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Awesome..This should be a good show for sure....
This great. Martina is a big draw....Scotty will gain more fams for sure.ReplyDelete
i wonder if jackpot has grown much since the last time i was there about 1995. My Brother-in-law worked at the casino there it's so cool i know the place just wish i could be there.ReplyDelete
Scotty may have to scale down his show for this. I love Martina McBride, she is wonderful. I hope everyone who can go to this one has a great time. Maybe some people who have never seen Scotty live before can get to this venue.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure because when The Band Perry were special guest to Brad Paisley, they were on a very long time and I think performed all their songs and a few coves so he may be able to do his full show. I hope so. I would love to see him with Martina.Delete
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Living with an alcohol addict is a trying and exhausting experience. At times, saying "no" and helping him or her to alcohol rehab seems far more complicated than saying "yes" and turning a blind eye to substance misuse.
Appeasing an addict – giving he or she money when it's needed, allowing a loved one to socialize with other known alcohol abusers – may seem like acts of support and help, when in reality they constitute enabling and entangle both parties deeper into a canyon of addiction.
Below are common reasons why enabling is so easy and at times feels like the right thing to do. But in order for a suffering loved one to find alcohol recovery, all the thought processes that lead to enabling must be overcome.
Afraid of retaliation
Many close friends or family members are afraid that after saying "no" to an alcohol abuser, he or she will retaliate violently either with physical or mental abuse.
A fear of retaliation though is really just a fear of the depth of a loved one's addiction; if someone resorts to physical abuse because of being denied alcohol, then it is clear that he or she needs to seek alcohol rehab immediately.
Desire to be liked
The desire to be liked begins at a young age and never really ceases. When fearing that an addict will never speak to you again after demanding that he or she go to alcohol recovery, you are failing to understand the misdirection of your loved one's emotions. He or she isn't angry with you, but with himself. The addiction is the part that he hates.
Too lazy to change
Life provides its own avalanche of pressures be they related to work, finances or family. Having a friend who is suffering from alcohol addiction can take its toll, and at times it might seem like too much work to plan for a loved one to enter alcohol rehab.
Keep in mind though that once your loved one enters alcohol recovery the work that will be asked of he or she will far outweigh the burdens of a life not controlled by addiction.


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As Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a very common reproductive disorder that affects the fertility of many of our patients, we remain at the leading edge of medical advances in this area. Our Center for PCOS, led by Dr. Laurence Jacobs, ensures that our patients receive the highest quality fertility evaluation and treatment from every member of our staff. All of our Fertility Centers of Illinois Physicians are specialized in PCOS, as well as other infertility diagnoses.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition in which the ovaries contain many follicle cysts due to a hormone imbalance and less frequent ovulation. PCOS has a range of variable and subtle symptoms that can have negative implications for fertility and/or general health.
Common Signs & Symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome:
- Irregular or absent menstrual cycles
- Infrequent or absent ovulation
- Ovarian follicle cysts
- Acne
- Excessive hair growth on the face, arms, chest, or abdomen
- Obesity or weight gain
- Thinning hair
Who Should Be Tested for PCOS?
PCOS is found among all ethnicities of women, but is more common in Hispanic women, with an incidence rate of 13-14 percent compared to 5 percent in caucasian women. However, any woman who has one or more of the symptoms should consider PCOS evaluation by a reproductive endocrinologist or an experienced obstetrician/gynecologist. Since PCOS can have confusing signs and symptoms, the diagnosis may be unclear in young women not trying to get pregnant, especially if they are interested in regulating menstrual cycles with medications, such as birth control pills. In addition, there is no single test to definitively diagnose PCOS. Experienced obstetricians/ gynecologists and reproductive endocrinologists, who have more expertise in comprehensive endocrine evaluations, may be better suited for PCOS investigations and able to offer more treatment options.
What Is the PCOS Screening Process?
PCOS testing must be performed within the first five days of your menstrual cycle. Contact the Fertility Centers of Illinois Patient Services Team on the first day of your menstrual cycle or the next business day to schedule your PCOS screening. For patients with irregular or absent menstrual cycles, PCOS screening can be scheduled at any time.
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- Complete a brief questionnaire and have your Body Mass Index (BMI) evaluated
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- Receive a transvaginal ultrasound to visualize your ovaries
Within one week of the PCOS screening appointment, patients will:
- Receive the results of their screening, including physician's evaluation and treatment recommendation
- Should the PCOS screening uncover any abnormalities, you will be advised to schedule an appointment for further consultation, physical examination, and/or additional testing (as required).


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Arnos Vale Cemetery has gone from strength to strength but not without amazing community support. We've been accepted for Aviva Community Fundraising but we need YOUR help.
Please register (for free) and vote on our community garden project
Our project will improve this neglected area with a native species garden for local residents and visitors. The garden will be co-produced with the local community with local organisations supporting its management and planting.
The area is situated by the neglected top entrance that backs on to a local road and gardens. This site is very accessible site for litter dumping and fly-tipping as you can see from its run-down state.
Please help us make it better. Share the link on social media, vote, and tell people all about it.


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Every two weeks we'll round up the discussion on Iterative Marketing from our blog, community and the web. Here's what happened in the last week, just in case you missed it:
- We launched the Iterative Marketing Podcast. It's available on iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud and Stitcher.
- I laid out three key assets for future marketing success
- Elizabeth Earin (@elizabethearin) told us how Iterative Marketing helps our reports accomplish what we need
We had several posts in the Iterative Marketing community on topics from eliminating waste in marketing to the new Facebook canvas ad unit. We had a little more discussion this week, but I know we can do better. Share your experience! Share your expertise! Let's build a community!


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My friend Adrian Murray was unsuccessful in his bid to get a seat on the Tarrant Regional Water District board yesterday.
Here's the Startlegram:
The campaign was marked by dramatically different depictions of the water district. Lane and Leonard said the district is a well-run organization that is aggressively seeking other water sources. Murray and Basham criticized the board for high-ticket purchases such as a helicopter and argued that the current leadership was recklessly spending public money and making its decisions in secret.
And here are a few blurbs on the Tarrant Regional Water District's Trinity River Vision Project from the Fort Worth Weekly, a periodical not overseen by the people who will profit from this
Just for some background, this is what the Trinity looked like before they spent the billion dollars.
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Here's what the Trinity looks like now that they've spent the billion dollars. I think they've torn down two buildings so far. If someone has a more recent photo of the non-progress, I'll gladly post it.
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Notice the subtle differences? I don't either. There aren't any.
Heck, we coulda dredged out a new river running from Burleson to Abbott for that amount.
Sorry for the digression. Here's the Fort Worth Weekly:
....According to records obtained by Fort Worth Weekly under the state open records law, the district will spend about $600,000 this year on outside lobbying firms. DFW Airport, by comparison, will spend $560,000 with two Washington lobbying firms, and DART has budgeted about $310,000. Fort Worth paid its Washington lobby firm $168,000 in 2006, and Dallas spent about $240,000.
....Trying to find out why the water district needs to spend so much on lobbying is difficult. Neither Trinity River Vision Authority director J.D. Granger — son of the congresswoman — nor water district board president Victor W. Henderson returned calls seeking comment. Board vice president Hal S. Sparks III said it was not "his place" to comment on such contracts and referred all queries to Tarrant water district general manager Jim Oliver.
....Clyde Picht, who lost to Lane in the water district board race last year, said, "This is a local agency that should basically be concentrating on delivering water cheaply and efficiently to the cities in North Texas. Why would they even need any lobbyists in Washington?"
He has recently announced he will seek a new term on Fort Worth City Council — in part to continue his opposition to the Trinity Vision project. "Their spending habits are getting out of hand," he said. Picht noted that the water district is already spending more than $100,000 a year on J.D. Granger's salary (remember, that's Congresswoman Kay Granger's boy - TWS), "and I figured maybe part of his deal might be that he has to call his mother every once in awhile. But I guess they have to hire someone in Washington to keep in contact with her."
Since October 2001, the district has paid Washington lobbying firm Hicks-Richardson $256,653. The company is budgeted for $60,000 this year. Another Washington lobbying firm, Welch Resources, is due to receive $120,000 in fiscal 2007, and has been paid $290,260 since it first started lobbying for the river agency in 2004.
Local politically connected people are also getting big paydays. Political consultant Bryan Eppstein, who has worked on the campaigns of many water district board members as well as those of Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief, is getting a combined $30,000 a month from the water district and Trinity River Vision Authority for a communications/lobbying firm he will head. Included in the duties, according to the contract, are "the development and implementation of legislative and regulatory strategies." The total worth of the contract, which runs through 2010, is $1.4 million.
....Former Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis, who handles lobbying in Austin for the Tarrant district, is budgeted to receive $60,000 this year. Since October 2001, Lewis has been paid $283,500 by the water district. Neither Eppstein nor Lewis returned the Weekly's calls for this story.
....The $120,000 yearly contract with Welch Resources has raised even more questions from critics. Welch is run by former U.S. Rep. Mike Parker of Mississippi, who booked more than $1 million in lobbying contracts last year.
....Steve Hollern, a former Tarrant County GOP chairman, called the TRV a "massive transfer of wealth from private citizens to rich developers." The lobbying, Hollern said, "is just part of the cost to keep this transfer going. But I have to give the devil his due. They plan and execute behind the scenes in ways that would make Machiavelli take notice."
Move along, people, nothing to see here. Please keep moving, please keep moving.
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California politicians have a spending addiction – and no tax increase will ever be big enough to satisfy their habit.
That's why Reform California opposes all tax increases proposed by state and local politicians.
Defending Prop 13: Vote NO on "Split Roll"
State politicians and government employee union bosses have placed a "Split Roll" ballot measure on the 2020 ballot to gut Prop 13. Reform California is working with a broad coalition of taxpayer protection and government accountability organizations to defeat this measure.
Opposition to State and Local Tax Hikes
A number of other tax increases are pending in the State Legislature – tallying up to over $300 billion in state tax hike proposals this year alone! These tax increases must be opposed in the Legislature and defeated at the ballot box.
On local tax increases and property taxes for bonds, Reform California will work with regional partners to organize, fund, and assist in a vigorous opposition campaign to these measures.


