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Mrs Dog is a farm dog at the end of her working life. She spends her days shadowing the steps of Tall-One — the farmer. When the pair discover an abandoned lamb one day, Mrs Dog adopts the stray and the lamb becomes her surrogate pup, learning the ways of dogs and life on the farm. Until one day Mrs Dog goes missing. And that's when everything changes…This is a story about change, courage and determination. It's the story about an old farm dog who rescues a lamb, and the lamb who rescues her right back.


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Useful, light-weight serving trays made from linen that has been covered in a poly resin. Not suitable for extreme heat.
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small: 21.5cm W x 12.5cm L /8.5" x 5"
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Hull Millwork designs and builds historic, classical millwork and moldings to match French, English and American architectural styles. Hull is a leading supplier of architecturally correct classical moldings based on Greek and Roman precedent. Hull's wainscoting follows historic traditions like French, English, Colonial, Federal and Georgian styles. Experts at most decorative periods including Victorian moldings, Greek Revival, Arts and Crafts and period revival styles, our extensive library of more than 3,000 volumes helps us design and build your paneled walls, moldings and casing, crown, cornice, entablatures and millwork.


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Creative Industry Evolution and Extinction
I found this Fast Company article titled, Mayhem on Madison Avenue, to be a fascinating read. As a former ad industry creative, this really came as no surprise to me as I had realized that most of the creatives at the ad agency I worked several years ago had no idea about digital much less had experience with blogging, SEO, social media, etc… Such was the case at the other places I worked at following that agency. The sad part was that no one figured their career path might be going extinct. Well that day is has already arrived according to this article.
The article cites agencies struggling to price work in the digital era because clients want more work but are willing to pay less for the work. Various business models have popped up in the meantime including crowd-sourcing ad creative. The "race to the bottom" if you will. Ten years ago when all media spend was limited to print, broadcast and radio it was easy to work in the industry because reaching people was rather formulaic and several large holding companies owned all the advertising spend. No longer. There are a million different ways to reach the consumer now and for the consumer to receive content. "Competition" is popping up in all sorts of places that never existed previously.
Sound familiar? Yes. The photography industry has already been heading down this path for ten years now as you already know. You can literally swap out the words ad agency for Getty / Corbis and photographers and write the same story.
Having only been a photographer during the internet-era, however, I feel there has never been a more exciting time to be a creative person because of all these reasons. My photography website for example reaches tens of thousands of visitors per month and I have about 1,000 more people that I reach on a daily basis via the social media sites I'm on. Had the internet not been around when I started photography, I probably never would have even bothered to try sharing my work much less talk about it because what audience would I have – family, local camera club, a stock photo agent, and a few clients? There's not a lot of people where I live that are into outdoors and the type of photography I do.
Had this been 15 years ago, I'd probably have a few photos hanging on display in the local library, setting up a booth at weekend farmer's markets and art fairs, be on the phone all day cold-calling and maybe consider running some print ads in advertising award annuals with no guarantee of success but a lot of money out of my pocket. But this is 2010 and here are two sites I have had an opportunity to be featured on in the past week:
Pro Nature Photographer – a website about the business of nature photography written by long-time industry vet, Charlie Borland.
The Rogue's Gallery – an art website for current and former ad industry professionals curated by Steffan Postaer (ad god and creator of the Altoids ad campaign).
Who knows if I'll get any direct benefit from getting my work on these sites but I know who reads these sites and those are the types of people I'm looking to reach. When you simplify the new technology down to that level, basic marketing principles have not changed at all. It is actually easier than ever to reach people and obtain any sort of metric you could imagine that was never available previously. You can cut it up so many different ways from checking referrer sites in your web analytics and tying that to geographic data, to seeing who comments on the sites, to which organic search terms people found your site via the search engines, to seeing Quantcast demographic info about any site out there. Any webmaster in the world can create a media kit and sell to advertisers now. You could create a media kit so detailed that it would bore even the most anal media buyer. This is powerful stuff at our disposal.
To conclude, there are some ad execs who get it though just like there are some photographers who get it.


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meems and i were headed off to anna maria island.
mr. meems let us use his very cool convertible.
the sun was shining but it was not too warm.
as soon as we were down the road a bit...the sky looked a little threatening.
very quickly out we pulled over and put the lid back up on the car.
what we had in mind was a beautiful day at the beach!
instead of sunshine we saw fog...fog so deep and thick the moisture
was lingering in the air...making everything very
damp...and visibility very limited.
so we decided to go to a quaint little eating/antique/
florist/bakery/library/wifi/coffee house/cafe' called ginny's.
it was so cute. the table and chairs literally strewn thru out
the place. it was such a unique establishment to have lunch/shop.
our table was near the florist. her tropical flowers were beautiful.
her other tropicals enchanted me.
...to fresh baked yummy carrot cake...after all i am on vacation.
we met this handsome fellow right away and he was very friendly.
there were plenty of gulls hanging around close by.


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Estimating the Economic Boost of Marriage Equality in Delaware
By Angeliki Kastanis, M.V. Lee Badgett
May 2013
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,646 same-sex couples live in Delaware. Of those couples, 50 percent, or approximately 767 marriage licenses, would be issued within the first three years after the passage of marriage equality, a pattern that has been observed in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Of the couples that could marry during the first three years, 64 percent of those marriages would occur during the first year, 21 percent in the second year and 15 percent in the third year. The report also takes into account the Delaware couples that may have married in other states. Delaware is situated adjacent to Maryland and near other New England states that currently allow marriage for same-sex couples.
The state's wedding and tourism business would see spending rise by $7 million, including $5 million in additional wedding spending and $2 million in tourism expenditures made by out-of-town guests. Although Delaware does not impose a sales tax on purchases in the state, there would be a small direct benefit boost of over $50 thousand from this increase in spending through the public accommodations tax. The boost in travel spending would generate approximately 36 jobs in the state. This report does not include spending estimates for out-of-state same-sex couples that might travel to Delaware to marry, spending additional funds on wedding planning and tourism during their brief stay. Businesses and individuals also pay taxes on the new earnings generated by wedding spending, providing a further boost to the state budget.
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Our next scheduled movie & wine pairing for the TCM Wine Club will take place Sunday, June 5th at 6:00 AM (ET)
The Movie: On An Island With You (1948)
The Wine: Sunday Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2014
A movie star falls for a handsome naval officer during location shooting in Hawaii. Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban. D: Richard Thorpe. C-107m.
VARIETAL/Region: Marlborough, New Zealand
Pair this blast of tropical fruit with Hollywood's refreshing girl-next-door Esther Williams in On an Island with You (1948). Savor notes of passion fruit while romance ignites onscreen between Williams and costar Peter Lawford, stranded together on a beautiful but remote tropical island. Read more >
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Talking About "BioShock Infinite," Part 2
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In the final part of my talk with Irrational Games' Tim Gerritsen, the dev studio's director of product development discusses building virtual cities, using history and the kind of player reactions the makers of "BioShock Infinite" want to elicit. (The first part of our interview is here.)
The themes in "BioShock" emerged very elliptically, almost like you glance at them and kept going, whereas in "BioShock Infinite," you're announcing straight out, here's what we're trying to getting at. Does that free you up or tie your hands more in terms of conceptualizing the game?
No, it definitely frees us up I feel because what you saw tonight is really the tiniest tip of the iceberg. There's so much more that we can't wait to show you guys and really reveal. And it was so condensed. You had 10 minutes to get all of these amazing beats. That was one of the concerns we had really. What do we show? How do we show it? We wanted to hit these beats and give you action and instant reaction to what's going on. We feel just creating that setting and establishing it to the player we set expectations to you. But it's a "BioShock" game. So nothing is as it seems.
