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The Pilgrim High School's 50th Anniversary Celebration on Feb. 2 was extraordinary. The opening remarks by Mayor Avedisian and Principal Marie Cote were warm memories of past years and well received by the capacity audience.
The orchestra led by Chris Pratt, the chorus led by Jackie Sores and the actors on stage brought back the decades through beautiful music and skits. The 160-plus students, plus all others involved, were so wonderful in their presentations that the standing ovation and bravos made it a proud and appreciative climax.
My heartfelt thanks to this outstanding school, and I look forward to their 100th anniversary with anticipation.
Eugene A. Nadeau


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mark W. Massari has confirmed that the Nicole Lantagne Welch has agreed to become the school's next women's volleyball coach, replacing the legendary Kathy Gregory who retired in January.
A native of Encinitas, Calif., Lantagne Welch, will be formally introduced at a Feb. 14 press conference/meet-the-coach event in the UCSB Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus. The event will begin at 2:00 p.m. She spent the last 12 years as the head coach at the University of Miami (Fla.) where she guided the program to 243 wins, five NCAA Tournament appearances – including the last four in a row – and the Sweet 16 in just her second season. In 2012, the Hurricanes were 25-6 overall and 17-3 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Following the season, she was named ACC and AVCA/East Region Coach of the Year.
Deputy Athletics Director Diane O'Brien and former head coach Kathy Gregory assisted on the search.

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- Package contains 10 grams, approximately 135 Carousel Ornamental Corn Seeds.
Produces miniature ears that grow 5" long or less. Carousel Ornamental Corn is wonderfully decorative with its multicolored kernels. Avoid planting this variety near sweet corn.
There is nothing quite like corn that is freshly picked from the garden. Gardeners can enjoy growing and eating corn that is especially sweet (such as sugary enhanced and supersweet varieties) or regular, depending on their preference for sweetness and taste. This warm-season veggie is a favorite during the summer and a staple for barbecues and outdoor gatherings. Corn commonly has kernels that are white, yellow, or bicolor (mixture of both).
Planting, Growing, and Harvesting:
Corn needs plenty of space, so plant seeds in an area where other plants will not be overshadowed. Corn will grow tall and feed heavily from the soil. Plant corn in rows or blocks to help with pollination (which occurs from wind). Keep corn well watered and remove weeds from the area. Corn plants will need full sun and fertile, well-drained soil
When planting, take into account that corn can cross-pollinate with other varieties of corn. This can be an issue with the sweet kinds of corn, since pollination from regular corn can negatively affect your sweet corn crop. For this reason, it is advised that you isolate the corn for best results.
To harvest corn, look for ears that appear plump and have brown, dried silk. You can pull back the husk a little and check the kernels to be sure; they should produce a milky (instead of clear) liquid when poked with your fingernail. Be sure the stalk is secured and steady before you pull the ear off or you may damage the plant. Plants generally produce 1-3 ears each.


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After the death of the enchantress, the elven chain of command had fallen into disarray; it is a long time until a new enchantress can be selected. In this odd time, the elves had asked for the aid of their amazon sisters, who advised that they should be led by one of the eldest of the treefolk, Mosshide. They also commissioned Valeera Silversong to track down and bring back the false Gawain - the verdant champion assigned to defend the enchantress - as he has to face trial for his faults. Valeera managed to capture the Gawain, Apollyon; now he has to face the judgement of Mosshide deep in the heart of the Evergreen Woods, far from the front, in Tranquility Glade. However, things never go that simple...
Mosshide: 'Are you Apollyon, who has been appointed as Gawain, despite not being of elven origin?'
Apollyon: 'Indeed, I am.'
Mosshide: 'Do you know that as Gawain, it is your sworn duty to defend the enchantress with your very life, at any cost?'
Apollyon: 'I know, and I admit my failure.'
Mosshide: 'It is all clear then. The judgement is-
>Suddenly, a deathgate erupts at the far side of the glade, and from it, undead warriors swarm the area, led by a humongous one.<
Gorgar the Colossal: 'You know the orders. We're here to chop treeman down.'
Mosshide: 'I'm afraid that's not going to happen. Leave, or face my wrath!'
Valeera: 'Impossible! How did they get through? Battle stations!'
Valeera: 'Hold the line, and protect Mosshide at all costs! I'll go get reinforcements.'
Centaurette: 'Take this gryphon Valeera!'
Apollyon: 'Quick, free me!'
Valeera: 'Planning to escape, coward?'
Apollyon: 'Not at all. I want to help, despite the fact that your kind hates me.'
Valeera: 'Alright, take this, and prove your worth on the battlefield. I shall return soon.'
Welcome to the Raid on Tranquility Glade.
Overwatch and selectable factions:
Undead - tymon555
2 squad of skeleton warriors, 1 Bone Beast, 1 hero - Gorgar the Colossal
Undead Reinforcements - Stormblessed
>units will be revealed later<
Objectives: destroy Mosshide, obtain his heart. Keep the Deathgate functional for retreat.
Amazon elves - Falk
1 squad of amazon elves, 4 elven longbowmen, 1 centaurette, Mosshide, the treefolk sage
Elven Reinforcements - Alex
>units will be revealed later<
Apollyon - Apollyon
1 hero unit
Objectives: Repel the invaders, defend Mosshide. Destroy the Deathgate. Apollyon must survive.
Overall, there are 4 spots to take, first come first served once again.


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Crazy trip
We flew in for a wonderful Thanksgiving. That day turned out to be the most relaxing day of the whole trip.
Then I worked the whole weekend in the ER. It was moderately busy, but no one was seriously ill. I only shipped one lady out and admitted three, so that was probably below average.
I love working there. It's the exact opposite of the ivory tower medicine I practice every day, and I miss the general medicine stuff more than most of my colleagues. The fact that anything may roll in to the ER is unnerving, no doubt, but at the same time it's refreshing. It's increasingly obvious to me that my dream job would be that of a community hematologist, with an amount of general internal medicine thrown in. Hematology is such a specialized field that one almost has to work in a large center to see exclusively hematology, and I'm not sure that appeals to me. Some do combined hematology and oncology, which I won't be able to do unless I get trained in oncology, too.
We flew to Florida and Disney World. We were there two years ago and the kids loved it. I arrived two years ago, convinced I would hate it. I expected a fake, tacky plastic world full of fat people waiting in lines. And, of course, that's what Disney World is. Still, I ended up having a great time and looked forward to coming back. The second time wasn't as good as the first, but it was still a very good time. We visited EPCOT, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, and they all had their own charm. After the first day, the whole family glided smoothly through the parks with a shared purpose of having fun.
My son, Andreas, sees me as a fun guy who shows up every few months. He had a good time in Disney World, and he opened up a little bit to me on a few occasions. We will live away from him for another year, but at least there is an end to it. He is generally doing better in school than I have feared, but he has behavioral problems. I do wonder if he has a bit of ADD, and his teachers have voiced concerns about that, too. I need to get back in his life.
Suddenly, one night, I had to leave for my convention. We had gotten into a mode of riding Disney shuttles, racing to pools, and playing loud games in our condo. And from one moment to the next, I had to leave. Natali was crying and Andreas went into quiet beyond-reach mode. The taxi came quicker than I expected, and I had to leave a house full of wailing chaos.
