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Come to PCA to discover new heights, flips and tricks! In a very short period of time you will be amazed at your child's development. Not only will you see their co-ordination and balance (2 very important life skills) improve dramatically, your child will have the time of their life! Smiles are huge in these classes – there is nothing quite like bouncing.
TRAMPOLINE is an excellent cross-training sport! – Did you know that children who are agile and body/space aware are less likely to hurt themselves in other sports?!? Having greater balance, coordination and better knowledge of how to protect themselves when they fall will give them an advantage on the court, field, & ice.
There are so many benefits to trampolining:
Most of all, it makes them smile, laugh and is great FUN! This sport is so easy to begin and impossible to give up! Whether your child plays basketball, football, baseball, tennis, judo, badminton, dances or figure skates….PCA can provide your child with hours of fun while improving their fitness!
All our trampoline & tumbling classes are 55min in length.
Intro to trampoline & tumbling is where it all starts! This class is for our younger jump enthusiasts (ages 3-5) that want to learn how to bounce and tumble in a safe and relaxed environment. This class will help them develop their balance, coordination flexibility and strength.
Beginner trampoline & tumbling is an introductory level for ages 6+ that focuses on the fundamentals of trampoline and tumbling. Participants in this program will develop seat drops, front drops, and back drops as well as other skills using these three fundamental positions on the trampoline. Participants will learn tumbling skills such as roundoff, back handspring, and somersaults. There are no mandatory pre-requisites (other than minimum age 6) for this level.
Intermediate/Advanced trampoline & tumbling is where the flipping begins! The intermediate level teaches both forward and backward flipping through safe progressions to ensure participants have control while airborne. For more advanced jumpers, adding twisting to flips will be explored as well as more advanced traditional combination of trampoline skills. Tumbling in this program will include connecting roundoff to back handsprings, front and back tucks. The pre-requisites are a demonstration of beginner trampoline class skills and 7 years of age.
Teens/Adults trampoline & tumbling for those 13+. The perfect class for those who want to learn the basics of trampoline or for those more experienced ex-athletes/gymnasts that want to get back in to the gym and bounce. This class will always give you a great workout without the boring repetition of lifting weights or long slow cardio. We guarantee that by joining this class you will find muscles you didn't know you have!
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Prada ditched their recent fashionista queue theme and went with a dark aquatic vibe in the Prada Womenswear Fall/Winter 2009-2010 ad campaign.
Shot by famed photographer Steven Meisel, the ads feature female models traversing dark waters on small boats. Could this be a metaphor of navigating the current economy crisis?
The ads feature models Kendra Spears, Ymre Stiekema, Julia Hafstrom, Katlin Aas and Anna de Rijk.
Implications - As women are gaining more freedom in today's society, the desire to dress in unconventional ways is gaining popularity. The demand for anything opposite of feminine is sought after in the woman's fashion market. Designers could create edgier and darker designs in order to attract the female market that is changing directions.
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Admission is FREE for children 12 years old and under.
Many activities are planned in the Children's Area which is conveniently located across from the Main Stage so parents and guardians won't miss a single act!
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We are a tiny bit in love with the Luggy. A gorgeous little white basket on wheels made for the little Toddler in your life! Kids absolutely love the Luggy as much as we do. Perfect for storing little toys and treasures, and they make a great accessory in your little one's bedroom or play area. Kids love to take them everywhere from the shops to a picnic or playground!
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The Latvian National Opera House is home to both the Latvian National Opera (LNO) and the Latvian National Ballet (LNB). In the course of a season that runs from September to June, the LNO performs approximately 200 performances, staging on average five new productions every season of both opera and ballet. While paying tribute to the traditional values of the classical and Romantic operas and ballets that are the cornerstones of its repertoire, the LNO continually strives to seek contemporary forms of expression. Under the leadership of General Director Andrejs Žagars, the LNO stage regularly resounds with successful productions of Baroque operas, modern operatic and ballet masterpieces, children's performances, and original Latvian works. The LNO is open to the world: the company has an active touring schedule with many superb guest singers, conductors, choreographers and directors frequently gracing the LNO stage. In recent seasons, the LNO has been touring to the Hong Kong Festival, the Bordeaux Opera, the Catania Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Luxembourg Opera, the Dalhalla Festival in Sweden, to Mexico.
Today, the Latvian National Ballet's repertoire is founded on the pearls of classical ballet – like Giselle, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire – as well as classic productions by contemporary choreographers that have become audience favorites, such as Romeo and Juliet, Coppélia, The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, and The Bright Stream. The legendary choreographer Boris Eifman complex and refined ballet Anna Karenina and the Argentinean choreographer Mauricio Wainrot's Tango Plus/Voyages enrich the repertoire with elements of modern dance and show our dancers' adeptness in contemporary ballet. Occasionally the repertoire includes production written by modern-day composers – both original ballets (such as Juris Karlsons's Sidraba šķidrauts (The Silver Veil) and Arturs Maskats's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and dance performances inspired by specific musical works (like Pēteris Vasks's piano quartet/ballet Skaidri neredzams (Apparently Unseen) and Arturs Maskats Tango).
Prices start at about 7 EUR up about 40 EUR for the very best seats.
The Jugend-classicistic theatre building designed by Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn was the largest building in the early 20th century Tallinn. One side of the two-wing building was intended for a theatre and the other for a concert hall. This is so also today. Between the magnificent flanks was a lower part which housed a restaurant (the White Hall) and a cloistered inner court which gave colour to the building. The theatre and concert building was inaugurated on 24 August 1913. Sculptor August Weizenberg donated to the new theatre two of his most stunning marble sculptures, "Koit" (Dawn) and "Hämarik" (Dusk) which decorated the Red Hall of the theatre.
Very different talented dancers have been active at the Estonian National Opera over different periods of time, incl. Klaudia Maldutis, Juta Arg, Erika Määrits, Veera Leever, Geeni Raudsepp, Inge Põder, Artur Koit, Boris Blinov, Uno Puusaag, Verner Hagus, Helmi Puur, Eike Joasoo, Ülle Ulla, Ilmar Silla, Verner Loo, Väino Aren, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Aime Leis, Tiiu Randviir, Juta Lehiste, Tamara Soone, Larissa Kaur, Jüri Lass, Tiit Härm, Vjatšeslav Maimussov, Jānis Garancis, Jevgeni Neff, Aleksandr Basihhin, Elita Erkina, Irina Fomina-Härm, Inge Arro, Saima Kranig, Olga Tšitšerova, Tatjana Laid, Kaie Kõrb, Tatjana Voronina, Larissa Sintsova, Juri Jekimov, Viesturs Jansons, Meelis Pakri, Toomas Rätsep, Inna Sõrmus, Age Oks, Toomas Edur, Igor Vassin, Stanislav Jermakov, Priit Kripson, Linnar Looris, Viktor Fedortšenko, Eve Andre, Marina Chirkova, Marika Muiste, Galina Lauš, Luana Georg, Heidi Kopti, Olga Rjabikova, Olga Malinovskaja, Vladimir Arhangelski, Anatoli Arhangelski, Sergei Upkin, Aleksandr Prigorovski, Maksim Tšukarjov, Artjom Maksakov, etc. Over the past ten years, young talented choreographers Marina Kesler and Oksana Titova have stood out. Their works have also been internationally recognized.
Prices start at about 7 EUR up about 40 EUR for the very best seats.
Opera in Lithuania goes back to the early 17th century. In 36 years after the genre had originated in Florence, an opera, Il ratto di Helena, written by an anonymous composer and set to a libretto by the then famous Italian librettist and musician, Virgilio Puccitelli, was first performed in Lithuania on 4 September 1636, at the court theatre of the grand duke in the Lower Castle in Vilnius.
From the second half of the 18th century to the early 19th century music and the arts, including opera and ballet, were taken under the patronage of influential noblemen from the stocks of Oginskis, Radvila, Tyzenhauzas, and others, who also held companies in their country mansions and city residencies.