What are the similarities between Rapture and Columbia? In terms of sheer size, how big is Columbia compared to Rapture?
That's a difficult question. Rapture is a concept, there's a mental aspect to Rapture. How big is it? I don't think we as developers really knew. It was a real city — there's places people live, places people eat, places people get entertainment, places people go to get away from it. There's things we never showed you with Rapture. Same thing with Columbia. These are true cities. They're both large. I couldn't tell you though, even as a developer who worked on these, that one is bigger than the other. If we do our jobs right, that's not something the player has to worry about. We want you to believe that this is a real city.
Are you worried about a possible chilling effect of setting this game so far back in time? Like, is this going to feel like homework? And how do you avoid that?
Absolutely, that is a concern. We had the same problem with "BioShock," really. How many people understand 1959? For us, that's our inspiration and it's about the entertainment experience. We don't want you to just boot the game up and get the screens that tell you, "In 1900, this is what the world was like," and you go through page after page, and read it, or we give you the movie. That's not what this is about. And that's not who we are as Irrational. We create the immersion.
When you're done, you feel like, "Man, I know what it was like to be in 1900" rather than "Oh, I know the actual history and data of 1900." For us, that's the difference. It's about creating the entertainment experience where it feels authentic, and it feels real, and it feels cool. But yeah, for any minute you stop and go, "Oh, I've got to go boot up Wikipedia and figure out this s—," that is not what this game is about.
It seems like there's a little bit of Jules Verne in there too or am I just imaging that?
Well, certainly all of the grand ideas of that time are themes we're exploring. There's no one thing that we're saying we're basing it on. No game we ever work on is like that. We absorb all of these different elements and inspirations and put them in this stew and mix them up and come up with our own unique take.
Was there like a recommended reading list for the team to get all on the same page?
We definitely have that sort of thing internally, but it's always changing and ever-growing. And we challenge each other. Every day, I kid you not, somebody is coming up with, "Oh, have you checked this out, I found this repository" — It could be advertisements, photographs. People have found actual films from that period, and not just entertainment films, [but] streets of the city during that time period. We are always challenging each other and immersing ourselves.
Comparing it to "Infinite" to "BioShock," you had iconic characters in the Big Daddy and the Little Sister in those first two games. Rather than ask what they are, because I know you can't answer that, do you think it will be fair to expect similarly iconic?
Absolutely, that's what we strive for. At the end of the day, there's going to be iconic aspects to this game. What are they? What you saw tonight, how does that relate? How does that affect things? When we started there were no sacred cows. We really believe that. So it was about shaking it up. It wasn't about, "Okay, here's the feature list from 'BioShock,' how do we recreate that in 'BioShock Infinite'?" To us, this is almost a new IP. Because it's almost shaking that tree and trying to come up with something completely different.
It seems like you guys are almost setting up a conceptual shift, where it's not so much, will there be a sequel as what it will be. Do you think it's fair to say that this game is kind of broadening the concept of "BioShock?"
Thinking about future games is a bit much at this point; we're stressed thinking about this one. But certainly, what is the nature of "BioShock?" It's definitely now about more just a location in a space at a time. We want to rethink the pieces that make up a "BioShock" game experience. Certainly, for us, the expression of "Infinite" in the title is that. That feeling of "Oh my God, there's so much more to this than I originally thought." So definitely, it's a much more expansive thing than the first two games.


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Krajewski honored in Baseball; Sullivan, Brault recognized in Women's Lax
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Three Plymouth State University student-athletes were recognized Monday with weekly recognition from the Little East Conference (LEC) for their performances in Panther action last week.
Senior Jarek Krajewski (Cranston, R.I./Bishop Hendricken) was named LEC Baseball Player of the Week, and junior Sam Sullivan (Canton, Mass.) and senior Meg Brault (South Windsor, Conn.) were selected LEC Women's Lacrosse Offensive Player and Goalie of the Week, respectively.
Krajewski is recognized for the first time this season and second time in his career, while Brault was selected for the second time this season and fourth time in her career and Sullivan was honored for the second week in a row.
A 6'2 first baseman, Krajewski hit safely in all six games last week, batting .391 (9-for-23) with five home runs and 14 RBIs in a 3-3 week (1-2 LEC). He batted .455 (5-for-11) in three LEC games with two home runs and six RBI. Krajewski went 2-for-4 with a home run and five RBI in Tuesday's win at Keene State and went 3-for-7 with a home run in a pair of losses to Southern Maine. He also had a home run and three RBI in a non-conference win Thursday at Rivier, and hit two home runs and drove in four Sunday in a win over New England College. A First Team All-LEC selection a year ago, Krajewski is now ranked second in the Little East with five home runs and seventh with 25 runs batted in.
The PSU baseball team took a 13-13 overall record into Monday's home game against Bates College. The Panthers are 3-6 in conference games heading into a mid-week home game against rival Keene State College.
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A 5'4 attacker, Sullivan registered 15 points in a 3-0 week for PSU (2-0 LEC) with 14 goals and one assist, including 10 goals and one assist in two LEC games. She scored a career-high seven goals in Tuesday's win at Southern Maine; added three goals and an assist in a win over Rhode Island College on Sunday; and also scored four goals in a non-conference win Saturday over Wheaton. Sullivan has scored 38 goals and 44 points in 10 games, ranking fifth in the LEC this spring in goals and 13th in points.
A 5'8 netminder, Brault posted a 3-0 record last week with a 6.00 goals against average and a 58.3 save percentage. She made nine saves while allowing five goals in an LEC win at Southern Maine, and made 12 saves (10 goals allowed) in a non-conference win over Wheaton. She did not need to make a save in the first half of PSU's shutout over Rhode Island College. Brault ranks second in the Little East this spring with eight wins and a 7.36 goals against average, and ranked third with a 50.0 save percentage.
The PSU women have won eight straight games to improve to 8-2 overall and 4-0 in the LEC. The Panthers wrap up the regular season this week with two key conference games, Tuesday at Keene State College and Saturday at Eastern Connecticut State University. PSU and ECSU are tied for first place in the LEC with 4-0 marks, with KSC right behind at 3-1.
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Education In A Pandemic: Remote Learning And The Digital Divide
Most schools in the Washington region will remain closed this fall. So, what's being done to prepare students, teachers and families for continued remote learning?
A new documentary takes viewers inside the Egyptian revolution, from the heady protests in Tahrir Square to the subsequent political upheaval. Armed only with cameras and social media, a group of young Egyptian activists document shifting religious, sectarian and political lines. Film director Jehane Noujaim joins us to discuss.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIThree years ago this month as Arab Spring uprisings swept across the Muslim world, protestors gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo launching an uprising that ended the 30-year regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. A new documentary takes viewers inside those protests. Armed only with cameras and social media, a small group of Egyptian activists document the struggle from the heady days of celebration following the fall of a repressive regime to the massive protests that ousted the country's first democratically elected president last summer.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIJoining us to talk about this Jehane Noujaim. She is an Egyptian-American director best known for her films "Control Room" and "Startup.com." Her latest documentary, "The Square," won the Audience Award at Sundance and the People's Choice Documentary Award at the Toronto Film Festival. "The Square" opens this Friday at West End Cinema here in the District. Jehane Noujaim, thank you so much for joining us.
MS. JEHANE NOUJAIMThank you for having me.
