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I think starting off with an event is a good idea, however, you have effectively squidged the two most likely ones already. Halloween is almost upon us as you said, and will be over and gone by the time we really get posting. Xmas is perhaps a bit far away, but given that one day of game time can easily last six months, it isn't really that far.Of course, the other option is Thanksgiving, that Great American family blow-out... Which as a Brit married to a Yank I do get to enjoy a little bit!But again, it is both potentially too far away, and too close!Speaking from experience of running games on E, you have to make a choice and stick with it. Because no matter what event you sett;le on, you run the risk of either putting people off because it's too far away, or having it be over and done with in reality before you have a chance to play it out. Real time runs anything up to a thousand times faster than game time and you, as GM have to be prepared to interrupt people's game play top move things forward. (Without waiting until the game is dead to do so, I learned that lesson the hard way!)Your other option, in fact is to go further into the future or deliberately into the past. Have the event be 4th July or 14th Feb... In fact if you went for the latter you could have some build up with people buying valentines cards...Or, you could have a fictional event. An autumn fair, an Oktoberfest, a "Thank goodness they've gone back to school at last" party!Or even something not so nice, like a fire in one of the appartment blocks that brings everyone together...Just some suggestions. If you want to go with an autumn or winter idea, be aware that by the time it has played out, it will be getting on for spring in the real world anyway!
No idea what that is... I don't think it's crossed the pond yet.
Yay! I would like to flesh out her bio a bit, but I don't really know what to flesh it out with... I mean there's the obvious "Discovered she liked girls while at school" line, but does that even need to be there?I've tried to imagine the sort of jobs she might have had, but honestly, I have no idea, other than the rather sad one I took out because it was depressing.
Okay, so ideas for the restaurant are Italian, classic American, or Tex-Mex. It will need to support a hostess, if Cupcakemon is still around, but I think that should be workable with any of those.
Is it bad that I'm drawn more to the American pub? XD I don't like it because it's just a bit cliched, but it still looks very nice.
And I'll have my character up tomorrow night. I got sidetracked tonight and didn't get to finish it, but now that the weekend will be here, there should be no problems.
Yeahhh...clowns are pretty freaky. I really need to start watching it now.
Could it be because some people might spell it "congradulations"? I do agree that it isn't very good, though. It sounds more like it's talking about a grade, not a misspelling.
Right, that is true about IC time taking longer. I think I've gotten too used to games lasting for no longer than a month to really be able to consider the long term because of another site I've been on, but I did have one game last for a year, and 80% of it was spent on one night.
Sticking to a choice won't be a problem, and I don't mind making the final decisions. I just like to allow everyone to contribute to decisions like these. I feel like it helps when ideas are coming from more than one person, especially in a sandbox roleplay such as this that doesn't have much of an overarching story. Anything I've said in regards to this topic has been more just to give my own input and to help start the conversation. If the majority wants a Halloween or Christmas event, or even have the roleplay take place in summer, that's totally fine. It's all fairly open. I probably should have been clearer on that.Or if everyone doesn't really have a preference, I'm ready to make the choice.
Hmm...what about family? A lot of a person's character often stems from the people they had to grow up around, so it could be something noteworthy maybe? As for The Discovery, not if you don't want it to. In a roleplay like this, it can seem pretty trivial unless something special happened.If you're still trying to think of something that would lead one to becoming a building manager...hm...someone who has worked in real estate would probably be a good candidate, maybe? Or someone who's done managerial work elsewhere (that's a given, right?).
*chuckle* You may not be aware, Chrystal, living over there, that UW Madison is, in fact, apparently quite the lesbian community. Have an old colleague who did graduate work there (neither gay NOR female), who clued me in on HOW rainbow that seemingly out of the way Middle American campus is.Or, maybe you DO know, and that's why you picked it
Classic American and Tex-Mex are, to this Brit, one and the same! (Yes I know they aren't, but over here, they are!) As long as it serves buffalo wings made with "Franks", Cajun prawns, and BBQ Ribs, that's fine! So go with a Classic American diner that serves pancakes for breakfast, grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch and all the above plus thick juicy steaks for dinner.... Damn, now I'm hungry and it's not even 7:00am yet!Place could even have a signature dish of the "Man Vs Food" variety? Gotta love that show!
