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The Church of England is unfit for the purpose for which it primarily exists. For me, the prime purpose of the church is to witness to the unconditional, infinite, intimate love of God and embody the teaching of Jesus that all are called to life, life in all its fullness, and to be open to grace, to the presence of spirit in all creation.
I think the church is unfit for purpose because at the moment it fails to place witness to the unconditional love of God front and centre of teaching and mission.
The purpose of priestly ministry
I participated in one of the many ordination services taking place last weekend, this one for the ordination of priests. I became aware during the service that I found much of the content about the role and duties of a priest, and by extension, the purpose of the church, uncomfortable, unhelpful, and contrary to my understanding of the essence of priestly ministry in the church, a Bible-based understanding honed through ministry and my commitment to contemplative prayer.
The purpose of priestly ministry expressed in the ordination service is, among other objectives, to bring people to know Christ, to seek out the lost, to teach the truth and rebuke error, to pray, to lead worship, to preside at communion, and to maintain orthodoxy and tradition - to conform, control, and discipline.
In contrast, I think the role of a priest is to help people discover, in the words of my spiritual director, the God they already know. It is to help people discover within themselves the light of Christ, the unconditional, infinite, intimate love that is innate, infused into the heart and soul of every human being. Many seem to be unaware of the divine presence in their core, while others seem to have a natural affinity with their divine centre. The priestly role is to help people discover and nurture within themselves and their community Jesus' most profound truth that he has come that we may have life, life in all its fullness. This teaching in John 1.10 flows through the Gospels and Epistles. This teaching doesn't come easily to human beings because we are all wounded and carry the scars of anxiety and insecurity, lost awareness and confidence. Many of us compensate well for the wounds we carry.
The message of unconditional love and fullness of life
I rarely hear the church proclaiming the gospel message of God's unconditional love. All too often hear the church reiterating the message of God's conditional love, love dependent on our recognition of our sinfulness and our readiness to confess, turn to Christ, and conform to church teachings and rules. Almost never do I witness the church teaching people how to live into fullness of life.
The Christian faith as taught and practised is compromised by human failings and weakness. The church is addicted to practices and habits that Jesus warned his followers about. Jesus repeatedly confronted the leaders of his faith community with the urgent need for radical reform of their teaching and practice. He warned them about their addictions to power and control, false authority and self-importance. He warned them about institutional religion and the dangers of misguided tradition, legalism, and the elevation of systems and institutions above grace and open access to God's free gift of life and love.
Abuse of the Bible
Abuse in the church is justified by abuse of the Bible, using texts inappropriately or out of context or in ways contrary to the teaching of Jesus. The church has to come to terms with and change the ways in which the Bible is misused and abused. Ideas about the nature of God and God's authority and power and the Lordship of Christ are used by fundamentalists and others with a weak grasp of the essence of Jesus' teaching, to justify the abuse of people. A member of General Synod has this week justified the use of reparative therapy for lesbian and gay people. This therapy is in no way reparative but abusive, justified by an abusive misuse of Biblical texts. There are many other ways in which bishops, priests and Christian leaders misuse so-called biblical teaching to justify abusive leadership styles and patterns of behaviour.
The church is systemically abusive
One result of the church having such an inadequate and often flawed understanding of its core purpose is that at the moment, the Church of England is systemically abusive, and I mean the whole institution, from bishops and archbishops, the House of Bishops, the Archbishops' Council, to suffragan bishops and archdeacons and rural deans, to dioceses and deaneries and parishes and parish clergy and lay leaders and volunteers.
Throughout the church there are outstanding examples of Christian witness and ministry, dedicated, costly, loving, self-effacing and creative. But in the past weeks and months I have experienced the most horrendous, scandalous examples of abuse, abuse of which the perpetrators seem unaware and the victims too fearful and compliant to report what has or is happening to them. The system works to suppress reporting of abuse by persuading people to collude in the idea that they would be betraying the church and contaminating the purity of the gospel.
We know from the reports into the abuse of children and young people that the institution habitually disbelieves the victims and sides with the abuser, who is trusted above the abused person because of their status and authority within the church. Often abusers are charismatic, highly respected people held in awe within the church. We still don't properly understand how dangerous this cult of charismatic personality is.
The church now has in place safeguarding systems that should provide much better protection for people and ensure that the potential for sexual abuse is significantly curtailed. The abuse I am witnessing is not sexual abuse, however, but emotional, spiritual and psychic abuse. It is as equally traumatising and damaging as sexual abuse and the abuse of children.
Abuse of LGBTI people
The most obvious abuse that I witness is the abuse of LGBTI people. We who identify as LGBTI members of the Church of England, lay and ordained, often tolerate abuse, whether of ourselves or other people, because the call to faith and ministry in the church outweighs the negative side effects. The longer the House of Bishops prevaricates and fails to make progress on changing church teaching and practice (and I've been witness to this process for over thirty years now), the more intolerable the abusive attitude to LGBTI people becomes. The result has been the enforced departure from the church of many of my closest and most deeply spiritual and inspiring friends and colleagues.
Relationship and marriage equality
LGBTI people are abused by the lack of courage in the House of Bishops to approve teaching that enable lesbian and gay clergy couples to marry, legalise their relationships and express love in intimacy, and teaching that enables couples, lay and ordained, to be blessed in church and ultimately to be married in church. The current, abusive practice results in gay couples leaving the church to pursue their spiritual life in a more affirming, nourishing environment. Gay clergy are abused when we are denied a licence or permission to officiate or told that having married, we will never be given another post in the church. We are abused by the tolerance of bishops for organisations promoting and practicing reparative, as if being gay is a sickness to be healed. We are abused every time homophobic teaching is expressed in a sermon. We are abused when bishops tolerate or collude with clergy who teach against homosexuality. All this is abusive, systemically abusive.
Abuse of women and those with disabilities
Whenever I write about the abuse of LGBTI people in church, women and people with disabilities write to remind me or tell me that they too continue to experience prejudice and abuse, those with disabilities telling me that their experience is at least equal to mine, if not worse. I'm sure the same is true for many women, who silently endure abuse for the sake of their ministry and the gospel.
Individuals, lay and ordained, men and women, heterosexual and gay, single and married, young and old, are abused in the church by bishops and clergy who take power and control to themselves and make unreasonable and unrealistic demands, and in so doing, erode people's dignity, self-confidence, and wisdom, undermining their confidence in who they are as people created in the image of God and loved by God unconditionally, infinitely and intimately. This is the nature of the abuse I have encountered most recently and it as deeply damaging in its effect and as difficult to report as the abuse of children and young adults.
Abusive behaviour has become systemic in the Church of England. Abuse has become normative in part because of the immature, sometimes infantile level of theology and exegesis taught and preached in churches. Recently, I have heard of children being taught that the world was created by God 6,000 years ago and that the devastating floods two years ago might have been sent by God to punish people for their sin and wickedness.
Fear of reporting abuse
Much abuse is tolerated or endured out of deference to authority figures. People fear there will be repercussions if they talk or complain about what has happened or report the abuse. Some rightly fear they will not be believed. Much abuse goes unnoticed because it is taken as justified by biblical teaching or by the authority bestowed by God on those called to leadership.
Time for action
I feel distressed and very angry. I wonder what effect the blog will have. Will it be treated with the kind of indifference bishops and an archbishop showed to those who were being abused by Bishop Peter Ball? I hope those of you reading this will be jolted into taking abuse far more seriously and that you will become more aware of the abuse that you have experienced, witnessed, or that has been reported to you. I hope archbishops and bishops and clergy will be shocked into an awareness that leads ultimately to action and a total change of culture in the church.
A church not fit for Christian purpose
I am now very clear that as a result of its practice and the effects of its teaching, the Church of England is at the moment not fit for the purpose it exists for. The House of Bishops is primarily responsible for this. I hope a movement will follow to better understand the nature of abuse, how and why it happens and how it can be identified and dealt with. We are all fallible and human and have the capacity to abuse others.
The duty of love and care
The church has a duty of care to those it employs and to those to whom it offers a path to deepen their experience of the holy and sacred in life. It has a duty not to manipulate or abuse people. It has a duty above all to teach and practice in ways that enable people to discover the God of unconditional, infinite, intimate love, God immersed in creation through the flow of the spirit and revealed in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, the way, the truth and the shepherd who, when we enable people to be open to the call, leads us into life in all its fullness.
Jesus opened the scroll and found the passage which says,
'The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me;
he has sent me to announce good news to the poor,
to proclaim release for prisoners,
and recover of sight for the blind;
to let the broken victims go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.'
In choosing this passage from Isaiah Jesus identified the essence of his ministry. Jesus radically re-centred people's attention of God in their midst, as personal, tender, loving, nurturing, creative, subtly transforming life and love. Our church is failing to announce good news, release prisoners from abuse, recover sight to testify to abuse, and is entrapping rather than freeing victims. The Church of England is at the moment not fit for the purpose of modelling healthy, Christ-centred ministry.

