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This is most exciting moment of your life. He is down on one knee, looking up at the woman who will one day become his wife. As the big question comes out of his mouth, and the response comes out of yours, all you can think about is posting a photo of your gorgeous rock on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
It may sound silly, but it's true! We want the whole world to know that we are engaged, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Personally, I think that is great that you want to show him off for everyone to see. Because he is now yours forever.
But before you dive on in with your #engaged and #Isaidyes's, remember that there are some very special people who may not be so excited to see that you are engaged...via Facebook....And those are the ones who raised you. And the ones who raised them.
Before you make a post (or a million posts) about the proposal, the ring, and your happiness, make sure you make a personal call to those who mean the most to you, those who got you to where you are today - your parents, your grandparents, your closest aunt, your best friend, your siblings.
Because there is nothing worse than your amazing mom finding out that her little girl is getting married via Twitter. Am I right or am I right?
No matter how excited you may be, I know you can hold off for just one more hour. Make those important calls together to the ones who are closest to you...starting from the most important. And make those calls quick! Because my guess is that after each call, an engagement congratulations is going to end up on Facebook about 30 seconds after hanging up the phone ;)
And once you have completed those calls, post, post, and post again to your heart's desire!


text: Drop by the Library to learn how to use Unbound Medline, a UCentral app that lets you easily connect to the full text of PubMed articles via smartphone, tablet and laptop. A company representative will be in the Library, Room 109 on Friday, January 29, 2016 at 11 a.m. to provide a demo and answer . . . → Read More: Unbound Medline Demo

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Our Impact
CLiF has provided free and inspiring literacy programs and brand-new books to low-income, at-risk, and rural children up to age 12 in almost 85% of the communities in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Who We Serve
Our fun, interactive literacy programs benefit children from many backgrounds, all of whom are at risk of growing up with low literacy skills:
- Children from low-income families
- Children in shelters
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- Children of prison inmates
- Refugee children
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Every week we receive feedback about our events and ongoing programs. Local program coordinators, librarians, and teachers tell us that after many CLiF events they see:
- An increase in the number of children who sign up for their first library card
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Inspire more children to fall in love with reading and writing.
We invested in a three-year study with the national educational research firm WestEd. Their research helps us track and assess the impact of CLiF's work on the children we serve in New Hampshire and Vermont. Now that the study has ended, we're using WestEd's findings to make CLiF programs stronger and more useful to the children and communities we serve.


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The median home value in Rosemont, IL is $142,900. This is lower than the county median home value of $225,000. The national median home value is $209,892. The average price of homes sold in Rosemont, IL is $142,900. Approximately 33% of Rosemont homes are owned, compared to 61% rented, while 6% are vacant. Rosemont real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale. Commercial properties are also available. If you like to see a property, contact Rosemont real estate agent to arrange a tour today! Learn more about Rosemont Real Estate.
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2007 custom-built luxury residence set in a gated community of Rosemont. Over 4,600 sq. ft. with generous open floor plan. Formal foyer. Elegant living & dining rooms. Beautifully appointed kitchen with island, granite counters & high-end SS appliances. Cozy family room & extra great room with volume ceilings. 1st floor bedroom, currently used as an office. Lower level with recreation & exercise rooms. Upper level with 2 spacious bedrooms, full bath, laundry & master suite with fireplace, huge walk-in & en-suite bath with whirlpool & steam shower. Private fenced back yard with inground pool, outdoor kitchen & large patio. Unique interior with vaulted ceilings, recessed lighting, multiple fireplaces, central vac, 3 HVAC systems, extra-deep 2.5-car att garage & more. Designed to perfection & meticulously maintained. $5,000 per year tax rebate from the Village of Rosemont. Proximity to Metra, Expressways, O'Hare, Casino & Entertainment Center. Area with properties rarely offered for sale.
Rarely Available, Fully Renovated 2 bedroom Condo In Executive Estates! Everything in this unit is NEW including a modified open floor plan unlike any other unit currently available. Assigned parking space (#116) steps from private rear entrance & storage unit in basement. Superbly located complex features Heated Pool & Modern Park for kids. You have everything right here! Low taxes, great schools, airport, casino, theater, shopping, & restaurants. **Village offers property grant to owners, details on village website.**
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As you know, eBay recently announced and outlined a strategic vision for the future, and we at eBay Partner Network are excited about the company's new goals and direction. As eBay focuses on providing better customer experiences and attracting new users, eBay Partner Network is adapting to align with these company-wide initiatives.
Over the next few weeks and months, we will be making changes to our pricing structure.
One of our most important priorities moving forward is to attract new and infrequent buyers to our site, and it will be these types of users who will be receiving the highest weight, in terms of publisher compensation. In turn, less weight will be given to other types of traffic that drive existing frequent buyers to eBay.
We will continue to provide information about the pricing changes as they are made over the next few months, including what it means to individual publishers and how current publishers can optimize for any upcoming changes.
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One of Denver's sort of hidden architectural gems is the Mullen Building, part of the Saint Joseph hospital complex.
Built in 1933, the Mullen Building was designed as a nursing school and dormitory by Denver architect Temple Hoyne Buell. Buell was from Chicago and like so many Coloradans, came out West for the treatment of tuberculosis. (I'm sure there is fascinating doctoral work out there on how some city's and regions were founded by a disease trajectory. Much of Boulder's early history is directly tied to health, well-being and the founding of sanatariums for TB victims.)
The Mullen Building is an art deco fantasy, more specifically it is one of the best examples of that strange stylistic hybrid that is vaguely Mayan/Aztec Revival Art Deco. The vertical bands of dark red brick blast up the facade and over the top of the building's parapet and are oddly akin to a Mayan headress, albeit executed in abstracted brick geometry. Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock house in LA is probably the most well-known example of this kind of stylistic appropration, but the Mayan Theatre, also in Los Angeles, built in 1927, is a building that may have influenced Buell. (Denver's Mayan Theatre of 1930 is a another example of Mayan Revival architecture, but one that is explicitly kitsch and although remarkable, likely not an influence for Buell)
The masony work is truly remarkable. Almost entirely constructed from standard, modular bricks, the fanciful plasticity of the window bands and especially the entry surround, undulates and flows like masonry rarely seems possible. It as if a very disciplined, obsessive kid spent a long, cold weekend stacking their lego blocks, one after one. This kind of brickwork is often described as "waterfall" brick, but I hardly think that term does justice to the resolution of this work. Certainly the brick seems to cascade down the facade, but its simultaneous ascending dynamism sets up a delicate balance that is tempered by the soft, blond brick expanses. It certainly is the most exciting dormitory I have ever seen, an exuberant expression of what brick can do and how proud a modest building can be.
I understand the interior is chock full of amazing decorative ceilings and floors, all echoing the strong geometry of the exterior. Maybe another visit soon and I will post some more photos.


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Really enjoyable chat on The Future Primitive Podcast with Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Rak Razam in regards to Shamans of the Global Village.
Joanna has a great motto "if you don't like the media, be the media". She has a history as a bit of a luminary in the 60's counter culture having had a past relationship with Timothy Leary, an American psychologist, and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.
One of the best rewards for creating a piece of media is its ability to reach others who work you've previously known and build relationships with those folks. Also by those who have responded positively to your personal creations and engage in conversation. When you meet someone of the previous generation who's also fought the same fight and created a culture to push back against the status quo of the day, that's massive. Joanna has been doing for many decades and its great to share in conversation as a meeting of minds.