So there I was, at the hematology convention, wearing a suit and talking about lymphomas with other hematologists, knowing the Girl and the kids were just a few miles away.
I want to describe Orlando. Partly because Orlando is a horrible place that deserves mention, but partly because I realize that my fellow Danish convention-goers think of Orlando as America. What a terrible place to live! Everything seems so unsustainable and fake. There are beautiful sidewalks that meander through flower beds and palm trees. They end suddenly, at arbitrary spots and are clearly built for people to look at through car windows. It's not possible to walk anywhere; I had to break several laws to find my way on foot to the convention center.
The grass is unnaturally green, and if one runs on it, it feels fake. It's watered several times a day, making it thicker than grass should be. If one runs on it, it's apparent that there is no normal soil underneath. It grows on some kind of rubber mesh. The grass is made to be admired from a car.
Orlando has a strip, akin to the Las Vegas strip, of hotels and restaurants. Universal Studios and Seaworld lie at opposite ends of this strip. Everything is manicured beautifully, and a trolley reminiscent of Europe or San Francisco will take you up and down the strip. But when one looks behind that row of glitzy hotels, there is nothing. Just abandoned lots and fences and, beyond them, an unhealthy-looking swamp.
And the people. The convention-goers all praise the service level here. I am struck by how unfair it all is. It's hard not to notice how everyone in a menial job is black or Hispanic. Every white person appears wealthy, thin and aloof. Every Hispanic, and I mean every adult person to the man or woman, is obese. There are restaurants so exquisite they import the entire waiting staff from Italy, while the people who actually live here eat mostly fast food.
Okay, so I have been away from my routines for two stressful weeks, and it shows in the above post. But I stand by the general sentiment. I hate Orlando.
3 comments:
- SteveQ said...
I've never been to Orlando, but then again, I've never been to a Wal-Mart either. I expect they're not dissimilar... fat people standing in line to spend money on cheap crap they don't need.
I HAVE been to an ER. I expect it's better to work in one than to come in on a gurney.
I've been coming to the realization that Americans' first thoughts of what Denmark must be like are rather dark and sullen - more Kierkegaard than Tivoli Gardens. Odd...
- December 8, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- SteveQ said...
Time to ask a hematologist:
I was reviewing some old notes and saw that adults have two forms of hemoglobin, 98% having 2 beta chains, the other 2% having two deltas. Is anything known about why there are two forms? Do they have different oxygen binding affinities? Does the ratio of the two forms vary between populations? What I really wonder is: does altitude training or EPO alter the ratio of the two?
- December 10, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- SteveQ said...
Never mind. Eddison, G.G. et al, J. Clin. Invest. 43(12):2323-2331 (1964) suggests there's no functional difference between HbA and HbA2.
- December 10, 2010 at 10:22 AM


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George C. Marshall, who distinguished himself with his service in France during World War I but is better-known as the commander of United States forces during the Second World War and the author of the Marshall Plan, is born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1880.
Marshall, who graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, was first commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1902 and served in the Philippines and other locations before eventually being promoted to captain in the summer of 1918, after the U.S. entry into World War I. He served with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France as an operations officer of the First Division and participated in the battles of Cantigny, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne.
After the war, Marshall served as a top aide to General John J. Pershing and continued to move up the ranks. He earned his full general status in 1939 and became chief of staff and the country's top military leader during World War II, when he centralized the leadership of the military in the chief-of-staff's office and was generally recognized as one of the principal architects of the winning Allied strategy.
Marshall retired from military life after the war, but began an active career in diplomacy, serving as secretary of state under President Harry S. Truman for two years beginning in January 1947. In the spring of 1947, in a speech at Harvard University, Marshall outlined a plan for U.S. economic aid to a devastated Europe, stating that It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. The famous Marshall Plan, as it became known, offered an unprecedented amount of aid to Europe to assist in its post-war reconstruction. In 1953, Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of this work. He died six years later.


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text: Spotlight on Soil Biology December 8, 2012 04:33 PM Tweet Panelists said return on investment gets the attention of groups that overlook conservation practices. Organic matter might be the new poster child. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By John Buckner Farm Journal Executive Editor Email CTIC celebrates conservation—and looks to the future The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) had reason to celebrate 30 years of success this fall. Founded in 1982, the Lafayette, Ind.–based organization has created a working model of how to bring like and disparate interests together to achieve common conservation goals. With two panels of experts in a forum setting, there was no preaching to the choir—just a turning of ideas on the roasting spit to check for doneness or more marinating time. According to the "Future of Conservation" panel, the most pressing topic, trumping the latest technology challenges, is plain old soil biology. Grain crop and cattle farmer Dan DeSutter of Attica, Ind., said farmers are coming to grips with organic matter and how it's produced. "This will be what moves us forward in terms of our productivity," he said. When you focus on organic matter as your metric, you can put real value to it, he added. "In 18 years of no-till corn and beans, we were able to double our organic matter back up to 4%," DeSutter said. "Why is this important? How are we going to get mainstream farmers to accept this as a goal? We know that for every 1% of organic matter in the top 12", there's 1,000 lb. of nitrogen (N). In a typical year, we mineralize 2% to 4% of that." He noted that at 3% organic matter with current nitrogen prices (UAN, for example) that comes to $40 to $50 per acre. "That extra 2% of organic matter allows us to store an extra 32,000 gal. of water per acre, which is the equivalent of 1¼" of rain." Jerry Hatfield, director of USDA–Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa, agrees. "The simple fact is that if our soils don't absorb and retain water, the result will be food insecurity. If you look around the world, we're still on a degradation slope in terms of the soil," he said. He emphasized the need to reverse this broad and damaging trend on a global basis. "Unfortunately, we can't just take the very successful North American system and do a layover on a developing country, but we can teach certain key things relating to soil health," said Jim Moseley, former USDA deputy secretary. He added that we still have a way to go in our own country. "In the U.S. government we talk about air quality and we talk about water quality, but we don't talk about soil quality. The interesting thing is, water and air quality are enhanced by a standard definition [of soil quality]." Hatfield said we think about soil in a mechanical way to achieve soil structure and we treat soil chemically to achieve certain goals, but we don't talk about biology doing all of the work for us. Referring to soil microbes, he said that most farmers don't recognize the "livestock" they have living under their fields just outside their farm kitchen door. "Every morning, we should be waking up thinking about how we're going to feed the elephants!" he joked. Focus on what's happening, biologically speaking, in the fence row, Hatfield encouraged. In Iowa, that would mean a piece of ground with 4% organic matter. "This year, we have harvested yields out of a simulated fence row of 290 bu.," he said. "That tells you what you can do when you think about a high-organic-matter soil with lots of water-holding capacity and lots of nutrients. If you can do 290 bu. per acre in a year like this, think what you can do in a good year!" Larry Clemens of The Nature Conservancy (left) and farmer Dan DeSutter banter about how often a farmer is asked about organic matter percentages. The next big thing. "There are a lot of undiscovered secrets of the soil that we'd better start figuring out because we don't have 6" of soil distributed evenly around the world," Hatfield said. To illustrate the importance of doing the right kind of research, Hatfield shared a story about Illinois no-till pioneer Jim Kinsella. "He asked me, Why are you doing 'me-too' research? He said, All you guys are studying is how our [no-till] system works. We already know it works! We need you studying the next thing we haven't thought about." When asked what they would like to see in the new farm bill, panelists said one popular idea is conservation compliance that is tied to crop insurance. "Right now, crop insurance is what drives a lot of decisions on the farm," DeSutter said. "This allows big farmers to bid 'X' [dollars] for land, knowing they've got this on the back side [insurance]." If legislators are going to do something with insurance, he would like to see crop insurance and incentives such as the Conservation Stewardship Program, but without the bureaucracy. To give an idea of the work ahead for CTIC and its partners, Moseley asked some pointed questions that might well have been asked since the inception of the Soil Conservation Service in 1935: "How do we get conservation accomplished with farmers at the ground level? Do we have anything new to say?" Moseley talked about Landcare Australia, a successful public/private/ government partnership. "They put environment conservation at the center of Australian society," he said. "It isn't just about the farmers and ranchers on their paddocks—83% of the Australian population knows about Landcare. We need to elevate the conversation here in a way we simply haven't accomplished yet." DeSutter gave a simple summary: "If you're a farmer and you own land, you should be receptive to this argument: Why is some Iowa farmland worth $12,000 an acre and in southern Indiana, land is worth only $6,000? It's basically organic matter." Learn what other CTIC panelists had to say about the past and future of agriculture at www.FarmJournal.com/CTIC You can e-mail John Buckner at email@example.com. Back to news


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Can three guys really cover thirty-seven Shakespeare plays in less than two hours? The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] is a fast-firing comedy that does just that as it parodies all the Shakespeare plays (plus the sonnets!) with only three performers in two acts. This play is full of energy as the characters run across the stage and keep you guessing how they will pull off the next play.
