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Veterans History Project
Oral History of Veterans.
Flying Thuds into North Vietnam
Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North. Air & Space Magazine, Smithsonian. On the weekend of April 4 & 5th, I was in Arizona to attend a wedding and to interview my uncle for the Veterans History Project. Among the many things my uncle did in his Air Force career was to fly F105s as a fighter pilot, flying 5 more missions than the required 100 missions into North Vietnam that completed a tour of duty.
My uncle mentioned that the latest Air & Space magazine had an article on the F105s. I found the article online; hence this link and post.
Other things my uncle mentioned that the article does not:
The tires would last for two flights. Takeoff, land, takeoff, land, change tires. That plane was so heavy on takeoff—what with fuel, external fuel tanks, and the ordinance they had on board, the plane was heavy at takeoff—50,000 pounds. Sometimes they had to rolling at 300 mph before the plane got airborne. Landing, the plane was 25,000 or 30,000 pounds. (I'm reciting the weights from memory; I'd have to go back and listen to get exact figures, but the point is takeoff weight was close ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 14, 2009 in
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Sens Feinstein, et. al., introduce bill to create Civil Rights Oral History Project
From Sen. Feinstein's office: "Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation to create a Civil Rights Oral History Project, a joint effort between the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress to collect oral histories of those involved in the Civil Rights Movement and preserve them for future generations." It will be like the Veterans History Project in that it would be a project of the Library of Congress
Just saw word of this from Senator Feinstein via Twitter. I asked how it will differ from the Voices of Civil Rights project, which I wrote about yesterday. The Voices of Civil Rights project is a joint project, where the Library of Congress is one of the sponsors, along with AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR).
While I was poking around on the Voices of Civil Rights site yesterday, I had a question to ask them—is the project still conducting any interviews, or is their total populatino of interviews limited to those collected during their national bus tour in 2004. Good question, right? The email address doesn't work, though: It bounced! Doesn't need an act ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 09, 2009 in
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Oldest WW1 Veteran Dies
[UPDATED] J Russell Coffee, 109, one of 3 remaining WW1 Vets, died. (See also Toledo Blade story). Born 1898. This is not the WW1 Vet I mentioned recently from a NYTimes article.
Coffey had enlisted in the Army while he was a student at Ohio State University in October 1918, a month before the Allied powers and Germany signed a cease-fire agreement. He was discharged a month after the war ended.
His two older brothers fought overseas, and he was disappointed at the time that the war ended before he shipped out. But he told The Associated Press in April 2007: "I think I was good to get out of it."
Born Sept. 1, 1898, Coffey played semipro baseball in Akron, earned a doctorate in education from New York University, taught in high school and college and raised a family.
He delivered newspapers as a youngster and would read the paper to immigrants, his ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 21, 2007 in
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Thou shalt not send media to Veterans History Project through U.S. Postal Mail
When you send your submission, use a commercial delivery service, says the Veterans History Project. Otherwise our screening procedures will obliterate your submissions. I saw dramatic proof of this at the Oral History Association annual meeting in a presentation from the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans History Project.
Talk about Warp Speed! Here's another view of the damaged disk. This is also a cautionary tale about making sure that you create more than one disk. Redundancy is good. Oh, and make a backup, so you have a second copy. Did I say that redundancy is good? Yep. Thought so.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 19, 2007 in
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The Last WW1 Veteran
Over there and Gone forever is a story about Frank Buckles, born 1901, the last surviving veteran of World War 1, found by writer Richard Rubin.
A few years ago, I set out to see if I could find any living American World War I veterans. No one — not the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or the American Legion — knew how many there were or where they might be. As far as I could tell, no one much seemed to care, either.
Eventually, I did find some, including Frank Buckles, who was 102 when we first met. Eighty-six years earlier, he'd lied about his age to enlist. The Army sent him to England but, itching to be near the action, he managed to get himself sent on to France, though never to the trenches.
After the armistice, he was assigned to guard German prisoners waiting to be repatriated. Seeing ...สล็อตออนไลน์ ได้เงินจริงRead More
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Veterans oral history projects roundup
Here's a roundup of a number of Veterans History Project efforts that have been in the news.
- Fargo, North Dakota Fargo Jaycees sponsor local oral history collection effort, focusing on WW2 Veterans. Signup information "Please call or contact Lance Akers at (701) 238-9298, visit www.tristateveterans.com or e-mail email@example.com to set up an appointment."
- Congress resolution establishes "National Veterans History Project Week."
- From Library of Congress site: National Veterans History Project Week was November 11-17, 2007. "The resolution calls upon the people of the United States to interview at least one veteran from their family or community, following guidelines provided by the Veterans History Project." Didn't know it then, but I did do a recording with my dad on ...Read More
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Veterans History Project digital specs
I got the "digital file format wishlist" from Sarah Rouse at Veterans History Project. This is specification for video, audio and image file formats.
Video: .mpeg-2 file, at least 3Mbps, with a spatial resolution of 702x480 at 30fps
Audio: .wav file, CD-Audio quality (44.1 KHz, 16-bit)
Images: Color tiff files, 300dpi, scanned at 8 bits per channel.
Veterans History Project
Download PDFs of forms from this page of the VHP site.
If you're doing video, check out the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick guide PDF file, from The War's Veterans History Project page.
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Latino Vet Stories, Day 3
Latino WW2 Vet stories from the Pacific and Italy, in keeping with The War's third episode, "A Deadly Calling." Taking Tarawa island in the Pacific and fighting in Italy at Anzio and Monte Cassino, here are some highlights from the US Latinos/Latinas & WWII Oral History Collection.
Joseph Alcoser concentrated on getting a good education, but then volunteered for the service when he was a senior in high school.
"I never thought about returning home," he said. "I thought we were sent off to die."
Consequently, Joe did not communicate very much with anyone back home while he was overseas. He sent only one letter to his mother.
"If anything happened to me, my family would find out," he said.
"The scariest battle for me was the midnight battle at Surigao Straight," he said. It was dark and we could only see shells flashing by the ship. The unknown was what caused great fear."
The battle that occurred near Tarawa Island, an island east of New Guinea, had a ...Read More
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A PodCamp SoCal report
Audio gadgets, workflows, meeting people, and stories. PodcampSoCal was a good day yesterday. I was expecting to have different breakout regions in the room, but we all followed a single track together as one room. I saw several Zoom Handy H2s set up on small tripods, recording the proceedings. And one or two Zoom H4, too. Looks like I'll be turning from The War and what's your story to an audio geek gadget maven for the next day or so. The agenda was full and continuous I didn't get a chance to ask people what their experience was like using their various recorders. But I'll be at the show Friday and Saturday, so I hope to do that then.
Oh, and family stories did come up; I managed to get myself on the agenda at day's end and spoke of the Veterans History Project. One guy, Dan Bach (he produces a math show and wore a tee shirt filled with lovely graphic symbolic goodness related to prime numbers), mentioned his dad during the Q & A: A WWII vet, a prisoner of war who received his purple heart 60-some years later. Perhaps I heard about him in the news? Just looked it up, and here's the story of Leo Bach. He was at Pearl Harbor the day it was bombed, and he was shot down over Germany. I told him, you gotta interview your dad; this field kit has your name on it (I only had a handful of Veteran History Project field ...Read More
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Latino WW2 Vets companion stories, Day 2
More companion stories from the Latinos and Latinas & WWII Oral History Project that echo the theme of "last night's episode" of The War, When the Going Gets Tough. These are stories of the war in North Africa and Italy, and of being shot down from a plane.
