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Dr. Edythe Abdullah, Mr. Hugh Greene, Ms. Wanyonyi Kendrick, Dr. Bruce Taylor, Ms. Carol Thompson, Ms. Rachael Tutwiler, Mr. Kevin Twomey
Chair Twomey convened the meeting of the Finance and Audit Committee and offered appreciation to all trustees for their attendance.
There were no comments from the public.
Chair Twomey began the meeting by asking Vice President Shuman to provide the members of the committee with a summary of where the university stood in regard to its investments in the LGIP. Vice President Shuman talked about the fact that the university had withdrawn its remaining assets from Pool A in the LGIP, paying the 2% penalty. President Delaney and Vice President Shuman discussed the issues that led to this move including statements from Citizens Insurance.
Vice President Shuman also spoke about the impact that the withdrawal would have on the earning expectations for university and auxiliary funds, as well as funds for the Student Union and student housing.
After discussing withdrawing UNF's assets from Pool A and talking about its remaining assets in Pool B, Vice President Shuman presented the members of the committee with an overview of the maturity schedules for Pool A and Pool B, as well as the ratings of the various investments in these two pools.
Vice President Shuman provided the committee with a report on where university funds were currently being invested, including Evergreen, Sawgrass and SPIA. She also presented a possible reallocation of funds which would include investments in Sawgrass, Evergreen, and MBIA.
Members of the committee asked why the university had selected MBIA. Vice President Shuman told the committee that MBIA was ranked in second place during the last request for proposal (RFP) process in which Sawgrass was selected. She also stated that if the university went with MBIA, university dollars would be kept in a separate fund rather than mixed with other MBIA investments.
While the committee felt that the university should select the new investment management firm, they did ask the university to look into whether the results of a two-year old RFP were still in force and to look at MBIA's current record.
With no further discussion, Chair Twomey adjourned the meeting.
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Linda S. Smith 6/25/2012 3:04:56 PMFantastic capture and DD work Edgar!!! #1471226
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David M. Montero 8/4/2012 1:36:37 PMMuch character captured here. Congratulations on your Finalist selection Edgar! #10262608
Dick Jenkins 8/4/2012 5:53:02 PMEdgar,
I've been to your gallery to see if this photograph was typical of your work or just one of your best. You are outstanding, as is your understanding of light and expression and I'm so impressed with your work. Keep up your good work for surely you will be recognized for your amazing talents. I wish I had run into you while in NYC.
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ECHL Game Night 3/30: Storm at Chiefs
All of a sudden, with Special K as the spark, the playoff math is starting to favor the Chiefs.
Ryan Munce made 24 stops for the win. The former Kings draft pick has won 3 of his last 4 starts. Radek Smolenak posted a 1 goal and 3 assist night to pace the Chiefs. Marek Kvapil added 3 assists and Gus Katsuras chipped in a pair of goals. Zbynek Hrdel had 1 goal and 1 assist and PJ Atherton had 2 assists to complete the list of 5 Chiefs players who posted multi-point nights. Defensemen John Adams and Ian MacLean had the team's other goals. Maxime Boisclair and Andrew Martens added individual helpers. Smolenak, Katsuras and Kvapil were named the game's three stars.
And just like that Johnstown is just 1 point out of a playoff spot with 2 games in hand on the Reading Royals.
First Period
JHN Katsuras, (8) (Boisclair, Hrdel), 2:10
TOL Martin, (11) (Walsh, Blight), 6:40
JHN Hrdel, (11) (Kvapil, Smolenak), 14:46 (PP)
JHN Adams, (3) (Kvapil, Smolenak), 18:22 (PP)
Second Period
JHN MacLean, (3) (Smolenak, Kvapil), 5:07
JHN Smolenak, (15) (Atherton, Martens), 8:20
JHN Katsuras, (9) (Atherton), 19:10 (PP)
Third Period
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In comics, Spider-Man is always ready with a snappy and/or terrible one-liner, but we haven't seen that side of him in the movies... until now. Director Marc Webb reveals why a wisecracking Spidey is essential to his more realistic vision!
Steven Moffat offers some crucial hints for the future of Doctor Who.
The Evil Dead reboot finds a new lead, plus find out which iconic elements of the original will return.
New images of Prometheus, Riddick, Snow White and the Huntsman, and more!
All that, plus get the latest on Fringe, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, and more! Start your week with spoilers...
Top image from The Amazing Spider-Man.
The Amazing Spider-Man
Director Marc Webb explains how this film restores Peter Parker's trademark sense of humor, something that was never really in evidence in Sam Raimi's trilogy:
There's this trickster quality we were very keen on exploring, with that humor and that fun and that wisecracking stuff. We wanted to keep that alive, but we wanted it to be realistic. We wanted that humor to come from a real place. My aim was to create a world where you could feel all those emotions. There are certainly darker, more intense feelings in this movie. There is betrayal, there is tragedy, but there's also humor and romance. So it's a very complex bouquet of emotions, but what you have to tread on is what feels authentic and what feels real, and you have to earn those different emotions. There are moments of furiousness and gravity, absolutely. But are there moments of humor and levity and whimsy? Absolutely.
Andrew was really great. He used this term to describe Peter Parker in Spider-Man and Spider-Man in particular: he's a trickster. He was like "How would Spider-Man web this guy? He'd give him a wedgie or he'd do some awful graffiti." There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker that's really irreverent and fun and that's something that Andrew embodies in a way that we haven't seen before. Certainly the materials that have come out have a darker sentiment or there's a darker projection, but we're very keen on staying loyal to the humor of Spider-Man.
He also suggests that Gwen Stacy is "super smart, maybe even a little bit smarter than Peter", and this adds an underpinning of rivalry to their romance. There's more at the link. [Latino Review]
Columbia Pictures has released some new official images of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Uncle Ben and Aunt May, and Campbell Scott as Embeth Davidtz as Peter's parents Richard and Mary Parker. [Coming Soon]
Here's a new promo photo of space archaeologists Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green. [Coming Soon]
Vin Diesel has released yet another awesomely crazy set photo of himself as Riddick. [Vin Diesel's Facebook]
Evil Dead Reboot
Jane Levy, the star of ABC's generally pretty decent new sitcom Suburgatory, has reportedly signed on as the new female lead in Fede Alvarez's remake, replacing the previously cast Lily Collins. Levy's character is Mia, a young woman going through drug withdrawal who becomes possessed by the forces of evil. [Deadline]
A script review, reportedly of a post Diablo Cody draft, has surfaced, and here are some key takeaway details. In terms of iconic moments from the original movies, both the chainsaw and and the tree rape are in there, and it's actually left ambiguous whether this is a reboot or actually a continuation of the original series, leaving open the possibility of a triumphal Bruce Campbell return somewhere down the road. The script also features a "double ending" where it's left in some way ambiguous what really just happened. Check out the link for more details. [AICN]
Oz the Great and Powerful
There's a photo going around that some sources are claiming is a set photo of a flying monkey from Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel. We're pretty dubious, since the "monkey" appears to be standing next to a guy dressed as Walter from The Big Lebowski, and it also appears to be a Planet of the Apes costume. You can judge for yourself at the link, but yeah... nothing to see here. [Coming Soon]
Snow White and the Huntsman
Universal Pictures has released a pair of new promo images, one of Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen and the other of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides costar Sam Claflin as Prince Charming. [Snow White and the Huntsman on Facebook]
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Here's a new promo photo focusing on new stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Bruce Willis, and Adrianne Padlicki.
Doctor Who
Steven Moffat wrote this foreword to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, which features some tantalizing hints about the fate of Amy and Rory and the identity of the Doctor's new companion:
Doctor Who's 50th anniversary is coming. In Cardiff, we're gearing up for the biggest, the best and the most ambitious season we've ever made. There will be shocks, surprises and heartbreak — the Doctor is about to say goodbye to his very best friends, Amy and Rory.
And then he's about to say hello to someone very different — the Doctor is going to meet someone very new in the very last place he could ever have expected...
Star Eve Myles discusses the show's renewal prospects, featuring one ridiculously generous appraisal of how Torchwood: Miracle Day went over:
[Torchwood is] in limbo. It went down sensationally well, better than we'd hoped. I know that Russell has put out what his situation is at the moment, so things have been on hold for a while. And that's all I know. There's no closure on it at all at the moment.
Do you think we'll see it again?
This happens every time! All the time! There was never going to be a second, there was never going to be a third...
What does your gut say?
Yes. It says that it definitely won't be 2012, I'm guessing 2013. A movie, to draw a line under it.
