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CT at E3 Expo 2014
10 June, 2014
CT easily and seamlessly provided audio, video and technical expertise to many of the gaming industry's more notable companies at 2014's Electronics Entertainment Expo.
E3 is fanatically fun, boisterously loud, eye-candy entertaining and one of the most highly anticipated events in the tradeshow industry. That's why almost 50,000 gaming enthusiast and more than 200 exhibiting companies flocked to the 2014 event at the Los Angeles Convention Center in June.
The Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) is the world's premier tradeshow for computer and video games and accessories, including game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers and the Internet. According to the Entertainment Software Industry, 59 percent of Americans play video games with consumers spending more than $21 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in 2013. That said, E3 aisle gridlock resembled Los Angeles' 405 Freeway at rush hour as legions of fans waited hours to test new versions of their favorite video games.
With behemoth game titles like Evolve, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Destiny, Lego Marvel Super Heroes and Titanfall vying for attendees' attention, exhibits had to be innovative and creative, or in other words, momentous. Companies know this and rely heavily on audio and video (A/V) staging to launch their brands above the swarm of competing exhibits not only on the show floor but also at their highly anticipated press events. That is why, for over 15 years, some of the biggest names in the computer gaming industry have chosen Creative Technology (CT) to service their audio/visual staging needs at E3.
With one of the largest rental inventories of A/V products in the industry, a highly skilled technical staff and multiple U.S. locations, CT easily and seamlessly provided audio, video and technical expertise to many of the gaming industry's more notable companies: Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo of America, Take Two Interactive (2K), Ubisoft Entertainment Inc, Square Enix Inc., Konami Digital Entertainment, Alienware, Bandai Namco Games America.


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Phil Collins Explains How Genesis Decided Which Songs Ended Up on Solo Albums
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A successful solo career can really put a strain on relationships between band members, but during the '80s, Phil Collins and Genesis put on a master class in how to make it work.
As Collins explained in a recent interview with the A.V. Club, one of their secrets had to do with how they allocated songs between band records and the members' various side projects.
Collins' solo debut, 1982's Face Value, came after Genesis' 1980 release Duke — a project that saw Collins, guitarist Mike Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks each contributing two solo compositions, which were all blended between five tracks co-written by the trio. If Genesis had continued working that way, disagreements over who might have been holding out for a solo hit could've been inevitable — but starting with their 1983 self-titled effort, they changed things up.
"With Duke, we had two songs each, and they chose the two songs of my stuff that they liked, and then the rest of it I kept for Face Value," recalled Collins. "Once we all had solo careers, I think it became a separate thing. We kept the solo songs for our own career, and then we got together for Genesis with nothing prepared and just wrote and improvised and did things together that we couldn't do on our own."
Collins also touched on his upcoming autobiography, joking that the publisher is "gunning for October, so I've got to finish it." He added that he's working with a co-writer to help him sort through his life story. "It is a complicated process, you know. But I've got a great memory, and I'm really actively involved in it — as obviously I should be, because it's my life. But I'm enjoying reading it … and I'm looking forward to finishing it, actually."
As for the ever-present question of new music? Collins remained non-committal while continuing to sound an optimistic note about the possibility of another album at some point. "We'll see what happens when I get into my new studio. It's up and running now, so I'll go and turn it on, put my hands on the piano, and see what happens."
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I love a good smoothie, whether it be fruit or vege based. The upside to smoothies is that they're easy to make, can be packed full of goodness and are easy to consume whether you are relaxing or on the go. A downside is that it can be tricky to have the right ingredients on hand at the time when you want them – especially if the ingredients are out of season.
Caralee from over at the Real Food Pledge posted a fantastic idea on her Facebook page to chop, bag and freeze fresh smoothie ingredients for quick and easy smoothie making. As soon as I saw this, I knew that it was for me. Here's what are in my smoothie freezer bags:
The very next day I whizzed one up from frozen in my blender with rice milk and natural yoghurt. It it made a delicious and creamy fruit smoothie and quite filling thanks to the banana and avocado. I had it for lunch, so bulked it up with a scoop of protein powder. A lighter version can be made without the protein powder or by using water instead of milk or milk substitute.
You can make a delicious frozen yoghurt snack by freezing it, which is what I did and enjoyed it the following day.
You may have seen my earlier post Two ways with Spinach, Silver beet and Kale, where I blended and froze fresh leafy greens in mini muffin trays to make my yummy green vege smoothie super fast and all year round. Well, this is a great way to do the same with fruit.


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Xfinity trying to enhance fan experience in year two of NASCAR sponsorship
Xfinity begins its second season as the sponsor of NASCAR's No. 2 national series, and the company is making big moves to distinguish itself as a brand name in America's most popular form of motorsports.
Xfinity, Comcast's cable, internet and phone provider, replaced Nationwide as a series sponsor last year. it spent its first season introducing its brand and services to NASCAR fans. Now, in year two, the company is making big changes. The Xfinity Series, which opens its season Saturday with the PowerShares QQQ 300 at Daytona International Speedway, will feature its first Xfinity Series Chase to determine the series champion as well a new Dash4Cash format that will pay drivers performance bonuses in select races.
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The series is continuing its "Names Are Made Here" campaign to promote young stars like Erik Jones, Ty Dillon, Darrell Wallace Jr. and Daniel Suarez.
"The Xfinity Series itself is already established. The position we now have differentiates it," Steve Phelps, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief marketing officer, recently told FOXBusiness.com. "You can feel the excitement on the Xfinity side of the garage. Partly because of Comcast's role in it, partly because of new positioning we started last year, and definitely because of the new format."
And like Sprint, sponsor of NASCAR's top series, Xfinity continues to use its digital technology to enhance the race experience for fans.
Xfinity, the "Official Entertainment Provider of NASCAR," is launching an app this season that practically takes NASCAR fans watching from home to the track.
The Xfinity X1 app — which is only available to Comcast and Xfinity subscribers — will offer NASCAR fans the same on-screen sports experience that became popular with NFL and MLB fans last year and now also includes NBA and NCAA basketball. The app provides NASCAR fans with an insider's look at everything from a live leaderboard to driver stats to a track weather update for all three of NASCAR's major touring series.
Among the features of the X1 app:
• Prerace info, including track information, start times, qualifying, points standings, weather updates and more.
• During the race, users will get NASCAR's official timing and scoring feed, which provides a live leaderboard and up-to-the-second stats. Users can also customize their own leaderboard to track their favorite driver.
• After the race, users will have access to race results, driver stats, a race recap and updated points standings.
And perhaps the thing that will please NASCAR fans most is that they can launch the app right on their television screen, giving them a split screen with live race action along with stats and all the features provided by the X1 app.
"This changes the way fans experience live sports," said Matt Lederer, executive director of sports marketing for Comcast. "The X1 app provides a fully immersed experience right on the big screen."
Lederer said Xfinity is pleased with its foray into NASCAR and looking forward to the changes it has made for year two.
"It's been a lot of fun and we are really excited about this year," he said. "We jumped it big and we understand the passion of NASCAR fans. We want to change how NASCAR fans watch the sport and do everything we can to enhance that experience."


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Planning and Activities
Day 1 Teaching
Define and explore lines of symmetry using online animations/examples.
Further Teaching with Y4
Explore symmetrical patterns on a square grid.
Group Activities: T with Y4
Use the 'Tremendous tiles' in-depth problem-solving investigation below as today's group activity.
Or, use these activities:
Y3 -- Complete symmetrical pictures, either pre-drawn or self-drawn.
Y4 -- Create patterns with horizontal or vertical lines of symmetry.
Day 2 Teaching
Explore regular and irregular heptagons and their properties.
Further Teaching with Y3
Identify properties of polygons and use associated vocabulary.
Group Activities: T with Y3
Y3 -- Introduce the Venn diagram; use it for sorting 2-D shapes.
Y4 -- Sort polygons into a Carroll or Venn diagram.
Day 3 Teaching
Describe and sort irregular polygons.
Further Teaching with Y4
Classify types of triangles, learning associated vocabulary.
Group Activities: T with Y4
Y3 -- Sort a wide range of 2-D shapes into a Venn diagram.
Y4 -- Identify, classify and sort a range of triangles.


