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FORT MEADE, Md. - Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website.
A military judge, Col. Denise Lind, has ordered what prosecutors say is an unprecedented closed hearing Wednesday at Fort Meade to help her decide how much of Manning's upcoming trial should be closed to protect national security.
An unidentified prosecution witness will testify during that closed hearing in a "dry run." Defense attorneys say that could allow the judge to find ways to avoid closing the courtroom to the public during the presentation of classified evidence. Lind and attorneys for both sides have suggested there are a number of options to shield sensitive material, including closing parts of the trial; redacting documents; using written summaries as evidence to omit sensitive details; or even using code words for classified information.
The sensitive evidence includes Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department cables Manning has acknowledged leaking, along with official communications about those classified documents. The government says the leaks in 2009 and 2010 endangered lives and security. Manning's lawyers contend there was little to no damage.
Lind's decision to hold the practice run out of public view has drawn mixed reactions from national security and legal experts. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. David Frakt, who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh law school, called it a "great idea" for minimizing disruptions such as those at U.S. military commissions' cases involving terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Frakt defended Guantanamo detainees Mohammed Jawad and Ali Hamza al Bahlul in 2008 and 2009.
"The judge wants the trial, when it happens, to go smoothly, and the last thing you want is some inadvertent disclosure," Frakt said.
"What they don't want to do is to have a yo-yo effect - let the public in, send the public out, let the press in, send the press out," he said. "We have had that kind of circus atmosphere at Guantanamo, and it just looks very bad."
But Jesselyn Radack, national security and human rights director of the Washington-based Government Accountability Project, said there has already been too much secrecy in the Manning case. Until February, more than 2 1/2 years after his arrest, the military refused to publicly release written court filings and rulings in the case. The military's highest appeals court last month rejected the Center for Constitutional Rights' petition seeking timely access to those records, ruling it lacked authority to consider the question.
Radack, who helped defend former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake against federal charges that included illegal possession of classified NSA documents, said the "dry run" sounds like a dress rehearsal for a secret trial.
"The more they do behind closed doors and the more they do through secret codes or anything else that shields the public from information, like not providing transcripts, those things are all antithetical to the democratic idea of having a free and open trial," Radack said.
Drake pleaded guilty in 2011 to a misdemeanor charge of exceeding authorized use of a computer. The case against him collapsed after the judge ruled that summaries of four classified documents couldn't be used in the trial. Prosecutors said the originals would disclose a telecommunications technology targeted by NSA eavesdropping.
The government has shown no willingness to reach a plea deal with Manning. He is charged with 22 offenses, including Espionage Act violations and aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sentence. He pleaded guilty in February to reduced charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, but military prosecutors said they would still try to convict him of the greater offenses.
Defense attorney David Coombs requested the closed hearing to test all reasonable alternatives to closing large portions of Manning's trial, scheduled for June 3. Lind agreed April 10 to the dry run, despite prosecutor Maj. Ashden Fein's objection that such a hearing was unprecedented. Fein also argued that lessons learned from a single sample witness wouldn't necessarily apply to 27 others he has lined up.
Fein said at Feb. 26 hearing that more than half of the government's 141 anticipated witnesses would testify about classified information, necessitating closure of up to 30 percent of the trial. On March 15, prosecutors gave the court its list of 28 such witnesses, mostly military and State Department officials.
They include a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden's compound, presumably a Navy SEAL, who collected digital evidence prosecutors say proves the al-Qaida leader requested and received from an associate some of the documents that Manning leaked and which WikiLeaks published.
Lind took steps to protect that witness' identity and details of the mission. She ruled in April that the man, identified by the pseudonym, "John Doe," would testify during the trial in civilian clothing and "light disguise." Furthermore, he will take the stand in a closed session at an alternate, secure location.
She said the trial also would be closed during the entire testimony of three other unidentified "special" prosecution witnesses who will discuss classified information.


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Joanne Harper is a screenshot artist, risking life and (her graphics card's) limb to bring you pictures of video games so pretty you'll want to stick them straight onto your desktop.
The images below weren't conjured in a marketing office for a magazine cover. They're screenshots, albeit ones taken with unplayable amounts of filtering and anti-aliasing turned on. Most are from PC games, some are from consoles games running on an emulator, and some are Gran Turismo 5 looking next-gen running with 4K rendering.
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LeTourneau University plans to launch a new graduate psychology degree program in the fall for people interested in helping hurting families.
LETU's new Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT) is a specialized 66-hour professional graduate degree program designed to equip graduates to assess, diagnose and treat individuals, couples, families and groups to achieve healthy relationships. The new degree was recently approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges for launch in Fall 2012.
"With the mounting pressures facing couples and families, the demand for well-trained, competent marriage and family therapists is expected to increase," said LETU Provost Dr. Philip A. Coyle, who himself is a licensed marriage and family therapist. "This new program will integrate Christian faith and clinical counseling practice that will enable our students to become relationship specialists, equipped to work with all age groups including children, adolescents, and adults."
Today, Marriage and Family Therapy is rated as one of the top careers and as a core mental-health profession. Some 1.8 million people are now receiving treatment from a marriage and family therapist. They serve as counseling practitioners, educators, administrators, family life educators, ministers of family life and counseling, parent trainers, youth ministers, pastors or teachers, business and entrepreneurial leaders, missionaries, and many varied roles in which counseling and family expertise is needed. Many serve in settings that include the church, community, government, military, hospitals and educational institutions.
Through extensive training in working relationally with individuals, couples, and families, students will develop the knowledge and skills to address a wide variety of issues including: marital and family discord, sexual dysfunctions, eating disorders and other behavioral compulsions, anxiety and depression, addictions and other self-destructive patterns. Other areas include environmental and family trauma, loss and bereavement, personality disorders and phase of life distress, individual and family crises, childhood behavior disorders, and spiritual and theological concerns.
LETU's MAMFT program is designed to provide graduates with the academic, practicum and internship requirements for state licensure as a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) or a professional counselor (LPC), and students may choose to complete academic coursework to become eligible for dual licensure. The degree also is designed to fulfill requirements for certification as a National Certified Counselor (NCC) through the National Board of Certified Counselors, as well as fulfilling clinical membership requirements in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, a professional society of the American Counseling Association.
This new graduate degree is provided through a traditional day program in a part-time or full-time format over two or more years. Students may reside on campus and enjoy the full benefits of graduate student life. As LeTourneau's flagship master's degree for mental health providers, this MAMFT degree consists of a minimum of 66 semester graduate hours, including a practicum and internship experience under approved supervision.
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Dan Walters: Rising housing market could generate windfall of property taxes
California's housing market is rebounding sharply from the worst recession since the Great Depression, with fast-rising sales and prices.
However, the overall rate of inflation remains very low by official measurement. And the contrast between those two economic factors is creating some uncertainty in property taxes.
Proposition 13, the landmark property tax limit passed by voters in 1978, allows taxable values of homes and other property to be annually increased by the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is lower.
That means, local officials say, that even though market values of homes have been jumping, especially in urban areas, the low official inflation rate is limiting tax assessors' ability to capture the increased values.
There is, however, an exception to Proposition 13's limits. When a property changes hands, its taxable value is increased to the sales price.
Therefore, if the market in housing remains strong and the rate of turnover increases, those higher values will, at some point, be reflected in taxable values and therefore in revenue to schools and local governments.
Adding new construction of both housing and commercial property to the equation could result in a boom of property taxes during the rest of the decade, according to a projection of the state's fiscal situation by Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor.