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Husqvarna Starts Automower Testing Campaign
Hundreds of gardens in Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia are being equipped with mowing robots by Husqvarna.
Not long ago, people had to sacrifice a lot of time when it came to mowing their lawns. The technology of automated mowing robots changed that and presented garden owners with a modern and comfortable alternative to scythes and lawnmowers. Husqvarna is one of the pioneers of the lawnmower robots: They have been part of their product range for over 20 years now, giving home owners the chance to sit comfortably on the terrace while the mowing is getting done by itself.
With the Automower challenge, Husqvarna wants to equip people in Germany, UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark with their latest models and strengthen their market position while learning more about the performance.
Individual testers and families can apply for the Automower challenge until the end of March, by giving information about them and their gardens. In every country 100 testers are being chosen by Husqvarna. They all get an Automower worth at least 2.499 € to be tested on their private property. The devices will be installed by local specialized dealers who will also be available for advice during the whole testing phase.
The testers may keep the Automower after the end of the testing phase in November, provided that they document their experiences by giving feedback in video form every 15 days. Excluded from applying are garden owners who use pesticides.
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A Strong Team: Mowing Robot and Fertilizer
At the spoga+gafa 2015 in Cologne, the German market leader in fertilizers, Compo, presented a new compound especially designed for lawns that are cared for by robotic lawnmowers.
Compo is now offering a fertilizer that is especially useful for lawns that are cared for by robotic mowers. This organic-mineral long-term fertilizer has been created with a balanced nutrition-formula that provides for a healthy and resistant lawn. Because of the Isodur-technology, the lawn is cared for seriously for three full months.
Further information: compo.com
Ryobi presents new hybrid lawnmower – both electrical and cordless
Further information: ryobitools.eu
Robolinho® 4000: High-Performance Robotic Lawn Mower by AL-KO
The fully automated robotic lawn mower Robolinho® 4000 takes care of green areas of up to 2.000 square meters.
The 4000 is the largest of the fully automated mowing robots made by AL-KO. It can mow up to 2.000 square meters of lawn, no matter the time of day or the weather. It is equipped with a double-blade technology, which helps fertilizing the lawn: The cut blades of grass are getting chaffed inside the Robolinho and then blown out again, turning into natural fertilizer. The lawn doesn't dry out anymore, keeps its shape and no green waste has to be disposed. The robot is easy to handle and the cutting height can be adjusted from three to six centimeters.
The Robolinho® 4000 finds his own way back to the recharge station. It can go up slopes of up to 35 degrees without effort and it detects and bypasses obstacles by itself. A code protects the robot from theft.
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Historic Areas Of Istanbul
Istanbul bears unique testimony to the Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations. Throughout history, the monuments in the centre of the city have exerted considerable influence on the development of architecture, monumental arts and the organization of space, in both Europe and Asia. Thus, the 6,650 m terrestrial wall of Theodosius II with its second line of defences, created in AD 447, was one of the leading references for military architecture even before St Sophia became a model for an entire family of churches and later mosques and before the mosaics of the palaces and churches of Constantinople influenced Eastern and Western Christian art.
Istanbul was built at the crossroads of two continents;it was successively the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire, and it has constantly been associated with major events in political history, religious history and art history in Europe and Asia for some 20 centuries.
At the same time, however, Istanbul is a large metropolis. With its population of some 3 million inhabitants, this historic city has undergone population growth in the past 30 years, which has profoundly changed its conservation conditions. The threat of pollution arising from industrialization and rapid and initially uncontrolled urbanization have jeopardized the historical and cultural heritage of the old town.
The World Heritage site covers four zones, illustrating the major phases of the city's history using its most prestigious monuments:
- the Archaeological Park, which in 1953 and 1956 was defined at the tip of the peninsula;
- the Süleymaniye quarter, protected in 1980 and 1981;
- the Zeyrek quarter, protected in 1979;
- the zone of the ramparts, protected in 1981.
The ancient city and the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire are both represented: by the hippodrome of Constantine (324) in the Archaeological Park, by the aqueduct of Valens (378) in the Süleymaniye quarter, and by the ramparts built starting in 413 upon the order of Theodosius II, located in the last of the four zones.
The capital of the Byzantine Empire is highlighted by several major monuments. In the Archaeological Park there are the churches of St Sophia and St Irene, which were built in the reign of Justinian (527-65);In the Zeyrek quarter there is the ancient Pantocrator Monastery which was founded under John II Comnenus (1118-43) by the Empress Irene;in the zone of the ramparts there is the old church of the Holy Saviour in Chora (now the Kariye Camii) with its marvellous mosaics and paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries. Moreover, the current layout of the walls results from modifications performed in the 7th and 12th centuries to include the quarter and the Palace of the Blachernes.
The capital of the Ottoman Empire is represented by its most important monuments: TopkapıSaray and the Blue Mosque in the archaeological zone;the Sehzade and Süleymaniye mosques, which are two of the architect Koça Sinan's major works, constructed under Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-66) in the Süleymaniye quarter;and the vernacular settlement vestiges of this quarter (525 wooden houses which are listed and protected).


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Christian Baptism has its origin and foundation in Jesus. Jesus began his public ministry by being baptized by John the Baptist, and after his resurrection gave his apostles the mission to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt 28:19). He further explains that "whoever believes and is baptized will be saved" (Mk 16:16).
From the beginning the Church has fulfilled the Lord's commission to baptize. As the Catechism states, "From the very day of Pentecost, the Church has celebrated and administered holy Baptism. Indeed St. Peter declares to the crowd astounded by his preaching: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you" (CCC, 1226; Acts 2:38). This invitation continues today as the Church offers all entrance into life in the Spirit through the waters of Baptism.
Baptism Resources
United States Catholic Catechism for Adults: http://ccc.usccb.org/flipbooks/uscca/#208
USCCB: http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/sacraments-and-sacramentals/baptism/index.cfm
Catholic Answers: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-necessity-of-baptism
Fr. Robert Barron: http://www.wordonfire.org/resources/video/the-sacrament-of-baptism/276/


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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia knew the real identity of two men accused by British prosecutors of trying to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain.
British prosecutors last week identified two Russians who they said were operating under aliases - Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - who they said had tried to murder the Skripals with a military-grade nerve agent in England.
Putin, speaking at an economic forum in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, said Russia had found the two men, that they were civilians, and there was nothing special or criminal about them and that he hoped they would come forward and tell the world their own story.
Reporting by Denis Pinchuk, Vladimir Soldatkin and Polina Nikolskaya; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Andrew Heavens