Joseph Diaz made it to Naples when Mt. Vesuvius was erupting.
Pvt. Diaz was the only Mexican in his unit, which included Audie Murphy, the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Mr. Diaz said Murphy admonished the soldiers not to waste ammunition.
Once he landed in Morocco there was no time to travel slowly. His division moved into Tunisia, where fighting subsided, and Pvt. Diaz thought he was heading home.
Unfortunately, there was more fighting to come against Germany's Gen. Erwin Rommel. By marching or riding on tanks and trucks, Pvt. Diaz quickly moved into Palermo, Italy, where soldiers were rebuilding the area. From Palermo, Pvt. Diaz headed to Naples and reached ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 25, 2007 in
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Two stories from a Latino WW2 Oral History archive: War in the Pacific
Here are two excerpts from the oral history project that has interviewed Latino World War 2 veterans. A trip through news search engines brings lots of latino response to Ken Burns not-including and then including stories of latinos in The War. I'm less interested in reactions than in the stories themselves. So I'll dip into one oft-cited oral history archive to find stories that keep with the theme of "last night's show" for inclusion here.
Today, two stories from the Pacific theatre of war: Bataan death march and being taken prisoner of war by the Japanese.
From the narrative of Philip James Benavides, who served in the Pacific. He was a musician that was part of the Marine Band; he fought on Guadalcanal and Bouganville, and was taken prisoner of war.
Circumstances forced the 9th Marine bandsmen into combat as they headed back to the frontlines to replenish supplies and retrieve the wounded and the dead.
"It was unbelievable. The more we battled," he said. "I guess you could say you got used to it."
Hungry and tired, the Marines would eat anything they could scrounge up, including roots and grubworms.
After contracting (and recuperating from) malaria, he went island-hopping again in the Pacific
On Nov. 1, 1943, Staff Sgt. ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 24, 2007 in
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Two Companion Web Sites to Ken Burns's The War
The Veterans History Project's companion site features stories from its collection about the events described in each episode. Episode 1 covers Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, Guadalcanal and Japanese American internment camps. And I've linked to it before, the PBS Site for The War… the site got a revamp and facelift. Happy to see a prominent link from the PBS site to the Veterans History Project site.
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Veterans History Project casts wide net
The Veterans History Project is casting a wide net for 20th and 21st century wartime stories. The project is soliciting submissions from veterans –and civilians who directly participated – during the conflicts of WWI, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Back in April of this year, Sarah Rouse, Senior Program Officer of the VHP, spoke at the Southwest Oral History Association's annual meeting. Rouse described the project's wide scope.
While many oral history projects are focused on a limited population, the Veterans History Project stands with the Slave Narrative Collection, the 1930's WPA effort to record the recollections of as many living former slaves as possible, or the Shoah Project, which collects personal narratives of those survivors of the Nazi holocaust. Like these other collections, the Veterans History Project's purpose is to collect, archive and curate as many personal recollections as it possibly can.
I like the fact that this national effort, funded by Congress and run through the Library of Congress's American Folk Life division, is rooted in family oral history. Congressman Ron Kind of Wisconsin ...Read More
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Veterans History Project Medal Controversy: Fraud or Clerical Error?
The Veterans History Project's web sites posts stories from its collection. An independent Medal of Honor watchdog fact-checks the recipients listed on the Project's web site against the official records. Watchdog finds discrepancies, notifies Project. Vets History Project scrubs the bad records. Investigates. Is this a case of Lie-induced Nausea or Unfortunate Clerical Error?
Test yourself. Quick: Which of these is the true Medal of Honor? the Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal or the Medal of Honor (Air Force)?
This week, MSNBC reported that the Veterans History Project (VHP) took down listings of veterans whose reports receiving the Medal of Honor were false. And here's the tricky bit. Were those listings fraud? Exaggeration? Error? Doug Sterner, who operates an independent web site honoring those who have received the Medal of Honor, fact-checked the Veterans History Project's site and database and found the errors and reported it to the VHP. The Project notes that many of the false listings are due to clerical errors.
The accusation: "Gross Negligence"
Doug Sterner's efforts are devoted to debunking false claims to receiving medals—and honoring the known recipients of the medals. He ...Read More
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Yessss! A Mention in the US News cover story!!!
US News: Making History, by Alex Kingsbury. "From World War II soldiers to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, more people are sharing their own memories to bring the past back to life." I spoke with him back in June, the story mentions me and this site. Color me stoked. I'm planning to do a roundup of stories about Ken Burns and The War; I'm tickled that one of them will be slightly self-referential.
I discovered it this afternoon, immediately after posting Genealogy Carnival, after I took my broken-footed boyfriend to doctor's office. So glad they subscribe to around 4 copies of US News & World Report. They said I could have a copy before I even said, "I'm in here. My name is right here."
Ahem. Back to business. There are several related articles and sidebars in this issue. In addition to the main story talking about the phenomenon of oral history and personal memory projects, there are these stories:
A Ken Burns profile—An Intimate View of 'The War'.
Tips for Recording Oral Histories. Emphasis on equipment and video, and the wisdom of Donald Ritchie, author of Doing Oral ...Read More
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One reason divorce has become so common today is the advent of "no‐fault" divorce laws, first introduced in California in 1969. Over the following fifteen years, every state in America adopted some form of no‐fault legislation. And to what result? According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, since these laws began taking effect the number of divorces in this country has increased 279 percent.
In essence, no‐fault divorce has nullified the sacredness of marriage in the eyes of the law, making it an unenforceable contract. A man and woman can abandon their family more easily than they can abrogate almost any other agreement that bears their signature. In terms of the law, it matters not that they've made a solemn promise before God, friends, relatives, a member of the clergy, or a licensed representative of the state.
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Round 2 – 43rd Overall
Ross is at it once again this season. After posting 68 points and 203 PIMs in 71 games last season, the Leafs' first pick in the 2010 draft has 17 points and 44 PIMs in 16 games this season with the Portland Winterhawks. Not only that but he is +12 on the season thus far. He even has more points than teammate Ryan Johansen (15 points), who was taken 4th Overall this year.
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McKegg had no business going in the 3rd Round, especially after putting up 85 points in 67 games last season. This season has been no different. McKegg leads the Erie Otters with 26 points in 19 games and sits 11th in OHL scoring.
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Julie Andrews in Austria: hardly an unfamiliar sight, both in movie history and now on New Year's Day.
The Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner filmed one of her most famous roles in that country, Maria in the 1965 screen classic "The Sound of Music." Along with her elegant and cultured image, that made her a natural to succeed the late Walter Cronkite as host of PBS' traditional "Great Performances" broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic's holiday concert, and she'll fill that role for the fourth time when "From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2013" airs Tuesday, Jan. 1 (check local listings).
"I love doing it," the ever-gracious Andrews tells Zap2it. "The PBS people are very nice, they do this with class and style, and we do something different every year. It's always a learning curve for me, going to new places and finding out about them. And of course, the music is lovely."