Taylor sees the state amassing multibillion-dollar surpluses beginning next year, and a big factor in that forecast is a boom in property taxes.
How so?
While property taxes are exclusively paid into local government and school district treasuries, the state has an indirect stake in their level due to another voter-passed measure, 1988's Proposition 98, which sets forth how public schools are to be financed.
Each school district is guaranteed a certain level of financing under Proposition 98, and the first increment comes from its share of local property taxes, with the state making up the difference.
Taylor believes that a strong real estate market will result in a boom of property taxes that will allow the state to hold its share of school financing almost level.
Taylor sees total financing of schools increasing from $62.2 billion in 2014-15 to $73.7 billion in 2019-20, but the state's share rising from $45.4 billion to just $49.1 billion while local property taxes jump from $16.8 billion to $24.6 billion.
The money that the state would not have to spend on schools would fatten its own potential budget surpluses during the decade to as much as $10 billion a year. And cities, counties and special districts which receive about two-thirds of property taxes would also reap the revenue bounty.
This is all, of course, somewhat speculative and assumes that the recovery, and the mini-boom in housing, will continue – by no means certain.


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Amp up your energy levels because Belfast packs it in when it comes to sightseeing. Here are ten to try
Immerse yourself in the story of the Titanic, the ship that was built in Belfast and, as the world knows, hit an iceberg. The tragedy is now commemorated with an impressive visitor centre at the very place where the liner was crafted.
For an authentic taste of Belfast life, make your way to the Victorian St George's Market. More than 150 traders set up stalls laden with everything from antiques to shark meat. Visit on the weekend for free jazz.
One of the best ways to see Belfast's famous wall art is to sign up for a Black Taxi Tour. Knowledgeable drivers supply an informative history lesson, which reflects on both the city's intrinsic traditions and tells the story of the Troubles.
The musical walk of fame in Belfast is so long they needed a bus tour. Trace Van Morrison's footsteps and visit the Oh Yeah Centre. Don't miss out on free live traditional music in the evenings – just choose a pub.
Gleaming like a quirky work of modern art, the Ulster Museum's forte is the history and prehistory of Ireland using exhibitions that trace the rise of Belfast's crafts and trades. Admission is free.
Belfast has some great bars: the Victorian attired Crown Liquor Saloon, a stylish cocktail bar at The Merchant Hotel, and the historic Duke of York where Titanic builders constructed the bar in exchange for whiskey.
The Palm House at the Belfast Botanic Gardens is an iconic city sight. Plant enthusiasts can explore the array of geraniums, fuchsias, and begonias while many other visitors simply lounge in the gardens enjoying the views for free.
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Belfast gained city status in 1888 when Queen Victoria deemed it so. A new city hall was constructed to reflect this. Today it anchors Donegal Square with its awesome architecture and array of sculpture.
The Belfast City Bike Tour takes you on a two-wheeled adventure through the city. Choose from the city tour, Titanic Bike n' Boat or the Hilden Bike n' Brew. Reviews of the tours are consistently excellent.
One of four vibrant city quarters, this is named after St Anne's Cathedral. Within its confines is a host of restaurants, pubs, great examples of architecture, and live music venues. Not to mention the new addition: MAC.
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Twitter IPO Price $17-$20 Per Share; Could Raise $1.61B
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Twitter said it expects to price its initial public offering between $17 and $20 a share, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It could raise as much as $1.25 billion with a 70-million share offering at the midpoint price of $18.50 per share, or as much as $1.61 billion at the high end of the range. Including options, the company could be valued at more than $12 billion overall.
However, it's unlikely that everyone will be impressed with the figures. As my colleague, Brendan Conwaywrites, some funds were already modeling for a price close to--or north of--$20.
The social media company, which competes with Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOG) and other ad sellers, put out an amended prospectus last week and analysts are already busy putting out estimates about Twitter.


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For Visa, Gold Rush At London Games Extends Beyond Phelps, Olympic Medals
By Barry Janoff
August 8, 2012: There is a lot of gold to be found in London during the 2012 Summer Games, and not all of it is around the neck of Michael Phelps.
International travelers spent $716.7 million above and beyond the normal rate on their Visa accounts while in the United Kingdom from July 30 – Aug. 5, according to Visa Inc., which is one of the top tier partners of the International Olympic Committee and the exclusive credit card of the London Games.
That raised the total spend on Visa accounts in the U.K. to more than $1.4 billion, according to the financial and credit card firm.
The $716.7 million was up from the nearly $700 million add-on by Visa card holders from July 23-29, just prior to the start of and then during the first two days of the Games. The Olympic Games began July 27 and will run through Aug. 12. Visa is expected to release an updated financial overview once the Games conclude.
Visa has been helping its own cause with a "Go World" global marketing campaign that the company called the largest Olympic-themed push in the 25 years it has been partnering with the Games. Ads have featured several athletes sponsored by Visa, including several with Phelps as well such athletes as Lopez Lomong, Allyson Felix, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh.
The biggest Visa spenders come from the U.S. with a $91 million total. The top two categories in which credit cards were used during that time period were "services" at $139.1 million (on items such as spas and shoe and jewelry repair) followed by "entertainment" at $106.6 million (including theater tickets and other attractions).
"Tourism is a vital component of economic growth for any nation, and it is exciting that Visa payment technology is making it possible for countries and regions around the world to have a bigger impact on the global economy," Kevin Burke, CMO for Core Products at Visa Inc., said in a statement.
The Top Ten contributing countries accounted for 57% of the total amount spent on Visa accounts in the U.K. during this time period. Behind the U.S. are Japan ($47.4 million), France ($44.5 million), Italy $42.1 million, Australia ($35.3 million), Republic of Ireland ($34.3 million), Spain $33.5 million), Germany ($33.3 million), Canada $25.3 million) and Sweden ($23.9 million).
Although not in the Top Ten, Visa account holders from Russia increased travel spend on their Visa accounts by more than 30%.
The Top Five categories behind "services" and "entertainment" are "airlines" ($82.4 million), "clothing" ($67.9 million) and "other retail" ($66.3 million, which includes bike shops, bookstores, antique stores and drug stores).
"The Olympics are a showcase for athletics and innovation, and the same goes for tourism . . . Tourism is a vital component of economic growth for any nation."
Visa said it had more than 3,000 locations in and around Olympic venues that accept prepaid, "contactless" payments, mobile technologies and other payment options.
"The Olympics are a showcase for athletics and innovation, and the same goes for tourism," said Burke. "It is easier than ever for international travelers safely to pay for goods and services with payment cards, 'contactless' smart cards or mobile technology. Visa's spend data shows that more countries are able to take advantage of these payment innovations."
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Paul Klee, Carpet, 1927, Hans-Willem Snoeck, Brooklyn, New York, Photo © Edward Watkins.
Book cover of Ernst Fuhrmann: Tlinkit und Haida, Folkwang Verlag GmbH, Hagen 1922.
Raoul D'Harcourt: Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques, University of Washington Press, Seattle 1962.
Arthur Baessler collection, Shirt, Tiahuanaco (=Tiwanaku), 0–700 (?), Peru
© Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, photo: Claudia Obrocki.
Anni Alber, Black–White–Gray, 1927, © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019.
Josef Albers, Loggia Wall at RIT, 1967
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundatio / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019.