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The impact of Dogwoof documentary Blackfish has continued to grow since release, as this week a piece of Californian legislation inspired by the film amassed over a million signatures of support online, and the first stage of a similar New York bill was approved by Senate committee.
In the state of California, legislation was proposed on 7 March that would ban the use of Orca's for entertainment purposes in amusement park acts. "It is time that we embrace that the long-accepted practice of keeping Orcas captive for human amusement must end," stated Assemblyman Richard Bloom, a Democrat from Santa Monica who proposed the bill. Meanwhile in New York, a bill that would ban keeping orca whales in captivity passed in the state's Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation this week. Proposed by Sen. Greg Ball, Senate Bill 6613 would ban "the possession and harboring of killer whales in New York State aquariums and sea parks."
Blackfish Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite with bill proposer Richard Bloom
The bills have been brought about in response to Blackfish, which tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. An online petition supporting the California bill has already garned over a million signatures, with support from many corners including the likes of Stephen Fry over on Twitter:
For anyone who saw Blackfish or knows about Seaworld's treatment of the orca this is good news. More pressure now! http://t.co/QQ02j9aYc9
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) March 24, 2014
Since Blackfish was released, the film has inspired many people to change their ideas on marine parks. From celebrities speaking out on Twitter, protests outside venues where whales are held in captivity, to changes to Pixar's upcoming Finding Nemo sequel, and famous bands withdrawing from scheduled gigs at the parks, these bills are a huge step in the direction towards change.
Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature's extraordinary nature, the species' cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the multi-billion dollar sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.
You can order your own copy of Blackfish Blu-ray or DVD or watch online now, and for those outside the UK or Ireland, you can find out where to watch the film here.


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AT the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund awards last month, where the red carpet teemed with actresses and designers dressed in complicated evening numbers of varying slits and cuts, the designer Rachel Roy was covered neck to toe in a floor-length black skirt from her own collection and a sheer, flesh-colored turtleneck by Stella McCartney.
"I find that the turtleneck has one of the chicest silhouettes," Ms. Roy said later by phone. "I don't always have to show a lot of skin, but what I do want to show all the time is a lot of brains. And the turtleneck is strong, elegant, smart. I'm a turtleneck believer."
As it happens, the evening's winner, Joseph Altuzarra, who showed turtlenecks in lightweight cable knit for fall and cropped chartreuse for spring, has recently become a believer, too. "Sometimes when something has been away for so long, it's interesting to try to rework it and make it appealing again," he said.
Designers like Michael Kors and Donna Karan have often resurrected the classic turtleneck, fashionable in the 1970s among the likes of Gloria Steinem and Diane Keaton. But now, it is Mr. Altuzarra and his youthful peers who are applying their wit and whimsy to a garment that, if it weren't for its practicality, would never have existed in the first place, a garment that actually encourages women to — it's right there in the name — withdraw into a shell. For fall, Olivier Theyskens showed heavy knit turtlenecks with full-legged pants and shorts in his Theory collection; a chin-reaching, futuristic version was presented at Ohne Titel; and Dries van Noten paired several oversize turtlenecks with his signature vivid prints.
Chalk it up to a need for a little sartorial dignity in an overly confessional culture; or to the grass-is-greener yearning for a cozy, cold-weather garment when 60-degree temperatures have steadily been reported on the East Coast; or even to Steve Jobs, the enigmatic tech maverick, whose recent death was cited by the knitwear label St. Croix as a reason that sales of its $175 turtleneck doubled overnight. (According to Mr. Jobs's authorized biography, it was Issey Miyake who designed his shirts.)Continue reading the main story
"I can't keep enough of them in my store," said Ikram Goldman, the proprietor of her namesake boutique in Chicago, referring to a lightweight version by Céline. "Shoppers just love it."
According to street-style photos, celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Rihanna and Alexa Chung love it, too, perhaps as another way to deflect the prying eyes of the paparazzi; and the actress Elizabeth Olsen recently wore a sleeveless Alexander McQueen turtleneck dress to the New York Film Festival premiere of her film, "Martha Marcy May Marlene."
The turtleneck first emerged in the late 1800s, as an undergarment worn by college athletes and, later, the military. In the 1950s, the beatniks co-opted it as a symbol of intellectual bohemia, the style reaching its apogee by the time a black-turtlenecked Audrey Hepburn did her modern dance, all long limbs and jagged angles, in "Funny Face."
Francesca Granata, an assistant professor of art and design history at Parsons the New School for Design, traced the garment's high-fashion roots to the '60s, when, she said, "Pierre Cardin and YSL reinvented the men's suit with a turtleneck instead of a buttoned shirt and a scarf instead of a tie." (Think more Paul Kinsey than Don Draper.)
By the '70s, Ms. Steinem had worn a turtleneck leotard with jeans on David Frost's television program, turning the garment's unisex appeal into a feminist statement.
But since then, the turtleneck, with its utilitarian design, has had some image problems, if not for its implicit age-masking properties ("Our faces are lies, but our necks are the truth," Nora Ephron wrote in "I Feel Bad About My Neck" ) then for its seriousness and potential claustrophobia. In his memoir "The Mystery Guest," Grégoire Bouillier wrote of wearing the turtleneck, a mark of "pseudo sportsmen with, as they say, the lamest kind of collar," as a kind of "Band Aid" against the despair of his lover leaving him suddenly and without explanation, "so that now I hardly remembered the wind on my neck, which is the very feeling of freedom itself." And speaking of freedom, who can forget Jack Nicholson's growling in bed to the sexually repressed Ms. Keaton in the 2003 romantic comedy "Something's Gotta Give": "I can't get past your damn turtleneck!" Ms. Keaton, in turn, reaches for a pair of scissors in the drawer of her bedside table and coos seductively, "Cut it off."
After all that, can designers rehabilitate the turtleneck as a garment that's not just modern, but sexy?
Certainly Mr. Altuzarra is willing to try with his midriff-bearing creation for spring and loosely knit cables that, in his words, "show some skin." Meanwhile, Flora Gill and Alexa Adams at Ohne Titel have remade the old cotton garment with strong shoulders and a modern silhouette.
"We wanted to take that 1950s, classic Americana feel of the turtleneck and make it sculptural and fashionable," Ms. Adams said. "It's a new, stronger body shape that's actually empowering and freeing."
Rachel Comey, who layered chunky knit turtlenecks in her fall collection and showed a short-sleeve version over bikinis for spring, said she was already working on more for next fall. "I think what's fresh are all the different silhouettes: cropped, wide, long, sheer, heavy knit," Ms. Comey said. "There's more versatility than you'd think."
This turtleneck redux, according to Ms. Goldman, has a new sensuality. "It hugs your body, your neck, your arms — it's like a mold," she said. "And that tightness on the neck is almost like bondage. What's not sexy about that?"Continue reading the main story


