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I grew up in a town where almost every kid wore a jean jacket and worshiped at the altar of Ozzy Osbourne. KNAC blared from garages and Skid Row was played over the loudspeaker at our city's annual carnival. Needless to say, I know a thing or two about metal, which might have something to do with why I find myself watching "That Metal Show" on VH1 Classic even though I'm not what anyone would call a metalhead.
Honestly, the longhairs in my town looked for any reason to kick ass and this created a fear of metal fans that lasts to this day. Most dudes (cuz there ain't no girls into metal) I know these days who are into metal are super cool people and not the sorts who want to start fights. Still, when I think of the genre, I think of that older kid who lived around the corner from me. He had a bad teenage moustache and he'd spray the hose at us anytime we walked past his house.
Maybe that's why I dig the show so much. Behind closed doors, I can listen to hosts Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson talk about shredding guitarists and wailing singers without feeling like I'm about to get a beat down.
Hopefully no fisticuffs take place on Friday night as comedians Florentine and Jamieson bring their stand-up act to the Rhythm Lounge in Long Beach. I've seen Florentine before (even hung out with him for a bit although he'd never remember me) and if Jamieson's act is even half as funny as Florentine's, then the show should be the equivalent of watching Slayer play South of Heaven while making out with Lita Ford.
OC Weekly (Ryan Ritchie): As comedians, it must be pretty easy to find the humor in metal,
right? I mean, the genre is kind of cheesy, isn't it?
Don Jamieson: Not cheesy at all
because it never takes itself too seriously. Rap, Justin Bieber
tweener music, Celine Dion easy-listening garbage and country all way
cheesier than metal.
Jim Florentine: Metal has been around since the late '60s. There was a period between
1985-1990 when it got a little cheesy. Since metal has been around for
42 years and was only cheesy for five years, I would say metal is pretty
cool. If you want to talk about cheese, let's talk about hip-hop — that's
been embarrassing after the first two years.
Recently, the media has tried to portray metal fans as geeks, but
when I was a kid, metalheads were shitkickers who you didn't mess with.
So which is it: nerds or felons?
Jamieson: They're just people who are passionate
about the type of music they love.
Florentine: Most of my friends are metalheads that have never got
arrested before. They are definitely not geeks either because they
don't talk about
their iPhones all day.
Is there a certain age when people should have to retire from
listening to metal?
Jamieson: If Lemmy doesn't quit then either should you.
Metalheads are very loyal to their music. They don't follow trends
like most people, so once a metalhead, always a metalhead.
What's with all the testosterone in metal?
Jamieson: What's with all the testosterone in Chaz Bono?
Florentine: Metal music is very rough around the edges, therefore most chicks don't like it.
On a related note, where are all the girls at metal shows?
Jamieson: Ever see Poison or Motley Crue? Chicks everywhere.
Florentine: I've been saying the same things for years. At least
our wives and girlfriends don't have to worry about us cheating on them
at a metal
How is Metallica so popular considering their drummer can't play?
Jamieson: When you write Master of Puppets, let me know.
Florentine: That's a myth that Lars can't play. Ask any good drummer and they'll
tell you that he is very solid. If he couldn't play, the band would have
thrown him out years ago.
Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin? (I'll give you a hint: The correct
answer is Black Sabbath)
Jamieson: I like Zeppelin. A little more diverse and you
can fuck to it.
Florentine: Black Sabbath is the best metal band. Zeppelin is the best hard rock band.
Due to the success of your show, it seems
like every time I turn on VH1 Classic, it's something about metal. How
and why is that considering when I walk down the street I don't run into
hessians with bad moustaches and jean jackets?
Jamieson: I don't see a lot of
18th century German soldiers walking around either. If you mean
"hesher," I don't know.
Florentine: That's another myth that if you like metal you have to dress up like
Poison from the '80s. Also, there were never any mustaches in metal.
I like metal as much as the next guy (by that, I mean I like
Black Sabbath, early Metallica and Slayer), so why am I so damn hooked
on your show considering I don't really give a shit about metal?
Jamieson: Because we're very handsome men.
Florentine: Not sure. Maybe you're attracted to one of us slobs.
Do you incorporate elements of metal stage shows in your act?
You know, stuff like explosions after a punchline, a kick drum intro
building up to a joke or yelling "Let me hear you Long Beach!" when you
walk on stage.
Jamieson: No. We want to do good.
Florentine: Not really. I tell 45 minutes of penis jokes.


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(Post originally written by Seth, copied here by Tangent128, and edited by Sci Vo for the admin trifecta.)This amuses me.
Like all unexpected developments in the wiki we embraced it.It seems that we've always been this cool. The rituals used to pothole, spoiler, and hide are all but foreign to me. It seems that our modern hottip has descended from a spoiler markup meant for images and paragraphs. Huh. Anyways, first thread was short. So ends the first entry.