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Winners of the 2014 awards
presented by Antony Worrall Thompson on 22nd April 2015 at the Royal College of Physicians in LondonClick here for the presentation speech; Click here for details of the 2015 judges;Click here for the 2015 shortlist
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'An excellent vegan product with a lovely basil flavour – a great dairy free alternative to pesto.' 'Its thick, oily texture would make it a delicious nut butter.' 'Really good clean ingredients.'
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Feminist Experiences of Law
Provocations III: IILAH
27-28 October 2016
Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School
Experience is central to feminist thinking and praxis. Understood as the personal, as the subjective, as political formation, as method, or as a contested concept in philosophy, history, sociology, literary and cultural theory, experience had long shaped debates and struggles about what it means to think and act as a feminist.
The work that experience does, and has done, in how feminists understand, contest and live with law has official and unofficial histories, and distinct and diverse forms of contemporary argument. This conference seeks to draw together a broad community of scholars and activists to consider, and reconsider, feminist experiences of law. We invite papers from a range of disciplinary, practice and experiential perspectives – reform and socio-legal projects, legal and feminist theories, legal histories and life writing, institutional and doctrinal analysis. We are interested in new ideas, new scholarship, new experiences, and encourage papers that deploy a range of styles and genres.
Following the successful 'Post feminism/ post critique'? workshop convened at ANU in 2015, the Feminist Experiences of Law workshop will adopt a similar collaborative and egalitarian format. There will be opportunity for 18 participants to present papers; but we encourage others to attend to broaden the conversation. The workshop will however be capped at 40 participants, to enable opportunities for close engagement. There is no registration cost.
Call For Papers
If you would like to give a paper at the Workshop, we invite you to submit a 300 word abstract that addresses the broad themes of the workshop by 30 May 2016 to email@example.com. Successful participants will be notified by 30 June 2016. Paper presenters will be expected to read and engage closely with the other papers in their session in the lead up to the workshop. Details of the form of this engagement will be circulated closer to the workshop date. We welcome abstracts from Early Career Researchers and Doctoral Candidates. Please note we have some capacity to provide travel bursaries for up to 5 PhD candidates and early career researchers, if selected to give papers. Please indicate in your abstract if you would like further information about this.
If you would like to participate in the workshop although not give a paper, please register by email to email@example.com by 30 May 2015. We would encourage all participants to be available for the two days of the workshop, and be prepared to engage in conversation. Successful participants will be notified by 30 June 2016.


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You can read my reviews of each book by clicking on the Goodreads Bookshelf link on the right side of my blog.
2011 Reads:
1. One Day by David Nicholls
2. From Notting Hill with Love…Actually by Ali McNamara
3. Sometimes I Feel Like A Nut: Essays and Observations by Jill Kargman
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
5. Room by Emma Donoghue
6. Romantically Challenged by Beth Orsoff
7. Honeymoon for One by Beth Orsoff
8. How I Learned to Love the Walrus by Beth Orsoff
9. The Love Verb by Jane Green (Titled Promises To Keep in the US)
10. One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner
11. How I Planned Your Wedding by Susan Wiggs & Elizabeth Wiggs
12. Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch
13. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14. How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
15. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
2010 Reads:
1. Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Dune Road by Jane Green
3. Bought: A Novel by Anna David
4. Me Times Three: A Novel by Alex Witchel
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
6. The Cougar Club by Susan McBride
7. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
8. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
9. My Boyfriends Mother by A.D. Wilson
10. Easily Amused by Karen McQuestion
11. I Do (But I Don't) by Cara Lockwood
12. The Help by Kathryn Sockett
13. The Ex-Mrs Hedgefund by Jill Kargman
14. The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow
15. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
16. One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
17. The Lost Girls and the Wander Year: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. By Amanda Pressner, Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett
18.The Bum Magnet by K.L. Brady
19. Faking It by Elisa Lorello
20. Ordinary World by Elisa Lorello
21. Reinventing Mona by Jennifer Coburn
22. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
23. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
24. The Gatecrasher by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophie Knisella)
25. Trust Fund Babies by Jean Stone
26. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
27. Smart Women by Judy Blume
28. Single in the City by Michele Gorman (UK Published Only)
29. American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld


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Whether you are paying off a loan, renting an apartment, buying a house, buying a car, setting up health insurance or shopping for food, you will be a lot more successful if you understand the basic words involved.
A little knowledge about each word not only makes you smarter - it can also save you a lot of money.
Consider a federal loan consolidation program if you need to repay several student loans. All of your outstanding loans will be combined. Your monthly payment can be less than if you paid each of the loan obligations separately.
Check out studentloans.gov. This federal website shows that it is easy to apply for a consolidation from a student loan company. The loan company can arrange that you only receive one bill each month, with the bill automatically paid from your account (no late payment fees!). Some loan companies even offer an interest rate reduction which could save you thousands of dollars.
Some renters make the mistake of thinking that they don't need renter's insurance because the owner of the apartment or house has homeowner's insurance.
Renter's insurance and homeowner's insurance are different:
For example, if there is a fire in an apartment, the owner's homeowner's insurance would pay for the fire damage to the apartment's walls, roof and floor. The renter's homeowner's insurance would pay for the damage caused to the renter's belongings due to the fire.
Sometimes the credit score is called a "FICO score." FICO is an acronym for the Fair Isaac Corporation, a company that developed the method to calculate a credit score based on several factors, including:
A credit, or FICO score, can range from 300 to over 800. The higher the score, the better your chance to get credit at reasonable interest rates. People with scores below 600 may have a difficult time getting credit without paying high interest rates.
You can check your credit score every 12 months at no charge at AnnualCreditReport.com. AnnualCreditReport.com also provides tips on how to improve your credit score.
When evaluating the interest rate on credit cards or any type of loan, it is important to compare the APRs. This will give you a way to make a simple, side-by-side comparison of the interest rates of several loans.
Credit insurance is not required by federal law. If the lender is requiring you to purchase credit insurance, be sure to consider the cost and decide if it is worth it to use this lender, or should you use a lender who does not require credit insurance.
If your car dealer requires you to buy credit insurance for the car financing, the cost of the credit insurance must be included in the car's cost of credit and in the APR. This gives you the opportunity to compare the cost of the financing against another dealer who may not require credit insurance.
Each state governs their own laws about credit insurance. Your state Insurance Commissioner or state consumer protection agency can answer any specific questions about the laws in your state.
You can stay on your parents' health insurance until you reach age 26, regardless of your financial, dependent or marital status and whether or not you live with your parents.
If you don't have health insurance, or are not covered under your parents' plan, you could be liable for a penalty when you file your income taxes.
Starting in 2009 additional standards were implemented that affect electronic health records.
So, next time you are filing out a form at the doctor or dentist's office, know that your privacy is protected. The information you provide must be safeguarded and not be shared with other health care providers without your knowledge.
YourDictionary has compiled examples of HIPAA violations to give you a better feel for your health care privacy rights.
There are two types of IRAs - Traditional and Roth. With both accounts you can deposit up to a certain amount each year and you will earn tax-free interest:
Even though your cash flow may be tight, adding money into an IRA will provide you with tax-free interest now and tax-advantaged investment dollars when you retire.
Some common sources of endorphins are fitness exertion (such as the runner's high) and very hot foods (such as the chili peppers in hot sauce).
Need a little help to make it through the last part of your run? Just keep running...the endorphins will kick in. Having trouble pushing through a tough day? Consider adding a little hot sauce to your next snack or meal.
First, here's the definition: Organic food is grown or manufactured without chemicals or pesticides.
Second, here's when to buy organic: Some people only buy organic food, while others buy organic only when they plan to eat the skin (such as a peach); but they buy non-organic when they are going to peel off the skin (such as a banana).
Third, here's what to look for: A packaged food cannot be called "organic" if it is made with chemicals - even if the contents were grown organically.
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Hair: Brunette
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Nationality: British
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Smoker: Social
Sexuality: Straight
Kate is a gorgeous brunette lady, petite in stature with a super slender and sexy toned figure. Her dark tanned skin tone, gorgeous brunette hair and deep brown eyes give her a Mediterranean look. At first glance you may think she has just flown in from Italy, only the English accent lets you know that she is from this neck of the woods. She is always well groomed, impeccably dressed and looks super sexy in whatever she chooses to wear, which is usually a sexy pencil dress or figure hugging little number. She has a lovely face with sultry brown eyes and a beautiful white smile and her all year round dark tan makes her look super healthy and glowing from top to toe.
She has a warm, friendly and caring personality and is genuinely interested in the people she spends time with, she is very chatty with interesting stories to share and is equally a great listener. This makes her an ideal companion to spend some time with, an ideal dinner date and most definitely an ideal playmate to enjoy in the comfort and privacy of your home or hotel room. On the outside she looks classy, elegant and polished and she is all those things and much much more but she also has a very cheeky and mischievous side. Kate loves to let loose and enjoy herself whenever the opportunity arises. The dress comes off, the sexy lingerie makes an appearance with stockings and heels and she is footloose and fancy free, taking you along with her for the ride. We wouldn't want you to miss out on the fun that you could have with this fabulous lady, so don't delay in booking some time with her.
Kate is often around in the day time if you fancy a cheeky hour or two and makes herself available during the evenings on a regular basis. If you can't wait to see her showing as available on our 'Available tonight' page or you prefer to make an advanced booking our helpful reception team are on hand to help with the arrangements.
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Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim (b.1980, California), who has been deaf since birth, explores the materiality of sound in work that connects sound to drawing, painting, and performance.
In the course of developing her own visual language, Kim has explored and employed elements from various information systems. By combining aspects of graphic and musical notation, body language and American Sign Language (ASL), she uses these systems as a means to expand what each is able to communicate and to invent a grammar and structure for her compositions.
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Hello everyone!
Sorry for the lapse in posting, we moved house and were without a functioning fridge or internet for about two weeks. We're finally starting to settle down, but it has taken a toll on my baking!
This week I made cupcakes by adapting another recipe from Jordan Rondel's The Caker. She's going to be publishing a new book later this year, and I'm excited! Continue reading "Chocolate, Pear and Pecan Cupcakes"