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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Workers at Connecticut's largest utility may inch closer to a strike when they vote Thursday and Friday on a contract offer that the union's leadership has recommended be rejected.
Union negotiators say workers and Connecticut Light & Power are still far apart on staffing and overtime issues and rejection of the proposed four-year agreement will automatically authorize a strike, though a work stoppage is by no means certain. The previous contract, which represented about 1,200 workers, expired in June and the two sides have been negotiating since March, said Frank Cirillo, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 420 in Waterbury.
Negotiators instantly rejected the company's proposal when it was offered in mid-September, he said. A company demand that workers be on call for possible overtime infuriated union members and their representatives, he said.
"They're just an angry bunch of people," he said.
Caroline Pretyman, a spokeswoman for parent company Northeast Utilities, compared utility workers with first responders such as police officers and firefighters and said they must be available to restore power knocked out by storms. Union demands that CL&P hire enough workers to cope with extreme storms such as Hurricane Irene in August 2011 and a freak snowstorm the following October would be unnecessarily costly, she said.
CL&P, which serves 1.2 million customers, is hiring 30 more line workers to improve day-to-day operations, Pretyman said. The company also is looking to add a second shift that would extend its workforce to late afternoon and early evening.
The utility drew tremendous criticism from regulators, customers and elected officials over its slow response to restoring power following last year's storms. The union blames staff cuts, but CL&P said it brought in about 200 utility workers from out of state to help restore power.
Instead, Pretyman says, a union rule allowing line worker older than 45 to refuse to work overtime has forced the utility to rely on a smaller pool of younger employees.
Cirillo disputes that, saying many older employees still work overtime even though they have the right to opt out. The additional overtime helps boost their pension payment when they retire, he said.
Average pay for CL&P workers is about $39 an hour, or about $80,000 a year, which can be boosted with overtime to as much as $100,000. Cirillo says that although the pay is good, the work is dangerous because it requires scaling tall structures and close proximity to electricity.
Neither side believes workers will strike.
"I'm not concerned with that at this point," Cirillo said. "I think (the company will) come back to the bargaining table."
Pretyman said the company and union leaders will talk about how to proceed if union members reject the contract.


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This Saturday, the Workshop Express will be going on a longer journey than usual. I'll be heading to Dublin, a two-hour journey from where I live, to give the next in my series of creative writing workshops at the National Council for the Blind. I've been working with this group for quite a while now, and in recent workshops, they've been asking me to help them structure a story from start to finish.
This isn't the way I usually work. Usually I give a prompt and the story takes off from there. In other words, it's a more instinctive process. But I'd like to help these people get over the line and complete a story. They've been loyal attendees and it's only fair that I give them what they want. I sought the advice of writers in the Facebook writers' group that I run and got some brilliant suggestions. This helped me put together a plan for this Saturday's workshop and I'm hugely grateful to them for that.
Here's a flavour of how the plan will be put into action on the day.
Getting the Story Started
The other challenge on the day is that as well as the loyal followers, there'll be a few people who haven't done workshops with me before. To bond everyone and bring them to the same level, we'll do a few spoken-word exercises to start off with. The Chinese Whispers exercise is always popular. I'll start a story with a sentence, the next person will add a sentence and so on until everyone has contributed. This will demonstrate the importance of getting on with telling a story.
Exploring Plot
We will then look at different ways of plotting stories. One of the resources the Facebook Writers pointed to was an article outlining the Three Act Structure, the classic beginning-middle-end structure that has been used since the time of the Ancient Greeks. We'll then brainstorm to come up with events they could write about. The story they write will be a slice-of-life tale, revealing the magic that can be found in the most ordinary lives.
Gathering the Details
Once they've identified the story they want to write, they'll answer a 5 Ws questionnaire, that will help them to decide what they will include in the story. They will decide what happened, why it happened, where and when it happened and who was involved. To flesh out the story, we'll do character and setting exercises to help them describe their characters, and the places where the story happens, more vividly.
After all that has been done, they will write as much of the story as time allows and get feedback on what they have written so far.
How do you handle the structuring of stories, as a writer and as a creative writing tutor?


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Easy. They claim to heal/cure/relief many totally different afflictions. Whilst cannabis sativa has many psychoactive components one wonders why evolution went so wrong as to not incorporate the synthesizing of those components in the body if they have such enormously positive influence on all ailments claimed to to have an influence on.
The latest out there claim for marijuana: Marijuana may help heal broken bones
At least the word 'may' is included which pretty much renders the whole story nothing but a nice 'if only' .
Medical cannabis also provides bone tissue with mineralization, so it protects bones from further injury, making them less fragile. "After being treated with CBD, the healed bone will be harder to break in the future," Gabet explained.This is not the first study devoted to the health properties of marijuana. It has been linked to effective treatment of epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson 's diseases. It is also used to soften the negative effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients, treat chronic pain, and help people struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Yep. It's a regular miracle cure for just about anything.


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Saying "Bonjour" helps build relationships, makes you smile & is polite.
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I've just finished reading French Children Don't Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman - it's a novel, come parent's handbook, come life-lessons journal.
I had a love-hate relationship with the book: loved the little lessons and loathed the fact that I'm profiled as an Anglophone parent (hovering mother) - which isn't great to the French!
However, some of the life lessons are great reminders of how we can be more effective human beings:
- Saying Bonjour (Hello!) with everyone you encounter helps you smile, build relationships and is genuinely polite.
- Exert authority in your voice, yet don't be an authoritarian. Useful for the Australian twang.
- Practise being Sage (Sah-je) - Be wise and stay calm: don't stress, be in control of life's dillemmas!
- Focus on having Equilibre (Eh-key-lee-bre) - Balance: Don't let one part of life overwhelm other parts.
- Set a Cadre (kah-druh) - firm limits for *children* but giving them tremendous freedom within those limits (*adults*!)
Being more conscious of these five lessons can only help us be more aware of our effectiveness and presence in society.
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Soccer On The Table
A well known tabletop football game, transferred to the iPad/iPhone screen.
Choose your favorite football team and play with friends, play against a computer or cheer on the computer vs computer game.
- A game gives the possibility of a double play on one iPad/iPhone.
- In the single game you can choose the level of computer AI, you can also enter your own team names.
- 2D graphics reflects a miniature football field.
- A game is limited by the amount of goals (even up to 20).
- After the game you get match statistics, as well as a preview of the results of recent competitions.
- Simple and intuitive controls.
- The ability to stop and resume the game.