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University Libraries Launch Virtual Archive of 'The Papers of John Jay'
By Kari Smith
John Jay
Columbia Libraries has launched "The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829," an image database and indexing tool comprising thousands of pages scanned from photocopies of original documents gathered from over 50 repositories during the 1960s and 70s. This new access tool links users to Jay's unpublished papers (correspondence, memos, diaries and diplomatic papers) written by or to Jay, diplomat and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Columbia graduate from when the school was known as King's College.
The Papers include letters to and from many of the central figures in the struggle for independence and the early history of the United States -- among them George Washington, John Adams, James Monroe, Louis XVI of France, the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Gouverneur Morris, Abigail Adams and Benjamin Rush. Correspondence between Jay and his lively, astute wife Sarah Livingston Jay captures the flavor of domestic life in the Federal period and serves to document the complex interplay between private and public interests that characterized the political scene.
"John Jay is the forgotten man among the Founding Fathers," says Richard L. Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Emeritus Professor of History. "His name is rarely placed in the great pantheon."
Yet in addition to being Chief Justice, Bushman notes, Jay was also Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Confederation, an author with Hamilton and Madison of several issues of the Federalist, a leader in the fight for the ratification of the Constitution in New York and George Washington's prime negotiator in the struggle with Britain that resulted in the controversial 1794 treaty that bears his name.
"The publication of the Jay papers in electronic form will permit scholars everywhere to learn more about the achievements of this eminent figure," says Bushman.
John Jay served as governor of New York State from 1797-1801, in addition to his prominent national and international roles, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. A founder of the New York Manumission society, he introduced legislation prohibiting slavery in the state as early as 1777, and, with his sons Peter and William, continued his anti-slavery activities after his retirement from public life.
"Perhaps the most significant accomplishment of the Jay Papers project is the creation of a "virtual archive," bringing together the holdings of many different and widely-dispersed physical collections," said Stephen Davis, acting head of the Libraries Digital Program. "Because the project's technical design takes full advantage of Columbia's existing digital library infrastructure, including our locally-developed, SQL-based master metadata file, we were able to focus our energies on extending those tools to accommodate the specialized search, retrieval and display requirements of this new resource. For example, users of the Jay Papers database can not only retrieve all correspondence to or from specific individuals, and search through document abstracts by keyword, they can also step through each day, week, month and year of John Jay's life to study his and his correspondents' writings in context and in sequence."
Davis said of the technology used in developing the tools for the project, "The Jay Papers project has also provided us our first opportunity to use the newer 'mrsid' image wavelet compression technology. This was particularly important because of the wide variety of handwriting styles and document sizes involved. Using the multiresolution, zoomable image display provided by 'mrsid' technology, readers can themselves adjust the size of the page as needed to display and analyze individual documents."
These files, collected under the direction of the late Professor Richard B. Morris, were maintained as sources for items to be used in a planned four-volume letterpress series entitled "The Selected Unpublished Papers of John Jay. "Four essays, in addition to a biographical essay, introduce Jay: "The Jay Treaty," "Jay and New York," "Jay and Slavery," and "Jay and France," in addition to a biographical essay.
The original documents from which Morris made his copies are located at more than 50 repositories in the United States, Britain, France, Spain and around the world.
Approximately 23,000 pages of the nearly 12,000 documents have been scanned as images that are linked to the collection's index, enabling researchers to examine the handwritten texts online. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Florence Gould Foundation, The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829 make available to students and researchers primary resources that have in the past been difficult to find or link to one another.
Among the topics that may be explored are: farming, building, philanthropy, legal practice, the courts, education, political intrigue, health and what might be called "memorializing the revolution" in the early nineteenth-century.
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Articles/Blogs of the Week: 12/29/2006
Every week, we try to outline the best articles and blogs from the past week. Below are the articles/blogs for this week:
- Business Unintelligence: I stumbled upon this brief article. Though short, I've added it to this list because of its argument of what "real-time" should mean in BI. Simply, "real time should mean now, not some time in the future, when the data is extracted, loaded, re-consolidated and then inquired upon." In other words, "real time" data is data available immediately. If there is a change in the source, it must be reflected in the reports immediately to be considered real-time. Not 5 seconds, 5 minutes or 5 hours later.
- The Information Black Hole: This is a rather detailed study of why BI is not delivering the value it should in the UK. I found it interesting.
- Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing: This article from the "Occam's Razor" blog provides some segmentation examples and ideas on how to represent an organization's capabilities vs. customer expectations.
- Business intelligence expert predictions for 2007: Predictions from "experts" on what 2007 will bring.
Have a Happy New Year from your friends at Thoughts on Business Intelligence
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In the 2014 Anastasia Prikhodko used to take part in concert tour around the territory of ATO. And recently we have congratulated her with the birth of second child. "He will be a hero!" – announced happy Mom. The vacations of singers of such level are not long and at the 24 of October Anastasia is going to present her new programm "Heroes Do not Die"
"I have lost a lot of collegues and friends because of the war, our friendship lasted during years. Now I am trying to underline Ukranina repertory and dedicated the song to heroes". The singer is working on new songs, making videos and is preparing to the concert tour around Ukrain and Europe with new concert program. In these concerts she will sing her old hits and absolutely new songs.
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Soprano voice and Concert Band - Grade 3
From the Opera Porgy and Bess. Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937). Arranged by Roger Niese. Full score. Duration 4:00. Published by Baton Music (BF.BM265-SCORE).
Item Number: BF.BM265-SCORE
The opera contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is the lullaby Summertime sung by Clara to her baby at the very beginning of the Opera.


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Firm Profile: Lobbyists, 2011
Total Lobbying Income: $430,000
Total number of revolvers: 3 (100.0%)
Total number of former members: 0 (0.0%)
Lobbyists working for D&P Creative Strategies:
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NY woman jumps into freezing Central Park lake to rescue dog
Published 3:36 am, Monday, January 27, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A dog owner has leapt into a freezing lake in New York City's Central Park to rescue her dog from drowning.
The New York Post reports the woman was walking five dogs on the northern edge of the park on Sunday morning when one of the pooches ran away and jumped into the Harlem Meer.
The partially frozen man-made lake is surrounded by signs that warn of dangerous thin ice.
The woman jumped in after the dog and police used a life preserver to pull her and the animal out of the water.


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Daycares in Georgia get millions of dollars in taxpayer money to care for the state's vulnerable children. An 11Alive investigation found some of those daycares have been cited hundreds of times over the past three years for breaking the rules.
These violations can put Georgia's children at risk.
11Alive is holding the powerful accountable.
Parents report mystery injuries sustained at daycares that are sending children to the hospital. 11Alive Investigative reporter Andy Pierrotti dug into the data to find out how much taxpayer funding these daycares with histories of abuse are receiving.
The investigation uncovered 40 Georgia daycares cited 100 or more times in three years. At the time, the state had revoked just four of those daycares' taxpayer funding. The "top 40" offenders were cited more than 5,000 times and received more than $19 million in taxpayer dollars over the past three years.
The Department of Early Care and Learning, or DECL, is the state agency responsible for regulating and inspecting childcare providers. Commissioner Amy Jacobs said they perform drop-in inspections twice a year to make sure daycares are following the rules.
"In Georgia, we have over 450 licensing rules and they have levels of severity," DECL Commissioner Amy Jacobs, said. "So, there will be citations in childcare because it's hard to meet 450 rules perfectly when we come in unannounced."
The most egregious case centers around an Atlanta daycare cited 276 times. Among the violations, state investigators found glass in the playground and no supervision in a room full of children.
Jacobs said revocation is an option but they try to work with the childcare providers. She said taking CAPS funding away, without allowing a facility to correct problems first, can disrupt a family if they don't have other options.
"Health and safety are our number one priority at DECL, especially for those children that are in childcare programs. But, what we want to do is work with programs as much as possible for them correct. If they don't correct, we can do a revocation," Jacobs said.
Through an open records request, 11Alive received the total number of violations each childcare provider in the state has received from 2013 to 2016.
When daycare facilities receive citations, an investigation is launched and the daycare has the opportunity to appeal. With citations, daycares run the risk of losing their licenses.
To get specific details about the citations a daycare received, the state of Georgia has a database where parents can download the inspection reports. These reports detail observations made during inspections and details about violations.


