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But though this does mean we're going to have to wait awhile longer to see Cherry Jones as President Allison Taylor, there is a silver lining: Fox has moved Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, starring Lena Headey, into 24's premiere slot. The Sarah Connor Chronicles will now launch with a two-night premiere on Jan. 13 and 14.
This news comes just days after Jones slipped some inside info to New York magazine about President Taylor.
"I find her to be an honorable, courageous, upright kind of gal," she said of the first woman president on 24.
"I think she's very much her own person. And the situations are very much like something we've yet to explore as a nation.
The president makes a very bold move, which then sets off the cataclysmic events." Ooh, another nuclear disaster scenario?
I haven't watched 24 for a couple of seasons, but I do have fond memories of being glued to my couch as I watched hour after hour of the first season of 24 on DVD. After that
Cherry Jones' commentary, though, makes me hope the WGA strike is quickly resolved. Although lesbian/bi representation on TV isn't going to be significantly impacted by the strike (because, duh, we're marginalized, people!), I really do want to see President
Also, one of the shows that Fox is slipping into the schedule to counter the lack of scripted programming is a reality show called When Women Rule the World (the press release assures us that's a working title, probably because legal's still mulling over Feminist Smackdown! Bitches Fight Back), due to premiere March 3.
This is how it's described: "Set in a primitive, remote location, this unscripted series explores what happens when a group of strong, educated and independent women, tired of living in a man's world, rule over a group of unsuspecting men used to calling the shots."
Yeah, theoretically it sounds good, but I'm a little scared. It reminds me of a little show that's based on the groundbreaking premise of a bisexual woman choosing her true love from a group of suitors comprised of both men and women, thereby delivering a stereotype-smashing portrayal of sexuality on prime-time television.
We all know how that turned out.
Actually, after watching the first four episodes, it seems more like a mockumentary about making a fake sketch comedy show. And it channels just enough of The Office (complete with idiotic, deadpan boss and ridiculous corporate job titles) to be smartly funny. You can watch them all on this page, but if you haven't seen them yet, check out Episode 2 (the funniest one so far) right here:
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When she came on to the stage as Lady Cicely in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, the stage collapsed like a house of cards and all the limelights were extinguished. When she spoke it was as if someone drew a bow over a ripe, richly seasoned 'cello; it grated, it glowed, and it growled. Then she stopped speaking. She put on her glasses. She gazed intently at the back of the settee. She had forgotten her part. But did it matter? Speaking or silent, she was Lady Cicely—or it was Ellen Terry? At any rate, she filled the stage and all the other actors were put out, as electric lights are put out in the sun.Terry was considered the best Shakespearean actress of the late nineteenth century, and toured the world in performance. But it's her lectures on Shakespeare--particularly on the women in Shakespeare--that have given her a lasting presence in today's world.
Delivered between 1911 and 1921 in Great Britain, America, Australia, and New Zealand, the lectures came at the end of her acting career, beginning when she was 64. It's clear that she relishes the chance to relive roles that made her famous, as well as Shakespearean heroines she never got to play. From her lecture on the "triumphant women" of Shakespeare, she tackles feminism and the Bard's characters:
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines? Don't believe the anti-feminists if they tell you, as I was once told, that Shakespeare had to endow his women with virile qualities because in his theatre they were always impersonated by men! This may account for the frequency with which they masquerade as boys, but I am convinced it had little influence on Shakespeare's studies of women. They owe far more to the liberal ideas about the sex which were fermenting in Shakespeare's age. The assumption that 'the woman's movement' is of very recent date--something peculiarly modern--is not warranted by history. There is evidence of its existence in the fifteenth century. Then as now it excited opposition and ridicule, but still it moved!
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While I say the lectures helped Terry's work stay alive decades after her death, as this writer notes, it's not easy to get your hands on the actual book of Four Lectures on Shakespeare, and in fact, this post waited until I could find my own copy. Those who can do the same will discover the insightful introduction by her female assistant Christopher St. John, who shares Terry's notes to herself on how to deliver the words, good advice for any speaker:
Get the words into your remembrance first of all. Then, (as you have to convey the meaning of the words to some who have ears, but don't hear, and eyes, but don't see) put the words into the simplest vernacular. Then exercise your judgment about their sound.What can you learn from this famous set of speeches?
- Share your expertise: The lectures are based on a lifetime of insight on Shakespeare's characters from the inside out, as it were. Terry made full use of explaining the roles from her perspective of a full career studying and interpreting them, and these talks are both clear and compelling as a result.
- It's never to late to start a lecture tour: Terry began this tour when she was 64, and ended it when she was 74. Not only was it a smart way to stay on the stage as her acting career was waning, it opened a new avenue for connecting with theatre audiences. Terry notes in one lecture the conventional wisdom that, by the time an actress understands how to play Juliet, she's too old to do so--but in the lectures, that age-as-wisdom works just fine.
- For the sake of us all, preserve your speeches: St. John notes that Terry never wanted to talk about publishing the lectures in her lifetime, preferring them to be heard, rather than read. But even with publication in book form, it can take super-human effort just to find a library copy today. Had St. John not compiled, edited, and published them, they'd have disappeared entirely.


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Bobby Jindal governing like it's 2016
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is laying the groundwork for a likely presidential run — and using his state as a testing ground for policies that play well with national conservatives.
He's passed a sweeping school voucher plan, rejected the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare and proposed scrapping the state income tax.
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But political observers who've watched Jindal up close for years say it's become increasingly fuzzy where his governing ends and his presidential ambitions begin — whether the 41-year-old policy wonk's plans are aimed at Louisiana's problems or future GOP voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.
( PHOTOS: Republicans, 2016 contenders)
"You don't get any argument from anybody down here that Jindal's running for president — it's just an accepted fact, like the sun rising in the East," said Bob Mann, who was an aide to former Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco and former Sen. John Breaux and is now a professor at Louisiana State University. "There's an overriding sense among insiders here … that most of the higher-profile initiatives that he's embarking on here are all with the national audience in mind."
Jindal's bold policy proposals in Louisiana come at the same time he's raising his profile nationally, both through his new post as head of the Republican Governors Association and his frequent commentary on the future of the Republican Party. He turned heads last month when he warned the GOP needs to "stop being the stupid party."
After first getting elected in 2007, Jindal kept his policy agenda relatively tame: His hallmark first-term accomplishments were an ethics reform package and a workforce development program. Both were big parts of his campaign platform and enjoyed wide support in the Legislature.
( PHOTOS: Bobby Jindal's career)
But after being reelected with two-thirds of the vote, Jindal has been bolder about proposing larger-scale legislation, much of which has drawn national attention.
"He stayed away from anything controversial or confrontational" in his first term, said independent Louisiana-based journalist John Maginnis, who called Jindal "risk-averse" during those years. "Really in this last year, the first year of his second term, is the best window he has to really get some things changed."
His education reform plans last year, which drastically expanded the state's voucher system and reformed the teacher tenure process, established Jindal as a national leader on the issue. This year, Jindal made news with his rejection of the Medicaid expansion in the national health care law.
And in perhaps his boldest proposal yet, Jindal announced he wants to eliminate the state income tax. The details of the plan, which will be taken up by the Louisiana Legislature this spring, haven't been announced yet.
"By any objective measure, Gov. Jindal has set the standard for policy accomplishments from the perspective of a forward-thinking conservative," said Phil Musser, a former executive director of the RGA.
But many in the state see Jindal's decisions — particularly his tax plan but also his decision to reject the Medicaid expansion, which would provide health coverage for hundreds of thousands of poor residents — as being driven by 2016.


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State's housing market remains on track
Connecticut home prices and sales rose in the first quarter, further enforcing expectations that the market is recovering locally like it is nationally.
Prudential Connecticut Realty reported 1,187 homes were sold in Fairfield County in the first quarter, an 11.8 percent gain from the first three months of 2012. And, while the median sales price in the county rose nearly 5 percent to $400,000 in the quarter, the amount of time it took to sell a home here rose by 4 percent to 177 days. Statewide, the median price for a home rose 1.1 percent to $225,000 and the number of homes sold increased 8.8 percent from a year ago.
Given solid trends over the last few months locally and at the national level, where new home sales were up 1.5 percent in March, experts continue to expect improvement in the market to carry through the rest of this year.