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Nashville's upper tier of studios is stabilizing after a long round of consolidation, but the city's baseline of facilities is growing again. Engineers and producers have shown an entrepreneurial streak and are carving out niches in response to the demand for different types of studios. Luke Wooten had a mostly personal-use studio called The Station in the Cummins station office complex in downtown Nashville for several years, when an unfortunate lightning strike chased off another would-be studio owner from a facility in progress in the Berry Hill section of Nashville. Wooten was able to pick up the studio, Soundscape, designed by Mike Cronin, and for the past two years has been completing it, developing it as both a commercial for-hire facility and as a base for his own production and engineering work, which recently has included engineering records for Richard Marx and Bob Seger.
Station West, as it's now called, has a sizable main studio fitted with a Trident 80B and Pro Tools. Wooten outfitted the B studio with one of the three beta models of the now-discontinued Otari Advanta digital console and a RADAR II system.
Rate-wise, at $800 for the main rooms and half that for the B studio, Wooten is realistic that he's not going to make the bulk of his living from the studio. "That's why I think this facility can work by being both commercial and my own base of operations," says the Belmont University music program graduate. "You don't want to go up against the few studios in Nashville that can get $2,500 a day. You can't compete with them. So you pick cost-effective but good-sounding technology that works for you and that the market seems to like, and you try to achieve a balance between your own work and renting it to clients. I think you can have it both ways, as long as you're realistic about what it is you want to do, and as long as you have something that can keep generating income, like your own career."
Recently, I received e-mail from Chip Woody, who owns Industrial Fire & Safety in downtown Nashville, a fire extinguisher business (on Ash Street, no less) above which he built Pro Bono Studios. Equipped with a pair of Yamaha 02R digital mixers, Tascam DA-88s and Digidesign Pro Tools|24 MIXPlus, the studio has a 24x26 tracking room and a 10x15 iso booth, designed by Cronin associates Rick Perry and Mark Winter.
Woody, who has been pursuing a songwriting career on the side for many years, is candid about the fact that, while music is a passionate vocation of his, he's in the studio business incidentally, not intentionally. "I lucked out in terms of getting a great-sounding room, no doubt," he says. "But this was really something I did for myself and used in off-hours. It just turns out that a few people have stopped by and heard it and wound up renting it because they liked the equipment and the sound and vibe." What had been a sideline and personal pursuit is slowly but almost inevitably turning into a business. Woody is discussing hiring an engineer to operate the studio during the day while he tends to his other business.
Woody readily agrees that it not so much the affordability of the digital technology that he uses as much as its accessibility that has made him into a studio owner. "It's not intimidating equipment," he says. "It would have been another story if it was a huge console. But this stuff is very accessible to me and to a lot of clients."
Woody even engineers his own sessions and sessions for others, having learned the craft by necessity. And that, too, is a by-product of the generation of equipment that has radically altered the studio business. Everyone can have a studio, and everyone, it seems, does.
During country music's boom years between '92 and '95, Nashville was relatively untouched (perhaps I should say "unscathed") by the project studio phenomenon. For the most part, the business here preferred the traditional way of making records: You rented studios when you needed them, and you hired engineers to record artists, who recorded songs written by songwriters. Everyone had a place and a purpose, and the machine chugged along like clockwork.
What's going on along Nashville's studio baseline at the moment illustrates the larger phenomenon of increased and widespread accessibility to the tools of making music. There is no good or bad to this landscape; it's the inevitable progression of what technology does to any art or craft.
However, there's still a bit of the Old South left in the studio business in Nashville. Come on down and see it while it lasts.


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Open' banners more common in downtown Lititz In case you haven't noticed, downtown Lititz is bustling with activity these days. It can be a Tuesday afternoon or a Thursday morning when the streets are packed, parking lots...
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Amid the controversy, a message heard
There was plenty of debate leading up to last week's abstinence program at Warwick High School. In the end, it boiled down to a message, and those who heard it seemed to appreciate it. International speaker Pam...
- Posted November 25, 2014
Usher rehearses at Temple two days after Rock Lititz closure.
Pop star Usher made last-minute arrangements with Temple University to prepare for his tour just days after Rock Lititz Studio announced it had moved its first client to "another venue." It's been widely reported that the Usher...
- Posted November 25, 2014
For the birds: Blujay to play T-Day eve to benefit Power Packs
Music listeners know what it's like to be hearing a jam so intense, so long, so epic, that you find yourself thinking … is this still the same song? Rock legends play songs that have not only...
- Posted November 25, 2014
Harclerode, King wed at Lititz Moravian Church
Kristine Ann Harclerode and Andrew Norman King were married in Lititz on August 16. Kristine is the daughter of Paul and Kathleen Harclerode, of Lancaster. She is a 2003 graduate of Manheim Township High School, and obtained...
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Births – Nov. 27, 2014
CRUZ, Ezequiel and Krista (Harnish), Lititz, a daughter, at Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center, Nov. 20. DOTSON, Victoria, and Bradley Wagner, Lititz, a daughter, at Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center, Nov. 15. FRAGOSA, Melanie and...
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Triple fowl — TurDucken: three layers of meaty Thanksgiving goodness
A three-peat of personality, a trifecta of flavor, a triple-play of perfection… a smoky cornbread layered cornucopia of conspicuous consumption. To you Pilgrim, I give, TurDucken. Grilled. When enough isn't and when on the most American of...
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Robert 'Chip' Martin, 95, WWII vet, Wilbur Chocolate VP of manufacturing, Rotarian, philatelist
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The Federal Election Commission ruled Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert's super political action committee may raise and spend unlimited funds while also receiving airtime from his network, Comedy Central, but it avoided a broader expansion of airtime donations.
Colbert — who has renamed his PAC Americans for Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow — has managed to turn the debate about campaign spending limits into a comedy routine as well as an important legal precedent.
He said little during the FEC's open meeting but then walked outside to a crowd of fans to proclaim: "We won!"
The FEC seemed to reach an agreement before the meeting, with five of the six commissioners voting in favor of an advisory opinion that grants Colbert his press exemption request and makes Viacom's airtime exempt from contribution limits and disclosure.
The agreement left the frequently deadlocked agency with little to debate on one of the FEC's highest-profile decisions of the year. Republican Donald McGahn was the only commissioner to vote against the measure, because he favored an interpretation that was less restrictive of both Colbert PAC and Viacom.
"Stephen Colbert is a funny man, but he asked a legitimate question and received a serious answer," wrote Democratic FEC Chairwoman Cynthia Bauerly in a statement following the meeting. "The opinion adopted today does not give him everything he asked for, but it appropriately applies the press exemption consistent with past Commission and court precedent."
The press exemption granted by the FEC to Viacom and Colbert PAC exempts all costs related to the Colbert Report's advertisements and productions from disclosure. But any ads produced by Viacom for other networks or programs would have to be disclosed based on the FEC opinion.
The FEC meeting room, which normally has many vacant chairs, was filled to capacity with TV cameras, reporters and onlookers. But the commissioners did not engage Colbert directly and instead directed questions to his lawyer, former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter.
Colbert did not hint at his opinion of Citizen's United or other campaign finance issues that are being debated during the proceedings. But he may have shed light on his beliefs about disclosure following the event.
"Some people have cynically asked, 'Is this some kind of joke?'" Colbert said in a back-and-forth with a crowd of approximately 200 fans. "I do have one federal election law joke if you'd like to hear it."
Colbert: "Knock, knock."
Crowd: "Who's there?"
Colbert: "Unlimited union and corporate campaign contributions."
Crowd: "Unlimited union and corporate campaign contributions who?"
Colbert: "That's the thing, I don't think I should have to tell you."
Correction: July 1, 2011
An earlier version of this story misstated the position of Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, on the Federal Election Commission decision. Wertheimer has no objection to the FEC ruling in the Colbert case.