In 1785 first public city theatres were opened in Vilnius and Klaipeda. From 1795 to the early 20th century Lithuania was under the domination of foreign powers - first, Poland and Germany, then Russia - which led to severe oppression of Lithuanian national culture. At that time Lithuanian theatres were run by Polish, German, Italian and Russian companies.
After the ban on Lithuanian press was lifted in 1904, the first Lithuanian opera Birute, co-authored by composer Mikas Petrauskas and playwright Gabrielius Lansbergis-Zemkalnis, was staged in Vilnius in 1906.
In 1918 Lithuania was proclaimed an independent state. However, Vilnius and its surrounding region were soon annexed to Poland. Thus Kaunas became Lithuania's provisional capital where the foremost energies of Lithuanian art, culture and sciences were consolidated for more than two decades. It was in Kaunas where the nation's first musical theatre - the Opera and Drama Playhouse - opened in 1920. With the addition of a resident ballet company in 1925, this theatre formed the basis for an institution presently known as the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre - an all-time largest and most influential establishment promoting opera and ballet in Lithuania.
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"Every year our games get called off because of the bad weather and I sit at home putting on weight. How can I stay in shape for the second half of the season?"
Iman Azizul, via Twitter
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Giovani dos Santos says:
"We have a two-week break at Christmas and I normally go to Mexico. I'm happy to go home and see family and friends, but if your team is on a good run then the last thing you want is to break that momentum.
It takes a day or two to get over the flights – and then I'll eat too many tacos on my first day! I love tacos but they're not the food a professional footballer should be eating so I limit myself to a day in winter and a week in the summer.
I'll run every day. The club give us heart monitors and a GPS watch so we know exactly what we should be doing. I go to the gym, too, and do upper body weights and runs for stamina.
Before every gym session, I'll do some cardio work on a bike. I also use a trainer because Christmas can be a complicated time. People are relaxing and think you are there for a good time too – they think I can eat burritos and tacos and drink alcohol, but I can't.
Our first game back is days after we return so we can't lose shape. The trainer makes sure I don't miss anything so I'm ready to return."
For more football tips see:
Adam Lallana: Rest, recuperate and re-energise
Jordan Henderson on starting the new season with an edge
Jack Rodwell: Get back into top gear
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text: Nearly 75% of US Consumers Are in Debt When They Die And the average debt at death is nearly $62K By Michael Harthorne, Newser Staff Posted Mar 23, 2017 11:57 AM CDT 50 comments Comments Nearly three-quarters of American consumers are dying in debt. (Getty Images/davidford) (Newser) – Millions of Americans are escaping debt—through the sweet release of death. Credit.com reports 73% of American consumers were in debt when they died. The average amount of debt held at the time of death was $61,554 (though it was only $12,875 when mortgage debt was removed). Outside of home loans, the highest average debt at death was student loans, with an average outstanding balance of $25,391. Here are the most common types of debt at death: Credit cards: 68% Mortgage loans: 37% Auto loans: 25% Personal loans: 12% Student loans: 6% The data comes from 220 million US consumers and looks specifically at those who died sometime between October and December 2016. (Read more debt stories.) My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results without voting | 10% Hilarious 15% Intriguing 48% Depressing 7% Brilliant 11% Scary 9% Ridiculous


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Canucks to give veteran defenseman Dan McGillis tryoutNHL.com @NHLdotcom
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -Veteran defenseman Dan McGillis joined the Vancouver Canucks on a tryout basis Thursday.
The 35-year-old free agent has 56 goals and 238 points in 634 career NHL games with five teams, but spent all of last season playing for Lowell of the American Hockey League. His last NHL action came with New Jersey in 2005-06, when he played 27 games.
Heading into their third preseason game Thursday night against Edmonton, the Canucks were already missing three defenseman.
Aaron Miller had abdominal surgery the day before training camp started, Sami Salo fractured his wrist in an intra-squad game Sunday, and Willie Mitchell has been resting a sore groin.


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International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Notice of open meeting.
Date: February 21, 2003.
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m and 2:30 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Place: U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, Room 4830 (Room 3407 has also been reserved as a backup).
The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) will hold a plenary meeting on February 21, 2003 at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The ETTAC will discuss administrative and trade issues including the status of trade negotiations in regards to environmental technologies trade liberalization and recent management changes within the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership Program (USAEP). Time will be permitted for public comment. The meeting is open to the public.
Written comments concerning ETTAC affairs are welcome anytime before or after the meeting. Minutes will be available within 30 days of this meeting.
The ETTAC is mandated by Public Law 103-392. It was created to advise the U.S. government on environmental trade policies and programs, and to help it to focus its resources on increasing the exports of the U.S. environmental industry. ETTAC operates as an advisory committee to the Secretary of Commerce and the interagency Environmental Trade Working Group (ETWG) of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC). ETTAC was originally chartered in May of 1994. It was most recently rechartered until May 30, 2004.
For further information phone Corey Wright, Office of Environmental Technologies Industries (ETI), International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-5225. This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to ETI.Start Signature
Dated: January 13, 2003.
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I started playing today. Them kids sure love cut scenes don't they? Well, I hate them. I would like to be able to play more than two minutes at a time without watching some stupid movie. I know, I know, I sound like a broken record. I just can't get over how frustrating I find them.
The game thus far is rather unremarkable. I am not real confortable at how the game has sexualized a little girl. Alice is all gothy and has this seductive voice. …and she's what? 12? Nice.


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July 16th 1918.
Today we were reviewed by
Sir Douglas Haig. In the
evening the Germans shelled
our area & for a time
we were kept guessing.
No damage done, however.
July 17th 1918.
Poor Davidson! He was one
of a party of men sent to
the trenches for general
observation & on his way
back was killed by
machine gun fire. He said
to the fellow next to him
Jesus! That was close wasn't
it? And the next instant
he toppled over dead. It
seems that he didn't feel
July 18th 18.
I am now in Leulingham
France attending a special
cannon school. We rode in
Lorries all the way from
Abeele Belgium. I felt very
sore & stiff when we
finally arrived here. The
37 m/m platoon I belong to
requires specially trained
men hence the school.
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greasy army stew & believe
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At the beginning of last month I started a new routine with our daughter so that she would end each day by writing down the things that had made her happy. This is to help her focus on the good things in life rather than dwell on the negative points. Each night she has written her thoughts down on a post it note and put them in a box. This weekend we have read all the notes and have made them into a laminated collage. I think she was shocked that she managed to cover 2 sides of A4 with all her happy thoughts. People with ASD often focus on the negatives in life and forget about all the good things.
We are going to do this each month to get our daughter into the habit of realising that there is so much going on in her world to be happy about.


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Bump Ever Since, the latest cut from The-Dream. It dropped on Friday, June 11th, 2010. The-Dream's horizons are broadening with each new release, and Ever Since is no exception. It's a worthy addition to a catalogue that has seen much growth since The-Dream stepped foot in the rap game. We're looking forward to hearing more.
Hear more of The-Dream on Turnt Out. If you dig this, visit The-Dream's profile for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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Cuomo Woman's Equality Act plan includes human trafficking agenda
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to crack down on human trafficking, submitted to the state Legislature as part of his Women's Equality Act, comes as New York lags behind other states in attacking the problem.
Experts say thousands of people are trafficked every year in New York -- as sex slaves or forced farm workers. Yet relatively few arrests are made, largely because of legal obstacles and the victims' fear of coming forward.
"In New York, as far as human trafficking is concerned, we're where the domestic violence movement was 25 to 30 years ago," said Emily Amick, a lawyer with Sanctuary for New York Families, an advocacy group.
Cuomo's proposed legislation would toughen penalties, making trafficking a Class B felony -- a violent crime with a minimum sentence of 5 years. Offenders now face as little as a year in jail.
"Governor Cuomo's legislation recognizes the incredible violence of human trafficking," Amick said.
Under the measure, sex slaves arrested in connection with prostitution could cite trafficking as a defense -- a move advocates believe could lead to more investigations of human slavery rings. Prosecutors would also no longer have to prove juveniles were coerced or tricked into slavery.
Though experts say New York is a human trafficking hot spot, just 77 people were arrested last year, according to the state Department of Criminal Justice. California authorities made 599 arrests in the first half of 2012, statistics show.
