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So I hope you already is see that now on every girl page I put all them reviews on there for make easy to read. After her details and keep go down after her photos will show her feedback.
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So now have put together different things about the data is get from all you guys feedback. Yes I want to say thanks to everyone who take time to put feedback.
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I believe we should, what if they are planning to turn against us, then what do we do? Let us die because we didn't spy on them? They do deserve privacy, but no, that's not how the world works, the world is full of backstabbing liars that will blow ANYTHING up, so think before you choose yes or no.
I think it is okay for America to spy on European leaders. America has the right to deploy instruments to gather information on European leaders, as well as leaders from any other continent. Spying is justifiable as it is in the best interest in a country's national security to have an intimate awareness of foreign leaders and their activities.
I think that we are being spied upon by leaders of other countries, including Europe, and we do the same thing to them. It is probably naive to think that this will not happen. However, our President and other leaders should not be hypocritical and say that this is not going to happen.
No, I do not think that it's okay for America to spy on European leaders, because we need more faith and trust with the leaders of Europe than the intelligence that we would get from spying on Europe. It doesn't make Europe want to be friendly with us. We need to maintain our friendships the most.
I do not believe it is okay for America to spy on European leaders. I believe the NSA should be shut down because they have secretly used programs to invade every ones privacy. As a citizen I don't believe tax dollars should go to these kinds of programs. I believe spying sends the wrong message to the world.
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Google's search information paradox
Thursday, 21 June 2007 — by Wayne Smallman
The very fact that Google are even talking about keeping our personal search data longer than eighteen months demonstrates their thinking. If you want personal search to work, then the likes of thee & me need to share more personal information with the search engines…
There's no way around with this particular search information paradox, one not solved by any purely observation routines and algorithms that Google et al might have in place.
I recently ran an article on the challenges of personal search:
"The goal of the one search result isn't a new concept, and it's certainly possible.
But it's not so much a question of the search engines knowing more about you and what you want, but more about the search engines knowing what you're doing and what you want the information for.
In the real world, you start a complex question with some background information. So if the search engines want to be as smart people, then people have to be prepared to take the extra time and make the extra effort."
And those at Google must be acutely aware of the search information paradox:
"Speaking about the long-term aspirations for Google, Eric Schmidt, the firm's chief executive, said one day the search engine could potentially answer questions such as '"What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'Which college should I go to?'
'Google is not at all done with your information problems. There are many, many examples of where it would be nice if Google had more of an ability to understand time and choices.'"
None of which can be achieved with just eighteen months of personal search data and observational search algorithms alone.
Privacy issues aside, I welcome any advances in Google's algorithms that not only become more predictive, but start to deal with hypotheticals, as well as more speculative and abstract questions.
After all, these are the questions we ask each other every day.
Nice day out, don't you think? I wonder if it's going to rain…
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For a few weeks of every year, our culture is inundated with love. Everywhere we go we see hearts, roses, chocolates, Cupid and his arrows, and Valentine's Day cards. The world is a swirl of pink and red. Then Valentine's Day comes, and we can definitely feel the love! But what about February 15th? Or the 22nd? Or March 19? Do we still feel the love then? Even more importantly, are we still sharing our love then?
It is easy to focus on making sure that our Sunday Church School students feel loved on that one special day, Valentine's Day. It is appropriate for us to celebrate our loved ones and declare our love for them! But why stop at just Valentine's Day? These precious people should be at the top of our "I want you to know that I love you" list: not just on February 14, but all year long!
The purpose of this blog post is to encourage each of us to continue to let our students know that we love them, even on "ordinary" days. We searched and found many ideas of ways to do just that. We are sharing a few of the ideas in hopes that some will strike a chord and ignite in us a new determination to warm our students with our love. If we do so, even when all the roses have wilted, the chocolates have been eaten, and the Valentine's Day cards have been read, these important people in our life will get the message: "I love you, and I always will."
Here are a few of the ideas we found:
Find lots of ideas of ways to use sticky notes to send messages of love and encouragement to your students here: http://www.kirstenskaboodle.com/positive-messages-for-students/
Help your students create some scripture-based love notes to share with their friends and family! Here are some free printable ones for starters: http://paththroughthenarrowgate.com/gods-love-notes/
One way you can show your students that you love them is to create your own secret greeting with each of them. Need inspiration? Check out this school teacher's individual student greetings: http://people.com/human-interest/north-carolina-teacher-personalized-handshakes-students/
Find some ideas of ways to love the more-difficult-to-love students here: http://childrensministry.com/articles/discipline-sos/
"Caring about your students doesn't necessarily mean having a constant gushy feeling about them. Caring means commitment …feelings come and go. True love stays, in spite of annoyances. Love is a commitment you make to your kids." Read more in this article: http://www.christianitycove.com/sunday-school-teaching-what-caring-about-your-students-really-means/
Find 10 simple ways to show love to your Sunday Church School students here: http://childrensministryleader.com/10-ways-show-love-kids/


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his story has gotten a lot longer than I had anticipated. It was not my intention to get this involved. But it's odd how certain words or ideas kick off a slew of memories, and my mind can't stop thinking about it. Indeed, a lot of the details I had forgotten about completely until I started to write this down. FYI: Yesterday's pic was from September 1974 when I was 18 years old. Today's pic is from August 1972. It's my junior year high school student ID photo. Truth be told, a few girls wanted the ID after I got a new one for senior year, but I beat 'em back with a stick. Now where was I…
hile Angel and I had a few things in common, our friendship had not developed to that level yet, so we were not that close. Or so I desperately tried to convince myself. I seemed to be justifying my feelings, my selfishness. An attractive girl interested in me? And I hadn't done anything to invite this attention? This was a completely new situation for me. I should just back off, I thought, and let the chips fall where they may. If DKLA and Angel got together, great. If she wanted to pursue me, maybe greater. So I acted passively, avoiding Angel's situation by not driving them on his date, but in a way I was aggressively preventing him from advancing his own agenda.
I won't make excuses. What I was feeling in my heart was wrong. And I guess I knew it even then, since I didn't–couldn't–tell anyone what I was thinking. I couldn't even tell Cary or Tomahawk (played by detachable), my two best friends, for fear of accusations. Yes, I knew what I was doing. And yet, I couldn't help myself.
December came and things seem to escalate rapidly in ways that defy explanation. My boss, K, was going to Las Vegas with her husband for a few days, and so she left the car to me so I could drive her mother home after work. I took the car to school, with her permission, and having learned of this, Angel automatically asked me to give him a ride as well. Reluctantly, I said yes.
On a chilly morning, I went to City Terrace to pick him up and then headed toward school. I was planning to get on the San Bernadino Freeway then to the Santa Monica to get to our school located on LA's Westside. But Angel had another idea.
"Let's go through Boyle Heights."
"What? Fuck you. That'll add twenty minutes to our trip," I protested.
"No, really. We can go by Roosevelt High. Maybe we'll see DKLA."
"Oh, man," I sighed. "I would really rather go straight to school."
"C'mon, man. You gotta car! We won't have these kinds of chances that much."
"Alright, alright," I relented. Angel succeeded in getting me to drive him to where he wanted to go. I was irritated at first, but as we drove through the streets of East Los Angeles, I grew strangely comfortable with the idea that Angel was every bit as selfish as I was. The thought of seeing DKLA didn't hurt either.
Angel directed me down Evergreen, then right on Brooklyn where Evergreen Cemetery was.
"Why don't we just go straight down to 3rd street?" I asked.
"Turn left on Fickett," he happily ordered.
"What? Why are we zigzagging to get to Roosevelt?"
"'Cause this is the way she walks to school," he answered matter-of-factly. All I could do was roll my eyes. What didn't he know about this girl?
We went one block down Fickett, made a right on First Street, then another immediate left on Mathews.
"Slow down," Angel whined as he looked at everyone walking the last block to Roosevelt. "There, there," he pointed.
And sure enough, there was DKLA walking on the right side of the street, her arms wrapped around the books she held up to her breast. She was wearing a burgundy letterman's sweater, her brother's. (Why do I remember this?). I pulled up to the curb and Angel opened the window.