The program's soundtrack always includes a generous dose of compositions by the Strauss family, conducted this time by Franz Welser-Most, current musical director of the Vienna State Opera. On the bill are such all-time favorites as "The Blue Danube Waltz" and "The Radetzky March," along with such other varied selections as "Music of Spheres," "Where the Lemon Trees Bloom" and "Runners Quick Polka."
"It's always a surprise," Andrews notes of each year's musical menu, "and I'm amazed at how much. There are the Strausses, then there will be Haydn or somebody else whose anniversary it is, or something by Mozart will be put in.
"But Strauss? Oh, my. When I was very, very young and in vaudeville, I would belt out those numbers and do all the coverage lyrically. If you want to go online and have one hoot of a laugh, I think my doing "The Blue Danube" at age 15 is there. It's just out of the stratosphere, and I'm surprised these days that I ever managed it." (Hear it for yourself on YouTube.)
Since assuming the hosting duties of the New Year's Day concert, Andrews has been absent only once – in 2011, when she was mourning the death of her husband, filmmaker Blake Edwards ("The Pink Panther," "Victor/Victoria"). "They sweetly understood," she recalls, "and they very kindly asked me back the year after."
For the first day of 2013, the event will give Andrews an extra job: interviewer, since she'll talk with Welser-Most about the 200th anniversaries of the births of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, obviously music legends in their own right … and, making their inclusion in the program appropriate, both favorites of Johann Strauss.
"I hope [the special's producers] will guide me toward what they hope to get answered," Andrews says. "I could probably blather on, but it's better if I know what they'd like to elicit from the maestro. The actual concert is beamed throughout the world, but America has its own version of this wonderful postcard of Vienna and everything about it."
The stately Musikverein surely is one of those things, and Andrews calls the venue "quite wondrous, this huge and immaculate place. And with some of the castles and churches and museums, it's quite something to go into them and see things like the stone that was used and the beauty of how people must have lived in those days.
"There was one day," Andrews adds, "when I was, in fact, standing on the balcony of the Great Palace looking out over the huge square of Vienna. And they told me, 'You're standing exactly where Hitler stood when he came into Vienna.' I honestly got chills throughout my body, to be standing on the same stones and looking at the same scene he must have. It was quite something."
Indeed, Andrews considers a real bonus of the yearly concert to be "learning about history while I'm doing it. I'm fascinated with the various emperors and how, between them all, they tied up Europe in one way or another."
Andrews' latest trip to Vienna puts the coda on a very active period for the veteran talent who earned her Academy Award in the title role of Disney's "Mary Poppins."
While spending the last weeks of 2012 promoting her latest children's book – the series-ending "Little Bo in London," co-written with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton – Andrews directed a play at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House, "The Great American Mousical," a work in progress based on another of her books with Hamilton. Plus, she performed in a benefit for the L.A. Philharmonic, on whose board of directors she now serves.
Still, New Year's Day has very particular meaning for Andrews, thanks to a tradition she's pleased to carry on from Cronkite. "I adored him," she says, "and I was thrilled when they thought I might be a worthy successor. And I hope I'm doing him proud."


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Today I started serious reorganization of my house. I started with the first place that I see when I come in my house – the "butler's pantry". It is a fancy name for a group of cabinets and a counter that sit off to the side of the kitchen.
Since we moved into the house I have wanted to use it as a "landing pad" – a place where I can organize what comes into my house and a place to gather things that I need as I leave.
Instead of a nice, happy place, it has morphed into the crash pad. EVERYTHING lands there and subsequently never moves and sometimes is never seen again! Well, today I figuratively gutted the entire area. I pulled out everything from the top cabinets. I found candy up there that we had hidden from the girls – years ago. I found light bulbs that were older than the house – I have no idea how they ended up in there. I found a candle holder for which I had been looking for almost 2 years. There were sticker books and activity books and coloring books the girls have long since outgrown, but for some reason we never got down for them. I am not sure why we never gave them out – so much lost fun and opportunity to create! It just never happened! Then I cleared out the 4 drawers. I found books for cell phones that I don't even remember owning. I found cords for cell phones that have long since gone to cellular heaven. There were place mats that were purchased in China when we adopted our oldest that were still in the plastic covering. There was all of our house information that I thought was deep in DH's office. Well, I made good on that one – they now are deep in there and out of the drawers. Now each of us has a drawer. If I find something laying around that is out of place, it is going to go in the drawer. If the drawer is not cleaned out by Sunday night – everything is going into the trash. Then I moved to the bottom cabinets. I am really, really embarrassed by that one. Let me preface with the statement that I was PartyLite consultant in a previous life – long before children. Please remember that I have boxes that I have never unpacked because they were filled with breakable items that were not appropriate to put out with young children in the house.
Let's just say that I have enough candles to light the house if we have a power outage of say – 3 weeks! It is insane the amount of candles that I have. Now that the girls are older I can pull them out and start enjoying them. Hopefully I will use up that stash before they graduate from High School. And please, if I ever say I am getting ready to buy more candles – please, please, please remind me to look under my phone cabinet! After I pulled all the candles out of there – including some glassware candle holders that I will never use and will now be blessing someone else with in the near future – I put all the games that the girls have in there. They can now see all the games they own. We may actually be able to institute family game night again! That left me with another empty cabinet where I was able to put the candles and and store my coupon exchange boxes. I then moved over to another upper cabinet and got it about 75% cleaned out. I am hoping to finish that this evening, as well as finding homes for all the items that I wanted to keep, but did not belong on the
crash zone er, the landing zone. I got this done in about 4 hours. I am pooped! I am also ready to eat some lunch.
My goal for the next few days is…
~to clear out the rest of the 25% of the one cabinet,
~ totally reorganize the adjacent upper cabinet,
~clean off the counter under those 2 cabinets (commonly called the phone counter), and then
~pull out and organize the items that are on 1/2 of the bottom cabinet since the other half is neatly organized with my candles and coupons.
I can't wait to see what DH and the girls say about the new areas. Oh – the best part – I filled up 1/3 of a bin with items to donate, a box of things to save for wedding gifts/Christmas gifts, and 2 huge garbage bags of trash.
I am not sure why it was easier today to get rid of stuff, to determine what is important and what is not. But it was. I was able to see a bigger picture of what I wanted to hold dear in my life and let go of things that are really not that important. I could visualize how I wanted my house to function. Maybe it is just time for me to let go of things from the past, which were symbolized by many items that I released today. It was like closing the cover of a book, knowing that the story is going to be continued in the next book waiting on your bedside table. The story is not over, it is just progressing, as it should. So will my life, if I relax and just let the chapters present themselves and if I am willing to let my myself immerse myself in the story of the here and now and not hang on to the past or worry about the future.


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Six young dancers in the Student Company at Broomfield's Colorado Conservatory of Dance recently performed for students at Superior Elementary School, giving them a taste of ballet and showing them how music can be interpreted into a story.
"We want them to really hear the music in a deeper way and really use their imagination," said Julia Wilkinson Manley, Colorado Conservatory of Dance's CEO and artistic director.
The Student Company toured a dozen elementary schools over two days, including two schools in Boulder Valley, with a performance based on the orchestral music "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Norwegian play "Peer Gynt." There were six dancers in each cast, with a total of three casts.
The piece is a collaboration with Colorado Springs teacher and author, Allison Flannery. Flannery created the story as a teaching tool for her kindergarten students to explore Edvard Grieg's score for "Peer Gynt."
