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Hong Kong comprises of an amalgam of cultures, formed mainly by the Cantonese, Shanghainese, British, Indians and Jews. Cantonese culture is the mainstream culture in Hong Kong. Chinese concepts such as family solidarity, glory, modesty and saving family's face carry great weight in Hong Kong's culture. The main languages are Cantonese and English.
Hong Kong is the culinary capital of Asia, and boasts of many local delicacies. Food here is influenced by many international flavors. Hong Kong's people enjoy Kung Fu and Tai Chi as a form of entertainment and exercise. Gambling and horse racing are prevalent aspects of the culture. The Cantonese Opera is a cultural expression that blends Chinese legends, music and drama into intriguing performances. Hong Kong's people follow various religious beliefs, such as Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and others.
Hong Kong's currency is the HK Dollar. There are many banks and ATMs in Hong Kong, and moneychangers are everywhere. Always check the exchange rate and the service fee before your hand over your foreign exchange. Customers with AMEX, VISA and Master cards can draw HK currency through ATMs directly.
Hong Kong is today one of the world's leading international financial centers. The country boasts a service-oriented economy, with almost free port trade and low taxation. Hong Kong's economy is highly dependent on international trade and finance, and is backed by a sound banking system, no public debt, good foreign exchange reserves (US $408 billion by June 2017) and a strong legal system. Close ties with mainland China and strict anti-corruption measures forms the backbone of Hong Kong's government policies. Hong Kong is one of the largest ports in the world, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the sixth largest in the world.
Hong Kong was forever held by China but was ceded to Britain in 1842, when China's Qing dynasty was defeated in the First Opium War. Hong Kong has been a central figure in international trade, from its earliest days as a British colony. Chinese refugees flooded the city in early 20th century, and Hong Kong put them to work at manufacturing units as labor.
As mainland China strengthened into a manufacturing and business industry, Hong Kong transformed into a service-based economy and an international financial market. Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997. China allows the city to enjoy its freedom of speech, its capitalist system, independent judiciary and rule of law, while holding the reins.
Hong Kong enjoys a relatively mild climate, which makes this city a year-round travel destination. The best time to visit Hong Kong is from October to early December, when the weather is sunny, cool, and pleasant.
Spring is warm and humid, summer is hot and rainy, autumn is pleasant and sunny and winter is dry in Hong Kong. The best time to travel to Hong Kong is during late autumn, from October to around Christmas time, when the weather is relatively pleasant.
Rain: Rainfall in Hong Kong is abundant. About 80% percent of the annual rain falls occur between May and September. August is the wettest month, when rain falls about four days out of seven.
Temperatures: Temperatures are low throughout the year, with the city being coolest from mid-December to February, when temperatures may fall to 10 °C (50 °F). The warmest temperatures (late May to mid-September), can average 28 °C (82 °F) to 33 °C (91 °F).
Severe Weather: From May to October, the city experiences occasional tropical cyclones and squally thunderstorms. People are warned to stay at home when the Typhoon warning is level 3 or more.
Summer: Summer is from May to September and is hot and humid, with constant showers, thunderstorms and typhoons. Temperatures go up beyond 31 °C (87 °F).
Winter: Winter is from mid-December to February, when it's cool and dry. Best times for shopping in Hong Kong.
By Air: Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is the fourth busiest international airport in the world. Nearly every airline in the world flies to Hong Kong.
Train: You can travel to Hong Kong by train if you're coming from Beijing, Shanghai or Guangdong Province cities.
By Ship: There are ships and boats that constantly ply to any of the 4 cross-boundary ferry piers in Hong Kong. These ferry piers are in Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon and Tuen Mun, New Territory. There are also daily direct boat transfers between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Macau
Long-Distance Bus: Hong Kong enjoys a variety of cross-boundary bus connections with Guangdong Province, Xiamen, and Guangxi's Yangshuo and Guilin. Transit passengers at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport can get to Hong Kong easily by bus from these points.
Helicopter: If you're in Macau, the easiest way to get to Hong Kong is by helicopter.
Visa Not Required: Nationals belonging to 170 different countries and territories do not require a Visa to visit Hong Kong, for periods from 7 to 180 days (more information here). People belonging to the US, Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand can stay in Hong Kong for 90 days without visa. The time limit is 180 days for UK nationals.
Visa Required: Nationals belonging to Albania, Armenia and Cambodia require a visa to enter Hong Kong.
Passport: All visitors to Hong Kong, with or without visa, must have a passport that is valid for at least six months after exit from Hong Kong. For visitors from specific countries, the passport validity is reduced to one month.
How to Apply for a Hong Kong Visa?
Visa Eligibility Criteria:
Applying For A Visa: You can apply for a Hong Kong visa at your closest Chinese embassy or consulate. Or, you can submit your visa application to the HKSAR Immigration Department either personally or via post, or via a local sponsor.
Processing Time: Application forms can be faxed along with supporting documents to shorten processing time. Visa processing will be complete only when the original copies and photographs are sent to the HKSAR Immigration Department by air mail. It takes four weeks to process a visa application to Hong Kong.
While you're in Hong Kong, consider extending your trip to cover other South East nations, such as Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. If not, try visiting the places close to Hong Kong, nearby areas of China that are well worth visiting. There are direct flights and overnight buses to all these places from Hong Kong.
Guilin and Yangshuo: Famous for mountain and river scenery. Return via Southern China's greatest city, Guangzhou.
Hainan: A tropical beach paradise, blessed with sunny weatherWu Yi Mountain: Lovely scenery, history and wonderful people. Return via the lively modern city of Xiamen.
Yunnan: A very popular tourist destination, great shopping and home to many of China's minority ethnic groups.
Macau: You can get here by boat, plane or road; Macau is also a popular tourist destination, famous for its blend of Portuguese and Chinese cultures. The thriving gambling industry here attracts people from all over world.
Hong Kong boasts a large number of restaurants serving Asian, Chinese, Asian and European food. You can also get savory vegetarian food here, including hot pot and buffet dinners. There are many snack bars, cake and dessert shops, steakhouses and tea houses around Hong Kong.
Chinese Restaurants: The most Chinese restaurants are to be found in Kowloon, where you can enjoy authentic Chinese flavors without having to visit mainland China. Specialties are Beijing food, light-flavored Shanghai and Hangzhou dishes and Roast Duck, done in the authentic manner. Kowloon serves Chinese food that is specific to different provinces within china. So if you want Beijing & Shanghai, or Sichuan & Yunnan, Hunan & Hangzhou or Cantonese and Chaozhou or Hakka cuisines, this is the right place to visit.
Asian Restaurants: Thousands of Asians work study and even live in Hong Kong permanently. The city has more than its share of Asian restaurants where one can find Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, Nepalese, Japanese and Indonesian food, especially in the Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay areas.
European Restaurants: Want to have a comforting meal of rare steak and potatoes? Head to Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, Lan Kwai Fong and SoHo for restaurants serving European and continental fare. These areas are densely populated with expat communities from western countries. You can find restaurants serving the following cuisines in these areas: German, Italian, Spanish, American, French, Austrian, Dutch, British and even Egyptian!
Seafood: Seafood is a Hong Kong specialty, especially on the outlying islands of Lamma Island and Sai Kung.
Snacks: Hong Kong's traditional snacks include Fish Ball Noodles, Pineapple Bread, Wonton Noodles, Spicy Fish Balls and Tingzai Porridge.
Hong Kong has more than its share of bars and nightclubs that stay open all night, with happy hours spilling over the dark nights.
Hong Kong celebrates several festivals and events every year. The most popular ones are:
Chinese New Year International Performance Night: This is a gala city-wide festival, complete with Float Exhibition, paper dragons and fireworks.
Christmas: The whole city is decorated to the utmost, with not an inch to spare, with shopping discounts and sales to add to the melee.
Mid-Autumn Festival: During this time, Hong Kong puts on the Asian Contemporary Art Show, lantern carnivals, and the Fire Dragon Dance. It's the time to enjoy some festival food and drinks in Hong Kong.
"Tuen Ng" Dragon Boat Festival: From May. 30 to Jun. 4 is the annual Hong Kong Tuen Ng Festival, one of the world's largest dragon boat race events.
Hong Kong Shopping Festival: In July and August, Hong Kong puts on a shopping extravaganza, with sales, unbelievable discounts, special events and offers.
Hong Kong International Film Festival: In April, film makers put on free shows of their movies to promote them.
Hong Kong Arts Festival: From Feb.16 to Mar.18 is the yearly cultural arts feast for local and international tastes. This festival was founded in 1973, and various world-class music and dance performances take place during this time.
Hong Kong Horse Racing Season: During September, horse races are held all over the city, more for entertainment than for serious gambling. Horse racing and rugby are the two legal gambling outlets in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong and Macau Chinese New Year's Eve Flower Markets: During January, people serenade their friends and family with fresh flowers, potted plants and bouquets, for good luck. The markets are full of fresh flowers during this time.
Chinese New Year International Parade and Performances: In January, performers from all around the world come to perform their unique arts at this international carnival.
Chinese New Year Firework Performance: In January, on the second day of the three-day Spring Festival holidays, Victoria Harbor is besieged with colorful fireworks, which are coordinated with the Symphony of Lights. The show lasts for about 25 minutes.
Hong Kong's nightlife is vibrant and fun. Tourists enjoy Hong Kong's nightlife activities as much as they enjoy the day tours.
Luxury Night Cruise Over Victoria Harbor: On this cruise, you can enjoy the vista of Hong Kong spread along the coast, all the buildings brightly lit up.
Victoria Harbor Walk: The entire area is covered with pubs, bars, nightclubs and streets bubbling with food stalls and movie theaters. It's a vibrant slice of life in Hong Kong best experienced at night.
Lei Yue Mun Seafood Village Dinner Cruise: This 5-hour trip begins at dusk with the ceremony of flag lowering at the Golden Bauhinia Square. There's a stopover at seafood bazaar at Lei Yue Mun Seafood Village, followed by the old Kai Tak airport and shopping in the Temple Street Open Market.
Star Ferry's Harbor Tour with A Symphony of Lights: An exciting land stroll with stops at famous landmarks.
Tsing Ma Night Cruise: Involves a cable ride to the Victoria Peak where you get spectacular views.
Pearl of the Orient Dinner Cruise: A dinner and a chance to grab some memorable views from across the waters.
Lan Kwai Fong: This area offers a vibrant nightlife scene, with a bustling array of restaurants, pubs and bars and eateries. You can obtain drinks from any corner of the world here.
Movies: Hong Kong is the third largest producers of movies in the world. Over 100 cinemas theaters show the latest films from the world.
Tsim Sha Tsui: This is an exhilarating night park, bustling with people and dazzling neon lights. You can catch a movie here, have dinner and follow it with shopping late in the night.
Rayna Tours organizes many tours and excursions in Hong Kong, each with special focus on cultural aspects and the vibrant life in the city.
Half-day Hong Kong Island Tour: This tour takes you to see Victoria Peak, Aberdeen with Sampan, Repulse Bay, at the very heart of Hong Kong Island.
One-day Buddha and Lantau Island Tour: This tour involves an exploration of Lantau Island, to check out its lovely beaches, fishing villages, the Giant Buddha and many elegant temples.
One-Day Macau Tour from Hong Kong: Experience the charm of Macau, with visits to the ruins of St. Paul's, Monte Fortress and A-Ma Temple
One-Day Disneyland Tour Package: One full day at Disneyland to enjoy with your family and friends. All entry passes and fees will be taken care of, so you can enjoy a worry free time.
Hong Kong family tour: Gear up for some fun and excitement at Disneyland and explore the cultural sights and the food scene with family at Hong Kong Island.
Food Tour: Join this tour to experience the vibrant food scene in Kowloon, whose restaurants and street stalls offer every imaginable cuisine in the world.
Autumn is the best season for hiking, climbing the rugged hills, camping and so on. Tourists throng to Lantau Island's natural parks, beaches, Disneyland and other water parks during the autumn season.
Your summer clothing will still do for autumn, though there's usually a bit of chill in the air. A light sweater or jacket will do but you'll need warmer clothing by the end of autumn.
Autumn is the best time to visit Hong Kong, from October to early December. It's usually pleasantly clear and sunny during the day and cool at night. It's perfect weather for outdoor activities or country walks, with just a few rainy days in a month.
Winters are dry and cold, and temperatures can plummet down to freezing at night. Strangely, winter is the best time to visit Hong Kong for shopping - from mid-December to February. The holiday season is afoot during winter, and the weather is pleasant and mild. You'll need warm clothing for most days, but there's no snow or frost in Hong Kong.
Note that August is the wettest month of the year, with rains falling four days out of seven. On the opposite side is January, the driest month of the year, when it rains only a few days in the entire month.