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Since 2010, the average price of collectible Ferraris is up more than 70 percent, according to Hagerty, the collectible-car insurer and valuation firm, and the highest price ever paid for a vintage Ferrari, the $35 million plunked down for for a 1962 Ferrari GTO, came as recently as last June.
At this weekend's auction at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in Florida, the march of fabulous Ferraris continued. While the estimates at Amelia topped out at about $2 million, the assembled collectors were paying close attention to see if the recent skyrocketing prices still have room to run, or turn out to be an unsustainable bubble.
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BOONE, N.C. (AP) Nathan Healy scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help Appalachian State to a 74-65 win over Western Carolina on Saturday.
Jay Canty finished with 19 points, eight rebounds and five assists for the Mountaineers (9-12, 5-5 Southern Conference), who snapped a two-game losing streak.
Appalachian State used a strong first half to build a double-digit lead. The Mountaineers took their largest lead of the game at 35-21 when Healy made two free throws with 3:59 left.
Western Carolina almost overcame the deficit, trimming the Mountaineers' lead to 65-64 when James Sinclair scored on a layup with 2:06 left in the second half. But the Catamounts pulled no closer, as Appalachian State closed out the game with a 9-1 run.
Trey Sumler scored 21 points but had eight turnovers for Western Carolina (8-14, 5-5), which has lost three straight games. Sinclair finished with 17 points.


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Jon Bon Jovi was in South Africa this spring when he happened to see a video from "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" featuring a man at a gas station singing "Livin' on a Prayer," very exuberantly, for a bit on the show. The clip became a YouTube hit, garnering more than 17 million views.
"Wasn't that great?" the New Jersey rocker asks on the phone from Manchester, England. "Talk about viral. That's one of those moments in time where you go 'How does that get that big?'"
Bon Jovi knows from big. Over the course of his namesake band's 30-year existence, the group has sold more than 100 million records, notched mammoth hits like the karaoke staple "Prayer," and mounted record-breaking tours. Thanks to the band's current "Because We Can" jaunt, which hits Gillette Stadium Saturday, Bon Jovi was just named the No. 1 worldwide touring act of 2013 in the mid-year report by the concert industry publication Pollstar Magazine.
We recently chatted with Bon Jovi about the reflective tone of the group's latest release, "Because We Can"; touring without guitarist Richie Sambora, who left the band for personal reasons in April; and playing the field of his favorite football team.
Q. Like Kid Rock and some others, you are offering a $20 price point for tickets this summer. What inspired that?
A. We've always been very aware of what you call dynamic pricing. So we have $20 tickets that are not nosebleed seats, but there's $600 tickets to our shows, too. Whether it's the dynamic pricing in Boston for some seats or playing for free in Spain this time for a good reason or supporting [Hurricane] Sandy relief stuff in New Jersey and giving away a lot of money, it's part of what we've done and do. It's all fine. First and foremost I've been blessed and we'll be back again, so you just do the right thing.
Q. I saw you in Nashville in March. At what point in the tour are you now? In the groove? Getting in a rut? Shaking up the set list to keep it fresh?
A. Oh, sure. I looked at [the] Nashville [set list] yesterday, that was a good night. The set list doesn't resemble that at all, not even remotely. It evolves constantly. Now I'm at the point where once we get to encore land I'll just look out as far as my eyes allow me to see and I see the banners that are song requests. We play a long time, so we can do a lot of things. This poor man Phil X [Xenidis] who's playing guitar for us now, helping [fill in for Sambora], is like, "I don't know that one." And I say, "Ah, go take a break, we know it don't worry about it." [Laughs] So we're in a groove.
Q. Phil X has filled in with you all before, correct? How did you find him?
A. Yeah, we've run into this before, and he was a friend of a friend. He learned the stuff and filled in for 15 shows, and then this year when the circumstance became what it is, he was in Los Angeles and I said, "Can you come?" And he said, "Yeah, I remember everything." So for the time being he's doing us a great favor.
Q. Is there any timetable for Richie rejoining the band? I know you've said that the door is open.
A. The door is wide open, there's a seat on the plane. Love him to death, but until he gets through his personal issues we have to go on, not only for us but for the crew and the fans and the commitment to the record and everything else. Time waits for no one, right? So I can't not do what we do.
Q. There are four tracks on the new album — "Amen," "What About Now," "The Fighter,'' and "I'm With You" — where you seem to be taking a more nuanced approach vocally. Was that deliberate?
A. Well, you're writing in more appropriate keys sometimes for the intimacy of the song. I probably wouldn't have been able to write a song like "The Fighter" 20 years ago. But thank you for that. I hope that my voice is still OK. Every real singer that you see over a long period of time, at the 25-, 30-year mark, their voices evolve. Whether it's Bono or Bruce [Springsteen] or Steve Tyler [of Aerosmith] — his voice sounds very different than it did in 1973 — you evolve physically, things are going to change.
'It's actually because of my wonderful relationships [with the team] that I get to go in the equipment room every year. . . . I'm officially a Patriot, much to the chagrin of my New York football Giants.'