Actually, that was why I put up pictures of both... The American idea of a "Traditional Irish Pub" and an actual pub in Ireland are not quite the same thing! For one, the American pub has probably been around for about 200 years at most (if it's in Boston or NY) whereas the one in Erie has been around for anything up to a thousand years!But there are a number of Irish Pubs in Chicago, all of which seem to feature heavily on the four leaf clovers and space-aliens, (as opposed to shamrocks which have only three leaves, and leprechauns which are not green!)
I've never understood that... Clowns are sad. Not freaky. Only inb the USA does the traditional concept of something that is supposed to make you laugh get turned into something frightening! Generally I think it is because of the traditional American "Children's Party" where a really terrible creepy old man in a clown suit is paid to keep kids entertained, whereas in the UK most kids first encounter with clowns is in the travelling circus, where they do traditional slapstick on each other?
Oh that! Heh! You know that came about as a neologism for "Graduation Congratulations"? Con-gradu-lations! Originally it was funny. I wasn't aware that people were actually spelling the word that way in everyday use. (Damning commentary on US universities if you can graduate without being able to spell "Congratulations"?)
Well, my preference would be for an autumnal theme too. Making the event "Halloween" is fine, as long as Maggie gets invited to at least one Halloween party. (She could go as an FBI agent? *giggles*) My point really was that whatever event you pick is going to be here and gone in real life long before the RP gets through it, so starting with Halloween is still a viable option, just be ready to do a two month time skip to xmas in a couple of months!
I have always had something of an issue with the family of my characters, especially when they are Americans, because I'm not that familiar with how things work over there with regard to retirement and pensions and stuff. It's okay if the character is in her 20s, or younger, because parents will be around and still doing what they do, but when the character is 40 or older, that means the parents are in their 60s, which used to be nearing retirement age in the UK before they raised it to 75....Plus, I'm having enough trouble trying to work out one character, without having to add two more to the mix and figure out what they do/did! Yes, I know it was just a suggestion, the problem is, it was a good suggestion, and it's making me think, and I don't want to think! It's too early!
A Halloween block party sounds really fun :)I have work tomorrow, but I could probably get something up for Isis tomorrow night if we're able to start tomorrow. :) I'm excited for this and, if Halloween block party...I get to find a costume for Isis.
Funny thing is, that I think that is actually Kirsten in a Halloween costume! *chuckles*
So I'm going to aim to get threads up tomorrow. We have 5 players--more if Cupcakemon is still around and if Nic or anyone else join. We should actually have enough people to be able to make individual threads for each business, so we might do that. I do think it might be worthwhile to do a thread that encompasses the rest of Chicago, so I might hold off on creating at least one of the apartment threads, since Parker Commons is the only one being used right now.
Ha, Man Vs Food? I'd actually bet that there are at least a few restaurants here that do that sort of thing. There's apparently this place called the Heart Attack Grill in...Texas? with the burger with the highest calories ever. (Probably not quite the same thing as what's on the show, but it felt worth mentioning anyway.)
Green leprechauns? I tried a quick Google search and wasn't able to find one. XD Maybe I didn't look hard enough?
Ehh, misspelling "congratulations" is pretty insignificant compared to still not knowing there/their/they're and you're/your.
The thing about good grammar: It's its own reward...! Misusing an apostrophe earns you the feline backside prize!
Frankie's going to go as the Wendy's Girl, zombified.
A piece of advise? Don't open unnecessary threads. It actually depresses me to see people open threads that then sink unused to the bottom of the pile.Also, in a group like this with just a handful of players, PLEASE take my advice and have ONE IC thread only? You can always add more threads if you need to.But let me put it like this... What is the purpose of a group game? To interact with other player characters, right? If you have a single thread for every business, every location, and each player puts their character in their own thread, what happens is you end up with one character per thread and no-one interacting with anyone else. Put everyone in the same thread, then it forces people to interact. I learned that lesson a long time ago, and I try desperately to pass it on, and I hate it when people ignore my advice and create the maximum number of threads allowed, and everyone gets spread evenly and thinly across them and the game folds. Or alternatively, everyone is gathered in the one thread anyway and the others simply don't get used, which kind-of proves the point!You only need multiple IC threads if you have more than ten or so players, and things are likely to get confusing with who is where. And even then I try to make the threads general areas rather than individual rooms or buildings, because if you have one thread for every location, even with 40 player characters, what you invariably end up with is a bunch of unrelated one-on-one sex scenes that just happen to be set in the same place...!