"The positive signs for Connecticut's real estate market are very evident and there is good momentum in the marketplace," Candace Adams, chief executive officer and president of Prudential Connecticut Realty, said in a press release. "Based on our first-quarter report findings, sales should continue to recover throughout the year and this is the best time to get into the housing market."
But rising prices did slow sales down in two of the three counties where there were increases.
The number of days on the market for homes before they sold went up in Fairfield and New Haven counties, where prices rose significantly. In New Haven, they climbed 6.7 percent to $192,000, compared with a year ago, while Fairfield County's $400,000 median value was the highest in the state, representing a 4.9 percent rise.
Economist Edward Deak, Connecticut Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership, agreed with Adams, that the Connecticut market is on pace to expand throughout the rest of the year.
He said he expects the state median price to climb into the range of $250,000 to $255,000. But to get there, lenders will have to loosen their standards, he said, like they have in other areas of the country.
One of the main issues confronting the Connecticut and even parts of the national market is income growth among families. Simply put, if housing prices continue to increase while income stagnates and the job market remains muted, fewer people will be able to buy homes.
Deak said lenders, who are sitting on a lot of cash, will have to start giving out more loans.
Prudential noted that new rental lease activity increased 2 percent in the quarter.
Of the six Fairfield County communities that saw a decline in the number of sales, two reported median values below $400,000, while the remaining four all commanded prices above $500,000.
It's not just local experts who see continued expansion this year.
CoreLogic, the California-based real estate data company, reported Tuesday it expects the market to continue to expand this year, driven by existing home buyers trading up and investors buying rental properties.
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More InformationMillion dollar medians in first quarter
Darien $1.14 million
Greenwich $1.8 million
New Canaan $1.3 million
Westport $1.2 million
Medians under $300,000
Ansonia $145,000
Bridgeport $115,000
Danbury $225,00
Bethel $270,00
New Fairfield $280,500
Shelton $296,000
Sherman $265,000
Stratford $209,000
Derby $245,000
Milford $247,000
Source Prudential Connecticut Realty


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LAWRENCE, Kan. - Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today launched the agency's National Contact Center (NCC) pilot to enhance customer service in responding to the one million calls the agency receives each year.
"The National Contact Center will help the EEOC serve the public better, faster and more efficiently," said Chair Dominguez at a kick-off event at the NCC complex in Lawrence, Kan. "By fielding requests and queries, the center will free mediators to mediate, investigators to investigate and litigators to litigate."
The public can reach the NCC toll free at 800-669-4000. The TTY number for individuals with hearing and speech impairments is 800-669-6820. The NCC will provide immediate access to customer service representatives in 150 languages between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern Time. An automated system with answers to frequently asked questions will be accessible on a 24-hour basis, seven days a week.
Calls will be monitored for quality assurance and to track demographics, issues and concerns that will help shape the center's operations and future EEOC policy. Initially, the NCC will operate on an 18-month pilot basis. At the end of the pilot, a comprehensive independent analysis will determine whether the NCC should continue.
On Sept. 21, 2004, the EEOC awarded a contract to operate the NCC to Pearson Government Solutions, which has more than 20 years of experience operating contact centers for the federal government, as well as for state and local governments. With a corporate office headquartered in Arlington, Va., the company serves 27 government programs in five major contact centers in the United States. Further information about Pearson can be found on its web site at www.pearsongov.com.
The EEOC is the federal government agency responsible for enforcing the nation's anti- discrimination laws in the workplace, including Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the Commission is available online at www.eeoc.gov.


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HIGH SCHOOL: A 2006 graduate of Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, Calif. ... played for coaches Russ Babba, Gina Eagleson, Chad Chastain and Lisa Nunez ... helped lead team to 21-1-5 record and CCS title in 2006 ... named first-team All-WCAL as a junior ... earned second team honors as sophomore and senior ... named to All-CCS Second Team Senior Year ... named team's Most Valuable defender as a junior ... team co-captain as a junior and senior ... named to Dean's List all four years ... member of the Italian Club, CSF and volunteered at Sacred Heart Community Center.
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With former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who lost his last election in an 18-point blowout, being the latest paramour of GOP primary voters, Republicans have yet another problem on their hands. This accounts for the fresh interest in Santorum's 2008 Satan speech in Florida, an audio still posted here.
For convenience, an excerpt:
"This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country – the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.
"He didn't have much success in the early days. Our foundation was very strong, in fact, is very strong. But over time, that great, acidic quality of time corrodes even the strongest foundations. And Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition."
Conservatives from Drudge to Laura Ingraham have been sounding the alarm that Santorum, like most of the fallen frontrunners in this year's GOP nomination circus, apparently remains an unknown to most GOP primary voters. How everyone can forget the infamous Santorum "man-on-dog" defense of heterosexual marriage is hard to fathom, but so it is. TPM has an excellent round-up of the counter-attack from conservative opinion makers who have a longer memory and an abiding fear that Santorum will actually get the nomination and hand President Obama his re-election just as easily as any Trump-Bachmann-Cain-Perry-Gingrich ticket once promised.
The speech is a mother lode of attack ads for Santorum's rivals, but former Massachusetts Gov. and Mormon Mitt Romney, desperate as he may be to win Michigan and Arizona on Tuesday, apparently finds the whole issue too toxic, and has focused on the faux earmark issue instead. Ron Paul too. Let's see if Satan comes up in tonight's CNN debate.
Here's Paul's attack ad on Santorum, failing to mention Satan at all.
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University of Alabama point guard Trevor Releford, who missed one game last week because of an ankle sprain and did not start in last Saturday's victory over Texas A&M before coming off the bench to score 15 second-half points, said Monday that he feels "good to go" for tonight's game against Kentucky.
TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama point guard Trevor Releford, who missed one game last week because of an ankle sprain and did not start in last Saturday's victory over Texas A&M before coming off the bench to score 15 second-half points, said Monday that he feels "good to go" for tonight's game against Kentucky.
"I have been doing what the trainers tell me, rehabbing it," Releford said. "It feels fine."
UK, meanwhile, may be without 7-foot freshman Willie Cauley-Stein, a friend of Releford's since both played high school basketball in the Kansas City area.
"Willie is a good friend of mine," Releford said. "We didn't play together on the same team, but we played a lot of pick-up games, things like that. I hope he has healed up (from a knee sprain) and will be out on the floor (tonight)."
Alabama recruited Cauley-Stein, but he opted for the Wildcats. While he was not considered to be a top-10 prospect, his preinjury play for UK now has him rated as a possible lottery pick in the 2013 NBA Draft.
On target
Kentucky will present a significant challenge for Alabama's perimeter defense with 3-point shooters Kyle Wiltjer and Julius Mays, but it may come as a surprise, even to Alabama fans, that the best 3-point shooter in the game, statistically speaking, plays for the Crimson Tide.
Trevor Lacey currently leads the Southeastern Conference in 3-point shooting percentage, hitting 35 of 77 3-pointers (45.5 percent). As a team, Alabama is third in the SEC in 3-point percentage, making 36.3 percent (101 of 278) of its attempts.
UA coach Anthony Grant, asked about Lacey on Monday's SEC coaches' teleconference, attributed Lacey's improvement to maturity.
"He is a sophomore now, which means he has had a year and a half of college competition," Grant said. "That means he has a better understanding of the game and what is expected of him."
Senior Bowl weigh-in
Five Alabama football players weighed in Monday at the Senior Bowl in Mobile.
Offensive tackle D.J. Fluker came in at 6-foot-47?8 and 335 pounds. He was one of two players invited to the Senior Bowl this year after entering the NFL Draft following his junior season. Both Fluker and offensive lineman Justin Pugh of Syracuse have spent four years on campus and graduated.
Linebacker Nico Johnson came in at 6-17?8 and 249 pounds. Safety Robert Lester measured 6-11?4 and 212 pounds, with tight end Michael Williams tipping the scales at 269 and standing 6-53?4. Snapper Carson Tinker was a shade over the 6-foot mark and 231 pounds.
Fluker did not practice Monday, citing a minor injury and will not play in the game Saturday. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. The game will be televised on NFL Network.
UA gymnasts move up
The Alabama gymnastics team rose one spot in the national rankings to No. 5 after the Crimson Tide's 196.575 to 195.525 win over the LSU Tigers on Friday.
