)
A hat-trick from Chelsea's in-form playmaker Eden Hazard helped the Blues to a 3-0 win over Newcastle as Jose Mourinho's men stormed to the top of the Premier League. (Mirror)
The England and Wales Cricket Board is expected to clarify its position on Kevin Pietersen in a statement to be issued on Sunday about the breakdown of trust within the England team. (The Telegraph)
England retained the Calcutta Cup with a performance of controlled power and intensity at Murrayfield, squeezing the life out of Scotland to leave their sorry hosts pointless for the first time in this fixture since 1978. (The Times)
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text: sequel to the early Wii title Kororinpa. Luckily, the good outweighs the bad. The good, in fact, is great: Kororinpa 2 will feature ten stages that utilize the balance board. While it's not Wii MotionPlus, that'll still add a neat (and challenging, if Wii Fit's marble mini-game is any indication) element to the sequel. The bad? According to the folks at IGN, the game looks terrible on the floor in Leipzig. Don't start huffing and stamping your feet over quality control just yet, though; Kororinpa 2 isn't due until next year. There's still time to give it a fix.


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I used to be on prescrip med, but I can't afford it now. Excederin works really well though.
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I've been getting Migrains since I was about 5 or 6 years old. No one understood at that time what was going on with me so I was given regular aspirin..which didn't work. I don't get them as often as I used to and I also take Excedrin Migrain capsules. I don't leave home without them. One bottle in the kitchen and one in my purse at all times. When I feel one coming on I have to lie down in my bed with all the lights off, door closed, the room has to be cool or cold and it has to be quiet. These headaches kick my butt if I don't catch it in time. It took years to recognize the signs...it all starts with my eyes. Even if I do catch it in time the "sickness" is with me and it's awful. It takes almost 48 hours for me to get over it.
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Victorian Minister welcomes UAE's qualification in Asian Cup
The Minister for Tourism and Major Events from the State Government of Victoria in Australia says she is looking forward to welcoming the UAE football team to next year's Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup.
Victorian Minister Louise Asher met with His Excellency Yousuf Al Serkal, President of the UAE Football Association, at a 'Put Victoria on Your Table' dinner in Dubai this week where they discussed the UAE's qualification in the showpiece event in the presence of prominent Emirati businessman Issa bin Abdullah Al Ghurair.
Australia will host the AFC's Asian Cup from 9 to 31 January 2015, with Melbourne, the capital of the State of Victoria, hosting the opening ceremony and a number of games. The event will be an opportunity to showcase Victoria as a vibrant economic, sports and multicultural hub to the rest of the world.
"I've been delighted to learn that the UAE football team has qualified for the Asian Cup in 2015," said Minister Asher, who was leading Victoria's 'Super Trade Mission' to the Middle East.
'Melbourne is excited to be hosting the opening ceremony and we look forward to welcoming the UAE to our country."
The UAE qualified for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup and will join a host of other leading Asian football nations, including defending champion Japan.
UAE Football Association President Yousuf Al Serkal said: "We are proud of what the UAE national team has achieved during the Asian qualifiers which was the result of hard work and dedication. We are sure that the team's performance at the tournament will delight football lovers and that Australia will succeed in organising this major event."
Victoria's close ties with the UAE's sporting industry have continued to grow on many levels, in particular through key partnerships with the UAE's Emirates Airline and the national carrier Etihad Airways.
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As the public prepares to watch drum corps from across the country compete in today's Drums Along the Mohawk, what they don't see is the regional effort done behind the scenes to make the traveling groups feel at home.
As the public prepares to watch drum corps from across the country compete in today's Drums Along the Mohawk, what they don't see is the regional effort done behind the scenes to make the traveling groups feel at home.
Drums Along the Mohawk is set to take place at 7 p.m. today at Rome Free Academy Stadium in Rome.
There are seven area school districts that opened their doors to the drum corps by IF YOU GO * The event will take place at 7 p.m. today at Rome Free Academy Stadium on Turin Road in Rome.
* Tickets are available at Big Apple Music in New Hartford, the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce and at RFA Stadium.
* Tickets are $22 per person for super seats, $16 per person for reserved seats and $5 per person for general admission. providing housing and practice areas.
"The kids are great, they take over the gym," Herkimer Central School District Superintendent Carol Zygo said. "It's a sea of mattresses and sleeping beds and all sorts of equipment, but the kids are all so polite."
Herkimer is hosting Jersey Surf from Camden County, N.J. Other schools that will be hosting corps this week include Rome Free Academy, Strough Middle School, New York Mills Jr./Sr. High School, the Oneida and Westmoreland school districts and the New York State School for the Deaf.
Without the cooperation of the school districts, it wouldn't be financially possible to host the corps in hotels, Drums Along the Mohawk Director Claudette Wire said.
Zygo said hosting the corps is more of a benefit than a burden on the school and community. She said students and community members often come out to listen to the corps practice and are treated to free preview shows.
American Legion Post No. 229 in Utica hosted the Jersey Surf Monday night for a hospitality dinner following the group's preview show at Utica Monday Nite.
Post volunteer Sharon Lange estimated her staff prepared more than 24 pounds of baked ziti, 40 pounds of meatballs and 60 pounds of potatoes for the 150-plus performers and staff of the Jersey Surf.
"This is the best thing I've done," Lange said. "These kids are so appreciative and so thankful … this is just the most wonderful event I have ever catered."
All of the food at the Legion was provided at no cost to the corps, while Legion members provided desserts that filled a 30-foot long table.
"When you're trying to do that kind of volume, it's really great for our cook staff to have a night off," said Brian Prato, director of operations for the Jersey Surf. "It's also really appreciative financially because it costs a lot to feed the corps."
Many of the groups spend the entire summer on the road and away from family, friends and their own beds. The dedication and discipline of the groups is tremendous, Prato said.
"It's hard, but we push through it and get better," Stacy Andrews of Jersey Surf said.
The Surfs draw members from a 400-mile radius around Philadelphia, Pa., and few of them know each other before going on the road.
"It's like a breeding ground for over-achievers," Jersey Surf Executive Director Bob Jacobs said. "Most want to do this for the rest of their lives."


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Families gather together during the holidays, and often share entertainment experiences around the largest screen in the home. Insignia, Best Buy's exclusive brand of consumer electronics, will showcase easy, affordable ways to upgrade the home theater experience for the holidays, so shared moments can be more entertaining, enjoyable and memorable.
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This Winter "Every Holiday" will focus on more than just entertaining your family and guests, as the programs will also feature stories on gift giving, fashion, travel, decorating, finance, health and safety. It's the ultimate survival guide to get you through the busiest time of the year. Be sure to tune in, because just like last year, the show will have an online sweepstakes, giving viewers a chance to win the items featured on the show.
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