Later, at the request of one of her students, she had the story published by Samzidat Publishing Group. It's from that illustrated book that Camcie Foster, Colorado Conservatory of Dance's Student Company associate director, based her choreography.
The mobile, two-sided backdrops also are based on the book's illustrations.
"We were really inspired by her book and the way she's able to bring music to life," Wilkinson Manley said.
Before the performance, students are taught a simple folk dance. After, the dancers bring up students from the audience and teach them a few dance moves based on words the describe Norway, while the rest of the students learn dance moves to go with "Dancing in the Streets."
At Superior, performer Nicholas Sakai, 14, graduated from Superior Elementary.
"Our dance is fun," he said. "It's for enjoyment and to enjoy the culture of Norway."
Also performing was 15-year-old Brooke Gilliam, of Broomfield.
"It's really special," she said. "It's important for them to see the arts. I hope this helps them understand music. They can see how ballet gets interpreted from stories."
Superior students gave the performance good reviews.
"They were really great," said second-grader Grace Thornton. "They went on adventures."
Fifth-grader Jack Reuter said the dancers made the performance look easy, even though it's likely difficult.
"It was cool how they did everything with only limited props," he added.
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Morning Five: 09.28.11 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on September 28th, 2011
- On Monday we mentioned that the SEC would be looking for a 14th member to round out its new conference in the very near future. Yesterday, SEC commissioner Mike Silve came out and said they did not have any current plans to add a 14th team and did not have any other institutions currently under consideration to be the 14th team in the conference. We aren't sure what to say about this other than to say we don't believe it for a second unless Silve is trying to argue semantics. We can't imagine that anybody actually believes that the SEC plans on having one of its football team playing a non-conference game each Saturday because they cannot find another SEC team play.
- One of the more interesting aspects of the NBA work stoppage in our opinion has been the presence of NBA players around college campuses to continue working on their games. One of those players is former North Carolina star Tyler Hansbrough, who has spent much of his summer in Chapel Hill living with Bobby Frasor (hopefully not jumping off roofs again). Jeff Goodman caught up with Hansbrough and got his thoughts on some of the current Tar Heels. Normally we just ignore commentary from former players talking about players from their school, but in this case Hansbrough actually critiques the players and points out some of their weakness. We already knew about many of these weaknesses, but it is interesting to see someone with a connection to the program call the players out on those weaknesses publicly.
- Detroit may have been dealt a major blow with the announcement that Eli Holman would be taking an indefinite leave of absence while he deals with "personal matters". Obviously, the impact this has on the Titans will depend a great deal on how long "indefinite" ends up being. They start off the season with a fairly difficult schedule so missing Holman during that period would probably cost them any shot at an at-large bid, which is pretty slim to begin with. Still, if he returns and can continue to add a solid post presence to go along with the potentially spectacular backcourt of Ray McCallum Jr. and Chase Simon the Titans still could pick up the Horizon League's automatic bid.
- Harvard has had a very solid stretch the past few days and we aren't talking about their growing endowment. In addition to a previous commitment from Evan Cummins, Tommy Amaker picked up commitments from Mike Hall and Siyani Chambers, two highly-touted recruits who many say are the type of players that the Crimson has been unable to land in the past. Like many other members of the media, we are impressed by Amaker's work in getting highly coveted recruits to come to a program without much basketball tradition even though the promise of an essentially free Harvard education does not sound like a bad deal for players who probably will never be NBA material [Ed. Note: Please don't start with the NCPA arguments.]. That said we aren't drinking the Crimson Kool-Aid yet like some individuals who are already talking about an Elite 8 run as we are still waiting for Harvard to make the NCAA Tournament at some point after 1946.
- We are a little over two weeks away from Midnight Madness and it appears that some schools may have a significant dilemma on their hands. With this year's Midnight Madness occurring on a Friday night several major recruits are facing a difficult choice–not play in their school's Friday night football game or miss an event that has become a ritual in the recruiting process. At least one school, Indiana, has already changed its event from midnight on a Friday to 7:30 PM on Saturday to "meet families who come to a game or this event with their children and expose them to IU basketball for the first time". However, as Terry Hutchens points out, "Only a cynic would suggest the change would allow top recruit Gary Harris of Hamilton Southeastern to attend the event. Harris, who also plays football at HSE, is busy on Friday nights." We guess that makes us a bunch of cynics.


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Knowles stumbled across the archive in 1970 after selling his chemist's shop in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to seek bigger opportunities down south. He bought Woods in Windsor High Street, which dated back to 1770, when an apothecary of that name went into business supplying townspeople and members of the Royal family with scented soaps and perfume.
"It was full of rubbish," Knowles recalled in an interview. "It was late one night when I was sorting through the junk in the attic that I came across these records of prescriptions and what turned out to be 85 books with details of traditional remedies and fancies."
Knowles immediately realised that the recipes — for potpourri, lotions, soaps and other toiletries — offered a way to expand his business and develop a range of "upmarket" products at prices in the middle range for the tourist market.
He and his wife, Kathleen, started to try out the recipes in the kitchen above the shop. They blended lavender and flowers for the potpourri, and bought lace for drawer sachets, building up an initial range of 20 products. They called it Woods of Windsor, selling it to tourists in Windsor and later through Harrods, Selfridges and Liberty.
In 1974 Knowles abandoned the retail chemist business to concentrate full time on the new brand and soon built up a thriving export business. In 1975 he went cold-calling in New York stores, and by 1983 sales in the United States accounted for around £1 million. In 1981 he turned to Japan, wrestling his way through a pile of bureaucratic demands for perfumery formulas and shipments analyses to become the biggest exporter to Japan in the toiletries sector. By 1987 turnover, which had been £50,000 in his first year, had grown to £4.5 million.
In 1983 Woods of Windsor won the Queen's Award for Export Achievement and in 1989 Knowles was awarded the DTI Export Award for Small Business.
By the Nineties the Woods of Windsor range, by now numbering around 400 products, ranging from soaps and fragrances to coat hangers and drawer liners, was being marketed in 40 countries, and in 1998 Knowles launched a new brand, The Feng Shui Fragrance Company, marketing a range of "environmental and personal fragrance products based on the five elements". In 2000 he retired and sold his business to the Woods of Windsor management team.
The son of a cotton-mill manager and a teacher, Roger Knowles was born at Colne, Lancashire, on March 13 1937. He grew up in Barnoldswick, North Yorkshire, and attended Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton where, by his account, he decided to train as a pharmacist after being sent to his local chemist to buy laxatives for his grandmother.
In 1962 Roger Knowles married Kathleen Jenkinson, who died in 2004. He is survived by their son and daughter.
Roger Knowles, born March 13 1937, died December 26 2012


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The East Central University men's golf team finished seventh, out of 15 teams at the 2013 Texoma Chevy Dealers Crawford Wade Invitational hosted by Texas A&M Commerce at Tanglewood Resort.
The Tigers finished the weather-shortened 36-hole tournament with a score of 617. Senior Travis Keeley was the top finisher for ECU, earning a tie for ninth with a score of 149.
Freshman Jason Goben turned in a score of 154 and tied for 25th. Senior Dakota Robbins has a score of 157 and tied for 39th. Junior Brandon Nicholson was tied for 43rd, with a score of 158 and freshman Jordan Bates finished 74th, with a 170.