Here's the promo for this Friday's episode twelve, "Welcome to Westfield." [Fringe Television]
And here's a sneak peek. [Fringe Television]
Finally, a brief synopsis for the episode:
ON AN ALL-NEW "FRINGE" FRIDAY - Peter, Olivia and Walter come face to face with a mysterious and terrifying Fringe event as they get trapped in a town that there's no escaping from
Here's the description for episode thirteen, which airs February 17 and also apparently features the Fringe team getting trapped:
THE FRINGE TEAM GETS TRAPPED ON AN ALL-NEW "FRINGE" - As the Fringe team investigates a mentally ill patient who appears to be connected to a series of murders, frightening clues and connections are uncovered that lead Olivia to some shocking revelations.
Game of Thrones
Theon Greyjoy actor Alfie Allen offers this preview of season two:
"Basically, Jon Snow goes out into the wilderness; my character ends up going back to see his family, and a lot of dragons basically happen in the second season. I loved working with Patrick Malahide, who played my dad, and Gemma Whelan, who played my sister."
He also offers this terse description of episode nine, which depicts the Battle of Blackwater: "Fighting. Killing. Killing and fire." [EW]
Executive producers David Greenblatt and Jim Kouf explain how Nick's need for secrecy will put his relationship with Hank in danger:
"Their partnership will be tested and its going to get to the point where some things are going to happen that are truly not easily explained to Hank. So we're going to push it as far as we can and hold off as long as we can."
The River
Here's a new promo for Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli's new found footage supernatural horror series.
And here's a promo focusing on the audience's reaction to the show.
Here's a promo and sneak peek for this Friday's episode, which has the pants-shittingly terrifying title "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie." [KSiteTV]
And here are some promo photos plus a description of the episode. [TV Guide]
The Winchester brothers investigate the Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie pizza chain in Kansas. Turns out some local children visited the eatery, drew a picture of their worst fear, and some embodiment of that fear killed their parents. As any Supernatural fan knows, clowns are Sam's No. 1 phobia, and he's left to face a couple of irate clowns while Dean (Jensen Ackles) hunts down the source of magic.
[TV Guide]
Star Jared Padalecki discusses how Sam is dealing with the dual loss of Castiel and Bobby:
Sam is all sorts of a mess. Bobby was very much a father figure to Sam, and so he certainly misses him. It's difficult for him, but Sam and Dean went through so much that Sam, especially, is like, "We've got to deal with what's on our plates now." Like, "I miss him. I'll love him. But we can't bring him back. We can't. We no longer have that option." And Sam's also dealing with a bunch of craziness in his own world – visions and hallucinations and his wall breaking down – so he almost literally cannot afford to worry about things other than just keeping his head on straight.
He also discusses what role Mark Pellegrino will have in his upcoming return as Lucifer:
Though [Lucifer] hasn't been seen on camera a lot, he's been the voice in Sam's head since the first episode [of the season], when he was messing around with Sam. Sam's just been able to hide it, but an episode comes up where Sam has no choice but to confront this voice in his head. That makes it much more difficult for Sam to then get rid of Lucifer once he has embraced his presence.
Is it going to leave Sam in a worse place?
Very much. The fact that Sam's been able to ignore him and push his scar and send him away has kept his hallucinations and his craziness at bay. But once he engages Lucifer — or his vision of Lucifer — then Lucifer almost… It's like inviting a demon into your house. Once you invite him, you can't get rid of him. So we see Sam suffer the repercussions of having engaged in his vision of Lucifer.
Finally, he says he's hopeful about an eighth season renewal:
I'm excited about Season 8. I feel like there are more stories to tell. I feel like we haven't wrapped everything up. Season 8 could be a great season. Even if we have to wrap things up in Season 8, I feel like it would be a nice last hurrah.
There's still some more at the link. [TV Line]
And here's an interview with stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki.
Being Human (US)
Here's a joint Syfy promo for this and Lost Girl.
The Vampire Diaries
Here's a bunch more promo photos for this Thursday's episode, "Dangerous Liaisons." [KSiteTV]
And here's the first round of images for episode fifteen, "All My Children", which airs February 16. [KSiteTV]
The Secret Circle
Here's a promo for this Thursday's episode, "Valentine."
Here are some new promo photos for episode 15, "The Return", in which guest star Joe Lando appears as Cassie's estranged father, the darkly powerful John Blackwell. [KSiteTV]
Lost Girl
Here's an interview with Kris Holden-Reid, who plays Dyson on Lost Girl. According to Holden-Reid, the show will be darker in the third season and explore Bo's past, in particular her father. It's not yet been decided whether the season will be thirteen or twenty-two episodes, but either way the season will begin filming in April. You can watch the complete interview below. [SpoilerTV]
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Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Review: Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 78/100
a Review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted on January 15, 2011
Jim Beam is the flagship bourbon whiskey produced by the Jim Beam Distillery. The distillery was founded in 1795, and has been operated as a family run business for seven generations.
Currently Jim Beam is produced at the Clermont Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, and (according to the Jim Beam Website) is the best-selling bourbon in the world. The spirit is aged for 4 years in white American oak barrels and bottled at 40 % alcohol by volume.
The bottle I am reviewing (pictured a few paragraphs below and to the left) is a 375 ml glass flask style bottle from my own private collection.
In the Bottle 4/5
Although the bottle I am reviewing is the smaller flask style bottle, Jim Beam also arrives in the typical 750 ml flagon style bottle pictured to the right. This picture is from the Jim Beam Website and I was given permission to use it from the Beam Global team here in Alberta. The bottle is designed to be easy to store behind a bar, and just as important, easy to pour. The overall presentation is fine. I would prefer something with a little more flair perhaps, but the bottle serves its function well. I would also prefer to see the abandonment of metal screw caps which expand and contract at a different rate than the bottle they are trying to seal, but I seem to be a lone voice in the wilderness railing against these terrible metal caps. Time will tell if my voice is finally heard.
In the Glass 8/10
In the glass Jim Beam displays itself as a mahogany coloured bourbon whiskey with a rich hue and orange flashes. The whisky imparts a light sheen on the sides of the glass when swirled and displays swift running legs down the sides of the glass after wards.
The aroma from the glass is one of rough timbers freshly cut. A waft of vanilla rises with the timbers, and deeper down we have some dank corn, hints of clove and cinnamon, and oodles of raw honeycomb. Waiting for a minute or so, I also catch some caramel/toffee aroma building in the glass as well.
This is a very typical bourbon aroma. Everything plays together nicely, although I occasionally sense a mild medicinal aspect which creeps in as the glass decants.
In the Mouth 47/60
The initial entry into the mouth is a little rough and tumble. Cedar and Oak planks freshly cut have imparted a little bitter sap into the bourbon, and the sweeter notes of corn and honeycomb do not quite compensate for this dollop of bitterness. There is an earthy vegetal dankness deeper down consistent with sour corn mash. However, without the sweetness of honeycomb forming to complement the flavour, it seems to be stifled and muted. A welcome touch of rye enters the fray at mid palate giving the whisky a little more depth and complexity than one first imagines.
In all, we seem to have a bourbon which displays the harsher aspects of American white oak which have been captured before time has mellowed them. In my opinion the whisky needs more sweetness to combat the ribbon of bitterness that lies within the woody tannins and the dank corn mash. To that end, I added a touch of cola to my glass and the change was remarkable. As a sipper the whisky is strained, but when mixed the added sweetness is just what the bourbon whiskey needs to find its legs.
In the Throat 11/15
Tasted neat, the finish contains a bitter woodiness that swatted my tonsils like a two-by-four. I did not need much coaxing to add a little ice. With the ice things are somewhat better, but I found I had to mix the bourbon before it became fully enjoyable. When mixed with a little sweet cola this goes down smoothly.
The Afterburn 8/10
Sometimes a spirit which is difficult to consume neat can find its life in another form. I noticed that Jim Beam Distillers also sells cans of Bourbon and Cola. A hint perhaps at the true destiny of the world's best-selling Bourbon. And that's okay, as I am the first to admit that mixing with cola can be a wonderful thing!
You may read some of my other Whisky Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Recipe:
Although I have strongly recommended bourbon and cola as my recipe of choice for Jim Beam, I also had another recipe in mind which, when I tried it, was quite delightful. Its called the Kentucky Margarita, and I found it on the Jim Beam Website. My version is a little different from the one found on the website; but, the overall idea of the margarita style is the same.
Kentucky Margarita
1 1/2 oz Jim Beam
3/4 oz triple sec
1/2 oz Lime Juice (fresh)
1 to 3 teaspoons of Sugar Syrup to taste
lime wedge
Shake all of the ingredients with ice.
Pour into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lime and serve over ice.