""Hey, DK!" he yelled, motioning for her to come over.
She walked deliberately towards car. "What are you doing here?"
"Onigiriman's got the boss's car and so we thought we'd see if we could catch you," he explained.
We thought? You mean, YOU thought…
DKLA hunched over to look into the car and saw me in the drivers seat.
"Hi," I smiled as nonchalantly as I could.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, as if I might have a different reason as Angel's. I just shrugged my shoulder. "So you going to school now? Cool. What time does school start? What classes do you have today?"
She looked directly at me with her questions and I smiled as I gave her short but accurate responses. Angel didn't seem much too pleased at not being the target of her attention.
"The bell's going to ring soon, so I have to go. Bye," she said to both of us. "Then she looked at me and mouthed, "Call me."
I pulled the car back onto the road and headed toward school. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw her receding figure standing on the corner. Why isn't Angel sticking his head out the window waving at her? Why isn't he even turning around to look at her? Could he have noticed her "secret" message to me?
The tension in the car was thick. As I turned onto the Golden State Freeway south toward the 10, the sharp keyboard intro to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" started to jerk out of the car speakers. But even it couldn't loosen the mood.
Very superstitious, writing's on the wall
Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past
This was a new song that Angel liked, but he didn't sing along as he often did. He just sat silently looking out the window at the rundown houses and storage facilities lining the freeway. I veered west onto the Santa Monica Freeway, a virtual bridge over central LA for about five miles, and saw the city stretch before us. Ah, man. Did Angel really see her? What the shit is he thinking? What the shit am I thinking? What the fuck am I gonna do now? I thought as I glanced over at him.
Angel just sat there, staring out the side window distantly at the buildings of downtown LA. I thought about DKLA and what she had mouthed. Did she really say "Call me"? Call her? Now how am I gonna do that? Then a random bit of truth crossed my mind and I relaxed. I didn't have her phone number, so how could I call her? In a twisted kind of logic, I figured that she couldn't blame me for not contacting her since I didn't know her number, and if i didn't call her, I wasn't betraying Angel. No harm, no foul, I grinned.
When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way
But DKLA called me that night.
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Sometimes, there's someone who believes in you.
Sometimes, that person calls you Dreamer and everything seems possible.
And you dream and you create.
Then, suddenly, you close your eyes and you can't understand.
That hug was too short...
The echo is still there though, reverberating in your memory, pushing you forward.
A word of encouragement was enough for you not to give up back then.
So, you look up and smile. The old owl is somewhere, up there perhaps, reading your stories. He's nodding, happy that one single word made you believe.
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Now two weeks in, the occupation of Wall Street originated from a July call to action by Adbusters to draw a line in the sand on the growing corporate control of our democracy and government—and in particular, Wall Street's influence.
Agriculture markets have been especially hard hit by Wall Street's political prowess. Wall Street deregulation has not only made the stock market extremely volatile, it has increased prices and price volatility in agricultural markets. The cost of protecting against price volatility are considerable for the future of agriculture not only in the U.S., but around the world.
In 2008, we reported on the role a new wave of financial speculators, operating through commodity index funds controlled by Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs, played in creating extreme volatility in agriculture commodity markets—and ultimately contributing to rising global rates of hunger. Wall Street speculators were able to enter commodity futures markets after a successful and systematic decade-long lobbying effort to dismantle strong market safeguards. According to Wall Street Watch, from 1998–2008, Wall Street invested over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions in support of their deregulatory agenda.
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In the last two years, IATP and many others have worked to overcome a huge lobbying surge by Wall Street (President Obama had to actually beg Wall Street to call off the dogs) opposing efforts to effectively regulate commodity futures exchanges within the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill. That fight continues as Wall Street is expending enormous amounts of money to influence the rule-making process at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Security Exchange Commission (Goldman Sachs alone spent $1.08 million in lobbying agencies last quarter). And unfortunately, according to Reuters, Wall Street is making headway by watering down proposals for new position limits set by the CFTC, which regulate the amount of futures contracts any one entity can hold at any one time.
Wall Street aside, it's nearly impossible to find a legislative or regulatory issue related to food and agriculture that hasn't been deeply shaped (if not outright written) by corporate lobbyists. Adbusters called for a Presidential Commission to end the influence of corporate money in Washington. That would be step in the right direction for those who care about agriculture and our food system. If Washington won't step up to the plate, the stakes will only get higher.


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The insurance provider for Burlington students is Go Care. To purchase insurance, visit the Burlington Portal. The insurance portal is currently open and will remain open until October 31st. After the 31st the portal won't be open again until January.
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Queensland was lovely, but I just didn't have time to do it properly. I decided to save the Whitsundays and the rest for another trip and instead hire a car and drive the Great Ocean Road, which runs along the south coast in Victoria.
I decided to start a bit further away and flew to Adelaide, where the people at Adelaide Central YHA are so warm and friendly, I just love them. They instantly recognized me from last month, and were joking around ("Hey there, band chick," I greeted the staffmember who has her own group. "How are you doing, computer geek?" came the reply.) and just making me feel welcome. Clearly, Adelaide was a good choice for my starting point — and as I found out the next day, the YHA had another advantage: it was a scant 500 meters from the Hertz office.
I'd prearranged the car on the Internet, so it was merely a matter of signing papers and dodging upsell attempts (personal effects insurance? fuel deal?) before I took possession of my Ford Falcon XT:
I didn't request red, but I did ask for the Falcon because it was the sportiest car they had — for my requirements. Though Hertz has a "Prestige Collection" which includes the BMW Z4 and Jag X-Type, those cars can't be returned at branches in different states.
Mercifully, the friendly Hertz woman put the car on the street for me, so I didn't have a witness for whom to feign nonchalance as I entered my first car with right-hand drive. Even better, the street was a one-way with a traffic signal just a block down, so I could literally ease my way right into traffic. Things were going swimmingly.
Until I was pulled over.
Minutes after I'd left Hertz, a police car fell in behind me, lights flashing and siren whooping. I signalled a turn to the curb, but strangely the wipers started. I cursed and switched hands, finally managing to get my "blinker" on and pull over. Meanwhile, I did a mental rewind: Did I miss some red light? Had I been going too fast? What was the speed limit anyway?
Soon the officer was at my window, and he offered an explanation: I hadn't done anything wrong. During "Schoolies Week," when the students are on break, police do random breathalyzer checks. Moments after I blew a .000 (this at 11am) he cheerfully sent me on my way. Deciding (wisely, I think) against asking the speed limit, I cautiously pulled out and resumed my original goal: finding how the hell to get out of Adelaide.
Hertz had thoughtfully provided a thick street directory for Adelaide and a much thicker one for Melbourne, but I had no clue how to connect the two. I'd been told the RAA would be the place for maps of all kinds, so I set off looking for it — and couldn't find a damn thing. After passing through the intersection marked on the map at least five times, I pulled into a parking garage and set out on foot.
Naturally, I arrived at the new "around the corner" location approximately 2 minutes after they closed for the day. So after all that, I had to buy my maps at a newsagency.
But at least I was moving. I hit the M1 and opened her up. Damn, it was good to drive again! And drive I did, not stopping until 150km later, when I saw the oddest sight:
If that lake looks pink, that's because it is. According to the helpful sign, the hue is caused by "a combination of dunalialla salina and halo bacteria," the former of which is used as a natural food coloring. Great, but I still wouldn't dip my toe in it.
Onward! When I came to Meningie, the next town on the B1, I elected for a pit stop. After ducking into the head, I came out to find my car refused to start. There was no possible way the battery could have been drained in the few minutes since I'd left it, yet the starter didn't even turn over.
I tried a few more times and then gave up, more mystified than anything. Fortunately, Hertz has roadside assistance for those times when you're in a town of 1,500 people on a Saturday afternoon. I rang them up.
After arranging a service call, I slid back in and realized the shifter wasn't, ahem, firmly in "Park." After rectifying this, the Falcon started instantly. One sheepish phone call later, I was ready to move over to get some gas — er, petrol.