NNAMDIEgyptians are voting today on a referendum on the Constitution. What do you make of this vote?
NOUJAIMThey are. If I look into my crystal ball, the vote will probably come out to be an overwhelmingly positive vote on the Constitution. I think this is because people are -- the majority of people have been economically crushed because of the last three years of turmoil, and many people feel like this is a way to say, yes, let's move forward, stability, we all need to get jobs.
NOUJAIMBut, you know, there are problems. The fact is, is that there have been people arrested for saying that people should vote no, and that's obviously not a very fair debate if the television stations and the media have all been, you know, promoting the yes vote and the no vote is not allowed to say anything. In terms of the Constitution itself, I'm not an expert, but there are good things about the Constitution. There are some things that are improvements, they're improvements in human rights, they're improvements in the powers of the presidency.
NOUJAIMHe can no longer just pull a minister. He can no longer appoint ministry -- ministers without the approval of the prime minister which is appointed by parliament. So there is some more checks and balances than has existed before, and there are problems. There's still the fact that civilians can be tried by the military which is a major problem.
NNAMDILet's go back to the start of the uprising. History was unfolding in Cairo, and you decided to document it. How did you, first and foremost, meet your film's subjects?
NOUJAIMThe film gods were smiling down upon us because we met these incredible characters, literally in the first two weeks that I was there, before Mubarak stepped down. This is a film that came out of the Square. There was no preproduction. We met all of the people that would be making the film. It was a collaboration of people that were sleeping in tents in the Square who came together to make this movie. And we met all of our characters in the Square.
NOUJAIMAhmed, the young protagonist I fell in love with immediately. He has a joy and a charisma that just leaps out at you, and an amazing optimism despite all of the hardships he's gone through in his life. Magdy Ashour, who was with the Muslim Brotherhood for 25 years, but had an openness to speak with people who were very different and had very different beliefs than he did. Khalid Abdalla, who is an actor -- a well-known actor, who was the lead in "The Kite Runner" and in "Green Zone," could have been any place in the world, but decided he needed to be in the Square. He's still in Cairo.
NOUJAIMHis father and his grandfather are Egyptians who have been jailed by previous regimes, so he cares deeply about the country. And a number of other characters that we met during those first days in the Square.
NNAMDIGive us a sense of the moment. What was the mood in Tahrir Square like in the early days of the protest?
NOUJAIMIt was magical. To see for the first time -- I mean, I grew up in a country where emergency law was in place. This meant that you couldn't have more than three people talking about the future of the country politically without the risk of, you know, being arrested. It was against the law. If you ask people what they thought of the president, you know, people wouldn't answer. There was a fear of who you were asking the question, who could they be talking to. And so when that fear broke, and people came to the Square, and Khalid describes a conversation at that time that he had with a taxi driver who said, look, I went there and my feeling was it's either you take me or you take me and my kids and my grandkids and my grandkids kids.
NOUJAIMSo it's better you just take me. And it was that shedding of -- that breaking of the fear and that desire to create something different, and this coming together of people who had not spoken to each other in many, many years. It was an incredible feeling being there. But at the same time, it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale to think that in 18 days, with the removal of a president, the whole country would change. There was a deep state that has been functioning for a very long time. The secret police were still in power, the rest of Mubarak's government was still in power, and so when all of -- when Mubarak stepped down, all the international news cameras left the square.
NOUJAIMMost people left the Square. The characters that we followed in this film came back, and they said we need to keep struggling. We need to stay in the Square, and we need to change things because the removal of Mubarak is only the tip of the iceberg.
NNAMDIOur guest is Jehane Noujaim. She is an Egyptian-American director, best known for her films "Control Room" and "Startup.com." We're talking about her latest documentary. It's called "The Square." It won an Audience Award at Sundance, and the People's Choice Documentary Award at the Toronto Film Festival. "The Square" opens this Friday at West End Cinema here in the District of Columbia. In addition to directing this film, you were one of four cinematographers on the film. It's a role you often take in your films, and it was particularly important in this film. Can you talk about that?
NOUJAIMIt's very important to film -- I feel it's very important that I'm one of the people actually on the ground filming because the film is a character-driven story where we rely on the trust of our characters that we follow. I mean, they're giving us a gift. They're opening their lives to us, allowing us to share their lives with the world, and very personal moments. So you can't -- you have to be there, and you have to be putting yourself in the same positions, to be arrested, to be sleeping in that square, to be tear gassed in order for people -- for you to gain people's trust.
NOUJAIMAnd so there were four of us filming. There was myself, there was a fantastic director of photography named Hamdy who we met in the Square, and he looked at the way that we were using the camera and he said, your white balance is all wrong, your shutter speed is off, you guys don't know what you're doing. You need a director of photography. And I'll be the directory of photography. Cressida (sp?) , who is Khalid, one of the character's wives came on and filmed which leant an incredible intimacy to Khalid's character because he was filmed by his wife in the bedroom.
NOUJAIMAnd Ahmed, the main character of the film, learns how to use the camera halfway through the film, and the camera for him becomes a weapon, a way of collecting evidence. And much of our footage has been used both for news stations and also in court cases. So there were four of us mainly filming the film, and we all came together in that square. I met our producer, Karim Amer, because he was setting up a stage in the Square and I followed him for a couple of weeks thinking he's an interesting character because he was setting up a stage that people could come up and read poetry on.
NOUJAIMAnd I followed him for about a week, and afterwards he said, you know, I don't want to be a character in your film, but you desperately need a producer, so I will produce it. And that's how this film came together.
NNAMDIAnd every single one of you was arrested, shot at, or tear gassed at one point or another? You were arrested yourself three times.
NOUJAIMThat's correct.
NNAMDIHad a bunch of cameras smashed.
NOUJAIMThat's correct. And the Army has confiscated a lot of footage, so they probably have their own film that they could make from that.
NNAMDIYou lived with your film's subjects for nearly three years, and that gives this film a powerful immediacy. We are in Tahrir Square while these events unfold. What were you hoping to show the audience? Precisely that?
NOUJAIMI was hoping to give the experience of actually having witnessed revolution, having witnessed the struggle that it takes to change one's country to fight for something so much bigger than yourself. You know, nobody witnesses the Martin Luther King or the Gandhi or the Mandela when they feel like they've lost everything, and they have, you know, that they failed. But what's important is when that person decides that they're going to come back the next day despite having felt like they've lost everything.
NOUJAIMAnd the staying power is what's important in a movement like this. And we wanted to show that. We wanted people to feel that amazing experience of, you know, it's the closest thing that you can do to time travel, you know, it's the closest thing to time travel, for people to be able to, you know, a hundred years from now look back on a film like this and feel like they were in the middle Tahrir Square at this very crucial moment in time.
NNAMDIIn the early days, the protestors were viewed as heroes. How did public perception evolve after the fall of Hosni Mubarak?
NOUJAIMOh, the public perception of people changed quite quickly. First of all, the government wanted Tahrir and the country to move back to normal. The Army had, you know, gotten rid of Mubarak which was not a loss for them because they really didn't want to see Mubarak's son taking power, but then they wanted to as Khalid's dad says, have the country go back to its own corrupt ways. So they didn't want people sitting protesting in a square.
NOUJAIMThere were thugs that were sent to break up the sit-in, the people in the Square were labeled as thugs, as prostitutes, as spies, you know, so it's actually a universal struggle that protestors have around the world. And it's very interesting to see...
NNAMDII see in the film a police officer actually making that point, taking it upon himself to characterize all of the people who were in the Square in that way.