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Losing employees can be a good thing.
Leaders can simply identify what is a good employee turnover rate for their organization and team. Then develop a strategy to reap the advantages. Once an HR leader called me and requested a strategy to reduce their high turnover rate. He reported that their turnover rate of 3 percent was far too high. When I asked what his ideal employee turnover rate was he said, "0 percent, of course."
0 percent is rarely the right employee turnover goal, because some turnover is good. It strengthens and invigorates the organization by removing those who are not a good fit and creates space for new employees with fresh ideas and new energy. It also creates space for employees to grow into roles of greater responsibility which is an essential ingredient in retaining them.
You need employee turnover; the only question is how much? Determine your organization's ideal turnover rate answering these three questions:
1. What is the turnover rate most closely aligned with your company's goals?
Your turnover rate should support your organization's overall strategy. If your goals are related to rapid growth, this requires a fast hiring process and thus can create a higher turnover rate. If your organization is steadily growing, then target a lower rate. If you are striving to build leadership pipeline, where holding on to top talent is especially critical, a target an even lower turnover rate.
2. What is your current turnover rate?
Identify your current turnover rate before you start making plans to change it.This will help you create a realistic target and gives you a clear point to measure the effectiveness of your efforts to change it.If you're at 30% today, avoid an overly ambitious target of 3% in the next 3 months.
3. What is the competitive environment for top employees?
Your right turnover rate for your organization does not exist in a vacuum.Consider the likelihood of your top talent getting lured away by prioritzing several key external factors:
- Is your industry experiencing growth, stability, or a downturn?
- Are there other job options available to employees in the same city or region?
- Is the economy expanding or in a slow period?
In 2008, there were not as many job options for top performers, so it was often easier to maintainer a lower turnover rate. Today, job creation and availability is at a 9-year high, which often drives up turnover. After you have answered these three questions, you can also go deeper and set turnover rate targets by position and employee level in the organization. Then chart your path forward and establish the turnover rate that is a competitive advantage for your organization and team.


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Brazil Nuts
If you're down in the dumps and looking for a quick pick-me-up, try eating a couple Brazil nuts. They're a great source of selenium, which, aside from helping ward off depression and maintain a good mood, is also thought to help prevent heart disease and certain types of cancer. Although scientists still aren't exactly sure how selenium effects our mood, it's clear this little mineral plays a significant role in our mental happiness and well-being [source: Men's Health].
Our bodies and minds need selenium, but if you get too much of it, this helpful mineral can quickly become a toxic substance [source: See, et al]. Selenium is rarely fatal, but Brazil nuts contain more selenium than any other food -- just six nuts contain 100 percent of the recommended daily selenium intake -- so eat these mood-enhancing treats in moderation [source: Men's Health].
Brazil nuts are easy to incorporate into your diet. They have a taste similar to almonds, so they're a great salad or dessert topper, but they can also be eaten by themselves.


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Loss of balance is common in certain medical conditions and the elderly. This can contribute to falls and difficulty walking. Learn simple exercises that will improve your balance skills.
BOSU ball is unstable ball which stands for BOTH sides up, is a fitness training device, invented in 1999 by David Weck, consisting of an inflated rubber hemisphere attached to a rigid platform.
Ropes aren't just for big ships anymore. They're a must-have tool for anyone looking to pack lean mass. "The key to their effectiveness is that they work each arm independently, eliminating strength imbalances as they sculpt your muscle," says John Brookfield, creator of the original battling-ropes system.
Kettlebells—cannonball-like weights with thick handles—were the weapon of choice for Russian lifters more than a century ago. They're just now getting their due in America.
The original creation of the Bulgarian bag is credited to Ivan Ivanov, a former Greco-Roman wrestler from Bulgaria that was hired as a US Olympic wrestling coach.
TRX suspension training is a form of resistance training which includes bodyweight exercises in which a variety of multi-planar, compound exercise movements can be performed while you are hanging to TRX band.


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'When some men suffer unjustly', I said to myself, 'it is the fate of those who witness their suffering to suffer the shame of it'
On the fringes of the Empire lies a frontier town administered by the magistrate, the narrator of the book, who hopes to live out the rest of his days in peace indulging in his hobby of uncovering ancient barbarian relics. The barbarians are the original inhabitants of the land – the natives who have been pushed further up north into arid lands by the Empire. While the magistrate knows they mean no harm, the Empire sends Colonel Joll of the Third Bureau, an intelligence wing of the Empire, to stave off any possible attack by the barbarians by sending a contingent of soldiers beyond the frontier to barbarian lands. The soldiers bring back prisoners and torture them to get information on the plans of the barbarians. Despite the magistrate's protests, the Third Bureau have free reign to go about with their torture tactics, as described by Colonel Joll to the magistrate:
'First I get lies, you see – this is what happens – first lies, then pressure, then more lies, then more pressure, then the break, then more pressure, then the truth'
The magistrate tries at first to ignore the torture, but after the Third Bureau leave, he is left to handle the damage, both physical and psychological, to the victims and comes to recognize the brutality and injustice of it. One of them is a barbarian girl who has been partially blinded by the torturers. He takes it on himself to tend to her, setting him on a path of justice rather than blind adherence to the Empire's unfounded excesses.
Published in 1980, Waiting for the Barbarians seems as relevant today as in any period of recent or distant history replete with empires and the brutal suppression of one group of people, often native, 'barbarian', by another – stronger, civilized. The laws that protect the citizens of the empire do not apply to the barbarians, whose only fault is that they are the other – the source of imagined fears, uncivilized, and hardly worthy of being treated as humans. The magistrate stands up agains it, and yet he is not without his follies. His relationship with the barbarian girl who he tries to help is not entirely unselfish. His narrative is largely personal, most of it obsessed with the girl, and her torture is the tipping point that puts him in opposition with the Empire's Third Bureau.
Some of the best passages in the book are those of the adverse landscape that lies beyond the frontier leading to the barbarians. In the magistrate one finds echoes of characters in Coetzee's later books – the disgraced aging professor, David Lurie from the book Disgrace, in the attraction that aging men feel to young women and the fall from grace, and Michael K from Life and Times of Michael K in the ability to withstand personal affronts and survive in unforgiving landscapes. Coetzee's writing style is one of simple elegance, with a restrained voice that conveys a visual imagery of the world that the magistrate and torturers live in without any hint of over-dramatization in its most telling sections.