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Dean Ted Snyder, Yale president Peter Salovey, former Yale SOM dean Sharon M. Oster, founding Yale SOM dean William Donaldson, and William Beinecke, a longtime friend and supporter of the school, will welcome alumni and friends, recognize the people who have contributed to the creation of Edward P. Evans Hall, and reflect on how Evans Hall will help fulfill Yale SOM's founding mission and aspirations.
William S. Beinecke YC '36
Retired Business Executive and Philanthropist
William H. Donaldson YC '53
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Sharon M. Oster
Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship & Director, Program on Social Enterprise, Yale School of Management
Peter Salovey PhD '86
President & Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Edward A. Snyder
Dean & William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management, Yale School of Management
Retired Business Executive and Philanthropist
William S. Beinecke is a philanthropist and businessman who has helped shape many parts of Yale University. Born in New York City, he graduated from Yale College in 1936 and Columbia Law School in 1940, and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After leaving the service, he helped found the law firm Casey, Beinecke and Chase. Between 1952 and his retirement in 1980, he served as general counsel, president, and chairman of The Sperry and Hutchinson Company, which was co-founded by his great-uncle, Thomas Sperry, and purchased, owned, and operated by the Beinecke family. A member of the Yale Corporation from 1971 to 1982, he advocated for the establishment of a management school at Yale and has been a crucial supporter for the school's entire history. He received an honorary degree from Yale in 1986, and in 2000, was awarded the Yale Medal, given in recognition of extensive, exemplary voluntary service on behalf of the University.
Founding Dean, Yale School of Management
William H. Donaldson has spent more than 40 years at the highest levels of business, government and academia. Until June 30, 2005 he served as the 27th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. As SEC Chairman, Mr. Donaldson was the chief regulator of America's securities markets and chief enforcer of the nation's securities laws. His tenure marked the greatest period of activity of the Agency since its founding in 1934. He is currently Chairman of Donaldson Enterprises, a private investment firm and is a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB).
Prior to heading the SEC, Mr. Donaldson was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, Inc. one of the nation's largest providers of health insurance and related benefits, and before that he served as Chairman and Chief Executive of the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier in his career, he was the Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) and helped found its wholly owned subsidiary the Alliance Capital Management Corporation. He was selected as Business Man of the Year by the Associated Press when DLJ became the first NYSE firm to sell its shares to the public.
He left DLJ to accept a Presidential appointment as United States Undersecretary of State under Secretary Henry Kissinger and subsequently served as Counsel to the then Vice President of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller. Following that, he was the Founding Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management at the Yale University School of Management.
Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship & Director, Program on Social Enterprise, Yale School of Management
Sharon Oster served as dean of the Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2011. She is a specialist in competitive strategy, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, the economics of regulation and antitrust, and nonprofit strategy. She has written extensively on the regulation of business and competitive strategy. Professor Oster's book, Modern Competitive Analysis, used widely at management schools, integrates a broad range of views in its analysis of management strategy and emphasizes an economic approach to strategic planning. Her second book, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations, takes the same economic approach to managing nonprofit organizations. Professor Oster has consulted widely to private, public, and nonprofit organizations.
President & Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Peter Salovey is the 23rd president of Yale University and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology.
After receiving an A.B. (psychology) and A.M. (sociology) from Stanford University in 1980 with departmental honors and university distinction, Salovey earned three degrees at Yale in psychology: an M.S. (1983), M.Phil (1984), and Ph.D. (1986). He served as Yale's provost from October 2008 to January 2013, and is the only Yale president to serve as dean of the graduate school (2003-2004), dean of Yale College (2004 -2008) and provost.
Salovey has authored or edited over a dozen books translated into eleven languages and published hundreds of journal articles and essays in his field of social psychology. With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework called "Emotional Intelligence," the theory that people have a wide range of measurable emotional skills that profoundly affect their thinking and action.
In addition to teaching and mentoring scores of graduate students, Salovey has won both the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.
Dean & William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management, Yale School of Management
Edward A. Snyder is Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. As Dean, he has overall responsibility for the school's academic programs, for enhancing its reputation, and for strengthening its finances. The school's objectives are to be: (i) the business school that best leverages its home university—eminent and purposeful Yale University; (ii) the most global U.S. business school; and (iii) the best source of elevated leaders for escalating complexity in all sectors.
During his tenure at Yale, the school has (i) developed the first global network of top business schools, (ii) introduced its Master of Advanced Management degree for graduates of the Global Network for Advanced Management, (iii) implemented a new, required Leadership Development Program for all Master's students, and (iv) forged yet stronger programmatic relationships with other Yale professional schools.
Mr. Snyder began his professional career as an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. He earned a PhD in Economics and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan where he developed programs in Central Europe, China, India, and Russia. His research and teaching is focused on industrial organization, antitrust economics, law and economics, and financial institutions.
Previously, Mr. Snyder was the Dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.


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For anyone that is struggling to get this sensor to work with an Arduino Leonardo using the libraries provided the example code link, I was able to get it to work by doing the following:
First, the Leonardo I2C interface is detailed here: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardLeonardo SDA -> Digital Pin 2 SCL -> Digital Pin 3
Second, the Leonardo interrupt setup is detailed here: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/AttachInterrupt The DMP6_test is setup to use interrupt 0 which is Digital Pin 2 on the Leonardo. I changed the line:
attachInterrupt(0, dmpDataReady, RISING);
attachInterrupt(4, dmpDataReady, RISING);
And connected the interrupt to Digital pin 7.
The DMP6_test and Processing sketch now works like a charm! I hope this helps anyone else that was struggling with the Leonardo setup.
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Dec 30, 2006
During this holiday season we spend time with our friends and family, celebrate religious events, and or look forward to a certain jolly elf to bring us gifts (no, not Brenlo :p). There's one other thing needed to really put you in the holiday spirit... The "Yivvits & MrBubble Holiday Extravaganza 2006" podcast!
This year we revisit our favorite (and only) Star Wars Christmas album. Listen along as 3PO teaches R2 how to sing, the workshop droids finally figure out what to get a Wookiee for Christmas, and 3PO performs a thoughtful reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas."
Most large companies have some sort of holiday gathering and we assumed SOE is no different. Our assumptions were confirmed when we obtained a super top-secret recording from the event. Smed and Helios exchanged "Secret Santa" gifts; need we say more?
We sum up our personal feelings about SWG for 2006 and discuss what we'd like to see happen with the game in the coming year. Finally, we exchange gifts and are humored (or possibly horrified) that we both got each other... Nah, you'll just have to listen to find out!
Happy Holidays,
Yivvits & MrBubble