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The Four Mile Historic Park is the home of Denver's oldest structure and a museum with exhibits about the life of the city's pioneers in the 1880s.
The 12 acres of gardens and farmland, along with horses, goats and chickens, also offer an escape from the bustle of downtown just four miles away.
The Four Mile House, which is open for tours, was built by the Brantner brothers in 1859 on 160 acres of unclaimed land on the banks of Cherry Creek. The property eventually grew into a prosperous 600-acre farm run first by Mary Cawker and her sons and then by Levi and Mille Booth.
The homestead became the last stage stop on the Cherokee Trail for newcomers bound for the settlement on the Platte River that was then called Denver City.
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Large Murals like the examples shown here can be custom designed and printed on vinyl for outdoor/indoor use. Smaller size murals can be printed on paper in Archival and Primo quality. For Mural commissions contact the artist.
Alibaba Mural. Size: 5' x 30', acrylic. (NFS - Not for Sale)
Recreation of Sandro Botticelli's Primavera Mural 5' ¾" x 8' owned by the artist indoor, acrylic. This painting hangs in our dinning room. It closely follows the original with obvious differences in foreground, background and faces. The original Italian Renaissance painting was commissioned by Lorenzo DeMedici for his wedding. The painting depicts the power or birth of spring. The characters include Venus and her hand maidens, Flora, the God of the Wind and Botticelli himself on the far left.
a. Full size (5' ¾" x 8') is created on vinyl only. Contact the artist for pricing.
b. Size: 3' x 4' $430.00
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The Good Shepherd Mural located in the Good Sheppard Catholic Church, Braddock, PA Braddock Mural Series 10' x 18' outdoor/indoor This scene portrays Jesus as the good Sheppard surrounded by children from all over the world. Bethlehem is the back drop. This mural was created as part of the Braddock beautification series. (NFS - Not for Sale)
The Career of Mario Lemieux Mural American Business Center, Frick Building PGH, PA 6' x 16' indoor. Acrylic and air brush. This piece depicts a series of memorable events in the career of the Penguin's great, Mario Lemieux, leading up to the Stanley cup.(NFS - Not for Sale)
The History of Pittsburgh Jazz Mural, (former location) The Holiday Inn Select, Oakland. 11' x 40'. Indoor, acrylic. This mural was exhibited in the Foster's Restaurant and served as the main back drop for Pittsburgh live jazz performances for a number of years. Due to recent remodeling it is no longer on exhibition. This mural is a tribute to local Pittsburgh jazz musicians that attained national fame.(NFS - Not for Sale)
a. Sculpture: Medium Vatican Casting Stone - 35 d x 11 h x 14 w
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a. Sculpture: Medium Cast Iron Bronze Patina - 27 d x 10 h x 18 w
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Updated on January 11, 2007
Carolina Judge Dismisses Ag-Mart Pesticide Violation Charges
(Beyond Pesticides, January 11, 2007) A December ruling dismissed the majority of pesticide and worker abuse charges against Ag-Mart, grower of the Santa Sweets and Ugly Ripe brands of grape tomatoes. The state of North Carolina has been in the process of suing the company since 2005 after finding 369 violations of the state's Pesticide Law and federal Worker Protection Standards, seeking $184,500 in fines from the company.
Ag-Mart has faced a slew of legal cases since 2004, after three of its Florida fieldworkers gave birth to babies with severe birth defects and the states of Florida, North Carolina and New Jersey charged the company with misuse of pesticides. The majority of violations are related to Ag-Mart breaching regulations designed to ensure worker and customer safety, including forcing employees to work in fields freshly sprayed with pesticides, which can damage the nervous system and cause birth defects, and harvesting tomatoes too soon after spraying, violating rules designed to keep consumers safe from pesticide residues in their food.
Though the ruling is a recommendation and non-binding, Ag-Mart will most likely take the North Carolina Pesticide Board, a seven-member group appointed by the governor, to court to appeal any fine they levy. State agriculture officials say that they will continue to pursue the case and that they will ask the Pesticide Board to ignore the judge's recommendation.
"If (pesticide investigators) had not had the evidence, they would not have gone forward," state Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler said. "The whole case has not been heard. We're going to stay with it."
North Carolina administrative law judge Beryl Wade made her recommendation based on claims by Ag-Mart that the work and pesticide application records, which showed workers in the fields during pesticide applications and during restricted "re-entry intervals," were inaccurate. Ag-Mart officials said exact records of where employees work weren't kept and documents provided to the state were only educated guesses. She found that 275 of the 369 claims should be dismissed based on these inaccuracies, and limited the amount the state of North Carolina could fine Ag-Mart to a total of $500 for about 300 of the violations. However, Ag-Mart could still be fined $500 each for the remaining violations.
Source: Agricultural Resources Center: Pesticide Education Project
TAKE ACTION: Contact North Carolina's Governor Easley and let him know that Ag-Mart should be held accountable for violating worker and consumer health. Additionally, you can boycott Ag-Mart by not buying Santa Sweets or Ugly Ripe brand tomatoes.
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Q&A – Common (Elam Ferguson)
Common, who plays Elam Ferguson on AMC's Hell on Wheels, talks to AMCtv.com about embracing the "natural" lifestyle on set and how the show influences his music.
Q: Elam was shot at and almost killed by hanging last season. Were you nervous to see what the writers had in store for you in Season 2?
A: I wasn't nervous… I was really more looking forward to coming and seeing what the writers had in store for Elam next, with the hopes that Elam would stay alive for the whole season.
Q: What would you say is the biggest change in Elam?
A: He's changed his position and ranking. He's been working closely with Durant, so he's accumulated a position of power. He also has removed himself in certain ways from being amongst the freedmen a lot. Also, the back and forth between him really loving Eva and not being able to provide what she would need.
Q: Given that you're a sharp dresser in real life, were you glad to see Elam's wardrobe improve?
A: I'm glad just because it fits what Elam's going through… I want to look like how Elam is supposed to look, and obviously sometimes when people make money, they clean up. So, it's symbolic to where he's moving in his life.
Q: Is there any 1800s costume piece you can imagine wearing in your everyday life?
A: [Laughs] I was thinking about like what would somebody say if they say saw me walking around in that hat? They'd be like, "Man, are you trying to come up with a new style?" It just wouldn't work. But I can say that the hat that I wear as Elam, it's bigger than the one I had last year, and even that is symbolic of Elam rising up.
VIDEO: The Cast on Season 2 of Hell on Wheels
Q: You learned to ride a horse last season. Learn anything new Season 2?
A: There was a stunt that someone else did where this guy was on this train car above my head, and he had to fall over right in front of me. If he had fallen on me, I don't know if I'd be talking to you right now. That was kind of fun, but dangerous. And just the running and gunning on the show has been fun.
Q: Has working on Hell on Wheels influenced your music?
A: I think it influences me as a person because I'm becoming more and more educated on what we went through in American history. I can't say that I've directly written a song about something from that time period, but as an artist, you always pick up information and sometimes it seeps into your psyche or your body in its own way.
Q: How do you think Elam has changed audience's conceptions of the American West?
A: We haven't seen a character like this from that time period, and I think that was important. One thing that I've really appreciated about Elam is that he's a leader and very intelligent. He cares for people, he's passionate, and has his own dream, and thinks for himself. You know, he's a human being. And I think that's one of the most important things that people can learn from Hell on Wheels and that time period is that people were people. Some of the same things that we go through now, they experienced.
Q: You've said you prefer the "delivery of racial prejudice" in Hell on Wheels to that of America today. Why is that?
A: When you start hearing people saying words like "nigger," it kind of shakes you sometimes, but what we really need to see is that some of the same mentality still exists. People just don't use those words outright as much as they did before.
Q: The show is filmed on an especially gritty set. What's it like going back to your life as a superstar rapper after living in the Hell on Wheels world?
A: The set is definitely grimy and raw, but what I do is I just live in it and let that be. We're there for a certain project, and I'm around good actors, so me going on the set and being dirty, that's cool. I enjoy that. I don't get out there and have car service or anything. I totally live a cooler lifestyle in that it's more natural and regular and common.
Q: So you appreciate the simple life of being on set?
A: Yeah, I appreciate being able to walk on set and you're in the world of Hell on Wheels. Our set designer and everyone on that crew have done an incredible job.
Click here to read an interview with Anson Mount, who plays Cullen Bohannon on AMC's Hell on Wheels.Read More