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In The Great Gatsby, what importance is there in Nick's statement that "my family have been prominent, well-to-do people ... For three generations..."?
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First, let me say that I agree with all of the above interpretations. Yes, this statement introduces the theme of "status/class." Yes, it also shows Nick has "class concerns," but I would also add that it nicely plugs him in immediately to the "new rich" category instead of the "old rich" category.
Keep in mind that the people in the novel are very stuck on which "kind" of rich they are, so much so that they insist on living in different places. The old rich, the people who have had unlimited funds for as long as they and their families can remember, live in East Egg. They have no need to work and simply inherit their money from generation to generation. The new rich, the people who have newly acquired funds they have (generally) earned, live in West Egg. These people have either worked for their money, acquired it by less than appropriate means, or had some kind of fortuitous circumstance. People in West Egg are generally looked down upon by the people of East Egg.
The information above puts Nick's comment into context. Here, Nick is proud that his family has been "prominent" and "well-to-do" for "three generations." This establishes him immediately as the "new rich." He is only the third generation to have money. Period. East Eggers would immediately look down upon him for that. There is also a suggestion that, somehow, this money has been earned and not necessarily inherited. Again, this is a "new rich" kind of idea.
The reader, then, should not be surprised when Nick quietly slips into the neighborhood of West Egg and inhabits the "shack" right next to Gatsby's mansion.
This statement from Nick's opening remarks establishes 1) the theme of status/class in the novel and 2) aligns Nick with class concerns.
While other characters are depicted as clambering after wealth and status, often ostentatiously, to a far greater extent than Nick, it remains true that Nick is also concerned with his own status. Not long after this statement is made, Nick discusses his intentions to become an intellectual (a well-rounded man).
Naturally, Gatsby is the best example of concerns with status and class distinctions in the novel. However, as Nick's statement shows, Gatsby is just one of the many characters in the novel who anchor their identity with class identity.
Nick's statement is an important one in the beginning of the novel because it both introduces the overarching theme of class and status, but also hints at the more subtle theme of security in one's social class and theme.
Money, power, and status are prominent in almost every chapter of the Great Gatsby. Nick, who is from "prominent, well-to-do people," represents the sort of old money character that is immediately valued and successful in the novel. Consider how the Buchanans and Jordan are among the sort of higher class and stable positions in the novel, whilst Gatsby–who may comparatively have more wealth–is both unstable in his financial situations and must fight to preserve his social image.
Thinking about Gatsby and his image also makes Nick's quote interesting because it reminds of the old money/new money struggle, and how true social wealth more easily comes to those who have a history of being wealthy. Consider how Gatsby has struggled and plotted to create an image that will woo Daisy, yet this world is incredibly more precarious that that of his neighbor's.
Nick Carraway is a classic example of an unreliable narrator. In the opening lines of the book he claims to "reserve all judgement" and yet spends the rest of the book in almost detached categorization of the people that float around him. Some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best lines come out in Carraway's brutal, unflinching judgments. Consider this line from our first introduction to Tom Buchanan:
"I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."
That does not sound like the carefully moderated tone of a man inclined to reserve all judgment.
One of the prominent themes in "The Great Gatsby" is class identity. Where do you fall in society? Do you live in East Egg or West Egg. Many of the characters in the novel (most of the prominent ones, in fact) seem to believe that your class determines almost everything about you, even your moral structure and your personal worth.
Carraway claims to be above all that. He reserves judgment, choosing to recognize that "all the people in this world haven't had the advantages" Carraway has. And yet, not one page into the novel, he makes sure we know his class, where he comes from. Carraway proves that he falls just as much into the trap of class identity as the other characters in the novel and sets himself up as an unreliable narrator.
Although a calculated, underlying motive exists in Fitzgerald's usage of this background material, it must first be appreciated as establishing Carraway's character. Coming in the opening pages, the outline of Carraway's shape is being brought into focus, foreshadowing the themes, contrasts, and tensions of the novel.
Fitzgerald is at once using this statement to provide context to the similarities and differences between Nick and the yet-to-be introduced characters. The fact that the Carraway stock is "prominent," "well-to-do," and has been so for three generations establishes Nick as affluent, comfortable in his status, and entrenched in this identity. While these factors may endanger Nick as being no better than other self-seekers in the novel, Fitzgerald undoes much of this impression. Nick almost seems to laugh at the family by acknowledging the false belief of the Carraways descending from the Dukes of Buccleuch, clarifying that they in fact derived from a wholesale hardware man who shirked his duty in the Civil War. Further, his father taught Nick that he should be cautious of harshly judging others because of the great advantages of his own life. This balance would be unthinkable in characters such as Tom and Daisy, further bringing the contrasts between Nick and others into relief.
Nick's background is of great importance because it establishes him as similar to those he comes to disapprove of. Had Nick come from lowly stock, his disdain for the rich and selfish would have been both obvious and natural. Instead, the reader is allowed to see Nick's similarities before divergences become a factor. His personality takes on greater depth by showing how his background--and more importantly his choices--are relevant to the upcoming tensions in the novel.


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What does damsel mean?
Definitions for damselˈdæm zəl
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word damsel.
Princeton's WordNet
damsel, demoiselle, damoiselle, damosel, damozel(noun)
a young unmarried woman
A young woman .
A girl; a maiden .
Webster Dictionary
a young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales
a young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden
an attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper
Origin: [OE. damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. damoisel young nobleman, F. damoiseau; fr. LL. domicella, dominicella, fem., domicellus, dominicellus, masc., dim. fr. L. domina, dominus. See Dame, and cf. Demoiselle, Doncella.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
dam′zel, n. a young unmarried woman: a girl. [O. Fr. damoisele (Fr. demoiselle), a page—Low L. domicellus, dim. of L. dominus, a lord.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of damsel in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of damsel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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I was particularly keen to make sure Tiger Lily wasn't a damsel in distress, tiger Lily is the bad-ass warrior who is far more pro-active physically in defeating (evil pirate) Blackbeard than any of the boys. She has all the action sequences.
When you play a character, you put parts of you in it. But I am a very different person off-screen. I am not so boisterous and not so tomboyish, in fact my friends bully me and I am like a damsel in distress. When you do a TV show, you become the character as you end up spending 14-15 hours on the sets.
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.
The fairytales in the past were predominately the damsel in distress and the female would be rescued by the male or the prince. This time it's the other way around, i think about my daughter and I would love for her to see a film like this, where woman are empowered and in charge of their own destiny and they can lead armies and are warriors and can take over kingdoms and so on. It was exciting.
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- plac'h, merc'hBreton
- geneth, rhiain, merchWelsh
- ungmoDanish
- Mädchen, Jungfrau, MaidGerman
- doncella, muchacha, damiselaSpanish
- neito, impi, immyt, neitsytFinnish
- jeune fille, demoiselle, jeune femmeFrench
- ainnir, maighdean, cailínIrish
- maighdeann, nighean, rìbhinn, ainnirScottish Gaelic
- עלמהHebrew
- damzeloIdo
- ダーゼルJapanese
- jonkvrouwDutch
- dziewicaPolish
- fecioară, feciorRomanian
- мадемуазе́ль, де́вушка, деви́ца, ба́рышня, де́вочка, де́вственница, да́мочкаRussian
- ungmö, flickaSwedish
- அந்தப் பெண்Tamil
- సుందరిTelugu
- cô gáiVietnamese
- 閨女Chinese
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Weatherstone / Noel Johnson / Washbear @ The Sister
The summer's finally here and it's time for music and food and drinks. The Sister will be hosting three great acts for your listening pleasure. It's Friday night - what else are you going to do?
9PM - Weatherstone
Weatherstone, a Cameron House mainstay fronted by singer-songwriter Chris Weatherstone (also a member of the raucous Lemon Bucket Orkestra) is a musical force to be reckoned with. Spanning genres of folk, rock, jazz and sometimes a little bit country, Weatherstone swoops up a storm for your ears.
10PM - Noel Johnson
Noel Johnson (another artist in residence at The Cameron House) is a Calgary born (now Toronto based) alt/folk/soul rocker. Noel Johnson has had a quite a career so far. After releasing his first EP "A Familiar Change" in February 2009 he quickly recorded his first full length album "Spirit of the Day" in Nashville with grant money he received from Rawlco Radio. Noel teamed up with fellow Calgary musician Michael Bernard Fitzgerald and producer Josh Gwillam on this project. Noel creates hauntingly beautiful melodies, engaging lyrics and a song writing quality that has made him a force to be reckoned with in the Alberta and Toronto music scene.
11PM - Washbear
Washbear is a Toronto-based band featuring elements of Blues, Rock, Jazz, Psychedelic, Funk and Folk. Guitarist/pianist/vocalist Justin Friesen and guitarist Nick Starecky (both formerly of The Larch) joined jazz bassist Milan Kozovski and hip-hop based drummer Brian Yoon to bring energy and musicality to singer-songwriter based songs.


text: I'll be heading to Germany next year, 99.9% sure, and I plan on dumping a great deal into photography. But I wanted to shoot with a certain kind of theme (not just in Germany but I plan to travel to Amsterdam, Poland, and probably Italy and/or France). Black and white, definitely, and it can't be landscapes since I'll be shooting them on slide anyway. Ideally a sort of "people" subject or feel free to expand my views. So far, I've been thinking down the lines of counter-culture, obviously Amsterdam would be a big factor in that. The only thing about that sort of subject is that some of the explicit counter-cultures could be hard to enter into without a decent amount of time for "trust" to build. Anybody have any ideas we can discuss? Thanks!