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From planning on what type of tree to working together as a team, it was a day to treasure!
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Why did you choose Lancaster University?
I chose Lancaster because the Management School has an outstanding reputation and excellent links to the commercial environment which will prove beneficial when applying for graduate jobs. Additionally the collegiate system attracted me because it created a community atmosphere on campus which I believe was unrivalled at any other university that I visited.
What do you feel is the best aspect of studying at Lancaster University?
The sheer scale of opportunities that are presented to you as a student here is by far the best aspect about being a Lancaster student. The opportunities to study abroad, start your own society or join in with others are plentiful.. They even have provisions to help you start your own business!
What's best about the social life at Lancaster?
The social life here is very active. Almost every night of the week you have options of where to venture out to.
How does Lancaster University provide you with support, advice and guidance?
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Maybe she deserved it.
But having her daughter call out her breasts at a party was still somewhat of a shocker for Bonnie Gaster.
"Do you know my mother is 53 years old and she's never had a mammogram?" Gaster's daughter announced at the Tybee Island party in 2000. "I'll take care of that," answered registered nurse, and Gaster's friend and neighbor, Terry Jackson.
Gaster now credits that moment for saving her life.
The day after the party, Jackson scheduled mammograms for the two friends. And when they came due the next year, Jackson scheduled them again. It was that second mammogram that Gaster "flunked," she said.
Her story and 11 others of discovering and surviving breast cancer are on display through the end of the month at the Savannah Mall.
Called "Voices & Faces of Breast Cancer Survivorship Campaign," the public awareness project includes photographs and personal narratives from local women battling the disease.
Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, the campaign also includes 30-second public service announcements featuring the women. The announcement are airing on WSAV-TV throughout the month.
The campaign has become a yearly tradition for the American Cancer Society.
During the summer, the local chapter solicited stories from survivors and selected those capturing a range of ages, class levels and lengths of time since diagnoses.
"We have one lady who is a one-year survivor and another lady who is a 20-year survivor," said Kylene Hartsfield, a manager for the local chapter. "We've had another lady who has had a recurrence five times."
In past years, male survivors have also been featured. About 1 percent of people diagnosed with breast cancer are men, Hartsfield said.
This year's participants were photographed by Savannah photographer Phil Morales at WSAV-TV's studio where they were also interviewed for the television spots.
Six panels featuring the still photos and stories started the month at the Oglethorpe Mall and are now on display at the Savannah Mall. At the end of the month, they will be divided among the five campaign sponsors: South Coast Medical Group, Curtis & Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute, Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, Finger & Associates Plastic Surgery Center and WSAV-TV. Two of the sets will go to Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion.
Gaster learned about the program from a friend who participated in the Voices & Faces campaign.
In Gaster's narrative, the Tybee Realtor described the day her second-ever mammogram revealed a lump.
"I left the hospital; returned to my car; picked up my cell phone and called Terry. All I could say was, 'Thank you for saving my life,'" Gaster said. "She could only cry. She knew what I meant."
In the next weeks, Gaster underwent a surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. She has been in remission since.
Gaster hopes her story can inspire women to take mammograms more seriously.
"I walked around just deaf, dumb and happy thinking this couldn't happen to me (because) there's no history in my family."
"I didn't do it soon enough. I put it off," she said. "But later could never have come."