Nine out of 10 planks in Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, which includes workplace measures improving pay equity and ending pregnancy discrimination, enjoy bipartisan support. The governor wants the legislature to act before it adjourns Thursday.
The bills' fate, however, is uncertain because Cuomo's proposal includes an abortion bill opposed by conservatives, including Senate co-leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre).
The Senate has approved its own anti-trafficking bill. But the Assembly wants to strengthen the human trafficking laws that are among Cuomo's bills.
Most victims U.S. citizens
New York City is a magnet for runaway teens and home to a large population of low-income and undereducated people, many of whom are immigrants. There's also convenient access to international airports.
Trafficking is often viewed as purely an overseas problem. But that's not the case.
"The greatest percentage of any nationality of our victims is U.S. citizens," said David Rogers, the FBI's human trafficking program manager. "That is something most people don't understand."
Statistics are sparse because it's a hidden crime that occurs behind closed doors, or ensnares people who fear being reported to child care or immigration authorities.
Following raids earlier this week, 11 owners or managers of 7-Eleven convenience stores on Long Island and Virginia are accused of exploiting workers living her illegally by forcing them to work long hours and confiscating their pay.
At least 11,268 trafficking survivors in the metropolitan area were in contact with private service providers from 2000 to 2010, according to a 2011 Hofstra University study.
Nearly 88 percent were women and almost 72 percent were trafficked for sex, with other victims forced into domestic or farm labor. More than half were younger than 18 and two-thirds were born in the United States, the study found.
In Nassau and Queens counties, an emerging trend is traffickers bringing in Asian women from other areas to local massage parlors, according to a federal prosecutor who requested anonymity. Those sex slave cases are tough to prosecute because many victims fear bringing dishonor on their families.
"They'd rather be deported than have their family back home find out," the prosecutor said.
'I tried to leave'
Many victims won't talk to authorities because they're too traumatized. Others have been threatened with violence.
"He knew exactly how to break me," said Kenya, whose four-year ordeal as a sex slave began when she was 18. She spoke recently during a conference call with Amick, her attorney.
Amick said all of Kenya's related convictions were expunged June 10 in Manhattan.
Her ordeal began, she said, when her father locked her out of their Queens home and she was taken in by a man she thought loved her. He turned out to be a pimp. Later, after being sold to another pimp, the teen said she was forced to have sex with men in hotels.
"I tried to leave and he beat me with a bat," said Kenya, an alias she uses for protection.
Currently working as a waitress, she said she wants to become a social worker so that she can help other human trafficking survivors.
"There are still a lot of girls out there who need my assistance," she said.


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You didn't really think I would leave you? Did you?
Those are just a couple of questions without answers to start today's "Q" session.
A lot of you got fooled by Monday's April Fools column, judging by the number of calls I got on the 24-Hour Sportsline (647-2499). In the column, I said I was leaving after 14 years, and I even ran into a few people in the grocery store and elsewhere who wished me well.
One of the best calls to the Sportsline was: "Pat, I read your column and I had tears come to my eyes, the thought of you leaving, AprilFools!"


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Re: maize in ancient India: transpacific links (cont.)Hu McCulloch (email@example.com)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:18:20 GMT
JR Bauer writes, RE the Johannessen and Parker article
>If they had corn in India, why didn't they continue to grow it?
According to J&P critics Payak and Sachan (EB 1993 202-5),
My hunch is that maize prospered for several decades, or
I am told that maize will not fertilize itself unless it is manually
P&S say, following Prof. Prabhu Shanker of the Dept. of Ancient
Please note that I have added soc.culture.indian to this thread.
-- Hu McCulloch


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Former Ralph Lauren and Levi Strauss designer Loren Cronk's newly opened Greenpoint shop Loren peddles small-batch women's and men's jeans from brands like Soldier & Brave (the line's U.S. debut), Blksmth, and Melody, with contemporary styles priced as low as $69. For serious jean junkies, however, the draw is the custom service:Cronk will measure, stitch, stone-wash, and sand a pair of jeans by hand (from $400). 82 Nassau St., nr. Manhattan Ave., Greenpoint; 646-413-4984; open Friday through Sunday.
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A Yarra Vallery winemaker tells why his latest release was made in Burgundy.
In his seminal 2002 publication Oberon Kant's Big Book of Wine, the venerable English-born wine commentator said that "if New World wine producers showed any hint of innovation or intelligence they would buy some land in Burgundy and make their wine there".
At the time many Australian winemakers thought this sort of comment ridiculous in the extreme. Australian wine was a world-beater; it was loved by everyone, and it was full of heightened aromas and generous, happy flavours.
Everyone agreed it was easy to sell. But some winemakers wondered how easy, not to say enjoyable, it was to drink.
Steve Webber, winemaker at De Bortoli in the Yarra Valley, had such thoughts. He knew all the technological winemaking secrets; he knew about wine production and volume and consistency.
He was, after all, responsible for producing wines such as Windy Peak - one of Australia's best-value wine ranges.
But Webber wanted more. Actually, he wanted less. He wanted to make wine by feel and by thought, not by operation sheets and winery production deadlines. He was making good pinot in the Yarra Valley, but he wanted to make it better by making it with less artifice and industrial application.
So he went to Burgundy and signed a contract on a Gevrey-Chambertin village vineyard in the Cote de Nuits. He didn't want to learn Burgundian winemaking tricks so much as to understand their attitude and approach. It was, Webber reckons, a cultural and philosophical endeavour.
The fruits of his labours are soon to be released in Australia. About 200 cases of De Bortoli Gevrey-Chambertin Combe de Bas 2003 lands here in late August. To be sold through De Bortoli's Yarra Valley cellar door (at about $80 a bottle), and also through some restaurants, the wine represents a remarkable cross-cultural winemaking odyssey.
Webber says that a change in viticultural and winemaking philosophy started at De Bortoli about five years ago.
"Planting vineyards away from the sun; hand-pruning and hand-picking grapes; leaving the fermenting and fermented wine alone - not playing with it too much; we started to think very differently about wine."
Indeed, Webber says, his involvement in Burgundy, and his understanding of the notion of terroir, has changed his entire approach.
"We started to see what the UK wine trade say about Australian wine - they've been complaining about all that full-on flavour. Wine is not just about full flavour in the bottle." Webber wanted some subtlety.
The De Bortoli Gevrey-Chambertin began in 2003, one of Burgundy's more extreme vintages. Heat knocked everything around.
But a winemaker has to start somewhere. Webber started by looking for fruit. He contacted a courtier (a growers' representative).
The result was a small vineyard just to the north of Gevrey-Chambertin called Combe de Bas. The vineyard is split up the middle by a road heading to Brochon. On the left is Denis Mortt's vineyard, on the right, De Bortoli.
"Two-thirds of the vineyard is 75-year-old vines; the other third is very young - about 40 years," says Webber.
Now that he had the vines, he had to find somewhere to make the wine, and he needed someone to act as the wine's negotiant. The legal and business angles in the deal could have been insurmountable, but Webber was lucky enough to come across some like-minded people.
"People like Dominique Portet (the Yarra Valley-ensconsed Frenchman behind Portet and, formerly, Taltarni) put me in touch with Pierre Naigeon, a grower and restaurateur and also an exporter who has done quite a bit of work with Dan Murphy's imported wines.
''He introduced us to another negotiant, Pascal Roblet-Monnot, who has vineyards in Volnay and Pommard. I'd never liked Pommard much, but when I tasted Pascal's I was blown away. He was into biodynamic practices, and non-intervention, minimum handling. He was all about quality fruit. And that's what we wanted to do."
The first vintage was like a Carry On film, if you hear Webber tell the story. He bought a small fermenter and found some space to make the wine to the south, in Blagny, about 30 minutes away by car.
He hand-picked the grapes before shuttling them in small four-kilogram trays in the back of a hire car to the fermenter.
"My wife Leanne has photos of me hand-picking these grapes," says Webber. "The photos give people a laugh; I haven't hand-picked anything in 20 years! Doing just one row nearly killed me."