As you can see from this photo, gas was priced at AU$0.939/L for unleaded and AU$0.959/L for "super." (That's about US$2.57/gal and US$2.62/gal — a calculation I thankfully didn't make at the time.)
I figured the 2¢/L difference was negligible and grabbed the "super" pump. Oddly, the nozzle was just a hair too big for the car's tank. I found this strange but lined it up flush and gave the handle an experimental squeeze.
Ninety millileters of "super" dribbled down the side of the Falcon.
I was literally scratching my head when a service station employee came out to let me know that "super" was actually leaded and the too-large nozzle was a design feature to clue in idiots like me. So educated, I switched to unleaded.
After topping off with fuel and a wide assortment of sugary snacks and drinks, I was on the road again. What a varied road it was: when not right up by the ocean, I drove through pasture, forest, and vineyards. It was very much the case that you might find on the right a beach with some fascinating cloud (poorly captured here):
…and awhile later on your left you'll find some "before and after" animals.
And if living animals aren't your thing, there's always The Big Lobster.
For the record, that middle bend in the legs is about my height. Also for the record, I took this picture and scurried away.
OK, it wasn't without considering for a moment whether I wanted to dine there. But I decided I would eat at Mount Gambier, which, incredibly, is the second largest city (22,000 people) in SA behind Adelaide (1,045,000.)
When I arrived in Mt. Gambier, the first thing to greet me was a roundabout. This is the guidance Hertz gives for roundabouts:
Drivers entering a roundabout must give way [yield] to traffic already on, entering or leaving the roundabout if there is any risk of collision. Decide before you enter the roundabout if you are going to turn right, left or go straight ahead.
To me, this translates as: "sit paralyzed at the intersection until there isn't a car for
miles kilometers and then creep in." As it happens, though, the roundabouts were lightly used and I had no trouble with them.
I dined at a nice Chinese restaurant, where my waitress was friendly and flirty, and then managed to procure entertainment: though the cinema was only showing films I'd seen, the city had a Blockbuster! More importantly, it had the most friendly Blockbuster employee I've ever come across (save Matt, natch) as he laughed at the idea of a credit card imprint or deposit and gave me my own membership card with the motel as my address! Even better, he said now that I was in the system, I could translate the card to any other Bbuster in Australia and short-circuit all of the ID and money requirements. Brilliant!
Thusly I was able to end the night relaxing on my large and comfy bed, watching an Australian DVD — after catching the crucial final period of the Rugby World Cup, of course.
Then I had the best sleep yet.


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On your site you list your prices "starting at", what does the base price include?
Typically the base price is for G10 scales, "basic" steels with a bead blast or stone wash finish. Some materials may cost more, as do some finishes. Some "embellishments" such as thumb jimping, are standard; others will incur a charge.
I am on your waiting list—how will I know when my place in line is up?
Typically, I will contact you 2 weeks before I am ready to start, which allows enough time to discuss the details of your build and for me to order any materials, if needed. Please make sure that I have your current contact info—if your email address has changed since you got in the books, let me know!
When you get to my spot can I order more than one knife?
At this time, I have to limit the orders to one knife per customer.
When you get to my spot can I order a new design (one-off)?
I am very open to building a one-off fixed blade for you; in fact, all of my NeoTribal knives are essentially one-offs. I love building new things, so when it's your time let me know what you're thinking. I generally will not work from your designs though unless you are open to me modifying it at my own discretion. Since folding knives are much more complicated to design, I cannot build you a new-design folder. I can, and will, consider certain embellishments to my existing designs, but please don't ask for major changes from standard models. I tend to work with certain materials, for both steels and handle & bolsters, and don't like to experiment with new ones for orders. Typically, I like to do this sort of experimentation for the odd one-off for shows or forum lotteries.
Do any dealers carry your knives?
Generally, no. Occasionally I will do a run for Triple Aught Design, but it is fairly infrequent. If this changes I will make an announcement via my newsletter and my forum on the USN.
Do you do any knife shows?
Not many. In fact I've only done 2 in my 10+ year career. My reasoning has been that if I have a long backlog, it's hard to justify the time spent making knives for a show and the time lost otherwise filling orders. My feelings on this have been changing and I think that having a presence at a show can be a good thing. It's a way to show my support for the custom knife community in general and so I am now planning to attend at least one major show each year.
How long have you been making knives?
If you don't count the knife-like and sword-like objects I made as a kid, I began doing it as a hobby around 2001. By 2003 I was making and selling part time, although most of those knives and swords were collaborations with Ted Frizzell of Mineral Mountain Hatchet Works. By 2006 I was a full time custom knife maker.
I have an old Dervish that has a MMHW stamp on one side… I'm confused.
Your knife is from the now defunct "collaboration line" of Dervish Knives. Ted Frizzell of Mineral Mountain Hatchet Works ground and heat treated that blade. The knife was designed by me and I did the finishing work and sheath.
Do you offer "spa treatment" for your knives?
If you own a Dervish that has seen better days, I will clean it up for you and re-sharpen if necessary. If there is a functional problem that falls within my guarantee, I will fix it for free. Cosmetic issues will incur a charge for labor and shipping, unless the material has failed in some way. Please send me an email to discuss.
How long does it take you to make a knife?
There are so many variables that go into the processes in making any given knife, that it's impossible to give a ball park figure. For instance, folders tend to take longer than fixed blades, but a complex (and/or a very large) fixed can take longer than a basic folder. Some materials take longer to work & machine, and certain processes that I do on some models (but not on others) can be very time consuming. The prices you see on my site tend to generally reflect the labor involved in each particular model.


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Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Mumbai Indians in the 44th match of the 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on 14 May (Saturday).
Where to watch live
Match starts at 11.30am BST/4pm IST. Live coverage of the game is available on Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports 5 HD in the UK. Sony Max, Sony Six and Sony ESPN will telecast it live in India.
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Royal Challengers play their second consecutive home game following their loss to Mumbai Indians on Wednesday (11 May) with their hopes of qualifying for the playoffs hanging by a thread. Virat Kohli's team have to win all their remaining four games to have a chance of making the latter stages of the tournament but face an uphill task against an in-form Gujarat Lions, who after a slight slump have got back to winning ways.
While Virat Kohli leads the run charts this season, his team's bowling is below par, owing to injuries to Mitchell Starc and Samuel Badree. They lack a strike bowler to get wickets at the start, while their death bowling is also below par. They have been unable to defend totals as high as 180. Chris Gayle's form has also been woeful, which has seen him let chance after chance go a begging. He is likely to be dropped for the remaining four matches with Travis Head returning to the team.
The Lions, on the other hand, are one of the form teams in the league led by Suresh Raina. They have quite a settled line-up and match winners in both the batting and bowling department. They started the tournament in blistering fashion, winning six of their opening seven games but suffered a mid-season slump when they lost their next three. The Gujarat team, however, have recovered and won their previous game against the Kolkata Knight Riders, which will bode well ahead of their trip to Bangalore on Saturday.
Gujarat Lions to win
Betting odds (betfair)
- RCB to win: 4/5
- GJL to win: 20/21
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Royal Challengers Bangalore
Possible XI: Virat Kohli (C), AB de Villiers, Chris Jordan, KL Rahul (wk), Mandeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Varun Aaron, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Travis Head, Sreenath Aravind.
Gujarat Lions
Possible XI: Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Aaron Finch, Suresh Raina (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Ishan Kishan, Praveen Kumar, Dhawan Kulkarni, Shivil Kaushik.


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Masca Theater was established by Government Decision on May 24, 1990, and describes itself as a theater of gesture, pantomime and bodily expression, being the only theater of this kind in Romania.
A one-of-a-kind theatre in the capital of Romania, "Masca" was the first company to introduce street performances and alternative forms of theatre in Romania. ,,Masca" is constantly developing and offering its audience innovative performances rooted in Lecoque's teachings and breakthroughs.Since its foundation, Masca Theater evolved along two main paths:
– street theater (with performances centered around clowns, commedia dell'arte, medieval theater, large marionettes, living statues, etc.) involving performers with a vast array of means of expression: clownerie, juggling, various instruments, tap dance, pantomime, living statues, handling large marionettes (2 meter tall), dancing, singing, acrobatics, etc.