There's a tex-mex chain in the UK called Mission Burrito who's mission statement is to bring burritos to the UK! They are really good! My wife (who is American) loves them. And they have a Man Vs Burrito challenge. Not taken it myself, but I could probably manage it! Being a woman and all...! *smirk*
Yeah, okay I was exaggerating a bit.... Or was I? LOL. Actually, almost every leprechaun pic I found has the creature dressed in Kerry green... I'm quite sure that the original idea of the mischievous little sprites would not have had them dressed quite so garishly. Dull earth tones, browns, dark greens, greys, ochres.
Character thread is now up! Hopefully everyone's characters were finished--if not, let me know and I'll be sure they get updated. The IC thread will be up...soonish. I think I'm first gonna stop being lazy and get the restaurant, club, and bar all finalized.The block party thing will be...somewhere. Maybe outside of Parker Commons?
Good point. I prefer one IC thread anyway. I was going with multiple because that seems to be the cultural norm here, but then again, I haven't been in too many group games yet (not for a lack of wanting). You're right. One thread is the smarter choice.It's not proper to let the recruitment thread function as the OOC, right?
Does the staff dress up as super spies? In sombreros? Because that would only be fitting for a chain with a name like that.
Haha, very true, 'cept that wouldn't make them as kawaii desu-ized, like gnomes.
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Owners of the vast Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology, formerly the Agilent Technologies Inc. campus in Loveland, are near the end of a weeklong flurry of tours for prospective tenants.
And among Thursday's guests were early adopters of the notion behind ACE -- the Aerospace Clean Energy Manufacturing and Innovation Park for which Loveland was selected last year.
While the lead agency behind ACE pulled away from Loveland after failing to secure an agreement with the park's new owners, Kentucky-based Cumberland & Western Resources LLC, interest in the technology center continues to build.
Senior executives with Boulder-based Avior Control Technologies got a close look at what is offered in the 812,000 square feet under the roofs of four buildings constructed by Agilent predecessor Hewlett-Packard Co.
"Quite frankly, I think with the bureaucrats that were associated with the ACE park out of the way, this will progress further and faster," Avior founder and vice president Scott Starin said following his tour.
"Cumberland & Western is going to be motivated to get people in there. We like the facility, the area, and the growth potential, and with the government bureaucracy out of the way, it will happen a lot quicker."
If optimism is all that is necessary for job creation, the 812,000 square feet of space in the center's four buildings soon will be populated.
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Cumberland & Western principal Bill Murphree, whose company bought the campus from the city of Loveland for $5 million in December, said the ongoing negotiations with tenants looking for space at the technology center would soon lead to contracts.
"We would hope that within 90 days we'll have some specific tenant relationships that we can talk about," Murphree said, adding that ideally the center would launch with two or three anchor tenants, each accounting for 100,000 to 150,000 square feet of space.
A year has passed since the site was chosen for ACE, the much-heralded collaboration between NASA and the Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology (CAMT).
The manufacturers' group, with the force of NASA behind it, outlined a project that would create 7,000 jobs with as many as 100 companies that would turn the Agilent campus into a technology beehive.
But since then, the Minneapolis-based project developer hand-picked by CAMT bowed out, Loveland bought the campus, and soon flipped it to Cumberland & Western of Bowling Green, Ky., a company owned by Tennessee billionaire Brad Kelley.
Last month, Cumberland & Western announced it would abandon the ACE plan fostered by the manufacturers' group, calling it financially and logistically flawed.
But C&W's experience with other technology projects, and its own close ties to senior NASA lab administrators, bring some of the ACE flavor -- but much less of the hype -- to their project.
Murphree said under-promising, and over-delivering, would be the hallmarks of the new effort.
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"Sometimes when you go to an area and begin to get involved, the more you know about it, the less you like it," he said.
"In this case, without exception, the more we learn about the Front Range and Loveland and this area, the better we like it and the better we feel about it. We had high expectations to begin with, and they continue to rise."
Murphree and his C&W associates returned to Loveland Monday to play host to a parade of tenant prospects this week.
"We've been meeting with a different group about every hour to hour-and-a-half" during three days this week, he said.
Colorado businesses have been among the guests, but so have large national and even international technology companies.
"We have had a significant amount of early tenant interest," Murphree said. "We want to do everything as quickly as we can, because time is money to all of us, but it's more important to do it correctly."
Starin, whose fast-growing company makes specialized electric motors for aerospace applications, said Avior might be among the new center's first tenant announcements.