The Michigan Wolverines jumped to No. 1 in the country, followed by Oklahoma, Florida and UCLA. LSU dropped to No. 7, with Nebraska (6), Utah (8), Georgia (9) and Stanford (10) rounding out the top 10.
Alabama jumped four spots to No. 2 on vault, held steady at sixth on uneven bars and fourth on balance beam, and fell all the way to No. 13 on floor exercise after counting a fall in Friday's meet.
Individually, sophomore Kayla Williams and junior Diandra Milliner are tied for fourth nationally on vault. Junior Sarah DeMeo is ranked second on the uneven bars, while junior Kim Jacob is ranked eighth on balance beam.
New faces powering UA track
More than 20 newcomers have made their Alabama debuts for the Crimson Tide in the first two indoor meets of the season, with a handful already winning events.
Ken Taylor, a transfer from Benedict College, was the 2012 NCAA Division II Men's Track Athlete of the Year for the South Region before transferring to Alabama. Taylor, from Spartanburg, S.C., has won the 800 meters in both meets this season.
At last weekend's Auburn Indoor Invitational, freshman Justin Fondren won the men's high jump at 6-foot-101?4. Another freshman, Elias Hakansson, won the men's weight throw with a distance of 63-101?2. Fondren hails from Oxford, Miss., while Hakansson is from Halmsted, Sweden.
The influx of talent continued last Wednesday when coach Dan Waters announced the addition of five scholarship student-athletes to the program, all of them junior college transfers who are eligible to compete immediately: men's distance specialist Matt Airola and men's sprinter Diondre Batson of American River College in Sacramento, Calif., women's thrower Candicea Bernard of Central Arizona College, men's sprinter Akeem Haynes of Barton County Community College of Great Bend, Kan., and women's sprinter Yanique Malcolm of Essex County Community College of Newark, N.J.
Valuing possession
The Alabama women's basketball team ranks No. 2 in the nation in turnover margin, forcing 8.7 more turnovers per game than it commits. This is a drastic improvement over last season's team, which averaged 1.8 fewer turnovers than its competition.
Alabama is 11-7 overall, 1-4 in SEC play. The Crimson Tide will host Auburn at 8 p.m. Thursday at Foster Auditorium.
Fast start for tennis teams
The Alabama women's tennis doubles team of senior Alexa Guarachi and junior Mary Anne Macfarlane begin the 2013 season ranked No. 2 nationally. Guarachi has achieved this feat with two partners, as she was ranked second nationally with Courtney McLane in 2010.
The Alabama men's tennis team opened its 2013 season with a pair of 7-0 victories last weekend under first-year coach George Husack, marking the first time the Crimson Tide has posted back-to-back shutouts to start the season since 2003.
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With the fall high school sports action in the record books, Sportshorts takes a look in the next couple of weeks back into the record books.
This fall, five local students, two from Monticello High and three from San Juan High, were named to academic all-state teams in their respective sports.
This award is given to seniors by the UHSAA for academic excellence in the midst of playing sports.
Austin Wilcox and Hunter Bowring were honored for their school-wise efforts while playing football for MHS.
San Juan students Chase Chamberlain, Kira Simpson, and Emily Royer were so honored while participating in boys XC, girls XC and tennis, respectively.
Congratulations to all student athletes and thanks for the importance you place on academics while enjoying the playing fields.
The recently completed seasons for the Buck and Bronco volleyball teams continues a record of solid, stellar volleyball for the two schools.
In the last four years, the Broncos have one state championship (2010), two seconds and a fifth place.
The Buckaroos have two state championships and two fifth place finishes in the past four years.
To what or whom do you attribute these astronomical records? Most would give accolades, and rightly so, to the coaches, Cassy Moon of SJ and Tony Esplin of MHS.
Many would also give a nod to the youth volleyball programs of both communities which presents to these two coaching staffs quality skilled kids, year after year.
Some might credit the competition between the two schools, starting in grade school as the reason for this mighty success.
Can you indulge Sportshorts to suggest another reason for the success?
As SS observed, both the Lady Broncos and Lady Buckaroos at work this season on the volleyball courts, one thing became fairly obvious for both teams... the cheers.
Even though cheerleaders are in attendance at volleyball games, the volleyball players have their own cheers, and it is the cheers that seem to bring unity, cohesion, comradery, perseverance and positive thinking to the teams.
Sportshorts spent some time analyzing the cheers of the Buckaroo volleyball team.
The cheers happen after every point of a game. They are brief, and perfectly choreographed.
In the case of the Buckaroos, after the players on the court give the momentary cheer, the players on the bench immediately repeat the cheer.
I thought at first that the Buckaroos did the same cheer at the end of each point, but closer inspection revealed that there are different cheers.
Amazingly, there is no head cheerleader who calls out "Thunderation" or the name of the cheer. There is no "Ready, OK" pronouncement to get everyone together, no "5, 6, 7, 8" ready count.
The cheers happen seemingly spontaneously, with everyone together, on cue even though no cue is given, and everyone doing the same cheer.
There was never a time when someone mistakenly blurted out the wrong cheer. There was just the sense that they knew which cheer to do.
"How does this happen," SS wondered. "Is there some type of mental telepathy going on?" The investigation continued.
SS found that the Buckaroo gals have seven different cheers, learned since the very first days of volleyball way back in third and fourth grade.
The cheers correspond with the way the point was won. The girls know instinctively how the point was earned and intuitively give the resultant cheer.
"Hey," thought SS, "I can relate to this. In Japanese Sumo wrestling, the wrestlers are defined by the techniques they use to win the match. There are about 79 different techniques to win in sumo."
The only difference between sumo and volleyball cheers, however, is it takes four judges to decide what sumo technique was used and several seconds, sometimes minutes to do so with SS's favorite being "oshidashi".
But, the players themselves in volleyball immediately and simultaneously all know the technique with which the point was won.
In a way, the togetherness of the cheers is as finely tuned as the plays the teams run themselves, which SS cannot figure out, anyway.
So what are the seven cheers? SS hopes it is not giving out secret information, but here they are.
1. "Ahhh, Lady Bucks!"
This cheer is given when the point is earned because of the opponents error. There is a corresponding hand clap and stomp which SS cannot describe.
2. "Tick, Tick Boom!!" This one is done when one of the hitters gets a kill.
3. "ACE!" When the serve hits the ground without the opposing team touching it.
4. "Richocet!" This one comes out when a serve bounces off the an opposing player's arm and goes out-of-bounds.
5. "Ahhh, woo!" Used after an opponent's kill attempt is blocked.
6. "Wooo…pey" is when a successful tip is made.
7. "Bang Bang" when a back row attack finds the floor on the opponents side.
Again, all the cheers are done seamlessly, energetically, magically, and light-heartedly with perfect cadence, unspoiled sequence of steps and claps, unison, harmony, accord, and unity, making the play enjoyable, entertaining, exciting and fun.
They blend effortlessly and supportively with the rhythms of play that unfolded stunningly in every volleyball match.
The secret of volleyball success are the cheers. Makes one think of SS's favorite cheer, back in the day: "Thunder, thunder... thunderation. We're the Buckaroo... congregation. We create a... big sensation. We're the best team... in the nation."


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The 1917 ballet by a young poet named Jean Cocteau, was entitled Parade. It was set in front of a fair booth and featured as its main characters, a Chinese conjurer, an acrobat, and a young American girl, performing small routines from their acts in order to entice the public into paying to see their show inside. Picasso's cubist stage sets and costume designs create the effect of reducing the dancers to puppets. Among those involved in the production are choreographer, Leonide Massine, producer, Leon Bakst, composer-director, Igor Stravinski, and a young ballerina named Olga Koklova.
The opening performance of the ballet was on May 18, 1917. Picasso had spent almost nine months working on it. As the curtain went up, the audience was greeted by the sounds of dynamos, express trains, typewriters, sirens, aeroplanes and a cacophony of rhythmic stomping. Some of the angular, Cubist costumes were over ten feet tall and actually more part of the scenery than costumes. Picasso melded together trees, skyscrapers and horses in such a way that the stage managers were both costumed performers and part of the set designs. It was so revolutionary some of the audience booed and shouted "Sales boches!" (Dirty Germans), viewing Cubism as somehow un-French. Others, such as Juan Gris, praised it as "unpretentious, gay, and distinctly comedic." The critic, Appollinare, used for the first time the term "surrealisme" (super realism) in describing it. The play was not a success and Picasso never earned a dime for his efforts, but he did meet, fall in love with, and later married its star, Olga Koklova.
