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NEW YORK - He showed us how to dance, what music to listen to, and gave us something to do on New Year's Eve.
For generations of Americans, Dick Clark was more than just a TV host; he was the person who helped shape key memories in our lives.
In judging Clark's accomplishments, some might use his giant television empire as the benchmark: He made millions of dollars as a television entrepreneur, showing far more business savvy than you'd expect from someone with a slightly derisive nickname, "America's oldest living teenager." Game shows, award shows, bloopers, the American Music Awards - hours of television were filled by Dick Clark Productions, and Ryan Seacrest's career follows Clark's blueprint.
But for most Americans, their memories of Clark are personal. He came to them in their living room with "American Bandstand," counting down the hits, introducing the latest dance moves and hair styles, and chatting up the pop act of the hour who would stop by lip-synch their new songs.
Or they would join him on New Year's Eve, a friendly face for the dateless, or those who just wanted to stay away from the crowd. His other television institution, "New Year's Rockin' Eve," is still going strong at age 40. Lady Gaga was the star of Clark's last New Year's show this winter.
"American Bandstand" was a simple idea blessed with perfect timing. Television was new in the early 1950s, and a Philadelphia station began showing a version of a teen dance party in the afternoon. Clark, a DJ in the city, took over as host in 1956.
It soon went national. One of the country's biggest generations, the post-World War II baby boom, was heading into their teen years, itching to dance to this new sound of rock 'n' roll.
Clark spun the hits, as the camera panned to kids trying out the freshest dance moves. It was a required stop for the day's hitmakers, and exposure on "American Bandstand" could send a song soaring up the charts. He'd ask an audience member to listen to a couple of brand-new songs each week and rate their hit potential, launching the immortal phrase: "It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it."
The show moved to Saturday afternoons in 1963, and continued to wield great influence. Chubby Checker's "Twist" dance craze owed much to the teens shown gyrating on "Bandstand."
The music changed, but "Bandstand" kept an open mind. Clark was a big fan of Michael Jackson and his family. Later video clips showed him awkwardly interviewing members of Talking Heads about their cerebral punk sound. In the early 1980s, former Sex Pistol John Lydon brought his new band P.I.L. to "Bandstand" and they wreaked havoc, bringing the audience onstage and not even pretending to play their instruments or sing along to their music.
Maybe they were trying to "punk" Dick Clark, as a later generation might say, but don't miss the bigger point: They showed up to be on his show.
MTV eventually killed "Bandstand"; people didn't need a once-a-week appointment to see people dance to songs on TV when they could watch music videos at any hour. The show's influence didn't disappear: MTV's "Total Request Live," big in the boy band era, was simply "Bandstand" for another generation (with a much shorter shelf life).
But Clark still remained a presence in most people's lives, albeit on a more occasional basis, with his "New Year's Rockin' Eve." When it arrived in the early 1970s, it represented a generational change. Television had stuck by bandleader Guy Lombardo for New Year's long after his shelf life was over, and viewers needed something new.
Clark's party brought all of the fun, but none of the cold winds or spilled champagne. He showed the ball drop in Times Square and let people watch excited celebrants from the warmth of their living rooms, but of course, with a musical soundtrack. Al Green, Helen Reddy and Three Dog Night performed at the first "New Year's Rockin' Eve."
It remains the most popular New Year's Eve program to this day.
Even after a severe stroke affected Clark's ability to speak clearly and Seacrest joined him as co-host, Clark still made it a point to show up every year at Times Square, tenderly kissing his wife to celebrate another year. The show never remained frozen in time, either. Clark always brought on the hottest stars; Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber were among his more recent revelers.
It's a holiday tradition that will live on without him, but forever defined by him.


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Phils in command vs. Padres, but not Halladay
PHILADELPHIA -- Roy Halladay had an ice pack strapped to his right shoulder as he sorted through a few things in his locker late Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park.
Carlos Ruiz, who has caught some of Halladay's finest moments with the Phillies, including a perfect game in the regular season and a no-hitter in the postseason in 2010, walked across the clubhouse and pulled up a chair to talk. They conversed quietly for a few minutes before Ruiz disappeared to a back room.View Full Game Coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- Roy Halladay had an ice pack strapped to his right shoulder as he sorted through a few things in his locker late Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park.
Carlos Ruiz, who has caught some of Halladay's finest moments with the Phillies, including a perfect game in the regular season and a no-hitter in the postseason in 2010, walked across the clubhouse and pulled up a chair to talk. They conversed quietly for a few minutes before Ruiz disappeared to a back room.View Full Game Coverage
"It's important for me to work on the things I need to work on, but also focus on the things that are good," Halladay said following a 10-5 victory over the Padres. "Philly isn't an easy place to do that. You guys are pretty tough. You have to be pretty mentally strong and block that out and go out there with confidence and trust."
Halladay allowed four hits, five runs, five walks, one hit batter and struck out six in 4 1/3 innings. He walked four consecutive batters in the fifth inning to chase him from the game. He is 1-0 with a 5.06 ERA in four starts since he rejoined the rotation last month. In 21 1/3 innings, he has allowed 18 hits, 13 runs (12 earned runs), 14 walks and five hit batters with 14 strikeouts.
Halladay has said it will take time to return to form, but the Phillies don't have much time to decide if they want to bring him back next season. If everything remains on schedule, he has three more starts before he becomes a free agent following the season.
"Oh, I'm going to pitch," Halladay said about 2014. "I'm going to pitch. Where, I don't know. I'd love to do it here. But if they don't feel like I'm the right guy for them, then I understand. I want to pitch. I have things that I want to prove to myself and things that I want to accomplish. I don't want to be a guy that gets knocked down and stays down. I want to get back up and fight and that's what a lot of this has been about. I felt like I got knocked down and this is my chance to stand up and keep fighting. You keep getting knocked down, you keep standing back up."
Outsiders who watch Halladay might see a guy coming off shoulder surgery who turns 37 in May with a drop in velocity and command. He looks at himself and sees somebody who returned to the mound in record time, which means he has room to improve.
"It's tough and obviously you're under the microscope right now and no matter what you do the negatives are going to be brought to the forefront," Halladay said. "Me personally, I'm trying to focus on the positives and let you guys worry about the negatives.
"In all honesty, I'm proud of the fact that I've made it back. A lot of guys my age could be at home, not pitching, could never pitch again. I feel like I beat some of those odds and that's what I'm looking at and am trying to take the positives. I woke up this morning and it was like Christmas morning, getting a chance to pitch again. After sitting out and watching the team and not being a part of it, it's a completely different thrill to be able to go out there and pitch now. I want to do a better job for us."
In the fifth, Halladay walked Will Venable, Alexi Amarista and Jedd Gyorko to load the bases. He then walked Chase Headley on nine pitches to make it 7-2. Tommy Medica hit a slow roller near the mound. Halladay fielded the ball, but it slipped out of his hand as it sailed past Phillies first baseman Kevin Frandsen.
Two runs scored to make it 7-4.
Phillies interim manager Ryne Sandberg decided to pull him at that point.
Halladay, who said he inexplicably lost strength in his lower body, was visibly upset with himself.
"He just seemed to lose control of the strike zone," Sandberg said. "But the perception is that he is healthy and he'll gain from this. He'll gain strength and really feel the difference after the offseason going into next year."
Fortunately for the Phillies, they took advantage of the Padres' pitching problems. Right-hander Tyson Ross lasted just two-thirds of an inning, allowing five hits, six runs and two walks to hand the Phillies a 6-1 lead.
Cesar Hernandez and Carlos Ruiz each had three hits, with Ruiz driving in three runs. Hernandez and Chase Utley each knocked in two runs.
"It's hard to be patient," Halladay said. "You go from not knowing if you're going to pitch again to getting back and then as soon as you're back you expect to dominate. It's just not the way it works. I have to be patient with that.