– indoor shows with an elaborate script, inspired by great authors of world literature (N. V. Gogol, G. G. Marquez, E. Briusov, J. L. Borjes, W. Shakespeare), which are closely related in style to dance theater, with very little or no dialogue, the actor being the focal point of the shows, the unique keeper of the mystery of theater
Ever since its establishment, Masca Theater unequivocally assumed a cultural and social vocation that was defined by performances and events organized after having identified the needs of culturally-isolated groups or groups within poor communities, by projects addressed to families and projects that bring performing arts to the people, alternative theater performed in unconventional spaces. In addition, Masca Theater is part of the European artistic movement, being a member of the international network for contemporary performing arts – IETM.
The cultural context and the features of the cultural offering
From a cultural perspective, the activities of Masca Theater address the needs of a community with very diverse cultural expectations, providing cultural services that are conceptually creative and professionally comprehensive and competitive.
From an educational perspective, training its own audience involved:
• familiarizing the audience with the non-verbal style
• familiarizing the audience with the theatrical presentation of major topics in the field of theater (commedia dell'arte, the musical, dance theater, the clown, pantomime blanche, living statues, large marionettes, cabaret, black light theater, etc.)• involvement in shows with an important social aspect
• recognizing beauty and accepting it as a reliable alternative to the gray scenery of everyday life
• shaping the artistic taste of its future audience through specific shows, performances within events specific to their age, classes at Masca school of physical theater.
From a social perspective, the projects of Masca Theater help consolidate a sense of community within a residential community, by defining an identifiable style and, therefore, a style that can be and is associated to the sense of belonging to a community, by initiating projects of a profound social-cultural nature.
The programs of Masca Theater are defined by their aesthetic, cultural, educational and social functions, which Mask undertook as part of its mission.
Masca is the only theater that, in addition to its activities strictly related to the profession and the art it promotes, carries out a huge number of social-cultural programs, defining as accurately as possible the profile of a modern entity with flexible organization and management, the initiator of a genuine discourse, a recognized catalyzer of energies.
During its existence of over 26 years, an impressive number of performances, cultural projects and events were organized and carried out. The troupe performs in over 250 shows a year.
Some of the projects are one-off events, others have reached their 20th edition. Some of these projects are organized by Masca Theater, others are projects where Masca Theater was invited to participate. Projects are carried out in Romania and elsewhere, with Romanian or European participants.
Multi-annual projects organized and carried out by Masca Theatre
– THE CITY BENEATH THE CITY a project initiated in Bucharest's subway station,
– THE LIVING STATUES FESTIVAL – international Living Statues Festival is the only one of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, and its first edition was organized in 2011 (10-13 june) in one of most known park in Bucharest Herastrau, at the initiative of Masca Theatre
– THE FESTIVAL ,,EUROPEAN MASKS AT MASCA,, a project designed to familiarize the Romanian public and Romanian theater professional with a special type of theatre that is very rare in Romania,the theater of movement,gesture, pantomime, corporeal expression, clownery-which is however very popular in the Europe Union, implying yhe unmediated contact between performes and their audience.
– 1992 – Beast Leading Actor – Mihai Malaimare in DEATH HAS DIED, Egipt
– 2002 – National Order for Faithful Service received by Mihai Malaimare as Knight
– 2004 – Special Prize of the jury for INTRUDER, Theatre Festival at Plovdiv, Bulgaria
– 2004 – Grand Prize for INTRUDER, Theatre Festival at Piatra Neamt, Romania
– 2005 – Special Prize from the Romanian Composers Association, for the soundtrack of THE MIRROR, by Paul Urmuzescu
-2008 – Masca Theatre was awarded,during the UNITER Gala, the UNITER special award for performance in non-verbal theatre:Mihai Malaimare and Masca Theater, Encomium-Nicolae Manolescu
-2009- During the 2009 ,, Performig Arts Gala,, an event organized by the Office of the Mayor of Bucharest, Mihai Malaimare received the Award for performance in Management
-2010 at the 20th anniversary of the Romanian theatre of gesture,pantomime, and body expression,as a sign of appreciation fot the outstanding contribution to the reputation of Romanian theatre, the president of romania presented the Masca theatre with the Order of Cultural Merit in the grade ,, Knight", for the category ,, performing Arts,,
– 2012 – Best Show and Best Leadin Actor for Sebastian Ghita and BLUE CANARY, International Festival of Theatre, Movie and Photography Hyperion Stud Fest 2012
– 2013 – Special Prize for Courage, Initiative and Talen, awarded by the British Council to Mihai Malaimare
2015 – at the 25th anniversary of the Romanian theatre of gesture, pantomime, and body expression, as a sign of appreciation fot the outstanding contribution to the reputation of Romanian theatre, the president of romania presented the Masca theatre with the Order of Cultural Merit in the grade ,, Knight", for the category ,, performing Arts,, ( http://www.masca.ro/teatru/en/who-we-are/ )
The one who had the initiative to establish such a theatre, at a time a whole new world was being born, was actor and director Mihai Malaimare. Recollecting those initial moments back in 1990, Malaimare will be speaking about how he got the idea of founding such a theatre:
"I think there are a few things lying at the foundation of this theatre but one of them was the feeling of loneliness I had while roaming the streets of Bucharest on December the 21st 1989. I had a clear feeling that a world was dying and a new one struggled to surface and somehow I got stuck between. That was my first thorough analysis, when I realized that theatre was the only thing I knew how to make. As in the past I had tried to propose those from the UTC, the Young Communists Union the foundation of a Youth Theatre, I told myself that was the right time for the birth of such a theatre, all the more so I had some ideas on how to make it."
The team which worked with Malaimare at the implementation of such a project included director Anca Dana Florea and two actors from Braila, eastern Romania, Anamaria Paslaru and Sorin Dinculescu. They cooperated in structuring the esthetic programme, which was that of an alternative theatre of non-verbal discourse. A disciple of French mime Jean Lecoq, Mihai Malaimare is not only the initiator of a movement unique in Romania, that of a pantomime movement, but also the creator of a special troupe of selected actors who honed their skills to perfection. Here is critic Marina Constantinescu:
"All the professional actors of the Masca Theare have been attending special courses which are no longer taught in school, I mean pantomime courses. Of course they are privileged to work with Malaimare, who had professionally studied this art with Lecoq, an extremely gifted mime. They have attended stilt walking courses, fencing courses…Practically these actors are the ones who leave the theatre premises in an attempt to reach for the public, and the impact is tremendous."
At the beginning of a new year Malaimare shares with us some of the important projects for the theatre he is currently leading:
"2008 will be one of the three years during which I will not be director of the Masca theatre but its manager. This year I intend to raise the number of people visiting our webpage to at least 100 per day. I also intend to win an award in an international festival and to participate in at least three international and two national festivals…I would like to launch a new project called 'A Young Actor's Mask' and stage a pantomimic version of Hamlet."
Director Malaimare believes that a theatre must get socially involved and for this reason, the Masca Theatre comes with a series of social-cultural projects mainly addressing the audience in the Militari district, in Bucharest, where the theatre has its premises. Here is project coordinator Stefan Livadaru with details about some of the projects:
"The Masca Festival, includes not only theatre shows, but also music, interactive moments devoted to people of various ages, ranging from little kids to pensioners. We'll continue to mount our traditional project 'Halloween at the Masca Theatre', which is going to be a mini spook show for some of our younger spectators. Another successful project, in its 11th edition, is 'The Toy Fair', during which the little ones can donate the toys they are no longer playing with to needy kids. We'll also continue another of our projects, entitled 'Cinemasca', with many good films on view mainly for the young people in our district. Of course they can watch these films free of charge.
One of the most complex projects of the Masca Theatre is the 'City Below the City', staged in Bucharest's underground stations. Since 2003, these stations have housed nearly 500 shows, ranging from picture and photo exhibitions to dance and theatre shows."