Rose Slivka, "New Tapestry", in: Craft Horizons, March/April 1963
Lena Bergner, Draft of a hand loom, ca. 1936–39, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
© American Craft Council / Heirs to Lena Bergner.
Eduard Gaffron Collection, Khipu, Inca 1450–1550, Huacho, Peru
© Photo: Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, photo: Claudia Obrocki.
Anne Wilson, "Net Fence" detail, 1975, Cotton and jute cord, raffia, bamboo supports, 96 x 45 x 20 inches overall.
Courtesy of the artist.
Lenore Tawney, Mask, ca. 1967, Linen, pre-Columbian beads, shell, horsehair
Photos: George Erml; Courtesy: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation.
Marguerite Wildenhain, Double Face pot, 1960–70, Luther College, Decorah, photo: Grant Watson, © Luther College.
Kader Attia, Signs of Reappropriation as Repair, 2017, Single projection of 80 slides, Courtesy of the artist.
from: Maghreb Art Magazine, No. 3, 1965, © Mohamed Melehi.
Poster exhibition of Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Chabâa, Mohamed Melehi, Théâtre National
Mohamed V, design: Mohamed Melehi, 1965, Toni Maraini Collection, © Mohamed Melehi.
Painted ceiling of Mohamed Melehi, Hotel Les Roses du Dades, Kelaa M'Gouna, 1968–69
Architects: cabinet Faraoui et de Mazières, archives: Faraoui et de Mazières.
Door from the Musée Tiskiwin, Collection of Bert Flint, photo: Maud Houssais.
Departing from Paul Klee's drawing Teppich (Carpet) from 1927 the exhibition chapter Learning From addresses the study and appropriation of cultural production from outside the modernist mainstream, principally from non-Western sources, but also European folk traditions, the work of outsider artists, and children. Engagement with premodern artifacts and practices was a constant feature of the work of teachers and students at the Bauhaus and continued to inform their approach after the school's closure in 1933.
In the United States in the middle of the twentieth century, the exploration of local craft practices and pre-Columbian cultures in North, Central, and South America helped to develop the formal language of abstraction as well as new procedures in weaving and the fiber arts based on precolonial forms and techniques. In questioning the division between the high and low arts, the Bauhaus had contested the classicism of the European art academies. However, the study of non-Western art and cultural practice, often used to deconstruct this binary, failed to take into account the colonial, sometimes violent and illegitimate appropriation of cultural goods, as well as the social, economic, and political disruption which European colonialism had left in its wake in North and South America, Africa, and Asia.
The incorporation of popular, indigenous, and Afro Brazilian cultures into the lexicon of Brazilian modernism, while acting as a counter-model to European modernism and the Bauhaus, occurred simultaneously with the continued impact of colonial violence on the indigenous population. In post-revolutionary Mexico and postcolonial Morocco, the program of translating precolonial cultural production into the language of modernity acquired a socio-political dimension as the recourse to local art practices, by the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP, workshop for popular graphics) in Mexico and the École des Beaux Arts in Casablanca demonstrate.
Learning From shows how Bauhaus modernism was indebted to transcultural encounters, and reveals the synthesis of premodern and modern art as cultural appropriation, as well as in the context of decolonization and cultural self-determination.
from: Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, March 1941.
from: Black Mountain College Bulletin, No. 5, 1938.
Publié dans: Maghreb Art, 1966.
Courtesy of Mohammed Melehi and Toni Maraini.
Publié dans: Integral, No. 12–13, 1978.
Courtesy of Toni Maraini.
Publié dans: Souffles, No. 7–8, 1967.
Courtesy of Abdellatif Laâbi.
Part I. from: Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, 1957.
Part II from: Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, 1957.
from: Black Mountain College Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 4, May 1948. Reproduced with permission of North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Oral history interview, 2004 February 3 and March 11.
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Say you're an author, and you've just finished writing a book you think would make a killer movie. You shop it to your agents, and they see some real potential in its adaptive properties. There's one of two times you should sell the movie rights: either you drum up a lot of pre-release press like Justin Cronin did with his best seller The Passage, or you build a groundswell of international acclaim for your book before it's released in the U.S., like Joel Dicker did with his book The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair. The latter has just been picked up for adaptation by director Ron Howard in advance of its May publication date.
Deadline is reporting the story and named blockbuster director Howard as the talent attached to direct yet another adaptation of the written word for his new studio partners at Warner Bros. For those of you keeping score, this could be the seventh fiction adaptation Howard has made, following How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Missing, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and the upcoming The Heart of the Sea and Inferno, which is due out next Christmas. This deal seems to signal a strong new partnership between Howard and the studio with the shield.
The book's official plot description, found over on Amazon. can be read below:
"August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods, never to be heard from again; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country's most respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer's block as his publisher's deadline looms. But Marcus's plans are violently upended when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case murder of Nola Kellergan—whom, he admits, he had an affair with."
This project is starting to almost sound like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which is good since it's material recognizable enough to audiences that they don't have to grapple with too foreign of a concept. However, this is also a negative aspect, because that was a David Fincher project that didn't fare quite as well as Sony hoped. Also, while Mr. Howard is a strong filmmaker in his own right, there could be a case made for the superiority of Mr. Fincher's body of work. The blurb above isn't even the complete summary, as the book will also focus on the pre-requisite investigation and redemption of not only the titular character, but also the protagonist. Or at least, we're lead to believe such an ending exists. There's still plenty of room for surprises, and with a book like these, there undoubtedly will be a few.
Say what you will about Ron Howard, but the man has walked the fine line between blockbusters and awards fodder for a good long while. And with the exception of a few missteps that we're willing to overlook, The Dilemma chiefly among them, he's done a pretty good job of staying away from massive stinkers. (If you need any proof, ask yourself why The Lost Symbol got skipped in the Robert Langdon series of adaptations.) His resume shows a lot of variety, and it's not a stretch of the imagination to believe that he could turn this project into yet another success..
Heart of the Sea is scheduled for release next March, with Inferno more than likely going into production before this film gets off the ground. That means that you'll have plenty of time to read a copy of The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair after its released this May by Penguin Books. You can watch author Joel Dicker talk a bit about the book in the video below.


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When it comes to protecting beauty, nada es impossible
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When it comes to protecting beauty, nada es impossible
Nature of Business went international this week to Mendoza, Argentina, and the Uco Valley. I spoke with Fran Lalas, Director of The Vines Resort and Spa. The Vines Resort and Spa is part of The Vines of Mendoza and Lalas spearheads their corporate social responsibility initiatives that play an integral part in the creation of an extraordinary destination. (The resort and spa officially open spring 2013). We spoke about these initiatives that include a deep commitment to the surrounding community, their use of local construction materials, as well as a commitment to producing sustainable wines.
It was particularly interesting to interview Lalas after hearing Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, speak at the recent GreenBiz VERGE conference in San Francisco about his company's core values — collision, community and co-learning — and how they have manifested themselves in creating happier employees, a vibrant surrounding downtown Las Vegas, and an overall sentiment that making money not only shouldn't but can't be the sole priority if a company is to be viable long term. (See Kristine Wong's piece.) This is clearly the modus operandi of the resort and spa.
There is no mistaking that The Vines is a place of beauty being that is surrounded by 1,000 acres of vineyards with the ever-present backdrop of the Andes mountains. But it's their ethic that caught my attention. Families in need all over the community are looked after, employees volunteer in the local schools, English classes are provided — there is an overarching sentiment that the valley is a place to care of not take over.