The Tigers will now be idle for a month before their next tournament March 24-26 at Hardscrabble Country Club. ECU will be competing in the Lion's Classic hosted by Arkansas-Fort Smith.


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Transfer news: Reading bid for Tom Ince, Brian McDermott confirms
Reading have made a bid for Blackpool's Tom Ince and are awaiting a response, manager Brian McDermott has confirmed.
Last Updated: 29/01/13 1:55pm
The 20-year-old's performances for the Seasiders in the Championship have earned him a host of admirers, with the youngster scoring 15 goals in 27 league appearances.
He has been linked with a return to boyhood club Liverpool in this month's transfer window but Reading have entered the race for his signature.
Sky Sports reported earlier this week the Royals had made a bid for the winger and McDermott has now confirmed the offer.
He told Sky Sports News: "We've made a bid, we're waiting on Blackpool to come back to us on that one.
"He's a Blackpool player so it's difficult for me to talk about players that don't belong to us.
"He's got quality, he can play number 10 or out wide on either side, he loves his football and can score or create goals. He's got a real hunger.
"He's a good player with potential, I imagine there's a lot of interest in him. But once again I have to say this is a player who doesn't belong to us."
The manager hopes the lure of regular first-team football in the Premier League will be enough to tempt the England Under-21 international to join the club.
It is understood that the top-flight strugglers have offered a fee in the region of £7million-£8m for a player who scored twice in Blackpool's win at Wolves on Saturday.
Reading have already struck three times in the transfer market this month, bringing in Daniel Carrico, Hope Akpan and Stephen Kelly as they bid to avoid relegation.
McDermott also confirmed the club's interest in Sheffield United striker Nick Blackman, who rejected the chance to talk to Crystal Palace after they had a £1.25million bid accepted by the Blades.
He added: "We think he's a good player, but again he's a Sheffield United player."


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The state of Nebraska on Dec. 1 filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block the proposed merger of two infectious waste collection and treatment providers.
Joined by the state of Missouri and the U.S. Department of Justice, the Nebraska Attorney General's Office has proposed a settlement that, if approved by the court, will resolve any competitive concerns the merger has raised.
The proposed merger of Stericycle, Inc., and MedServe, Inc., would substantially lessen competition in infectious waste collection and treatment services to hospitals and other critical healthcare facilities in the service area that includes Nebraska.
"If we had allowed this merger to continue, Nebraska medical providers would have seen rising costs for these services," Attorney General Jon Bruning said. "These costs would then have been passed along to Nebraskans already struggling with high medical bills."
Stericycle and MedServe are the only two firms able to compete for customers that generate large quantities of infectious waste in Nebraska.
Under the proposed settlement, Stericycle and MedServe must divest all of MedServe's assets primarily used in the provision of infectious waste collection and treatment services to large customers in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma to a viable purchaser approved by the department.
These assets include MedServe's Newton, Kan.; treatment facility, and its transfer stations in Kansas City, Kan.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Omaha, Neb.; and Booneville, Mo.


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The Grinch Who Stole World AIDS Day
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Beyond their historical role in the Middle East political changes, Twitter and other social media networking sites have created a safe space for a population pulled between loyalty to culture and natural needs to express a collective wild sexuality. Up to now, a discussion about Arab sexuality is often a classical case study of orientalism: The sexually inhibited women and the lewd abusive men were once the ABCs of a course in Middle Eastern sociology.
Mental Therapy and HIV: One Patient's Perspective
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The mental burden of being HIV positive is of substantial weight that could equal, if not exceed, the weight of the physical damage HIV can cause to the body. Unfortunately, this significance is met by a practice that still deals with broad categories of mental illness rather than the specificity of HIV-related mental problems. Mental health care providers in the case of HIV-positive persons are, mostly, social workers who lack the experience to deal with nuances of the problems rooted in the minds of poz folks.
A Positive Ramadan
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Ramadan is the name of one of the 12 lunar months of the Islamic calendar. For 29 days of Ramadan, Muslims believe that they are supposed to fast from sunrise until sunset. Many HIV-positive Muslims wish to join their community in observing this important month ... Can they?
Middle Eastern Food Is Poz Friendly
March 23, 2012
While most things in the Middle East could be unfriendly to Poz persons, one thing keeps proving the opposite: Middle Eastern cuisine. A diet that is high in good fats, protein, vegetables and good carbs; how can you go wrong with that?
World AIDS Day 2011: New Activism, New Generation
November 23, 2011
To be an activist is not about how big the effort you make; it is about how you think and what you believe. To challenge perceptions and misconceptions is either in your DNA or nowhere. Achieving the goal of World AIDS Day 2011 requires a spirit of activism, willing to challenge many predominant principles in our society. Some of these principles and values are entrenched not because of their validity but because of who benefits from them and promotes them, or who has the power to affirm them. Just as one philosopher stated: "The ruling principles are the principles of the ruling class."
Status Undetectable? Not Really!
October 27, 2011
While the virus in my blood is becoming undetectable, other things are becoming much more visible to me. My comprehension of my status as HIV positive is staging an assault on all aspects of my life and becoming excruciating. Hiding a label that tagged me is becoming a difficult task ... and no matter what success I am achieving in my life, the burden of this status is causing such bitterness that could burn away any feeling of success.
HIV and Death ... In Memory of Dr. Bob
October 14, 2011
Weeks ago, we were saddened by the death of Dr. Robert Frascino. Dr. Bob insisted on delivering a message of tolerance towards all people and not only HIV-positive persons, responding to questions that sometimes drifted away from medicine to politics. He was a firm believer that a doctor has no choice other than to eradicate any moral judgments on the human body. Dr. Bob decided to declare his status to everyone, hoping this will help fight the stigma and prove that "HIV is not a death sentence."
Poz Politics ... in the Face of Armageddon
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"It started with a poster," an old nice woman once told me when I was a child explaining how in history, dictators used images and posters to demonize people they dislike, or to idealize the one and only beloved. We in the Middle East had many of these posters: a poster showing the beloved Sheik, King, or president hugging a child. Him visiting patients in the hospital. Him as a great teacher. Him taking a shower. Posters everywhere. And there were hate posters that depicted the enemies with horns.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
On the Street…..Hudson St., NYC
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jumpsuit as it should be done – lovely
although I'd give it a bolder shoe to offset the utilitarian feel of it and jazz it up a bit..
I LOVE the boots… can anyone id them?
All I can say is: she is totally FIERCE !!
Holy Toledo, this beautiful young woman really knocks my Pantherellas off. Amazing photo, Scott.
Perhaps it's just me, but her clothing evokes the feeling of Spain during the civil war in the 1930s. She looks as if she could be a high priestess of the Falange. I can picture myself running away with her to hunt Republicans in the mountains of Andalusia…
i love navy and grey! at first i thought this was a jumper. but it's much better than that. She should have been the muse to most of the designers we saw at fashion week.
hey sart,
just a thought or idea. i was in a small boutique the other day and they had these adhesive wallpaper borders that exhibited photographs of the urban landscape of major international cities. You could buy paris, ny, germany.. not many others. and i thought, hey, wouldn't it be great if they had the sartorialist photos- scenes of ny, bicycles, women paris.. ; )
Conservative, but the boots add a nice touch. I do like the colors.
I'm pretty sure the shoes are Alaia. Wow – I know it's overused and cliche but this is chic. Subtle yet powerful.