"It's certainly a great possibility for us," he said. "I know they'll coming back to us with an offer, and we'll take a good look at it."
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The storms that have pummeled the Western Hemisphere the last few years, from the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina before that and the recent disaster brought to the northeastern U.S. by Superstorm Sandy, which left 7.5 million residents and businesses without power in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to CNN, has inspired a local girl to trade away her birthday gifts in exchange for offerings for the poor.
Seven-year-old Chestnut Hill resident Taylor Delli Carpini, a second-grader at Our Mother of Consolation (OMC), asked the 13 guests attending her Saturday, Nov. 17, birthday dance party at the Philadelphia Cricket Club to bring shoes in a gift bag that can be donated to the less privileged instead of buying her gifts.
"I have so much stuff, and some people don't" said Delli Carpini during a telephone conversation the Wednesday evening before her party. "I want some people to be as lucky as I am."
Delli Carpini's mother, Jane Trombly, says charity is a passion of her daughters. "I don't know where she came from," Trombly joked about Taylor, remembering how as a little girl her mind was as far from thinking about charity as her daughters' is close to it today.
Trombly thinks her daughter's affinity to help has been awakened by the efforts of her 28-year-old cousin, Meghan Greeley, a Peace Corps member who spent time volunteering in Guinea and traveled to Haiti after the devastating January, 2010, earthquake, measured at a level of 7.1 magnitude, decimated the region around Port-au-Prince, its capital.
"We are trying to instill the give-back mentality," said Trombly, an account executive for Thompson Reuters (a giant Canadian media and financial-data firm) about raising her two daughters, Taylor and 5-year-old Summer, with her husband Joseph Delli Carpini. "So when they complain what's being served for dinner, they are reminded there are some kids who aren't having dinner."
The sisters spent the summer raising money for Alex's Lemonade Stand to benefit children with cancer by running a neighborhood lemonade stand, and providing massages and other services for relatives, neighbors and babysitters. She also raised $500 for OMC's Trike-A-Thon, a benefit for St. Jude's hospital.
For Trombly, the interest here is that her daughter lives a privileged life and yet is consumed with helping the less fortunate. The Chestnut Hill family belongs to the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Taylor plays golf and tennis, has taken piano lessons and likes to sing but envisions her future will somehow incorporate charitable efforts.
"I thought TV was a waste of time, and she came back at me with 'look what I learned'," said Trombly. She's referring to how her daughter watched a Disney Channel infomercial last year that served to raise money after the Haitian quake, then was insoired to raise money herself for quake victims.
Since Superstorm Sandy, the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern Jersey has seen a near tenfold spike in its web traffic, according to Jill Michal, executive director. She said its website has received 7650 hits since the storm, compared to a few hundred over a normal three-week period. The United Way is primarily a volunteer organization that helps provide volunteers with opportunities, as opposed to one set up to receive charitable efforts.
Trombly reached out to Born To Run, a shoe store in Springhouse and Lafayette Hill involved in charitable efforts. After the party, Delli Carpini and Trombly plan to drop the shoes off at the store for staff members to distribute the shoes at a Philadelphia charity or orphanage.
And as the idiom suggests, the child is becoming parent to her parents. "She's teaching us to open our eyes and look around," said Trombly, who volunteers at the Society of St. Vincent De Paul, visiting with older members of the community.
"We're complaining in our day-to-day lives because we have cash flow problems or can't go on vacation … the value of our house is decreasing … the things we are trying to teach her, she's starting to teach us."


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Dag Kittlaus, creator of Siri, recently gave a keynote at Technori Pitch and talked about how much Steve Jobs disliked the name Siri. Only after he couldn't think of a better alternative did he finally succumb to using the name.
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A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt's Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It's a compact 205-page spare-prose novel with a wickedly deceptive rose-colored antimacassar of a book jacket. With those rudimentary tools, it rips the façade off of marriage, much the way a smiling nurse s l o w l y eases a bandage from your wound, and then when you're good and trusting, rips off the entrenched last bit.
Schutt sets the quotidian exchanges between Isabel, who has "projects," and her husband Ned, a writer steeped in the louche dishonor and hypocrisy of academe, in or on the ragged outskirts of iconic urban destinations. They are the places to which artists and writers flock to realize brilliant success or staggering failure. Ned and Isabel's marriage is caught on the tightrope spanning the two possible outcomes. It would be interesting to poll readers to learn at what point in the couple's retracing of their precarious steps across Schutt's carefully constructed high wire that they are tempted to abandon all hope for them.