The next step involved careful triage, or grape sorting. Webber wanted to be meticulous, making sure only the best grapes went into the wine. He rejected about 25 per cent of the grapes.
"We fermented it, bought some oak, hired some space underneath the town hall in Blagny, and 12 months later we bottled it by hand. The '03 vintage was tough and hot, so we thought it best to get the wine into bottle."
The project has been a personal and professional one for Webber and his family. "I can't really say I learnt anything technically, but we came to a new understanding of wine.
"The Gevrey experience has shown how to do things more simply. It's all about the vineyard and getting perfect fruit into the fermenter. It's about plunging caps on wine when you need to, not just when the manual tells you to. It's about feeling the wine through."
Webber reckons the best thing about his Gevrey-Chambertin is the way it has helped reinforce his approach in the Yarra Valley. Hand-pruning and hand-picking; lots of sorting and careful de-stemming; winemakers who work rather than winemakers who sit behind desks or do lunch.
"This last vintage in the Yarra, we plunged the wine three times, we added sulphur after malo, the wine was gravity-fed rather than pumped. No centrifuge or any of that stuff. Simple winemaking."
And that's what Webber is on about. Whether it be Gevrey-Chambertin or Yarra Valley pinot noir, it's about making real wine. As he says, "I'm not interested in making oak and alcohol."
De Bortoli a Gevrey-Chambertin Combe de Bas 2003 will be released in late August.
Phone De Bortoli cellar door for details, 5965 2271.


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You no way of knowing that Rupert Gethin -( who is a Dhamma practitioner) - is not a serious practitioner or that he will fail to reach enlightenment, nor that Richard Gombrich will fail to reach enlightenment. Neither do you know for sure who is a good or bad practitioner amongst people on the internet who you've never met.zengen wrote: These two professors are no doubt very highly educated and highly intellectual. But I doubt they are serious Dhamma practitioners. They can rely on their sharp intellect for eons, but fail to attain enlightenment.
There are internet Buddhists that are very good practitioners. Don't look down on them.
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Many of you remember the show Salute Your Shorts. And many of you remember all your favorite characters; Budnick, Sponge, Donkey Lips, etc. What are some of these people up to now you ask? Well I have an answer. I lived my childhood dream recently by talking to Michael Bower, who played Donkey Lips. Here's what he had to say.
Who were you closest with on the set of Salute Your Shorts? The craft service table, ABBA ZABBA WAS MY ONLY FRIEND.
Why the nickname Donkey Lips? You would have to ask the writers that question, but Kevin Smith recently showed us why everyone loves a good donkey show.
What's your best memory on the set of Salute Your Shorts? Just being a kid and getting to film some real cool and funny scenes. So my memories are more like dreams coming true.
Is there an episode that you find to be particularly meaningful? The episode where I had to build bird houses, because in that episode the nerd became a CEO. Plus I went to the hospital with a head freeze disease from all those ice pops
Did playing Donkey Lips ever help you get chicks? Well Playboy models always say they want a man that can make them laugh- and to this day I have never once made a Playboy model laugh into my bed (and I'm a pretty funny guy)
Were you friends with any other Nickelodeon Stars? Clarrissa and I go way back but we had a falling out due to a certain hottie on Kids Incorporated (don't want any dramanoo no no drama) Fergilicious -true story
What, exactly, is an Awful Waffle? It's making a human waffle. Take a round tennis racket and some maple syrup, rip a nerds shirt off, force the tennis racket into his stomach creating the round waffle effect and pour the syrup. You become a human waffle and it feels awful- hence the Awful Waffle.
Did you ever go to summer camp? YES I DID. It was called Camp Max Strauss and let's just say I wasn't the only fat kid there.
What's your favorite Salute Your Shorts? Mine is the either the bunk chief elections or the two-parter where Budnick has a crush on Dina. I can't decide. Mine is Sponge Goes on a Date. I just thought that episode was fun and the sets were amazing for a small production.
What's your favorite non-Salute-Your-Shorts Nick show? You cant do that on tv (barf)
Favorite Nick game show? Double dare.
Same! How often are you recognized? At least once a day but not always for that role.
Do you still keep in touch with any of the other cast members? All of them and to this day we all still hate each other. (They know im playing)
What do you miss the most about being on Salute Your Shorts? To be honest nothing. I am glad to have experienced it once and now I can move on as an adult actor and continue in the entertainment industry.
Did Budnick get all diva-ish after his role in Terminator 2? No but he did bring John Connor by the set and we all knew who was looking for him, so we were doomed- but Ug handled the T-1000 with water buckets
I'm like 94% sure that I saw you on Singled Out… Did I? Yes you did, I'm friends with Jenny McCarthy, the host, and she knew I needed a date so she snuck me in. But of course I'm a bad ass and I lost on purpose cause I'm a pimp. End quote.
What are you up to these days?I have a small production company and comedy troop and I am trying to make funny movies or full length features (work in progress) as well as continuing to be a great and talented actor- ready for a huge comeback story.
P.S. if you guys read anything about me being gay it's true (I'm a happy guy) lol
Thanks everyone for believing in me, find me at www.michaelraybower.com
Thanks for talking with me Michael! I will truly always hold Camp Anawana in my heart.


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|Altzar: Connecting heaven and earth in service of man
By Bob Altzar Djurdjevic
29 Nov 2012
An essay on uses and abuses of energy in Hawaii and on our planet - updated Nov 20, 2012 - see MECO CEO Responds
Electrified! Yes, But Also Robbed...
We are now net PROVIDERS of clean energy to our public utility; so you'd think it would be time to rejoice? Think again: Hawaiian government and utilities are colluding to rob clean energy producers blind; Hard to believe? Well, check out this essay then...
An essay on uses and abuses of energy in Hawaii and on our planet - an update
Electrified! Yes, But Also Robbed...
We are now net PROVIDERS of clean energy to our public utility; so you'd think it would be time to rejoice? Think again: Hawaiian government and utilities are colluding to rob clean energy producers blind; Hard to believe? Well, check out this essay then...
HAIKU, Maui, Nov 4, 2012 - We've come a long way since that operatic weekend in Honolulu (see "Electrified! (by new Leaf)", Feb 2012). Since late May, Elizabeth and I have been driving a 100% electric car (Nissan Leaf). Furthermore, all our energy needs are being met and, in fact, exceeded by our new solar system which went online two months ago. We have had to spit nails and kick some butts before that happened. But once the system was hooked up to the Maui Electric Company (MECO) net meter in early September, everything ran as smoothly as silk.
In the last two months, we have become net energy PRODUCERS. After meeting all of our electric power needs, including the "fuel" for our new Leaf, we still have about 9 kwH per day of electric power left over from our solar system. Which we have been feeding into the MECO system.
And we are giving them 100% "clean" renewable energy. Compare that to 85% of MECO's electricity which still comes from "dirty" imported fossil fuels. No wonder Hawaii's electricity costs are three times the national average (see the charts).
So you'd think this would be a time to rejoice? So did I. Until I had a talk this week with a MECO representative. I had called to find out how our local utility company would compensate us for the surplus electricity that our solar system is now providing to their grid. During the last 56 days, we have put 512 kWh of our "CLEAN" solar energy into their grid. That's almost 9 kWh per day or over $100 per month at MECO's retail rates. So I wanted to know how we would get compensated for it.
I was shocked to learn from MECO that we would receive NO compensation at all! Instead we are actually being billed by MECO the minimum monthly rate for just having a net meter installed.
"That's highway robbery," I told the MECO representative. "That's like us providing fuel to a gas station for free, which the gas station owner then resells it to other customers at highly inflated rates" (three times the national average, as I said). Do you think Shell, Chevron or Exxon would every agree to a deal like that?
He was sympathetic but pointed out that MECO was just following the rules set out by the Hawaii PUC (Public Utilities Commission).
"In that case, they should change their name to CORPORATE Utilities Commission," I replied. "Because such rules have nothing to do with PUBLIC interests. They are only serving the interests of corporations."