"I understand there's doubt. There's doubt any time you have surgery. I feel like in a lot of ways I beat some odds. I know it's hard for people to see that. They look at you as having a certain career, and it could be two weeks after surgery and they expect you to be there. I understand it, and that's fine. I'm going to do the best I can to pitch for our team and do the best I can.
I'm not worried about next year. I'm trying to do the best I can to fulfill my contract here. That's what I was trying to do before. I want to play, and you get criticized for pitching hurt and wanting to be out there for your team and criticize for trying to come back and do the right thing, that's tough to swallow. But I believe I'm mentally strong enough to do that."
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com.

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The LIDS Sports Group, operating within Hat World, Inc., is comprised of the LIDS retail headwear stores, the LIDS Locker Room specialty fan retail chain, the LIDS Clubhouse retail stores and the Internet businesses,
Operating out of Indianapolis, Indiana, the retail businesses make up more than 1,000 mall-based, airport, street level and factory outlet locations nationwide, and in Canada and Puerto Rico. LIDS retail stores offer officially licensed and branded headwear of collegiate teams, major professional sports teams, as well as other specialty fashion categories in the latest styles and colors. LIDS Locker Room is a mall-based retailer of sports headwear, apparel, accessories, and novelties which also operates under the Sports Fan-Attic and Sports Avenue retail concepts. Most LIDS and LIDS Locker Room stores also offer custom embroidery capability. LIDS Clubhouse operates team-specific professional sports and university athletics retail stores and e-commerce websites. Hat World, Inc. is a subsidiary of Genesco Inc.
Company History
'Everybody either went to college, or follows a college or professional sports team. Likewise, everybody has $20. A hat is clearly an impulse buy, but one that people can afford. '
That is how Glenn Campbell summarized his, and partner Scott Molander's idea for Hat World, Inc. in the early 1990s. They were right. Today, the Indianapolis-based company is the specialty retail leader in fashion athletic headwear, team apparel and other fan novelties operating as LIDS.
After working as successful athletic retail store managers, Campbell and Molander decided to start their own business after identifying baseball-style caps as an undervalued niche in mall retail.
'When we spoke with shopping mall executives about how we were convinced everybody needs or can be persuaded to buy a hat, we were told that we were nuts,' said Campbell. 'But if a cookie shop can just sell cookies or a pretzel shop can just sell pretzels, why not hats?'
Finally, a shopping mall in Lafayette, Indiana gave Campbell and Molander their shot from which they sold more than 6,000 hats during the 1995 holiday season. With that successful holiday season behind them the duo acquired a modest private financial placement and opened five more stores their first full year. After growing to 157 stores in five years, Hat World, Inc. acquired its largest competitor, LIDS Corporation, in 2001. With the purchase of LIDS, the Company grew to more than 400 stores and an e-commerce channel (lids.com).
In 2004, Nashville, Tennessee-based and publically traded Genesco Inc. (NYSE: GCO) acquired Hat World, Inc. The Company has continued to grow through new stores and acquisitions. Hat World's other retail acquisitions include Hat Zone in 2002, Cap Factory (2003), Canadian hat retailers Cap Connection and Head Quarters (2004), Hat Shack (2006), and Sports Fan-Attic (2009).


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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension Now Available In US
Marvel's famous web-slinger is back in action and on store shelves in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Activision development studio Beenox has created a unique, immersive experience allowing fans to play as four distinct versions of Spider-Man in four unique worlds - Amazing, Noir, 2099 and Ultimate - in a race to save their universes against the villainous machinations of Mysterio, Carnage, Deadpool, Vulture, Kraven and more.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions transports players to a variety of locations, from lush jungles and sand quarries to a futuristic NYC, and allows them to use unique gameplay styles for each Spider-Man, including stealth moves in Noir, gliding maneuvers in 2099, black-suited tendril attacks in Ultimate, and innovative web combat in Amazing.
Penned by acclaimed Marvel comic book writer Dan Slott, the story takes players on a mission to restore the magical energy of the Tablet of Order and Chaos, which has been shattered and scattered across parallel universes. Gamers are challenged to battle fan-favorite villains such as the lethal Kraven and a custom, never-before-seen Noir version of Hammerhead, in a quest to restore the fabric of reality.
Each of the actors voicing Spider-Man in the game has portrayed the web-slinger in previous Spider-Man animated television series. Neil Patrick Harris (Amazing Spider-Man) voiced the wall-crawler in "Spider-Man: The New Animated Series" in 2003; Josh Keaton (Ultimate Spider-Man) was the voice of Spider-Man in "The Spectacular Spider-Man" from 2008-2009; Dan Gilvezan (Spider-Man 2099) starred in "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" from 1981-1983; and Christopher Daniel Barnes (Spider-Man Noir) voiced the iconic Super Hero in "Spider-Man," the 1994 series.
Additionally, legendary Spider-Man co-creator and comic book icon Stan Lee will guide players through the storyline of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions as the game's narrator, and Emmy Award-winning composer Jim Dooley has created an original orchestral score for the game.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB and is available now on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and soon to be available on Windows PC, all developed by Beenox. A Nintendo DS version, developed by Griptonite, is also now available and features a side-scrolling adventure full of unique villains, such as the first-ever appearance of Calypso Noir and two other boss characters created exclusively for this version.


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Irish police have known about the role played by Cardinal Brady in the 1975 investigation into Fr. Brendan Smyth for years, it has been revealed.
Fr. Brendan Smyth was the notorious pedophile that abused scores of children as a priest in Ireland.
However, police detectives never deemed it necessary to charge Brady and some of his colleagues with attempting to cover up the child abuse.
Cardinal Brady's colleagues were unaware of his involvement in the Smyth case up until last weekend.
The bishops were also unaware of a court case taken against the Cardinal by a woman that was abused by Smyth.
In 1975 Brady was asked to lead an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against Smyth.
The women in question was interviewed by Brady and asked to take an oath of silence. Brady never passed on any information to the police and Smyth was consequently banned from taking confessions.
The woman who wishes to be only know as "Samantha" told the Irish Times that two other schoolgirls that were abused by Smyth at the same time had committed suicide.
"I was raped, abused and had pictures taken of my body. I was 13 when it began in 1974 and it went on for five years. If he [Cardinal Brady] had done something my life would have been so different," said the woman.
Yesterday Brady said he would resign from his position if asked to do so by the pope. Brady told the BBC that he did all he could by 1975 standards.
"I really played my part, the part I had 35 years ago as priest- recording secretary, to the best of my ability.
"We are now judging the behavior of 35 years ago by the standards we set today and I don't think that's fair, it does not apply to other sectors of society," said Brady.
"There should be a Garda (police) investigation to determine whether or not the failure to report Fr Smyth's crimes to the civil authorities was, itself, a criminal offense," said Labour party spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs Roisin Shortall.
"I am advised that the administering of an oath requiring these children not to disclose the abuse to anyone else may also have constituted an offense."
Victim support groups have called on the Cardinal to resign from office.
"One does not need to be a learned theologian or an ordained priest to appreciate how grievously wrong it is to silence young children in order to protect a sex offender," said One in Four director Maeve Lewis.
Lewis accused the Cardinal of "reckless endangerment" and called on him to resign.
Ireland has a total of 23 bishops, and 22 of them have refused to comment on the issue.
Bishop of Clogher Joseph Duffy gave Brady his full support and said he should not resign from office.
Cardinal Brady did not tell the Pope of his involvement in the Smyth case.


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Charlevoix is an touristical and historic region in Quebec, Canada.
Other destinations
Covering 6000 square kilometers in the Canadian shield, Charlevoix has a magnificiant mountain scenery caused by a 15-billion-pound meteor 350 million years ago. The earliest vacationers came to Charlevoix as early as 1760.
Get in
By car
Baie St-Paul and La Malbaie are the major cities of this region. You get by car using the 138 highway. It is about 4 to 5 hours from Montreal and 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes from Quebec City.
By ferry
Rivière-du-Loup—Saint-Siméon, duration: 65 minutes, (418) 638-2856 or (418) 862-5094.