All these shows have had a positive impact on its audience. Here is Malaimare again:
"Masca was a theatre which struggled to exist, first to have its own premises and then to survive as a theatre, an alternative solution to the already existing companies. We won our first audiences with shows held in alternative spaces, in parks, in the street, on esplanades and later in underground stations. So we have an audience of our own, people who recognize us and enjoy our shows. But when we started playing indoor, when we replaced non-verbal street shows with spoken plays we had to find another audience."
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Din 30 aprilie spațiul de la Roata Mare din Parcul Herăstrău se transformă într-o scenă de teatruDe 27 de ani Teatrul MASCA a ales să aducă teatrul aproape de locuitorii din București și nu numai atunci când majoritatea teatrelor îşi închid uşile.
Începând cu 30 aprilie, ora 17.00, Parcul Herăstrău (Roata Mare) va fi animat de spectacole de teatru în aer liber și statui vivante. "PARIZIANCA", " MATELOȚII", " ARCA LUI LENIN" sunt doar câteva titluri care vor face deliciul celor ce vor alege să-și petreacă timpul liber la ROATA MARE din Parcul Herăstrău.
Așadar, vă așteptăm cu mic, cu mare, din 30 aprilie, să dăm startul verii.
FESTIVALUL INTERNAȚIONAL DE STATUI VIVANTE, ediția a VII-a
Ediția de anul acesta are particularități speciale legate mai ales de intenția noastră de a ne defini locul în peisajul festivalurilor de gen și în cel al preocupării profesioniștilor statuii vivante de a găsi formulele teoretice general acceptabile, soluțiile tehnice și mai ales cele ale pedagogiei teatrale în domeniu. Va fi o ediție specială, una total diferită de cele anterioare. În primul rând prin întindere, căci trecem de la formula de trei la una de 7 zile și apoi prin format și desigur prin grupurile țintă cărora ne vom adresa.
Va fi un festival lung, care începe cu o Noapte a statuilor vivante și continuă cu 6 zile pe parcursul cărora producțiile Masca și cele ale invitaților noștri se vor derula în trei spații diferite din București. Vom evolua în două parcuri din două cartiere marginașe, Militari și Ferentari și în Parcul Herastrau, cel mai mare și mai important parc din Capitală. Dacă întâlnirea cu locuitorii Parcului Crângași din sectorul VI este deja tradiție, aceea cu locuitorii cartierului Ferentari este o premieră absolută și suntem convinși că va fi una extraordinară, atât pentru noi cât și pentru invitații noștri. Cât privește parcul Herăstrău, am ales o zonă mai puțin căutată de organizatorii de manifestări culturale, Roata Mare și iarăși avem convingerea că alegerea este una nu numai interesantă ci și foarte plăcută pentru artisti și spectatori deopotrivă căci este frumoasă, elegantă, plină de verdeață și va da o strălucire aparte festivalului nostru.
Noaptea statuilor vivante va aduce alături artiști străini și români într-un parc al unuia dintre cele mai interesante muzee din București, Casa Cesianu, spațiu cu o aură specială, misterios și elegant, suficient de mare pentru a fi încăpător și destul de intim pentru a crea o stare cu totul specială celor care vor veni să asiste la acest moment atât de important al festivalului nostru.
Cele șase zile de festival care vor urma se vor adresa unor ținte absolut diferite, de la sofisticatul spectator pe care îl poate oferi cel mai mare parc bucureștean, Herăstrău, la spectatorul cartierelor dormitor ale sectorului VI și desigur la acela al unui cartier care încearcă din răsputeri să-și contrazică o istorie nu tocmai pozitivă, Ferentari, dar unde oamenii, tocmai din această cauză sunt poate mai atenți și mai încântați de ideea noastră de a ne fixa pentru două zile în frumusețea parcului Humulești aflat exact sub geamurile blocurilor lor. Când vom face o analiză a modului în care festivalul nostru a fost acceptat și consumat, sunt convins ca vom avea reacții cu totul spectaculoase în Ferentari.
La ediția din acest an vor participa două grupuri de creatori de statui vivante din Europa, cei de la Great Names din Viena și cei conduși de Yvonn Hollander din Olanda. Alături de ei vom evolua și noi, cei de la Masca, aducând publicului un număr de 15 statui vivante, nu atât de multe ca în alți ani, dar cu siguranță mult mai competitive și mai bine realizate decât până acum, în plus vom încânta publicul cu o serie de spectacole create mai mult sau mai puțin în stilul statuii vivante, dar revendicându-se de la conceptul de teatru stradal în interiorul căruia statuia vivantă este, în opinia noastră, momentul cel mai important și mai spectaculos.
Festivalul va beneficia și de câteva zile de mediatizare activă prin intermediul unor statui vivante în foarte multe spații ale Capitalei, fapt care va întregi imaginea unui Festival care ambiționează să coaguleze forțele profesioniștilor care lucrează în domeniul statuii vivante și care, prin arta lor, prin festivalurile pe care le frecventează și le promovează încearcă să se opună atacului violent pe care neprofesioniști și amatori, în fapt simpli cerșetori îl produc uneia dintre cele mai interesante forme de teatru stradal din lume, statuia vivanta.
Ediția a VII-a a Festivalului Internațional de Statui Vivante Masca – 2017 va fi un eveniment cultural fără precedent și cu siguranță deschizător de perspective!


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Utilizing the Space in Your Small Bathroom using Bathroom Vanities in Vancouver
You've decided to remodel your new bathroom! Unfortunately, the bathroom itself isn't that large. So what you need to do is the try to use any of the available space as best as you can. There are tricks that you can use to make your bathroom seem bigger than its actual size. Whether it's to use a shower curtain instead of opting for a shower with a sliding door, there are plenty of tricks that you can use. But one of the tricks that we'd like to talk about involves bathroom vanities in Vancouver.
One thing that you can do is place your bathroom vanity in the corner so that any space that's available is utilized to its full potential. It will also give you more room in terms of the placement of your toilet and bathtub or shower.
A designer for HGTV actually stated that for small bathrooms, it's very possible that you may only have room for one furniture—with the exception of the shower and toilet, of course. And in these types of bathrooms, it's very likely that the furniture in question is a bathroom vanity. That's why her advice is to find a bathroom vanity that really stands out, one that will define the style of your bathroom.
Another idea with regards to bathroom vanities in Vancouver is that in order to really utilize the space you have, you should get a floating bathroom vanity, such as the Marinda. That way, there's room at the bottom for you to use, perhaps for baskets that can be used as storage for toilet paper rolls.
If you really need any additional space for your bathtub or toilet, then you should opt for bathroom vanities that are smaller in size.
Interested in bathroom vanities in Vancouver? Our selection ranges from larger vanities to the smaller ones that you may want for your smaller bathroom.


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Golf course architecture: evolutions in design, construction, and restoration technology
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The bestselling "bible" of golf architecture--revised and updated
Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition is fully updated with more than fifty percent new material, including more than twenty-five recent innovations in the golf industry. Revealing both the art and science of golf course architecture, it takes readers inside the designer's mind through each step to designing a golf green, golf hole, and golf course. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of full-color photographs, course maps, and drawings, this Second Edition explains the roots of ugliness and sources of beauty in courses, how the landscape communicates, and the connection between golfers and golf courses.
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In the fast-paced and ever-dynamic world of surf rock & roll, change often comes at you without much warning. Such was the case when, late last year, the rhythm section sighed a collective, "bummer" as The Surfside IV found that they were suddenly sans guitarist and drummer.
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Joining the fray, therefore, are: Matt "Tha Kat" Lentz on electrified Spanish guitar (founding member of The Del-Vamps) and famed rockabilly/surf drummer Scott Kowitt on traps. Rest assured, diehard fan, that both men are surf rock & roll gods in their own right and "stomp upon the terra" as Lord Buckley would put it. Behind the scenes, the reformed and rejuvenated IV have been going along great guns! With the kind of excessive flair generally reserved for movies with subtitles, they have seen fit to musically crucify one hallowed surf tune after another in rapid succession, to the amusement of themselves and their housepets alike.
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New Lightroom Presets from Matt K.