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Wordnik, the online dictionary, brings some of the Web's vox populi to the definition of words. It shows "what's out there right now," one of its founders says.
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TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them.
Not Wordnik, the vast online dictionary.
No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Instead, automatic programs search the Internet, combing the texts of news feeds, archived broadcasts, the blogosphere, Twitter posts and dozens of other sources for the raw material of Wordnik citations, says Erin McKean, a founder of the company.
Then, when you search for a word, Wordnik shows the information it has found, with no editorial tinkering. Instead, readers get the full linguistic Monty.
"We don't pre-select and pre-prune," she said. "We show you what's out there now. Then we let people decide whether to use a word or not."
At one time, she was the head of the pruners, as principal editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary. She is also an author and columnist. (She wrote "On Language" columns for The New York Times as a substitute for William Safire.)
But Ms. McKean has chosen a different path at Wordnik. "Language changes every day, and the lexicographer should get out of the way," she said. "You can type in anything, and we'll show you what data we have."
When readers ask about a word, Wordnik provides definitions on the left-hand side of the screen. But it is the example sentences, featured on the right-hand side, that are crucial to a reader's understanding of a new term, she said.
"Dictionary definitions tend to be out of date or incomplete," she said. "Our goal is to find examples on the Web that use the word so clearly that you can understand its meaning from reading the sentence."
To do this, the site processes a vast reservoir of language, keeping tabs on more than six million words automatically, said Tony Tam, Wordnik's vice president for engineering. "But the numbers change every second," he said. "It's not a static list."
Where does all this text come from? "You'd be amazed how fast people write articles on the Web," he said.
Wordnik does indeed fill a gap in the world of dictionaries, said William Kretzschmar, a professor at the University of Georgia and the former president of the American Dialect Society. He provides American pronunciations for the new online Oxford English Dictionary.
"It takes time for words to get into the more formal, published dictionaries," he said. "Wordnik is sensitive to what people are interested in now."
Wordnik, which has raised $12.8 million in venture financing, plans to use its vast database of words and word associations at the site and in many business partnerships to be announced this year, said Joe Hyrkin, the president and C.E.O.
The products will be similar to recommendation engines, but more powerful, he said. If you like a particular book, for example, Wordnik can recommend a similar one based on its understanding of words used to describe the book, he said.
"We're not just using tags and descriptors," he said. "Our system understands and identifies matches at a concept level."
The company is already providing many other word-based services, including one used on the Web site of The Times to define words in articles. Wordnik is also providing a financial glossary for SmartMoney.com.
Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, who talks about language on "Fresh Air," the NPR program, appreciates Wordnik's breadth. "There's a lot of useful information here," he said. (He has also written commentaries on language for The Times.)
But he thinks that hands-on lexicographers could fine-tune the entries.
"The idea that you can pull lexicographers out of the loop and have an algorithm to mediate between me and the English language is goofy," he said. "Without hand citations done by trained people, you get a mess."
To illustrate his point, he noted flaws in a number of Wordnik's definitions. The first definition of "davenport," for instance, in three of the fives sources used by Wordnik is a kind of small writing desk. "It hasn't meant that since Grandma was a girl," he said.
People use a dictionary to find out what is correct, and what is incorrect, he said. "If I were a journalist looking to see if a word was being used correctly," he said, "I wouldn't put my eggs in the Wordnik basket."
Mr. Tam of Wordnik said the site was constantly improving.
"We discover these words with algorithms, but they are never perfect," he said. "We constantly have to make them better."
WORDNIK and other new linguistic databases have come about largely because of the vast body of text on the Internet and improved algorithms for searching it, said Mark Liberman, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
"We now have an archived shadow universe that contains almost everything we've written — trillions of pages of text of published books, and now, broadcast archives as well," he said.
Readers could always tap this reservoir by looking up examples of new words in Google Books or Google News. "But what Wordnik is giving you is not as raw as a Google search of examples," he said, "because Wordnik sorts and clusters the examples into different senses of the word."
Another innovative database is at Brigham Young University, where Mark Davies, a professor of linguistics, has amassed a collection, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, 1990-2011, containing millions of words of running text from articles, transcripts of conversations, and other sources. The collection, which indexes 425 million words of text — 1,000 may be from a newspaper article, for example — has been built over the last three years. It shows how often a word is used, and the types of discourse in which it is found, be it conversational speech or academic prose.
The collection also lets users see words found near a new word. "If you want to see how a word is used and what it means, the best way is to look at words nearby," Dr. Davies said. The words are called collocates. To look up collocates of "fantasy," for example, see http://bit.ly/rImCuH.
Dictionary builders have come a long way since the days of Johnson and Webster, said Dr. Kretzschmar at the University of Georgia. "But we have computers," he said. "We can manage this vast network of words online and appreciate it in ways that Johnson and Webster never could."
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the given name of Wordnik's chief executive. He is Joe Hyrkin, not Joel.


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Hall of Fame pitcher and former U.S. senator Jim Bunning has died, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
He was 85 years old.
According to Bunning's family, he died shortly before midnight Friday. He had been in poor health since suffering a stroke in October.
Heaven got its No 1 starter today. Our lives & the nation are better off because of your love & dedication to family. pic.twitter.com/qkCjHIM32E
— David Bunning (@horstmuhlmann) May 27, 2017
Bunning made his name in baseball, carving out a career that was second to none. He played in the major leagues from 1955 to 1971, splitting his career mostly between Detroit and Philadelphia. He also had brief stints with the Pirates and Dodgers.
During his career, Bunning was no stranger to making history. With the Phillies, he pitched a perfect game against the Mets at Shea Stadium on June 21, 1964. At the time, it was only the fifth perfect game in MLB since the beginning of the 20th century, and the very first in the National League.
Bunning finished his career with 224 wins, seven All-Star selections, and one runner up finish in the Cy Young award balloting. He also pitched a no-hitter for the Tigers on July 20, 1958.
Bunning was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996 after being elected by the Veteran's Committee. He's also a member of the Phillies Walk of Fame and had his No. 14 retired by Philadelphia in 2001.
The Phillies were among the first to extend their condolences on Saturday.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Bunning family during this difficult time.
— Phillies (@Phillies) May 27, 2017
After his playing days were over, Bunning pursued politics, serving his home state of Kentucky for two decades.
In 1986, Bunning was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th congressional district, and served in the House from 1987 to 1999. He also served two terms as a U.S. Senator from 1999-2010.
We mourn the passing of Jim Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher and former U.S. Senator. He was 85. pic.twitter.com/NVTdhQuYmr
— MLB (@MLB) May 27, 2017
Jim Bunning lived a remarkable life. He managed to earn the respect of his peers in two fields that are difficult to navigate. That says a lot about the man and his passion and dedication to the things he held most important.
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ALOHA To YOU
Guest, Visitor, Reader,
We know who YOU are.
But who am I?
A Google Image Search
yielded this CLOUDIA .
Clearly a sister!
And this uncanny twin too:
There ARE yet other
Like this version:
" Cloudia_or Female Cloud_by_Crazy_Cow_Productions "
Don't mess with Cloudia!
by 'ttearz "
by 'ttearz "
Nice bracelet !
' Cloudia 34 '
A GLAMOROUS Band !
PERFECT for . . . . ME
dig that tail !
This Cloudia
is darling of the
London Art scene!
Here she is
in all her glory!
I always wanted
my own Soul Food / Furniture
Business !
I have a great logo!
Or Two-
(I see someone has thoughtfully TradeMarked
MY legal name!)
Or THR33!
Meet Cloudia Swan - Film Star
Cloudia Computing!
Yes, there are a surprising number
of Cloudias
in the world today.
many of them did seem to speak
directly to me:
Ah! what fun to be a simple
Cloudia. . .
Only fair, I suppose,
to close with a picture of myself
Comfort Spiral
JUST for YOU-
No wait;
Here I am -
Thank YOU
for making all of this nonsense
Funny Comment? PLEASE !
Fondly, 'me'
Catullus lived from around 84 to 54 AD.
He wrote a number of love poems to Clodia, giving her the pseudonym, Lesbia. Below is my paraphrase of a very famous one, (a very loose translation, mostly because the original doesn't mention water).
V - Vivamus, mea Lesbia
Come let us live and let us love
Beside the ev'ning shore.
And all the grumblings of old sots
We'll patiently ignore.
The sun has set, and soon returns
- Our lives should be so long.
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Lively translation Courtesy of
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Dear Readers
Today comes a to me very personal Article, a topic which is close and dear to me and makes me very emotional. The topic is big and there is a lot from history that is important to be known, so, this is just a first part, a first introductory article on this all.
Recently, I have seen that the same old fake Wannabe and Copycat , is going to act on some "American TV Show" and of course, they are DEFAMING SPIRITUALLY AWAKE WOMEN(WITCHES) and that during Thriller-Halloween Series we do since October 2014. Aiming at my Person and who I am, again. If you haven't noticed yet, the same "Lady" is using the Information of my very personal situation with the death of my 19 year old sister in 2009, and spinning "some own spiritual story with a 19 year old aunt" that died long before this…
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Grant Sundborn looks like the enforcer - an intimidating chunk of a man who demands compliance and gets it.
But that's not the style of the new head coach of the Otumoetai Eels premier rugby league team. Because just beneath that granite complexion is quite a mild mannered man - a coach who appeals to common sense and reason rather than hard-ball fist pumping and yelling.
"Relaxed but focused," says the Eels' Briar Hayman. "He gets buy-in from the players with his supportive approach." A kind of league 'whisperer'.
He proudly tells the story of the Taupo team he coached last year. "Seven Black Power, three Rebels," he says. And a swarm of Killer Bees, apparently. "The discipline hadn't been great. So before every game I explained if they started fighting, they'd be playing with 12. And if they started telling the ref what to do, they'd be playing against 14. It was the same message, every game, over and over."
And if they stopped that nonsense they could win the comp.
It took about eight games to sink in. He knew they believed his message when the gang members started giving him hugs. It might also have had something to do with the fact that Grant was driving from Tauranga to Taupo for training each week – a 300km round trip after work.
"Winning the comp and getting the trophy was great, but taming these guys, getting them under control and enjoying their league was a much greater prize. It was about making them see what they could achieve if they thought about it, and just playing the game." That says something about the new Eels coach.
"It's what I tell everyone – the committee, the players, the supporters. First and foremost we have to enjoy ourselves. It is a game, it is a sport. If you aren't doing that, you are in it for the wrong reasons."
And it will probably be easier for Grant to preach that message in the rugby league oasis that is Mitchell Park, the community that is the Eels and the family dynamic that pervades everything at the club. But there is still a job to be done.
"Grant brings finals coaching experience," says Briar Hayman. From Feilding, to Foxton, Taupo and now Tauranga. So the club has expectations, as does Grant. "Last year was my third championship win. I came to Mitchell Park for one thing, and that was to win the comp." And to enjoy himself in the process, of course.
To be a successful coach, Grant Sundborn believes you need to bring something different to the game. "I think outside the square," he says. "I don't do things by the book because everyone else is reading the same book."
For example, when watching sport on TV, it's a learning experience and information gathering. "I do it with a pad and pencil. I will listen for quotes and watch for drills – netball, NFL, whatever. It's always the latest stuff and you can't beat that."
There have been a dozen pre-season training nights at Mitchell Park and Grant hasn't repeated one drill. "Variation feeds interest."
He's working with a squad of about 25. There's been some attrition from last year for various reasons - half-a-dozen players. "But I also have great new talent," he says. "We are rebuilding, and these are exciting and challenging times." It's a simple game and should be kept simple according to the coach. "Enjoy it, listen to me, and we can go all the way."
There are some undeclared KPIs. In 2017 the Eels won the senior reserves championship and the senior premiers were bundled out in the semi-finals. Last year, both senior teams made the semi-finals. So there's the benchmark, Grant.
Know Mitchell Park and you will know the hill – a 45 degree, 50-metre tree lined embankment. Part of the charm is nature's grandstand, providing panoramic game views only surpassed by the cloud level corporate boxes at Eden Park.
It's also a torture device. It causes hearts to try and escape chest cavities, it drives lungs to the brink of exploding and muscles to surrender. "I hate dropped balls," says Buddy Wirori, senior reserve coach and Grant's sometimes 'bad cop'.
Dropped balls can lose games. And even at practice, they mean the offender is sentenced to run the hill. It has a built-in deterrent factor, but is also a team builder.
"The hill's a real bonus," says Grant. "The other day we climbed the hill ten times. When the backs finished their ten, they went back and did another five to help our big boys complete their work. It was inspiring to watch."
Games are won or lost in the engine room. "So we should look after them," says Grant.
This is a relaxed, appreciative and positive coach, and a humble man to boot. "I am enormously proud to have scored this opportunity with the Eels," he says. "It is a great club, with a great culture, great respect and a great reputation. It's a good bunch of people who know how to look after each other and their visitors."
He's been part of a visiting team at Mitchell Park, and has experienced the hospitality first hand. And he likes it.
Grant Sundborn has a wife and two children living by the beach in Foxton. "We catch up every couple of weeks." He has a house in Taupo, a studio in Mount Maunganui, and is a concrete worker for his brother.
As he pursues his love of the game and new challenges, he may have found a new spiritual home at Mitchell Park. This is an eminently likeable bloke.
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hate love Tuesday mornings because the weekly Garbage collection in my area is that day. This means I have to be up a bit earlier than usual to tidy up and deposit the waste at the pickup joint. It wasn't funny when a couple of weeks ago, I missed the Garbage truck. I had to run all the way across the road in order to catch up with the collectors. I wonder what I'd have done with the Waste; take it back home? Never! Thank God for small favors, I can't even begin to imagine that.
So I used to be rather irritated about putting out waste; I mean who likes such a boring/dirty/foul-smelling chore? But just this morning, I had a re-think; it's actually a relief to be made free of a whole week's load of Garbage! Putting out Wastes should be considered a liberating task. Multiple benefits are involved: a breath of fresh air, a clean, healthy environment with less germs, toxic substances, house-hold pests and so on. I've decided to cultivate a more embracing attitude towards this unpopular chore.
Which brings me to this. Thank God for Christ's death on the cross, through his victory, we as believers no longer have to carry the burden of our sins with us. The guilts, fears and frustrations we would have otherwise been trapped with, no longer count. What a Privilege to be shown such great grace!
My admonition is for us to continuously let go of everything that is toxic to our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. According to Hebrews 12:1 (AMP), we are to throw aside every unnecessary weight and sin that entangles us, so that we can run with patience and persistence the race that is set before us.
It's time to clean-out and gather the dust, debris, and other forms of dirt we might have accumulated over time. Anything that is stopping the efficiency and effectiveness of our walk with God should go. Enough of the self-destructive habits & self-defeating attitudes we've accommodated. Clutters of Pretence, Slothfulness, Pride, Selfishness, Jealousy, Lies, Unforgiveness and other mindless behaviors must be kicked out! No more room for such junk. Our lives should be saturated with love, joy, peace…and every good work.
It's a new dawn. Let us embrace and enjoy the freedom we have in Christ Jesus.