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Characters Discussed
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Mildred (Milly) Theale
Mildred (Milly) Theale, "the dove" who goes to Europe to learn to live and to die there of an incurable disease. A handsome young woman of great means, inherited through the deaths of her entire family of six, this New Yorker with her Bostonian writer friend and a companion her own age tries to extend her experiences so as to encompass a lifetime in a few short months. Although Milly seems never to suffer, she is the first to know that her sickness will be fatal, and she needs only the strength and subtlety of an eminent physician to confirm this fact. Her fine manners and sensitivity to others' needs make her a delightful companion to all, even when the truth of her condition would otherwise make others pity her. Bright, vivacious, and charming in all ways, she finally wins a heart and ironically loses both hers and his to the tragic situation. Her generosity in remembering her two closest friends (whom she forgives for plotting a scheme of marriage) is unacceptable finally. The wings meant for sheltering then become symbols of religious purity.
Kate Croy
Kate Croy, the young woman who befriends Milly Theale in England and seeks through her a solution to her own problems. A victim of her father's bad reputation and her uncompromising aunt's machinations, Kate is a beautiful, stylish, and acute observer of the society in which her aunt, Mrs. Lowder, has placed her. Her hopeless love for a young newspaper reporter only makes her decisions more poignant, for she decides he must marry the rich and doomed Milly for their own marriage finally to be realized. Sparkling and perceptive as she is, Kate fails to live the lie so calmly planned and must live out...
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» Theanine
Carol H
Posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 10:37 am:
Others on this site and NoMSG have mentioned theanine as a possible help for MSG troubles. It looks like it may help. It is known for its natural glutamate antagonist qualities, and calming effects. It apparently crosses the blood brain barrier quickly and is a free form amino acid like taurine and glutamate. It apparently increases GABA, which may mean that it helps the body to convert glutamate to GABA more efficiently. I'll be looking more into this. It also appears to help mood, since it increases dopamine levels. That may mean something for those Parkinson's patients, and those of us poisoned by aspartame and sporting pituitary tumors, since dopamine is necessary for us. I'll keep you posted. On my way to whole foods to try it, since my anti-tumor meds don't seem to be working lately.
Posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 2:25 pm:
Theanine 100 is a unique amino acid found almost exclusively in green tea that exerts beneficial effects on brain metabolism. It may improve learning ability and sensations of pleasure by affecting dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitters in the brain. Theanine also exerts protective effects on the brain by antagonizing glutamine toxicity.
Carol H
Posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 4:16 pm:
One more thing. I have seen reference to mercury and other heavy metals interfering with theanine metabolism. I know some on this site have mentioned mercury from fillings causing many health problems. Mercury = theanine deficiency = glutamate increase = dopamine decrease = trouble?
Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 6:27 am:
I know most of you are already acquainted w/ the recent warning on mercury in fish (especially for pregnant women) but this gives additional details that may be worth heeding:
Laurie M
Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 7:53 am:
See above links to note that if you eat Alaskan wild fish you should have no problems with mercury intake. i think the very highest level tested was .1 parts per million, Fish is very healthy and important part of our diet and Alaskan fish is available all over the US. It is generally flash frozen with water and not treated with chemicals. At least on the Alaska end. Most processors do as little as possible to the fish. We gain so much more from actual fish than we do from eating a processed fish oil.
Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 1:36 pm:
Our local fish monger just got some fresh Alaskan Salmon (non-farmed) while it has been "running" for the past couple of weeks for his customers to try and freeze. My husband said it was wonderful compared to the farmed salmon!
Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 3:24 pm:
Is wild Alaska salmon (non-farmed) available year round.
Where can one find it? I'm not sure I"ve ever seen it.
Laurie M
Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 7:48 am:
You can find Alaskan salmon on the internet but it is also found in most Whole Foods, Nature's and Trader Joes. Even Fred Meyers has carried it. Just ask at your local grocery store. there are salmon runs at many different times so there is a good supply and it is generally shipped frozen.
Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 2:01 pm:
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other companies on the internet. May be worth asking for feedback in writing. Here is transcript of my recent correspondence with this one company:
"Can you guarantee that ABSOLUTELY no fresheners, chemicals or preservatives are used to preserve or keep the wild salmon fresh? I am extremely sensitive to these types of additives." Their Response: "Hello, Yes I will completely 100% Assure you that we use none of the products you mentioned, or any others. Our salmon Is cared for and processed immediately to assure natural freshness and quality! ....Lisa @ Alaska Seafood's Direct"
Carol H
Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2002 - 1:22 pm:
Whole Foods didn't carry theanine. Found some at a local health food store. Made by Now Foods, Bloomingdale, IL 60108.
The other ingredients - "cellulose (capsule), white rice flour, magnesium stearate (vegetable source and silica." It is found in green tea. Interesting, because Asians typically drink green tea. Another potentially protective food ingested at the same meal as MSG in Asian culture.
Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 7:18 am:
Carol - Thank you so much for info on theanine. I now understand why I feel so different when I have green tea (instead of coffee and other teas) -- it has an antagonistic effect on caffeine. I also learned at the Japan Int. Research for Agric. Studies in an article entitled "Simultaneous determination of amino acids and glutamate" that there are "sham teas" out there that contain sodium glutamate. (See
) Quote: "Sometimes sham teas are produced by the addition of sodium glutamate to enhance the taste of tea in the manufacturing process." More to watch out for, I guess -- but you always warned us about tea processing! Probably all references to theanine on the net are posted by supplement companies or organizations connected to them such as LEF but LEF has a good overview at http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2001/oct2001_abs_1.html if anyone wants to know more. Carol, I hope the theanine works for you in addition or in place of the anti-tumor meds.
Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 1:24 pm:
What brand of green tea do you buy? Where can it be found? I've wondered about the green tea from Trader Joe's. How can we even know if the tea we drink has MSG added, besides getting a nasty reaction?
Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 10:55 pm:
Hi guys. This is unreal what I'm reading. I've been so sick for so many years. I'm going to try going msg free and see what happens. One thing I want to mention. If you are allergic to Ragweed which I am extremely, you should never... have Chamomile as they are cousins, over 1 cup of cham tea I slept for 3 days. I almost go comatose. I have read up on green tea and it is a relative of Chamomile too. I don't know if I react to it or not. Just thought I'd let you know, because I retain a lot of fluid and it is allergy related. Thanks for all your willingness to help others!
Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 2:59 pm:
Thanks for the information on teas. I didn't know about green tea and chamomile being related, and I've always thought they tasted slightly similar-flowerly.
Roy Piwovar
Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 6:33 pm:
Casey and Ruth,
Tea is in the camellia rather than chamomile family (both flowers).
(and scroll down to the Tea heading)
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Posted on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - 5:59 pm:
Has anyone taken L-Theanine and had it successfully help with MSG symptoms? I don't see that this discussion had any testimony about someone using this successfully. I'm also curious about GABA. Anyone ever tried this?
Roy Piwovar
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Posted on Thursday, May 09, 2013 - 1:31 am:
Lorraine, per this linked study, theanine seems to protect against against glutamate damage.
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Posted on Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 2:46 pm:
Thank you Roy. I just purchased a Gaba product which also has Theanine in it. Recently being on the "diet" and taking magnesium, taurine, vinpocetine, CoQ10, B12, B Complex all seem to have helped the headaches go away. The tinnitus still seems to come and go but its only been a few weeks. I'm hoping that it will be gone more then it stays in the future. I realize that it may never go away completely.
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Posted on Monday, May 20, 2013 - 8:27 am:
That sounds like a good list, Lorraine. In my understanding from various reading, GABA is more directly protective and theanine helps but also increases dopamine, and they work synergistically (sp?). Mag, Taurine, and B6 will also help with the glutamate (and the others are good for other reasons).
Do you see much results with the vinpocetine? I seem to remember it helps memory. I didn't realize it was neuroprotective.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 10:42 pm:
Protect your ability to think (with Theanine)
I'm posting this Excerpt & NEW link to a Life Extension Magazine Oct 2001 article which LEF recirculated today (Note: the 6/9/2002 link posted above does not work).
A very interesting feature of theanine, which is just now being investigated, is its ability to protect neurons. Theanine may protect against glutamate, an essential brain chemical that is toxic in high amounts. Although essential to brain chemistry, too much glutamate kills brain cells. The most common cause of glutamate overload is insufficient blood supply. If the brain doesn�t get adequate blood flow, glutamate surges, calcium increases, and free radicals damage cells.
�Cerebral vascular dementia� is dementia caused by insufficient blood flow due to bad blood vessels. Glutamate overload is one of the features. Theanine may protect against this type of dementia. In studies on neurons in cell culture, theanine significantly reverses glutamate-induced toxicity. In vivo studies show the same effect in rodents.