As always you may interpret the scores I provide as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be more familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)


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go figure
said to express the speaker's belief that something is inexplicable – North American informal
1999 – Massive - In the last election, the Tories got 19 per cent of the votes in Scotland and have no MPs there at all, while the Lib Dems got 13 per cent and have 10 MPs. Go figure.
all systems go
everything functioning properly ready to proceed.
be all go
be very busy or active – informal
from go to whoa
from start to finish
from the word go
from the very beginning – informal
1997 - Bridget O'Connor - Tell Her You Love Her Mr. Parker was in love with me almost from the word go.
go ape
Go wild
Become violently excited. – Informal
Originally mid 20th-century North American slang - This expression possibly refers to the 1933 movie King Kong which stars a giant ape-like monster.
go as you please
untrammeled or free
1998 - Canal Boat and Inland Waterways - Enjoy a go-as-you-please cruise aboard one of our all weather self drive luxury day boats.
go ballistic
fly into a rage – informal
1998 - New Scientist - The French nuclear industry, local authorities around La Hague and some government agencies went ballistic. Viel was fiercely condemned for his findings.
go bananas
become extremely angry or excited
go mad – informal 1992 - Jim Lehrer - A Bus of My Own – I predicted John Erlichman would probably go bananas when he testified the next day.
go down with guns firing = go down with all guns firing
fail or be beaten, but continue to offer resistance until the end.
go great guns
perform forcefully, vigorously or successfully - informal
1913 - Field - A moment later Louvois shot out, passed Sanquhar and Fairy King, and going great guns... beat the favourite by a head.
go shares = go halves
share something equally
go it = go to it
act in a vigorous, energetic or dissipated way - British informal
1995 - Times - While there is time, become an activist, disrupt political meetings. Go to it.
go postal
go mad, especially from stress - US informal
This expression arose as a result of several recorded cases in the USA in which postal-service employees ran amok and shot colleagues.
1999 - New Yorker - A man two seats away went postal when the battery on his cell phone gave out. A heavyset passenger had to sit on the man until the train finally pulled into Grand Central.
go the way of all flesh
die or come to an end
In the Authorized Version of the Bible all flesh is used to refer to all human and animal life.
go the whole hog
do something completely or thoroughly – informal
The origin of the phrase is uncertain. But a fable in William Cowper's The love of the World : Hypocrisy Detected 0779) is some times mentioned. Certain Muslims, forbidden to eat pork by their religion but tempted to indulge in some maintained that Muhammad had had in mind only one particular part of the animal. They could not agree which part that was and as for one piece they thought it hard From the whole hog to be debarred - between them they ate the whole animal, each salving his conscience by telling himself that his own particular portion was not the one that had been forbidden. Go the whole hog is recorded as a political expression in the USA in the early 19th century. An 1835 source maintains that it originated in Virginia marking the democrat from a federalist.
go well
used to express good wishes to someone leaving - South African
have a go
make an attempt
act resourcefully
take independent or single-handed action against a criminal or criminals
have a go at
attack or criticize someone - chiefly British
make a go of
be successful in something – informal
An Australian and New Zealand variant of this expression is make a do of it which dates from the early 20th century.
1987 - Evelyn E. Smith - Miss Melville Returns - He'd been unable to make a go of life in the city and so he'd returned to the small New England village he came from.
on the go
very active or busy – informal
to go
(of food or drink from a restaurant or cafe) to be eaten or drunk off the premises - North American
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Hostel Anton is a high-class accommodation facility, situated just 10 km from the city center of Warsaw, with very good communication and services infrastructure. It is located on the secured estate with a separate playground for children.
The hostel has 6 rooms - from singles to five-family room. All rooms are decorated in a gentle, neat, Scandinavian style. They are very climate, intimate and comfortable. In each room we placed mood lighting, LCD TVs and satellite receivers. For our guests we have three elegant bathrooms (one on each floor) equipped with a sink, toilet and shower.
On the ground floor we offer a spacious lobby with fireplace, plasma receiver and comfortable place to rest. In the morning we are offering our guests delicious breakfast, coffee and tea ( all free of charge)
Level -1 is devoted to fans of all kinds of games-in the large living room we placed a pool table and hockey table. There is also the electronic set to play darts.
The whole complex is equipped with free of charge high-speed wireless Internet.
For those who love staying close to the nature we prepared a garden terrace - the perfect place to spend a summer evening in a comfortable wicker chair, by the light of lanterns, candles and moon, as well as drink a morning coffee in the warm spring sunshine.
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It's almost time for another Super Bowl, which always makes me think of the Miami Orange Bowl.
That stadium, built in 1937 and demolished in 2008 to make way for a new ballpark for baseball's Miami Marlins, was home to two of the first three Super Bowls in the 1960s, the backdrop for games that established the national sports holiday that exists today.
At the Orange Bowl, coach Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers sealed the team's legacy with a win in Super Bowl II, Joe Namath made good on his famous guarantee of a victory against the favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III and the Pittsburgh Steelers ruled as one of the dominant teams of the 1970s.
It also was the longtime base for the Miami Dolphins, who had one of the most formidable home-field advantages in NFL history, especially in the yet-to-be-equaled perfect season in 1972. My father and I had season tickets that year, so I was sad about the old stadium's demise, but the prospect of a baseball road trip is a silver lining.
The new baseball stadium — known by the working name of Marlins Park until the team secures a naming rights deal — will incorporate the enormous orange block letters that spelled out "Miami Orange Bowl" into a commemorative marker in an entry plaza to the new stadium. The 10-foot-high letters will be scattered throughout the plaza to "capture an ambiguous moment between destruction and rebuilding," according to the website of the artwork's creator, the design firm Snarkitecture.
As visitors move through the plaza, they will see the letters in various orders, spelling out different words as the new stadium comes into view through relics of the old. That sounds cool to me.
So when can fans experience it?
A high-school matchup between South Florida rivals Columbus and Belen will be the first game played at the new park on March 5.
Other events slated for the new park before the April 4 regular-season opener against the St. Louis Cardinals: a Marlins-University of Miami exhibition game (March 6), a Marlins-FIU exhibition (March 7) and Marlins-New York Yankees exhibitions on April 1 and 2.
Single-game tickets won't go on sale at least until the team's FanFest celebration in early March. Visit marlins.com for details.


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Star Trek Borg Cube Fridge
A better use for a Borg Cube
- Keep your food cool or warm with this multi-function Borg Fridge
- Glows green behind the Borg outer shell
- A ThinkGeek exclusive!
4 of 5 has one. So does 7 of 10. 3 of 6 wouldn't use any other type. Yes, it's true: 9 out of 10 Borg would only keep their drinks in a Collective-approved cooling device. Since Borg adapt and combine technology, their fridges would also be able to warm. And, of course, they'd be cubes. Just like this Borg Cube Fridge!
The Borg Cube Fridge looks, well, like a Borg Cube. It's small, so it won't take up a lot of space in your alcove, as you plug it into a standard 120V AC outlet. Plus, it can be powered by 12V DC power source, so when you pop off in a Borg Sphere for some cruising, you can bring your snacks with you. And yes, it does have a setting for cool and a setting for heat. With the Borg Cube Fridge, your great food will be contained until it can be assimilated... into your face!
Product Specifications
- It's a Borg Cube - for your food!
- Glows green behind the Borg coating to look like the ship from Star Trek
- Green inside light, too!
- Has a warm and a cool setting for keeping food either warm or cold
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- Officially-licensed Star Trek food technology
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- Rubber feet to protect surface
- Locking door to prevent spillage
- Capacity: 9 cans of soda (with a little extra room for bacon or something)
- Includes fridge, 4ft. 110V US AC power cord (for use in home), 12V DC power cord (for use in car)
- Note for International Friends: We do not recommend using this small appliance with an international power converter
- Cooling Capability: approx. 32-44°F
- Heating Capability: approx. 131-149°F
- Outer Dimensions: approx. 11.5" cubed!
- Inner Dimensions: approx. 6" x 7.5" x 8.25"


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Zanzibar is an archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, consisting of Zanzibar Island (locally, Unguja), Pemba Island, and several smaller islands. Zanzibar island is 60 miles long by 20 miles wide.
Get in
You need your passport to get onto the island of Zanzibar. Be aware that the "porters" in Dar will hassle you for money and expect tips for referring you to "the best boat." If you don't want their help, be forceful. The dock is a zoo -- a prime hangout for pickpockets.
There are many ferries and catamarans that can take you between [[[Dar es Salaam]] and the Island. Azam Marine is among the nicest available. It runs several times each weekday and costs between $35 and $40. The trip is beautiful and lasts about an hour. You might be able to find a cheaper ride, but remember: you get what you pay for.
Get around
Although taxis are available, you will probably want to walk through Stone Town. After all, most of the alleys are barely wide enough for a bike to pass.
Journeying outside Stone Town will require a taxi or a private car.
There are a lot of things to do on Zanzibar Island. It just depends on where your interests lie.