Baie-Sainte-Catherine—Tadoussac, duration: 8 minutes, free, (418) 235-4395.
Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive—Isle-aux-Coudres, duration: 15 minutes, free, (418) 438-2743.
By bus
Intercar, 1-888-861-4592 (toll free), offers the service from Montreal (Central station, Metro Berri-UQAM) and Quebec City (Gare du Palais, 320, rue Abraham-Martin) to Baie St-Paul and various cities in Charlevoix along the St-Lawrence River. Departs from Montreal : 6 AM, 11 AM, 2 PM from Saturday to Thursday; 6 AM, 9 AM, 1 PM, 2 PM on Fridays. 20% off for students. Reservations are mandatory for some cities. Schedules and stops: http://www.intercar.qc.ca/fr/02-01-15.html
Get around
The best way to go around in Charlevoix is by car. However, you can get to many locations by bus with Intercar (see above).
National parks
There are two national parks in this region:
Get out
The two regions to see after visiting Charlevoix are Quebec Region and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean.


text: I find it extremely troubling that when Apache fails to start due to an SSL-related misconfiguration nothing is logged to that effect. For example, if a certificate and private key do not match, Apache will fail to start and, from what I can tell, fails to log anything at all. Maybe there is some alternate log file location of which I'm not aware, but tailing /var/log/apache2/error.log, or the site-specific log at /var/www/example.com/log/error.log, reveals absolutely nothing about the issue's cause. I realize that ISPConfig employs a mechanism for "rolling-back" after misconfiguration problems cause restarting Apache to fail, so my issue is not with ISPConfig, it's with Apache. How can the world's "most mature", "most advanced" Web-server be brought to its knees due to an SSL misconfiguration with one site? I find this to be inexcusable. Even if Apache did log every detail regarding the cause for the failed service start-up, the fact that Apache has no mechanism for handling such a misconfiguration gracefully is appalling. What about simply ignoring the configuration block in which the problem occurred? (Yes, there could be serious implications for this, security-related and otherwise, which is why any such option would require acknowledgement of any risks before enabling.) What about binding to port 80 only, instead of both 80 and 443? There are plenty of other actions that could be taken that are preferable over an outright failure to start -- especially in a "shared" environment where any number of sites may be brought down unexpectedly. To the contrary, Dovecot, for example, failed gracefully in the same instance; it reported a very specific message in its logs and still started-up. Due to the fact that the certificate was malformed, Dovecot dropped its TLS capabilities, but it still started the server and bound to the non-secure port. The apache2ctl configtest command is completely useless when the required files exist and are not empty. This utility does not check for a match between the private key and the certificate. Am I missing something? Or is Apache really this incapable?


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Dyssimulation: Reflexivity, Narrative, and the Quest for Authenticity in "Living History"
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The present article develops three interpretive observations concerning living history. First, a dominant concern of all living-history practitioners whom we have studied is authenticity. Living historians explicitly define authenticity as isomorphism between a living-history activity or event, and that piece of the past it is meant to recreate. In other words, the natives consciously understand authenticity as perfect simulation. However, our analysis shows the relevance of a second conception of authenticity, one that permeates living history but is not consciously understood by practitioners as central to the task of historical simulation. This implicit conception of authenticity concerns the privileged reality of individual experience. An authentic experience, to be achieved in the practice of living history, is one in which individuals feel themselves to be in touch both with a 'real' world and with their 'real' selves.
Second, for living-history practitioners, as for many of us, everyday experience is 'unreal' or inauthentic, hence alienating. Practitioners seek to regain an authentic world, and to realize themselves in the process, through the simulation of historical worlds. Our analysis suggests that an outstanding feature of the historical worlds created by living history is that they have narrative coherence;that is, they are emplotted or constituted as stories. We will argue that the authenticity so ardently sought is implicitly understood as the coherence that storied lives exhibit, a coherence that our everyday, alienated lives lack. Ironically, however, despite the appeal that narrative coherence has for them, living historians explicitly devalue written history, history as it is found in books. Once again, then, we have a gap between the implicit and explicit ideology of living history.
Our third interpretive task is to focus systematically on this gap, on what we might call the limits of reflexive (or conscious) awareness. Participants are quite conscious of the work that goes into living history. They are, for example, reflexive about the research they carryout to construct the roles they will play, and about the impossibility of accurately simulating a historic individual. However, such reflexive awareness seems limited and transitory, and living historians have a remarkable capacity to overlook the present-day cultural routines that underpin the production of particular simulations. In other words, they do not see living history as a genuine aspect of present-day culture. But from our perspective, the authenticity of living history resides as much in its faithfulness to the culture of today as in its faithfulness to the past. (Handler and Saxton, 242-243)
About the Author
Dr. Richard Handler is a Professor and Director of Global Development Studies Program in teh Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
"I am a cultural anthropologist who studies modern western societies. My initial fieldwork was in Quebec (1976-1984) where I studied the Québécois nationalist movement. This has led to an enduring interest in nationalism, ethnicity, and the politics of culture. My second major field project was an ethnographic study of Colonial Williamsburg, which is both an outdoor museum and a mid-sized nonprofit corporation. This has led me to an interest in tourism and cultural development around the world. Finally, I have had an enduring interest in the work of anthropologists as critics of modernity and development. My most recent book is Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society. A different interest is the intersection of anthropology and literature. I have written on Jane Austen's novels, on the literary bent of such noted anthropologists as Ruth Benedict and Edward Sapir, and on the difficulties of writing the ethnography of nationalist movements. Finally, I have had an ongoing interest in the history of American anthropology - in particular, in anthropologists as critics of modernity, and the relationship of our discipline's critical discourse to other intellectual trends. I am the editor of the journal-series History of Anthropology. I am also completing a collection of essays entitled Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Visions of Mass Society. Specializations: Sociocultural anthropology; nationalism, ethnicity and multi-culturalism; museum studies; cultural criticism; symbolic anthropology; history of anthropology; anthropology and literature; culture theory; modern societies; contemporary North America."