Q. Could you even do that high part on "Runaway" now?
A. I don't think so.
Q. I'm guessing you probably don't want to.
A. I'd like to know that physically I could, but it doesn't mean I'd want to. But in retrospect those are some high notes. [Laughs]
Q. I'm curious about the inspiration for "The Fighter." It feels almost like a lullaby.
A. My kids were the inspiration, and in that case, I was asked, really, "Who are you? Are you just that guy that everyone tells us about? Are you the guy that goes to that place and we see you in front of all those people? Are you that guy that we just see working all the time? Who are you at the core of all of this?" It was a very interesting question, because my daughter is now turning 20 and these are things that she wanted to know. And I never thought about "Who am I to them?" And so I sat down and I started to write it. So I sit down and humbly say, I am not a writer, I am the fighter. So that story is mine.
Q. Although there appear to be several themes on "Because We Can," one of them is solidarity . . .
A. I think social consciousness is one aspect of the record that's prevalent. "I'm With You," "What's Left of Me," "What About Now," even "Because We Can" address what was going on in the post-first term Obama America, coming out of the economic downturn, the consolidation of corporate America, our moving forward as a nation. Were people going to get involved in the reelection or move on to somebody else? That was the period in which this record was written, so between September of '11 and June of '12, that's what was going on in the world around me. Reading the paper, watching the news, living the life that I live, and watching the people who are working to make ends meet around me.
Q. It's never been an either/or proposition, in that you've always written about a variety of topics, but I wonder, did the guy who wrote "In and Out of Love" think that one day he'd be writing "What About Now"? I would imagine that maybe that was something you aspired to but didn't necessarily expect.
A. Correct. In 1985 that wasn't the priority. Priorities at 21 and 22 years old were still the cliché of being in a rock band and finding girls. It really was a pretty narrow scope, and I wasn't as prolific as, say, Bob Dylan was at that age, that's for sure. But hopefully with time, age, and experience I've separated myself from the rest of the pack that I came up in.
Q. One aspect of that viral video is that it shows the durability of the songs. On one level I'm sure it's gratifying, but you've probably also had to sit through a lot of bad covers.
A. Oh, I don't mind. It's humbling. Had I not been able to say, "Yes, I co-wrote that song," it would be miserable because it would be "Damn it, someone else did!" It's gratifying because, yes, it did pay off, but it's humbling because you look at it and go, "Wow, this has touched two generations, going on three now." I know the impact of some of these songs, I get it. That's the kind of thing when you look at the Paul Simons and you say, yeah, that's what those songs did for me. There are songs in the patchwork of the American pop culture that have my name on them as a writer or a co-writer.
Q. I feel like in every candid shot I see of you, you're wearing a Patriots T-shirt.
A. It's the only clothes I own.
Q. Bob Kraft makes sure of it?
A. It's actually because of my wonderful relationships [with the team] that I get to go in the equipment room every year. Because anyone that knows me knows that I come to camp every year, so usually at the end of it, I'll go in and get this year's fashions. God knows I need some new ones, I've worn these down to the nub. I'm officially a Patriot, much to the chagrin of my New York football Giants. I don't root against them, but I'm a Patriot.Interview has been edited and condensed. Sarah Rodman can be reached at srodman@globe. com.


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I know the new IWC positions are all-IWC jobs, but I was not tracking that DIWC was being changed from 1810 to all-IWC, as well. What's your source for that tidbit, if you don't mind my asking?
Source is my next (old) command. Haven't seen the official doc, but emails ref a CNIF instruction that establishes the IW afloat structure.
If I track down the instruction I'll post a link.
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So, we are going to send O5s to sea in a DIWC billet when they aren't going to be the DIWC? Or are we not going to send those folks to sea at all, knowing we have tremendously important staff positions to fill? Either way, pretty clear statement on community perspective of DIWC, IFOR perspective of 1810 specific value in those roles.
As far as the DIWC position opening to the full IWC instead of 1810s, I'd be hesitant to assign any meaning to that decision beyond the fact that if IWC is open to all, then DIWC should be, as well. I haven't seen anything to confirm or deny this, but making DIWC open to all, as well, means there is detailing flexibility to make sure that if an 1810 is the sitting IWC then another IWC specialty is represented as DIWC. It wouldn't make sense to have two 1810's leading the entire information warfare area.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The troubled rollout of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law has hurt the popularity of the initiative, but the decline has been fairly modest, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Monday.
Forty-one percent of Americans expressed support for the 2010 law popularly known as Obamacare in a survey conducted from Thursday to Monday. That was down 3 percentage points from a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken from September 27 to October 1.
Opposition to the healthcare law stood at 59 percent in the latest poll, versus 56 percent in the earlier survey.
There has been some shift ... but the shift has been small," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.
Jackson said the relatively small change in the poll numbers was consistent with a pattern in place since the passage of the law three years ago in which opinions about it have fluctuated very little.
"Overall, these opinions are already pretty fixed," Jackson said.
"Most people already know where they stand by this point and it's going to take a lot more than a website - which very few of them are actually using - that's malfunctioning to actually get people to shift," he added.
Since the October 1 implementation of the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans have been unable to sign up for coverage on the federal government's website.
Several million people have also received cancellation notices from their health insurance plans, despite Obama's promises that people who wanted to keep their insurance would be able to do so.
Obama and his Democratic allies have been scrambling to stem the political damage from the problems. At a news conference last week, Obama apologized repeatedly for the botched rollout and promised to fix the problems.
Republicans have vowed to try to repeal the law, but the poll showed they could face some obstacles because some elements of the law, such as requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, remain popular.
Asked their views on the troubled Obamacare launch, 65 percent favored at least some changes in the health law. But some respondents favored only smaller changes such as delays in the deadline for requiring everyone without health insurance to sign up for coverage.
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Well, I was a little bored a decided to put together a 2014 mock draft. I have seen all these players play with the exception of the Randell Johnson and the 7th round pick. It is way too early to really project what round some of the lesser know prospects are going to fall, so I'm more projecting how they are going to play to go along with athleticism or past production.
1st round - (WR) Kelvin Benjamin 6-5 242 lbs Florida St (redshirt sophomore): Super-sized WR with good speed and athleticism. He could be the next Mega Tron or Brandon Marshall. Either way he is a huge down field threat that could maximize Wilson's talent for throwing the deep ball.
2nd round -(nickel CB/back up FS) Lamarcus Joyner 5-8 195 lbs Florida St: I was surprised with the signing of Antoine Winfield because of his size limitations. Joyner is a similar player to Winfield, undersized yet he is a big hitter and he has great ball skills. Joyner would be our starting nickle CB and he could also backup Earl Thomas at FS.
4th round - (TE) Eric Ebron 6-4 245 lbs North Carolina (junior): Ebron is an athletic TE but is a bit inconsistent catching the ball and he needs to improve as a blocker. But, he has a lot of upside and if he has a break out year he could possibly be a 2nd round prospect.
5th round - (OLB) Randell Johnson 6-4 230lbs Florida Atlantic: Johnson has a good combination of length and speed to play either weak-side or strong-side LB. He was injured most of last year, but in 2011 he had 5 sacks, 14.5 tackles for loss, and 4 forced fumbles.
5th round - (MLB) Max Bullough 6-2 252 lbs Michigan St: Max is a big productive player with average speed for the position. He would provide depth quality depth at MLB and he has a high football IQ so he would be ready to step up if called off the bench.
6th round - (QB) Brendon Kay 6-4 233 lbs Cincinnati: Kay is a tall mobile QB that has experience with the zone option-read.