NOUJAIMThat's right. And...
NNAMDIAs if he had, like, objective knowledge of this.
NOUJAIMInteresting. Because you talk to that military guy and at the very end of a very long interview where he characterizes and tells all of his opinions about the Square, Ahmed, who is interviewing, asks him, so when were you last in the Square? And he said, oh, no, I've never been to the Square. I've watched all of this on television.
NNAMDIBut he spoke with such authority. The film also reveals the complexity of the political and sectarian lines, and as good as much as much of the reporting was on the events during the Arab Spring, it's something that may have been lost watching those events.
NOUJAIMI think when you follow the news about these events, even if you follow them quite closely, you see the Million Man March, you see the bloodiest battle, you see the election, but you don't really understand the human stories behind the news. You don't see the human face, you don't see the complexity of what people are going through that lead to these moments, and I think that's what you're able to see in a long form documentary. We have the luxury of being able to be there with our characters and follow them during their most trying moments and their most successful, magical moments.
NNAMDIThe role of the Muslim Brotherhood is a complex on throughout the revolution and after. This film explores the role of the Brotherhood very powerfully through a man named Madgy who is himself conflicted over the situation. Can you tell us a little bit about him and about how the trajectory of the Muslim Brotherhood kind of changed after the revolution?
NOUJAIMThe Brotherhood have enjoyed a popularity in Egypt that has been gaining over the past 50 years without having one political post, and this is partly because they've provided a lot of the social services that the government, frankly, was not providing. So fascinating that the Brotherhood has lost such popularity after having only one year of being in political power. But you do see this with Magdy's relationship with the Brotherhood. He's with the Brotherhood for 25 years, a loyal Brotherhood member, and when you see it, you see in the film that his relationship to the Brotherhood begins to change.
NOUJAIMHe begins to question the Brotherhood and what they're asking him to do. And he, at one point, defies them. When they tell him that he can't go down to the Square, he tells them, no, I am following my conscience. I am supporting the secular friends that I have made, and I'm challenging. And he was actually kicked out of the Brotherhood for a little while. Near the end of the film, however, when the Brotherhood is persecuted and when they're in the sit-in and the sit-in is attacked, he once again goes back to the Brotherhood and says, this is important that these are people that have supported me.
NOUJAIMThey've paid my bills, they've supported my kids, and I need to go back and protect them now. And it's very, you know, it's interesting. You see that -- you saw this among people on the street. There were many people that voted for Morsi that when he came to power, and when the Brotherhood came to power, people started to see them as, you know, not this romantic underground organization, but doing -- making deals with the Army and doing -- they looked at them as a politician, just like any other politician.
NOUJAIMAnd that's the importance of allowing anybody, no matter what your background, to be out in the open, to be allowed to run for office, and that's what I think is a very, very problematic thing, hugely problematic in terms of what's happening now, is the Brotherhood is going back underground, and this is what's given rise to people like (unintelligible) and, you know, people who have decided that the only way is to use violence. And for all that I, you know, I don't support the Brotherhood, I don't like their tactics, but they haven't been violent for the last 30, 40 years.
NNAMDILast June 30th, the largest protest in the history of humanity took place across Egypt demanding the ouster of Mohammad Morsi, the first democratically elected leader. What was the issue was his leadership?
NOUJAIMMohammad Morsi was...
NNAMDIWe only have about a minute left, by the way.
NOUJAIMMorsi -- when Morsi came to power, and I know this covered widely in the news, but at a certain point he declared that he had, you know, absolute power. He declared himself, you know, greater powers that Mubarak, a dictator of sorts. And so for people to have elected their first democratically elected leader, this was a huge blow to people. And this is why you see all of our characters, some of whom had supported Morsi over the other option coming into power. You saw all of them in the streets, once again protesting and saying we need to hold leadership accountable and this movement will continue until leadership is held accountable.
NNAMDIBut you chose the end the film at the point where Mohammad Morsi is ousted. Why did you end it there? We got 30 seconds.
NOUJAIMThis was the arc of the characters that we had followed, and we had followed them going through a process of dealing a major blow to the ex-regime, a major blow to the military, and a major blow to the Brotherhood, which are these structures that are the deep state that is in place. I mean, really what this battle is between is between disorganized social movements and these more organized fascist movements like the Brotherhood and like the Army. That's the binary that exists.
NNAMDI"The Square" opens this Friday at West End Cinema here in the District. Jehane Noujaim is an Egyptian-American director. Her latest documentary is "The Square." Thank you so much for joining us.
NOUJAIMThank you for having me.
NNAMDIThank you all for listening. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 19 - The British-Iraqi director of CARE International in Iraq was kidnapped Tuesday as she rode in a car to her office, the latest in a string of Westerners abducted here, and hours later appeared in a televised videotape made by her abductors.
Margaret Hassan, a longtime advocate for Iraq and its people, was pulled from her car by a group of men, who beat her driver and guard with their rifle butts, one of her colleagues said.
Hours later, Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language television network, broadcast a video it had received showing Ms. Hassan seated in a room, looking distraught, as well as close-ups of her identification cards. Unlike previous videos released to television networks, no militants or banners were shown.
The station said that the video was accompanied by a claim of responsibility from an unidentified group and that it had not made any demands.
Ms. Hassan is married to an Iraqi, has lived in Iraq for 30 years and maintains dual nationality. Her husband, Tahseen Ali Hassan, told Al Jazeera from Baghdad, "We haven't heard anything about the group and no one has contacted us," Reuters reported.
The kidnapping comes less than two weeks after a British hostage, Kenneth Bigley, was beheaded by his abductors and is the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreign nationals, including aid workers, contractors and journalists. Some appear to have been carried out by people whose primary goal is to expel American and British forces from the country, while others appear to be largely motivated by money.
It was unclear into which of those categories Ms. Hassan's abductors fell.
Ms. Hassan, 52, was one of the few Western nationals still working for a relief agency in Iraq. All but a handful left the country after the bombing of the United Nations headquarters here in August 2003, and nearly all the rest left last month, after the abduction of two Italian relief workers.
Ms. Hassan is widely respected in Baghdad and speaks fluent Arabic. The BBC reported that she was born in Dublin.
"She has been there three decades, over half her life, and considered herself to be more of an Iraqi national," said Kate Bulbulian, a spokesman for CARE International in London. "That is what her life is."
The British prime minister, Tony Blair, told reporters that he would do whatever he could to free her. But he said the government did not know who had abducted her.
"This is someone who has lived in Iraq for 30 years, someone who is immensely respected, someone who is doing their level best to help the country," he said. "I think it shows you the type of people we are up against."
Mr. Bigley's videotaped decapitation, which was preceded by two videos showing him pleading for Mr. Blair to help spare his life, caused considerable public trauma in Britain.
Ms. Hassan began working for CARE after the Persian Gulf war in 1991, but she has been involved in relief work for at least 25 years.
In Iraq, she heads a 60-member operation that has been working to rebuild health centers and labs, provide medical supplies to hospitals and restore access to clean water, Ms. Bulbulian said.
In 2003, shortly before the war, Ms. Hassan warned members of the BritishParliament that war would exact a huge toll on the country.
"The things that are most important about her is that she is such a huge advocate for Iraq and the Iraqi people and has been for years," said Donna Derr, associate director of emergency response at Church World Service, a relief group. "She always spoke out with great energy about how sanctions had impacted Iraqi citizens and just was a huge advocate. She was someone that did that consistently."