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Elementary School
Math Kangaroo
Math Kangaroo is a good introduction to math contests - even first graders can participate in it. Also problem difficulty will vary from grade to grade. Registration fee is $20, so cost of entry is reasonably low. After registration, you get access to a Media Library that offers visual solutions for the problems from previous years. The drawback is that you need to find a Math Kangaroo center near you that allows public registration or you need to convince your school to register as a Math Kangaroo private center.
Math Olympiad Division E
Despite an unattractive website, Math Olympiads is a solid program. Students, working individually, participate in 5 contests a year, each contest contains 5 problems. Calculators are not allowed, and each correct problem is scored as 1 point, so top scorers will get 25 points in a year. Individual entries are not allowed, but homeschoolers can register their homeschool for participation. Everything is done "remotely", so you don't have to look for a location near you, you just need to form a team and register for participation. Enrollment is $109 for US schools, and both 4th and 5th graders as well as 6th graders can compete in Division E. Math Olympiad also publishes a "problem of the month" every month, but I don't see the archive, so it looks like only two months are available at any given time. As I said, they have positively the worst web presence for the contests described here.
Middle SchoolBoth Math Olympiad and Math Kangaroo are also available for middle schoolers. Math Olympiad has Divison M for students in grades 6-8, and Math Kangaroo offers different problem sets for each grade.
MATHCOUNTS is specifically a middle school program, and has significant advantages over others, because it allows not just "in school" competitions, but it also has regional, state, and national events. The problem set is shared between grades 6-8, which makes a program ultra-challenging for younger students, but also inspirational in terms of increasing personal best over time. It is also an only program that offers a team event - working in a team is something that budding mathematicians often have difficulty with, so it's certainly worth a look. This will be our main competition program for middle school this year.
AMC8 is also "once-a-year" event and an introduction to the math contests conducted for high school. Just like Math Kangaroo, it's a timed contest where students are offered 30 problems to be solved in 40 minutes. There is a registration cost and a "per-bundle" cost (total of about $90), so it helps to have at least 10 students wanting to take part.
Online Competitions
Paul Erdos International Math Challenge
Also known as Abacus Math, this competition is completely online and completely free. Students in each grade group can send their answers over email or just work on the problems at home and in class. While it's less satisfying as true competition, Abacus Math is a good source of interesting problems for mathematically gifted children.
Your Turn
Have your kids participated in math competitions and do you have any contest to add to my list?
More Math for Kids
From my blog:
- Beyond Common Core: Math for Advanced Learners
- Online Math for Advanced Learners
- 100 Ways to Have Fun with Math at Home
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Vicki Banks was commissioned to sculpt a life-sized harpy eagle for installation at Zoo Miami in 2014. The sculpture is a tribute to the Zoo's involvement in the Harpy Eagle Project in Panama, as well as to conservationist Ron Magill who championed the effort.
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"In 1993, Zoo Miami initiated a relationship with the government of Panama in a collaborative effort to raise awareness about the harpy eagle through a national grass-roots campaign that would eventually result in the species becoming an iconic symbol of that country's natural heritage.
As part of that effort, a world-class center for the harpy eagle was constructed just outside of Panama City in 1998. In 2002, Zoo Miami played a critical role in lobbying the Panamanian government to pass a law officially declaring the harpy eagle as the National Bird of Panama.
On September 22, 2009, Zoo Miami experienced its first successful hatching of a harpy eagle and in honor of this international conservation partnership, the chick was named 'Panama'.
On August 30, 2013, 'Panama' was flown to the Republic of Panama as part of a breeding loan and presented to the people of Panama to live in the Harpy Eagle Center as a symbol of hope for the future of this majestic raptor.
This bronze sculpture of 'Panama' done by artist Vicki Banks was commissioned by The Clinton Family Fund as a tribute to the Harpy Eagle Project in Panama and in honor of Ron Magill whose vision, passion, determination, and leadership were instrumental to its success. 2014"
Vicki's husband Paul Shardlow shows off a job well done, post-installation of this commission: a flock of bronze crows adorning a customer's waterfall.
Vicki Banks incorporated a unique tower of intertwined branches into this commissioned piece, perfectly framing a family of crows who appear to call back and forth to one another from their various perches.
See something you like, but want it mounted on a different base? Didn't find your favorite animal represented here in bronze? Have an idea for a piece you would like Vicki Banks to create? Contact her today to inquire about commissions by calling (818) 720-0080 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com !


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Facebook's Delfina Elberly presented on Facebook's Optimizing the Data Center.
Keynote: Optimizing Data Center Operations
It's time to recognize that making data center operations more efficient greatly reduces OPEX, increases internal customer satisfaction, and increases employee satisfaction and retention. Facebook has developed a wide range of tools and systems to measure the status and reliability of data center hardware; automate repair processes; deploy staff more effectively; and perform a variety of other functions that help it run one of the most efficient server fleets in the world. In this talk, Facebook data center operations director Delfina Eberly will describe how Facebook addresses operations challenges, with a focus on best practices and systems that can help you unlock more efficiencies.
This slide has concepts shared.
Another concept shared is focusing on service.
The majority of tools are developed in house, except asset tracking.
For those of you who are curious what Asset Tracking system Facebook uses Delfina didn't say what the software is. Should you buy the same software as Facebook uses for asset tracking. Unfortunately, unless you are running 100,000 servers and making your own servers and servicing them yourselves like Facebook their software stack may not make sense.
I preface these points because don't run out and grab a copy of Oracle Agile unless you are prepared to build you own servers with BOM discipline. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Dell need Agile, most of you don't.
Delfina presented great concepts though that are good for optimizing a data center. And I agree with the points Delfina made. The hard part is executing with software. I know how to do this, and how to build it given I have a client ask how to do product lifecycle management in the data center three years ago. And, I've been crawling through a bunch of the issues to do this for years. Disclosure: my brother works on the Oracle Agile product and it was Facebook employees who have said they use Agile, not my brother.
Delfina closed with a point that also describes the approach we use to transform operations.
Operations has a huge opportunity to be transformed. Can you see the future? "The Transformation of Operations" is coming.


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The stone arrangement of an old, simple architecture house dating back to 1870 and the owners' need to feel the nature daily, set the foundations for a design that lets the sound of rain, the first rays of the sun and the full moon of August inside the house.Stone, metal and glass are used as structural components. These are materials from different ages used by the architectural team in areas reflecting different ages respectively. We see the stone with the red soil joints only in the old house that todayconstitutes the reception area of the dwelling. The glass forms the new walls collecting the rays of the sun in the bedrooms and separating the bathrooms, while the metal connects the old with the new by means of bridges.And since nature was our objective, the dining room was placed in the middle of the garden, in a patio which gradually opens up during the summer by means of five glass sheets for each one of the five months, May-June-July-August and September.Because of the small plot size, the circulation between buildings is developed in horizontal and vertical manner via a wooden corridor and three iron staircases.The plants chosen are from the Cretan nature as is the locust tree in the dining room casting its shade on the table during the summer months, while the aromatic garden on the first floor releases essential oils in the bedrooms for a light sleep.Thus, the owners' goal was achieved. A house Inside the city that makes you feel that you are Outside in nature.
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text: Ajay Devgan's superbike seized by Revenue Intelligence for evasion of duty February 28, 2009 Robert Mull Masala 0 Ajay Devgan has been in the news of late thanks to his upcoming films Rajneeti and newly announced All The Best. However, this time he isn't making the headlines for any of his films. Instead it is the actor's imported bike that has drawn not just ours but also the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence's attention towards the star. In a massive sweep to check the duty evasion that is rampant on imported superbikes, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence cracked down on the owners of such bikes who have evaded the payment of duty by importing the bikes as parts. This evasion is blatantly visible as the bikes in question are clearly visible on the streets, but the reports fail to show any mention about them. Devgan's bike isn't the only set of wheels connected to the world of glitz. Also under the scanner is the bike of filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, though the filmmaker says that his papers were clear and that his mobike hadn't been seized. As for Devgan, reportedly, he has offered to pay the amount that is due.