Theanine is structurally similar to the amino acid, L-glutamic acid. The similarity enables theanine to physically block glutamate (which is a version of glutamic acid). Although researchers aren�t positive how theanine works yet, they theorize that theanine blocks the NMDA receptor which is the doorway that glutamate uses to enter cells. Because of the similar structure, theanine can also fit in this doorway, blocking access to glutamate. But although it can fit in the doorway, theanine does not have the same effect on the cell as glutamate does. Rather than causing damage, theanine acts like a shield against damage.
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Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 9:23 am:
Thanks for sharing that, Pat. Very informative and hopefully, helpful to victims of MSG toxicity.
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Cesare Prandelli conceded it was not Italy's finest hour, but praised Gigi Buffon and warned they were "lacking in intensity" in Malta.
Mario Balotelli scored both goals in the 2-0 World Cup qualifying victory, but Buffon had to save a penalty in the first half.
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My name is Mimi Gardenia and I am also a God Awful fragrance hoarder.
Thread: The Needs of the One.
Due to the constant reformulations and discontinuances I find myself compelled to hoard those fragrance that I can't live without. Just today I received another bottle of Vent Vert (1990 Becker Version) and Beau Cavalier. Am I the only one with this compulsion to preempt the fragrance industry's propensity to adversely affect my fragrance needs? I think how when the last drop of the last bottle of one of my favorite fragrances is gone that I should imagine myself as Hamlet looking upon the skull of Yorick. Alas, poor Yorick I knew thee well. Oh what melancholy may come of such tragedy.
Last edited by N_Tesla; 16th June 2010 at 11:37 PM.
My name is Mimi Gardenia and I am also a God Awful fragrance hoarder.
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
Oh yes, I've been doing this for a number of years. especially citruses and mossy frags.
"Dont try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out. - Henri Matisse.
"Wear R de Capucci" - Hirch Duckfinder
N, when I saw your thread title, I was worried that Mitsouko was now 'telling you' to do stuff or something.
I have every concentration of and bottle style of Y ever made. That's ONE example. Of many.
I am such a hoarder of fragrances, goodness I am such a hoarder. For some reason I felt the need to own 6 back-up bottles of vintage Arpege and 5 of vintage Pavlova. Not to mention the 6 bottles of Fete, the 6 assorted bottles of L'air du Temps and Eau de Fleurs, also the Infini and Bellodgia...Nocturnes...Parfum Sacre...
Oh, it is just horrible to see what is becoming of the world of parfumery. Anyone who is desperately in adoration of a scent needs to maintain a supply for the future, we are living longer you know. If I may live to be past 110 years, I will need to smell nice.
Quand on boit l'eau, il faut penser à sa source
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
It seems that the very best fragrances are the ones most endangered. Hoarding is simply a reaction to the folly of the fragrance industry by those of us whose passion for the fragrance art drives us to conserve what we can for the future. The real shame is that future generations of perfumnistas will never know the beauty of some of these classics as they fade into oblivion.
Last edited by N_Tesla; 17th June 2010 at 06:10 AM.
I honestly don't think it's "hoarding", and I have had this dicussion with my boyfriend, too. Whose collection is double mine and loaded with vintages.
I feel it has an element of connoisseurship, like wine-collecting does... but it also feels almost like a very "higher-purpose" thing; I feel impelled to acquire something of a library of great, deceased scents... for posterity and out of the truest sense of honor.
The only real concerns I have are: running out of space (my cottage is tiny) and who will clean up if there's an earthquake. I know it won't be me because I'll be too busy crying and trying to sniff and save the remnants of my collection.
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
I'm with Hillaire on this - laying down a couple of bottles of a good vintage for posterity is applauded in wine circles . . . and knit_at_night, it's clearly time to move to solid ground, you'll just lose sleep otherwise
It's just occurred to me why wine collector types are so generally relaxed and affable . . . they KNOW that each release is finite, they ACCEPT that next year's will be different. Perhaps we - speaking for myself up until about 5 minutes ago - sort of EXPECT things to stay the same, to never change. Yet even without the oakmoss thing those perfumes relying on specific natural ingrdients (ones that are cultivated from the ground and require rainfall and sunshine and do not require volcanoes and hurricanes) do change from batch to batch don't they?
I feel strangely peaceful all of a sudden. Mind you, on the affability score, the wine collector types generally have lots of money to stock up on their favourite botles and they get to drink the stuff.
Last edited by mr. reasonable; 17th June 2010 at 04:43 PM.
Yep, wine makes me affable too!
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Whoa, there's an even better Dioressence?! I've got to track that down, I've got a bottle from the 70s-80s (I think, it's definitely not a new release) and it is unreal. I'm not a big fan of the oriental influenced fragrances but this stuff is so powerful and so complex it defies genre. Finding it has lead me to a seedy life of picking through back country antique stores in search of more artifacts from a better age.* The vintage perfumes are infinetly more compelling than there modern counterparts, if anyone hasn't dabbled in vintage perfume you really need to.
*(Highlight so far: a 90% full bottle of Coty's Chypre for a dollar!! Hard to date but it wasn't a first release but neither was it the cheaper looking last batch that came out)
Only the last year and a half I started getting these backup-bottles of discontinued or reformulated favorites.
I was always a "user", but never really any collector.
My "excuse" for this is - they are going to vanish, and as mentioned - when Im 110 I need to smell good. But I had this nagging feeling it had something to do with passing 40 and general fear of the best things already being behind me and a some urge to hold on to them. How boring of me. I like Your answers much better! I don't buy old food, computers or such, but I love and buy "old" perfumes.
But what I also do - I regularly search for things on the net, look for good deals - and get relieved when I find any. Without buying. Its like an assurance that they are still "there" to get, even if they are not in my own wardrobe. Yet.
These replies are making me feel better.
What Mr.Reasonable says about acceptance is also true- I think I need to learn acceptance re. discontinued and limited editions. Life is short.
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
I have backup bottles of everything I love - unopened and packed away airtight! This reformulation business has me close to tears for the 'good old days' when we could poison ourselves at will!
OK- I'll post an opposing view here.
Since I jusdt starting wearing perfume 10 months ago (yes, really), I haven't had time to collect. No matter, because my personality type abhors collecting anything. i was freaking out that 8 full bottles were in my collection so I just gave one away. (The rest are decants, i can handle that). 'im also have a short attention span, so if my Mtisouko runs out and I need to replace wiht a modern version who cares.
The only thing I worry about is that Caron and Guerlain will suffer from the influx of inferior products that might dilute their fanbase. If I see that my staples (Caron's urn parfums and the Guerlain classics) come under threat, yes, i may start collecting heavily at that point.
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Such a tragedy to befall two of the greatest parfum houses ever.
Do try to hunt down older stock on ebay, it is well worth it.
Quand on boit l'eau, il faut penser à sa source
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
IMO the Great Houses of fragrance are in decline due to poor stewardship and a lack of emphasis on the Art of Fragrance and quality ingredients needed to deliver genuine luxury rather than the illusion of luxury.
I too subscribe to the 'live & let live' school and am working to detach myself emotionally from material possessions. I'll leave the hoarding and collecting to our 'fragrance connoisseurs'. Instead of lamenting losses, I'm learning to look for beauty in life as I find it, fragrances included. Life is indeed too short. Perhaps that's part of its charms.
I'm hunt & stashing .I HATE falling for a scent and then no longer being able to satisfy that scent-craving any more. I will worry about stash size when my collection outgrows my dresser(including drawers)dimensions 48" tall,40" wide,19" deep+ the top for in-use/new accuisitions/ minis
Earthquakes aren't as common here but twisters are more frequently a hazard (Hmm if one ever totals the house I might be fragrancing the countryside! Asthmatics Beware!)
Speaking of..do you all think that Opium parfum bought from online discounters are more likely to be older stock, and therefore produced before the latest reformulation? I think my first bottle was around the year 2005, and I'd like to have an extra bottle or two around.
I have two (or three?- have to check) backup bottles of Jour de Fete, but still get slightly panicky every once in a while and think about ordering another bottle or two, or three...
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You know some days when you walk into your kitchen and the sink is piled high with dishes (perhaps from the 7 meals you whipped up until your finicky toddler actually ate) AND the dishwasher is full with clean dishes?? Honestly that's like the worst combo ever! It means you have to do work in order to start doing work. Ughh. Unless there is a small chance you can shove the dirty stuff in with the clean stuff and rerun the whole thing, pretending you weren't sure if it was clean- "wait, did you run the dishwasher? Is this clean? Welllllll, better safe than sorry, let's run her again."
It's so funny how some days are just torturous to get through - like never ending craziness of exhaustion, toys on the floor, no food in the house and a toddler demanding "Mickey show! Mickey show! Mickeeeeeeyyyy shoooooowwwww!!!" And then you just forget the pact you made with your husband last night about less TV and no iPhones in the house and turn on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and pull out your phone for a few minutes (or 30) of Facebook, Instagram, weather.com annnnd maybe some boston.com for the important news.
These winter days upon us don't make it easy -- that no mans land between 4:30pm and 8pm in the cold months is rough! Remember the summer when you'd all just frolick in your flip flops and grab a slice of pizza for dinner after the sprinklers? Nope! Now it's socks, shoes, coat, hat and zipped into the stroller blanket (7AM Enfant is my life! Obsessed!). Oh and god forbid you threw on your own puffer jacket first... Cause now your sweating. YAY! Let's walk to Whole Foods for a fun adventure!!
Tomorrow! Tomorrow we will be better! We'll have green juice for breakfast, no screen time and we will intently study the molecule and atom exhibit at the science museum (instead of just going to see the baby chicks hatch from their eggs). You know, we'll do like smart, healthy people things. Yes def, right after I really quickly catch up on my DVR'd housewives episodes and chug this mocha latte.