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Canucks post-mortem week
All season the Vancouver Canucks preached sticking with the process to prepare themselves for the playoffs. After coming up a game short last year, all that mattered to the team and fans was another long run this spring. After just five games the Canucks found themselves as spectators for the rest of the playoffs, ingloriously ousted by the 8th-seeded Los Angeles Kings. So what the heck went wrong and where do the Canucks go from here?
Yes, the Canucks again won the President's Trophy, and yes, they were picked by many to make the Stanley Cup final, but as I wrote a couple weeks ago, this year's team hadn't shown the same dominance.
They are no longer the offensive juggernaut with a lethal powerplay that basically dared teams to take a penalty. Last year, again and again the team found a way to turn a one-goal advantage into a two or three goal lead. When they needed a key goal with the man advantage they always managed to find it. The Canucks headed into the playoffs needing to flick the switch, to turn it on when it counted, but were unable to find the magic.
Their powerplay was abysmal through the first three games against the Kings. It cost them game two, when they gave up two short-handed goals. Admittedly, the powerplay was more dangerous when Daniel Sedin returned to the lineup, but by then it was too late. And while missing Sedin for the first three games didn't help Vancouver's chances, it's far to simple to say the Canucks would have beat the Kings if Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith hadn't knocked Daniel out of the last eight games of the regular season and the first three games of the playoffs with a vicious elbow on March 21.
The Canucks' problems run much deeper and are going to require some soul-searching this summer on the part of GM Mike Gillis and the rest of the organization. For the entirety of Gillis' tenure he had focused on building a team based on offensive firepower. He said in his end of the year press conference on Tuesday that he still believed this was the template for success in the NHL. "I believe in offense, always have. I still believe offense is a critical part of the National Hockey League… I'm not going to change from that."
Although he was loath it admit it, Gillis tinkered slightly with his vision this season. A small tweak, a delicate change of course intended to make the team more playoff ready, but the result seems to have been a significant loss of identity. The team went from three scoring lines and a defence keen to jump into the attack, to more balance and grit. They were a team in limbo. A team that looked unsure of the blueprint for success. They talked at great length, and repetition, about sticking to the process and trusting the system, but this year they looked lost as too what that vision was supposed to look like.
"We have been changing it and we will continue to change it to become a better, balanced team, you can't simply change in midstream," Gillis said when asked if his team was equipped to thrive in an apparently changing NHL.
So why did they try to do it?
The answer seems to be the Boston series. It isn't surprising that losing to a team in the 7th game of the Stanley Cup final would leave a lasting mark on a team, but it seems that the loss has come to define this team. "Offense didn't become an issue until we ran into the Boston Bruins last year during the final," Gillis said.
Surely there were lessons to be learned from the series with the big, bad Bruins, but all the changes seem to have been focused on making sure they were prepared to play Boston in the unlikely event they met again in the final. The players and Gillis admitted that the game against the Bruins on January 7 was their biggest and most emotional of the season. But, who cares about a win in January? They needed that effort in games six or seven last year when it would have won them the Cup. Significantly tinkering with a 117-point team, and abandoning your identity just to become more like your foe doesn't make a lot of sense.
Jettisoning Cody Hodgson to Buffalo was, of course, the most glaring example of the change in game plan, but I'm ok with sending the clearly disgruntled youngster packing. I liked the addition of Zach Kassian at the time, and I still like it now. The more pressing question is why didn't the Canucks look to also add offense at the deadline? I understand the Sammy Pahlsson addition, it made sense to add some playoff experience and a defensive presence to the third line, but it meant they need to bolster the top six, add some offense to play with Ryan Kesler, especially since the Selke Trophy winner was still labouring with his groin injury.
So where do the Canucks go from here?
Mike Gillis made it clear that he still believes in offense-first hockey when he spoke with the TEAM1040 radio on Thursday. "I think people here want to see an up-tempo offensive style of game." So they have to find away to match teams physically without sacrificing their offensive raison d'être.
The biggest problem is their second line. Mason Raymond is no longer a top six forward, and neither Kesler nor Booth pass the puck well enough to play together unless they have a play-maker on the other wing. They need to find someone with a bit of size, enough speed to keep up with Kesler and Booth, but with better hands and vision.
Since the Canucks were ousted a week ago there has been lots of talk by the local sports media and fans about trading Kesler. Gillis dismissed this idea as kneejerk and short sighted in the TEAM1040 interview. "It is somewhat remarkable that someone stubbles a little bit and suddenly 'get rid of him' is the response. Good players are very hard to get."
There are a few main talking points going forward. What happens to Roberto Luongo and Corey Schneider? What happens to Coach V? How does Mike Gillis bolster the offense? And what changes will he make to the defence corp.
Now that we have had a week to let emotions cool, we'll try and answer some of these questions.
Tomorrow: To deal or not to deal, Roberto Luongo.


