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Course on artistic education for diversity and cultural rights
On the dates of July 23 and 24, Casa Árabe is hosting this course for
teachers, organized by ConArte Internacional, at the Casa Árabe
headquarters in Madrid.
June 12, 2018
The course is given fully free of charge, and up to 20 educators from Madrid may take part.
It will be held on the dates of July 23 and 24 at Casa Árabe, with a duration of 12 hours, and will be acknowledged with 1.2 educational credits from the Autonomous Region of Madrid.
The course will be taught by a specialist in Cultural Rights and Cultural Diversity, Beatriz Barreiro, holder of a PhD in Human Rights from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. She is particularly concerned with the practical applications of her research projects, completed at different institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. She will be accompanied by Marcela Otárola, who has a bachelor's degree in Arts with a specialization in theatrical performance from the University of Chile and a Master's degree in Cultural Management from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Marcela has worked in Chile as a cultural event host at the National Council of Culture and the Arts. She is currently the director of Asociación ConArte Internacional.
This course is being given as part of the project "A Tunisian-Spanish bridge for counter acting violent extremism and xenophobia by providing the right to take part in cultural life" financed by the European Cultural Foundation.
HOW MAY PARTICIPATE? Primary school teachers, secondary school teachers and pre-school teachers from the Autonomous Region of Madrid.
DATES/TIMES: July 23-24, 2018 From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Casa Árabe (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
CLASS TYPE: In person/live
CERTIFICATION: 1.3 credits (teacher training activity acknowledged by the Department of Education and Research of the Autonomous Region of Madrid)
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Hogs healthy for La. Tech; D line more athletic and deeper; notes
FAYETTEVILLE - Arkansas' 2-deep depth chart for its 3 p.m. Saturday SEC Network televised season-opener at Reynolds Razorback Stadium against Louisiana Tech disclosed a position switch for freshman defensive lineman McTelvin "Sosa" Agim of Hope.
It also disclosed that junior defensive end Tevin Beanum (in photo) of Forrest City made up considerable ground in a week.
Agim, who has practiced some at defensive tackle in certain packages but mainly has practiced at defensive end, is listed as the backup defensive tackle behind senior Jeremiah Ledbetter. Like Ledbetter (6-3, 280) Agim (6-3, 289) brings defensive end speed and quickness inside against guards and centers customarily
not as athletic as offensive tackles but still with some heft.
" We are going to see a lot of four-wide receiver sets (including from Louisiana Tech) and we are trying to get our best pass-rushers out on the field," Arkansas defensive coordinator Robb Smith said Monday. "We feel really confident with him in there. A Ledbetter type athlete on the inside. One of the things we are trying to do to help generate more pass rush."
Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema remarked, " Led played defensive end in the past and we were looking for a guy who can move and make some things happen. I would say Sosa fits that category in a big way."
Another true freshman, Austin Capps of Star City, also has surged to second-team. Capps is listed listed top backup to senior defensive noseuard Taiwan Johnson.
However, don't expect just two to share time at each position on the defensive line. Junior noseguard Bijhon Jackson of El Dorado, redshirt freshman tackle T.J. Smith, sophomore end Randy Ramsey and senior end Brandon Lewis, are not listed in the 2-deep, but they will be in the rotation Saturday, Bielema and Robb Smith said.
Excused for two weeks into the August preseason practices to tend to personal issues, junior Beanum didn't have his first practice in pads until Aug. 23 but already is listed second-team behind junior Karl Roesler at the the defensive end opposite starting senior All-America candidate Deatrich Wise.
Beanum backed up All-SEC end Trey Flowers in 2014 and played every game, including 13 starts, last season.
"He really snapped in there quick," Bielema said. "Looks fresh, looked quick. His recall is awesome. We never had any problems or issues with Tevin and his football IQ. I think he feels really good and it really was nice having him out there that last week of practice last week. I have no problems or reservations with hopping him in there."
Robb Smith calls Beanum good to go. "I like where Tevin is at this point in time," Smith said. "He certainly will play valuable football for us this Saturday."
Bielema announced that walk-ons Anthony Antwine, a junior two-year letterman tight end/special teamer from Plano, Texas; and Reid Miller, a sophomore safety from Hollidaysburg, Pa., whom Bielema saw play as a teammate of Arkansas sophomore left offensive guard Hjalte Froholdt at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., have been awarded scholarships.
"Anthony Antwine has really been an asset for us," Bielema said. "He's played both wide receiver and tight end. has moved back and forth between the two. To put him in a position there to give him a scholarship was truly kind of a fun thing to do. Really seen that kid grow over the last few years has been awesome."
Miller is listed second-team free safety behind junior Josh Liddell.
"I went to watch Hjalte Froholdt play a game at IMG and he (Miller) kind of caught my eye," Bielema said. "He was getting a few sniffs from some programs but none of it worked out from a scholarship standpoint. So I talked him into walking on here. He played last year for us as a true freshman and for him to be in our two deep now, it was an awesome experience to give him one (a scholarship) as well."
Other than senior cornerback D.J. Dean (hamstring) and senior running back Kody Walker (soreness in reinjured foot) various ailing Razorbacks practiced full go Sunday.
Walker is still first on the running back depth chart also listing sophomore Rawleigh Williams, freshman Devwah Whaley and junior Damon "Duwop" Mitchell and could include freshman T.J. Hammonds of Joe T. Robinson, Bielema said.


text: Victoire Ingabire, the leader of United Democratic Forces, has been arrested by Rwandan authorities [AFP] Human rights groups have called on Rwandan authorities to allow political opponents "to carry out their legitimate activities" after the arrest of an opposition leader. Victoire Ingabire, the leader of the unregistered United Democratic Forces (FDU), was arrested on Thursday in Kigali on the basis of information given by a former military officer. Ingabire, who had already been under judicial control since April, has been detained in connection with an alleged plot to form a "terrorist group", according statements from the police, Carina Tertsakian, a researcher with Human Rights Watch (HRW), told Al Jazeera on Saturday. "We are asking that the Rwandan government fully respect the rights of opposition party members and allow them to carry out their legitimate activities without fear for their safety," Tertsakian said. "If Ingabire is to be charged, it should be on the basis of solid evidence, not as a punishment for her criticisms of the government," she said.'Military wing' According to police, the former military officer who informed on Ingabire was arrested on Wednesday on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Major Vital Uwumuremyi told police he had received the opposition leader's help to "set up a military wing of the FDU," a police statement said. in depth The Rwandan genocide and its legacy Revisiting Rwanda's dark days People & Power: Return to Rwanda Video: Rwanda pastor on trial Video: Rwanda marks 15 years since genocide The charges against them "include buying and distributing arms and ammunitions to the terrorist organisation and threatening national security and public order". Ingabire was first arrested in April on accusations of associating with a terrorist group, denying genocide that left more than 800,000 people dead in the 1990s, promoting genocide ideology and division. "She has not been allowed to leave the capital since she was arrested the first time," Tertsakian said.Rwanda's government was forced to defend itself against allegations of attempting to silence opposition in the run-up to presidential elections in August. It dismissed accusations that it was behind the murder of the vice-president of the opposition Green Party, the attempted assassination of a former army general and the killing of a journalist who claimed he had evidence of Kigali's role in the attempted assassination.Authorities also prevented Ingabire from registering the FDU so she could run in the polls, which Paul Kagame, the incumbent president, won with a landslide.Kagame has ruled Rwanda since his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) ended the 1994 genocide, which largely saw members of the Hutu majority massacre his Tutsi minority. The government has been lauded by the international community for progress in women's rights and economic growth, but analysts say Kagame's government does not tolerate dissent.'Gravely ill' HRW also on Saturday voiced concern about another opposition leader, Bernard Ntaganda, the president of the PS-Imberakuri, who has been in detention since June. "Ingabire is not the only opposition leader we are worried about - Ntaganda was arrested in June and was rushed to the hospital and we are worried about him," Tertsakian said. Ntaganda is apparently gravely ill after going on a hunger strike to protest his treatment in prison, and was rushed from Kigali's central prison to the city's main hospital on Friday. "His relatives and friends reported that he was in intensive care, but were not given specific information on his condition. Some of them were able to see him briefly in hospital and reported that he was very weak," HRW said. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies Politics Africa Rwanda South Africa