Stone Town is a one-stop-souvenir-shopping for the traveler. You can find beautiful textiles, handmade jewelry, intricate wood or stone carvings, spices, knick-knacks, and the list goes on and on . . .
Although it is primarily a Muslim community, small bars are everywhere.
Blue's Restaurant makes excellent frozen drinks; they really hit the spot after a day getting lost among the maze-like alleys..
There are an unbelievable number of hotels on the island. In Stone Town, you might like:
On the East Beaches, you might like:
Get out
Zanzibar is largely a Muslim community. Although they are used to Western ways, you should try to be respectful. This means:
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Is anybody researching Nicholls(Akeley,Bucks) or Jordans(Evenley,Northants) and would like to exchange info please contact
Nicholls family
I have been researching my Family of Nicholls now for 5 months now
but having problems finding death dates etc one in particular is a
John Nicholls Born 1627 in Moulsoe Buckinghamshire,United Kingdom
can anybody help please ? many thanks
John Nicholls
Can anybody help me with a copy of a Parish Record for Henry Nicholls Born 1710 in Akeley,Buckinghamshire,England i need his Parents.
Gosh i hadnt realised just how hard my Family were to Research,at first everything seemed to be going well with Births and Marriages but then when it came to Deaths it was like hitting a Brick Wall!Its like they all vanished into thin air.But i then realised that its always better to find Census first and work out where they could have died because as many people may know there is nothing worse than going on Freebmd site and then being given 10 names and dates of Death,but which one do you choose ? that is why it is better to do Census first.Ive also been Frustrated with all these Sites that say its free ! until you put name in and then it comes with loads of Answeres and you think Yes!! ive hit the Jackpot.Wronggg! soon as you hit the button it takes you to a pay now page.Still we all live and learn and im still learning,ive only been doing this for 4/5 Months and so far my tree has 800 members of my Family which isnt bad when you consider that i havent joined any pay sites as yet.My Experiance on Computers is very very low indeed,and i dont suppose that helps me in my research,but i get by .I am researching my fathers side The Nicholls all from Buckinghamshire uk,and my fathers mothers side the Jordans from Northamptonshire uk,and my Mothers side The Bartletts London and Middlesex uk
Looking for Nicholls
Hi All
Im Researching my Family Nicholls.Most of them in the 1700/1800s all come from the Village
of Akeley in Buckinghamshire and surrounding Villages.Ive got as far as Henry Nicholls B1710
but that is as far as i can get.I have been on all sites to try to find his Parents or even
his Death with no luck whatsoever.Can anybody help please ? maybe your already researching
some of my Ancesters,if so email me and ill give you access to my tree.
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On your first three paragraphs I had a very interesting conversation with my parents earlier tonight about royalty payment.
Let's start with your quote:
"I'm talking about our success. We work and work and work. Shouldn't we be filthy, stinking rich?"
Then think (I know we're not in the music biz but) think, what are we doing every day? We are creative, designing and creating exceptional work. Some people (quite a few on this site) are leading in the area of web DESIGN.
While a lot of DESIGNers or artists get payed for a painting or a piece of art, why aren't web designers payed in the same way?
Why don't we get royalty for our designwork? It's displayed and republished millions of times (more than music is) in some cases.
How about paying web designers a royalty fee? ;)
Or.. If we should bring the music biz down from their pedestals, what gives them the right to be do 3days of work and get payed for it the rest of their lives (+70years)? Aren't they just like us, creating something for others to enjoy.


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Blue Velvet, 25 Years Later
An almost unrelieved carnival of perversion, corruption, mayhem, and spectacle.
When Blue Velvet came out, it was so shocking we couldn't appreciate how straightforward the movie really was. I first caught it at the Lumiere Theater in San Francisco, where waves of revulsion swept over the crowd. A few nights later, at a late-night showing in Berkeley, theatergoers got up, singly and in pairs, to leave during the film's most horrific moments. (This was the era of Top Gun and Rambo, remember, Ferris Bueller and Crocodile Dundee.) So assaultive was it that an outraged Roger Ebert (in a clip routinely included in home video releases of the film) denounced the excruciating scenes director David Lynch put his star actress, Isabella Rossellini, through: "I want to know that if I'm feeling that pain it's for a reason the movie has other than simply to cause pain to her." A new Blu-ray edition of the 1986 film, which gives us a pretty spectacular sound and picture for home viewing, along with nearly an hour of long-thought-lost excised scenes, allows us finally to re-see and reconsider the thing in all its glory—and be reminded again how, though Lynch's film was routinely called mysterious and dark, its motives and underpinnings were all pretty clear.
More on those deleted scenes in a minute. Rewatch it today, as I did the other night with a group of willing friends, and the thing is still affecting, still alluring, still shocking, still challenging, offering glimpses of humanity at its most methodically terrifying and death at its most grim. But the clues Lynch left were all intact. Is there sexual violence in the film? Sure. But the first actor you see, after all, is holding a hose, squirting water out at waist level; seconds later, on a TV, we see another hand at waist level, this time with a gun in it. Seconds later, the first man is having a stroke and the hose is squirting around; he writhes on the ground spraying in all directions, like Jupiter Pluvius agonistes. And then shortly after that, our hero, young Jeffrey, finds an ear in a field and the director's camera takes us deep down into its buzzing, ant-covered moldly hole (!). Squirting hoses, drawn guns, scary holes. … I mean, what did we expect?
And that's just the first few minutes. Frank, the sociopath played by Dennis Hopper, calls himself "Daddy" and Dorothy Vallens, the woman he's terrorizing, "Mommy." When Jeffrey's mind is filled with horrified thoughts of Frank, the criminal's visage merges with that of his wounded biological father. Jeffrey is sexually assaulted by this "Mommy" as she holds a (remarkably phallic) knife, and then, at the film's climax, as Lynch goes all in with the Oedipal stakes, he's sexually brutalized again by his alternative "Daddy" as well. Meanwhile, Jeffrey's "sister" Laura Dern falls in love with him—and gets all weepy when a naked Mommy, bloodied and bruised, falls into her brother's arms, gazes into her eyes, and informs her, "He put his disease in me." As my former colleague Michael Sragow used to say, it's not even subtext. It's text-text.
Our setting is a bucolic small town—an imaginary town, as Marianne Moore might have put it, with real psychos in it. Lynch, with his perverse Oedipal fantasia established, takes on the conventions of the noir—in which our hero goes off in search of answers, compromises himself, and winds up finding out more than he bargained for. Again, these are modes of storytelling we all should have been familiar with. You'll recall the basic outlines of the Blue Velvet story. The man with the hose is Jeffrey Beaumont's father; he collapses and is hospitalized, which brings Jeffrey back from college. Jeffrey, played by Kyle MacLachlan in Lynchian top-buttoned shirts, walks through a field and discovers a severed human ear in the dirt. That grotesque MacGuffin's aural passage is his route, you might say, to the underworld. (It's also a sign to us the viewers that sound will play a big role in the film's impact.)
He takes the ear to a detective who lives in the neighborhood; the detective's daughter, Sandy, is Laura Dern. She feeds the overcurious Jeffrey information she hears from her father—that the ear is connected to an investigation involving a local nightclub singer, Dorothy Vallens, played with a wounded luminousness by Rossellini. She too lives in the neighborhood; Lynch makes it quite explicit that Jeffrey and Sandy were already living quite close to the dangers that await them.
The ear aside, up to now the film is fairly chaste. Here and in Mulholland Dr., Lynch is capable of pulling off a production design trick that lets separate decades hang heavily in the air. Sandy's friends have typical '80s hairstyles, but the minute she detaches from them we see she's clad in chaste '50s-style clothing. Jeffrey's red car is a wide boat of a thing from what seems to be the '60s; Vallens' apartment is that of a ruined woman from a '40s noir; and Jeffrey and Sandy meet to whisper and plot in retro diners.
And there, caught up in a seemingly innocent inquisitiveness, the two conspire to have Jeffrey surreptitiously enter the singer's house. That's our first sign of transgression. Retribution is swift. Dorothy Vallens catches Jeffrey inside her apartment—and what she does next is the film's sexual Rubicon. Angered but also seemingly aroused at his voyeurism, she orders Jeffrey to strip and begins to perform a sex act on him. This little passion play is interrupted by the arrival of Frank, a local gangster. Jeffrey hides and again becomes a voyeur. As he watches, Frank brutalizes Vallens. With Jeffrey we discover that Frank is a patent psycho who is infatuated with the singer and holding her husband and kid hostage. He periodically visits the singer to visit assaultive sex on her, in his own creatively distinctive and dysfunctional way. It may or may not be significant that he warns Vallens to "stay alive"—the implication seems to be that he knows she's past the point of despair.