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Intranasal Administration of a Prokinetic for Bowel Evacuation in Persons With SCI (IN NEO)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00855283
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 4, 2009
Last Update Posted : July 24, 2013
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DWE (difficulty with evacuation) is a common and an important quality of life issue after spinal cord injury. Not only is the management DWE time-consuming and unpleasant, but the results are often suboptimal in terms of complications such as incontinence and impaction. Bowel care regimens after spinal cord injury have not changed in any significant fashion in many years. The usual strategies for attaining bowel evacuation involve dietary manipulation (e.g., high fiber diets and hydration), thrice weekly laxative administration (senna and cascara) and thrice weekly anorectal instillation of cathartics (enemas and suppositories). Bowel care can be quite time consuming (greater than 2 hours in many instances) and may also require extensive nursing care. Finally, incomplete evacuation could contribute to fecal incontinence that has significant morbidity in these patients.
In preliminary studies performed at the JJPVAMC, IV, IM, and subcutaneous injection of neostigmine combined with glycopyrrolate were demonstrated to be highly effective to promote bowel evacuation in the SCI population. In an effort to provide a more realistic administration of this procedure, we propose to test the intranasal spray injection of neostigmine and glycopyrrolate for safety and efficacy.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: IN NEO Drug: IN NEO + IN Glycopyrrolate Drug: IV Visit
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Intranasal Administration of Neostigmine and Glycopyrrolate for Bowel Evacuation
|Study Start Date :
|September 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2013
Experimental: Arm 1
Drug: IN NEO
20 mg Neostigmine via intranasal and sublingual administration
Drug: IN NEO
40 mg Neostigmine via intranasal administration
Drug: IN NEO
60 mg Neostigmine via intranasal administration
Drug: IN NEO + IN Glycopyrrolate
Intranasal or sublingual Neostigmine (at effective dose: 20, 40, or 60 mg) + 4-12 mg intranasal or sublingual Glycopyyrolate
Drug: IV Visit
2mg NEO and .4mg GLY given intravenously to see if the subject responds to the intervention. If they respond, then they will proceed to the IN portion of the study.
- Bowel evacuation [ Time Frame: <60 min ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 89 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Incomplete or complete SCI
- Tetraplegia or paraplegia
- Males or females
- Age 18 (no upper age limit)
- Excess time for bowel evacuation (> 60 minutes per bowel training session)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Persons with SCI who do not require do not require additional bowel care or have "normal bowel function"
- Known hypersensitivity to neostigmine or glycopyrrolate
- History of mechanical obstruction of the intestine or urinary tract.
- Myocardial infarction within less than 6 months of trial.
- Hemodynamic instability
- Potential for pregnancy. (Women who are sexually active and of childbearing potential (i.e. not surgically sterile or at least 2 year postmenopausal) must be have a negative serum pregnancy test and to have utilized one of the following methods of contraception prior to screening: barrier (condom, diaphragm with spermicide) intrauterine device, or tubal ligation beginning at least 30 days prior; hormonal (oral, injectable, transdermal, or implanted) beginning at least 3 months prior; or vasectomized partner for at least the prior 6 months. Subjects must agree to maintain these contraceptive methods through the completion of the study.)
- Lactating/nursing females
- Patients who develop significant bradycardia (HR<42 bpm) or other significant anticholinergic symptoms (e.g., severe cramps, dry mouth, etc.) any time during the study will be discontinued.
- Concurrent participation in other clinical trials (within 30 days).
- Use of concurrent medications that affect cardiac output (e.g. tricyclics, beta blockers, etc.)
- Fluctuating use of concurrent medications (should be stable for 3-4 weeks before and no changes anticipated throughout the study).
- History of reduced cardiac output (via history and ECG) in addition to myocardial infarction and hemodynamic instability.
- Concurrent history of peripheral vascular disease, kidney disease, etc.
- Asthma or other broncho-constrictive disorders.
- Hemoglobin level < 12 g/dL
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00855283
|United States, New York
|VA Medical Center, Bronx
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10468
|Principal Investigator:
|Mark A. Korsten, MD
|VA Medical Center, Bronx
|Responsible Party:
|US Department of Veterans Affairs
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00855283 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
KOR-11-018 ( Other Identifier: James J. Peters VA Medical Center )
|First Posted:
|March 4, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 24, 2013
|Last Verified:
|July 2013
Cholinesterase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Cholinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Adjuvants, Anesthesia
Muscarinic Antagonists
Cholinergic Antagonists


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Overview of Web Development Process
This section outlines the overall steps that may be involved in the web development process. The detailed agreement above outlines a specific subset of these items. Additional items may be contracted later at the client's discretion.
Enter into Written Agreement
Register Necessary Domain Names
Include variations to minimize pirates
Create Site Map and Navigation Flow
Lay Out Site With Copy and Graphics Placement
Client approval of copy and layout
Design Web Site That Maximizes Sales Conversion Rate
Solid design elements—custom title bar, background, typestyle, layout, borders, logo
Secure shopping cart
Order now buttons throughout site
Privacy policy statement
Email registration form
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Shipping confirmation emails
Order tracking capability for customers if shipped via UPS
Provides useful information
Highlight terms of guarantee
Contact information at bottom of every page
Liberal return policy
Navigation bars at bottom
Mouse-over buttons feature
Go deep with two clicks
Navigation bar works with graphics turned off
Navigation bar with no more than nine links
Easy ordering process
Links are easily seen and easily understood
Readable text
No frames
Search Engine Maximization to Increase Traffic
Define several additional keyword strings and place in proper meta tag format on site
Register Keyword strings
Perform free registrations
Determine, Design and Implement Phase 2 Enhancements
Exciting promotion
Paid search engine registration and pay-per-click search engine buying
Offer additional products
12. Email Campaigns to Increase Traffic
Determine which email lists match your customer profile
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Implement test
Measure response
13. Newsletter Ad Campaigns to Increase Traffic
Determine which newsletters reach target your customer
Develop copy and offer for newsletter ad
Run several test ads
Set up special URL pages for each newsletter
Implement test
Measure response
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My friend Cate and I were out to dinner the other night and got to chatting about the things that we prefer to make at home instead of buying at the store. Our lists included the usual suspects. Jam. Granola. Hummus. It was only when I threw in "toaster pastries" did Cate laugh in my face. Lovingly of course.
What? Toaster pastries aren't on everyone's list? Maybe it's just me. I'd definitely rather buy my chicken stock and use the extra time for homemade toaster pastries. But that's another blog post all together.
This week I want to tell you about something else you can make at home instead buying it at the store. Pocky! It's the one food on a stick (more like food as a stick) that I can get behind. (I never warmed to cake pops.) My preferred Pocky scenario includes either a trip to the movies or a good book and my cozy couch. The thing is, they aren't always easy find. Thank goodness a homemade version is simple to make.
So when you're done making the granola and the hummus this week, and you'd like to try something else, hop over to Food52 for the recipe.


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PIcking who you want to be in your bridal party can be exciting, or terrifying, depending on how you look at iti
You have that one friend who absolutely has to be on the list, and the one family member who's always been there for you...
But then you have the five other friends who you consider family, and the family members who you consider less than friends.
What do you do? How do you do it so that no one ends up hurt?
Choosing Bridesmaids
Step Number One: Think about it...think about it A LOT. Of course, you'll know who you want to stand beside you on the greatest day of your life. You've know for quite a few years who will be with you when you say "I Do." But, even though you know who that one person will be, you need to stop and just let it simmer for a while. Really think about who you want to stand beside you. Write their names down and review the list many times before you make your final decision.
Step Number Two: Determine how involved you want them to be in your wedding and wedding planning. Will they all be there drinking champaigne as you choose your wedding dress? Will they help with invitations, decorations and more? Or, on the flip side, are you simply looking for the girls to throw you an amazing bachlorette party and stand by you on your wedding day. The expectations that you have for your bridemaids will help you determine who to ask.
Step Number Three: We all have those family members who, out of respect, have to be in the wedding party. Hopefully you're close with your brothers and sisters, but if not it would still be a wonderful gesture to have them in your wedding. In Gilbert, at least, family is everything. And so, it's the right thing to do...have them in your wedding.
Step Number Four: Don't ask someone to be in your wedding simply because they had you in their wedding. That was their wedding, and this is your wedding.
Step Number Five: Consider other roles for those friends and family who you just couldn't add to your bridesmaid list. You don't want feelings to get hurt, but they also need to understand that this is your wedding and many of the deciding factors depend on the wedding budget. So, if someone is going to feel left out because they weren't asked to be a bridesmaid, have them take on another role...perhaps usher, or DJ, or speech writer...consider other roles that are truly important.
Choosing the right wedding party can be tough. Sit on it for a while, think about it, talk it over with your partner, and do what's best for you...it's your wedding