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Athletic Insurance
Students need to be advised that USD #294 does not carry any kind of athletic insurance on individual athletes at DCJ/SHS. The only insurance provided through DCJ/SHS is the catastrophic insurance issued by the KSHSAA--sponsored activities for accidents that medical-related payments are in excess of $10,000. Any student with questions concerning this insurance should contact the principal.
Athletic Statisticians
Basketball, football, volleyball, and wrestling head coaches may select up to four statisticians for each season. These statisticians will travel with the team and receive the same meal allocation as team members.
"D" Letter
Those athletes who earn the varsity "D" letter, as having met the requirements of the sport as set forth by the coach, are expected to wear the school letter with dignity and pride.
Opening Ceremonies
The Red Devil Band will be in charge of the opening ceremonies at basketball, football, and wrestling events for the varsity squad, and proper display of the flag will be made.
Physical Examination
Every student who participates in any sport must have a physical examination. Physical forms are available in the office. Coaches are responsible to see that the physicals are taken; recorded on the KSHSAA form; and signed by parent, student, and doctor. When completed, the form is to be turned in to the office. A student will not be allowed to participate until the physical form is on file in the athletic director's office.
Dressing Rooms
Dressing rooms will be open at 3:40 p.m. to start preparations for practices. Junior high students are to be in the showers no later than 6:00 p.m. and senior high students are to be in the showers no later than 6:15 p.m., unless otherwise notified. Each athlete will check out a lock from the athletic office previous to receiving equipment.


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- ½ head (about 1 ½ pounds) cauliflower, broken into florets
- ½ cup slivered almonds, lightly toasted
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
- ½ cup chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup sliced green olives (such as picholine, Cerignola or Castelvetrano)
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- DIRECTIONS 1. Bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a boil. In a separate large bowl, build an ice bath. 2. While the water is heating, place some of the cauliflower florets in a food processor. Working in batches, pulse until the cauliflower has broken down into coarse pieces around the same size as couscous. 3. Transfer the cauliflower to a large fine-mesh strainer and carefully submerge into boiling water for 1 minute. Transfer the cauliflower (still in the strainer) to the ice bath until completely cool; remove and drain well. Place the cauliflower onto a clean kitchen towel and squeeze to remove excess moisture. Place the cauliflower in a large bowl. 4. Add the almonds, cilantro, parsley, olive oil, red pepper flakes, lemon juice and olives to the cauliflower and stir to combine. Season with salt and serve.
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- Carbohydrates13 g(4%)
- Fat15 g(23%)
- Protein7 g(13%)
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- Sodium508 mg(21%)
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Impossibly bad New York Times article on one Indiana egg farm that's implemented an advanced manure processing system. The article quotes the farm's president saying that thoroughly dried out chicken manure smells like—get this—chocolate. Mmm, I love chocolate.
Here are a few pertinent topics the article fails to cover:
- The living conditions of the 381,000 chickens packed into this henhouse.
- The percentage of U.S. eggs that come from buildings with this sort of advanced manure treatment technology in place. I'd be shocked if this figure turns out to be greater than two percent.
- The cost of one of these treatment systems. It's curious, to say the least, that even at the egg farm being profiled, this manure system has apparently only been installed in one of the barns. Are these systems actually affordable enough that a substantial percentage of egg farms will actually install them?
You know how anytime a major newspaper runs a story of animal cruelty at factory farms, they always quote some lying industry representative claiming things aren't really that bad? Well, this piece quotes nobody outside the egg industry. And I have a tough time believing that nobody from the Waterkeeper Alliance or HSUS was available to take the reporter's call.
For all its problems, this article does reflect one of the cautionary notes I sounded in Meat Market: that activists need to be careful about choosing which environmental issues to discuss because, in many cases, there are technologies that may come online to address these concerns. It appears that's happening where egg industry manure is concerned, but whether the system described by the Times is affordable enough to widely implement is another question.
In any event, while this Indiana farm threw a lot of money at their manure problem, none of this cash improved the welfare of their battery hens in any meaningful way.
Finally, this technology seems specifically developed to work with battery facilities. And if California, Michigan, and Germany, are any indication, it may only be another couple of decades before battery cages are banned throughout much of the developed world. Link.