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I took this a looong time ago, I think on film. I've always quite liked it. Plus it's been a while since I posted something edible :-)
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Hershey to expand Augusta operations
Story by Chris Graham
Good news for Augusta County – Hershey announced today that it is investing $25 million in an expansion of its manufacturing facility in Stuarts Draft in a move that is expected to create 150 new jobs.
"This investment in our Stuarts Draft facility marks a significant step in ensuring the long-term competitiveness of The Hershey Company," said Gregg Tanner, senior vice president of global operations at Hershey.
"We're pleased to continue our partnership with Augusta County and Virginia, which has contributed greatly to the success of this facility. I want to thank our Stuarts Draft employees for their continued passion and dedication to making the world's greatest chocolate and confectionery products," Tanner said in a statement.
The announcement was welcome news for Gov. Tim Kaine – whose office worked with Hershey and with Augusta County to facilitate the expansion.
"Hershey is a household name that has been an important corporate partner to Augusta County since 1981," Kaine said. "The company started with fewer than 100 employees in Virginia and now employs more than 750. This significant investment and 150 new jobs demonstrate the continued growth and success that Hershey has experienced with the Shenandoah Valley's excellent workforce and the Commonwealth's positive business climate."
"Hershey has been a wonderful corporate citizen and an important part of our economy since 1981," said Nancy Sorrells, chair of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors. "The company's continued investment in our community will further enhance that partnership by providing high quality jobs and an expanded tax base for Augusta County and the surrounding region."
(Originally published 04-25-07)
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North ROK rocks the market
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The 1,394-hectare property saw "a lot of soil sampling and grab samples in 2010 and what we did was quite interesting. There were good numbers like 17.9 grams per tonne gold with 18.5 grams per tonne silver, a 10.9-gram-per-tonne gold sample with 15.9 grams per tonne silver, and a pretty good-sized trend there. We've identified three zones but the most southerly zone is probably three by 700 metres or so. So it's looking pretty interesting."
Pistol Bay also holds the Summit A and D blocks, over 7,000 hectares adjacent to Imperial Metals' Red Chris copper-gold project, a potential open pit which could spend 28 years mining reserves of 301 million tonnes averaging 0.359% copper and 0.274 g/t gold.
Summit A and D have also been revitalized, Desjardins points out. "We're looking at everything right now. We got all the historic government mag data that was done probably in the 1990s. Usually government mag spacing is three, four hundred metres but this stuff was quite tight and quite valuable. So we're looking at all that right now." Work will follow in spring or early summer, he adds.
On Pistol Bay's C5 uranium project in Saskatchewan, meanwhile, assays are pending from six holes totalling 2,760 metres sunk by the JV partner, a Rio Tinto subsidiary. South of C5, Pistol Bay has optioned its C3 property to Actus Minerals TSXV:AAC. Desjardins says Pistol Bay management and geos like C3 even better than C5. "I wouldn't mind getting it back, but it's nice to use other people's money too," he says.
[The Summit Lake B property is] definitely a project that needs to be worked right now, with the signatures that the Colorado guys have shown us.—Charles Desjardins,
president/director of
Pistol Bay Mining
As for Summit B, Desjardins isn't yet sure whether his company will finance the project itself or JV it. "But it's definitely a project that needs to be worked right now, with the signatures that the Colorado guys have shown us." Like Teuton's Assaly, Desjardins says his phone's been flooded with calls.
The North ROK news diverted Serengeti Resources TSXV:SIR from its flagship Kwanika copper-gold deposit in central B.C. long enough to stake Red Chris North. Announced May 1, the 5,675-hectare property sits eight to 10 kilometres north of Colorado's discovery. It features a "strong gold-copper in-stream sediment geochemical anomaly from Geoscience B.C.'s northern B.C. dataset, as well as coincident magnetic anomalies from the Geoscience B.C. Quest NW airborne geophysical survey with geological settings favourable for porphyry-style copper-gold mineralization," according to Serengeti.
That same day the company also reported staking the 2,469-hectare Smoke property contiguous with its Kwanika East property and the 2,078-hectare Rottacker property, contiguous with the southeastern part of Kwanika itself.
Bordering Imperial Metals' Red Chris project to the northwest, the 6,891-hectare ROK Coyote property bounced back to Firesteel Resources TSXV:FTR last January after an option with Lions Gate Metals TSXV:LGM fell through. Historic work at the copper-gold project includes 18 trenches totalling 1,184 metres and 19 shallow holes for 1,792 metres. Lions Gate, however, has since turned to another hot area with a March option on the Whitford Lake uranium project in the Athabasca Basin.
Nevertheless, the Red Chris area competes even with North ROK for Colorado Resources' attention. The company's determined to drill out the rest of a 1,500-metre program at its Eldorado project, which features copper-gold showings about seven kilometres along strike with the Imperial Metals deposit. Colorado picked up a 75% option on the property last October from Sunrise Resources TSXV:SHI.
Back in November, Colorado president/CEO Adam Travis stated, "I have been working in the Red Chris area now for over 25 years and am confident that this untested geophysical anomaly is one of the better alkalic copper-gold porphyry drill targets I have seen, given its location and geological setting next door to Red Chris."
But now the market's mostly focused about 15 kilometres west, the site of North ROK.
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It gives me great pleasure to brighten Youtube with the (in my opinion) definitive cover of this B. J. Thomas classic. The Brothers don't seem to have a studio recording of it, which is interesting since they obviously cut a studio track for themselves to use on this performance.
This arrangement hews fairly closely to the Gaither Vocal Band's interpretation, but the Booths' harmonies are just unbeatable on this. I would also rate it as one of Ronnie Booth's best lead vocals. I've often thought that in a different era, Ronnie could have had a great solo career in country music. Truly one of the most naturally gifted vocalists I've ever heard.
If you've enjoyed this, keep coming back for more gems from the vault!