Even the materials the resort is using for construction are local and regional. They are relying, for instance, on concrete and natural stone design for a many of its fixtures including their sinks, fireplaces, bathtubs, and furniture. And they are not sacrificing quality to do so. They are working with the re-known architecture firm Bormida & Yanzon that have won accolades and awards for designing some of the best wineries in Argentina.
As for the future of the resort, the plan is to be a leader in the economic growth of the region and to do it in a way nurtures the local customs and strengths of its people and employees. With a commitment from the top executives down, as Vines' motto goes, "Nada es impossible." Nothing is impossible.
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Okay, this bill will likely not become law, but talk about a massive waste of time.
Right now, the House of Representatives is voting on HR-4078, a bill that would freeze "significant regulatory action" from government agencies until the employment rate is at or below 6% (read the bill here).
The legislation is being introduced by Arkansas Republican, Tim Griffin. And what he means by
significant regulatory action" is anything that would cost the government more that $100,000, effect the market, conflict with another agency, materially effect the budget, or "raise novel legal/policy issues."
So yeah, pretty broad.
There is a waiver, but it has to be signed by the President and he has to submit notice to Congress.
On top of that, getting folded into this vote are two bills that would make it particularly difficult for the SEC and the CFTC carry out regulations and orders. The SEC bill is HR 2308 and the CFTC bill is HR-1840.
Basically the bills would force those agencies to get a cost-benefit analysis from the Office of the Chief Economist to assess any new regulation, they'd also be reviewing old ones before new ones are enacted.
The CFTC bill is being introduced by Texas Republican Mike Conaway.
The SEC bill is being introduced by New Jersey Republican Scott Garrett, who incidentally flipped out at Tim Geithner over the LIBOR scandal yesterday.


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A 22,000km cruise to see the Queen
RAIN, hail or abysmal London grey, there was no way this world-wandering Ipswich couple was going to miss the royal event of a lifetime.
Former Queensland Times marketing manager Rob Oberg and wife Karen have been sailing the globe on various yachts for the past 18 months.
Their voyage conveniently led them to the Thames River and St Katherine Docks, which happened to be right in the thick of the action for the weekend's Queen's Jubilee Pageant.
Hundreds of thousands crowded the banks of the London river to see the historic parade, which also included a Guinness World Record-breaking 1000 boats.
Among them was the yacht Curious, on which Mr and Mrs Oberg had been travelling. It had just carried them from Gibraltar to London in time for the Jubilee.
Mr Oberg said Curious was included in an "avenue of sail" with other classic boats including Sir Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth IV and Robin Knox-Johnson's Suhaili.
The vessels were all put on display in the dock at St Katherine Docks - a prime position for Sunday's pageant.
"Unfortunately we suffered what we're told by the locals is typical British bank holiday weekend weather - cold, wet and windy," Mr Oberg said.
"Despite this there were people sleeping out overnight right along the river to make sure they had the best views secured for the Sunday afternoon.
"Every walkway around the marina was jammed with people viewing the boats in the avenue.
"Many were patriotically dressed right royally for the occasion, and at the minimum almost everyone was carrying a Union Jack."
There was a huge cheer as the Tower Bridge's drawbridge was raised and the Queen's barge, The Spirit of Chartwell, came into view.
"Neither the rain or the cold dulled the crowds' enthusiasm, with all the boats roundly applauded, but the loudest cheers were definitely reserved for the appearance of the Queen and Royal Family," Mr Oberg said.
"We had a good view through the lock to the river and were able to watch the sail-past, and were right on the spot where the royal barge stopped and spun round before docking at St Katherine, where the Queen and official party disembarked.
"The roar as the last strains of the Royal Philharmonic's Land of Hope and Glory rang out in the pouring rain was incredibly moving - definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Following the excitement of the Royal Jubilee, the Obergs will enjoy something of a reminder of the life they've left behind in Australia - their next destination is Ipswich, Suffolk.
If you have any photos of Ipswich's coronation party in 1953, please call the QT on 3817 1790.


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Sjopper necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 321 diseños de 109 diseñadores freelance.
May 2008 we launched a new concept that is combining and selling the products of all kind of webshops in one giant Internet shopping mall. Today we have more than 60 shops and 100.000 products that are directly available from our shopping mall platform. Every month more than 30.000 consumers are coming by. Now it is the time we start working more on our brand. Therefore we are looking for a logo that identifies and supports our brand on the Internet but also on print media.
Sjopper (http://sjopper.nl)
As mentioned earlier we combine the catalog of all kinds of specialized shops within one platform and sell their products right away to customers via the Internet. Our brand is very important. Quality, customer satisfaction and innovation is what we are standing for. We want to help shops with selling more over the Internet and on the other hand we want to give the customer an unique buying experience.
Our current logo is nothing more than a quick creation from our early days. Now we feel the need to start working on our identity. Make clear with our logo what we are doing and what we are standing for. The logo must be recognizable so customers remember it right away when seeing it wherever they see it.
Our logo will be used for our Internet site, print paper, boxes, business cards and much more. We are not looking for a typical web 2.0 logo. Clean and recognizable is the key factor.
It would be nice if we can use the logo without the word "Sjopper". We also can place our brand name behind the logo. However, if you feel different or have a good idea. Feel free to do so.
- Something identifying for Internet shopping or Internet shopping mall.
- The logo also must look good in black and white.
- The logo must be nearly a square so it can have multi purposes.
- Creativity!
- No typical web 2.0 logo.
- Not too many different colors.
- No WordArt or standard icons.
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DFW South Asian Film Festival
Our Mission:
The Dallas/Fort Worth area is now home to its very own South Asian film festival. DFW SAFF is a four day festival taking place from February 8 to 11, 2018. We will showcase World, U.S. and Texas premieres of features, shorts and documentaries, all chosen to engage, educate and inspire audiences. We have chosen a wide range of films exploring issues that affect South Asians living and working in America, as well as our brothers and sisters back home.
Our Vision:
DFW SAFF exists to promote the perspectives and voices of the South Asian community by serving, organizing and advocating South Asian culture in the Greater Dallas Metroplex area through cinema.
The fourth annual DFW South Asian Film Festival will take place from February 8 to 11, 2018.
Opening night film & after party (February 8):
Film Screening: Highland Park Village Theatre
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Many companies in the GC3 are spending significant resources gathering chemical data from their supply chain for regulatory compliance, green product design and certification programs and chemical disclosure initiatives. The effort of this project group is to advance the efforts of these companies.
This year the workgroup is focused on assessing how best to optimize B2B chemical information transactions that involve CBI concerns. Many requests by customers in supply chains can be met by their suppliers without difficulty. But the scope of some of these business-to-business (B2B) information requests can raise concerns about compromising confidential business information (CBI). At the outset, the project group developed a matrix to illuminate the various situations in which CBI issues could arise in B2B chemical information transactions. By connecting the types of potentially sensitive information that might be requested with the various reasons for those requests, we created a roadmap for the project group to explore mechanisms, either currently in use or still needed, for protecting CBI while facilitating information transfers in these different contexts.