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The conference room in the Sheraton New Orleans hotel was quiet, save for the shoo-shoo-shoo deep-breathing sounds coming from the 80 men and women in nametags silently circling the room. After a minute, the seminar leader held up her hand to halt the mute crowd.
''Now, strike the pose of a hero,'' she instructed. ''Strike the statue of the gods and goddesses that you are!'' She urged the group to cry out how they felt when they thought of themselves as heroes. There was palpable hesitation, then a human resources manager from Wells Fargo, a string of pearls around her neck, lifted her arms in the air.
''I am a thunderbolt!'' she shouted. A man in a Hawaiian-print shirt exclaimed ''Hallelujah!'' as he posed, one arm extended behind him as if he were preparing to toss a discus. A computer company executive in high heels put her hands defiantly on her hips and cried, hesitantly: ''You, you -- you fabulous goddess you!''
If it sounds like an EST seminar or some sort of Tony Robbins inspirational jamboree, it wasn't. It was, in fact, one of several instructional sessions offered at a conference -- actually, the organizers prefer the term ''gathering'' -- given this month by Fast Company, a technology-oriented business magazine aimed at young entrepreneurs. A feel-good business bible for the generation that never leaves home without a Palm Pilot, Fast Company is published by Mortimer B. Zuckerman.
Fast Company drew 400 people to this, its second ''Real Time'' conference. And while the magazine may be the first to hold a conference at which a former Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich, led an impromptu kazoo concert, it is not alone in its mission. To solidify the ties with their readers -- and their readers' checkbooks -- publishers now organize events for subscribers and readers to attend.
''Simply selling a magazine is just not enough anymore,'' said Alan M. Webber, one of Fast Company's two founding editors. Besides the conferences, the three-year-old magazine encourages readers to form discussion groups, a network of 9,300 readers called the ''Company of Friends.''
The principle of bringing readers in other than through the pages of a magazine is also at work elsewhere. In the last two years, Jay MacDonald, the chief executive of MacDonald Communications, a New York media company that owns Working Woman and Working Mother magazines, has started four annual conferences -- not only as an instrument with which to extend the brand identities of his two magazines, but as profit-making ventures.
Forbes magazine began the Forbes Management Conference Group in 1995. McGraw-Hill's Business Week plays host to 8 to 12 conferences a year. And Time Warner's Fortune employs a staff of 20 simply for its conference activity.
But where other publications' conferences promote specific objectives, Fast Company seems to use its as a kind of focus group.
''Frequently, business magazines have conferences because you're able to actually have a focus and a theme and a practical outcome,'' Mr. Webber said. ''But one of the things that's different with ours is that we view our gatherings as a part of the editorial product. Other magazines have separate conference arms that are hived off from the editorial group.''
Mr. Webber -- who is fond of saying ''Remember, it's not a magazine, it's a movement'' -- is a trim 50-year-old who, along with William C. Taylor, grew tired of work as an editor at The Harvard Business Review four years ago. They created a 103-page prototype and, as Mr. Talyor put it, ''after a year of wandering the canyons of Manhattan,'' sold a majority stake to Mr. Zuckerman.
Mr. Taylor added that Mr. Zuckerman's leadership had been strictly hands off -- a contrast to what may politely be described as his usual, hands-on dedication to other properties like The Daily News of New York and U.S. News & World Report.
Fast Company, which is based in Boston, is not your parents' business magazine. It styles itself as a guidebook for the ambitious yet sensitive young businessperson facing a swiftly changing and increasingly ruthless economy. The magazine's goal: to encourage readers to think in contrarian terms about the business world. Recent articles include ''Money! Power! Fame! (And Other Ways to Self-Destruct)'' and ''Green is Good,'' a piece about ecological mindfulness in the corporate world. The magazine's conference -- while light on hard information and heavy on motivational speakers -- was in essence Fast Company's version of a three-day M.B.A.
Judging from the conference here, it is also a chance for those working in technology to work on their people skills. Michael A. Gort, an information technology consultant from Old Greenwich, Conn., pointed out that working in software, for example, can be lonely. ''You can get alienated in this field,'' he said. ''You can now have an entire product team that develops a product without ever meeting each other.''
Peter A. Kalish, the president of a software design company in Orem, Utah, said that he read Fast Company because no other business magazine focused on issues with the same ''human touch.''
''The business press doesn't address your feelings, your insecurities,'' he added. ''The first time I saw Fast Company, I saw that they did. And there's a lot of fear out there. We all need to address that.''
Mr. Taylor, who is 40, said that kind of feedback kept Fast Company singularly in touch with its readers. ''We convene this two-day conversation about where our readers are at, what are they dreaming about and scheming about, what are they worrying about,'' he said.''I walk around with a much more visceral appreciation for the kinds of themes and articles and vocabulary words that are going to teach our readers.''
The first Real Time conference in May attracted about 400 readers to Monterey, Calif., the same number who attended the conference here. In New Orleans, the three-day event, began on Sunday evening with a ''knowledge hunt'' -- a grown-up version of a scavenger hunt that required participants to play Pictionary on the sidewalk on Bourbon Street -- and included sessions with titles like ''Group Grope,'' ''Climbing Your Own Everest,'' ''Here's What Imagination Sounds Like'' and a seminar by a dance troupe about how to ''out-dance the competition.''
Attendees radiated a caffeinated, hopeful enthusiasm, and having each paid admission fees of $1,500 and flown from places like California, Utah, Minnesota and Maine, clearly took Real Time seriously. Pausing for a skim latte at a neighborhood Starbucks, one man even called it a religious experience.
Mr. Reich gave the conference's first lecture and after a few jokes -- ''As you can see, four years in the President's Cabinet wore me down,'' said Mr. Reich, who is famously not a tall man. ''I used to be 6 feet 2 inches!'' -- spoke seriously about the challenge of the global economy and the Year 2000 computer problem.
At times the proceedings bordered on the surreal. Mr. Reich, for example, spoke at length about how his artificial hips were an allegory for global trade -- they were designed in France, produced in Germany and implanted in the United States. Or the scene at Tip's Big Room of hundreds of otherwise professional-looking attendees drinking Hurricanes (a New Orleans specialty) and gyrating to ''The Mardi Gras Mambo.''
But it did not seem to matter to the Fast Company editors, whose readership is indeed growing. The magazine -- which was introduced with the publication of 100,000 copies -- will guarantee a rate base of 305,000 in January. Its ad sales appear robust. In 1996, the first year of publication, 394 ad pages brought in $3,031,280 in revenue, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. In 1997, ad pages almost doubled to 696, resulting in $7,095,578 in revenue. With this year's August issue, the magazine switched from bi-monthly publication to monthly.
And for 1998, Julian Lowin, the publisher of Fast Company, said that he expected to see $15 million in ad revenue. The Publishers Information Bureau figure for January to October 1998 is $10,983,320, but Mr. Lowin said that the last three months of the year would not only be monthly, but particularly rich with ads.
After the conference, Mr. Taylor said he had gleaned several ideas for articles. ''You know, Fast Company is not The New Yorker,'' he said, his voice hoarse from days of nonstop networking. ''We're not editors who can go off into a cave and think deep thoughts and come out with a profound message. We need to be out there, with our readers, talking to them, understanding them.''
And Mr. Webber said he did not mind the conference's occasionally warm-and-fuzzy bent or its effect on the gravity with which readers or advertisers perceive the magazine.
''In the old world of business and management, it was all about 'check your emotions at the door, check your individuality at the door,' '' he said. ''It was the world of the organization man. The new world is 'Bring it all in.' Be your own individual. If you're interested in zydeco, and you work at a software company, maybe there's a way to integrate zydeco into a new software design.''
As for Mr. Zuckerman, he was not particularly interested in zydeco software. ''I'm just happy to be a passenger on their train,'' he said.


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MIDDLEBORO — The East Middleboro 4-H Fair, a longtime Labor Day weekend tradition, will start at 5 p.m. Friday at the East Middleboro 4-H Clubhouse on Route 105.
MIDDLEBORO — The East Middleboro 4-H Fair, a longtime Labor Day weekend tradition, will start at 5 p.m. Friday at the East Middleboro 4-H Clubhouse on Route 105.
The fair will continue Saturday and Saturday evening, and it will be open from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free.
The 4-H livestock shows will be held throughout Saturday and the clubhouse will be filled with exhibits of cooking, sewing, photography, gardening, woodworking, arts and crafts, and 4-H window exhibits.
There will be an auction at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, organizers said. The 4-H Quilting Club has made a bear claw quilt that will be raffled at 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets for the handmade quilt will be sold by club members inside the 4-H clubhouse.
On Saturday evening, the East Middleboro 4-H Community Committee will present its scholarship recipients for the 2007-08 school year.
For children, there will be a corn husking contest at noon Saturday, and a "make it and take it" tent will be open all that day. Face painting will be available for children.
At 3:30 p.m. Saturday, family games will be held, and a children's costume and animal costume contest and parade will be held at 5:30. Animal exhibits, penny candy, popcorn and ice cream are some of the favorites for children attending the fair.
For adults, a cribbage tournament will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The Moe Briggs Open Horseshoe Pitching Tournament will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Registration will be held from 9 to 9:30 a.m.; the competition will start at 9:30.
A nondenominational service for the blessing of the animals will be held at 8 a.m. Sunday in the 4-H show ring.
Musical entertainment will be featured from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
The book tent, country store and concession stands will be open Friday evening and throughout Saturday.
The Country Kitchen will feature meals and beverages and pie for dessert.