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Expanding Possibilities, Liberating Life Force
One of the major contributions yoga can make to greater mental and emotional well being is its capacity to develop new ranges of feeling and expression. Like a tree that wants to grow into full expression, in the directions inspired by its natural ability, we also have a myriad of potential for feeling into and expressing our aliveness. But, like a tree forced to grow inside a box, we are hampered in our expression by cultural norms and expectations as well as our socialization. From a young age we are taught what kind of emotional expression is acceptable and will secure us the affection of our caregivers and peers. We are also taught what is not acceptable. We try to grow in boxes, knowing intuitively that something is missing. We can sense the constriction and mistake the craving for fuller, more alive expression with the craving for achievement, things, money or power. We have been taught that on the other side of striving for and attaining prestigious externals, such as status or influence, will be that aliveness that we so crave. And often despite the momentary exhilaration we let ourselves feel upon achieving some external standard of success, the moment ends and we are forced once again inside our boxes, pawing at the inside seeking desperately for a crack of fresh air. And we do this again and again, compulsively seeking those highs of achievement, where the accolades of success feign the illusion of true freedom. Like the obsessive compulsive handwashing of a germaphobe, mistaking a moment of "cleanliness" for true freedom from the burden of bacteria, we attach to these external achievements a pray they give us the aliveness we crave and sense as our birthright. As we compulsively seek greener pastures and better vistas outside of ourselves our inner landscape becomes neglected and we become even more alienated from our internal life, exacerbating the feeling of lack and subsequently amping up the feverish pursuit of "MORE" in our external world. We become enslaved by the allure of achievement and dependant upon attaining external standards for experiencing life inside the body. Excitement is permitted when we get that shiny new car, high power job or media coverage but soon that dies and we are again at the mercy of our compulsive pursuit of the next big thing. And our energy is not activated until the next big thing is arrived at, or things start to go "our way". In the meantime our energy is stuck in patterns defined by the boxes we have adopted like a tree conforming to the box it grows in. Our growth and energy is restricted only to minimally acceptable ranges and at some point the atrophy takes over, our energy gives up and we succumb to various forms of neuroses to cope.
But there's another way. Yoga can offer us the possibility of liberating our energy from these boxes if we practice it in a way that allows that. Unfortunately much of yoga today offers us simply more boxes – fancier boxes, perhaps, shrouded in complex or beautiful forms. We pursue "floating" sequences of arm balances, inversions and other circus feats – the achievement of which has come to indicate one's superiority in the realm of yoga culture. We pursue external standards once again. Yoga becomes, then, not a vehicle of liberation but yet another of enslavement as we seek to "keep up" with the images endorsed by popular media and unquestioned by much of the yoga leadership in our midst. And yet yoga has the potential of being a powerful force for breaking down the boxes of conditioning we live in and offering us new possibilities for movement and expression. Bioenergetic body worker John Conger says we can build a "vocabulary of liberation" in the body and "change from one physical psychic state to another" through the awakening to unconscious patterns and increasing the repertoire of expression through movement practices. Through yoga we can begin to expand choice and possibility beyond the taken for granted patterns of our culture. We can reclaim our nature, expanding the branches of our expression and leaf out in the many directions of our inherent potential. Conger goes on to say: " Life as a construct of simple physical rituals can be enacted out of vitality or submerged in depression; and attention to the range of simple human activities is most especially the province of a psychology of the body" He states " As the range of movement is constricted so our experience is impoverished" and we know this impoverishment deeply and long for its resolution. A yoga practice that takes us into these conditioned patterns and offers us choice in the midst of their rigidity is a practice founded on liberation. This practice may not be fancy or externally pleasing but it is profoundly empowering. Yoga that offers us the ability to connect to our aliveness and move in increasingly new ways and expressing through a myriad of forms is one that ends our dependence on external achievement to give us the surge of aliveness we yearn for. In the moments we feel the crushing pressure of the box of expectations around us, we can enter into our practice, commune with what is, and offer ourselves alternatives that are dependent on nothing but our own willingness to pay attention and to move. These new movement possibilities become vehicles of expression rather than constriction and our life force is enable to grow and stretch, root and center, solidify and flow based on the natural urge within. The key is to ask yourself if your yoga practice is building up the boxes of pressure and achievement around you or breaking them down. Are you willing to drag up the conditioned body from the shadows of your unawareness and know it? Will you offer yourself new possibilities of expression and become your individuated self or will you allow yet another yoga authority to tell you what's acceptable movement and what's not?
The choice is yours to stand amidst the influence of our culture and BE as you are in your NATURAL self. Push back against the box. Let yoga be your vehicle of choice rather than yet another system dictating right and wrong. Through yoga collapse the boxes of your conditioning with every fresh movement and allow every style of practice to permit a new mode of expression and a more vibrant experience of your life force.
Conger, John. (1988) Jung and Reich: The body as shadow. North Atlantic Books.


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The festival will accept all forms of payment including cash, debit & credit
You can park in the Ontario Place parking lots outside the front gates. Parking will be $25/day
Payment plans will be available for all ticket prices at the on sale
Tickets are non-transferable.
Take the train (Westbound / Eastbound) and get off at Exhibition station. Walk to Ontario place.
Subway to union station. Take the 509 Exhibition streetcar to Exhibition. Walk to Ontario Place
There will be extremely limited parking on site. Parking will be $25/day. Please plan your festival transportation in advance. Streetcar, Uber and Go Train will be available.
VIP ticket holders will be allowed to leave and reenter the festival until 10pm each day. GA+ ticket holders will be allowed to leave and reenter the festival until 10pm each day. There will be no INs and OUTs for GA ticket holders. Once you leave each day you will not be permitted re-entry.
Yes, small backpacks are allowed. However, they are subject to a security check prior to entry into the festival. Anyone who brings a clear backpack will be allowed to enter the no bag line.
All food must be pre-packaged and sealed. Food packaged in plastic, glass containers, or Ziploc bags will be confiscated. 1 factory sealed water bottle will be allowed. No glass or metal bottles. There will be water stations on site. Vendors will also have beverages available for sale. Unsealed drinks will be confiscated.
Small personal cameras (smaller than 40 mm) and phone cameras are allowed but NO professional cameras (any SLR or DSLR) and no cameras with detachable lenses will be permitted into the festival grounds. There are no audio/video recording devices permitted beyond what is listed on our allowed/prohibited items list. Go Pros are allowed.
Yes, there will be lockers available to purchase.
Yes, there will be a variety of food vendors to cater to an array of dietary needs.
We have a dedicated Uber Pick Up/Drop Off Zone at Bud Light Dreams. More info at uber.com


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[Spoilers ahoy]
I found this on tumblr today; someone translated a Korean-language interview with Bong Joon-ho, and he confirmed that there are a few GLBT characters in the movie, including Wilford, Gilliam and Grey.
From the tumblr post:
[Translated by me]
Q: In order for the tail section people to keep have children, sex is necessary; yet there isn't much description of sex throughout the film. Moreover, it's questionable if the population would be sustained when there are way more men than women in the tail section.
Bong Joon-Ho : Most young women in the tail section were drafted to the front section and you can see them in the club scene. Actually, there is a brothel section in the train according to the original graphic novel, but we couldn't make it due to limited production budget. They kept just enough number of women in the tail section to provide children.
There is another extreme (*The interviewing website is called EXTREME MOVIE:p) backstory that I'm revealing for the first time: there are homosexual relationships among the men. Gilliam, played by John Hurt, and Grey, played by Luke Pasqualino, seem like a couple with a large age gap. Gilliam is someone whom Grey admires deeply, of course, but one could imagine they sleep together, too (laughs). And Gilliam sends Grey (who is his lover) to Curtis.
The same person pointed out that Grey has Gilliam's name tattooed over his heart:
As those of you who have seen the movie know, Gilliam and Grey both die by the end of the movie; I get really sentimental about tragic gay romances, so I've been rolling around in the feels today.