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An effort by two conservative billionaires to take over The Los Angeles Times and seven other newspapers is setting off a firestorm of opposition here. Public employee unions, the leaders of the State Legislature and liberal advocacy groups are moving to block the sale, denouncing it as a threat to public workers and Democratic Party issues.
Ten public employee unions on Thursday sent a letter to the largest shareholder in the Tribune Company, which owns the newspapers, urging it not to sell to the billionaires, David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch. The Kochs have championed legislative efforts to cut public pension benefits and the power of public unions, notably in Wisconsin.
About one-quarter of the assets held by Oaktree Capital Management, the leading shareholder in the Tribune Company, comes from public employee pension fund investments, and labor leaders, looking to exert influence on Oaktree, signaled they would press to withdraw the funds if the sale went through.
(Read More: News Corp's Cash for Spinoff Raises Acquisition Potential)
"The sale of the Tribune Company's newspaper assets would provide the Koch brothers a powerful and influential platform by which to promote, at both the local, state and federal level, that enactment of their anti-public pension fund policies," the unions said in a letter to Bruce Karsh, who is president of Oaktree Capital Management and chairman of the Tribune board of directors. It said that the Koch brothers had a history of orchestrating efforts that are "anti-labor, anti-environment, anti-public education and anti-immigrant."
The prospect that the Koch brothers, notorious in Democratic circles for their heavy financing of conservative candidates and causes, could run The Los Angeles Times has struck a nerve in this liberal corner of the country. The Times, if somewhat diminished by the cuts it has suffered over the years, remains a powerful influence in public life here and its existence is integral to the modern history of Los Angeles.
The resistance is not only here. In Chicago on Wednesday, demonstrators protested outside the headquarters of The Chicago Tribune, which is also owned by the Tribune Company, about the possibility of a Koch takeover.
More from the New York Times:
Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers
Koch Brothers Plan More Political Involvement for Their Conservative Network
F.C.C. Shift May Thwart a Murdoch Media Deal
The effort is at an early stage — no formal bids have been submitted — and the Koch brothers face competition from, among others, a team of Los Angeles business leaders, including Eli Broad, the philanthropist, and Austin Beutner, a business executive and former deputy mayor. Officials behind the campaign said they were moving quickly in hopes of discouraging the Koch brothers from proceeding with their plans, which come after an election campaign in which they spent millions of dollars in largely unsuccessful efforts to elect conservative candidates.
Melissa Cohlmia, a spokeswoman for the Koch companies, declined to comment on the protests. "We respect the independence of the journalistic institutions referenced in today's news stories, but it is our longstanding policy not to comment on deals or rumors of deals we may or may not be exploring," she said. A spokesman for Mr. Karsh also declined to comment.
The two Democratic leaders of the State Legislature — Darrell Steinberg, the president pro tem of the Senate, and John A. Pérez, the speaker of the Assembly — announced on Wednesday that they would oppose the sale. Both men control seats on the boards of California's major pension funds.
"Newspapers are public trusts, and I think it is wrong for The Los Angeles Times to end up in the hands of two people who have such a pronounced rigid ideology on a whole host of issues," Mr. Steinberg said in an interview. Mr. Pérez, in a statement, said he was "deeply concerned about media outlets being purchased to further a political agenda."
(Read More: DirecTV Brings Tribune Clash to the FCC)
A liberal advocacy group, the Courage Campaign, bought advertisements to run in The Los Angeles Times on Thursday urging readers to cancel their subscriptions if the Tribune Company agrees to sell the newspaper to "the right-wing Koch Brothers." More than 1,000 people have pledged to cancel their subscriptions, said Rick Jacobs, the head of the campaign. while 110,000 have signed petitions opposing the sale.
"The LAT has a long and storied past of publishers taking it in various directions," Mr. Jacobs said in an e-mail. "The Kochs are much more likely to end journalism as we know it. They are likely to stop coverage of climate change or skew it. They will almost certainly change the way the LAT covers state politics, especially ballot measures."
A red-on-black poster — "No Koch Hate in LA: Stop the Koch takeover of the L.A. Times" — went out on Wednesday urging people to turn out for a rally next Tuesday in front of Mr. Karsh's office here.
"The Koch brothers would use the newspaper in an extremist and ideological way," said María Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, A.F.L.-C.I.O. "And I'm saying that even though I believe the current L.A. Times is not particularly labor friendly."
Should the Koch brothers proceed with their efforts, and draw on their considerable financial assets to try to push rivals off the field, shareholders in the Tribune Company, including Oaktree and JPMorgan Chase & Company, might be hard-pressed to refuse a deal that would be seen as in the best financial interest of the company. The union leaders, in their letter to Oaktree, argued that the cost of selling to the Kochs, in the form of losing the investments of the pension funds, would be as fiscally irresponsible.
"For those people whose retirement savings are invested in public pension funds, selling the Tribune Company's newspapers to the Koch brothers so they could in turn use it to advance specific policies adverse to the retirement security of working people, would be akin to agreeing to selling your car to a buyer who you know wants to buy the car so they can run you over," the letter said.


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2017 has gotten off to a banging start with another award nomination - we've been nominated for the Luxury Travel Guide for the second year in a row!
We are very grateful to be nominated again. While it's always very rewarding to be recognized for our work, to be officially recognized for it does make it even sweeter!
Thank you to our team for their remarkable service and attention to quality and detail. Thank you to all of our guests, past present and future, for their support and enthusiasm for Roatan Divers. Thank you to Roatan for providing such a wonderful environment for us to follow our dreams. We look forward to many more seasons with all of you!
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WebDAV is Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. In my environment, we have many web developer and programmers working on the same site, with access to some particular folder in the web development server. There are a lot of way that we can used to manage remote file and doing web publishing in the same time like FTP, SFTP, FrontPage, Samba and many other sharing protocol.
The best thing about WebDAV is it allow for file locking if someone is editing the file. It is suitable with my environment and I need to deliver this via our web server (Apache). Variables as below:
OS: CentOS 5.6 64bit
Web server: Apache 2.2.3
Web root: /home/webtest/public_html
WebDAV user1: mike
WebDAV password: mikecute
WebDAV user2: doni
WebDAV password: donifast
1. Lets start by installing Apache via yum:
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Welcome to East Lane Veterinary Hospital
Your Veterinarian in Leaburg, OR
Call us at (541) 896-0044
If you live in Leaburg or the surrounding area in OR, then you have picked the perfect site to find a veterinarian. Our veterinarians are licensed in treating all types of pets and animals. Your pet's health and well being is very important to us and we will take every step to give your pet the best possible care.
East Lane Veterinary Hospital is a full service animal hospital and will take both emergency cases as well as less urgent medical, surgical, and dental issues, however we do not have a doctor available for after hour emergencies so we recommend going to Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Springfield for your after hour emergency needs. We are open the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month and if there is a 5th Saturday we are open that one as well, see hours below. Our veterinarians are experienced in all types of conditions and treatments. Beyond first rate pet care, we make our clinic comfortable, kid-friendly, and a very calm environment so your pet can relax in the waiting room and look forward to meeting his or her own Leaburg veterinarian.
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"I just love being upside-down," Sierra Whittemore said.
As a kid, Sierra tried to play sports but always found herself doing flips more than kicking the ball.
"When I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, I started to realize that I did cartwheels literally everywhere," Sierra said. "I did cartwheels in the field playing soccer. I did cartwheels in the outfield playing baseball. I was always doing cartwheels."
So Sierra found her sport: gymnastics. She started competing in fifth grade and has been a part of a number of teams since then, including Miami's club team.
But even more than a gymnast, Sierra is a coach. She started coaching girls at the end of her sophomore year of high school and hasn't stopped.
She now coaches younger girls at Miami's gym.
"I love it when you get to see some of the girls after a while. They'll run up to you and say 'Miss Sierra!' and give you a nice big hug."
Part of the reason for her love of coaching is her potential to impact girls the same way her own coaches impacted her.
"They really taught me what it's like to be positive to the girls and that the girls matter a lot more than anything that you're dealing with," Sierra said. "No matter what's going on in your life, those girls matter more than it."
Some of her coaches weren't such a positive influence, though, and became the cause of her anxiety.
That's something Sierra has to overcome and put aside in order to be a good coach, especially so that she can reach her dream of running her own team one day.
Sierra is still anxious sometimes, but it's easier for her to control now that she has the freedom to decide for herself what skills to work on and coach.
"Having the freedom to do what I enjoy helps me control my anxiety," Sierra said. "Working really really hard makes me exhausted to the point where my anxiety doesn't matter and I can just be me."