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The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes milling, wire EDM, turn, Mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
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I looked like a damn fool at the vet Wednesday. Even though Lily had a limp just hours prior, it completely disappeared once inside the office.
"She looks just fine to me."
"No no no, she was limping…she so was."
"Walk her down the hall. Again…One more time…Again…Again…Are you sure? She's quite sprightly. "
I kept insisting something was wrong so after checking each leg individually he gave her pills (just inflammatories).
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oh my gosh this was me last week. my little three legged pug was holding her leg up and couldn't walk at all so i rushed her to the vet within the hour. the vet was like oh she just strained it, it will probably go away in a day or two, but i guess i'll give you some anti inflammatorys" i felt silly.
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I learned about this "phenomenon" in Vet Tech school. Dogs don't like to show any kind of weakness in a vulnerable situation, so they put on their stoic face and hide what ever might make them out to be the "weaker link". You're not crazy! Lily just doesn't want the Vet or any other puppies at the Vet to think she deserves to be picked out of the pack. Even after thousands of years of domestication, dogs can turn their instinct lights on in an instant.
…or maybe she's miraculously better!
Lucille is too much of a baby ham to pretend she's fine in front of the Vet. She loves the attention way too much. But I can guarantee if another dog was in the room, she'd put her tough guy face on and walk it off lol
Dogs are so weird. Better to be safe than sorry though so it's good you took her in to get it checked out. I'm glad she's okay 🙂
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Win Two VIP Tickets to the 2012 Chicago Food Film Festival
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It's time to get ready for the third annual Chicago Food Film Festival, a celebration of, well, the combination of food and film. Makes sense, right? The three day event allows guests to watch a collection of short documentaries while simultaneously snacking on food directly related to or inspired by the film. Check out last year's report on the festival to see how it all goes down.
You can purchase tickets here, but we're also pleased to announce that we'll be giving away two VIP tickets to the entire festival.
Starting on Thursday, November 15th, the passes give you access to the three days of screenings. You'll also be able to attend an authentic Milwaukee Fish Fry on Friday. If you were able to experience the Lowcountry Oyster Roast last year, you'll know that this crew likes to pull out all the stops. That event also includes Mississippi's Mickle's Pickles and a special sweet potato cobbler from Hoosier Mama Pie Co. Click here to check out the full list of events.
To enter our giveaway, all you have to do is tell us where you love to eat fried fish in Chicago in the comments below. A winner will be selected at random on Monday, November 12th at 5 PM. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.
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December 30, 2016 — Today on the Feast of the Holy Family, Jesuit leaders are asking their parish communities to consider how they can best respond to the plight of migrants, who often live in vulnerable situations, fearing separation, detention, deportation and limited participation in their communities.
In a message scheduled to appear in Jesuit parish bulletins this weekend, the nine Jesuit provincials of the U.S. and Canada write that Jesuit parishes have "always been a home to the immigrant and the foreigner. Many of our churches were built to care for immigrants, and they remain one of the few Jesuit ministries that serve the public on a daily basis."
The Gospel readings for the day describe a homeless refugee family with a newborn baby fleeing persecution and traveling to a foreign land. It's a familiar story, one that's re-enacted each and every day.
When Pope Francis blessed the crèche in St. Peter's Square in early December, he drew a parallel between the most famous refugee family and their modern-day counterparts. "In the painful experience of these brothers and sisters, we revisit that experience of the baby Jesus, who at the time of his birth did not find accommodation and was born in a grotto in Bethlehem and then was brought to Egypt to escape Herod's threat."
At every opportunity, Pope Francis reminds us that all families are holy in God's eyes. In their statement, the Jesuit provincials urge parish communities to "take Pope Francis' message to heart and discern how they can best respond to the plight of migrants, remembering that love must be shown in deeds and in words."
The message from the Jesuits also suggests ways of helping families who live in the shadows. "There is so much good that a parish can do for the most vulnerable in our communities — from sponsoring refugee families to lifting our voices in the public square, calling for greater protections for our brothers and sisters who are suffering. As a family united in Christ, please remember refugees and migrants in your prayers and pray that we grow in our awareness of the issue of migration."
"In this Christmas season where we continue to contemplate the mystery of the incarnation, let us never stop looking for the face of Christ, particularly in the faces of the poor and alienated."
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Jigglypuff are usually famous for their sweet voice but this particular Jigglypuff has problem with its voice, so Ash and Co. helped it to regain its voice but Ash didn't catch it so whenever it arrives or whenever it comes on before a stage, it tends to sing showing its voice but in the process puts everyone to sleep. In anger that no one listens to it, it often draws in everyone's faces (People and Pokémon alike). It followed the gang throughout Kanto all the way to Hoenn, but not seen afterwards. It is believed that it started on a journey to find the one whom listens to it. This journey is believed to have ended when the Gang encountered it one last time in Hoenn, where it found a Whismer that listened to the song all the way through. It is believed to be either continuing to pursue its journey to find more people to listen to its song all the way through or to be satisfied with finding someone who was finally able to listen to its song, either way it has not been seen since, but may return due to its popularity in multiple countries. It also still has Ash's marker that it uses as a microphone.
Mika Kanai and Rachael Lillis lend her voice in Japanese and English dub respectively.
It is set to reappear in the Pikachu short airing along with the 15th Pokémon movie.