Jeffrey watches, you might say, with a wild surmise, and soon finds himself regularly engaged in similar, though not quite so sadistic, sexual activities with Vallens. (In noir terms, this is the rough equivalent of Marlowe sleeping with Lauren Bacall's druggie sister in The Big Sleep.) It is arguably the film's most transgressive plot point that Vallens likes being beaten during sex; whether this is induced by the trauma she's experiencing isn't clear, but it's strongly implied. Jeffrey keeps the details of his deepening relationship with her away from innocent Sandy. It's just a matter of time, of course, before Frank makes the acquaintance of Jeffrey, with unfortunate results. (Frank calls him, ominously, "neighbor.") The second half of the film is an almost unrelieved carnival of perversion, corruption, mayhem, and spectacle. The images we're given—a ghostly, feminized Dean Stockwell (a commedia dell'arte nightmare) lip-syncing Roy Orbison's "In Dreams," a floozy dancing atop a parked car as Jeffrey is beaten, a tableau of degradation and death in Vallens' apartment, Vallens herself appartitioning, bloody and naked, in a suburban yard at night—remain among the most horrifically indelible in American film.
But most of the actual plot points are within the confines of the typical noir. Isn't Jeffrey just another inquiring mind on a case, getting in a little too deep, and enduring a beating or two? OK, so Humphrey Bogart never had a sick sexual double life with an abused crime victim old enough to be his mother. Still, after all that, we get a fairly optimistic coda: Jeffrey, now a man, his relationship with Sandy secure, his mother and aunt happy and relieved to have their son back. Even Vallens is reunited with her little boy. The final noir touch is a wink from the director: a cartoony sweet robin, chewing on a bug. Commenting on the scene of The Maltese Falcon (in which Mary Astor is taken down in an elevator by the cops, as Bogart takes the stairs), the critic David Thomson observed that both were going to the same place. Lynch knows that we know it's just a matter of time before the more dangerous residents in the neighborhood come back for more fun, and that Jeffrey won't be able to resist their enticements.
One of the things that made Blue Velvet such a hard sell at its inception was Lynch's unexpected juxtaposition of high-end cinematic and production techniques with his insistent homage, in the "sunny" parts of the films, to b-movie melodrama, schlock films, and plain old Bad Cinema. The beats and rhythms of Jeffrey's and Sandy's dialogues are off. There are porn films with more natural conversations. Jeffrey's chats with the police detective are stilted and filled with arrhythmic pauses. They are not entirely dissimilar, for example, from some parts of The Room, the famously inept cult film. Now we can see that the film is half awkward reality, half surrealistic horror—and that the nightmares are made to seem more real than normal life. Twenty-five years on, we view the thing as a whole; we await Hopper's appearance the same way we do Jack Nicholson's transformation in The Shining; we are actively engaged with the film's progression. Back then, we didn't know what was coming and had no context for the bravura unforgettable horror lurking just outside the jerky forgettable normality.
The sumptuous Cinemascope-sized framing and the ultradeep focus Lynch used on certain scenes, notably those inside Vallens' apartment building, were key tools in his creation of an insistent dreadscape unlike any other mainstream movie that had come before. The somber interiors—again, particularly in Vallens' apartment, when Jeffrey's awakening occurs—are foreboding and muted. So extreme is the depth of field that characters walking down the hallway to the back of Vallens' apartment seem to be walking uphill. (Later, during a wrenching scene at Sandy's house, the outer parts of the screen image twist sympathetically with Sandy's warping psyche.) For contrast, throughout the film Lynch uses sharp primary colors to cast a sexual aura, signal danger, and mark his characters. Vallens wears bright blue or red dresses, paints her eyelids blue and lips red, and sings at the nightclub bathed in the same colors. A bright yellow raincoat fatefully scars another man; a sharp red marks various lamps, Jeffrey's car, a malevolent bed of roses, and Vallens' bed.
Finally, Lynch's use of sound in the film is steady and disturbing. The ear is our ticket, too, into this netherworld. The sound design, by Alan Splet, oozes dread from every speaker. (The Blu-ray sound is lubricious and vital.) Vallens is a singer, of course, as is, after a fashion, Dean Stockwell. The score, by Angelo Badalamenti (that's him accompanying Vallens at the nightclub), veers from electronic abstraction to bombastic Hitchcockian clichés. The dialogue, too, makes it clear everyone involved is attuned to sound, and includes some rude jokes, too. (Vallens, talking to her kidnapped, earless husband on the phone, keeps saying "Can you hear me?")
Blue Velvet's original shooting script (said to have been four-and-a-half-hours long) has long been available; aficionados of the film have known of at least an hour's worth of material shot that added depth to the story, and in at least one case significantly alters it. The footage, according to Lynch, had been lost after the death of funder Dino De Laurentiis and the sale of his companies, but had finally turned up. Seemingly all of it is being used to promote the new Blu-ray. (It's all collected in a single special feature; there's no director's cut with all of the scenes included.) It's interesting to note that some reputed scenes aren't included; others, like the extended nightclub sequence, have a substance that was only hinted at. While some of the new stuff is incidental (we hardly need more scenes of Jeffrey's Aunt Barbara), a lot of it is powerful and disturbing.
The first one offered features a sort of tedious musical number of a white guy playing an acoustic guitar as a black guy does some blues vocalizing over it. Then we see the scene—it's the prostitute-strewn bar Frank takes Jeffery to during his night of terror. As Frank and his myrmidons sweep in, Frank sees some guy he's been looking for. He gets briefly brutalized on a pool table, as abject naked women stand around undulating. (Frank's mad because the guy has apparently lost Frank's favorite fetish object—a strip of Vallens' blue velvet dress; in a later scene we see that the police had found the fabric, apparently near where Jeffrey found the ear. It's possible that the guy Frank was terrorizing in this scene was the one who'd tossed the ear into the field.) This outtake had a certain notoriety because it was said to include a shot of a prostitute who could do some sort of trick that made it look like her nipples were on fire. This turns out to be something less than a cinematic landmark.
Another deleted scene sees Jeffrey and Dorothy Vallens on the roof of the Deep River Apartments with Vallens balancing herself, heart-stoppingly, on the edge. This seems to be part of the understory of her being suicidal. In the released movie, Sandy's boyfriend, a football player named Mike, has a small role. Here there's a long, odd scene in which Mike and Jeffrey are both at her house for a grim dinner and some TV watching.
The most purely entertaining of the outtakes is I think the longest. It shows the opening acts of Vallens' performance at the Slow Club. One is a terrier eating dinner contentedly from a bowl. The other is a caustic-comedian lounge act that will be worth searching for on YouTube once the Blu-ray comes out. (It's not up yet.)
The most important of the deleted scenes are a series that see the young Jeffrey at college getting informed of his father's illness and then saying goodbye to his friends, including a girlfriend he says he's in love with. They add some substance to a figure who, when we meet him in the released film, is a tabula rasa. We learn that he was unilaterally ordered to leave college and come back and work in the family store by his mother. (This is a twist; in the released film his mother is a weak figure.) In the goodbye scene with his girlfriend, her mannerisms are stilted even by the standards of this film, so it's difficult to get a read on her. (The part is played by an unrecognizable Megan Mullaly, the actress who plays Karen on Will & Grace.) Later, we see their relationship disintegrate over the phone lines. The most mordant of these scenes, heard just from Jeffrey's side, is the final one, in which she tells Jeffrey she's gotten married. "If things don't work out, you have a future in comedy," he says, and hangs up.
The key scene in the college sequences would have made Blue Velvet a different movie. It starts at a wan school dance. Where's Jeffrey? a student asks; there's an emergency call for him. Turns out Jeffrey's in a grungy basement, spying on what is apparently a date rape in progress. We see a bulky college guy pinning down a struggling co-ed—clad, significantly, in blue—on a mattress. Jeffrey watches, fascinated, as the scene unfolds. He hears someone call out to him; only then, in a fit of sudden bravado, does he tell the guy to leave the woman alone.
The inclusion of this scene would have significantly changed our understanding of the film. We think of Jeffrey as someone drawn by curiosity into a new world, in which he is freed, in some way, to experience desires or urges he didn't previously know about. That's part of the director Lynch's professional mien, too; a naïf detachedly exploring, with open eyes, these unaccountably dark images that pop into his head. Instead, in this memorable shot we see something like a portrait of the artist as a young perv, comfortable, even eager, to watch not just sex but explicit sexual violence without protest. Roger Ebert, please note!