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'You're the Worst' Switches Gears With a Promising Start to Season 4
Zack Hillman
From its inception, "You're the Worst" has never been a show to follow the rules. After all, the show's main couple Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) meet outside the former's ex's wedding, him practicing a list of pre-meditated heckles written for the occasion while she walks out of the festivities with one of the wedding presents under her arm. Think of it as the meet cute from hell. These offensive monsters are wrong for pretty much any human relationship, not to mention society in general; yet, they're somehow perfect for each other. The show revels in such awkward unions, where abhorrent individuals manage to charm each other before their self-destructive tendencies quickly unravel the goodwill they had amassed. Untangling and re-tangling such Gordian knots is the show's sweet spot.
This leads us to the million-dollar question posed at the end of season three: could Jimmy and Gretchen possibly recover from his most selfish, impulsive and self-destructive act of defiance to-date? After proposing to Gretchen at the top of the Hollywood sign, Jimmy goes to his car to get them a sweater ("to have sex on," of course), but then simply drives away. Seemingly, if there were one hurdle that these two unlikely romantics wouldn't be able to surmount, this would be it.
Well, season four's premiere toys with the viewer's desire to receive an immediate answer to that question. Instead, we open with Jimmy, completely shut off from his former life and residing in a retirees' motor park community somewhere in the deserts of San Bernardino. He supports himself doing odd jobs around town, which is totally contrary to the manicured, pompous, verbose Mancunian we've gotten to know over the past three years. He avoids electronic communication, including his switched-off cell phone, which leers at him from a desk covered in junk. His lone pleasure – aside from the occasional karaoke night at the local dive – is sipping whiskey and watching outdated shows like "The Fall Guy" and "L.A. Law" with his grizzled septuagenarian friend Burt (Raymond J. Barry).
On the other side of the state, Gretchen is hardly doing any better. The audience first sees her frantically greeting her best friend and emotional prop Lindsay (Kether Donohue) while toting a bag of crack rocks. Gretch later reveals that she hasn't left Lindsay's apartment since Jimmy jilted her – exactly three months and two days ago by her recollection – because she's afraid she'll run into him. Even after they learn that Jimmy isn't in L.A., Gretchen struggles to leave the apartment even for an evening, and winds up bothering Lindsay at work instead.
Having the two main characters start off the season in geographically distant but emotional similar spaces seems to be pointing toward one thing: a chaotic reunion. From an emotional perspective, they are both hiding, Jimmy in the desert and Gretchen in Lindsay's apartment. Both are eventually forced out of seclusion, Gretchen by Lindsay's tough love and Jimmy by a harrowing glimpse of what he could become in Burt. But right as Gretchen attempts to move on by hooking up with a different ex, Jimmy reaches out to her with an enigmatic text message that simply says "Hey…" The show certainly has a Sisyphean task if it intends for the two to reconcile, but creator Stephen Falk and co. have already made their point: Jimmy and Gretchen are catastrophic together, but they're even worse when they're apart.
Aside from the main characters, the premiere also weaves in the story arcs of Lindsay and Edgar (Desmin Borges). While Lindsay is flourishing for the first time in her life as a fashion designer's assistant, Edgar has quickly worked his way up from improv hopeful to professional sketch writer. After whiling away in housewifery and struggling with PTSD respectively, the two come to the realization that they aren't the screw ups anymore – Jimmy and Gretchen are. The role reversal emboldens them, as they embark on a NSA relationship. This move is certainly a crowd pleaser, since the show established early on that Edgar carried a flame for Lindsay, and fans are likely to root for their success. Knowing this show, however, there's no telling how long (or if) it will last.
With its fourth season opener, the show proves that it remains as daring as ever and is nowhere near out of ideas. Geere and Cash are a powerful acting tandem, his quiet introspection and sudden verbal assaults perfectly contrasting her 18-different-types-of-crazy vigor. Meanwhile, Donohue and Borges provide a lighthearted contrast while also embarking on intriguing new plotlines, including their potentially fruitful relationship. The show is still out to keep the sentiments as real as possible, while pointing out the absurdities that underlie all human relationships and affection. In short, it's playing to its strengths, but not playing it safe.
"You're the Worst" season 4 premiered Sept. 6 and airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FXX.


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Brussels to get 100 electric car charging points
A hundred new electric car charging stations will be set up around the Brussels region by 2020, the region's mobility minister Pascal Smet has announced.
The Brussels government has awarded a contract to Dutch firm PitPoint, which has already set up 1,000 charging points in Germany, France and Benelux - including in Ghent and Antwerp.
The first phase - around 2019/2020 - will see at least one charging point per square kilometer set up in the busiest parts of the city, with further expansion based on customer demand.
Two payment options will be available: either a one-off use or a subscription system for regular users, using a mobile phone app and QR code.
Each terminal will have two charging points, compatible with all the most common electric vehicles and customer service will be available in English, French and Dutch.
"The installation of these charging points should make life easier for motorists who have opted for clean, green transport," said Brussels environment minister Céline Fremault.


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The Veterans' Day Assembly of 2016 honored many
February 6, 2017
The Student Council invited people who are veterans to an assembly Nov. 8 to honor them for their service. This is important because they need to know how important they are to us.
Student Council members started working on the veterans assembly as soon as Homecoming ended.
The school hosted veterans all the way back to World War II. That is special to us because they won't be here much longer.
It is important to celebrate this at school because they need to know how much we honor them, and students need to know how special they are and how different we would have it. The veterans not only sacrificed their life physically but also mentally.
Many students were so excited because they knew some of the people there and were excited to meet more of them.
"We should have a veterans' month instead of day," Student Council sponsor Jimmy Chappell said.


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This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the blockbuster case of Wyeth v. Levine, which posed one simple question. Once the Food and Drug Administration has approved the warnings about drugs licensed for sale, may a plaintiff bring state law action for damages on the ground that those warnings are inadequate?
The principled answer to that question is a resounding "no." Concede--no insist--that the FDA is far from flawless. All too often, however, its extreme risk aversion keeps newer and safer drugs off the market--or requires strong, "black box" warnings that over-deter valuable use.
Against this backdrop, it is folly to act as if the private lawsuits attacking FDA warnings just backstop a porous and lax FDA. Often those lawsuits add an unwanted deterrent against the sale of desperately needed drugs. That risk is multiplied by hyperventilated state tort law that, in many instances, is lopsidedly pro-plaintiff.
Consider the particulars, Wyeth involved the anti-nausea drug Phenergan, which has been around for over 50 years. Phenergan can be administered by either deep intramuscular (IM) or intravenous injection (IV). The mode of administration raises a delicate risk/reward tradeoff. Forget the common bromide that the FDA only approves drugs proven "safe and effective." The stark truth here is that IM is both more safe and less effective than IV in treating nausea and similar conditions.
So who decides which approach is better and why? A two-step process is best. First, the FDA should require drug warnings to describe the key medical risks. Next, the patient and physician in tandem can combine that information with their knowledge of their particular situation. In Wyeth v. Levine, the FDA warnings made it crystal clear that the IV push could have catastrophic results if the injection was into an artery and not a vein. Diana Levine, a professional guitarist, secured a handsome settlement from her treating physician for her gangrene, which caused amputation.
But why go after the drug manufacturer, Wyeth, as well? Levine's theory was that Wyeth had acquired information that indicated it should either strengthen the warning on side effects or instruct physicians not to use the IV push at all. And so we fall into a litigation thicket. The FDA drug regime differs from the Medical Device Act, which contained an explicit preemption provision that blocked the state tort action in Riegel v. Medtronic. But should the want of that provision be fatal to the defendant's preemption argument?
Naturally, current law is something of a mess. No one thinks that there are no implied preemption cases. Wyeth indentified the explicit conflict arose between the FDA approval of the IV push technique and the plaintiff's claim that Wyeth should have warned against using that very procedure. The conflict is somewhat more attenuated with the plaintiff's demand for additional warnings, which probably would have made no difference anyhow. Yet here it was doubtful that Wyeth had any new information about the overall frequency and severity of adverse effects that called for a warning update.
No one quite knows just how the Supreme Court will view this complex record. But something is deeply wrong with making a preemption defense in hundreds of cases turn on these arcane details. My own preference--explicitly disclaimed by Wyeth--is for a system of field preemption. Don't treat the FDA warnings as "minimums" that nonexpert juries can freely disregard. Better view them as "optimums" that can be revised only through further FDA proceedings.
The Bush administration joined Wyeth before the Supreme Court. But it is unclear whether the Obama administration will switch sides next Jan. 21. Let's hope it won't. But why leave matters hanging. Congress should cut through the legal tangle by explicitly preventing tort plaintiffs from doing an end run around FDA-approved warnings.
The specter of heavy litigation expense and crushing liabilities by runaway juries could easily block the pharmaceutical industry from initiating life-saving changes. The no-government way may be out of the question today. But one government tops two every time, especially in the eyes of the wary libertarian.
Richard Epstein writes a weekly column for Forbes.com. He is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor of law at the University of Chicago, visiting this fall at the New York University School of Law.


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from their website:
"Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun! IXL allows teachers and parents to monitor the progress of their students and motivate them through interactive games and practice questions. With over 2,000 skills spanning pre-kindergarten to algebra, and an unlimited number of computer-generated problems, your children always have something new and exciting to practice on IXL!"
Cost - $9.95/month or $79/year - up to 3 children, Additional children are $2/month or $20/year
(try out 20 questions a day for free to see if IXL is for you...)
The Bentz Test Laboratory was given a 6 month membership to IXL. With summer break on the horizon - I jumped at the opportunity to introduce some daily math practice!
IXL (for I excel) was exactly what we needed this summer - math skill practice!! My two testers - in 1st grade and in 3rd grade were eager to get some computer time...even if it meant doing math.
IXL was extremely easy to navigate - I really liked that I could pick and choose the exact skills that I wanted them to work on. This isn't really a "teaching" program, it's a review and drill program. I could pinpoint what skill (regardless of the level) and set them off and learning. For my 1st grade tester, the questions are available in audio as well .
My testers both appreciated the IXL game board that they earned rewards on. It's basically a virtual sticker board that they get to complete as they master skills and complete time - best of all they like compare with each other! You can also print out colorful certificates to reward their efforts.
Weekly, I was sent a progress report. I can also log on and see a very to easy graphic of what they have been working on.
I really liked this program, and my testers did as well. The only drawback is the price...with multiple children involved - it could be a bit pricey.
For summer practice and review it's a great addition to the math toolchest!
See what the other members of the TOS Reveiw Crew thought here.
I was sent a complimentary subscription in exchange for my honest opinion as part of the TOS Review Crew.