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I love his presets. Hey, I love anybody who makes my work easier. What can I say. Well if you're like me, be sure to check out the NEW and REVISED auto presents Matt Kloskowski has posted on Lightroom Killer Tips.
Another Digital Signature
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By far my top post is How to Make a Signature Brush in Photoshop.
Well, now David has another link and this one is for Adobe Lightroom and it comes via The Viewfinder! I love it. I think you will too.
Confessions of a Lightroom Addict
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Wow, see how many of these confessions you can relate to.
My own list:
- I don't keyword my photos nearly as much as I should either.
- I too, hate metadata, yet
- I love the benefits of metadata. ??? It's like keywording my photos.
- Since I've gotten Lightroom, I too have found I get just a little ticked when I have to take a photo into Photoshop for further editing. (But let's don't tell Scott about this one).
- It bugs me too, just a little when people don't believe that I didn't "Photoshop" a photo. Well, this last one may not be true. So what if they don't believe me. I know how awesome Lightroom is. They can believe me or NOT.
The full article and confessions of Matt Kloskowski are on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips.
It looks like Adobe as finally released the so expected 1.4.1 version with corrections.
The Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 1.4.1 updates are available immediately as free downloads at http://www.adobe.com/downloads. Senior Photoshop Lightroom Product Manager, Tom Hogarty, has included a complete list of the corrections on his blog at http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal. [via Photoshop News]
Press Relsease: SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 2, 2008 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta, a public preview of new and improved functionality to be delivered in the next major release. Lightroom is the professional photographer's essential toolbox, providing one application for managing, adjusting, presenting large volumes of digital photographs. Lightroom 2.0 beta will feature enhancements such as dual-monitor support, localized dodge and burn correction and will be the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel Macs and Microsoft Vista 64-bit operating systems.
"Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta provides early access to requested improvements over version 1.3 and continues our ongoing dialogue and open communication with the photography community," said Tom Hogarty, senior product manager for Photoshop Lightroom and Camera Raw. "We're excited not only for our existing customers, but also for the general public who will have an opportunity to take Lightroom 2.0 beta on a test run." [via Photoshop News]
Read the rest of the article to see what else is new and how to download your copy.
Also, with the release of Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta, Kelby Training has released an online Lightroom 2.0 training course by Matt Kloskowski. [via Photoshop Insider]
And if that's not enough for you NAPP (The National Association of Photoshop Professionals) has released a free Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta learning center, with loads of videos on all the coolest new features in Lightroom 2.0. [via Photoshop Insider]
Well, some of the problems discovered so far have been posted on a number of sites. Lightroom-Blog.com discusses the "Official Adobe Statement on version 1.4." Lighting Mods has a good discussion about some of the specific bugs encountered with version 1.4. Finally, here's a page that walks you through downgrading to an earlier version of Lightroom, should you find you need to do so.
Now you see it…Now you don't.
The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided.
For those not in immediate need of the updated camera support available in Camera Raw 4.4 or the DNG 4.4 Converter, it's recommended that you also continue working with the 4.3.1 versions. (Mac, Win) This decision is based on the following errors that have been discovered with the recent update:… [read Photoshop News for more]


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Magnolia (1999): United States – directed by P.T. Anderson
Rated R by the MPAA – contains lots of profanity, sexual content, brief nudity, mature themes, drug use, and some violent content
Some people are just jerks. They are young, have an immense amount of talent, and know exactly how to use that talent to make remarkable works of art. P.T. Anderson is one such jerk, though I suspect he is only a jerk because I am jealous. I am jealous because he made Magnolia, one of the best films of the 1990's, when we wasn't even thirty. Anderson, following in the footsteps of young auteurs like Orson Welles, has managed to craft several great films in a small amount of time.
Magnolia is one of my favorite films, one that I appreciate more fully and deeply with each subsequent viewing. It is an involving drama, circling around the lives of a multitude of characters. That these characters do not get confused or lost in the shuffle is but the first of many achievements.
The script is tight and delicately balanced, following the lives of several people as they live out one particularly eventful day. These people seem disparate at first, but as the film gently unwinds ties and connections between the characters become clear. The movie progresses deliberately, with patient pacing that make the three hour runtime enjoyable. As more is unveiled about the characters they become simultaneously more sympathetic and less likeable. We first get to know them as people, and continue to care about them after their flaws are made apparent.
It would take an experienced cast to pull off such three dimensional and complex characters, and Anderson managed to round up one of the best ensemble casts in the past few decades. There aren't really any lead actors and supporting actors; instead, everyone gets the screen time their character deserves. Philip Baker Hall plays Jimmy Gator, the host of a long-running game show. He and the people who work on the show are ripped straight from Network [reviewed here], a film IMDB lists as P.T. Anderson's favorite. Baker has cancer and is dying. As a result he attempts to reconnect to his daughter, Claudia (Melora Walters). Claudia has been in trouble with drugs, although a new man enters her life. Policeman Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly) is an honest man, proud to be a cop. He is lonely, though, and even though he suspects Claudia is a drug-user he can't help fall for her.
Meanwhile former gold-digger Linda Partridge (Julianne Moore) is distraught. Her elderly husband, Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), is dying of cancer. She has a guilt complex that seems to be both partially caused and exacerbated by her need for prescription medication. Earl's at-home nurse is Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a kindly man who tries to help Earl reconnect with his long-lost son, who just might be the nefarious Frank Mackey (Tom Cruise). Mackey has made a career out of teaching men how to score with women, and not just score but succeed at all costs, without any thought for anyone else. It may just be coincidence, but Earl Partridge just happens to own the television company that produces Jimmy Gator's television show.
The film poses that question at the beginning: is it coincidence? There are plenty of coincidences in the film, but perhaps this is just how life is? The opening sequence, featuring a narrator describing some odd scenarios, embeds this question in the viewer's mind. Another theme that seems to be present involves the total depravity of humankind. There is hardly a character in the film without some sort of deep flaw, or engaged in activity that is either illegal or immoral.
The way the film presents these questions is immaculate. The intertwining of lives and deeds is precise and meticulous, with superb direction and acting guiding the way. It is unbelievable that Anderson possessed this much talent and composure at such a young age, though in retrospect it shouldn't be surprising after the technical proficiency he displayed with There Will Be Blood.
Magnolia is a great movie. It is a thoughtful and engaging look into the lives and souls of an interconnected group of people. It draws me in, time after time, in a way few movies can manage. The emotional depths Anderson reaches are reminiscent of some of Ingmar Bergman's work, which is high praise indeed. Every time I see Magnolia I am fascinated by the characters and story and impressed with the amazing production. I can hardly wait to see it again.


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Patrick Woods, a student at Truett Seminary (of Baylor University) has recently started blogging on the Epistle of James at So Much for Straw. Looks like some interesting stuff.
2 thoughts on "So Much for Straw – new James biblioblog"
"Take that, Martin Luther!"
Jim, thanks for the nod! Keep up the good work, and let me know if you need a hand with your bibliography on James. I think that will be a good resource.


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Toys for children (birth to age five+) receive a recommendation if they:
- Actively capture & stimulate the curiosity of a child in multiple ways & over extended periods of time
- Are safe & developmentally appropriate
- Possess multiple educational functions to facilitate play
- NOTE: Check the age categories before AND after your child's age group as toys are first listed at the earliest appropriate age.
- NOTE: Toys below seek to stimulate, and not simply entertain, a child by targeting long-term engagement instead of the short-lived "wow factor" like many average toys. To learn more about how to select great, developmentally appropriate toys, click here.
1) "Sophie the Giraffe" by Vulli: Expensive, but worth every penny!
2) Noggin Stik by SmartNoggin: Responsive to baby's touch & great for clutching and mouthing
3) Haba Clutching Toys: "Croo-ak" or "Rosella" Babies love to clutch and teeth the hands of these toys.
4) Manhattan Toy "Swish Classic": Collapses to fit in a diaper bag!