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Baku. 9 July. REPORT.AZ/ Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who temporarily suspended from her post under the senate's decision, declared that will not leave the office voluntarily', Report informs citing RIA Novosti.
'I will not resign, my conscience is clear', stated Rousseff during her meeting with representatives of the feminist movements in Sao Paulo.
In May, the head of Brazil was suspended from office for 180 days under decision of the senate. Vice President Michel Temer elected Acting President and formed a new cabinet. Consideration of Rousseff's final impeachment by the senate is scheduled for August.


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Name: Jarama
Although Spain had been a major player in motor racing in the 1920s and 1930s, the Spanish Civil War and General Franco's stringent ways in the post-war era meant that it was not until the 1960s that motor racing began to re-emerge. The revival was led by the Royal Automobile Club of Spain, which approached famous circuit designer John Hugenholz and asked him to build them a permanent racing facility on land the club owned to the north of Madrid. It would be called Jarama.
Not to be outdone the Catalans resurrected their splendid circuit through Barcelona's Montjuich Park, which dated back to 1932. Suddenly Spain had two international racing facilities and it was not long before Formula 1 came visiting, with Jarama hosting a non-championship Grand Prix in 1967. This was won by Jim Clark in a Lotus. The following year Jarama hosted a round of the World Championship. The race came just a few weeks after the death of Jim Clark and it was apt that it should be won by Clark's Lotus team mate Graham Hill.
It was agreed that thereafter the Spanish Grand Prix would alternate between Jarama and Montjuich Park and so Grand Prix racing did not return to Jarama until 1970 when Jackie Stewart led from start to finish in his Team Tyrrell March-Ford 701. It was March's first win. In 1972 the young Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi won for Lotus and in 1974 the race marked the first win for Ferrari's new signing Niki Lauda.
The unpleasant accident at Montjuich in 1975 meant that from 1976 the Spanish GP was at Jarama every year and James Hunt won the 1976 race and Mario Andretti both the 1977 and 1978 races in his JPS Lotus. In 1979 Patrick Depailler scored his first win for Ligier at the track and the following year the Spanish GP was scheduled to take place at the height of the FISA-FOCA war. As a result Ferrari, Renault and Alfa Romeo did not appear. The race was won by Alan Jones in his Williams but it was later declared illegal and did not count for the World Championship.
The 1981 Spanish Grand Prix will long be remembered as one of the most exciting races of its era as Gilles Villeneuve hurled his cumbersome Ferrari turbo around the track, with a queue of cars trying to pass him. It was faultless drive by the French-Canadian ace in front of King Juan-Carlos with Villeneuve crossing the line with four cars in his slipstream, Jacques Laffite, John Watson, Carlos Reutemann and Elio de Angelis all being covered by just 1.24secs.
By the early 1980s, however, Jarama was fading and the Royal Automobile Club of Spain seemed to be more interested in the golf course next to the circuit. The Spanish GP moved to Jerez and Barcelona. The track is still operated today but there are few international events.