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Gianni Versace's Fall 1992 "Miss S&M" Show
It was incredibly bold—and aggressively sexual. Gianni Versace's Fall 1992 show might have looked like a fetishist's dream—Versace himself called it "Miss S&M"—but it was as intellectually stimulating as it was physically provocative. Tim Blanks explores the collection's deeper meanings.
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New Steamy '50 Shades' Trailer!
This one's for my ladies!
The second trailer has been released for the highly anticipated 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie. Although the clip is simple...it's simply hot! Take a peek and enjoy a little of Christian Grey! The movie is due out on Feb. 13, 2015


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Loyola wins first game of season, tops Cornell
Greyhounds improve to 1-1 on season
Tyler Hubbard scored 15 points and Eric Laster added 13 more, including a tie-breaking 3-pointer in the closing minutes, to lead Loyola past Cornell 76-71 on Sunday.
Cornell (1-1) tied the game at 66 when Shonn Miller hit a pair of free throws with 3:34 remaining, but Laster hit a 3-pointer 24 seconds later which sparked an 8-2 run over the next 3 minutes and sealed it for Loyola (1-1).
Miller finished with 20 points, nine rebounds, two steals and two blocks for Cornell, which made just 2 of 11 field goals in the final 5 ½ minutes. Galal Cancer scored 19 and Robert Hatter added 17 in the loss.
Cam Gregory grabbed 10 rebounds for Loyola, which out-rebounded Cornell 43-34 while pulling down 19 offensive rebounds.
Loyola made 8 of 19 from 3-point range while the Big Red converted just 3 of 19.


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The PvXwiki community finds this to be a good build.
If you disagree with this rating, please discuss it on the build's talk page.
This build has been designed for the following use:
The Shield of Judgment UW Solo farmer uses smiting-augmented high offense to take down the Grasping Darknesses and Smite Crawlers of the Underworld. The Monk elite Shield of Judgment, made famous by the old 55hp monk build, has the dual purpose of defense and offense.
Attributes and Skills
<pvxbig> [build prof=dervish/mo scythe=10+1+1 smiting=10 mysticism=8+1 wind=6+1 earthprayers=5+1][Mystic Sweep][Conviction][Rending Aura] [Mystic Vigor][Shield of Judgment][Strength of Honor][Balthazar's Spirit][Pious Haste][/build] </pvxbig>
- Blessed armor or Windwalker's armor.
- Zealous Scythe of Enchanting (such as Asterius' Scythe or a Deldrimor Shear)
Grasping Darknesses
- Upon entering the Underworld cast the 2 maintained enchants, letting energy regenerate between casts (unequip your zealous weapon for this).
- Cast Mystic Vigor, followed by Pious Haste and get the quest from the Lost Soul. This is to prevent Pious Haste from removing any of the maintained enchants.
- Do the same as above and aggro the first group of graspings. Drag them back into the starting area.
- Cast and maintain Mystic Vigor once it recharges. Spam Mystic Sweep for damage.
- Some time after the Graspings have all used their interrupts (usually their first attack), but well before it recharges, or they reach 9 strikes of Adrenaline for Skull Crack, use Shield of Judgment.
- Rinse and repeat with all groups of Graspings.
- NOTE: Should a Nightmare clear your bonds when pulling, don't panic. Attack and kill the Graspings as if nothing happened. Do not attempt to recast the bonds.
The Run
- Cancel all maintained enchants.
- Use Pious Haste as your running skill and run to the Ice Wastes. Avoid the patrolling group of Graspings.
Smite Crawlers
- When you reach the Ice Wastes, recast the maintained enchants, again allowing energy to regenerate between casts.
- Aggro the first group of smites.
- Maintain Mystic Vigor, Conviction and Rending Aura at all times.
- Hit the smites once, then use Shield of Judgment. You might get knocked down a few times when they cast Shield on themselves, but after that you'll be safe.
- Spam Mystic Sweep until all smites are dead.
- Rinse and repeat with every group of smites in the Ice Wastes.
- Coldfire Nights and Dying Nightmares do pose a threat, but are usually easy to avoid, either by simply avoiding the patrols (Coldfires), or breaking aggro with everything with Pious Haste, recast enchants and go again (Nightmares).
- Not breaking aggro with the Bladed Aatxe.
- Mystic Sweep can be replaced with Farmer's Scythe for a spammable attack skill, or Victorious Sweep for extra survivability. Note that you will be interrupted often against Graspings.
Community content is available under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 unless otherwise noted.