Also in Iraq on Tuesday, at least four Iraqis were killed and 80 were wounded in a mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard base north of Baghdad. The soldiers had gathered for a head count when the first of seven mortar shells landed in the compound, witnesses said. Only three shells exploded.
Such attacks are aimed at punishing Iraqis who cooperate with the government and demoralizing the survivors. On the grounds of the base, in Mashahidan, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the prevailing sentiment was not apathy but anger. Such attitudes may explain why, in part, despite the unrelenting attacks by the insurgents, recruits still line up to join the national guard.
"I will not kneel before these terrorists," said Qusay Hassan, a national guard recruit. "If I don't join the army, who is going to defend the country from the terrorists?"
Maj. Walid al-Mashadani, an Iraqi commander, spoke in a similarly defiant tone. "I will keep sacrificing myself for the sake of my country, and I will not give up my work," he said.
In a briefing on Tuesday, the commanders of the army unit in charge of Sadr City, the vast, poor neighborhood in northeast Baghdad, reported progress in disarming the Shiite militia there, saying the weapons buyout program had in some cases collected more of certain types of weapons than American commanders thought the militia had.
"We've had a lot of heavy weapons turned in, and in some categories we've had more than I thought they had," said Col. Abe Abrams, the commander of the First Brigade of the First Cavalry Division, which oversees Sadr City. He cited mortar tubes as an example.
The weapons buyout program was part of a larger agreement earlier this month with Moktada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric, to disarm his militia and coax him toward the democratic political arena.
But Colonel Abrams said he was not ready to declare victory. "We're not there yet," he said. "The burden of proof remains on the militia."
He said he hoped the exchange would succeed but said he was still wary, given Mr. Sadr's record of broken promises. Of particular concern are the homemade bombs buried around Sadr City, most of them in the roads where they can hit American vehicles.
Maj. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, said aides to Mr. Sadr told military officials in the past week that at least 1,000 bombs were still buried in Sadr City.
In London, discussions continued about the American military request that the British government move some of its troops to areas around Baghdad to free American forces for combat missions.
Mr. Blair said he would only agree to deploy troops in areas near Baghdad if it made good military sense. "No decision will be taken to redeploy British troops unless it is clear militarily that that should and can happen," Mr. Blair said after a meeting with the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan.
The possibility that Britain may station troops in volatile areas, away from Basra, the British stronghold in the south, has raised concerns among lawmakers in Britain and led to charges that Mr. Blair was seeking to boost President Bush's re-election bid.


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Turkmenistan Travel Information
The Basics
Electrical current is 220 volts, 50Hz. Round two-pin attachment plugs are in use.
Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan. Russian is widely spoken in cities though as a "language of inter-ethnic communication". Turkmen is spoken by 72 percent of the population, Russian, Uzbek, other languages by a lesser degree.
Travel Health
No vaccinations are required by visitors to Turkmenistan. However, outbreaks of Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, meningitis, and diphtheria occur, and there is a risk of malaria, so the relevant vaccines are recommended.
It is also recommended that all travellers to the country get vaccines for Rabies, especially for those spending a lot of time outdoors, as well as for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and typhoid. For any adult traveller who completed the childhood series of vaccines for polio but never had the polio vaccine as an adult, a booster is recommended.
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Travel to Turkmenistan is generally problem-free. But foreigners should take normal safety precautions, such as avoiding travel after dark or in deserted and unfamiliar areas. Occasional muggings do occur.
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The above photo was taken at our 2009 Christmas Tea at church. For three years Kim was one of my table hostess volunteers - which means she had to come up with a theme and coordinating tablescape, and fill her table with eight guests.
Theme: "Winter Wonderland."
Kim's table at our 2010 Christmas Tea. Her theme was "Visions of Sugarplums." She was a real trouper volunteering for a table in 2010. She was pregnant with Madison and wasn't feeling too perky.
Kim setting up her 2008 table the night before the tea. She wasn't married yet, but she wanted to hostess a table. I love her spirit!
Kim's table. By tea time the next day all the boxes and totes in the foreground were packed away and out of sight.
Theme: "Starry Night."
Based on Kim's creativity and love of tea, I predict there will be lots of tea parties in Madison's future!


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S.F., Oakland drop bid for U.S. school funds
Stuck in a standoff with teachers unions, the San Francisco and Oakland school districts have abandoned efforts to bring in up to $15 million each to develop high-quality math classes for upper-elementary and middle school students.
The two districts spent months preparing a joint application for the next round of federal Race to the Top funding - which required districts to incorporate student test scores, among other criteria, in teacher evaluations.
And because of that critical clause, union leaders refused to sign, as required by the federal application.
"Sometimes, publicly, they've indicated they'd be willing to talk about test scores," said Troy Flint, Oakland Unified spokesman. "When we actually sit down and tried to find some sort of compromise, it becomes apparent there is a complete ideological objection to using test scores, even as a small measure in evaluating teachers."
The two Bay Area cities were among eight large California districts working together to develop applications for the funding.
Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento and Long Beach school districts also failed to get the necessary union buy-in.
Sanger and Clovis districts, both in Fresno County, were the only ones expected to submit an application by the initial Tuesday deadline, which was extended to accommodate districts affected by the hurricane and severe weather along the East Coast.
All told, the eight districts qualified for well over $100 million.
Locally, the federal funding would have paid for laptops, high-speed Internet upgrades, new data and software systems to offer teachers instant feedback on student progress, and teacher training on more individualized instruction methods.
Missed opportunity
"The union has not chosen to engage about issues important to kids," said Phil Halperin, senior partner with the nonprofit California Education Partners, which financially supported the districts' application efforts. "We're baffled and disappointed they wouldn't come to the table with an open mind. It's a huge missed opportunity."
Union officials, however, said they felt bullied into signing on to top-down mandates because of the money.
"You only get this money if you agree to these reforms," said Steve Neat, Oakland Education Association first vice president. "For our students to get technology, which would help their education, why does the district have to agree to tie test scores to teacher evaluations?"
In San Francisco, district officials said there was enough wiggle room to create a compromise: an evaluation system that blends multiple measures to evaluate and ultimately support teachers.
"The board absolutely does not support using test scores as a means to punish teachers," said Rachel Norton, school board vice president. "What I do support is using test scores in a sensible way to improve student learning."
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The Obama administration's Race to the Top in 2009 offered more than $4 billion in grants to improve education across the country. There were two rounds of state funding, followed by smaller grants, including the current round to be awarded at a district level.
The federal reform effort has emphasized improving teacher and principal performance, specifically through enhanced evaluations that include student growth on standardized tests as well as classroom observations and other measures.
Across the country and especially in California, labor groups have consistently balked at using student growth in test scores to rank or appraise teachers, citing too many variables affecting test scores and inconsistencies from one classroom to another. The lack of union support was cited as a significant factor in California's failure to win the larger state grants.
In San Francisco, union officials said they suggested that for the application, evaluations could include how teachers use test scores to help their teaching rather than as a measure of their actual performance.
"It's a more on-the-ground, practical way you should use test scores," said Dennis Kelly, president of the United Educators of San Francisco.
But it's not the way to get the federal funds.
While the deadline extension offered a window of opportunity to get the union signatures, there was little hope, district officials said.
"It's over," Flint said. "We won't be pursuing the application."
Jill Tucker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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In 1991 a Nepali man sold his wife to a brothel. Now he will be going to jail for 20 years.
This true and extraordinary story from May 2013 shows the flagrant nature of sex trafficking in Nepal. It also demonstrates the depth and dedication of Maiti Nepal's legal services. Slowly the tide is turning — impunity is no longer the absolute rule when it comes to familal trafficking cases, and the courts are willing to hear and convict, even when the case is as long ago as this one.