William Saxton, is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Getting References from former teachers Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Getting References from former teachers Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Samantha ShawJoined: 07 Apr 2003 Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject: Getting References from former teachers Hello all! The school I am about to join in Seoul, and the recruiter who matched us, do not seem to want to give me former teachers names/emails. I have been asking for weeks. I keep getting 'valid reasons' why previous teachers cannot be contacted (the school doesn't have their emails, they didn't keep in touch, it is not the right procedure, etc). The [i]current [/i]teacher I spoke to sounded young, monosyllabic and a bit frightened. A contract has been signed and tickets organised, but Im still asking for former references (just as they are most welcome to check mine). The last communication on this from the recruiter suggested I drop this if I did not wish to be perceived by the school as a 'particular sort of person'. Any comments, experiences, interpretations are much appreciated. Samantha Back to top igotthisguitarJoined: 08 Apr 2003Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation) Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject: >. Take your time finding the best school for you. If your recruiter is balking @ helping hook you up w/ past teachers i'd be VERY WARY Bon Chance Back to top The Great Wall of WhinerJoined: 24 Jan 2003Location: Middle Land Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject: Oui, bon chance indeed! I would say something to the effect of: "Look. I want to know if other people thought you were a good employer or not. If you cannot at least provide me with their names, how can I be so sure I want to work here?" Tread on eggshells. Most places do not give out references for obvious reasons.... Back to top captain kirkJoined: 29 Jan 2003 Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 7:47 am Post subject: 'a particular sort of person', eh? One who is a bit too nosy, eh? Korea is a hierarchical society and nobody much says boo, koreans that is, unless it's talking down the ladder. I asked for a recommendation from the current teacher before i arrived at this school. I didn't phone, I emailed. But she didn't respond. I asked the recruiter why and finally she did e-mail. She said her email account was overloaded. By that time I was already down from Seoul and at the school meeting everybody. She wasn't in a mood to be generous. She was disgruntled and stressed and without energy in a lackadaisical funk, in a hurry to get out of there. She'd been there seven months. But the director wanted her out after three because she couldn't control the naughty kids, and class was a free-for-all. However, the parents liked her, and to avoid upsetting the parents the director begrudgingly kept her on. Students were lost, but the parents who wanted her to stay got more of a 'private class' with the fewer students. Anyhow, she was curt and with a crust of high falutin' attitude when i, her replacement, came along. She didn't tell me what she was getting paid, which was important, until it was too late and i'd already signed a contract. So there i was, struck dumb, when she told me that she got 200,000 won more a month for the same hours. But i straightened that out a month later, involving lots of tempests in teapots. In hindsight, I didn't phone her because i wanted a job. I didn't want to hear any 'bad news' even if it was the truth. So i lazily emailed her, and missed out on some vital information before quickly signing a contract. I ought to have had that question noted and ready to ask; 'how much are you getting paid there?". Point is the current teachers could sometimes be in no mood to talk, and just want out ASAP. And to get out they need a new teacher ASAP, maybe not telling them much at all. Back to top gajackson1Joined: 27 Jan 2003Location: Casa Chil, Sungai Besar, Sultanate of Brunei Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject: Another point to be made: a lot of recruiters out there get their bread buttered from both sides - try to get a fee from the candidate as well as the school. If you have direct contact, well, you can effectively snippet out the middleman. Good for you, good for the school, bad for the recruiter. *SNIFFLE!* regards, & good luck!!! Glen Back to top The LemonJoined: 11 Jan 2003 Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject: Quote: If you have direct contact, well, you can effectively snippet out the middleman. Good for you, good for the school, bad for the recruiter. This can't be overstated. In my experience, schools are happy to be contacted directly (not just e-mail spam your resume - get on the phone, PC-to-phone if you have to, and TALK to them), as they avoid paying recruiting fees. It's my policy to only work at schools I contacted directly. 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Keith Urban Says He Likes Blind Auditions Best in New 'The Voice Australia' Promo
Who says Blake Shelton is the only country superstar that can be a coach on 'The Voice'? Well, turns out he's not. Keith Urban is also a coach — albeit on the Australian version of the show. In a new teaser promo, the singer, who never has a bad hair day, explains his attraction to this particular reality talent competition.
"The passion that is really on fire at the beginning of somebody's career…to be around that is exhilarating for me and I'm looking forward to it," Urban declares in the minute-long clip. He can't wait to roll up his sleeves and jump right in with his charges and feed off their energy.
Urban also says that the blind audition round is what makes the show and that it is his favorite part. He says, "I like the blind auditions. They're the essence of the show." The clip then cuts to shots of the singer seated in his big red chair, tapping his button for a 'Voice' that moved him.
It's enough to make you wish that the Aussie version would air in the US. We're betting that Urban will have plenty of great advice for his charges in addition to tons of terrific moments on the show.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) inspects the Natanz nuclear plant in central Iran in March 2007. The U.S. and Israel fear Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb, a claim Tehran denies.
The leaders of the United States and Israel are about to have some serious face time -- five-and-a-half hours culminating in a late-night dinner on Wednesday. Three key issues will dominate the agenda: Iran, Syria and the Palestinians. In the first part of our "On the Brink" series,?NBC News correspondent Martin Fletcher --?who has been covering the region for three decades?--?gives his take?on a problem of global significance: the prospect of Iran getting nuclear weapons and military action to stop that happening.
News analysis
Israel?s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have one key question for President Barack Obama when they meet Wednesday: If push comes to shove, will America attack Iran to stop the Iranians from developing a nuclear bomb?
Obama has a question of his own, just as critical. Will Israel promise not to attack Iran without American approval?
Ahead of the U.S. president's trip, Israel?s President Shimon Peres described Iran as ?the greatest threat to peace in the world.?
Lucas Jackson / Reuters, file
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he has drawn on a graphic of a bomb used to represent Iran's nuclear program as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in September last year.
He made the remark in a March 12 speech to the European Parliament in Strasburg, but he likely had Washington in mind.
On paper there is little light between the U.S. and Israeli positions. Obama and Netanyahu both say they will not permit Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. They both hope sanctions and political pressure will do the job. Both say all options are open, including military.
So how come neither trusts the other?
Israeli analysts point to North Korea, which has also been subject to international sanctions and American warnings against pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
Yet today, North Korea not only has a nuclear weapon but has threatened to use it to attack America.
So the Israeli analysts ask, what good are American promises on Iran?
On the other hand, can Israel really go it alone?
The reality is that Israel?s so-called red line -- the point at which it must attack for the strike to be effective -- is much closer than America?s because the U.S. has many more, and more powerful, bunker-busting bombs that can hit Iranian nuclear installations like Fordow.
Also in this series:?Syria chaos looms large over Obama's Israel trip
The shared U.S.-Israeli assessment appears to be that the Iranians will have enough weapons-grade uranium for an atom bomb by mid-2013. So what to do?
Most analysts in Israel agree on two things. First, Israel must act. No country can ignore threats to obliterate it, especially a country born from the Holocaust. Second, Israel cannot destroy Iran?s nuclear program alone. At best, it can delay it. Yet that is what Israel?s policy has been for a decade.
Israel is already fighting a secret war against Iran, reportedly assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, planting computer viruses in the heart of Iranian scientific complexes, destroying centrifuges by taking over their operating programs and making them spin themselves to destruction, and booby-trapping key items that Iran imports from foreign countries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voices concern over the progress of Iran's nuclear program while addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
So why up the stakes by launching an air attack, with all the risks of downed pilots being captured, civilian casualties, and massive reprisals?
This would at best buy a few years' time, while giving Iran the excuse it needs -- in the light of open Israeli aggression -- to publicly declare its need for a defensive nuclear option.
Israel?s considerations go beyond an actual attack. The question is, will Iran?s response be so severe that Israel would regret attacking it for evermore? That?s certainly what Iran wants Israel to think.
But Iran?s threats to rain down thousands of rockets a day on Israel appear increasingly hollow.
Syrian support for Iran is now far from guaranteed. And economic sanctions mean Iran is less able to finance and supply its allies in the war against Israel -- Hezbollah in south Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli military analysts are increasingly sanguine about the threat. They believe Iran?s response will be severe, but nothing like it would have been before the revolt against President Bashar Assad in Syria, which weakened him and Hezbollah.
As for Washington, there is certainly no stomach for another war just as it is winding down troop levels in Afghanistan.
It?s the last thing America needs as it tries to cut down on spending and reduce its $16 trillion national debt.
Yet Obama appears committed to doing whatever it takes to stop the Iranians from getting a nuke.
Foreign Policy magazine reported last October that America and Israel were considering a joint air attack that could last days, or maybe just hours. But then what?
The best hope for a peaceful solution would be regime change in Iran, or a change of heart by the present fundamentalist Muslim leaders.
Neither seems likely.
On Monday, Martin Fletcher looks at what is possibly an even more urgent threat to Israel: the civil war in Syria.
Martin Fletcher is the author of ?Walking Israel," "The List" and "Breaking News."
President Obama makes his first trip to Israel where he will meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
Obama: Iran more than a year away from nuclear weapon
Netanyahu says nuclear talks buy Iran time to build the bomb
Analysis: Israel airstrike may foreshadow Iran attack
Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/17/17306968-on-the-brink-israel-to-grill-obama-over-possible-military-strike-on-iran?lite
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I just watched Death Proof, the Quentin Tarantino directed movie from Grindhouse and hooolllly shit. My big screen car chase itch has done been scratched. All I need are two beautiful muscle cars, a long dirt road and double maximum speed and I'm fine. Well, I'm better than fine, I'm bordering on one of those characters from Cronenberg's Crash. But more on Death Proof (and all of Grindhouse) later, I'm here to talk about cars--movie cars. To some of us, there is nothing quite like a bad-ass 1977 Pontiac Trans Am going up against a yellow Mercedes in a parking structure. Preferably with 1970s era Ryan O'Neal in the driver's seat.