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Name me one other mature, production-quality application VM or language interpreter which does not support threading. This isn't an empty set, but it's not a particularly large list either. Name me one other application VM that does not currently sport an aggressive, modern JIT.His first comment reply, in full, is:
I can name lots of VMs which fit your "Woe is Parrot!" criteria (Python, Perl 5, Ruby, PHP). Consider also the first few years of the JVM.These are great examples and are extremely true, in no small part because I was not nearly specific enough in the point I was trying to make. Mea Culpa.
Before going any further, I want to clearly state my thesis with this series of posts and comments. It consists of three parts:
One, Parrot isn't nearly as competitive now in the dynamic language runtime realm as it could (and maybe should) be. Two, we can increase our rate of improvement with focused objectives and more developer motivation. Three, if we do that I project Parrot to be among the top-tier of dynamic language runtime environments within the next 1-5 years.If you don't agree with that, stop reading. Everything that I say after this point is in direct support of that statement. Where it might appear that something I say contradicts that, I've probably mistyped something.
If we look at the case of multithreading, three of the examples that chromatic listed above do have some support. Python, Perl5, and Ruby all do support some variety of threading, of some usability level. PHP is the odd man out in this regard, though the argument could easily be made that the webserver niche where PHP primarily lives really doesn't need and doesn't want threading. I won't expand on that topic here, but I will say this: PHP does not support threading, and is definitely a production-quality language interpreter in use by many companies. Point made.
In terms of JIT, I was drawing an unnecessary and mostly fictitious line between programs which have far more similarities than differences, and I did little to clarify what I meant. So, I'll throw away that entire question.
The second part of chromatic's statement is a little bit easier to respond to. The first Java Virtual Machine was released in 1995. That's 15 years ago, and even though that initial release did not stand the test of time it was temporarily considered to be the state of the art. No, Java 1.0 did not support threading as we would expect it now. But then again, in 1995 it would have been much harder to find a multicore processor capable of exploiting the scalability of threaded application. In a single-processor environment, cheap green threads were definitely a competitive and acceptable alternative to true native threading. 15 years later, multicore processors are the norm, and a threading strategy based completely on green threads is hardly acceptable by itself. This is all not to mention a dozen other subsystems in the original JVM that were immature then and would be absolutely laughable now.
Trying to compare Parrot in 2010 to Java in 1995 is both telling and depressing. Sure, it's a victory for Parrot, but not one that we should ever mention again. I'm bigger and stronger than my 9 month old son. That doesn't mean I want to get into a fist fight with him (even though I would totally win).
Let me pose a question though that should provoke a little bit of thought (and, I'm sure, more anger): Consider a world that had no Perl language. Larry Wall got busy and worked on other projects for 25 years, and never released Perl to the world. Then, in a flash of light and unicorns in 2010 he releases, from nowhere, a fully-formed Perl 5.12 interpreter as we know it today. Like Athena springing fully-formed from the head of Zeus. Would you use that Perl today?
Would you use a language like Perl 5.12 if you hadn't already been using it, if your job wasn't using because it had been using it for years, if neither you nor anybody in your company had prior expertise in it and were not demonstrably able to work miracles with it? Would you use Perl 5.12 today if there wasn't a huge preexisting community and if there wasn't the miracle of CPAN? Would you use Perl 5.12 knowing about some of it's idiosyncrasies, the weaknesses of it's default exceptions system, the uninspiring nothingness of it's default object metamodel, or the sheer fact that in 2010 you still can't define function parameters with a meaningful function signature? Is that an investment of time, energy, and maybe money that you would make considering some of the other options available today?
Now, I'm not ragging on Perl. I want to state that very clearly before chromatic buys a plane ticket, travels to Pennsylvania, and punches me in the back of the head. Perl 5 is a fine language and obviously doesn't exist in the kind of vacuum that I contemplate above. There is a huge community of Perl programmers. There are vast amounts of institutional knowledge. There is the entirety of the CPAN. There are modules like Try::Tiny, and Moose, and Method::Signatures which can be used to build some pretty impressive modern (and even "post-modern") things on top of Perl 5's default tabula rasa. On top of all that, Perl is demonstrably stable. Robust. Flexible. Usable. Coders in other languages invent terms like "Rapid Application Development" and "Rapid Prototyping" to describe what the Perl people call "a slow day at the office". People everywhere may debate the aesthetics of sigils and the multitude of operators, but nobody questions the fitness of Perl for use as a programming tool. It's competency and utility are unassailable.
Here's my point: Take a look at the Perl 5 base technology. Take a serious, hard look at it. At the very most, the stand-alone Perl 5 interpreter is flexible, but technologically unimpressive. Nothing that the base Perl interpreter provides is the jaw-dropping, nerd-orgasming state-of-the-art. I could point to a dozen performance benchmarks that pit modern Perl 5 against modern Python, Ruby, Java, and whatever else, and Perl 5 almost always comes in dead last (notice that we're not benchmarking the time it takes to write the code). That's fine. It is in the context of history, community and ecosystem that Perl 5 becomes a strong competitive force in the world of computer programming. We know that a great Perl coder can write more functionality in one line of apparent gibberish than a Java coder can write in a whole page of code. We know that the same great Perl coder can write his solution faster. It is because people have written the tools and modules, that people have identified best practices, that people can do so much in so little time, and because people have taken the time to distill down to the elegant essence of Modern Perl, that we love and use Perl.
The problem I identify in Parrot is a bootstrapping problem. Perl 5 has plenty of reasons to use it besides just performance and a technical feature set. Parrot does not. Parrot needs to provide a massive, overwhelming technological impetus for new developers to use it and to get involved with. Attracting those new developers further accelerates the pace of development, both of the core VM and the ecosystem. All these improved components, in turn, attract more people. It's a bootstrapping problem, and Parrot needs something compelling to get the cycle started.
Make a great product. Attract more minds. Develop a bigger ecosystem. Build a better product. Repeat.
In his blog post, chromatic takes exception to the word "mature" I used in the previous post. I won't use that word any more. In his comments, he also expressed a dislike of the word "enterprise". I won't use that word either. They were probably bad choices.
In his blog post, chromatic says :
His argument is that a focus on threading and a focus on JIT is necessary for enterprises or language communities to consider Parrot a useful platform.Do challenge it. That's not really what I said. I mentioned the two particular cases of threading and JIT as things that I think Parrot is going to need to be competitive in the world of 2010. Perl 5, and Python, and Ruby, and all sorts of other things that chromatic mentions don't have both these things, so the counter-argument appears that none of these are suitable, competitive platforms either. That's not what I said either. Keeping up with the comparison I've been trying to make between Perl 5 and Parrot, here is a summary view of what both bring to the table:
I can see his point, and yet (as usual) I challenge the terms of the debate itself.
- Perl 5: Reasonable, but not blockbuster performance. Huge ecosystem of modules, add-ins, tools, and applications written in Perl. Huge preexisting developer base with large amounts of institutional knowledge. Long and storied history of robustness, stability and fitness. Institutional inertia (people using Perl next year, at least partially because they have been using it this year).
- Parrot: Reasonable, but not blockbuster performance. Extremely small (but growing) ecosystem of dependent projects. Extremely small (but growing) preexisting developer base. Very little history of Parrot being stable and robust, considering the huge changes that the project has to make on a regular basis to improve itself.
JIT is a feature that Parrot can use to set itself apart from the pack, not something that's a necessary requirement to join in. JIT is a leg up that Parrot can use to gain some traction against another runtime environmnt like Perl 5, Python 3, Ruby, or PHP 5 which have so many compelling stand-apart features of their own. Stable and scalable threading is another one. And Parrot needs to be fast. When groups like Facebook are talking about compiling PHP code down to C, you know that performance is an issue in the world of dynamic languages. It is foolhardy to think Parrot can succeed (for any definition thereof) without dramatically improved performance over what it offers now.
In the end, this is really a fallacious argument anyway. I'm sure chromatic has pointed that out by now. Parrot isn't a language like Perl 5 is a language, so the two aren't really comparable in a direct way. Parrot doesn't target the same kind of audience that Perl 5 targets. Parrot targets people like the ones who make Perl 5.
The idea of porting Perl 5 to run on top of Parrot was once kicked around in a semi-serious kind of way. I don't remember what number it was exactly, I think it was something like the 5.14 release was supposed to be running happily on top of Parrot. Let's revive that discussion a little bit. What kind of feature set would Parrot need to have to make a compelling argument for the Perl 5 development team to focus their energy whole-hog on porting to Parrot instead of improving Perl 5 in place? What kinds of tools would Parrot need to provide to smooth the way? If I want to see Perl 5.98 be released on Parrot, what do we need to do to make that happen? In answering this, I'm more interested in hearing about the shortcomings of Parrot (which I can work to fix) than the shortcomings of Perl (which I will not).
Rumors have been floating around for over a year now about a complete rewrite of PHP called PHP 6. They want unicode support built-in. We have unicode support built-in. What do we need to do to make a compelling argument in favor of building a new PHP 6 language on top of Parrot? What do the PHP designers and developers need to see to be convinced that Parrot is the way to go, instead of pulling out the old C compiler and starting from scratch?
In 5 years when maybe Python and Ruby people are looking to rewrite their languages, what do we need to have on the table to convince them to use Parrot as a starting point.
These are the important questions. Nothing else really matters. If language designers and compiler developers don't use Parrot and don't want to use Parrot, we've lost.
Parrot needs honest, constructive criticism. It is neither offensive nor overly aggressive to provide it. We need to set aggressive, but realistic goals as a team. There are several planned parts of Parrot that need to be implemented, and several existing parts that need to be re-implemented. Good goals will help to inform those designs and tune those implementations. Eventually, our wildest dreams can become reality.


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Obama: Ambivalence or Arrogance?
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Instapundit links a RealClearPolitics op-ed by Ruben Navarrette on President Obama's ambivalence as a leader:
"Here's the confusing part. Obama knows how to fight. During last year's campaign, Obama would say: "We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last." Indeed, when Obama slugged it out with political opponents, he would take a blow and hit back twice as hard.
That kind of machismo might come in handy when dealing with the likes of Ahmadinejad. Obama still believes U.N. sanctions will pressure this tyrant into abandoning Iran's nuclear weapons program. But, as Sarkozy points out, Iran has ignored five U.N. resolutions on that issue since 2005.
Instead, just like when he canceled missile defense systems for Poland and the Czech Republic, Obama seems to be doing everything he can to avoid conflict."
Sometimes I wonder if Obama only commits to fight "safe" battles. He runs for President but consistently lets surrogates portray him as the underdog and a victim of racism, thereby making sure his reputation would survive a loss. He speaks long and often about health care but won't offer specific legislative details whose rejection could be blamed on him. And he is boldly confrontational with domestic opponents and tiny nations like Honduras but meekly conciliatory when it comes to the threats posed by Iran, North Korea and Russia.
On the other hand, Pittsburgh newpaperman Jack Kelly reports some — like French President Sarkozy — have a more jaundiced view of Obama's motivations:


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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Today I am linking up with Emily from Emmy Mac's Class for Chapter 8. She is also hosting a giveaway for a $10 TpT gift card and a $20 shopping spree in her store, so make sure you head over there to enter!
My thoughts on Chapter 8:
I always notice the most growth in students during small group instruction, so I was excited to read Lisa Donohue's take on it as well. She states that small group instruction is the vehicle for teachers to be able to monitor individual students and to provide them with differentiated instruction based on their needs. She also says that it can be a time for students to set and monitor their goals. I have previously only done this in individual conferences, but I think that using small group time to do this will not only be more efficient, but will also give students the opportunity to observe their peers setting goals as well. I could see having a small group comprised of two strong goal setters with two weaker goal setters just for that purpose.
Grouping Students
Lisa also gives a variety of ways in which to group students including:
1. Personal interest (non-fiction interests such as snakes, fiction interest in a certain author or series).
2. Student's current areas of strength and need. (fluency, comprehension, decoding, etc.)
3. Instructional levels
The most important thing about grouping students is that they should not be "forever" groups. She states that groups should change on average, once a month.
Small Group Reading Lessons
A typical small group lesson should last 15-20 minutes. Donohue says, "Ensure that students are spending the majority of the time reading the text." That is so easy to forget as we want to get in there and teach. She says the teacher should:
1. Set the stage for reading
2. Engage students in discussion during reading
3. Allowing students to reflect after reading
Writing Conferences
I have had individual writing conferences with students, and I have had students work in groups to discuss their writing, I have even had whole group writing conferences, but I have never had actual small group writing conferences. Last year my students were really successful when they worked together in small groups to review their writing. I had blogged about these sessions in previous posts:
Roll and Retell
Increasing the Level of Student's Writing
However, I often felt like I didn't get enough opportunity to coach them when there were issues (a student not participating in the group, or when they all couldn't think of anything more to share or add to the conversation) or to assess who needed more help as I flitted from group to group. I LOVE the idea of having small group writing conferences together and then giving them the opportunity to work on peer editing themselves later. I can't thank Lisa Donohue enough for giving me this format to grow my practice. I love this gradual release of responsibility model and I can't wait to try it out this year. I really see how it will add to my students' learning.
Donohue says that feedback is most helpful when it is "descriptive and skill-based". She says feedback that is evaluative in nature, such as , "This is level 3 work" can give students an indication as to what they are successful at and what they need to work on. We use Marzano's scales, so this could be easily incorporated.
She also says that the teacher might refer to mentor texts as well as the success criteria to model ways that the criteria is used for the student.
Donohue cautions that a writing conference is not a time when students hand over their work to the teacher in order to have it corrected (I am so guilty of that!). She says it is not the teacher's job to fix the mistakes, but instead is to draw the writer's attention to areas of confusion and areas that need improvement by posing questions in a way that cause the author to revise and rework the piece.
I love this because I know that often times I become frustrated when the same student makes the same mistakes over and over again. Donohue states that the reason for this is because the student is not an active part of the process when the corrections are being made. They must be involved in order to actively learn and transfer that understanding to a new situation.
- I would like to create or find an interest sheet that I could use to group students into small reading groups throughout the year. I really like this idea and it would make natural book clubs rather than just by ability alone.
- This chapter has really had me evaluating my small group instruction. I am thinking about changing what I have been doing (which is mostly leveled readers and text book work) to have articles or short stories the students can read. When they initially come to group, I will have them read the assigned reading silently while I make sure the rest of the class has begun their work independently. I will then introduce the skill we are working on and then have them choral read to certain sections. During the reading I will pose questions based on the specific skill we are working on. After reading the students will reflect and respond. (I know that sounds like a jumbled mess right now, but as I develop it into actual lessons I will share!).
I want to think more about how to make feedback more visible to the student. What do they specifically need to do to move their work from a level 2 to a level 3?
Next up- Chapter 9: Building In New Literacies
Be sure to visit our co-host Tina from Croft's Classroom on June 25th to continue this learning journey with us.