Ned and Isabel are not the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf match of a half-century ago, that carries into their enterprise the limpid provenance of family distinction, when, for example, "Daddy" was the college president. Isabel and Ned fit more into the déclassé and shapeless caste of today's trust fund kids who lack what has been gently dubbed "emotional intelligence." This deficit notwithstanding, they have accumulated enough credentials to locate all the right ladders. Climbing them is the labor to which they halfheartedly dedicate their days. Their nights belong to the agonies that diurnal rationalizations spawn. Isabel and Ned are parasites. For them, happiness isn't a metaphysical state of elation so much as an elusive commodity to be filched from the kindnesses of the idle, if well-situated rich. Their professions are more like stepchildren than the consequential heirs of their relationships and experiences. The salience of their couplehood is their golden ratio because, as individuals, they are forever lost, rootless, and bewildered. They brandish their relinquished hopes in under-tended exchanges with one another.
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Isabel is an anorexic who turns a cold shoulder to every social opportunity except those that advance her parasitism. Most especially, she rejects her husband's false-self charade of affection because it rankles against her morbid realism. Yet, she invites him to join her at the guesthouse. What she seems to grok only by degree is that her entire life is a fraud. All the tailings are there, but she has disengaged the mechanism that would assemble them, and is instead mesmerized by the psychic shudders that arrive whenever she is forced to view the diorama-sized junk pile that her life aggregates.
Ned gets the drift of where things aren't going in his marriage when his wife's misery is redoubled by Clive's inevitable and dispassionate rejection of her. Ned wanders away briefly from the scenes of two marriages just far enough and long enough in his mini-universe to set up the dénouement for the disengagement of the Ned-Isabel double harness.
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Sudbury Eye Care is a new optometry (eye doctor) practice based in the metrowest Boston area. Our goal is to revolutionize the eyecare industry in three ways:
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c. Family - We provide family eye care both to adults and children. Our look & feel should be inviting to the whole family, but should not pigeonhole us as a purely child- or adult- eye care provider.
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The logo should provide a sense of what we do with a visual related to eye care, contacts, glasses, etc. It should have the business name Sudbury Eye Care.
Please experiment on colors and designs - we'll provide feedback. One idea we had was to tie in with something historic about the town (google "sudbury grist mill" or "wayside inn"). But we're not tied to this - we want your ideas!
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Robert L. Heape, 89, of Du Quoin, passed away at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 at the Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin.
Bob had been the owner and operator of the West Side Drug Store in Du Quoin for many years. He was a member of the St. John's United Church of Christ in Du Quoin. He was also a member of the Du Quoin VFW and American Legion, Du Quoin Gold Plate, Lifetime member of the Kiwanis, Marshall Browning Hospital Auxiliary and the 98th Bombers Veterans Association. Bob served his country as a Staff Sargent in the Army/ Air Force during W.W. II. He served in Rome-Arno, Normandy, Air Combat in Balkans and Italy. He received five Bronze Stars for campaigns in EAME, Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters.
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He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, son- Robert David Heape in infancy, son-in-law- Blaine Bastien, great grandchild- Todd Lewis, sister- Louise Jackson, brother- Bill Heape.
Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013 at the Searby Funeral Home in Du Quoin with Rev. Dwayne Dollgener officiating.
Friends may call from 9 a.m. until time of service Wednesday at the Searby Funeral Home in Du Quoin.
Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery at Du Quoin.
Military graveside rites will be conducted by the Du Quoin VFW, Du Quoin American Legion and the Army National Guard.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index...9371694050.xml Saints' defense is starting to stack up Unit is allowing fewer points; league ranking improves to 12th Thursday October 23, 2003 By Brian Allee-Walsh Staff writer The Saints' defense appears to be getting its act together in time for ...
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Saints' defense is starting to stack up
Saints' defense is starting to stack up
Unit is allowing fewer points; league ranking improves to 12th
Thursday October 23, 2003
By Brian Allee-Walsh
Staff writer
The Saints' defense appears to be getting its act together in time for a crucial two-game stretch against the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
-- For the first time since midway through the 2000 season, the Saints have held three consecutive opponents to less than 20 points -- Carolina (19), Chicago (13) and Atlanta (17).