During 2012-2013, the project group explored current approaches and issues for handling CBI information through a series of webinars and discussions. During an initial discussion of CBI issues with Mark Greenwood (Greenwood Environmental), the project group identified several factors that strongly influence the B2B flow of chemical data that involves potentially sensitive or confidential business information: relative market power of the parties to the supply-chain transaction; clearly communicated reason for, and perceived legitimacy of, information request; types of information requested (e.g., data on ingredients, health & environmental safety, process and/or business factors); and degree of trust between parties to the transaction. In subsequent webinars, representatives of organizations with different perspectives on supply chain transactions (Walmart, Durst Organization, Healthy Building Network, Herman Miller, MBDC, 7th Generation, Segetis) explored alternative approaches to protecting legitimately sensitive information while facilitating increased chemical data communication and transparency (e.g., various CDA arrangements and use of 3rd-parties trusted by both participants in a chemical-data information transaction).
The project group plans to develop and complete a roadmap for facilitating sensitive/CBI data transactions during 2013, and to publish a GC3 report.
This workgroup developed a number of deliverables in previous years, including: in-depth case studies of how Nike, SC Johnson & HP meet the challenges of gathering chemical data information from their supply chains; a guidance document for suppliers on meeting customers' needs for chemical data; and an evaluation of the benefits and methods of standardizing chemical data collection systems in business supply chains. All three reports are available on the Publications page.
For more information or to join the project group, contact Bob Kerr.
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SclerodermaOntario necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Scleroderma Society of Ontario
The Scleroderma Society of Ontario was founded in late 1985 with the help of The Arthritis Society of Ontario and dedicated volunteers. With the first executive in place, the challenge began and an open information meeting was held on April 20, 1986 in Toronto.
The Scleroderma Society of Ontario programs are entirely run and organized by dedicated volunteers. These volunteers make up the Board of Directors.
The Scleroderma Society of Ontario is committed to promoting increased public awareness, advancing patient wellness and supporting research in scleroderma.
The Scleroderma Society of Ontario is a provincial charity and looks to appeal to all Ontarians.
With this logo we are looking to target donors, sponsors, and volunteers to take part in our provincial "Walk in the Park for Scleroderma."
We need a logo that is unique and colourful, but also easy to convert to black and white or one colour for inexpensive printing. (If possible, demonstrate what the logo will look like in one colour and black & white.)
The logo must include the tagline "A Walk in the Park for Scleroderma"
The logo can be square or rectangular (wider than taller).
We are looking to incorporate the look of a local park on a bright sunny day. Some items you might include are: walk way, tree, sun, bird, person(s) walking.
We prefer the logo have a hand-created look rather than photographic.
This is to be a stand alone logo, please do no incorporate the existing Scleroderma Logo into this one.
You may wish to visit our website at http://www.sclerodermaontario.ca for more information on Scleroderma.
Pictures from last year's walk are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sclerod…WalkNTalk#
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Hans Borrebach was born in The Hague, The Netherlands in 1903. He studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, and went on to practise many artistic disciplines, such as illustration, cartooning, comics, photography and writing. He worked for numerous magazines, including the Lustige Blätter from Germany (from which he was expelled in the 1930s due to Hitler's decree there should be no foreign staff members), Libelle, Haagsche Post and several automoblie magazines. For a supplement of Utrechts Nieuwsblad and in the KRO Kinderkrant, he drew the comic story 'Barbertje's Reis in Spiegelland'.
In 1946, Hans Borrebach created his first newspaper comic, 'De Avonturen van Swippie de Zeeman', which was published in Veritas. Two years later, he produced the comics series 'Frank Moore', that was inspired by Alex Raymond's 'Flash Gordon' and remarkable for its outstanding graphic work and erotic undertone. Only two issues appeared, before it was discontinued due to the anti-comics campaign of the time.
Borrebach went on being a productive, versatile artist, well-known for his illustrations of the famous 'Joop ter Heul' book series, written by Cissy van Marxveldt, as well as for his pornographic writings, reflecting his own free lifestyle. At the end of the 1970s, while at an advanced age, he created the erotic comic 'Het Meisjesinternaat', which was published at Sombrero. Borrebach had his own photo studio at the Scheveningseweg in The Hague. He died in 1991.
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Lucille Birchfield stood over her husband�s grave at High Shoals Memorial Gardens, holding a piece of paper that showed she had paid $600 on Aug. 7, 2000, for three adjoining burial plots � one for her son, one for her daughter in-law and one for her grandson.
Lucille Birchfield stood over her husband�s grave at High Shoals Memorial Gardens, holding a piece of paper that showed she had paid $600 on Aug. 7, 2000, for three burial plots � one for her son, one for her daughter in-law and one for her grandson.
Her own plot sits right beside that of her husband, who died in 1993.
But the gentle wind that rustled through the surrounding woods on this grey December day might just as well have been a bad omen for the widow�s plans to have her loved ones buried in the same small-town cemetery.
When she visited last Wednesday to lay flowers at her husband�s grave, she noticed something strange. The spot reserved for her son, the Rev. Donnie Birchfield of Lancaster, S.C., showed signs of activity. Instead of grass, it was covered with freshly turned red dirt.
She went straight to High Shoals City Hall, but at 12:30 p.m. it was closed for the day. She returned the next morning and explained to the city clerk, Lucy Williams, that one of the plots she had purchased 12 years ago had been disturbed.
�She came out to the cemetery with me and brought two guys with her,� Birchfield said. �At first they tried to tell me it was just loose dirt, but one of the guys had a steel rod and he drove it down into the ground. You could hear it clear as day � dong, dong, dong.�
It was the sound of steel hitting a concrete burial vault.
�Somebody�s down there,� Birchfield remembers the city worker saying as he pulled the rod up out of the earth.
The clerk then recalled that the city had recently buried �a Mr. Rhyne� in the vicinity of the plot in question.
�Then you�d better get your shovel out and start digging because he�s moving,� Birchfield told the trio of city employees.
The 74-year-old widow said she was stunned by the clerk�s response to the bizarre discovery.
�She said �well, that will upset the family (of Mr. Rhyne).� And I said �well, don�t you think this upsets me?��
She checked back on Monday and was told �we�re working on it.�
Williams, the clerk, confirmed that �She came by last Thursday and wanted it done by Monday. It don�t work that way.�
By this time, nearly a week after the original discovery, Birchfield was steaming.
A history with High Shoals
Birchfield, who now lives in a Dallas, raised her youngest son Donnie in High Shoals and had operated a diner in the small town for about five years in the early 1980s. She said this isn�t the first time she�s had a body turn up in the plot she had reserved for Donnie. It happened five or six years ago, she said, but the caretaker quickly exhumed the body and had it relocated to a different plot. That caretaker is now gone. And the new cast of characters is taking more of a cautious approach to things.
That�s for good reason, said Dan Weekley, who has served as the town�s mayor since 2007.
Weekley said the previous caretaker�s method of record-keeping consisted mostly of mental notes.
�The guy who was working there back in 2000 probably knew everybody in town,� he said. �And the folks now don�t have a working knowledge of it like he used to have.�
Weekley said he believes the situation can be resolved to everyone�s satisfaction.
�But she�s wanting to exhume the body and of course that�s a legal process that takes time. You can�t just go in there and dig somebody up,� he said. �We�re trying to contact the estate of the person who was buried there.�
Weekley said Mr. Rhyne�s family buried him in August. Four months later, the grave remains unmarked.
The town has turned the dicey situation over to its attorney, Jim Windham.
�We�re very, very sorry if anything has happened,� Weekley said. �But you�ve got to remember this is a very old cemetery and records were not that accurate years ago.�
Second go-around?
Weekley could not confirm Birchfield�s contention that this is the second time the city has allowed someone to be buried in her son�s plot.
�I don�t know about that,� he said. �As far as I know this has never happened before.�
He said the Rhynes have five plots that border the Birchfields� five plots.