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Home Gardens
New in 2017 - Your Own Mini Garden at Home
We can build an organic garden in your yard. You choose the size, style and type of food. The basic format would be 20' x 20' which is 400 square feet. It could include up to 20 different kinds of vegetables, flowers or fruit. Cost for the basic plan is $250 plus seeds, plants, soil, compost, manure, bedding, mulch and all deliveries. It would be organic and bio diverse requiring no annual tilling. We install and plant while you work with us if you wish. Later you will water, weed, and harvest.
You use all the food you want and donate the rest to us for use for food pantries. We both agree to grow organically with no commercial fertilizer, pesticide or herbicide. We will visit as needed to consult on the productivity of the garden. It is like an instant, foolproof garden right at home. Have to be away we can water.
You can do both - have a CSA share and a home garden. Call us to discuss details and arrange a beneficial installation date.


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10. Pepperoni Power! Pizza
Do you want to get pumped? If so this is a great pizza decision to make! It
gets you energized and tastes scrumptious! It may look plain, but it doesn't
taste plain! Though this pizza is not number one, it is a big hit with many
9. Deluxe Water Pizza
If you are a Kiko, I think party guests would prefer this pizza over any other
pizza you could offer them! This is a huge hit at Kiko Birthday Parties! This
pizza is covered with a jelly like water. This pizza is very similar to a water
pizza, but just tastes way better.
8. Grey Pizza
Are you always feeling down? Does your life revolve around sad and gloomy things?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should go buy yourself a
grey pizza. It's bland, boring, and grey. It even sounds boring talking about
it, and looking at it, you feel sad! On April 14th, the greyest day of all,
you should go to Pizzaroo to buy this pizza. That is, if you even feel like
leaving your house!
7. Jelly Bean Pizza
Just by looking at this pizza, you are reminded of spring! Its crust is very
sweet, it has a very sugary sauce, and to top it off, instead of having a cheese
topping, it has jelly beans! Many sweet tooths' eyes are drawn to this pizza.
This pizza also looks very cheery, the total opposite of number eight! Remember,
if you choose this pizza for dinner, don't eat too much, unless you want to
visit the vet's office with a cavity!
6. Split Pizza
This pizza is made using pumpkin and Juppie toppings. It has a very good and
distinct taste! A good thing about this pizza is, if you're not in the mood
for Juppie toppings, eat the pumpkin toppings, and if you're not in the mood
for pumpkin toppings, eat the juppie toppings! If you have a pet that has been
painted split, this is the pizza I recommend to you!
5. Illusen Day Pizza
Do you have a favorite faerie? Is that faerie Illusen? If so, this pizza is
great. It doesn't have the most appealing look, but it sure does have a satisfying
taste! If you are one for celebrating often, remember to buy this pizza for
March 17, Illusen Day! Another good day to buy it is on September 20th, the
day of the Faerie Festival!
4. Bubbling Blueberry Pizza
MMM, I love Blueberries! If you love them too, you should try this pizza. It
is made with the best and most beautiful berries in all of Neopia! Not only
that, it has a very different taste. Different in a good way. The only thing
that is strange about it is that it is bubbling. Oh, well, it still tastes great,
and looks very interesting!
3. Chocolate Chip Pizza
Dessert for dinner? Yes, this pizza is made of chocolate! This pizza is made
with pure chocolate fudge. To top it off, it has chocolate chips on the top
of it. It tastes just like a giant chocolate chip cookie! The best thing about
it is that its crust melts right in your mouth! Don't feel like a veggie filled
dinner? You don't have to have one; just ask for a chocolate chip pizza. It's
a great dinner... and dessert choice!
2. Smiley Pizza
In a bad mood? This pizza is sure to give you a smile! It will turn your frown
upside down. Legend has it, it has even turned a case of the greyest person
in Neopia happy. This pizza's crust is nice and crunchy, but not too crunchy.
It is the perfect pizza for a sick pet; it will help cheer them up!
1. Rainbow Melt Pizza
Though this pizza may be expensive, it is very tasty! It's the most beautiful
pizza you can find anywhere! With all the colors of the rainbow included in
its toppings, it stands out from a mile away. This pizza is so delicate looking,
you almost don't want to eat it and destroy its beautiful look! If your pet
is painted rainbow, you may often hear him begging for this pizza. It is very
popular among rainbow painted pets. Not only do rainbow pets enjoy this, but
all pets in the land do. Many pets who desire to be painted rainbow one day
often buy it. If you want to be cool and have a great dinner, and you have enough
money, go buy yourself a Rainbow Melt Pizza!
Many people and pets enjoy buying from Pizzaroo. As you can tell from my writing,
they have many, many selections and flavors of food! If you are into collecting
things, think about collecting pizza from Pizzaroo! Whatever you're in the mood
for, Pizzaroo will have it. From mud Pizza to Peppermint Pizza, From Crust-only
to Quando Pizza, Pizzaroo has it all! You can go there for any meal: breakfast,
lunch, or dinner. (Most people go there for their dinner or lunch.) Remember,
if you are ever hungry, and don't know what to eat, go to Pizzaroo; it has the
Pizza for you!


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This blog is a potentially triggering space. Below, I'm going to list specific triggers that come up over and over on my blog. If a common trigger comes up that's not on this list, I'll warn for it in that specific post.
TRIGGER WARNING FOR: transphobia, cissexism, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, classism, ableism, sizeism, colonialism, violence (especially racist, homophobic, and transphobic violence), medical abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, sexual assault, slurs.
If you're ever triggered by something on my blog, I am so sorry. That is awful. Here is what I watch when I am triggered. (It is a very silly video of university-aged Stephen Fry saying pun after pun.) Please, if you feel comfortable, either leave a comment or email me and I will warn for your particular trigger in the future, even if it's totally uncommon and specific to you. I understand; some of my triggers are unique and inexplicable as well, but they're still triggers and horrible! If you're going to be in this space regularly, I value your health and safety and I want to make this space as safe and healthful as I can for you.


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Oct '12 - May '13
Six weeks into the G30 program, I can report that I'm starting to settle back into the studio groove (ie the last train home at 12:17). My classmates, eight of us hailing from China, Mexico, Portugal, Macedonia, S Korea, Spain and myself from the US, are all in the process of... View full entry
The G30 is an English language, architecture and urbanism course offered through the University of Tokyo for foreign students. Led by former AA Design Research Lab Co-Director, Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi, the program seeks to collaboratively advance architectural and urban design research through the symbiosis of digital technologies and material development.