From Maiti Nepal's website—
NEPAL: District court Makawanpur sentences a man to 20 years in prison, convicting him of selling his wife to a brothel in India.
A single bench of district judge Tek Narayan Kunwar handed down the punishment to 53-year-old Man Bahadur Thokar of Tistung for selling his wife to a brothel in India 22 years ago. The court ruled that Thokar pay 300,000 rupees (approximately US $3,300) in reparation to the victim and a 200,000 rupee fine.
According to court registrar Kaushaleshwor Gyawali, two accomplices — Harimaya Gewa of Hetauda and Harkalal Gole of Basamadi are still at large. "As they have fled, their cases are pending," he said, adding that the court had ordered payment of compensation from the state rehabilitation fund because of the convict's inability to pay the amount.
Thokar had married the victim, who hails from Nuwakot, in 1991. He pleaded guilty.
"He coaxed me into marriage and took me along with my son to Padam Pokhari at a kin's house. There, a friend took me to Hetauda to watch a movie saying my husband wouldn't return as he had gone away taking 50,000 Nepali rupees with him. She gave me a drink and I lost consciousness. When my senses returned, I found myself on a train. Later, I found out I had been sold for 200,000 Indian rupees (about US $3,400) to a brothel in Mumbai," Gywali quoted the victim.
"It was terrible — sleeping with seven or eight clients every day for 15 years until a person from Gujrat bought me for 23,000 Indian rupees and took me to his home. Five years later, I returned to Nepal to see my son. Upon learning that the so-called husband of mine could be punished, I filed a case against him and other with the help of Maiti Nepal last year." she said. Acting on FIR, police arrested Thokar on June 17, 2012 in Palung.
Sold at the age of 22, the woman is now 44. She is now staying with her son at Tistung.


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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Suzanne Selfors is returning to nErDcamp Bellingham!
We thought we were done, but the author guests just keep rolling in! We are thrilled to announce that Suzanne Selfors is returning to nErDcamp Bellingham.
The energy at nErDcamp Bellingham is going to be amazing. We hope to see you there!
Kelly Jones is coming to nErDcamp Bellingham!
We are excited to welcome Kelly Jones to nErDcamp Bellingham! We hope you can join us for this grand day of learning, sharing, and growing.
Kim Baker is returning to nErDcamp Bellingham!
We missed Kim last year–she was our only author guest at the first nErDcamp Bellingham. We are excited to welcome her back!
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You know that nErDcamp Bellingham is free. That's part of the point–access to quality professional development without any financial roadblocks. People getting together to share their incredible expertise. Passionate teachers and learners stoking the fuels of that passion. It's the best.
The best gets even better, too! The Bellingham School District will again provide FREE clock hours for all attendees. Thank you, Bellingham Schools!
Preregistration is not required, but is helpful. Instructions below:
If you attended last year and received clock hours, you should already have an account and should log in using that prior account—log in page is the portal link below.
To register for a Bellingham Public Schools professional development offering, please head to our Professional Development portal: https://bellinghamschoolsprodev.hrmplus.net/Home.aspx
Select the yellow Create an account button listed under NEW USERS.
Fill out the information to create your log in.
Once logged in, go to the Course Registration tab, type course #1502 into the ID box at the top of the colored table and choose Register button on the left side.
Jennifer Bradbury is returning to nErDcamp Bellingham!
We are happy to share that Jennifer Bradbury is returning to nErDcamp Bellingham! Will we see you at Whatcom Middle School in about six weeks?
Janet Lee Carey is coming to nErDcamp Bellingham!
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July 2, 2015
Whether you're a diehard fan or just a little curious, you can't visit Memphis without a nod to Elvis Presley. Follow in the footsteps of The King and experience Elvis in Memphis on your next trip to Tennessee.
From the exterior, Graceland Mansion is genteel with its classic architecture and fringy azaleas. Then you step inside. The interior is a feast for the eyes, from the peacock motif stained glass panels in the living room to the chartreuse shag carpet of the Jungle Room. Move into the Trophy Building, and you're glinting at a sea of bling: Gold and Platinum records, Grammy awards and sequined jumpsuits. The mood subdues in the Meditation Garden, where Elvis is buried along with family members. (Bring a token to place at his gravesite.) Depending on the type of ticket you buy, your tour of Graceland might include a spin through Elvis' Automobile Museum – complete with pink Cadillac – and a sneak peak inside his two custom jets.
Annually on 15th August, fans gather at the Graceland gates to walk to Elvis' gravesite – but not before erecting pop-up shrines to The King, which you absolutely must see. The gates remain open until the procession is complete, usually in the early light of the next morning. This candlelight vigil is the transcendent event of Elvis Week, a celebration of Elvis in Memphis, including the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, gospel concerts, art exhibits and more. Can't make it? Visit in January when the city celebrates Elvis' birthday.
Tour Sun Studio, where you can stand in the room – and even hold the mic – Elvis used to record the first song, and then the first hit, of his career. That was July 1954; the song was "That's All Right." Mere weeks after it hit the airwaves, Elvis performed his first professional gig at what is now Memphis' Levitt Shell. Swing by for a look or to catch an open-air concert.
Downtown, visit the Memorabilia Room at The Peabody Memphis, where Elvis signed his first RCA contract. Try on a shirt (pop the collar) inside the Lansky Bros. building on Beale Street, where Elvis forged his signature fashion sense – don't miss the black-and-white photographs of store founder Bernard Lansky fitting young Elvis. Do breakfast or lunch at The Arcade, where you can request the Elvis-themed booth and order the Peanut Butter 'N' Banana Sandwich, a favourite combination of The King's.
If it's Elvis memorabilia you're after, hit the Memphis Rock "˜n' Soul Museum and the brand new Memphis Music Hall of Fame. The sites are located on Beale Street, within walking distance of each other, and the Backbeat Tours ticket office. Stop here for Memphis music-themed tours year 'round and specialty Hound Dog tours during Elvis Week. Or, commission a custom excursion with Mike's Memphis Tours. With Backbeat or Mike, you'll glimpse sites from Elvis' high school to the first home he purchased in Memphis.
If you eat, sleep and breathe The King, consider an overnight stay he'd approve of. Heartbreak Hotel at Graceland is a 1950s-themed favourite, though it will be replaced in autumn 2016 with The Guest House at Graceland, with hundreds more rooms and specialty suites designed with Priscilla Presley's oversight. For an authentic experience, book the Elvis Presley Apartment at Lauderdale Courts. It was here that Elvis lived with his parents until the day before his 18th birthday, playing guitar for the neighbours and occasionally skipping off to Sun Studio.
Our partnership with Delta connects you to and from a range of destinations across the United States and Canada, making it easier to book your trip to Memphis.
What's your favourite Elvis Presley song? Where would you go to experience Elis in Memphis? Let us know in the comments section below.
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The front desk, which is a large semi-circle with INFORMATION written on it in big letters. At the desk sits Brittany, the intern. Behind her is the door leading to the back offices. There is a sign that points to different exhibits of the museum, such as "sculpture gallery" "impressionism" "featured" "local" or "folk", as well as "cafe/restrooms/gift shop" etc, you get the idea. Brittany is humming a song and sorting mail.
Jake enters from the direction of the Featured gallery. His phone rings, and he answers.