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Part 1… Welcome to Ind!a
I know I haven't posted for ages, guys. But from now on I will publish pics from my visit to India. Get ready to look at it with my eyes. First station is… Delh!
India is all about contrasts.
India is all about colors !!!
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By: PBM
There is no end in sight in the life taking fracas that has engulfed the Xolobeni community even with the announcement that the Australia's Mineral Commodities (MRC) is exiting the Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project.
It could be that the blood of Sikhosiphi 'Bazooka' Radebe, the chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), who was killed early this year is crying out against the mining concern that has exposed the of shenanigans associated with mining affected communities.
A statement issued by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Richard Spoor Inc makes startling allegations including a suggestion that the MRC sale is a smokescreen. Here follows the statement:
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Richard Spoor Inc , Attorneys (Spoor Inc) welcome the decision of Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) to divest from the Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project; announced on the Australian Securities Exchange today.
The LRC and Spoor Inc represent the Amadiba Crisis Committee, the customary leadership of the Umgungundlovu community, and69 of the 75 households within the proposed area in opposing the mining right application filed in March 2015.
The community's objection to the mining right application highlighted various defects in MRC's mining right application.
Fundamentally, the objection noted that MRC had failed to seek the consent of the community in terms of its customary law, and that no mining right application should be granted without such consent being given.
Despite the community's opposition to the Xolobeni project, MRC has been granted repeated extensions by the Department of Mineral Resources to file crucial environmental documents, without any reference to the community, when its application stood to be dismissed outright.
Concern regarding transaction with Keysha
We note with concern MRC's announcement that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Keysha Investments178 Pty Ltd (Keysha) to divest its interest in Transworld Energy and Resources (SA) Pty Ltd (TEM) in the Xolobeni Project.
We note that the Xolobeni community is only learning of this decision from an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange, and were not consulted about the decision. It is unclear whether the Department of Mineral Resources has played a role in facilitating this transaction, or if any public financing through the Industrial Development Corporation or any other entity is involved.
It is manifestly unclear how this transaction will be funded, and what compensation Keysha will be obliged to pay to MRC and/or its subsidiaries in return for MRC's interest in the Xolobeni project.
We strenuously object to the process, in terms of which this decision has been taken without our clients' participation, much less consent. We have accordingly written to MRC and its attorneys seeking a copy of the MoU on behalf of our clients.
We note that previous documents filed by MRC's subsidiary, TEM, have indicated that Keysha was set up by MRC as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Xolobeni Empowerment Company (XolCo), a structure established by MRC.
While XolCo has been described by MRC as a "Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) company representing the Amadiba community at Xolobeni", our clients have never been consulted regarding XolCo and deny that it represents them:
- MRCdocuments have variously asserted that XolCo is owned by five or nine community trusts. The community has not been consulted in any of these trusts' formation and does not know whether any or all of these trusts have been registered.
- We have seen one trust deed from these community trusts. In terms of this deed the municipality would appoint three Trustees, with prominent mining supporter Zamile Qunya appointing the fourth. This clearly does not ensure community ownership of the Trust's decisions.
- While the Trusts are supposed to appoint the directors of XolCo, XolCO currently has eleven directors, all mining supporters, including the iNkosi (Chief) of the Amadiba traditional community, Lunga Baleni. As the Trusts have not had any meetings in the community, it is denied that these directors were appointed by the Trusts.
- While few details have emerged, XolCo's purchase of a 26% share in the Xolobeni project was funded, in part, by issuing preference shares in Keysha that entitled MRC, and an entity known only as SGC, to 60% of Keysha's dividends.
- We are deeply concerned that the financing of Keysha's agreement with MRCwill be similarly opaque and unfavourable.
- Keysha has a single director, Mzwandile Maraqana, who is entirely unknown in the community.
It is our clients' view that XolCo and Keysha were established by MRC to advance its mining interests. They clearly were not established by the community itself, and were established with minimal community consultation.
Indeed, our clients' view is that mining will not be accepted under any circumstances, much less the uncertain terms reflected inMRC's announcement.
We are unsure whether the transaction requires the approval of the Department of Mineral Resources in terms of section 11 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act. We have noted that the Deputy Minister of the Department will be in Xolobeni tomorrow and hope that he will clarify this point. If section 11 approval is required, we expect the Department to engage in informed consultation with our clients, before making its decision.
We therefore reiterate our clients' call that the application be dismissed by the Department of Mineral Resources immediately.


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Juice Carton Mummies
The easiest idea I have found on pinterest for Halloween. Just remember when you wrap your cartons to leave a gap for the straw to poke into!
I took the photos with my new favourite Lomography app, Lomo Lens Lite. I reckon it gives it an extra spooky feel!


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One of the great things about cycling is that you'll find an almost unlimited selection of add-ons to customize your bicycle and help you enjoy riding. But what accessories do you really need?
We've put together this list to help, and grouped things into two categories: Essential Accessories, which are those items you shouldn't leave home without; and Other Goodies, which are things many cyclists also enjoy having.
Essential Accessories
Assuming you've already got a bike, you only need these few key accessories (listed by importance) to be safe and comfortable while riding and to be able to deal with the one breakdown that might occur, the flat tire.
|What it is:
|Why you need it:
|A lifesaver in an accident
|Good lock
|A bike saver
|Floor pump
|Easily keeps your tires inflated
|Mini pump
|For fixing flats during the ride
|Spare tube
|To replace punctured tubes
|Tire levers
|Eases tire removal
|Water bottle and cage
|Makes it easy to stay hydrated
|Patch kit
|For patching popped tubes
|For small adjustments
|Seat bag
|A way to carry all this stuff
Other Goodies
|What it is:
|Why you'll want it:
Dress for Success
|Protection from airborne debris
|Adds comfort and protects hands
|Cycling shorts
|Padded for comfort
|Cycling shoes & socks
|Increase comfort & efficiency
|Cycling jersey (short & long sleeve)
|Comfy with rear pockets for gear
|Keep knees & legs warm
|Protection from wind & rain
|Leg & arm warmers
|Easy on/off; fit in pocket
|Rain jacket
|Keeps you dry and warm
|Booties (shoe covers)
|Protects toes from cold & wet
|Long-finger gloves
|Warm & protect hands and fingers
All the Right Gear
|Front light or lighting system
|Be safe at night & expand your ride time
|Flasher taillight
|Be seen after dark
|Friendly warning device
|Shows/records speed, pace & distance
|Rear rack
|Carry more stuff
Bike Repair is Fun
|Maintenance book
|Learn how to fix your bike
|Repair stand
|Supports the bike so you don't have to
|Wheel-truing stand
|Helpful for fixing wobbly wheels
|Bicycle tool kit
|Cool tools for fixing your ride
Hit the Road & Trail
|Panniers (saddlebags)
|Bring the kitchen sink
|Trailer for kids or gear
|Hooks to the bike & pulls easily
|Car rack
|Carry your bike on the car