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Dec. 4, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sophia Merrifield, a three-time All-Ivy selection, has been elected captain of the 2009 Yale women's soccer team. The announcement was made at the post season banquet on Wednesday night following a team vote. In addition, three team awards were presented. Sophomore Becky Brown was named most valuable player, freshman Adelaide Gay was the recipient of the Captain's Cup and freshman Alana Gebhart was selected as the most improved player.
"I am very honored to have been elected captain," Merrifield said. "I look forward to leading a team that is extraordinary both in talent and character. Armed with a skillful and dedicated coaching staff, I know that we have the ability to accomplish great things. As we strive for excellence as a program, I hope to bring passion for the game of soccer, an unrelenting work ethic and to set an example for my teammates both as a student-athlete and as a person."
Merrifield, a junior from Honolulu, Hawaii, has started every game (51) of her career at Yale. This fall, she earned second team All-Ivy honors after starting all 17 games and helping anchor a Yale defense that posted seven shutouts. As a sophomore, she was named first team All-Ivy and second team All-Northeast Region by SoccerBuzz.com, and as a freshman, she was a second team All-Ivy selection.
Merrifield will be one of eight seniors providing veteran leadership to next year's team, joining Megan Ashforth, Andrea Bouchard, Jacqueline Gantes, Ali Giusto, Leslie Perez, Hannah Smith and Eliza Walper.
Gay, a goalkeeper from Skillman, N.J., appeared in five games and posted a 0.82 goals against average. She earned her first career victory by playing the final 61:52 in the Bulldogs' 3-2 win over Central Connecticut.
Gebhart, a defender from San Juan Capistrano, Calif., appeared in 12 games off the bench. Her first career point was an assist in the win over Central Connecticut.
The Bulldogs finished the season with an 8-7-2 overall record, their seventh straight winning season.
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TICTTL – Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic 1-4
June 2011, Salamanca, Spain http://logicae.usal.es/TICTTL/
The Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic (TICTTL)
will focus on a variety of topics including: logic teaching software,
teaching formal methods, logic in the humanities, dissemination of
logic courseware and logic textbooks, methods for teaching logic at
different levels of instruction (secondary educuation, university
level, and postgraduate), presentation of postgraduate programs in
logic, e-learning, logic games, teaching argumentation theory and
informal logic, and pedagogy of logic.
We are inviting submissions on the topics above, or on any other aspect of teaching logic or logic teaching software. We prefer 6 or 8
page submissions. Submissions must not exceed 8 pages. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the TICTTL
EasyChair website, submission instructions will be posted in later CFPs.
Submission of Papers: 8th December 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 1st February 2011
Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: 1st March 2011


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Handel "was binge eater and problem drinker"
By Ben Hoyle
George Frideric Handel was a binge eater and problem drinker whose gargantuan appetites resulted in lead poisoning that eventually killed him, according to a study.
By the time of his death 250 years ago this month, aged 74, the composer of Messiah had for 20 years been fighting severe health problems, including blindness, gout, bouts of paralysis and confused speech.
According to David Hunter, music librarian at the University of Texas and author of more than 60 articles on Handel, these ailments were all linked to lead poisoning brought on by his notoriously heavy consumption of rich foods and alcohol.
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Legislation introduced Wednesday aims at streamlining the execution process in North Carolina.
RALEIGH � Legislation introduced Wednesday aims at streamlining the execution process in North Carolina.
The measure by Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-New Hanover, seeks to make several changes to laws governing the administration and appeal of capital punishment. It also includes doing away with the state's Racial Justice Act.
The 2009 law allows those sent to death row to seek having their sentences commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole if they can convince a judge racial prejudice played a role in their conviction.
Flanked by prosecutors from across the state, Goolsby decried that none of the 152 inmates on North Carolina's death row have been executed since 2006 due to various state and federal legal appeals.
�Victims� families have suffered for far too long and it's time to stop the legal wrangling and bring them peace and closure, finally, in their cases,� said Goolsby, a criminal defense and personal injury lawyer from Wilmington. �We owe it to these families of murder victims across North Carolina to impose the punishment that our laws require.�
Though the changes would clearly impact future cases, it was not immediately clear what, if any, effect the new legislation would have on speeding up pending death penalty appeals.
In 2009, a state Supreme Court allowed doctors to oversee executions, as required by state law. A state Medical Board rule had prohibited doctors from doing so. Goolsby's bill would codify that ruling in state law and extend the same protections to nurses and pharmacists.
Last summer, the Republican-controlled legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto to enact changes that sharply weakened the state's Racial Justice Act. Supporters of the act say the 2012 revisions effectively gutted the original law.
But it is still being debated in the courts whether inmates who filed appeals under the 2009 version of the law will have their cases judged under the old standard or the new.
Goolsby's bill would also require the state's attorney general to report to legislators each year on the status of all death penalty appeals in the state and establish a timeline for execution when those appeals are exhausted. The bill also directs the state's Public Safety secretary to develop the �most humane and constitutionally sound� method possible to conduct lethal injections and train a team to carry out executions.
�It does a number of things to make sure we don't have any roadblocks in carrying out justice in this state,� said Goolsby, who chairs the Senate committee for justice and public safety appropriations.
Attorney General Roy Cooper said Wednesday his office is working to uphold the death penalty. Many of the current appeals are in federal court, beyond the reach of state legislative action.
�Capital punishment in North Carolina currently faces several legal barriers that our lawyers are fighting in both state and federal courts,� said Cooper, a Democrat. �It remains the law of the land and we will continue to do our duty to uphold it.�
New Hanover District Attorney Ben David, the current president of state Conference of District Attorneys, reiterated the organization's long opposition to the Racial Justice Act and expressed support for Goolsby's bill. He said other laws and procedures protecting the rights of those accused of murder are sufficient.
�We believe that the safeguards that are in place under the constitutional protections ... ensure that fair process,� David said.
The executive director of the Raleigh-based anti-death penalty group Murder Victims� Families for Reconciliation said legislators should instead focus on providing better funding for victims� services and equipping law enforcement officers with the resources needed to crack unsolved cases.
�Too much time, talent and treasure goes into the very few cases that ever result in a death sentence,� Scott Bass said in a statement. �North Carolina can do far better to serve victims� families than restarting executions.�
Goolsby was joined by families of murder victims in unveiling his bill.
Marsha Howell's 17-year-old daughter was slain in 1992 by the girl's boyfriend. Howell's then 15-year-old son was also shot in the head, but survived.
The man convicted of the crime, William Christopher Gregory, has lived on death row since August 1994.
�Who worries about whether the lethal injection makes him suffer a little bit?� said Howell, who is from Mocksville. �Let him suffer! I have suffered for 21 years. And I'm tired.�


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Ice, ice, baby: Is run-off ruining the waters?
Without them, your car would be all over the road– if you ever even escaped your driveway. But are salt and de-icing chemicals ending up in our waterways and harming fragile ecosystems?
"Salt is very bad for plants," says naturalist Marlene Condon. "It kills them if there's too much." The publisher of a new nature newsletter, The Happy Habitat, Condon says that freshwater animals cannot survive in water with a high saline content.
That's bad news for wildlife in Charlottesville, which, like most other localities, relies primarily on salt for keeping roadways clear.
Stephen Mays in the city's public service department says run-off from city roads enters storm drains that empty directly into waterways including Moore's Creek and the Rivanna River. From there, the tainted water makes its way east, eventually entering the Chesapeake Bay.
How bad is it?
Dave Hirschman, Charlottesville/Albemarle County Water Resources Manager, says that while salt is not good for waterways, he hasn't seen terrible environmental effects locally.
During a heavy rain or a quick melt, he says, there may be enough dilution to counter the ill-effects, because "the toxicity of the salt depends on the concentration."
As for the Chesapeake Bay, there are things far worse than a little– or even a lot of salt.
"Road salt pollution pales in comparison to the other pollutants," says Chesapeake Bay Foundation spokesman Chuck Epes. The Bay is an estuary– a combination of fresh and salt water– so its ecosystem has evolved over time to accommodate fluctuating salt levels, says Epes.
Of much more concern, he says, are "nutrient pollutants" such as phosphorus and nitrogen, which are released in large quantity into waterways from wastewater treatment plants and from fertilizer used on farms and golf courses.