At some point the line between the Birchfields and the Rhynes got blurred.
�Which one is supposed to be there (in the newly dug grave) I am not sure,� Weekley said. �The schematic we�ve got that lays out our gravesites obviously has some flaws so when they went over the plots they were a little bit off.�
He said the issue came up at the High Shoals City Council meeting on Tuesday night.
�It is very strange and it caught everybody by surprise,� Weekley said. �But, then again, if you knew a little of the history of this cemetery you could understand how it could happen.�
The cemetery dates back to the Civil War era. It was originally owned by a church, then taken over by the mill in town and eventually deeded over to the city, Weekley said. Records are sketchy.
�It was discussed at the council meeting last night that we need to get a professional company to go in and re-map the entire cemetery, so this doesn�t happen again,� Weekley said. �You have to do right by everyone in a case like this.�
And that�s something on which both the city and Mrs. Birchfield can agree.
�This makes you sick to your stomach,� she said. �When you can�t bury the dead and let them rest, something�s wrong.�


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Is Broncos County big enough for Peyton Manning and Elvis Dumervil?
Here's why living the NFL life is sweet, until it stinks. Dumervil signed a $61.5 million contract in 2010. Now, the team wants him to give money back. Or else.
Or else what? The Broncos could cut Dumervil.
Tough business. Money rules. Egos bleed.
With 63½ career sacks, Dumervil is No. 7 on the team's all-time list, right behind Lyle Alzado and Trevor Pryce. To stay in town and have a shot at winning a Super Bowl, however, the wallet of Dumervil might have to take a tougher hit than any pain he has ever caused a quarterback.
For Broncos executive John Elway, this makes good football sense.
For Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, this makes solid economic logic.
For Dumervil? It's good to verify loyalty isn't worth a nickel in the NFL.
There's no questioning the sincere ambition of the Broncos. They want to win it all. Linebacker Von Miller has guaranteed a championship for Manning, Bowlen and a city to share.
But, in a game regulated by a salary cap, the tough financial discussions between Dumervil and the Broncos are a brutal reminder. You can't have it all. With holes to fill or room to improve in the defensive secondary, the offensive line and at running back, spending $12 million on Dumervil for the 2013 season is an extravagance this team believes it cannot afford.
Although a fierce pass rusher, Dumervil is closer to a down-and-distance specialist than an all-around beast.
In the playoff loss to Baltimore, Dumervil made three tackles. In truth, his skill set might be more suited to outside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme than as a defensive end for Denver coordinator Jack Del Rio.
Listed generously at 5-foot-11, what Dumervil does physically can be so spectacular it defies imagination. But he is 29 years old, and it is fair to wonder if the violence of the NFL could accelerate the aging process of an undersized defensive lineman.
As the Broncos explore a solution for the contractual impasse with offensive tackle Ryan Clady, it's understandable the team wants to trim payroll fat as shopping in the free-agent market begins.
Word is the Broncos have expressed interest in 33-year-old Dwight Freeney, a teammate of Manning's in Indianapolis, as a 50-cents-on-the-dollar replacement for Dumervil. Freeney was often forced to play out of position for the Colts last season. He got banged up. But the seven-time Pro Bowler also looked old and slow.
However you do the math, it keeps coming back to this: Manning is scheduled to make $20 million this season. Worth every penny, if you listen to Elway.
Dumervil's cap hit is $13.6 million. With expenditures on only two players, the Broncos would chew up more than 25 percent of the $123 million salary cap.
That does not compute.
Manning changed the attitude of the locker room and the mentality of the franchise. It's win now.
But Manning also changed the way the Broncos need to structure their budget. It appears Dumervil is being asked to pick up a hefty portion of the tab. So maybe the Broncos do have a Plan B, after all.
Dumervil is a team guy, no question. A pay cut, however, can be tough for any proud man to swallow.
Many fans will naturally side with the team, and Dumervil's loyalty will be questioned, if he decides to seek better money elsewhere. Count on Doom hearing this not-so-subtle form of public pressure: Does he want to help the Broncos win a Super Bowl, or not?
But let us not forget: The Broncos also signed the contract. It is management that wants to go back and change the terms.
Living the NFL life is sweet, until it stinks.
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Moogi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 167 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Moogi collects and organizes characters, products, music, locations and much more, as they appear in TV shows. We're a destination site for this information & we also provide data feeds to display this information in-video in real time.
Want to know what music played in the last episode of Entourage? What guest celebrities have appeared on the Simpsons? What crazy stuff has Adam eaten on Man v. Food? Find out on Moogi.
In our current logo, we do NOT like:
Inconsistent spacing between letters - 4 letters are clumped together while the last hangs off
"M" - Being the most prominent letter of our logo, we want the M to have more of a simple M shape, if that makes sense :-/
Font - We're not opposed a custom font
We DO like:
Distinctive shape - It would make a great watermark. The "oog" forms an imagery of a filmstrip, and directly links the look/feel of the logo to our brand ID. (Analogous to the subtle right-facing arrow in FedEX's logo, which brands it as a forward moving delivery company.)
We would like to similarly maintain the brand integrity that exists in our current logo, but perhaps something a bit more abstract. We want your interpretation of the "oog" film strip to be less literal and more subtle.
Web-savvy viewers who want to learn more about the things they see and hear on TV
From our site: "Learn about products and fashion that characters wear. Find out which restaurants and bars characters eat at and go out to. Listen to music from your favorite shows."
This logo will replace our current logo (as shown at http://www.moogi.com).
In addition to appearing on our website, the logo will appear as a watermark over video (similar to how YouTube's logo looks when their videos are embedded in other sites). So although the logo can have multiple colors, it also needs to be recognizable as a single color.
This is our first 99Designs project, so please let us know if there are any more details that would be helpful. Feel free to contact me directly with questions at mlodz [at] moogi[dot]com
You should not feel obligated to reuse any aspects of the current logo, but we would like to suggest that the concept/brand identity formed by the "oog", serve as a starting point for the new logo. We could approach this in 2 ways:
1. Integrated Font/Logo: This sample would be both a font & integrated logo that basically takes what we've started with to the next level.
(Example: FedEX)
2. Name on separate font AND unique icon: This sample would be a unique font to illustrate Moogi's name along with a separate icon designed to what you believe defines Moogi's brand.
(Example: Twitter – unique font and color scheme & separate bird icon)
Colors: any combination of fading gray scale, white, blue or orange (Approximately #0047AA, #FAA50B)
File formats: we'd like a vector file, an SVG or Adobe Illustrator format, as well as a bitmap file, jpg, gif, or png
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text: hi, im using a vodaphone south africa unit in the philippines as it was suppossed to be unlocked and working anyway, please help me.. I cannot use the phone if I will set the network to 3G and 2G. The phone will reboot if i use that settings. Right now, the phone worked because i set it to 2G only.. it is very slow, i know that this model will run 3G.. I hope you can assist me.


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510BRE wrote:skutaman wrote:Dead keen, and already have Thursday through to the following Wednesday off!
I'm in nelson so I'll meet up with the southerners on their way past.
Most likely just myself at this time (but you never know, there's plenty of time for a Datsun friendly lady to pop into my life between now and then haha)
I'm keen for the push right through (but I don't have the Lewis to deal with) so I'll go with the flow.
I just need to know about accommodation costs etc...
Cool we are just working out details and will put up costs etc as soon as possible
Sweet! I'll keep an eager eye on this and the main nats threads!