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This article is a disambiguation page for Liberty City Police Department
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Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
The LCPD (Liberty City Police Department) is the Police Department of Liberty City in the 2D Universe (consisting of Grand Theft Auto), 3D Universe (consisting of GTA III, GTA Advance, GTA Liberty City Stories), and the HD Universe (consisting of GTA IV, The Lost and Damned, The Ballad of Gay Tony and GTA Chinatown Wars).
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13 August 2012 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Study finds new regulator of cellular proteins
Study: Glomulin disrupts ubiquitination
Singapore: A faulty gene linked to a rare blood vessel disorder has led investigators to discover a mechanism involved in determining the fate of possibly thousands of proteins working inside cells. St Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists conducted a study, which provided insight into one of the body's most important regulatory systems, the ubiquitin system. Cells use it to get rid of unneeded proteins. The work has been published in the print edition of the journal, Molecular Cell.
In this study, researchers showed that Glomulin disrupts ubiquitination by "glomming" onto and masking the spot on the cullin RING ligase where the tagging process is completed. The binding site is on the RBX1 protein, a component of the cullin RING ligase.
While Glomulin derives its name from the disease, researchers showed the name also aptly describes Glomulin's molecular function. St Jude scientists used X-ray crystallography to determine the structures involved in Glomulin's interaction with RBX1 and another component of the cullin RING ligase.
Researchers showed that Glomulin disrupts ubiquitination by binding to the same spot on the cullin RING ligase where the enzyme carrying the ubiquitin protein must bind to complete the process. The location is on the RBX1 protein, which is part of the larger protein complex.
Dr Brenda Schulman, a member of the St Jude Department of Structural Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, said that, "The findings suggest it might someday be possible to treat disorders resulting from defects in proteins that shut off the ubiquitin system by finding an alternative mechanism for turning the pathway off. The way Glomulin works represents a new way of controlling one of the most important regulatory systems at work in cells. We believe Glomulin may represent the tip of the iceberg. There could be many proteins that work in this fashion."
Dr David Duda, scientist, Schulman's laboratory and the study's first author, said that, "RBX1 regulates potentially thousands of different proteins within the cell. Glomulin represents a new way of regulating this entire class of RBX1 associated proteins. Glomulin is the first protein made by a cell shown to block a site like the one on RBX1."
The research was funded in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), both at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and ALSAC.