Bob Wichser, director of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, says the fact that Charlottesville's storm drain run-off– and road salt– goes straight into the waterways, rather than through a treatment plant, is preferable.
"From our standpoint," he says, "we're lucky."
When road salt, or sodium chloride (NaCl), enters a wastewater treatment plant, says Wichser, it inhibits the biological waste break-down process and allows higher levels of nitrogen in the effluent.
Wichser cites the water system in Richmond, in which storm drain and sewer runoff commingle, reducing the quality of the effluent flowing into the James. That's bad news for the river, he says, and for the Bay downstream.
As for salt in the soil, Wichser points out that most plant life is inactive during the winter, so there's time for the salt and chemicals to dilute before spring growth starts.
Jim Jennings, a VDOT spokesperson, says it's the storage of salt that can cause real problems.
"If you have a dry winter, you could end up with 300 tons of salt just sitting and dissolving into the soil," he says.
In Charlottesville, Jennings says, measures have been taken to keep the salt dry and prevent it from leaching into groundwater. All salt stores sit on concrete or asphalt pads and are covered to prevent rain from washing the salt away.
Mays says Charlottesville does what it can to control salt use, particularly on bridges, where salt could corrode the multi-million dollar structures. The city generally puts down 250 to 500 pounds of salt per road mile, says Mays.
To keep bridges safe for drivers, the city began spraying some of its salt with a corn-based liquid de-icer called Ice Ban back around 1999.
Because it's biodegradable, says Mays, Ice Ban is less harmful to plant and animal wildlife. "If you pour it on grass," says Mays of Ice Ban, "the grass grows faster."
And it's non-toxic to animals as well.
"If a dog licked it," he says, "it wouldn't kill him."
An added bonus: It de-ices roads even at temperatures below 20 degrees, when salt typically becomes less effective. This winter, when temps have routinely dipped into the teens, Ice Ban has been especially important. And lastly, says Mays, Ice Ban reduces the corrosiveness of salt, reducing the amount of damage to bridges.
The downside? "It's much more expensive," says Mays, explaining that the city doesn't have the budget to use Ice Ban more extensively.
As for sand, Mays says it's useful for providing vehicle traction, but has no de-icing capacity. If too much is used, he warns, it can also clog the storm drains and requires extensive post-melt clean-up.
Hirshman adds that sand, though seemingly the least harmful to the environment of any winter road treatment, comes with its own dangers.
"If too much is used," he says, "it can fill up the rocky crevices in stream beds where aquatic wildlife and insects make their homes."
So is there any way to have safe roads and happy streams? Perhaps if everyone stays home when it snows.
"It's a value system," says Hirschman, who acknowledges the economic necessity of road travel. "Everyone's so anxious to get back in their cars, but is it at the expense of the environment?"
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Visit Coromandel, a thermal wonderland with pampering day spas
Here you find pristine white sand beaches, a laid back atmosphere, art, bathing in thermal waters and pampering day spas.
The Coromandel region in New Zealand, a thermal wonderland, is a place to truely relax and revive. Here you find prestine white sand beaches and a laid back atmosphere.
At Hot Water Beach you can dig your own spa two hours either side of low tide. A truly unique Kiwi experience that every New Zealander and visitor should experience at least once in their lifetime!
A must visit while you are here is the spectacular Cathedral Cove. Famous for the opening scene of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Cathedral Cove is one of New Zealand's renowned natural icons. Swim the snorkel trail, enjoy a guided tour and marvel at the abundance of the aquatic life in the marine reserve.
You have the chance to explore the relics from the area's gold mining heritage.
Enjoy a game of golf on the Coromandel's golf courses.
The Coromandel is also the home of many artists and craftspeople, visit their art studios and pick up a unique piece of art to take home with you.
This is the region to completely relax and unwind. Put your feet up and be pampered. Click here to see all spas and hot pools located in Coromandel.


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WASHINGTON (AP) � President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.
The White House said today that the president intends to hold a series of events to build support for his approach to avoid across-the-board tax increases and steep spending cuts in defense and domestic programs. Obama will meet with small-business owners at the White House today and with middle-class families tomorrow.
The president's visit to a small business in Hatfield, Pa., that makes parts for a construction toy company will cap a week of public outreach as the White House and congressional leaders negotiate a way to avoid the tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. The trip will mark Obama's first public event outside the nation's capital since winning re-election.
Both sides warn the so-called "fiscal cliff" could harm the nation's economic recovery, but an agreement still appears far from assured. The White House and congressional Republicans have differed on whether to raise revenue through higher tax rates or by closing tax loopholes and deductions.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has pushed for raising additional revenue through the reducing of tax loopholes instead of raising tax rates on wealthy Americans. The White House has countered that the president will not sign legislation that extends current tax rates for the top 2 percent of income earners, or those households with incomes over $250,000.
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a conservative Republican who opposes Obama's plan to increase taxes on the wealthy, said while a presidential visit to his state "is always welcome," he remains staunchly against Obama's strategy for avoiding the fiscal cliff crunch.
"The president seems absolutely determined to inflict a tax increase on the American people," Toomey told CNN today. He said Obama and congressional Democrats must come up with cuts in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Obama, only weeks after winning re-election, has signaled his intention to rally the public to pressure Congress to support his agenda, an approach that helped him win passage of a payroll tax cut extension and prevented interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling last summer.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in an email to supporters after the election that the president's volunteer base was crucial to his re-election but said it was not aimed "just to win a campaign. We have more progress to make, and there's only one way to do it: together."
After the election, Obama aides asked supporters to record YouTube videos discussing the need to have the wealthiest Americans pay more in taxes. Some who shared their stories on YouTube planned to join Obama at the White House tomorrow.
Friday, Obama will tour and speak at The Rodon Group manufacturing facility in Hatfield, Pa., offering the company up as an example of a business that depends on middle-class consumers during the holiday season. It manufactures parts for K'NEX Brands, a construction toy company.
Congressional Republicans, led by Boehner, have expressed openness to discussing additional revenue but oppose any plan that raises tax rates on the wealthy. They argue the higher rates would also hurt some small businesses and hinder economic growth.
Republicans have called for changes to the tax code to eliminate tax breaks and loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy. Several key Republican lawmakers have also said they would not be bound by a no-tax-increase pledge they have adhered to in the past.


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Every Monday I attempt to get out of the office, meet up with an artist, ride bikes around and try and visit arty things in the city. Last week Jay Howell and I made our way around town, and this week Fecal Feller, Andreas Trolf and I made our way about town with little preparation except that we were to meet SF artist Kyle Ranson who was going to show us some of his recent work. Besides that we had fuck all idea where we were going. We did know it was retarded sunny and warm out and that it was a great day for a bike ride. Andreas fills you in with details below... if you have an idea of where and what we should check out, let us know. We wanna do some weirder shit next time. -Trippe
Yesterday was beautiful; the kind of day that announces the beginning of summer with trumpets and fanfare and bike rides and pointless exploration and a cold beer at the end of it all.
We met Kyle Ranson at Anthony Skirvin's printshop, Ape Do Good, where he was having some CD covers screened for when his band, Pale Hoarse, goes on tour in a few weeks. Then we rode over south of Market where Kyle lives so we could check out some of his newer paintings.
Pale Hoarse
We gave Kyle one of our new tees. (get on HERE)
Ape Do Good has loads of great art on the walls. This was a Skirvin work that was at Fecal Face's BLK/MRKT show last October.
A Kyle Ranson on the ceiling
Damn, those Michael Leon boards were from a Fecal Face show like 4 years ago!!
While Kyle deals with his business I doodle.
Some art in the alley at Ape Do Good
Then on down to Kyle's apartment in SOMA.
I've seen some of Kyle's work before, most recently his show at Adobe, but hadn't seen too much, especially not any of his earlier stuff. I'd noticed an older piece of his hung at Ape Do Good and noticed a heavy Schiele influence that wasn't so obvious in newer work. Which is rad, because Egon Schiele was amazing and if you're going to emulate anyone's figure painting it might as well be him. Look at Ed Templeton's work, his older stuff is pure Schiele as well. My point, though, is just how much Kyle's painting has progressed in the past few years. He's found a style that's completely his, and to look at it you can't make easy comparisonswhich is a good sign.
Looking around Kyle's apt.