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Discussion in 'Photography Beginners' Forum' started by max3k, Aug 3, 2010.
Would like to hear some feedback on these shots.
hum, I think that for the one girl on the left, looking down is not her strongest angle. She has a bit of a double chin from that angle. I bet she is much more flattering when her face is slightly pointed up, or looking up, elongating the neck.
^^ and the location doesn't seem to fit the seriousness in their expressions. In #2, the hand placement of the sitting girl's right hand looks odd to me.. it looks like it is just hanging their.
It's funny: the girl with the longest hair seems not to be looking at the camera, but slightly to the side in the first, and her eyes look so big and sort of staring in the second. Very strange.
yea, what they said. reminds me of children of the corn.
I agree also the photo's seem dark to me, needs more light. Plus I think it would help if the girls where doing something working the hey feeding animals so something just posing like that does remind me of children of the corn like they said lol.
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Story highlights
- Donald Trump is trailing in most polls, but his campaign manager is undaunted
- Kellyanne Conway argues there are "undercover Trump voters" whose support isn't captured in polling
(CNN)Donald Trump's campaign manager dismissed a daunting collection of recent polling that shows her candidate trailing, arguing that there is a "hidden Trump vote" not captured in polls that will be decisive come Election Day -- and that the campaign has secret internal numbers to back it up.
As Kellyanne Conway explained in an interview with the UK's "Channel 4" news that aired Monday, Trump is shown trailing Clinton in most polls because his supporters aren't telling pollsters their true preference.
"It's become socially desirable -- especially if you're a college-educated person in the United States of America -- to say that you're against Donald Trump.
"The hidden Trump vote in this country is a very significant proposition," she said.
Conway told CNN Wednesday that interview was conducted weeks ago before she was named campaign manager.
And Conway -- a veteran pollster who previously worked on Ted Cruz's presidential campaign and for Trump's VP pick Mike Pence -- suggested that the campaign's internal data was more favorable than most polls show.
"Have you been able to put a number on" those particular voters, asked Matt Frei, the interviewer.
"Yes," Conway replied.
"What do you think it is?"
"I can't discuss it."
"Oh come on," Frei interjected.
But Conway declined. "No, it's a project we're doing internally. I call it the undercover Trump voter, but it's real."
Trump's campaign manager also criticized the media for presenting a skewed picture of the 2016 race.
"Just the cherry-picked polling numbers that are put out there by media outlets that are also bent on his destruction. Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling, where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election," Conway said.
Trump has also employed a version of this argument. Last week, he sent out a tweet that read, "They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT!" It was a reference to the vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union -- the result of a referendum that many observers expected to go the other way but which polling showed to be close. Nevertheless, the Brexit vote has become a talking point for those who question the accuracy of polls of the 2016 presidential election.
Nigel Farage, a leader of the Brexit movement, told Sky News that he would appear on stage with Trump on Wednesday. CNN has reached out to confirm the visit from Farage but has not yet received a response.
The idea that a significant portion of Trump voters are disguising their support to pollsters because they are embarrassed or afraid to admit it isn't backed up by much evidence. But it's the latest example in a long history of trailing candidates taking shots at unfavorable polls.
As founder of FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver pointed out on Twitter, 1984 Democratic nominee Walter Mondale also sought to discredit his poor polling by pointing to the size of his rallies and the enthusiasm of his supporters -- an argument frequently made by Trump surrogates -- only to lose the election by 18 points.
In CNN's latest poll of polls -- an average of multiple polls that meet CNN's standards -- Clinton leads Trump by 10 points.


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Urban Meyer wasted little time in targeting one of the biggest free agents in the 2013 class.
Meyer visited ESPN 150 cornerback Gareon Conley (Massillon, Ohio/Washington) at his school and then finished up with an in-home visit. It was a visit Tigers coach Jason Hall said went off without a hitch.
"It went great. I think it was a chance for Gareon to be around Coach Meyer," Hall said. "It was a good chance for Gareon to ask a lot of questions. Coach Meyer is a great coach, great person. It was good for him to be around our building. He did a home visit last night as well."
Meyer and Conley will certainly get to know more of each other as the cornerback will come to Columbus on an official visit Dec. 6.
The senior won't be done there as the Michigan decomit still has plans to make a trip to Ann Arbor, to check in with the Wolverines, who are still recruiting him.
A decision will likely have to wait, Hall said, as Conley wants to take his time before announcing.
"He's a smart kid. That decision is a family decision," the Washington coach said. "My job is to give the kids every opportunity they can. I like to see him stay in the region. It looks like he'll stay a couple hours away from Massillon no matter what.
"I think Gareon was excited to see Coach Meyer and so was the family. He and his family understand this is a big decision for them. They're really crossing their T's and dotting their I's. They're doing their research. Michigan and Ohio State are two premier programs in the country. He wants a chance to meet each coach and know them on a personal level. Just like at Massillon, he's going to be all in."
Defensively, Conley had 25 tackles, a forced fumble, 2 fumble recoveries and an interception for a score. He has made 21 tackles even though teams rarely throw his way. At receiver, Conley led Massillon in catches (50), yards receiving (1,096) and touchdowns (16).


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Brooke and Donna take off to Monte Carlo to publicize Brooke's Bedroom. Thomas and Thorne go to Eric with a proposition about taking over Forrester Creations because Rick is slacking in his presidential duties. Maya, Carter and Rafael host an exclusive screening of the premiere of Room8. Bill is blindsided when Katie tells him that she is ready to forgive him and that she will not be filing for divorce.


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Keep Mike James or let him go?
Keep Mike James or let him go?
What are the factors?
I think there is only one choice, and that's to let go of Mike James. Let's face it, he was a great player for the rental year that he was here. He enabled us to get rid of Rafer Alston, and the play he gave us was something that I never expected. He really did exceed expectations.
However, he simply doesn't fit the team aspect and the future plan of the team. He is going to want big money to be the 2nd option on the team and he just isn't worth it. He disrupts the flow of the offense late in games when Chris Bosh needs to take over.
I appreciate what he did for the club last season, but unfortunately he has got to go.
I would have liked to keep him but he'll probably demand more years and more money than we should/be willing to give him. He's already making comments saying he'll keep improving and if he takes a 5 year deal, then in 5 years, he'll be outplaying that deal which doesn't make sense seeing that this guy is 30 already. He isn't a bad teammate on the floor but his age and the amount of money he's demanding will be the deciding factors against keeping him. Hopefully his talks will scare off teams and enable us keep him for bargain prices.
it really deppends on how much money hes asking, mike james competitve drive seems to be his downfall. he gets into the mind set that nomatter how bad the shot hes belives he can make it
I say keep him for now...
I really like his work ethic and heart, but I don't know if his game really fits in with what the Raps are trying to do. Maybe see if they can get a sign and trade going or something for him.
i say let him go..like he was really good in terms of scoring but i really didn't like the fact that he kept the ball during late game situations...and took dumb shots trying to be the hero...he needs to learn to dump it down to Bosh
i say let him go..like he was really good in terms of scoring but i really didn't like the fact that he kept the ball during late game situations...and took dumb shots trying to be the hero...he needs to learn to dump it down to Bosh
Let him go too mouthy and self righteous for me...we can get MArcus Williams or Jarrett Jack in a trade.
He constantly spoiled his overall performances by his play in the final minutes. In the end it's not the stats that count, but if they win or lose... and there's the argument that he kept the raps alive during games, and maybe so, but other's would have stepped up if he wasn't there.
A perfect scenario would be to have him come off the bench and score in bunches, then yank him EVERYTIME there's about 3 minutes left in the game. It drove me mad on the last posessions of games, Bosh and everyone standing around, while James tries and fails to pull off a Jordan.
Having him come off the bench will never happen, and he will ask for way too much, so we got to let him go, or at least sign and trade him
That is the only factor.
BC has said since the end of the season that if MJ is reasonable in his financial demands, then the Raps are interested. If not, there's always a sign-and-trade option. If that fails and they lose MJ for nothing, an extra 3 or so mil of cap space is now available. It's a win-win situation as far as BC is concerned.
IMO, If BC gets a semi-sweet deal on MJ via a sign-and-trade, he's a goner. Remember, this is the GM that didn't hesitate trading Starbury in Phoenix. And his track record shows he sees the incredible importance of a pass first PG.
I would quantify the chances of MJ being back at this point at 33%.
pistol pete hit it right on the head when he called Mike James a one year rental.
raptors are going to let him go and if houston doesnt grab him new york will
NY can't grab him, because he ain't signing for the MLE and the brokeass knicks can't afford anything for years.
He's as good as gone.
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MISD hires new school attorney
Published 5:22 pm, Friday, June 22, 2012
Assistant District Attorney Leah Robertson was selected by the Midland ISD board of trustees as the next school attorney during a special meeting Friday evening.
Robertson, a 2006 graduate of the Texas Tech University School of Law, has worked for the Midland County District Attorney's Office since October 2007 and is the current trial team chief.
Robertson will replace retiring school attorney Ellen House who worked for MISD 12 years.
"We felt she had a very professional approach to her current job and would transition well into this job and be a good counselor for the school district," Board President Jay Isaacs said of Robertson.
In her cover letter to the district, Robertson said one of her greatest strengths is to remain calm and collected, something she believes is essential the school attorney position.
Though there are areas of education law Robertson will need to study, she noted she is committed to learning.
"I am excited about the opportunity to expand my knowledge of the law and work in the education field," Robertson wrote. "Midland has become my home. I intend to raise my family here and continue to do what I can to make this a great community to live in."
Superintendent Ryder Warren will negotiate Robertson's contract, which will be set between $115,000 and $125,000 for working 236 contract days.
MISD received 13 applications for school attorney and candidates went through three rounds of interviews, with the final two candidates interviewed by the board, Warren said.
Trustees Isaacs, Tommy Bishop, Rick Davis and James Fuller unanimously approved Robertson's appointment.
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Hi, I need some help with a java assignment that I just can't seem to get.
I need to make a program that takes a person's name and then checks if it is one from a list of about 6 others. Those six tell if the person is male or female and appropriately assign the right title to them and print out the name, but if the name they entered isn't the program just prints it out normally. This should continue until someone hits enter when the program asks for their name. Then it should end.
Example: (Ted is listed, Frank is not)
Enter name: Ted
Mr. Ted
Enter name: Frank
Enter name: (enter)
Sorry if im not great at explaining, but I really need some help. The part I really need help on is getting it to check the names and assign the title. Thanks