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Matthew Ritchie, Silkroad Ensemble bring celebrated cross-disciplinary collaborations to campus
An artist whose acclaimed works are the product of cross-disciplinary collaborations with scientists, engineers, musicians, architects and programmers is taking over the Moody Center for the Arts this fall. In addition to a site-specific installation with a virtual reality (VR) component that will span two galleries in the Moody, Matthew Ritchie's work will also extend across campus to 10 different Rice University classrooms during his 2 1/2-month residency.
"As the Brad and Leslie Bucher Artist-in-Residence, (Ritchie) will be on campus working with students and visitors throughout the fall, bringing the work to life and engaging with a diverse array of classes including literary theory, math and musical composition," said Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody Center.
"Matthew Ritchie: The Demon in the Diagram" launches the Moody's fall programming Sept. 21. Ritchie will offer an all-day, open-to-the-public print workshop under the direction of master printmaker Patrick Masterson and Rice University Printing Professor Karin Broker Sept. 25, hosted by the Visual and Dramatic Arts department, and will give an artist-in-dialogue talk Oct. 25.
Additionally, the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble has been engaged for a three-year residency at Rice in partnership with the Moody and the Boniuk Institute, with generous support from the June B. and Brian J. Zwan Visiting Distinguished Scholar Endowment. The Silkroad Ensemble, founded by internationally renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, will perform at the Moody Sept. 24 as part of a panel discussion on arts and leadership led by the director of Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Tom Kolditz. The ensemble, comprised of musicians representing dozens of nationalities and artistic traditions, will also participate in a public panel on cultural diplomacy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy Sept. 26.
"We couldn't be more excited about the ways in which the arts are integrating into campus life, from discussions of leadership to academic courses to public programs," said Weaver.
Schedule and programming:
"Matthew Ritchie: The Demon in the Diagram"
Sept. 21-Dec. 22.
A public opening reception will be 6-8 p.m. Sept. 21. A student opening reception will be 7-9 p.m. Sept. 22. Ritchie will present an artist-in-dialogue discussion at 6 p.m. Oct. 25.
Brown Foundation and Central galleries, Moody Center for the Arts
British-born, New York-based artist Matthew Ritchie's site-specific "The Demon in the Diagram" includes paintings, lightboxes, an interactive floor and audio work commissioned for the Moody alongside a VR component. As an exploration of the structures created to map the history of time in the same way Ritchie's earlier projects examined graphic diagrams of space, this exhibition includes elements from Ritchie's newest body of work, "Time Diagrams," an ambitious 100-part sequence of diagrammatic works that attempt to chronicle structural features of human thought over the past 5,000 years.
Audiences are invited to engage with two interactive elements commissioned for the Moody. The first is a collaborative 3D sculptural environment that explores music and pedagogy through an interactive soundscape created with Ritchie's longtime collaborators: musicians Kelley Deal, lead guitarist of the Breeders, and noted composer and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn. The second is an immersive work that inverts the familiar role of VR by open-casting any viewer as a performer, a ghostlike figure nestled inside the demon.
This project, Ritchie's most complex to date, has been designed specifically for the Moody's galleries as an open experiment in pedagogy. Both visitors and students will have the opportunity to participate in many aspects of the installation. For example, they can contribute to a durational musical work that will evolve over the fall months. The combination of elements will immerse the viewer in Ritchie's creative vision of human history as a debatable and reconfigurable space, while encouraging the hands-on exploration of multiple systems of meaning.
"Dimensions Variable"
Oct. 27, 6 p.m.
Brown Foundation and Central galleries, Moody Center for the Arts
In response to "Matthew Ritchie: The Demon in the Diagram," San Francisco-based choreographer Hope Mohr and members of her company, in residence for a week, will perform an original work.
Mohr and her corps will present a performance that spans two gallery spaces. Kelley Deal and Evan Ziporyn, who collaborated with Ritchie to design an interactive soundscape for "The Demon in the Diagram," will perform together while discussing the nature of the project.
Silkroad Ensemble: Music and Conversation
"Art and Leadership," Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m.
"Building Bridges through Cultural Diplomacy," Sept. 26, 6 p.m.
Facilitated through their residency at Rice, Silkroad Ensemble will collaborate with a number of Houston arts organizations including Houston Grand Opera; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Menil Collection; Rothko Chapel; Asia Society Texas and the High School for Performing and Visual Arts.
Following a Sept. 21 performance at the Rothko in observation of International Day of Peace, Rice will host Silkroad Ensemble for two nights of events that are free and open to the public.
The first is a performance at the Moody Sept. 24 followed by a panel discussion exploring the role of the arts in leadership. Panelists include Michael O'Malley, author of "Every Leader is an Artist;" Perryn Leach, managing director of Houston Grand Opera; and Silkroad musicians. The discussion will be moderated by Tom Kolditz, director of Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders.
Silkroad Ensemble will also participate in a panel on citizenship and culture at the Baker Institute for Public Policy Sept. 26. The discussion on the importance of culture in diplomatic discourse will include Ellen Susman, a former director of the Art in Embassies program, and musicians from the Silkroad Ensemble. Ambassador Edward Djerejian, director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy, will introduce the panel, which will be moderated by Alison Weaver, executive director of the Moody Center for the Arts.
"An Evening of Graphic Scores and Avant-Garde Jazz"
Oct. 11, 7 p.m.
Lois Chiles Studio Theater
The Moody presents an unforgettable evening of jazz as world-renowned musicians Karlton Hester, Motoko Honda, Vinny Golia, Danny Kamins and Garrett Wingfield perform together for one night only.
Improvising from graphic scores projected in the Lois Chiles Studio Theater, the musicians will present compositions that unfold in unexpected yet collaborative ways. This event is free and open to the public.
"New Art / New Music"
Oct. 13, 3 p.m.
Brown Foundation and Central galleries
This unique concert experience presents students from the Shepherd School of Music as they perform works of the 20th and 21st centuries in the intimate setting of one of the Moody's galleries. This semester, "Matthew Ritchie: The Demon in the Diagram" serves as inspiration for music that is then performed alongside the artwork. This event is free and open to the public.
"George Lewis: Creative Construction SetTM(2015)"
Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Lois Chiles Studio Theater
Experimental music pioneer George Lewis will participate in two programs at Rice this fall. For his first, Lewis will be joined onstage at the Moody's Lois Chiles Studio Theater by an ensemble of 10 musicians from the Shepherd School of Music and Nameless Sound.
"Creative Construction SetTM(CCSTM)"is a mobile, open-form, open-instrumentation work for an ensemble of eight or more musical performers who use a set of instruction cards to create and explore sonic environments. In "CCSTM," musical decisions are produced via social relations, where discontinuity, support and struggle become audible pathways to larger lessons for societies seeking to remain open to change and justice. This event is free and open to the public.
Co–presented by the Moody Center for the Arts and Rice Electroacoustic Music Labs (REMLABS) at the Shepherd School of Music. This project is made possible by the Arts Initiative Fund at Rice University and Nameless Sound.
"George Lewis: Remains of the Sky"
Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m.
James Turrell "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace
Lewis's second project at Rice takes its inspiration from the James Turrell "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace and Houston's notoriously temperamental weather.
Commissioned specifically to be in dialogue with the Skyspace, the composer's "Remains of the Sky (2018)" is both a sound and light installation. A computer program designed by Lewis and realized by musician and software developer Damon Holzborn collects local weather data from the area around the Skyspace, then translates and compresses that information into a synaesthetic performance of color, multichannel sound and rhythm. The audience is invited to move about the space during the sound and light installation and create their own experience.
"Remains of the Sky" is 40 minutes in duration and is ongoing through Nov. 4, immediately following daily sunset light sequences. This event is free and open to the public.
Organized in collaboration with Rice Public Art, REMLABS at the Shepherd School of Music and Nameless Sound. This project is made possible by the Arts Initiative Fund at Rice University.
Moody Movie Night
Nov. 30, 6 p.m., students only
Dec. 1, 6 p.m., public invited
The Moody celebrates the last day of classes for the fall semester with back-to-back nightly screenings of two Wes Anderson films, "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," on the Moody's west lawn. Popcorn will be served. The event is free.
For more information on upcoming events at the Moody, visit http://moody.rice.edu.