I love the pairing of the jumpsuit with those high-heeled booties (she even looks comfortable in them). And the clutch!
She looks like she was born in that style.
She looks like Charlotte Gainsbourg. A nice portrait.
Lovely to see a jumpsuit here, when done well they can look brilliant. She looks fabulous, the gray and navy look great.
Utilitarian chic at its best! Subtle and stylish.
I love that she's buttoned all the way to the collar, but is showing a hint of skin at the ankle. The subdued palette is wonderful, too.
Is it just me or is the waist approximately at Mom Pants height? And for some reason I've never been a fan of high-heeled lace-up ankle height shoes. They're very popular right now, but they're just not my thing.
I imagine that she just finished paying for her cab ride b/c those shoes aren't made for walking. However that navy jumper looks street savy.
Her style reminds me of Tilda Swinton.
head to toe, perfection
I think she looks nice. She looks very pulled together. Although I don't like jumpers, she looks good in this one.
She doesn't look like a sloppy and disheveled. I think that's key.
Lace-up ankle booties for some reason remind me of ahem, women of ill repute, but these aren't half bad on her :)
This fine lady has a confident pose, especially in how she puts one leg out. That inevitably draws attention to how long her legs are (or how long her heels make them look), and that's a good thing.
Nice match of the purse and the outfit, too!
Hell Yeah!
I love the appropriated grease monkey jump suit. She makes this suit edgy and pretty at the same time. I think the "un-matching" of the shoes and jump suit add to the entire package! This is for sure an outfit I covet!!
This is a lovely silhouette on a tall, slim woman. Whilst she probably could wear anything, I think this suits her extremely well. It is elegant and unfussy, utilitarian is definitely the right word. The shoes and clutch have given the outfit a modern edge and are complementary not competing with the lines of the jumpsuit. I love the folded cuff on the pants to show off those grey suede booties.
I'm not a jumpsuit fan but she rocks it full-force.
And boy does she know how to strike a pose. Must be a model.
I love the boots but am not in agreement with the rolled up hems. These hems in particular look messy.
Beautiful, I love the heels
I have to give her kudos for bravery and uniqueness and sense of color but otherwise I really find this look unflattering.
It does not matter the current context. It looks appropriate and absolutely like the what will be needed in March '09.
She is a striking woman, and I would not usually comment negatively, but this is the first time I have been utterly bewildered by a look on this blog. Extra volume below the waist is unflattering. The cuffs have an uneasy relationship with the shoe at the ankle. The fabric seems too light for the shoulder pads (ie the shape is too obvious for my taste). The shoes are heavy and distracting rather than complementary. And, dare I say it, the pockets look like chest pelmets that push down the silhouette of the bust to matronly effect. Broken into separates, the top and bottom are quite mumsy, and remind me of a bank or pharmacist's uniform in the early 90′s. It would be very hard to look good in this so kudos to her for still looking gorgeous. But this is, for me, one of those instances where fashion is too much about being fashionable and not enough about looking good.
Lovely woman, with a good sense of proportion. Nice line, pity she felt it necessary to join the rolled cuff trend, because, besides falling down, it doesn't work with the line.
Unfortunately, the three pieces do not belong with each other.
I compliment her for having the sense to pull her hair back, to bring out the strength and shape of her face. With the right shoes, she could be an action figure.
wow, that jumpsuit really gives her a gorgeous shape!
i think this is the first jumpsuit i've ever seen that truly deserves an applause!
So it's not a jumper? That would a shame because a jumper is the next best thing to being naked, and this is one FIERCE jumper/not jumper.
this is very very strong.
I think it may be separates in the same fabric made in a "utilitarian jumpsuit" style.
It would be a very cool alternative to "woman professional business suit". Really shake up the boardroom!
I wish I had this lady's lithe figure to pull off such an amazing, simple yet classy outfit. Arguably, I would've chosen different shoes (nothing terrible about them, just not my type), but the outfit's just hot!
she wears the outfit and matches the accessories and poses to perfection. the same pieces on someone else could have looked disastrous. a very inspiring fashion image.
not sure, this jumpsiute looks good with that boots…
Whoahhhhh, I'm having an 80′s flashback, somehow…
I really want this to be a dress, the way it blouses out from her waist would make such a pretty skirt, but I've never been a big fan of jumpsuits.
She wears the j-suit well. Great look!
So austere. Did this come with a belt? This outfit seems to represent the new need for high water pants, roll em up, the stuff is getting deep.
she looks great! Where did she get those fabulous grey boots?
eh, the ankle boots don't really go with the outfit. but then i'm not a big fan of ankle boots in general. i think she should have gone with a good pair of Timberlands, what pastoralists like to refer to as "shitkickers" even regular high heeled women's shoes would've been better.
pretty ankle boots! nice blog!
so many interesting silhouettes but may we see some color, please?
I just cannot ever get behind the idea of a jumpsuit. Have you all ever tried wearing one?
I think she looks like a flight attendant. that's all I'm saying.
ahh, she's wearin' that well.
Jumpsuits. Noooo!!!! I really haven't seen them flatter anyone. She's a pretty girl with a good figure but it just makes her look a bit funny around the stomach area. Great shoes though!
It makes her look tall and slim. It makes her shoulder:waist:hip ratio appear ideal. What in the world is unflattering about that?
Admittedly, were it not for the stilt-like heels and rolled-up cuffs, it might be a different story. But, seriously, she's the only person I've ever seen–including uber-skinny models–wearing pants/jumpsuit with gathers in the front who didn't end up looking paunchy. I want to know how the heck she managed it. :)
Her style reminds me of a mid-late Eighties Annie Lennox. Very cool.
Love it!
Hum, there is something here that I don't like. Maybe too much 80′s.
But I like the boots.
Waw que estiloso! pero poco femenino a pesar del taconazo.
Hey, Werking Girl can you to extinguish my cigarettes with those shoes while repairing the transmission of my classic car.
really nice outfit. but what is with the shoes? pain to bring one closer to the Lord?
fantastic navy blue jumpsuit and grey shoes
She is making me LIVE!!! So so so good!!! I almost wish she had her hair down to soften up the whole look- but I give her props for being amazing.
Another non-fan of jumpsuits here. Too 'fashion victim' for me. She does wear it well, though. The same look could have been achieved with a shirt and pants, but would you have posted that picture?
this outfit makes me realize that if i really could just lose ten pounds, i could totally rock this look. love it.
The ankle boots throw me off a little bit. The jumpsuit works for her – and good for her, because it's a tough look to pull off – pumps, a rounded-off point toe especially, would have worked better with this look. The boots cut her length and seem overly bulky compared to the rest of the look.
kind of a boring jumpsuit, but i'm not a fan of tailored styles, so . . . it DOES look good on her. Hate the rolled hem of the pants. it creates a funny choppy line across her ankles that spoils the sleekness of her entire look.
i love that clutch!
Ummm NO to the shoes with that outfit.
THIS is so cool and brave! Remember, circa 1979 the David Bowie/Klaus Nomi 'spacey communist air hostess dresses' worn on Saturday Night Live when they performed??
I can picture this girl singing 'TVC15′….love it!
ugh, love love love those trousers.
I love her shoes!
Her face seems too intellectual for those very high heels-and ,she is already so tall to begin with,it seems redundant.