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Incorporate your favorite flavored bread (black pepper-and-cheese bread, rosemary-black pepper focaccia, or French baguette) into this tasty Italian Sausage Stuffing.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 375°. Arrange bread in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cook sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring until it crumbles and is no longer pink. Add onion, celery, and garlic; sauté 5 minutes or until tender. Add stock, stirring to loosen browned bits from pan.
Combine bread, sausage mixture, poultry seasoning, and next 3 ingredients in a large bowl, tossing to combine. Whisk together eggs and half-and-half, and fold into stuffing.
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text: Merle Haggard's next album, Roots, Vol. 1, features his hero, guitarist Norm Stephens, who played on a number of Lefty Frizzell recordings including "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" and "I Love You a Thousand Ways." Stephens has been retired from music for years, and Haggard recently discovered that they have lived near each other in California for a long time. Haggard's pianist, Doug Colosio, noticed a classified ad Stephens placed in a local paper and called it to his boss's attention. "It was an amazing situation, totally accidental," the country legend explains in the album's press materials. "Norm was one of the two or three guitar players that I've styled my playing after. I always wondered what happened to him — it's like he dropped through the cracks." Recorded in Haggard's home, the album features Stephens with Haggard's band, The Strangers, romping through three new Haggard originals and songs by Frizzell, Hank Williams and Hank Thompson. Anti/Epitaph Records releases the CD Nov. 9. 08/24/01


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text: With only eight days left in the season, the old hot spots are completely fished out. To stay in the game, hunters venture into new grounds. Troy is the "King of the Swamp" because he always hunts with strategy. To keep ahead of the big gators, he moves his lines every 3-4 days to a new area of the swamp. Junior and Willie are headed to a new pond that is teeming with big gators. But the waters in this canal are now only three feet deep. With time running out, Junior decides to risk his boat and his engine. For Joe and Tommy, the day begins with tension on board, because Tommy didn't show up for work yesterday. As they run their lines, all are empty, and Joe believes had Tommy been at work, they would have already run these lines and moved to more populated waters. Glenn and Mitchell are always on the hunt for something the swamp has to offer. The boys are in the mood for a squirrel supper tonight–so they head into the swamp to bag a mess of squirrels.


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Dredd is based on the popular British comic book character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra that first appeared in 2000 A.D. #2 (March 1977). The screenplay was written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later). Here's a partial synopsis:
During a routine day on the job, Dredd (Karl Urban) is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture — a 200-story vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma (Lena Heady) and her ruthless clan. When they capture one of the clan's inner circle, Ma-Ma overtakes the compound's control center and wages a dirty, vicious war against the Judges that proves she will stop at nothing to protect her empire. With the body count climbing and no way out, Dredd and Anderson must confront the odds and engage in the relentless battle for their survival.
Dredd was produced by Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle's (Slumdog Millionaire) DNA Films. It was written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later). The cast includes Olivia Thirlby as Judge Cassandra Anderson, Langley Kirkwood as Judge Lex and Deobia Oparei as Judge T.J. Alvarez and Lena Heady as Ma-Ma.


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Using proven productivity strategies doesn't just increase your efficiency and effectiveness.
It helps you leverage your time and get more of the right things done.
If you can figure out how to consistently be more productive every day it will increase your revenue, your profits and give you the opportunity to create a bigger impact.
The problem is that many traditional systems get productivity all wrong.
Their productivity focus is about working harder, working longer hours, hustling more to get more things done.
In this article the productivity strategies I'll share will help you become more productive by working less.
Productivity strategies shouldn't be about working harder
Many systems define productivity as the ability to do more and do it faster. But that approach is just plain wrong.
That way of thinking doesn't give any attention to what we should actually be spending our time on.
They're about bigger To-Do lists, crushing it each day, doing more, and taking on more and more work.
This simply accelerates the hamster wheel many of us are already on.
It increases a sense of constant busyness and can make us feel overwhelmed and time poor.
Instead of getting ahead and focusing on the right things that make the biggest impact, our productivity gains can feel very small.
They also leave us feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and stressed.
Proven productivity strategies aren't about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done.
Overcoming busyness
The trick to being more productive is to is identify and invest your time in what I call your High Value Activities or HVAs.
These are a maximum of five activities that will create the biggest impact in terms of revenue generation.
Unfortunately, a lot of what happens in many businesses has little to do with producing big results and increased revenues.
There is a focus on time and effort.
True productivity is about focusing on achieving a result in the shortest time possible.
Many entrepreneurs I talk to having calendars filled with stuff.
Much of their work is just busyness, putting together a big To-Do list of lots of things to do.
The items on the list are created without a real understanding of what role these things play in increasing revenue and driving the business forward.
There is no often no clear purpose to the activity or a questioning of WHY these things are being done.
A huge amount of this stuff plays little role in advancing the overall growth of the business.
The problem with traditional productivity advice is that it doesn't filter busyness or low value work.
Being productive doesn't mean doing unproductive work faster.
It means focusing your efforts on those HVAs that contribute the most to your business.
Here are three simple productivity strategies you can use to to leverage your time and create a greater impact on the growth of your business:
1. Always be adding value
Differentiate yourself by focusing on creating real value in the marketplace.
While many of your competitors are focused on being busy and being safe with non-challenging activities, become a focused high achiever to help your business reach their biggest goals.
2. Always be focused on increasing revenue
Whether it's coming up with new ideas, increasing revenue with existing clients, launching new products or making more sales by focusing on your HVAs you will help to drive more revenue to your business.
Those measurable improvements stand a good chance of generating higher income and performance increases for the business.
3. Get your time back
Low value work and busyness might fill time, but highly productive work redeems it.
By cutting or trimming busywork and other low-value activity, you can invest your time in high-value activities, innovation and value creation.
These are the things that create the biggest impacts, while preserving time for rest, rejuvenation and reflection.
Real productivity equals impact
All three productivity strategies I've discussed will help you create a greater impact—not only for yourself and your business but also for your family.
Increasing your time and income creates an opportunity to share and invest in the things that really matter to you.
This could be your family, your community, your friends or causes close to your heart.
More income for you means more time for others.
Busyness and low value work on the other hand, no matter much we do or how fast we do it, deprives others by decreasing our impact.
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Demand for increasingly small and complex products has increased the need for specialised machines all along the production chain. This resulted in an expansion of the market, according to the European association of the machine tool industries, sales in 2013 amounted to some €22,3 billion – over €5 billion more than in 2010.
This growing complexity in the production process has also made it more difficult for smaller businesses to compete. Clients now expect machines capable of achieving unique surface modifications at microscopic level – something that has, up until now, required several different machines, driving up production costs.
"If you use an additional micro-machining facility for each stage, then the process can become uneconomic," says Udo Eckert, coordinator of the PHSM research project. "This is because of high investment costs, and the time it takes to change machines resulting in lower efficiency." In aeronautics, it is common practice to transport heavy metal components from one department of the factory to another to use different types of machines in order to meet the specifications of a client.
The PHSM project brought small businesses Colibri Spindles from Israel and German-based METROM together with world famous research institute Fraunhofer. Instead of developing new machinery from scratch they sought to modify existing machine tools. With a quick addition, a heavy duty metal cutting machine is able to carry out a wide range of finishing applications: engraving, drilling, thread-milling, and more. The main device the partners in the PHSM research project have developed is a new 'fluid-driven' spindle, the rotating axis of a machine.
"Users are already having the chance to implement the system on their machine tools and production lines."
Thanks to this technology, manufacturers can now carry out complex finishings without having to stop production and replace machines. But while less machines means more adaptable factories and reduced costs, it also means more jobs on the factory floor. "More employees will be required to use the machine tools," says Mr. Eckert.
The system has been presented at a number of international conferences, and is beginning to be sold globally. "We have had positive feedback from the industry. Users are already having the chance to implement it on their machine tools and production lines," says Mr Eckert. "Major machine tool producers and users have shown a keen interest in the system, and arranged for a presentation of the concept at their facilities."
Participating in this EUREKA project has opened new doors for the partners. "The idea was developed from the start among the partners, and was based on us sharing our special competencies, Furthermore, cooperation with companies outside Germany also gave us the possibility of launching in new markets, and improving our market share," explains Mr Eckert. Colibri Spindles Chairman Oren Harpaz is equally pleased. The results have helped to bolster the product portfolio of his company, which owns the product patents in Israel.