7th round -(OT) Parker Graham 6-7 315 lbs Oklahoma ST: Every draft should have an offensive lineman, so Graham is the man here. I really have no idea where he will fall in the draft, but draftscout has him ranked as the 25th rated OT.


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We want to appeal to our existing market which extends along the SF Peninsula as far south as Los Altos and into the East Bay. Most of our customers are very well off, live in million-dollar-plus homes and have very high incomes. They want things done right the first time and like the convenience of working with Cabrillo. They also know they can trust us and that we provide the highest level of service available. We're not the cheapest company in town but we strive to be the absolute best.
We're want a complete redesign our corporate website. We're open to just about anything but would really like to implement a 1930's/40's Retro look. Not sure how to make that happen on a website but that's why we need you! We like to be different and whimsical but we cater to a high-end clientele that appreciates our professionalism. The site needs to make it easy for anyone who lands there to contact us immediately, join our email list or become a FB fan. Navigation must be simple and we like WP for the flexibility that widgets provide though our priorities are SEO (we've got that under control), conversion, style.
Our existing site is 980px wide to fit an ipad which is an important criteria for our owner. Main content section should be at least 485px wide. We don't mind a flash element but need to make sure it doesn't compromise SEO (in other words, the main copy on the home page needs to be text).
In the past we've featured 4 different things in our marketing - our logo (of course), our crazy owners Mike and Jeff, our distinctive truck, and Mr. Cabrillo (an animated version of our white-uniformed technician). We would welcome designs with the logo and any of the others.
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The son of Disney's original Imagineer, Roger Broggie Jr. began working for the man he called "Uncle Walt" as a boy in 1950 when he tended the backyard railway at the studio mogul's Holmby Hills home.
Broggie was 11 when he and his younger brother, Michael, started serving as the crew for Walt Disney's miniature steam-engine railroad. The siblings pulled cars out of storage, dusted them off and rolled them down the track to a "Valley" called Yensid – "Disney" spelled backwards.
"We had chores," said Michael Broggie, whose father helped Disney build and install the train. "As Dad and Walt got the engine ready, we would fill up the tenders with coal and water."
The rarefied pastime lasted until 1953, when Disney shut down the train that neighbors had lined up to ride. The small-scale attraction had served a historic purpose, helping to inspire the creation of Disneyland.
At 18, Roger Broggie Jr. joined Disney's company as an apprentice in the machine shop managed by his father, Roger Broggie Sr. The junior Broggie became an audio-animatronics pioneer, making key contributions to such attractions as Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, the Enchanted Tiki Room and Pirates of the Caribbean.
He died Dec. 11 at a medical center in Bend, Ore., from complications of a head injury sustained when he fell while working on a float for a parade near his home in LaPine, Ore. Broggie was 73.
His family announced his death last week.
"Roger was one of the finest mechanical craftsmen who ever worked for the company, an absolute master," Marty Sklar, a retired longtime Disney executive, told The Times last week.
While helping to build several Disney attractions for the 1964 New York's World Fair, Broggie became known for his hands-on technical wizardry while helping to create the now-familiar form of Disney robotics known as audio-animatronics.
Making President Lincoln lifelike for Great Moments, which debuted at the fair, "was particularly challenging because no one had made a figure move like that before," said his brother Michael, a Disney historian.
All of the electronic gizmos had to be contained within the framework of the sculpted head, a task that fell to Roger Broggie. An "interesting cheat" solved the problem, according to Jim Hill, who has tracked Disney history for more than 30 years. The wig was stretched out on the Lincoln head to make room for the bulky first-generation parts.
For the Enchanted Tiki Room, Broggie did an exceptional job building a flock of mechanical exotic birds, Sklar said, and his technical wizardry helped persuade Disney to open the Tiki Room in 1963 as a full-fledged attraction instead of a restaurant.
Broggie also played a lead role in the development and installation of audio-animatronic figures in Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion, which both opened in the late 1960s.
Disneyland pays homage to Broggie on Main Street, where his name appears in the window of the Little Gremlins Mechanical Toys shop.
He was born April 12, 1939, in Los Angeles. His father and mother divorced when he was 12, and he spent his teen years watching Disneyland evolve, playing at the park as a construction site and test-driving cars for the Autopia.
"They gave the first two prototypes to the Broggie brothers to drive around the lot," according to Hill. "They said, 'If they can't break them, the kids at Disneyland can't break them.'"
Of the eight Broggies who eventually worked for Disney, six have been Imagineers. Roger Broggie Jr.'s son, Garry, runs the machine shop once operated by his grandfather, who was instrumental to the development of Disneyland's railroad.
When Disney made the 1969 film "The Love Bug," the junior Broggie's mechanical fascination with cars helped him build "something like 17 Volkswagens" to play the Beetle of the movie's title, his brother said. Each car was made to do a different trick, such as flying or floating.
In the late 1970s, Broggie founded the Only Animated Display and Design Company with two other former Imagineers. Their projects included developing attractions for Disney and other theme parks and creating mechanisms for Rose Parade floats.
His technological sleight-of-hand also helped bring a memorable end to the 1984 Summer Olympics when the "spaceship" Broggie helped fabricate appeared to hover over the Los Angeles Coliseum and "converse" in light and sound. The contraption was actually suspended from a helicopter.
The low-key Broggie "was a really selfless guy," Hill said. "How he died was so in character – doing volunteer work on a Christmas float."
Broggie is survived by his wife, Marilyn; five children from his first marriage, Scott, Garry, Richard, Robert and Deborah; his brothers, Michael and Brian; 15 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 2 at Grace Baptist Church, 22833 Copper Hill Drive, Santa Clarita.


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Mannheim Steamroller puts Lombard native center stage for Christmas concerts
Becky Kia doesn't listen to Christmas music this time of year.
That's because her job is to play Christmas music, night after night.
Ÿ "Deck the Halls"
Ÿ "Hallelujah"
Ÿ "Silent Night"
Ÿ Anything from "The Christmas Extraordinaire" or the "Christmas 25th Anniversary" CDs
Kia, a native of Lombard, is the lead violinist of Mannheim Steamroller, a popular, multiplatinum-selling Christmas group whose pumped-up orchestral music is all over the radio dial during the holidays.
They're also all over the U.S. during the Christmas season; the group splits into two six-member groups (Kia is with the "green" band), and each embarks on a seven-week, 50-show tour around the country. Kia was part of the Dec. 1 performance at the Akoo Theatre in Rosemont for their "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis" show.
"You get a response from the audience that is so warm and so terrific. Our fans are such nice people," said Kia, who meets many at their post-show autograph sessions.
Among their fans is conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, whom Kia says is a "huge promoter" of their music and regularly plays it on the air.
"We have a lot of fans because of him," Kia said. "I don't agree with everything he says, but I still want to meet him one day."
Kia's life outside of Mannheim Steamroller is far different from her starring role onstage during the holidays. The 46-year-old mother of three lives a quiet life in Stanton, Iowa (population: 689), where she teaches music, leads a community orchestra and is a member of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. It's a 50-mile drive to Omaha, but she says it is a wonderful orchestra to play in for 39 weeks out of the year.