5) Stacking Toys: Fisher Price "Rock-a-Stack" & "Stack and Roll Cups", Plan Toys "Stacking Ring" & Green Sprouts "Stacking Cup Set"
6) Rhino Toys "Oball": Great for teaching grasping skills
7) Rainbow Sound Blocks by Wonder World: Pricey, but worth it! These blocks can be used in many ways from puzzling the blocks back into the wood box, stacking, peering through translucent sides to making music with each unique shaker block.
8) Taggies by Mary Meyers Toys: Wonderful books, balls, blankies and baby dolls. The "taggies" on the toys give baby a chance to grip successfully with their tiny hands.
9) Go Car Go! by Kid-O: Easy to grasp, durable and rubber-coated wheels
10) Lamaze Clip & Go Firefly: Love this brand…many great options to choose from!
11) Spin Again by Fat Brain Toys
12) Anyway Stacker by Oball: There is no one right way! Baby can experiment and be creative.
13) "Babicorolle" Soft Doll by Corolle
14) Sassy Ring O' Links: Let Baby link, rattle, mouth, sort, count or stuff into an old diaper wipes box.
15) Click n' Play Balls: Non-toxic & non-crushable balls for Pack n' Play or ball pit
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1) Fisher-Price "Baby's First Blocks": (Brilliant Basics Line)
2) Soft Play Forms by Constructive Play Things: A wonderful starter set for a gross-motor play area. A good value for soft play equipment and will receive hours of active play for a years to come.
3) Little People by Fisher-Price: Barn, airplane, bus, parking garage, airport and house are all fun and well designed. Pick a theme that your child enjoys.
4) Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Learning Piggy Bank
5) PipQuigz by Fat Brain Toy Co.: Textured & sized perfectly for small hands & mouths and suctions to windows, walls, floors & more!
6) Ride on Car: (The below car is by "Kettler", but most brands will do! Look for a sturdy car with a character/theme that your child loves, a stopper behind back wheels & a seat that flips up with storage space.)
7) Tobbles by Fat Brain Toy Company: So many ways to play!
8) Parum Pum Pum Drum by B.: Wonderful variety of music toys and well sized for chunky hands. Now includes egg shakers (a favorite among young children).
9) G Baby by Geomag: Magnets for chunky hands!
10) Stuff N' Pull Scarf Tote by Constructive Playthings: Fun to use with the included scarfs or play a guessing game with other household objects. Kids tend to find a way to play with it through elementary school.
11) Wooden Blocks by Melissa and Doug: Display these in different containers from week to week. One week a shoe box (cut a hole for your child to fit blocks through box in different spots), a coffee tin, a plastic bin, etc…
12) Stella & Sam Doll by Manhattan Toy: They also offer an adorable boy doll! Toddlers can change the diaper, use the magnetic pacifier and help to dress baby.
13) Bilibo by Moluk: Try and count the many creative ways children think to play with this toy!
14) Cozy Coupe by Little Tykes: Toddlers can't get enough of this car. They love getting in and out by opening and closing the door.
15) Toddler Wobbler by Brio: Sturdy walker with a place to stash important stuff. Plus, it has adjustable wheel speeds & brakes. Perfect for cruisers and early walkers! It is more expensive than plastic walkers, but it can be used for over three years and it is durable and sturdy.
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1) Magnetos by Guidecraft: SmartMax is another great option for a similar product.
2) Alphabet Stacking and Nesting Blocks by Melissa and Doug
3) Soft Play Tunnel by Children's Factory: This is a versatile starter piece for gross motor play. Pricey, but will receive hours of active play for years and years. (I use the Creativity Institute for soft play equipment.)) ***Intelligent Nest TOY OF THE YEAR 2011!
4) Super Saxoflute by Quercetti: Music, science and building toy all-in-one!
5) Stackadoos by B. (Bristle Blocks): Bristle formation helps ensure success when chunky little hands try to piece blocks together.
6) Kettler Tricycle with Pushbar
7) Children's Factory Soft Tunnel Climber Set: A big investment that WILL pay off as it promotes gross motor play indoors for days when it is too hot, cold or wet to be outside and can be used for years. We still use ours daily (5 yrs. later and plan to keep them for another 5+ years).
8) Fisher Price Basics Cash Register: Retro and magnificent! It is a classic for a reason.
9) Tall Stacker Pegs Building Set by Lauri
9) Mon Premier Tidoo Bathtime Baby Doll by Corolle: Tots love to wash this baby in the bath, push it in a stroller and wrap it in a blanket. Well made, sturdy, cuddly and cute!
10) Zycom Zykster 2-in-1 Scooter & Balance Trike: Versatile fun for tots, ages 18-36 months, on the go!
11) Toddler Dress-Up Vests and Hats by Constructive Playthings: Boys and girls enjoy this set. The vests are easy to put on and take off and last for years due to the Velcro sizing tabs on the sides.
12) Shopping Cart by Melissa and Doug: I have tested and owned various shopping carts. This is, by far, the best and has survived many unintentional trips down the stairs.
13) Drum by Remo: Sturdy & kids love coming up with new uses for it!
14) Learning Resources Mix and Measure Set: Toss (or save) the guided activity card and just let kids play with these well-made measuring tools. Mix and measure colored water, shaving cream, oil, sand, etc… You'll have these for years!
15) Monkey Bars Tower by Toy Monster: For indoor, gross-motor play (up to 150lbs. max)
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1) Squigz by Fat Brain Toy Co: Adults and kids can't get enough of Squigz! ***Intelligent Nest TOY OF THE YEAR 2014!
2) Play Kitchen: I recommend the Vintage Kitchen by Kidkraft. This kitchen has weak parts in some places, but Kidkraft is very helpful and will replace broken pieces. In terms of value, this is one of the best kitchens on the market.
3) Hardwood Blocks: A large set of assorted basic wood blocks with sanded/rounded edges is another must. Costco sells a wonderful set online.
4) Gears, Gears, Gears! by Learning Resources
5) Safety Guard Scooter Board by Gamecraft
6) Pattern Blocks: Learning Resources sells a decent set on Amazon, but the brand does not matter as much with pattern blocks. Display them in a wide-mouthed open bin.
7) Role Play Costume Sets by Melissa and Doug: Well-made and creatively designed costumes that enchant young children. Find options ranging from medieval knight to mailman to hair dresser to veterinarian. Great to stock up and keep them in a readily accessible costume bin.
8) Melissa and Doug Deluxe Band Music Set
9) Play Silks by Magic Cabin: You can make these by purchasing silk from the fabric store, but I found this set to be worth the price (we've had ours 5 years now and they have 5+ years of wear left on them). The silks can be tied, wrapped, trampled and tugged as kids clip, tie & transform them into costumes, capes, canopies, hats, forts, skirts, bandages, flags, etc…
10) Kids First Robot Engineer: STEM toy made for boys and girls! Available in other themes like amusement park and automobile as well. Plus, the storage container is an actual tupperware and a storybook is included. They hit this one out of the park! ***Intelligent Nest TOY OF THE YEAR 2016
11) Melissa and Doug Easel: Sturdy, collapsible for storage and adjustable for children of different heights. Use chalk, paints, grease markers, stamps, glue, crayons, watercolors, scissors… the sky is the limit. Be sure to buy the accessory set to accompany the easel to get you started.
12) Mini Trampoline Find one where the legs fold down for storage/toy rotation. Pair with a old sheet and kids like to turn this trampoline into a fort as well. Position this toy in a room/area where it is OK to play rough, throw balls, jump and play like kid.
13) Wooden Train Set: Choose Thomas, Brio, Melissa and Doug or Chuggington. The brand does not matter. The tracks and trains can be pricey, so I recommend saving money for other toys (or bills!) and going as generic as possible on the tracks and accessories and choosing a couple of your child's favorite characters for the trains. No need to buy the whole table as train sets need to be rotated in and out of play.
14) Jungle Jumparoo: Indoor/outdoor safe, gross-motor play for kids and adults. Buy the rope swing for added fun. Also with a sheet/parachute, it can transform into a fort and can handle sprinklers, mud and abuse. We LOVE ours and highly recommend. It is worth the price! ***Intelligent Nest TOY OF THE YEAR 2015
15) Tinkertoys: Girls and boys alike LOVE to build and create– these make the perfect present for every kid on your list. ***Intelligent Nest TOY OF THE YEAR 2013
***Intelligent Nest TOY OF THE YEAR 2012
2) Plus Plus Assortments by Plus: Tiny, rubber puzzle pieces that you can build into 3-D figures. Cool for kids and adults!