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Blizzard may have plans for an HD remake of Starcraft according to Kotaku. The site says a well reputed news site in Korea is running with the news citing "multiple sources" saying this announcement will be official in September, and that more information will be delved out during Blizzcon in November.
Right now it's assumed that the game will play the same but feature some cosmetic improvements. I know a lot of guys who still play Starcraft so I'm sure this news will excite more than a few of you! I'm guessing this move is yet another play on Blizzard's part to further woo the e-sports crowd? If so, it's probably going to work. Blizzard has said nothing on the matter, and probably won't until the reveal if this rumor happens to be true.
I personally would love a remake of this really unhelpful trailer.


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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Taking a Moment
I'm a mom. I will definitely be the first to admit that there are some days when I can't get anything right. The three year old is so three and won't listen to a damn thing you tell her. The cookies got burned all three times you tried baking them. The cat decided she was mad at you because her dish was empty and peed right on your good down comforter. The dishes seem to self-replicate overnight. You've changed four pairs of pee-pants today alone.
The shower is the only place you can hide. I mean, sometimes you can squeeze in a minute (like this one) where a bowl of Goldfish crackers and a Wow Wow Wubbzy DVD on Daddy's computer are enough to get you some peace and quiet. If only for a moment.
It's barely two more days 'til Christmas morning and I don't have my gift for my secret Santa finished, I haven't gotten the groceries for Christmas dinner (easy this year, just a big pot of my killer chili.) I haven't watched Love Actually yet and, uh, I'm reasonably sure that none of Ro's presents are wrapped.
However, I have baked a few batches of cookies that didn't burn, I did make about twenty salt dough ornament blanks that I've been painting with Ro and the rest of the family, the tree is up, and there's a glimmer of hope for snow after all.
Being home fo- ...ahem... ♫ I'll be home for Christmas... you can count on me... ♪
Being home this year is something I'm sure to be thankful for.
And especially ♫ dreaming of a white Christmas... ♪
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Aspects of my being
Clarity, at last
A window, in a wall of defence.
Open it gently...
feel free to peer within
For, behind the glass lies deconstructed emotion
Unveil me, with care
Love me, or hate me
But, please, keep me unmasked.
Karina Evans
Screenwriter: David McGregor
Music Composition/Production: Anastasia Roupakia, Aphaia Music
Writer: Karina Evans
Genre: Social Drama
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The characters have similar facets. Each holds an element of control, an element of fear and an element of love. That's what makes them people, and that's what makes them three-dimensional.
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An alcoholic and a womanizer. At his core he has a good heart, but but his addiction has led him to a pattern of psychological and physical abuse of his family.
Is Eloise's overbearing mother.
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, B 43/Op. 21
About the WorkComposer: Frédéric François Chopin
© Thomas May
Both of the piano concertos completed by Frédéric Chopin belong to a series of early works intended to help launch the young pianist-composer's international career. Basically conventional in design, these scores already contain many hints of the unique keyboard poetry for which Chopin's name has become a signature. When the music world wanted to mark the bicentennial of his birth three years ago, the problem was similar to the one similar to this year's Verdi and Wagner anniversaries: how to do something out of the ordinary for composers who already have a perennial presence?
Chopin in particular—or, as he was christened, Fryderyck Franciszek Chopin—has remained a beloved figure since he first became famous. While he tends to be identified with a quintessentially Romantic temperament, Chopin undeniably belongs in a league of his own. He evolved a highly nuanced style that draws on astonishingly few influences from other sources.
Even more, no other composer, of any era, has achieved a comparably long-lasting stature and popularity by concentrating, as Chopin did, on a single instrument. His contemporary Franz Liszt considered the piano to represent "the microcosm of music." For Chopin, the keyboard opened up an entire universe of expression that was, for the most part, sufficient in itself. He exploited the instrument's resources with unbounded imagination, becoming a virtuoso of self-expression. This goes a long way toward explaining the enduring popularity of this artist. Few composers can match the sense of sheer intimacy we get from Chopin—the sense of confidences imparted, not to a crowd, but to the private world of each listener, one-to-one.
Yet before he left Poland for good, settling in Paris in 1831—where he perfected his unique identity as high priest of the keyboard—Chopin first made his name in that quintessentially public forum, the concert hall. He had already started performing as a child prodigy and, in his late teens, graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory. The budding star then went on to give a series of high-profile concerts in Vienna and Warsaw.
Still, Chopin completed only a small handful of works for piano and orchestra. These essentially date from this youthful period and were necessary calling cards for a pianistcomposer to launch a career. The first of such works became his Opus 2 (completed in 1828): the brilliant Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" (to the famous tune from Don Giovanni by Mozart, one of the idols he permitted in is private pantheon). It provoked Robert Schumann's much-quoted rave a few years later: "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!" Chopin's two piano concertos were similarly tailored to showcase his gifts at the keyboard for a concert-going public. At the same time, their distinctively refined sensibility gives a remarkable foretaste of the artist who would mature in his Parisian exile.
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor is—despite the official number—the first of Chopin's pair of concertos, both of which are of the same vintage. As such, it represents his first foray into large-scale form. Chopin gave a semi-private "preview" performance at the family home (with reduced chamber orchestra) two weeks before the public premiere at Warsaw's National Theater in March 1830. A huge artistic and commercial success, it was soon followed by a repeat performance. Chopin immediately began a fresh concerto, which he introduced that fall as part of his final Warsaw concert. This piece, the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, was published before the F minor Concerto (hence the switcheroo in numbering). It seems that Chopin even planned a third concerto but abandoned it after completing only the first movement. He later published the latter as a work for solo piano, the Allegro de Concert. (A few composers since Chopin's time have tried their hand at orchestrating the Allegro as a quasi-"Third" Piano Concerto.)
Instead of drawing on the innovative concertos of Mozart or Beethoven (models that may have been unknown to him at the time), Chopin's frame of reference was a host of now-forgotten post-classical concertos in which the orchestral role is fundamentally secondary. Yet even though his overall design replicates the conventions of the era, Chopin introduces a unique poetic style and attitude into his writing for the solo part. This highly personal slant betrays the inspiration he found in the shape and flexibility of contemporary Italian bel canto opera—above all the melodies of yet another idol, Vincenzo Bellini—and its approach to rhapsodic, long-spun lyricism.
The F minor Concerto treats the piano as more than protagonist: it's the gravitational center for the music's flow and development. Chopin's orchestra thus essentially serves to create the context for the musings of the soloist. The traditional exposition for orchestra alone, at the beginning, introduces a dichotomy that will be explored at length from the keyboard throughout the first movement. On one side we hear the grand rhetorical gestures of a classical concerto, punctuated by maestoso proclamations; on the other is an introspective lyricism (as in the second theme given by the woodwinds). So far, this is all standard issue: the expected contrast of thematic material. But soon the piano co-opts and transforms both elements into its own richly elaborated language. The rest of the movement is filtered through the instrument's point of view.
The later Chopin is most noticeably prefigured in the radiant Larghetto, set in a serene-sounding A-flat major. The composer himself drew attention to the music as an expression of his hidden love for a young soprano and fellow student at the Warsaw Conservatory, Konstancja Gladkowska. She likewise inspired the Romanze of the Concerto No. 1. "Six months have passed, and I have not yet exchanged a syllable with her of whom I dream every night," he confessed to a close friend. (Not until the time of his farewell concert in Warsaw did Chopin find the courage to approach her.)
The aforementioned penchant for long skeins of bel canto melody furnishes the vehicle for Chopin's expression of this love, idealized by all the romance of being kept "secret." The piano's tracery, never mere ornament, prolongs the sense of ecstatic caress. A dusky mood of doubt intrudes only briefly in the middle section, with its faint reminiscence of the first movement. Near the end, solo phrases from the bassoon interweave in delicate, intimate counterpoint.
In contrast to the second movement's otherworldly transport, Chopin grounds and concludes the Concerto with a lively rondo, its main theme a testament to the rhythmic vitality and grace that are also characteristic traits of this composer. Hints of the Polish mazurka remind us of that other great love in Chopin's life: the unwavering connection he felt to his homeland. Later on, the strings add an unusual coloristic touch by playing col legno (with the wood of the bow), while a sudden shift from minor to major, reinforced by the horn's signal-like call, clears the way for an animated coda.