"We don't travel that much. And with the Omaha Symphony, I'm a section player. With (Mannheim Steamroller), I'm one of a six-member band ... standing at the front of the stage, and in a different city each day. It's a challenge as a professional."
Music has been part of Kia's life since age 5. She started taking piano lessons from teacher Siri Peterson in Lombard. Their bond was so close, that Kia still visits her every summer.
The violin came into the picture in fourth grade, when Kia took lessons from Bill Kronenberg. Soon, she was shuttling between Glenbard East High School, where she was a student, to take lessons from acclaimed violin teacher Ruth Ray.
The 85-year-old teacher would come from Chicago to teach a few select students at Addison Trail High School.
"She was the turning point. I said, 'OK, I can play the violin,'" Kia said.
"Everybody, when I grew up, kept teaching me and nudging me and saying, 'This is what you can do.'"
By age 18, Kia was getting paid to play with the Quad City Symphony, and by 1990, she was playing in the Mannheim Steamroller's backup orchestra, eventually moving up to be their lead violin soloist.
Today, on Christmas, Kia will probably spend the day sitting in an airport, waiting on a flight to Texas for the band's Dec. 26 show. That means her family -- including her daughters, ages 7, 13 and 15 -- have to celebrate Christmas a little early.
"I used to bring (her daughters) out on the tour or get a sub and go home for a while, but it's really hard to get a sub anymore. We do two Omaha shows on the 23rd, so it's OK. The kids understand," she said. "For me to get to this point, it took all these people saying, 'Hey, why don't you try this?' I can't believe I have this great career."
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AntoineMandy needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
CleanEnergy is Canada's leader in Geoexchange (Geothermal heating and cooling as it's often referred too as).
These t-shirts will be a twist on the standard installer/ repair man's uniform. A button up collared short sleeve shirt with two breast pockets, but something to stand out from the pack. These uniform shirts are to look professional but also cool enough to get noticed by the home owners and the nice enough that the installer enjoy wearing them.
Open to wild ideas, we are looking for something that is modern and not normally seen on a uniform shirt. The shirts will be button up short sleeve with a collar and two breast pockets. The GeoStar logo should be dominant, the CleanEnergy logo should be secondary. The surface area that may be printed on is the back and the sleeves. please refer to the website for ideas and colors. A one color design would be the most cost efficient however, if you have an interesting design that requires multiple colors then do it.
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Pablo Genovés: Tides
Spanish artist Pablo Genovés' project Tides is on display in St Paul's Cathedral until 30 August as part of the international collaboration Just Water
100 Years of Roca | 100 Years of Design explores the dynamic connection between marketing communications and the evolution of Roca, from its origins in 1917 as a family workshop in Barcelona, to becoming a global bathroom company.
Viva! 2017 – Visual Art La Movida
The brand dedicated to Visual arts is focused on the artistic and socio-cultural movement La Movida of post - Franco Spain. The exhibition, curated by Sarah Perks, is going to show some of the representative aspects that characterised this period. Excess, clubbing, drugs, artistic freedom, gay rights, pornography …, will be at the core of an exhibition that represents the early 80s in Madrid.
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors, curated by Sir John Richardson examines the intersection of Picasso's bullfighting imagery with his mythological and biographical compositions of the 1930s.
FOTCIENCIA 13 – Exhibition
This exhibition is part of a set of cultural promotional activities of Spain carried out in Manchester during 2017 and it is a clear example of photography being used as a vehicle for science outreach.
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion
This exhibition examines the work and legacy of influential Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, with over 100 pieces crafted by 'the master' of couture, his protégées and contemporary fashion designers working in the same innovative tradition
Marco Godoy at Copperfield Gallery
Marco Godoy participates in the group show We have the weights, we have the measures, considering the relationship between the seemingly genteel pursuits of culture and learning and claims to geography
A Tale on The Mile by David Guillén
A Tale on the Mile, the work of photographer David Guillén, is a harmony of original photography and text that explores the personalities and places on one of the most historically vibrant streets in Scotland: The Royal Mile.
Juan delGado: Altered Landscapes
Through the use of video, photography, light and sound, Altered Landscapes aims to engage the viewer in a journey. For this exhibition delGado travelled to Greece, Macedonia and Calais to film, photograph and record the journeys taken by refugees.
Juan Miguel Palacios: Wounded
Wounded is Juan Miguel Palacios' first solo London exhibition. Using a woman's face as a base, the artist investigates the variety of hidden emotions beneath a happy face, to the fatigue and pain that is produced by day-to-day experiences, identifying these life experiences as 'wounds'
Solimán López at SCAN Project Room
SCAN (Spanish Contemporary Art Network) is pleased to present CELESTE, the first solo project by Solimán López in the UK. CELESTE questions the use of high technology for the purpose of constructing an alternative digital image of the sky, a synthesis of real-time processed data (Light, location, temperature).
Maria Camahort's summer concerts
Spanish guitarist Maria Camahort will perform at various venues this summer both in the UK and Spain, presenting various projects that include Iberian Colours, a duo with Laura Ruhí-Vidal and a collaboration in the beautiful project Frost&Lorca
Santiago Sierra: Impenetrable Structure
In this exhibition Spanish artist Santiago Sierra presents a large scale, site-specific piece addressing the hierarchies of power and class that operate in our modern society and everyday existence.


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Heading down the home stretch in regular-season play, the girls' basketball squad at Norwood Fontbonne Academy improved its overall record to 10-4 last Tuesday, turning away visiting Nazareth Academy, 42-17.
The Bears are also close to assuring themselves of a spot in the league playoffs, since the win over Nazareth gave the local lasses a mark of 7-2 within the Girls Catholic Academies League. The team's head coach is Liz Wood, who played both for Norwood (Class of '99) and for Mount St. Joseph Academy.
Two weeks ago, Norwood was able to overcome a longtime nemesis, topping Gwynedd Mercy Elementary School, 35-23. In their two league setbacks this winter, the Bears lost to Waldron Mercy by four points and to the Academy of Notre Dame by two.
Against the Nazareth Lady Hawks (the Nazareth grade school team goes by a different nickname than the all-girls Nazareth Academy High School, whose mascot is a Panda), it took a little while for the Norwood offense to get into high gear.
Missing a pair of free throws at the outset, NFA was still first on the scoreboard thanks to a mid-range jump shot from the left wing by Georgia Powell. The visitors matched that bucket, then Bears center Chloe Burns scored off an offensive rebound and added a second field goal in the offensive transition off of a pass from guard Kara Celano.
The Hawks responded with a three-pointer and a shorter jumper, pulling one point ahead of their hosts (7-6) in the middle of the first quarter. Wisely, Norwood had Celano and the other guards keep sending the ball inside to Burns, who hit two field goals and shot four-for-four from the foul line to make it 14-7 at the end of the opening period.
Celano started the second stanza with a lay-up, and she also converted a free throw awarded on the play. When she stuck a three-point shot from the right flank, the Bears were really off and running, attaining a 20-7 lead and forcing their guests to call a time out with 4:32 remaining in the first half.
Unable to find the basket, the Hawks kept falling farther behind until they found themselves down 32-7 at halftime. Burns had already scored all of her 18 points for the day, and Celano was also in double figures, with 10 points.