Which is a travesty, of course. So I wrote to Sharon Suzuki, MECO's CEO (right photo - firstname.lastname@example.com), and copied all PUC aka CUC commissioners on the letter (see below), along with the Hawaii Governor who appointed them. I told them all, "the rules have got to change." (click here to see a PDF of the MECO letter).
Here we have tens of thousands of private solar producers in Hawaii doing what the government should be doing but isn't - generating clean energy and thus reducing our dependence of dirty foreign imports. And instead of being compensated for it perhaps at even higher rates that those MECO charges for its dirty electricity, these taxpayers are being robbed by the local electrical utilities in complicity with the government. Together, they are forcing us to hook up to MECO's grid and supply them with our clean energy. Which, in turn, they are resell without having to pay for it.
No wonder MECO generated $417 million in sales of electricity last year. How much of that amount did they misappropriate from the renewable energy suppliers like ourselves? That's the question I posed to Suzuki and to all other recipients of my letter.
As for the Hawaii state government and the "CUC," what kind of a twisted minds would would devise the rules that put taxpayers who pay these officials' salaries at a disadvantage? And then have the audacity to call themselves "public" servants!
Here they are. Let me introduce the members of the PUC aka "CUC" to you:
Hermina M. Morita
Tel:808-586-2020, email@example.com
Lorraine H. Akiba
Tel:808-586-2020, email@example.com
Michael E. Champley
Commissioner, Tel:808-586-2020, firstname.lastname@example.com
So in my letter, I asked all them collectively - MECO, CUC, Governor - to please do the right thing. Change the rules so that solar or wind energy suppliers of surplus electricity are fairly compensated by MECO at or higher rates (since it is clean energy) than what MECO is charging its customers. And to do it RETROACTIVELY, from the first day each supplier had the renewable energy system installed.
Anxiously awaiting their prompt response. But based on their track record, I am not holding my breath. So I ask you to join me in this quest for renewable energy and voice your own opinion to them. Their emails are shown above. Thank you.
Meanwhile, this is how I closed that "LivingBetter" magazine piece. Everything I said back then still applies, the good and the bad. Which includes the last paragraph...
Bob Altzar Djurdjevic is a writer, musician, shaman and consultant based in Haiku, Maui, Hawaii. You can find more of his research and columns at www.gaiasteward.org (environment); www.altzar.org (arts & spirituality), www.truthinmedia.org (geopolitical) and www.djurdjevic.com (business).
ALTZAR's Reply: Thanks for sharing that article. Sounds like your friend from Lanai has come to the same conclusion as I - that PUC is "public" in name only, while serving Corporate interests. Yes, I am looking forward to seeing you elected and starting to dismantle such corporate in-breeding.
I had a good laugh at your suggestion that maybe we should start a Haiku electric utility. Not that there was anything funny about it. I laughed because three days ago, I said something of the kind myself to Elizabeth. I said, "why don't we offer to sell our extra electricity to our neighbors?" I'd rather see our "clean" energy being used by the people we know than by strangers through MECO.
Let's consider the merits of that seriously after the election. Again, good luck and blessings for Nov 6. You've got at least two votes in the bag. :-)
ALTZAR's Reply: Thanks for your empathy and understanding, Madeline. It means a lot to me to have friends like you who sheer for sunshine even if they have relatively little of it themselves. Inti Taiti (Father Sun) will reward you in his own way, I am sure. May I share your comment with my other friends and readers?
You might be also interested in something else that happened last night on the positive side. Earlier in the week, when I was thinking about doing this piece, I told Elizabeth that rather than have the public utility use our excess electricity to their benefit and profit, maybe we should offer to sell it to some of our neighbors and use a private electrical contractor to distribute it to them.
Well, last night, a neighbor wrote to me after reading this story, and suggested something like that. He said maybe we should form a Haiku (name of our town) electrical utility and pool our resources for the benefits of residents on both sides of the fence. He said he himself would be happy to use the extra electricity we have at the moment.
The best part? He is a candidate for Representative in State of Hawaii Legislature. The elections are tomorrow. He said if elected, he would make something like this his priority when he goes to Honolulu (our state capital). :-)
See how Inti Taiti works in miraculous ways? :-) Love ALTZAR
ALTZAR's Reply (copying all original letter recipients): Dear Ms Suzuki and all,
Thought you'd be interested in seeing a comment I just received from a reader in Canada. As you can see, Ontario utilities do pay for surplus electricity they receive from their solar customers, and they pay more than double the rate they charge for their "dirty" electricity.
THAT's what we also need here in Hawaii.
Bob Dj.
Utilities Do Pay and They Pay PREMIUM Rates for Surplus Electricity in CanadaHAIKU, Nov 6 - Just got a comment from a reader in Canada. They do pay for surplus energy in Ontario, and at that, they pay more than double the rate the utilities charge their customers. Here's the comment:
ALTZAR's Reply: Thanks. Wish there was a way we could export our surplus electricity to the folks in the northeast who are still suffering from power outages due to Sandy (hurricane).
*NOTE: MECO, our electric utility companies uses fossil fuels for the most part to generate electricity. Here in Maui, 85% of the electricity comes from oil. Yuck! But the Hawaiian electric utility company said it has set as its goal to generate 40% of the electric power from renewable sources by 2030. Today, that share is only 14%. Yet it is MUCH higher than in the rest of the U.S. Renewable energy sources account for only 8% of the electric power produced nationally (right chart).
Think about it and weep. But not for long. Then get up and resolve to do something about that, too. Contact your utility companies and government representatives and tell them that that's just NOT GOOD ENOUGH. That instead of subsidizing the wasteful car companies, they must provide financial incentives for the public and entrepreneurs to create new sources of energy, ones which do not pollute and kill.
If you want to learn more about our practical experiences with Nissan Leaf, click here to send us some specific questions. We would be glad to share what we have learned.
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OTHER ELECTRIC AND HYBRID CARS and Myths and Facts About Electric Cars,
And now, here's a letter I received on Nov 14 from MECO CEO Sharon Suzuki in response to my letter and this article:
Dear Mr. Djurdjevic,
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your concerns.
The Net Energy Metering program offers Maui Electric customers an opportunity to offset their electricity purchases with electricity they generate. Therefore, they receive credit at the full retail electricity rate for the energy generated rather than being paid at the wholesale rate normally paid for energy purchases. Any surplus electricity generated by the customer can be carried over a12-month reconciliation period. As Jamie communicated previously, this rule is consistent with our Public Utilities Commission-approved tariffs, MECO Rule No. 18, Section C Metering and Billing, and the Net Energy Metering law as set forth in Hawaii Revised Statues 269-106. Net Energy Metering generally is most appropriate for customers who have photovoltaic ("PV") systems sized to meet their own energy requirements.
Maui Electric also has the Feed-In Tariff ("FIT") program, through which the owner of the generator is compensated for any excess energy provided to Maui Electric's grid. If you are interested in the FIT program, additional information can be found on Maui Electric's FIT webpage. We commend you for taking the initiative to use a clean, renewable source to meet your energy needs.
Regarding the concerns you raised about reliability, while we do our very best to provide clean, safe, and reliable electricity, there are times when power outages result from circumstances that are beyond our control. Two independent disturbances occurred on the November 6 and 7 resulting in your temporary power loss. We sincerely apologize for any disruption this may have caused. The interruptions in service were not related to the delivery of solar electricity into the Maui Electric grid, nor are customers required to feed solar electricity into the grid – batteries can be used to store the electricity provided the PV system is designed to do so.
I also would like to address the delay you relayed about responding to your initial phone calls. Our goal is to provide a prompt response to our customers concerns and it appears we did not do that in this case. I sincerely apologize for that and we will work to address that immediately.
If you have any further questions, please contact Steven Rymsha in our Renewable Energy Services Department at (808) 872-3292.
ALTZAR: The FIT program to which the MECO CEO is referring is something that her own people (Jamie) told me would not be worth the trouble. It pays only a fraction of the rate MECO charges for its electricity and only after some onerous conditions are met. So we are back to square one and the bottom line of this article: The Maui/Hawaiian public utility and the "Public" Utility Commission are colluding to commit a robbery of the public who provide clean, renewable energy to their "dirty" electrical grid.