text: Endangered It's been 5 years since the beetles were brought back to Missouri. Will they stick around this time? By Eli Chen • Jul 11, 2016 Provided by Missouri Department of Conservation For five years, state officials and researchers have been trying to bring back an endangered beetle species that disappeared in Missouri more than 40 years ago. Now, they're counting the bugs to see if there's enough of them for a sustained population. Tasmanian devils adjust to life in captivity at the St. Louis Zoo By Eli Chen • May 29, 2016 Ray Meibaum Anyone who has watched a lot of Saturday morning television likely has seen Taz, the voracious Tasmanian devil of Looney Tunes fame, a loud and voracious presence. While Taz thrives in the cartoon, in the wild the species isn't doing so well. About 20 years ago, a mysterious illness caused its population to dive. Conservationists are scrambling to save the animals and educate the public about them. As part of that effort, Yindi and Jannali, two female Tasmanian devils, recently arrived at the St. Louis Zoo, where researchers are studying how they adjust to life in captivity. St. Louis Zoo effort to save Armenian viper goes international - and online By Stephanie Lecci • Oct 26, 2015 Ray Meibaum | Saint Louis Zoo The country of Armenia may be getting its first conservation center for reptiles and amphibians thanks to a crowd-funding campaign launched by the Saint Louis Zoo. Jurassic fish reproducing once more in Missouri rivers By Camille Phillips • May 3, 2015 courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation For the first time in 30 years, the Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed evidence that the state-endangered lake sturgeon is reproducing in the wild. Sam Hardy and Kristin Biagioli witnessed the sturgeon spawning first-hand in the Mississippi River north of St. Louis in mid-April. Saint Louis Zoo Continues Efforts To Restore Endangered Beetle By Véronique LaCapra • Jun 3, 2013 Dan Kirk/Saint Louis Zoo For a second year, the St. Louis Zoo is continuing efforts to bring back an endangered beetle to southwestern Missouri. More 'Baby Giants' Arrive At The Saint Louis Zoo By Véronique LaCapra • Nov 1, 2012 Jill Utrup/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Saint Louis Zoo once again is teeming with baby giant salamanders. For the second year in a row, the zoo has successfully bred endangered Ozark hellbenders in captivity. This time, a total of eight females laid 2,809 fertile eggs. Two-hundred and fourteen salamander larvae have hatched so far, with many more expected. Even though the salamanders are smaller than a quarter when they first hatch, as adults they can reach lengths of up to two feet. MOBOT scientists help rediscover two tree species thought to be extinct By Véronique LaCapra • Mar 30, 2012 (Frank Mbago/Missouri Botanical Garden) Scientists at the Missouri Botanical Garden have confirmed the discovery of two tree species that were thought to be extinct. Last year botanists from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania set out to look for the trees. They discovered small populations of both species in a remote forest in southeastern Tanzania, along Africa's eastern coast. Missouri Botanical Garden botanist Roy Gereau worked with British scientist Phil Clarke to confirm the identity of the trees. Endangered beetle to return to Missouri By Véronique LaCapra • Mar 22, 2012 (Dan Kirk/Saint Louis Zoo) An endangered beetle could be making its way back to Missouri, with some help from the Saint Louis Zoo and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. If all goes well, the zoo plans to reintroduce the American burying beetle to Wah' kon-tah Prairie in southwestern Missouri in early June. Breeding program at St. Louis Zoo gives hope for giant Ozark salamander By The Associated Press & Bill Raack • Nov 30, 2011 For the first time ever, an endangered amphibian found only in a few Missouri and Arkansas counties has been successfully bred in captivity. Officials with the St. Louis Zoo and Missouri Department of Conservation said Wednesday that 63 Ozark hellbenders have been bred at the zoo. The first hatched on Nov. 15, and an additional 120 eggs are expected to hatch within the next week. The breeding is the result of a decade-long collaboration of the zoo and the conservation department. Giant Ozark salamander now officially endangered By Véronique LaCapra • Oct 5, 2011 (Jill Utrup, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the Ozark hellbender as a federally endangered species that cannot be harmed, killed, or bought and sold as a pet. The Ozark hellbender is found only in the streams of the White River system in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. Ozark hellbender populations have dropped by 75 percent since the 1980s, with fewer than 600 remaining in the wild. Baby elephant makes public debut at Saint Louis Zoo By Véronique LaCapra • Sep 23, 2011 (Photo courtesy of Becky Heisler/Saint Louis Zoo) The Asian elephant calf Kenzi is making her public debut this morning at the Saint Louis Zoo. The three-month-old calf will be on view at the "River's Edge" habitat from 10 a.m. to noon and then again from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today through Sunday. Endangered person advisory issued by Chesterfield police By Kelsey Proud • Jul 14, 2011 (Chesterfield Police Department) Updated 11:10 p.m. - The missing persons report was canceled around 8 p.m. Thursday after Wasayul Haque was found unharmed. Chesterfield police provided no additional information. Our earlier story: Wasayul S. Haque, 22, has been reported by the Chesterfield Police Department as missing and endangered. Haque is described by the police department as being 5'6'' tall, 110 lbs. with black hair, brown eyes and a medium brown complexion. He is described wearing a multi-colored long sleeve shirt, blue jeans and no shoes. Current River in Mo. ranked as one of nation's "most endangered" By Adam Allington • May 17, 2011 (via Wikimedia Commons) A national river quality organization has listed Missouri's Current River as a victim of over-use, and one of the most endangered rivers in America. The report by American Rivers shows that in 1984 the Current River in the Ozark Riverways Scenic Park had only 13 access points. Today, there are more than 130, leading to erosion, pollution and overuse.


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Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris details unearthed
We're finally getting a follow-up to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Along with the announcement of The Rise of Tomb Raider for consoles next year, Crystal Dynamics is also hard at work on the downloadable follow-up to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Titled Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, it is slated for consoles with no release date set.
The story revolves around Lara exploring the Temple of Osiris, trying to retrieve a long-lost staff. Her latest rival, Carter Bell, also shows up looking for it, but the two of them inadvertently free a rival god named Set, who could very well destroy the world by reawakening his kingdom. With the help of friendlier gods Horus and Isis, they attempt to put Set back to rest.
Like Guardian of Light, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris takes place in an isometric perspective, showing you the lay of levels that you'll need to complete with Lara and her companions. You'll need to contend with dangers and enemies while occasionally solving the brain-tickling puzzle so you can move forward. In addition, you'll also be able to snag some bonus treasure, just like in the first game, through hidden rooms.
Temple of Osiris will also be the first Tomb Raider game to feature four-player co-op, as three cohorts will join up with Lara and work together to solve particular puzzles, which she won't be able to do on her own. It's in pure drop-in, drop-out fashion, so players can hop in and out at any time, without any penalty to the other players.
The game will release for PlayStation 4, and other specified platforms, soon. More details on an exact date are expected in the months ahead.
Robert Workman posted a new article, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris details unearthed.
We're finally getting a follow-up to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.