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Filmmaker Russell Blanchard didn't intend to start a new project when he went into Black Star Books & Caffe, just a block from his Algiers home. But, as many neighborhood conversations go in New Orleans, he got to talking to Black Star owner Baakir Tyehimba about the closest blight.
Through their conversations, Blanchard learned how, seven years ago, Tyehimba tried to turn the lot across from his coffee shop into a green space for kids. He used his own money, but, Blanchard said, "it didn't work out due to city regulations." The small, vacant lot on the corner of Belleville and Slidell Streets was full of broken-down cars and over-grown grass, while the local children played in the street.
Today as Blanchard and his film crew finish principle photography on the short film "The Lot," the property still has overgrown grass and the fenceposts Tyehimba installed seven years ago. Local children still play in the street.
"The City seems to have its hands tied or they act like they have their hands tied a lot of times," Tyehimba reflects.
For Blanchard, Tyehimba's failed effort to create an urban green space shows "how sometimes it's difficult because you always want to help on your terms, but then people really need help on their terms."
Tyehimba's attempt to reclaim the lot back in 2007 began modestly. He persuaded a neighbor to park his diesel tractor-trailer-truck elsewhere, and towed the abandoned cars into the street with a heavy chain and his Ford F-150. "For me, I'm not trying to own the property for personal gain or to make some profit off of it. I want it for the benefit of…the people who live around here, and to take it away from being blighted."
The city eventually towed the cars away. Meanwhile, Tyehimba cut the grass, installed a wooden fence, and then taught local children to build playhouses, some of which decorated the property.
As Blanchard recounts, "At the high-water point he had about seven of these little playhouses, everything was rocking and rolling, and then the city came up and said he didn't use the right type of fence-boards, and he had to go to the board and discuss it. And he went and kind of pled his case, and they said they'll review it."
The actual owner of the lot by now supported Tyehimba's renovation effort, until he got a letter from the City threatening a $250 per day fine and jail time if the fines weren't paid. Eventually, the City informed Tyehimba that he could continue operating the park. But he was required to comply with the applicable regulations, including having a different fence and obtaining expensive private park insurance.
Tyehimba's experiences and frustrations resonated with Russell Blanchard.
"It really connected to things I was trying to do, trying to help out the neighborhood," Blanchard said.
Being a filmmaker, Blanchard wanted to make a film that was inspired by Tyehimba's story.
"Hopefully what we can do with the film is use it as a sort of tool to hopefully raise the funds and finish the park that he started," he said.
"I think it's brilliant to do a film," Tyehimba said. "I appreciate his effort."
Blanchard sold Producer Megan Grogan on "The Lot" while they volunteered together at the Sundance Film Festival. She had never been to New Orleans, but found the story drawing her interest.
"It was more than just, 'I want to make a fun, short film.' There was a story behind it, and it was the message, the message of reaching out and helping, the message of being a part of the neighborhood resonated with me," Brogan said. "And the idea that it was a bigger project. It wasn't just a small film, it was a huge project, and at the end of it there was going to be a park. And that was the other goal outside the film."
Director of Photography D. J. McConduit wanted to do the film after hearing about it from Blanchard at the New Orleans Video Access Center's 2013 event Synch-up Cinema. When local filmmaker Kevin Hughes (Laundry Day) joined the crew as a gaffer, he suggested Blanchard utilize the script-writing talents of his friend, Ben Gouldthrope.
Suddenly Blanchard had a dedicated group to make the film. It came complete with a small window when they were all free to shoot it, once producer Grogan's regular TV show wrapped up.
"I literally put my stuff in storage, came down here for three months, and here I am," Grogan said.
The only problem was raising the capital.
"We didn't really want to shoot the film until after the Kickstarter was done," Blanchard admits, "but we had such a good group of people that were available in this window that they all kind of agreed to participate, but, of course, you can't make a film with absolutely no money." Blanchard and company created a crowd-funding campaign on the website kickerstarter.com to raise the production costs.
Blanchard plans to shoot for six days on a $10,000 budget. "We have tons and tons of support, and everybody loves this project, but turning that into actual funds and, you know, physical help is a challenge," says Producer Megan Grogan. She's spent her time in New Orleans finding cast and crew, ensuring materials and equipment needed to make the movie are available, coordinating everything and everyone, and launching the fundraising campaign. The final film will be 15 minutes long with the intent for it to play at film festivals and do some local community screenings.
Blanchard hopes bringing "The Lot" to "ready-made audiences" will inspire people to do something with vacant spaces in their neighborhoods.
"If you're going to help, why not help the people nearest to you?" Blanchard said.
Tyehimba retains hope that the property across from his coffeeshop will become useful for the community, even if that only involves a few picnic tables, benches or flowers.
"Sometimes the laws or the rules should be in line with what makes sense," he said.
The Lot's Kickstarter campaign ends July 28, 2014, at 10:20 AM CDT. You can see their teaser trailer at www.thelotfilm.com.


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Bioware makes available products, gear, and the like for purchase. When licensing out to Sanshee, Dark Horse Comics, Green Ronin, Treehouse, Legendary, or any of their other partners from a pool of 30, Bioware has 3 goals.
While the products do stem from the universes they create, Mass Effect and Dragon Age in particular, Bioware does not create/fund the products directly. The partners create the vision of the products. Whether they be art or dresses, it's mainly the partners that have the creative freedom. Bioware receives a small share of revenue while attaining full approval rights, while partners can distribute great products and content within the franchises.
Three types of products exist: merchandise, entertainment, and games. Merchandise covers collectibles, apparel, art, and digital content. Entertainment covers books, comics, novels, anime, television, movies, and web-based content. Games cover Board Games.
Here's a list mentioned at PAX Prime of some products revealed still in development.
- N7 Beanies and Scarves
- Miranda Lawson hoodie
- Morrigan Statuette (in Orlesian attire that we've seen from "The Fires Above" trailer)
- Morrigan hoodie
- Inquisition hoodie with its logo on the back
- Inquisitor hoodie that represents the Inquisitor's actual armor in the trailer
- Inquisition pens set
- (Not pictured) An Elcor plushie voiced by the same voice actor from the Mass Effect series. One of the lines apparently is "Affectionately: I love you"
During PAX, the Inquisition bags, wallets, and journals were not finalized, but are now available on the Bioware store.
Obviously, some products never saw the light of day. The Urn of Sacred Ashes' tray, busty Liara, perfume, energy drinks, and candy. I believe one energy drink was "blood"...which thankfully stayed a prototype.
The pictures explain them all - some of these products are still being finalized and some are available for purchase now.
Ideas for products, merchandise, books, and games come from everywhere: partners, Bioware, and fans. If you have any suggestions on what should come next, direct them to Chris Bain at Bioware. His twitter is @ChrisBainEvery1. (Sorry, not sorry!)
See more Dragon Age and Mass Effect news and lore at Youtube.com/LadyxInsanity