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Information & Inspection Powers: penalties: when is a penalty chargeable: reasonable excuse: shortage of funds
Where there is a financial cost involved in assembling information, retrieving documents or allowing an inspection, a shortage of funds is not in itself a reasonable excuse. You must consider why the person did not have the funds.
Assembling documents should involve little expense for a person who has reasonably well-ordered records. On the other hand, having to assemble information may well require additional expense. We expect the person to make arrangements to meet any costs of complying with the information notice or inspection at the appropriate time. Cash-flow problems, which are a normal cycle of business life, are not a reasonable excuse.
However, a person may have a reasonable excuse for failing to comply with an information notice when
- the failure resulted from a shortage of funds, and
- the shortage occurred despite the person exercising reasonable care and due diligence, having given proper regard to their obligation to comply with the information notice.
When considering if there is a reasonable excuse you must look at the circumstances that gave rise to the shortage of funds. If you accept there is a reasonable excuse for the shortage of funds you must also consider if the person remedied the failure without unreasonable delay after the excuse has ended, see CH26460.
Each case must be considered taking into account all of the circumstances that gave rise to the failure to comply with the information notice.
For example
Paul received an information notice requiring his statutory records for his previous accounting period. He didn't have enough money to pay his storage firm to retrieve the documents from storage because he had not received payment of his invoices from a main customer, A Ltd, which had gone into administration. We may accept that Paul has a reasonable excuse for failing to comply with the information notice requiring production of those documents.
Paul's reasonable excuse ends when A Ltd pays the outstanding invoices or he otherwise comes into funds. We would expect him to produce the documents without unreasonable delay thereafter.
If Paul explained the situation to us it may be sensible to extend the period given by the information notice to produce the records, see CH23420.
Remember that there is no statutory definition of 'reasonable' or 'unreasonable'. Each case must be judged on its own merits in view of the person's abilities and circumstances. See CH26340 and CH26360.
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If marriage is going to reach its potential, it will require an all-out investment by both husband and wife. –What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women
Just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. (Luke 6:31 NKJV)
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Man Ray
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Par MMaxi le 5 March 2007 à 20:50
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Bert Teunissen: Domestic Landscapes
December 2 March 4, 2007
Bert Teunissen made more than 300 photographs over the last ten years for his long-term photographic project Domestic Landscapes. A broad selection is being shown this winter in Huis Marseille. In various European countries he sought out the interiors of houses in which daylight still determines the furnishings, the atmosphere and the daily life of the inhabitants. Houses that were built long before the Second World War, before electricity started to have an influence on the rhythm of life. Teunissen is searching for the light that he remembers from his parental home, while at the same time documenting an authentic way of life that is disappearing under the pressure of advancing modernization and stringent EU regulations.
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Par MMaxi le 2 March 2007 à 02:31
Egon Schiele in his studio, 1915
I leave Thursday to Vienna, I can't wait to see Egon Schiele's work.
For that reason and to be with Love after the long separation.
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Par MMaxi le 28 February 2007 à 16:27
Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston-upon-Thames, England. He is believed to have changed his first name to match that of King Eadweard as shown on the plinth of the Kingston coronation stone, which was re-erected in Kingston in 1850. Muggeridge became Muygridge and then Muybridge after he had emigrated to the United States in the early 1850s.
In 1855 Muybridge arrived in San Francisco, starting his career as a publisher's agent and bookseller. He developed an interest in photography that seems to have been boosted when he was recovering in England after nearly being killed in a stagecoach crash in 1860. By 1866, Muybridge returned to San Francisco and joined up with a local photo business. It has been suggested that he acted as an assistant to landscape photographer Carleton E. Watkins, but there is little evidence of this.
Muybridge began to build his reputation in 1867 with photos of Yosemite and San Francisco (many of the Yosemite photographs reproduced the same scenes taken by Watkins). Muybridge quickly became famous for his landscape photographs, which showed the grandeur and expansiveness of the West. The images were published under the pseudonym "Helios." In the summer of 1868 Muybridge was commissioned to photograph one of the U.S. Army's expeditions into the recently territorialized Alaska purchase.
In 1871 the California Geological Survey invited Muybridge to photograph for the High Sierra survey. That same year he married Flora Stone. He then spent several years traveling as a successful photographer. By 1873 the Central Pacific Railroad had advanced into Indian territory and the United States Army hired Muybridge to photograph the ensuing Modoc Wars.
In 1874, still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his wife had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On October 17, 1874, he sought out Larkyns; said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"; and shot and killed him.[2]
Muybridge thought his wife's son had been fathered by Larkyns (although, as an adult, the young man had a remarkable resemblance to Muybridge). He was put on trial for the killing, but acquitted of the killing on the grounds that it was "justifiable homicide." The inquiry interrupted the horse photography experiment, but not Stanford's support of Muybridge; Stanford paid for his criminal defense.
After the acquittal, Muybridge left the U.S. for a time and photographed in Central America, returning in 1877. The son, Florado Helios Muybridge (nicknamed "Floddie" by friends) was placed in an orphanage, and worked as a ranch hand and gardener as an adult. He died at age 69 in 1944, after being hit by a car.
This episode in Muybridge's life is the subject of The Photographer, a 1982 opera by Philip Glass, with words drawn from the trial and Muybridge's letters to his wife.
In 1985 the music video for Larry Gowan's single "(You're A) Strange Animal" prominently featured animation rotoscoped from Muybridge's work. In 1993, U2 made a video to their song "Lemon" into a tribute to Muybridge's techniques. In 2004, the electronic music group The Crystal Method made a music video to their song "Born Too Slow" which was based on Muybridge's work, including a man walking in front of a background grid.
In the summer of 2004, during the Summer Olympic games which were held in Greece, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts housed an exhibition highlighting ancient Greece and included 2 of Muybridge's photograph plates hanging next to more modern representations of athletes as part of the exhibit.
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Kingston University, Surrey, UK has a building named in recognition of his work as one of Britains most influential photographers.
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Pittsburgh Steelers (6-6) @ Cleveland Browns (1-11) Thursday NightDecember 10, 2009
STEELERS at BROWNS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009 KICKOFF 8:20 P.M. CLEVELAND BROWNS STADIUM NFL NETWORK
This is a must win game for the Steelers to even have a chance to get in the playoffs. The game would mean everything for Browns fans and forget about this whole season.
Last week the Pittsburgh Steelers lost their 4th game in a row vs the Oakland Raiders, 27-24 at Heinz Field. Letting Bruce Gradkowski rip 308 passing yards and 3 TD's.
The Cleveland Browns found some daylight on offense while QB Brady Quinn threw for 281 yards and 3 TD's vs the San Diego Chargers defense. The Browns fell short 23-30 at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
The game also has the makings of being the coldest game ever in the rivalry, the latest National Weather Service forecast calls for it to be 18 degrees with a 54 percent chance of snow at 8 p.m., just before kickoff.
By 11 p.m., the temperature is predicted to drop to 17 degrees, with a wind chill of 3 degrees below zero.
Expect the run game to establish, Steelers Rashard Mendenhall will be a big factor in this one, for the Cleveland Browns it's RB Jerome Harrison who scored 2 TD's vs the Chargers last week.
A surprise player can be TE Evan Moore for the Browns who made his NFL debut last week after being activated to the full roster from the practice squad. Evan had 6 receptions for 80 yards in his debut.
And of course, QB Brady Quinn as he gets to develop and this is a huge chance for him to gain his respect from Browns fans while the Steeler secondary is injured, expect Brady to have a good game.
Hines Ward is expected to try to play the game due to a hamstring injury. No official word if he will start.


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Release Date: October 10
Platforms available on: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Developer: Team 17
Publisher: Warner Bros Interactive
Genre: Turn-based strategy
The Worms series has seen a comeback over the last few years thanks to re-releases of the classic games on modern platforms. As a new generation of gamers have discovered Team 17's unique mix of turn-based strategy and humor, the studio launched a 2010 reboot that left fans new and old feeling like it was simply more of the same. Two years later we now finally have a Worms game that actually feels new with Worms Revolution.