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As popular Hollywood star Michael J. Fox prepares for his return to series television with the appropriately named "The Michael J. Fox Show," he admits that the fact his character, popular New York TV broadcaster Mike Henry, also experiences Parkinson's disease is deliberately "a little meta."
"We're deliberately playing on that," says Fox, whose breakneck output as a beloved superstar of both TV and film (most notably "Family Ties" from 1982-1989; "Spin City" from 1996-2000; and the "Back to the Future" trilogy from 1985-1990) was slowed when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Nevertheless, Fox continued to make a strong impression on the entertainment landscape with occasional recurring stints on series including "Scrubs," "Boston Legal," "Rescue Me," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Good Wife," while simultaneously working tirelessly as an advocate for those with the disease.
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And in his return to the sitcom universe his popular TV broadcaster character's desires echo his own: he just wants to get out of the house and keep being productive.
"The struggle with Mike on the show, and the struggle that I had, was that you want to go work," says Fox. "You don't want to be a novelty. And I think Mike Henry avoids it, and I've avoided it."
Fox says he's thrilled to be back in a family themed sitcom, this time as the patriarch, and he sees integrating his own physical challenges into the role as just another way to make Henry a relatable human being, especially one who can appreciate the humor in his life.
"I love comedy," the 52-year-old actor admits. "I love finding moments that people can relate to that are universal. And what I love about a family comedy is the big stories are like, 'Who opened two milks?' I mean small stories. An orangutan doesn't have to come through the window. It can be something that's personal and means something to people, and the show has been that so far."
"Whenever you're with Mike he's kind of managing everyone else, the way they react around him," says the show's executive producer, writer-director Will Gluck ("Easy A"). "In the pilot, we really wanted to get people to just say, 'Hey, this is Mike, this is the family, this is the way the family feels about Mike, this is the way people on the street feel about Mike.'"
Parkinson's will be a fact of Mike Henry's life, but it won't drive every comic storyline, Gluck adds. "It's just going to be a family show with Mike who has a unique perspective about being the father of three kids and wife, but also dealing with something. It's always going to be there, but it's not going to be the spotlight."
Like his TV offspring who are thrilled to find their father spending more time back in the working world and less trying to manage their lives, Fox chuckles that in real life "my kids are really happy I'm back at work…It was the right time because my kids are getting older, and my two older daughters are going to college. My son is out of college and on his own, and so it was right that way. And I was just doing a lot of these shows and just feeling good. And I just had these moments where I said, 'Why am I not doing this? This is what I do – Why am I not doing this?' And I couldn't come up with a good reason."
Fox broached the idea with his wife of 24 years (and former "Family Ties" co-star) Tracy Pollan. "She said 'I think that's a great idea,' and that meant a lot because, if I did and it didn't work, then she's got the mess to clean up. So she believed in me, and so I just floated it out there that I would like to do it."
Fox is looking forward to exploring the relationship between parents and their children who are coming of age. "Some things are taken from my life.," he says. "For example, my youngest daughter, when she went to camp a couple years ago, took us aside and said, 'Want to warn you: When I go to camp, and you get pictures on the Internet, I'm trying out a new smile. Don't think anything's wrong.' And we transposed that to the daughter breaking in a new run because she doesn't like the way she runs. So she comes in and rehearses a new running method for us. So it's just little snips and pieces of the experience of raising teenagers that we use."
Actress Betsy Brandt says she couldn't be happier to be segueing from the hard-edged world of "Breaking Bad" to lighter-hearted family sitcom with Fox as her TV husband. "I used to watch 'Family Ties,' and what a great cast!" she says. "And for him to stand out the way he did among that cast says a lot about him. He is so wildly brilliant, and if I can hold my own with him – I was just happy to meet him and read with him, but then once I read with him I was like 'This is MY job.'"
Known for having an exceptionally keen sense of physical comic timing in his youth, Fox says he's simply reworking it within the context of Parkinson's, connecting with what feels right. "Mark Twain said, 'Comedy's like a frog – If you dissect it, you'll find out how it works, but it will die in the process,'" he says. "So I don't spend a lot of time analyzing it, but I read material and there's a rhythm that I read it in, and a rhythm that I proceeded in and calculate it and process it. And it comes out just the way it comes out."
Fox also has fun with Mike Henry's encounters with an adoring public who want to deeply empathize with his openness about his personal challenges, something the actor says he feels deeply about himself. "It's great," he says, "and to be able to give someone encouragement or empathize or relate to something that they're going through, even if it's just in passing, is really a unique privilege."


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Modern products often contain hazardous materials, so when those products are discarded they can become threats to the environment.
Old TVs and computer monitors contain cathodes ray tubes, or CRTs, which have lead in them, and the recycling market for the tubes has been killed by flat-screen TVs and monitors. Those flat-screens contain mercury. Electronic products of other types contain dangerous materials, and Americans throw this stuff away at a mind-boggling rate. The federal government alone throws away 10,000 computers a week, according to a recent New York Times report on electronic waste.
But, as the saying goes, "Throw it away? There is no away."
As warehouses and landfills across the country swell with electronic waste at an ever-increasing pace, better ways of handling it must be established. The accumulation of electronic waste can lead to contaminated groundwater and soil.
The federal government and many states have taken steps to address the issue, whether by offering incentives to individuals to turn in old TVs and computer monitors or making manufacturers pay to recycle their old products. But the steps are patchwork and inadequate, and the piles of waste are growing faster than solutions are being erected.
The lifecycle of electronic products that contain hazardous materials has not been totally accounted for in today's system of production, use and disposal, and that is a failure whose cost society will pay one way or another. Somewhere the price of properly managing these products must be added to their overall cost. Either the manufacturer or the consumer or the taxpayer or some combination of these parties must contribute to the safe disposal of electronic waste, and an effective system of ensuring such disposal must be developed throughout the country.


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The shelves of a bookstore hold the perfect gift for those on your holiday list, no matter their interests or hobbies. And for people who prefer not to shop online or at large chain bookstores, the Chicago area has an ample supply of independent stores. We've picked 10 of the best, each with features that set them apart. So whether you live in the suburbs — north, south or west — or in the city, there's a place not far in which to do your literary hunting.
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Azizi Books
Azizi (a Kiswahili word meaning rare, precious or treasured, according to the store's website), in Matteson's Lincoln Mall, predominantly carries books by African-American writers, including collections of inspirational tomes, urban fiction titles and African-American children's books. A children's story time is 11 a.m.-noon Saturdays. Azizi has just reopened in a larger space on the mall's second floor near Carson Pirie Scott.
258 Lincoln Mall Drive, Matteson; azizibooks.com; 708-283-9850
Anderson's Bookshop
Anderson's Bookshop, in west suburban Naperville's bustling downtown, is known for hosting literary superstars and celebrities promoting their newest books. The details of upcoming author appearances are posted on the shelves under the appropriate books. Visitors can buy a book and make a date to attend the author's talk; keep in mind that there may be an admission charge and you might want to get tickets in advance.
123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville; andersonsbookshop.com; 630-355-2665
Town House Books
Town House Books in St. Charles has a homey feel, with several rooms, rug-covered floors and a cozy — if nonfunctional — fireplace. It also has the attached Town House Cafe, which serves breakfast and lunch. In keeping with the homelike atmosphere, there is a good collection of cookbooks and gardening titles.
105 N. 2nd Ave., St. Charles; townhousebooks.com; 630-584-8600
The Book Stall at Chestnut Court
Located near the Winnetka Metra station, this is a perfect bookstore for city dwellers who want to shop local in the suburbs. Within walking distance are plenty of other locally owned shops and eateries. The store carries a varied selection of audiobooks, including new best-sellers, and a full stock of travel books.
811 Elm St., Winnetka; thebookstall.com; <847-446-8880
Barbara's Bookstore
Barbara's Bookstore in the heart of the University of Illinois at Chicago is easily identifiable by the window drawings of authors and their quotes about reading. It caters to UIC students with comfy couches, tables and a big bargain section. Barbara's is an independent chain with six Chicago-area locations, plus six in O'Hare International Airport and one in Boston. It has the heart of an indie store but the capabilities of a chain; employees can find a book at another store for patrons to purchase the same day, for example.
1218 S. Halsted St.; barbarasbookstore.com; 312-413-2665
The Bookstore
Independent bookstores are all about fostering community, and this downtown Glen Ellyn store took that to heart by being one of the first bookstores to participate in the Glen Ellyn Bookfest, which began in 2010 and is held annually in June. The Bookstore makes a point of displaying local authors' work. A case in point: A slim volume titled "Stories from Glen Ellyn's Past — Volume 1: 24 Tales of Murder, Mayhem, Infidelity, Pranks and Other Intriguing Tidbits of Glen Ellyn History," edited by Anne Balogh and Dan Anderson.
475 N. Main St., Glen Ellyn; justthebookstore.com; 630-469-2891
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
It's easy to get lost in bookish bliss at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, in the basement of the Chicago Theological Seminary in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Customers looking for something specific are advised to pick up a floor plan at the front desk to navigate the crowded shelves. The store is home to a catalog of 150,000 academic titles. This location is one of three Seminary Co-op Bookstores, the others being 57th Street Books and the Newberry Library Bookstore.
5757 S. University Ave.; semcoop.com; 773-752-4381
Women & Children First
This store, on Chicago's North Side, has a large selection of titles on issues important to the lesbian, gay and bisexual community. The back of the store is dominated by the children's section, which has a varied inventory of board books for babies, picture books and chapter books for beginning, middle and young adult readers. The store's selections on child care and parenting also are in the back.
5233 N. Clark St.; womenandchildrenfirst.com; 773-769-9299
Quimby's in Chicago broadens one's view of literature with its wide collection of comics, zines, ephemera and small press-published material. The store also will sell almost any zine or book on consignment; authors need only drop their published material off with a consignment form, which can be found on the store's website. This is a good place to find something for the person who has read everything; allow plenty of time to survey the store's collection, and don't be afraid to ask the well-informed employees for help.
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1854 W. North Ave.; quimbys.com; 773-342-0910
The Book Cellar
As the name of this Lincoln Square store suggests, you can enjoy a glass of wine here along with the literary selections. The wine bar, which also offers beer and some light dining fare, makes this a good place to host a book club discussion. The store has a strong collection of cookbooks and food writing and a section featuring Chicago books, many by authors who are invited by the store to participate in its monthly local author nights.
4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave.; bookcellarinc.com; 773-293-2665