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In a rush to get everywhere in a hurry, Americans have paved the way to their vacation destinations with superhighways, bypassing any unnecessary pit stops along the way.
In a rush to get everywhere in a hurry, Americans have paved the way to their vacation destinations with superhighways, bypassing any unnecessary pit stops along the way.
In the old days, those pit stops — or as they are better known, souvenir shops — were part of the fun, and a great place to pick up miscellaneous doodads to remind us of our travels.
"The 1974 opening of I-195 is what killed all of that," said Christopher Richard, director of tourism in Fairhaven. "Before, you would go down Route 6 to the Cape, and you'd see the saltwater taffy, the wicker furniture, the roadside signs. Nobody goes that way anymore."
Almost nobody.
Those who do meander their way to Cape Cod along Route 6 often stop at the Sand and Surf in East Wareham. Touted as the largest wicker and gift shop on Cape Cod, Sand and Surf is filled with wall-to-wall collectibles.
"People love the mugs, the magnets, postcards and T-shirts," said Donna Neff, who has been working at Sand and Surf for more than 15 years. "And the shotglasses. We have a little bit of everything, but no matter what, people still love the shotglasses."
Diane Lynch and Pam Cowe pass through Wareham at least once a year, and they make a point of stopping at Sand and Surf.
"The horrible truth is I'd like to walk down every aisle in the store and get one of everything," said Ms. Cowe. "There isn't one thing here that you couldn't find someone to give it to."
Ms. Lynch is not much of a collector herself, but she said that it's never too early to start Christmas shopping.
"I have friends that collect birds, horses, cows, motorcycles, all kinds of things," said Ms. Lynch.
Amid the boxes of taffy and model ships stamped "Cape Cod" are countless mainstream collectibles, such as Snow Babies, Yankee Candles and Jim Shore figurines, just to name a few. At one time, collectors of vacation kitsch could walk away with pencil sharpeners, flashlights, playing cards, sunglasses or jewelry marked with the name of the current vacation destination. Today's collectors are more likely to seek out well-known name brands of miscellanea.
"Yankee Candles are always a big hit," said Sandra Gifford, manager of The Bedford Merchant gift shop in New Bedford's Historic District, a popular stop for tourists and locals alike. "People come in looking for garden accessories, Crabtree and Evelyn, Willow Tree Angels, Byers' Choice Carolers."
The Bedford Merchant also carries Christmas ornaments all year round, as well as a variety of odds and ends.
"A lot of the tourists are coming in for those little items, unusual things," said Ms. Gifford. "They just want a remembrance of their vacation, a little memory to take home with them or a gift for someone back home."
According to Tove Perry, a manager at Euro-Phoenix in Fairhaven, it's the little things that make their out-of-town customers happy.
"Key chains, magnets, T-shirts, they want small things they can pack," said Ms. Perry, adding that shotglasses with "Fairhaven" printed on them are among the more popular items.
Tourists are not the only consumers of local collectibles. Oftentimes, local folks will buy local items to bring with them when they visit friends and family far away.
"People who have moved away and come back to visit really want Fairhaven things," said Ms. Perry. "We're not really a tourist store (exclusively), but they come in looking for it."
While it may seem that gathering sea shells, pine cones and potted cactuses is a lost art, not everyone has given up on collecting keepsakes.
"Plastic lobsters, seashells, lobster pots, wooden block and tackle made into lamps, you're just not seeing that as much," said Mr. Richard. "It's more generic, with everyone wanting to find the same thing everywhere in the world. If somebody opens up a gift shop, it's not filled with nautical stuff because here we are in this coastal area, it's because they want to sell the fairies and mermaids like everyone else has."
Fairies, mermaids, and a full inventory of shotglasses, that is.


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have a nice weekend people!!!!
'Cause I'm bluffin with my muffin
1) People who don't sympathise with you when someone close to you has died (as this has happened to me recently i've noticed it a bit more of late, it takes two seconds to say, 'sorry to hear about your loss' I mean c'mon, it's not like I'm going to turning into a mess of snot and tears while trying to say 'thanks' but it ends up sounding something more like bluuuffrrrrdd[big_massive_sniff]waaaaa.)2) being anal about the apostrophe s or s apostrophe or bad grammar in general (yes i'm looking at you kitty, it didn't cause 9/11 and it won't cause WW3. i hope)3) bad make up! (dude there is a line around your head and it's not a wrinkle! your suppose to match your neck to your face not your neck to your fag stained fingers! BLEND PEOPLE)4) the words pet and peeves, (i know this is somewhat ironic but could they not of thought of two less annoying words for this!!)5) people who work in marketing ( i know i making the biggest generalisation in the world here but it's mainly the people who say "what would it look like in yellow and green and bigger a lot bigger and over on the right?" well let me tell you, it would look like your brand has a dose of the shits thats what!)
I think I'd like to make this a kind of meme so I tag red, the sexy pedestrian and oh lemme see now.... babaduck!
"You could go around making people cry and then lick the tears off their face."
"But then the problem would be that I'd want to raise the kids Jewish and he'd want to have sex with men."
"They probably wouldn't sell as much honey if it was called Bee Poo. We're on our Bee-poo moon!"
"A pounce of cats?! That's so much better than a murder of crows!"
"Is anything on fire? No? Ok then let's go."
"Happy VD everybody!"
"Right, at the next red light we all get out and swap seats."
(We did.)
"That was some try. He should be allowed go for a wank now. He deserves it."