Beginning the second half with what was clearly an unassailable lead, Norwood eased up and was able to give its reserves plenty of playing time. Celano scored the first basket of the third quarter and then played more of a passing game after that, content to finish with a dozen points on the nose.
Powell offered up a point from the foul line, and after Nazareth finally added to its side of the board with a three-pointer, the third period ended with a last-second jumper by NFA's Marta Geilfuss, making it 37-10.
In the final round, Powell put in another free throw to finish with four points, and Grace Comerford and Grace Gelone each tacked on a basket.
Katie Schramm had a good second half on offense for Nazareth, scoring all of her team-high 10 points after the intermission.


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My sneaky scheme to pass off a completely gluten-free Thanksgiving spread on my family worked beautifully. Everyone had been tantalized by delicious cooking smells throughout my 48-hour cooking marathon and had been plied with just the right amount of pre-feast snacks so they were eager to sit down to our festive meal.
The table was set beautifully by my creative eldest daughter, with our heirloom china and silver and with a lovely centerpiece of bittersweet. This parasitic vine slowly strangles its host plant, but it sure is beautiful with its bright red berries and yellow caps that keep their color even after they are dried.
It wasn't until after we were all patting our bellies and scooching the chairs back that I let on that EVERYTHING that I made for our feast was entirely gluten-free and safe for my celiac husband to chow down. That raised a couple of teenaged eyebrows, but my picky eaters didn't respond that they had suspected anything or that any dish had tasted funny. I just got thanks for a great meal (and many subsequent leftover meals) and a request to make twice as much gravy next Thanksgiving. And buy that cruddy jellied cranberry sauce in the can instead of my terrific Apple-Cranberry Chutney. Philistines.
My ambitious menu for our Thanksgiving feast was amended a bit. I didn't get around to baking up crackers or rolls, the Copper Pennies salad didn't end up on the table and I subbed out my Apple Sour Cream Pie for a different apple dessert that caught my eye on Linda the Gluten-Free Homemaker's great blog. This Applescotch dessert is a kissing cousin to an apple cobbler and was adapted by the resourceful Linda from a recipe in one of her beloved Mennonite cookbooks.
You make a sugar sauce on the stove which you pour into your pan as the bottom layer and then top it with gobs of sliced apples mixed with a flour base and then bake it up. It is really delicious warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.
Linda's got lots of other great down home cooking recipes on her blog, as well as many kitchen and homemaking tips, celiac news, product reviews and other items. She is also the headquarters for Gluten-Free Wednesdays, a weekly blog carnival that links up gluten-free recipes and menu ideas. Each month she also lobs out a challenge to Gluten-Free Wednesdays participants and this month the challenge was to tackle a GF pie.
I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce you all to Linda and her blog and to officially "adopt" her for the Book of Yum's Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger event. There will be a roundup for this event after the December 10 deadline, so time's still open to adopt your own GF blogger and give one or more of their recipes a test drive.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Adopt a GF Blogger: Linda, The Gluten-Free Homemaker
2 comments:
- Linda said...
Rachel, thanks for adopting me! I'm glad you enjoyed the applescotch dessert. It sounds like you had a lovely Thanksgiving, and I'm glad you fooled the kids with some great gluten free food.
- Tuesday, 30 November, 2010
- Stephanie said...
Bravo on such a great thanksgiving feast! And pulling it off gluten free! Nice! My new favorite food is homemade cranberry sauce...don't know if I can ever go back to the canned stuff :)
- Wednesday, 01 December, 2010
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I went to Point Park as they were expanding Downtown, and every year there was more space and new buildings. It was easy to make friends and it felt like we were all going through a common experience, no matter the major.
I had done three plays before going to school at Point Park. I liked theater and clowning around, so any technique, training, ambition or business acumen comes from my Point Park experience.
I may have had talent when I got to Point Park, but I would have had no idea how to go about being an actor. I can confidently say from day one in New York I felt prepared. I booked my first national tour the second week I was in New York and got my equity card.
I started writing comedy and performing stand-up comedy because of a master class with Jimmy Miller at Point Park when he said, "My only piece of advice to comedians and performers is to generate your own material." That is what has led me to the most success in my career. The training I received at Point Park gave me the tools I needed to know how to write and perform my own material.
It's a hilarious homage to the greatest city in the world. The goal is to touch on every single aspect of New York in 65 minutes.
I couldn't be more thrilled to have written a show that has been this successful. It makes me want to tell other performers to just write, write, write. I also play about 25 different roles in the show.
I would like to perform stand-up comedy on late-night TV, work in film and TV and I hope to continue writing. I have said this since the day I graduated from Point Park that my goal is to pay my bills doing what I love. And I do that now and I have for almost four years. My goal is to work hard and see where it takes me.
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Wow - who'd a thought that the Jaguars on the road in Seattle would outscore the 49ers at home?
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Looks like the read-option is dead, defenses have caught up...... Hmmmm, how much is Harbaugh missing Alex Smith right about now? 6 catches for a lousy 74 yards (over 2 games), no TD's, and 2 blowout losses in a row? How pissed is Anquan Boldin right about now?
Maybe Kaepernick can waste more practice time making another stupid commercial to make up for this loss.....
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The pundits are in lather about an Apple mini-correction when the much more interesting story is that Cupertino and Samsung are in settlement talks. For a company as unforgiving as Apple to want to settle legal skirmishes underlies just how important their suppliers are. That's why I've been buying Apple suppliers and lessening my portfolio's reliance on Apple itself.
Here are three Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL suppliers I'm looking at for pleasant earnings surprises. Two are from my Apple Suppliers ebook and the other one just looks like a such a good set up I wanted to flag it for you right now. To find out which Apple Suppliers my Top 10 List, be sure to check out the book for $20 or sign up for Revolution Investing where we're giving the book away in five weekly installments.
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR)
Earnings call: Apr 24, 2012
If there's one music service that really vexes Apple, it's Spotify. The frenzy for an invite when it launched stateside reminded me of Gmail's rollout. Apple is definitely terrified that Spotify becomes a backbone for other kinds of entertainment, retrieved on demand from the cloud, bypassing the itunes and iOS ecosystem. Spotify's announcement of a branding deal with Coca-Cola is just another way to get as many consumers as addicted as possible.
So I'm betting that Apple will spend more heavily than ever to beef up its networking infrastructure (and will run them with as much power as they need, no matter the environmental criticism). Apple already has two multibillion dollar data centers in the pipeline, one in North Carolina and one next to Facebook's in Oregon. All that capex is starting to show dividends; itunes match, while probably two quarters from being a finished product, is getting some good initial buzz from artists.
Juniper Networks, Inc. /quotes/zigman/202982 /quotes/nls/jnpr JNPR makes the routers and switches and networking equipment that power the Cloud Revolution. Their M-series routers are an industry standard and its highly likely that Apple is purchasing their equipment by the pallet. And the sentiment around Juniper is so negative (it's only up 3.6% this year while the S&P is up 10%, and it's down 44% over the last year), that any little surprise could send the stock soaring.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM)
Earnings call: May 1, 2012
Broadcom /quotes/zigman/66924 /quotes/nls/brcm BRCM is one of the most important chip suppliers to Apple. They have a piece of the iPhone 4s and iPad 3 (whatever, that's what I'm calling it) and if Apple launches a 4G MacBook line, they'll turn to Broadcom for a wireless chipsets.