He showed us some of his recent work as well as his collection of other people's stuff. Art is everywhere in his apartment: on the walls, leaning up against furniture, stacked on the floor. Kyle's moving soon and his place looks as if there was some kind of explosion of art and food and weird, dusty knickknacks. His newer work is still figurative, but he foregoes the elongated ectomorphic characters in favor of rounder, more organic forms, which work really well because his characters are often built out of winding plant forms. I like it. It's rad.
After getting some lunch, John and I got back on our bikes with no set destination. Vagabonds, we are. After some hemming and hawing, we decided the best course of action was to take no action and just let the day take us where it would.
Until this orange fence was pushed out onto the sidewalk and into my handle bars... down I went.
So we rode down by the ballpark and then down 3rd into the Dog Patch, which is San Francisco's version of the Brooklyn waterfront. It's a decades-old and largely abandoned industrial area; a ghost town of shipping facilities that sit in rusted and crumbling disuse since Oakland took over as the Bay Area's shipping hub. And just like Brooklyn, in recent years SF's yuppie colonialism has started expanding, creeping out of the Mission and SOMA areas, and we were surprised to see million dollar live/work lofts sprouting out of the ground all around us. I'm sure in a few more years there'll be coffee shops and organic food markets on every corner and since the name Dog Patch doesn't sound too family friendly, that part of town will be renamed Puppy Meadows or something equally inoffensive.
We continued our ride down to the waterfront where we found some graffiti walls and also ran into our pals from Japan, Yohei, Pai, and Yuri. They told us about a dilapidated pier further down the road they'd just left, underneath of which people have been doing weird art installations. Yuri described it as a gallery, but when we got there I thought that maybe the word "gallery" was a bit generous. What we found was a crumbling pier, a snoozing hobo, and a hole in the concrete that we climbed into and found a dark, spider-infested cave. It was rad! People had evidently been arting there for a while, as almost every square inch of usable concrete was covered with stencils, wheatpastes, stickers, and etc. We found some hobo markings that labeled the spot as the former Southern Pacific Railroad depot, where all the itinerant travelers would arrive and make their pilgrimage downtown to SF's old skid row, 3rd and Howard. If you're unfamiliar with hobos, may I suggest John Hodgman's excellent tome, The Areas of My Expertise.
And then down to the "gallery" under the pier.
The gallery entrance.
The Bay lapped gently at the rocks and John wondered if we weren't overdue for an earthquake. I wondered how many dead bodies had been stashed down there. So we split and met Yohei, Pai, and Yuri for beers at Zeitgeist.
I got a sunburn. Also, if you ever go down 3rd past Islais Creek (old butchertown) there's this other weird industrial area made up of a gravel yard and a landfill. Just a word of warning: that block smells worse than anything else on Earth. Seriously.
later ran into the Shopkeeper who's got some rad ass old membership. If you've been skating for awhile, you know what these got you into.
Same facial expression there, Andrew.
Till next time... You work somewhere weird/ interesting that we could come and check out next Monday? Contact us and let us know!!
below are a few of Andreas's photos from the day.
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8 Great reasons to camp in New Zealand
There are plenty of accommodation choices to suit all tastes but here's a few great reasons to camp on your trip around New Zealand.
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1.) The best way to experience the landscape
New Zealand is an outdoor paradise and there is no better way to immerse yourself in it than camping. With an excellent variety of camps in stunning locations you get access to views and locations other accommodation options just can't match!
2.) Excellent sites, plenty of choice and great facilities
Kiwis love to camp just as much as those visiting from foreign shores. The country is therefore set up with an excellent range of well-run and well provisioned campsites - from family run parks to remote department of conservation campsites we have spent 30 years researching and revisiting the best sites in the country.
3.) There are no creepy crawlies
Whilst camping in some countries might hold the prospect of unwanted visitors in your tent New Zealand is free from dangerous animals. Whilst you might be woken by birdsong or hear the distant bleating of sheep you can enjoy a good nights rest knowing that we get little more than a few noisy sheep in NZ!
4.) Enjoy some of the best night skies in the World
One of the best parts of any camping experience is lying out under the vast night skies. As one of the best spots in the World for star gazing NZ is the perfect place to get away from the towns and light pollution to enjoy some of the clearest stars you'll ever see.
5.) Camping is good for you
It's well documented that spending more time outdoors helps you emotional, physical and mental health. Relaxing and enjoying the simple pleasures of natural beauty, great company (and a few cheeky wines) is the perfect recipe for a holiday that will leave you refreshed.
6.) A real chance to get off the beaten track
Getting away from the towns and cities and away from smartphones, computer and other electronics ensures you just sit back, relax and enjoy your surroundings. Our carefully selected campsites are never as busy as the towns, hotels and hostels and give you the space to absorb the best of this amazing country. Wake up to ocean views, sleep to the sound of the ocean and watch the sunset over the snow-capped mountains - sounds good doesn't it?
7.) It saves you money
Camping saves you money vs. staying in crowded hostel dorms or hotels. Use that money to enjoy more activities, more food, more wine or just save it for your next trip. Our trips work out around $NZ40 per day cheaper than alternative hostel based tours but we include even more meals - even if you decide to upgrade to cabins you'll still save money.
8.) You can easily upgrade
Whilst our trips focus on camping we appreciate that sometimes its nice to treat yourself to a bit of rural luxury. That's why we offer upgrades to cabins most nights + the chance to stay in centrally located hostels when we visit the larger cities. It's the perfect compromise for those who don't want to camp every night but love the idea of experiencing more of the outdoors.


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Beyond the Basic Box
A house is always a storehouse for the imagination, but sometimes it can take surprising turns as a container. Here are several particularly evocative design approaches to stoke your own fires of invention.
Cave. Early houses were caves of course, but here's an example of a modern house built into a hillside in the spa town of Vals, Switzerland, that gives cave dwelling a contemporary twist. Talk about
a seamless transition between house and site – here the house is the site! Designed by Bjarne Mastenbroek of SeARCH, and Christian Muller Architects
to preserve the pristine alpine landscape, the house is primarily accessible
through a tunnel from a nearby wooden barn. The great cutaway oval is courtyard, light source, and connection to the hillside, framing views of the
valley below without blocking sight lines from above (photography by Iwan Baan, courtesy ArchDaily). You can see the entry barn beyond the lip of the oval, above; and the entrance from the tunnel is behind the blue tub. And you can even experience the home yourself: it rents through the website Villa Vals — I'm adding it to my bucket list!
Bridge. A clever solution for a difficult site like a small ravine is to treat the house as a bridge. An early modern example is the famous Warner or "Bridge House" in New Canaan, Connecticut of 1956 by John Johansen, which
straddles the Rippowam River near Philip Johnson's Glass House (photo by Robert Damora courtesy Philip Johnson Glass House). The H-shaped plan puts the living-dining room on the bridge at the center; the four corners
contain the kitchen and bedrooms (image courtesy Faustian urGe). According to Gwen North Reiss, who interviewed the architect in 2010 when he was 94, Johansen considered the bridge not just a site solution but an important metaphor of transition and renewal. She quotes him: "The bridge represents in mythical forms the leaving of one region familiar to you…Throw yourself on a bridge and you are separated from time and space and then you find your way down to another reality hitherto previously unknown to you." The barrel vaults in the roof are also evocative and follow the line of the stream (rivulets, perhaps?). More recent versions of the bridge-as-house can be found in the
work of Cutler Anderson Architects in Washington State, as shown here, where spanning the site made it possible to avoid "culverting the stream" (photo courtesy Cutler Anderson). Another way to go is to use bridge
stanchions to allow for a longer span, as shown in this house by Adelaide, Australia architect Max Pritchard (photo courtesy Max Pritchard Architects).
Tank. The water storage tank is especially compelling as a container. A quick Google search produces a variety of tanks that have been converted to houses,
like this very vivid one in Thorpness, England with its tall red storybook gable and long white chimney — like something out of a Dr. Suess book (photo courtesy Armchair Travelogue). This round concrete tank in an industrial
section of London is being converted to living quarters by the designer Tom Dixon, who added the windows and the wood siding and has plans to construct an elevator (good idea! photo courtesy Daily Mail).
The talented Max Pritchard used a 50 year-old concrete water tank as the base for this delightful house overlooking Adelaide. According to the Pritchard firm
the basement and a bedroom level (with windows punched into it) were built within the tank, while a new upper level containing the main living areas and
master bedroom follows the shape of the tank with a semicircular wall of glass — like a large bay window — to capture the sweeping views of city and sea.