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About: The idea for Pezzo was born when I saw an old copper monogram stencil. The script forms are inspired by titles and signature inscriptions on several Dutch seventeenth century paintings, where brushes were used rather than quills. There is little variation between horizontal and vertical strokes and that's what caught my eye. By default, the brush strokes formed simple round endings. Combined with the unusual breaks in the copper stencils, I considered this treatment would create an interesting contemporary script. Pezzo's alternate characters, used in conjunction with the regular characters, gives you flexibility when characters overlap, particularly on repeat ascenders and descenders. Pezzo is an ideal font for boutique logos, menus, invitations, announcements, certificates, brochures, headlines, and anywhere you need the elegance of script but with a contemporary boldness.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina on Sunday threatened to place a "hold" on the nominations of Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon and John Brennan to run the CIA. Senator Graham said he would block Senate confirmation votes on the two men until he gets more information about President Obama's actions during the deadly Sept. 11attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"We're going to get to the bottom of Benghazi," said Graham on CBS News' "Face the Nation."
Hmmm. Will that work? Is it possible for one senator to just bring Senate proceedings to a halt? Does this mean that Mr. Hagel and Mr. Brennan will twist in the wind for an indefinite period of time?
Yes, it will work if Graham presses the issue (he has threatened this for some time). Yes, "holds" are a venerable Senate procedure. No, it won't work indefinitely, at least in this case, because the GOP does not appear to want to mount a full-blown filibuster against either nominee.
Let's explore holds for a moment, and then we'll touch on Graham and his possible motives.
The first point to make here is that the Senate is not the House. With only 100 members, it's more of a club than the other chamber. It has always operated in a separate, idiosyncratic world, in which members cede some deference to other members on the theory that a day will come when they'll want some deference themselves.
Thus we have the "hold," a practice whose exact origin "has been lost in the mists of history," according to a Congressional Research Service history and analysis of the subject.
Under a hold, an individual senator can tell his or her party leader that certain measures should not be brought to the floor. As CRS notes, implicit in this notice is the threat that the senator in question would filibuster the measure if necessary. That's why the practice is sometimes called a "silent filibuster."
Senate rules call for the majority leader, sometimes in concert with the minority leader, to decide whether and for how long to honor these requests. So technically speaking, if Graham does stop these nominations via a hold, majority leader Sen. Harry Reid (D) of Nevada will have agreed to the move.
The original reason for the practice was to allow busy senators to stop bills that might affect their home states, or an issue in which they had a particular interest, until such time as they could give the legislation their full attention. But in the modern era of holds, beginning about 1970, lawmakers began to use them as leverage to try to further their own political and policy agendas.
As the Senate changed from a place run by an inner circle of old bulls to today's more individualistic chamber, the use of holds exploded. In that sense they're really more a modern invention than a legislative tradition, wrote political scientist Jonathan Bernstein on his popular politics blog in 2010.
Secret holds used to be possible. Rules now call for the name of the senator placing a hold to be made public after two days. But it's still possible to maintain secrecy via tag-team holds, in which a senator objects to a measure, then withdraws after two days to be replaced by a compatriot, and so on.
That's the context in which Graham is threatening his move. The South Carolina Republican has been a pit bull on the Benghazi question, charging that the administration has not been forthcoming on what happened prior to and during the attack, and delayed producing answers due to the politics of the 2012 presidential election.
This appears to be a genuine belief on his part, notes Washington Post political bloggers Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake, but he also may be attempting political damage control of his own. Graham has long been viewed suspiciously by conservatives, who see him as someone not quite adherent to their principles. He's up for reelection in 2014, and he's trying to make sure he does not draw a primary challenge from the right.
Fighting on the Benghazi issue and against the nomination of Hagel in particular "is a way for Graham to prove (or maybe remind) the party base that while they may not be with him on every issue, he remains a committed conservative," write Cillizza and Blake.
The problem for Graham is that the real power of the hold is in its threat of a filibuster, and that threat appears hollow in the case of Obama's national security nominees. At the moment there do not appear to be enough GOP votes to deprive either of the 60 needed to overcome filibuster opposition.
Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona indicated this Sunday during a talk show appearance. Though he had ripped into Hagel during the latter's nomination hearing and appears likely to vote against the nomination, Senator McCain on "Fox News Sunday" said, "we've never filibustered a presidential cabinet appointee and I don't think we should start here."
The Senate Armed Services Committee is now set to vote on Hagel's nomination as secretary of Defense on Tuesday. The full Senate could take up a Hagel vote as early as Thursday.


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Movie Trailer of the Day: As promised, Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof today unveiled the first full trailer for the highly anticipated "Alien prequel" Prometheus.
In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system's natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
Ridley Scott, director of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner,' returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
The duo also participated in a 30-minute Q&A; earlier, at WonderCon, a shorter IMAX trailer was unveiled, as well as a viral video featuring a Weyland Industries ad for their line of David androids.
See Also: The Top Five Things We Learned About Prometheus From Today's Wondercon Panel And Trailer.
Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Charlize Theron, and Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus is due in theaters June 8th.