While the stock has crushed the market YTD (25% vs 10% for the S&P) it's actually down over the last year, losing 4% while the broader market is up 5%. So I think it has room to run from here, maybe 10%-12% in the short term on a big earnings number. Remember, in 2000 Broadcom was at 178, for a market cap of more than $100B. While I'm not saying BRCM is headed back to the stratosphere, the market will fall more in love over time, and its earnings multiple should start to look more like ARM Holding's. Look for lots more analyst upgrades to follow Credit Suisse's target bump to $50.
Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ:MOLX)
Earnings call: Apr 25, 2012
This is one of the least sexy companies you'll ever own. Molex /quotes/zigman/75582 /quotes/nls/molx MOLX doesn't make chips or primate glass or Tupac holograms. It makes the electric connectors that hold all that stuff together. And while it is up 13% this year I feel good about recommending it. Gross margins are healthy and stable at 30.6% and companies like Apple couldn't get rid of Molex even if they wanted to. Buying Molex gets you about 3% dividends and management that buys backs stock when the price falls.
Why I'm really looking at the name though is I think Wall Street's analysts are about throw Molex into the coverage game. Right now 13 analysts cover Molex, which means we don't have to wait for them to discover the stock; it's already on their radar. The average price estimate is $27.65, which is pennies from where the stock is at. I think the herd is going to have to bump their full year estimates up after earnings, their average Q1 revenue prediction of $848.32M strikes me as low. I'm not saying that Molex will blow that out, but iPad3 demand should be a nice boost that isn't priced into the stock. And I expect at least a couple of the analysts at smaller shops to move from 'hold' to 'strong buys', or whatever particular Wall Street language they use.
To find out which Apple Suppliers are on my Top 10 List, be sure to check out the book for $20 or sign up for Revolution Investing where we're giving the book away in five weekly installments.
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The Metadata Unit will create the MODS from the given metadata for each item. To obtain a file identifier and PURL, log in at http://purl.lib.ua.edu/id/assign.php
What you see there looks like this:
Enter the Author's last name, then first name, then the title of the work. This is for tracking purposes, so we can locate this later.
Select the born digital collection to which this belongs; this will determine the collection-number part of the file identifier.
Click "ENTER."
The software will check for anything else by that author and title in the InfoTrack.bornDigital MySQL database table.
- If it finds that this was already entered, it will give you the filename, the PURL already assigned, and the date it was entered.
- Otherwise, it will create and return to you a new PURL and the next filename to be assigned for the selected collection
Use the latter to rename both the MODS and the submitted file. For example, if the identifier you were given is u0015_0000002_0000023, this is the 23rd item in Undergraduate Research Projects. Rename the MODS to u0015_0000001_0000023.mods.xml and the PDF to u0015_0000002_0000023.pdf
(Alternative methods of obtaining PURLS (by batch) are the use of File:GetPurls.txt and File:GetPurlsCN.txt. Each expects a tab-delimited file containing on each line the unique identifier assigned by our filenaming scheme; the second script allows for a second value (call number) which will be incorporated into the output tab-delimited file.)
Log on to libcontent.lib.ua.edu using ssh. Place both MODS and PDFs files in a subdirectory of the MODS directory. This subdirectory should be named for the date, in the form yyyymmdd, where 20091117 is November 17, 2009. Do not use subdirectories below this level.
Then run the script ./relocate_all.pl which will ask which directory to work. Enter in the yyyymmdd value you used to name today's upload. Here's the script: File:Relocate all BD.txt
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Every morning I open up my Facebook to see post after post from people I know saying how great God is and how their life is being tested by God and on and on. I feel like deleting people over this but I fear I would be left with only my family and they are just as bad about it.
do any of you have fun ways to enlighten your friends of family that are not mean or judgmental? I try showing inacuracy in their bible or their logic but this is usually meet with venomous comments about how I will enjoy Hell...
I do not dislike my friends and family who post their feelings as I know it is what they believe but I cant help but want to show them that they have screwy beliefs. I just wish I could put on a filter in facebook that removes any post that mentions God or Jesus or Church... My facebook would never have any posts except mine if I did.
I resolve to post a positive affirmation every day that says I love life just as much as the next guy but I don't need an imaginary friend to tell me how to live it.
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I post freethought quotes that don't even talk about religion half the time and I still get a stiff response from all the God-lovers. The only thing I can say to do is read their posts, shake your head and keep it moving. I've learned that engaging them is what they want you to do, so don't feed into their game. And posting on facebook is just a cheap and annoying way to show how 'devoted' you are to your faith and to get consensus from other believers.
Atheists don't need that.
Facebook seems to be made up of gabby folks with nothing to say.
i do what Victoria suggests. however, it typically inspires me to post something myself. what i don't do is post anything that is directly Atheist, but things about Evolution or Politics (religious freedom) or maybe some funny motivational poster making fun of the Pope or praying. nothing too controversial, and i've never had a negative comment from anyone. at least so far...
I resolve to post a positive affirmation every day that says I love life just as much as the next guy but I don't need an imaginary friend to tell me how to live it.
Heh heh… here's a good resource for material.
Facebook seems to be made up of gabby folks with nothing to say.
I'm with you on that one, …I didn't last long on Facebook for that very reason.
what a nice list, thanks.
2 favorites:
|Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
|H.L. Mencken
|People who don`t like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn`t have such funny beliefs.
My favorite quote probably isn't on there...
"How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation."
~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
A good bet then …would be to stick to quotes from those they probably already venerate.
The "Founding Fathers" are a treasure trove of anti-theism prose. You can't lose with Mark Twain either, what True American™ could even think of sneering at Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Franklin, …or Twain?
id say change over to google plus. interesting things.
I also have the problem of buddies putting up that stuff, mostly i just block them.
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More paintballing might come to Kane County farmland
More properties traditionally used for farming and agricultural purposes in Kane County may soon see second lives in recreational uses, such as paintball courses, if the county board approves a pending zoning code change.
County staff members want to allow more special uses for certain farm properties in response to increasing numbers of vacant and abandoned agricultural properties in the down economy. The idea is to prevent the properties from becoming eyesores and health hazards while also allowing the landowners another route to make a living. The code change would technically only allow changes to uses such a paintball facilities on a temporary, special use basis. Some board members, however, said there are examples of special uses in the county that have lasted for 20 years.
County board member T.R. Smith has suggested reviewing the special uses granted on an annual basis in case any of the uses have proved to be a nuisance to neighbors. But Development Committee Chairman Mike Donahue said last week the county's review process should already allow officials to block such problematic uses before they even begin.
"This change would not leave it wide open," Donahue said. "It requires that the use must be compatible with the intensity of the use already permitted in the district. If it's not listed as a permitted use, then it's not permitted and the county has control over the decision in the application process for a special use. We're just trying to help our landowners maintain their properties in an economically viable way."
The proposed code change will next head to the county's Zoning Board of Appeals for a review and public hearing. The full county board must approve the change before it becomes final.