As these structures demonstrate: design is about turning limitations into possibilities.


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Well, who'd'v'thunk it? Something useful has come from the Equalities Act debacle!
For newer readers, we have been campaigning for years, to get at least equivalent protection for breastfeeding in public spaces in England & Wales, and Northern Ireland, as exist in very fortunate Scotland.
The last Labour Government put together a huge Equalities Act, with lots of decent legislation. But the breastfeeding protection was a joke - nothing at all in public spaces, and mothers had to sue privately if it was goods and services. Loads of confusion about ages and pathways to sue.
And it's such a nice however... UK Gov has published this handy dandy gorgeous little leaflet. It's a business handy guide to the Equalities Act. As such, it is very condensed, and contains bullet points, not long detail.
So it contains, on page 4, this LOVELY detail:
Breastfeeding mothers
The Act has specifically clarified that it is unlawful to discriminate against a woman because she is breastfeeding.
Ensure that women to whom you are providing goods, facilities and services are able to breastfeed should they so wish.
Saul, a bus driver, tells Kate, who is breastfeeding on the bus, that if she does not either stop or get off the bus she could be arrested for indecency. This is not only inaccurate, but is unlawful direct discrimination, and the company will be liable under the Equality Act 2010 unless it can show that it has taken all reasonable steps to stop the driver from acting in this way. Saul will be liable whether or not his employer is.
So there you go mothers. Go to the website, print off this nice little leaflet, and fold it into your bag, pocket or changing stuff. Print off several, Highlight the correct bit. Hand them out!
Yes, it is missing essential detail. But it does so in a way that is so very very very useful. For scaring the arrogance out of people in shops and cafes!
Crown copyright leaflet, July 2010 JN40172 What an amazing little resource you are! :-)
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From years of studying my Girardi-to-English dictionary, I'm pretty sure that when Joe Girardi said this yesterday:
"I think that we're going to do whatever it takes to win this three-game series. Nothing that we do will be something that is just a knee-jerk reaction."
What he meant was this:
"Yeah, of course I'm seriously thinking about dropping A-Rod in my lineup. I may be stubborn, but I'm neither blind nor deaf nor dumb."
And demoting Alex Rodriguez in tonight's Game 3 of the American League Division Series would be the right, necessary decision. More than anything, given all the ridiculous knocks Girardi takes for being overly reliant on using information — as if this were a horrible proclivity — it would be the logical move.
Girardi should drop the fallen slugger to sixth tonight, between Nick Swisher and Curtis Granderson, when the Yankees and Orioles square off at Yankee Stadium. Maybe it would change up Rodriguez's late-inning fortunes. Maybe it would shake him up, at a juncture when there's little risk to doing so.
"Sometimes it's just not as easy as just writing a name or taking a guy out, a pitcher out," Girardi said in a conference call. "You have to think about the emotional part. You always have to think about that as a manager. … But being a three-game series, our guys know what's at stake, and we have to win two games."
Rodriguez owns one hit, a single, and a walk in 10 plate appearances in Games 1 and 2. He has struck out five times. The 37-year-old doesn't look mentally lost — he did a nice job deking J.J. Hardy in the third inning, keeping Hardy at third base when Adam Jones' single rolled into left field — as much as he appears physically overmatched. Just as he did for pockets of September and early October as the Yankees' regular season wound down.
Yes, he caught a tough break in the first inning Monday, when Baltimore second baseman Robert Andino snared his line drive up the middle and flipped it to second to nail Derek Jeter for the double play. And he drilled a single to left field in the third inning. Again, though, those two strikeouts — against Darren O'Day in the seventh, with Ichiro Suzuki on first base, and against Jim Johnson in the ninth for the game's final out — undid the previous good. For Game 2, he finished with a Win Probability Added (WPA) of minus-.211, which means that his trips to the plate pushed the Yankees considerably toward a loss. Only Nick Swisher (minus-.213) was worse.
We know about A-Rod's postseason struggles since his insanely good 2009. What's just as relevant, if not more so, is his worst-ever 2012 regular season. His .783 OPS ranked seventh among Yankees regulars. He's batting third more on reputation at this point, and as Girardi seems to realize, that won't get it done when you have such little room for error.
By elevating Robinson Cano to third in the lineup, you're putting your best hitter where he belongs. Slotting the lefty-hitting Cano after the lefty-hitting Ichiro Suzuki isn't ideal, but you would rather take your chances with those guys against lefties and give Rodriguez fewer trips to the plate. Swisher has put together better swings and at-bats, so he can go ahead of Rodriguez.
Would you bruise A-Rod's ego? Probably, yet at what cost? How much are you getting from him now, anyway? Besides, he still would be hitting ahead of a teammate, in Granderson, who hit 43 homers this season.
Six years ago, in the ALDS against Detroit, Joe Torre see-sawed A-Rod up and down the team's lineup — from sixth to fourth to eighth — while also tinkering with Melky Cabrera, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Bernie Williams. No one could figure out the rationale behind the Yankees manager's addition and deletions. Especially since Rodriguez still ranked as an elite offensive player.
To the contrary, everyone would understand if Girardi finally cleared A-Rod out of the prestigious third spot and sent him on a good trip down the starting nine.
In this emotional time, the Yankees must let common sense rule the day. And common sense says that A-Rod simply isn't a No. 3 hitter right now.


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It won't matter that the setting will be Geraldine Town Park rather than some Las Vegas show palace, and that he will not walk on stage from behind fancy curtains in the glare of spotlights and to the blare of a band. It won't even matter that the couple of hundred people out front will be sitting in lawn chairs, rather than standing, yelling and applauding. Some will be seeking a shady spot or trying to stay cool by fanning themselves with wooden-handle cardboard fans they remembered to pick up at church or the funeral home.
It won't matter that the setting will be Geraldine Town Park rather than some Las Vegas show palace, and that he will not walk on stage from behind fancy curtains in the glare of spotlights and to the blare of a band. It won't even matter that the couple of hundred people out front will be sitting in lawn chairs, rather than standing, yelling and applauding. Some will be seeking a shady spot or trying to stay cool by fanning themselves with wooden-handle cardboard fans they remembered to pick up at church or the funeral home.
What matters most to the man and his guitar is that this is where it all began, and the people who will be on hand Saturday will be friends and kin; old classmates and a new generation. They all may have heard talk about his legendary career in music, dating back 50 years, but never actually realized that he once had a million-selling record, has been on the stage with some of the biggest names in pop music and rhythm and blues, has been honored by the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and is on track for other such honors.
I'm referring to Pat Upton, who started singing as a child at the First Baptist Church in Geraldine, was the key member of the high school's award-winning FFA quartet and later joined a group while in the military that advanced to the finals of the Air Force's World Wide Talent Contest.
After returning to base, his Air Force band went to Sacramento, Calif., one Sunday afternoon to play in a pizza parlor.
"There was another band there called the Fydallions," Upton recalled. "About three months later, the leader phoned, asking me to join his band.
"Fydallions is not even a word and it has no meaning, but they played good music so I joined. We did a lot of traveling to cities along the West Coast, inland to Denver and Salt Lake City and down to Las Vegas and the Flamingo Club."
The band played there for a year, and it was during that time that Upton wrote "More Today Than Yesterday" which took off like a rocket and changed his life forever. It quickly shot up the charts and sold more than a million records, establishing him as a legend in the music world.
Nothing he's written since comes close to matching that hit. But even the unassuming and low-key Upton will admit that kind of success with just one song can establish a man's career. The song also has been recorded by other famous singers including Diana Ross, Sonny and Cher and the band Goldfinger. It was featured in the 1991 movie "My Girl," was used on the sound track of "Waterboy" in 1998 and in an episode of the TV show "Ally McBeal."
Upton said he'd had the melody in his head for a long time, but couldn't play it in the clubs because it was a different kind of music. But while the group was in Las Vegas, he had time to be alone and write the song, getting the lyrics from an old French poem he'd rearranged.
The next off day, the group drove back to Los Angeles and recorded that song and three others. The Columbia Records people liked the song, so Upton asked if they would give the band a recording contract.
"Yes, but we don't like your name, your hair nor the way you dress," Upton recalled being told. "We had short hair, and on stage we wore identical suits and top hats, carried canes and had spats over our shoes. They wanted us to dress mod, which was the custom of the late '60s and early '70s. So we changed everything and got our first contract."