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Veterinarian - Far Western Chicago Suburbs at Animal House Veterinary Hospital
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Animal House Veterinary Hospital in St. Charles, IL is looking for an associate veterinarian to join our progressive and well-equipped small animal practice. We are a full-service, multi-doctor hospital with a reputation for combining high-quality medicine with exceptional client service. Our beautiful facility is equipped with ultrasound, digital radiography, a full in-house IDEXX lab and more. The experienced team is dedicated to our patients, clients, and community.
We are proud to announce that Animal House was voted one of the best veterinary clinics in Kane County for 2019! Come join this premier practice!
Experience is preferred, but we are willing to consider a new graduate for the right candidate. Our team of doctors is highly experienced, and thrive on the ability to collaborate with each other while being supported by a long-tenured and fun-loving support staff team. We are proud that our practice has gone paperless, and our doctors are able to access patient records from home.
The bustling town of St. Charles is a wonderful place to live and work, providing excellent school systems and a family-friendly environment. Located close to Chicago's downtown district, there is easy access to mass transit for commuting to the city within an hour. Closer to home in nearby Geneva there are great restaurants and quaint shops to be found, as well as a full summer calendar of festivals and other outdoor activities around the Fox River. The area offers an abundance of history, culture, and outdoor living. Enjoy all the amenities of big city life without any of the hassles!
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Vikings remain winless after loss to Browns
Minnesota again gives up last-minute TD
MINNEAPOLIS — Brian Hoyer atoned for three interceptions in his second career start, connecting with tight end Jordan Cameron on a 7-yard touchdown pass in the final minute to lift visiting Cleveland over Minnesota.
Hoyer threw three touchdown passes and completed 30-for-54 passes for 321 yards for the Browns (1-2), who scored 24 points in the first half after recording only 16 in their first two games. Cameron caught three scoring passes and wide receiver Josh Gordon had 10 receptions for 146 yards and one touchdown in his return from a two-game suspension, while Cleveland's defense totaled six sacks.
Christian Ponder ran for two touchdowns and was 25-for-42 passing for 228 yards and one interception as the Vikings (0-3) dropped their home opener. Adrian Peterson also had a touchdown as part of 88 yards on 25 carries, while linebackers Chad Greenway and Erin Henderson and safety Harrison Smith each had an interception.
Minnesota tied the game with 2:36 left in the third quarter on Ponder's second rushing touchdown after Henderson intercepted Hoyer and returned it to Cleveland's 9-yard line. The Vikings took a 27-24 lead on a 30-yard field goal by Blair Walsh early in the fourth quarter, but Hoyer engineered an 11-play, 55-yard drive that culminated in a 7-yard toss to Cameron to put the Browns ahead with 51 seconds remaining in the contest.
Cleveland scored 10 points off a pair of trick plays to take a 24-17 lead into halftime. Defensive back Josh Aubrey rushed for a 34-yard gain on a fake punt to set up a 38-yard field goal by Billy Cundiff midway through the second quarter and Cameron caught his second touchdown pass – thrown by punter Spencer Lanning – on a fake field goal with 3:39 remaining in the first half.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Hoyer entered the game with two career touchdown passes in 15 games over three seasons with the New England Patriots and one with the Arizona Cardinals, where he made his only other NFL start. … Minnesota also started 0-3 in 2011 en route to a 3-13 finish. … Browns RB Willis McGahee, signed after the team traded RB Trent Richardson to Indianapolis on Wednesday, had nine yards on eight carries.


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Colfax. It's embedded in the Denver psyche as a relic of its past as a watering hole on the way west, a destination for trouble, the dirty bits. Like a junky in a halfway house, though, it's pulling itself up and dusting off the 70's. You can now go there to find a juxtaposition of trendy hipster joints and coffee houses down the block from used car lots, dirt cheap taco stands, and purveyors of all things green and leafy. And a juxtaposition of a street is a perfect spot for a place like the Lion's Lair.
It is tough to pin the Lion's Lair down, as from entry you're receiving conflicting signals. Cover charge is $5. By sheer principle a dive shouldn't charge a cover, so you're left a bit salty. Then, of course, as this is the Lion's Lair, you're awarded with some live music for your 5 hard-earned which takes away the sting a bit. The Atomic Americans proceed to take the stage, which is cozily jammed up in the front corner of the smallish velvet covered room (complete with Velvet Elvis; solid) that is the Lair, and they're led by a guy with a keytar. A frickin keytar? I fought the urge to ask for my cover charge back and ordered a beverage.
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Hopefully you get the picture. The Lion's Lair is well situated on Colfax, the battle of pleasant seediness versus gentrification that is going on before our eyes, as it'll cover whatever you're in for: a cheap can of anything cold, a craft brew, or five bucks worth of live music. And if you're in for the music, don't be dismayed if the band's sporting a keytar - the one I saw kicked ass (even though the rest of the band was only average).
You can disturb the Lion's Lair at 2022 East Colfax.


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A new trailer for Aaron Sorkin's upcoming HBO series The Newsroom has gone online. The first trailer played to the dramatic aspects of the series, but the new one hits on Sorkin's whip-smart dialogue almost to the point of self-parody (when Alison Pill's character talks about mixing up Georgia the state with Georgia the country, I could easily hear the dialogue coming out of Donna Moss' mouth). The new trailer also does a better job of laying out the plot and establishing the different characters and their relationships.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. The show stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston. The Newsroom premieres June 24th at 10/9c.


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Today's learners are engaged in the use of technology to a far greater extent than ever before. They connect socially, pursue interests and information, and share ideas quickly.
Integrating technology and great instruction allows students to connect with people, places, and ideas in the context of the school curriculum.
Our children want to be involved and have a voice. Student use of technology in the classroom teaches them how to collaborate with others responsibly, evaluate information, and develop products that spotlight their understanding and abilities.
Students will be expected to have these skills as they enter a competitive workforce. Their experiences in the technology-connected classroom provide them with the confidence and skill to be successful.


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CREATE TABLE `t1` (
`c1` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`c2` char(100) DEFAULT NULL,
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The table is again filled with 1.3 million rows, but this time I'm doing an UPDATE. The update is again a simple primary key update:
UPDATE t1 SET c2 = CONCAT('xxx', RAND(), 'yyy') WHERE c1 = <random value 1 - 1000000>
I run this on the Maria, InnoDB and MyISAM engines. The issues with the MyISAM and Maria engines here is that they lack row level locking. In MariaDB 5.1.47, the InnoDB version is 1.0.6, so it is more scalable than what it used to be. The testbench is not an incredibly hot machiine, just a 4 core AMD box.
I run the test in some different configurations, using a single thread, using 10 threads and using 100 threads. Here we can see that InnoDB Row-level locking really hlps. With InnoDB, performance was on par with Maria with 1 thread, MyISAM lagging behind (yes, here Maria was faster than MyISAM, it might be some MyISAM tuning that I missed, beyond basic key_buffer_size and all that).
Moving to 10 threads, InnoDB could now perform about twice as many operations per second, whereas Maris throughput increased by aout 15%, MyISAM stayed the same old slow. Going to 100 threads, again InnoDB nearly doubled the number of ops, Maria abot 15% up, and MyISAM still about the same, actually slightly slower both at 10 and 100 threads.
Is this a scientific test? Nope, hardly. Does it reflect something that might be happening in a system in the real world? Yes, I'd say so, given that there would be other things going on also.
All in all, I think the Maria Engine has improved a bit, and may be an alternative to MyiSAM, if it wasn't for the fact that InnoDB really kicks them both in their rearward facing bodily regions.