-- Quietly and methodically, the Saints have jumped from 24th after a 55-21 shellacking by the Indianapolis Colts in Game 4 to 12th in team defense.
-- After yielding 13 touchdowns in their first four games, the defense has allowed four in the past three games.
Yet, despite the steady improvement, Saints defensive coordinator Rick Venturi said he is leery to speak too glowingly of a unit that continues to be a work in progress.
"I don't want to carbonate this thing," Venturi said. "There's a very fine line in the NFL between success and failure or winning and losing. Hey, we're walking on the edge of the cliff every week here. Right now we're on the right side of the cliff, but . . ."
His voice tailed off.
"I'm not big on stats, because I think you can justify, rationalize, sell and spin anything you want in this league," Venturi said. "But to me the key statistic is points allowed, because you keep games winnable if you can keep an opponent under 20. Including the Houston game (the Saints won 31-10), we've had four this season out of seven."
The Saints yielded 20 points in every game but one last season, a 10-6 loss to the Panthers in Game 16 that eliminated New Orleans from playoff contention.
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That cohesiveness was lacking in September after a rash of injuries had depleted the defense.
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The Saints will start the same players on defense for the third consecutive week Sunday against the Panthers.
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Work next to a jackhammer or amidst the incessant din of industry? If you have to raise your voice to be heard at work, you may be putting your health at risk, according to a new study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Now, don't get me wrong, the bff is a great girl. She has a couple of children and works, so is obviously quite busy.
She didn't do anything. Didn't even come to the bridal shower (albeit she had sick children), but you know what I mean.
Anyways, my mom asks her if she is ready for the speech. She says she is not giving one.
But it was her job. Her sworn duty as a maid of honor to give a speech. We couldn't just not have a speech. So I volunteered. I had a couple of drinks by then and hadn't a single word planned out, so I was sure that I was going to
"I am sure that I speak for everyone when I say 'it's about time!'" It took them 10ish years to get married. "I remember when I first met SIL. She came to our door asking for brother and I don't remember exactly what I said but it was certainly something rude and I slammed the door in her face." Oops! "But since that time she has not only become a friend but a sister. Cheers!"
Overall it went well, despite the drinks and the lack of planning.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings will have a fixed roof and moveable front windows on their new stadium.
Designer Bryan Trubey of Dallas-based HKS Architects presented images of the $975 million project to a crowd of fans, public officials and members of the Vikings organization Monday night. The event took place at the Guthrie Theater, a few blocks from where the stadium will be built in downtown Minneapolis.
It will replace the 31-year-old Metrodome, which the Vikings will vacate after the 2013 season. They'll play outside at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium for two years while the new venue is under construction.
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If Sherlock Holmes were alive and sleuthing today, he'd probably have a job much like that of Matthew Gray Gubler on TV's "Criminal Minds" — the precocious FBI agent with the eidetic memory, rather than a seasoned Basil Rathbone-type from the 1940s.
Or at least that's how Arthur Conan Doyle's super detective comes across in Orange Coast College's latest production, "The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca," subtitled "An Episode in the Life of Sherlock Holmes."
Adapted from Doyle's original concept by two Canadians, Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning, this version goes out on a limb to defy credibility. Devil worshipers figure marginally in the circuitous plot, which presages the outbreak of World War I by several decades.
Even for a college production, OCC's Sherlock, Steve Quinn, hardly seems dry behind the ears. However, the actor's acumen with his prodigious dialogue is so impressive that the audience has little trouble buying into the stage picture. Quinn makes his point, often a tad too rapidly, with an unquestioned air of confidence.
Where the show, directed by Alex Golson in his swan song at OCC, really hits the mark is with its Professor Moriarity, skillfully interpreted by Myles Warner as a smarmy, sadistic fiend with ties to a Satanic cult that's effectively reducing London's population. Warner renders his "Napoleon of Crime's" villainous logic most credible despite the Swiss cheese plot.
College theater is a learning experience, and the 25-member cast of the show is getting a crash course in English melodrama with this second Sherlock Holmes mystery at OCC in less than a year. Character roles abound and most are interpreted with gusto by the enthusiastic undergrads — not to mention an old timer (David Christmas) who's back in two kooky characterizations.
Particularly impressive is Nina Sharifi as Moriarity's partner in crime, the Contessa, a mega-cruel hottie with a "Phantom of the Opera" facial decoration. Also effective is Danica Houehen as the damsel in distress who'll also turn a few heads — albeit the other way — during her gut-wrenching scene of blood-letting torture.