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1. Dan Rocco — April 1, 2002 — ChoicePoint VP — plane crash
He died on April 1, 2002, in a plane crash in Gainesville, Georgia. He was an executive vice president at ChoicePoint, the firm that gained infamy with their faulty "felons" list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, over 90,000 voters (mostly African-American voters) were wrongly identified as felons and purged from the rolls.
2. Wesley Vance — April 26, 2003 — Diebold VP — plane crash
Pilot Killed In Plane Crash Was Top Exec At Diebold
April 28, 2003
(Jackson-AP) — The pilot of a single-engine airplane that crashed in southern Ohio over the weekend was the chief operating officer of Canton-based Diebold Incorporated.
The company says 45-year-old Wesley Vance of Canton was flying a private plane that crashed Saturday near the Jackson County Airport. …The company says Vance joined Diebold in October, 2000, as president of its North America business unit. He was named chief operating officer in 2001. Chief Executive Walden O'Dell will assume the company's daily operational responsibilities until a successor is found for Vance. An airport spokesman says Vance was practicing takeoffs and landings in a six-seat Beachcraft A-36 when it crashed near the airport.
[Note – On September 21, 2005, Diebold announces that its current COO will leave his post and the board. Stock drops 16% intraday. O'Dell will temporarily assume the post.]
Vance was an Eagle Scout, elected to Boys State, and a church-going Mormon, married, father of five. He earned a degree from Brigham Young University. He was described as a confident person who people liked to be around. His senior class in high school voted him "favorite boy". He had been a pilot for over twenty years. He was named to Diebold's No. 2 position as COO in 2001, managing the company's global operations.
3. Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. — July 4, 2003 — Diebold consultant — cause of death not confirmed
Anthony Celebrezze Dies
07/05/03 Cleveland.com
Former Ohio Attorney General Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, died yesterday in an Urbana hospital. Champaign County Coroner Joshua Richards confirmed that Celebrezze died about 9 p.m. yesterday, but would not confirm a cause of death.
Celebrezze, a Democrat of Columbus, was a stalwart in Cleveland and Ohio politics…. He was 38 when he was elected secretary of state in 1978.
He was Ohio attorney general from 1983 to 1991, and Ohio secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. Celebrezze ran against George Voinovich for governor in 1990 but lost.
Wayne Hill, Celebrezze's longtime communications director during the 1978 campaign for secretary of state and then attorney general, was in shock at Celebrezze's death yesterday.
Hill said Celebrezze, who enjoyed racing cars, was at Shady Bowl Speedway in De Graff for a Fourth of July race when he felt ill. De Graff is west of Columbus.
"It's beyond a shock. Tony had a passion for racing," said Hill in a telephone interview. "It's unbelievable. It's not right."
…After his loss to Voinovich, Celebrezze joined the law firm of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, and recently was a consultant for Diebold Inc., promoting electronic voting machines.
4. Athan Gibbs, Jr. — March 12, 2004 — invented the TruVote system — car crash – collided w/ 18-wheeler
Was planning to present his new voting machine, and its paper verification features, to the Georgia legislature within a week of the crash.
"Death of a Patriot: No More 'Blind Faith Voting,'" by Bob Fitrakis http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0318-02.htm
"Black Voting Machine Inventor Dies," by Hazel Trice Edney, The Call,
March 26, 2004 http://www.kccall.com/News/2004/0326/Community/081.html
5. Andy Stephenson — July 7, 2005 — nationally known election activist — pancreatic cancer
Andy had worked for Black Box Voting and barnstormed around the country investigating and speaking. It was Andy who uncovered (among other things) much of the story of Jeffrey Dean, the VP at Diebold who did software programming, who was a convicted felon whose crime had been embezzlement using computers. Andy went to many of the nation's election hotspots, including Florida and Ohio.
In January 2005, Andy noticed he didn't feel well. In April, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was eventually treated at Johns Hopkins, after the national election community raised $50,000 in eleven days for his treatment. He died of post-surgery complications and a series of strokes. He was 43. His surgery had been postponed for two weeks due to the efforts of people who tried to monkeywrench Paypal and Johns Hopkins, and who spread nasty rumors that Andy wasn't really sick, and that this was all a scam. Someone managed to shut down his Medicaid after the surgery, once again slowing things down. One of his supporters in Baltimore had her car vandalized.
He had said a year earlier: "I've been threatened by these people [makers of voting machines]. I've been followed from my home to work. The president of Diebold told me to back off or I would get a visit. My phone's been tapped. I've been ridiculed. I've been called a conspiracy theorist. You bet I'm going to demonize them. It's wrong. We're privatizing our elections. It's something that should remain in the hands of the people…We need to take it back. It's We the People." "If they take our right to vote away, we're nothing but slaves. I'm sorry. I'm not willing to be a slave. I'm not willing to go quietly into the night." –Andy Stephenson, July 13, 2004 in an interview following a press conference next to the Austin State Capitol Rotunda.
6. Rev. Bill Moss — August 2, 2005 — lead plaintiff in Moss v. Bush — stroke
Columbus, Ohio resident Bill Moss was highly visible in the efforts to rectify the many wrongs of the November 2004 election in Ohio. Elected five times to the Columbus Board of Education, Rev. Moss was an eloquent speaker. He was considered a possible national spokesperson for the election reform movement, in an informal meeting held in Houston on June 30, 2005 after the Election Assessment Hearing. Like Athan Gibbs, Moss was African-American.
7. Mike Connell — December 19, 2008 — national GOP computer guru — solo plane crash
"Pilot killed as plane crashes in Lake Twp."
By Jewell Cardwell, John Higgins and David Knox
Akron Beacon Journal staff writers
11:30 p.m. EST, Dec 19, 2008