Jake: Hello? … Oh hey. … I'm just leaving the museum now. … No, she was fine with it. She's going to spend the evening with her cats. … What are you wearing? … I think black is fine. … No, it's classic. … Saturday night. Don't forget a ladder. And a flashlight. … I'll remind you when I get there. … Yeah, bye, toots.
He hangs up and exits.
Michelle, an administrator, enters from the back offices.
Michelle: Oh! It's quiet. I thought you would be on the phone all day.
Brittany: They stopped calling around 2:00. I think their deadlines are at 3. That's what my friend Schaefer says.
Eskars enters, carrying a cup of coffee.
Eskars: Ladies.
He exits towards the featured exhibit.
Michelle: Who was that?
Brittany: He must be new.
Michelle: He has a cute butt. (looks at the mail that Brittany is sorting) What are you doing? Is this outgoing?
Brittany: No, the postman came already. Why, were you…oh no. No, I asked, but he didn't have the pamphlets with him.
Michelle: The opening is in two days. We can't just not have pamphlets.
Dupin enters from the back offices.
Dupin: Who was that?
Michelle: I don't know.
Brittany: He must be new.
Dupin exits the same way Eskars did.
Brittany: I checked the shipping code and it says eta tomorrow.
Michelle: Tomorrow! We can't fold 2500 color pamphlets in less than 24 hours! I've already distributed all of our volunteer hours for the opening and I don't have the budget or the time to hire any temps…
Brittany: What if you had a bunch of college kids do it? You know, some nice, well-behaved college kids who are very passionate about art and–
Michelle: Cut to the chase, Brittany.
Brittany: My friends and I could do it. I've already talked with them about it.
Michelle: Name your price. I can sign off on any community service hours, I could probably swing a pizza order…
Brittany: Pizza would be amazing, but we want in at the opening.
Michelle: I have several tickets available for Sunday.
Brittany: No, the opening gala. The one with the press and the celebrities and the caterers and the late hours and the fancy dresses.
Michelle: There are no more tickets for the gala.
Brittany: Sure there are. Maybe some set aside for radio contests or NPR contributors…
Michelle: Those were distributed two weeks ago.
Brittany: What about for friends of the museum?
Michelle: They were snatched up within days of the announcement. There are no more tickets, Brittany. I'm sorry. I would love it if your friends could help us out, but I can't get you into the opening gala. Is there anything else I can offer you?
Brittany: I'll have to ask my friends.
Michelle: Well let me know.
Michelle exits towards the impressionist galleries (I suppose that all the galleries could be in the same direction, I don't know, I'm not the director). Brittany looks at the mail, sighs, and sits in her chair. She takes out her phone and begins texting.
Jackie, the head of IT, enters from the back offices.
Jackie: Texting on the clock, tsk tsk.
Brittany: It's about the museum. My friends and I were hoping to get into the gala but it looks like we're not going to.
Jackie: What do you mean? You work here.
Brittany: Yeah, but there's no more tickets for my friends. And I haven't been invited to the gala.
Jackie: Yeah but you work here. You could sneak in.
Brittany: What?
Jackie: Just come in from the employee entrance and act like you're supposed to be there. Once you're in they won't be checking for tickets.
Brittany: But then how do I get my friends in?
Jackie: They come in the same way. All of you come in at the same time through the same door, acting like you're supposed to be at the gala. No one will question you. There's too many people.
Brittany: That seems wrong.
Jackie: So does not letting you into the gala.
Brittany: I feel like you're not supposed to be telling me this.
Jackie: I'm head of IT. Are you spyware?
Brittany: No.
Jackie: Then what do I care if you sneak into the biggest event in the museum's history? Young people are so cautious these days. Break some rules. Crash parties. See events in the making. Live art.
Brittany: I guess you're right.
Jackie: Of course I am. Where did Dupin go?
Brittany (points): That direction.
Jackie: Excellent, I need him to sign off on some paperwork. I hope to see you at the gala.
Jackie exits.
Brittany: We do only live once.


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Welcome to ASL's new feature, the Arizona Weekly Sports Wrap presented by Dicks Sporting Goods, where we dive into some of the happenings in Arizona sports over the past week. There's way too much to cover in our great state, but let's give it a go for the week of 10/22 – 10/26
Starting on a positive note, Phoenix Rising FC of the United Soccer League hosted a league playoff match for the first time in club history Friday night, and notched its very first playoff win in the process. Nearing the end of his professional playing career, team co-owner Didier Drogba opened the emphatic 3-0 victory over Portland Timbers 2 with a wonderful free kick goal from distance, sending the club-record crowd of 7,511 into a frenzy.
Phoenix Rising FC will face Swope Park Rangers this Friday in the Western Conference Semifinals. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. at Phoenix Rising Soccer Complex in Scottsdale.
It's been a difficult 2018 for the Arizona Cardinals so far. Nearly halfway through the regular season, the Cards are 1-6, have benched expensive starting quarterback Sam Bradford for rookie Josh Rosen, and fired offensive coordinator Mike McCoy. Perhaps worse, in the fallout from Thursday's 45-10 home loss to Denver, star defensive back Patrick Peterson is said to be actively looking for a way out of Arizona.
In the college game, Arizona State University is off to an uneven start under new head coach Herm Edwards. The Sun Devils are 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the always-unpredictable PAC-12. This past Thursday's 20-13 loss to Stanford was a difficult pill to swallow, as ASU mounted a 64-yard touchdown drive in the 4th quarter at Sun Devil Stadium to get within one score, but could not add another.
It's a similar story in Tucson, where the University of Arizona Wildcats are struggling under their own first-year head coach, Kevin Sumlin. At fellow basement-dweller UCLA on Saturday, Arizona gave up a 3-point 4th-quarter lead in a 31-30 loss. Making his first career start in place of injured quarterback Khalil Tate, sophomore Rhett Rodriguez threw for two touchdowns and two interceptions. Arizona is 3-5 (2-3 PAC-12).
Northern Arizona University, 3-4 (2-2 Big Sky), had a difficult Saturday in Greeley, Colo., losing 42-14 to Northern Colorado at Nottingham Field. Freshman quarterback Gino Campiotti threw three interceptions, two of which led to UNC touchdowns late in the game, but his first completion to Emmanuel Butler gave the senior wide receiver NAU's career record for receiving yards.
The Arizona Coyotes have begun their 2018-19 campaign with a record of two wins and five losses, good enough for four points and a tie for worst record in the National Hockey League. The 'Yotes began a four-game road trip on Tuesday with a 2-1 loss to Minnesota, before bouncing back with a 4-1 victory over the Blackhawks in Chicago. Things swung back the other way on Saturday, unfortunately, as Arizona struck first but couldn't overcome a two-goal second-period deficit en route to a 5-3 loss in Winnipeg.
The regular season is young for the Phoenix Suns, and we don't know much yet, but the squad is 1-2 after three games, including Monday night's blowout loss to two-time defending champion Golden State. Devin Booker is averaging over 29 points per game, with 2018 number 1 pick Deandre Ayton averaging more than 10 rebounds. The Suns' sole win of the season so far came in the opener, when Booker hung 35 points on the visiting Dallas Mavericks at Talking Stick Resort Arena, earning chants of 'MVP' from the crowd.
Check back next week for all the updates, and keep playing!
by Kyle Kepner (Twitter @kylejkepner)


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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Why choose Select International Tours & Cruises?
A. Select International Tours & Cruises, Inc. is a group tour operator. For over twenty-eight years we have organized group travel to Europe, Holy Land, Egypt, Jordan, Mexico, Canada, USA and Latin America. We coordinate cruise, land and air arrangements directly with the suppliers bypassing any middlemen, thus enabling us to provide excellent pricing to our clients. Most of the programs we create are based on specific needs and requests of the clients; however, you will find many suggested programs on this website.