Which is why I've returned to a post (from my MSN story) about something I love more than, hell, Lee Van Cleef--the car in cinema. Assembled, sometimes, like the ultimate dream machine of perfection, uber speed and sex appeal, a lovely car can be a more aesthetically beautiful creation than ... Catherine Zeta-Jones. Ask any gear-head. Not only can they discuss the repair and restoration of the four or five cars piled in their front yard, they can also list the specs of Mad Max's Interceptor without missing a beat. And yep, not surprisingly, they'd rather watch Mad Max over Love, Actually. Hell, they'd rather watch Mad Max over The Fast and the Furious -- the re-make -- which is where this list peels out of the, uh, driveway.
So here's my look at the 10 greatest examples of car cinema (not the greatest cars, that's another list I wrote, though these movies include all of my favorite cars), proving that autos can make not only a genre, but compelling characters as well. For these films, it's not star, but car, power. I'm taking my Torino out for a joyride now...
10. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
OK, so the film itself leaves something to be desired in the deep-meaning department. And the director dips into the cheap-thrills cookie jar one too many times. But Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is lots of messy fun -- especially when involving automobiles. Peter Fonda is (crazy) Larry, a would-be NASCAR driver who, with his mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke), pulls off a heist and runs for a new country. But they also take Mary (Susan George), a nutjob wild child (who's really the "crazy" one here, anyway?), who makes the getaway a little more, well, interesting. Filled with all kinds of terrific chase sequences starring lust-worthy hotrod "characters" such as a Dodge Charger, a Chevrolet Impala and a Dodge Polara. This one's muscle-ri-fic.
9. Duel (1971)
Before he struck fear in the heart of every beach-loving, ocean-swimming New Englander, Steven Spielberg crafted one of his supreme films with Duel, a movie that struck fear in the heart of every traveling salesman just trying to get down a California highway. Dennis Weaver is the nebbish, Joe-Blow salesman whose life becomes a vehicular nightmare when a mysterious, ominous truck will not stop following him. But why? Well, we assume the truck wants to kill him (or just completely mess with his head) in some kind of sanity test the poor schlub did not need that morning. Or maybe the truck really hates his car -- a Plymouth Valiant. Whatever the case, the deranged semi vs. Plymouth makes for a superbly tense 90-minute chase film that's a lot more disturbing and so-called "bad to the bone" than Christine.
8. Vanishing Point (1971)
Can you get from Denver to San Francisco in one night? Check out Vanishing Point, in which Barry Newman's mysterious speedster, Kowalski attempts just that. Hired to deliver the white Dodge 440 1970 Challenger in less than 15 hours, he's in the exceptional predicament of being pursued by cops, while a blind DJ named "Super Soul" (Cleavon Little) helps him along his way. Informing the driver of his progress via radio show, Super Soul also makes Kowalski something of a folk hero ("the last American to whom speed means freedom of the soul"). Taut, enigmatic and chock full of pursuits (a memorable one involves a Jaguar), the film skids and scoots and speeds to a kind of infinity. Who really wants to get out of their car?
7. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
You gotta love a movie in which the car is such a major character, she's given a name ("Eleanor"). You also gotta love a movie in which the writer, director and stunt driver also stars (H.B. Halicki), mostly because he's such a die-hard gear-head that he surely couldn't imagine anyone else leading the proceedings. Car thieves must steal 48 cars in a short period of time, including a 1973 Mustang Mach 1 code-named Eleanor. When Halicki (as the amusingly named Maindrian Pace) gets his hands on Eleanor, the film kicks into epic high gear, with a 40-minute chase scene that passes through five California cities and leaves nearly 100 cars totaled. The movie was re-made (badly) in 2000, proving you don't need big stars (Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie) or extra extreme effects when you already had the real deal in the first place. And Halicki was the real deal; he died in a stunt accident while making this film's sequel.
6. The Driver (1978)
Walter Hill proved that he knew his way around a car by writing the screenplay for Sam Peckinpah's supreme The Getaway (another great car movie) and directing the auto-centric The Driver. An unyielding, enigmatic thriller, the film stars Ryan O'Neal, known simply as The Driver, a man constantly chased by, yep, The Detective (a fantastically creepy Bruce Dern) in a seemingly endless game of cat and mouse. The entire film involves obsessed pursuit; the viewer's point of view is often inside the car as the Driver maneuvers without any discernible emotion. O'Neal is almost literally a driving machine, as he shifts, swerves and speeds his Trans Am through parking structures, alleys and oncoming traffic. This is no giggling Smokey and the Bandit; this is Le Samourai on high octane.
5. Le Mans (1971)
Le Mans is about exactly that: the famed French auto race that runs for 24 hours. And not much else. In true car-noir fashion, it takes a good half-hour before we hear the film's protagonist utter a line of dialogue. That protagonist, Delaney, is played by Steve McQueen in a film so stripped of plot that it often feels like a documentary. We simply watch the auto race on the world's hardest endurance course as our hero goes more than 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. There's a duel between Delaney, in his Gulf Team Porsche 917, and a Ferrari 512LM that tests not only the driver's technical abilities, but also his personal will. Filled with terrific racing sequences galore and impressive wrecks, the spectacle is thrilling even if the narrative is not.
4. Bullitt (1968)
What -- you thought I'd get through this list with only one McQueen film? Not likely, especially since this film is so firmly implanted in car cinema, it's tough not to combine the car and driver as one super being. Bullitt, Peter Yates' too-cool-for-school-actioner, boasts the greatest cinematic drive through the streets of San Francisco. But there's more than that legendary pursuit. There's the car -- a sweet 1968 Mustang GT 390 (the best-looking Mustang ever) -- and the driver -- McQueen (the best-looking guy ever to drive a Mustang). McQueen, who helped re-vamp the bitchin' green Ford, is the James Dean of car culture, indelibly linked with the lure and lore of the automobile. Bullitt actually makes me think Mustangs are not the most obvious "muscle" car you can own. Still, the villain's car, the 1968 Dodge Charger was much, much cooler.
3. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Many remember 1977 as the year Star Wars became a national obsession. But while some of you played with plastic light sabers and (now priceless) action figures, there were others who busted out their Dad's CB radio ("Sheriff ... do the letters F.O. mean anything to you?") and prayed he'd buy a black 1977 Pontiac Trans AM just like the one Burt Reynolds (a.k.a., The Bandit) drives in Hal Needham's classic Smokey and the Bandit. And yes, I did just say classic. A charming, laughing Reynolds teams with trucker pal Jerry Reed to transport 400 cases of Coors beer across state lines, with an apoplectic, hilarious Jackie Gleason (as Sheriff Buford T. Justice) in pursuit. Loads of light fun filled with clever, excellently edited and just plain stellar car-chase sequences, Smokey and the Bandit is, as the infectious Jerry Reed song proclaimed, "loaded up and truckin.'"
2. Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max gives new meaning to the term "playing chicken." After super-studly, leather-clad cop Max Rockatansky (played by Mel Gibson in a star-making performance) explosively wins this game with an escaped criminal named The Nightrider, thug-in-arms biker-gang leader The Toecutter (oh, how I love these names) seeks vengeance, killing not only Max's partner but Max's family as well. So now Max is, as the title states, mad. Very, very mad. As directed by George Miller, this dystopian vision of violent recklessness and ultimate revenge is wonderfully paced, beautifully textured and even quite emotional at times. It also, in terms of ingenious car chase, crash, smash and explode sequences, is incredibly, punk-rock badass. And it features one of cinema's coolest cars: The Interceptor, a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT, the auto-erotic fixation of the petrol set. Where can I get one?
1. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
If Jean Paul Sartre had directed a drive-in movie, he might have crafted Monte Hellman's existential, car noir Two-Lane Blacktop. The stoic central characters are stripped down to their basic handles -- James Taylor is known only as the Driver, Dennis Wilson the Mechanic, Laurie Bird the Girl and the late great Warren Oates, in one of his most unforgettable roles, is GTO. All players drive and drive and drive, seemingly to challenge other cars and race cross country, but is that really what they're seeking? The characters don't even know themselves. But they do love their cars. Taylor and Wilson drive a seriously souped-up '55 Chevy that's all muscle and speed, no frills, while Oates rolls a yellow 1970 Pontiac GTO -- something Taylor scorns as right off the lot. What makes this film unique is its absolute auto-centric vision (the continual purr and hum of the engine makes even the viewer feel at one with the car) mingled with art-house beauty. And it's one of the few movies in which the Driver can state with extra, ambiguous meaning, "You can never go fast enough." A masterpiece.
And here's my masterpiece:
The tires have improved since this picture but still, this is the closest I come to bearing children. I think I look the most in love when I pose with my car. And the most protective...


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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Worrying is like a Rocking Chair! by DL Larson
So, why oh, why are we still at the keyboard? Why are we plucking images and holding them ransom in some notebook to use in that perfect scene? Why do we continue to try?
The answer, as you well know, is not an easy one to answer, but it is simple. Putting words together is what we do. We don't always enjoy it, we seldom get it right the first time, and yet we know we wouldn't be good at doing anything else worthwhile. The trade sounds romantic ~ a writer. Images of past authors clog the corners of our minds, we think we are just as imaginative as the old timers, and trouble is, we are. But no one cares, or so we so often convince ourselves. There are too many of us and too few books being published by worthwhile houses. Or so we tell ourselves that too. And it's true. We have more writers than ever before, and probably not as many avid readers as even a decade ago. Yet we all want recognition, validation that what we do is worthy, redeeming even.
So we continue. And we should.
No one can write what we write. No one can see what we see. And no one can bring our particular story to life like we can. It's our legacy, our destiny to write the best story we are capable of. If we don't continue to write, then those medicore writers who somehow always get published will only publish more and the good stuff will never get noticed because it was never written. So despite our identiy crisis, or our indecisive venues, and the mound of rejections, we must also persevere.
The best way to do that is to forge ahead, write a little every day, revise on a timely basis and stretch our capabilities to the utmost. We don't sit back and wait, hoping, wringing our hands, wondering what if ... what if ... but boldly take a chance that someone, somewhere will notice what we write is pretty interesting. stuff.
My book, Promises To Keep, is a finalist in another contest. This one is called the Eric Hoffer Award, a contest to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit. (their words not mine) They go on to say that the commercial environment for today's writers has all but crushed the circulation of ideas... and many top literary prizes will not consider independent books over the more widely acclaimed larger presses. (paraphrase is mine!)
Did you know that such greats as Emily Dickenson, James Joyce, Walt Whitman and Virgina Wolfe published much of their own work in order to keep not only control of their property, but so as not to conform to the days standard of what was acceptable in the writing genres? So the good old days weren't so grand either. Even Shakespeare was rarely paid what he was worth, and was often told what to write and when. And many of the greats wrestled with depression, etc. etc. and no wonder, life as a writer is hard.
The difficult part of writing is also what makes it so great! If it was easy, just think how many writers there would be! Total chaos would ensue. We wouldn't recognize great writing when we saw it. So instead, consider each setback as a challenge; the more difficult the better ~ striving for a mountain top experience only the hardy will ever achieve. Now that's something worth working for. As the old saying goes, if we strive for perfection every day and only reach excellence, we've still put in a good day's work.
Today is all we have. How we spend it is our own decision. I hope you don't waste it worrying! Because worrying is like a rocking chair ... it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere!
Til next time ~
DL Larson
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Thanks! If we could only learn to relax just a bit!!!:)
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KnowledgeBase 00028: Precision, FLTDIFF and INTPREC
This article discusses features of QM that affect floating point (non-integer) arithmetic. The original Pick systems were "integer only" environments that required scaling to handle fractional values. This would be totally unacceptable to most programmers today but leads to the issues described below.
The QMBasic PRECISION statement sets the limit on the number of decimal places when converting a floating point value to a character string. For example, a simple test program:
n = 12.3456789 for i = 0 to 9 precision i display i, n next idisplays
0 12 1 12.3 2 12.35 3 12.346 4 12.3457 5 12.34568 6 12.345679 7 12.3456789 8 12.3456789 9 12.3456789
Note that the last two lines of output do not have trailing zeros as the precision value is a limit on the number of decimal places, not a demand for that number of decimal places. The MD conversion code can be used where a fixed number of decimal places is required.
All arithmetic operations are carried out internally to the maximum precision offered by the underlying IEEE floating point representation. The PRECISION value is only applied on conversion to a character string, typically for display or storage in a dynamic array.
On entry to a program, the default precision value is 4. As an alternative to using PRECISION to set a specific value, there is a variant
PRECISION INHERITthat will inherit the precision of the program that called the subroutine in which this statement appears.
Just as numbers such as one third cannot be written accurately in decimal form, there are numbers that cannot be represented accurately in the IEEE floating point form used by the computer system. Even an apparently simple value such as 14.2 cannot be stored accurately and becomes something close to 14.19999999999999929. This leads to a problem when comparing floating point values where apparently equal items may found to be unequal due to the slight inaccuracy of data representation.
The FLTDIFF configuration parameter determines how close two floating point values have to be for them to be considered as equal. The default value is 2.91 * 10-11 (which is 2-35).
This tolerance is applied on equality tests between floating point values. This might be, for example...
FLTDIFF is a private configuration parameter. The QM configuration data sets its initial value but it can be modified in an individual process by use of the CONFIG command.
There is a third tolerance value, set by the INTPREC private configuration parameter, which is slightly different from FLTDIFF. It controls the rounding applied when converting a floating point value to an integer.
As an example, a value entered as 17.9 and stored in floating point form is actually stored as something rather closer to 17.8999999999999986. The INT() function is defined to discard the fractional part of a value, effectively rounding towards zero. This is fine for
x = 17.9 display int(x)which prints 17 but it is illogical (but technically correct) for
display int(x * 100)which, without INTPREC, would print 1789.
The INTPREC parameter sets the number of decimal places after which rounding occurs in the INT() function. The default value is 11. This rounding ensures that the above example displays the expected result.
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Digging Through the Archives: Dancetorium brings unseen 70s and 80s punk video into the 21st century
Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong were exposed to American rock n' roll and the British Invasion at a young age.
Ivers grew up in Philadelphia and worked at an auto part factory as a teenager. In lieu of joining her coworkers for lunch, she much preferred to sneak outside and listen to her transistor radio.
Armstrong, on the other hand, grew up in Long Island, and was introduced to music by a friend's parent who'd generously chauffeur them from rock show to rock show. With his help, Armstrong saw the Rolling Stones and the Beatles during their first U.S. tour.
"He would collect our money and drive us," Armstrong said. "Wherever he is, I thank him."
After meeting while working together at Manhattan's Public Access Television, the budding videographers teamed together to record over 300 hours worth of footage that would later be digitized and shown at museums and exhibits across the country.
This Thursday, the two are showing a significant amount of footage they collected during the up-and-coming New York punk scene in the 70's and 80's at International House; Dancetorium screens as the centerpiece of the venue's spring preview event.
Before they met and joined creative forces, Ivers and Armstrong coincidentally lived on the same block in New York. They were also neighbors with Patti Smith.
"We'd see Patti seeing on her stoop," Armstrong said. "We knew her as a poet."
It wasn't until posters for concerts started to pop up that they realized Smith was a musician as well. With the help of these posters – which also advertised bands like Talking Heads, Blondie and more – Ivers began to take on a film project documenting this musical uprising along with coworkers at Public Access Television.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins will close out a three-game road trip tonight against the Los Angeles Kings before a lengthy break.
The Penguins are 0-9-1 in San Jose since a 5-2 win on October 22, 1997. They will return to the Steel City for their next game on Nov. 11 versus Dallas. Superstar Sidney Crosby hopes to return soon from a concussion suffered last January and is accompanying the team on this road trip.
Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy left in the second period with a broken wrist and is out indefinitely. Center Jordan Staal missed his second straight game because of a lower body injury and is listed as questionable for tonight.