Legs for days so well framed in her blue jumper. The jumpsuit could be slimmer to fit the scale of her slim body. She could use more interesting shoes. She is a look in this suit, though!!
It just goes to show that jumpsuits look hot with long legs; if I were wearing this, the hems would hit my toes!
I love the Jumpsuit when done right!
Its a style that never seems to take hold in NZ, but Moochi have produced one that I think I just might have to buy.
The boots are Christian Louboutin, I am almost sure of it.
A modern day ETHEL from DOWNTON ABBEY!!!!!
The sharp, clean cut to this makes me happy (:
And in such a nice deep blue colour too!
Intriguing expression; as if she can clearly see through you and is amused by what she finds. Or as if she's judging a tiny kitten.
Wow, amazing photo
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Nauvoo Pageant
Celebrate the restored gospel, the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith, and the legacy of early Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo. Enjoy historical vignettes in Old Nauvoo throughout the day and the 1840s Frontier Country Fair pre-show activities at the pageant site before the pageant begins each night. While in the Nauvoo area, drop in at the Nauvoo Visitors' Center. For more sites in this area, see the Nauvoo Visitors' Center.
A cast and crew of more than 1,100 volunteers will bring early Mormon history in the US and England to life in two musical productions—the Nauvoo Pageant and the British Pageant. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays feature the Nauvoo Pageant, which tells the story of early Latter-day Saint Church members who, in 1839, fled to Nauvoo to escape religious persecution. The British Pageant, "Truth Will Prevail," performed Wednesdays and Fridays, tells the history of early Mormonism in the British Isles. Both pageants feature scripts based on actual journals and historic records from the 1800s, as well as traditional and original music. Presenting both the Nauvoo and British pageants will allow audiences to view the close and continuing relationship between Mormons in the British Isles and the United States. The faith, devotion, and sacrifice of the nineteenth-century British Church helped make possible the flourishing religious community that was established in Nauvoo.
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When 19-year-old Mike Smith decided to leave his small town in
"Playing basketball over football was a tough decision," said
"To this day I still miss the game of football. It has played a major role in my life and helped me tremendously. Football has made me ready for the physical play of basketball. It has made me tough throughout my years of playing."
He also explains that playing the quarterback position in high school allowed him to be a leader on and off the field.
"I was able to take that over to basketball and used some of the same tactics I used on the field onto the basketball court," he said.
Attending school in his small hometown,
"Getting a scholarship to play college basketball was a big issue in my life. This opportunity gives me the chance to get my education while playing at a collegiate level of basketball,"
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The Sombrero Shark bellows a challenge at the pirate. (Can sharks bellow? )
"Thank you for holding this cutlass for me, kind sir!"
"Accepted!" The pirate hurls his cutlass at Sombrero Shark.
It hits, but fails to kill.
"Here, Polly!"
"Does Polly want a cracker?"
"Brawk, No, Polly wants BLOOD!"
Sombrero Shark lifts a barrel full of gunpowder and throws...
...right before realizing he forgot to light a fuse.
He picks up the only loaded musket on top of the island.
He takes aim and pulls the trigger...
PFFFFFTZ. Unfortunately, the powder in this musket is damp. Not having much luck, is he?
The pirate advances. "Kill, Polly, kill!"
"BRAWWWKKKKK!!!!" Moving so quickly all the camera caught was a blur, Polly the Death-Parrot sets upon Sombrero Shark.
Incredibly, Polly's razor-sharp beak and claws overcome Sombrero Shark, bringing the unnatural man-fish to the ground.
"Tastes like chicken, Brawk!"
"Hmm, perhaps some redecoration is in order..."
"Much better!"
"This be my island, now..."
"...And I be the captain! Now, to find a crew..."
"Besides you, ya homicidal chicken."
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Royal Marines: 7 (ELIMINATED)
Natives: 2 (ELIMINATED)
Pirates: 9 (VICTORIOUS!)
US Navy: 2 (ELIMINATED)
Frogmen: 1(ELIMINATED)
Fish-People: 3 (ELIMINATED)
That's it for the Battle for the Random Island, I hope you all enjoyed it!


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Trending in Asia: Asiana Crash, Apps Made in Asia
In this week's Trending in Asia, the WSJ's Ramy Inocencio talks with Google's Joyce Hau on search spikes including the crash of Asiana Flight 214, the made-in-China app "Crazy Name That Tune" and the Japanese app "Puzzles & Dragons".
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Contemporary kitchen and home designs are dominated by sleek surfaces with clean lines. Flat glass products are especially suited to achieve these design aesthetics.
The appliance industry has seen a lot of changes in the last decade. Changes ranging from major industry players being bought and sold (like the GE/Haier deal), to the mass movement toward making everything a smart appliance, it's certainly safe to say that we have evolved past the simple metal appliance 'boxes' from the recent past....
The rise of society's newfound desire to be constantly connected, coupled with an increased awareness on energy consumption and cost, has given new urgency to building and home management systems.
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This small device is similar to a metered dose inhaler (MDI), but the drug is in powder form. The patient exhales out a full breath, places the lips around the mouthpiece, then quickly breathes in the powder. Note that the technique is different than for MDIs -- dry powder inhalers do not require the timing and coordination that are necessary with MDIs. There are other important differences, so make sure that you always know the proper technique for the method you are using.
Dry powder inhalers are becoming more common, in part because they do not use the "CFC" propellant that used to be in all MDIs. (CFCs damage the ozone and have been removed from MDIs.) Dry powder inhalers are as effective as MDIs -- in fact, some may prove to be slightly more effective.
Naturally, there are several disadvantages. If the patient exhales directly toward the device, the powder can be blown out. Also, much of the powder ends up in the mouth, which can cause unwanted side effects -- this is similar to what happens when a patient puts an MDI directly into their mouth. As with MDIs, it is recommended that you wash your mouth after administering the drug.


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The United States Constitution states that "No Person held to Service or Labor in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labor, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labor may be due." (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3) In order to enforce this clause, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 which established the mechanism by which escaped slaves could be captured and returned to their owners, no matter what state they were found in. In 1837, a man named Edward Prigg was hired to go from Maryland to Pennsylvania to capture a black woman named Margaret Morgan, and to bring her and her children back to Maryland. The court in Pennsylvania found Prigg guilty of breaking an 1826 law that prohibited anyone from taking "any negro or mulatto" out of Pennsylvania and back into slavery. Prigg appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court which reversed his conviction and ruled, on March 1, 1842, that the Pennsylvania law was unconstitutional because Article IV and the 1793 Federal law overrode it due to the supremacy clause. It is likely that the incident involving Margaret Morgan prompted the proposed law mentioned in this article, making all people of color--whether free in their home states or not--slaves in Maryland. It appears that this bill did not pass the Maryland senate and thus was not enacted into law.
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Unlike those Luddite crybabies over at the MLB, the NHL is embracing technology and partnering up with Sling. And they're giving it the go-ahead for NHL content to be used with Sling's upcoming Clip+Sling service.
Better yet, NHL clips will be categorized and sorted by teams so you (or anyone) can find clips of your favorite team stomping ass (or getting stomped) with little effort on Sling's upcoming video site.
I hope the PBA gets on board with this, as I'd like to be able to check out sweet Parker Bohn III action whenever I feel like it. Kidding. Kind of.