Q. Do you handle individual travel?
A. Generally we work with groups of 10 or more people. We do accept individual bookings, when we can accommodate them on one of our group departures.
We also handle FIT travel (foreign individual travel) for four or more people whereby we custom design a program to suit the needs of the passengers specifically. Usually this type of travel provides the most freedom and convenience but is also the most costly. We book air and land, transfers, hotels, sightseeing, guided visits, special events, etc.
Q. How do I choose a program?
A. You can browse our extensive list of programs on our websites under "Tours." Here you can find different tours that cater to a variety of different interests and tastes such as food and wine tours, or art and architecture through Europe. You can also join a scheduled group by viewing the various fliers under "Find my Group."
Q. Do you custom design programs?
A. Yes, many of our clients know what they wish to see and do when they travel and for them we prepare custom designed itineraries. These programs are always more labor intensive and therefore tend to be higher in cost than our scheduled departures. They also require a minimum of 15 passengers per group. Before we custom design any program we will need your assistance in carefully determining time of travel, length of travel, departure city, primary areas of interest and number of passengers expected. We cannot quote a program unless we have specific departure dates. To look at a sample of some of the custom design programs and accompanying fliers click here.
Q. Do you work with travel agents?
A. Yes, and we are very committed to supporting the travel agency distribution network. By working with a professional travel agent, you will benefit from their time, knowledge and experience. If you know a travel agent please request that they contact us, if you do not have an established relationship with a travel agent we can recommend some outstanding professionals, in the area where you live.
Q. What category hotels do you work with?
A. We prefer to work with hotels that reflect local décor and flavor. Hotels we work with range from three-star to deluxe depending on the program and the requests of the group. Even the three-star hotels we use, are chosen whenever possible in central, safe locations, and are comfortable and clean. Most of our clients choose to stay in four-star category hotels. Keep in mind Europeans hotel rooms tend to be much smaller than US rooms, and their lobbies much more intimate. Some of the smaller properties we use do not offer baggage handling.
Q. Is Select International bonded or a member of any passenger protection program?
A. We have been in business since 1987, are members of the Faith Travel Association and the National Tour Association. We have never had a lawsuit filed against us or complaints with the Better Business Bureau where we have A+ rating, or any other Consumer Protection Agency. For groups, we will be happy to provide a list of references. You may wish to view a partial client list at "Meet Our Clients" on this web site. Most companies will not divulge their client list. Select International is happy to share information of who works with us as we are the company of choice for some very discerning and well known religious and thought leaders.
We are a privately owned company, with hands-on ownership, where you can request to speak to the owner at any time. Over the past twenty years, we have weathered airport bombings, terrorism, wars, and other international turbulence, which have impacted the American public's travel patterns. Through all these setbacks, we have emerged stronger and more resilient than ever.
Q. How do we make a reservation?
A. Reservations may be made either ONLINE or by MAIL. The reservation is confirmed only with an online or mail deposit of $ 500.00 and a completed reservation form which you may download from this web site or the trip flier. Final payment is usually due 45 days before departure. Usually travel documents are issued 10-14 days before departures providing all payment are received on time. Terms and conditions are found on this website and apply to all Select International departures/programs. Please be sure to understand the terms and conditions and to consider purchasing travel protection to help protect you and your travel investment.
Q. What type of support can I expect from your group department?
A. The staff from our group department has extensive experience (in most cases fifteen or more years handling international group travel). They have personally visited most of the destinations we service. Our staff is easy to work with, and customer service oriented.
They will assist you with:
- Itinerary Planning: Based on your group's needs and goals we plan a travel program just for your group.
- Travel arrangements: We assist you with all the travel details of the itinerary, respond to the question, handle all the back office work, complete documentation, air and land reservations and ticketing,
- Documentation: Registration, invoicing, payments by clients and preparation of all travel documents.
- Promotional materials: We prepare a day by day travel program, print an attractive and informative promotional flier and posters, advertise the travel program on our web site and assist you with the creation of your ads.
- Arrange meetings with local communities and church groups in destinations where your group is traveling: Meet the Locals program introduces you to the local people who share your interest, for a special evening which many groups consider the highlight of the program.
Q. What is included in the tour price?
A. Air and land packages are very inclusive. We generally include airfare, fuel surcharges, airport taxes, hotel taxes, hotel accommodations, all transfers, tour managers, local guides, most meals, touring as per the itinerary and admission fees. Buffet breakfast and most dinners are included as specified (B), (L), (D) at the end of each itinerary day. We do not include airport transfers for land only individual bookings. Tips, Mass donations and incidental charges are not included unless specified. Travel protection is optional but highly recommended.
Q. What is not included in the tour price?
A. Beverages with meals are usually not included, airport baggage charges, tips, Mass donations, private transfers meals not specified and visa fees.
Q. When do we receive our travel documents?
A. Providing all payments are received by Select International on time, travel documents will be mailed out 2-3 weeks before departure.
Q. Does the tour price include air?
A. Usually international airfare is included in the package price along with fuel surcharges and airport taxes. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of Select air packages as occasionally a trip date may change or a trip may be cancelled. We can only protect air reservations made through Select and are not responsible for any charges incurred if the air is booked privately.
Q. How many suitcases can I take?
A. Each person should take no more than one 50 pound suitcase to be checked, and one carry-on bag (must fit in the above the seat compartment). Baggage handling for only one suitcase per person is provided at most hotels. The rule is if you cannot carry it yourself do not bring it. Many smaller hotels do not have baggage handling, nor do the train stations. Pack lightly, in color, coordinated clothes, which you can mix, and match. More tips about packing will be sent to you with your travel documents.
Security is very tight at the airports so be very careful what you pack, and how you pack, chances are you will be asked to open up your carry on and takeoff your shoes at the security checkpoints. Items that can be used as weapons will be taken away from you for the duration of the flight. We urge you to be at the airport at least three hours before departure for an international flight.
Q. How can I best prepare for the pacing and physical requirements of the trip?
A. Tour pacing varies by itinerary, however most of our trips tend to be active and busy as we would like to have you see and experience as much as possible. We recommend you start a walking program at least 60 days prior to departure that enables you to walk at least 1-2 hours comfortably daily at relatively fast speed. Comfortable walking shoes are essential. Many towns have cobblestone streets, uneven terrain, many steps and are located in hilltop locations. Should you need special meals or have a medical requirement we must be notified in writing at least 30 days before departure of any special requests or conditions. While Select and our partners will do all we can to fulfill your request we cannot promise the airlines and the hotels will be able to accommodate them, and cannot be responsible.
Q. Is the water safe to drink?
A. Yes, the water is safe, in most destinations, however it is much better to buy bottled water and be worry-free.
Many additional questions will be answered by reading Select International's "Travel Tips," which are sent out with your travel documents. We urge you to look through them carefully.We believe in the power of personal contact.
For specific questions, you may e-mail email@example.com or call us at 800-842-4842
Q. How does travel insurance reimburse for the cost of the single supplement when a roommate cancels a trip?
A. The reimbursement for the cost of the single supplement when a roommate cancels a trip works as follows:
If your roommate cancels you are required to pay the single supplement and additional insurance premium. If your roommate cancelled for medical/work related reasons, you can file a claim and get reimbursed for the single supplement, as long as you had insurance.
If your roommate cancels for reasons other than medical/work, you will only get reimbursed if you have CFAR insurance.