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In Transylvanna Ch. 1
In the smoking undead metropolis of Transylvanna, anything can happen. And as Owen, our protagonist, is about to find out, that's scarcely a good thing. Meandering into the cutthroat world he thought he knew in search of breathing space, Owen soon finds himself, along with the local gang of indentured misfits that call themselves the local press, entangled in a plot most fowl.
Sylphie didn't respond. Then, quietly, she asked, "Do you like it here, pet?"
Then, "What?"
"In Transylvanna."
Owen was silent, staring downwards. Below them, next to Sylphie's booted foot, was a thigh high stocking. It belonged to Sylphie. But it was in Owen's room. And it was, for lack of a better adjective, crusty.
It had been the classiest wank Owen had ever had. He never came. He arrived.
"I've never seen outside." Owen muttered, slowly trying to push it under the bed.
"My mother bought you young." She said quietly. "From a slave trader. For me. You were to be my human playmate. It's an, uhm, tradition. That's where you came from. That's why we met."
Owen was quiet. Slowly, he said, "I didn't know that."
He couldn't see Sylphie's face in the dark. He could see her eyes, red and womanly. It made him feel strange, like he should be scared, but he wasn't. He felt safe. For a moment, he wondered how red eyes floating in the darkness could be seen as a bad thing. The stocking was under the bed now, but it could be further under the bed. She could still notice it. She could smell it. How had she not smelled it?
"You were meant to be my personal slave. You did everything I said, because that's how you were taught. More recently, you appear to have forgotten that."
Something buried in the back of Owen's mind began to resurface. Had he displeased her? This wasn't good – "S-Sylphia, I'm really sorry if-"
"I'm glad you've forgotten." She whispered. "It must be terrible, being a slave."
"Yeah." Owen responded, after a moment, still trying to push the stocking away. "It must be."
"O-Owen?" She asked, her searching glare losing its focus, looking off somewhere into the darkness behind him as she released his hand. Owen heard his own name, but didn't quite process it. No, that couldn't have been Sylphia. Sylphia wouldn't say-
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text: In Alaska we have a fairly sophisticated solar heat system. So sophisticated it doesn't work at all; not after its first several months - and that was some time ago. But this thread isn't about Alaska. Our rural Arizona home is set up like many and perhaps most that are not on a municipal water grid. We pump water from the aquifer a zillion feet u/g and store it in an underground cistern; ours is 2,550 gallons (9,600 liters). A second well pump there provides pressurized water for household use but effectively, the cistern always is close to full. So I was contemplating a geothermal system the other day and now am thinking that a supremely efficient system would be one that has its circ'n lines embedded solely inside that cistern. It seems to me that the heat transfer capacity of an u/g reservoir of that size not only would be superior to a more conventional one by orders of magnitude, but the cost of installing it would be staggeringly lower, and its reliability far greater. The reason is that the heat specificity of water or, rather, its ability to transfer heat, is much, much greater than dry or even moist soil. Not only that, but consider the uses of domestic water: most of it is for cleaning: dishes, clothes, bodies. For only a very small amount of usage is cool water desired (that glass of water; the ice maker), so a system like this would provide the additional energy effiiciency of lowering one's water heating cost. I don't have a clue as to what the dT would be, but I'm thinking that something like going from 54ºF to 70-75º is probably in the ballpark. In the wintertime a heat pump runs in the opposite direction, and this set-up under those circumstances would of course be extracting heat from that cistern to warm the house. If my concept works at all it would be one far more suited to AZ, TX, FL and SoCal than for Minnesota....or Alaska. (The way around that conundrum would likely be to use other ways to provide winter heat). So, a Q for all: does anyone know if this is a Known Possibility, and whether it is used anywhere? Are there pitfalls I haven't considered?


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Yesterday was hot and muggy.
|very muggy yesterday morning
It has been dry and dusty. I'm glad that the rain is washing the muck and dust from the koltei shemesh, the solar panels that absorb the sun's rays to heat the water. I turned on the electric water heater last night, so the timer would make sure we have hot water this morning.
Have a nice a save day everyone.


text: does anyone know how do i shift this game from fb to email id ? and also i have mulitple id's for my fb id whenever phone is formatted and game is reinstalled, it first creates a new id and then links the same to my fb also, how do i remove them ? basically want to create a password and remove those unwanted id's from my Galaxy legend game linked to my FB id.


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Watch Alejandro Aravena accept his Pritzker Prize at the U.N. tonight via live webcast
Starting tonight—April 4—between 7:30pm ET and 8:00pm ET, the United Nations Headquarters is broadcasting the 2016 Pritzker Prize ceremony. The webcast is also available on webtv.un.org. You can read the Architect's Newspaper's (AN) previous coverage of his win here and AN editor-in-chief William Menking's commentary here.


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On a day when they were outplayed for long stretches the U.S. WNT relied on a pair of veteran leaders to provide the heroics in a hard earned 1-0 Olympic win over France today at Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Carli Lloyd's goal in the 63rd minute was the decider while every one of Hope Solo's six saves was required for the U.S. to get past France today in Brazil.
U.S. coach Jill Ellis elected to sit center back Julie Johnston and winger Mallory Pugh with injuries, although the duo was healthy enough to make the bench. Whitney Engen took over for Johnston and Crystal Dunn got the nod in favor of Pugh.
Whether it was the changes or simply a matter of France playing well the U.S. found itself in the unusual position of playing second fiddle to its opposition for most of the day even if the possession arrow pointed in the Americans favor 55% to 45%.
Not to get bogged down in numbers but the more accurate indicators today were France's eight corner kicks compared to just three from the three-time Olympic and World Cup Champions and Hope Solo's six saves made while her counterpart Sarah Bouhaddi had just one.
Much has been made of this U.S. team's tactical shift away from the high ball into the box, with Abby Wambach's retirement a catalyst for that change. Today we saw an unexpected result coming from that change in style as the U.S. WNT was dominated in the air by an opponent for the first time in memory.
Much of that domination came from one player, France's towering center back Wendie Renard. Listed at 5'11" Renard plays even taller and was a particular menace to the Americans on all of those French corners.
France also was bossing the Americans for much of the match from the run of play with midfielders Camille Abily, Amandine Henry, and especially Louisa Cadamuro dragging the U.S. defense out of position and forcing Solo to fend for herself far too often.
When the teams went to the locker rooms for the halftime break Jill Ellis' crew had to be feeling relieved that the match was still knotted at zeroes with the final 45 minutes still to play.
Ellis clearly got in her sides ears at the break because on the resumption we saw a different, if familiar U.S. team. The Americans pinned the French in their own final third in the opening moments of the second half and created a series of chances that finally yielded results when who else but Carli Lloyd tapped in a rebound from a Tobin Heath shot.
As in the team's opening 2-0 win over New Zealand virtually all U.S. chances had Heath's fingerprints on them. Morgan Brian continued to make the pass before the pass but at the moment the defending champions are playing with no fluidity and are creating far too few dangerous opportunities.
That lack of chances is disturbing for U.S. fans, what should be even more unnerving are today's defense lapses. Teams grow into tournaments so it is not panic stations for the Americans and losing Johnston could account for some destabilization in the backline. Still, if not for Solo's heroics in her 200th senior international match, more than any goalkeeper ever, male or female, the U.S. could have been blown out by France.
The U.S. lead the group and will be expected to beat Colombia in the final group match on Tuesday and head on to the knockout rounds unbeaten.
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA – Carli Lloyd (Tobin Heath) 63rd minute
USA: 1-Hope Solo; 5-Kelley O'Hara, 6-Whitney Engen, 4-Becky Sauerbrunn, 7-Meghan Klingenberg (12-Christen Press, 90); 3-Allie Long, 14-Morgan Brian, 10-Carli Lloyd (capt.) (9-Lindsey Horan, 82); 16-Crystal Dunn (11-Ali Krieger, 70), 13-Alex Morgan, 17-Tobin Heath
Subs not used: 2-Mallory Pugh, 8-Julie Johnston, 15-Megan Rapinoe, 18-Alyssa Naeher
Head Coach: Jill Ellis
FRA: 16-Sarah Bouhaddi; 8-Jessica Houara, 3-Wendie Renard (capt.), 2-Griedge Mbock Bathy, 7-Amel Majri; 10-Camille Abily (17-Kheira Hamraoui, 83), 6-Amandine Henry, 15-Elise Bussaglia; 13-Kadidiatou Diani, 18-Marie-Laure Delie (11-Claire Lavogez, 86), 14-Louisa Cadamuro (12-Elodie Thomis, 70)
Subs not used: 1-Meline Gerard, 4-Sakina Karchaoui, 5-Sabrina Delannoy, 9-Eugenie Le Sommer
Head Coach: Philippe Bergeroo
Stats Summary: USA / FRA
Shots: 7 / 14
Shots on Goal: 3 / 5
Saves: 5 / 2
Corner Kicks: 3 / 8
Fouls: 8 / 18
Offside: 4 / 4
Misconduct Summary:
USA – Crystal Dunn (caution) 68th minute
FRA – Griedge Mbock Bathy (caution) 82


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The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria today announced the winners of 2014 Inky Awards – Australia's only national teen choice literary prize.
The Gold Inky is awarded to an Australian author and includes $2,000 prize money. The 2014 Gold Inky winner is: The First Third by Will Kostakis (Penguin).
Life is made up of three parts: in the first third, you're embarrassed by your family; in the second, you make a family of your own; and in the end, you just embarrass the family you've made.
The Silver Inky is awarded to an international author. The 2014 Silver Inky winner is: All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry (HarperCollins)
Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years later, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by her friends and family.
The Inky Awards are reader-lead literary prizes. Readers between the ages of 12-20 vote for their favourite books from a shortlist selected by a panel of teen judges from around Australia. Five Australian and five international books of young adult fiction are shortlisted and the books that attract the most reader votes online win.
Gold Inky winner Will Kostakis said it was sensational to see schools embracing the entire shortlist, and encouraging students to read, critique and vote. "To be part of the Inky's process has been so rewarding – and to win, well, that's the icing on an already awesome cake. It's such an honour to be recognised by the book's intended audience."
Silver Inky winner Julie Berry said she was honoured to see her novel shortlisted. "These awards programs play such an important role in engaging young readers and shining a light of advocacy and celebration upon wonderful new books," she said.
The Centre for Youth Literature's Reader Development Manager Anna Burkey said the Inky Awards encourage teens to read for pleasure and share the stories they enjoy. "The Inky Awards show us what Australian young people are really interested in reading. This year's shortlist is full of first love and family life, struggles with survival, the unknown and finding your place in the world," Ms Burkey said. "Travelling from dark city streets and Greek suburbs to luxury spaceliners, surreal fairy woodlands and nuclear winters, the shortlist reflects the many worlds of great storytelling out there for young people."
The Inky Awards were founded by the State Library's Centre for Youth Literature in 2007 as Australia's first national teen choice awards for young adult literature.
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