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Some people work for themselves because they like the autonomy. Others have been unable to find full-time, regular jobs and have had to settle for contract work for a specific project or period of time. And still others have retired but have been brought back as consultants by their former employers.
Contract workers, consultants, freelancers or the self-employed — these workers face additional challenges when it comes time to file their income taxes.
They won't receive the traditional W-2 that other workers get. Instead, they'll receive a 1099 form with their earnings from each of their employers.
However, employers aren't required to provide 1099 forms if income is less than $600. Still, all income, even if there is not a 1099 form, is required to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
Since self-employed individuals or contract workers don't have taxes withheld from their pay, they could be in for an unpleasant surprise. "You could be really hurt if you haven't paid any estimated taxes," said Jackie Perlman, principal tax research analyst with The Tax Institute at H&R Block.
Not only will these workers have to pay taxes on income earned, they'll also have to pay a self-employment tax, said Barbara Weltman, contributing editor to "J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013."
That self-employment tax is equivalent to both the employer's and the employee's share of Social Security and Medicare. For 2012, it is 13.3 percent, 10.4 percent for Social Security on income up to $110,100 and 2.9 percent for Medicare on all income. And, they may be subject to a penalty if they did not file estimated taxes.
But there is a bright side.
"The tax code smiles on people who are self-employed," said Mark Steber, chief tax officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services. That's because you can offset the true cost of doing business, he said.
Did you take a potential client out to lunch? You can generally deduct half the bill as a business meal. Did you have to purchase a printer to produce invoices? That, too, can be deductible.
Did you use your car for work other than commuting? The IRS mileage rate for 2012 is 55.5 cents for each business mile driven.
"Make sure you know where those deductions are because there are a lot of them," Steber said.
To be deductible, a business expense has to be both ordinary and necessary, according to the "Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2013."
"An ordinary expense is one that is common and accepted in your field of business, trade or profession," the guide says. "A necessary expense is one that is helpful and appropriate for your trade, business or profession."
If you use some items, say a computer, for both personal and business purposes, you'll have to track the time and usage to determine how much can be deducted. "Have that stuff contemporaneously documented along the way, not the day you get the letter from the IRS," suggested Greg Rosica, tax partner at Ernst & Young.
Some education expenses may be deductible, as well. What you can't deduct: regular commuting costs or expenses unrelated to the business.
Business-related deductions are more advantageous for a self-employed taxpayer because they directly reduce income, thus lessening the amount of taxes owed, said Rosica. Traditional W-2 employees can deduct unreimbursed business expenses only if they total more than 2 percent of income.
As W-2 employees can pay for health insurance with pre-tax dollars, self-employed individuals similarly can reduce income by the cost of their health insurance. The same goes for contributions to a qualified retirement plan.
Good record-keeping is critical.
"In order to deduct your business expenses, you have to keep good books and records," Weltman said. "It's mandatory."
If you're self-employed, you'll have to file Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business, to report your business income, and Schedule SE to compute your self-employment tax, along with your 1040 form. There's also a separate form, 8829, if you use your home for business purposes.
"If you use an extra bedroom to run your online business, you can take a home-office deduction for the extra bedroom," the IRS says as an example. For the 2010 tax year, more than 3 million taxpayers claimed the deduction, according to the agency.
But the IRS says claiming the deduction often can often involve "complex calculations of allocated expenses, depreciation and carryovers of unused deductions."
So beginning with the 2013 tax year, taxpayers will have a simpler option for computing the deduction: $5 per square foot of space used, up to $1,500.
Sound confusing? "Where there's complexity, there's opportunity," Steber said.
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The plan was put into motion years ago, in anticipation of Jerry Buss one day completely stepping aside as Lakers owner or his passing. One of his six children, Jim, would be in charge of basketball operations and another, Jeanie, would run the business side and cast the vote for the Board of Governors.
The patriarch set everything up in advance. Not only that, he set it up far enough in advance that both would be experienced in the roles before he was gone, with Jeanie now in her 14th season as executive vice president of business operations and Jim in his eighth as executive vice president of player personnel. There should not be any uncertainty moving forward.
Except that now Buss is gone and there are questions.
Part of the wondering, despite all Jerry Buss had arranged, down to how any very unlikely future sale of the controlling interest would have to work, is easy to explain: It's the Lakers. Little things become very big deals in that alternate universe. And the passing of the smart, respected owner on Monday at age 80 is not a little thing.
It is also the timing. The Lakers are underachieving at historic levels. There has already been one coaching change, away from Mike Brown, and there are serious doubts the system of successor, Mike D'Antoni will work with this roster. The trade deadline is Thursday, though there is no indication the organization is debating a serious move that would involve taking on enough money that basketball would need to sync with business. Dwight Howard becomes a free agent in a little more than four months. This is not a time of stability on the court, and now one of the few constants, Jerry Buss, is also gone, so concern among fans increases even more.
The rocky history among the siblings, a well-known secret around the organization, is a dynamic that cannot be ignored. Specifically, as many press reports have noted in as delicate of terms as possible in this time of sympathy for the family, Jeanie and Jim have not gotten along.
And now they are the primary partners determining the future of the Lakers.
Monday, after the death had been announced, John Black, the vice president of public relations for the team, and family spokesman Bob Steiner held a news conference. They answered questions on what happened long ago (favorite Jerry Buss memories), what had just happened (some details of his passing) and what will happen next. They projected the image of a seamless transition.
"If it's a basketball-operations decision, it'll be Jim," Black said.
But, a reporter suggested, doesn't the business side play into that as well?
Black and Steiner paused.
"It was re-emphasized to John and I this morning," Steiner said, "that basketball people will make the basketball decisions."
They were pressed again: What happens if the basketball decisions start impacting the overall business, as can obviously happen?
"Jim Buss understands the business element, Jeanie understands basketball," Steiner said. "They will work together. I don't know, does that answer the question?… I just want to re-iterate that they are their father's children. They do understand the business and the sports elements."
The departments were separate yet connected for years, just as with every team, only with Jerry Buss available to step in as the final word. That does not exist anymore. There are two people who may at some point be called on to make one decision.
There may even be three people – Jeanie is engaged to Phil Jackson. That could become an additional factor in the thinking in business ops and what basketball moves should be funded beyond the budget.
While Jerry Buss had said for years that Jeanie had final say over her departments for many years, he estimated in 2010 that Jim was in charge of all things basketball about 80 percent of the time. That number obviously increased the past couple seasons, as Jerry stopped attending games as his health worsened and increasingly moved away from day-to-day operations, though still presumably willing to share an opinion on major roster decisions such as trading for Howard or the 2009 extension for Pau Gasol.
Buss said nearly three years ago his responses to questions from Jim were usually along the lines of "Do what you think is best." He wanted his son to be in control. It just may not have always been the case. Jim, after all, insisted in early November that Brown would not take the fall for a bad start, just before Brown took the fall in early-November for a bad start.
Jim Buss didn't have to make such a strong statement that Brown was safe. He doesn't do many interviews and so it wouldn't have been unusual for him to do one then. But to say Brown would be staying, to soon fire Brown, and to bring in D'Antoni to implement the closest thing to Showtime in the current NBA all pointed to Jerry Buss getting involved.
Now, the patriarch is gone. There is Jim Buss with general manager Mitch Kupchak, and Jeanie Buss, and there is a plan.