At the core of Worms Revolution, very little has actually changed. Teams of four worms do battle across a variety of 2D battlefields, taking turns as they bombard each other (and the terrain) in an attempt to be the last worm standing. Though the gameplay remains on the classic 2D plane, the arenas, worms and environmental objects are all rendered in 3D, making Worms Revolution the most detailed game in the series yet.
The extra detail allows Team17 to build on the franchise's signature humor, bringing each worm to life with goofy animations or destroying pieces of the background along with the terrain when you cause a particularly powerful explosion.
While the classic Worms formula is still intact, Team17 has built on top and around it in a number of ways. What perhaps seems to be the largest change comes from the introduction of classes. In addition to the standard soldier worm are the new scientist, scout and heavy classes, each with their own unique traits.
Scientists play a support role, making them unable to take much damage while healing all teammates with each turn and gaining a bonus when using support items like sentry guns and electromagnets.
Scouts are the fastest and smallest worms, allowing them to squeeze into tight corners and cover more ground each turn making them excellent for picking up weapon drops, but they have the weakest attack and defensive capabilities in the game. Finally there are the Heavies, which are slow and barely capable of jumping, but can take more damage than the others and pack extra power into every attack.
In practice though, the classes don't have as much of an impact on strategy as you might expect. A well-placed shot will often cause more damage due to destroyed terrain and environmental hazards than the weapon itself, so each class's power differences aren't offered much room to shine.
Mobility and worm placement, on the other hand, is always crucial in a match, making the Scouts and Heavies interesting additions with which the multiplayer community will no doubt find a slew of new strategies to implement.
The environments themselves bring new hazards too, with the inclusion of physics objects. Physics objects come in a variety of forms, from wrenches and lighters to chemical flasks and boxes of rat poison.
Unlike the battlefield terrain, physics objects will retain their shape when shot, making them valuable tools both as platforms and as weapons if you can manage to drop one on an unsuspecting enemy's head. They can still be destroyed if they take enough damage (as well as repaired with the new wrench tool), often with devastating effects on a large surrounding area when they explode.
Water also plays a larger role in Worms Revolution. Battlefields throughout the series have been surrounded by water, causing instant death if a worm falls in, but for the first time water is also a part of the battlefield.
The water is governed by physics, allowing it to pour down hills, pool in holes and splatter when hit with an explosive. A stream of water rolling down a hill can flush a worm right off the map, while a worm caught in a pool will have reduced movement and take damage each turn.
Worms Revolution features new weapons to showcase water's new-found role in the game. The new water pistol sprays a constant stream while water balloon and water air raid can quickly flood an area. These new weapons don't cause any direct damage, making them highly situational in their effectiveness, but in the right hands their strategic uses can be every bit as powerful as the game's more eccentric weaponry.
Speaking of weapons, Worms Revolution features an arsenal of just under 50 weapons and tools at your disposal. Fan favorites like the super sheep, concrete donkey, banana bomb and holy hand grenade return alongside ninja ropes, teleports, blowtorches and a shield. It's a good selection, with a few empty slots on the inventory screen that will likely be filled by DLC later on.
Weapon and equipment drops will still randomly appear during a match, but that is no longer the only way to obtain the game's more powerful weapons. Unique to Worms Revolution are coin drops, crates that give you money to purchase items during your turn. Considering that standard crates will simply give you a random weapon, the option to buy specific gear can be extremely powerful, and is appropriately rare.
Worms Revolution features a single-player story campaign, spread across 32 missions and four themed worlds. The highlight of the campaign is its satirical nature documentary narration, written by Dean Wilkinson and deftly performed by The IT Crowd's Matt Berry.
Playing against the computer is never as satisfying as human opponents though, so the campaign becomes more of an extended tutorial to help teach new players the ropes. Players can also dive into 20 puzzle levels, which are a more successful single-player diversion as they challenge players to make creative use of the game's arsenal.
The real meat of the game comes from multiplayer though, with Deathmatch, Fortress and Classic game modes still intact. There are extensive customisation options in multiplayer, letting you set everything from turn time to weapon strength.
Players can even dictate which weapons will be available and whether there will be a turn delay before they unlock, with the option to save your custom weapon settings to use time and again. Want to lock every item except the prod? Go for it. Want to unlock holy hand grenades on the first turn? That works too. The options are at your fingertips.
Players can also customise their squad of worms, deciding which classes to bring into battle, giving them names and styling them with a plethora of hats, accessories and voice options. The PC version adds another layer of customisation through a robust level editor, though Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players only have the random levels generated by the game.
Worms Revolution's name may be a misnomer, as the latest iteration doesn't stray much from past games. That isn't to say that nothing has changed through. The addition of classes and renewed role of water as a tactical tool bring some much-needed variety, adding new layers of depth to the franchise's strategic topsoil.


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Yesterday, I was sitting in the bar, watching that IAM TV station. Now I'm not sure if you've ever seen this, but it's basically a station that only shows action sports (or extreme sports, I don't know what they're calling it these days). Kind of like FuelTv except they show more obscure things that you probably didn't even know was a sport. For example, I got a little tutorial on the wild world of pogo sticking. Yes, this does exist, and let me tell you the people are pretty darn good at it. I mean there were pogo stick races, jump contests, I even saw a couple guys try hitting some rails, no joke. Now far be it for me to hate on something as awesome as pogo sticking, because anyone who's ever tried one of those knows how difficult it is. But the whole "sport" got me to thinking, what really makes a sport legit? I mean what makes it ok for me to laugh at something like under water basket weaving, yet find skateboarding the most legitimate sport out there.
Well my small and probably incorrect theory on this, is that it is about doing something entirely new. By that I mean not just taking an object (i.e. a basket) and doing something even more spectacular with it (i.e. weaving under water), but rather inventing something totally new (i.e. a wakeskate) and doing things that boggle even the most cynical persons mind (i.e. W2W frontside flip). That is what I think makes our sport so special. Were not strapping on our fruitboots because were too afraid to hit rails on our skateboard. And were certainly not picking up a pogo stick, just because we never knew how to ollie. We are doing something entirely unique, that I truly believe any outsider can respect. We took off our bindings and replaced them with shoes. I mean we actually downgraded the supplies and technology needed, and created a new, seemingly endless sport.
Basically my point in all this ranting is just to note that I think the sport is headed in a positive direction, very far away from wakeboarding, and I hope that doesn't change anytime soon. Finally there are people out there worrying more about how there tricks look, rather then just mobbing them so they can have something to brag about. People are putting lines together instead of just trying varial flips 50 times in a row. Winchin is starting to become more and more prominent. And the biggest thing, people are starting to open new doors about what is truly possible on a wakeskate, like Walton with his footplant, or Chris Kallas with his crazy amount of flats biggerspins. These are all things that people just a short time ago would have thought nearly impossible, yet today, are all too real. And it is all of this progression that is truly going to help legitimize wakeskating, and seperate it from wakeboarding once and for all.
I saw an interview with Scott Byerly once in which they asked him why he wakeskated and he simply replied "Well, I can't kickflip my wakeboard.." I think those few words say everything about our sport. It's different, unique, and not just some kooky variation of wakeboarding. So lets keep it that way. Start thinking outside the box of what is truly possible instead of looking to others for guidance. Don't learn late shuvs just because everyone is doing them, think of something new that is going to keep our sport alive. Jump on the trampoline, see what you can come up with. Get creative, because by going through the monotony of copying what everyone else has done, you've really accomplished nothing except making things that much more boring to watch. And the next time you think about trying that W2W backroll (don't hate me Ross), just say to yourself "isn't this just copying wakeboarding?"….


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Gather your loyal customers to convince the landlords that this is a bad idea!
Revival is in Berkeley!
I'd have to say that Chapel of the Chimes is the most unlikely music venue. The popular "Jazz at the Chimes" concert series is held here.
How does BMI and ASCAP know what artists to pay if they're not monitoring every song that's played in these establishments? Seems fishy to me.
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Looks like I'm not the only one who appreciates Birdland. I played there in May and will be there again in September. Michael has created something really special, loved by musicians and jazz-lovers alike. It's a great community and I hope it's around for years to come!