3) Stepping Domes: The brand is not important, but Constructive Playthings make a great set. The options for play with this toy are limitless.
4) Ogo BildPOD by Ogo Sport: The pieces are large and flexible offering your child the opportunity to build larger creations (fort, bed, food stand, house, dungeon, castle, etc…) and require their entire body to build and play.
5) Connectagons by Hearth Song/ Magic Cabin
6) Sculpture in a Box by Shapescapes: An instant soothing favorite for kids and adults!
7) Teaching Cash Register by Learning Resources: Fits real money and coins!
8) Dr. Eureka Speed Logic Game by Blue Orange: This toy set can be played cooperatively or independently. What could be more fun than experimenting with beakers?
9) Kidoozie SuperSkipper: The whole family can play together as this features multiple settings and speeds and the arms disconnect and transform into everything under the sun.
10) GoldieBlox: Even boys like this innovative STEM toy designed for girls– Build machines & tell a story at the same time!
11) Marble Run: A different outcome every time- very stimulating and exciting for young children! I would only purchase this toy if there are no children under 3 years of age in the house (the marbles pose a very real choking hazard).
12) Mindscope Neon Twister Tracks: Fun for boys and girls, plus this set has a newly designed car and is still compatible with the old tracks
13) Lincoln Logs: Classic for a reason.
14) Flying Turtle: Skip the battery operated cars and explore the laws of physics with this great car instead and it will not scratch your floors!
15) OgoSport Mezo OgoDisc
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25 Top Toys for KIDS 5 to 10 Years OF AGE
**In no particular order
- Two Bros Bows Bow & Arrow (comes in various colors for boys/girls)
- Little Bits STEM Kits (various prices/sizes of kits | amazing toy!)
- Quadrillion by SmartGames
- LaserPegs
- Snapcircuits (sets are interchangeable so you can collect them all!)
- KEVA Contraptions & Structures
- Flippin Chicken
- Bugs in the Kitchen by HEX BUGS
- 4M Fun Mechanics Kits
- Roominate
- Fort Magic: Fort Building and Construction Toy Kit
- Rock and Roll It Flexible Instruments
- Sew Softies by Orb Factory
- 3D String Art
- Doinkit Darts
- Creativity for Kids Terrariums (amazing kits for boys and girls)
- Think Fun Games (esp. Rush Hour, Laser Maze, Rush Hour)
- Spooner Boards
- Just Jump It 8ft & 16ft Ropes (you can't imagine what they come up with for these)
- Thames + Kosmos Kits (expensive but well done!)
- Geomag Construction Sets
- SmartLab Ultimate Secret Formula Lab
- Zoob Builder sets
- Spirograph
To purchase: If you live in the NoVA area, visit Doddlehopper in Falls Church, VA (my favorite toy store)


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1. All dogs attending our courses and workshops need to be vaccinated and microchipped and we may ask to see proof of this when you first attend.
2. Dogs must be kept on lead at all times when attending our courses and workshops unless specifically instructed by the course/workshop instructor to take them off lead for specific exercises. Only one dog will be permitted to be off lead at any one time in the interest of safety. Please bring your dog on a standard length lead (extendable leads can be beneficial to use in some environments but are not suited to indoor class environments).
3. We cannot accept any breeds prohibited under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 on our courses or workshops.
4. We are unable to accept dogs that have aggressive tendencies towards dogs and/or people on our courses and workshops due to the specialist care they require. If you do have a dog with aggressive tendencies, we will be happy to recommend other local trainers/behaviourists qualified to specifically deal with such issues.
5. Please do not bring your dog to the course or workshop if they are suffering from any contagious illness or are experiencing sickness or diarrhoea. If you are unsure whether to bring your dog, please check with your vet in the first instance and then contact us.
6. Due to the distraction it can bring to male dogs and to prevent the risk of unplanned pregnancy, bitches cannot attend our courses or workshops whilst in season. Please contact us if you are enrolled on a course or workshop and your dog has come into season and we will endeavour to place you on an alternative date or carry over any missed weeks to a future course.
7. Please notify us of any allergies, behaviour problems or health issues (non contagious) that your dog has when booking on any of our courses and workshops. This will help us to tailor individual exercises to your dog's needs.
8. There must be a minimum of one handler per dog attending our courses and workshops. Children are welcome to attend and take part in the training providing they are accompanied by a responsible adult. Family members are also welcome to attend and take part in the training.
9. We only use force free methods in our courses and workshops and will not tolerate any harsh handling or use of equipment that causes pain to the dog such as choke chains or e-collars. Anyone witnessing such methods should report this to the course/workshop instructor as soon as possible.
10. Places are limited on our courses and workshops as we prefer to have small classes where all handlers and dogs get the full help and attention they deserve. We therefore require a non refundable deposit of £10 to be paid at the time of booking via bank transfer or cheque. Your place will not be secured until the deposit has been received/cheque has cleared. The remaining balance is payable in full when you attend on the start date of the course or workshop and can be paid by cash, card or cheque.
11. Refunds will only be given in exceptional circumstances for example loss or death of a dog or rehoming. In some circumstances we may be able to agree transfer of course fees paid for to a future course or workshop with the final decision being made by K9 Klass.
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Budget Office Cautious On Economy
The head of the Congressional Budget Office says the economy isn't on the brink of a recession despite the credit crunch and housing crisis.
In fact, CBO Director Peter Orszag says the agency sees good growth in the economy despite the potholes. He says the "most likely scenario" is "continued economic growth."
However, Orszag says, the housing issues and problems in the subprime mortgage markets have created a yellow level of concern.
"The risk of a recession is clearly elevated," he says. At best, he says, the housing downturn could cost the economy about 1 point of the expected 2 to 3 percent projected growth, or "not enough to tip the economy into a recession."
But he says there are other elements to keep an eye on through the fall that could indicate a change in direction, including corporate spending and consumer confidence.
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Former state Rep. Ben Rodefer will challenge state Sen. John Sapien of Corrales in the Democratic primary.
"I am humbled by the many community leaders who have asked me to serve this district again. I look forward to a spirited campaign with Senator Sapien," Rodefer said in a news release. "Elections are about choices, and I think there is a clear choice for voters to make this year."
Rodefer was elected to the Legislature in 2008 but was defeated in 2010 by Republican David Doyle.
If Rodefer is successful in the primary, he will face Doyle -- who recently announced he's seeking the GOP nomination for the District 9 seat -- once again in November.


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Tickets Go On Sale This Week for 9th Annual Detroit Fall Beer Festival02-Aug-2017
Tickets for the Michigan Brewers Guild's 9th Annual Detroit Fall Beer Festival (Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28 at Eastern Market in Detroit) go on sale this Thursday, August 3 at 10am. Tickets for Friday are $40 in advance (and $45 at the gate, if any remain available); Saturday tickets are $45 in advance. Admission includes 15 tasting tokens, each good for a three-ounce sample. Additional tokens are 50-cents each.
The list of breweries, beers and entertainment will be released in the weeks leading up to the festival and will be posted on The Mash blog. Last year, more than 80 Michigan Brewers Guild member breweries participated in the two-day festival, with more than 700 beers available for sampling.
The Michigan Brewers Guild is the network of innovative and passionate brewers that serves as the recognized advocate for the Michigan craft beer industry. The mission of the Michigan Brewers Guild is to promote and protect the Michigan craft beer industry with an overarching goal to help craft beer acquire 20% of the market by 2025.
Michigan's thriving brewing industry conservatively contributes more than $144 million in wages with a total economic contribution of more than $600 million. In terms of overall number breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs, Michigan ranks #6 in the nation – thus supporting its claim as "The Great Beer State."
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For Additional Information Contact:
Scott Graham Executive Director
Dianna Stampfler, Media Consultant