Pittsburgh defeated the Kings, 2-1, in overtime the last time the two clubs squared off on Feb. 10 at Consol Energy Center. Los Angeles is 9-5-1 in the past 15 matchups with the Kings, who have won 13 of the last 17 encounters as the host in this series.
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He was born on April 17, 1924, in Olathe, Colo., the son of George Lee and Lattie Boyle McClellan.
He married Faye Schneider on Sept. 29, 1948, in Grand Junction, Colo.
McClellan was employed at T.G. Chemical as a hoist operator for 17 years and retired in 1983.
His interests included cabinet making, hunting, fishing and spending time with his family especially his grandchildren and great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors include his wife, Faye McClellan of Green River, Wyo.; one son, Robert Charles McClellan and wife Deborah of Centerville, Tenn.; two daughters, Londa Porenta and husband Frank, and Judy McClellan and Ed Jessop, all of Green River; one sister, Collena Dickerson of Chiang Mai, Thailand; 12 grandchildren: Lawrence Bianco, Catherine Bianco, Nicholas Bianco, Ian McClellan, Cassidy McClellan, Lindsey Hill and husband Nathan, Mike Porenta and wife "Sami," Jennifer Jones and husband Casey, Bradley Schunk and Jaime Scharnowske, Kimberly Jessop McKinney and husband Zach, Aimee Jessop Gibson and husband Jeremy, and Lindsey Jessop and fiance, Aaron Brown; and 10 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Marvin, Earl, and Raymond; and one sister, Edna Harris.
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The insurance group created a Data Analytics center of excellence with the role of driving relevant analytics transformations within the operating entities. The Analytics Value Mapping Project was launched to identify, prioritize and plan data analytics transformations for the operating companies.
Accenture identified pockets of value for analytics solutions in Sales & Marketing, Underwriting, Claims and Operations in four operating regions. The project team developed a catalog of specific use cases to profile an overview of how to realize the value opportunities. In collaboration with the Data Analytics center of excellence, the team helped each operating company prioritize analytics use cases and initiatives relevant to strategy and market specifics.
Accenture helped shape the analytics transformation roadmap and guide the insurance group through its transformation journey by recommending a focus on high added value opportunities, not only providing the intrinsic financial benefits of each transformation but also helping the group level engage with different operating companies and generating momentum for the analytics transformation.Take a look at our Insurance blog for industry insights from our insurance Managing Directors.


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Look what the weather is by me!I'm just gonna come out and say it: Some Facebook photos are really annoying. And for whatever reason, they seem to pop up on a regular basis. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing pictures of adorable children and awesome vacays, but if you're debating whether or not to post a photo of your dinner for the fourth night in a row, just ... don't.
Here are 6 Facebook photos that are getting really old.
1. Photos of food. At first this was sort of interesting. Ooh, what's that he's eating? But now it's just out of control. If you baked an awesome cake or threw together an amazing coq au vin dinner, by all means, snap away. But if you're just out getting an ice cream cone, no need to upload. We all know ice cream is yummy, thanks.
2. Screen shots from your iPhone of the weather. Have I done this? Sure have! Has anyone given a rat's ass? Um, that would be a no. Everyone has a computer or a smartphone now. They can look up the weather in your neck of the woods, should they so choose.
3. Tagging people as random objects. Ever go through someone's pictures and see people tagged as a loaf of bread, a shopping cart, or a shoe? What does it all mean???
4. Selfies in the bathroom. Hey, if you're looking good and want to take a photo of yourself and share it with the world, do you. But maybe move said shot out of the bathroom. Because everyone will be wondering if you just pooped.
5. Photos of you partying your brains out. There's something ... I don't know ... kind of crass about seeing photos of people looking bleary-eyed and red-faced while drinking straight out of a bottle of Jack. A photo of you enjoying a glass of wine is one thing, a photo of you black-out drunk is another.
6. Photos of your baby's poop. I personally have never seen this, but there's a lot of rumbles out in there in cyberspace claiming that there are people who actually do this. Just ... don't.
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The recovery of the Jamaican iguana is hard work, as introduced predators like the Asian Mongoose are continually captured to relieve predator pressure. "We catch them and kill them. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. The way it has to be", says Booms, whose real name is Kenroy Williams, with a bashful smile. Booms is a handsome young Jamaican who grew up in southern Kingston before moving seven years ago to work on the Jamaican iguana recovery project.
I ask Booms what his friends and family think of his career choice. "Some think I am crazy when they hear that I am touching the iguanas and the crocodiles. But if they were here like me, they would understand, and they would do everything that I am doing", he says. As he cradles a young American crocodile, a Vulnerable species, found at night in one of the lagoons fringing the Hellshire Hills, he adds, "You've got to respect another life, so that the other life can respect yours. It's all about respect".
In order for the iguana to survive without the life support system provided by Booms and team, the Jamaican Iguana Species Recovery Plan outlines steps to establish Goat Islands as a predator-free haven for the large lizard. That was the dream – until now.
"I just returned from Jamaica, and it's bad", began an email I received last month from Rick Hudson at Fort Worth Zoo. Hudson has devoted more than twenty years to recovering the iguana, and was distraught. The Jamaican government had announced that it was going to sell Goat Islands to a Chinese conglomerate that had been disbarred by the World Bank for fraud, to build a massive trans shipment port. The development would involve bulldozing the islands, dredging the sea around them, and building a coal-burning plant – in addition to razing forest and concreting over wetland on the mainland for an associated logistics hub. With opposition from local groups led by the Jamaica Environmental Trust falling on deaf ears, Jamaicans were crying out for some international intervention.
Tourism brings in half of all foreign revenue and provides one quarter of all jobs in Jamaica; most tourists who visit the country do so to enjoy pristine beaches, clear waters, ample wildlife and a landscape free from the scars of industrial development. The proposed development is akin to the UK government selling off the Lake District for a quick profit, and could hurt tourism if potential tourism outfits are outraged by the destruction of a natural national treasure. And so, in the humble hope that I could do something to shine a spotlight on what was happening in the international press – to alert potential tourists to Jamaica what the government has planned in the hopes that the government may listen – I boarded a plane to Kingston.
Diana McCaulay, co-founder and CEO of the Jamaica Environment Trust, meets me at the airport and we drive an hour south to the Portland Bight Protected Area, a 187,515-hectare area mosaic consisting of the largest dry limestone forests in the Caribbean and the largest intact mangrove forest in the country. This, the largest Protected Area in Jamaica, contains the Hellshire Hills and Portland Ridge Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), defined by IUCN as "places of international importance for the conservation of biodiversity through protected areas and other governance mechanisms". The area was deemed so special that it was under consideration as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, until last year when the government backtracked on the proposal.
Diana introduces me to residents of a fishing community in the heart of Portland Bight Protected Area, Paulette and Herman Coley, who invite me to join them on the water the following morning. I return the next day a little before 4:30 am to join them and their six-year old son Jabari, who seems less than thrilled about being hauled out of his bed at 4am and dressed in a bright yellow lifejacket and facemask.
Find out more about the Save Goat Islands campaign
Find out more about the Jamaican iguana on ARKive
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Discover more Jamaican species on ARKive
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Opinion: Do Republicans Have a Shutdown Strategy?