The leader of the band and his family had watched an old silent movie, "The Spiral Staircase," and someone suggested that would be a good name if the spelling was changed to "Spiral Starecase." So it was, although a lot of people still misspell it, Upton said, using "stair" rather than "stare."
A Japanese tailor back at the club in Las Vegas kept them in perfectly tailored, flashy suits with bell-bottom trousers and fancy shirts and jackets. Upton said he wishes now that he'd kept some of those outfits, but he tossed them when the band split.
"I don't have any mementos," he said. "I don't even have the gold record. But I do have an autographed golf cap and a program with about 20 autographs that I got when touring with a group celebrating 30 years of rock 'n' roll."
He got Masters champion Billy Casper to sign his cap when they were once paired together at a charity golf tournament somewhere. And he has the autograph of Satch Davidson, former baseball player who was a major league umpire for some 20 years.
Some of the autographs on the program include Gary Lewis, Mitch Ryder, Otis Day, Gladys Horton, Tiny Tim, Three Dog Night, Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees, Al Wilson, Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly and Jerry Corbetta of Sugarloaf. Upton toured with those and other acts for three months. The singers on that tour had a combined record sales of 45 million and had played to audiences in excess of 4,700,000. They had traveled more than 500,000 miles when that tour started.
When the Starecase broke up in the early '70s, Upton went to Los Angeles and worked on recording sessions until he joined Ricky Nelson's Stone Canyon Band as a guitar player and backup singer. He worked with Nelson for about three years,
Nelson had been visiting Upton in Guntersville and they had performed together at Upton's club just a few hours before he died in a plane crash headed for a performance in Dallas.
"I was on stage with two great performers at their final New Year Eve's performance," says Upton. "Earlier I did the opening act for Elvis at his final New Year's concert. I had gotten to know Col. Tom Parker and he'd asked me to be on that program. I picked up a couple of other guys and put together a trio act. Later, when Ricky came here, I got to play his specially built electric acoustic guitar in the leather case. I have a picture of me playing it on stage with Ricky."
Upton said he vowed after Presley's death to never again join anyone at a New Year's Eve concert.
His road to stardom has carried him a long way from his rural upbringing atop Sand Mountain. He's been places and done things he never dreamed possible.
"I grew up loving Southern Gospel, but never expected to become a professional musician," he said. "I've been singing since I started talking, which has been almost 70 years, I remember singing before I started to school. Once I was standing in the back seat harmonizing with the Andrews Sisters, who were singing on the car radio."
Years later, after he had become famous, Upton was asked to sing at Jimmy Carter's birthday party. He was unaware of who else would be on the program and was shocked when the Andrews Sisters (a longtime Carter favorite) stepped up to sing.
"I remembered that time in the car, and I wanted to walk right out and harmonize with them right there, but I was afraid. So I just did so in my mind. That is one thing that really stands out in my memory," Upton said.
Another big thing with him is the marvelous way he's been received in the Philippines. He said every song he's ever recorded has been a hit in those islands and he is planning his fourth tour of the Philippines in January.
But for now, Upton said he is going to enjoy going back to where he was born and reared. It will bring back a lot of old memories, such as the glass of cornbread and milk he once ate about midnight.
"I was working in Dad's warehouse," he recalled. "It was hard work and as I was eating, I called over Jim, who was working with me, and told him I was going to join the Air Force the next day. I did. I left home a couple of days later for basic training and never really went back except to visit."
Most of his family has passed on, including his brother, Don, who sang with him in the FFA quartet. "Larry Guest and Benny Machen may be the only members of that group still living, but I think all the banners we won in singing contests are still on display at the agriculture building," he said.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A morbidly obese California man whose tearful, videotaped plea for help became a YouTube sensation may be getting the support he wanted.
The "Dr. Phil" show reached out to Livermore resident Robert Gibbs, 23, after he posted his three-minute video last week.
Gibbs mentioned the program in his clip, which has been viewed more than a million times and inspired more than four dozen recorded responses from viewers offering diet tips and encouragement.
A crew from the "Dr. Phil" show was scheduled to come to his house and film him on Wednesday, Gibbs told The Associated Press.
On the YouTube video, which he made the day before his birthday last Friday, Gibbs did not specify what kind of help he needed — just that he hoped someone knowledgeable about weight loss would see it and get in touch with him.
He also said he feared he would not live long enough to see his nephew and niece grow up or to have a family of his own. He estimated his weight to be between 600 and 700 pounds,
"I'm making this video because I don't know what else to do," he said on the video. "For everyone who is just going to make fun of me I really don't care. It doesn't matter. This is my last chance, my last hope, one of them at least."
Gibbs declined to be interviewed by the AP because he said he had an exclusivity agreement with "Dr. Phil."
Along with suffering from diabetes, Gibbs has sores all over his body and cannot stand for more than a few minutes at a time, KCBS-TV said. He spends his days watching television.
Chris Powell, a fitness trainer on the reality show "Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition," also has expressed interest in working with Gibbs along with former contestants from "The Biggest Loser."
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Poll: Romney Headed for Near-20-Point Win in New Hampshire
Mitt Romney is primed to complete the political perfecta of winning both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, according to the final two-day Suffolk University/7News tracking poll of likely voters in New Hampshire.
Romney (37 percent) led Ron Paul (18 percent), Jon Huntsman (16 percent), Rick Santorum (11 percent), and Newt Gingrich (9 percent), while Rick Perry and Buddy Roemer each had 1 percent, with 7 percent undecided.
"Mitt Romney may beat his closest competitor by a two- to-one margin," said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston. "With two solid debate performances, Romney weathered the storm earlier this week, while no opponent made a serious run at him."
The Suffolk University/7News tracking poll included all 500 respondents polled after the two presidential debates, one held Saturday night and the other Sunday morning. The tracking poll field was conducted Sunday night and Monday night.
Huntsman, who also had a strong debate performance Sunday morning, closed out his campaigning on a high note. He outpolled Paul in the final 250 surveys Monday night, although the error rate is +/- 6.20 percent for that one-day count.
"The battle for second place will be determined by which candidate has the best field organization to bring out the votes today," Paleologos said. "A good get-out-the-vote-operation accounts for up to 5 points, which can impact an expected outcome."
Although Huntsman polled quite well among independents (26 percent), he had a poor relative showing among registered Republicans (9 percent).
This is the final day of the Suffolk University Political Research Center's two-day tracking polls. The next Suffolk poll will be the Florida Republican Primary in two weeks.
The statewide survey includes two nights of 250 likely respondents for a two-day tracking total of 500 likely voters in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. This track was conducted Jan. 8 and Jan. 9 using live telephone interviews with landline and cell phone users. The margin of error is +/-4.4 percent at a 95 percent level of confidence. Marginals and full cross-tabulation data are posted on the Suffolk University Political Research Center website. For more information, contact David Paleologos at 781-290-9310. Paleologos is on site at the Manchester, N.H., media center located in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm Street, Manchester through Jan. 10.


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There are many things to envy about Kate Middleton—the handsome prince husband, the stockpile of family jewels on hand, the killer peacoat collection. But, apparently, what most women want is Kate's nose.
Which, suffice to say, isn't all that surprising: Not only is the princess's schnoz totally adorable, it was crowned the U.K.'s most-requested plastic surgery procedure of 2012.
But, now, it seems like the fury over Kate's nose has jumped the pond—according to U.S. plastic surgeons, the demand for getting a royal nose job has seriously surged. So much so that a Middleton-inspired alteration has been called "spring's hottest accessory" among New York City-dwelling ladies. One NYU student reportedly dropped $12,000 to get a nose like Kate's and plenty of other young women are quickly following suit.
While we're all for getting work done if it makes you feel better about yourself—a recent study showed that plastic surgery can actually boost women's self-esteem—trying to become a carbon copy of someone else just doesn't seem like a good idea…since it's kinda, you know, impossible.
If we had our choice, we'd take the gems over the nose any day.
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I want to create a Gant-view showing the vacations for all users. And I have done that but not in the way I want it. Now each user is able to create events for the vacation say 2 events 1.6 - 20.6 and 15.8 - 30.8. These 2 events is shown as 2 rows in the view. I want ONE and only one row for each user regardless if they have 1,5 or 0 events.
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