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DIXON – There was going to be a time for questions. Not anymore.
Dixon Mayor Jim Burke said Monday he doesn't plan to publicly answer questions about Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller now in federal prison for stealing nearly $54 million in city funds over two decades.
"I don't know what questions need to be asked," Burke said. "And I guess I don't know what purpose it would serve."
Earlier this month, Burke said he and other members of the city council would answer questions during their Oct. 10 meeting, but he later changed his stance, instead saying the questions would be answered after all the settlement documents were signed.
That was done Oct. 15, finalizing the $40 million out-of-court settlement with the city's former auditors CliftonLarsonAllen and Janis Card and Associates, as well as its former financial institution, Fifth Third Bank.
But Monday, Burke said he doesn't plan to answer additional questions for a number of reasons, including, he said, the fact that outside of a single Dixon City Council meeting he hasn't been asked any questions.
"I think most people are ready to move on with this whole thing," Burke said. "Like I said, there's been millions of words written about this thing. There's been a financial settlement, and the amount speaks for itself … At some point, what's the purpose of sitting down and rehashing this thing again?"
However, he didn't rule out ever answering questions. If it became "a big public issue," he said he likely would.
"Everything has been thoroughly aired," he said. "There's been legal briefs filed on so many things. And what purpose does it serve to drag all this stuff up again?"
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Finnerty's, a Manhattan establishment with strong San Francisco ties, hosted the second round of Giants fans coming to pay homage to the team's second championship in three years. Two of those fans were longtime Queens residents who moved to Pennsylvania 20 years ago. The Giants and the Yankees have a touchy history together. When the old Baltimore Orioles left Baltimore to join the upstart American League in 1903, their manager John McGraw jumped ship and went over to the New York Giants.
He even took the Baltimore colors (orange and black) with him. This is why the Giants and Orioles have the same color scheme. When original Orioles moved to New York, they underwent a series of name changes, eventually settling on the name "New York Yankees." I have been having this conversation for thirty years with some of my San Francisco Giants loyalist friends pictured below. Before 2010, the last time the Giants won the World Series, the guy in the middle of the picture (Joe Tufano, his grandson Joey at far left) was about six years old. Now, after two championships in three years, he says that he knows what it feels like to be a Yankees fan.
What Joe, and son Slade Tufano, are about to learn is that winning never – ever – gets old. It is never more exciting to lose than to win. The San Francisco Giants are an interesting fan base, since they have evolved into a multicultural mass that not many other teams can claim. Beginning in the Polo Grounds in Harlem, the Giants had the basic New York fan base – some middle class, some a little better off. Now, being in San Francisco for so long, they have a large northern California fan base. Combine those fans, or just watch when the playoffs are in San Francisco, and you see a pastiche of fans that has a quilt-ish resemblance to the rest of the country.
Few sports franchises have what is considered a national fan base, save for the Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and a few others. The Giants' fan base is still relatively rooted out west and in pockets of New York, but their fan base is without question one of the most unique. In an era of sports where staying on top requires serious salary expansion, the Giants have managed to have their best years while not spending as much. Here is hoping my friends will back to New York next year to see the our team (you know which one) unveil the 2013 trophy. Money Wasted The city will lose a boatload of state and federal funding due to the lack of a teacher evaluation plan. It seems as though it is popular, and politically safe, to argue that both sides (the mayor and the union) are playing politics. But what part of politics is the mayor playing?
He has nothing to gain by making life difficult for the unions. The evaluation plan is necessary and it will have root out bad teachers. There is actually a side arguing against this.
The argument made by Michael Mulgrew and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is that there were other ways of approaching the evaluation process. If that is the case, why did they not enact those reforms years ago?
Now, faced with a real evaluation system, they refuse to come to the table and it cost the city's schools hundreds of millions of dollars. Who cares about kids in this scenario? Do kids benefit from a system where their teachers are not evaluated effectively? Do kids benefit from the Department of Education not getting hundreds of millions of dollars?
This is not both sides playing politics. This is just one side playing politics.


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My, how Comic-Con has grown.
No longer a refuge for fanboys and geeks, the San Dieo pop culture extravaganza drew some of the biggest stars on the planet on its opening night Thursday, including Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, action stars Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone, funnymen Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen and even Hollywood's ultimate power couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Jolie regaled fans with stories of performing her own stunts in the new spy-thriller "Salt," revealing that as she dived through a doorway with a gun in filming one scene she accidentally sliced open part of her face above her nose.
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"I was bleeding and I have a little scar now," Jolie told a packed audience at the San Diego Convention Center at Comic-Con 2010.
Dressed in a black leather jacket, Jolie returned to the annual convention for the first time in more than 7 years, and joined her "Salt" co-star Liev Schrieber and director Phillip Noyce for the movie's panel.
Jolie wanted to do every stunt in the film, Noyce said. That wasn't quite the same situation with Schrieber, who openly copped to not performing every stunt.
"Am I going to bump my head or face in any way is another thing I think about?" he said to laughter in the audience.
Jolie said she decided to do the film, which opens Friday, because "Salt" was "one of the smarter scripts" she'd read, and it wasn't another fantasy action film.
"It was the first time I got to do something based in reality," Jolie said. "This film is very much about your own personal line and I think it's something we all have to come to terms with at some point in our life."
Even Jolie's other half made an appearance of sorts when Tina Fey carried a life-size cardboard cutout of Brad Pitt onstage for the "Megamind" superhero flick panel, which also featured Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill.
Asked to name his real-life villian, Hill reportedly name-checked Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
"I just want to come out and officially support Mel," Hill joked.