The disc also includes the documentary "Mysteries of Love," which owners of the original DVD already have. It's a thorough exposition of the film's making and themes, done with extraordinary taste, intelligence, and lack of squeamishness. Among other things, it has a lot of footage of the cerebral Rossellini (the daughter, you'll recall, of director Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman) offering her take on the movie. It was her first American film (Lynch happened upon her in a restaurant, also the beginning of the pair's extended personal relationship), so we had no context for her at the time. We can see how her intelligence informed her performance. The grueling, notorious scene Roger Ebert found so provocative—that's the one in which an abject, nude Vallens appears on a street at night—remains an iconic moment in transgressive cinema. In this film and elsewhere, Rossellini has said she drew on several images to help her do it. Among them: The famous picture of the Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack; a slab of beef hanging from a meat hook—and her personal experiences with the haunted visages of privileged European friends who'd been kidnapped and tortured by the Red Brigades.


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Dakota Electronics needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 8 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Website offering advertising on a low budget.
People wanting advertising on a budget
In need of a header image for a professional style website for listing
advertising gigs only.
These are the categories:
Body (advertising on body parts)
Automotive (magnetic signs)
Website/blog (advertising on websites or blogs)
RV/Travel Trailer (magnetic signs)
Property (signs on property, barns, fences, etc)
Road side (signs by the side of the road)
Flyers (door hangers, handouts, etc)
Other and bizarre (sandwich signs, balloons/blimps, t-shirts,
promotional products)
Need small images for each category inside larger container image laid
out in 2 row grid with text describing category above top row and below
bottom row. Header image should be min 640px X 200px and max 1280px
X 400px and can have either square corners or rounded corners with no
more than 5px radius.
Small images used should also be included separately in the package.
Include Photoshop CS3 format. And, if creating using vector, include AI-10
format. Get color palette from the attached logo.
Must also include slogan: "Advertising without breaking your budget"
Please DO NOT use the LOGO, only the tag line in the image.
We'd like all the images used to use "Your ad Here" in the area where the advertisement would be displayed.


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Our signature brass railroad spike ring on brass ball chain. Necklace is approximately 26" inches long.
We process orders within one business day, and ship via FedEx from our studio in New York City.
We do not accept returns or exchanges on any customized items.
Once a month or so, we send out a beautiful newsletter with behind-the-scenes looks at what we're up to, along with some special perks for our members.We'd love to share it with you.
We won't ever sell or share your information, and we won't flood your inbox with emails, we promise.
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UPDATE July 13, 2011, 11:03 a.m. | Missing actor Lawrence Street has been reported safe after going missing Sunday morning.
Friends in New York and company members from the new Colorado Repertory Theatre are fearing for the safety of visiting actor and choreographer Lawrence Street, who went missing in Denver early Sunday morning.
Street came to Colorado to choreograph "The Wizard of Oz," the debut production for the new professional summer theater company in Louisville. Street was in the original Broadway company of "Urinetown," and also performed on Broadway in "South Pacific." Street and fellow Broadway veteran Margaret Ann Gates were commissioned by Louisville's The Art Underground to create a New York-quality summer musical, which is scheduled to open on Friday.


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Second, I thought it was Orthodox practice not to disturb the deceased after they are buried... am I wrong?? ÂÂ
Simonopetra on Mt Athos has room for about six or eight to be buried at any particular time.
Actually it is not just monastics. In many small towns in small church graveyards they dig up the bones and place them in a box in a building so that there is space in the graveyard for more burials. I have seen this in numerous small villages and churches in Greece.
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It's not just the Greeks either. It's standard practice in Romania to exhume the bodies and rebury the bones in an ossuary to one side of the family plot, moving the grave marker over with them. For that reason you often see several standard graves laid out and then a forest of crosses to one side.James
It depends on what region you talk about. In our region (Transylvania-Banat), for instance, this practice of digging up the dead, is completely unheard of.
It depends on what region you talk about. In our region (Transylvania-Banat), for instance, this practice of digging up the dead, is completely unheard of. Quite the opposite-but I do not know wheter this is the universal Orthodox practice or just the local use-after the coffin was lowered into the grave, the priest, making the sign of the Cross over the grave, says:"This grave is sealed until the second glorious Coming of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen"
Greeks are among the European Union's most religious citizens. More than 80 percent of Greeks say they believe in God compared with an average of 16 percent in the 25-nation European Union, according to a June 2005 Eurobarometer poll.
``More families will opt for cremation rather than having to endure this sight,'' says Alakiotis. ``We've been struggling all these years. This is a new thing for Greek society.''
Sounds like western psychobabble creeping in to Greek society.
Both cremation and digging up the dead sound awful to me. The ideal would be to let them sleep undisturbed in their graves. But I was not aware that the cemetery plots are so scarce in Greece. Is it the same all over the country, or is it a problem in large cities only?
I just hate to see the fear of death creep into Greek culture from the west.
"what does Mount Athos have to say?"
So who is getting them to turn away?
i'm just skeptical of the concept that they're turning away without getting the idea from someone else...
A lot of this comes back to phyletism/ the ethnic issue and is a hold over from the Ottoman classification of ethnicity almost entirely by religion
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Get Ready For Classic Songs Of The 50s & 60s To Disappear From Internet Streaming Thanks To Copyright Lawsuits
from the bye-bye-1960s-classics dept
With the 1976 Copyright Act, rather than "federalizing" all sound recording copyrights, Congress basically left all pre-1972 recordings under those state laws, while effectively wiping out those laws for everything else. Since then, all copyright is under federal copyright law, but old sound recordings are still subject to those state laws. But those state laws were somewhat limited -- and at no point did anyone seriously believe that there was any sort of public performance licensing required for those recordings. Well, not until a few years ago, when some big record labels started searching under the couch cushions for other ways to squeeze money out of online services. They'd already convinced Congress to force internet streaming sites to pay compulsory performance royalties (at insanely high rates), even though radio doesn't have to pay those.
But that wasn't enough. So, they started to focus on those pre-1972 recordings and said that while those aren't subject to the compulsory rates, perhaps they could hold them hostage and force the streaming sites to pay insane amounts for them. The streaming sites, rightfully, pointed out that none of those state laws really had a public performance right as a part of it, and thus there was no licensing required to perform those works and... eventually the lawsuits began.
Late last year, there was a series of separate but similar rulings in courts in California and New York that more or less upturned decades of copyright consensus about what rights were afforded to pre-1972 recordings.
And now additional lawsuits are starting to show up -- and you can expect a lot more of them. A holding company called Zenbu Magazines has sued Apple's Beats Music along with Google, Songza, Slacker, Rdio, Sony and Grooveshark using the same basic template as those earlier lawsuits. Zenbu claims to hold the copyrights for recordings by the Flying Burrito Brothers, Hot Tuna and New Riders of the Purple Sage. And it wants to get paid. Big time.
In fact, Zenbu is looking to make this a class action lawsuit, meaning that the holders of lots of other copyrights on pre-1972 recordings may pile on as well -- and the potential liability facing all of these streaming services could quickly grow to astronomical numbers.
Given that, it seems quite likely that at least some, if not all, of these services are going to quickly realize that their best move is to simply remove all pre-1972 recordings from their catalog. History for music may end in 1972 thanks to these self-defeating lawsuits from copyright holders desperate to squeeze extra money out of these services. It's hard to see how that benefits culture in the slightest.


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Genealogists and non-genealogists alike have been breaking the rules about Friday night TV watching and made it a priority to tune in to watch the mysteries of celebrity's heritages unfold. This has made season two (though at just over a 1/2 dozen episodes it's more like a quarter season...moan...whine...) the #1 Friday series on NBC averaging a 1.4 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49 and 7.0 million viewers overall over its first two weeks.
Not surprising, over those two opening weeks, Who Do You Think You Are? was #1 in the time period in all key female demographics while scoring NBC's highest 18-49 (a coveted group) and total-viewer results in the Friday 8-9 p.m. (ET) slot since October 8. Keep up the good work ladies!
While we have much to look forward to next year, the current season is just ramping up. We can look forward to episodes featuring Kim Cattrall, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lionel Richie, Ashley Judd and Steve Buscemi. Tune in to the Genealogy Gems Podcast to hear what Rosie O'Donnell had to say about her experience on the show, and take a trip back into the episode archives (episode 81) to hear from Executive Producer Lisa Kudrow.


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LG looks set to win the race to release QHD
It looks like LG is about to win the race to get a quad-HD display on the market, with the company's much rumoured LG G3 set to pack the resolution, according to the latest news coming out of the company.
It will mean that the Korean firm beats its countrymen over at Samsung to the punch on this milestone. The latter had hoped to release a handset later this year, reportedly, that would ship with a quad-HD display, but it now seems like LG will win the race for this launch, with the company confirming this week that the LG G3 will come complete with this feature.
On top of beating Samsung to this goal, the news also means that the LG G2 will have a major selling point over the other flagship smartphones on the market at the moment. The Samsung Galaxy S5 and Sony Xperia Z2 in particular are selling well and have been roundly praised, but neither have the sort of high definition screens that LG will be offering.