Matt Timmar enacts the title role of the ostensibly eliminated cardinal with a righteous flourish. Scenery is chewed and swallowed by Katelyn Sonetti as a sour noblewoman with a short fuse. Michael Greening Page has little with which to distinguish himself in his role as Holmes' partner, Dr. Watson.
Set designer David Scaglione has come up with a fine trio of backdrops on a rotating platform, eerily illuminated by Rick Golson's lighting designs. Cynthia Corley's period costumes are effective enough to be recycled for Halloween.
"The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca" may be less of a Victorian escapade than a candidate for Mystery Science Theater 2000, but it's rich in imagination and energy in OCC's Drama Lab Theater.
Auditions for the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" are from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Carroll Beek Community Center, 115 Agate Ave. on Balboa Island. It's a half block from the Balboa Ferry entrance. Look for the small park on the right.
All roles are open except for Ma Baily, Aunt Tilly and Mr. Potter. Performers are needed from ages 8 to senior. Resumes and head shots are needed. The show runs Dec. 7 through 9.
TOM TITUS reviews local theater for the Daily Pilot.
If You Go
What: "The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca"
Where: Orange Coast College Drama Lab Theater, 2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa
When: Closing performances 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $10 to $18
Information: (714) 432-5880 or orangecoastcollege.edu


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I can talk and write about boys until the proverbial cows come home. But I will never be able to tell you exactly what boys think and feel and wonder. That's why I'd like your sons help.
I'd like to collect (and post) some short videos of boys, talking about topics and interests of concern to them. Got a boy who's interested in participating? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'll send you more info.
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- AnonymousMay 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Has been a long time since we have exchanged blog visits. Glad to see you are still writing.ReplyDelete
I think the results of this survey you are taking would be interesting. Cheryl and I raised one boy and two girls. The boy I understood. The girls ... different story. I could say something and one of them would cry. My wife would have to explain the dynamics of the conversation to me later. God sure made things interesting for us, didn't he?
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Alfonso Cuarón (b. Mexico City, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Y Tu Mamá También (2001), Venice Film Festival Best Screenplay Winner.
- Children of Men (2006), Venice Film Festival Laterna Magica Prize Winner.
Cuaron has been nominated for 3 Oscars. He has another 23 wins & 21 nominations.
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MILAN — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted Thursday over the illegal publication in a newspaper owned by his media empire of wiretapped conversations related to a bank takeover attempt.
A Milan court found Berlusconi guilty of breach of confidentiality and sentenced him to one year in jail, though it did not issue an order on carrying out the sentence. In Italy, it is rare for anyone to be put behind bars pending a possible appeal except in the case of very serious crimes like murder.
The verdict, the first of three expected for Berlusconi in the coming weeks, comes at a moment of political uncertainty for the country after February national elections failed to elect a clear winner. Berlusconi's center-right coalition finished second.
The conviction, however, has no bearing on Berlusconi's eligibility to participate in discussions on forming a new government, which are expected to begin March 20. Lawmakers have failed, despite several attempts, to pass a law banning candidates from Parliament after any criminal conviction.
While Berlusconi's party won't be tapped to form a new government, a task that is expected to fall to Pier Luigi Bersani on the center-left, President Giorgio Napolitano will be looking to secure as broad agreement as possible for legislative priorities.
Napolitano's role as president is to preside over coalition talks by convening the parliamentary groups for private meetings in which he seeks to gain consensus for a new government — a particularly difficult task given the three-way gridlock resulting from last month's vote.
The third player with influence on the discussions is comic-turned-civic leader Beppe Grillo, who has said his movement –which gained 25 percent of the vote — won't formally support any government with a vote of confidence, which must be secured by Italy's constitution. It remains to be seen how this conflict can be resolved.
Berlusconi, in a statement, accused the courts of judicial persecution "that continues for 20 years and is revived every time there are particularly complex moments in the political life of the country."
He said he expects convictions in his pending Milan trials: an appeal to his October conviction on a tax fraud charge and the sensational sex-for-hire trial that accuses him of having paid for sex with an under-age teen and using his influence to cover it up.
Berlusconi's brother, Paolo Berlusconi, was convicted of the same charge and sentenced to two years and three months. Paolo Berlusconi is publisher of the Milan newspaper il Giornale, which published the transcript of the conversation.