Editorial board member Steve Moore on how the GOP can maneuver its way past the government shutdown. Photos: AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the store ... irrationally what's going on in the oversight ... council ... Democrats voted again ... and again ... to reject ... reasonable ... what choice ... every piece of legislation the House over would've kept the government from shutting down every single one of them ... each one represented more of a compromise ... them the last ... been ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel wearing day one of a government shutdown ... in judging from the comments you just heard from today the Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell ... it doesn't look like we're going to come to resolution anytime soon ... I've got editorial board member Steve Moore is joining me now Steve ... on the cruise coalition of the GOP God is into this mess ... ay ay ay it is for the Republicans can be able to find a way out the other question is exit strategy right and where to go from here ... on the government has now been shut down for almost a day ... and the question is how a how long this can last to be what's going on ... what is going to break this impasse ... I think Republicans in the house that I've talked to today are saying we're going to make one last ditch effort to try to get ... the Senate to go along with something that might be the Queen budget with maybe one or two items may be something like the ... Congressional exemption that allows Congress as it is down and write the better amendment that allows Congress to be exempt from the law but a way that's very popular Mary with the public about ninety percent of my Perkins one Congress to live under the Obamacare a lot ... of sand that over the Senate if they reject that and I think you are the top yet I enough Republicans on foreign to do that because they're allowed Republicans to say all up I why why the anti apartheid Obamacare they don't like the interim and a new kind of Republicans to say the medical device tax ... flights to the rehearsal Eleanor actually it's the little guy feel a little different than the out of ... the truth is none of them privately one to have to be under Obamacare none of them Republicans or Democrats a mean that ... if anyone knows how this ... its members of Congress write but I think the bigger problem is that ... they're a lot of conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation keeper and resisting this isn't good enough you know we have to hold off a wing laying out when cyclical one isn't going ... to mean let let's let's take the medical device tax for the year saying that my legs and not enough one of the most innovative products the American economy ... Jon Lieber go overseas jobs that we can have in the ring in the Republican caucus and doesn't like ... that exists on some can remember but ... in the name that does a nice two hundred and eighteen votes he's not Guinea get virtually any Democratic votes so he's got a hold that ... caucus together ... and so it uses say thirties Republicans who are just hard liners he can get to ... to to a team to send a package ... that came in and they probably isn't worth it for Republicans to for some on comparable votes for Democrats ... for Samsung will vote for Obama I completely agree with you and ... I think I would then force a vote on the medical device tax because they're a lot of Democrats who live in states where those around corners and as you said these are these are ... major good paying jobs that are being lost because of this tax ... on the second thing is I think that would force the Democrats to vote ... here's here's the way I would pass it ... you mean eerie read ... you guys are willing to keep the government call is down so you can still remain exempt from this health care law that she says it's a it's so good for the rest of us ... so though those aren't very tough votes for Democrats and especially Democrats Mary ... in those ... red states Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and a steep and another thirty seconds left yet I mean the Republicans to students from the beginning like a lot on this for states to fund a lot of presents ... well I think this was the Ted Cruz strategy and crews really I'm you know carried the day then and now we've arrived at this point ... and the real question is can Republicans cafe's you know that at some point were reopened um right can they do it not least get something from the Democrats ... so far Harry Reid is saying no to send us a clean bill I don't know if he can sustain that position but that you know we don't forget that wait two weeks from now ... the debt ceiling ... I the it's not doing well at the signing of is that the Republicans can add in the box Canyon ... they put themselves and were Tennessee and Glencore I don't know ... yet more thank you so much for being on the show


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by Clark Groome
In one of those strange historical coincidences, Ian Lithgow was born Feb. 3, 1972, the 13th anniversary of the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash and the time when Don McLean's "American Pie" was atop the music charts. That song was the source of the description of the Holly disaster as being "The day the music died."
While Lithgow, 40, is an actor, not a singer, he has always found the coincidence appropriate for a man who grew up to be a performer.
In another coincidence that he calls "happenstance," it's likely he wouldn't be performing now if his wife, Rachel, hadn't gotten a job a year ago as the executive director of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation.
After some investigation, Ian and Rachel and their two young children settled in Chestnut Hill because "we just loved the neighborhood. It seemed like a great place to raise our kids."
Before he moved to Philadelphia, he had spent the previous seven years studying and practicing clinical psychology and was a licensed clinical psychotherapist in New York.
But we're getting ahead of the story. Growing up in New York City at a time when his father, the distinguished stage, film and TV actor John Lithgow, was working primarily in theater, Ian was accepted at Harvard University.
"When I applied to Harvard," he said in a recent interview at a Chestnut Hill coffee house, "I didn't have much of an idea what I wanted to do. The summer before I went there, I was an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
"I got to take voice and movement classes. Part of my job was to help out with set construction, painting, all that. It was hard work but a lot of fun. I felt completely in my element. By the time I started Harvard in the fall, I was feeling a lot of ambivalence about being there because I pretty much knew at that point what it was I enjoyed."
He stuck it out, however, and discovered that "Harvard ended up being a good place to do theater because there's so much activity there. I took classes in theater, even though you can't major in theater; did a lot of performing; read a ton of plays; [and] somewhere found time to fulfill my English major," earning his bachelor's degree in 1994.
During his time at Harvard, he also connected with the Cambridge-based American Repertory Theatre (ART), one of the nation's most respected professional regional theaters.
After college Lithgow worked at a lot of theaters, including ART, Connecticut's Stamford Theatre Works, Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre (with director Sir Peter Hall), Chicago's Goodman Theatre, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Manhattan Theatre Club and had a recurring role on NBC's "Third Rock from the Sun," the TV sitcom that starred his father.
Between Harvard and Philadelphia, Lithgow's career path changed. Always interested in psychology, he began graduate work at Antioch University in Los Angeles in 2003. He earned an MA in clinical psychology, specializing in marriage and family therapy two years later. After moving to New York with his wife and young daughter, he was licensed there as a clinical psychotherapist.
When his wife's career brought them to Philadelphia and Chestnut Hill, he returned to acting. Not being licensed to practice psychotherapy in Pennsylvania, he looked for work on stage.
A third generation theater artist — his grandfather, Arthur Lithgow, was the founder of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival and later served as the artistic director of Princeton's famed McCarter Theatre — Lithgow says, "I never expected to live in Philadelphia but actually have roots here because my mother grew up in Ardmore.
"I grew up around the performing arts and spent a lot of time around rehearsal halls and backstage in my formative years. My father was still living in New York, doing theater almost exclusively."
In those days, he says, New York was the best place to be as a stage actor. "Now it seems Philly is the place to be if you want to become a stage actor because New York is so expensive."
After a role at the Montgomery Theater last summer, he attended the Delaware Theatre Company's required open Equity auditions. He caught the eye of executive director Bud Martin (who until June served in that capacity at Ambler's Act II Playhouse) and was ultimately cast as the son in its production of local playwright Bruce Graham's acclaimed "The Outgoing Tide," which, after ending its run in Wilmington Oct. 28, will move to New York's 59E59 Theaters for six weeks
The best part of being an actor is not the applause, he says. "The applause is nice, but that can be a trap; you're always looking for it. My favorite part is the moment when you're looking at a scene and something suddenly makes sense. You make a connection you hadn't made before. It's an 'ah ha' moment, [revealing to you] how that [scene] might work. That's the most fun part: the 'ah ha' moment."
Ian's current role is an example of the kind of parts to which he's drawn. "There's a compelling evolution of the character, Jack," he says. "Really it's about growing up. It's a guy who's in a situation he didn't ask to be put in.
"Jack has a strained relationship with his parents. He's staying with them for a few days but really doesn't want to be there." His character's father is struggling with dementia, and Jack doesn't really want to get involved. "He finds the courage to get involved and to take a stand. He grows up."
While he doesn't rule out the possibility of getting his psychotherapist's license in Pennsylvania at some point, at the moment "I feel like I've gotten a second lease as an actor being in Philly.
"I'm hoping I can contribute. So far it seems to be a very supportive group of artists here. It's a small enough pond that out of necessity everyone has to get along. There's no room for jerks."
As our interview ended, we chatted a bit about Ian's other interests. He loves music from jazz to rock and plays the clarinet and alto saxophone. Since the baseball playoffs were about to start, I asked him if, as a New Yorker, he was a Yankees or a Mets fan.
"I wouldn't say I'm a Mets fan. I'd say I'm an anti-Yankees fan."
Obviously he'll mesh well with his new acting community!
For tickets to the Delaware Theatre Company's production of Bruce Graham's "The Outgoing Tide," playing through Oct. 28, call 302-594-1100 or visit www.delawaretheatre.org