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Last week: 8-6-1. Season totals: 32-27-4, Pct. .540. Best Bets: 6-4-2, Pct. .583.
Home team in capital letters; point spreads (opening line) in parentheses after underdog team; selections with point spreads in bold.
CLEVELAND 16, Buffalo 10 (+3) - It's business as usual for the Browns with Brian Hoyer at quarterback, with one important exception: They're actually winning; and in the just-concluded baseball season, only one team - the woebegone Houston Astros - had a lower winning percentage than the .337 the Bills have logged on natural grass dating all the way back to 1995 (29-57 straight up).
N.Y. GIANTS 35, Philadelphia 28 (+3) - At least the Giants are a major disappointment at 0-4. If anything, the Eagles are a pleasant surprise at 1-3. Philly defensive coordinator Billy Davis might be the most incompetent and unqualified assistant coach in living memory.
Baltimore 27 (+3), MIAMI 14 - Could the 2013 Miami Dolphins be a redux of the 2012 Arizona Cardinals? That was quite a reality check they got Monday night - and the Ravens still have more than enough of a pass rush to exploit Miami's tied-for-worst-in-the-league offensive line (18 sacks allowed, same as in-state rival Jacksonville) and have beaten the Dolphins in four of the last five, covering in the last three. Certified best bet material.
New England 28 (+1 1/2), CINCINNATI 13 - The Bengals proved last week that they haven't transcended gatekeeper status in the AFC playoff picture, and they have lost four in a row to the Patriots by a combined 67 points (145-78). Can't believe New England is an underdog here - and the level of disbelief is high enough to proclaim the Pats one of the week's safest investments.
Seattle 27, INDIANAPOLIS 21 (+3) - The Seahawks got more lucky bounces last week than the pinball wizard from Tommy fame - picking up from where they left off last year, when they received a gift-wrapped win courtesy of the scab officials. Their good fortune may very well run out on December 2 when the Saints come marching into their building, but until then it's probably unwise to go against them.
Kansas City 24, TENNESSEE 0 (+3 1/2) - Fat Boy's league-leading defense (in points allowed per game) against Ryan Fitzpatrick? That's an even worse mismatch than next week's Jacksonville at Denver game, which one outlet has already opened with the Broncos as a 26 1/2-point favorite. This rounds out the best bet slate for the week.
GREEN BAY 31, Detroit 17 (+6 1/2) - The Lions got off an 0-for-21 schneid in Washington two weeks ago. Now they've got a 22-game road losing streak to the Packers to surmount, during which Detroit has gone 5-16-1 against the spread (the push coming last year). Green Bay has also covered seven in a row following a bye week. A best bet in any normal week - but this is hardly a normal week, with the wrong team favored in two games and a proven no-hoper at quarterback taking on a red-hot defense in a third matchup.
CHICAGO 30, New Orleans 23 (+1) - Despite the easy win Monday night, the Saints' frequent offensive-line lapses and penalties were troubling, and the home team is 4-0 outright and 3-0-1 pointwise in the last four here, so willing to take a stand against them in this short-week, home-to-road situation.
ST. LOUIS 24, Jacksonville 6 (+12 1/2) - I know, the Rams probably don't deserve to be favored by this much over Rice - but unless and until the Jaguars show some signs of life on either side of the ball they are impossible to endorse at any number.
Carolina 17, ARIZONA 10 (+2 1/2) - Everything you always wanted to know about 2 1/2-point favorites but were afraid to ask: So far in this decade there have been 23 of them - with 10 both winning and covering, 11 losing outright, and two winning but not covering (in both cases involving the same team in the same year - the 2010 Colts - on either side of the equation once each). But with the Panthers coming off a bye, you might be better off not even asking about Arizona's record in so-called fatigue games - because the answer is 2-10, both ways, since the bye era began in 1990.
Denver 35, DALLAS 31 (+7) - Nobody in their "right mind" will take the Cowboys in this spot, even with the points, despite the fact that they may be one of the few teams with enough firepower to match the Broncos stride for stride offensively - and unlike last week, Peyton Manning might actually feel some pass-rush heat here. So everyone will say that it takes "guts" to pick Dallas - and since we could all use some ego-stroking once in a while ...
SAN FRANCISCO 28, Houston 17 (+6 1/2) - The Texans should be well-rested after the nap they took in the second half last week and the 49ers have three extra days to prepare for this after righting the ship in a big way in St. Louis.
San Diego 23, OAKLAND 10 (+6) - Chances are, the result of this game won't even be in your Monday morning newspaper because it won't be over until 3:00 AM (Eastern time) or thereabouts, a stadium conflict with baseball's playoff-making A's relegating it to a starting time normally associated, fittingly enough, with West Coast night baseball games. But what you will miss reading about is the Chargers getting their 10th win, both straight up and against the spread, in their most recent dozen at Oakland.
ATLANTA 34, N.Y. Jets 14 (+7 1/2) - This is the last chance for the Falcons: Win here, and win big, or they don't so much as make the playoffs this year. Rex Ryan has even been toying with the idea of benching Geno Smith in favor of Phil Simms' no-talent son Matt.
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For a Social Cause and Artist Talk
August 24, 2019
An event every day that begins at 12:00 am, repeating until September 29, 2019
One event on August 18, 2019 at 2:00 pm
For a Social Cause brings together three disparate graphic novels to explore how this genre has been used to raise awareness about the human condition. Poignant and sequenced illustrations tell tales of strife, triumph and loss that convey moral lessons to those who pay attention.
Lawrence Hyde's Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas, is a dramatic black and white wordless graphic novel of a young family trapped on a Micronesian island during an atomic bomb testing alluding to the unthinkable aftermath. Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas mixes traditional Haida imagery with Japanese Manga in Red, a tale about a warrior-leader who is consumed by vengeance. Brampton's own comic strip enthusiast Ricky Lima and French graphic artist Nicolas Londeix team up to create Happily Ever Aftr to bring a modern twist to a conventional narrative of romantic conquest.
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by Lou Mancinelli
For some, a career in law via Ivy League schooling, working on political campaigns, working for the Department of Justice and graduating from a prestigious law school just isn't compelling.
Take eight-year Chestnut Hill resident Mona Ross Berman, whose interior design work, through her company Mona Ross Berman Interiors (MRBI), is featured in the upcoming September edition of national design magazine House Beautiful.
It is rare that a Philadelphia designer comes to be published in House Beautiful. According to Berman, editors told her she was one of a handful of Philly designers featured in the magazine the past decade.
The Berman feature is extensive and starts with the cover page. Her work is illustrated in an eight-page spread that includes an interview. But this is not the first time Berman's worked has been featured in a prominent publication during her short career.
She's twice been featured in Philadelphia Magazine, where, according to her website, her work was described as "a seamless and chic interplay of pattern and color, heirloom and contemporary, classic and kid-friendly, elegant and artistic."
Her work has also appeared in numerous trade magazines and Main Line journals.
After graduating from Brown University in 1994, with a degree in political science, Berman, who is originally from Chicago, worked across the country in political campaigns for three years. She worked for one year at the Department of Justice. Four years after graduating from Brown, she enrolled at the Georgetown University Law Center and earned her law degree in 2001.
But a year-and-a-half into her law career, Berman began to think she wanted to do something different. And, unlike so many others, she listened to the voice within and heeded to its call.
Berman said during a recent interview that her work lobbying for the interests of health-related associations, like the Nurses Association, "wasn't compelling – I didn't want to be part of such a big institution,"
"I decided I wanted to do something really different," she said, "something where I could be more creative. Something where I had more control over my work schedule and my work life."
Berman said she began to think about comments her friends made about her creative prowess, "about what they might be – how I might use them.
"I thought about a lot of things, and ended up on interior design," she added.
Because she had intensive schooling, Berman decided to learn interior design as an apprentice rather than attend traditional design school. After months of research and networking, she found a designer in 2002 she wanted to learn from and was taken on as an apprentice for D.C.-area interior designer Caldwell-Beebe.
"Before I started," Berman said, "I wanted to see if I was any good, before I invested the time and money. I was so excited when I started working [for Caldwell-Beebe.] I tried to learn everything I could."
Following the completion of her apprenticeship in 2004, Berman founded MRBI. With her staff, which includes designers educated at Drexel University's interior design program and the world-renowned Parsons New School for Design, Berman concentrates on high-end residential interiors. Her team has imbued rooms in homes from the shores of Nantucket to the suburbs of Washington with Berman's eye for style.
The Mona Ross Berman Interiors portfolio is a vibrant collection of bright lime greens, banana yellows, watermelon pinks and berry reds set among bright-colored rooms. While most of her work featured in her online portfolio is an example of brightness, there also exist subtle olive greens and a use of space and light that is at once angular and expansive.
The rooms, which she says are mostly custom collaborations between Berman and her clients, are sharp, yet calm.
"A common thread in my work is I try to make the spaces as authentic as possible," Berman said. "It always reflects the client's lifestyle and has a timeless feeling with the combination of traditional and new styles."
Clients who work with Berman have the opportunity to essentially design a room any way a client can imagine. Berman has a team of skilled artisans at her disposal (and tens of thousands of fabrics) that can help her make a client's vision come to reality. That goes for anything from a Technicolor pinstriped couch to a traditional marble countertop on an island in the kitchen.
"From day one," Berman said, "I had a lot of friends and friends of friends that gave me enough confidence to say, 'okay, you can do this on your own.'"
And it has been by word-of-mouth, through friends and referrals, that Berman, 39, has built her business the past seven years. When she started out, she said, "everyone knew someone, who knew someone." That networking chain, something she learned and leaned on during her days as a political lobbyist and campaigner, has been her backbone.
"At the end of the day, I'm in the client/service industry, just like I was as a lawyer, only now the service is interior design," she said "I came in with a leg up in terms of knowing how to run a business and working with clients. Referrals are the best source of clients."
As far as other aspects of her initial career and law training that still ring true in her work, she said, "I'm constantly thinking about what might go wrong – where might there be a problem."
"There's a thousand details in what I do," she explained. "There could be 15 to 20 different fabrics on one sofa. The thing I love most is every single house and every single space is different. Each one has its own challenge, like the details and challenge of each new case.
"I don't want a room necessarily to look like a Mona Ross Berman room, but more like the clients did it themselves, with some expert help."
Berman lives in Chestnut Hill with her husband, Michael, and her 4-year-old daughter and baby boy. For more information visit MonaRossBerman.com.


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