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Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?
I do really hate the system that Sony Ericsson has placed on the top of Android and I would like to have ICS (but no problem if not possible or recommendable). I have tried googling and looking around for a couple of days to find how and what custom ROM I could install on my telephone, but I have had no luck in this venture.
Does anybody here know about a custom ROM I could install on my telephone? Preferably as clean as possible or similar to HTCs system and ICS if possible and usable.


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Harry Melling is the actor who portrays Dudley Dursley, Harry Potter's spoiled cousin and the son of Vernon and Petunia Dursley, in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter books. He also did the voice for the character in the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Harry Edward Melling was born on 13 March, 1989. He has always had a passion for acting, even putting on shows for his family since the age of 4. At a young age he enrolled in dance, singing, and drama classes, and when he turned nine he became a member of the Millfield Theatre Youth Drama Group. He won the part of Dudley when casting agents held auditions at his school for the first film. He hopes to set up a production company with a friend when they are older.
Before making one of the films in the Harry Potter series, he lost a large amount of weight, and the film producers considered changing actors as Dudley was portrayed as being large.
Melling is the grandson of Patrick Troughton (d.1987), a noted character actor of the 1960s and 1970s, best remembered as the second Doctor in Doctor Who from 1966-69.
Ironically, after nearly ten years of playing a Muggle in a family that despises magic, Harry played the part of a warlock named Gilli in the Season Three episode "The Sorcerer's Shadow" on the BBC show Merlin.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1[1] (2010) - Dudley Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (2007) - Dudley Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Dudley Dursley
- Friends & Crocodiles (2005) (TV) Young Oliver
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Dudley Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Dudley Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Dudley Dursley
- Gilli in the episode The Sorcerer's Shadow of the BBC series Merlin.
External links
- http://www.kenmcreddie.com/Artistsdetails.asp?AType=1&Asx=1&artistID=155 (Harry Melling's official agency website page.)
- Harry Melling at the Internet Movie Database
- http://www.mugglenet.com/2013/03/harry-melling-shares-his-thoughts-with-mugglenet-on-the-black-comedy-smack-family-robinson-in-an-exclusive-interview/


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Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" (HBO)
Highlight: After showing how a media frenzy can propel a miscarriage of justice in the first two films about accused killers, the last film shows how media attention can result in the re-examination of a case.
Sidelight: The show acknowledges that the filmmakers — despite working to remain objective documentarians — have become a part of the story and its eventual outcome.
Martin Scorsese
"George Harrison: Living In The Material World" (HBO)
Highlight: The legendary helmer puts together another epic rock documentary that shows Harrison to be the shy and sarcastic Beatle who endured being the group's third-best songwriter, while also covering the breakup of his marriage to Pattie Boyd.
Sidelight: Scorsese weaves into the documentary generous portions of a Phil Spector interview that provide revealing and strangely funny insights into Harrison's character.
Craig Spirko
"Project Runway – Finale (Part 2)" (Lifetime)
Highlight: After giving the impression she thought she couldn't win, former Miss Universe contestant Anya Ayoung Chee took top honors. Somehow the fierce competitor who'd only learned to sew months before the contest began also became a fan favorite.
Sidelight: Tim Gunn admitted that his opinions aren't always the ones to follow after judges slammed the very same designs he'd lauded.
Bertram van Munster
"The Amazing Race – Let Them Drink Their Haterade" (CBS)
Highlight: After exasperating each other, some participants deliver paybacks through the use of "U-Turns" which whittle the substantial leads of several competitors down to nothing. "Haterade" indeed.
Sidelight: Munster — an experienced nonfiction director – — spends about 10 gorgeous minutes on the teams moving through the Ngorongoro Crater, where we get to gaze upon unusual plant and animal life in glorious HD.
Robert B. Weide
"American Masters – Woody Allen: A Documentary" (PBS)
Highlight: Weide traces the reinvention of Allen's filmmaking as an exile in Europe where he's collaborated with everyone from Ewan McGregor to Scarlett Johansson.
Sidelight: Allen continues to use the same old beastly typewriter he bought when he was 16. When he needs to cut and paste, he literally cuts and pastes (or staples) the passages of writing he wants to rearrange.
Weide keyed to subjects' needs
And the nominees are:
Comedy | Drama | Minis & Movies | Variety | Nonfiction


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Poetry is not meant to be read with the eyes alone, but also with the ears.
As University of Texas at Austin English professor and Milton scholar John Rumrich explains, the true meaning of verse can't be divined just by looking at the words. It must be read aloud. The poet's words must be heard.
"The tough thing for me in teaching 'Paradise Lost' is that students can't always read it on the page and understand it. But you read it aloud and the light bulb goes on," Rumrich says. "Inflection conveys understanding."
That simple belief drove Rumrich and former graduate student Olin Bjork to develop a revolutionary, multimedia teaching tool for Milton's "Paradise Lost." It has since inspired fellow English professor and Walt Whitman scholar Coleman Hutchison to do the same for "Leaves of Grass."
Through technology the professors developed with the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS), students can listen to actors read the two works aloud. Those students can simultaneously follow along online on texts derived from the original publications and, with a click of the mouse, search for a phrase in Whitman's poem or look at annotated notes in Milton's.
The goal is to help students learn by allowing them to experience the poem - the words, the structure, the sound - as the poets originally intended.
"I want my students to be in that place Milton made for them," Rumrich says.
And not just his students.
Between October 2008 and October 2009, the "Paradise Lost" Web site had 25,000 hits, including some from high school students at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin.
And Hutchison has heard from instructors as far away as Spain who are using the "Leaves of Grass" site that went live in 2008.
"The ability to produce this at The University of Texas at Austin is as immediate a contribution a public university can make to education," says Hutchison. "It affects people's relationship with literature."
The professors' efforts built on an LAITS project from the early 2000s that recorded and posted a reading of the 13th century Spanish epic "El Cantar de Mio Cid" along with extensive commentary, translations and images.
"I don't think there's anything else like this out there," Joe Tenbarge assistant dean for technology in the College of Liberal Arts and director of LAITS, says of the multimedia projects.
"I looked around and saw a lot of audio recordings of these texts and a lot of online texts," he says. "But I didn't find anything that combines a scholarly, annotated online text with recordings specifically designed for students' ears. And that's what we've done."
As he began work on his dissertation about Milton in 2004, Bjork noticed that same gap in literary Web sites.
"What I saw online were endless, scrolling columns of text," says Bjork, who has since earned his Ph.D. and is now completing a fellowship at Georgia Tech. "In my prospectus, I sketched what I wanted to see - something that used the best qualities of the book but also used multimedia and audio."
Rumrich, Bjork's adviser, proposed to him that they create such an "audiotext." Working with an undergraduate technology assistant named Shea Suski, they developed a prototype and received a grant from LAITS to help make "Paradise Lost" more accessible to students.
And if ever there was a poem meant be read with the ears as well as the eyes, Rumrich says, it was Milton's 17th century epic about God, Satan and the fall from grace.
"As a blind man, Milton composed his epic aloud," Rumrich explains, "dictating it to amanuenses and insisting that he was merely relaying what the Muse had dictated to him as he slept."
More than 2,500 University of Texas at Austin students a year study sections of the 12-book poem in the school's required sophomore literature course and other classes. After Shakespeare, Milton may be the most studied poet on campus, Rumrich says.