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UT at Tyler President's lists announced for fall semester
- Details
- Category: School
- Published on 05 March 2018
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Five local residents were among those earning academic honors through their studies at the University of Texas at Tyler for the 2017 fall semester.
Kendall Land of Scroggins; and Megan Byrd, Hannah Isleem, Victoria Jones and Preston McElyea of Winnsboro were among the 669 students to be included in the Presidents's List for the 2017 fall semester. For more information, see the March 1 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Ext. Two men sit on the sills of their car, taking in the Utah view and contemplating the directions their lives are going in.
John Schneider: Pete?
Pete Carroll: Yes, John?
JS: How many more places do we have to visit?
PC: Just this one, John. The draft is next week, so I just want to hit Salt Lake before we push on home.
JS: Thank god.
PC: C'mon John, it's been fun. Just you & me driving across this great land…
JS: You mean me driving…
PC:(ignoring the remark)…taking in the sights. Like Wall Drug. My God – that's how you advertise.
JS: Pete. The place was a shithole. All those signs were just lures to sucker people in. Like a vortex of sadness and tchotchkes.
PC: Chachi's?
JS: No! Tchotchkes!
JS: For fuck's sake – "trinkets" & junk. Touristy shit!
PC: Dammit, Tom must have taught you those words! Remind me to fine him a dollar when we get home.
JS: (muttering to himself) I might have to replace Tom when I get home.
PC: We've seen sights that really make you think about what life really means.
JS: Pete, I hardly think staring out the window at the nothingness qualifies as life-changing.
PC: Well, those few hours at Devil's Tower sure opened my mind to what lies beyond.
JS: You only made me stop there because you fell asleep watching "Close Encounters" back in that Pierre Motel 6.
PC: Nonsense. I was following up on "Project Blue Book", which the government buried along with the Kennedy assassination, the mole people, and the real 9/11 report.
JS: Jesus, Pete, the movie was a Spielberg fever dream. It wasn't even a prior magazine article, much less a novel.
PC: Well, then what about those aliens at Mount Rushmore the day before?
JS: Those were tourists, Pete.
PC: That's what the government wants you to think, John.
JS: (frustrated) Look, let's just head into town and meet up with Coach Whittingham. We'll have a nice chat, go meet the player, and then get the hell home. Okay?
PC: Okay.
Ext. John Schneider & Pete Carroll drive into the Utah campus, heading for Rice-Eccles Stadium.
PC: Boy, howdy, this sure is a pretty campus. I wish it had been part of the Pac-10 when I was at 'SC.
JS: Oh Pete, the Zion Curtain in the restaurants would have driven you up a wall. You would have thought they were poisoning your drinks.
PC: Don't be silly, John. There's no Jews in Utah. Now, if you want to talk conspiracies,…
JS: Uhh… (thinks better of it) Anyway, we're here.
PC: Good. Let's get this over with. The guy gives me the creeps. (gets out of car)
JS: I don't know why. (gets out of car) He's just like you – affable yet intense; cares deeply about his players…
PC: I can't put my finger on it. (opens stadium office door) It's just a feeling.
A receptionist sits at a desk.
Receptionist: Good afternoon gentlemen. May I help you?
JS: Thank you.
John Schneider & Pete Carroll to see Coach Whittingham.
Rec.: *gasps* Oh my. (gathers breath) Yes sir, I'll page him for you.
JS: Why, thank you kindly, miss.
Kyle Whittingham: Gentlemen, how are you?
JS: Oh, I see it now, Pete.
PC: Right? So, let's go find the kid & then get out of here.
John Schneider drives the two of them half way across town to the address they have on file for their target.
JS: Okay Pete, I think this is the place.
PC: Right. (hops out window) Let's hope the kid is home.
Pete Carroll knocks on door.
Garett Bolles: Hello?
PC: Howdy, son. Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks. My colleague over there in the car…
…is GM John Schneider.
GB: That's nice; my mom will be home later. What brings you by, sir?
PC: Well son, we are meeting with all our potential first-round choices, and we're proud to say you're one of them.
GB: Well, that's a great honour, sir. Now, what would you like to know?
Both men sit down on the porch. John Schneider stays in the car.
PC: First off, you're a little older than most juniors. How come?
GB: Because I made some mistakes sir. Just like Michael Oher, I had a rough upbringing, and was taken in by a supportive family. His story means a lot to me; it's why I wear #74. Coach, if I may be blunt…
PC: Please.
GB: I sorted my shit out, got right with the Lord, and took a mission with the Church. When I got back to Salt Lake, I went to junior college, started playing football again, and then transferred into Utah. I've learned how to focus my energies. I'm not that troubled kid anymore.
JS: (from the car) Sounds like he's got a mouth on him. Should be perfect for Cable!
PC: (ignoring Schneider) That sounds great, Garett. "¿Hablas español?"
GB: No sir – they sent me to Colorado Springs.
PC: Oh; okay – "¿Do you Hablas español?"
Garett stares off into the distance; John Schneider fidgets in the driver's seat.
PC: (recovering awkwardly) Disirregardless, why'd you leave before your senior year?
GB: Well, sir, I feel I'm ready to make the transition to the pro game. I've got three years playing left tackle under my belt, I was a JuCo All-American, and I was All Pac-12 this year. Plus, I have a family to support now.
PC: Makes sense. Well son, that's all I have. John?
JS: (yells from the car) Kid, what's the dirtiest word you know?
GB: Sir?
JS: You know, the swears.
GB: I'd prefer not to sir. It violates my covenant with the Lord.
JS: (gets out of car; walks up to Bolles) Son, if we draft you, your coach is going to be Tom Cable,
a man with the devil's tongue and a blacker heart. He's going to yell things at you that will shrivel your dead grandpa's dick. You're going to need to fire back when – not if – he comes at you. So, I ask again, what's the worst word you know?
GB: Uhh…fucker? Sorry, sir, I just can't. That was my old life.
JS: (frustrated) Boy – he'll eat you alive. Put some salt on that tongue. Christ, I might have to pay him a dollar to teach you how to swear.
GB: …umm…okay?
JS: (turns back; stomps away) C'mon Carroll, we're outta here. (hops in window; fires up car)
PC: …well, again, thank you for your time, Garett. We'll give you a call closer to draft day when we have our plans firmed up. (runs down steps; hops in passenger window)
JS: Next stop – Seattle! Daddy misses the home cooking! (car squeals away)
Garett Bolles stares into the distance, a quizzical look slowly melting off his face.
"Man", he thinks to himself, "I should have taken that mission to Chile."
To Be Continued…