It could mean many trading in their phones to get their hands on the latest technology and enjoy the highest definition available on a phone screen anywhere.
The company has confirmed that it will be releasing the LG G3 soon – it will hit the shelves on May 27th in some locations – stating that it will ship with a 5.5 inch screen.
This display will stuff in 2560×1440 pixels, compared to the 1920×1080 on offer today which will allow the phone to show incredibly sharp images that may even be noticeably better than those that can be seen on other devices.
Other highlights that have been confirmed by the company at this point include the fact that it will include a much thinner bezel than previous iterations. It will mean that even though the screen is bigger than on the LG G2, the phone itself will be more or less the same size.
The firm did not confirm which kind of casing the phone would carry though, despite rumours being rife in recent weeks that it was looking to make the move to a metal chassis to rid itself of the easily marked reputation its plastic phones have long had.


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- 1 package cream cheese softened, 8-ounce
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- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 teaspoon dill weed
- 1 teaspoon chives chopped
- Cracked black or lemon pepper optional
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Congressman Brian Higgins, NY-26, spoke on the House Floor Friday to urge his colleagues in Congress to repeal the sequester by highlighting the importance of continued Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding for projects like the cleanup of the Buffalo River.
"The environmental benefits of Great Lakes and Buffalo River protection are obvious, but the less direct but equally significant benefits of clean water on our economy cannot be understated," Higgins said. "Jobs and economic opportunities also flow from healthy lakes."
Last week, Higgins sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator and Great Lakes national program manager, Dr. Susan Hedman expressing his concerns on this issue.
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator joined local organizations, including the University at Buffalo, PUSH Buffalo and Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, for a Western New York "Green Infrastructure Forum." Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has been outspoken about the water serving as a driver of regional economic revitalization through the promotion of its "Rust to Blue" initiative.
The text of Higgins remarks is below:
"Mr. Speaker, The Buffalo River is identified by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative as one of 43 areas of concern in the Great Lakes watershed. In 2011, a coalition of corporate and community partners teamed up with state and local governments to begin a multimillion dollar cleanup of the Buffalo River.
"Unfortunately, sequestration and uncertainty about a new federal budget threaten to delay this project.
"Mr. Speaker, the Great Lakes are a unique national treasure with global significance. They are the largest source of surface freshwater on earth, containing 20 percent of the world's supply. They contain 95 percent of America's freshwater and they support 1.5 million jobs and $62 billion in wages in the shipping, recreation and fishing industries.
"Preservation of our Great Lakes has both environmental and economic impacts and has always enjoyed bipartisan support. We cannot afford to allow sequestration to halt critical projects like the Buffalo River cleanup. I urge my colleagues to repeal the sequester and to protect funding for Great Lakes restoration."
Higgins' Western New York district borders Lake Erie. He is a member of the Congressional Great Lakes caucus, the leader credited with securing a $279 million New York Power Authority relicensing settlement agreement now funding Buffalo's waterfront development, and a staunch supporter of Great Lakes protection.


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Neil Lennon had banned all talk of this week's mouth-watering Champions League clash with Barcelona, but something was on his players' minds as Celtic threw a two goal lead away to draw 2-2 with Dundee United at Tannadice.
Substitute Miku and Tony Watt scored to put Celtic ahead with 10 minutes to go, but substitute Gary Mackay-Steven offered United some hope with a last minute goal before an OG from Efe Ambrose secured a point.
Manager Lennon admitted, "It is very frustrating because we were so good. We were excellent, the level of performance was very high.
"Our play in general was very good, so in terms of play and chances created, everything was there. We didn't get what we deserved which was three points.
"But I am not going to criticize the team. There will be people out there who will criticize us but that performance was very good today.
"There were some brilliant individual performances and we got what we deserved with two great goals. I am annoyed that we didn't see the game out, but that's football.
"We just switched off and let Dundee United get up a head of steam for two or three minutes and they got a lucky break for the second goal.
"Is it two points dropped? Yes it is, but we didn't get what we deserved which was the win."
Georgios Samaras (ankle), Gary Hooper (hamstring) and James Forrest (hamstring) all missed the trip to Dundee while defenders Thomas Rogne and Emilio Izaguirre picked up knocks ahead of the Barcelona game on Wednesday.


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Report from Brazil's Software Livre Forum 2003
Helio Chissini de Castro of Conectiva recently gave a KDE speech at Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and was kind enough to write up his experiences for the rest of us. In recent years, Rio Grande do Sul has become a GNU and consequently GNOME stronghold, so prepare yourself for an entertaining if not graphic read! Update: 06/13 20:20 by N: Only fair to point out Miguel's comments on this article.
Report: Forum Software Livre 2003
I'm just back from my arduous journey (closed airports, endless
First, a little explanation on what this conference represents to
So, after 4 hours of delay in my flight, I arrive at Porto Alegre and
Today, the last day, is considered "GNOME Day" since Mr Icaza is
Once I obtain my ID card, I head off to the VIP room accessible to all
For a few moments I'm feeling a bit unpleased with everything, despite
I am equipped with a small and old notebook, a P2-300 Mhz with 64Mb,
When I arrive at my speech room, imagine my surprise that almost all
I take care to mention which steps we (Brazil) will need to take to
A corporate guy at the speech asks me this question: "The government
Afterwards, many people came to me to ask more direct questions about
As someone who hopes to see KDE spread, this is exactly what I like to hear - you did an excellent job of "correctly" presenting quality software. I.E., you let KDE stand on its merits.
Congradulations, and thanks for taking the high road.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Mon, 2003/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: IMO
yes, i must say i agree that the best way to gain ppl's support is not to go and bash gnome/windows etc (although i do do that a fair amount =) but to just show them the superiority of kde, and let them see it for themself. well done, it seems that you did a really great job. long live kde
By lrandall at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
I don't understand this Anti-KDe attitude. What's wrong with KDE? You don't have to use it. IceWM serves as well .-) gnome also works although I don't like to use it.
Present your KDE and show what you can do with it... nice idea.
Gideon and Quanta may be too special software.
By Gerd at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: ANTI-KDE
There's no Anti-KDE attitude..
By Helio Chissini ... at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Miguel de Icaza
Is he really that much of a prick?
By zank at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Miguel de Icaza
I'm sure Miguel is a nice guy and all, but he did pretty much betray KDE. Back in 1996, he was almost fanatic about KDE. In the comp.os.* newsgroups back then, he said a lot of positive things about KDE and backed it wholeheartedly (remember that he was the developer of mc, and as a result, he was already well known among free software circles. ) After learning about then-license of Qt, he completely switched views, said things that were in DIRECT contradiction of what he said months before that about KDE. He literaly went from being one of KDE's biggest supporters to one of it's biggest enemies overnight. Later on, he talked about making a desktop that was based on the Scheme (!!) programming language. This eventually became GNOME.
I think he's cooled down over the years, but there is probably still some bad blood between him and KDE project as a whole. I dunno. I pretty much took a break in free software cold turkey in the KDE vs. GNOME "argument"'s formative years of 1999-2001, so I have no idea.
By fled at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Miguel de Icaza
Maybe not.
By Helio Chissini ... at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Miguel de Icaza
The short reply is NO. As far as i know him, he's as far of being a megalomaniac god as Maddog is. Or the guy writing the article has never had the opportunity to share a region of the space with RMS. I don't use neither Gnome nor KDE, but my wife and my eldest son use KDE and find it comfortable, albeit somewhat clumsy. I have seen the new version of Gnome and discussed it with Miguel from an agnostic's standpoint, and think it's worth a try.
By Cinabrium at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Miguel de Icaza
Wha? I can only let Miguel's reputation speak for itself, but Maddog? Him I do know. He's an endearing old Unix geek. :-) Heck, he's bordering on gooby at times. He's kind of the Grandpa to the Linux community. And yes, the Santa Claus stories are true. :-)
By Scott Wheeler at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
We had KDE here last year
In last year's Free Software Forum, KDE's Ralf Noldem was here in Porto Alegre, and all machines had KDE running by default. To me it was apparent that GNOME was chosen this year because Miguel de Icaza was here.
Speaking of Miguel de Icaza, I talked briefly to him and he seemed to be a nice guy. I also took the oportunity to hand him a GoboLinux CD :)
By Hisham Muhammad at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: We had KDE here last year
A have to agree at some point with you, but we're talking not just about the conference, but about all Brazilian Government choices.
By Helio Chissini ... at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
I like this kind of stuff =) hope to see more of it in the future =)
It's odd that Miguel would be arrogant to Helio, ater all he said KDE was bette rin some areas than GNOME.