In 2005, he and Bjork gathered a small group of faculty members to act out the poem. Rumrich narrated the story and guided the others on how to approach their parts.
The group spent nearly 30 hours in the LAITS audio studio in the basement of Mezes Hall recording Book IX of "Paradise Lost," the fall from grace. Audio engineers Michael Heidenreich and Sean Neesley then spent more than 100 hours choosing the best cuts and editing them into the 80-minute recording that went on line that fall.
Rumrich, Bjork and other actors have since recorded Books I and II. Over time, they hope to record the rest of the epic and possibly create a version for mobile devices, Bjork says.
But as important as it is for his students to hear the poem, Rumrich also wants them to maintain their connection to the visible word.
Thus, the Flash-based "open book" format of the Web page where the verse that's being read is highlighted on screen. Annotations are available. Modern and original versions can appear side-by-side. Students and professors can add their own audio recordings and mark up the text for themselves, as they would a textbook.
And a virtual bookmark (decorated with a Biblical serpent) even lets the reader navigate through the text.
"I want us to hold onto the norms of sitting down with a book and reading," Rumrich says. "I don't think you throw out 500 years of the print culture that we're part of."
Inspired by what he saw with "Paradise Lost," Hutchison two years ago set out to make "Leaves of Grass" equally accessible to students - but to do so in a way that reflected the values of the 1855 Whitman work.
"This is a self-consciously and deeply American work," Hutchison says of the collection of poems, which celebrates the senses, humanity and nature and begins with "Song of Myself."
"It's the most popular and most important American long form poem," Hutchison says.
When it was published, "Song of Myself" was part of a performance culture in which poetry was regularly read aloud in schools, homes and at poetry readings.
Such public readings are now rare. And, without them, many students are unable to develop a deep connection to the work, which begins with "I," ends with "you" and is written to foster an intimate relationship between poet and reader, Hutchison says.
Its long stanzas also make the poem look like prose to the modern eye.
"Many read it like prose and miss out on some of the formal elements of the poem," Hutchison says.
Says Bjork, who worked closely with Hutchison on the Web site: "This brings the poetry out."
Instead of using a single voice to narrate the poem, Hutchison chose to "democratize" this quintessentially American work by having six separate voices read "Song of Myself." The readers are six men and women ranging in age from 20 to 70, one with a Southern drawl, one with Shakespearian training and each with his or her own style.
None were Whitman experts (or as Hutchison calls them "Whitmaniacs.") and when they asked for guidance on how to read it, Hutchison gave the same answer: "How do you sense Whitman would want it to be read?"
As with the "Paradise Lost" project, "Leaves of Grass" appears online as an open book. A pointed hand - taken from a marker that Whitman drew in one of his notebooks - guides the reader from line to line as a voice of the reader's choosing speaks the words.
With "Song of Myself" now online, Hutchison hopes to complete audiotexts for the other 11 poems in "Leaves of Grass" at some point in the future.
While more people read books online today than five years ago, Bjork says he still knows of no other programs that combine the original book with annotations and audio recordings the way The University of Texas at Austin programs do.
"It provides a rich online reading environment for a literary text," he says. "We're still kind of unique in that way."
Even before the project was complete, its power was evident to those involved, including Heidenreich. The audio engineer had never actually read "Leaves of Grass," opting instead to read Cliff's Notes when he wrote a paper on the poems in high school.
"This work is the payment I had to make in return," Heidenreich jokes. "But when something that's supposed to be read is read, it's so much more powerful than reading it in your head. It's such a joy."
By Gary Susswein
College of Liberal Arts
Photo of John Rumrich and Coleman Hutchison: Christina Murrey


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When I reviewed Esther's Story last year, I had no idea that its author, Diane Wolkstein, was such an accomplished storyteller. By friending her on Facebook, I was to receive all of her updates as she traveled all across the world performing a piece called The Monkey King.
I was saddened to find the notice of her sudden death the other day.
From her website:
I was saddened to find the notice of her sudden death the other day.
From her website:
Diane Wolkstein is more than a storyteller. She is an interpreter of life. Since 1967, Diane has occupied a unique place in the world of storytelling and literature. Through her performances, teaching, books, and recordings, she has played a major role in the renewed interest in mythology and the modern storytelling movement. Whether recounting epics, trickster stories or fairy tales, Diane enters and speaks from the heart of each story she tells.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg named June 22nd, 2007 "Diane Wolkstein Day" in honor of her 40 years of service to New York City where she initiated America's first graduate storytelling program, pioneered a year–round storytelling program for parks and schools, hosted her own radio show on WNYC–AM/FM Radio, and taught mythology at New York University, the New School, and Sarah Lawrence. Diane has performed at the United Nations, Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, and has been a frequent guest on PBS, NPR, and the BBC.
A message from Diane's daughter, Rachel:
"It is with profound sadness that I tell you that my mother, Diane Wolkstein, passed away very early this morning in Taiwan. She had had emergency heart surgery but the procedure was not sufficient to allow her heart to work on its own. She was not conscious and she was not alone. She had several of her close friends from Taiwan there with her and at the very end she had a rabbi say kaddish and Buddhist prayers were said as well. Her death is a terrible shock. Her life overflowed with joy, intensity, friendship, love and spirit. Her love for each of us and the stories she told live inside of us forever." —Rachel Zucker
Obituary by Karen Tate:
Diane Wolkstein, world-renowned storyteller, folklorist, mythologist and author of many books for children and adults, died following emergency heart surgery on January 31 while on a trip to Taiwan working on her most recent project, the Chinese epic story of Monkey King or Journey to the West.
Diane was the author of 23 books of folklore and performed to sold-out crowds throughout the world. What set Diane apart as a storyteller are her performing gifts as well as the depth of knowledge and research she devoted to the stories she told. Diane's collection, The Magic Orange Tree, was the result of numerous visits to Haiti during which Diane recorded stories told on porches and in late-night gatherings. In Australia, Diane met Aboriginal storytellers who granted her special permission to tell their stories. Wolkstein spent years working with Samuel Noah Kramer, one of the world's pre-eminent archeologists, to create the definitive telling of the great Sumerian epic, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, which she performed at the United Nations and the British Museum. Because of Diane's work, Inanna has become an influential text in feminist studies and studies of ancient history.
Diane's belief in story and its potential to transform people's lives propelled her to the forefront of the modern storytelling movement as early as 1967, when she joined the New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation and started a year–round storytelling program for the city's parks and schools. Diane initiated America's first graduate storytelling program at Bank Street College of Education and was a regular visiting teacher of mythology at New York University for 18 years. She is a founding member of both America's National Storytelling Conference and the Storytelling Center of New York City, and has held hundreds of workshops on the art of storytelling throughout her long career. For thirteen years Diane's radio show, Stories from Many Lands, was broadcast on WNYC–AM/FM bi–weekly, and in 2007 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg named June 22nd of that year "Diane Wolkstein Day" in honor of Diane's 40 years of storytelling for the people of New York City.
|"Taking notes."
New York City's children gathered at the foot of the statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park to hear Diane tell stories every Saturday for more than forty summers. The culminating event of the storytelling season was her telling of Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep and the skip rope competition that followed.
Please keep Diane and her family in your prayers. She contributed much to women's studies, feminist studies, and taught much to those exploring the Goddess Inanna. Her work in the world seeded many minds across the globe to bring non-traditional myths to the masses. She was truly a contemporary bard.
May Goddess Embrace Diane in her Golden Wings,
Karen Tate
Karen Tate