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Hey Everyone!
To be honest, I never really wore lipstick until I went to uni. To me lipsticks were such a hassle. I couldn't eat without eating some and they faded far too much. But little did I realize that it wasn't particularly lipsticks as make-up items I didn't like, it was just that I was wearing the wrong one. I continued my lipstick journey with M.A.C, Chanel, YSL, and drugstore brands like Revlon and Maybelline only to find that I might have a slight addiction to them. They make a massive difference to any look, it's the final polish. Even to that, I haven't tried a Bobbi Brown lipstick before either. Silly, I know.
MizSpa contacted me a few weeks ago asking if I'd like to try out a set of Bobbi Brown lipsticks from their online store and suggested a giveaway for them as well. Seeing that I've never tried them and you get to try them too, I was more than ecstatic!
For all of those online shop-a-holics whipping out their credit cards at 2am in the morning like yours truly, MizSpa.com is a great online discount make-up and skincare store that sells 100% genuine luxury brands. There are hundreds of types of beauty products including cosmetics, skincare and perfumes. Check them out for great offers and bargains!
But let's get to the haul shall we? Shipping was safe and secure and arrived in less than the expected time. Plus the packaging is uber cute!
Let's see what's in the box!
I love how they're packaged with wrapping paper and bows! I feel like it's my birthday..or Christmas morning. I opened it up to reveal the Bobbi Brown Lip Trio that comes with three Bobbi Brown Lipsticks in Nude, Sandwash Pink and Soft Rose. These babies are usually only available in airports or duty free areas. They're a set of three of universally flattering shades from Bobbi Brown and represent the classics of their lipstick collection.
At the point of opening this up, I was absolutely thrilled. Not only did I get to try just one, I get to try three! Bobbi Brown lipsticks are known to be creamy, semi matte, rich and full coverage. I haven't heard too much online about them.
They've mainly been overshadowed by the hype of Chanel and YSL lippies. We'll see how they fare on a first impressions basis, since this is a haul.
Here is me without any lipstick on. I already do have a pink-ish muave natural lip color but let's see if these lipsticks can spice things up.
1. Bobbi Brown Lip Color Lipstick in Soft Rose
Soft Rose is a beautiful pink rose color with a bit of a peach undertone. It is absolutely perfect for daily wear and makes a great pink and peach swatch on the lips. Bobbi Brown lipsticks are surprisingly (well, they are Bobbi Brown, so never mind) pigmented and smooth. They are so rich but not overpoweringly creamy. I would say these are some of the best lipsticks that I have tried so far. It's a complex feeling wearing them. The texture is so rich and pigmented but they don't feel heavy what so ever. It's like gliding butter on your lips but the fact that they are semi-matte adds the perfect shine. It's a bit confusing but they are spectacular. Back to the color, soft rose would be my favorite of the bunch.
2. Bobbi Brown Sandwash Pink Lip Color Lipstick
Sandwash Pink is a muave and more paler lipstick. It also feels and looks slightly more matte, and would be most similar to M.A.C's matte lippies in Please Me or Pink Plaid. Nonetheless, I've been really into muave looking lipsticks lately. I believe this is the color that Barbie wears and really, who doesn't want to look like her. Again, the texture remains utterly amazing.
3. Bobbi Brown Nude Lip Color Lipstick
The last is the most more of a neutral brick color although on the website it is described to be a medium brownish pink. If my mom were to pick one out of the bunch, she would pick this one. I remember her only wearing a slight peach brick red and it reminds me so much of her. I wish I could give this to her, but I kind of used it so I'm not sure how much she'd like that. Besides that, it's a very pretty color. It's leaning onto a coral which matches spring weather perfectly but at the same time it looks like autumn leaves too. Color gets a little complicated but seriously, the texture is something you need to try.
And there you have it! Bobbi Brown lipsticks are awesome. These are first impressions so I can't say much about the lasting power of these babies but if anything, the texture is something I would whip out money for.
On Mizspa, this set only costs $26 – click here for the link! . It's hard to say no to that.Wait, that is really cheap. I'm getting one for my Mom. Lol, this is a bit awkward.
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Posts tagged 'government'
In Which I Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Talk about Immigration Policy
There are several absurd aspects to the way the State Department and the Consulate process these applications:
- Processing takes a highly variable amount of time. If it always took a month it wouldn't be nearly as bad, but since it sometimes takes several months, it wrecks your ability to schedule things.
- The consulate is highly understaffed. A decision to reject an applicant or stick them in limbo is made based on a 1-2 minute interview.
- I've already been in the country for 6.5 years. Besides, my leaving the country was entirely voluntary, and I'm not required to renew my visa unless I do choose to leave voluntarily. One would think that if I were up to something I would have done it by now, or at least not have left.
- There is no way to get this time-consuming background check done while I'm still in the country.
- All of this would be justifiable in some way if the system at least worked. But the determination of whether an applicant working on something sensitive is entirely dependent on what they put on their application; worse, it's based on keyword matching. It is often possible to reword your application to avoid these keywords if you know how; I wasn't smart enough to do so.
Immigrants are not the only ones harmed by the muddleheaded visa policy and the fickle behavior of the visa overlords—all Americans are. The H-1B lottery, processing delays and other visa problems contribute to turning skilled workers and scientists back home, which hurts the economy. In fact the US spends taxpayer money to educate Ph.D's and then encourages or forces them to leave.
As with many problems of Government, a major factor here seems to be that there is a vast and bloated immigration apparatus mired in rules and with no central oversight. Are there things an ordinary person can do to help improve the situation? I'd welcome any thoughts on the issue.
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An Academic Wanders into Washington D.C.
I was on a Do Not Track panel in Washington D.C. last week. I spent a day in the city and had many informal conversations with policy people. It was fascinating to learn from close range how various parts of the Government work. If I could sum it up in a single phrase, it would be "so many smart people, so many systemic problems."
What follows is obviously the account of an outsider, and I'm sure there are many nuances I've missed. That said, an outsider's view can sometimes provide fresh perspective. So without further ado, here are some of my observations.
A deep chasm. Techies are by-and-large oblivious of what goes on in D.C., and have a poor mental picture of what regulators are or aren't involved in. For example, I attended part of a talk on antitrust concerns around the Google search algorithm, and it blew my mind to realize that something that techies think of as their playground comes under serious regulatory scrutiny. (I hear the Google antitrust issue is really big in the EU, and the US is catching up.) Equally, the policy world is quite lacking in tech expertise.
Libertarian influence. While the libertarian party is not mainstream in the US, libertarian think tanks and lobbying groups exercise significant influence in D.C. While that gladdens me as a libertarian, one unfortunate thing that appears to be common to all think tanks is toeing the party line at the expense of critical thinking. I'm not sure there can be a market failure so complete that libertarian groups will consider acknowledging the need for some government intervention.
A new kind of panel. The panel I attended was very different from what I'm used to. In a scientific or technical panel, there is an underlying truth even if the participants may disagree about some things. Policy panels seem to be very different: each participant represents a group that has an entrenched position and there is no scope for actual debate or any possibility of changing one's mind. The panel is instead a forum for the speakers to state their respective positions for the benefit of the media and the public. There is nothing wrong with this, but it took me a while to grasp.
Lobbyists. The American public is deeply concerned about the power of lobbyists. But lobbyists perform the valuable function of providing domain expertise to legislators and regulators. Of course, the problem is that they also have the role of trying to get favorable treatment for the industry groups they represent, and these roles cannot be disentangled.
The solution is to increase the power of the counterweights to lobbyists, i.e., consumer advocates, environmental groups etc. A loose analogy is that if we're worried about wealthy individuals getting better treatment from the judicial system, the answer is not to get rid of lawyers, but to improve the quality of public prosecutors and defenders. I don't know if the lobbyist imbalance can ever be completely eliminated, but I think it can be drastically mitigated.
A humble suggestion. Generalizing my experiences in the tech field, I suspect that the Government lacks domain expertise in virtually every area, hence the dependence on lobbyists. If only more academics were to get involved in policy, it seems to me that it would solve both problems mentioned above — it would address the lack of expertise and it would shift the balance of advocacy in favor of consumers. (There are certainly many law scholars involved in policy, but I'm thinking more of scientists and social scientists here — those who have domain knowledge.)
To reiterate, I believe that a greater involvement of academics in policy has the potential to hugely improve how government works. But how do we make that happen? I have a couple of suggestions. Government people seem to have a tendency to listen to whoever talks the loudest in Washington. Instead, they should make an effort to seek out people with actual expertise. Second, I hope academics will take into account benefits like increased visibility and consider moonlighting in policy circles.
Thanks to Joe Calandrino for comments on a draft.
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National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation's largest lender by assets, will set aside more than £245 million ($410 million) in its full-year result for compensation related to U.K. insurance and hedging products.
The Melbourne-based lender's shares fell 0.9 percent to A$34.39 [$32.03] at 10:31 a.m.in Sydney. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 0.2 percent higher.
The U.K. operations have weighed on the bank with mounting bad debts in 2012 triggering the first drop in full-year earnings that year since 2009. CEO Andrew Thorburn, who took up his role Aug. 1, has said repeatedly that NAB's U.K. operations "still face a number of challenges."
NAB is attempting to "draw a line" under the U.K. conduct issue, which would help it sell its business in the country, Macquarie Group Ltd.'s Sydney-based analyst, Michael Wiblin said in a note to investors today. While the provisions are quite large, "this is another sign that the new CEO is trying to be as decisive as possible."
The bank will provide at least an extra £75 million [$125.5 million] to administer U.K. compensation on payment protection insurance and expects significant, unspecified additional provisions for these products, it said in a regulatory filing. NAB will also provide more than £170 million [$284.5 million] for redress of mis-sold interest-rate hedging products.
Third-Quarter Profit
It posted a 7 percent increase in third-quarter profit on a 9 percent drop in bad debt charges while revenue fell 1 percent.
Unaudited cash profit, which excludes one-time items, climbed to about A$1.6 billion (US$1.5 billion) in the three months ended June 30 from A$1.5 billion [US$1.397 billion] a year earlier, NAB said in today's statement. Net income was A$1.7 billion [US$1.583 billion], similar to the previous year.
The bank said that there remains "a wide range of uncertain factors" that would determine the total cost of the U.K. conduct-related matters. NAB agreed in July to sell a £625 million [$1.045 billion] parcel of mostly non-performing U.K. commercial property loans to an affiliate of Cerberus Global Investors.
"Conduct charges are difficult to predict, but we now expect that we will need to take further provisions at the full- year result for both interest-rate hedging products and Payment Protection Insurance," Thorburn said in today's statement. "In addition, the Scottish Independence vote takes place on 18 September and a vote in favor of independence may give rise to significant additional costs and risks for Clydesdale Bank."
U.K. Banking
Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Britain's largest mortgage lender, said July 31 it spends about £200 million [$334.6 million] each month on customer compensation for improperly sold loan insurance and has about £2.3 billion [$3.85 billion] of unused money set aside.
"Conduct-related payments are affecting the entire U.K. banking industry and NAB is caught in it like everyone else," Brett Le Mesurier, a Sydney-based analyst at BBY Ltd., said by phone. "I'd think just the additional conduct-related provisions will cost not less than £400 million [$670 million] for the full-year."
Home loans at NAB grew an annualized 8.5 percent in the third quarter as it continued to increase market share, it said. Business loan balances rose an annualized 5.5 percent.
The bank said its charge for bad and doubtful debts for the quarter fell 9 percent to A$241 million [US$224.5 million] primarily due to lower charges for Australian and U.K. banking.
NAB's customer margin — which excludes some components of net interest margin — was "broadly stable", it said.
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