I do think that Helio should of gotten a good 1 GHZ+ 512 DDR laptop, 300 MGZ just isnt a good demonstration machine.
Also, i've seen Thiago check lots of my bug reports just minutes after I submit them, hes really fast and a great help to the KDE community as I'm sure Helio is too.
What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god, a leader that is synnonymous with KDE like Miguel and havoc are with GNOME. Matthias or Aaron maybe I don't really know, there need to be more developer interviews to make KDE devs really popular so everyone knows and doesen't think KDE has no direction.
By Alex at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Nice
>What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god,
For me, I find it reassuring. "Gods" are easier to dislike or attack,
>I do think that Helio should of gotten a good 1 GHZ+ 512 DDR laptop, 300 MGZ
Remember, he made a point of proving KDE works also on older machines.
By eru at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Nice
WOW I can't imagine running KDE on something that slow, I thought 400 MGZ was the minimum.
Anyway, i thought since he was teh "demo dude" that he would get a blazing fast machine to show KDE at its best.
By Alex at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Nice
I run KDE 3.1.2 on a pentium 233 MMX with 64 RAM.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Sun, 2003/06/15 - 5:00am
Re: Nice
>>What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god, a leader that is synnonymous with KDE like Miguel and havoc are with GNOME.<<
Hmm.. and what happens to Gnome when Ximian runs out of money, or the god decides to spent the rest of his live with Mono, or Apple hires him?
By AC at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Nice
Ximian does not do the lion's share of GNOME development, so whilst they would be sorely missed if they went out of business, it wouldn't destroy GNOME. Not by a long shot. Additionally, Miguel *is* spending his life with Mono. He is no longer involved in GNOME at a technical level at all. :-)
By jdub at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Nice
> What bothers me a little though is that I don't think really have a KDE god, a
Maybe not, but we are still supporting David Faure for president.
By Sergio Garcia at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
KDE, why not?
Well, I am a brazilian member of the Debian project (we are few here, still), and also a indirect member of the government effort for free software. Not all of us are GNOME heads, rest assured. Most of us will just go with whatever works.
We have been deploying KDE as the default choice in Campinas/SP/Brazil in the municipal government. Whe have been working hard to get knoopix/kurumin widespread, and that's KDE as well... and we are doing that because KDE is marginally better than GNOME right now. Technical merits only, you see. And the l18n quality rates very high in importance.
But if KDE wants to get Brazil, it needs a very damn good team for pt_BR l18n. So, I can only hope you get more Brazilians into KDE.
One suggestion I make is for the pt_BR KDE devels to approach one of the public institutions, through CIPSGA (www.cipsga.org.br), to try to get funding for the betterment of KDE's l18n.
This is NOT impossible. Some of us know the value of really good l18n people (please apply the elitist and bastardly hight quality requirements you think Debian people have to this definition, btw), and are in management positions, and we will try to get funding for you, if you show up at our door.
Direct email to me won't get you a job, btw. But do try to contact CIPSGA, and send in your resumé and a sample of your l18n work.
By Henrique M. Holschuh at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: KDE, why not?
Excuse me, but the Brazilian i18n is one of the top ranked i18n teams at this point. This is remarkable when you realize most of the job is being done by just a couple of _very_ dedicated people. The head of the translation team in Brazil has been doing this job in _very_ unconfortable hours due to her demanding work load. If you want to help, please contact Lisiane Sztotlz (email@example.com).
They _do_ need help, though. Especially as documentation is concerned. A lot of people comes in to do message translation, but the docs are mainly untranslated.
By Roberto Teixeira at Thu, 2003/06/12 - 5:00am
I remember talking to you, but maybe you did not understand what I said. Because I can not picture myself saying `Mono is seven times better than .NET'. That is the first hint that you might have missed more than a few packets when we talked.
In fact, I *might* have said "Mono is on average 70% of the speed of .NET today", but claiming that Mono is better than .NET today would be a colossal stretch of the word "seven". More like "point seven" ;-)
I do not remember the details, but I think you might have been the dude that showed me a screen and said something like `Isnt this better than Gnome', and I said `I dont think so, Gnome is a lot more usable'. So your representation of what I said if fairly inaccurrate.
I also dont think this is about being a "god" or not, but I do remember that you were slightly antagonistic towards me (if you are that dude from the VIP room). I said at some point `The important thing is that we both work on free software'. You might have been the Quanta dude, I dont know. I dont remember. It was an intense week.
If you get a trasncript of my talk, you might realize that I probably spoke about different things than you thought ;-)
By Miguel de Icaza at Fri, 2003/06/13 - 5:00am
possible misunderstanding
I'm curious: At the convention, did you guys speak together in English, Portuguese, or Spanish? And based on that, could there maybe have been a little bit of a language barrier? Mistranslation is always a good source of misquotes.
By Ben Stevens at Fri, 2003/06/13 - 5:00am
Re: possible misunderstanding
It is very possible that this was the case, because I honestly had nothing to wine from being mean to people.
I do not remember, but most people I met did not speak english, so I typically talked in slow spanish, and they talked back to me in portuguese, portuguese with spanish or english.
I have to say, I loved the conference. It was a very community-oriented conference of *users*, so unlike a trade show, everyone in the conference behaved like they were old friends.
In one hand: the conference was very large (I do not know the numbers), but they had multiple tracks, and the place was huge, and everywhere you went, it was crowded. And they had a section for community sites, that was fascinating: local groups sharing code, sharing ideas, sharing jokes.
Part of what made this conference awesome was that Marcelo (the organizer) has tried to make not only a conference about free software, but has worked to get other social movements involved, so there was a strong presence from other activist groups that might benefit from free software.
So unlike other conferences, I would say that the "spirirt" of the World Social Forum (which was held for three years in Porto Alegre) was present in the conference. Ideas revolving not only around technology, but around social change, and the motto of "Another world is possible" being transpired everywhere.
The kind of energy I witnessed here is hard to find in trade shows today; The LinuxExpo in Paris and the HispaLinux congress in Madrid are probably the closest to the community feeling they got here. But as I said, the organizers had a people-networking mindset, which was absolutely awesome.
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A Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center student received the prestigious peacetime Soldier's Medal award Oct. 18 for having saved the life of a local man in a diving accident that took place on Sept. 8, 2012, in the Monterey Bay area.
Staff Sgt. Eric J. Meas earned the medal for his actions in rescuing a fellow diver after Meas noticed that the diver had lost consciousness at the depth of 50 feet.
Without regard for his own short air supply, Meas was able to bring the diver to the surface where he administered rescue chest compressions and emergency breathing until help arrived.
"It gives me tremendous pride to recognize Staff Sgt. Eric Meas for his heroic actions. It is not often tested to the level he was (in the accident), said DLIFLC Commandant Col. Danial D. Pick. "It is what every one of us needs to be doing every day – taking care of our buddies, inside the classroom and out."
Meas received the award during Organization Day at the Institute, in front of more than 4,000 service members standing in formation on Soldier Field. The Soldier's Medal is awarded to a U.S. service member or of a friendly foreign nation who, while serving in any capacity with the U.S. Army, distinguished himself or herself by heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy.
"We had decided to do a deep water dive to 105 feet that day," said Meas, recounting the events of the day. Meas had been paired with Dave Neely that day, a fellow diver whom he had met through the Advanced Open Water Course.
"At about 50 feet I noticed that he was showing signs of being out of air," explained Meas, adding that he tried to help him by giving him air and by filling his buoyancy compensator that is used to help maintain position of the body in the water. "But he started to go back down."
Calculating what to do next, Meas noticed that his own air supply was short. "I had only 200 PSI, not enough for a safe ascent." Disregarding his own safety, in a split second Meas decided to go down to grab Neely and sling his arm though the straps of his buddy's air tank.
"I filled his buoyancy compensator all the way and then kicked as hard as I could. We surfaced in about 10 seconds, which is extremely dangerous," explained Meas.
As soon as he reached the surface, Meas called for help on the boat with the group's dive master. He then administered rescue breathing to attempt to get the water out of Neely's lungs. "It seemed like a long while before the dive master arrived," recounted Meas. As soon as they reached the shore, the Coast Guard and Fire Departments took over and transported Neely to the nearest hospital.
Meas is currently a student of the Arabic language at DLIFLC which is the Department of Defense's premier foreign language provider.
Photo and story by Natela Cutter
1. Staff Sgt. Eric J. Meas (center) poses with his wife Dana (left) and Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Commandant Col. Danial D. Pick after the receipt of the prestigious Soldier's Medal on Soldier Field Oct. 18, 2013.
2. Staff Sgt. Eric J. Meas (right) and Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Commandant Col. Danial D. Pick stand during the reading of the citation for the Soldier's Medal, Oct. 18, 2013 on Soldier Field.
Posted Date: 18 October 2013


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