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Crime - Sacto 911
Child sickened, restaurants on alert after food tampering in South Lake Tahoe
Suspect caught on camera in Tahoe food scare
Local public health officials are advising restaurants in the Lake Tahoe area to watch out for a food-poisoning suspect following reports that a single man is responsible for multiple cases of food tampering at a restaurant and a grocery store.
In one suspected incident in South Lake Tahoe, a 12-year-old boy became sick and was hospitalized for symptoms related to food poisoning after eating at a Baja Fresh restaurant.
South Lake Tahoe police are trying to identify the man suspected of tampering with food at the chain restaurant's salsa bar in the Crescent V shopping center and at the Hot Wok self-serve food court inside Raley's in the same shopping center. .
The incidents have led public health officials to notify restaurants about the potential for further poisoning attempts. Both South Lake Tahoe and neighboring Stateline, Nev., are popular tourist destinations with a number of buffets where the public has access to food.
Greg Stanton, director of the Environmental Management Division, said the county has contacted any restaurant in the South Lake Tahoe area that has food accessible to the public. While officials have suggested taking any precautions restaurant managers feel is necessary, they have stopped short of suggesting that food should not be kept out in public, he said. The incidents have not been widespread enough to suggest such precautions, he said.
Phil Ulibarri, a spokesman for the Washoe County, Nev., health department, said officials have gone through a similar process of notifying restaurants about the incidents. Police Department investigators collected samples of the contaminants for laboratory analysis. Results were pending Tuesday.
In the Raley's incident, an unidentified man walked into the grocery store, approached the self-serve food display in the food court and intentionally dispensed an unknown substance on top of the food. The man then walked out of the store and left the area on foot. Officers were unable to find him.
A review of store surveillance video indicated that the same man has committed the same act on at least three previous occasions, beginning on or about Nov. 8, police said.
The incident at Baja Fresh came to light after operators of the Mexican restaurant heard about the Raley's food tampering from a Nov. 16 police news release. The management of Baja Fresh contacted police to report a similar incident.
Baja Fresh management noted a strong chemical odor similar to bleach in the salsa self-serve bar. Police officers learned that several incidents had occurred at Baja Fresh before issuing its news release about the Raley's food tampering. The 12-year-old reported feeling sick Nov. 19 after eating at Baja Fresh.
Police investigators, who believe the incidents are related, are attempting to get security camera video and photos from Baja Fresh.
A man who identified himself as the Baja Fresh manager said he was not authorized to comment to reporters.
Casino officials in Stateline, Nev., said security guards are closely watching the surveillance cameras for anyone resembling the suspect.
"We're just trying to be secure and as vigilant as possible," said Guy Hall, director of hotel, food and beverage at Montbleu Resort Casino.
Hall noted that most of the buffet's food stations are manned with personnel, so it would be difficult to tamper with the spread.
"We would see anyone that would be up to ill harm," Hall said, adding that the suspect's image will be circulated with restaurant staff when the buffet opens on Thanksgiving.
The casino's buffet is typically open only on holidays and weekends.
John Packer, spokesman for Harrah's Lake Tahoe Hotel and Casino, said it would be hard to taint the buffet without being caught, due to the establishment's extensive surveillance system.
"You'd be watched all the way," he said. "(The buffet) is on the 18th floor. You can't just do something and run out the door without being observed very carefully. Someone can be tracked from the buffet all the way to the parking lot."
Willfully mingling poison or harmful substance with any food, drink, medicine or pharmaceutical product is a felony punishable by two to five years in state prison, according to authorities.
The man shown in surveillance photos is described as white, approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall, and with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a black hat, dark sunglasses, a black long-sleeved shirt, a black backpack and blue jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call the South Lake Tahoe Police Department at 530-542-6100 or Secret Witness at 530-541-6800. Anyone who may have become ill as a result of the incidents is advised to contact a medical provider and to call the El Dorado County Environment Management Division at 530-573-3453 or 530-621-5300.
Bill Lindelof: 916-321-1079, @Lindelofnews


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An Interactive Performance Series Channels Your Inner Broadway Diva
It was dark in the Motor House theatre, all except for the stage. A young woman with bouncy red hair stepped up and faced us. Her excitement was palpable. After taking a deep breath, the keyboardist began to play, and then she invited us to "fade in on a girl with a hunger for fame."
Emily belted out the TV show "Smash's" leading song as if she was Karen Cartwright reincarnated, pleading for her listeners to "Let Me Be Your Star." The choice of song from the 2012 ABC show shining a spotlight on the inner-workings of a Broadway production seemed appropriate for what was unfolding. It was as if she too was auditioning for her big break on Broadway and she didn't seem too far off.
This is one of the purposes of Broadway Live: to make Broadway seem accessible. Created by musical theatre veteran CJay Philip, this newly developed monthly event in Baltimore gives both Broadway fans and musical theatre professionals a chance to shine.
Split into Act I and Act II—one for children and one for adults—this event hosts games, featured performances, and a Q & A session all surrounding the theme of Broadway. And for anyone who can hand over some sheet music and tolerate a spotlight, the open mic portion is the highlight.
"I love the way that Broadway can bring people together… what it can do to connect people… I love that. To me that's what it's about," Philip said.
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