Why is so much attention here on the high school contingent? Jazz is about life experience and soul expression and there are plenty of talented jazz musicians who never went to Berkeley High, who are a lot older that are overlooked for these "hot new kids on the block." I realize they may be the future of jazz, but one needs to look at movtivation- is it the media attention spurring them on or the music?


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You live in a small Brooklyn apartment? You work full-time? Your mom won't let you have a puppy? Then Nintendogs is perfect for anyone in need of a cute, loyal companion that will never grow old and whom you can politely turn off at night.
Choose from three packs of breeds you'd like at the store (Chihuahua, lab, or dachshund; each contain six different dogs), go home, pop it into your DS and choose a puppy to adopt at the kennel. Take him on walks where he can meet other dogs in the park, he may find presents along the way that you two can enjoy together, or just stay at home and pet your puppy until it falls over in awe.
The best part of this game is the use of Nintendo DS's built-in microphone. It allows you to train your puppy with your own voice commands. Once you see the light bulb flash, say the command and repeat the motions in hopes your puppy will retain that trick. With positive reinforcement and effort, your little one will quickly learn from you. Keep in mind that he will get bored and walk away if you try to teach him too many tricks in one day.
Besides the microphone, your stylus is key in this game. The more you pet and play with your puppy, the more he will bond with you. But the moment you interact with your adorable little pup, it's hard to resist scratching that tummy or getting him to chase his own tail.
There is a catch: you have to enter your pup in a variety of contests that will display how well you have trained him in areas such as agility and obedience. You earn money when you rank high in a contest, which allows you the ability to afford more dog food, water, shampoo, and an abundance of squeak-toys, frisbees and doggy bowties. With a little time and devotion — and after you earn that cash — you can revisit the adoption center to buy your pal a new little friend. Be sure to visit your puppy on a regular basis or he might just run away; but don't worry, he'll return if you stick around.
Among many perks, you can connect with other owners while in Nintendogs's "Bark Mode." With the DS's Wi-Fi, when you are in Bark Mode, your puppy will begin barking and will be able to play with another dog when it comes within range of another owner, even if the DS is closed. That can be anyone else playing, be it some new friend you don't know on your bus or your buddy who happens to have the Chihuahua pack.
Coincidentally, this is how you can obtain access to the other breeds mentioned; otherwise, you have to meet certain goals and earn enough points to get them.
If you have always wanted a puppy but never had the chance to adopt a real one, then the innovative Nintendogs game won't let you down. Nintendogs is rated "E" for everyone and is available in stores for your Nintendo DS.
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Brady/Belichick era is going to go out with a bang. Gronkowski, Hogan, Edelman, Cooks, Mitchell, White, Allen. TB has so many fucking weapons....
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I'll be rooting for Brady, but I'd be fine with Atlanta winning as well. Didn't buy into the Falcons early on but they've proved me...
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|Dave Bennett
review by Janet I. Martineau
OK, just about everyone living in Saginaw County knows that a downstate guy named Dave Bennett plays a mean clarinet. He actually channels Benny Goodman.
He's nearly 28 now .... cut his teeth at age 14 with Saginaw's own New Reformation Band; a regular these days at Spencer's.
But on Sunday, at the Temple Theatre for the Saginaw Valley Concert Association series, he proved himself a heck of a pianist, drummer and singer as well. ( And a good master of ceremonies too, with just the right amount of banter and information between songs.)
It was an all Goodman show -- a "Dave Bennett: Benny Goodman Tribute" by title. But the music was all over the map -- boogie woogie, jazz, George Gershwin, the Beatles, Goodman standards and some less familiar. And number of players ranged from a full sextet to a more intimate trio.
Bennett is gracious towards his five-member band -- allowing most of them lengthy riffs within a number. Especially drummer Peter Siers, pianist Tad Weed (who toured with Paul Anka for 11 years) and vibraphonist Jim Cooper.
Which brings us to Bennett at the piano and drums.
"Benny's Bounce" was played with four hands and one foot -- Bennett and Weed seated at the too-short piano bench pounding the keys boogie woogie style, changing places twice without missing a note, and with Bennett adding his right foot to the four hands at one point. It brought cheers.
Then came "Sing, Sing, Sing" at the end. Bennett was sorta walking up to or near each band member as he played a solo segment. Except when he walked up to Siers, Bennett picked up his own set of drumsticks, stayed standing and with Siers played an absolutely delicious drum duet/duel on one drum set. It was INCREDIBLE musicianship. Breathtaking.
As for the singing, it came with the ballad "St. James Infirmary Blues," one of the trio entries with just Bennett, the pianist and the upright bass.
"Running Wild" found Bennett playing his clarinet faster and faster. Who can ever get tired of hearing the smooth "Moonglow" or "Stardust." "I Got Rhythm" -- it was the somewhere amid all the sidetracks.
And the Beatles, you ask. Bennett said Goodman was a big Beatles fan back in the 1960s. And "Yesterday" sounds just lovely on clarinet.
Bennett and crew leave the soul well fed.


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Pupils are poised to return to school as a new academic session begins soon. It is time for parents and guardians to go shopping. Gone are the days when, perhaps, for economic reasons, pupils returned to school with items used by their older siblings. This is another era. Departmental, online stores and major markets of school items are brimming with shoppers out to get easy bargains and good value for their money.
With the beginning of a new school term, retailers get busy promoting back-to-school sales and stocking their stores with school items, such as calculators, school uniforms, sandals, lunch boxes and what have you! No doubt, it's time for serious business for parents, guardians and sellers.
Major markets and retail stores in Lagos are selling school items in various categories at cheap rates. An example is the Balogun Market on Lagos Island. It was jam-packed at the weekend with women who went to buy school items.
"Give me a strong item that will last long" was on their lips, despite knowing that they would still need to buy new ones at the start of another term.
However, buying school items for each new term has become an infectious syndrome among parents today.
At the market, a woman was seen carrying a 'Ghana must go' bag on her head, filled with school items. One would have thought she visited the market to buy and resell school items. She had eight pairs of each item in the bag.
The shopper, Mrs Afusat Karim, has nine children. Five of them are in secondary school; three in primary school and the last child is yet to be enrolled.
According to the retailer who sells to her at the start of each term, Mr Agu Alozie: "Mrs Afusat is my very good customer; she places her order on phone at the close of each term and pays money into my account. I do not hesitate to stock her bag as she sometimes buys school supplies worth N85,000 per term. Her children live with her mother outside Lagos, which is why she prefers to buy in bulk to last the whole term and save her mother the rigours of going to the market."
As major markets and stores continue to play a vital role in shoppers' spending decisions, retailers offer good bargains to save money in their stores and on their websites, to attract value-focused back-to-school shoppers.
Hoping to spread spending, more parents have begun shopping earlier than they did last term. The budget-conscious consumer has not forgotten about price, quality or value; she has become more practical in her shopping; and with school purchases considered a necessity, parents have been saving to be able to fully afford all their children's needs .
Parents determine what item their wards need each term. As a result, academic needs seem to be shifting towards products that provide the latest features. In recent times, secondary students consider a laptop a necessity, believing it will lift their grades.
If only parents buy what is necessary during holidays, it is much cheaper and they won't be overwhelmed with the prices later. Therefore, they need to go through their bill line by line, for unnecessary add-ons. 'When' to buy school items should often be given priority.
According to a money expert, "the best time to buy school supplies is during the holidays when there will be enough time to do little research and comparison, thereby saving money."
The process can be challenging for parents, particularly, the busy ones who are expected to create the environment and materials that provide the necessary items to transform their children's learning experience.
"When it comes to children, there's nothing more important to a parent than making sure they have everything they need, even in a tough economy – and especially when it comes to back-to-school shopping," said the National Retail Federation President and CEO, Matthew Shay.
On the other hand, secondary school pupils and their parents are much more likely to look for ways to cut corners as much of their costs come in the form of tuition and living arrangements.
According to the marketing manager of Jumia online store, Mr Afam Anyika, "we stock a variety of back-to-school items and they are quite affordable. We advise shoppers to check our website and take advantage of these items."