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Raavan : Prints/Boxoffice Discussion
Raavan is releasing with around 1250 Prints in india and with fairly good number of shows. Per day capacity of movie will be in range of 13-14 Crore(Weekend) if occupied 100%. Advance booking has started today and response is fairly ok, similar to Raajneeti. But Raajneeti got huge footsteps on opening day of around 59% (10 Crore). With similar occupancy rate Raavan will fetch around 8-8.5 Crore on opening day. Due to lesser prints in circulation and relatively lesser screen space, Raavan need to fetch better occupancy rate to yield good collections.
Let's look at how Raavan will fare if occupied in similar range of Raajneeti.
|Estimated Collections of Raavan (With similar occupancy)
|Friday – 59%
|10 Crore
|8-8.5 Crore
|Weekend – 65%
|33.25 Crore
|25-27.5 Crore
|First Week – 52%
|53.5 Crore
|39-42.64 Crore
— BollyBusiness
83 Responses to "Raavan : Prints/Boxoffice Discussion"
Yakuza bhai
this is very less print count compared to recent big movies released. It seems RAAVAN needs to have bigger occupancy to but big numbers on first weekend. Advance booking in my city is pretty good and evening shows are almost fykk
IHLS would destroy this film
i think no one bought raavan
lets see how it fares the advance booking is quite ok in plexes
yes yakuza that's wat i was trying to say, raavan has less prints, btw pls tell me which will fetch more money for raavan hindi version or tamil/telugu version in india
yakuza sir have u got any reactions about how the movie is?
heard from Santosh shivan that its mani's best till date…he is my brothers class mate from Kochi.
Yakuza Bhai I can send you my review of Raavan 8 pm IST Thursday.
Will you post it like Housefull ?
Chengez is Sydney Raavan gonna release on Thursday 2:35 pm through greater union. Are you in Perth?
what about Perth?
Hey Nauman..firstly congrats & welcome 2 de club..well In Perth its a 1:30 show on thursday to start with,so wont be able to watch untill friday evening as will be busy with my business:-(
Oh Yakuza bhai You also know about My wedding? Good.
Sure Every one who can come to lahore on 26th June he/she is invited for my wedding reception. I would love if you will come to my wedding.
I am able to send you review at 12 PM Thursday. But I hv to go to work so cant watch morning show. I am sure I will send you near to 8-9 pm. But you dont stay after 7 pm. Will se stay here tomorrow till my review comes ?
Dear Yakuza,
how much require for RAAVAN to become clean hit.
first week will be in the range of 35 cr not more than that
ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa here come NOSTERDSAMUS..GET A LIFE IN A CORNER!
I think they are going back to the hilarious Indian cinema of the 70's & 80's where the villain is portrayed like some garbage with weird attire
Should be a great comedy movie
A villain with a look of the gutter
with ur small mind in the "no good brain" of urs its a disgrace to add the name of the legendary actors name as ur lOGIN ID..JERK OFF SOMEWHERE ELSE IN A CORNER!
Personal attacks
Shows your level of education & status
she always does dat. FFS grow up chengez. any1 says anything bad bout ravaan and u abuse em.
just chill out
Rite now the way. Ravaan review will up by 3 pm ist today.
Yakuza bhai good news for u. I m going rite now
Shakir, above 60 cr Raavan will in safe zone. 65 cr us enough for hit tag
Movie has started. Abhishek ricks. Starting is superb.
Omg. Ash kidnapped in very first scene.
Abhi stars only in hindi version whereas for telgu villan and tamil ravanan other actor called vikram is in lead role
hey nauman how is the movie?
I hv watched n writing review
dont reveal 2 much of da story in ur review. lookin frward to da readin da review
wow nauman, you are genius man, you are making live commantry, exciting, though i am not online , but responding through cell, looking forward for all your exciting updates.
this is better than twitter..nauman!
as i told you Raavan will surprise many..just wait and watch!
hey nauman is it good?
how long do i need to wait to check on the review of raavan on this site?
well if he said same abt MNIK then u hav to wait as all know wht crap movie tht was
well opening will not be more then 30%
@SrBachchan it was awesome experience of cinema
there is one problem with abhishek his movies donot open well if its good then pick up as i think he is liked by family audience
well i aint gonna commit suicide .just xcited to know what the reviews are like.hope to catch this movie on the 1st day itself
movie is good as its directed by mani ratnam best director of indian cinema
by the way kakuza how much time more will it take for nauman to put up his review?
its more then 3:00. cmmon put up the review
well yakuza plz put up the review now
i fear it should not turn out to be DILSE part 2 though i liked dilse but all know at box office it was zero
what is the collection of Rajneeti till wednesday?
hey guys i m not fan of abhi but just got information from my bro who saw raavan its g88888888888 movie so festival has begun
My bad luck when I was watching she was waiting for me. But now she is not available. I am help less.
Ok I can post it here. or I can send you in your e mail. You can post it in new page.
Yakuza Bhai is it fair? then tell me in which e mail id i have to send you review ?
Why didn't u like it?
OK Yakuza I am posting. But may be lots of grammar mistakes.
you can fix it plz.
Raavan – Movie Review
Raavan is most important and do and die for Abhishek Bachan. Mani Ratnam is one of the finest directors in recent Bollywood. His last master piece Guru Team is reloaded in Raavan. Real life partner and main lead of Guru Abhishek and Ashwariya are back in Raavan along with academy award winner A. R. Rehman's melodies music.
Let's see will these four people's rectangle repeat the history of Guru or it will sink like Baby B's last releases Drona and Dilli-6?
Raavan is set on Hindu mythology Ram, Seeta, Raavan and Hunuman. Beera (Abhishek Bachan) is a criminal and kidnapped Ragini (Ashwarya Rai Bachan) who is wife of Police S.P Dev (Vikram). Now Vikram has to find out his wife as well as Beera.
Govinda helps Vikram to get Ashwarya and Abhishek who is forest guide.
• Extreme poor screenplay that does not justified with the characters and does not know the importance of hero in a movie.
• I would like to say Abhishek is not a villian in the movie. The real villain is writer of this movie.
Slow tempo and unconvincing execution is the instability of the movie.
• How will you feel when you will find main hero of the movie in a small guest appearance? Movie revolves around only Beera (Abhishek). Vikram is hardly there.
• There is no love chemistry between Vikram and Ashwarya.
• Abhishek's different voices and lots of horrible get ups are really annoying.
• In starting Ashwarya jumps in the river from mountain to run away from Abhishek. But when Abhishek gets her back she climbs on the mountain again with Abhishek. Why didn't she jumped again?
• Govinda does not suit as Tarzan with his heavy 100 kg wait.
• Cinematography is excellent. Especially
Lacks, mountain, jungle, wet plants and rain give you feel fresh.
• Music is another positive point. Every song is melodious especially beera and behne de are top on the charts.
• Ashwarya looks beautiful at the age of 37. She maintained herself very well and still looks better than new teen ager actresses.
• Abhisehk Bachan is OK. 80 % camera focus him. He use lots of colors in this movie to make his face more terrible. Which does not appeal.
• Ashwarya is superb. She is the only one who worked hard for this movie. She looks gorgeous and still 20,22 years old.
• Vikram may be a super star in south movies. But I really cant see his future in Hindi movies. He does not have any thing to offer. No role no dialogue and no face expressions.
• Govinda is fine in his role but he does not suit in his role.
Raavan is extremely poor movie in all aspects. Looks like Mani Ratnam did not have any interest in this movie along with all cast. Looks like Raavan is just a formality for its team. Except A.R. Rehman's good music and Ashwarya's beautiful and fresh look Raavan does not have anything to offer. Heavy amount need to recovers which looks highly unlikely.
1.5/5 Raavan will be Raavan for its producers.
It might turn out to be a bad movie but i'm sure performances of the 3 leads will rock,mani is always known for extracting terrific performances frm his cast
Yakuza this is link for proper edited review
plz post this one.
just read this review
really badly written….seems like a 12yr old wrote this
is this supposed to be a review?
KM are you talking about My Review ?
no….talking abt the reviews which are 'linked'
Thx BTW My edited review has up on my site and here as well. you can read.
will not reveal story here, Just put lights on plus and minus points :
Plus :
1. Performances, Beera rocked MAN …….. And how ? Abhishek has done excellent job and very different from his previous work … Aish was also good, Vikram was fine but didn't get much scope.
2. Climax .. Will not reveal
3. Music , Awsome on screen expereince to visualize the fantastic songs
4. Cinematography. Have we seen such a fine locals and scenes before ? i haven't. This is my first experience. Awesome
5. Direction. Amazing , Mani thinks total out of box and did great Job.
Minus :
1. A bit slow pace in first 20 minutes of second half.
Overall movie will rock and work big time at boxoffice. Movie is sholay of out time. Gabbar has gone, Beera is coming ……….
My rating : 4/5
where did u catch the movie dude………..
Nauman mate,i thought you have a better sence about good cinema…u need to work more on ur cinematic reviewer job…"poor cinematic knowledge"..you have failed mate!
Raavan review:
Alert-those who enjoy bikini shows,3rd rate jokes & masala stay away frm raavan
Those who like serious cinema combined with technical brilliance,raavan is the ideal movie
Plus points:
Rajeev menon's cinematography is outstanding.
ARR's music & BGM,mani has picturised the songs well especially 'behne de' & 'beera'.
Gripping screenplay & sharp direction
Movie is bit slow at places.
Dialogues shld hv been better.
Junior b was top notch as beera,his character is going to stay for long with u
Ash did a gr8 job,she conveyed her expressions well.
Vikram was very good,rest of all- priyamani,govinda ,ravi kissen did well………
Don't miss this one,raring:4/5
haha hehe hohoho
laughing my ass out..on ppl tryin to give thumbs up to raavan..
outright mother of all disasters..
who was the one..gibving 4 stars..I wanna slap him


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I bowl in an early evening league. My ball seems to lose striking power, even if I'm still in the pocket, sometime around the second game. Lots of 9-counts on good hits. Please help.
Bob M. , Fenton, MO
Dear Bob:
There are different theories about the way lane oil patterns change, and those theories have changed as equipment has changed. With older balls, (rubber, plastic and urethane), oil in the "heads" is carried down the lane in front of the pocket. With reactive resin balls, especially those with softer or rougher surfaces, the head oil is absorbed as the balls roll through it. Some of it is also carried down to the back ends. Depending on what is being used on your pair of lanes, these processes may occur at different rates.
With carrydown alone, the extra oil carried down to the back ends weakens the ball's ability to drive through the pin deck. With drying heads, what looks like a carrydown reaction (weak finish) may be an early hook and rollout, where the ball loses so much energy in the drying mid-lane that it doesn't have any hook left at the finish. Ball designers emphasize that the ball will only hook one time. Once it does, even early and weakly, it loses energy quickly.
What to do? It depends on what is happening; carry-down or drying heads, or a combination. Even if you're still in the pocket, moving deeper into the oil will allow the ball to skid further and retain energy to finish harder. Try moving your feet two boards deeper (towards the middle) and your target one. If there are others already playing deeper than you are, you may have to make a bigger move – 4 and 2 or more. Don't forget to move your target deeper, too. If you just move your feet, the ball may get further into the drier outside area and hook back even harder.
If you have ball options, you may need to try opposite ends of the spectrum to find out what is effective: change to a ball that hooks earlier (hook-and-set), to complete its reaction before it reaches the carry-down, or try a ball that hooks later (skid-flip), to get through the dryer heads. Lastly, if you can change your release to more of an end-over-end roll and try a straighter line to the pocket, to be more predictable.
Remember Walter Ray: roll, not hook, carries pins.