Silvio Berlusconi's defense team and political allies accused the court of seeking a speedy verdict for political impact.
"It is always more clear that there is an attempt to eliminate Silvio Berlusconi by judicial means, having failed by electoral or democratic measures," said Angelino Alfano, the head of Belursconi's People of Freedom party.
The charge relates to the 2005 publication of a wiretapped call that was part of an investigation into the Unipol financial services company's bid to take over the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. The bid was later blocked by Italy's central bank, contributing to the forced resignation of then-Bank of Italy chief Antonio Fazio — and led to a series of trials that saw Fazio and others convicted.
Wiretapped conversations are widely published in Italian media, despite the risks of prosecution.
In a potentially more damaging case, the verdict is also nearing in Berlusconi's appeals trial on a conviction of tax fraud in the purchase of rights to broadcast Hollywood films on Berlusconi's Mediaset network. Prosecutors have demanded the court uphold the conviction and four-year sentence. They also are seeking a five-year ban from public office.
Berlusconi also is on trial in Milan for allegedly paying a Moroccan teen for sex during his now-infamous Bunga Bunga parties, with a verdict likely this month.
Prosecutors in Naples are investigating him for corruption for allegedly paying an opposition lawmaker (euro) 3 million ($3.9 million) to join his party, a move that significantly weakened the previous center-left government of Romano Prodi.


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Philosophically, the idea of an infinite past seems absurd. Just think about it. If the universe never had a beginning then the series of past events in the universe is infinite. But, mathematicians recognize that the existence of an actually existing number of things leads to self-contradictions. For example, "What is infinity minus infinity?
I can't tell you how many times I've heard some variant on this in class or in coffee shops from kids yammering on and on about actual and potential infinities. Having taken three semesters of Calculus (during which time I completed Calc I and II!), I think I'm almost qualified to weigh in on this one.
Craig likes to argue that there must have been only a finite number of moments prior to this one on the grounds that there cannot be an actual infinity of anything. To bring out the absurdity of an actual infinite collection, he asks us to consider the following example:
Let us imagine a hotel with a finite number of rooms. Suppose, furthermore, that all the rooms are full. When a new guest arrives asking for a room, the proprietor apologizes, "Sorry, all the rooms are full." But now let us imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms and suppose once more that all the rooms are full. There is not a single vacant room throughout the entire infinite hotel. Now suppose a new guest shows up, asking for a room. "But of course!" says the proprietor, and he immediately shifts the person in room #1 into room #2, the person in room #2 into room #3, the person in room #3 into room #4 and so on, out to infinity. As a result of these room changes, room #1 now becomes vacant and the new guest gratefully checks in. But remember, before he arrived, all the rooms were full! Equally curious, according to the mathematicians, there are now no more persons in the hotel than there were before: the number is just infinite. But how can this be? ... But Hilbert's Hotel is even stranger than the German mathematician gave it out to be. For suppose some of the guests start to check out. Suppose the guest in room #1 departs. Is there not now one less person in the hotel? Not according to the mathematicians-but just ask the woman who makes the beds!
Maybe this is too quick, but isn't an answer to Craig's question that the mathematicians and the cleaning lady are both right in their own way? If the guest in room #1 is, say, Wes and he checks out at 9:00 a.m., then when the cleaning lady says at 10:00 a.m. "There is one less person in the hotel now than there was earlier this morning, his name was Wes" I think she speaks truthfully. No mathematician would deny this. If the mathematician says that "There are not fewer members in the set of guests in HH at 8:59 a.m. than there are in the set of guests at 10:00 a.m." I think the mathematician speaks truthfully. Here the mathematician is working from the idea that one set has fewer members than another only if you can't put the members of the first set into 1-1 correspondence with the members of the second. No cleaning lady would deny this.
We can do the same thing with numbers. If you have the set of primes and then kick out the smallest prime, there's a sense in which there is one less member in the first set than the second (i.e., 2 is contained in the first set only). There is a sense in which there is not one less member in the first set than the second because if you wanted to have a dance you could put the members of the sets into 1-1 correspondence.
Now, if I understand Craig's view, it is that everything I've said about the sets of numbers is correct but you can't have "in reality" collections of things that are infinite because that would lead to absurdities. But, to the extent that I've defused the absurdities in the mathematical case I think I've done so in the previous case with Hilbert's Hotel. The appearance of contradiction is really due to an ambiguity exposed. Close the hotel down.


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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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