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[WIAF: Lesley Yalen, earnest author of This Elizabeth, presents a sparkling interview.]
Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson are the authors of the choose-your-own-adventure chapbook I take back the spongecake., a small edition of which is out from Invisible Seeing Machine, and a larger edition of which will soon be printed by Q Ave Press.
Meanwhile, the spongecake's website is being built by the capable and previously-mentioned Sara Blaylock. Loren's art will punch and then hug you here. Sierra's poems will reveal the thinking in your gaps here and here.
LY: First of all, let me just say that "I take back the spongecake." is beautiful to behold.
Loren: thank you!
Sierra: thank you!
LY: Tell me what it was that drew you to each other or each others work – what sparked this collaboration?
Loren: well, sierra is amazing. we were paired to live together while working at the Vermont Studio Center and i fell in love with a poem of hers - The Forgiveness Tour - I think it's called. I can't remember who first asked the other to do a collaboration, but once the idea formed, it took root, and i really wanted it to happen. I remember it was taking a long time to get started, then I suggested that instead of making it just a regular book, we should make it a choose-your-own-adventure. and somehow that provided the spark we needed.
Sierra: For me, Loren's drawings were really appealing from the very beginning - funny and sad, playful and sometimes scary, not afraid to be cute and not afraid to be gross as needed. I really liked the dichotomies at work in all of her work—and it seemed like some of my poems might be able to exist in a similar world—that it would be fun to see how the poems and the drawings might be able to have an interesting conversation with each other.
Loren: plus I think sierra is the cat's pajamas.
Sierra: For a collaboration to work, it seems like there has to be a mutual attraction to start - an affinity felt in each other's work, and also with that person and how the creative/communication process might be. I really lucked out working with Loren -loren is the cat's pajamas!
Loren: we are both the cat's pajamas.
Sierra: pajamas of cats.
LY: I'm rereading parts of the book during the pauses of this chat, and it strikes me that both the poems and the images are so tender...in the sense of a bruise being tender, and also in the sense of caring for someone.
Sierra: That's a nice way of describing it. tender like a bruise seems right.
Loren: yes, i love that. you know i love bruises.
Sierra: to care for and be careful of. but also pressing on it a little bit, to see how it's healing. blue to yellow.
LY: on a different note, what do you think is so pleasing about homonyms?
Sierra: we knew we wanted to have the book be a choose-your-own-adventure...and somehow having the choice be between two things that sound the same but have a different meaning speaks to the difficulties (and pleasures) of decision making. Such subtle difference sometimes.
LY: yes, as i went through the book i felt the weight of the choices I was making. The wait, that is.
Loren: i think it has something to do with the fact that the power of interpretation lies with the receiver. it is up to the reader/viewer to create their own story. this is true not only in our book, but in my drawings, and in life over all. i know as little about my drawings as the viewers sometimes, in terms of what something is, or why it is there. i think that is also true with sierra's poems.
Sierra: yes, it's the same with poems too. the viewer or listener has to make their own way through, making their own connections and meanings and associations - what stands out to them at that particular moment - how they'll choose to remember and carry that work later.
LY: Loren, I know you co-wrote some of the poems in the book—how was that process of co-writing for both of you?
Loren: it was fantastic and fun. it was like doing something with someone that you admire and look up to who somehow makes you feel like you are on the same level as them. i guess that's what the best collaboration is.
LY: that's so great. it sort of sounds like being in a band-you really trust the other person- their skill and their intentions. also, i've never been in a band. have you guys?
Loren: NO! but i've always secretly wanted to be. if i could die and come back as something it would be a singer in a band.
Sierra: i think writing together did help us collaborate better in the whole project - a way for us both to be able to enter and create the place where the project would exist, imaginatively.
Loren: oh wait. i forgot i was in a band in 5th grade. It was called The City Girls and all our instruments were cardboard. Each person had to write a song to be a member.
Sierra: The Typing Explosion and the Vis-à-Vis Society are the only bands I've been in. And occasionally I play guest glockenspiel for other bands.
LY: Sierra, you were Harpo Marx for Halloween. Has he been an influence on you?
Sierra: Harpo Marx is a huge hero of mine! The first time The Typing Explosion went beyond typing on-demand and speaking in bells horns & whistles, we made a theater piece (we took the 1000s of poems we'd written and made them into a play) – and at one point our director told me he was thinking of my character as being like Harpo. And that gave me a lot of courage!
LY: He was a genius.
Sierra: he was able to convey so much without speaking! If I could just write poems and only honk my horn to speak (and maybe play some music) - that would suit me fine!
Sierra: Can I ask about superhero qualities you would each like to have?
Loren: I would like to be able to live underwater and see distant galaxies.
LY: umm... the ability to speak every language.
Loren: oooh lesley that is good.
Sierra: I was thinking invisibility and bioluminescence.
Loren: bioluminescence! of course! (FYI ladies I only have a little bit longer – I'm sorry)
LY: No problem—just quickly before we go, can I ask where you guys have been hanging out on the internet these days? Anything we should all know about?
Loren: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG17TsgV_qI
LY: wow! starfish!
Sierra: http://www.wefeelfine.org/ and http://www.savetheelephants.org/ (Sierra Leone elephants were just wiped out!) - and, for a little more uplifting scientific wonder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
LY: carl sagan electronica. i love it.
Loren: i'm also digging: http://www.hrstudioplus.com/
LY: Quiet Dog Bite Hard. Good place to end…
2 comments:
Could the collaborative authors please recommend a few unique, new illustrated books?
- December 18, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Natalie Lyalin said...
this is delightful interview. good work, you awesome awesome ladies!
- December 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM
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Thoughts on Don Pullen
I read the following at the Don Pullen Memorial which took place in New York City at St. Peter's Church on June 11, 1995. It was an incredible celebration, with many people associated with Don performing, dancing, singing, speaking, and reciting:
I first met Don when he was conducting a master class in Oakland, in the summer of 1990. During the two-hour seminar, he basically proceeded to turn the entire audience, many of whom were distinguished jazz teachers and performers as well as students, completely on its head in terms of how they thought about music. Here was somebody, I found, who instead of, for example, focusing on which scale sounded good with which chord, and on the right way to approach a voicing, was dealing with *concept* on an almost cosmic level. He talked about the relationship between playing "outside" versus "in", and how you could combine the two, not just over time during a solo, but often at the same time, between the two hands. He told people to not be afraid to take chances; to always search for something new and to not be afraid of what you might end up with. And all in all he came across as a sincerely warm, caring, and totally dedicated and serious individual. After volunteering to play for him during that class, he accepted me as his student, and I began a two-year teacher-student relationship with him which was the most inspiring and important of my entire life.
Don became not only a teacher to me during that period but a mentor and role model as well. Almost as eye-opening as his comments on music conception were simply his comments on life; on the music business, its ups and downs, and how to deal with them psychologically and on a practical level. And when it came time for me to begin to play out in the "real world", Don was the first to recommend me to others; in fact, I first met both saxophonist David Murray and violinist Billy Bang, both of whom I now work with regularly, on a tour Don insisted I take when he was unable to do it himself.
In short, all I can say is that Don was one of those rare creative geniuses who could inspire others not only through his music, but through the example he set as a human being. He will be deeply missed."
- Mar/95
My liner notes for the David Murray-led Tribute to Don Pullen album:
This album was a special project for all of us because each of our lives was touched by Don in distinct and very important ways. I was a student of Don's for the two most formative years of my musical development. When I first met him at a master class in the summer of 1990, I already knew the musical approach I was taking was "different" from those I heard around me. But since I was coming from a more rigid, formalized musical background, it was a revelation to meet someone whose approach to music was so radically open-minded. Don, essentially, courted and tamed chaos; at times teasing and cajoling it, at other times walking with it arm in arm, and on many occasions simultaneously pairing right-hand abandon with left-hand calm. But in whatever lessons Don taught, there were always a couple of recurring, fundamental themes: to not be afraid to take chances and, in fact, to seek out and embrace the unknown; and to always search for your own, sincere inner voice, expressed through both improvisation and original composition. These are important lessons, perhaps now more timely than ever in this "young lion" age. And while such pursuits are certainly lifelong affairs, hopefully we have done some justice to Don's vision on this date by paying tribute not by directly imitating his style or approach to tunes but through an honest commenting on his life and music, with our own, personal voices. For this date I also brought in two of my own compositions, written back when I was a student of Don's: "Easy Alice" (the title of which is a play on Don's famous tune "Big Alice"); and "Out of a Storm". I hope you enjoy "The Long Goodbye".


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It seems that people are very very serious about their love of all things Batman. Oddly enough (or as per usual?), critics are receiving death threats after their not-so-positive reviews of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
Marshall Fine, a film critic who posted his review of the Batman finale, received death threats on Rotten Tomatoes and on his website, Hollywood and Fine, which crashed due to high traffic.
"I guess to me it crosses a line if someone shows up on my front step," said Fine about film fanatics.
Also, Rotten Tomatoes had to shut down the comments on its site due to the heavy traffic and their inability to control the slew of comments.
"The job of policing the comments became more than my staff could handle for that film, so we stopped the comments altogether," explained the site's editor Matt Atchity. "It just got to be too much hate based on reactions to reviews of movies that people hadn't even seen."
Fans are not only upset about the unfavorable reviews, but they're also fuming over the movie spoilers.
"We may do away with comments completely or get to a place where comments are only activated after a movie opens," said Atchity.
Fine described parts of the movie as "nonsensical" and Roger Ebert writes that the first half was confusing: "… in the first half of the film during which, frankly, I was not entirely sure who was doing what and with which and to whom."
So far, The Dark Night Rises scored 86 percent "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie premieres on July 20 (like you didn't already know).


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